skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an immigrant in Norway. American, not British: I'm married to a Norwegian. As part of my experience, I got to take a couple years of language courses and civics (important stuff).

And the human rights abuses? Yep. Learned about them in the classes (they include some culture stuff in the language courses). So many different things in different times. But so much has changed as well, and progressive on other fronts for sure. I don't hear of imprisonment without trial happening today or things on that front. The police don't generally carry weapons, either. Most times they'll do their jobs and go on. I'm pretty happy in a fairly 'alternative' crowd (I personally have blue hair), and the stories are mild compared to the stuff I'd hear in the states. There are some bad ones, sure, but that happens most places. I'm much less apprehensive about police than I ever was in the US.

I'd say that some of the hardest part is some racial tension to a point. It isn't really the same sort of institutionalized stuff like it was in the US because it is socially unacceptable. For example, the King gave an absolutely inclusive speech a couple weeks ago, which can be seen with English subtitles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQtLxYde-rw

At one time, Norway's drug war did mirror the US. Some of it today is much better, however. Drug treatment is covered by the state health care, for example, and time off work for that is standard instead of firings. From what I understand, hashish and pot get fines for most folks unless you are dealing. Prison sentences aren't nearly as long.

I rather enjoy the social egalitarianism bit.
It is pretty clear that the middle classes rarely take long train journeys any more. Poor people tend to be traveling for work rather than for holidays. So inevitability there are more individual travelers than families and people are (wisely) more cautious.
Google's approach presumes that Islamic terrorism is driven by ignorant people.

They will link to media from outside the viewer's filter bubble, so the ignorant Daesh recruit would become educated and choose another path.

But is ignorance really the root cause? Researchers found that Islamist radicals are disproportionately well educated, and frequently have an engineering background.

https://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Jihad-Connection-Extremism-...

Using rigorous methods and several new datasets, they explain
the link between educational discipline and type of radicalism
by looking at two key factors: the social mobility (or lack thereof)
for engineers in the Muslim world, and a particular mindset
seeking order and hierarchy that is found more frequently among
engineers. Engineers' presence in some extremist groups and not
others, the authors argue, is a proxy for individual traits
that may account for the much larger question of selective
recruitment to radical activism.

If prospective terrorists are already well educated, will linking to alternative viewpoints tell them anything they didn't already know?
I think your reaction is the law working as intended. Without the ADA, there is little will to go above and beyond. With the ADA, everyone is outraged that they have to go above and beyond and somehow find the resources to do it.
Sure, although I don't consider music a necessity of life.

I find the smell of certain things, like old cooked broccoli or kale, to make me want to vomit. But if a passenger on the train was eating it, I don't think it would disturb me nearly as much as endless music that interrupts my concentration. I don't see how these are in the same boat, even though the music is merely annoying and the smell of putrid greens makes me want to vomit.
It's pretty cool. I built a lexer/parser for the p4 language in Lua, with the intention of then building a "runtime" for it out of the Snabb networking toolkit (amusingly, I also finished most of a p4 lexer/parser in Elixir before switching to Lua).

I don't think be able to build a full p4 implementation with Snabb running as a substrate (although it's been 6 months since I last worked on it, and am blanking at the moment why not), but I think it could get pretty close. But it will be a ton of work if I get around to it, plus I don't have much experience doing networking programming at this low of a level. I got a bit distracted with work and other obligations, but I hope to pick it back up soon, particularly if p4 is finally starting to get some well-deserved attention.

p4 is an awesome idea, and solves a lot of the problems OpenFlow was running into with having to constantly update the spec for new network protocols. With p4, that's just a software update, not a protocol update. It has some other neat features as well, but unfortunately it doesn't seem as though p4 has yet caught on like OpenFlow did, even though it has many of the same people behind it as OpenFlow.

Some of the cool things that people have done with p4:

https://2016p4workshop.sched.org/info
I wouldn't say HN has strong anti-MS bias, based on some of discussions that I've seen and participated in here - and I'm a Microsoft employee.

In my experience, flames get to be downvoted pretty quickly, allowing for rational discussion, and providing an opportunity to to be heard, and present rebuttals and counterpoints.

Then again, I also hang out on Slashdot, so my baseline may different from yours...
That's the point, iTunes don't run on Linux.
> Though sadly it will be a while until we will hear: "You are visiting Hacker News, in a simple look and without any images, it features a list of links to articles and a menu at the top. Do you want me to read the articles titles, continue with accessing the menu or a more detailed description of the page?"

Sadly? I strongly disagree. If all my human-computer interaction would be like communicating with Siri/Google Now (e.g. conversational), I would have ditched computers years ago. It's all about giving semantic information to screenreaders so the user can eficiently navigate that content. In the rare case that I need some kind of human description, I just share my screen with someone that has working eyeballs.

FYI, I'm totally blind.
Not at all. Maybe if I'm hungry it makes me more hungry. And then they eat it and it's gone in a few minutes.

I don't know where you got your "most people" supposition from.
What do you do when your reservation app gives two people the same table?

What do you do when your auction app thinks there are two winning bidders?

It's not about "perfect academics" it's about risk management. How do you prevent or manage inconsistencies.
There are definitely people who choose to be homeless! This is not the same as saying that people in poverty want to remain that way, or the nasty ideologies that say the poor deserve to be poor.

For various reasons a small amount of the population does seek out the vagrant lifestyle. Check out https://squattheplanet.com
Don Buchla, Electronic Music Maverick, Has Died
As I referred to multiple times, they were expanding to include other expertise besides nuclear and political. What about that don't you get? Unless you want to argue that even with this expanded scope he was not qualified, you're just blowing hot air.
We use DbFit every day at our shop. It's really changed how we work (as DB developers). Was funny that I thought of this project right after reading this article, and how I should probably try and contribute, then I see this in the comments. :)

Thanks!
Edit: Deleted my earlier comment, as I misread yours.

Regarding what you said: The GP is not disputing the need for mental health institutions. He is pointing out that the ones that existed were horrible, to the point that closing them down was better than running them.

At the moment, too much of mental health is being handled by prisons. Whenever I read from people who study the problem, they all agree that:

1. It shouldn't be the prisons' responsibility.

2. The prisons are doing a better job than the mental institutions that were shut down.
isn't there a duplicate posting filter in HN?
I posted the same article (atleast an hour or two before the current one) earlier (1). this happened few times now!

or am I missing something obvious? thought the filter is supposed to prevent dupe posts?! @dang ? @sctb ?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12521824
Perhaps. But my 128GB circa-2011 Macbook Air daily-driver is constantly full. As is my 256GB Macbook Pro work computer which has a 60GB Win7 VM just for running the VMware fat client and some Hitachi software.

With 500+GB I wouldn't care, because the media (photos/movies/etc) need to be stored elsewhere regardless.
> "mylenic sheaths form around our neurons and abstracting concepts"

Roll me one while you are at it
What do you use VNC for? If your local network speed are fast, you can easily code or browse ... etc - if you are watching videos or playing video games forget about it.
It isn't just ethics; in Europe, at least, it's regulatory. (See GDPR and it predecessors).

The response from Udacity suggests not.
Show HN: SpaceNeovim – Spacemacs for Neovim
Switching back-and-forth a bit between Spacemacs and Neovim, I got inspired by https://github.com/ctjhoa/spacevim and thought to myself "Hey, that's a great idea!", and so I went into my first time actually toying with vim script (love-hate relationship atm).

The result of the last couple of days so far is the ground work for a Neovim specific port of Spacemacs, located here https://github.com/Tehnix/spaceneovim.
The major difference between that and the existing spacevim is that the layers are separated out from the core, and can be updated via an editor command (calling git pull). It makes it a lot nicer to add new layers later on (oh, and of course also the fact that I've dropped any though of vim support).

Contributions or feedback are more than welcome! :) The easiest way, if you want, is probably to contribute a layer, or expand on an existing one at https://github.com/Tehnix/spaceneovim-layers. One of the goals is to match Spacemacs more-or-less, so switching isn't annoying (hence why buffer/filetype specific keybindings are behind a '+major-mode-cmd').
or without losing his Chrome ? - to a crash, I mean. Idda thought it would crash well before 885.
Are you sure? Because I do a lot of testing against VoiceOver and it has two modes, a DOM traversal mode and "grouped" mode which parses HTML. The latter will often do really weird things, like look at the ids of your tags.

And this mode on VoiceOver up until 10 years ago was the default.

In the Windows world, yes, you're totally right.
"the Japanese government projects that 30 to 50 people will be poisoned each year due to ill-prepared blowfish" comports well with "Each year, the Japanese government expects dozens of people to die from eating ill-prepared blowfish", if you assume that being poisoned means dying. Probably a mental hiccup by the author.
Updated Debian 8: 8.6 released
You don't address the issue of assault and battery on people. It's a felony.

Also, people don't need your or Google's or my approval to use a public sidewalk. Whether or not we think it's a good idea, it's none of our business.
> and more importantly, free access to information.

Yeah, they should provide a search engine or something.
We're talking about two different types of programmer I think. You're talking about a maintenance programmer and I'm talking about someone who might be able to move the technology stack forward and possibly save some money in the process by finding a new and more efficient way of programming. I wouldn't expect someone who is happy doing the same thing over and over again in maintenance mode to be that person, although this type of programmer is a very necessary part of the team.
Of course people are adaptable and get used to whatever. Once-a-week bathing is not a big deal at all. I hope you didn't intend to equate that with poisoned rivers. There's even lots of evidence that without bathing people maintain a healthier and less smelly bacteria population than happens with a regular bather who then has a bath-hiatus. There are even products now to promote a healthy probiotic skin culture and stop bathing…

Of course there's relativity here. People who never had clean water won't complain about it the way those who had it and then saw it poisoned will. What's relevant is the change that the industrial revolution brought — including the WEALTH it brought that allowed people to be more secure and start caring about environmental issues since fewer of us worried about whether we would eat or whether we'd die of polio etc.

My point isn't that there's no environmental propaganda or that things things aren't complex. The point is that the environmental movement is based on real on-the-ground issues that were going to come up because of the issues. It's quite unreasonable to describe it as though it's just some sort of manufactured concern.
Looks delicious. Most westerners won't touch fish sauce or shrimp paste, even though it is delicious.
1 in 5 homeless people were brought here by, or imediately entered the homeless support system. IIRC, the former outnumber the latter 4 to 1.

http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Franc...

Why do people exit the homeless services? They exit due to the support providers being unable to handle them, or to make room for more. In former case, they reduce costs and in the latter, they inflate support numbers. Both of these benefit the fiscal health of the service provider, and both dump people on the streets. And the rest of San Francisco get to handle most disturbed, and disturbing, of these poor people.

It's hard not to conclude that it's an industry with business model based trafficking in human suffering and abuse of the commons, to the tune of 20% year over year.
Sound Economics Protects Us from Locos
> selling people food you made in your home kitchen is illegal

That depends. Minnesota passed a new law in 2015 called the Cottage Food law that allows certain types of food (primarily baked and canned goods) to be made in a home kitchen and sold to the public. See http://www.mda.state.mn.us/licensing/licensetypes/cottagefoo... for details.

I think this is pretty great. Regulation has its place, but there's a lot of value in allowing people to easily make an income too.
Migrants are a global issue. Their numbers have increased drastically everywhere this decade, and will continue to do so at alarming rates. Even potentially epochal rates once the rising seas displace a billion or 2 people.
thanks, for the ones that can't wait the extended uncut version will do fine :)
Do you have any examples of this?
That's the board's description now.

He was appointed in 2011.

I think you just made up this mythical expansion to include other expertise, or you're trusting a cover story someone else invented, because the board's role doesn't seem to have actually expanded.

> Board members are national security experts with scientific, military, diplomatic, and political backgrounds

Strange that they don't mention trading, or networks, or even finance or technology.

But let me give you the benefit of the doubt. If they were looking for his expertise, they must have looked for someone else with that expertise after the scandal. Who did they find instead of him?
> If you're not you are going to have a bad time

That's quite a jump from your previous sentences and I don't find that true at all. I've had no worse of a time on Debian, arch, or Manjaro for developing when compared to Ubuntu (and its various flavors and derivatives). I never used distro deps because of how horribly out of date, misconfigured, or incompatible they are
It does work that way in the US, don't patronize me. When someone is born on US soil, they automatically get US citizenship and US birth certificate from the hospital.

This is a very common problem for people who acquired US citizenship this way, I encourage you to use Google instead of calling people liars.
In the Heart of Silicon Valley, They Don’t Want New Jobs
But in short, you're saying that MIT may no longer be "where the future happens."

Or maybe MIT is now starting to seriously revert to the mean, some of the future will most certainly happen there, just potentially quite a bit less.

I may have seen some of that in the '80s, certainly the midnight execution of the Applied Biology department by envious chemistry and biology professor administrators was a sign of some sort, especially since the fate of the latter should have been much worse than having their administrative careers ended. The faculty as a whole certainly viewed it as a betrayal, which is was in spirit and "law" (MIT has the institution of the Visiting Committee to keep units of it on the straight and narrow, they were of course ignored in this).

And this is part of a bigger trend, pure administrators are growing in vast numbers in US higher education, their costs are one of the biggest drivers in this clearly unsustainable trend, they're funded by ever more Federal dollars (even if laundered as loans, which the Feds entirely took over in 2010), and from money comes power, they're taking over US universities from the faculty. Who themselves are getting segregated into small numbers of high cost tenured and large quantities of low cost associates who care barely make ends meet, plus the old bane of graduate student instructors who aren't good at it.

MIT, at least for now, is not going to succumb to some of these trends, as long as associate professors are rare exceptions that prove the rule, like SF author Joe Haldeman, for classes are otherwise taught by tenured or tenure track faculty, and adequate teaching ability is required for tenure, as well as the minor detail of being #1 or #2 in your subfield (as judged, in part, by those Visiting Committees).

Similarly, like CalTech, there's a high floor on admitting undergraduates, they've got be able to do one term of the calculus beyond the AP BC sequence, and calculus based mechanics and physics (and chemistry and maybe biology).

But....
"I rather enjoy the social egalitarianism bit."

Could you elaborate some on that from an American perspective in contemporary Norway? The article comes mostly from a British one, where issues of class are quite different than in America, from what I understand. It would be cool to know how an American sees it now.
Also in HN:

Dolphins Recorded Having a ‘Conversation?’ Not So Fast (nationalgeographic.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12522920
Same for me, although I currently use Antergos which is (kind of?) based on Arch, third on the list for me. Was already wondering if I should try plain Arch Linux or NixOS sometime, will probably give both of them a try soon.
Paywalled. "web" link doesn't work.
This shouldn't happen on any kernel with memory protection. Userspace corruption, sure, but shutting down the computer is unrealistic unless you are running Go code on Windows 98 or classic Mac OS.
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It's not really a negative experience. It's just that it can be difficult. In general I think it's useful to think as the bandwidth of a TCP stream being a function of loss and latency (and connection time, at least initially, less of a factor for long lived active connections). The different variants of TCP have slightly different curves. You want your UDP algorithm to play nice with these otherwise you may use more than your fair share or you'll get hammered by competing TCP streams. Apologies if this is kind of basic :)
I was referring to species in general, not specific humans. The encephalization quotient[1] doesn't work quite as well for comparing primates to other primates either.

The encephalization quotient is a fairly reliable way predict general animal intelligence. It's not just some anecdotal evidence. It's obviously not a silver bullet, because there are edge cases it doesn't consider, but the numbers it gives do give a very basic way to tell if a species may have sophisticated cognitive abilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalization_quotient
DARPA gave you bad data and told you you had to use it? Why would your system insist on staying within DARPA's boundaries in the first place -- did they make "out of bounds" too narrow in a misguided attempt to be helpful?
It sure it is... any idea what it should be? Firefox has a problem with re-assigning keys but in chrome you can change them inside the extension manager area. There's a bug filed for firefox to fix this.
> safe needle spaces, mental health clinics, and easier access to alternatives for drugs such as heroin like methadone

> Better shelters, better services similar to those I mentioned above

Every time I hear people say that I just can't understand how do they think that will fix the problem? Most homeless and drug addicts wont go to mental health clinic on their own, most of them enjoy the life they are having and are not willing to change, giving them better shelters, better services will only increase their number. Can you explain me why do you think that giving a drug addict a clean needle or alternative drug will make them want to stop using them?
I think that's pretty crummy you're getting downvoted for this kind of remark.

I myself tend to agree with you, as a former Emacs user of maybe 10, 15 years. For the things I used to use Emacs for (C, make files, only crude version control integration, etc) I'm sure it'd still do fine. What I found, though, is that my workflow and habits changed, and Emacs couldn't keep up. Or rather, there are good-looking, easy-to-use tools that support my workflow out of the box, and having to spend a day futzing with my editor just to get the same workflow functionality lost its luster a long time ago. Visual Studio Code, for example, it does great intellisense and Git integration without having to do a thing. And I don't really mind having to use the mouse more, because, frankly speaking, I type a lot less than I think these days; I just spend less time on the mechanical act of typing lines of code than I used to, so keeping my hands on the keyboard is less important than it used to be for me.

So for me, Emacs is, as you said, a historical artifact. The tools I use today simply work better for how I work, and even though Emacs could be molded in just about any direction, I no longer feel like it's worth the trade-off. Tools like VSC are good enough, right now.
>It seems a terrible statement about my home country that my children will encounter homelessness and mental illness much more vividly in the wealthiest nation in the world than they did in Thailand, where we previously lived.

>During a trip back to Bangkok I spoke about this paradox with Nopphan Phromsri, the secretary general of the Human Settlement Foundation, an organization that assists the homeless there.

>Greater Bangkok, a sprawling metropolis with more than 10 million people, has 1,300 homeless people, a survey this year found.

* Thailand spends far less on subsidies for the poor.

* The government intervention that does take place in Thailand to address homelessness is much more balanced in the authoritarianism it imposes on taxpayer vs tax recipient. Drug addicts can't receive welfare their entire life with zero accountability. Instead they are enrolled into compulsory treatment programs.

Western culture considers compulsory treatment a human rights violation, but does not consider throwing someone in prison for refusing to hand over a share of the currency they receive in private trade, to pay for welfare, similarly a human rights violation. This irrational, ideology based approach to human rights is behind this imbalanced approach to drug abuse and welfare.

* Thailand has far less effective enforcement of authoritarian economic prohibitions, like prohibitions on running an unlicensed business. This provides more space for the poor, who have more difficulty meeting licensing requirements, to participate in economically productive activity. That's why Thailand has bustling street markets and an informal economy (derogatorily referred to as a "shadow economy" in some circles) that provides stable sources of income for millions of people.