skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Travel to a country where the average monthly salary is what equates to a few US dollars to do some charity/mission/volunteer work. Problem solved, at least for people who have a heart, which is most thankfully. We need to actively seek to humble ourselves. Now what I gave is an extreme example that only few have the heart or time/money to do, but the lesson is the same -- help those out who are less fortunate than you (other than sending money). It really puts things into perspective.
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I'd be happy with a definition of "excessive" that's sensitive to that.

A couple of times I've lived near corner/liquor stores that were obviously more problematic than their competitors, for example. If those stores exerted downward pricing pressure then it might be to a level that was problematic. I don't want all stores to become poorly run crime magnets because they can't afford to stay in business.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-h...
But it makes people less kinky even though it makes them enjoy being submissive in bed more.
That's interesting you find Material Design to be a further regression compared to flat design. Material Design's primary goal is re-establishing depth and dimension to interfaces with implied shadows and volumes across multiple depth planes, a move designed to reclaim what flat design has taken away.
You can even solve cubic equations with origami[1], which is what allows you to double a cube and trisect an angle by adding folding to the usual tools of compass and straightedge. (It's still not enough to square the circle.)

[1]: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/581958/solving-cubic...
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Cool Retro Term is my guilty pleasure. I spend an awful lot of processing power just to make my terminal look older and less reliable.

But somehow, to me, it doesn't feel right to use IRC from anything other than a fuzzy and flickery orange screen.
Do you do multi-channel marketing??
I never said it was good, but it exists. Most of my PHP code utilizes kv arrays everywhere possible.
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The approach I like is:

https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Social-Brain-Michael-Gr...

An article by the same author:

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/phlegm-th...
In both cities, you'll see lots of "Except cyclists" plaques beneath prohibition signs.

That leads to more respect for the rules where the prohibition includes cyclists. (Though it's not 100% followed — but it isn't by drivers either.)

In the UK, where cyclists are generally ignored, I'd regularly ignore one-way restrictions. Most have clearly been implemented to direct cars, without any thought to cyclists.
You can do something similar with `libpnet` in rust:

#[packet]
struct Dns {
id: u16be,
qr: u1,
opcode: u4,
aa: u1,
tc: u1,
...
#[payload]
data: Vec<u8>,
}
Not OP, but i would go with Guix for two simple reasons.

1. both the packaging format and the init format is scheme.

2. because of the second part of 1, no systemd.

That said, i am already a happy user of similar(ish) distro, Gobolinux.
The same way mobile Chrome and mobile Firefox do it: you tap the menu item and the :hover dropdown appears and stays there. Tap outside of the box to make it go away.
One thing I'd like to see explained is the location of "Programs" at the top of the Start menu, rather than right at the bottom where it would be closer and less mouse movement. I do think the Start menu is a much better location for the program list than their earlier idea, a Programs folder on the "Desktop," and better still than the Windows 3.0 Program Manager. But I wonder what the thinking behind making the user mouse up past Run, Find, and Settings to get to Programs, when their research indicates that "opening a program" was the primary objective of a user. I know it's an old joke that "you have to click Start to Shut Down," but it does seem far from the way the Apple menu worked at the time for effectively the same thing.

http://www.sigchi.org/chi96/proceedings/desbrief/Sullivan/kd...

"Launching Programs: Start Menu. Although we abandoned the idea of a separate shell for beginners, we salvaged its most useful features: single-click access, high visibility, and menu-based interaction. We mocked up a number of representations in Visual Basic and tested them with users of all experience levels, not just beginners, because we knew that the design solution would need to work well for users of varying experience levels. Figure 5 shows the final Start Menu, with the Programs sub-menu open. The final Start Menu integrated functions other than starting programs, to give users a single-button home base in the UI."
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The great things about NixOS is that you can describe the entire state of your system in configuration files, and then after running `rebuild` know that what's on your computer _exactly_ matches that configuration.

Can you do that with containers?

For instance, I'm on NixOS `16.09.git.20f009d (Flounder)`. Here's my configuration: https://github.com/seagreen/vivaine. I know my machine exactly matches the combination of that NixOS version + those config files. My impression is that this is messier with containers because while you can make a snapshot and know the snapshot is frozen, as you modify snapshots over time they'll begin accumulating cruft due to things like installing programs, uninstalling them, snapshotting, but still having some leftovers from the install. I'd like to hear from someone with more container experience here though.
Pancreatic cancer is "hard to fight" because it is seldom detected early, but at a very late stage.

I heard Craig Venter once say that the cure for cancer is early detection. Wish I could find the video.
The climate isn't very good for the people in the indeed marketplace. I looked up the indeed in my home town (admittedly not SV) and the jobs were almost entirely below $30K/yr, in the service sector, very low paying receptionist, driver, retail, part time no benefits type of jobs.

True, someone needs to answer the phone and drive trucks in San Jose... just they can't afford to live there on receptionist or delivery driver pay. So there's job openings.

Its a "top 50 worst places to live for working poor" list calculated by finding where working poor cannot live or work anymore, so the jobs go unfilled.
Framing unpaid days off as "buying an extra holiday for the cost of a days salary," feels depressing to me. I would personally have a hard time working for an employer that used this kind of language around their time off policies.
I already own my time. If I don't work for a day I'm not buying time back from my employer, I'm just not selling it for a day.
Treating acute psychosis with drugs can prolong the anguish
IMHO, the hypothesis that 'social media makes you compare yourself to others more', while true, is overblown. I'd hazard that the overreliance on college undergrads as study subjects may have something to do with it.
Nope. In OCaml, “Functor” is a well-defined term with a completely different meaning. Or go look what “Functor” means in Prolog. Well defined, completely different.

If you really want to mess things up, use names that mean something different every day.

But I would know what a “Mappable” should be, regardless of PL.
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I think the chairs don't show up on mobile.
I think you are missing the parent's point. By "kernel up" I think they mean that the kernel can stand alone without any other software. It's not very useful, but it does work. Then you add system executables (sh, ls, etc.) and the only thing they require is the kernel (and maybe each other). You keep adding more and more layers, each depending on the previous but not the next. The top of the stack is, as you say, what the user wants/needs and it is dependent on all of the previous layers.

The current situation with systemd is that this hierarchy is no longer valid and low level components are now relying on things above them in the stack. So much so that, for example, if the web browser stops working you have to reboot the computer because it hung a kernel process somewhere. That doesn't seem like a very good system to me.
Svgs usually contain a lot of redundant and useless information. We clean the svgs using SVGO, https://github.com/svg/svgo (and a few of our own plugins) to get more beautiful svg files. The output often gets bloated by apps like Sketch, this way we end up with a better output.
What you describe is all true, but honestly, this is such a small number of corner cases compared to traditional languages(C, C++, python, javascript, etc.), that it is really not a big deal. Also most of this is clearly documented.
And should we even try? There are surely moral/ethical implications in creating and terminating consciousnesses.
Have you read the SwiftCloud paper?
https://pages.lip6.fr/Marek.Zawirski/papers/SwiftCloud-RR-83...

It's about using a centralized cloud infrastructure in conjunction with CRDTs. This allows to fix some of the issues you mention (pruning of operation history, stricter versioning, no need to push operations, ...).

Of course it complicates the implementation but it's quite interesting.
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There is no tech industry
Seems like an icon library rather than a general tool for SVGs.
Now there's no Programs button at all. Just a list of apps.
Prenuptial agreements still have a value within the UK, they are considered intent towards your actions in the event of a divorce and unless there are significant extenuating circumstances leading to the divorce are normally honoured. As long as neither of you are cheating, abusive, performing illegal acts, etc, the prenup usually holds up.
Or as Donald Rumsfeld would say, the less competent individuals are suffering from unknown unknowns

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
Is it effective for SMB's?
It's not entirely the case right now, at least in sciences, there is still medium-skilled technician work.

But these jobs are subject to the same pressures as driving, cleaning and apple-picking. They're being increasingly automated and the technicians replaced by one person to operate the fluid-handling robots.

Edit: maybe I misinterpreted and you're saying that people don't need above-average intelligence to be an actual research scientist, perhaps on the non-tenure track level. Maybe that's true. But, it requires a strong interest and years of training, hence the long apprenticeship of the Ph.D / postdoc.
I used arch for a long time, but got tired of having to fix things every time I upgraded the box. And got tired of having to upgrade the box every time I wanted to install a new package, and found that my installed version of arch was too old.

Nix's language is a giant PITA. But the box runs quite solidly. Hell even my nvidia optimus works - for the first time on any distribution.

For things that don't work well, I shove them into a docker image. Like the arduino IDE.
Pretty much everything is clickable though. At some point the UI chrome starts outweighing the content.

Even in Windows 95, each program in the programs list didn't look like a 3D button. That inconsistency can be confusing too.
I think I should have been clear. It does not make Unix single user machine but it is more useful for cases where a single user is the main user of a machine like the laptop user.

My reasoning was very simple. Nixos makes it easy to install packages on a per user basis. This would mean there is a lot of redundancy if another user also needs the same package. A snapshot/dedup filesystem will easily solve the problem.
> thanks for all the down votes, guys

This may be why:

First you described a defect in the story. But you claim such defects have "always been a problem" in science fiction. So this story is unsatisfying to you in company with a slew of other works, many of which will have been award winners.

Then you speculated that this particular story might have won an award only because it was Chinese, as if the other finalists are likely to have been better. Yet you've made it clear that you wouldn't expect them to be. So your initial criticism, that the story falls short as so much of science fiction does, gives way to a criticism of this peculiar story--but you have only singled it out for being written by a Chinese author. So, it is ordinarily bad, yes; but it is particularly bad for being Chinese.

I do not think you meant it like that, but that is certainly how you wrote it.

As for the premise of this and similar stories: It is commonly held that technological advancement disproportionately benefits the ruling classes, while the workers are made to grind away as usual, life having been little altered. This line of thought may vary in intensity and nuance with place and regime. "Folding Beijing" and many stories like it draw up a simplified world--all fictive worlds are simplified--in which this tenet rings particularly true. Probably the author intends to play with a view on our world as it is, or that part of it which she is most concerned with. Certainly she wants to lay hold of a reader's emotion, to keep them reading (we do not all share your desires in speculative fiction): who does not care about what their own lot may become, or the lots of their neighbors? We may even feel this way when our lots are presented figuratively, as in a world that looks a little too close to our own for being so different--or a little too different for being so clearly our own. Many of us are weak for this sort of thing. But I think it's disingenuous to claim that such a story only does this. It may not serve the function you want it to; but then, if you're used to that in science fiction, you should be expecting it any time you see the label.

(If you want to know, I personally thought this one dull, but I feel that way about a lot of science fiction, too.)
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Stan Gibilisco's Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics. It got me into electronics as a curious teenager, and helped get me through the EE part of my undergrad degree.
You're giving me anecdotal information that spans over 20-30 years? Yeah, I'm optimistic that by 2050, we'll be much better off. In the meantime, 7-10 million worldwide will die every year from cancer. We're racing to get self-driving cars to save a lot fewer people.
I agree there is no skill involved, but it is not a contest of chance either.

Assuming the house is not cheating and using shill accounts (which does happen, but IS illegal) then the last person to continue bidding wins. So in that regard it is by definition not chance. You just continue to bid until no one else bids and then you win.
Then let's thank the holy quantum noise that it isn't. The holier-than-thou PL fanatics here are really insufferable.
To tell the truth, we've had to re-learn how to teach in the past few years. Pivotal Labs used to work almost exclusively with startups -- a scale at which transforming most or all of a company's work is possible in a single engagement. When the students are all willing and present, teaching is easy.

Now we work with a lot of enterprises, most of whom by employee headcount outnumber us by 10-100x : 1. We can't boil the ocean. We have to do it a piece at a time.

Often the C-suite are converted after just a few visits to our offices, or after talking to our various office directors (nearly all of whom have come from frontline engineering, product management or design). And typically the engineers, product managers and designers we work with are quick to see the benefits too.

But these companies are very large and sometimes the incentives are highly heterogenous across different individuals and departments. But slowly, surely, they change. And even when they don't completely change, it only takes an isolated pocket of fast movement to keep a large company in the game against disruptors.

That said, we've found that after a while, the ideas and practices begin to spread by themselves. A good example is The Home Depot, with whom we've had several Labs engagements now. Cody, from THD, even gave a tech talk about our NYC office about the experience: http://original.livestream.com/pivotallabs/video?clipId=pla_...

Unfortunately, we flubbed the audio, so Cody is a little hard to hear, but if you can hear -- it's a great story.
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> Passengers seem to be less trained to watch for bicycles than drivers, so I wonder if it's actually safer overall.

It's the driver's responsibility to remind the passenger — or for children, use the child lock function.

As an obvious foreigner in Denmark, I've been reminded by taxi drivers in Copenhagen to check for bicycles before opening the door. A colleague told me his children are taught to open the car door with their opposite hand, which means you look through the window naturally.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12336145
Why would it be negligent?
I've got to the point where I don't feel comfortable unless I'm working of sideprojects or otherwise improving myself during my 'leisure' time. Even commenting here is me fooling myself that hacker news is 'productive' :(
Here on the Florida "Space Coast" programming jobs are hard to come by. But I do enjoy living here, so I put up with it. I have a defense job right now, though I occasionally will interview for a remote position (Apparently I have 'impressive tech skills' but I'm never a 'cultural fit').
Not really; but we can make it into a definition problem.

If we go there then consciousness is suddenly just our subjective experience of change/time/increasing entropy.

If you want a definition that's helpful you're going to have to be more specific than that of course.
Is it free to use OSV images and data in commercial projects?
This is hilarious. None of that shows up on mobile so depending on what device you're viewing this on, your interpretation of the data is completely different.

Mobile: http://imgur.com/a/usQpB
how would you guarantee that packets never leave a country without balkanizing the net. It's just another proposal for more centralization and walled gardens. "E-Mail made in Germany" was all the rage in 2013 after Snowden.

http://www.thelocal.de/20131129/german-email-providers-unite...

It's an absolutely ludicrous idea. A wet dream conceived in the boardrooms of Telekom and 1und1 during a time when nobody had an answer to reduce blanket surveillance. It's dystopian not in a sense that it would be impossible to implement but because it would be a knee-jerk reaction that wouldn't solve the underlying issues.
Most people open pages in new tabs? Really? I have a family member that still can only cope with one tab.
This is why people should avoid paying taxes. Taxation is theft and your hard earned money will always be wasted anyway.
I've just saw my father die of cancer a week ago. Fortunately, he did this at home and was cared for by his own family, right to the end.

I wouldn't describe this experience as sad or tragic. We knew for a while that the moment was coming. I was lucky enough to be with my dad when he took his last breath, and to have been able to say goodbye. I learned a lot about what to do and what not to do in the face of imminent death.
One fun thing I'm doing recently with NixOS is automatically deploying my system setup to a Hetzner server.

NixOps deployment takes the server from scratch to finished clone of my laptop -- with a bit of server-specific configuration -- with zero manual intervention.
Stranger things have happened. Some guy got $55,000 to make a potato salad: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zackdangerbrown/potato-...
Where would a <title> display as a tooltip? And how would that render the <sup> tags like in the <title> on this page?
Man, for a second I thought Google was really going back to their roots and opening up a journal of science. Now that would have been fascinating.
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Why not put parking spots (where possible) outside the bike lane, so the cars protect cycle path. Its done in some places in Denmark.
I expect that it would be nicer for those of us who know python but not JS. Although it might be overall better just to learn some JS.
Or get rich by selling new letters with tips, and using them to pump and dump worthless stocks.
That quote investigation is definitely not mediocre. That puts snopes to shame. Now of course snopes feels mediocre. Sorry snopes, I didn't mean it.
Or genetic engineering via crispr and designer babies.

http://trendintech.com/2016/08/19/will-china-lead-us-into-a-...
Your biased reading of these things is exactly why there's no point to give you evidence on anything. Your goal is not to understand; it's to "win".

I'm not trying to persuade you of anything. As I said, I think you are in the same sort of laggard [1] category as other people were on other opinions about race. Although I hope otherwise, I expect you'll take your hate for Black Lives Matter to your grave.

If you were serious about ending police violence, you'd be out there trying to end police violence. Instead, you spend your time trying to shut up anti-racist people. Why? Try taking a look at who else spends their time objecting to Black Lives Matter:

http://www.chron.com/houston/article/White-Lives-Matter-grou...

[1] Per Moore's model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
>Guix runs on Nix technology with a new config language for packages & a different philosophy about what can go into its core package set (it's a GNU project).

This is a common misunderstanding. Guix is not just a new config layer on top of Nix, it's a new implementation of the concepts pioneered by Nix. The only component that is shared between Nix and Guix is the daemon (written in C++), and they have diverged quite a bit at this point. Everything else about the core implementation (UI, the client for the daemon, recipe->derivation conversion, initial ram disk, init system, etc.) is implemented in Scheme and has pretty significant differences with Nix/NixOS. Even the Guix daemon will be written in Scheme eventually.

>People also think scheme is better than Nix as a language, but if you reason backwards from the requirements that's not at all clear to me. I think Nix-the-language would be better off with types, but the lazy, functional & pure parts are necessary for the concept.

This is another common misunderstanding. The part that is necessary for the concept is that the derivations, the things that the package recipes are transformed into to be built by the daemon, are computed lazily and act as pure functions. Guix certainly retains this quality. Also, if you look at the Scheme code in Guix you'll find that it's written in a purely functional style. I think Scheme's multi-paradigm nature is a strength, not a weakness.