skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It lets you directly jump to a specific character without bothering with movement keys. Basically what happens is, suppose you have 5 x's on your screen. You'd bring up ace jump (or its replacement, avy), and then hit x. It'd convert the first x to a, second to b, ... fifth to e. Suppose you wanted to go to the fifth one, you'd then hit e, and your point would move there. It's kind of cool. I have it installed, but truthfully don't use it very often.

Edit: Oh you meant "why would you use evil mode". Disregard.
YouTube gained popularity because of the copyrighted content not because of the random crap like a dancing baby.

Popularity, is about views, not submissions.

It's weird that you've started this paranoid rant about history being re-written, when you're the one who is totally off mark. (and seem to have eluded common sense)
Thanks for the informative comment.

Even so, it would help if Homebrew reassigned the "emacs" package name to the Emacs fork by Yamamoto Mitsuharu.

(The way it is now, when you install with `brew install emacs`, you get FSF emacs; to get Mitsuharu Emacs, you have to know to say `brew install emacs-mac` instead.)
Current submission title "The truth about blogging" is a bit misleading.

Title of post is "[INTERVIEW] New vlogger Wizardbonvin"
No, I have not read that yet. Thanks! Appropriate read for Dennis Ritchie Day https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/dennis-ritchie-day
China could industrialize much faster because all the needed science and industrial inventions had already been developed by the West. The real question for China is whether its present form of government can sustain development over the long term.
What do the JS 0days get used for nowadays?
A maybe relevant Wittgenstein quote: "It is not how the world is, that is the mystical, but that it is."
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Yes, but now your Telco can also do those things.
One of my favorite moments is Edmund Bacon, one of the designers of the LOVE park, at age 92, skating in protest against the ban: https://vimeo.com/57981966
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Seems like this is something a company like Amazon could be interested in, for the long tail of products it might be more cost effective to be able to ship via hyperloop vs building more capacity.
I submitted this a month ago but nobody upvoted it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12625702
The flip side, is that I don't have an editor that has changed on me as much as pycharm and friends have. More, as I use new languages, I get to take advantage of configurations i already know really well.
I wish people would stop parroting about Goebbels to this phenomena, because the real "innovator" in the propaganda was the nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays [1] (Goebbels was a big fan of him). His manipulation techniques and tricks are what started the profession of public relations (PR) in USA.

He also helped spreading the lie that helped CIA overthrow the democratically elected Guatemalan president [2].

[1] http://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Your first point misses what I was saying (or I was bad at saying it). Of course you pay for the damages caused, not the product's price. In the case here I expect someone (Amazon? Whoever) pay for the 1 million plus to replace the house.

I brought up the product price just because I feel that paying more than a million in damages for a product that costs (say..) 100 dollar is already punitive in terms of business. Whoever has to pay even 1 million probably will be quite unhappy about carrying that product, without any further inflation: The price for this accident eats the profit for a BIG number of sales - ignoring the PR issues.

So: Sure, if you sell a $1 device that causes $1,000,000 in damages, pay a million (or more). But paying a million (or more) caused by a $1 device seems already like a decent way to make the business .. reconsider some practices?
Going into a discussion related to statistics with a couple of anecdotes - tut.

Reep only seems to have followed one team - albeit playing against many others. If he'd got other like minded people to do the same for their teams (ideally all teams in all leagues!) as well then that would help to control one or two of the huge number of variables.

Then as the article alludes, if he'd looked at the sequences that lead to a score, rather than working back from a score to the sequence that lead to it, something really useful might have emerged.

One thing is certain however: whatever the English national (soccer) team decides is a good idea - it isn't. It's a bit embarrassing to be honest.
Anyone else wants to do the static-site server-less dance with me? Or you rather keep playing cat and mouse on a broken Internet?
If I want outlets where my computers will be, I would have to move outlets.
The Apple keyboard they reference is one of the classic Apple mechanical designs using high quality ALPS switches. It's...very different than modern Apple keyboards.
No, I have American sockets.

The charger looks like this: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...

And also comes with a longer, three-prong cable that replaces the little two-prong piece: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/like/172352962036?lpid=116&chn=ps
so many are using the 'playing at moonshots with other peoples money' criticism.

It's not like investors are blind or dumbstruck just because it's an idea from Musk.

They do their due diligence and if they think the plan has potential, they invest.

I'm sure there were countless technical issues and big challenges around airplanes in the initial stages. And cars. And trains. And, you know, every new technology.

Could Hyperloop (One) fail miserably? Sure. Could it succeed? Also.

Let's just wait and see.

Also, whenever there are invested interests of established competition, they usually drum up the PR machine against new ideas, just as a precaution.

Just look at the fascinating history of fridges vs ice box companies for one of countless examples.
I think there is a great use case for open source software running on our IoT devices, where we are cognizant of features, security and implication of updates. I predict this will be more commonplace in the next 5 years.

At present, we are so blissfully unaware of what runs on our devices that it is scary.
Um, sadly, methinks you should have left 5 years ago. IMO Seattle is well on its way to being SF Junior with crappier weather and more expensive restaurants without SF's critical mass of talent.
I'd say just like in real life, stupid criminals exist. If criminal A says to criminal B "I'll sell you a solution that encrypts their files and I'll host the decryptor for 5$ a month" I can totally see a dumb criminal B being fully willing to rely on the reputation of ransomware as working to not pay that 5$ a month.

To a certain criminal any effort no matter how miniscule at all in actually providing a way to decrypt the files is useless, and I think with the reputation that's spread about ransomware we're at a point where more scammers will start to piggyback on reputation and stop following through
If you take it like that, my numbers are off as well. They were for the usual bracket of income :D

If I make more than 200k€ here. The higher bracket is 58.75% of taxes (+66k€ paid directly by the employer to the state).
It's an elevated track so it really could be designed to deal with that kind of break. Water, Oil, and Gas pipelines for example have long dealt with those issues without breaking when designed correctly.
Most guns are designed to kill people. Very few guns are designed to disable laptops. GP's point would have been valid if he had said "typical and pathetic" or "cliched and unimaginative" rather than "shocking and abhorrent". b^)
A very long time ago, I read about this and experimented in a dark toilet after sunset. I did get the flash, but it wasn't terribly easy to get a flash with the small sugar crystals available to me at the time. The next day, there were ants after all that sugar on the toilet floor (also featured in Feynman's book), leading to further experiments ferrying ants :)
I don't mean as a means to maximize efficiency, but to avoid a lot of the problems (e.g., the risks of a vacuum, the cost of engineering one, etc.).
Yes but if we have credit cards which can be charged simply by copying a few numbers that can be read visually off the card, then why do we need SIMs really?

In other words, SIMs seem disproportionally secure w.r.t. credit cards.
Humour: How do I learn coding in a single night?
Curious why you'd consider SF food to be mediocre and what US cities you'd consider as good food cities. I can think of quite a few that beat SF but there are so many good options that it's not mediocre simply due to amount of choice.
Just now, I read this piece and the linked New York Magazine piece (which, without mentioning regulators, managed to make the whole outfit sound like the kind of scam Hacker News usually delights in outing). I do not see any arguments of the form you're suggesting. It's not the author's friend "the regulators" that are going to make the Hyperloop fail; it's his friends "physics" and "economics".
It was probably just a CDMA phone - they don't have SIM cards are were actually quite common a while ago.
Perhaps the dogma that needs to be reexamined is the notion that programming languages are the key to improving productivity. Perhaps the key might be found in teaching programming differently, or in better or different tools.
> I don't know, as an atheist myself I think the attitude of smug arrogance embodied in terms like "benighted creationist" is the real problem, not that even acknowledging a theory that has been believed in some form by most humans who ever lived is too kind.

Creationism was never a scientific theory. And I think we can give a free pass to people being creationist before the theory was created and before it was taught in schools. Modern day creationist though, they are fools.
I found it a good read, too.

Hey, it's not bribery when you have a legal setup for it. It's 'lobbying', 'post public office career options', 'match making fees', 'incentives for key stakeholders'. Wouldn't want to get in trouble in the vilage now, would we ? :)
> No city in the South can compete with the diversity of food in SF other than a few rare restaurants

New Orleans has an amazing food culture! You can walk into dive bars and have some amazing meals in that town, for like 5 bucks...
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One need look no farther than Silicon Valley to see a plethora of starry eyed investors who are either blind, dumbstruck, or simply haven't done due diligence. Isn't the bubble about to pop... again?
I could be wrong, but I'd imagine the overlay functionality is fairly similar to 'header' files in other programming libraries, in that they're a list of instructions available to program with, that point to a precompiled library (in this case, hardware-accelerated libraries).
That problem comes up with collective action all the time. Workers rights in developing countries for example... if all of the workers banded together to resist their employer's unfair treatment then... blah blah blah.. but in reality average people are awful at joining together to create a change that results in a greater good. When people are isolated and feel the impact of some injustice, they tend to give up fairly quickly without any thought given to what would be best for the greater good. That's my experience of life anyway. Rationality doesn't work very well in abstracted problems that involve reasoning about how you should suffer in this moment for the greater good of everyone suffering such moments. So the scammers are smart to make the cost of cooperating fairly low in a lot of cases. It's definitely easier to pay up than to try to make a federal case out of it. And honestly your inconvenience is not going to cause the wheels of law enforcement to spin fast to figure out which international gang is targeting you. If you don't pay you probably won't ever get anything back and law enforcement won't do anything about it. So really what's the point of personal heroics here other than rational arguments about what the right move would be from a game theoretic point of view? Just pay and move on.
I started working on a book a while back targeted specifically towards people who already know a little about programming:

https://github.com/rongarret/BWFP

It's nowhere near complete but I'm working on chapter 3 now.
I think the biggest point the article makes is the great deal of care that needs to be taken in packing loads to meet weight requirements and avoid movement of goods in transit.

What makes sense for international air mail doesn't make sense for a four hour journey by truck, especially if that truck can take a container straight from the ship to the city depot without carefully repacking everything, or go door to door with smaller loads.
> This makes Gnome 3 horrible for presentations, screening films, or pretty much anything you'd want to use a projector for. I'm hopeful that problem has been fixed, as I've rarely felt so annoyed at a piece of software.

That’s exactly what my issue with multiple screens is.

Still not fixed.

> Which touch features do you think are missing?

It’s not that I think touch features are missing, it’s that I think non-laptop features are missing.

On a screen with 1440p or 2304p height, and 27" diagonal, I can afford to have a lot of things directly in view – I don’t need to have them hidden behind things like the dimmed activity menu.

Which, btw, isn’t very ideal for touch users either.
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Totally in agreement. I'll give Linux another try on my rMBP to see if the HiDPI issues have been resolved yet. A quick search shows that MySQL Workbench still has issues:

https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48867

If that's the only software I use that has problems I can probably deal with that though.
Window managers crash often? I can't think of the last time I saw one do so.
Aha! That's what it was, you're right.
The parent project seems to have stopped updating, but there are windows builds for a lot of stuff here:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/groff.htm
This site is totally devoid of technical details. Does anyone have any? What's the ppi on the keys? etc...

We're in Q4 so is there a more precise estimate of availability?
I don't know if such tools exist already, but it's conceptually similar to a linter, so perhaps you'll find something like this by investigating linters for languages with optional type annotations (such as Python).

EDIT: Found one for you:

http://mypy-lang.org/
I started writing about this but just a personal safeward. Yesterday I dropped my phone by accident, it cracked and doesn't work anymore. But besides the monetary loss, everything was backed-up from the day before so no problem.
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yeah, i got used to gnome3 during a redhat class, and subsequently on a default kali install for its own particular purpose, and i don't mind it at all. the alignment is good, and when you want to get rid of all the border stuff you can just full screen.

for example, my firefox looks like something out of windows 95, but if i want to pretend i'm using i3, f11 -> fullscreen, ctrl+tab and i'm set. and if i want to see a bookmark toolbar, url bar, tabs, a title bar, and a menu, i can. why not?

and yeah, the real goodness (which is not unique to gnome3) is the snap alignment stuff and ease of using virtual desktops and setting keyboard shortcuts. gnome3 could be a lot worse than it is. (edit: for me, everything gnome3 does, kde does better, but gnome3 "just works" a lot better than kde and, to some degree, unity. i'd rather be using i3 generally, but that can be more effort to maintain than its worth in certain situations)
It's not like there was no warning, anyone with half a clue knew that security wasn't good enough, yet people plowed ahead with IoT anyway.
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Yes. It hurts the business badly.

That's why there aren't many manufacturers in business and they are all big.

Even more so in the USA, because the law is retarded and people could sue for stupid reasons and win ^^

It seems that here the trick is to attack Amazon instead of the device manufacturer. The damages are scaled for Amazon size.
>I don't see what San Francisco's appeal is

People in tech want to be in the Bay Area because the most intellectually, emotionally, and financially rewarding tech jobs are concentrated here.

Although some are also scattered around the country and the world, the job-hopping nature of our industry makes it a really bad idea to put down roots in a one-company town. Places (Seattle, Portland, Denver, etc) which begin to mirror the Bay Area in terms of tech employment opportunities start to look like it in terms of housing and traffic, too.

I'd wager that almost no SF tech worker choose it for the city first and job market second. Personally, I'd love to try being rural and remote, but I've yet to hear of a remote job that I'd be similarly interested in and passionate about, much less one that would pay comparably.
Building iOS apps doesn't require 32GB of memory.

You don't need a mac pro if your only reason for having a Mac is to run Xcode.
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What you say is true, however I am afraid permissions are not the solution either. Look at android ecosystem - they have tons of permissions, but who actually looks at them? People just click "accept" 99.9% of the time. Same will be on desktop OSes. Granted, more granular permissions make Android somewhat safer - but it also makes many things harder to do. If you did this on desktop, users would scream and demand to make it "convenient" - which would lead to them clicking "accept" where they shouldn't.
It also matches San Francisco in terms of "insane housing prices."

You can't win.
There's some wonderful talks by Guido on YouTube. Before Python, he was involved with the ABC language. He discusses in one of his talks, I wish I could remember which, the fact that they conducted a lot of research with users for ABC. The sort of thing where you ask a naive user what they think a command named "join" might do, etc. As a result, Guido has a better idea than many, of how real-world users expect languages to behave.
It doesn't desire that in a vacuum, it's been heavily marketed to. Meanwhile there is no marketing to try and extol the value of not connecting your toaster, because of course, that doesn't sell more toasters.
>(I won't go into jus how hard it was to find this version of the docs and extract the file on a non-Windows computer. Luckily I just did that a few months ago for unrelated reasons!)

Sounds like a good topic for a small blog post.
More industrious nations? In what, in pillage, piracy? slave trade?

Spain not only exploited South America, but also administered it and gave it a lot of wealth and education to those places.

In fact, some places in South America went sour after independence because it was much better administered before. In places like Argentina, genocide to the native population happened after independence, not before.

Once and again people project England situation today to the past, but you have to look at the England of the past, that was certainly not more industrious.

Industry in England is copied and improved from the Netherlands from a political plan like the Meiji period in Japan. Before that it was a very poor country and certainly not harder working than the rest.
I don't like the anthropomorphization of evolution. It's a bad angle to view the subject

>If evolution is “searching” for that function by natural selection...

Evolution is "doing" nothing. It has no particular purpose and it is not "searching" for the particular life forms of this planet. The true shaper of the life-forms we know is death. Death (by resource starvation) is the knife cutting the uncontrolled growth of life, uncontrolled growth in number and variations.
Without a vacuum it's just a train with no need to be enclosed.
A train that accelerates at 0.5g to 1200kph would be awesome and I would ride it at every available opportunity.
> But the Internet is perhaps a much bigger problem in this regard. It is perceived as journalism while it may be either opinion, commercial speech, or simply hate speech.

This is a false dichotomy. What we get from CNN, NYT, FOX, WAPO is opinion, PR, and better veiled hate speech.
What an incredibly uninformed comment. I'm a Mac guy through and through, but if you think that most Mac users use Time Machine or that no Windows users use backup software, you need to spend more time in the real world.
https://github.com/rafael-santiago/eel

Sorry!
I find window snapping pretty essential, using a Mac without better touch tool is truly painful.

For my taste, Gnome 3 only needs a few small tweaks, dash to dock, dropdown terminal, and jetisoning adwaita out of the nearest airlock.

http://i.imgur.com/jo7XbHl.png
They are no different. It's just that noone sued yet.

Wait for an attack to Brick the vulnerable IoT devices and then the class actions will begin :D
Instead of the air resistance of a train-sized object (about a quarter mile long) you'd have air resistance equivalent to a train 300 miles long (think of the tunnel as an inside out train). It's inefficient by several orders of magnitude.
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They bought the board on Nov 3, 2015.

Amazon banned Hoverboards from their site on Dec 12, 2015.

The family kept using the board despite this.

The house fire was on Jan 9, 2016.

Amazon announced full refunds on Jan 21, 2016.

The CPSC put out a warning on Jul 6, 2016.

The legal claim makes absolutely no mention whatsoever of Dec 12, 2015, and why the family kept using the board.

Amazon did not notify customers on Dec 12, 2015, only Jan 21, 2016. But this was all over the media - it was the lead story on the nightly news.

I get that this is pretty horrible for them, but I'm not convinced Amazon acted negligently here.

Amazon acted pretty quickly. How could they know ahead of time the boards would be dangerous? In between Dec 12 and Jan 21 it seemed they were trying to find good boards and get information - it doesn't seem like an excessive amount of time to do that.
Very much agreed and good points all around. My proposal wasn't nearly as technically nuanced as such a proposal should be. I suppose I should fall back to my main argument which is that no such proposal can be at this point. Hence regulation will just be a source of burden on everyone involved, except those with deep enough pockets to use those regulations to turn a profit.
None of those are hyperbolic, they are just true facts. Understanding the macroeconomic demand you are participating in isn't hyperbolic.

Buying elephant tusks promotes the killing of elephants, regardless of where they came from because the demand you created supports a price in favor of bad actors as well.
Have you seen PipelineDB? It's Postgres, but with something called "continuous views", which are like regular views except they're cached and updated on writes, not re-calculated each time they're read. Sounds like one could use plain tables as the "event log", and these views as the up-to-date cache. And aggregation queries work too, so your regular table can be more than just a cache.

I'm not affiliated, not even a user, it just sounded interesting when it was submitted here.
I agree, creating malicious software designed to seriously inconvenience people and demand money from them is not a good idea. Never mind being sued, creating and distributing viruses is a felony in most jurisdictions even if it doesn't look like extortion. But on a scale of bad ideas, ransomware that appears to reward you for ignoring it is still a slightly less bad way of encouraging people to ignore ransom demands than ransomware that just punishes everyone
Thx, I edited my comment.