skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many Democrats or Republicans would win election as independents? I doubt many would. While party discipline is looser in the US Congress, party affiliation is still very important.
shrug

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. As a Schemer, I can attest to that.

>Absolutely dripping with irony.

As is your comment. Matrix made a different set of design tradeoffs, and is a legitimate protocol in its own right. And yet every time it pops up on HN, people complain about how we should all just use XMPP.

Screw that. XMPP isn't perfect, and there is room for a chat protocol that solves these problems in a different way.
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Your ears don't listen to digital signals or encrypted sound waves (they can't decrypt it). So, how do you go from digital signal on a Lightning cable to actual sound waves for the human ear? They convert the signal, obviously, somewhere along the line. The DAC is in the headphones now, instead (presumably, similar to every other bluetooth headset since forever, I suppose.)

The analog output can never be removed from the chain, so to speak. This is the "analog gap", and also why it's not really sensible or possible to "encrypt" physical audio signals in a manner to prevent people from copying them, when the copying-person is also the intended recipient of the end-result.
Yes, I tried it with Ubuntu 16.04, and my system hung.

I was looking forward to trying it out, because the Intel integrated graphics (HD4000) has bad tearing problems with application such as Firefox.

That, combined with PulseAudio problems may force me to re-install 14.04. Though I need to keep using Win10 this week because of a CAD program anyway.
This is so interesting. Where do you find these musicians initially? Soundcloud?
If you don't inject it into the stratosphere, most pollutants such as acids or particles are precipitated out (dry or wet) pretty quickly (on the order of days to weeks/months), so I'd expect a lag of max 2 months due to the transport time to Greenland (and it will be a bit lower due to the distance and loss over time). [1]

(If China did a better job of filtering the SO2 from exhaust, this particular air problem there would be gone within a week.)

[1] http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/djj/book/bookcha...
It says all that, right on the main page.

If you had just scrolled down a little bit more...
No, it respects the freedom of all users, specifically by making sure that all users are afforded the opportunity to take advantage of it.
Or anything to do with the other "Riot" that was infamously exposed on HN recently, WrkRiot.
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Capital punishment isn't only retributive in character, it is also deterrence.

If you are then going to argue that it doesn't actually deter then why not do away with all punishments for crimes?
That really underplays ground source heat pumps which typically have a CoP between 3 and 6.

Assuming a suitable sized system correctly installed you'll save in the order of 75%.
i loved my 5c :-(
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Hmmm... in the article is says:

"You can download a free copy of Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition ..."

If that's anything like the "free" version of MSVC 2013, then 30 days after installing it... it suddenly stops working until you register with MS (using valid email, etc).

No warning, no notice... it just stops and pops up a notice when you try and use it.

Personally, I call that extremely scummy marketing, not "free". Maybe that's just me though.
That's quite something to be honest. If you break down on the side of the road in the US, the most that will happen is people will call 911, they won't help you pull out of a ditch.
I really liked queueing in the original Amarok. iTunes kind of halfway gets it right with the concept of Up Next. However it seems now that in iTunes 12 it is no longer possible to queue an album at the end if there is nothing in the queue at all. I'd prefer if the action of playing an album did "put it in queue & play"
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X11 has been the main windowing system for Unix and Linux for 32 years... You can't expect Wayland to replace it overnight!
I'm not sure what you're arguing. The article didn't advise people to switch from Python to Rust. It simply gave information that people that are considering it. The last paragraph even echoes some of your sentiment.

> And the performance it brings is not enough to make the decision to switch language in most cases.

That's assuming a lot. Nearly 10x the speed is extremely useful for some people. Presumably if you are rewriting your Python code in Rust or Go, you've already identified performance as a big reason to do so, and that gain would be extremely useful.
Rush to Take Advantage of a Dull iPhone Started Samsung's Battery Crisis
Ubuntu OpenStack is available today on all IBM Servers
You're right. I was excited when HyperDev launched with support for multiple files in their web editor [0]. It really changes broadens the scope of what can be accomplished — the line between "snippet editors" and full-blown web IDEs is becoming increasingly thin.

[0]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2016/05/30.html
The Amiga disk format held 880K. The original version of Lemmings was a 2 disk release with an animated intro, but later (cheaper or pack-in) versions shipped on 1 disk with the intro removed.
Avoiding hardships of road travel is like avoiding hardships of working out while trying to stay healthy. Comparison may be a bit of a stretch, but I for one agree that road adventures are the whole point, rather the physical presence at the destination.
Oh man, she could at least shave.
I get the 'different philosophy' part, but I don't understand why their list of 'problems with XMPP' includes things like 'second-class citizen', since Matrix itself is a second-class citizen compared to XMPP.

They might as well list 'Can't talk via Skype' as a problem with XMPP, since it's just as true and Matrix is just as incapable of solving it.

As for 'requires plugins/extensions', if you think that's a problem then there's an easy fix: define a new protocol as "XMPP + the following extensions...". That requires some effort, e.g. to get servers and clients to support this new protocol, but unlike a "clean break" it wouldn't require much technical or social work.

I especially enjoyed the "no open source implementation exists" reasoning; no open source implementation of Matrix used to exist, but that didn't stop the developers ;)
You should read the article and my comment above. This was not a one time pad as they was no distribution of a pad. Only one side added and removed the noise.
Have an upvote. Imo, there is no point having a discussion on a contentious issue if well written comments are downvoted into oblivion just because they are on the 'wrong' side of the issue.
I can easily copy files to my Android phone with the simple "adb" command-line utility. Or, I can copy them onto an SDcard any way I please, and insert the card into my phone.

iTunes is definitely a smashing success, thanks to gullible suckers who happily buy anything that Apple shovels at them.
I think you have an interesting point about still having to live in the real world, but I don't find your argument about Hitler and the Jews persuasive at all.

Just because cryptography isn't useful for that particular case doesn't make it not useful for other cases; no one is arguing crypto will fix all government abuses. It doesn't mean it isn't a useful tool, though, in fighting corrupt governments.
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

–G.K. Chesterton
Why not MPL2? Are there enough people (i.e., Apple) making file-level changes they don't want to publish that MPL2 was too unattractive here?
WhatsApp is developed by using which language?
IMO the jury on these studies is to be determined. There is evidence of neurotoxicity but at the same time there are studies showing some neuroprotective properties. How about we wait to make claims until after more thorough research has been conducted
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It's specifically a question of "which is more likely, A or A^B" that is weird. The typical "which is more likely" has non-overlapping categories. It doesn't even need to be a mistake. If I ask whether you want a sandwich or a burger, it's obvious that 'sandwich' actually means 'non-burger sandwich'.

I'm claiming that they are not using intuition instead of analysis. Or at least, you can't tell that from their answers. There are logical reasons to interpret the question as non-overlapping sets. They could be performing a very careful analysis and still pick the second option.
Its not at all like the free trial downloads of Visual Studio 2013 and earlier; Visual Studio Community Edition is free and not time limited, but its license restricts its use to (from memory) solo devs, small (< 5 developer) shops, open source work (with unlimited team size), and education.
Pouring tons of hours of one's life into one project after another with goals you're apathetic about at best and which are probably doomed to failure before they even start definitely makes dev work feel rather nihilistic at times. The percentage of the time I've worked as a dev that has created real, lasting value for anyone is depressingly small. Yet my career is going fairly well. It's hard to complain about that since the money's still coming in, but that's not very satisfying, certainly.
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It seems few of those apply to Snowden -- he wouldn't need a public defender, he probably wants a trial rather than a plea bargain, I'm not sure if there's a systemic problem with outrageous bail but Snowden is a textbook case for flight risk, ridiculous prison sentences -- perhaps, but just because a law is harsh doesn't mean that that law is applied unfairly.
Also, to be specific, the standard menus and searching etc. come with AppKit, which is part of Cocoa.
>Which wouldn't be such an issue if Apple let you upgrade the storage. But no, you can't do that. So buy iCloud and shut the hell up, right?

>I find myself wondering daily, how the hell have Apple dropped the ball so badly, and how on earth have they not been steamrolled by Microsoft.

Because there's legions of gullible suckers who'll line up to buy the latest iDevice and then believe everything Apple tells them, whether it's "you're holding it wrong" or "you don't need to copy music files to your phone, just buy them again on iTunes" or "you don't need a headphone jack, just buy a new pair of Bluetooth headphones from Beats for $$$".
What's wrong with 1975 programming?
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/52k179/edward_sno...
I think the future may be CMS-style applications that do static publishing. Either run locally (may be a great use for electron actually), and/or as a service. At least in this space competitively, the biggest complaints tend to center around the amount of manual configuration/changes... opposed to the overhead of say wordpress.

The only downside to static publishing to say S3/ABS is that you loose server-side analytics to some extent.
Once you have regular user access, root is easy:

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/119410/why-shoul...
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The article states that Samsung released the phone about 10 days earlier than last year, but Apple released about 10 days earlier: 9/16 instead of 9/25, so the lead time before the iPhone launch was about the same.
A radical Islamist yesterday attacked and wounded 8 or 9 people with a knife in a mall before he was shot dead by an off duty cop.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/us/police-shoot-attacker-i...
"But that doesn't mean he is above the law. Civil disobedience still implies civility and he should come to his day in court."

The Constitution says we get due process in trials. People in Espionage Act trials don't. Further, there's no intent by the U.S. government or courts to prosecute anyone the leaks revealed were deceiving Americans in a number of ways. Accountability works both ways. Either they all get tried for their crimes with due process or I find it highly corrupt to only want one charged while others remain above the law. I'm against him being tried unless the others are and with a defense allowed with full access to relevant, classified info. At least what's already leaked.
> We were all using the product so when there was funny stuff we tended to catch it.

I love this. There have been so many times I've run into a bug that makes me wonder if anyone on the engineering team actually used the product.
Not bad, Bryan. And some interesting history, too.

Don't get me wrong, Sun was a great company, but like all companies, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. You've said as much yourself before.

I wished to point out that there was a time that Sun wasn't as beloved, and to indicate some of the reasons that we don't talk about some of Sun's less savory actions so much on HN.

If, as an ex-Sun employee, you find this insulting (and the trace elements of sarcasm indicate that this may be so), than I will inform you that it certainly wasn't meant to be so, although I now see why it may come off that way.

Thank you for responding to my ticket, and have a great day!
What would happen if someone attached a child porn image into the block chain? A cursory Google apparently reveals you can include up to 30kb of data in a transaction (?). Wouldn't everyone who was in possession of the block chain also be in possession of child porn?
Rust isn't trying to be "simple", it's trying to solve a specific problem. If you don't need a systems language that has exceptional memory safety, then Rust simply isn't the right language for you. That doesn't make it "horrible" for those who actually need it.
True. But Kerry did get 48% of the vote. That's a LOT of people. It's not like the 50% who voted for Bush are the only Americans that exist.
But if you lose people with information higher in the hierarchy, it doesn't matter what you say after.
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So many questions.
I'll look through your website tonight. This is awesome
> All Types/TypeClasses have to eventually be resolved down to concrete structures/tuples that can be statically or dynamically dispatched too, and in most cases allocated to the heap/stack.

My original remark was strictly about surface syntax issues (verbosity). Surface syntax is handled by the compiler's front-end. I have no idea why this should affect the compiler's backend or the runtime system. But maybe you know something about compilers that I don't.

> Haskell TypeClasses are MAGIC managed by the run-time.

No. Haskell's type classes and constraints are typically implemented as vtables (although Haskellers normally call them “dictionaries”) and extra function arguments, which are resolved at compile time. (With higher-rank types, the compiler can determine that a given vtable has to be passed around between places, though.) The runtime system has no special support for type classes - a type class instance is a record (of methods) just like any other.

Of course, Rust monomorphizes generic functions, and optimizes away the intermediate step of fetching methods from vtables whenever possible. But if you use trait objects (akin to Haskell's existentials), vtables will still be there.
The DS (2004-2014) was released almost a full year before the GameBoy Micro (2005-2006).
What a great video, she looked so natural towards the end.
Indeed, in practice it seems that the fewer people someone represents the cheaper they are to bribe.
The XEP which allows all clients that a user has open to actually receive messages has not even been accepted yet. Last Call was supposed to finish on 2015-08-28 - 11 years after the advent of XMPP - and the document hasn't been updated since. Many clients don't support it, including Pidgin, and at least the Prosody.IM server needs a "community module" to enable support for it.

XMPP is a pretty terrible user experience, tbh, and its developer experience isn't a whole lot better.
All these comments about <head> being optional and nothing about <body> being optional as well? No one noticed it is missing from the recommended example?
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How do you figure? Each person would be one-twentieth as influential and important to sway as before (assuming, probably wrongly, that there aren't blocs you can sway by targeting one or two people).
Interestingly, the german preliminary constituion (we don't have a real one) that was written by the WWII allies also is about people but unambigously means all people on earth.

'Article 1 of the Basic Law (in German legal shorthand GG, for Grundgesetz), which establishes this principle that "human dignity is inviolable" and that human rights are directly applicable law, ...'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Re...
We didn't, mostly because VS Code didn't exist yet when we added in Brackets. It got released when we were already beta testing, and was still in extreme beta by the time we officially launched the updated tool in August 2015. It would be interesting to see how many other now-existing solutions might work for the code editor part, but at this point it would disturb quite a few people who now use Thimble in the classroom or at learn-to-code events, so while as a contributor PR it would be fantastic, we don't have the man hours to investigate a completely new code editor component (with its own UI that needs tailoring, filesystem requirements, plugin infrastructure, etc).
The reason for this is the way in which the db is embedded throughout the organisation. Many years of dev being done on oracle specific technologies with business logic tied up in things like plsql procs.

Organisations do not realise the risk they face with closed source software. You are basically at the mercy of your vendor.

I believe any a CTO/CIO worth their salt would require motivation on why to use proprietary software vs open source. Is there absolutely no alternative?
A civilised country will pay restitution, a hefty amount for ten years false imprisonment.
I normally love HN comment sections because really knowledgable people put these articles into greater perspective. This has not been one such section. Can someone with domain specific knowledge speak to what this means? What are the scope of the benefits? What was the danger if this hadn't been turned around?
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Dropbox hack blocked by Apple in Sierra
Exactly. This should not be an issue with inventory software written in 2012. Especially not from an enterprise solution used by massive companies and governments all over the world.

I can't for a second believe that this is an accidental oversight. If this is truly a problem, then it is because one of the design requirements was to make this a problem. Either that, or it's a procedural thing, where the value of cash evidence is captured, but not in a way that the system expects for aggregations. That way, it can be retrieved, but only if you know how to do the secret dance.

They obviously have to have this information because they are required to split their funds with the Feds. They just don't want to make it widely available.
Seeing that just makes me imagine someone stealing the truck and driving away with you still in the tent on top.
If I start a program that creates pids, and each pid is programmed to feel like a little simple human that does stuff, and I slowly slowly make that program more and more complex until it's the level of the AI girl in a movie like ex-Machina at what point is ctrl-c and killing the whole program being a cruel god that wipes out millions of pids/humans without caring?
Bernard Henri Levi is a simpler case as you just have to think and do the opposite of what he professes.
> I personally think hardware access should require root, for the most part.

Well, writing into the home directory requires hardware access, too. Where do you draw the line?

In the similar way that the kernel's VFS provides authorized access to storage hardware, the *kits (or nowadays systemd-logind) provide authorized access to video/audio hardware.
Bold statement. https://github.com/go-interpreter/proposal/issues/1
Doesn't really explain Why can email be sent from China to Gmail, only that it can. Is the GFW filtering only port 80?
Yes, but Matrix being second-class to XMPP isn't inherent. Things in XMPP being second-class or requiring extensions is.
Have you talked to your doctor about Zenzedi? It is manufactured by Arbor Pharma like Evekeo
Of course not. I understood your comment to be questioning whether there exist any individual Americans who condemn Snowden and proposing as evidence for their non-existence "Everyone American I know". If you were just saying that you don't think the majority of Americans condemn Snowden then I have no disagreement.
What happens if they delve too greedily and too deep?
I don't have any problem with the link between political instability, desperate poverty, and subsistence farming... it's not exactly a new or controversial link after all. It's really just the specific claim I quoted, which as far as I can see is then immediately abandoned.
FWIW: You can use Go in Jupyter https://github.com/gopherds/gophernotes
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> That sort of situation has never existed at the national level (except maybe back when only white male property owners voted).

At that time (ending in 1856), travel was also arduous and slow; nobody was going back home for the weekend.
And make sure the costs come from their toy budget.
I was not referring to the "free will" part, but the hypothesis stated thereafter, in the remainder of my quote.
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Your criticism comes down to wanting a different abbreviation for "function" and wanting camel case instead of snake case. I would suggest that it's not that we didn't spend time on the "visual aspect" of a language: rather it's that we made choices that were not your preference. We had to pick something and disappoint somebody; I apologize that that person was you.

> Compare something in Rust (from OP's repo):

As with so many of these comparisons, you're effectively comparing a language with GC to a language with safe manual memory management, and misinterpreting this as evidence of bad syntactic choices. (Same with Nim: Nim has GC.)

Look at the function signature when you remove the lifetime annotations:

fn type_list(dex: &DexFile, off: u32, parse_class_desc: bool) -> Vec<bstr>

When you do that, there's very little difference between that and Go.

> Of course, Go doesn't have lifetime annotations, but I understand who thought using ' was a great idea.

Me. It was chosen because it's very visually lightweight.
This is a description of such a geothermal system, but a little more specific: http://www.renbrook.org/page.cfm?p=573
Would you be ok with permitting murder on the basis "people will always do it."?

Because if you take the arguments of pro-life advocates on good faith, that's what you're saying. You can't make your case against position by ignoring the underlying reasons people hold it.
They'll awake old things that should be better keep sleeping...