skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can This Company Become China’s SpaceX
This is a fairly clear and level headed criticism, while I think the 'problem' of centralisation is over stated and the accusations about Signal's motivation are unfounded I do appreciate that the author(s?) understand why Signal is popular - "The success of OWS can also be attributed to elitist and bureaucratic positions in the open source community. "

I don't see the federation issue as being particularly relevant - at least not until someone else actually sets up a non-OWS server and gains some users for it.
Erlang processes are quite different from worker threads in other languages, since they're green threads (not OS threads). I'm not even sure if the expression "worker thread" was in common usage when the language was created.
PyMC is roughly equivalent to Stan. I think what you're getting at is more the applications of these statistical models. Stan can be integrated into Python via PyStan.
Gas lighting doesn't change the tone of your rhetoric. Drawing conclusions from what you said isn't a big stretch, given that you were dismissive, and clearly invested in the scientific portion of the MIT statement:

> Science and all that

Really sounds like you chose MIT. You know there's a part in there where they acknowledge climate change? That's pretty important.

> Social Justice Rhetoric on HN.

Again, really hard to take you seriously.
https://app.spreza.co

We've been working on this recently- it's not yet a public release, but it is useful (and free). Just make an account and upload the MP3. Allows you to read, listen or both at the same time. Takes about 1/2 the time of the audio file to process.
Fair enough, but it didn't used to be like that:

https://scialex.github.io/reenix.pdf
Also, as a Jew, welcome to being a minority: you'll live.

That wasn't true for 5-6 million of your minority in WWII....

You're welcome to square Hillary calling me "irredeemable" with the Left's treatment of such people, the National Socialist German Workers' Party providing just one particularly relevant example to your and my discussion here.

As for "guilty", white guilt is a thing that goes way beyond "conspiracy websites" or "idiotic Twitter feeds": https://www.google.com/search?q=white+guilt

To finish, with you being a Jew, "What you mean 'we,' kemosabe?" You're very much correct to weasel word "kinda-technically-white".
India, a Cashless Society Coming?
When the Division's 1.5 Patch Releases on PS4
How I Built and Sold a Groupon Clone for a Tiny Profit
And I think that is the way to go. I am personally a fan of having more sciencey programs use matlab and more "pure" CS use python as the first languages. Save C/C++ for the lower level stuff (as in OSes and hardware interfaces and optimization). Although, I would argue that nothing beats C++ for teaching OOP and data structures

My problem is the almost dogmatic indoctrination that goes along with it. My cousin's Intro to CS class was taught by a professor who spent about a third of the time basically parroting Stallman (he actually would regularly bring up blog posts and articles on the screen and read them to the class...) and screaming about how everyone needs to use either Vim or Jetbrains tools. That isn't teaching. That is pushing an agenda. And it just makes for worse students and hell for those of us who still spend some time with the interns and new hires.

Always explore new and better tools. But understand why. Sous-vide is awesome and has the potential to make some of the best food you will ever eat. But it also understand that even a "worse" method can be much more efficient or effective.
20 job applications and 4 rejections are NOTHING!

I know each application/rejection drains you emotionally, but be ready to multiply that number by 10 in order to get a few decent interviews. The key to survival is "detachment".

(From personal experience, and feedback of my friends)
> I would love to see the symbols in this book broken out into a font where we can run statistics on them, replace them with various letters from different alphabets, and seek patterns in their occurrence.

Odds are, if there was a 1-to-1 relationship between symbols and letters, someone would have figured it out by now. So a font may be statistically interesting, but probably not a major tool towards solving the puzzle.
That's an interesting thought, but I doubt it works. Density should go roughly like

exp(-gravity * height)

Lesser gravity implies slower decrease of density with height. "Titan's lower gravity means that its atmosphere is far more extended than Earth's; even at a distance of 975 km, the Cassini spacecraft had to make adjustments to maintain a stable orbit against atmospheric drag." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Titan
Starting Dec 1st, rule 34 will allow the FBI to "search and seize any computer around the world found to be using privacy tools like VPN or Tor."

http://www.techworm.net/2016/05/tor-vpn-users-labeled-crimin...
I feel like I understand the reaction instinctively but not analytically.

I recall in some Japanese restaurants there are koi swimming on the glass roof above the people eating.

Is it the use of animals as decoration that's disturbing or is it the possibility of being in contact with dead animals, possibly hitting them with a skate.

If the fish were beneath a transparent frozen surface, do you think it would be less troubling?
Who would complain about something as wonderful as C11

Beats me, but see rest of thread I guess :]
In all fairness, sometimes it's the right tool for the job, sometimes it isn't
Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer
On a couple of occasions I've found broken rip-offs of my applications in the App Store, and Apple was very slow to remove them. It took 6 months on average.

In my case the scammers have learned how to stall the process — at each stage they didn't respond to anything until the very last deadline, and then lied and lied as long as they could (to absurd levels — in one case my name was in credits.rtf in their app bundle, and they still said it's 100% their app).

When the app is removed Apple doesn't issue refunds, and I wouldn't be surprised if the seller kept the money. So 6 months of sales per obvious, immediately reported scam is still a good business.
I don't think it sensible to single out C for having serious bug. It should be most software projects have serious bugs.
HPACK: the silent killer (feature) of HTTP/2
“Fake News” dataset on Kaggle
You probably missed the part where they say how many sourceforge projects have only one developer. That clearly says something about the development method, and how often are these promises realized.
1 meter is defined as the distance travelled by light in 1 / 299,792,458 seconds. Doesn't this mean that "light slowing down" would be indistinguishable from "space expanding"?
Building a User-Centric Security Model in iOS Applications
Tutorial: How to Create a Telegram Bot with Node.js
> is a big unexplained pile of garbage

What is unexplained?

If it respects your freedoms, then it's a viable replacement for an equivalent program, even if buggy or lacking in certain regards. If it's completely unusable, then obviously that's not practical, but if you reject proprietary software, then the alternative is simple: nothing.

A good example that I'm experiencing right now is Replicant. It lacks many features---not to any fault of its own---that require proprietary drivers. The front-facing camera, wifi, bluetooth, GPS, NFC, certain video drivers, etc simply don't work. Consequently, it can't take video or run certain programs like FF/IceCat that require special drivers for rendering.

But I can do everything I need to do with the phone except for take videos of my children.
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I've recently switched from project which extensively used Hangouts in meeting rooms into project that uses Lync and dinky Windows machine.

Asides from being much worse experience in terms of dialing in, sharing screens, etc, not seeing faces is so much worse. Inability to see emotions is terrible for team trust. We have 200 facial muscles that carry tons of information. We should use them.
Show HN: Python API to execute functions from shell scripts
>> It's more like Prolog: sure, it's a programming language—but it's not the
right tool for writing full-fledged software.

Uh oh. That's dangerous talk.

The problem is that once you start writing the kind of program that Prolog is
best at, in Prolog, then you really, _really_ don't want to go back and write
the same thing in any other language. Because most of the time it's a huge
pain, and you'll probably have to implement Prolog in that other language
anyway (and it's going to be a slow and buggy Prolog, but without all the good
bits).

This has actually harmed the adoption of Prolog in a roundabout way, I think.
Programmers are (or, well, were ... in the distant past) worried they might be
stuck with it and unable to write the everyday stuff they need (REST APIs and
whatnot).

If PP languages are sold in the same way, as very niche products that
are only useful for a specific kind of programming, then I don't think they
are ever going to be widely adopted, not even from the people who could
benefit from them. Which is to say: eventually, everyone.

Instead of risking being stuck with very valuable software written in a
one-trick pony sort of language, much better to take the long road and write
it all in a language like C# or Java, where it may look attrocious, but at
least it's the same language as the rest of your application (and you can find
plenty of warm bodies to throw at it once it starts going south, to boot).
Testing Services with Http in Angular 2
I just think that C over the years has had more bashing than pragmatic advocacy for where it excels and as a result, there is a very knee jerk reaction to the language itself.

On the other hand, where the language gets promoted, I haven't seen anyone really promote C in a way that would sound modern in any sense, where people who have years of experience with C stick with C89 or use C99 in a C++ compatible fashion (i.e. without any C99 syntax which C++ has not adopted officially like restrict keyword or designated initializers). While that is fine for personal preferences, I think it does a disservice to people who have to learn the language and use the language for various justified reasons of their own and there isn't a unified response in how to really teach C to them.

I think the author really hits the hammer on the head with this part in the introduction.

"In contrast to the ubiquitous presence of C programs and systems, good knowledge of and about C is
much more scarce. Even experienced C programmers often appear to be stuck in some degree of self-inﬂicted
ignorance about the modern evolution of the C language. A likely reason for this is that C is seen as an "easy
to learn" language, allowing a programmer with little experience to quickly write or copy snippets of code that
at least appear to do what it’s supposed to. In a way, C fails to motivate its users to climb to higher levels of
knowledge."

But on this book, from what I have read from past revisions, it's very well written and I have even learned some things from it I didn't know existed in C, like using the keyword static in array indices in parameter declarations. While it is not a perfect resource and I don't think anyone new to programming would be able to read this without guidance, it does some things extraordinarily well which I haven't really seen other C books touch on. Its treatment of undefined behavior is top notch and the way that it tries to explain the memory model of C is pretty good as well.

But had this book been written for another "antique" language, like Modern Fotran or Modern Cobol (which both had their last ISO standards most recently in 2008 and 2014 respectively, mind you), I doubt there would be this much polarization in the comments section.
Machine learning is the latest fad in economics
See my adjacent comment. Also, to add some more info here; the site will soon allow you to share the transcripts, so we don't all have to upload a copy for ourselves. We're also building editing / revision tools.
For someone who studied basic C/C++ in university and is interested in hacking around in C, should I read this over K&R?
"Just about every software project written has some serious bugs"

There, fixed it for you. Seriously, vulnerabilities and bugs are found everywhere not just in C.

I've been programming for 35 years, in so many languages I lost count, and every time I've seen the 'let's not use C because it'll lead to bugs' it was to be replaced by another thing that was ALSO leading to bugs, and/or become so bloated it was in itself... a bug.
How to setup virtual reality in another room
Lots of people refer to all antimicrobials as antibiotics. Protozoa can still be treated in multiple ways with antimicrobials.
How Gamification Creates Social Network
Believe me, they tried. There was a minor riot among developers and many decided to stay out of the App Store

(not for any ideals mind you, but because of limitations of the store sandbox)
Literally everything here is scare tactics and if you have a chemical sciences degree you should know better.
> Are their C api's mature and portable?

Rusts C api is completely mature and portable. In fact if you are writing a library that you want to have a C interface to, Rust is a fantastic choice.
My abstraction claims there are two different takes on fundamental human nature.

To shift the domain to things like hierarchy, equality, materialism, class, and idealism is Not Even Wrong, especially since you're not denying my side's take is actually, you know, wrong. Or that your side's issues don't directly flow from what I claim is your side's take on human nature.

E.g. we don't believe in "equality" as the Left defines it because we don't believe such a thing exists. We on the Alt Right are even moving past the concept of equality before the law based on this (!).
using a higher thread count and better stitching has a significant effect on the durability of a t-shirt. But those aspects are only weakly correlated to price.
How We Scaled from 0 Organic Traffic to 100,000 Visitors/Mo (In About One Year)
Greek banks propose “tax on cash withdrawals” to combat tax evasion
Why do you care about society? You seem much smarter than them. Or do you want just to be a slave of your physiology (genes) like most of the people? Otherwise see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWbRO1rWB9M
While he shouldn't have done it, the fact that he did isn't really the issue for me. The fact that he was able to is a much bigger deal.

How is it that he was able to do this? Is it a standard ability granted to all admins? As a CEO, I wouldn't expect that editing user content is a part of his job, or that he would have access to the database to edit it directly, so I have to assume it is a standard permission.

The ability to delete posts I can understand - that's a normal administrative activity, and it's pretty harmless. Editing posts to make it appear as if a user said something they didn't is potentially incredibly harmful, especially since we have no idea how such a change is audited.

We live in an age where governments can and do routinely monitor online activity. Knowing that anything you post on Reddit could be edited without your knowledge or consent, and that you would appear to be responsible for that content, is an incredibly dangerous situation. Even if the change is logged as having been made by an admin, that only helps you if the authorities actually order Reddit to provide the logs. If they simply print out your post history as evidence against you, good luck convincing them that you weren't the author of that content.

Yes, it's a far fetched scenario, but we know now that it's possible. That makes Reddit an unsafe community to participate in.
> F is not the meaningful part of FOSS unless you happen to be a lawyer or really enjoy lawyering.

I'd be careful about diminishing the importance of government and legal processes with respect to software (or anything else). It may not be as interesting to some as the technical aspects of software construction, but it absolutely has an impact on what software gets developed and how it's used.

A lack of interest in this fact does not insulate you from its effects.
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Yes very confused, but I think we're just overthinking it and that tau is just being used with it's normal definition.
How to Design React Components with a Live Style Guide
Wait, if you store your photos locally there's no way to disable facial recognition on them?
Nothing hard but the various leaks of diplomatic cables and spy tools have made claims of state sponsored hacking undeniable. Everyone knows that all the big companies are getting hacked all the time thanks to the leaks.

How is a technical failure worse than a hack? One implies incompetence on your part, the other that you were attacked.
a multiplayer game that was in development for a number of years, but was ultimately abandoned
I am unable to focus. How do you disconnect the distraction?
What are the dis-advantages of doing so? (as in, why does everyone not do that in the first place?)
SciLuigi: Making Luigi more pluggable with Flow-based programming principles
From Wikipedia's entry on Antoine-Augustin Parmentier:

>Parmentier therefore began a series of publicity stunts for which he remains notable today, hosting dinners at which potato dishes featured prominently and guests included luminaries such as Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier, giving bouquets of potato blossoms to the King and Queen, and surrounding his potato patch at Sablons with armed guards to suggest valuable goods — then instructing them to accept any and all bribes from civilians and withdrawing them at night so the greedy crowd could "steal" the potatoes.
A 21th century universal legend why not
Every language is, just about different things.

Array out of bounds is dangerous even in Excel VB.
Please provide some examples of mainstream left and liberal criticizing Islam. Genuinely interested.
Well, apparently the leftist intellectuals need a history lesson. This is why the US intervenes in the Middle East.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War
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Clinton's remarks did not reflect well upon her and were revealing about her attitude towards a large number of people.

That said, her meaning was not "Trump Supporter"->"irredeemable", it was "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic"->"irredeemable".

It's weird to claim "irredeemable" as a badge if you aren't also claiming one of those other things as a badge.
I've also a web interface at https://heerdebeer.org/Software/symbol2unicode/converter.htm...
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Looks very interesting. Just IMHO, a little bit of CSS setting a max page width and a sans-serif font would be worth it.
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I want to cry... remembering the old good time of C programming... ohhhh
Can you be more explicit? I just want to make sure i understand you correctly. Do you believe Ionic 2 is better?

I'm looking at the demos now, but my main concern is how these behave on mobile apps. Performance, ease of development, etc. I have little concern for how they behave on my mac, fwiw. (performance on my mac may be related to mobile performance, but due to the very different architecture behind ReactNative style mobile apps, i'm skeptical to compare desktop performance)
A: "Let's not reuse syringe needles, it leads to spread of HIV".

B: "I've been using syringes for 35 years and clean needles won't get rid of HIV entirely".

Well no duh. But that isn't really a counter argument.

> become so bloated it was in itself

Whereas C is the pinnacle of expressiveness?
> While I am all about C/C++ (even if I hate it), it makes sense

There's no such thing as "C/C++". They're two totally different languages. (C++ actually has more in common with something like Haskell than C.)
I didn't know Erlang had been around that long, I've only seen it pop up within the last few years
Nah, coming down from the trees was a bad idea:

http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html
I used to find it reassuring, too, that mankind went through these crises without starting global nuclear war.

But lately I began wondering how much of it is survivor bias and thinking that we cannot extrapolate this into the future.
Uber essentually built their own custom document store on top of MySQL. They explain their design and reasons (and why they didn't use Cassandra etc) in this post: https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/
How detailed is your knowledge of undefined behavior?
And to the extent you believe e.g. the remnants of movement conservatism is on the right, this is not even a Right/Left thing, as Kevin Williamson put it, "The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale [white, working class] communities is that they deserve to die.": http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432876/donald-trump-wh...

An opinion that as far as I can tell, especially based on deeds, is shared by most of the GOPe(stablishment).
ronpaulinstitute.org is listed as fake news? How did they determine what was fake or not?
Ask HN: Do you prefer cloud or local storage for photos?
Tools like Google Photo bring a lot that it is not easy to waive them in favor of privacy. Now the question is if people still think about privacy when using tools? Or do they choose a local alternative if it was an option? Why or why not?
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The "I'll use it when it's better" argument is self-defeating. If we can convince people why this software that may be practically inferior is better for our society and get them to invest in that mission, the missing features and bugs can be addressed more easily.
I think you're drawing too much from the author's experiences when it comes to changing people's minds. Engagement rarely, if ever, changes the opinions of people because people debate to hear how they're right and not how they're wrong. For years I've engaged my parents on the issue of my desire to transition (being that I'm transgender). And every time they respond with a cold shoulder or some mild rebuke. This has been the norm for sixteen years and they're not changing. So why should I engage them or anyone else like them?
Which likely explains why they use their MySQL Schemaless engine[1].

1. https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/
Never heard of this app, yet...

> Something else Neistat authentically shared onstage was Beme’s raise and burn rate — $6.6 million in funding, with a burn rate of $180,000 per month

guess I am in the wrong business...
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I'm really surprised by the "hate" for C that is appearing in these comments. What ever happened to actually enjoying the danger of getting low level? Is assembly also useless because it isn't readable?

There is a lot of great code written in C, and a lot of crappy code written in C. Because C doesn't protect you from yourself, it exacerbates any design flaws your code may have, and makes logical errors ever more insidious. So in this sense, the quality of the C you write is really a reflection of you as a C programmer, not the shortcomings of the language. Maybe you've been badly burned by C in the past, but keep an open mind and understand that C can be beautiful.
It includes Breitbart and Drudge Report as fake. Those sites may have a bias you disagree with but no more so than, say, The Daily Kos or Mother Jones.

Can anyone identify any left-of-centre site urls in the list
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