skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used layouts much, but that sounds very useful.

Do you have your dotfiles somewhere online? Or could you put up the code needed for that setup in a gist/pastebin?
Perhaps, but this is a quote from 2011 when Apple was definitely not a relative nobody. Jobs was discussing his frustrations with selling to the enterprise vs. consumer market.

Quote is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLvvzktuVY8
It's not that the reference is obtuse (it isn't), it's that one usually doesn't encounter "Moby Dick", "aluminum extruders" and "Zhongwang" in the same sentence. It can give one pause, in the same manner as if the sentence were full of alliteration.
My best Life Log is my pictures and videos taken with my phone, available both in chronological order and somewhat organized into topic collections (Google Photos only). I set my phone to wait until I am on wifi and then send copies to Google Photos, Microsoft Onedrive, and Dropbox. (I delete a lot of pictures soon after I take them if I don't want them in my permanent collection). I have the same time ordered collection on one of my laptops and back everything up occasionally to DVRs.

I use this time ordered photo stream a lot. When I am traveling, sitting in an airport and don't feel like working at the moment, I like to jump back to some point in time and look through the pictures for a few month interval. Refreshes my memory and I enjoy remembering time with family and friends, travel, etc.
The documentation is very good. I recommend downloading and installing it and just playing around. Just press the spacebar and you'll see an organized, easily discoverable command interface pop up. Magit is very straightforward if you know how to use the git commandline. Type SPC g s (SPC git status) to open the magit on the current file, then ? to view the available commands. Although org-mode is a massive beast, it can still be productive to simply start by learning small parts and increase the set of features you use over time.

The whole thing should be fun, not just laborious.

http://spacemacs.org/
http://spacemacs.org/doc/QUICK_START.html
Your sentiment about the relationship between computer science and math comes up often enough that I wrote a short essay about it. Computer Science is Not Math: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928276
Note that this will also benefit Wayland when running applications in X backwards compatibility.
I found that Emacs + Evil is a pretty good replacement for Vim. Nowadays there is also NeoVim.
I wouldn't expect the terminal emulator or screen/tmux to cause a 5s delay in this situation; and if they did, I'd expect them to cause it in neovim as well as in vim.
>1) Crime is primarily a problem of non-asian minority populations

Which crimes? Are we talking murder and rape, or tax evasion and speeding?

Let's say we are solely talking about violent crimes: it would be equally true to say that violent crime is primarily a problem of males, and it's probably true that it's a function of income levels and education as well.

Should we "restrict the movement" of men in order to reduce crime? Perhaps we should bar anyone without at least a bachelors degree from traveling more than two miles from their home without a permit?

What about demanding that anyone who earns less than 50K a year wear a GPS-monitored ankle bracelet?

I don't understand the seemingly myopic focus on race as the only variable.
Thanks :)

Can I have your email id for conservation? mine is nidhi@wockito.com
Watch bacteria evolve to resist antibiotics
> In web programming each of the browsers is slightly different in about a hundred different way

Is this actually true? There are stable, well-tested shims for just about everything out there. CSS strikes me as the only tricky bit, but generally if IE8 users don't get to see an animation I don't really care.
You don't have to transition. Think hard before you do.

I became an engineering manager at around 26, and did it for another 5 years, and thought that was my future. But I transitioned jobs and ended up getting back into development, and realized a few things:

- I hate meetings, and PMs go to meetings. A lot.

- PMs have less control then you probably think.

- Writing code means I get to actually make stuff. At the end of the day, as a manger, it was often hard to point to anything as a real accomplishment.

I'm 37 now, and have no desire to go back to being a manager. Now, maybe being a PM is what you really want to do, and if so, I wish you the best of luck. We could use some PMs with actual development skills.
A plane autopilot is supposed to be capable of flying the plane unattended and handing over control in an orderly, controlled fashion before critical problems arise [1]. A ships autopilot is expected to do the same. The same should be expected from a car autopilot. The fact that the environment is much much simpler for planes and ships doesn't change the fundamental expectation. As long as car autopilots are not capable of fulfilling the expectation that they can autonomously and safely control a car in a given real-worlds environment with other participant they should not be marketed as autopilots. They're driving assist programs.

[1] there are examples where this did not happen, but they're considered a failure.
You can download an archive of your Facebook data already. What "real APIs" would you like the government to "compel" this private corporation to add?
I like minimalism, but I think we desperately need some competing aesthetics. Everyone has copied apple to such an extent that it's getting boring. I don't really agree with his notion of garish video game phones, but I think something like the old-school Thinkpads is an awesome aesthetic that got kind of lost. Like, a device that is very industrial and practical, it's not trying hard to be ugly, but they don't hide the screws either. Something like that. Basically a device that instead of trying to be a hermetically sealed box of magic, is super comfortable with its own device-ness. Something that looks like you could open it, if you knew what you were doing.
Now this sounds more like the future, where devices are all standard and common.

I don't really care about the brand of my lightbulb. I also barely care about the brand of my fridge. Maybe in 30 years a phone will be just a phone, not an Android phone, or an iphone.
>If you don't like Facebook's actions then don't use it.

In other words, "You're free to speak, as long as no one can hear you." Nice bait. Look at all your replies.

>Having open speech on Facebook's platform is not an inalienable right.

So long as the government ensures that Facebook is the only platform via patent/copyright/trademark enforcement, I beg to differ. When I can build a Facebook clone of my own and not be sued out of existence for it [1], then you have a valid point. Until then, Facebook isn't greatly different from VKontakte or Renren.

[1]http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-sues-german-rival/
That is not a corollary. While I disagree with the person you are quoting as far as web frameworks are concerned, this is about organization and documentation, not "components that target the lowest common denominator".
There are a lot of things that are opaque to normal-band light that are transparent to other things, like infrared, ultraviolet etc (and vice versa). This goes for more than just light. It all depends on the wavelengths.

One should not assume that simply because a human can't see through it, doesn't mean a computer with the right kinds of sensors can't.
Deep knowledge of git is a sign of immaturity :) There are literally 10 commands one will ever need, which can be conveniently aliased to something more sane. Keep the brain space for something that produces higher value add.
The statistics aren't in yet, and it's too soon to make a reasonable comparison.

That said, I think GP will be proven right in time. Risk compensation[0] is a well-documented phenomenon and this seems highly likely to trigger that sort of behaviour.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
hen I do something 'for work' its just that, work. I'm not going to spend my nights and weekends on it or learning the finer points of it. I have other responsibilities and am way past the age where I'm deeply curious about technology and have to 'get it' on a deep level to feel satisfied or competitive. When you're a student and hobbyist, you have all these things. If your curious, then you have the time to fulfill that curiosity.

I also suspect the young coders today are all about github so knowing git's in's and out's is going to be natural for them.
The same can be said for Uber.
Did Wages Detach from Productivity in 1973? An Investigation Using R
Ah, yes. Another round of grumpy 'ol "why can't I pick/control every aspect of my application environment in the languages I love" developer whining. I swear some people just love saying "hacks on top of hacks". It's the new pejorative of our industry, despite the unparalleled success of what it's intended to dismiss. The hacky-ness we're observing is just an evolutionary byproduct of the "power vacuum" of software decentralization and democratization. Yes, it's inefficient and ugly in some places, but it's an amazingly practical way to distribute software. Just remember your perfect system is only perfect for you or your financials. To state otherwise is sophomoric and unscientific.
Better bitcoin system should have some sane non-libertarian economics behind it.

It should be engineered to have steady inflation that is slightly higher than most common currencies. 4-5% for example.

This would discourage hoarding and increase velocity of money. Good money should not be investment asset or speculation asset. It should be something used for transactions between assets.
For one thing a plane's autopilot doesn't automatically avoid obstacles.
So I would make a request like:

POST /transfer

from_account_id=12345&to_account_id=67890&amount=10

Perhaps I've misunderstood your comment, as I don't really understand why this is better than the original:

POST /accounts/12345/transfer

to_account_id=67890&amount=10

or even:

POST /accounts/12345/withdraw

amount=10
Core Emacs is extremely snappy, slowdowns generally occur from packages. Helm is indeed a giant monster. Highlighting and redisplay is another area where things slow down.
Disease is going to be a major problem in the 21st century in general. Antibiotic resistance, diseases that "jump" from wildlife to humans, and even, perhaps, bioweapons, all seem to be major threats. Those interested in reading more might check out:

* Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague http://amzn.to/2c9Vsoh

* David Quammen's Spillover http://amzn.to/2cm4ONj

Garrett's book is particularly good. I've not read a better summary of the political, economic, and social power disease will have over the next century.
Ask HN: Can we talk about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
I find it incredible that the public knows so little about the founder(s) of Bitcoin.

The importance of knowing the identity of Satoshi is debatable, so let's not discuss the matter here.

What I wanted to see a discussion about are:

-How did Satoshi maintain anonymity on the internet?

-Who are the people who might know Satoshi's real identity and why?

-Any links to articles trying to figure out who Satoshi might be based on his email ids, wallet addresses, P2P account, commit history? Was his IP address ever logged to deduce his location, assuming he didn't use tools to hide his IP address?
AlphaGo Self-Play Game Commentaries Released
In case you were looking for the Changelog: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/master/runtime/doc...
I agree with you. Best to ask people I know to not post shit like that, and minimize censorship at the platform level.
To add another example to my own text:

Google for something and Google will optimize future results to your known interests. That leads to a filter bubble showing you more and more customized search results. Are you hurt by this? Not knowingly, but perhaps you miss something important. Do most people know about this? Most likely not, so the collection of data leads to a skewed world view.
Absolutely. I feel like we're on the cusp of greatness -- between evergreen browsers, flexbox, Typescript, React/Redux, and Webpack my frontend experience has never been better.
What workloads were you using Gluster for? How did you reach out to the developers? Usually the mailing lists are very responsive and most bugs brought up on the lists are addressed.

> Unless you try using its NFS server to get not entirely disastrous performance.

Wrong again, Gluster's NFS server is in userspace too. Not sure how that can cause a kernel panic.
>But however unpleasant it may be, an audit is not a punishment.

If every audit was accompanied by a check for $3000 or so, a large portion of the people audited would feel neutral about the process.
As long as this is the case this is a recipe for encouraging users to block ads. I'd welcome relevant ads. I'm always about to buy something. If you could predict what I was about to buy and give me truly relevant ads, I'd be delighted.

For instance, right now I'm really looking for the best way to deep clean the upholstery on my couch. Let's see what's in my Facebook feed right now...

1. A mortgage ad talking about HARP... nope, don't qualify for that
2. Home Depot wants me to buy the Arctic Cove Fan... In the midwest, in mid-September...
3. Vizio... I'm not in the market for a TV, but I do like TVs I guess... but who doesn't...
4. HTC Vive... already own it

It just goes on and on.
> to pay $700 for a piece of hardware that ultimately you don't have final say in just doesn't seem like its going to be tenable in the long run

Unfortunately, it's the brave new world. We can't put the genie back into the bottle. Every device has hardware and software from hundreds of sources, there are security holes which need to be patched up timely, it's hard to do it without a centralized update system, so we have to give up control and blindly trust the providers to protect us from hackers.

The trend of losing privacy is going to accentuate. We have to develop a new way of thinking and living in a panopticon society, because there's no way to return back to 1980'es. We need to develop ways to preserve freedom and creativity in this perfect surveillance world.

How would a social network protect anonymity, reject spam and detect organized manipulation, at the same time? What would it take to bootstrap it? How could we have phones that leak less information about us?
Site doesn't work for me. There's a blank rectangle below the "Sites" title and to the right of the site URLs.

Mousing over that area raises some white tool tips/pop-ups displaying color names/codes.

I found this an ironic coincidence with another recent post on HN:

"Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12477190
Desktop computers are still pretty popular. Especially among PC gamers. That is the only example I can think of to refute your comment.

Edit: but it only works because of the space in a PC tower. It doesn't work for laptops, and I was sort of in the same boat as you. I couldn't imagine it would work for phones. Specifically that they are so space constrained.
The Ideal
Well the people writing them are also receiving a large amount of power when they are working in the law.

The people involved have already spent massive sums on lobbying, and to me this feels like an extension of that lobbying.
If you look around the internet at objections to self-driving cars, many of those objections are based on fear. So finding out if self driving cars actually scare people is probably a good thing. Even if they don't outright scare people, the behavior of a self-driving car will be different, and maybe some of those differences are unpleasant for riders.
I'm not pointing out anything about the truth (or falsity) of those statements. What I don't understand is why that paragraph ended up in a rant about minamalist aesthetics. Is the author trying to implicate some sort of conspiracy in the design of devices?
Wall Street Fear Level Jumps to Highest Since Brexit Vote
France in the 18-19th century had many smart people who spoke against this type of stuff (everyone loves to quote Voltaire). But modern France has become the absolute counter-point for wishing to have less censorship and centralized social control. So this problem isn't limited to the United States.

This is an issue in all modern liberal societies. Big government and centralized control has exploded over the last century, nation-states have become bigger than they've been in any time in history. The first half of the book "Fourth Revolution" has a really great history of how the state has massively grown, largely starting after WW2, to the point it becomes embedded in every parts of our lives (whether it's explicit or not). This type of thing always happens through small slivers and cuts, largely promoted via community complaints calling for government to solve issues - much like what Facebook has experienced.

This is the side-effect of a society where the hair-trigger response to every small problem is to look to government to solve it - not just economic but social issues too. Instead of resolving them internally or via community, or just moving on because the solution is sometimes worse than the problem (see: terrorism).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Revolution-Global-Reinvent-Sta...
If I look too carefully, I see a slightly contagious, very mild, and benign form of insanity.

If you see suffering everywhere you look, the real problem may be in your way of seeing things.

But since suffering (in this context) is an essentially subjective thing, you can't go mixing it with an objective measurement like kilograms and make it more objective. Drawing up a "suffering per kilogram ratio" is exactly as subjective as simply asking whether cows suffer more than fish in the process of becoming human food. It isn't useful to anyone, except possibly those who published the ratios, being little more than an organized expression of their opinions.

The implication I draw from the very existence of a suffering/kg ratio is that those who invented it must believe that there is an acceptable level of suffering that any one person may cause, and that ratio may be a useful tool for staying under that threshold. That's like starting every morning by swearing into the mirror that you won't make any more than two people cry today. If it really is valuable to you that you don't make people cry, why wouldn't you say you don't want to do that to anyone, ever? It may be inevitable that it happens, but a practically unachievable goal is still a goal.
I agree with you, and I think it's a shame people are downvoting you.
I think the issue raised here is that Facebook censors content according to rules based entirely on American values, while parading as some sort of global organization, "connecting the world" type-of-thing.

What is morally acceptable to see on a feed for an American is not the same for a Norwegian, a Japanese or a Sudanese. The author mentions sexuality/nudity content here, which is a blatant cultural difference between Europe and the US, but there are so many more regional variations among the hundred of countries where Facebook operates.

Facebook is definitely entitled to censor content as they see fit, but we are also entitled to criticize their policy. Here, it seems that the main criticism is the americano-centric view of what is inadequate content.

Maybe Facebook should look into developing local content rules instead of relying on a guideline written in California by Californians for Californians?
So they'll automatically pull over to the side of the road, even if there's no shoulder? Or unsafe?
Of course Greece has had its own tricky relationships with the language: Demotic v. Koine in the liturgy (Google for "Gospel Riots"), Katharevousa v. Demotic in print.

Would one be astonished at the student who could read Latin comfortably, but was not proficient in Italian?
Right, and in fact I said as much.
Netherland also has elections during weekdays (not sure if it's the same day of the week every time), and has voting turnouts near 80% for national elections. Local and European elections are much, much lower, however.

What helps is that it's really easy to vote. The only thing you need to do in advance is not lose the voting card that arrives in the mail, and hopefully pay attention to the positions various parties have on the issues. You have to do a bit more if you want to authorize someone else to cast your vote, or if you want to vote at a different voting station, but otherwise you just walk to the voting station before or after work and that's it.

That's it. No registration in advance, no waiting in long lines, no having to travel to the other side of town. For most people, the voting station in right next door.
Nope.

Autopilot (before Tesla) is a feature on modern aircraft. If you'll notice, aircraft always have an attentive person behind the wheel (if it's a commercial flight, two).

A plane can fly itself under normal conditions (highways for Tesla) and many can land themselves now (Model S can park / summon feature).

Autopilot couldn't be more apt.
What would you recommend for turning off a section of code temporarily?
Google’s self-driving car project team is also having a brain drain when a handful of high profile engineers jumping out of the boat. This to me is a bigger issue contributing to the "losing out" scenario.
SELinux is not a solution to this class of vulnerabilities; it's a backup plan. The right way is to not have stupid APIs that are easy to do dangerous things with. Compare PHP's fopen wrappers with the requests Python package, for example.
TIL: Donald Trump should look out for dead tramps
I think people often forget the other side of the coin.

These companies "cross-pollenate" American morality across the world because they are American companies. Based in America. On American soil. Responsible to America's laws. To ask that these companies not spread American morality (or French morality if they were based in France, or German etc.) is to ask that they not be made to operate under the laws of the country that they're based in. That they hold some status above countries. And one could argue that that is even more dangerous than the situation we have now.
Here's a useful one:

cnoremap sudow w !sudo tee % >/dev/null

Or from inside your editing session:

:w !sudo tee % > /dev/null

For when you find you've edited a file you don't own (e.g. config file) and forgot to sudo first.
The cleanest and most efficient methodologies for web development today are largely unpopular.

The people who know how to write efficient websites, web pages, and web software in general are going to be either the people who have been doing it long enough to remember the old ways, or those who wade through enough of today's bullshit to understand how to do things with less code, and faster rendering times.
A next generation of payments tech to kill MasterCard and Visa
That's pretty much my whole point. New companies regularly step in and take advantage of competitors' biases, so anything that looks like a long-term systematic bias probably is actually a reflection of a real correlation instead, because if it was a real bias, somebody probably would have stepped in and taken advantage by now.
I assume most of the R&D focused on nozzle and ink which are enough for the market ?
I didn't know that. It shows for how long that is a vision and how long it took. Still, the vision is far away from happening. (But may be not an additional 60 years.)
Or perhaps it's because not everyone wants to be a web dev.

Perhaps all of their code at previous gigs has been proprietary and they don't relish the prospect of doing a full days work and then coming home to spend their evenings maintaining a GitHub profile in case a future employer has it as an unspoken requirement for the position.
There's something terrifying about this, yes. But the article doesn't "attempt" to hide it's authors terror, it simply fails to verbalize it – if that's the authors underlying worry.