skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I remember the big switch from 2.49 to 2.5 with the UI redesign. Took some getting used to but honestly it's quite well thought out, pretty good looking, and productive. The modal aspect is a little weird especially if you're not used to vim, but it's definitely one of the better designed UIs IMO.
The unsoundness is more straightforward than that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051659

By passing `null`, the compiler doesn't notice that the type constraints are irrational, leading to a violation - to satisfy them, it'd need an Integer superclass which is a subclass of String.

Arguably that's fine, since the null can't be used to do anything - it's perfectly "safe" to insert a `String x = null;` into a `new ArrayList<Integer>().add(x)` for instance, since it's just a null. But writing that code gives you a compiler error since it isn't allowed by the type system - writing the same thing via generics should too, but instead it fails at runtime.
The segment registers fs and gs still exist in x86-64 and are used.

Under Windows gs (under x86-32 fs) points to the Thread Information Block (TIB):

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32_Thread_Information_Block

Under Linux gs is used for thread-local storage (TLS).

But "as a typical programmer" indeed you only have to worry about the internal details of this if you are an OS developer, otherwise you can simply use the appropriate segment override prefix and otherwise don't care about it.
Discrimination has its new name: Diversity
Quantifying the cost of assholes on the subway
[Video Tutorial] ArchBang 2016 Installation and Review
كل ما يجب عليك التحقق منه قبل ارسال الملف الى الطباعة
One of the biggest pharmacy chains in the USA (CVS) has stopped sale of tobacco products. You can't even buy a cigarette lighter.
If eating vegetarian is the worst thing that happens to you in hospital, it's been an OK visit.
What do you mean? I'm pretty sure it only clones the minimal necessary.

I.E. if I have {a:{aa:"1"},b:"cc"} and I change b, then {aa:"1"} will not be deep copied.

Are you talking about something like keeping a reference to the parent and sending lookups up the chain (with a prototype or some such?)
It can be healthy if done right http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-he... It is probably a huge improvement over the crap you find in many hospital cafeterias.
One thing I'd love to see is better distributed network rendering. Right now it's neither easy nor intuitive to set up, and last time I tried it (a year or so ago) I couldn't get distributed still rendering to work...
Dense atmospheres also make it much easier to enter, descend, and land (EDL), since they can be used for drag parachutes and atmospheric braking.

The atmosphere on Mars by comparison is awful for landing spacecraft. It has just enough density to jumble the craft's trajectory, so vacuum-based EDL techniques similar to the moon landing are impossible, but it's too thin for atmospheric EDL systems similar to those used on Earth.
Perhaps you could give us your version so that we might compare.
I'm sorry. I was unaware I said they restrict you to eating vegetarian. To service the entire system they have 10 cafeterias across the entire hospital, not including the independent providers that operate on the campus (such as the Wendy's that isn't allowed to serve bacon).

The one vegetarian cafeteria is about making the option available to those whom desire it. The food quality is also much higher.
On the contrary, when people are directly faced with the consequences of poor health decisions it is often a very good time to reinforce the cause and effect that many gloss over because it's not clear and present at the time.
I wonder if this was one of those "shovel ready" projects.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/obama-lesson-s...
That's restricted because it ruins the air of random bystanders, many of whom are in sensitive condition. The case for smoking bans in hospitals would be a lot weaker if people confined their smoking to a scuba apparatus (sorry, redundant). And the case for food restrictions would be a lot stronger if my consumption of soda at a hospital caused sugar to be injected into random bystanders' bloodstreams.
I'd love to see a demo of this so that we could gauge performance and software support.
Yes, meat should be more heavily taxed to reflect its environmental and public health system externalities. Most people should consume less meat, or at least meat produced with less deforestation and fewer carbon emissions.

We would probably be just as healthy, if not more so, with two or three meat-free days a week.
"In this sense all three have ontological force; they codify what is, not how to describe what is already given to us."

What's the difference between "what is" and "what is already given to us"? What's the difference between codifying and describing it?
That first one is pretty funny, but perhaps we can assume the writers have enough science to realise the energy levels issue.

They may have omitted to say it, but I can imagine a fission power plant splitting water into H and O, which would be useful for a portable fuel source for flights, orbital launches, heating of suits and batteries, jetpacks, etc.
This would make me very happy
It's helpful to realize x86 assembly is not what's executed by the machine; machine code is. One assembly instruction, e.g. ADDL, is translated to several different machine code instructions depending on the destination, source, and addressing mode.
tell me which stocks to buy
There is, of course. :)

df -h | awk 'NR==2 {print $4}'
I enjoy writing code somehow but i think the big issue is, that as a software engineere you don't have the feeling that it is a proper job (at least for me).

What i'm doing, i enjoy enough, i have somewhat enough freedom but often enough you bump into your cage wall out of glass. Than you realize, that what you are doing is just a job and the only reason you are doing it, is because of the money.

Of course you could have a job in a factory with low wage, standing and working all day long instead of having a high payed job sitting in front of a computer and doing what you enjoy doing somehow.

But after all it is a job. It is a non fulfilling thing. Something to spend your time with, something the society approved of and appreciated it enough thru good money.

But one day you realize that and still go to work because why would you write code all day long for some software which doesn't solve a problem?

And with problem i mean something meaningful. But it doesn't help. Our society could be perfect but it doesn't want to be and you only look at it from a distance while walking home from your job and feeling more or less entertained from what you did 8-10 hours long.

I don't hate my job, its easy enough, enjoyable enough but that is basically it. And that is with all whats happening in a lifetime anyway.
> Currently, no electricity is being produced from geothermal sources in Switzerland. [...]

> The potential for geothermal electricity production in Switzerland is very high, but there is still a great deal of uncertainty regarding the associated costs and feasibility. [...]

> Experts anticipate that, by 2030, around a dozen geothermal plants will be in operation which will produce a combined total of 800 GWh of electricity.

http://www.bfe.admin.ch/themen/00490/00501/?lang=en

(Nuclear power in Switzerland in 2015 produced 23'000 GWh.)
Haven't read it. Good?
Efficiency with Go channels
Yeah stuff like dma isn't getting enough attention in a lot of treatments of the subjects. Also in/out instructions (did you ever consider how a CPU talks to a HDD)?
This is rediculous. I would take a vacuum any day over an atmosphere that's -300°!!! And it's thicker than earth so the thermal problem will be even worse. It's probably harder to insulate these crazy temps than protect from a vacuum.
It would be great if they provided quality non-vegetarian food as well.
Well, I take issue with the "know it when you see it" characteristic of the piece. Eco accuses fascists, rightly I think, of making no clear distinctions, of thinking in impressions. That's why I'm annoyed that he seems to give up on distinctions himself in characterizing fascism.

I find the "social class" analysis just as unsatisfactory. You might usefully characterze these different tendencies by their rhetoric, but if you insist on looking at them as an "actual implementation", I tend to find that they're just the same side of the same coin - a small state political class enormously empowered, and all other "classes" being simply categories measuring the loyalty and proximity to the state class.
I'll completely pass on software that requires (and bundles!) it's own JDK. I already have the reference implementation installed, honestly programs should use that, not bundle their own.

Anyway, I still gave it a try to see how it works. Looks like they're resolved lots of the visual glitches (especially the most serious ones, like font rendering).

For some reason though, after running the app, I was left with two directories in my home with dumps of configs/cache all mixed up. :/
PiNet, a system for setting up and managing a classroom set of Raspberry Pis
The main benefit I derive from immutability in js is identity comparison (I.E. react's shouldComponentUpdate), I don't find the small performance hit of cloning to make a difference.
Two others in my office read the front page, but quite none of us have yet found invites (not that we've looked hard), but the idea of an invite only community sites feels counter productive
Whether to given name or surname is culturally specific.

I got suspicious last week when someone I don't know sent me a personal email saying "X and the others called my employer and got me fired", using the given name instead of surname for person X, like they knew that person. At first I thought it was a veiled threat, but then I realized I was thinking about how I would address that person and that someone else would address them differently.
All drinking water from the tap in Curacao has been from a huge desalination plant for many years, see also [1].
There's a shortage of water alright, but not drinking water.

I don't know anything about this story, but when I just asked a friend who lives down there it was not known to him.
When I showed him the article he said that it reads more like a first of April joke as anything serious.

For the record, it does not happen much, but it has been raining down there now for 2 whole days.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/feb/18...
VirtualGL is/was used in Bumblebee, the support software for Optimus cards on Linux: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/FAQ#how-...
It's not at Florida Hospital Orlando, for patients and employee's, ANYWHERE on the campus (including that tiny tree that sits on the lake opposite any patients).

Employee's caught smoking on campus lose their health insurance (insurer's policy not FH Orlando's).

Not sure what the written reg is for patients, I just know security will show up if you are smoking and escort you back to your room or off the campus.
Could you elaborate on what you mean here? Im not sure I understand what you're trying to say.
That's the goal of the food court that they'll finish in the next few years.
Light and Thin 64-bit ARM Based Open Source Notebook
So you are agreeing with me that this tactic of plausible deniability with multiple encryption keys works then?

Which is it? Does encryption allow you to hide from the law, or can innocent people just be proclaimed that they are hiding something and that they have to give up keys that don't exist?

It is one or the other, because encryption plus multiple keys makes you 'indistinguishable' from an innocent person who truly cannot give you a key that doesn't exist.
S3 static site with SSL and automatic deploys using Travis
> The price of cities relative to the price of not being in cities continues to grow. I think that’s going to be a major political stress. I actually think that explains a lot of what’s happening in this election.

Interesting way to look at things. Someone in rural Ohio would have many more opportunities in a major city like New York, but they can't move there. They can't afford it.
Both defect and trade-off. I can definitely see value in being able to pass an array of Dogs and treat it as an array of Animals, but it means that the array of Animals is not really an array of animals (because certain properties of a real array of Animals actually cause the code to break) and as a result the language is a little dirtier for it. Like, that's pretty horrible to be honest.

What you really want in that instance is to be able to easily and explicitly cast the Dog[] to Animal[] before calling the method.
A better language would make this easy instead. I think Java's Vector type can do it, so it surprises me that they allow that sort of type weirdness with arrays..
Dereferencing null is allowed at compile time but disallowed at run time; that's what makes it an illegal operation.
Try debian woody or slackware 10, both are from around 2004 and should run on 16Mb of RAM or less

There's also Damn Small Linux which is based on debian woody, you could install dos, then transfer DSL image using a null-modem cable and loadlin to disk and use that to bootstrap it from DOS
> Not deemed safe by whom? The ENSI deemed them safe.

An audit commanded by the Health departments to non goverment related parties points at the vastly under-estimated seismic risk:
http://www.atomschutzverband.ch/xs_daten/Fakten/93_3_Experti...

BTW the operation of nuclear power plant in Switzerland seems to be allowed as long as the ENSI accepts it as safe. Without any knowledge in the matter, I highly doubt there's no tremendous pressure and work done on the ENSI to be more lenient towards risk.
I like Orwell, but you can't see an Eco with an Orwell. For a raise you'd need at least an Orwell, Russel and Huxley.

The fact that people abuse the word fascist, especially its use by the Soviets who used it describe anything Anti-Soviet when they grew bored of calling things imperialist, does not mean that no coherent phenomena exists which has been consistently described as fascist.

A closer reading of your Orwell essay shows that Orwell does believe that fascism is meaningful, mostly he is just complaining that people often abuse the word:

>But still, when we apply the term ‘Fascism’ to Germany or Japan or Mussolini's Italy, we know broadly what we mean. It is in internal politics that this word has lost the last vestige of meaning. For if you examine the press you will find that there is almost no set of people — certainly no political party or organized body of any kind — which has not been denounced as Fascist during the past ten years. Here I am not speaking of the verbal use of the term ‘Fascist’. I am speaking of what I have seen in print. - George Orwell, What is Fascism (1944) [0]

Furthermore note that Orwell wrote this in 1944, the world war hasn't even ended, the histories and analysis we now have access to haven't yet been written. The perspective Orwell has when writing this is fairly limited, as Orwell himself says it is too early to say what fascism is (while admitting it is a political system):

>But Fascism is also a political and economic system. Why, then, cannot we have a clear and generally accepted definition of it? Alas! we shall not get one — not yet, anyway. To say why would take too long, but basically it is because it is impossible to define Fascism satisfactorily without making admissions which neither the Fascists themselves, nor the Conservatives, nor Socialists of any colour, are willing to make. All one can do for the moment is to use the word with a certain amount of circumspection and not, as is usually done, degrade it to the level of a swearword. - George Orwell, What is Fascism (1944) [0]

Eco on the other hand grew up in Fascist and post-Fascist Italy and then studied it for many years. With the distance of time, personal experience and access to the work of historians, it is not surprising Eco has more to say about fascism that Orwell.

[0]: http://orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc
Scotty-format: A response format helper for the Scotty web framework
What would you recommend to try next for someone who liked Steins;Gate (the visual novel)?
> consider the fact that CNN, as usual, did not interview a single student of the private schools or the public schools

What makes you think a student would be able to quantify how qualified a school is? Might as well ask a random movie-goer about cinema fire code violations.

As far as I can tell, this organisation set up schools in a country, didn't share the curriculum with the education board and has unqualified teachers instructing students. This sort of thing should be frowned upon anywhere in the world, regardless of how 'high-tech' the schools are or who the financiers are.
the case for food restrictions would be a lot stronger if my consumption of soda at a hospital caused sugar to be injected

There's no proposal here to restrict consumption. It's the hospital's choice what they want to sell at their own concessions. They can't sell every possible beverage, so it doesn't make sense to sell sugary ones at the expense of healthier alternatives.

Just like you need to bring your own cigarettes to the hospital if you want to smoke - don't expect the staff to provide them.
Designing digital services that are accountable, understood, and trusted
> Employee's caught smoking on campus lose their health insurance (insurer's policy not FH Orlando's).

gosh, that's bad. a fine would be more appropriate.
I actually agree with you. I think that chasing dreams and visions, ie "the afterlife" is a better motivator than scolding and regulating ourselves. Even so, I think at the level of intellect and organizational administration, it's important to have the line between reality and fiction extremely clear, so I don't mind saying so.
Having never been to France, but heard a lot of stories, this may be a France <-> American issue more than a France <-> Foreigner issue.
As Batteries Keep Catching Fire, U.S. Safety Agency Prepares For Change
Cleveland Clinic seems to think that red meat diets lead to increased risk of heart disease [1]... And in a prior post someone else shared with you the Mayo Clinic article that also says red meats lead to increased risk of heart disease...

If two of the top hospitals in the world for cardiac care say it I'm willing to bet it's fact.

[1]https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2015/05/your-diet-and-hea...
Get a moped. Safer than your pushie if your lacking the infrastructure, the only reason riding a bike is so dangerous anyway is the amount of cars on the road. Notice that basically all the cars on the road have 1 person and 4 empty seats every morning? You're burning all the fuel to basically move an empty car around, a 50cc moped is burning 36 times less fuel per power stroke than my corolla (ignoring combustion efficiency, I'm sure the car is better but you lose basically all in moving the damn thing).

Without the thing being electric it isn't the perfect solution (also can't do highway travel), but I feel like it's something not a lot of people consider for short, city/suburban commuting.
Really groovy. How do you market it? I'm considering an intstagram project myself. I'd love to chat.
6 to 7

I've been working with the same company for about 11 out of the last 17 years. Obviously there's a long history there and there's been a lot of ups and downs along the way. It is a small company and these days I am the only software developer in the company.

Currently I would say the job is fine. Neither overly exciting nor overly vexing, not quite boring. But at this stage in my life this is perfect for me. I currently am working part-time (three days per week) and entirely remotely from home.

The part-time started about five years ago by mutual agreement (they suggested it, I agreed to it, wife went back to work full-time which she had wanted to do for ages) working one day a week in the office. About a year later it became entirely remote as my daughter had increasing issues with anxiety and being unable to go to school.

So yes, nothing exciting with the job, which has been a godsend given the huge amount of stress there has been at home with a kid who didn't go to school for two years. Who some days couldn't get outside her bedroom. With myriad appointments with medical professionals and with many days where you get up in the morning and walk on eggshells wondering what you're going to face that day.

We've been fortunate that my work situation was flexible enough to allow me to do what needed to be done. But whenever someone asks, "How's work?" I always give a shrug and say, "Work's there, it's ticking along." Which, at this stage, is exactly what I need it to be.

Paradoxically, I love working remotely, but miss working with other developers. We had a contractor in working on a project for us last year and I realised how much I miss the techie discussions. I'm hoping for the next job to be working with a 100% remote company.

But for now, we've got daughter in a much healthier place, and back at school and just starting Year 11 (which has been a rough transition but we're getting there). I'm hoping work will just be there, ticking along for the next few years, as that's what we need right now.

I know I went over the one/two sentences max stipulation, but sometimes you can't measure the happiness level at work in isolation to the rest of your life. Given my life at the moment, I'm very happy with work.
In Britain, the food is perhaps best described as traditional British comfort food -- the kind of pretty bland food Britain has a poor reputation for.

For example, a meat stew with potatoes and some steamed vegetables.

Boring food is probably appropriate for many patients, who won't be in the mood for anything else.

The site for food standards in hospitals is here, but it's not especially informative: http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/NHShospitals/P...

One hospital (group?) menu is here: http://www.salisbury.nhs.uk/InformationForPatients/Departmen...
Don't think the scenario perfectly fits because before generics you couldn't have a method that takes in an Array of Animal, just an Array.

Can a language could resolve this issue without generics or some other contract feature (which Java did later add), or without limiting the scope of array definitions and their use?

May be good to note that Array<Dog> doesn't actually extend Array<Animal>, so there shouldn't be any polymorphic usage between them, and the return statement and method call scenarios are compile time errors with proper generics.
I've been doing math for the past 15+ years as well, and the nature of my education (French system) forced me to learn a number of things by rote. I'm very glad I now have these automatisms built in my brain and basic things come instinctively to me.

> Won't students lose the "flow" as soon as they start memorizing?

The core of my argument is that memorization will help them better find and stay in the flow in the first place, over the long term.

People wouldn't argue that having to learn your scales, chords, etc. gets in the way of creative piano playing, for instance; how and why is math different?