skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have nothing against closed source, and I don't think FOSS is inherently good. I am a long-time fan of Windows and Microsoft, and I owned two Xbox 360 and an Xbox One. I just noticed a trend in Windows: Less customizability, less control, more automatic updates and erratic behaviours (recently, a Windows update caused my screen to turn black randomly on my Laptop. While I was working on my thesis that was due in a few days! Uninstalling the offending 'update' fixed the bug...).

I can slap a Linux distro on my PC in 30 minutes and be ready. Copy over your home folder and apt-get your software and you're ready to go. You can even install it on a USB drive. On the other hand, with Windows, I have to worry about licensing, version (will Windows 10 install home or professional?? It's the same image and it decides by itself...) and just a ton of other stuff. We're at the point where Windows has no advantage over Linux (except for games). A decade ago, you would always run into driver problems, packet manager bugs, configuration problems, etc. on Linux. Today it is rock solid. I am just choosing the better system here - who programmed it and how available the source is does not matter to me.
Dude has a point
Oh how I want the ability to group repos into projects on GitHub. Thought this was it. It's not.
I'd say, and let be clear that I know and accept this to be a relatively arbitrary distinction on my part, that for an input to be "primary" it needs to be able to stand alone (touchscreen input, keyboard and mouse, etc). That's not to say that it must stand alone, but that when all other options are off the table, that would be your preferred method for text/data entry.

That's a troublesome definition though at least in part for reasons you've brought up or alluded to, which is that a multimodal approach is pretty clearly going to dominate. That said, speech recognition at least stands to replace the keyboard for say, the author of a book or article, if it's good enough.
IPFS: https://ipfs.io/

GitTorrent: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent

Tahoe-LAFS: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs

Freenet: https://freenetproject.org/documentation.html#understand

Urbit: https://urbit.org/docs/using/filesystem/
That's assuming that tenured positions are not on the decline (they are), and that the number of PhD graduates has not been increasing (it is), and that the funding available to maintain a lab has not gone down (it has).
I was wondering if they were including all of those sensors in order to maximize how much data they gather during the trial, especially when they're trying to improve failure conditions. From that, they'll be able to optimize to just the sensors they find necessary based on their training data.
That's a good point, I've rarely had issues with Google voice searching.
Yup I have "unlimited". It's "recommended" to take at least 2 weeks. Greater than 4 weeks requires executive approval though!
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any discussion of the difficulty typesetting or printing charts, beyond just creating them.

I imagine this had to pose a significant hurdle to early newspapers.
Portability between implementations is a nightmare, and you end up adopting only one. Its not overly different than the compatibility problems you hit between JPython, CPython, and IronPython.

Most Scheme implementations are cross-platform, and most issues you run into are the "extras" each implementation adds in.

Let me say this: most of my daily work involves programming in Scheme.

We investigated a lot of the top contenders, and ran into some rather random issues.

Gambit-C is damn fast. Its GC is amazing, and as the name implies, it cross-compiles to C. With a little tweaking, we got it running on some of the beefier Arduinos for some embedded work. Gambit includes custom namespaces for modules, which can make it easier to work with. However, documentation for Gambit is atrocious.

Guile doesn't support native compilation. You could compile down to the object code, and then write a C-wrapper for it, but it's painful working that way. (Also: Guile doesn't support the (void) function! They renamed it for no obvious reason.)

Chicken compiles down to native code, though its runtime is slightly slower than Gambit. It also implements a lot more SRFIs than Gambit, making it so you don't need to reinvent the wheel as much. However: the moment you add a package, Chicken can't compile statically anymore, and you need to build a distribution, and that gets rather hairy when you hit optional dependencies per platform.

All that being said, my work, for reasons I'm probably not able to explicitly go into, involves writing code that both Chicken and Gambit-C can run, and it isn't overly difficult, though I did have to reimplement some libraries that only one or the other had. Yet, in Scheme-land, that's half a days work.
> the S in NSDAP stands for Socialist, and they targeted same voters.

Not "and", but "because". Hitler also talked about peace a lot. Here's a hint: go by what they did. Talk was as cheap back then as it is today.
Seems to cause my browser to crash latest Chrome on Windows.
Ask HN: Is there a solution to the Bitcoin blockchain growth problem?
Is there a method of purging old transactions from the chain, or will it continue growing forever?
Was it? Was the "Nazi ethical framework" actually a framework or just a conveniently half-assed set of pseudo philosophies? Take the "Aryan" concept or their racial "science"; just because someone claims to have a different ethical system isn't reason enough to accept on its face.

Questions I'd ask would be along the lines of questioning whether or not there were actual ethical principles at play, and if so what were they? I'm not sure that racial or national supremacy is really meaningful when you're not the person believing in it. "Race" for example isn't a particularly rigorous concept, so what ethical structures could you build around it?
Yes. This is what I did from a calculator by fusion http://fusion.net/story/41833/wealth-gap-calculator-are-you-...

Mixed up my numbers, top 1% for age group ~106k. Bay Area metric I make more than median household, which is scary since that means the average single income family in the Bay Area would be barely scraping by (not hard to believe).
For those interested in more Rust conferences, RustFest is September 17-18 in Berlin (no idea if tickets are still available) and Rust Belt Rust is October 27-28 in Pittsburgh (tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rust-belt-rust-conference-regis... ). Yours truly is giving one of the beginner tutorials at the latter, and I'll be handing out custom-machined rusty metal doodads to my attendees. :)
You don't give him enough credit. From an engineering pov alone, Friendster, myspace and twitter were often down or terribly slow.

Also, the foresight to launch a platform.

Launching news feed despite howling criticism.

Taking the company public with little investor surplus, taking heat on CNBC for a year until the market caught up to what they were doing.

Not putting ads on the site in numbers that turned off users but Having enough to run profitably from an early era

Great hiring.

Edit: Also, I think most people misunderstand the primary benefit of school-by-school rollout. By the time people without .edu addresses wanted into Facebook it was already successful. Their growth plan was premised that if you can get 50% of the people in a network to use something, the other 50% (or close to it) will pile on. You can't do that everywhere all at once across the country, let alone the world. The cliche goes... How do you eat a whale? Bite by bite.
A vocal percentage of the HN crowd assumes you are working on a personal machine with full admin rights, not behind any firewall, and that you have the expertise, spare time and patience to setup and maintain a system.

Ironically these criticisms are largely thrown at consumer apps, while server apps (eg third party monitoring and reporting) rarely cop it at the same level.

A recent example that comes to mind - I'm not affiliated and tbf plenty of comments point out valid use cases - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10289673
I wouldn't work if I used PTO; makes no sense. I'd rather arrange a shifted schedule for the day
Binary Semaphores in Redis and Node
Possible air pollution link to Alzheimer's
If you're going to perpetually use scripts then this conversation doesn't apply to your. Your script bundles will continue to work as they already do.
He said, he feels he is betraying open source.

Actually that somewhat hits the nail on the head regarding how a lot of us feel. We'd love to do it but the pragmatic reality is that we can't do that all the time.

He feels the pain, I feel the pain, and I'm sure a lot of other people do as well.

The fact remains if he or I play games, or I buy a tv or a washing machine. Well screw us both because on some level we are betraying open source. It's 50 shades of gray.

Anyway, it doesn't really matter. I'm no less confused.
>And as a foreigner I have virtually no rights while on American soil.

That's simply false. In criminal matters you have exactly the same rights as a US citizen, even if you're in the country illegally. Though it is true you don't want to say anything to cops if they've taken some kind of official notice of you, that's not the same thing as asking for directions or reporting a crime.

You will get the same advice about answering questions in Canada, by the way, and for the same reason:

>Never voluntarily subject yourself to a police interrogation where it is apparent you are a suspect or accused. If you are approached as a witness you can ask the police, on videotape, to confirm that you are being questioned only as a witness and that you are not in legal jeopardy. After an arrest, there is an enormous power imbalance. The police -- hopeful of obtaining a confession, or damaging admission -- will take advantage of your vulnerability, at least to the limits of the law. Your best choice is always to consult a lawyer and you have a right to free consultation with duty counsel.

http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/blog/2012/06/what-to-do-when-t...

The reason people hammer home the idea you shouldn't talk to cops in the US is (like Canada) remaining silent isn't prejudicial during a trial. You have nothing to gain and can only hurt yourself.
Many of the companies I've worked for had unlimited or flexible sick-day policies because having a fixed # of sick days doesn't make sense. But lots of companies do this for some reason.
Thanks, I wasn't aware that it would accept misses like this; I assumed that 404s would be avoided. Glad to learn something new, thanks!
Keep in mind that some ISPs actively attack bittorent and it won't work with them if it accepts unencrypted connections. That might be why it's not working for you (if you've never used bittorent successfully there before)
There's no such thing as "free market" lending because so much of it is tied to legal institutions. For example, is bankruptcy allowed in a free market? Indentured servitude? Seizure of assets?

Absent a government, lending is a lose-lose situation. The lender has little recourse to compel the lendee to pay, and the lendee has no protection from the lender.
>That's not how learning works.

I've learned lots of information from classes by just paying attention to the lectures and doing no out of class studying/conversations unless I had particular trouble with something, in a wide range of subjects like physics from Newton's laws to relativity, various history classes, music theory, epistemology, calculus. Is this that unusual of an experience?
FreeBSD has been using it too for a few years now. https://reviews.freebsd.org
It's true that BEP-46 'Mutable Torrents' exists now, but trustless DHTs like Bittorrent Mainline are vulnerable to Sybil attacks [1][2], which is conceptually similar to a Blockchain 50+% attack to where a malicious party can control a large amount of nodes and propagate lies. You want to involve some incentive scheme to counteract this [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
[2] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6503215/
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10029851
Well, I understand two positions that I find coherent (and I spend my time switching between them):

- Either you do see the classroom as a conduit of knowledge from teachers to students. Indeed, that's not all there is to learning, you need to understand and exercise your new knowledge, but that happens in a different time, outside the classroom.

- Or you see knowledge transmission as a more or less autonomous task and you favor social interactions between students to help them "build understanding" as you suggest. In that case the teacher (and, arguably, the classroom) is not necessary anymore.

I fail to see why you would want a classroom and teacher if you are in the position 2.

I know something it is that if I were to pay for a class, I would want to have more than a bunch of people equally ignorant as I am trying to understand a thing together. I would want an experienced teacher giving us the core knowledges. But again, I mostly live in the IT world, where such a class is almost never necessary.
Saying that using guix isn't exactly the same as using guile; even if Guix is a good lever to help your large project.
If you are relying on the CA system to secure your website, it is equally insecure no matter what TLD your site is under. DNSSEC at least gives you the possibility of moving away from .COM, .ORG, etc to a top-level you trust.

You still haven't said what your threat model is, though. The fact you mentioned "protection from governments" earlier suggests that the threat model you are envisaging is "I am trying to run a website that will be attacked by every country in the world". If that's your threat model, I would be interested to know what technology you suggest to counter that threat.

Alternatively, if your threat model only includes "US, UK, Canada, or Australia" then there are various other TLDs that are more trustworthy than the Turkish or Chinese governments (no disrespect to those countries). For example, the TLDs of .ch, .dk, .li and .lu. Even .de and .fr should be managed in ways that are independent from the 5 Eyes.
Motherless babies possible as scientists create offspring without female egg
I think everyone is a bit split on it. We realize how accessible and empowering open source software has made things, so there's a preference to encourage that. As a kid I was curious about Unix workstations, but knew they cost $30k and I wasn't going to get access to one unless it was a university or larger company shared with other people. Only a few years later Linux was released and today I could get a computer for less than $50 and dig through the source to my heart's content. I have access to a commercial quality Operating System, Databases, and Web Servers. All I have to do is download it.

In general the conceit seems to be paying for support and giving the source away for free (RedHat). Or selling a service and not making the source available (GitHub). It sucks because someone who writes an amazing tool still has to come up with a whole other business in order to make income from it.

There is commercial software on Linux where I don't hear people avoiding it because it's not open source: PyCharm, Sublime, Autodesk Maya, Foundry's Nuke, as well as (like you mentioned) games.
I disagree, I have zero problems with these new features, which cost no extra money to me. These are all extra features, that I can choose to use or not use, that github rolled out for its users. I personally treat repositories as a single self contained code project, and I find that a lot of other people do too. The home page makes me feel less lonely. It's all good for me. Yeah a repo-centric trello board won't serve a whole corporation, but is it really that important? Github isn't trying to kill trello.com, it's just rolling out a nice little feature that the average hacker appreciates. I can see how a bigger team would lump multiple repos under one project but for that why not just use trello.com, after all it's a specialized tool created for such a task.
The base product use case has been to handle phone fidelity for many years. Think: legal dictation, retail digital recording hardware (phones), and medical transcription. Speech-to-text for recordings fed by a Telefunken U-47 is highly niche. :)
may i point out that you seem to be ignoring the human rights situation in Iran

I'm not ignoring it, it's simply off-topic.
Maybe there's a better example, but REMOVE-IF sounds like Clojure's 'remove', REMOVE-IF-NOT sounds like 'filter', and REMOVE sounds like 'disj', or possibly '(remove #{item} list)'.
Okay I understand, and I more or less feel the same way for the most part.

Although I use Linux 95% of the time, and I think Windows has lost its way a little. I would disagree that it isn't robust. The kernel at least is quite excellent. But that's another topic.

Sorry for raising this issue, it's the "I will pay $1000's of dollars for hardware, and games", but I can't spare change for an OS that got me started. Apologies.
It's common now everywhere in comedy, because Carlin/Pryor started the trend.

Previous generations of comedians would do the same material over years...Cosby was the last of that generation.
By the letter of the law and international agreements, foreigners have rights.

In practice? Enjoy jail and a swift deportation because you happened to say the wrong thing to an officer or otherwise incur their disgust. What an embarrassing, and costly, end to a business trip that would be.
>quad-yearly

You're not reading enough posts these days. I think this I've seen your exchange with Colin referenced at least once a month for the last year.
It's very easy to say all of this from an armchair. Not doing those things is harder when your friends are doing them. Some people are better at averting that social pressure than others.

That being said, I'm making $115k in Dallas and have zero intention of having kids on this salary. One kid is expensive; I can't imagine having two or more. The sacrifice would be too much for me to handle. Even when I made $160k in New York I wouldn't have considered it.
Reminds me of "Bar Association" from Star Trek Deep Space Nine[0]: "Bashir says casually that he should petition Quark to add vacation time and sick leave to the bar's employees by forming a union to help them stop being exploited, however Rom tells Bashir that Ferengi do not fight against exploitation but instead work to become the exploiters. "

[0] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Bar_Association_(episode)
> you can get both in Lisp if you want

The whole point of benefiting from immutable data structures is their ubiquity. If they're something you reach for only when you personally decide you need them, they're unlikely to work well with 3rd-party code; you will have to do a lot more digging to understand how the code you're writing will behave in a concurrent context vs having it be obvious. Making it opt-in is almost making it pointless, unless you never use 3rd-party code.
Have you posted you content online? It was an excellent talk. Nice job!
If we did, it is not likely that the strong scaling is perfect.
Guile's lib you have to link against is 2.5mb, and much of the object code for any Scheme you end up compiling is 0.5-3mb. That was enough to get Guile disqualified from our project.

I never managed to get it running on anything with less than 16mb of RAM, but that might have been my own C wrapper, YMMV.
Those were different users commenting.
Why are you on the side of someone who has a hard time being polite. I read the original threads about Thiagos original patch and he was in the wrong. He ignored issues that were outlined and it was clear the patch was not ready. He was not polite.

Once again Bram brings up a valid issue with neovims design about using msgpack for RPC. It just adds another layer of difficulty.

So explain to me why vim should include such an obviously flawed design?
Maybe you're thinking of the famous quote from the Saudi ruler in the 60s:

"My grandfather rode a Pony, my father rode a Pony, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum
> The interesting thing is that games are some of the most costly

Hah! I wish. I've spent thousands on single SKUs - yet SASS and anything B2B can make that look like chump change.

Meanwhile, Steam sales discount high quality, high end titles significantly pretty quickly - to the point where a lot of gamers basically never pay full price.

To say nothing of mobile being flooded with $0.99 titles.
To say nothing of the effectively free humble bundles.
To say nothing of all the free web and indie games out there.

Although I guess the right freemium Skinner box can also cost thousands in DLC and micro-transactions? But you can get games so cheap these days that people don't even get around to playing everything in their Steam libraries.

> I just find it hard to rationalize FOSS zealotry that is almost universally hypocritical to some degree.

On the more practical side of things, games are entertainment and frequently rely heavily on obfuscation to avoid hacking to gain unfair advantages in multiplayer. It's all somewhat fungible - if you can't play game X, you can still have fun playing game Y - the only real downside being your emotional investment in game X. Vendor lock-in isn't much of a problem, and a number of games are mod friendly.

Having your business and personal data stuck in vendor lock-in and being legally prohibited from taking over where they fuck up, or try to escape from their clutches should they jack up their prices, etc. is a whole new level of potential downside. Entire businesses die when twitter changes their API terms.

Meanwhile, if WoW ever shut down, gold farmers would find another MMO to abuse the same day.
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Backstory of the decline of Rothenberg Ventures
Programming examples, registers documentation and Schematics will be provided. Remember the old National Semiconductor Databooks? We would release the complete design data, so users will be able to propose different ideas with the integrated HW.
I'm not asking a question...that is the name of the article/talk...
this must be why snowden wants to leave
Dangerous, yes. Marketed as self driving, no.
I concur. I have had ravens & have currently grackles on my property. They are smart & playful once your presence is tolerated. Harris Hawks are also fascinating & tolerant if you get to know them young.
Not knowing anything else about what went on, that sounds like too much. I'd just stick with something and ride it out after that point.
Not yet, working on first prototypes. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrZDrWEWcAAueij.jpg
It would be nice to be able to develop "native" Linux software right from within Windows where I'm doing other things. I can see the appeal. That's why Microsoft built the Linux subsystem, I suppose.
That's encouraging, but the absolute level of real incomes is still lower than it was before the recession.
Agree. Even if it is promoting their own company, this is a great example of someone using new technology to profit.

I get excited when I see this, even if I don't learn anything from the content.