skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was originally a die hard Emacs user, but I started to feel a bit of strain on the whole holding Ctrl+p, Ctrl+n etc. I was trying to find an editor/plugin that can reduce keystrokes or at least the strain. I ran across EVIL for Emacs which is just a Vim emulation and keybindings for Emacs users. Unfortunately I did not like it at first the entire hjkl felt awkward and all those modes - OMG. But after toying around with it a bit and playing the online interactive vim learning game I started to see the benefits of Modal editing.

I can easily without leaving home row move a few letter to the right or back with hl or f and F. but things started to get a lot more fun when you realize that Vim is a programming editing language and it's beauty is in the commands. This leads to amazing things that I hated before, such as deleting 2 words back from my current position would simple be d3b. instead of shift+ctrl+left arrow x 2 + delete.

Overall it's been about 2 months since I've started using EVIL mode for Emacs and I love it. I'll stand by the saying that Emacs is a great OS and vim is a great for editing text in it's modal editing.

lastly modal mode really felt powerful only after I had re-mapped my CAPS key to ESC. I mean throughout the past decade I don't think I've even used Caps for anything. so I've remapped the machines I work on the have caps as esc.

- for those that think it's not reasonable to do so and the whole point of using vim is so that you can edit machines via ssh then use vim on that machine, my suggestion is to use tramp in Emacs with ssh or plink to get to the server and edit (you will still have the local caps to esc key mapped)

TL;DR - Vim modal editing is amazing and feels has straining than other editing layouts - IMO.
> d2wi and c2w

There is a nice chart on this page with a few more inferior/superior motion commands:

http://vimcasts.org/episodes/modal-editing-undo-redo-and-rep...

One problem I commonly see with most vim advice articles is they just have too many tips for the reader to consume at once. But if you just make sure to pick up at least one of the tips, you'll at least gain something.
I highly recommend not using the Esc key, remap to jk or caps lock that you can reach without moving your hands. It makes a pretty big difference.
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Messaging backbone decision would have sidestepped the backlash against online advertising. They made the wrong decision and are paying for it.
They could have kept the 140-char service as a free service, to raise the profile of their brand. And it probably would have been more successful without the increasingly desperate attempts to "monetise" it by stuffing your timeline with keyword-based advertising.

Meanwhile, every app or website with a messaging or notification function could have been using (and paying for) Twitter's API and infrastructure underneath. And all using a single Twitter account, so that every subscription to any of their customers' services would be a new account for them.

It could have been a great business model, but their leadership did have the imagination to try anything other than keyword advertising.
Ironically, Twitter is up for sale because there are things freely available on the Internet.
Regardless of the merit of your claim, it remains the case that the provided example is ineffective.

There were many earlier this year that said standing up to the FBI improved their perception in foreign markets.
How can you say that? Cooperation is a wonderful thing. Why is it a good thing that two separate entities, with the exact same goal, are keeping secrets from each other and inhibit the development towards that goal with the only reason being ownership and the ability to withold these technologies from the public? I mean, I get that regular zombies would say that competition is good - but a programmer? Haven't you heard about open source? Geez..
Couldn't they do that now... for free? What's the benefit to buying Twitter? If it's due to missing functionality they could probably just pay Twitter to implement the features they're missing and it would be cheaper than buying them outright, while providing a safety net in case it fails.

Right now you're suggesting that e.g. Disney is buying Twitter, for 17 billion dollars, to implement an untested business case. The cost of failure in that case is at least the purchase price of Twitter, that seems like a massive gamble.
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Companies are paying a lot, the problem is that you don't have a lower tier. Just to compare, in AdWords you can pay $ 5 if you want, you are not forced to have a budget of a thousands. AdWords was revolutionary in that aspect, before them you needed to have a budget for advertising in Yahoo or other networks.

I think Twitter didn't want to deal with small customers, indeed nobody wants to operate small accounts but if AdWords did it several years before Twitter, why did they never learn?
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Simple debugging with meta programming (example)
But it is too expensive now for that route
The emperor has no clothes. So this is what freedom looks like? Naked despotism couched in legalese and wanton abuse of the english language with propaganda.

I don't see what case can be made against stasi or surveillance regimes when leading lights of the free world are more than neck deep in it. This crass duplicity makes Russia, China, Putin and all the favoured demons look tame.

The western world have fed off these crimes against humanity to create a halo around ourselves. We can't deny this has benefitted us. Now we undeniably look like the biggest bunch of hypocrities who have only tainted human rights, liberty and freedom forever with our greed.

At least Russia, China and other regimes own up to their their actions. This is important as it gives people an opportunity to clearly identify and rally against repression. Running a sly dupliticious propaganda filled operation on the other hand will catch people by surprise when its too late.

To all apologists who think they can ride this out in feigned denial, diminish the implications of surveillance or argue legalese simply having a 'reason' does not justify anything. It only makes you look like an opportunist with values of convenience. Murdering millions of people in the middle east, funding despotic regimes, decimating entire countries, funding extremism and then building surveillance states at home in response.

This is a macabre and sickening degradation of humanity. If this does not compel a revolt from the people what will? Periodic elections with rulers consistently acting against the people's interests does not make a democracy, only perpetuates the illusion of one.
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Not true as exemplified by his Tesla company releasing the patents to their technology.

He knows he can't do it alone. He's elevating the bar for everybody.
Is it practical to live in Atlanta without a car?
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And many Americans (myself included) say, "October fourth, twenty-sixteen." We do write it as we say it, just as you suggested. And there's the issue. Are we simply "wrong" for saying it that way?
It's not just about saved minutes. It's also a much safer update mechanism, and it's what is used by a lot of enterprise level network equipment. It allows easy rollback if there's any sort of problem. So it's not just quicker updates, it's quicker, safer updates.
What do you think the chances are that the Boeing CEO would have said this if it weren't for Musk?
> It is still one of the most commonly used languages outside of the Bay Area web/mobile startup echo chamber

Is C all that commonly used these days? I rather suspect that it's an unforced error to start a new project in C, and that many wise organisations are replacing buggy C software with slightly-less-buggy software in safer languages.

> C’s influence can be seen in many modern languages

True, but … is this actually that important in a learning situation? Knowing Java will help learning Go (or vice-versa) about as much as learning C would, I think.

> C helps you think like a computer

Like a computer, sure, just not like the computer actually running on one's desk or in a data centre. Modern computers really aren't anything like the C model.

> Most tools for writing software are written in C (or C++)

I suppose that's true, because lots of people have used C, and that really is a good reason to know enough to get around in it, but … maybe one should teach students to use better tools in better languages (Lisp & SmallTalk come to mind).

Seriously, in 2016 it's obvious that C is just wrong.
Their revenue is 2.2B.
It would let the apps on top figure that out and they take a rev share
For anyone looking for a broad intro to neural networks, I read a bunch of stuff when I was getting started and these two were the most outstanding:

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

http://cs231n.stanford.edu/
The world now has $152 trillion in debt – the highest amount ever
I've read that large bits of it were written in 68k assembly too, so those parts might be responsible for the crashiness.
And they would have given up control of the experience, and the types of discussion and interaction would have been different, and the "X and Y fought on twitter last night" would have become "X and Y fought on Zthingthatintegrates with twitter" instead.
Don't you think they would get to Mars quicker if they cooperated and shared ideas and technologies instead?
It still remains unclear to me how letting users opt out of making Twitter $0.55/month by giving Twitter, say, $4.95/month is a bad idea. OK, so the advertising rates go down... so what? Advertising rates are not what a business is trying to optimize, revenue is.

Up to this point, the counter to this argument was basically "Well, what Twitter's doing is obviously working for them". But that's not quite as strong as it used to be now. How much money did Twitter leave on the table? It is, sure, possible that it would have been a net loss for them. But now I think a fresh look must be taken at the possibility that it would have been enough of a net gain to ensure their indepedence.

Plus one must consider the second-order effects of receiving subscription revenue. Might they have created a different and more valuable service to their customers and made even more as a result? Advertising-based businesses face the intrinsic paradox of trying to serve two customer bases at once who have somewhat opposed interests. (Even ignoring the socially corrosive influence of advertising incentivizing our smartest people to build the most powerful spying networks in history.) It is still not determined to my satisfaction that that is a stable business plan in the modern era.

One possible salutatory effect of Twitter's demise could be making the idea of subscriptions reasonable again. If even Twitter can't monetize entirely on advertising, who else can? Even Google and Facebook may be surprisingly fragile to a disruption in the advertising space, which is nominally not actually their business (even though of course it is). (The most likely disruption would be the continuing growth of ad-blocking software, but there's also the black swan possibilities as well.)
It's where famous and infamous people go to boast and to brownnose each other and score points. It's a forum to continue high school style social interaction (peer pressure and peer approvals) Or, as nirvana said, territorial pissings.

It's also good as a breaking news medium.
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Do you have any info on what music label and film they created with that money?

It's very sad seeing this happen since i love KSP and as a Mexican it was great to see sonething like this being made here. How is it that you lay waste to something as cool as KSP :(
I have a small facebook group with a couple of friends where we used to post css stuff and half of the links are from there. I/we just love that site
I've been using QuiteRSS. Active development, cross-platform, GPL, finds RSS feeds in html link tags automatically (how I found YouTube's feeds). I can't think of anything else I want from an RSS reader.
I was surprised some time ago when I found out that the modern wind speed measuring devices work without moving parts. I had expected them to all have these spinning ping pong ball halves.

To do it without moving parts, they are for using for example ultrasound. These devices have pairs on transducers, placed 10-20cm apart and the device then measures how long it takes for the sound to pass through that distance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemometer#Ultrasonic_anemomet...
In my experience, assembly makes you do a lot of busywork over and over to achieve certain constructs. Loops and function calls come to mind immediately.

They're not hard things to do in assembly, but you'll need to write those every single time you need one. So then you start making macros to handle this for you. By that point the conceptual leap to C isn't very far.
Are you sure? As a counter anecdote, I was diagnosed with low testosterone and went on replacement therapy. The injections were enough that my numbers in blood tests were up by a factor of three even a week after the injections. Certainly right after the injections my numbers would have been even higher. Despite this large change, I noticed no difference. I got more erections at night, that was it.

I hypothesize that sleep, diet and exercise can improve your mood through a whole bunch of factors, with testosterone playing an overstated role. Or even a reverse causation: improved confidence leading to higher T perhaps.

I've since stopped taking the injections as it simply wasn't doing me any good.
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If the goal is to generate a lot of useless "just so" stories, then this is good advice:

"Take any behavior seen in all humans, ie. not something that is due to local culture, and place that behaviour in the kind of tribal group that we lived in during most of evolution. Then ask the question 'what would be the consequence of this behaviour?' "

But if the goal is to figure out why things actually are the way they are, rigorous agent based modeling would be a much better way to proceed.

Also, all notions of human happiness were also shaped by human evolution, so the whole essay is nonsense. If evolution shaped our understanding of happiness, then evolution does not, in any simplistic way, explain why me might do things that go against happiness.
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> but pretty much no way to monetizing them.

I don't understand why people keep saying this. Twitter has multiple billions of dollars in revenue from monetizing their users.

Profitable? No. They built out a massive organization planning for user growth comparable to how fast Facebook was growing, but user growth stalled. There is a profitable business within Twitter, but someone has to be willing to do the gut job.
Just wow. Most amazing ceiling projection I have ever seen. EVER
Don't the NSL's typically have a section saying that they have to deny they ever received one?
> Ensuring that every endpoint has a monitoring agent installed and functioning at all times is vastly more complex than ensuring that a network traffic inspection appliance is present and functioning.

That complexity is a sunk cost. You can't guarantee that the network path through the inspection device is the only one available in a world of cellular data and tethering, twelve different kinds of VPN service some of which can purposely look like HTTP, file-level encryption etc.

> In the case of monitoring of supervised employee communications, moving the monitoring function to the endpoint raises new security concerns focusing on deliberate circumvention - because in the supervision use case the threat vector is the possessor of the endpoint.

If the user is the threat then everything on their endpoint is already compromised. Preventing external communication would then require prohibiting every mobile device capable of tethering, constant body cavity searches for storage devices or wireless hardware, etc. If you need that level of security then your internal network should not be connected to the internet at all.

And if you have internal threats but can't justify those measures then it's all the more important that everything is secured at the endpoints to protect the other endpoints from the adversary on the internal side of the inspection device.
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Even easier to use the default Ctrl + [ instead of ESC.
I don't know if this is what GP means but for one, Disney is one of the driving forces behind extending copyright periods:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Sergey Brin has sold almost all of his Google stock in the past few months
Yup, Play* can't be uninstalled.
You can get some subjective improvement, although it's far from perfect. Eg:

http://avisynth.nl/index.php/External_filters#Deringing_.26_...

See also:
https://people.xiph.org/~jm/daala/deringing_demo/
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Being able to control the entire direction of a company is a lot more powerful than just paying them to add functionality. It also grants the ability to lock competitors out of the service once you've proved the new functionality is a success.

I don't think Twitter is worth $17bn, but we live in an era of excessively hyped up and unrealistic valuations, so I have no idea what the correct price actually is. Yes, buying Twitter is a gamble, but many acquisitions are.
Kinda excited by this acqui-hire for once.

Google seems intent on building a good design tool, I hope that we will finally have a design tool for the adaptative UI era.
I have been coding in straight C lately on an embedded personal project and have loved it immensely. I know what is going on and have a good shot at predicting the resulting assembly.

However, for me, C falls down on large projects. I know there a lot of hate on objects lately, but the complexity of a project decreases while the maintainability increases when you use properly designed interfaces. You “force” the new guy to do it right because the interface makes it obvious. I know there are ways to enforce encapsulation with C, but I’ve never worked on a (large) codebase where this has been successful.
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The good thing is that 1m/s is close enough to 2kts that once you have a mental map of "how much wind" is something in knots you can trivially apply it to m/s and vice versa.

inHg on the other hand always has me completely lost.
We still need the thing that Twitter ought to have been, a public short messaging service.

Who is going to step up? What kind of institution could deliver something like that, while remaining open and accountable? A Wikipedia style foundation?

My guess is that it needn't be (too) expensive to run, especially if you hand over responsibility for long term storage of the messages to third parties.

My PhD (in progress) is based on the public utility of Twitter data. I'm deeply sad about this.
California is also one of the states being sued [0]. You obviously don't know much about Atlanta but seem to know a lot about Georgia by browsing wkikipedia. Our LGBT community is one of the largest in the US.

California probably has more backwards people than Georgia fighting against stuff like this.

[0]http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/26/california-tra...
Competition keeps corporations consumer-centric due to the need to be the best available option.
Competition creates different perspectives and solutions due to the need to innovate to survive.
Competition drives people to do their best, due to human nature.
Eliminating 3rd-party devs was only half the issue, the other half was the lack of velocity.

I've been saying for a while now that my cofounder and I add more functionality to our startup every two weeks than Twitter's 4,000 employees add to theirs in an entire year. Now this is obviously an apples-and-oranges comparison for all sorts of reasons, yet all caveats aside I think it's still pretty telling.
> don’t forget you can yank, delete or change forward or backward to a search result.

Did not know this! (although I've been on vim for ~a month) That's a great trick. Much easier than trying to count words.
Not true.

Many times it's divides in thirds.

Here it wasn't because someone (in my opinion correctly) decided Kosterlitz and Thouless deserved less money.
That social approval is what defines what's socially acceptable everywhere.

Twitter has expanded the boundaries of politically correct / acceptable speech, by enabling that brown nosing and echo chamber re-enforcement and not cracking down further on what's acceptable speech on their medium.
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Competition and cooperation are not mutually exclusive. People cooperate to compete.

The only thing that matters is what people are cooperating and competing to accomplish.
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It is difficult imagining any buyer being a fit for Twitter. I can't see how integrating Twitter with anything could be positive.

But then again, Twitter itself has been a bad fit for Twitter, so maybe something will come out of this.
I like your proposed (user-visible) solution quite a lot, this would be great.

I predict certain folks would respond to this by trapping themselves in the indefensible position of "but if they know we're intercepting them, how will we catch them being bad?!?!"
Right, if I want to rely on Finagle's RPC capabilities, e.g. load balancing, routing, tracing, etc, then my microservice must be JVM based and use the Finagle library. This is a standalone proxy deployed as a 'sidecar' app alongside my service. This allows me to implement the microservice in any language I want and get some of the features listed previously.

Of course you now have another moving part in your system :)
no idea how far their secondary went tbh, internet doesn't say and they're probably targeted to a local audience
When you unsubscribe from a Mailchimp email, they ask the recipient why they are unsubscribing. If the recipient marks "I never subscribed" or "this email is spam," the threshold is probably much lower than 20 percent. The software tries to decide if your emails were malicious.

If your account is locked, then you have to call MailChimp and explain that your intentions weren't malicious and that you won't send anything else to those emails from your account.

I had a small email list that I had not sent anything in about a year and had my account locked after sending a campaign. People just forgot they were on the list, because it had been so long. Their support team unlocked it and suggested that I send an email at least every 6 months.
Sometimes it's divided in thirds. Here it was decided to go the other route 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/4
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He made an overt assumption that Westerners do not have a grasp of Rome vis-a-vis Asian cultures, and admittedly and deliberately applied 'spin' - which is wrong.

I have a lot of interest in learning about historical issues that are not necessarily commonplace 'in the West' but zero interest in learning it from armchair hacks who 'spin' ideas and misrepresent facts.

"all of the strongly negative reactions to this article were exactly the point the author was making." - no - this is false. The 'strong reactions' were against his misrepresentations and 'spin' - underlying his bigoted assumption about Westerners perspectives and biases - not about the content itself. Medium readers in particular would be fond of reading up a bit on Asian antiquity.
I wonder how cheaper would it be if tweets were removed in, let's say, six months.