skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly based on empirical data, projections, and some model assumptions.

Urbanization: its drivers (jobs or other opportunities) and consequences (growth faster than the infrastructure or social structure can catch up), the demographic composition (a youth bulge with terrible consequences), the potential conflicts between ethnic and ideological groups etc., all that is known from what we observed so far and can be projected 15 years into the future.

Increasing complexity is a concern. But scale is the real killer. Who has the corresponding means to manage such numbers? They mentioned 100,000 of (potentially) revolting inhabitants in a city of 10 million (1%) as an example. How do you control them? Complexity means things become more opaque and surprising, uprisings have more hidden resources and connections, the criminal and other networks are harder to detect and contain.

Anyone interested in this challenge?
From the article:
The "Land of purity" lies above the "Dirty sea of data" .

Wouldn't "Dirty sea of state" be more appropriate?
There's also a 10% that works better on Windows than on Macs and you're not currently aware of it. I've switched between Macs and Windows and Linux as my daily driver several times and there's always an annoyance when you switch and everything doesn't work the way you want t. But it goes away quickly, within days. And then the next time you switch you're again annoyed that things don't work the way the new way you're used to. Actually, I've been mostly using Macs for the last 4 years and I still think window management and the Finder are inferior to Windows'.
I'm only starting to get up to speed with this stuff, but one realisation I've had is what wrought iron is, and why Japanese samurai swords are folded -- it's not the flexibility of the blade, but the physical working out of the carbon within the iron, now steel blade that matters. With the Bessemer process, carbourisation could happen through thermal action (and oxygen injection) rather than mechanical action.

Yes, Watt had his reasons, but even low pressure operation had its benefits, and Watt, and his patent, blocked any exploration of alternatives. Both Smil and Weissenbacher emphasise this strongly (though I suspect Weissenbacher's relying strongly on Smil). Watt also rejected small-scale and mobile steam engines.

Speaking of Titanic, the 1950s telling, A Night to Remember, is on YouTube. Metallurgy aside, the story as one of human hubris, impending doom, and the contrasts between those who realised fully the magnitude of the disaster unfolding and those who were entirely oblivious is profound, and I suspect has been playing on my psyche....
Apple specifically say they don't data mine users data, and for all but the most basic users iCloud is subscription only.

Also note that macOS and iOS mail both support s/mime out of the box, you just need to supply certs/keys.
Also known as PNS Syndrome (PIN Number Syndrome (Personal Identification Number Number Syndrome Syndrome)).
A joke in that almost no one bought it and it's utterly forgotten, look at the Wikipedia entries for those titles vs other games ;)
What Barnes and Noble Doesn’t Get About Bookstores
You'll still have to pay for it if you want a 15" macOS laptop though (unless you want to buy old hardware)
The problem with that button is that whenever the ad slips past through an adblocker people like myself will click it regardless of what the ad is showing and report it.
Continuity. No cables required.
I agree that there's little point in using Elixir currently if you don't need its concurrency/robustness story.
Ah, the "Choose your Vaselin flavor" option.
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I agree. We can't prove it, but recommendations of "it just works" are what I feel has helped drive Apple - especially the Mac, but in the early years, also the iPhone.

Every year they seem to continue to introduce (via neglect/decisions/priorities) more reasons to pause at purchase time. And, recommendation time.
Don't use lambda.

gevent.spawn(requests.get, url)
> killed everyone in the South who was white?

Not every death penalty-applicable crime actually receives a death sentence. And children of a family who owned slaves shouldn't have been punished, of course.

And how many people would we have had to try? Actually, not that many...

"""The census also determined that there were fewer than 385,000 individuals who owned slaves (1). Even if all slaveholders had been white, that would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves). - http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm"""

> It would have been much better to follow the English example and just buy out the slaveowners and end slavery that way.

That wouldn't have prevented the war. But, we essentially did buy them out by letting them keep the proceeds of their crimes.

What would have been better was something that would heal the racial divide; punishment and restitution. And there was neither.
I thought what Apple did a few years ago with Finalcut was the signal that Apple didn't really care about the professional user thought.

Looks like the trend continues.
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> latex is not really designed for collaborative editing

My personal experience is quite the opposite. In our research team, we collaborated on papers, proposals, theses and similar documents and we exclusively used Latex. Being a text based format, it lends itself well to version controlled (svn/git) repos. It was very easy to track changes and resolve conflicting edits. I don't think any binary format would have worked as well.

> with people who don't know latex

This is, however, painfully true. Newcomers had to learn Latex; but given the prevalence of it in the academia, I doubt it was a bad investment.
Clearly, it is what the gaming audience wants. The saying 'you get what you pay for' doesn't just mean 'if you pay little, you get little'. It also means 'if you pay for something, the next thing on offer will be similar to, not different from, the thing you paid for.' In many industries the line between demand and profit can be pretty fuzzy (see all the iPhone 7 sales fueled by exploding Note 7s) but in gaming, it's quite clear. The games making a good return on investment are terrible in every way to every person except the publisher whom gamers choose to lavish with riches.
A minor issue: Borderlands 2 sold 12 million copies (as of 2015). Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel was quite disappointing compared to it (both sales and reviews) and it seems to be mostly based on Borderland 2's code. So at least part of its short development time and small team can be attributed to it not having been written from scratch.
There are plenty of smaller nations with booming tech industries, Australia lacks government investment and natural accelerators and incubators which are especially needed in this case due to it's very high COL and COB.
Uh yeah I'm confused by this part as well. Can anyone clarify?
The Economist explicitly states its bias in its own prospectus. Most particularly for free-trade policies.
Am i the only one that cares about 16GB ram? HP Spectre doesn't have 16gb ram. The xps only has it in offering with their QHD touch screen which has less battery than the FHD screen, which I guess is fine because apparently the FHD screen is crap.

Macbooks have significantly better thermal zone than the dell alternatives(e.g. the 7370 is significantly slower than the macbook 12" even though it has the same specs + 16gb) and don't get me started on the touchpad. There's so many threads on reddit about who seemingly fixed the touchpad issue.

Bash on windows by the way is nice, but it's no way near production usable.They use a custom file system that resides in your AppData. Until recent insider builds you could neither use inotify(which means most node apps would have some sort of issue) nor would it keep your Ubuntu when during an update. Now the system is somewhat usable, but I've spent so much time whitelisting different folders so that random windows tools don't eat up CPU and I/O that make this 2016 device feel like something from 2011 that I wonder what the hell microsoft is thinking. The recent windows insider build also fixed an issue with windows defender eating up all CPU.

You can forget about the surfacebook if you want a decent terminal running on it. WsL isn't there yet and linux support is flakey.

So yeah the only contender if you care about both battery AND performance AND a proper terminal right now is the dell xps. The thinkpad x260 is nice, but they don't have nvme, only supports sata express(and i'm not sure i wanna gamble on the intel dc 3500 drives to get me the performance).
No one has to use this stuff if they don't want to.

Another complexity in Python is metaclasses. I've written meta classes which generate data descriptors, and was greatful that that was there when I needed it, but I also needed to look at the data model reference constantly and wrote 200% coverage tests.
For most people, accidentally destroying various system files and "only" having to reinstall the OS would be considered a serious inconvenience.

If you want an example of something that could cause lasting damage, it's probably pretty easy to put your Apple product into a non-booting state by fiddling with NVRAM or PRAM settings as root. I'm not familiar with them off the top of my head, though.
The original PAM RFC defines PAM as Pluggable Authentication Modules (plural – it’s the name of the framework and not one of its components), so it’s fine and more natural to say “PAM module”.
halving the weight is a problem ... it could be solved if they used something other than allu for the body, maybe go for carbon or a hybrid allu/carbon case.

have you ever considered getting an Air and using AWS for power? i might be clueless, thinkpad user here. and i lob a 19cell flatbattery around that weighs at 0.5 kilo itself.
Future of Serverless from ServerlessConf London October 2016
No, not really. My favorite example is: try to implement the equivalent of the LaTeX command \tableofcontents using just HTML and CSS. On the other hand, that's not a fair comparison: TeX is Turing-complete, and HTML+CSS is not. We need one more ingredient: HTML+CSS+JS. (Though using JS just to get a table of contents seems a bit silly, and it probably makes more sense to generate the HTML for the table of contents on the server, like Wikipedia does. (Imagine if every Wikipedia article required running JS just to render the table of contents.))
Sure, but the hardware's anemic for the price. The MBP is pretty much at the reasonable spot on the price/performance curve.

(I use an MBP as the brain of a multi-camera video studio; I totally get why one would buy a Pro. But I'd pull 100% off of Macs before buying one.)
You can't work in a creative industry without emotional investment.

Developers are not drones, especially game developers you aren't writing tax software.
How to TRAIN a DOG TO ATTACK
You can do it live, there is a device node you cat the bitstream to. You will also need coordination with any drivers for that hardware, of course.
I'm not sure about the "Business as target market" thing.

In our 12-person company I introduced Macs and now everyone uses one instead of a PC. I'm not sure if businesses would have switched to Macs without some kind of endorsement from a "Hacker"-friend or employee.

If the common perception about Macs withings IT experts will change to "look nice but really not worth their money" I imagine in the long run that could hurt the sales to non-experts too.
See also Adam Curtis's The Century of the Self, which focuses extensively on Bernays.

Bernays' books are avaialble via the Internet Archive. Fascinating reading.
For me the saddest thing is that all this outrage didn't come out when Apple started making their laptops unrepairable (soldered RAM, glued battery, etc.), instead it explodes now mostly for performance reasons.
How Does Recent AI Progress Affect the Bostromian Paradigm?
Heavens to Betsy! You got me. But I do hope someone writes a module for the macos PAM system implementation.
"lack constant and predictable" We can solve this with batteries, which we have so far not been able to succeed in to do at large scales. There has been some small scale success with liquid batteries, using cheapish elements.
Which in theory is feasible to scale up.
> XCOM 2012 caught a lot of flak for it being too different from the 1994 original. Only brilliant execution made it possible for it to succeed.

I believe XCOM 2012 got a lot of flak prior to its release because 2K at first announced an FPS game called "XCOM". After lots of delays and a pretty cool reception from gaming press and fans, there was an announcement from Firaxis that they were also making an XCOM game, this time a TBS. The TBS, when released, got almost universal praise, and sports a heft awards list.
https://xkcd.com/1200/

(Privilege separation is great, but running things as your main account is approximately equal to running them as root.)
No.

Back in those days the Mac was almost nonexistent in Portugal.

There was just one official importer, Interlog, and buying anything Mac related meant traveling to Lisbon.

So the first time I actually programmed on a Mac was in 1994, on Classic and LC models.

The only ones available on the university campus on a single room! I think there were around 10 there.

The remaining ones were located in the IT department, used by the secretaries and a few teachers.
That's simply untrue. The European Union and its predecessors have for decennia regulated safety standards of products on an international level.

Untrue?

Let me know when the United States and China have joined the European Union.

The entire framework that would be required for regulating security standards on electronic equipment is already in place. It already operates on a global scale. Try looking at some of the packages (or stickers on larger electronics) and look for the CE mark. That's the Conformité Européenne stamp of approval. We can easily include security in there.

That's absolutely crazy.

CE can regulate electrical and physical safety because Frenchmen die from roughly the same electrical voltages as Englishmen. There's just not much argument about this, and it doesn't apply to goods not sold in the EU anyways.

Who really agrees about computer security? Really? An open telnet port is BAD. What about an ssh port using a shared key that doesn't require a password reset? What if the network stack hasn't been audited? What about a web interface? Is that secure?

Computer security is so much more complicated and so much more nebulous than electrocuting Frenchmen. And you want to hammer out standards for this at the UN or the OECD or some other body that interfaces to national police? That's insane and it's going to turn into some horrible OSI-esque regulatory Frankenstein monster.
Nightmare on Docker street
It wouldn't be any better. Valve has had a strict policy of 'let the publisher do whatever it wants' since the inception of Steam. There have been one-off exceptions, but their general policy is to be a platform that facilitates publishers doing their thing, regardless of what that is. There are growing numbers of asset-swap games, and games slapped together in a minute with cheap asset packs. It's not like how Apple approached the music industry with iTunes, laying down ultimatums like '99 cents a song, individual purchases allowed, audio CD burning permitted' which forced music publishers to choose between their retail distribution agreements and iTunes.

This would actually be OK if Steam provided any rudimentary filtering/personalization system at all. If they would just take a users activity and feed it into a Bayesian system with 'disliked' games considered 'spam' and purchased or 'wishlisted' items considered 'ham', then put that content on top for that user, it would be much less of a problem. But as it is, they provide nothing like this and don't seem to ever intend to.
> but why?

In Python (almost?) any unqualified identifier you see in an expression is either a builtin function or it's defined/imported somewhere else in the file. I find Ruby a little stressful by comparison (without even getting into the awful cultural approval of defining the names of things procedurally, ensuring you'll never find where they came from...)

The lack of parens on function calls also adds uncertainty for me. I know in Python you can overload `__getattr__` and introduce just as much magic, but for the most part I can be confident that `a.b` doesn't do anything too crazy. That's the general trend for me -- Python is almost relentlessly boring, with a few little surprises that stick out mostly because everything else is so plain and sensible. Ruby is just a little crazier everywhere, partly because the language is a bit more eccentric and partly because the people who use it are all Ruby programmers :-)
Tried it on www.flipkart.com (Amazon of India) and it scores 72-75/100. AliExpress scored 78.
Not sure about Xamarin studio, but for Xcode, AppCode, PHPStorm anr Virtualbox 16GB still does do.
DevOps in an ITIL environment
Sorted arrays, theory and practice
I think the parent was expecting this to be more like a plugin for Django.
"at a time", wasn't the movie "demolition man" showed us the physical danger of biometrics (/s)
Young hacker arrested for disrupting 911 Service with a TDoS attack
Well, there are ways of doing local auth for remote sudo, like using your ssh-agent[1]. Maybe it could be adapted to ask for TouchID.

[1] http://pamsshagentauth.sourceforge.net/
I've been listening for a few hours now, just checked AM and saw 44GB on disk, but oddly for Network, it has only received 176MB. Where is all the data coming from then?
Not that I disagree, but do you have any evidence that Clojure is 100x more effective than Fortran?
Sorry but this does not sound fun or anything like the real experience of skating or rollerblading.
Risk-based release testing
> To me QML is the biggest mistake in Qt5.

I think they are trying to appeal to the JavaScript hipsters as a way to stay relevant, and in the process also annoyed many C++ developers that don't see a value in it.

All the other major declarative toolkits, XAML, AXML, JavaFX, Cocoa don't use a JavaScript like language for the UI descriptions.
It's a Django app, so it is pretty much a plugin isn't it?
no, THIS is what a programmer looks like!

http://www.advin.com/eprom-programmer/EPROM-programmer-M-w80...
They do. Search for Jerry Mitrovica (Harvard geophysicist) on YT for explanations.
It's been done. I can't find the reference, but apparently the extreme accuracy of atomic clocks has proven that the mass of water moving from the poles to the equator has slowed the earth's rotation as predicted.
Internet of Shit: List of consumer drone and RC planes vulnerable to hijacking
What is Front-end Development (in plain english)?
As you see you better keep them comments to yourself. This guy wrote that I'm "shitting on" things and "nobody cares about [my] opinions", and no mod intervention. A couple months ago I told a guy he was being too pedantic and my thread was detached.
I'm struggling trying to find an English link to buy one. Would you mind providing a link I could use to by one?
I develop on windows and deploy on Linux.
I have done that for more that 10 years and I never found a problem that wouldn't have happened if I developed on Linux.
And obviously I always deployed first on test, then on stage and only at the end in production.
What kind of problems did you see that happened because of developing on Mac OS instead of Linux?
The only ones that I can think of are all caused by a wrong deployment process.
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I insure my machines. If my MBP breaks, I get a replacement within 48 hours (and I provision all my machines with Chef so rebuilding my machines is trivial). I functionally don't have a reason to care about repairability, so long as I can retrieve my data.

I care about performance because that actually impacts my day-to-day.
Vagrant replacement in ~250 lines of code in Python 3
Do you have any evidence that your way of doing systems programming is more effective, for programmer productivity, than the alternatives?
Apologies, that was a poor choice of wording on my part. While I do entertain the theoretical possibility that CF silently uses low-tier customer data in interesting ways (such as data mining and tracking user behavior), my actual expectations of the way CF actually uses this data exactly matches your description (DDoS mitigation & things like that).
These ad networks tend to distribute redirect JavaScript. I know of at least one newsroom that has editors all getting redirected to spam sites. From their own publication!
He's also likely to throw up and never want to try high speed action sports again!
Puppetlabs-Image_build: Build Docker Images from Puppet Code
Apple is ditching its iconic startup chime with the new MacBook Pro