skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huge economies of scale, existing relationships, need for a lot of startup capital, likely local resistance to establishing a meat-packing plant, etc.
> I think the only thing toxic here is how you write and view other humans and your fellow countrymen as inferior beings.

Eh, might be toxic. Might be a natural human response to seeing the majority of his countrymen accept propaganda without question. You don't know this guy. For me his comment read more like a frustrated individual than someone that thinks he is superior.

I imagine similar trends can be found in many countries, including the US. The desire to belong is strong, and sometimes it's in our best interest to think less and cheer more.
This is great news. I wish Tesla and Solarcity all the best. I wish you can render Trump's policies meaningless and help our world to survive.

BTW. After my school in Germany, I had my civilian service in a society called "Solar City <redacted>". It made my mind about alternative energy and it will never change!
I wrote an iPhone app called "iLoci" [1] that was based on the Method of Loci [2], which had a gestural interface that let you construct and navigate your own networks of locations by dragging rooms around and "kissing" them together to connect and disconnect them. Another way to think of it is as a pie menu editor.

Later I elaborated on the idea in a Unity prototype called MediaGraph [2], which lets you arrange your music in an editable gesture navigable map.

[1] iPhone app iLoci by Don Hopkins @ Mobile Dev Camp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ddG3jWF98

A talk about iLoci, an iPhone app and server based on the Method of Loci for constructing a Memory Palace, by Don Hopkins, presented at Mobile Dev Camp in Amsterdam.

[2] Method of Loci: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

[3] MediaGraph Music Navigation with Pie Menus Prototype developed for Will Wright's Stupid Fun Club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KfeHNIXYUc

This is a demo of a user interface research prototype that I developed for Will Wright at the Stupid Fun Club. It includes pie menus, an editable map of music interconnected with roads, and cellular automata.

It uses one kind of nested hierarchical pie menu to build and edit another kind of geographic networked pie menu.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050715-14/?p=...:

"if you delete some file "File with long name.txt" and then create a new file with the same name, that new file will have the same short name and the same creation time as the original file."

It might open a security can of worms, but there might be a safe way to do that for those essential Linux attributes, too, for example if the program deleting the file has write permissions on it.
Well, luckily, my contract does have a clause stating that any party needs to let the other party know in advance that they are leaving the position / getting fired, so I will not have a problem with that.
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I'm aware of the distinction, but wasn't sure how technical the person I was addressing was. ;)
JSON generator
In the past few months, I was working on a project where it was needed to consume some JSON objects from some web service that should be developed by another team. I wanted to test my part of the software separately, but I didn't manage to find a decent online tool that should provide JSON structure via REST. So I decided to build one on my own. After some time of refactoring and visual redesigning, it went live. You can find it on
http://json-gen.com/
All thoughts and suggestions about it are welcome.
What.CD Nukes Data After Servers Seized
I Don’t Want to Be Mad at White Americans…But I Am
I've come to hate the term elite. The fact that I enjoy imported goods and benefit from immigrant labor does not make me some sort of snob or powerful tycoon laughing at the devastation in the rust belt. It makes me a dude who eats at taco trucks and drives a VW.
The fact that they can't even think that they might want to be able to say "I value my human rights" at some point is severely worrying. Bunch of philosophical zombies.

If they're anything other than white skinned, blue eyed, blonde haired, heterosexual, male, centrist-politically leaning (or one of the other few extremely simplistic predefined options - analogy: the block-shapes-through-the-board children's game) - history called. It's got some advice to give - but, of course, barely anyone is listening. (except the government. No, they're listening plenty... just not to history - they're too busy listening to the sound of hubris!)
A real shame, but I'm honestly surprised it lasted so long after Oink. Being the largest private torrent tracker is having a big target on your back.
The top comment right now says

>It's a choice between center-right "left" that's sold out to the establishment and the far right.

I came here hoping there would be a more open discussion then on reddit, but it's the same crowd.
If we don't have unity then what do we get instead?

Difference. Diversity.

If different nations aren't equal partners than what are they?

I can't think of a definition of "equal partners" that makes sense here.

partly because of their beliefs that at times seem to override any rational argument

This is a condescending and bad-faith argument.
Yeah I agree. Full of shit. Seems like a gorilla marketing tactic for have I been pawned. I definitely feel as though i have been pawned now.

The data is not hacked and therefore you are legally entitled to expose via your HIPD service. When I mentioned that the IPs were exposed they were taken down in less than a couple of minutes. Yet 18 minutes after you replied saying that you contacted "someone" to take them down. Clever way to get on the front page of hacker news. Right out of the politics of fear playbook :) Have we been pwned?? Yes we have.

Traffic whore.

"One of the key projects I'm involved in today is Have I been pwned? (HIBP), a free service that aggregates data breaches and helps people establish if they've been impacted by malicious activity on the web. As well as being a useful service for the community, HIBP has given me an avenue to ship code that runs at scale on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, one of the best ways we have of standing up services on the web today."
Files on Windows don't have attributes. Files on an NTFS volume may have extended attributes associated with them but you'll need to go out of your way to find them and doing so has never been a requirement of working with files on Windows. Not supporting an obscure non-mandatory thing hardly constitutes "broken".

An editor which just kept the existing attributes would still end up with incorrect time stamps - so now all Windows apps need to know how to handle Linux file attributes? Nope - because these files were never meant to be edited by Windows apps. And it works best that way.
Well I have a very nice router that shows me all of the traffic on my network and I certainly do not see 5 GB of data going to Microsoft on any day.
> before he left he did mention to me how boring it had gotten.

God save us from executives who think that the purpose of business is to entertain them.
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How is gripping more productive? I'm not disabled, but much prefer grippless handles because they are easier/simpler to use.
I'm speechless...utterly speechless. As with all pirate sites, it's always been "just a matter of time" but WCD has been around for so long it felt like that time would never come.

This is an extremely sad day for me, as there are members of the community I will likely never get in touch with again. Only one has me added on Tox, the rest would message me through WCD. This sucks...and that's an understatement.
Well I doubt that zombies would readily suck up that much time, but VCs would rather all their portfolio companies take bigger risks if it increased the chances of a runaway success. Much better for a VC if twice as many of their companies fail, but they get just one more unicorn. All the returns come from unicorn companies, it follows a power law distribution.
The Registrar's policy language makes so many exceptions for themselves that you'd have better odds playing roulette:

https://knockknockwhoisthere.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/dot...

"We are not bound to select a winner among RFP
respondents and may hold the Domain Name for future allocation."

"We may activate and allocate to ourselves or third parties certain Domain Names (plus their IDN variants, where applicable) deemed necessary for the operation or the promotion of TLD."

"the Registry makes no guarantees or warranties as to whether any applicant will be successful in registering any Registry Domain Name."
That's how democracy works. Are you against democracy?
Not that I plan to spite Google, but this is one reason I use Google Takout to download all of my data (photos, email, etc.) periodically.
Serious question: Exactly how would R help here? Do you have an example perhaps?
1. CTO-grade developers aren't cheap, but they aren't scarce either. You either need to pay for their skills (employee/contractor) or convince them to spend their time on your idea (prove you can sell, market, and/or fund the enterprise as a cofounder).

2. Stay in Buffalo until you have something to show investors. Maybe even stay there afterward. Rents will bleed your company dry before it makes it out of the crib.

3. Use your imagination. Many coders of skill don't have compsci degrees and none would bat an eye at your background if you claimed you were an expert developer. Much more impressive would be the ability to sell and market and get funding for your ideas.

4. Computer History Museum, Google's campus (a little networking can net you a free lunch there), Land's end, Ocean Beach, 2nd & Market (SF).

5. If you can't sell to save your life, commit to building a project yourself and avail yourself to online code courses to learn the craft as you build.
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Educating them of what, though?
World’s largest music torrent site goes dark after French police seize servers
I've been a MB fan for a long time, recently found these scritps, https://github.com/murdos/musicbrainz-userscripts, to help import some other albums they were missing from https://www.discogs.com
I initially took this to mean Uber was taking a stance on Taiwanese independence, thankfully not the case.
The $7,500 are US-only. Tesla cars are popular outside of the US too. Also, with the new Gigafactory, battery prices will come down. So Tesla has the ability to reduce costs, and if they decide to, reduce prices.
I didn't claim an iron law of meaning, I said it's "a little bit true." It was my attempt at making a nuanced, if short, observation.
this piece just highlights something that is well understood by a lot of people: non-rich/first-time founders and investors don't have aligned interests until the founders cash out.

of course the VC prefers you die over you stopping to take risks. duh? they don't make money on cashflow positive companies. however, a lot of cashflow positive companies are really good outcomes for the founders and employees. as a founder, you ought to consider this before raising money.
> The async/await API's and their rigid nature was torture

Way better than callback hell. The only awkwardness surrounds streams of tasks.

Operator overloading is a necessity. Matrices, big integers and so on, all require the familiar operators for clear code. Type inference is here to stay, and every new language has it. The fact that every language is also trying to adopt a streaming API like LINQ should also tell you something.

I'm afraid you're on the losing side of history on all of these points. C# does include a lot, and I would certainly prefer a single uniform abstraction to handle many things, ie. generators and async/await can be unified under coroutines or something similar, but the proliferation of "kitchen sink" features is not nearly as bad as you imply.
Yes, I'm purposely suppressing the unused variable warning with the (void)y;, because presumably real code will actually do something with the value: I could've printed y or left out that line, whatever, the compilers still don't warn about the actual major problems.
What altered the course of my life trajectory significantly. I've checked the site daily for the past eight years. RIP.
I think what's sad about this is the users who will believe that it was a fault of Linux that their files disappeared and as a result they will stay with MS.
Stellar parallax was the key to it; Brahe, in particular, insisted that if there was no stellar parallax, there was no reason to prefer Galileo's system over his. If memory serves, stellar parallax was only demonstrated in the 1800s -- whereupon the Church issued a statement that Galileo's model was right after all.
Why can't they?

I mean, yes, obviously, it's rude and unpleasant to say "I don't have time for you because you're not making enough money," but it's a lot more unpleasant to say "I'm firing you and all your employees even though you're making a profit because you keep asking for favors and it's annoying."
Most importantly, a stable API which can be concurrently used by multiple processes.

Getting/setting single values in a plain text config file is cumbersome and error-prone, and even if there's a library which is able to read that particular format, it often clobbers comments and formatting. For systems administration, you usually solve this by generating the entire config file from a template since nothing on the server should change your config files anyway.

However, on the desktop, many different application want to read and write keys. Tray applets, the system config panel, even your media player... They would inevitably conflict and you'd have to implement file-based locking.

Another topic: real-time notifications. If you modify the text size in the Gnome Control Panel, what happens is that the panel modifies the value in dconf and dconf sends a notification to all running Gnome applications. You could implement this using inotify, but you'd need code in each of your applications to open the config file, parse it and figure out which setting actually changed.

Single dconf lookups are really fast since everything is zero-copy and doesn't involve any syscalls. This is much faster than opening, reading and parsing config files.

dconf doesn't aim to replace all plain text config files. Storing the i3 or SSH configuration in dconf would be stupid (or even using dconf on a server to begin with).
Are there no backups out there that could be shared? Isn't that something TPB did, create a torrent of all the torrents and metadata about them? Then at least all that information would not be lost.
Unified humanity is a 'noble' goal for a self-fulfilling, tautological reason: it's defined to be noble by those promoting it. It's an endgame that assumes that resource competition between smaller subgroups will be nonexistent, and that the path to prosperity is mutually-beneficial trade or altruism.

The fact remains, while a rising tide may lift all ships, it doesn't lift all ships equally -- and in developed countries, the wage-earning, non-tertiary-sector classes are left holding smaller relative pieces of the pie than before. Yes, chances are those jobs will have been lost to automation sooner or later. Yes, chances are those jobs are never coming back. But a manufacturing worker in the United States can lose their job to someone on the other side of the globe lifting foreign workers out of poverty, while real wages continue to stagnate [1][2] in the US. Cheaper foreign-made merchandise doesn't help a domestic family pay for homes, higher education (which is a way of buying job security), healthcare. At a certain point, people will start asking, "but what's in it for me?", which shouldn't be surprising.

[1] http://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/ [2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...
Hmm... I'm not too sure about that. Any examples?

Show file extensions is disabled by default. I'll always go in and change that. But I can't think of a time where I've had to go into a system file before.
An API for Atomic operations with files.

There are APIs in windows apparently. A quick Google search reveals function like CreateDirectoryTransacted, and another quick search reveals that the Kernel leaves this kind of thing up to the filesystem. So on Linux filesystems like ZFA and BTRFS just use the normal posix file APIs and others can optionally provide other functions if they choose to.

So yeah... The whole make a file and rename it thing is dirty hack.

EDIT - Grammar
This war on sharing is quite insane.
Really nice article.

Last week I was at Websummit in Lisbon. Right after Trump won the election, there was a lot of noise about it and almost every talk included some comments about where the world is going to. Sadly one of the talks was about AI and robots, which included a demo of a robot, that was promised to "Replace people in child-care, public service, restaurants, etc.". Boy, I was so shocked when they said that. The only way that you can fix this statement is with the follow up : "Once we have the basic income, technology won't be so unfair".
Alt-right is just a meaningless catch-all term to describe someone who is sarcastic and "not-liberal."

Unfortunately, this isn't true. There definitely is movement afoot on the right side of the spectrum that distinguishes itself from the standard U.S. "conservative" camp of roughly the mid-1960s to present in many disturbing ways (open and enthusiastic embrace of race-baiting techniques, climate change denialism, and an abdiding belief that political correctness is basically the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced) that many traditional conservatives actually find quite ridiculous and/or outright repugnant.

The WP entry may not be the best, but for further research here are two fairly cogent descriptions you may consult, from two (otherwise, in a normal world) diametrically opposed sources -- NPR and Glenn Beck.

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/26/491452721/the-history-of-the-a...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/15/politics/glenn-beck-bannon-app...

Like Beck says, while Trump supporters generally cannot be fairly categorized as alt-right, "they are being influenced without knowing it."
> I'm worried about their plans to switch to LXQt.

Is there something in LXDE that's missing in LXQt?
I would pay $200/month for a legal service of the quality of what.cd. Someone on reddit called it "burning down of the library of Alexandria of digital music" and it's absolutely true.

Absolutely nothing compared to the quality of the library aspect of what.cd.
We use it along with the GitLab omnibus package so install and setup was very straightforward. It's great and has handled everything we've thrown at it; no complaints whatsoever.
> Eating less meat or a carbon tax (i.e taxing the working poor) is not a solution.

As for taxing the poor, that's fixable: the legislation should have all revenues from a carbon tax returned as per-capita "rebates" (I'd think of it as a Basic Income paid for by polluters).
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I thought you were contesting the bigger argument that Russia's economy is stagnating, since the link you provided did not contradict anything else (there was no reference to China).
Thanks! I sent you an email.
Wow. I never thought I'd see this day. Perhaps I'm naive, but What.CD has weathered so many storms and has maybe the most involved community of any private tracker I've been a part of, including many members who were musicians that distributed their music freely. What.CD was so much more than just a place to download music, it was a place to /understand/ music, to discover the essence of musical styles across the entire history of recording and from all over the world. I know of no similar resource in existence anywhere, for any price, or any cause.

This is in essence the same as if we were watching the greatest art and history museums burn to the ground, except in digital form. A sad day indeed!
I thought communication skills meant grammar and not saying "umm".

I was retarded. I did not know Iron Maiden was gay until 2006, age 36, when I thought about Queens of the Stone Age.

I could leave you as a retard nigger, but I will explain that marketing involves picking automobile names that are good in all countries. This requires understand how people feel about words. When you make a TV commercial, you have to be on a higher level than you people are. You have to know what video will make a person feel good about the car in a certain way. You have to understand nerds and punks and freaks and jocks, and women etc.

A President can say a phrase that you young men will not understand the way old men understand.

God says...
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The State department has gone after companies that had no US presence, they did so on the basis of Americans using the website which they feel gives them jurisdiction. It's very similar to that.
Unity tip: Use the windows key + number to start or switch between programs. Then when you've learned the keys you can hide the menu bar.
Some prevailing climate models indicated that beyond a certain CO2 concentration, the temperature will continue to spiral upwards continuously, even if there are no further CO2 increases. At that point it would be necessary to reduce the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. It is far more difficult to capture CO2 than it is to abstain from releasing it at this time.
> How are they not better? I'm pretty sure European swords never had that neat feature of higher hardness at the blade than at the back side, giving the sword better strength while still staying sharp on the cutting edge.

I'm not sure where you got that idea. Any well made sword of that era would have a softer core and harder edges.

Japanese swordsmiths used folding to do that, a type of pattern welding. At the time swordsmiths all across Europe and Asia were using different, equally good pattern welding techniques. The Japanese technique was one of the more complicated ones, because they had worse iron.

Damascus blades are the best example of pattern welding. They were made of the highest quality steel (at the time).

Japaneses swords were well made, and comparable to European swords of the time, but not better or worse.
We could indeed prevent the next ice age.

We would be idiots to do it, but we could. (An ice age would push a temperate climate onto the fucking Sahara. That's a lot of new farmland...)
Thanks! By essentially I did mean actually, or literally (in the literal sense (in the literal sense (in the literal sense ...))). ;) http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/essentially
They hit the self-destruct button. It's reasonable to expect that it's all gone at this point. The community will have to build something new and hopefully more resilient this time.
>COFEE a forensics tool made by Microsoft for law enforcement was leaked.

Not to be confused with user "coffee". Dude was a legend.
I've left the system files invisible at least since installing Windows 10, and it hasn't once been a problem. I can't remember if it was always this way, or if it's a recent addition, but there's a separate option for showing hidden files and folders. (With this ticked, system files remain hidden, so this one is a much easier tick to recommend, if you're technically-minded. You get to see %USERPROFILE%\AppData, which you'll probably want, but not stuff like hiberfil.sys and boot.ini, which you need much more rarely.)
...or Judaism and Christianity ?
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