skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're using tons of bloated Javascript "just because" for something that could arguably work with just static pages, you're doing something very very wrong.
Cool. I like the fact that the icon shows in the actual tab as a preview. I guess what is missing is the option to select a font?
There's a lot of people in denial that there is a genuine grievance at the heart of voting for Trump.

People who voted for him are not all misinformed racist sexist delusional hicks. There's too many of them to all be fooled. Many of them voted for Obama last time; the numbers make that clear.

Denial is the biggest thing I see in the US media right now, and it's worrying. Because it will probably lead to opposition to the symptom (Trump), rather than the cause (what motivated people to vote for him), and will promote internal opposition. It brings heat, not light.
I used to be very active on SO and I stopped because dealing with new people to the site is a waste of everyones time.

SO has the goal of being a Q to A catalog. You're not contributing unless you are asking a new, answerable question or providing and answer to a new or existing question.

There are tons of people asking questions that are already answered, tons of people asking questions that would take a book to answer, and tons of people asking questions that are subjective and time sensitive. All of this needs to be closed and removed.

The fact of the matter is that tons of questions have already been asked and answered. In fact unless its for a newer technology there are probably not that many left to ask. Because of this about 95% of all new content ought to be removed. In fact you will find a vastly different culture if you stick around the GO tag vs the Java tag.

But the issue is there is a never ending trickle of people who don't realize the above. They sign up and start asking answered or impossible to answer questions, trying to start discussions, or trying to make you debug their specific issue.

You either ignore them or try and help them understand the site by telling them to RTFM.
OP here. Is the reluctance borne out of a dislike for Windows (privacy, functionality, UI) or is it something else? Windows laptops, particularly the Surface Book and the Dell XPS line, compare very favorably to the MacBook Pro line. The differentiators usually are the touchpad and macOS.

The former seems moot for the developer audience, a number of whom have an external keyboard and/or mouse.

So it comes down to a preference for macOS. What should the Windows team do to convince non-Windows developers to give their OS a fair shot?
Yev from Backblaze here -> We're kicking a couple of server. Lots of load from the traffic so we're putting top me on it! TOP MEN!
> Are you a moderator?

No, and have never been. I have no dog in that race - but as a long time Stack Exchange user, I witness these people's hard work every day.
If you like that you might enjoy this https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1844268691/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?i...
urm, are you really sure about 2.?

i switched SIMcards recently (the number was migrated to the new card though) and flashed another ROM on my phone. It helpfully offered me to restore all messages and media from the server. (6+ months of history)

Sure it could use the IMEI for the encryption. But i'm unsure if it can access that datapoint from application context?

/edit: i just scrolled back to the first message i've got on my most messaged contact. its from 2014. i've switched devices and sim cards since then. The phone number is the only thing that stayed the same.
read the api documentation for reddit, follow the rules, use python+praw to make requests. Writing a script with BeautifulSoup or similar seems like a headache.
Yeah unfortunately 4/5 of my drives are those as well... gulp...
"you should have a purely deterministic, non-random, and if you could get the data and do the math, a predictable situation."

From a Newtonian/Classical perspective - yes.

But we're at quantum physics now - so no.

Every single particle interaction is basically 'inherently random'.

Also - what you are saying would apply to 'us' as well, that we are all deterministic ... again, because we're living quantum (as far as we know) - no, it's random.

Purely random is where materialism stands now.

I should add that materialism is just one metaphysical presupposition.
Well, I wouldn't say "most proud", but here are some I had fun doing:

An IBM developerWorks article: Developing a Linux command-line utility (selpg)

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/09/my-ibm-developerworks-arti...

It's a tutorial on how to write a Linux command-line utility in C. Was up on the IBM dW site for long; now archived. Got some stars etc. Code and article text now available via (links in) the above post on my blog. Uses as a case study / demo, a real-life utility I wrote for a client, to print only selected pages from a text file, specified by line number range or page range (form-feed-delimited pages, a common industry format for line printers). It was for a very large company with huge print jobs, so if the paper jammed in mid-job, this utility could save them a lot of time and paper, by letting them print only the un-printed pages. They might still be using it several years after it was written. I had also shared it on the HP-UX mailing list, and people said it was useful.

This post shows how to use that utility (selpg) with xtopdf (another project of mine, for PDF generation from Python):

Print selected text pages to PDF with Python, selpg and xtopdf on Linux

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/10/print-selected-text-pages-...

PySiteCreator was a bit innovative and fun to do. It lets you create simple web sites by writing them purely in Python. I designed it to impose as few requirements or constraints on the user as I could, so that it would be more generally useful, i.e. more like a library than a framework, though it is a sort of framework, since it calls code you write.

Early release of PySiteCreator - v0.1

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2009/11/early-release-of-pysitecre...

That post describes the ways it can be used. I originally created it with the goal of creating simple wikis using Python, but then realized that it generalized to any web site, so changed the name from DSLWiki (a DSL for wikis) to PySiteCreator :)

And while this one - pipe_controller - is not really a tool or product (it is an experiment), I enjoyed seeing what I could do with it - like running a pipe incrementally and swapping pipe components at runtime. There are few posts describing those experiments, in reverse chronological order, starting from this last post:

Swapping pipe components at runtime with pipe_controller:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/10/swapping-pipe-components-a...

Edit: I'm working a few other products, some for sale, some free, so anyone interested in checking them out, is welcome to follow me for email updates here on Gumroad:

https://gumroad.com/vasudevram/follow

(There are a few small free utilities in early versions there now too.)

I only send out a few updates a month (if that), and only if I have a new product or an update to an existing one to announce.

Edited for typos / re-wording.
I'm rather worried that this isn't getting the upvotes it needs.
Is travelling with your kids around the world actually a viable option?
There is attribution on the GitHub repo. ;)

https://github.com/fogleman/primitive#inspiration
How will you even know about the spread of false information if you're in your own bubble of what you believe to be "non-false information"?
I created https://jsonip.com about 6 years ago. Supports several million requests a day at this point.

Also created Helium, https://github.com/geuis/helium-css, a tool to help frontend devs clean up old CSS.

They're relatively popular.
The Backblaze Vault design mitigates that as the "raid array" is scattered across 20 different Storage Pods in twenty different racks. You'd need more than three racks to go down before you would be offline. Backup systems in place make that highly unlikely. Andy at Backblaze.
That's a good idea, I can consider it for a future release. :)
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> Aren't you people EVER gaming though, programmers or not?

Yes, maybe on my phone once in a blue moon? Otherwise, that went out the door(at least for me) sometime in my 20's.
If only 45% voted for Trump, they wouldn't have valid opinions? If 5% made the difference, then 90% of the votes for Trump don't form a mandate?

There's a problem here - first past the post voting - but there's also another problem: denial of the legitimacy of an opposition. The vast majority of the people who voted for Trump have valid opinions. You can't just dismiss them.
I literary need this right now. THANKS! Other tools are too over-thought( lets you draw your own icon ). I needed something simple.
Website is fine, Backup service is fine. Blog is overloaded and we're working on it.
Well I also went with a .lol domain, so. :)
I wish you luck. For all of us :)
I made: http://github.com/deviantfero/wpgtk

An easy to use wallpaper/config manager and themer for GNU/Linux which takes it's colorscheme from the wallpaper and applies it to things like the terminal, tint2, openbox, GTK2/3 and optional config files too, so the color scheme affects all the config files specified. It's compatible with everything that uses written config files and hex colors!
Built https://fsterramaker.com/ last year. It generates scenaries for Flight Simulator X using updated orthophotos from several sources.
Another very simple tool that I use almost every day (dealing xlsx files): https://github.com/aritztg/svc
Install the zram-config package using apt. It turned my 2gb c720 chromebook from a stuttering mess into a great on the go machine.
I agree. One of the biggest problem with illegal drugs is adulterants/fillers, and drugs not being quite what you thought they were. For example, a lot of drugs sold as MDMA contain amphetamine or worse [1]

The reviews on DNMs don't eliminate this problem, but they certainly help.

[1] https://www.ecstasydata.org
I have a thing that puts my RSS feeds into an IMAP folder. Not "emails them to me", but actually connects as an IMAP client and stores them in a folder that's not my inbox.
Yes, I'm using the free community edition (2016.1 at present). Also I said "github", when doing school type exercises for a Coursera course I uploaded stuff to a gist on GitHub (https://gist.github.com/) to work on in breaks at work - just simply 20 line max programs, any text dump would be equivalent for how I was using it. PyCharm of course can integrate with git but I only use that locally.

https://repl.it/languages/Python/ helped me out, as did http://www.pythontutor.com/visualize.html.
Product alert for floating point data error on specific five instruction (1996)
I chose to get 4 ST4000DM000 drives based on previous reports. Sure HGST drives never die, but it's cheaper to RMA or buy a single new drive if one fails, than the added cost of 4 reliable drives. Assuming only one fails, which is a risk I'm willing to take with my very non-mission-critical data.

I don't read this as 'which drive to buy' but more as 'which drive not to buy'.
Just use the backblaze API in a script with a cronjob, that's what I do. It's linux, you're going to end up writing some code to get what you want, heh.
If they can actually pull it off without the device either melting or spinning its fans fast enough to achieve escape velocity, it does sound like a pretty sweet deal.
You need to understand irony in English culture before accusation, or author won't be writing about this brand.
GM initially promised that the first generation Volt would be fully series-hybrid--the engine would drive the electrical generator and have no mechanical connection to the rest of the powertrain. This means that the engine can spin at its most efficient RPM (most of the time, peak torque RPM) regardless of how fast the car is going and thus everything on this engine could be optimized to run at that speed, which reduces wear and maintenance requirements. However at the last moment GM revealed that at certain times the engine would drive the wheels directly, probably to prevent some idiots from driving at maximum power and depleting the battery.
Thank you for explaining. The future sounds exciting.

I especially like the "Solar Roof" from Tesla that is probably what was needed to make it mainstream. When building a house customer has a checkbox to a regular roof or solar roof, but otherwise it looks about the same. One day the solar roof might be the default choice in many areas of the country probably.
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Not currently. I'm not sure of the best way to do that without shelling out to ImageMagick or something.

Edit: Go has good GIF support but doesn't really do dithering and stuff.
Thank you. So it's just GPS jammer, not "missile defense system".
https://github.com/charlesdaniel/s3_uploader

It's supposed to be a simple S3 file uploader GUI for non-techy people... 'proud' is questionable :)
You should really consider moving this webpage and report to something like AWS S3 when you first release it. Then move back to your usual servers when traffic has fallen off. Your poor servers must melt down when this shows up on Hacker News and Slashdot.
I'd heard parts of that story. He reminds me of one of the people who I went to school with. We shared a lot of hobbies, but his antisocial and self-destructive tendencies meant that I never could really consider him a friend. He was incredibly smart and capable, but he always acted like he had something to prove. He was expelled from high school for hacking, which unlike a lot of "expelled for hacking" stories, was entirely legitimate. He was doing some pretty impressive exploits on the network computers, but then he was also downloading information he had no business possessing. I was interviewed by the FBI about it, because I was president of the cs club, and he had been using our computers.

During his expulsion he took the classes needed for college and applied to the CS program at a prestigious state school rather that coming back to high school. It was really impressive -- between the grades he had skipped before, and the grades he skipped going to college, he got in before he was old enough to drive.

I don't think he ended up graduating from college. He is very capable, but he needed a mentor who was operating on the same level as him to help him develop emotional and social skills on par with his intellectual talents.
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He says a sexist thing once and it will be repeated many times on television and in articles slamming him for it. If you listen to the totality of his statements it is not nearly as bad as what the news media puts out.

Which gets us into is the news media real news, fake news, or opinion. With the rise of Fox news other news companies have had to go heavy on opinion to survive. Fox News has sucked up most of the conservative audience CNN, MSNBC, etc has to fight over the left leaning audience becoming more sensational in the process.
I remember playing the original Tomb Raider as a teenager, and while Lara did have "sex appeal," it was the action and violence I enjoyed the most. Let's not kid ourselves--violence sells video games. Imagine if Lara Croft never died and never killed anything/anyone. She wouldn't be Lara Croft. Almost every photo in this article shows a woman holding two guns. She is a killer, and I love her for that.
Great photos, getting a big Brassaï vibe from them.
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Yes, there are MPs on board Navy carriers
I also don't think that you can orientate on dates in a decimal manner.
With dates it's easier to orientate, but you don't get the exact feeling on progress.

So yes, same as you, when I'm seeing it from time to time I get motivated to do more in the time remaining for the year :)
This is one of the Dictator's Handbook's earliest lessons (a book I cannot recommend enough, extremely insightful especially in the context of this election - https://smile.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-...): Even though the path to victory in a democracy with a large electorate seems like it's about swaying millions of voters, the numbers are far, far smaller than they look especially in the US system.
I know absolutely zero about rocket physics or quantum mechanics but isn't this a fairly easy and "cheap" thruster to prototype and test in actual space?

Nothing beats real world results, and this doesn't seem that hard to test. It might even be faster and cheaper than what's already been done, no?
Are there any live MSR ? I was under the impression that this was a research phase reactor...and only China was ahead of anyone else (only India and China have substantial thorium reserves)
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Nice, what algorithm is it using?
I guess my question is more about the long term implications of transfer speeds increasing much slower than hard drives space. And if there's a hidden risk to downtime because all of a sudden, a full rack of 32 or even 64TB drive will take day(s) to transfer as opposed to an hour or so because transfer speeds are so slow.
I've recently begun using fogbugz (don't love it, but it's been "good enough"). I'm curious what recent events have caused you to reconsider. If the company has behaved in a manner counter to my sense of ethics, I would also consider switching away. Can you please elaborate?
> By that definition, nothing is truly random

First of all, that statement doesn't really make much sense. By that definition, everything that you are unable to predict is random (to you), so, assuming that there are things that you are unable to predict, there are things that, from your perspective, are truly random, by that definition(!).

Unless, of course, by "truly random" you mean "random as per the definition that I prefer", in which case all you are really saying is that that definition differs from your preferred definition, which might be true, but isn't really much of an argument.

> I wonder if we can consider 'randomness' as an inherent quality of a system ...

No, that would be a useless concept. Randomness as an inherent quality of a system would be equivalent to the claim that we will never be able to predict the respective attribute of the system, i.e. it's a claim about the impossibility to ever know something. It's a perfectly valid concept, in that there might be things that we will never know, but it's utterly useless because we will never know that we won't ever know them, i.e., it's undecidable which elements are in the set and which are outside, unless we figure out how to predict them, in which case they don't fall under either definition anymore. The only thing we can say is that we don't know how to predict something right now.

The closest you can get to "objective randomness" is something like bell's inequality--but even that is falsifiable in principle.
I consider the time that I give to the community answering questions to the best way to help. While I have no idea how to value that in dollars, it's something I put an effort into regularly.
Hi ultimoo,

Would it be possible for you to update your profile with your email so that we can get in touch with you ?
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Word clouds.
You don't need to learn Farsi to go there. Many people know enough English words to help you around. Most of the youth were taught some English in high school and college, and many of them can speak fluently and even understand you completely.

Plus, the best way to learn Farsi is to be in the environment that speaks it. You'll be surprised how fast it is to pick up.

European and Asian tourists are abundant and common place. If they can do it, so can you :)
This reminds me of the wall in Game of Thrones especially since "Gorgan", the province that the wall is at, means wolves.
The content was written and delivered to our customers directly through email. It was not inexpensive to develop and that's why I hesitate to put it online for it to be stolen. We have healthy email lists of our customers and are happy to deliver good content directly into their mailboxes.
Explained here: https://github.com/fogleman/primitive#how-it-works-part-ii
Yup, as someone who's done x-platform C++(Windows/OSX/X360/PS3/etc) for a large part of my career the cross platform support is incredibly well done.

Not having to deal with differences between MSVC, LLVM, GCC and other obscure toolchains is a blessing.
Just for an example, I'm in Greenville, SC (which has a location) but regularly drive to Columbia, Florence and the surrounding areas of Myrtle Beach (Murrell's Inlet specifically). That entire route doesn't have anything.

I could round trip Columbia in a Tesla. I could make it to Florence with about 90 miles left but I'd have to get somewhere that I could charge for 22 hours to get enough juice to get back (per the 4 miles per charging hour on the Tesla site for a new standard outlet).

Assuming that 270 mile range was accurate Murrell's Inlet would be doable at 260 miles just barely but then I'm still looking at 67.5 hours wait to charge enough to get back.

EDIT: Just as a side comment, Columbia really seems like a place where they need one since it's the center point to so many routes in the state.
Thanks!

I'm thinking about adding some of the Google web fonts.
The "best" depends on the context. I don't want to argue what's best for you.

In the university context I've found that there is a lot of free software that works good enough or sometimes even better than commercial products. If you factor in that you still can use that particular program after you leave, it becomes a big plus.
This is not a random friend giving you a binary. This is where you asked a trusted friend to build you a binary, and he delivered it.
Maths zeroes in on perfect cup of coffee
How to Save the Democratic Party
Major Linux security hole gapes open
No one will pony-up the millions of dollars it will need to design, build, test and launch a satellite based on (possibly) unconfirmed science.
My computer science teacher in high school was a sailor in the Soviet Navy. He alluded to something like this being used. That would have been in the min 90s or so. At that point we weren't part of the empire so he probably didn't care about keeping the secrets about it.
There's about 5,000 people on an Enterprise class carrier at any given time (per Wikipedia, max is just shy of 6k), so I agree, plenty of jobs.
I think your population estimate is far from accurate the Americas had a large population during that time period. Let alone most of Africa, China, etc.

One major consideration many of the worlds population centers from that time period are now under the ocean.
That's a really great read about emojis!
That makes sense. I'd suggest "diagonal" as opposed to "diameter", as "diameter" suggests that the measurement is being taken across the flats. I see what you're saying though. The Mac Mini was, I recall, of roughly the same area as a CD jewel case, which is consistent with the size you describe.
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Your "random" is also called probability.
The spots on his skin are believed to have been caused by the radiation exposure.
Thanks for your personal story. It was fascinating.

Do you think you could write about it at length in the future? I'd love to read more.
I'd take your advice 50 years ago. It is way too late for such milquetoast measures now.

Even best coal plants given perfect fuel produce a lot of CO2 per MWh. This not counting mining and energy required to purify coal.

Oil is even harder to clean up and there is just not enough natural gas.
The Bayesian Regret of Approval Voting is radically BETTER than with IRV.

http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html