skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the whole thing ridiculous. The vast majority of what people are referring to when bringing up the topic of "mental illness" is the collection of people who can't handle the emotional toll of the world we live in.

People are lonely. The general population is by and large self-centered. There is no sense of community. Daily life involves slaving for someone else doing unfulfilling work that nobody would perform if they had a choice other than "earning a paycheque".

The worst part is that the majority of people who discuss mental illness publicly are not themselves affected by this kind of debilitating sense of there being no meaning to life. And no, having a "family member" or "close friend" who suffers does not make one qualified to talk on their behalf. It's disgusting how self-centered people are, discussing the "mental illness" of their friends or family - the claim is always "because we care" or "we can help them", but the true motivations are entirely selfish.
I am not familiar with Go, and have heard many praises of its declaration syntax, but is its dereference operator postfix? That would make sense in such a case.

On the other hand, IMHO the whole "make declarations read left-to-right" idea is misguided --- plenty of other constructs exist in programming languages which simply can't be read left-to-right, but are nested according to precedence. I mean, you might as well make 3+4*3 evaluate to 21 if you want to try making everything consistently left-to-right, but I don't really see anyone complaining about not being able to understand operator precedence...
I've heard its C++ at spaceX, they had a company standard C++ interview test.
It doesn't work that way, he doesn't hack the US, Russian or Chinese government and he doesn't direct other hackers, he only gets to leak data that was given to him by whistleblowers.

So your calls for Assange to specifically expose Russia and China to somehow "be fair" is quite senseless. I have to wonder how you think this actually works?
> Servers can stay online for years without issues, same things on AWS and physical servers

Why they don't back it up SLA promise then? Having a VM does not guarantee increased uptime. On premises virtualization can guarantee it,cloud cannot.
God I love what-ifs. My favorite is What if the Bronze Age Collapse [0] never happened? Quick recap: due to some crazy things (the enigmatic 'Sea Peoples', maybe famine), all Mediterranean civs died in a 40 year timespan (best guess) back in 1200 BC. Like, this is just when we have civilizations in more than just Eqypt and Sumer, and blammo, ancient sea barbarians just wreck face in 1 lifetime. The Greek Dark Ages follow this up, as expected, and you just have all these terrible things happen to the people alive then in the area. Like, Rome and the rest of Egypt come out of what is left of these peoples after this event. Its like taking the Cambrian Explosion and then snuffing it out. Humans had finally figured out this city thing, we have palaces and kings and priests and the barest merchant class, and then whammo, sea peoples come and mess it all up. We have this Cambrian proliferation of cultures and we start having wars and stuff and its all fun happy evolution times. Yay! Art n stuff! Yay history! Yay literacy! And then a flippin meteor that is sea peoples comes in and kills all the dinosaurs (wow, I am straining metaphors here). Anyways, if the Collapse had not happened, things would be just radically different in terms of culture and human history. And the best thing is that no-one really knows this happened, it was so long ago. Like, we had this whole history and civilization thing just starting out, it's silenced before it really starts, and then we all go 'meh' and try it again. We live in at least civ2.0, if not even later.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
> The AMA, and even that specific question was all about the engineering challenges...

Re: that specific question, I may just have a different view of what constitutes a question on engineering challenges.

That AMA is of exceptional caliber, however, and there are definitely some gems to be found (see [0] and [1], in particular).

The fuel tank and rocket tech represent novel advances in rocket tech that are as-yet untested, afaik. A scaled-down test stand prototype and a prototype of a composite tank are certainly worthy of praise, but they still require an enormous amount of work to turn into a functioning product.

I'd also like to qualify some of my statements here: I don't think _any_ of these challenges are insurmountable. However I think that it would be impossible for all of them to be addressed on the time scale that Musk proposes, for the amount of money he has stated, with the manpower that SpaceX possesses.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/590wi9/i_am_elon_mu...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/590wi9/i_am_elon_mu...
We are letting them take take our money, and ruin this planet.

We bought into the "It's cheaper to buy a new one!", and it was a huge gift to corporations, and certain individuals.

It started with Laptops; then just seemed to spread like a disease.

Apple products are not impossible to repair, but Apple has hidden that repair information--to even Apple Service Techs. A tech sees a bad cap on a mother board, or gets a specific error code. (A code that would map out the resistor, cap, etc. on the mother board.). The Apple tech looks up the code, and knows the repair is under a dollar in parts. But Apple says to replace the entire board, at a usually around $750. A new computer is a few hundred dollars more. We buy the new computer, and Apple has more money to hide in Ireland? Beyond crazy? (And yes, I'm using an Apple product to write this, but the minute Apple gets cute, and plans for obsolescence; I'm gone forever. I think they are doing it right now, but can't prove it.)

We buy these rediculiously complicated vechicles, like they will last forever. We never buy on the basis of repairability. I know a dealership mechanic. He said he learns to repair on customer time. He is one of the better mechanics I went to automotive school with. It's a running joke at the dealership. Don't get me started on Independant shops. "Sure--we can fix!" And then the call, "Oh yea, it needs an infarcukayir. I tink?"

We blindly buy two year durable goods, and lucky if they last two years. In school, years ago, I laughed at two year durable goods, in a marketing class. "I would never buy a washing machine that only lasts two years." I said back then. My current Bosh washer rings, uses very little water, but doesn't clean the clothes. Do I plan on fixing it. I currently have a extra drum, but when I looked into tearing it apart; no way. When that washer stops ringing--it will be thrown out, and I'll buy another another one?

We need to start demanding companies provide all repair information, and sell us parts if they want to do business in America.

Vechicle repair information--make every state demand they turn over repair information. (Massachusetts is, I believe, the only state that has a Right to repair law.)

All electronics--make all repair/service information available online. If you don't have repair information, just post the schematics.

All mechanical devises(like those fancy Swiss watches)--sell parts to consumer. I honestly don't care if you think they can't repair your gizmo.

And I know, at this point on history, we are all just pawns. I hope we look back in ten years, and the top post on HN is

"In 2016, they we Not allowed to repair stuff they bought."
"The water supply of south Asia comes mostly from glaciers in the Himalayas. They're melting. What happens when they disappear? There goes the water supply for South Asia. Couple billion people in India alone, an estimated 300 million barely have access to water, what's going to happen to them? All over the place. Coastal cities will disappear. Extreme weather events will increase. One person per-second is now fleeing the severe effects of weather -- more than refugees right now. We're seeing a major disaster right now." - Noam Chomsky, not to mention all suffering and torture that has happened in the past

I'm really glad for your cool situation. You are one of the lucky ones.

Maybe it's a simulation created by accident, as a by-product of some other process. That isn't what you're saying. What you're saying is that you think there is a possibility this is a game, or some kind of VR hologram. Your reasoning seems to be that you need to go through bad experience to then feel good ones. Which is completely flawed on its own. Social and cultural relativism has been debunked by science over and over again. We see morals emerging independent of experience. Some people will never know what it means to be a paraplegic, or blind, and on and on. The idea that one needs to pay their dues assumes some kind of karmic balance, which is garbage. Thankfully many people have a good life, but through history, all of this suffering, death, carnage -- no intelligent being alive would think that was worth a dime for your washboard abs. Stop victimising yourself by going with this ignorance is bliss bullshit. It will make you feel good in the short term, but... I think we've gotten personal enough. Let's try to keep it with the simulation thing, eh? I've done some awesome shit too. Wouldn't use that as an excuse to play Dr Mengele though. Kind of messed up.
I think autostart was huge for me, aside from faster transfers. It was ages ago, yet it was like yesterday.
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I understand how Wikileaks works, but keep in mind he holds onto things for a while and waits for an opportune moment to release them. You can't doubt that the leaks of the past few months have been very politically motivated to inflict as much damage as possible (which is not necessarily a bad thing), and not just a mere passing-on of what others gave him.

Are we to assume he's never been contacted by any Russian or Chinese dissidents? Maybe not, but if he has, I'd definitely like to see a proper release.
I'll admit that the US is a more functional democracy, but that's mostly because it doesn't matter who gets in the office. Talk about "fetishism of small differences". Both parties are more alike than different, except in small ways just enough for each to capture its kind of people. Of course "a more functional democracy" whose two major candidates in 2016 are Trump and Hillary, and who had Bush Jr. serving 2 terms is a joke in itself, but still.

Most of the complaints about Russian elections are from organizations working "Radio Free Europe" style -- "soft power" sponsored attacks to delegitimize a country and help install friendly lackeys like that Yeltsin figure in its early days. This has been going for over 2 centuries all around the world, so it's not really news.

Are there are actual issues with Russian internal politics / elections etc? Sure. But not something anybody outside of Russia should even care about. Whereas the caprices and "strategic interests" of other countries can exploit or completely fuck up every country in the whole world.
It seems implicitly anti-Assange to me.
> God knows how IE/Edge behave; probably in some entirely different manner.

Why doesn't he try it, or ask someone, instead of dismissing it with a flippant comment?
You are on the verge of voting a women into office that is likely the most corrupt politician in US history that has ever run for this office. How on earth is exposing this bad for your country, you want to be ruled by people who steal and lie to you about what they are going to do? How did she earn $250 million dollars while in public office?

Oh and Assange is not a US citizen, why would anyone expect him to think like one, let alone make it a requirement.
I'll add it! Funny I forgot, I have an account there ^_^
it's better than bittorrent because you don't need a centralized tracker.
It can also be simpler if you use idiomatic modern C++ with std::array<T, n> and std::function<R(T1, T2)>.
I think having a schedule is perfectly fine, so long as one reserves the right to throw out the schedule whenever something spontaneous comes up. It becomes a matter of discipline to allow for spontaneous events that are enjoyable or beneficial, rather than anything that is an excuse to procrastinate on real tasks.
Free speech means you can make a movie where the president is the hero as much as you can make a TV series where he is the murdering villain (House of Cards).

Neither is state produced and neither got the creators thrown in jail.

That's the difference.
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There is a vim plugin for pycharm, rubymine, intellij and friends:

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/164?pr=idea

I use it on and off, when I miss vi, in order to remember why I don't use vi anymore.
I think you've proved my point by missing it.

> "Building a network of aligned journalists and political allies would have increased visibility, attracted more leaks with localized impact, and made it much harder to shut down discussion of contents with "this was stolen", as the Democrats are now doing with complicity of much of the US media."

What you're describing is called "starting a newspaper." This happens all the time. The Intercept is a good example of what you're talking about, there are hundreds of others. BuzzFeed, HuffPo, Drudge, take your pick. It's not the same thing. I can explain the difference if you'd like me to.
The world is full of jerks. What most adults do is ignore them. Valerie's post is unacceptable cyber-bullying in every sense. Are you are reasonable person? Assume so. Do you go around writing blog posts tearing down people who have wronged you in the past? I presume not. Valerie should be ashamed of her post...and what is more shameful is the brigading in her comments section.
"Dynamic Witnesses for Static Type Errors* ("or ill-typed programs usually go wrong)"[0] by Eric Seidel et. al. discusses a prototype for a system that searches for concrete examples of ill-typed inputs that break a program, in order to aid novice programmers with type errors at compile time.

[0]http://eric.seidel.io/pub/nanomaly-icfp16.pdf
> Yeah he is controversial, but is he worthy of so much attention?

He is running to be the most powerful political figure in the world...so yes.
As an experiment, I set up the four outputs of my computer to play a different audio stream simultaneously. Each one took about 1% cpu usage. Next I played 5 videos simultaneously, streamed from a hard disk drive. I only used two monitors there, but that was about 4% CPU usage per video. My computer is admittedly kinda beefy, but I have no doubts that a slower computer wouldn't have trouble with the task.
It's interesting how functions and properties can change the appearance. I like .xyz or .getXyz() - but the other way around it just seems wrong.
Putting const on the right makes more sense when you have pointers or references. Then you just always read from right to left: `int const ` is a pointer to constant integer whereas `int const` is a constant pointer to integer.

Also your argument about which modifies which is strongly anglocentric: there are plenty of people whose native language puts modifiers after the things they modify.
I've been a unionized programmer and system administrator. The level of competence/incompetence was about the same as anywhere else.

The positive was that there was compensation transparency and it was difficult for the employer to screw is in many circumstances.

Why don't we have programmers in unions more often? The political winds shifted, and companies figured out how to push employee buttons. People think they are better individual negotiators (total bullshit), and management has everyone competing against each other. As long as you're an ambitious little bastard fighting for scraps with your stack ranked colleagues, you're on a leash.
I have heard that this is why there is the dichotomy in modern English between the words for meats and the animals from which they come, where the former (eg. pork, compare modern French porc) tends to have a Norman origin and the latter (eg. pig/swine, compare modern German Schwein) an Old English one.
I've been going through some of these. These are great. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, I think they confused

const *

with

* const
You do realize that everyone plants stories in the press.

It's the corner stone of the PR industry.
Exactly. What do we want? Tips on stories inside banks from the likes of journo Chris Giles at the FT who is utterly wedded to the status quo, along with tens of other "journalists"?

Our media is like a sieve, only instead of finding the unusual and challenging thinkers it weeds them out and retains the unthinking dross whose only ambition is to join the establishment and kick back.
god those who use Emacs. org-pomodoro us really cool
Every single person who works with Assange ends up having a personal dispute with him. The old saying is still true - "if you think everyone's an asshole, chances are it's just you".

Wikileaks collaborators and repeatedly walked away on bad terms. At this point I'd be curious to know if there's anyone who actually gets along with him.
> This is common belief that is just plain wrong.

Sorry, you'll need to back that up.

Evictions are when your VM is booted off a physical machine to a different one. This usually happens when something in the the underlying infrastructure is undergoing maintenance (e.g., networking, power, kernel, physical machine, etc.)

VMs have to deal with servers dying plus evictions plus control and management plane failures, which significantly reduces the availability of a single instance. So strictly speaking, cloud instances typically have lower availability than physical machines.

> Physical servers have no soft of failover or persistence for when one server suddenly dies.

Servers suddenly dying is not the failure mode that requires persistence -- it's evictions. This is why cloud services tend to prefer external distributed storage systems to local disk, and a multitude of ways to quickly and automatically reinstall machines on instance turnup.

BTW, GCE recently started supporting VM migration (which you can opt into), where they attempt to migrate your instance to another physical machine without losing any state. There are still limitations to this, but for a lot of simple cases can work well.
And the answer is "because, by and large, it works just fine". Yes, people fall afoul of these kinds of questions, but the general public cannot handle proper security hygeine - and educating them takes so much effort on both sides, that your customers will just go elsewhere. Proper security procedures would also lock a great many more people out of their own accounts than would be lost to fraud. Can't satisfy security questions? Well, take the morning off work on Monday morning and bring in several forms of identification...

It's why ATM PIN codes are so short - it's easier for the bank to just reimburse losses in case of fraud than to properly/strictly control security access.

Any time I see someone talk about how dumb general banking security procedures are, it tells me that they've spent no time in tech support for the general public :)
The risk of the wikileaks project is that it gets manipulated by the governments they seek to reveal. Journalists generally insist on a level of access and autonomy when publishing a story because it ensures that they understand as much of the picture as possible before talking about it.

By giving up that editorial control, they cede it to whomever provides them with documents. It's entirely possible they'll receive leaks that leave out compromising information about the leaker, or fake documents to impune an opponent.

If the problem with the mainstream media is that they just toe the line given to them by the US government, then wikileaks risks toe'ing a line they aren't aware of.
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Smoking guns:

* She admitted to having a "private" (real) policy position and a "public" one (lies).

* Bits of her speeches to Goldman came out and she basically said "we were way too hard on you guys" and "we need to listen more to you guys to help prevent another crisis".

* She mentioned that she basically wanted a hemispheric free trade & freedom of movement zone.

Of course, apparently it's not the done thing these days to talk about policy scandals that actually affect us during a Presidential election.
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Well, if those awkward questions concern the authenticity of the documents, and WikiLeaks wants to provide a journalistic-like service to the world, then WikiLeaks should ask those awkward questions.

If WikilLeaks doesn't care about the authenticity of what it publishes, then what is its goal?
It's not often that women's sexuality gets celebrated so joyfully and without judgement in the media, this movie looks wonderful. Reminds of the VERY NFSW clip from Burn After Reading: Frances McDormand's reaction is so very satisfying after seeing decades and decades of women in the media being there to service men rather than themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUm2Im3SvtU (HIGHLY NFSW)
It'll certainly confuse people, but only those who aren't qualified to be doing anything with the code anyway.

"complex" is subjective. It reminds me of stupid "rules" like "don't use the ternary operator", "every function must be less than 20 lines" (I am not exaggerating --- this was on a Java project, however); and you could easily extend that to "every statement must have a maximum of one operator", "you must not use parentheses", "you must not use more than one level of indirection", etc. Where do you stop? To borrow a saying from UI, "if you write code that even an idiot can understand, only idiots will want to work on it." I don't think we should be forcing programmers to dumb-down code at all.

That said, I'm not advocating for overly complex solutions, and will definitely prefer a simpler solution, but you should know and use the language fully to your benefit.
I think it'd have to be saved statically. Which actually makes this question interesting: How do you store comments on an IPFS site? Constantly updating a single file on IPFS?
Yep. GCE VM migration and persistent storage is really amazing, and getting better with every release, however there are still limitations and caveats that can get you in trouble (especially if you have very tight latency requirements.)

Glad you like it! Good luck with your startup.

Disclaimer: I work on infrastructure systems at Google :-)
% wonder why people paint Russia as if it was some aggressive power like the US

Anexation of the Crimea and fuelling of a civil war in the Ukraine?
I was taken out to dinner and drinks, referred to as a new hire, and then ghosted. I had been interviewing for a while so it was fairly painful.