skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is indeed some a lack of quality notebook for processional. My single advice would be to avoid any device from the "consumer line" of the main PC manufacturer. The PC industry have made some amazing progress this past 5 years, but the reliability is still lacking. (maybe except the xps line which is having good reviews, but again most reviews focus on the multimedia side of the equation)

You should look into business oriented laptops : HP elite books, dells latitudes, Toshiba tecras. Haven't looked into them for a while now, but HP elitebooks are usually great in term of reliability (but sometimes have sucky screens)

Which thinkpad do you currently own ?
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You might argue that we did: when folks actually had offices. Now the cram-em-in open floor-plan approach is sort of the "now we use less office per person" era.
Complaining without suggesting better alternatives isn't very constructive.
The people there didn't want the Europeans and fought them. The only way to stay their would be to suppress the people more and more. That would also not lead to a flourish of the region.
It's kind of hard because you really want to be able to use generator functions as well. Maybe that just can't be properly described Python. It would be shame to lose out on passing a generator because somebody has used `List[int]` inside a function that really takes an iterable.
I did data entry in an office with no internet connectivity (well it did, but they didn't allow browser usage, we connected to mainframes to do our work) before about 12 or 13 years ago.

When people wanted to zone out they read books, usually. Audiobooks were also common. I brought the entire series of Discworld novels in on pdf, and managed to read the entire series while I worked there. I also wrote a bunch of notes down on paper.

Hell, when I was working in warehouses away from computers entirely I'd still zone out during it and mentally work out some ideas for personal projects once I was done with work. Sometimes I actually miss that, since I seemed to have a lot more ideas then.

Point being, you don't need computers or internet for people to find ways not to be 100% productivity machines.
> With the GPL, you are not free to "distribute your modified version as you wish."

Yes you are. Unless you opt of that freedom by creating non-free software. Supporters of the GPL are are not concerned with the self created problems of creators of non-free software.
Yep, at my old job we still had to support Windows XP 32 bit for the game client (internal tools were Windows 7 64 bit) as so many people were still playing on systems. I don't remember if we could use SSE2 or what the minimum was in that regard.
I am not a hard core gamer. But i have been following the hype around this game and it seems amazing to me that such a basic functionality is not included.

And yes. I realize the technical challenges in MMOGs but i am still astounded by the hype - reality gap
I take home about 32k a year. I also have asthma. I will have it until I die. With the insurance my company offers my medicine is 150 dollars a month on top of the $175 a month fee. To get the prescription I need to pay another $75 dollars every 6 months to the doctor (At the end, They dident even bother with the pretense of busting out the stethoscope anymore I'd come in sit down and they would write the script) I buy the same medicine from India for $30 without a prescription online. It's a scam pure and simple. The choice for me was either drop the insurance and buy a house or rent and pay for insurance that covers little and costs a lot.
Complacency
https://cr.yp.to/snuffle/spec.pdf

https://cr.yp.to/snuffle/design.pdf
Don't believe the FUD. UEFI does not increase attack surface. It reduces it through means such as secure boot.

The other option is insecure booting with no verification, and if your malware is running with privileges to be able to inject itself into the boot process, the machine is already compromised anyway.

In this case secure boot provides some means of protection. People not using UEFI however, they are vulnerable and most likely affected.
> or if medication is just placebo or pain-killers

Doesn't checking that basically immediately defeat the therapy itself? I.e. placebos work as long as you don't know they're just placebos.
> For example underscores are word boundaries in Emacs

This is configurable [1]

>The word commands’ understanding of word boundaries is controlled by the syntax table. Any character can, for example, be declared to be a word delimiter.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Wo...
I made http://chadlinden.com/water yesterday so I could search by city+state.
This one [0] is fun. Choice quote: "The best use for this volume, if any, is as a doorstop."

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/24/worlddispatch....
GPL enforces "general freedom" by removing your right to freedom.

BSD removes "general freedom" by giving you the right to freedom
Interesting, I'll have to try that. When I found macros, I did open with C-x ( and close with C-x ), so C-x e makes sense. Then I found f3 and f4 and didn't bother to unlearn that binding.
You are spot on with your description.
What's the revenue model?
Just like the cheap oil results in people not paying attention to how much their car consumes.
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Reverse osmosis
Yup. There is a Generic type which uses duck typing and has an `Iterable` subclass for classes implementing __iter__() (https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Generic). It has been pointed out though that `str` counts as an instance of Iterable[str], so there is a possibility for some amusing issues to arise from this.
whats not fun about Bubbles?
If it's shaking the ground, then every surface near you (which is sufficiently rigidly attached to the ground) will be producing sound waves. Hence even if you can identify a direction to the sound, it's probably a red herring.
Actually 9-square-meters (3 by 3 meters squares)
You don't know what they want.
Does the west and especially the US have anything from stability?

I think they also would do, what they did to the "arab world" to Russia or China if they could.

The parts of the world that advance faster can dictate more rules, so everyone needs to get ahead. One way to ensure that this is the case is to slow other parts down.
What we used to call "predictive statistics" now has the magic name "machine learning" applied.
> if at first upon hearing it you're bewildered, about halfway through you realize that you can understand what she's saying.

As a non-native English speaker, this is basically my experience watching some movies (where the characters speak with regional dialects). The first 10 minutes I feel like the actors are mumbling and then after 20 or so minutes I have no problem keeping up anymore.

Also what it feels like when someone with an accent is holding a lecture at my university.
That's a good point. But how do you track non-task work which is mostly creative work, be that in the office or remotely?

In my experience as both and employee and employer, you can't. Even in the office it's not like you can tell people "come up with good solutions". It all turns into make believe work.

As an employer we simply don't hire people anymore who need that type of supervision. As a result our possible talent pool expanded from our city to the entire world.
>Nobody has time to thrive when they have to prey five times a day

Ah huh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
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IRC is great for a world where people have one account on one computer that's permanently switched on, but it inherently fails to handle use from multiple devices. All "solutions" to this end up involving running your own server (or, more likely, having someone else do it) and talking to that via a probably-proprietary (or at least nonstandard) protocol at which point you no longer have the benefit you're talking about. (That protocol is often layered over an open protocol, but commands-over-ssh is very hard to interoperate with if not standardized)

Good UI is not just "pretty", it's also about having commands be discoverable. Traditional IRC clients are terrible in this regard.

There's no reason the platform has to be closed - I'm friends with the people working on http://matrix.org/ (though not involved in it myself) and hope they succeed.
> He couldn't do anything I could do on my laptop.

Surely you mean "He could do everything I could do on my laptop"?
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Right, I guess I'm saying that there is no indication the market is particularly illiquid.
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Classic? Not in any intellectually credible circle. It's just an overlong anti Arab screed.
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Before they were western protectorates, they were Ottoman protectorates. It's been a mess for a long, long time. Once the oil runs out, or we move beyond oil, the whole region will be relegated to the kind of backwater it became after the advent of world-wide oceanic shipping in the age of sail and the overland trade routes were superseded.
These five languages didn't 'come' or evolve solely from English - rather they are all English-based creoles[0]. Many of them are grammatically quite different to English, but they've all had heavy influences from other languages as well.

On the other hand, French, Romanian and Portuguese aren't Latin-based creoles - they're separate languages which have evolved from Latin (although you could make the argument that Portuguese and French are two ends of a dialect continuum[1]).

Really, the relationship between Tok Pisin and English is very different to the relationship between French and Latin. English hasn't had the time and geographical spread to diverge into different languages that Latin has had.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-based_creole_languages
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum#Romance_lang...
This was on the front page yesterday, seems rather similar: http://xaddress.org.
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This. It's a lot easier to misspell a word than mix up a number.

I like the concept though, location of my garage made me smile: trouser.hits.everyone
Theano itself is more like a language, not a deep learning framework. There is no NeuralNetworkClassifier class, for example. Although, you could write a neural network library / framework using Theano, and it would have all the benefits of Theano (code compiled for the GPU, various common neural net ops available, etc.), which is what it looks like the Keras folks have done. I took a stab at this a while ago (1), but I didn't keep up on it. I haven't used Keras much, but it looks like it fills a much needed gap, which I'm glad for.

(1): https://github.com/notmatthancock/neural_network
From the article "Mongol Post, the country’s largest mail provider, has licensed the system from What3Words"

Pricing page: http://developer.what3words.com/pricing/

Interesting bit there: "If we, what3words ltd, are ever unable to maintain the what3words technology or make arrangements for it to be maintained by a third-party (with that third-party being willing to make this same commitment), then we will release our source code into the public domain."
The snark at the beginning of your comment may be causing downvotes.
I agree about the discoverability of commands, but that's inherently a client issue and not one against IRC itself.

You're right that there's not much in the way of offline messaging without running something like znc (which you can run at home on anything), but there is also Memoserv on most networks- if you absolutely have to notify someone.

Or, there's email.
Overly binding is subjective and many benefit from the strong social support provided by Islamic communities, and furthermore to feel jealousy towards other cultures is very un-Islamic.

That said, I continue to assert that your arguments are red herrings -- attempts to indirectly answer one question with another's answer. Fixing the issues you brought up are unrelated to removing Islam's influence on the people of the world, unless you feel that Islam's binding influence on large populations is prohibitively restrictive to the point that is an impediment to any social program of any scale on Earth. If that is the case then the natural progression will lead us to war, and many nations around the world have already been lead to this conclusion.
There is clear evidence that Catholic areas have lower levels of economic growth than Prodestent areas even within same country. So, religion really does impact economic growth. But, I don't think there is hard evidence to brake it down to specific causes within each religious group.

PS: While you may disagree with this, there is a lot of research into this topic: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=religion+economic+devel...
Copying from history is a choice, that's what a designer does. There were many phones before the iPhone. There were computers before the Mac. There were wheels before Firestone. Knowing what to choose and have it work as a design in a skill most people do not have. As Steve Jobs said "Good artists copy; great artists steal" which I believe is also a copy.
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>That argument breaks down when you realize that your local businesses aren't buying the goods or services that you can provide locally.

That is a specific exception, maybe only to you. Just because you cannot find local customers doesn't mean that small businesses don't source software developers locally. I have done software development work for several businesses directly in my zip code, some of which I am also a customer.

You seem to specifically avoid the argument that small businesses in your area pay taxes for services that you consume directly. Why, exactly, is it more beneficial to you that your farmer plays an MMORPG than pays an override real estate tax that funds expanding a school in your neighborhood to better handle class sizes?

Also, you must not have a stake in the real estate market if you only care if the McDonald's in your neighborhood stays open.

>When Just-Down-My-Street Diner hires me to remodel their website, that's when I should prefer to eat there out of pure economic self-interest.

Again, just because you aren't currently engaging in this kind of business doesn't mean other people aren't. I find your argument very strange; that you can't work for local companies.
Oracle is probably best in class relational database, but Postgres or MySQL will work fine for most use cases.
Mutually intelligible is not an exact thing. From my own experience:

A native speaker of Danish, I was able to speak with my Norwegian housemate. It worked OK, but not great, and not for anything technical (like science and finance, where the Germanic words are very different to the English).

With my Swedish friends however, it was harder. Not sure why, since Sweden is visible from Denmark but Norway is a bit further away. Also, I found the TV Series "The Bridge / Broen" quite unlikely. Swedes and Danes don't talk that easily together, and certainly not with slang. The scenario of the cops from opposite sides of the bridge working together could still work, but mostly in writing. Also, the cadence is very different. Swedish is melodic. Danish is grunty.

Of course I have had no instruction in Swedish or Norwegian, but it wouldn't be hard, based on friends who have moved.

German is not mutually intelligible with Danish. But it is. I went to a handful of German classes, and it dawned on me that changing a few things around makes High German pretty much like old Danish, like what you'd hear in old black-and-white movies from around the war. These days Danish has a lot of English in it, and something about the way sentences are put together makes old movies seem very... old. But once you have a simple map in your mind, Danish appears to be German with some substitutions and simplified grammar. I can read the paper in German now, despite having had just those few lessons.

Swiss German, now there's a weird one. The sounds are different. I suppose I'm twice removed from it, but even native Germans I know will produce the WTF face when they hear a Swiss German. Words and grammar are similar, but different enough to be recognisably so by a foreigner like myself. But I suppose it's like Swedish and Danish.

Apropos the article, Singlish I found quite interesting. To me it's just English with sprinkled Chinese, and I think most English speaking people will not have a problem understanding it without instruction. One useful addition: English doesn't make much use of the modal particle, so it makes sense that Cantonese "la" is heard all over the place.
And that's why it's bad. Let's throw something useful (duck typing) out of the window to please the Java people

I'm sincerely disgusted
And we hear of the appalling results of this almost every day across the world, or have I missed it?
Sounds like what I did for the past 10 years before joining the gamedev world about 3 years ago. It is cool to work on your own tech and to learn a lot of different things, but it's also scary how much can get done with a whole team working at it.
Maybe that is the plan all along:

Create shitty, easy to find backdoors to show how stupid the whole concept is? And when ask, just say: The MPAA/RIAA/NSA forced us - go complain to them.
its content
Your view is developer centric. For someone that does not develop software, the restriction on distribution is irrelevant. The GPL is more free for the users. BSD is more free for the developers.

There are far, far more users in the world than there are developers.
Cool idea, but how do you deal with flats or multi-stories?
What about mail distribution - how do you group items for the same area?
Just last week, I watched this documentary called "Saudi Arabia Uncovered" to understand its current state. Its on youtube.
Indeed, xaddress lists alternatives on its readme (including what3words): https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/blob/master/README.md#a...
The age of enlightenment only came after a series of religious/civil wars that wracked Europe for hundreds of years, set brother against brother, depopulated and ravaged huge swatches of Germany, central Europe and France, and essentially broke the temporal power of the churches and the papacy.

That's not the most pleasant blueprint to follow...
I have to disagree. I think each society is a product of its environment, both natural and social. It's extremely hard to be pacifistic when your neighbors are rattling guns.
> Some sources claim the book is racist

Funny thing - given how easy it is to get an "racist" label these days, I'd treat this as a signal that the book may be touching on some controversial topics or reaching unpopular conclusions.
I also like to stress that open source and free software are nearly identical for a different reason: I want people to think of free software when they think of open source. I want people to think that open source also almost always must have the same freedoms as free software, and that open source doesn't merely mean "the source is visible".

Call it open source, call it free software, but remember that both require you to give the same fundamental rights to the users.
When I read things like this, I can't help but feel like we're approaching The Behavioral Sink. When I first read about John B. Calhoun's work, I thought it was interesting but sort of moved on. For some reason, it stuck in my mind though, and it rises to the surface often when I read news about the world.

For those who don't know, Calhoun's research was around the impact of population growth. He found that mice in a closed environment, among other behaviors, became anti-social, violent, strangely obsessed with grooming and stopped breeding once the population reached a certain size, even disregarding the wellbeing of the young that are born.

Obviously we're not in a situation as bad as all that, but it's an interesting light to view today's world in.
Once the oil stops being important (Just Another Commodity like, e.g. iron ore), life will probably improve for citizens of the middle east:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

We'll stop meddling and making things worse. The leaders of those countries won't be able to substitute oil wealth for popular support or funnel money into pushing Wahhabism.

It's the best thing that could happen to them.
Have you met any Muslims that pray? Do you know anything about it all? 2 of those prayers occur before and after business hours. And even if they were working there's not a whole lot going on at 4:30am. 2 are short coffee break level prayers. A little meditation and a quick baslama and get on with it. And the longest, conveniently occurs around lunchtime anyway.

I fail to see how prayer affects anyone's potential in a negative way.
What else is new? He's been ringing this bell for 20 years. Technically he's right if by Free you mean his definition of Free and not $0.
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This was very informative and this "hub" is something that I want to setup for myself. When I started writing down concepts I immediately picked slack because of all the integrations but isn't it a bit 'overkill' to use a community system for me alone to get all my feeds aggregated together?

Are there solutions out there that offer something similar but without the community aspect?
For most billionaires, however, it takes more than an inheritance to join the so-called three-comma club, according to the census; 87% of billionaires, up from 81% in 2014, made the majority of their fortunes themselves.

What a slap in the face for the millions of workers that made those companies profitable.
> The 80 columns limit was supposed to be a guidance as well but now it has become almost mandatory

Only for those whose pinnacle of programming editors are from a VT-100 era.