skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care that this is a late and buried reply and most likely only you will read it. I even created an account just to reply to you. I did this because I was you about a year ago and your post is exactly something I could hear myself say or think. I had a good friend that had lived part of their life out in the big world and I was talking to her about it, explaining how I felt, which is just about what you write in your post. It ended up changing my perspective a bit and I actually finally just did it: I quit my very nice job, girlfriend quit her nice job, we sold the car and left to travel the world. We are still travelling, and are going to continue doing so for at least another couple of month.

Reread your first paragraph, then reread your second paragraph. To paraphrase them both a bit: "You would like to experience some real adventure, but getting stuck in the mud doesn't really appeal to you". Hmm?

The only way you will experience something that is really fulfilling to you in this way, is if you go do something that you are not really all that comfortable with. Go do it and feel how you are not only a better version of yourself, because you know that you can now "do this too", but it also changed your view on the world just a little bit. It broadened you character and your perspectives a bit and THAT is fulfilling.

It doesn't have to be mud in Africa, but it does have to be one of those things where some part of it doesn't really appeal to you. The only fulfilling adventures are the ones that change you, and an experience can't change you if it is designed to only give you what you already know and like.

You don't have to do that one big thing. You can do a series of smaller things instead. As long as they challenge you it will be fulfilling overcoming that challenge.
Haskell's concurrency advantage is that the answer to the question "Does Haskell have X concurrency construct?" is "yes", and additionally, it's generally safe to use because everything is immutable. It even has support for things that have proved difficult or impossible in almost every other context because of that immutability, most notably STM.

Haskell's concurrency disadvantage is the same set of answers to the same question. It intrinsically has a big toolbox to start with, and a bigger one once you get into the libraries that implement further things on top of it (the pipe libraries, for instance), and that intrinsically makes it harder.

So, for instance, yes, you certainly sped up your program very easily, but new users often have a hard time finding their way to the best resources, and if their problem is not a trivially parallelizable algorithm, which it sounds like you had, there can still be some trouble in figuring out which concurrency construct they need.
In the States. Elsewhere in the world the salaries are much more average.
I'm sure plenty of people blogging do that already even if by hand, I'd be weary of this approach.
I live near a military base, views against him are quite common here. The defense culture, in general, and those who view "security" [0] as the primary role of our government also condemn him.

[0] This is a non-partisan view. I hear it from Democrats, Republicans, and some Libertarians (who hold more to the fiscal sense of modern libertarianism than the civil liberties sense, which is a shame). There's a large group of people in the US who seem to believe that security for-its-own-sake cannot be evil, in an ends-justify-the-means version of morality.
Reduct, a game to teach programming comprehension
The naming of Autopilot is unfortunate, because it is not one... but that name may give drivers an inclination to trust it more than they should.
Hacker News #1: Shills.
That's on my list of todo items... thanks for the feedback and the recommendations! :)
Reprehensible isn't the same as illegal. The 4th amendment does not apply to foreign citizens on foreign soil. NSA spying on Australians may be undesirable for various reasons, but it is legal.
Note that mail sent this way is "in the clear" and can be used for passive monitoring.

I wonder if the Great Firewall allows clients to do opportunistic STARTTLS or if it modifies the server response to indicate TLS as being unavailable.
Remember, guys, there's no good news and everyone is doomed.
Agreed, it is a technical explanation to political decisions.

The Chinese government wants to be able to access the communications of their people. They can do that as long as their email providers are cooperative. There is no need to disrupt communications to ensure this is the case, they simply need to keep Chinese citizens from using uncooperative providers.
I was taught in the US, and Solfege was used prominently in my voice classes, but rarely in my theory and piano classes. I think it's a system that works well when you don't have to think about the actual note name that you're singing, as it describes intervals very well, but relates somewhat poorly to pitch.

I grew up attending a Church of Christ, which used full congregational singing with four part harmony. Our songbooks used a variation on music notation that used shape notes, and the shapes corresponded to Solfege. If you knew your musical intervals, you could completley ignore the key signature, because a Do was always drawn as a triangle, a Sol was a circle, a La was a square, etc etc. This was especially handy because the song leaders were always men, and could not always sing as high as the written music required. They picked whatever key they could sing comfortably, and the congregation adjusted to them. Drove the music majors in the audience nuts. :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_note

Growing up with that system meant that Solfege was simply the easiest system I had to understand music. To this day, I struggle with pieces in unusual modes, and with passages that modulate their key and make use of unusual progressions, because it breaks down my innate understanding of music and requires me to think in a different way.
Yeah, the article boils down to "If you feel the need to rewrite your python in a statically typed language, and it's between Rust and Go, don't use Go, because the cost of implementing in Rust is roughly equivalent, but the performance gains are much higher."

I think with all the evidence presented, that's an eminently defensible position. Get twice the performance of Go (in this case, obviously it will be very dependent on project) for not much more effort, when you've already made the choice to rewrite for performance.
It's important on HN that titles reflect only the content of the submission, and since the homepage doesn't reference Vector, the title can't. We've just updated the link to the blog post from the homepage, which informs us of the rebranding.
As you say, anything networked X can do, VNC can do better. I can't help but think, though, that the arrangement we have now—where VNC servers on ⋆nix are implemented in terms of being a sort of pixbuf caching proxy for the local X server—is actually a nice, optimal arrangement that allows for a good separation of concerns.

It's a bit like Mapbox: you've got a database full of semantic geometry state that applications can poke (the X server), and then you've got a fronting daemon that renders, serves, and caches graphical "tiles" created by querying that geometry (the VNC server), along with exposing a protocol through which clients can easily poke at the database by referring to it in terms of the tile-server's screen coordinates.

Also, other people might say it's clumsy, but personally I really enjoy the architecture of containerized GUI apps: you've got xvfb running in the container as an X server, and then x11vnc or the like also running in there, talking to xvfb, serving VNC "tiles" and receiving key and pointer inputs over a socket. It's like the OSI network layers: X11 is the application layer, VNC is the presentation layer.
> the way companies are gobbling big servers, we are not at peak Intel.

I think the point is that you're pretty much by definition at the peak when your market share is 99.3%. There's nowhere to go.
On the other hand, I lived in Detroit for years. I think most people conflate "visibly poor" with "actively dangerous" and feel scared when they shouldn't. So many people would come in from the suburbs and visibly panic because they saw a crumbling building or a homeless person and figured they were about to get mugged, even though they were by the DIA in broad daylight surrounded by a crowd of people. My university's campus had less reported crimes than U of M's while I was there, and I still had a middle aged suburban woman try to get my professor to end a 6-9pm class at 7pm because she was scared to walk the 100 well-lit feet from the lecture hall to the parking structure after dark.
Get alerts on government when it matters: on your passions in your community
Don't pan G.E.B. due to my wild-eyed speculation. I'm the one saying "quantum!" and waving my hands here, not Hofstadter. ;-)
Swift doesn't have lifetimes either, as it's garbage collected via reference counting.
The Constitution is American law, and American law does not apply extraterritorially except in narrow cases. That's a bedrock principle of Constitutional law. The only thing that binds the US government abroad is the law of the jungle.
It's certainly a different kind of harm, maybe even apple and orange to compare.
uh... YOU claimed it wasn't. that is what "no" means, lady.

you are all idiots.
And it'd be harder still to convert billions of existing people to another layout. Inertia's hard to overcome, even if another keyboard layout or music notation system had ever been convincingly proven superior than the respective dominant ones.
The Declaration of Independence has no legal force.
She's the opposite of a muse because a muse is someone photographers would all be chasing to photograph, whereas in this case she's the one who does the chasing. She identifies photographers she likes and reaches out to them, not the other way around.
The first DirectX program I ever wrote was called Santa Robotnik.

I drew a sprite of Dr. Robotnik (from Sonic) in his egg-shaped vehicle, which had been fitted with sleigh runners and a sinister-looking robot reindeer. I made it move across the screen with a snow effect in the foreground much like the one see here.

It's real simple to do: just add Brownian motion (a tiny random positive or negative x displacement and a tiny random positive or negative y displacement) to a velocity vector that points down and slightly to the side, and increment the snowflake's position by that per frame. Multiply that by a hundred snowflakes or so, each of which reset, or die and respawn, once they fall off the bottom and you're set.
Good for heating in the winter, though.
Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (1999)
Is $77,000 a lot though? It's much less than Alaska's $113,000 and less than the average of the top 5 states on the list. Accounting for the net-present value drops the obligation quite a bit, most of these costs will not bear out for several decades.

I think it's more important to look at the growth of this obligation over time. Is it going down as more people move to the state? And how is it doing relative to tax revenues?
BIOTA: Smart, Easy and All-In-One Saltwater Aquarium
Riot is just a client running with a Matrix server. Synapse is the one we currently run https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/

Others are in development at http://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html#servers but they are all alpha at the moment.
Don't move the goalposts; removing reality is entirely different than causing pain within the reality.

A simpler scenario; I meet you and decide, for whatever reason, to kick you in the dick. In this moment, you are no longer an absurdist: your whole world is pain; pain is literally the only thing you can perceive. Now, post dick-kicking, when you eventually convince yourself again that nothing really matters, does your perception of me change? If so, why? If not, why? And why do you value your pain over the war widow's?
Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V works in Android too, among many other classical shortcuts. Try it with a Bluetooth keyboard or over USB-OTG. How about that for undiscoverable in a mobile OS? :)
Walmart hired Lockheed Martin to watch its employees
> Matrix actually has a good point about the spec extensions though: if your spec is that minimal, nobody is going to be able to agree on what feature set to support.

If that were true, nobody would agree on which Matrix features to support either. What difference would it make if Matrix just-so-happened to be defined as "XMPP, plus the following extensions..."?

> As a Schemer, I can attest to that.

It's one thing to say "the Scheme spec is too minimal; I'm going to make Racket a hard dependency", it's quite another to say "the Scheme spec is too minimal; I'm going to invent my own Python derivative"
>You don't "have to" pay taxes. Someone's going to come after you, but they're not going to kill you over it.

While they may not kill you directly for paying taxes, if they come for you, or your property, and you attempt to defend yourself they will kill you

Thus I believe that is in fact being killing because you did not pay taxes and that also means you in fact you "have to" pay taxes
5 Technologies That Are Saving Our Lives
Catching a cold is unfortunate.

Naming a much-hyped feature of your multi-billion dollar company's only product - in such a way that causes confusion about its capabilities is not unfortunate. It is deliberate.
Well, I'm surprised. :-)

Where do you get solipsism from what I said?
Exactly. its a password limited to 4 digits. And why? That gives you no more than 14 bit security even using a decent system like PBKDF2. Which i see no mention of.

secrets are just that - secret.

The only reason I know of that secrets need sharing is when you are running a key escrow system. Other than that secrets are locked away and used as rarely as possible. Never ever ever transmitted from machine to machine. Thats the key problem in crypto (pun intended). Stuff you transmit cant and wont stay secret.
Asimov in his novels had Trantor, the planet girding capital city largely extracted it's energy from geo thermal sources. In his novels, they would bury heat exchange rods to tap this power.

Interesting to see this potentially close to fruition. Now if only all roofs, roads and windows could extract solar power...
Lyft’s Vision for the Next Ten Years and Beyond
Let's write a webpage-to-gmail proxy! Send an email with a subject like http://news.ycombinator.com/ to a special email address and it will reply with the text of that page in the body of the email.
The large variety and number of Land Rovers in daily use all over Africa would directly contradict you.
Time for an HTTPS-over-SMTP RFC? :)
Yes, agreed, strangly underrated, as perhaps most people have their awareness of tools running in the background. We already see the importance of tools so it's not a hard leap to understand EVERY domain needs better tools to be more effective.

Your day is close enough to the action. My dad, a mechanical engineer, worked on part of the breathing apparatus used in the Apollo program. That's a part of that problem, small and perhaps not glamorous but close enough.
I'd say you're damn close. Closer than I've ever been to anything real unless you count buying a programmable robot vacuum cleaner kit instead of the normal one so I could in theory program my vacuum cleaner to do cool stuff, not to mention at modules!
what area were you applying in? Maybe its just an isolated geographic incident.
Seconded Even the smallest club /organisation I have been involved with normally has multiple signatories ( 2 out of 3) for even the smallest cheques.
I'm especially interested in the "self-authenticated DNS". I think a lack of accessible p2p name system is the biggest hangups for a P2P web. People are overly dependent proprietary namespaces (Facebook, ICANN, Google, etc.) for making connection.

For example, there are many applications I could see myself using locally, in human presence, over LAN. e.g. music studio MIDI/control sharing, real-time document collaboration and drawing, audio mixing, games...

Serving such applications might be as easy installing them on a local copy of sandstorm.io, or even double clicking an app or installing a .deb package.

But the hard part is finding stable, humane ways to make connection between the machines without relying on an external network.

It really perplexes me that after all these years, ordinary LAN file sharing is still one of the most unreliable things to do with computers/phones.
Note that there is a very popular game called League of Legends (played by millions) and the company behind it is called Riot. Some people might confuse your brand with their name.
Why its so hard to be happy? (2007)
They should have called it "Cruise Control Plus™" or something similar. Regardless of the usual arguments about how accurate the name is according to the avionics definition of the term, "autopilot" is misleading in the context of the consumer car market. Tesla should not have named it that.
Just finished reading most of "Busted!" Wow, this website's gold. I love to read this kind of stuff. Do you have any favorites you'd mind sharing?
Third-party candidates miss cut for first debate
> "Since then, every time I did try it, I ended up regretting it since the bandwidth and the latency were too poor for any sane usage (VNC ended up working way better)."

I agree, in my experience VNC has given better performance than X through the standard network transparency feature.

If you have the need for a remote desktop setup in the future, I'd recommend checking out NoMachine. It's closed-source, but from what I've seen so far it offers better performance than VNC.

https://www.nomachine.com/
For most of the iPhone camera comparison articles, I'm curious if the reviewers are disabling Live Photos before taking the shots. It's well documented that Live Photos increases noise in the still capture due to a faster shutter speed.
cstore_fdw v1.5 released for PostgreSQL
Implementing an abstraction that requires indirection at runtime does not traditionally render the language "not compiled". Any definition of "not compiled" that includes the vast majority of real-world C++ is not a definition in common use.

If you want to point out that "compiled" really ought to be a continuum rather than a binary property, and that by this definition Rust is "more" compiled than Haskell, I'll be right there with you (though the pre-existing word "static" probably fits better), but we'd be creating an idiosyncratic definition not shared by very many people. (Though perhaps it should be. The binary distinction of the ~1970s really isn't that useful anymore, in a world of scripting languages, JITs, and a greater focus on the costs of indirection.)
Actually, this is something that can get replaced overnight, were it not for the serious lack of manpower. Most people use Gnome or KDE. They will continue to do so when their distros quitely replace X11 with Wayland, overnight. Except that Gnome/Wayland has some features still unimplemented, and KDE/Wayland is awfully unstable.

I mean, this is more of a upstream-domain issue than a user-domain issue.
>So what? As one of the 7.1 billion people who are not US citizens, I object to the notion that only the rights of Americans warrant protection.

If you're that keen to be covered by the United States Constitution, you can always petition for statehood; there's a procedure right there in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1. Go to it, and good luck!
I've been using TripCase[1] and just gave this a try. It picked up my flight information, but not my hotel or GroundLink confirmation emails. All of those emails were in my gmail account. In the case of TripCase, I have to forward all of my confirmation/booking emails to trips@tripcase.com to add it to my trip on the app.

[1] http://travel.tripcase.com/
nah, its exactly like 2013 one. It will stop working if you try using it offline (in a VM for example) and will demand online access and microsoft account login.
I have never even thought about how weird it is that you can communicate with gmail via mail, while hardly ever actually access the service.

I wonder what other blocked services it is possible to communicate with.

Can you update you twitter account via e-mail from China?
We've warned you about personal attacks already, please don't do this. This is additionally offtopic and uncivil, and we just don't need comments like this here.
The article is a good summary of Statistics 101.
It's an ongoing project. There will be more episodes, and more Synfig improvements. IIUC Morevna is led by one of the Synfig developers and is used to motivate Synfig improvements, much like Blender shorts and Blender, and more recently, Ze Marmot and GIMP.
Its a known weakness working at British Telecom I had to (legaly) break into a clients systems and brute forcing NTLM was how I did it.

I made sure I had sign off from a very very senior manager to ok this though I did not want to get on the wrong side of our internal security guys.
> If you did have an iTunes account, you were prime for an iPhone purchase. That demographic had a clean experience of buying a mobile device that was super-capable (someone could pretty much out-of-the-box sell you things, without having ask for information - like a cc #). None of the existing devices had this, and it would be a long time until anyone was even close. I don't think this is a point of disconnect, I was highlighting one of the sometimes overlooked (imo) aspects of Apple's longer-term execution that I think made an impact.

I'm not sure I see this as a significant factor. When the iPhone launched, there was no app store. There was no iCloud, no iBooks. The only thing you could buy with the CC# Apple had for you was music, which you were already buying with iTunes.

Maybe having a CC# associated with your account helped Apple later when they launched an app store, but by that time their competitors were doing the same.

> Fair point on the competitors. It's hard to ignore Android as a competitor, and I might disagree with saying that Android wasn't an "original" competitor. But if you mean original as "existing at launch time", I'll happily agree.

Well, the first Android device to ship was the HTC Dream, and that was over a year after the iPhone shipped, so by definition it was not an original competitor. Also, if you had tried a Dream, you'd likely not have thought it was very competitive with the iPhone 3G that was out by that time. (I tried one and was utterly unimpressed.)

> But by that definition, iPhone isn't a competitor to Nokia/Blackberry/Windows, it just happened to destroy them

In the same way that Google wasn't a competitor with Excite and Infoseek and Yahoo Search but just happened to utterly destroy them? I think if your product destroys the market for another product, that other product is the (obviously losing) competition.
Also known as 'dogfooding' or 'eating your own dog food' [0], and yes, not enough companies/software teams do this. Developers that build software aimed at or naturally used by other software developers kind of have an unfair advantage here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
The point of play is in the playing. An adventure is play where part of the game is unexpected and not fun.

If you want adventure without things going wrong, you want play. So... go play, if you get bored with that, you'll be ready to try adventure.
Look up "acid rain".

In the 1970s we had marble buildings being corroded, lakes becoming inhospitable to fish, losses of billions of years per year in reduced agriculture and large numbers of people dying each year from respiratory problems. Today all of those have been reversed.

As well, visible smog didn't look very nice...