skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Many modern political issues do not have a middle ground - take abortion, you are either for choice, or you believe it is infanticide. So let's stop pretending to be unbiased.

You're falling into the trap of American politics by making every issue a binary choice. For instance, I find the abortion debate to be such a non-issue and if someone asks me what my stance is, I respond by saying I haven't done enough research or soul-searching to form a coherent, rational position on this issue.

And I probably will not ever get around to doing this research. I'm ok not having a position on certain issues. I wish this was more acceptable. Instead, the US political duopoly and it's first to the post voting encouraged big tent parties who more or less have to agree on most issues. I'm going to paraphrase Rumsfeld's brilliant turn of phrase here, there are known unknowns, and there's power in accepting that.
This one isn't Electron based, but rather it uses QML (i.e. Qt Quick).
Disgusting. And such a waste. The only consolation here: there are 50 states in the union with many regionally distinct cultures, almost like mini-nations. Come over to the left west coast (Washington / Oregon / California) there are many places Usmani and his family would be welcomed.
> Some are on Oracle Linux,

Ah yes! You win. ;-)
I hate trends. They're inherently manipulative regardless of whether the topics are selected by a human editor or an algorithm.
This feels familiar - I have a 2014 Volkswagen with touchscreen, bluetooth audio, calling, contact management, MirrorLink, etc. - about 1 out of 10 times upon starting the car the iPhone won't be able to connect to the car. It will only work again if I stop the car for a few minutes and start it again. Of course there are no VW software updates to be found and I'm not interested in bringing my car in to be serviced for this. All I want is Apple to be the software vendor of my car.
However using CarPlay of course requires me to buy a new car. There's no upgrade path which is very, very disappointing.
Also, the Zenefits service works. If HR compliance and administration is the business equivalent of going to the dentist for tooth removal, Zenefits is at least anesthesia during the procedure.

Not to condone violating laws, but if the old management was ignoring the insurance equivalent of dealer franchise or taxi medallion laws, and that now has the new management super serious about compliance--that's just an even better service for us users.
That's a win?
No Jail?
A possible (very early) start for this could be https://github.com/google/xi-editor

UIs and actual functionality are completely separate implementations. Loading and displaying text are entirely decoupled, so the display doesn't have to care if the actual file is 10kb or 2gb in size.
Being so stack focused, I found forth code of more than a couple of lines almost impossible to follow without a pen & paper or digital equivalent to keep track of what the stack is doing at a given point in time in the program.

I find many other languages far easier to dive into other peoples code and understand what data structrues they're working with and what they're attempting to do to it.
The 'tls' extension is not actually TLS support. It is a method of upgrading plaintext connections to TLS via the STARTTLS command. It has some design problems and is going to be replaced with something that works similar to HTTP Strict Transport Security in the upcoming IRCv3.3 release which will be a base standard.

We strongly believe that the future of IRC is TLS-only.
I think he's serious. This is the nationalist mindset. "Create more walls. Diversity is difficult."

We all know what happens when we stop reaching across the divide. We go into our holes, there is miscommunication, and small disagreements turn into wars.

Focusing on the areas where we disagree widens the chasm. We can bridge it by looking for common goals.
That's not a realistic option - most cars use their head units to control everything, from audio to car and safety settings. Those are essential features you'd be missing.
Trends and Directions in Data Center Interconnect:Survey
Which is Why he should move to Xamarin. Xamarin Forms can let him maintain one codebase over multiple platforms and leave the rest to convention
> NPR, NYTimes, WaPO

Not directed at you specifically, but if you think those sources are unbiased, it just means that you're bad at detecting bias.

Edit: Haha, this one struck a chord.
As a Vim addict/user. All I really want is a bit more modernization. I mean single threaded text editor in 2016.. NeoVim is supposed to be the savior.. But I don't feel like it gets a lot of support...
Yes of course. After all we strife for diversity, accrptance and tolerance.

Unless we actually strife for cultural hegemony snd eradicating the wrong thoughts from the people that are currently losing the discourse.
If I pay $10 for 1000 additional build minutes will those additional minutes roll over month to month, until they have been used?
Raising the Standard for Storage Memory Fabrics
Related software for iOS musicians: https://klevgrand.se/products/jussi/
> That said, a sub at missile launch depth is susceptible to a hypersonic weapon from above

The point of subs is that you don't know where they are. That's why we have them in the first place.
Obama guest-edit for Wired
Darwin, the open-source operating system UI underneath both macOS and iOS, is based on FreeBSD and the XNU kernel, plus some NextStep stuff. And of course FreeBSD is based on BSD, which was a patch set derived from the original AT&T Unix.

It's amazing that in 2016, the two major consumer computing platforms are BSD and Linux, and Windows in struggling to catch up.
super-early-days, but this looks philosophically very much in the right place.
WaPo is one of those doing some fairly shady things, in fact:

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/2699

http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/wikileaks-emails-clinton-berni...

I'm still waiting for them to do a story on their own involvement here....
I thought about the similarities between law and computer code several years back - see http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2008/08/legislation-and-prog...

Nice to see that Stephen Wolfram goes into much more depth than I do, about what would be required for this to happen. He's also more optimistic than I am!
NYC isn't totally unique, but it's hardly the norm either. Most of the people I've seen here at least, talking about Soylent, are struggling to find affordable groceries. Almost universally it's a variation on convenience or (to broadly paraphrase) "Freedom from food."
Are they a bad thing? I don't know, but I do know we had a fear of their efficiency, hegemony and dominance so much we coined their control of and cooperation with government as "Japan Inc." Keiretsu allowed Japan to become a world beater and the Chaebol the same for S Korea.

Koreans fret about Samsung being responsible for approx. 20% of the Korean economy --would they have that extra 20% without Samsung?

On the other hand MaBell stifled innovation. So there is the case to not let things get too cozy for big cos.

As they observe, it looks like it ebbs and flows.
The link appears to be related to minimum speed limits...
Nor does soy
Oh FFS, they go through the trouble of not accepting paypal but "free-er" alternatives like Bitcoin are too much?

This is ridiculous either way, I'll gladly use PayPal any time and I use Bitcoin any time too.

I'd say "FFS FSF" if it was still FSF, but alas the right to make such wordplay was denied to me.
Google to Close Location-Based Image-Sharing Site Panoramio
> Any member of HN would have likely done the same thing.

Speak for yourself.
Survivorship Bias
Given that the goal for the plugins API is "I’ll probably never implement this 100%, only the api bits I need for the plugins I use." [0] I don't see this getting traction. Piggypacking off an existing ecosystem is a great way to bootstrap a project but so long as it's wack-a-mole to discover if all your plugins work, this remains a pet project in my mind.

[0] https://github.com/limetext/lime/wiki/Goals
The main reason car companies don't put (un-overridable) governors for 85mph in cars is that their sales would instantly plummet.
That said, all "fast" cars sold in the US do have governors at 140 mph if memory serves. The same car sold in Germany has no such governor.
No, but half of HN might be.
Ethically, it's absolutely unconscionable to show people only what they want to see, enabling our worst features to simply fester unchallenged.

From a Machiavellian standpoint (read: Thiel or Zuckerberg), this isn't an intelligent long-term strategy, unless your view of how dumb and malleable people are is such that by playing your cards right, so few people would catch on that it would not hurt the bottom line.

EDIT: could you explain why you want to delete this post?
Many other areas of law are commonly referred to as a code, for example the "penal code" for criminal offenses. That said, you have a good point: no doubt the tax code is one of the least comprehensible (to laymen) parts of the law in most countries.
pretty cool seeing an opensource alternative to something I like so much
Lua 5.3 can iterate over a UTF-8 string. You can even index character positions (not byte positions) in a UTF-8 string. Some more information here: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#6.5

Edit: fixed link
If you do _not_ believe humans possess "identical statistical distribution of [academic performance] genes across all subpopulations" why hide such insight? It'd be interesting to hear where in the gnome the "academic performance gene" sits.

And have you also "discovered" a correlation between this academic performance gene and melanin content? Or gender too? Surely you don't want to deprive us of such important "discoveries".
I got annoyed by how poor Apple and Google Maps were here in Japan so I tried a local third-party app, and the navigation in it blows anything else I've seen out of the water. Just the lane guidance is amazingly good, and it does things like highlighting your destination on the road signs you're looking at

Screenshots:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3855/14390588297_f2743d8f05_b....

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5233/14573660131_396715c2bf_b....
Silicon Valley's Most Disturbing Obsession
Name an unbiased publication from your perspective.
It's not always like that, your issue is cultural/management.

We've got a solid CI/CD pipeline on prem using "old school" tools like vmware
Awesome! The ability to OCR video in a browser opens up so many interesting possibilities.
Leaves? Hows that work? Ive seen a person do it with jumper cables but do you have a video of that?

Note: I also have a new theory behind schizophrenia diagnoses about trees talking to people.
The only time I use these built-in ones is when I'm renting a car and stuck on roaming data :)
> Name an unbiased publication from your perspective.

https://arxiv.org/archive/math

If you mean a news publication, I can't, because they don't exist.

We can maybe go for less biased, but that's a much more complicated question. Sorted by minimal bias, I'd probably just start linking to other arxiv URLs.
I am completely ok with you directing that comment at me, because I fundamentally disagree with your assessment.

I have a pretty complete understanding of current events from reading those sources.

For your statement to be valid, you'd have to prove that there is a considerable amount of information missing and is only available via conservative media.
Am I the only one sick of projects declaring, "written in rust", "primarily developed in go", etc? Why do your users care about your implementation language? Do you have any features worth mentioning? If your main selling point is that you used the shiny new language, I'm already doubting the usefulness of the endeavor.

Just the straw that finally broke the camel's back . . .
Edit: The comment this one responded to has been basically rewritten, so my reply is no longer appropriate and I cannot delete it.
"There Is Only the Fight...: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model"
This can't be said often enough! Whenever I am driving somewhere new I constantly have to look at the screen to see on the map what the turn after the upcoming one is going to be so that I can chose the right lane. For that very reason my wife and I still tend to have the passenger navigate which comes down to supplementing the Waze directions which information about what lane to likely chose depending on the turn after the next. To me this seems like a obvious short coming and I am surprised it's not a feature one can commonly expect.
I'm most curious how 1000 services fit in 8000 repos.

(Maybe it's the same way that 40 cities fit in 70 countries.)

---

FYI, with Git, the "repo too big" problem has a lot of solutions.

Grafts (shallow commits) for long histories, large file storage (LFS) for binaries, and in extreme cases filter-branch.

Yes, when you hit Google scale is it possible to write enough source code to not fit on disk. But Uber isn't Google scale. Maybe Uber can't fit code into one repo. But ten repos should be fine.
In Vim8 vim gained asynchronous I/O support

https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/version8....
Planning for DevOps? Here are 5 key traits your team will need to succeed
My VP of HR said she would be very worried about hiring anyone from Zenefits (even as an engineer), and that she'd want to have a personal, 1:1 conversation with them prior.

I disagree wholeheartedly, but this is an anecdote of signal.
What are examples of the iOS app of a Google product being better than the Android one? Also, can I ask which OS you primarily use for mobile?
You should note that you have the luxury to even consider the issue of abortion because you've already been born.
Atom (hear me out):

+ runs graphically

+ runs linux, macos, windows (nothing else?)

+ open source

+ ridiculously, easily extensible

+ not riddled with bugs (slowness is not a bug)

+ for small files, comparably quick to Sublime on my machine

+ major dev community; already much better than 6 months ago

- slow in some instances, esp. large files

- doesn't run in terminal

- doesn't run in less-popular OSes

+/- moderate RAM usage, decreasing
Believe it or not, Android Auto and Carplay are a single standard underneath. They both use the same core technologies (very similar to Miracast) to do what they do.
That bounce on window open is really annoying
> being covered by conservative media.

Where the hell did I say that conservative media was unbiased?
Better still is forcing you to say what you want to iterate over, like Swift.
For what it's worth, it does aim to be (mostly) compatible with the Sublime Text Python API[0]. The base editor is written in Go, but the plugins are Python (much like Sublime itself is C++, but uses Python plugins).

That said, I wouldn't get too excited about this - not much has really happened on it since April 2015.

[0]: It's the fifth point on the roadmap: https://github.com/limetext/lime/wiki/Goals
I was disagreeing with the OP's assertion that NPR, NYTimes, and WaPO are unbiased. I'm not sure what you expected.
Great observation. Im going to have to think more on this.
Will this run nested inside VMWare Fusion? I don't have a spare computer to try this out.
I disagree with you, because there are countries on earth where wealth doesn't play as big of a role in happiness as it does in the American culture. Take Sweden for example, where I'm from, where literally every citizen has access to top-tier healthcare & education that's free (funded through taxes), 16 months paid parental leave, among many other nice things. This while still being very liberal (although social democratic) and one of the world's most developed countries in terms of technology, energy, transportation and taking care of the environment.

Over here happiness can be found without being wealthy, and generally you don't have to worry about your financial status as much because you'll always have access to top-tier healthcare, education and benefits if things goes south at some point, no matter what.
There's a talk about it, too, if interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKtQgFBRUvQ

I'm hoping to find the time to get more comfortable with Rust and try to contribute at some point
Raising minimum wage raises salaries all the way up the chain, as retail staff now make as much as assistant managers, then assistant managers get a raise and make almost as much as managers and so on.
Probably the fact that it's still in active development, so there are breaking changes.
How so? Most yogurt has a ton of sugar in it.
I think it tastes like a Mocha flavoured protein shake.
+ not riddled with bugs (slowness is not a bug)

In that case I'll assume it's a feature :)
> It hasn't been for a long time, too

If my memory does not fail me, the book COmmand Control claims that it did continue until well in the 90s.
Which of those does vim not hit?
Tesla's system is pretty good, and it's the only one that is. Then again, Tesla is the only car company that employs people who actually understand software.
Poop 101: A beginner's guide to reading your own poop
> the sooner we can end poverty, achieve high levels of growth, and overcome our fear of globalization and technology.

How? Curious to know more, thanks.
Agreed there. Saw Rhel 5. That's real on prem :(.
i really just want a chromecast equivalent for my car. phones get updated every couple years but cars last much longer. it simply doesn't make sense to put too much smarts in the car itself but i do see the value in a well placed screen and integration with the cars audio system.
How do I change the blinking cursor color in Command Prompt?
In command prompt i need to know how to change the color of the white blinking cursor that stays in front of the letters.... aka the keyboard cursor and i m on windows 10
I care about it whether it pulls in big dependencies. So I tend to avoid things in Java or Node.js, and on Unix I would avoid .Net (Mono). On Windows I'm fine with .Net, but would want to avoid Python.

For languages like Go and Rust which compile to native code, I don't give a damn -- except to note that it is such a language.
Interestingly, I am tired of most projects declaring the language in which they were written upfront, especially when they are a copy of something else, "but written in ${language}!" - however, I am interested in the language a text editor is written in. Or, rather, the language it's extensible in.

I'm a long-time Emacs user, but have been growing increasingly tired of it. Whichever incarnation of Emacs I turn to, it just seems old-fashioned and outdated. And yet, whenever I try another editor, I end up coming back to Emacs. And one of the reasons is often the language (or ability at all) with which to extend it.
Thanks, the text is awesome!
Bitbucket user for many years now, and I was on the Pipelines Beta. Pipelines is pretty cool IMO - we set it up to automatically upload websites to S3 and invalidate CloudFront caches as soon as code is git pushed to BB.
No one is going to bet on containers in windows in production for at least a year or 2. And the ones that do will likely be "early adopters" even after a few years. Look no further than the companies trying to fork docker due to lack of stability:
http://thenewstack.io/docker-fork-talk-split-now-table/

Ops wants predictable infrastructure. Customers want predicable applications.
Perhaps not for this case, but for libraries, it'd be prudent to write the language that it's for
A tour of random forests
I don't think it's about the users at all.

I'd speculate the main reason people write things like that, and so prominently, is because they hope it will attract contributors who either already know that language or are enthusiastic enough about it to progress the project significantly.

Otherwise someone may just pass it over assuming it's another piece of junk written in <insert-your-least-favourite-language-here>.
"The age of inflation is over because producers in nearly every industry (there are a few notable exceptions) can absorb almost infinite demand for their products."

why do we need so much crap?
lets roll back the consumerism.
It was never very good to start with, when the whole thing turned to garbage when they fired the curation team I took that opportunity to block the element using ublock.
> I think tech culture's misguided desire to treat everyone "equally" creates a huge imbalance. You can't put the NYTimes in the same category as Breitbart. Just as you wouldn't compare it to "National Enquirer".

I agree. I think we're seeing a sharp rise in foreign "soft power" online in America this election.

It's being supported by the evangelicals who will not remove their vote from Trump on the grounds that they really want that supreme court seat.

After the election, foreign influence will dwindle. The credibility of such websites cannot be maintained while pushing so much unverified or simply false information. This is the strength of our first amendment.
You have to consider though how many of our current 7 billion people:

- don't use toilet paper
- don't drink milk
- don't travel more than a few miles from their birthplace

etc etc, and that will be shifting quite quickly, I believe. It took centuries for industrialisation to get e.g. Europe past such reference points of wealth, after two hundred thousand years of most of humanity living roughly without significant improvements in wealth. But it only took a few decades for e.g. China to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and towards some form of middle-class.

You can debate some of the details for sure, my overal point is that we're not just going to add a few billion people to this planet, more importantly, we're going to add a few billion middle-class people to this planet. It's not the billions who live off of subsistence farming, who's impact on the environment is not all that much more substantial than any other animal grazing in a field, that is the big environmental issue. It's the fact that those people become more like us, drive cars, run refrigerators, eat energy-inefficient meats, have a shower in the morning and evening, live in large homes that must be cooled and warmed, eat more than necessary etc.

If you look at some figures that state we consume 10x more energy (making up a number here) than a subsistence farmer... it's more the economic shift from poor to rich we may need to worry about from an environmental, than raw additions to our global population.

(disclaimer: not implying I have anything against poor people getting richer, purely looking at it from an environmental perspective. Also, there's opportunities in a richer planet to build environmentally sustainable infrastructure, too, but on aggregate it'll bring some big issues to the table, far bigger than adding 1.6 billion poor people to our population, I think.)
"I remember once overhearing, in a San Francisco coffee shop, a 19-year-old start-up founder callously offer advice to an 18-year-old founder about how to fire an engineer. It makes me wonder, Who are these young entrepreneurs learning from? Who is teaching them that when they press a button on their keyboard, millions, or even billions, of people can be affected, sometimes in terrifying ways?"

The un-intended consequences of technology. With cars we got drive-ins, TV: tv-dinners, smart phones: distracted people. The street finds its own use for technology.
"...definitely trend to the left for some reason."

It is the same reason why most movies have a happy ending. It is easier to sell daydreams (histories and world-views) than the harsh reality.
Don't enough text-editors exists, things are getting outta control now. Vim, Emacs, Sublime, Atom, Lime... Shit, pick one of the four and be happy damn.

Same thing is happening with programming languages. There is a new one everyday that doesn't offer anything better than what we had before. Everyone just has their eye on the shiny new toys I guess...
Is that the one where they check for endianness changes while the program is running? One of those moments where I was stunned by the stupidity of what I was hearing.