skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A real tragedy. More than a torrent tracker, What.cd was a beautiful, vibrant, and positive community. Knowing someone in real-life who was a fellow What.cd'er was enough to form an immediate friendship. (Knowing someone who'd give you an invite was another way ;)

I found high-fidelity versions of albums, singles and EPs I couldn't find anywhere else on What.cd. It was faster, more thorough, and cleaner than every other music resource (let alone torrent tracker) around. When I was young and broke, it was my primary way of engaging with music, discovering bands that I'd never heard of, and to this very day remained a crucial part of my music discovery "stack".

With that said, What.cd had been dying a slow death for a while now. With the rise of Spotify et al., the need for a private torrent tracker and the requisite accessories (seedboxes, external HDs) has been dimming. What.cd used to be far-and-away my #1 music resource; today it was probably the 3rd or 4th, suitable for finding obscure releases or ones unavailable on streaming sites because of byzantine licensing deals. Back in the day though, What.cd was THE SPOT for hearing popular releases before anyone else. Today, leaks are less prominent, as labels have gotten tighter about protecting their music, and musicians have gotten savvier and prefer to "leak stuff" themselves. For that reason, total download numbers on What.cd have been in decline for years, the community has gotten a bit quieter, although it's still been an extremely valuable resource to fill in the gaps between all the big music streamers.

A truly sad day. RIP What.cd. You will be missed.
Moral is a human construct and as such it is subjective.

Anyhow, I said that the life on earth survived a couple of disastrous events and still flourishes. Life will flourish wether the coast is under water or not. There were times when there wasn't any coast at all, or it was somewhere else. And does it really make a difference?

You won't see anything of the war of resources except you live for 200 years. You may take care too much about things you will never see and can not have an impact on.
Two strings walk into a bar.

The first string says, "I'll have a rum and coke."

The second string says, "Same here.#uu6€^My¥ZZ~~0◀<bell><bell><bell><tab>000x[,_5"

And the first says, "Sorry, my friend here's not null terminated."
Why should Russia allow a US company to mine private data about its citizens on a large scale when it is known that the US government basically can force any US company to hand over any data it desires.

That's why they have passed a law whereby private data from social networks about its citizens has to be stored within Russia and must not be transmitted to any other country.

Linkedin knew that but they ignored it, probably because it didn't make economic sense for them

You can argue if it is acceptable or not for a government to step in and prevent foreign governments from acquiring such data about its population, but calling people stupid like you did frankly makes _you_ look stupid.
> Lennart wrote a pretty good summary of why journald exists [...]

Of the reasons he wrote it, half of them is not met by journald, and the other
half could be implemented without much trouble on top of syslog. Hard to call
it "holding up to scrutiny pretty well".

And I fail to see how journald is better than syslog in the age of containers.
Quote from his documents about tls DECRYPTION (exactly decryption) would be much more convincing than "oh there is a ton".
> an import tariff equal to the equivalent embedded CO2.

That's an impossible number to calculate. For example: A plant powered entirely by solar cells. Do you tax them for the CO2 embedded in manufacturing those solar cells?

How far down do you go? Do you have to calculate the CO2 emitted by your employees via the money you pay them? Because if you don't your wage costs are lower than wages costs in the US, where you have to pay your employees extra to cover CO2 taxes.

Also, don't forget to give American manufacturers CO2 tax credit for exports, or you will make American exporting too expensive.

But doing that leads to the insane result that shipping American goods overseas, buying it there, then shipping it back, is cheaper than buying it locally. (No one pays tariffs on small imports when you buy on Ebay for example, only bulk imports are taxed.)

That's why "why not" - it's simply too complicated. (I'm all for it mind you, if it could be done. But I don't think it can be done.)
There's a difference between democracy and ochlocracy ("mob rule").
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First we'd have to stop the massive deforestation that's happening right now. A lot of that is for agriculture, so we'd have to find another way to feed those people.

We might also want to stop clearcutting vast forests in the Southeastern U.S. to ship wood pellets to Europe, which burns them.

Then we'd have to save the rest of our existing forests, many of which are struggling due to various effects of climate change, including heat stress, drought, topsoil loss, disease, and forest fires. Many large forests are net carbon emitters now.

After we've done all that and finally stopped losing trees, we can think about having more trees. We'll need space for them, so that means reducing agricultural area even more. We've been emitting about ten billion tons of carbon every year for quite a while, so it's going to take a lot of land.

We're also running out of fish in the ocean, so with that food source going away we're going to need more from agriculture than we get now.

"Just plant trees." Like many, perhaps even most purported climate change solutions, it sounds great until you work out the scale.
> But, we have power to fix these things within the bounds of our nation and refuse to do it.

We do not. Increase minimum wages, and we increase inflation and the unemployment rate. You cannot legislate prosperity. You can legislate poverty though, as Venezuela found out.

> We have more influence over our country than any other.

We are the consumers of the world. If we suddenly stopped buying consumer electronics/clothing unless it was responsibly sourced and three times (at minimum) the price they were today, don't you think labor conditions would become suddenly far better?

You cannot legislate morality. You can coerce it through economic pressures and incentives, but just legislating that people have to be nice to each other doesn't work. Hasn't worked throughout history, won't be starting now.
Where's your evidence that the Catholic church did not consider the heliocentric view heretical?
Enzymes from nine organisms combined to create new pathway to use CO2
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It's social engineering, not tls decryption.
It's not that most of these questions are assumed, or that they're forbidden to talk about, it's that they're so obvious it's not even interesting to discuss.

> Why is diversity good?

If I need heart surgery, I want the most qualified heart surgeon. Not the most qualified white person born within N miles of me.

> Why is it better to not offend people rather than preserve free speech?

Free speech is doing quite well, it has never been easier to express yourself to a huge audience.

> Why should you lose your job if you make a joke in public that some people deem offensive?

Many people would rather find a new job than work with jerks. Companies are trying to protect the bottom line and it's easier to replace one person than many.
> Obviously you do write code in the course of providing those results

Well, then you _are_ being paid to write code. We can yammer on all day about how we're adding value, but the programming skill and talent has to be there first. So you're both being paid for the value of your skills (being able to code proficiently and efficiently) _and_ for increasing the equity or profit of the business.

An analogy might help. When I pay a contractor to add improvements to my house my goals is to increase my home equity. So I am paying for value. But I'm also paying for his skill. Because if I get an unskilled contractor I might end up underwater. An unskilled contractor can cause me to go backwards, where the cost of fixing his bad work costs more than the equity boost. The same dynamic applies for bad programmers. Skill is the primary driver that causes any increase in value.

> but they are the minimum code required to deliver results.

We're not looking for the minimum amount code, but the best solution. Writing tests will add overhead to your code. At a minimum you could leave them out. But the benefits of rigorous testing can justify the investment of time.
Hah, I tried using Connman for a while instead of NM, and I cannot vouch for its superiority.

It's been over a year since I've switched away (to gasp systemd-networkd with vanilla wpa_supplicant), so I can't recall the exact reasons, but I think it was because of lack of doc, terrible debugability, and bad behavior when dealing with multiple known wifi networks.
The answer lies in the fact that the amount of heat to get the surface of the Earth from 1 -> 3°C is not so huge, but when the amounts of heat to get the surface temperature to 4-6° exists in the Earth there will be tremendous tectonic activity.
I've become beyond paranoid, there is clearly some secret IRC channel where the alt-right that are too sophisticated for 4chan are coordinating. The pile-on in HN has become like an intellectualized version of Facebook comments at this point
He expended orders of magnitude more effort on the ground campaigning for himself weeks later. Of course, one campaign might have involved him sharing a platform with other political parties (more unacceptable, in Jeremy Corbyn's head, than attending IRA funerals or events run by SWP front groups that fellow leftists pointedly asked him to boycott) and preferably not use his supposedly pro-EU speeches to dismiss the economic arguments they'd made in favour of staying in the EU. The other involved attend rallies of people that had turned out to deliver him unquestioning applause and adulation.

It's Corbyn's closest ally in the Labour Party who is now suggesting that anyone with the temerity to still think leaving the EU is a bad idea is "on the side of certain corporate elites". That's certainly not following the lead of the membership.

On the Snooper's Charter he abstained, and whipped his party into abstaining. You can't blame anybody but Jeremy Corbyn for that.
There was actually an arrangement where Archive.org saved a copy of all the metadata that was added to the site. It should still live on in that capacity.
Depends where you're running your VPN. If you're running it on a server in the US they might not have access to that information.
This. I use WSL daily and edit in both Linux & Windows... but the files I'm dealing with are in a directory structure that set up on the windows side and I get to them through /mnt/<drive letter>. Completely painless for me.

I do have to occasionally edit Linux config files and whatnot and, yes, I do that with emacs or vim (depending on mood), but it's honestly not often and I personally prefer the terminal based editors in Linux for that better (yeah, a preference thing there... ).

Anyway, been working like this since before the Anniversary Update on the later insider builds and it's been pretty solid and seamless for me.
Economic models for security spending at a startup
Your argument as to why the compiler won't warn you about problems is to show an example where you purposefully supress the warnings the compiler gives you.

I honestly don't think we should continue this conversation.
Choosing a CMS?
Fortunately, sea ice does not contribute much to the sea level because it displaces about the same volume it will add when melted.
"The culture of offence-taking, platform-denying, and heckler-vetoing—now spreading ever outward from the campuses—lets loudmouths and thugs present themselves as heroes of free thought."

The question is, "how do you deny audience?"
By all reports, Trump can't stay focused on any one thing more than a few minutes, whether it was 20 years ago talking to reporters, people working for him, whatever. So he's not likely to be the person who will care about a long term, non-immediate risk.

I still can't believe someone like him can be president. If Jeb Bush had won, I would have been a little disappointed, but I would have gone to sleep and not worried that much about it. But he's terrifying. Maybe he'll just be unable to accomplish anything, so he will self-block, doing as much as obama with republican congress. More likely is he won't be in touch and pence can do whatever he wants.
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So now you can hide the fact that white supremacists are sending you money? F!@#ing weird example.

But no one has a problem with the meth cook example??
> Network Manager

What's wrong with Network Manager? Show me any other network manager which handles split DNS, WWAN modems and automatically connecting VPNs out of the box with zero configuration.
People seeking counseling because they are worried for their rights after a Trump's election are no different than those people who stocked up on guns and ammo after Obama's election. Obama made his stance on issues clear in 2008, just has Trump has in 2016, and the people most affected by these stances are justified in their reactions.

This is really just an attempt to infantilize people who have legitimate concerns regarding their future and this legislative bullying seems like proof that a lot of peoples' concerns regarding the nation's legislative direction is merited.

I was one of those people calling for us to "wait and see" what happens, but it's becoming more clear by the day that the people in power with a negative opinion of people who are not white, American-born, christians have been galvanized and will attempt to squelch their rights and opinions as much as possible.
Yeah, this is what I'm talking about. I find your answers unconvincing and based on unspoken assumptions that aren't necessarily true.
um, what?
It seems pretty obvious that accessibility is always going to require extra thought

Actually, I think this extra thought could help everyone by treating disabilities as just special cases of the general idea that different people prefer different input/output devices and having apps (mostly) stop processing low-level input (keystrokes, pixel hit testing) and switch to handling more abstract "primitives".

The OS would have a set of more abstract primitives: enter text, zoom in, zoom out, rotate, 3d move, 3d rotate, select item, select 2d region, select 3d region, deselect, grab, cancel, undo, etc. You, the user, would need a set of I/O devices that provided one or more implementations of each primitive in the checklist.

One user would send an "undo" to an app with a click of the tongue, another with a hand gesture, another by pressing the ESC key, but the app just gets an "undo" event from the OS.

For 2d region select, for example, one would use a joystick, another uses voice, another uses eye movement. The app doesn't process pixel hit testing to do its own region select, it lets the OS tell it what region of the 2d surface was selected. The app makers don't make the app "accessible" themselves, they just make it respond to the checklist of higher-level primitives.

You could provide at least the core functionality of most apps by this means after which an app could possibly add some lower-level processing in the form of "shortcuts".

When I'm forced to use a watch interface away from my keyboard, I am in a sense "disabled". When driving in my car with eyes on the road, I am "disabled". I'm not a gamer, so relative to a gamer with mad joystick skillz, I am "disabled". Well, fine, just change the approach to software interaction to a more abstract type of interaction that treats us all as being variously abled.
It's mentioned at the end of the article but it's not the main message. The reason it's mentioned is to give the argument why China will have to reduce their own emissions, no matter what other countries do. Then it concludes that Trump should understand the same that China has to understand: "Decoupling emissions from economic growth thus helps both people and planet."
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>The people voted in Trump

Well no. The people voted in Clinton, and the Electoral College upweighted some votes and downweighted others in a way that favors Trump. The EC once had a distinct purpose, but right now just seems to give Republicans a structural advantage, to the ultimate detriment of Democrats and Democrat-leaners in small or rural states.
Santa Barbara - $4.99-11.99/lb for chicken breast. I imagine real estate has a lot to do with pricing.
A brutal chart from Bridgewater explains the rise of Trump
Extremely scary.

Even junior sysadmin seeing chart[1] like this one in article would say something wrong with the 'system'.

[1] https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp-co...
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It's an interesting theory but I doubt he has looked that far ahead. What you have laid out would be something more along the lines of US Strategic Thinking for the next 100 years.

The one thing most folks over look is how far are we ready to go to protect America? Global warming will unleash the largest migration the world has ever seen. There will be more than 2.5 billion people trying to escape somewhere more hospitable. You will have millions showing up on your shores from the far reaches of the world. An example is the 400 Sri Lankans that showed up in a boat off the coast of British Columbia 3 years ago. What to do? At some point there could be a million people showing up on the shores of North America (US/Canada) every month, can you imagine the chaos.
Lol! (can I lol here?)

Reading "The culture of offence-taking, platform-denying, and heckler-vetoing", my first thought was of the US Congress for the past 20 years or so.
Repeat of study should be the bare minimum. We are in a situation where lot of underlining assumptions are false. It's hard for common people to experiment science but lets examine something that everybody can experiment daily. Nutritional science. It turns out most of the findings are complete bs or paid by special interests. Probably its not as bad elsewhere but faces similar issues presented in The Economist article.
That how our Representative Democracy works. Each system has its own way of voting and counting; that's ours.
"Your honor, by his own admission this man hasn't eaten in days. He owes me money!"
Can someone point me to a URL with an arguably good prediction of how these increasing temperatures would negatively effect the ecosystem specifically? Are we talking mass extinctions? More powerful storms/more extreme weather events? And/or something else?
> [Microsoft strongly recommends developers utilize alternative means to achieve your application’s needs. Many scenarios that TxF was developed for can be achieved through simpler and more readily available techniques. Furthermore, TxF may not be available in future versions of Microsoft Windows. For more information, and alternatives to TxF, please see Alternatives to using Transactional NTFS.]
> The ones "rambling on" are the conservatives. They invented this issue, and immediately started to legislate it.

That is ridiculous. We've had gender separated restrooms for the longest time. It's only until now that social mores weren't enough to enforce the fact that you're just not supposed to use a restroom not of your gender, except for children with their parent under a certain age.

A law is a heavy handed way to solve the discomfort of most people, but it was passed in a state by its elected legislature. Since the Constitution doesn't say anything about sexual relations or orientation at all, it devolves to state rights.

> But if that is a problem, again, your team created it. You are the party of legislating bathrooms and bedrooms. Own it.

We are owning it. We're owning it because people aren't respecting long held social norms because of certain ideas of justice they have. Get over yourself. When a majority of people in a political jurisdiction believe a certain thing, either learn to live with it or move.

> This "out of touch" rhetoric is being heavily pushed by the right-wing apparatchik, and I am sure that you would rather be able to have your own opinions rather than the ones that the Party thinks you should have.

Ad hominem much? I have not attacked you personally at all, and you're insulting my ability to have my own opinions on thin evidence. I repeat points in the media because they make sense. Heck, I repeat facts every day. The mere fact that I repeat them so often doesn't make them less true.

Also, the left has been the political leaning that has clamped down heavily on thought crime and dissent. Note that Milo Yiannopoulos is far right, as he found the left far too stifling intellectually.
What do you mean by "flourish"?

Increasing biodiversity?
I liked What for the discovery part. You could fine some truely great obscure music by combining the right set of tags.
I'm more talking about the culture between the two types of OS than this specific occurrence. The whole attitude of "well, why the fuck were you in there anyway?" is not something I've encountered in *nix.
You've described the basic merger arbitrage strategy. There are many hedge funds that exclusively do this type of stuff.

It's risky though. When a deal doesn't go through you can lose a lot more than 12%
I haven't driven the new Focus/Fiesta ST/RS, but I test drove the previous gen manual Mustang GT. Ford took all of the feel and feedback out of the gearbox, clutch, and steering of that car. I think that they were trying to hit a broader demographic by making things feel smooth and approachable, but I hated it.

Do you feel like the Fiesta is similar?
> Cars are designed so that you stop the car by pressing the brake pedal, so that is generally the better way to do it.

I wasn't speaking of coming to a complete stop, only of slowing down with the flow of traffic. I should have worded it better, I'm sorry.

> Using the brake pedal is a single action. Engine braking involves at least 3 (clutch in, shift, clutch out).

But if you're already downshifting while slowing down, which you should be, it's actually not extra effort. It's completely natural.

> Brakes are cheaper to replace than clutch/transmission.

That entirely depends on the vehicle and the type of clutch. In my extensive experience (I repair cars on the side, and have done so my entire adult life) the parts themselves often cost about the same. For example, when restoring my Bronco II I bought a clutch kit for $150 and a full set of front brake rotors, pads, and new calipers for about $200.

On my Crown Victoria, which was formerly a police vehicle and therefore has the upgraded heavy duty disc brakes on all four wheels, a shop quoted me $700 for a brake job. The parts alone were $350 through them. Of course I saved a ton by doing it myself, but most people can't or won't do that. The labor for a clutch swap versus a brake job is, again, dependent on the complexity of the vehicle. Most manuals still in use in the US are older model cars, with relatively easy to replace clutch parts.

> The only exception is when...hauling a heavy load.

Which I specifically spoke of. :-)

> The default instinct should be the brake pedal alone.

In an automatic, yes. In a manual, only when needing to stop suddenly or when you've downshifted to 2nd or 1st and you're stopping altogether.
Yeah and some people still want a typewriter. They can have one. That doesn't make it any more useful than the one trick device it is.