skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was just joking really. (Although it's true, if by 'year of the linux desktop' you mean 'year it gets >10% marketshare')

My NAS runs CentOS and I have Arch/Ubuntu on my home pc's, but I still dual boot Windows on one because gaming.

The 'I wonder who else will switch to Debian 8 like me' just struck me as comical.

I would be extremely surprised if MS lost any meaningful amount of marketshare from Win10, especially to linux distros.
We should switch to Fëanorean script. It's almost IPA without the notational horrors.
Haha! This happens at most places to tourists, some auto drivers, road side sellers in India try to rip off the tourists. It happened to me in Times Square when i first came to NYC. A guy was selling music CD's and when i was passing through him, he stopped me, handed over the CD, kinda forced me to buy which i didn't.

So across the world, it's very common the tourists get ripped off.
This is silly. The software FSF is most opposed to is protected not as much by copyright as by simple trade secrecy. It's not from honoring copyrights that DRM systems derive their power; that would be tautological, since the point of DRM systems is to thwart people who ignore copyright.

In a world without copyright, large corporations would have free rein to slurp up all the world's public software, extend it however they like, create whatever remaining functionality they needed, and publish none of it. None of what the GPL's copyleft attempts to accomplish would be possible.
"For everyone" doesn't necessarily mean "easier".

C/C++ aren't "for everyone" because everyone has been hearing for decades that they are terrible languages and should only be used for certain kinds of things by certain kinds of people. True or not, that's basically what they've been hearing.

Nobody is saying that about rust. The message is more like "go for it, and tell us what you did; the compiler will help protect you (and your users) along they way".

If rust isnt easy, I think that's OK. Not ideal, but OK. Lots of people have goals that they're willing to work for.
Pick a hobby you care about. Like 70's muscle cars. Do you have any idea how much pollution those things put out? A major government agency spends much of it's time monitoring the industry that built them. Now imagine that the agency goes to Square and says "We'd like it very much if you didn't facilitate purchases of these vehicles, so it'd be great if you no longer allowed transactions for the cars, their parts, and gasoline additives for them"

While owning a classic Mustang isn't a constitutionally protected right, how would you feel if you got marginalized by government fiat?
Persona -> Percona
The IRS doesn't require reporting annual payments under $600 to independent contractors, or under $2000 to household employees.
> That seems way bogus to me.

I'm sorry, I'm not sure exactly which part you're objecting to?
FYI - we don't charge for PowerShell.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Ask HN: Ideas about AI to Consume at Burning Man
Not necessarily Burning Man but that's just an upcoming relaxed event where there's lots of downtime plus a long drive to and from.

So far I've been preparing Marvin Minsky's lectures on Society of Mind as well as the book, which seem like pretty cool and easy reading to go through. Andy Clark's Associative Engines as well.
The peninsula routes drawn are not fantasy at all, the stations in San Jose are already determined and are being worked on
It depends on what you mean by impact. A market makers role is to provide market participants the instantaneous ability to buy or sell a security. They compensated a small amount for providing this service. If someone is using very poor execution techniques the price could worsen, however most large asset managers and brokers that serve them have quite advanced execution technology. The actual impact of modern market making on final execution price is typically positive relative to not having it due to competition and ultimately a tighter spread.

See Vanguard on this: http://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/25/vanguard-chief-defends-high-f...
Yeah, nice insights! Direct Link to the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/bemmu
"2. Your gun will avail you absolutely nothing when the government comes to you with a Predator drone. You will not "prevent dictatorship" by your gun."

I don't know that guns "prevent dictatorship", as you put it. North Korea is a good case in point - plenty of guns there but the leader retains his position. He's likely to die violently though, so I would tentatively post that one to the side of the guns people.

Guns sure can wreak a lot of havoc, e.g., Archduke Ferdinand, Abraham Lincoln, JFK, MLK, Malcolm X, Yitzak Rabin, etc. Guns are cheap and (relative to drones) easy to make. They can be deployed with a form of AI: a human being willing to risk death or too dumb to know better.

At the current prices, I don't think any current government can afford to deploy Predator drones against all of their gun owners without facing serious consequences(bankruptcy, revolution). Perhaps, given time, your fantasy will become fact.

But I would expect that, if drones are cheap, gun-owners will also be drone-owners. Perhaps someday hunters will drone a passel of rabbit or squirrel from the comfort of their living room, have Google drones deliver the fresh carcass to a processing facility and the dressed frozen meat to their back door? Mmmm, something to look forward to, eh?
I think the point Kasey is hinting at is that the functionality you claim RegNMS requires exchanges to implement is not, due to the CAP theorem, actually possible to do reliably.
s/opticon/panopticon
I get the crash and I have no AV except the default one included with Windows 10. Same symptoms as this guy [0], so likely related to the drivers included in the Windows 10 Anniversary Edition.

Luckily there's a work-around so I can still connect to the Kindle with Calibre; just connect the Kindle _before_ starting Windows, then it will not crash, and also still work as an USB drive. [1]

[0] http://www.tenforums.com/bsod-crashes-debugging/60314-bsod-c...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=F...
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My bad, by saying "very typically for reddit", I didn't mean to dismiss it, but rather that it was a mix of useful advice/feedback/helpful critique, and… unhelpful critique.

I've tried acting on the feedback to the degree possible since then (such as adding a disclaimer), but most of it seems to be around the price. I'm still not quite convinced that a webshop at this price point is unviable though; as far as I can tell there is space for a vendor with clear information and product guidelines – and that that would be worth a markup. Would you say you'd disagree? Or perhaps that you partially agree, but that the markup is still too high?
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That would be less accurate, because it wasn't (except in the minds of the idiotic politicians who fed the hysteria over radiation).
I feel similarly to Kelsey. I also plan on setting up a test cluster to learn the ins and outs and seeing if it's something that might fit in at work for our needs.

For personal stuff GKE looks really nice.
No, the C programs are not allowed to implement their own hash table -- and as a consequence no C k-nucleotide program was shown for a couple of months.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/knucleotide-des...

Rust std::collections provides hash table implementations, it's just a matter of using them.
I recall him commenting for a good while before his comments went "downhill" [0]. The pattern seemed like some event knocked him out of the bubble, causing him to lose faith in some aspect of groupthink and then become frustrated and combative over time. This would jive with his above narrative, but many other stories could explain as well.

[0] Even these had some good truths in them, but yes they got repetitive.
Public health system for the win.
This is really awesome, fantastic timely example. I love the ability to rapidly prototype with html, css, javascript and third party api's.

Edit; probably a bit too much self promotion, as commented below.
Very interesting!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
I often use hn.algolia.com to search for articles.
Vanguard has something like three trillion dollars under management, only 450Bn of which are ETFs. Vanguard is not the largest ETF provider, but has long been the #1 mutual fund provider. Anyone who rebuts an argument about Vanguard's role in the mutual fund industry by saying "Vanguard mostly runs ETFs" doesn't know what Vanguard is.
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https://twitter.com/rachelnabors/status/766808673679138816

> UK Border Office finally got back to me on my complaint. In short: you need a work permit to speak in the UK. NOW they put it on their site.
This has been mitigated to a large degree by phones. Even pre-smartphone, they were used to look up difficult characters.
Using the size difference between the C++ code Guidelines and the Rust Book as measure of relative complexity seems misguided to me : Those two very different document, with very different purpose and target audience.
Loop like a Native
Why Doesn't the Public Trust Science?
I attended a community college before I went to university. The computer science program was kind of a joke. They did remote classes from partnered state universities where the CC students would watch a live stream of professors at the state unis. I mostly took just Calc, Physics, and some other general requirement classes before transferring, but I did take one CS class. There was myself and two other students doing Intro to Programming (Java).

The same kids who were in Physics, were in Calc, etc. There were only about 20-30 of us. The majority of the student body was there to study Nursing and Law Enforcement.

I found I enjoyed the professors at CC more than most of my state uni professors. At CC, instead of having Physics in a 300 person lecture hall, it was a 20 person classroom. Same with Calc. All of the STEM-related professors at CC had their doctorates, where at state uni I had a bunch of grad students teaching - not that everyone wasn't knowledgeable enough.
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Arguably those twelve allies have such low budgets because the US budget is so high.
Glad to hear that you're enjoying Antimony!

I'm planning to keep either Antimony or something similar alive into the future. Antimony is approaching convergence, so development has slowed down – not sure whether major new features will land there or in a successor (because I'm not sure what the next big features should be).

The trajectory may be to use Ao's kernel plus a new graph engine to make an Antimony successor. Ao is a powerful system, but I'd like to keep providing a tool with a friendlier UI and lower barrier to entry.
It looks like the Microsoft flag brigade have got to this one too.
CRISPR helps evo-devo scientists to unpick the origins of adaptions
This is good news; even if only for upping the competition with azure and aws. The more legitimate options in the cloud that exist for enterprise, etc., the better!
How+To+Get+Fighting+Mad+Over+Food+Technology+Myths
They are switching to a BS License?

Are we supposed to take this seriously?
It's actually just the "shina". The "gawa" is 川, river.
NodeJS rev proxy allows custom logic after intercepting requests - all in javascript. Not sure if NGinx would allow that. But yes, I would probably move to Nginx in near future for its tomcat-like robustness.
here are the alternatives to the new status quo of totalitarian democracy:

1. leave
2. revolt

seriously, that's it. we lost the first dozen encounters with totalitarianism, so now options are limited and undesirable. widespread witholding of labor/ consent to be governed is the next step if we are serious about change.

politically, we're on the downward slope for at least another 8 years...
Or, you know... Uncheck a box
Original article : http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/burke-museum-team-discovers-...
> wrong direction

That depends on your perspective. Our overlords have lost the war for hearts and minds of the 10% [1]. So the classic problem here is how to "drain the swamp". And this is a perfectly correct solution.

In this very forum a few months ago someone posted how they were afraid to search for Adhan -- the Muslim call to prayer -- because they didn't want to end up on a list. This approach works. It works silently, efficiently, and there is no paper trail to have to respond to in a future (one hopes) crimes against humanity tribunal.

[1]: Just a round number. The 10%(™) signifies the significant cross cutting core subset of society that the tip of the power structure, and the captive civilization, critically depends on.
Who is to say your framework of choice isn't written by generalists just like the generalist your creating the straw man argument against?
Why do you think tracking will be used to fight tax evasion by big companies? If that were the case, the government would already be trying to fight it.
Applying BSL to the MaxScale proxy is proving to be, so far, an unpopular decision among a large segment of the MySQL community.

The TechCrunch article didn't address this specifically, but the license for MaxScale requires a MariaDB Enterprise Subscription if you use MaxScale with just 3 or more database servers at your company.

Since MaxScale is a proxy, it isn't particularly useful for companies that only have 1 or 2 database servers, except as a very limited trial. So this move effectively makes MaxScale commercial software for most production use. This is a strange business decision, considering there are other third-party proxies available, such as ProxySQL, that have same (or better) functionality and no requirement for purchasing a commercial license.

I also wonder how MariaDB Enterprise Subscription pricing works for companies that just want to use MaxScale to connect to stock Oracle MySQL or Percona Server MySQL? Seems strange to tie the licensing to MariaDB Enterprise even for companies that just want to use MaxScale alone. Although a good proxy takes a lot of development work, it's still tiny compared to building a relational database. I wouldn't expect the two to be priced the same.
It seems this is not a popular sentiment or way of expressing it. thret's comment is also downvoted, which perplexes me. Honestly though, when someone is seriously advocating, in 2016, "shoulda nuked them when we had the chance", logical arguments rather fail me. I am truly shocked that not a single comment notes that it would have been the single largest act of mass murder in the history of mankind.

I propose that even in the context of a civil discussion, there's a time for expressing moral outrage. Failing to do so compromises an important signalling mechanism. If something I say flabbergasts people to the extent that words fail them, I take note.
Twilight Imperium, a board game with meal breaks
You wrote "I ignored it on purpose, because it never evolved beyond a proof of concept." I don't think "Not all of us get to see what goes inside Google" is a very good response to learning that you were wrong to the tune of 200+ million lines of code inside Google.

I don't care that much, right, but sometimes you see message board nerd bloody-mindedness to breathtaking degrees and you have to say something or the fluid in your eyeballs starts boiling.
I like cash too. I'd like to see a smart start up do for cash what Square did for credit card payment. A super simple way for a small store to manage it.
Google My Business
It sounds like people want digital safe spaces and don't want to hear any dissenting opinions on Twitter. This isn't how the real world works.

Anyone posting death threats and other threats of bodily harm should definitely be banned from Twitter.

However, I've read through many of the accounts in question in this article (and other outspoken community leaders) and what the they actually want is to punish people with opposing viewpoints by banning them from social media.

To me, it's pretty ironic because this same community expects love, compassion, and acceptance while at the same time hating, bullying, and silencing even the slightest hint of discord.
It's not hard at all to exclude buyers of the advertised product from the ad and I can't imagine that Amazon doesn't know that. We're doing it for clients all the time.

Probably they just don't care enough about their ads being a few percent more efficient as long as they are profitable.
I'm absolutely for safety and compile-time assurance. I wrote I've actually use ATS in embedded systems where I could to perform compile-time theorem proving. I used ATS, for example, to actually prove at compile-time the runtime heap memory requirements. This is not easy.

Rust is not on the front of research here, although the borrow checker is more pleasant to use compared to /many/ other implementations.

Memory safety is, of course, important, but security as a whole is so much more than just pointer dereferencing and lifetime checking. We got pretty far with C++, modern toolchains and OS support. Rust programs will be only marginally more secure by default than other classes of programs. Rust will not help with entire classes of other problems like side-channel attacks, any logical bug (like incorrect initialization of IVs, unchecked reflection), and so on.

Rust helps, and I do not criticize that. But as with any system, you have to evaluate it as a whole. Is it a big boost coming from C? Absolutely. C++? Not so much. Heck, you can use LuaJIT in embedded systems, and Rust has zero advantage there.
Judging by recent posts your account seems to exist largely to promote lite-engine. I'm no mod but you seem to be sailing close to the wind.
> I came out thinking that doing seemingly simple stuff in Rust, such a mutable linked list, is too complicated ... writing a safe linked list in C++ ... is _trivial_

This is really interesting to me as a curious outside observer of Rust. I conclude that either writing a safe mutable linked list in C++ is really not easy or Rust's type system makes it too complicated to capture simple invariants and properties.

Which is it?
> tax-evasion

The meme that banning cash is a useful way to fight tax evasion is hilarious propaganda. Unreported cash transactions are tiny compared to the tax avoidance and evasion done by businesses and the rich. Banning cash doesn't make big business pay a real tax rate, nor does it prevent profits from being hidden in overseas accounts.

Blaming low tax revenue on cash is a convenient distraction. When everyone is focused on their fear that the average citizen might get away paying less taxes, nobody notices the people cooking the (non-cash) books and/o buying legislation.
About Japanese writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdYKxHT8kY
Actually, I did build a raytracer. In Ada, of course. https://github.com/davidgiven/flooded-moon/tree/t3-pureada/t...

Rendering the planets themselves was simple enough once I figured out how raymarching worked, but once I started adding volumetric atmospheres with scattering (needed to make clouds and their shadows work), it got complex. Coming up with the optimal arrangement of atmospheric samples and how many subrays to cast got very complex very quickly and while I could make it work, it was never very satisfactory and Povray, with its years of optimisation, was vastly faster.

...although I see now that Mitsuba has had a new release. Hmm.
Reading their "about us" section, it seems like its curated topics. And I'm glad to see that they at least are honest about their ties to CNN. If this is in fact curated content, I'll be curious to see how good/worthwhile it will be. I think i might give it a shot. Good luck GBS!
Spatial dispersal of the glyphs means that fewer glyphs would be taken out by any given insect-gnawed hole, UV-radiation fading, hurled paint glob, etc., and thus less of the overall message would be lost to that single incident of damage.

It's the same principle as how soldiers are trained to spread out when in battle: If they bunch up, it increases the risk that a single mortar shell (or artillery round or machine-gun burst) could take out a lot of troops.
I'm under the impression that “gun culture” people mostly obsess with exactly these things? This is in a way a dual of what I was saying, they far more fear and obsess over the threat of their metaphorical neighbor then they do about the government. I think that is the problem with the gun culture in the US, not the guns.
> Central Banks want to impose negative rates on us to try and get us out of the mess of having too much debt in the system

Of course, lower interest rates encourage more debt. So if they are honestly trying to do this, they're doomed to failure.

(I model their activity as self-interestedly creating as much debt as possible to further erode the ability of plebs to save, siphoning all economic surplus to them back as rent)
It feels like that could be an avenue where bandcamp could make some good movements - increase revenue stream/options for their members, flexible licensing terms, etc.
Very true. When you define "hacker" to mean "A person who writes code quickly and is willing to take business risk", you're not likely to run in the same circles as the people who crack open complex software systems for fun. You might wind up believing those people no longer really exist, having gone the way of the dial-up modem.
Is this still a dig until you find something or accidentally find something process or is there some "x-ray - sonar-whatever" that can see below the ground?

I remember some cool shops in Montana where you could buy slabs for $20. Awesome for science class
I love being able to throw some cash at a taxi driver, or to use cash at a grocery store and just get out of there.

As it is lineups at stores are really really slow since every single person has to fiddle with a card and a PIN to pay for their coke and chips.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4t0BKlICsk Motherboard report about how beavers imported to Chile have disrupted riparian forests.
> This veritable speed racer of an interplanetary probe would thus require a mere 31,600 years to reach Proxima Centauri (if indeed it was pointed in the right direction, which it isn't).

Holy cow, that's multiple times longer than humanity has even existed as a civilization, and in all likelihood it might perish before that probe could even make it there. What a reality check. I don't think incremental improvements are going to cut it for space travel.
> It can be implemented copy-on-write.

Which only makes sense if the underlying mutable object is mutated. But if the underlying mutable object is mutated, the adaptor instance, if it is immutable, can no longer have the same value as the underlying mutable object. So the "adaptor" is no longer an adaptor; it's just a separate immutable object with the value that the mutable object had originally. I.e., it's just the same as tuple(d.items()) or whatever.

If by "copy-on-write" you just mean that two different containers that both store the same immutable value, say a string, can both point to the same memory storing that value, and the mutable container's pointer only changes if a new value is stored at that key/index, Python already does that; for example, tuple(d.items()) does not create new storage for the items themselves, it points the tuple to the same objects that are contained in the dict at the time of the call to d.items().

> It can have more compact storage if the runtime is smart.

A tuple in Python does have more compact storage than a list, dict, or set.

> It can continue to efficiently support lookup

Same issue as above; this only matters if the underlying object is mutated, in which case an immutable "adaptor" can no longer have the same value, so lookup on the adaptor isn't the same as lookup on the underlying mutable object. Lookup on the adaptor is just lookup on the immutable value, which is easily made efficient.