skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a government attorney by day and a hobby programmer at night. There is absoloutely no way you are going to get any significant number of office workers to use asciidoc and a VCS.

It's hard to even get a lot of people trained in Word. The agency has training classes when a new version is installed--which is once every few years. People struggle with stuff like the ribbon. To use asciidoc and a VCS people would have to start from scratch training wise. Not gonna happen.

I routinely format sizable documents and have to collaborate on them. Word is an abomination and I hate it. From a technical standpoint other tools are far superior. But a bunch of office workers are not going to learn anything else. It would not be worth the effort. Since MS has no incentive to improve Word I grit my teeth and accept that I will have to deal with its garbage.
But when you do find a dud in inspection of say a batch of resistors for television production you reject the entire batch or shipment; you don't ask the supplier politely if they might consider taking it back. In an import context that could mean anything from a single case to a 40ft container or even a whole shipload in the case of fish. That seems to be a big part of the problem; in food inspections the inspectors don't have the same degree of power and authority as quality control inspectors in a factory (well at least in well run factories).
Personally I have found that any consistent and conscious change in eating habits typically means losing weight. Also relatively small amount of exercise drops my weight towards ideal level and at very least helps to keep it down.

The only problem is to have good energy levels while dieting/exercising. Because that physical/mental exhaustion is the thing that stops diets. And it's doesn't even need to come from the diet itself, work stress suffices. Just that if the diet adds to total load, then it has to be the first one to go. Being unemployed is not an option.
Just out of interest, have you explored using the Apps for Office functionality? I think it could provide a more robust solution (robust in the sense that it's supported by Microsoft) for integrating web interfaces into Excel. Basically it allows you to build Excel extensions using HTML/CSS/JS. I could understand using COM before Apps for Office was available.

http://dev.office.com/docs/add-ins/overview/office-add-ins
No thanks. Steel and concrete don't get termites or burn. So the risk is more, but the benefit is negligible.
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Point taken. Have updated the title to make things clearer.
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At this point I'm completely done with ads. They are disruptive to my experience, invade my privacy and pose a serious security risk. And even if none of that is true, ads are still inherently manipualitve and I therefore consider them to be unethical. I'm going to continue to block as many ads as I can. Businesses dependant on ads will have to adapt or die. I won't shed a tear for them.
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From Santa Monica to San Francisco take the coast highway as much as you're able (usually Pacific Coast Highway 1, sometimes 101), especially from Morro Bay north. The drive will take longer, maybe much longer if you stop at the scenic points. Driving north puts your car against the mountain. Driving south would put your car on the ocean side of the road, possibly offering better views.
Oh my god, OSX Server is still a thing (genuine surprise)? I suppose it depends on use case, but I gave Server an honest attempt once, and eventually scuttled the entire thing; I'd love to try an Enterprise ready MDM from Apple, OSX Server isn't it. Very similar features that one would come to expect, but there's not much depth to them when your service demand begins to scale.
The relationship between async libraries in Rust
> people would like to think that the military have sex with each other all the time...

This is, in fact, the case though. It's not unheard-of for personnel to have a casual boyfriend/girlfriend for the duration of a deployment, in a what-happens-in-vegas way.
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Named pipes[1] will do that for you.

[1] http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-named-pipes-fifos-...
There is also no "war", "peace", "love", "human rights", "democracy", "united states" or "being gay".

Funny how I have attacked against materialistic and constructionist world views during a single day. Personally I stand in the middle ground of these two where things like "truth" and "humor" really really exist. Because I like those things so damn much.

PS. You don't need to get so metaphysical to oppose imperial ambitions. Just plain old non-aggression goes pretty far.
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What cyberpunk was and what it will be
Looks cool. I like its code based which I think may make it easier to keep it up to date than if it was external configuration file(s). I do really like how well tested Monit is though
Sure, but presuming the deployed personnel are not Asexual, the problem still stands.
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1.5% of the population, according to Kinsey. A bit less, according to newer research, but still not an insignificant number.

The era of free love is rather recent, and quite localized. Until not that long ago, and still today in many countries, people who are single or widows - particularly women - often live without sex for many years.
The only plane in the sky
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12408328 (9 days ago, 12 comments)
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1. Akerlof’s information asymmetry: Sellers must use signalling to inform buyers of their product's high quality.

2. Minsky's financial instability hypothesis: Stability makes even high risk debt attractive which leads to a crisis of instability, a "Minsky moment".

3. Stolper-Samuelson theorem: Abolishing tariffs in favor of free trade with low-wage nations can hurt workers in high-wage nations, even when the high-wage nation benefits overall.

4. Keynes' fiscal stimulus and multipliers: Every government dollar spent stimulates the economy multiple times, by subsequently being spent by the recipients.

5. Nash equilibrium, game theory and the prisoner dilemma: Rational actors make choices based on what they think other actors will do. This leads to stable but sometimes sub-optimal scenarios.

6. Mundell-Fleming trilemma: Pick two: Fixed exchange rate, monetary autonomy or free flow of capital. You can't have all three.
Your experience in North America is mundane compared to what the world has to offer. Quito, Rio, Lagos and the other mega-cities of the developing world are so much more chaotic. I look forward to driving in the big cities of India one day :)
> > Integers use little-endian byte order because most CPUs are little-endian, and even big-endian CPUs usually have instructions for reading little-endian data.

> sob There are a lot of things Intel has to account for, and frankly little-endian byte order isn't the worst of them, but it's pretty rotten. Writing 'EFCDAB8967452301' for 0x0123456789ABCDEF is perverse in the extreme. Why? Why?

Little endian means that a CPU designer can make buses shorter, which makes the CPU more efficient and smaller. There are also several benefits from the programming side. So it is actually better than big endian in /some/ cases, at the cost of being less intuitive to humans.

So while Intel did choose little endian, they had very good reason to (and it's probably why everything except SystemZ and POWER use it).
When browsing code posted or advertised on various forums, I noticed a dramatic increase in the use of uint8_t and such. In places where they really were not useful, and a basic standard type would suffice, and be more portable, and be as fast or faster. I have seen intN_t used as booleans! I have seen uintN_t types used and signed values put in them! (which meant the author didn't understand yet the basis of types but was somehow taught it was a good practice to use exact-width types).

I also suspect the influence of languages with fanboys, as Rust. I had a 'fight' with these, they really didn't grasp the concept of having a type defined as the natural type of the platform and as having at least (and possibly at most) N bits. I gave up. As long as they have fun with their thing and do not try to spread "the good word" and influence other languages, that would be fine.

Let's hope we won't see the influence of languages whose designers had a gripe against unsigned integers...
Sure, there are outliers. My post explicitly deals with the common case only.
There are no termites in colder climates. The material can be coated to precent any insect from eating it. If you think avout what happened in New York 15 years ago today one might argue steel and concrete burn just as well as wood
It usually only takes one target or skeet shooting session to convert someone. Shooting things is really fun, when you do it in a safe way.
That sounds very nice :).

How come noone with even a tiny fleet sails over there and takes it over? Any billionaire could become a king that way.
If you want to teach computational thinking to kids, here are some much better (and researched) resources:

http://csunplugged.org/

https://code.org/

https://scratch.mit.edu/

and many others: http://bit.ly/ortonacode

I would avoid proprietary tools (like Wolfram or Microsoft/Apple code) and avoid tools designed for professionals, not beginners (like java, python, and the like), until they are ready for them and choose them on their own.
Would probably be a good idea to have a no-exceptions version.
Will assume you refer to pitching / sales conversation.

The worst you can do in sales is talk a lot (a good rule is talking 20% of the time, maximum).

I'd recommend:
- writing down the types of customers you might have (user personae)
- capturing the value you offer to each segment in 1 sentence.

Let's take Facebook example:
For users: Connect 24/7 with your friends
For businesses: Sell products to your target in a clic!
For game developers: Push your apps to the biggest pool of players.
For media: Your content introduced to up to 1.7 billion people worldwide...
For investors: Get great ROI on a growing product the whole world is using.

A first conversation should spark interest.
Then, you can ask questions and go on to features / details.

It's very hard to be concise, you might fear leaving some advantages of your product out, and it takes a lot of work and market feedback to make a short pitch right ...

I hope this helps :)
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In Israel they are held on a Tuesday, which is a mandatory holiday for almost everyone, and there's free public transportation anywhere if you need it in order to vote, which is cool (also, most parties would arrange for transport if you call ahead and say you need help and are planing on voting for them).

If held on the weekend it would not allow Sabbath observers to vote. Not sure why Tuesday was picked specifically. Turnout is not that great in recent years though, usually around 60-70%.
Technology replacing jobs doesn't directly benefit outsiders. Foreign labor replacing local labor feels unfair because foreigners are outside of the local people's psychological tribe. That explains why people are happy to have children even though those children are bound to grow up and take old people's job, possibly forcing them into early retirement and poverty. At least the job is being taken by another member of the same in-group so it doesn't feel so painful.
...or you could use an adblocker - they block more than just ads (at least the good ones do).
Well, as adults that can make their own decision, that would be up to them, of course.

Hopefully this isn't too political, but I will try and answer your question.

Part of self-reliance is the ability to make your environment safe. This is why you learn first-aid, CPR, how to use a fire extinguisher, how to properly use a knife, etc.

In the United States, there are more firearms then people. This trend shows no signs of stopping any time in the near future.

Statistically speaking, in a group that focuses on outdoor activities and self-reliance, there will be multiple gun owners. Some will probably have concealed weapons permits.

Taking a gun into the wilderness is a sensible precaution. There are any number of dangerous critters, especially the ones with rabies.

While in the backcountry, you will also run into other people that are armed.

Our hypothetical non-gun-person is therefore going to be around guns.

Guns are dangerous.

Not knowing how to safely handle a gun makes non-gun people potentially dangerous to both themselves, and other people.

The responsible thing is therefore to learn how to safely handle a weapon, including how to unload and clear it.

They don't need to ever buy one, own one, or even like guns.

But knowing gun safety is right up there with knowing CPR.

You don't learn CPR by reading a book. You do it by practicing in a controlled environment.

Same for gun safety.
Yup. The UK is covered with artificial mounds and earthworks other than Stonehenge, and most of them aren't that well understood or much of a draw for tourists.

It doesn't help matters when the article starts comparing Cahokia with sites as visually arresting and technically impressive as Macchu Picchu or Angkor Wat, wondering why it doesn't get as many visitors as an architecturally marvellous cathedral in the middle of a large city in a heavily touristed region or suggesting that it was bigger than London.
(London's population was a lot more than 10k in the 12th century, and for that matter the 1st century AD, and we still build supermarkets on top of the old city's rather more substantial ruins)
Video from the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8

Fairly frightening.
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Surely TLS solves that?
People don't care about immigrants working like slaves because that's what they'll be doing in their own country anyway.
You may have missed them but it is worth pointing out these two tiny sections of the article:

> In general, a large mass of wood, such as a CLT floor, is difficult to burn without a sustained heat source—for the same reason that it is hard to light a camp fire when all you have is logs. Once the outside of the timber chars it can prevent the wood inside from igniting. The big urban fires of the past, such as the Great Fire of London, which occurred 350 years ago this month, were mostly fuelled by smaller sections of timber acting as kindling. Prospective tenants would doubtless need lots of reassurance. But with other fire-resistant layers and modern sprinkler systems, tall wooden buildings can exceed existing fire standards

> What about woodworm and rot? “If you don’t look after it, steel and concrete will fail just as quickly as timber,” says Michael Ramage, head of the Centre for Natural Material Innovation at the University of Cambridge in Britain.
30 meters doesn't seem all that useful. What is that - 9 floors? I guess it'd be better than nothing, but have there been a lot of preventable deaths in 10 story building fires where this would have saved them?
Maybe the best advice is to start slow. If you are a complete tenderfoot, going on a 15 mile hike that bags three 4000 ft peaks is more likely to be a bad time than a three mile hike that summits once. Backpacking the 100 Mile Wilderness requires a little more planning and confidence in your gear and skills than an overnight where you have cell service throughout. Hiking on the east coast, where water is plentiful and you pretty much can't walk more than a day in a straight line without hitting a paved road, is a different beast than places out west where you can easily die of dehydration or bumble off and never be seen again.
What problem? Non-asexual people can simply decide not to have sex, just like people decide to not eat sugar or meat.
re > 2-They were experts breaking formats ON PURPOSE...

there's quite a good discussion in Wikipedia

>"Embrace, extend, and extinguish", also known as "Embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found that was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
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Take them bow hunting. They'll wish they had a gun real quick :)
> Facebook is signaling to the broader advertising and publishing world that the future lies in fewer ads, more respect for consumer privacy and more deference to a user’s preferences.

Facebook has no respect for consumer privacy and little deference to user's preferences. They still collect every iota of data, they still store this data, they still share this data.

They also still track you across multiple domains, whether you're logged in or not.

The only change is the presentation of ads and the eradication of tools used to fight surveillance.
Point is, Morocco signed a treaty with an entity that it recognized as an independent state back when everyone else considered it as a British colony.
No. At least, I've never heard of it happening, and I'm pretty sure the investors I've met would think it was silly.
Ah ok, didn't think of Mac. thanks
I'm european and recently got some new dollars because I was flying to Peru and had to spend a night in U.S.

I remember laughing out loud to U.S. funny-money. It's texture is closer to toilet paper than what I'd expect from the worlds most worshiped currency.
Banks are so digital it hurts
Still thinking that primary education should be some sort of Ancient Greece curriculum and that applied subjects must only come at a later stage.
I agree. GD/LO spreadsheets are an appalling database engine.

I don't want to tell you how to do your own job, but if it's normal to handle millions of lines in a spreadsheet, you might be doing it wrong. (2 mins in excel; 2 seconds in a db)
This was found in a simulation. How would one detect this experimentally and confirm the phenomenon?
You're not wrong, but it seems you're not abstracting enough (and depends on your embedded system)

However the smaller they are the less complex the system is. And running higher level languages is not as taboo today
There were 3 stairwells in each building. Here's an excerpt from this fascinating wikipedia page[1] about one of the only four people to make it out from above the impact in the South tower:

"The airliner that struck the North Tower struck it perpendicular to the north face. The impact severed all the elevators and all three stairwells. The airliner that struck the South Tower struck at an angle, severing two stairwells, but it left Stairway A, the one they were using, more or less intact."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Clark_(September_11_surv...
I misread this as Soleau:

http://www.soleau.com/dosgame.html
Out of luck is a bit strong. 22 of the S&P 500 companies have a female CEO. While that's far from balanced, it's also far from "out of luck", IMO.
> No one has yet shown that there is a better way of doing this than the current system, sadly, without expending a lot more focused resource than people are politically willing to exert.

John Holt wrote "how children fail" and "how children learn" at least 40 years ago. John Gatto wrote "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" 25 years ago.

The education problem is very well defined, but it can't be fixed or addressed because of inertia, and because of who benefits from the status quo.
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Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)
Adding proprietary modules to existing standards is VERY different from willingly breaking a closed format they created in the first place.
But usually in lowercase...
This makes an astounding amount of sense - so it will probably never happen. But it is just astounding the differential in housing prices. I know some people that are trying to sell houses in the little Maine mountain town I grew up in, and they'll be lucky to get 80-100k out of them - for nice houses with big 10+ acre lots.

If I could pick those up and move them to southern New Hampshire where I live (not even Boston or more expensive locales), they'd go for 350k-500k. It's really absurd.
Microsoft created the Office document standard. So "EEE" doesn't really apply here.

The person I responded to didn't list one example that was relevant to Office.
The pdf is available from several sources, including google scholar and this blog post:
https://gridworld.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/computational-rat...
It looks like this script uses the image it's writing to as part of the algorithm(extending pixels until they hit rooms, etc.)

For more complex maps, it might be worth using something like DOT to define the abstract graph, and use any image generator tools to layout the dungeon. As a bonus, it would generate curved hallways to link the rooms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_languag...

You seem to have specific requirements for the image to be easily loadable into a Voxel engine, so it may be that this method wouldn't be useful.
There was some recent HN discussion on the limits of formal methods:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12468479

If we're willing to accept broken software some of the time we can do far more, and in practice this is how the vast majority of software is developed. In this context I think "mathematical" vs "computational" has the colloquial meaning of "proven" vs "empirically tested".
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One example is that if you don't need a specific size, using the loosely defined types may be faster. For example, if you specify int32_t, but your program compiles for a 16-bit platform, then instructions operating on this variable may need to run twice, since the registers can only fit 16 bits of data.

And the other way around: If you specify int8_t, but your program runs on a 64-bit platform which only can address memory in 64 bit chunks, then you might waste 32-bits of memory for this variable, and addressing it can be slower since the program has to find the 8 interesting bits in a 64-bit register, and discard the rest of the bits so they don't affect calculations.

The only reason to use specific sizes IMO is if you work with loads of data and need to pack it efficiently, or work with bit-specified protocols like TCP packets or files. If you need _at least_ 16 bit of data for example, then you can use the int_least_16_t, which may be 64-bit or 16-bit depending on the architecture.
Neither steel nor concrete burn under ordinary circumstances. Wood does. We do not know what exactly happened in New York, and it does not seem relevant here.