skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both can be true - they certainly are in my case.
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https://sourceforge.net/p/cx-freeze/mailman/message/34695906...

And PyInstaller is quite complicated.
Why were you shocked? Is it because you're used to languages that prevent null values by default or do you have concerns about the safety of Nim because of this error?

Whatever the case, as far as I am aware, sooner or later Nim will prevent nil values by default.
I've been flicking through the thread, for those interested the lawsuit is first brought up here:

http://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6125...

Basically every page before then is a few people saying it might be a pyramid, and everyone else calling them trolls or competitors smearing the company.

It's funny that there were a few people who guessed exactly what was happening years before the bubble burst and they were silenced by all the people saying everything was fine because they got their wine just fine.
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Developers need good empathy skills
>do you rip your vinyl to digital format?

No, I haven't yet. I do have a good phono preamp with a digital output for digitizing records that I got as an open-box deal. I have one album that doesn't exist online anywhere so I've been thinking about uploading it to Youtube, but I really adore listening to the physical format at home. At work I'm always listening to Spotify or something.

I tend to curate my record collection to albums I really love, so often it happens that I'll seek out something on vinyl that I'm already familiar with.
"Trivial to upgrade" is not the same as stable. It means code bitrots in-place.
Also, I don't think kids should be learning commercial products in school. That should be on the job training. Companies like Microsoft are leveraging education to sell and market their products.
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To be honest, it's getting really boring and they should invent different tactic :)
I really appreciate (and am very fascinated by) your extreme honesty in this thread.

I've read Camus twice. The first time I read The Stranger, I took away meaninglessness, in the sense that existentialism seemed true.

The second time, I nearly threw up (no, I wasn't reading Nausea :-D), but in the sense that I don't think I've ever felt anything was so absolutely evil and wrong, and existentialism false.

I can't explain this in a philosophical way, and it may be a delusional and biased opinion given my life experiences between the two readings, but I think observing intuitions does hint at universal meaning. Intuitions might be intellectual observations of objective truths no different, in principle, from observations of atoms, or reason itself.
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_g...

Much like Karateka, Mechner's first game, Prince of Persia used rotoscoping for its fluid and realistic animation. For this process, Mechner used as reference for the characters' movements videos of his brother doing acrobatic stunts in white clothes and swashbuckler films such as The Adventures of Robin Hood
Any brick&mortar in the age of the internet cannot compete on convenience, that's inevitable; but they can compete on atmosphere, community and discovery.

Bookshops have much in common with record stores, and have disappeared at a similar rate under pressure from Amazon and ebooks. The few survivors don't fight on convenience: they stock very limited catalogue, but attract patrons with events, community-building, specialist focus and so on. In some cases, what was a bookshop with a cafe attached is now a cafe with a bookshop attached. It can work, if you concentrate on the differentiators only an offline experience can give you.
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You are implicitly drawing a distinction between brain activity and conciousness. But if the brain activity is the conciousness, then there is no distinction. I'm not saying that our experience of things isn't a thing. I'm saying that it's not a distinct thing that's separable from the brain activity.
I did read it, and believe I understood, I just wasn't sure whether to apply your criticisms of CF as a whole to Garden individually, or whether there were additional distinct technical issues that you had concerns about.

The good news from a small startup/lone developer/tinkerer is that we have some work coming up in our backlog to make that much easier, including a single downloadable binary with sensible pre-configured defaults so people who don't want to wrestle with BOSH don't have to. (https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/119174859)

While we grew to meet the containerization needs of CF first and foremost, I'd definitely love to see more projects like Concourse (https://concourse.ci) make use of Garden. Seeing first hand the dance they do to consume it, we definitely need to up our game if this is to be an attainable goal.

Thanks for your feedback!
It only works when media have been monopolized. All media in Russia that have not enjoyed full government editorial control have debunked these stories quite spectacularly, but now they're almost non-existent.

This would never work in a media world with a Daily Show, for once.
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Is constructible?
> This is completely false. Do you have an example?

Review the "Breaking Changes" of release notes, and the number of discussions regarding removing API after a short (in the view of someone who works on said "systems code") period of deprecation.

> Besides, this is completely off topic in a Zig thread. From the FAQ: "Zig is not afraid to roll the major version number of the language if it improves simplicity, fixes poor design decisions, or adds a new feature which compromises backward compatibility."

And thus, it won't be used as a systems language.
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Right, but Finland shouldn't be the benchmark for solar power viability. The total population of places with a climate similar to Finland's is quite small compared to areas where solar is viable.
There is no purpose.
I think this is one of many instances where Github's issue system doesn't enable good communication between developers and end users.

- You shouldn't have to read through pages of posts to find potential workarounds.

- You shouldn't have to count comments to guess if there are a lot of people affected by an issue.

- You shouldn't have to read comments, then wonder which posts were an official developer response or a comment from another end user.

- There should be some way to communicate easily that "this issue has our attention, but dealing with it is de-prioritized because ..."

In this instance, you can see it's a security issue and it will be tough to convince Docker to change it, but at this point it's two years later and people are still griping about it, so maybe it's time to put some attention on it. There are a few suggestions for seemingly reasonable updates, but nobody is championing any of them, presumably because there's no indication other than comment activity that Docker will consider any updates on this issue whatsoever.

I'm not sure myself what the right thing to do from Docker's perspective would be, but this is clearly one of those issues that has worn through the attention span of the development team. Someone either needs to stand up and say "we're not changing anything here" or "we're looking for a solution" - no bug report should be open that long.
"Limiting the profession to those who started naturally at a young age is a good way to keep out everyone but rich mostly-white kids with college-educated parents."

I would say it weeds out everyone who was not inclined to study programming or was not in a situation that prompted them to start programming.

Frankly, this is a childish presupposition. Let's imagine if surgeons where expected to have begun surgery for fun at the age of seven.

It's a cop-out excuse from teaching establishments (if used) and it's a harsh and exclusive requirement from colleagues, more fitting of a puerile fraternity than that a professional cohort.

What one does need, is a certain fluidity in language skills, logic, and most of all, most importantly, a will to learn.

Yes, it needs a lot of work, and it's not easy, but let's not invent imaginary boundaries for peoples careers and lives.
"Constructing religious buildings on top of pre-existing ones, or repurposing them, is about signalling evolution and domination"

It also may be cheaper to build on top of an existing foundation, or the location an existing church stands on simply may be one of the few locations one can build a heavy building on. In some regions (e.g. peat areas) solid ground or even ground that is solid less than ten meters below ground level can be hard to come by.
Given the litany of deprecation markers applied to existing APIs, one must presume the intention of removing them, no?
Nice try. FYI, this HN story is now the first search result on WrkRiot.
I suppose the question is better phrased as "would you give it up?". Anybody who says "I can't give it up" will probably change their mind if the tickets cost 10x more.

I live over 18000 km (well over 10k miles) away from my home town, and I like to visit my family from time to time, and 25+ hours of air travel is bad enough as it is so traveling by ship is out of question. So I probably wouldn't give up flying altogether, as long as the price isn't too high.

However, I'd be willing to refrain from taking domestic flights (but then I normally use the trains anyway) and cut down on non-essential international travel.

Ultimately, the main factor in changing people's habits will be economic e.g. via a tax that captures the negative externalities.
Just wanted to share this video given at ANL recently which goes into the cost of communication in such methods. It has a HPC focus but the presentation is quite digestible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUViqCd9EKk
Could I give up transporting myself on planes? Yes.

Could I give up air freight? Uh-oh. Despite overland transport options, despite New Panama, removing air freight would hurt, a lot, directly and indirectly. But yeah, I guess I would get used to the new, planeless world economy - even though it would be a very different world from today's JIT industrial one.
Teaching programming with test driven development is like teaching French to absolute beginners. In French. Over the phone.

Absolute beginners have trouble looking at foo = bar; and understanding that variables do something different on either side of the equals symbol (which helpfully is doing a different job to what it does in their math class). TDD I just adding another layer of misunderstanding and complexity when you need simplicity and clear concepts.
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Why allows it for free will?

Consider those two situations:

A: You know everything and decide about something based on all the facts known to you

B: You know everything and decide about something based on all the facts known to you plus the result of a random generator

Why is B more "free will" than A? In B there is simply another fact which is beyond your control which modifies your decision. That doesn't makes your decision more free than A, you simply have an additional "input" to consider.

One may argue that B is more free than A because in principle another person with the same knowledge as you would know what's your decision is in A but won't know it in B because of the influence of the random generator. But that doesn't makes B more "free", it only makes it a bit more unpredictable. But in reality it's impossible to always know all facts leading to the decision in A so both have similar unpredictability.

In fact I would consider only A as real "free will" because even if your decision is only determined by (external) facts, it's still all your reasoning based on your beliefs, experiences etc while in B there is a determining factor outside your reasoning you depend on which makes your decision less free (because you may have to decide for a sub-optimal outcome because you're forced by the random generator to do so).
Definetly. HN may not have a huge audience, but it's a very common source of news and articles that later get republished in other aggregators; I would bet they'd use more subtle tactics there though.
The easiest solution is that they've simply lied to the 'H1Bs' and immigration officials as well - brought them in on tourist visas or some other arrangement.
is this essentially a reminder that the materialistic view of the universe / reality is outdated, or am I reading too much into it?
Yeah, that's just if as an expression, replacing the ?: operator. Compare to

return (value >= radix) ? error.InvalidChar : value;
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Fear and loathing - my favorite movie, period. I saw it numerous times, and after initial amazement of how deep and wild some people can go with mind-altering substances, there are other thing to marvel on. Acting is beyond flawless - both Johnny and Benicio were born for it (I don't get why Benicio was criticized for his acting - the complex guy is played superbly).

Visual representation is breathtaking, in many ways thanx to Terry Gilliam - for me this is the pinnacle of his career. He managed to get so much spirit of the book and atmosphere of those times into it... Countless little details lying here and there.
Causes and their baggage
Well, I know multiple people who've had migraines after withdrawing from a couple of espresso cups a day. Apparently it doesn't take much.
No, see here: https://posteo.de/blog/posteo-zur-m%C3%A4r-von-der-abh%C3%B6...

The same applies to mailbox.org
You still have a few hours to submit Zig into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12372118
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My kid is terribly sick, I had to cancel all trips this year, and maybe the next one too.
But I will still always argue that it's a bad trade-off to make compiler construction slightly easier at the expense of insecure code all over the place.
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Some time ago I did compare different BLAS implementations (OpenBLAS, MKL, ACML etc) on different Intel CPU architectures, in case somebody is interested in the differences between them

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5260068/multithreaded-bla...
I don't understand the implicit relationship you see between the regularity observed in our reality and consciousness. Why can't one go with the other?

That consciousness nonsense has you reading a post and reacting to it.

The simulation argument is silly, because all it does is "postpone the explanation" as Alan Watts joked in "Time and the more it changes". If our universe can be simulated, then so what? It is the same puzzle with the Matrix as Jed Mac Kenna explained in his famous trilogy: in Matrix 2 or 3 (don't remember), Neo escapes from his "simulated" reality, only to find himself in another. What if the other one is simulated? The movie just stops there, and Neo isn't actually free. He just switched one reality for another.
One good thing about Feynman was he was always clear on what was experimentally observable and is what it is and what is theory where you can make up anything that fits the experiment.
True, which only makes my poorly-targeted point on bad parsability.

Reading the code requires backtracking around a conditonal control statement, and in a format more verbose than ternary. Most places I've worked have bans or limits on ternary to single boolean cases for the same reason: It's hard for people to understand the control flow of operations around conditional assignment. A new language that lets you perpetuate painful code isn't helping as much as it could.

It's much simpler for people to parse the more verbose case with an IF and two return blocks, and the compiler shouldn't care since it can generate the same code either way.
Please show me an e-mail SPAM / Virus that is sent GPG-encrypted to you. I do not think that this will ever happen.
American Airlines just made the in-flight entertainment free for all and is seeking to have more aircraft with seat-back entertainment, rather than less.

http://apex.aero/2016/08/19/behind-scenes-american-airlines-...

http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/american-airlines-introd...
Of her works, I have only read "The Left Hand of Darkness". The writing is great, the worldbuilding is interesting, but there's one thing which stops me from finding it entertaining - the lack of a protagonist, in the sense of a main character driving the plot. This is a deliberate choice, as Genly's job is to act as an observer. Things happen to him, and he reacts, but the only time he really acts decisively is during the ice-crossing sequence, which I thought was by far the best part of the novel. This passive main character is a big part of what makes the novel unique and interesting, but it also means I don't strongly care about what happens to any of the characters. The novel reads more like an academic work of anthropology than an exciting story.
> I couldn't forgive the fact that Will Smith flew up to the alien mother ship and plugged in a USB key (containing the virus which destroyed the ship (er, spoiler)).

Only that this is not what happened in the movie. Jeff Goldblum tried to get out of "his" satellite links that pirate signal (= alien communications hijacking) that distorted the TV transmissions. He found and partly reverse engineered its line coding between his arrival at the TV station and his lunch break, identifying a recurring pattern that he (correctly) identified as a countdown.

Later at Area 51 (that scene is only found in the extended edition) he's shown a piece of alien tech in the crashed ship the A51 scientists can make no sense of, but turns out to transceive (and display) the same pattern as the pirate signal used by the aliens.

Eventually he arrives at the idea of engineering a signal pattern that, when injected into the aliens' communications network will (temporarily) shut down the ships' shields, simply by glitching the responsible controllers. It's never stated how that signal pattern is generated, but if it makes you feel better, assume it was some kind of fuzzing method.

When they go up to the mothership they don't "plug in" a USB storage device. Watch that sequence again. Goldblum is first running a program on his computer that synchronizes with the aliens' communication network's signal pattern and then uses that link to inject the glitching signal.

----

Yes, the timeframe is more than optimistic short. But it's not something that's logically impossible. In fact it's one of the better parts of the movie IMHO. And all the people who complain about "how did he do this without knowing their computer architecture?" definitely never looked into, or did reverse engineer a completely black box piece of computation equipment. It's definitely possible; yes it takes a lot of patience, but it can be done.
Xojo isn't open source, but I think Lazarus is. It's an open source cross-platform version of Delphi, which could be described as "Visual Pascal". I've not used Lazarus myself but I used to use Delphi.

http://www.lazarus-ide.org
Well it is a universal serial bus!
Try that on a nordic keyboard:

% - SHIFT + 5
{ - ALT + 7
} - ALT + 0
; - SHIFT + ,
( - SHIFT + 8
: - SHIFT + .
[ - ALT + 8
] - ALT + 9
) - SHIFT + 9
> - SHIFT + <
% - SHIFT + 5

Just for the bit you quoted.
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> I would like to see an example of a legitimate Linux Kernel module written in Rust that is in some form of use.

Seriously this.

I write an awful lot of kernel code. There's absolutely no way I'd try to convince folks to accept Rust code into the OS repository, where it will have to:

- Be maintained for decades

- Be ported to a litany of platforms, several of which may only have decent toolchains from the GCC department.

- Vend stable ABI

- Not require keeping a litany of compiler versions around just to keep older code building.
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I don't need to make an argument, because there is nothing to argue against. I don't accept that "the hard problem" is a real problem, or even a coherent thought.

It seems quite obvious to me that "consciousness" is caused by complex algorithms being run by the human brain. But even if science shows that is false, there will always be another scientific explanation. Even if souls exist, they would have to interact with physical matter to work, and so, in principle, could be studied scientifically. Observed and experimented with. And in principle, we could deduce the logical rules that explains their behavior, and build artificial souls, or simulate souls on a computer. I think "souls" are an insanely unscientific belief, on the verge of flat Earthism, but at least it's possible in principle.

The hard problem asserts the possibility of something much, much weirder than the existence of souls or physical laws we don't understand yet. It asserts the existence of a universe which is causally disconnected from our own. Meaning the things that happen in that universe, can never influence anything that happens in our universe in any way. And that our "consciousness" exists in that universe, and not in our own. More on the absurdity of that proposition here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/nqv/zombies_redacted/
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