skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started out trying to go plugin free since I wanted to avoid bloat, but eventually gave in once I found plugins that eased bottlenecks in my workflow with a barebones vim.

Though I love the plugins I use now, I do agree that it makes sense to be fairly comfortable in a plugin-free vim before installing a ton of them.

I wrote a blog about this topic a month or so back:

http://blog.bugreplay.com/post/149712686514/how-i-learned-to...
Well at least it got him to start working out.

/rimshot
And yet macos doesn't have forced updates. They just prompt the user (with a very in-your-face message) and people DO update.

Same with linux.

Same with android.

Same with IOS.

If you prompt the user to update, they generally will.
Save For Web is a useful plugin for GIMP to this end.
Radiation poisoning isn't the only way to get sick or die from radiation.
Just installed it. Just 213k to download!
> is this worse than Hillary dramatically increasing weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, two countries where rape is currently legal?

Yes, although it's taking me awhile to figure out succinct and acceptable reasons "why". I keep coming back to this work: http://engl210-deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.p...

I think there's two things, here.

The first is: If you're comparing the means, compare the ends. I don't even know how to take this anywhere without feeling dirty, and the internet doesn't forget, so let's leave it at: I don't see any positive end in Trump. It's not even, "Here's something to see if the ends DO justify the means" - I straight up don't see any end worth trying to justify.

The second thing is:
Black lives matter isn't about some new situation. It's about some new awareness.

> it seems like those bad things should be happening to people within the U.S. rather than abroad.

This is already the case. Right now, there's a "national debate" (whatever that means) as to whether or not this is OK. (It's not). This isn't about NEW bad things happening - it's about whether we're going to continue giving a pass to the bad things ALREADY happening. Starting here at home actually seems super reasonable to me. I have more ability to fix things here than I do a world away.

I'm going to try to leave it at this.
By the end of 2015, the project was blighted by internal strife. Managers battled about the project’s direction, according to people with knowledge of the operations. “It was an incredible failure of leadership,” one of the people said.

This is in stark contrast to the compartmentalization of new projects that Apple under Steve Jobs was able to accomplish with the development of the Macintosh and the iPhone. Is this evidence that Apple is unable to do that now?
By discriminated against do you mean someone saying hateful things to you, or someone actively going out of their way to deny you something?

I mean, I see more hateful things being said to celebrities than just about anyone else.
Of course. But on the other hand Clinton also doesn't have a squeaky past.

When it comes down to it, you either (1) just let people vote for the candidate they prefer, or you (2) fight dirty by: censoring them, massaging negative narratives about their behaviour, lobbying their financial backers to stop supporting them, and eventually see if you can deny voters their right to vote for them (or try to force the candidate to step out from the race).

I honestly think that if we are to talk about disliking authoritarianism, we should aim for the former and not the latter. The fact is, if you have nearly 50% of people in your country voting for someone you hate, you're not going to just be able to shut it down by ignoring them: you're going to need to reach some happy medium (or at least something that tries to be this).
The other answers are correct, but there is more to the story.

Jews have a much higher average IQ. This is a result of being genetically separated population that was selected for "white collar" kind of jobs. As a result they are vastly over represented in many areas of life. For instance, 40% of nobel prize winners are jews, despite being a tiny minority of the general population. Jews are overrepresented in banking, CEOs, famously as producers in hollywood, successful writers, and jewish surnames even seem to be overrepresented among pro video game players.

As a result there have been a ton of conspiracies about jews trying to take over the world. In world war I, many of the bankers that loaned money to the allies were Jewish. Many of the notable communists were jewish. And in Nixon's case, big donors to democrats probably overrepresented Jews.
That is really dangerous way to view people. I hope we have more common sense when we view security researchers that publish security vulnerabilities, rather than see them as campaigning for the competitor. Every published security vulnerability for windows is not an advertisement for apple, or vice versa. "If you are not in favor of Microsoft, you are in favor or Apple" is unhealthy way to view the world.

And it's not because I think security experts are stupid and don't realize the obvious commercial impact that a security vulnerability has.
You are believing too much in American propaganda of the association of free markets and creativity.
I have seen talks rejected from places where we were silver sponsor. But that being said, most conferences I go to the platinum/gold sponsors are all over the tracks. Even if they don't know a lick about the topics.
Cities spent millions on gigabit networks. No one is sure what they're good for
To be fair, pg does seem quite against Trump personally, at least on twitter he doesn't quite shut up about it. For him to accept Thiel while greatly disliking Trump doesn't really give me the sense that he doesn't care either way. Instead, I feel that he's most likely actively trying to look past Thiel's support. I'm not making a judgement whether to look past it is the right thing, but I don't think pg either is ambivalent about or secretly sympathetic to Trump.
There's a plugin (can't remember the name of it right now) that lets you use mouse controls as well. Click where you want the cursor, scroll, click on which tab you want, etc. That was game over with Sublime for me.
I'm using de jure to contrast the de facto; I think frameworks are the "next big thing" before they're even fact. That Javascript Guy comes up to you, asks you what you're using, and then berates you for not using Hot New Thing, de jure-ing you into using it, or at least feeling bad for not using it.

Part of the way I've resisted being sucked into the JS vortex over the past few years is that I thoroughly reject the authoritative claims that I should be using X or Y, on the grounds that I don't particularly respect the technical judgment of the people making those claims. (And check that last clause carefully; all the Next Big Things are generally engineered pretty well, it's the advocates berating you for not keeping up to date that I'm dissing.)
To me, the simplest and obvious explanation, barring any new evidence from independent sources, is that Wikileaks (the only source so far) is simply trying to generate attention and stay in the news cycle. It's not like these email releases have produced anything mildly interesting, let alone scandalous.
"esoteric" and "cryptic"? Have you ever learned vim keybindings? They improve my productivity by a nontrivial percentage. Tens of thousands of other developers have the same opinion.

Unlike Atom and Sublime, vim is far more performant and is available on every machine I SSH into. I'd drop into an IDE (with vim keybindings) for a large Java or C++ project, but vim wins every other time.

You should give learning vim a try at some point if you haven't already. It's a steep learning curve, but it all pays off. Typing vim movements feels like playing a piano.
They didn't even suppress the BBC from reporting breathlessly on the tweet!
>it should be blatantly clear to anyone remotely following the election that isn't your usual political rivalry.

On the one hand I agree with you, on the other hand it's so easy to say this or make it seem true that making it a basis for firing/disconnecting from people is going to inevitably just mean you end up purging people you have even moderate ideological disagreements with.
yep.. i can't overstate how annoying the change is in iOS 10 from swipe to unlock to pressing the home button. I understand they are desperate to introduce "widget" type interface, but that's only because the normal iOS experience is just mindless grids of app icons... ugh. I have to support iOS at work, but use Android personally. Once you go Android, you don't go back.
> Then why use it? You're saying it's more likely they hadn't heard of it, but used it anyway?

Yes, right. They used it as a way of naming the thing they were seeing, not using it like someone familiar with it.

> What about the additional part about a shadowy cabal that you ignored?

I just rechecked the article. What shadowy cabal part?

> If I offer a reward for proof that aliens abducted Elvis, you don't consider that lending credence to a conspiracy theory?

I think a reward initially signals interest in the area, and then longer term acts as a disproof of the theory. Check out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_... for a famous example of this effect.

> Why is Wikileaks in the business of "fact checking a conspiracy theory"? I thought they were about, you know, leaks.

Leaks of significance are of course worth more. Soliciting leaks is absolutely something they do (and should do).

> No it doesn't. It just requires that if someone else figures out the actual cause they deny it. Zero cost.

Well, except that denying hard evidence doesn't usually work (#include those who have been leak subjects). Also people all over the web are having conversations like this one, so the situation degenerating into a head-said/she-said situation would have a cost. Which as I pointed out before was an obvious outcome of their tweet.

Happy travels :)
Is there no configurable security options available? Can't find any in the readme file.

Edit: Looking in the code I can not find any auth options. I think at least a simple authentication username / password should exist. I guess I can proxy it from haproxy or another web host. (Im not talking about putting it on the internet here, just on the local network).
SOPA is not a solely political affair; it has substantive intersections with the technology industry. Paul Graham simply talks as if he sees the economic / technological outcome of SOPA so clearly that anyone else who think otherwise either has contradictory interests or is ignorant.

I'm not commenting on whether Paul Graham is accurate or inaccurate, modest or arrogant, but I'm not surprised that someone of his position holds strong views on his pet predictors.
> But ignoring that, what would be the advantage of a phone made out of ceramics?

It's radio-transparent.
But it isn't. Hardware and software support for a platform is decided exclusively by the hw/sw vendor. That's why I support the ones who do.

Does Linux make drivers harder to write than Windows or macOS? No. In fact there are many, many spaces where development is by far the easiest on Linux. Yet those companies choose that part of the market is irrelevant to them.

You might not care why there's no drivers for your joystick and use Windows, but it is 100% the blame of those companies, there's no debate about it.
I may be misunderstanding the top-level comment, but xkbcommon is not a cross-platform toolkit — it's an implementation of keyboard layout, derived from X11 XKB, so it's in contrast to other system-level layout systems like those of Windows and OS X. (Personally, I think XKB is an over-complicated product of the second-system effect applied to X11 keymaps, and the NeXT/Apple approach is the least bad of the common ones.)
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Developers get a say in which OS the same way they get a say about lots of things, by finding a job that fits their desires. For example I decided a while back that my computer had become to integrated in my life for me to consider using a company provided computer, so I don't, and I haven't had any problem finding good jobs.
I agree. Personally, I prefer getting used to the defaults than going through the pain of customization. I tried it, but it meant additional syncing between my machines, fighting with plugins, and it's not always possible to customize vi mode in some environments (like Eclipse or Sublime).

Overall, I think vim is great for simple and fast editing, but as soon as I need to work on a multiple files projects, I switch to something else, possibly using vi mode if there's one (and even there, I wonder if I shouldn't embrace mac os shortcuts once for all).
I don't need the media's opinion on Donald Trump.

Watching a video of one of his rallies or a debate is sufficient to form my own opinion.

He (is)

- lies or distorts the truth almost everytime he opens his mouth

- extremely authoritarian

- very anti free media (at his rallys, media is cordoned off and he gets the crowd to yell at them for minutes. that is if the outlet hasn't been banned for reporting the truth. I wonder why the media is anti Trump...)

- sexist and abusive (enough evidence there, he says so himself)

- racist (again, no more evidence needed, he said it all)

- only cares about his own interests (yay, big tax cuts for the rich are his tax plan)

- very uneducated and uninformed on the actual issues

and just generally a disgusting man (my opinion).

It might very well be that he is not actually racist and that a lot of what he says is just what works with the crowds. That really doesn't matter much, though.

He is a populist par excellence. You can't trust anything he says.

And a very dangerous man to be the head of state in a country where that position holds so much power.

Were I American, I'd have a hard time voting for Clinton too. But that more than 40% would even consider voting for Trump scares me.
In many ways, for better or worse, the early Bond movies mixed the 'suave, debonaire spy' with the reality of the books:

That Bond was a lonely, bitter, alcoholic (beyond "vodka martini, shaken not stirred", but in many of the books Bond would often find himself alone at the bottom of a bottle of liquor), misogynist with a short temper.

So certainly they could, and in many cases, that would have been the underlying premise - not that he was (just) a ladies' man who would have women falling over themselves.
I agree, there was a window when building lots of Nuclear reactors would have been a good idea and it's a shame that we didn't take advantage of it. But with the rapid fall in solar I think that window has closed.
I'm not suggesting this would be done repeatedly. Just when you need to debug something.

Nonetheless: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/How_to_setup_a_Alpine_Linu...
I worked for years as a film professional, including screenwriting and editing. It is very easy to lie with footage. The craft of editing is to make the edits disappear so that changes in camera angles and content appear natural and seamless. We employ misdirection to exploit a phenomenon in the brain known as suture, which creates the illusion of continuity.

As a simple example, in a narrative film I'll cut from angle to another when actor A takes a drink from a glass of water. The reason I want to cut is that I have begun to feel bored by shot #1 already for whatever reason - actor A may not be that good looking, or not a great actor, or the scripted dialog may be dull, whatever. It's boring, and that means you the viewer will be bored with it soon too. But I can't just cut away or you'll know what I'm up to. I'll wait until actor A engages in a physical movement and your visual cortex will quietly paper over the transition for me. Hmm, Actor A drank from the glass at different times during different takes, and the action of drinking doesn't line up with the dialog? No problem, I'll just cut briefly to a shot of actor B reacting to actor A (and by exploiting the Kuliekov effect, I can significantly change the meaning of the scene depending on what facial expression I choose to show on actor B) and then I'll cut back to actor A talking again from the new angle.

You would be surprised how many movie scenes depicting two people in a room were shot across 2 different days with the actors never actually meeting in person. Likewise you would be astonished at the number of ways the same footage could be combined to tell radically different stories. I have made edits where I have run pieces of footage backwards and not even the director noticed until I pointed it out. Don't think you can't be fooled by even a semi-skillful editor, your brain has been trained in how to watch TV and movies probably from infancy, and while it is not too hard to break free of that training, nor is it hard for others to manipulate your pre-existing mental reflexes.
I think the author hit upon some pretty good points. Several years ago when I started poking around Scala I really had to push myself to work with it and especially with respect to simple thigns like do I download SBT or Scala. One of the more personally frustrating things I found as a newbie is that the bulk of the documentation seemed to be written as a reference. Compounding that was the un-googlable nature of some of the operators like ":<" which really made things more difficult than I felt that they needed to be.

Regardless, although it was not what I would describe as a pleasant experience, after working with Scala for a few months I definitely found languages like Haskell a lot easier to comprehend. So, I obviously managed to internalize something. :-D
> they just have fantastic performance characteristics under heavy load

That sounds interesting, but could you elaborate? The comparisons to comparable Intel systems I've seen did not seem to suggest anything like that, it was more like sometimes Power wins, sometimes x86 does and both are quite similar performance wise. What kind of tasks did you observe to perform well?
Margins depend on a competitive advantage. I was speaking about car manufacturing, though I personally doubt there will be sustainability to 20% margins in a car service.

Uber may arguably have a first mover and scale network advantage. I personally doubt that will hold.
I don't see any special brilliance. I see a bunch of people in power running around trying to keep themselves in power, by any means necessary, while screwing up everything around them and then trying to cover it up by telling even more lies. They succeed not because they are so good, but because people let them get away with it, lest the wrong lizard gets in.

I mean, how brilliant you have to be to hire a person that would go to reddit to ask about how to cover up your tracks? Or claim you forgot everything about it when asked, including seeing documents that bear your signature? A five year old could do such performance.
Thanks for the question, developer here.

I need to read all websites you visit, to check them against your blocked list. I do not save any data outside of local storage on chrome. In fact I am pro-privacy, so I opted out of using chrome.sync, to sync the data between Chromes on different devices. Because it's 3rd party cloud.

Since I made this extension open-source, you can check if my claims are true here: https://bitbucket.org/redpandaua/distractoff

(Sorry for messy code, 1st time real JS development for me, refactoring and documenting is on it's way.)
"So... you are in favour of excluding people whose views you find repugnant, it's just a matter of which kinds of intolerance and whose repugnance is involved".

No, OP's statement is unambiguously saying that exclusion on the basis of political ideology is, in any form, wrong. The statements "Thiel should be fired because of his political views" and "Thiels's political views should have no place in a civil society" are entirely different things. Political discourse has a special sanctity in American culture and I, personally, think that is one of our greatest strengths. Firing an employee due to their political views is fundamentally at odds with this idea and there are laws in place to protect employees from political retaliation. Although a company might be threatened by an employee running for political office, campaigning for a candidate or participating in fundraising or a political advocacy group, an employer should not be empowered to fire that employee. To do so would invite fundamentally undemocratic forces into our political system. e.g. a company feels threatened by candidate A, employees must support candidate B else they are fired.
>But you allow yourself to be influenced in your opinion of Donald Trump by that same media.

This is absolutely ridiculous, trump has been a public figure for 30+(?) years. Even if you ignore the smearing that's been happening for the past year in the media, there's plenty of reasons to think this guy is the last person you'd want as president
Oh you mean that thing that is currently everywhere right now? Thanks for reminding me!

Almost had my mind off it for 2 minutes while reading this Intercept article about Hillary's relationship with the press https://theintercept.com/2016/10/09/exclusive-new-email-leak...
I agree, Apple could skip a lot of ramp-up if they buy a car company. But, then, what are they bringing to this hypothetical scenario? Does buying an existing car company make it easier for them to bring some kind of distinctive iCar onto the market? If so, what do we imagine is the distinctive iCar-ness that they're bringing?

There are two things that I hear people say Apple is notably good at:

1. "Design."

2. Controlling a complicated end-to-end extremely high-quality manufacturing process.

For 1, I'm not sure I believe that there is a transferable organizational expertise between designing phones and designing cars.

For 2, I'm not sure I believe that there is a transferable organizational expertise between manufacturing phones and manufacturing cars, and I'm definitely sure that I don't believe that they can transfer organizational expertise to manufacturing cars if they purchase an extant manufacturing process/organization.
Printf(“goodbye, Dennis [Ritchie]”); (2011, Obituary)
This is the first election where you were concerned about violence on e day?

I guess you don't remember the odds on Obama surviving his first month in office. Not only were assassination attempts expected, they were probable enough to have betting odds at Paddy Power.

You probably don't remember Bush Jr's 2004 victory, either, where literally millions of people took to the streets. Also notable that it looks like the election really may have been rigged.

From outside the country it's fascinating to watch. Half of the democratic party was accusing Hillary of vote rigging in the spring, and HN loved a couple of statistical analyses to that effect. But now that trump says it, HN says it is dangerously undermining your democracy.

Another favorite is the recent explosion over the (brilliantly played) sexual abuse video and accusations against trump. It was a fantastic power punch, coming from the same people who forgive or ignore some 21 different accusations against bill Clinton of extramarital affairs and even 3 of violent rape. That he made frequent lewd comments is well established in court. Hillary herself is accused in something like 13 of those cases of slandering, threatening, or bribing the victims to keep quiet. None of this (on either side) is proven of course, but there are videos and accuser testimonies enough for everyone. Of course, this cuts both ways: trump supporters hate hillary for the same reasons hillary supporters hate trump, and the Americans seem completely blind to their own doublethink. Everyone thinks the other side is literally the American Hitler.

Pao is totally within her rights to choose which brand of sexual abuser she wants to support. And I guess I'm within my rights to put a bag of popcorn in the micro for the last few weeks of the traditional, irrational 2 month hate leading up to November 8.