skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's pumped out of the ground as oil, converted into plastics, and after a short life, buried in the ground again. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad if much of it didn't also end up floating in the ocean, being eaten by animals and contaminating the human food chain.

Reminds of: "It's pretty amazing that our society has reached a point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic, shape it appropriately, truck it to a store, buy it, and bring it home is considered to be less effort than what it takes to just wash the spoon when you're done with it."

https://goo.gl/photos/ccLCuPkvKh99WWvE8
I will admit that I have done this (bg repeat) too, on my lycos,geocities sites.
I immediately thought of that xkcd with this quote.

My OpEx with the new datacenters is that I have to change the filters, and that is really the only maintenance I have. And we have moved to a resiliency configuration where I put more servers in each box than I need and if one breaks, I just turn it off and wait for the next refresh cycle. The whole OpEx changes with the delivery model of the white box. So we learned quite a bit there, but now we have got to really scale.”
Do you not care about any of your civic responsibilities, or only those which require more than an hour or two of your time every few years?
Maybe better moderation responses would help - ie, recommendations, links to guidelines, etc. Have those improved recently?
Same. I'd argue the 2000 election was far more important especially given the creation of the PATRIOT act and the decision to invade Iraq, both of which were coincidentally voted for by one of the current candidates.
>>This could just as well apply to environmental factors though, siblings probably share those.

That's correct, but looking at concordance rates between monozygotic (identical) and dizygotic (fraternal) twins demonstrates that there is at least a partial genetic connection.

Identical twins share the diagnosis in 77% of cases, while fraternal twins only share the diagnosis in 31% of cases.[1] Given that identical twins share more genetic material, the conclusion is that autism has a genetic component to its incidence.

That said, most research on the subject, including the paper I'm citing, establishes that there is most likely a dual nature-nurture component. In particular, this study was conducted on twins within the same household, so the genetic component would have been augmented by shared environmental factors.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4440679/
I barely knew about Sega early history (only that SeGa was US based arcade makers), and it was surprisingly twisted.

Also, so many attempts that are nowhere now (Edge16 wasn't a bad idea). Markets are funny.

ps: To think that Nintendo Hubris gave birth to the competing Playstation which ate Sega's market.
> enterprise active directory servers

That's a small portion of all x86 servers. Statement like "more than 60% of the x86 server market" implies 60% of them all, which sounds very far off.
How can you claim to treat all people with basic civility

Civility, manners and etiquette are to show people you respect them when it isn’t obvious that you respect them – like when you don’t respect them.

And just because I don't respect them w/r/t their weight, doesn't mean I can't respect them at all.

without trying to understand it?

You assume that understanding would imply respect.
Bluntly, this discussion makes it pretty clear that asking skinny technical people about medical obesity is pretty close to asking Donald Trump about how to solve crime: get more violent. If it doesn't work, you weren't violent enough. If it does, get more violent, because it is clearly working.

Change a few words and you're there. The ignorant certainty the arrogant dismissiveness that comes with it are breathtaking. It is genuinely sad.

> You clearly aren't familiar with how medicine actually works.

Physician, heal thyself.
Probably because female models have a higher ROI (convert more buyers than male ones).

This would be a rational explanation. Of course the real explanation is misandry!
There is a cash alternative, fwiw.
> You can't support Windows XP users who use IE anymore with HTTPs.

Supporting Windows XP IE users' delusions of security is, arguably, not a desirable thing.
Disney is thinking about bidding on Twitter
I worked at Apple for severals years in engineering until 5 months ago leaving for a very small business which interested me more. Swift was being extensively used internally for a long time, including by me.
The valley and SF need to build more, but eventually we need to accept that many talented technology workers will neither wish to nor be able to live in a small peninsula in central northern California.

High tech companies will change then they need to change. If they find that they are not able to access a high quality workforce in the numbers they need unless they allow their workforce to live in other areas, and they lose out to competitors who do allow this, they will change.

I've been beating a drum here on HN, and I know that people are probably getting tired of hearing about it, but here it goes again... we must not allow employers to control the residency and work rights of their employees. All workers, technology and otherwise, immigrant or born in the US, must be free to pursue their educational path, career path, and place of employment according to market signals and their own personal interests and abilities. Anything else, at scale, will produce harmful market distortions and is an affront to personal freedom.

If employees who have the right to make this choice are not choosing to subject themselves to brutal housing costs in spite of salaries that silicon valley employers insist are at shortage-indicating highs, that's the market's answer. We should welcome immigrants, but we should not welcome Facebook's control over an immigrant's right to decide what to study, where to work, or what profession to choose as a condition of coming to the united states.

As long as corporations have this coercive power over individuals on a large scale, expect nothing to change. Remarkably, the corporations who lobby for this sort of massive personal power over technical workers often wear the halo of being "pro-immigrant".

"You may live and work in the United States provided that you take the technical interview exams I insist you take, study the fields I insist you study, live in the high cost region I insist you live in, work on the projects I insist you work on, for the salary I've decided is fair". Why do they get away with this?
They are a political organisation and their ideas conflict with mine. I don't keep a strong boycott on them, but I don't want to support their products, that's all.
Broadly true, but using an older version of OS X is kind of painful. There's just lots of little niceties missing.
Without the particular bot net/what have you taking credit for it do we generally know who is running a DDOS?
Elon Musk before Tesla (1999)
> we also make alcoholics stop drinking before giving them organ transplants, and smokers have to quit before receiving a lung transplant.

That's done by providing alcohol treatment and smoking cessation, not telling them to just stop.
In the midst of a lot of speculation and a bizarre situation, this is the sanest explanation so far.
>one stupid little plastic thing

I got into 3D printing recently and it's wonderful in this respect. I've made replacement parts for several different things.

3D modeling isn't as daunting as I expected either, at least in Fusion 360.
In this case there's a lengthy terms and conditions document, clearly drafted by lawyers.
There are two parts to it.

First it encourages young people to vote. This is important because young people will be the most affected by policies enacted by the next president. This part is non-partisan, because it forces both political parties to take young people more seriously as a voting block.

Second it's clearly against Trump, because Trump's base consists of older white people with racial anxiety/anger. Young people lean democrat, but they don't get out to vote.
he didn't oppose the right to vote; he said not everyone should vote. and please, just because you think we'd never have heard of hillary if her husband hadn't been president does NOT make her "comically unqualified". let's leave the politics to the sensationalist 24/7 "news" machine, mkay?
Or buy yet another CA and continue under their name?
I wouldn't call it a "port", but basically the Ubuntu binaries are universal enough that you can unpack the .deb, symlink a few things to match Ubuntu naming and run the binaries on Arch.
The study did not show systematic discrimination. It showed that obese patients presenting with hip and knee problems were systematically denied surgery in favor of weight loss as a treatment. There is a strong case to be made that weight loss is the proper treatment for those patients, given that weight loss is a much less risky treatment, and has positive side effects beyond treating the condition at hand.

For me to believe that recommending weight loss is discriminatory, you would have to show that weight loss isn't an effective treatment for obese patients presenting with hip and knee problems.
There are (at least) two comically unqualified candidates in this year's election.

Thank you for proving my point.
Its not surprising (except, perhaps, surprisingly low given the prevalence of free competitors) if, as is often the case, market share of X is calculated by ($ spent on X) / ($ spent on X and all competitors to X), and they are measuring x86 server OS license as the relevant market.
> I still don't understand how Microsoft was able to provide a better debugging and tooling experience for Android, than Google itself for their own OS, although Android Studio 2.2 finally seems to be usable.

Visual Studio was first released in 1997, the company has 20 years experience in designing and building tooling. I believe they also have a very firm dogfooding policy, and some very intelligent people work there.

Google changed the search engine landscape and created the only competitor to the iPhone, but building tools and tooling is definitely not a key strength.
You are wrong about this.
Developer were skeptical to commit to the Dreamcast right out the gate(before even the console's launch).
EA saying later on it would never support the console(it seemed like there was even bad blood between EA and Sega).
Developers didnt want to commit large amounts of resources to development into another Sega console.
Simply put they were burnt by the Saturn and Sega didnt have the resources to throw money at them.
I had no idea that we sent it to Napa. I'm guessing we get paid pretty handsomely for it?
libertarians are far more "liberal" than democrats.
According to Pew research any effort to spread the word to register to vote for anyone below 69 years of age would be skewing democrat[1]
[1]http://www.people-press.org/2015/04/07/party-identification-...
That only applies if your ecosystem is the hype-du-jour.

.NET is massive, it is entrenched, but I doubt it is growing.

So "fire and motion" doesn't apply here.
What exactly does ‘instantaneous’ mean?
Yes, almost 100% in agreement with you. My only quibble is that we take care to really know about who is running the various vote reform efforts and initiatives. The Democrats and Republicans will do whatever they can to get reform in name only under the guise of more choice. See California's "top two" primary system as an example of how one party more or less locks up exclusive access to the ballot in more cases than one should be comfortable with. If we aren't careful, vote "reform" efforts will look more like that than PR.
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It's Not About Race
Europa is crying out for exploration
From the OP:
".NET Standard is a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement. This unifies the .NET platforms and prevents future fragmentation.

Sounds like baseline API that will be present on all .Net <foo>.
uh, you couldn't know what was going to happen a year later when voting in 2000.
Here's a blog post: https://blog.docker.com/2016/09/build-your-first-docker-wind...
You have been the victim of the conservative spin machine if you think one of the most experienced candidates that either party has fielded in decades isn't "competent".
I don't believe most of the people responding to this type of gimmick are educated enough to vote.

Not that there are many good choices anyway. The last 8 years has been an assault on people of integrity.
It is perhaps more accurate to say that Apple has minimal focus on cloud services for large groups of professionals (i.e. enterprise users or large design shops); consider that iCloud Drive prevents you from creating nested subfolders, a workflow tightly engrained in how practically all enterprises think about shared files!

Which is not to say that there wasn't incentivization from MSFT... but either way it's a good move for Adobe to align itself with a brand whose cloud is always going to keep big business as a priority.
Show HN: Awsmap – list EC2 instances/S3 buckets from multiple accounts
C isn't a big family of languages, it is very narrow family. Rust and Go are not in that family. A proper analogy requires some close dialectal ties, for instance:

ObjC - C beyond C++

What Rust and Go have in common is that they are Von Neumann model languages built around pushing word-sized quantities from memory through a CPU, like C, Pascal, Algol, Modula, ... thus:

Rust - "Von Neumann Model Algol-Like Blub Programming" beyond Go

:)
Is there any open source library that does that? I know in theory many things are possible but it would be great to actually test it/see it in action. I never thought of Swift as a language with zero cost abstractions and deterministic performance. If it works I think it really gives it a leg up.
Markdown and Calendar and Notes?
If the trains run out of seats in 3rd class, this helps prevent 2nd class from being cannibalized - customers who want a guaranteed seat or less overcrowding then have to buy a 2nd class ticket.
I'm sure I've read sci fi that uses the idea - they have extremely limited bandwidth so they make up for it with aggressive compression and reconstruction that more or less reduces people to a handful of parameters and uses those to animate an avatar. It relies on computation being a LOT cheaper than bandwidth.
Saying "entirely" is not only demonstrably false but ultimately harmful if we are talking about pay gaps and irrelevance of gender for advanced mental work - people get "reactive" once they realize they have been lied to about gender differences.

Some random quotes from the wiki article:

"Several studies have shown the hippocampi of men and women to differ anatomically, neurochemically, and also in degree of long-term potentiation."

"In accordance with the sexual dimorphism of the amygdala, the right VPMC is more dominant in an active limbic system for males while the left is more dominant in females. These differences carry out to a behavioral level."

"Positron emission tomography studies have shown that men and women ranging from the ages of 19 to 32 years old metabolize glucose at significantly different rates in the orbital prefrontal cortex. Infant males who exhibited lesions on their orbital prefrontal cortex struggled with object reversal experiments, but females exhibiting such lesions did not have impaired performance in object reversal."
I fully share your concerns. I've expressed this problem with a homage to XKCD:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2014/12/04/introduci...

Don't think of .NET Standard as another .NET platform. Think of it as the standard that ties them all together. It's similar in spirit to POSIX. It's not another Unix, it's a way to write code that works on multiple Unixes.
aspergers was lumped into autism, it wasn't made non-diagnosable. Previously the criteria for aspergers were the same as autism but without delayed language development. Now they decided that distinction wasn't worth singling out with a special diagnosis so it's considered autism regardless of language delay. Those who had aspergers are now considered to simply have autism.
She is literally the most qualified presidential candidate in a generation. She has the bipartisan support of all five living presidents today. That's unheard of. And she's running against a con man who scams his suppliers, scams students with his fake university, and who is utterly ignorant of foreign policy.
For a lot of things and a lot of small repairs/modifications (even just cleaning in some cases), all that's needed to is to use standard screws that aren't super soft. They were invented to allow reservible fastening of things, and they're great, if you're not making them suck on purpose. Unless you're making it even easier than screws, make the screws rock solid and straight forward.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22announcement%20of%20an%20an...
Yes, I agree that this announcement seemed over hyped by the media, like just about every NASA pre-tease announcement. The announcement about Europa today is this:

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. This finding bolsters other Hubble observations suggesting the icy moon erupts with high altitude water vapor plumes.

Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-hubble-spots-possib...
I see. I guess I'm not that familiar with ideologies in the world of economics academia.

In the real world I don't think there's anyone, including central bankers, who currently thinks (or really ever thought) that bailing out banks that give bad loans is a good idea or e.g. that companies taking debt to buy back shares is a good idea. Central bankers also don't think (any more) that QE or reducing rates can restore real economic growth to the pre-crisis levels.

What do you think looking at "finance" vs. "real" economy is going to get us? How will it impact policies? What does it mean to "push finance away from power" and what are the implications?

Not to mention the futility of trying to track what's finance and what's real. Is VC "real" or "finance"? When Microsoft buys LinkedIn is this "real" or "finance"? Is Facebook a part of the "real" economy? Disney? My retirement savings that are sitting in the bank, is that "real" or "finance"?
I agree, QT or GTK# would be a good start :)
Best i can tell, this has come to be because XDG/Freedesktop stopped being about specs and became all about code.

Rather than cook up a protocol spec between high level and low level, they write a -kit/-d (more and more often these days as part of the systemd shoggoth) and makes its APIs (that are subject to change from version to version) the "protocol spec".

And most of this gets prototyped over at Fedora, by RH employees...
Newcomers are always confused by the distinction, this doesn't help at all to put them in the same big bag. This classification is not wrong, but mostly useless when you see how the different "dialects" evolved (they are grown-up languages, nowadays).

> C is a language, not a family of languages that includes Rust and Go.

But Rust and Go are constantly compared to C. We always talk about C-like languages. Maybe I should have said "Algol" instead, but there is a family of languages rooted at "C", and we don't call it the C family.

Go is "a compiled, statically typed language in the tradition of Algol and C". "The syntax of Rust is similar to C and C++", but "Rust is semantically very different from C and C++.[citation needed]" (wikipedia).

Likewise, Scheme is semantically very different from Common Lisp. And Racket is not considered as a Scheme, even though it is related to it. You can't copy-paste any Typed-Racket expression and run it with ChezScheme.

So, yes, they all belong to the same proto-language family, but constantly referring to them as a unique family is doing a disservice to each of them.

Take Clojure for example: the wikipedia page says that it is inspired by C++, C#, Common Lisp, Erlang, Haskell, Mathematica, ML, Prolog, Scheme, Java, Racket and Ruby. There are plenty of influences that goes into a language, why not talk about the other ones? parentheses?
> This is obviously a planted PR piece. Also will note that those books look like they are in remarkably good condition as a group. They don't look like they were abused cover to cover by many people at all.

My own library looks a lot like this. I'll only buy a book after I've read it and decide I want it permanently. After that, I might flip through it, but rarely carry it around or expose it to any sort of abuse.
> clearly Coupons are a net economic loss

I'm not so sure about that. Yes, the process of printing, distributing, and using coupons is a deadweight loss to society, but the ability to price discriminate can create surplus.

If the captured producer surplus were less than the cost to print and distribute coupons, then manufacturers would stop doing it.

This is exactly analogous to your example with India as well. There is a deadweight loss associated with administering and enforcing regional trade barriers so that you can't just go buy the $5 Indian version of a good.
Likewise, while I haven't worked in a CMMI-5 environment, I have worked in an organization where I was required to be trained in TSP/PSP which (arguably) provides an even lower defect rate than CMMI-5. The amount of process and paperwork required was absolutely ridiculous and eventually caused me to leave due to all the fun simply having been removed from the job.

It may produce high-quality output, but you won't enjoy doing it!
> Are there (m)any advantages to doing this?

[trigger warning: cynicism distilled from 15+ years of bitter tears]

More fun and better job security for the current maintainer. The former because one hacks away in the preferred language, the latter because one cannot be replaced easily by some unix geek unless s/he happens to speak the same language fluently.

One can chose from various implementations in various languages (eg: psh and scsh) but hacking your own is easy:

* Just re-implement the basic unix tools and shell semantics and invent some nifty convenience syntax and features along the way.

* Either don't document at all or document everything with at least 2 pages aimed at people who have never used a computer before. Both ways will prevent the only ones who could replace you from even looking at your "shell in X".

* Never ever do this in a typed language, write a ton of unit-, functional- and integration tests to make up for that - of course all of them completely undocumented.

* On top of your creation, invent a fragile "shell syntax like" layer to make adoption easier.

* Under no circumstances create some new abstraction layer that goes beyond shell semantics that brings something substantial to the table and is well documented.

* Enjoy the time saved because you don't have to "man $tool" anymore, it's all your code anway.

* Under no circumstances ever write in pure posix sh again - the realization that with all the stuff you've learned along the way posix sh covers 99% of the use-cases in a more expressive way will be crushing.
You mean like here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BK0z7oZgOia7zfdlJ4ygJqEDBW8e17lq...
I'm using Opera. It has an integrated ad blocker. I also use a 4Mb hosts file to block ads and malware domains, but you need to root your phone in order to install that.
Well uber begs to differ. Doesn't really look like it's 1-2 decades away to me.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BK0z7oZgOia7zfdlJ4ygJqEDBW8e17lq...
He said "skew", not exclusive. College students are more liberal b/c they're still stupid.
> and I have no plans start using Core any time soon.

It doesn't matter what your plans are. If Microsoft forces you to move on to something like .NET Core you will. Eventually, when it comes to ASP.NET there will no difference between the core and the non core version.
Except browser tooling, where they are far ahead of others.