skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your second paragraph largely answers your first. The command line and system calls are strongly aligned. GUIs are not, and present an entirely new metaphor.

Stephenson describes the problems of GUI interfaces in terms of "metaphor sheer", a beautiful phrase.

There's another essay on interfaces, which I cannot presently place, that describes the situation in another way -- that the GUI folder, and colour, and listing, and columns, aren't themselves representative of how the OS sees or organises its content, nor do the actions a user practices on the desktop correspond in large part to what's happening at the underlying level.

And it's not as if all GUIs are necessarily bad. Another reference I cannot place -- a conference presentation of programming concepts in which a simple game was developed and an algorithmic landscape with a tree, flowers, and moon designed, shows how GUIs can be tightly linked to the underlying code.

But the key again is that the metaphors at each layer must be aligned, in ways that most visual computer metaphors are not. I find myself, when using computers, constantly having to second-guess the system, and in particular, if I know how the plumbing is connected, think in terms of "well, I want X, and have Y, but it's wired through Z, so ..." Which actually makes my cognitive process more complicated. As well as removing much the power of textual tools to perform innate looping or mass operations.
There are tools like Linux Live USB creator to put ISOs on USB flash drives. http://www.linuxliveusb.com/
>Some groups have planned ‘Gaia hacking’ and ‘Gaia sprint’ events, at which researchers will collectively work out how best to exploit the sudden manna.

That's going to be such a pleasure to watch as it unfolds. New methods of gathering data are exciting of course, but the real excitement for me is seeing people gain access to piles of new data, and what new and unforeseen things they'll do with it.
Context matters, but we should only take links so far. Otherwise we ban all ISPs for facilitating piracy.

They even encourage people going to youtube and watching illegally uploaded videos!
Since you're compiling and not interpreting, you can do all the checks that a variable doesn't get mutated at compile-time. There's no need to defer these checks into the C code.
I have an old Lemur bought 5 years ago I think. I still use it occasionally (my main machine is a MBP now).

Never had any problem running Linux on it (I use Linux Mint). The quality is OK. The keyboard wasn't great, and the battery deteriorate really quickly. To elaborate, at the beginning I could get 5 hours, but after 2 or 3 years I had to replace it (Customer service was great btw).

I can assume that the newest generation fixed a lot of issue (based on photos the keyboard now looks much better). I would definitely buy a new one the day they decide to finally offer a 13''.
It is portable ammonia fridge.
We have those too, though
Propane is extremely flammable and explosive. In addition, propane tanks and (ambient) heat don't like to coexist... with this one, even when the ammonia gets vented, at least it doesn't create a fire/explosion risk - and thus can be transported by bush pilots!
Psychotherapy via Skype
Uh,no man. When the rabid anti-SJW's go after someone they hound them, send them rape and death threats, hack them etc. It's insane. Douglas Crockford didn't deserve to be disinvited, but the accusers also don't deserve that kind of mob justice.
The idea is that the red point is being identified with the entire line, not stretched. My math is a little rusty, but I think you can make a diagram like http://i.imgur.com/PchSkyI.png and use the fact that Q1 and Q2 are quotient maps to define g and show it's a homeomorphism.

The argument goes something like: there's a universal property on quotient spaces X with quotient map Q which says that if F(a) = F(b) for all a and b in X such that a and b are identified (a ~ b), there's a unique continuous G such that F = G ∘ Q.

So let's take a and b in the top left space. We have a homeomorphism f such that a ~ b if and only if f(a) ~ f(b). Since quotients take equivalent elements to equal elements, Q2(f(a)) = Q2(f(b)). Therefore there's a unique continuous g1 such that Q2 ∘ f = g1 ∘ Q1. We can apply the the same reasoning to Q1 ∘ f^-1 to get a unique continuous g2 such that Q1 ∘ f^-1 = g2 ∘ Q2. Furthermore, g1 and g2 are inverses: g1 ∘ g2 ∘ Q2 = g1 ∘ Q1 ∘ f^-1 = Q2 ∘ f ∘ f^-1 = Q2, and Q2 is surjective. Therefore g = g1 is a homeomorphism.
Yes. If HN had no Safe Harbour protection, it could be sued to oblivion for those infringements.
Same here. When I finally did so, a decade later, I was pleased to discover that he'd been quite correct.
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I was responding to "If I understand what you mean by "immutable by default", then it's all Scheme implementations"; not whether one should or should not use mutating operations!
> There's no reason for people moving out of cities to cluster anywhere in particular.

Economy of scale. Given fixed size of the UBI check, you want to live where services are cheapest. And services will be cheapest in places where more people are serviced together, because that cuts down on distribution costs and other such overheads.

Also, areas where people who have more money than just UBI live, would have higher prices simply by virtue of there being more money in the local economy. This isn't really dissimilar from the existing arrangement, where rich areas are expensive to live in, and so there's natural geographic segregation. But UBI would boost this into high gear.

To clarify, I am a strong proponent of UBI personally. But I think we should be really careful with these kinds of unintended side effects, and try to anticipate and manage them before they cause a bigger mess than what we're trying to address.

Also, have a look at this:
https://medium.com/migration-issues/should-a-universal-basic...
Luc Sante is a great author. Best known for "Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York" about the gangs of New York era.
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That's why there is explicit safe harbor protection for ISPs.

The safe harbor doesn't come for free, it requires affirmative action on the ISP or Youtube's part to take down content that they know is illegal.

Any hypothetical torrent-sharing site could take advantage of that protection as well, as long as it followed those take-down provisions.
No, according to the courts, (in the EU) it isn't. My question is: why shouldn't it be?
Thanks for that tip and link, CarolineW ! I'll add this to my reading list. The wikipedia summary for Microcosmic God is chilling... Outsourcing with a vengeance!
The new part is that the press likes stories about inventions that could supposedly save millions of lives. Someone proposed something very similar to store vaccines in the third world in a TED talk back in 2007, inspired by the same 1930s refrigeration device, and it also got a load of news coverage before vanishing without a trace: http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grosser_and_his_sustainable_fr...
> Prisoners should be able to take any job they can plausibly do from inside at any salary they can get.

Prisons also serve to punish and deter. Allowing inmates to earn market wages would make their punishment a lot lighter, especially for white-collars. Maximising "productivity" isn't and shouldn't be a priority for prisons.
I see where you guys are coming from, and I admit that there's an advertising nature in this post. However, I stand corrected that this post isn't "just an ad". I am also looking for advice here.
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Depends. Let's say, for example, you find a hole in a corporate webapp, say a wordpress application. You want to get usernames and passwords, but said app is firewalled off and you don't want to rouse suspicions. So, you send an email to Joe over in accounting, with a link to a game of some sort that asks to start a webserver. Now, FlyWeb makes its presence known via mdns, and the compromised server now has Joe's IP address. The server can now use Joe as the patsy/proxy, and your code can potentially stay on the server just a bit longer.

Yes, it's a bit convoluted, but it's the first sort of attack that came to mind. An open web server, even if local, can cause a good number of problems, especially if it's running untrusted content.
Rethinking Hardware-Software Codesign for Exascale Systems [pdf]
if only the story or the art were any good.
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/17/135471975/robot-journalist-out...
If a person lies to a US government, that’s a felony:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001

If I were that Canadian, I probably wouldn't lie either.
> and the closest I get to helping you buy some is telling you the chemical ID, I'm very easily on the legal side of things.

And if there was a tool that would pop out, at no additional cost, an instance of the drug based on the chemical ID, I'm fairly sure that it would be considered distribution. If it wasn't, then within short order, the law would likely be changed to fix that loophole.
> Here's a secret: That's the point of the class. School is mainly there to teach you to take assignments, follow directions, and cough up results on demand, irrespective of whether you actually care about the subject. It's a much-in-demand business skill.

I get tired of people dumping on schools.

The problem with school is that most of the consumers of said education are unmotivated slackers whom you practically have to beat the information into.

There are many reasons for people to not like school (social aspects--both personal and community--certainly being a big problem), but, I have ZERO sympathy for anyone who complains that it was boring, uninteresting drudgery from an educational standpoint.

Yes, everybody has bumped into the teacher that is retired-in-place--these people exist in any long-lived institution including companies. But, dear God, most teachers are desperate for any student to show even a modicum of interest in what they are teaching. Even in the worst schools, there always seems to be a handful of teachers lighting the way.

If you found your education boring, it's because you didn't exert even the minimum amount of effort necessary to get the attention of those teachers. And that's your own damn fault.
They all work the same way, and they can use any heat source. It's not new technology, unless they invented a better heater they decided not to mention.
Then WiFi Direct for something already supported in Android.
No, It is not acceptable.
It's the third paragraph, before the fourth paragraph which compares it to puppy.
Total CEOs over your remaining lifetime, which is a number much greater than any snapshot in time. And if you have 25 years of experience, your remaining lifetime is shorter.
That's what I'm quoting. What I am saying is that it should be highlighted on the page for the readers to notice it better. Otherwise they might at a glance mistake this distro for another Puppy Linux spin-off and prematurely close the tab.

Edit: I misunderstood your comment before you added the part after the comma. Looks like what you meant was that the message was prominent enough already. I thought you were suggesting I missed it.
The curse of HTML5 games. It's a damn shame because it would've become a great medium. My tin foil hat theory is that it was purposely sidelined so it wouldn't detract from the mobile gaming craze that was growing at the time.
Ask HN: What will HN be able to do in 10 years from now?
From a Slashdot interview with Neal Stephenson in 2004:

"I embraced OS X as soon as it was available and have never looked back. So a lot of 'In the beginning was the command line' is now obsolete. I keep meaning to update it, but if I'm honest with myself, I have to say this is unlikely."

https://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-...
Is this desirable? Why would one care if your live CD is able to write to the flash if it were to try?
Your "companies cannot compete" is a great insight. However, it only works in preventing remote work from taking off if every company (like a cartel) plays along in requiring employees to be local.
Judging by source, http://www.isogenicengine.com
ISPs don't generally have to take down anything, at least not in the US.

Power companies and roads facilitate a whole lot. Zero legal responsibility there. You could make a pretty good argument that a road is responsible for quite a large proportional facilitation when drugs are bought.
...and that's 100% my experience with it too :-/

Awesome fuzzing engine but modifying it is not for the faint of heart.
Citing authoritative sources is easily the easiest way to be seen as an expert. Next is having them cite you as an expert source, which is not as hard as it might seem.
Forgive me for a blunt reply to your snarky comment, but this is ignorant hyperbole, and I'm surprised you got away with it on HN.

I've never written 'WordPress plugins and themes'. I've worked in C, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby. Yet I gravitate to Node for backends because it makes sense for many reasons over alternative platforms that are still playing catch-up in terms of practical solutions.

One example: Node had solid websockets solutions from close to day one. Several years later, Django just added 'channels' to its org. Rails just added 'action cable'. Both feel very immature.

Also Python and Ruby are slow as hell compared to Node.
So, I'm really not a graphics designer, though I know what I like, what I don't like, and have a pretty good sense for what does and doesn't work well across a large range of display sizes.

This design isn't responsive other than having some reasonably sane defaults. It's derived from a more complex style that does resize headers and such as the pagesize varies. As far as niggling over header formatting ... that's getting into layout-weenie stuff and sweating the small stuff. The point is to have distinguishable headers. How you distinguish them ... is somewhat moot, though size, colour, underline, margin, typeface, etc., are some obvious dimensions. What I've given here does not, I'll posit, for the most part suck.

It may offend some sensibilities.

What I've started taking a strong liking to, actually, is using CSS numbering to create numbered sections (see https://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/wiki/faq for an example -- I actually contributed the Reddit code, all one line of it, to enable this). It's a bit technical-documentation-ish, but tends to give a sense of place and structure within a document.

In practice, having too many levels of nesting is probably distracting. A book might have: Parts, Chapters, Sections, and possibly Subsections. That's H2 - H5 in a standard HTML hierarchy, with H1 reserved for the title.

A paper will rarely have more than Sections and Subsections -- H2 and H3 elements, plus h1 for the title. My reddit styling and docs tend to reflect this.

I will use more detailed breakouts when I'm outlining stuff, though I'll make pains to try to flatten the structure reasonably as I can. I'm often digging in the weeds myself, in complex topics, and achieving a workable structure is a considerable effort.
76 generally fine. I think the entire company is like 3 Russian guys who live in Flordia or something.

Biggest downside I saw was you are paying a 50% markup in Dell or Lenovo... But I guess no more pricey than Apple. (But no apple retina screens)
Correct. If it helps, the given diagram clearly has exactly one edge and exactly one surface.
This isn't working for me on mobile, gives a failed download of 0kb.

If as irickt says this refers to http://plain-text.co then I'd say I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment. Leverage the tools that are battle tested: plain text and version control.

Of course, it's an uphill battle. If your boss expects to add track-change comments to a Word .docx then your pristine text-based processes are going to get tarnished.

Personally I've been experimenting with github.com + gitbook.com for generation of book-like documents. I tried a hand-rolled toolchain based around pandoc but realised that i could write plugins for gitbook, with far more reliability.

I'll have reached the holy grail when editors submit pull requests instead of track-changes Word docs attached to emails. I expect this to never happen.
Yes, it is, if you want to trust that using your bootable media in a hostile system will not infect it with some firmware level nastyness.

Yeah... BIOSes are attack vectors too.
Its no longer representative in fact. Tobacco usage within China has dropped radically over the last few years.
Every paragraph is important for a different reader, you can't emphasize every paragraph.
Hmmm, actually now that I think about it I'm starting to believe it.
Probably impossible to makebas an Android app.
You are absolutely right.

We live in Seattle because it was the smallest / least dense city where both me and my wife could find work relevant to our skills. Across the lake, in the Redmond area, there are plenty of jobs and even less density, but we landed in Seattle before we knew any better about the local geography.

The density axis goes from lots-of-breathing-room-but-no-jobs to suffocating-and-jobs-that-barely-afford-a-box, with lots of tradeoff points in the middle. I fail to see how density is a positive in itself, or that more density is a always a net positive.

As for walkability, it is seriously overrated. Most people are not rich enough to live in walking distance of their jobs. If we could make everyone move in walking distance of job, then most likely we wouldn't need density. Next, you get overpriced shops in walking distance. I'll do groceries at Costco, thank you very much. Parks are more likely to come by in less dense areas. The major benefit I see is that one can safely party within walking distance, and even that benefit is eroded by Uber :)

[FWIW, I lived in a couple "walkable" European cities in a previous life. Slogging through cold rain for basic necessities, oh the memories.]
Upvote on mobile without having to hit a 10x10 px triangle.
> ...continue to be stuck using this very old connector

The question is: what's really wrong with the old connector (from a consumer's PoV)?

When they abandoned ADB, SCSI etc for USB (and at least it was clear that the new thing would end up being better, soon. Abandoning VGA could have been similar except it meant a shift to a parade of different things (DVI D/A/both; DP, mini-DP, etc) which only, (mostly) converged when the rest of the industry finally caught up by standardizing itself on HDMI. And the consumer lost as well as won in that. Switching the MacBook to USB Type C was a transition similar to the first USB one: eventually it will be great but the infrastructure hasn't build out yet (believe me: I own a MB, love it, but don't have any peripherals).

But the TRS connector wasn't preventing much of anything.

I think the real significance is that they are going to a port-free device with inductive charging like the watch. But they can't do that until enough people have switched over to wireless headsets.
My guess would be that it self-regulates in some way.
Even assuming that bad teachers are the norm, there's always an interesting way to look at any subject. A curious mind will find those. Start by reading the textbook - again, some are awful, but most aren't.
I feel like going back to read GEB, see if this time I get it...
Many people since 2004 have "embraced" the whole Apple ecosystem of tools, hardware and software.

They actually cannot look back now. It's literally almost impossible for Stephenson and many other of our contemporaries to look back and choose another way. To do so is literally more pain than is worth. To even contemplate an alternative means negating the investment in Apple. To turn your back on the investment of time, money, effort would mean the benefits of change would need to be greater (or the pain of staying would be worse). It's not going to happen: those who embrace Apple remain within Apple's bosom.
> "The problem with school is that most of the consumers of said education are unmotivated slackers whom you practically have to beat the information into."

I almost stopped reading after that bit and I kind of wish I did.

there is some, some truth to what you are saying. but to paint this picture that "the problem with school" is the students.... is disingenuous at best, completely ignorant at worst.
Sorry I was a bozo in not being clear. I feel he (not only in this piece from 2014 but in pieces since) underweights / ignores the non-trade factors and the undemocratic process by which it emerged.

He touches on the corporatist issues but the strongest statement he can make is "doubtful". He sees the whole things through a perspective of political process wangling and not how it is on its own merits (or lack thereof).
DownwardDebianDog?
Can anyone summarize these six big economic ideas?
Security reasons. If you boot in a hostile environment you don't have to worry about anything attacking you, hiding in free space, etc.

Of course, this assumes the firmware is secured too; aka Bad USB.

An OS read from a CD player that's read-only won't have this issue; that said, even if the CD is burned and all the free space too, it's likely you could introduce an exploit onto the CD by editing the encoding already on the CD by putting it in a CD player that's able to read & write to it and override the read-only flag on the CD.
Because some software requires configuration beyond what a package manager can accommodate.

You would not want to deploy web servers or anything else which can be considered even remotely "complicated" if it was installed using apt-get, apt-get would get you something functional but it doesn't mean it would be optimal and no if it's not optimal it doesn't mean the package needs fixing because there is usually no single "optimal" setup.

Additionally this guide should work for every Linux system regardless of the package manager in question and the underlying architecture because you download the code and compile & build it on the system, which is also what they've said at the end of their guide.

Even fully prepped install wizards often either require some pre-Install configuration/work to be done, or post install configuration work to be done, this goes for commercial software even on systems with arguably "better" installation managers like Windows.
A used HP 5890 might be 3k usd but realistically you are looking at 40k for a refurbished unit. That's what I paid for mine. You can never turn off a GC without an elaborate shutdown procedure. They consume a lot of power and require AC to be running. You need to keep a low level of gas flowing all the time.

It's about as far from accessible as one can get. I can't even imagine sample prep and...well, it's just not a viable solution. As a manufacturing principle QC should be performed in process and at the least processed state.
Yes, but power companies and roads by and large facilitate legal activity, whereas sharing links to copyrighted content don't.

If you hypothetically ask me to make you a cup of coffee and it helps you stay awake so you can go commit a murder, I shouldn't be going to jail for that, unless my intent was to help you commit murder; and even then, I probably didn't help you very much.

On the other hand, if you come to me and ask me for the number of a local hitman, I should have a pretty good idea that I'm aiding and abetting in something illegal.
Coffee is mostly water believe it or not. If someone tells you it doesn't count they are fail.
Here's the discussion from a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5482081
How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad – nearly 30 years ago
Web version of the iOS10 music app design?
I like the new Apple Music ios app design (https://9to5mac.com/2016/06/13/new-ios-10-music-app-design/) a lot, and want to apply a web version of such style to my website. Is there any website already using similar style I can take a look as reference?