skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How valid is this research? They seemed to have arbitrarily chosen factors that the researchers seem to feel is "essential to democracy" and then simply decide that these factors are in decline. Maybe I missed this but I didn't see the researcher list what the actual factors were that were "essential for democracy" and how these factors were chosen. It seemed as they just arbitrarily picked factors that they felt were essential for a democracy and then showed that these factors were experiencing a decline.

The countries chosen in the study, Poland and Venezuela are particularly poor examples as they were both countries that were under long periods or autocratic rule and then briefly attempted a transition to democracy which failed. To hold these up as examples of a general trend of failing democracy seems misleading.

What this really seems to me is people with a particular political bias sounding the bell of doom because a candidate they dislike won the election. Really they even mention Trump in the article and mention his election as a sign of failing democracy - you can't get much more biased than that.
Why even post article from the NYT? They are not a reliable source of information. Mostly just propaganda.
# delete a bunch of matching files and print the name
find . -name whatever\* -type f | perl -ne 'print;chomp;unlink'

Can't you use `rm` instead (ask it to be verbose):

find . -name whatever\* -type f -exec rm -v -- {} \;
You are so right. We've allways had water come in on high tides. The risk is hurricanes and storm surge, that is why flood insurance is so high on miami beach. (BTW its feels like hurricane frequency is in a downtrend) I just purchased a place on the intercoastal waterway in miami beach after selling my palce in west broward burbs. Flood insurance is around $2500 per year. Windstorm/Homeowners is $4500. Burbs was like 350 per year for flood.
Clinton would have won if the United States looked like this
I'm actually inclined to agree with you re: Wells Fargo. But in general, I think the bar should be very high. If a single employee dumps toxic waste despite clear regulations otherwise, and a history of company enforcement, then I would very much oppose any type of criminal penalty against the CEO.

And just because something is an old concept in law doesn't mean it's right or moral.
Note that the Windows version in PyPI seems to be for 64-bit Python only.
Yep I put a ticket in for something simialr(grows to about 2GB every 2 days or so), and was told it's expected behaviour!!
You misunderstand his point--with a few exceptions, what these frameworks are doing is fundamentally not difficult for someone with practice in the broad base of knowledge that falls under computing science
Here are a few quick and dirty I use for handling output of MySQL. (For serious stuff I include real CSV libraries in the one liner to quote correctly etc.)

alias sqlcmdtocsv="perl -nE 'chomp; s/\\t/;/g; say \$_;'"
alias sqlcmdtoperl="perl -MData::Dump=dump -nE 'chomp; @r=split(/\\t/); if (@titles == 0) { @titles=@r; next; } \$row={}; for(\$i=0; \$i < @r; \$i++) { \$row->{\$titles[\$i]} = \$r[\$i]; } push @rows, \$row; END { say dump \\@rows };'"

# Quick and dirty for moving from the real DB to the test DB.
# Use: mysql_generates_a_row | sqlcmdtoperl | dumptosqlinsert
alias dumptosqlinsert="perl -E 'my \$txt; { local \$/; \$txt=<>; } my \$rows= eval \$txt; \$q=chr(39); for my \$r (@\$rows) { @cols=map { \$v=\$r->{\$_}; if (\$v eq \"NULL\") {\"\$_=NULL\"} else {\"\$_=\${q}\$v\$q\"} } keys %\$r; say join(\", \", @cols);}'"

I have a bunch of aliases for conversions, to generate common SQL that dependend on parameters and so on.
Well, have you ever tried to submit a political article? Even from very mainstream sources? It gets flagged within seconds - it's flagged like a rotten vegetable in the fridge that has to be tossed right away. How an article like this one didn't get flagged is surprising to me. Actually, HN is pretty direct, the moderators have explained many times how it's not within policy to promote political discussions.

On the one hand, I get it: these are terribly subjective, more so than some Go hack, or release of a new version of Python major release.

On the other hand, a lot of the people are smart, sometimes domain experts. It's fascinating and rewarding to read a back-and-forth between two calm, but fully disagreeing individuals.

My secret wish is some sort of "HN Politics" or "HN Social" or something. The .js frameworks discussions and the weekly 'tech interview' complaints get tiring.
You're investing the time to learn the architectural patterns, which will likely either stay relatively similar over time, or morph (which will be easier for you to pick up), or they're drastically change, in which case you'll probably have a level of understanding for why they changed. And yeah along the way you'll implement stuff today and that's an important component, but learning is as much about the long game as it is the short game, and you can play that long game without having too much anxiety over these choices
No, but there is RR-Net, http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/RR-Net/, Turbo Chameleon+, http://www.vesalia.de/e_chameleon.htm, and 64NIC+: http://www.go4retro.com/products/64nic/.

Thanks to the forethought of the Commodore's engineers who envisioned the Commodore64 as the center of the smart-connected home, or sound studio, or industrial controller, lots of ultramodern hardware has been designed for it. Hardware that wasn't even science fiction when the C=64 came out. And all because C=64 is infinitely programmable, with his user and expansion ports. Unbelievably versatile computer, even by today's standards.
Good background and interesting start...
To be fair, Trump said a lot of extreme things and has since shown a pattern of walking them back. Now that we know we have no idea what he actually believes or can/will implement it makes less sense to speculate.
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How did you come to the conclusion that one website represents an entire culture of millions of developers?
Being go forum, I doubt it's going to be balanced argument.
It proved that billions of dollars in free media advantage overwhelms tens of millions of dollars advantage in direct campaign spending.

Which isn't exactly an indication that money is weak.
Duplicate.

It's been going on for a while.

http://osxdaily.com/2016/11/26/icloud-calendar-spam-invite-s...
What is really odd about the statement is that Krugman is one of a handful of economists who think trade protectionism is a good idea. We might soon get to test these theories as Trump is all about trade protectionism.
That was a pretty amusing way of getting the conversation started, but fundamentally they are two entirely different things. The IDE tooling for .Net is very good, but .Net Core is still super new and not really "production" grade yet. It doesn't even fully integration with MSBuild if I recall correctly.

That being said, if there is a future need/want to migrate to Linux, go makes a lot more sense than .Net core simply from the standpoint of Linux support being so new and frankly, foreign to Microsoft. They're doing it to help with Azure, but that doesn't mean it is entirely stable and bug-free. If their developers aren't heavily testing it, why would you want to build production applications using it? If your ecosystem is fundamentally entirely Microsoft based as are the developer teams, switching to golang and its own idiosyncrasies seems like quite the tall order, even if it might result in a better team ultimately.
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Is it, though? I find it extremely difficult to read paragraphs that are that wide.
I think int is 8 bytes on the PS4. (I just got bitten by this...)
I fully agree with you on that. Pulling research out-of-context is still a go-to move by anti-science politicians [1]. Frankly, I'm half-tempted to track down that $84k study on why people fall in love. That's a fascinating topic that underpins so much of the human experience; more power to any scientist who thinks they can make heads or tails of it.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2011/08/23/139852035/shrimp-on-a-treadmil...
Would Docker care? I had it running on an older Windows box for giggles using VirtualBox and the VM saw the AMD GPU once I adjusted the configs.

The VirtualBox VM for Docker is configured to run like mud.
"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."

-Paul Krugman

Paul does not have the best track record.
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"He will, in fact, be a disaster on every front. And I think he will eventually drag the Republican Party into the abyss along with his own reputation"

I imagine if he will retract this.

Krugman keeps making wrong predictions without almost never acknowledging it, and contradicting himself in a grand scale. His contradictions are documented by a dozen of economists blogs. It's amazing how people keep listening to him.
The problem is very accurately described as people trying to use every framework and every library all at once. Too many developers are neglecting their knowledge of the base language. JavaScript has become incredible in recent years, but you'll still find new projects being built incorporating jquery.

I have tried react redux and seriously people, after all your badgering and all of your carrying on. I still prefer vanilla es2015+ with typescript. I can do everything you can do sans MBs of extraneous client side code. I also have more control.

Use your tools for what they are useful for, stick close to the metal. You'll save yourself tons of grief.
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I think that you are underestimating the use of the Mac App store. Many applications are only available in the app store, just to give some examples of popular Mac Apps: Pixelmator, Affinity Designer, OneDrive, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iMovie, Garage Band, Tweetbot, and Airmail. Then there are many Apps that can be purchased both through the Mac App Store or from the vendor, such as Omni{Graffle,Focus,Outliner}, Fantastical, 1Password, Photoshop Elements.

The majority of apps that I install come from the App Store.

Moreover, some vendors also sandbox non-app store apps. E.g. Chrome tabs, Photos, or Safari tabs.
I chose France for a couple of reasons. It's close, so the added latency is low and it's not a five eyes partner.

My main goal was to get my traffic out of the country which has direct control over me. The French government has no control over me. The British government very much does.
Yeah, the problem with politics on HN is that HN readers typically don't bring much depth to the discussion.
To explain/spoil the joke: HN does not support most of Unicode and is written in a Lisp variant.
This is why I say there's no excuse for voting trump. "According to his hundred day plan..." you have no reason to believe a word he says and every reason not to. afaic, voting for trump's like buying a car off him, or lending him money, or attending his university, or signing an employment contract with him, and so on. He says what he needs to.
> It greatly disappoints me that the HN moderators apparently think it's okay to leave virulent anti-semitism unchecked.

We don't come close to seeing all the comments here, so that's not a valid conclusion to draw. The likeliest explanation in such cases is that we haven't seen the post yet.
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Anyone permanently using a VPN (e.g. for home traffic) that you can recommend?
I was thinking about it. How would you short something like this?
What if the test data is random? Could just get lucky and get a happy day scenario.
I feel I've done that. Started as a sys-admin, moved to programming, all that.

The problem is that more and more my clients are looking for live data, push notifications, video-streaming, etc. Sure, I can throw together really solid "classic" websites all day long, with facebook integrations and payment processing and whatever else.

But more of my stuff is requiring reliable well-documented javascript. And since I've got to install at least 3 different tools to get imports working well, that's always going to be a pain. I shouldn't have to run my code through 3 different preprosessors to get common language features.

I hope asm.js solves some of these problems.
I'm not actually sure what you're insinuating here. Previously the standard WAS the "international prototype kilogram", all of which have drifted since creation (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram#Stability_of_the_inte... )

The problem with this is it isn't even fragile, it's _not reproducible_. The worst part is that other SI units depend on the kilogram, so they all change as this drift occurs! After a certain amount of time, how will we know what a "real" kilogram is? See here for discussion of this SI problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram#Dependency_of_the_SI_...

The point of the watt balance approach is to make it possible for a lab to reproduce the kilogram without another kilogram reference. That's what this is about, and I don't really think it's embarrassing. I think it's very, very hard.
Miami Beach has always flooded (during full moons water can rise right up through the ground).

I have lived in FL all my life (41 years), my family spans back 12 generations from me. King tides are nothing new, nor is Miami flooding during them. I live in the Keys which is lower lying than Miami beach but we have the safety of the barrier reef that mellows the tidal changes, this is just a sensational piece due to a rare but historically recurring event. Miami is not flooding for good, we are in a weather cycle coming off El Nino into a lunar cycle, it happens from time to time. It's not exactly intellectually honest to attribute a known phenomenon (King tides, which is the reason Miami is currently flooded) to climate change. It was not climate change in the 1800's when the old timers dealt with them. This is not meant to be a dissertation on climate change, rather to highlight pieces like this do more damage than good to the arguments that climate change science presents when items like this are highlighted as the predicted outcomes.
How long until your ISP requires you have a VPN license and a key they control..
> You begin to develop heuristics for evaluating dependencies rather than pulling them in blindly.

Exactly! For better or worse, this is the baseline attitude needed.
This account has been posting mostly political comments, and this one introduces it from out of nowhere without saying anything substantive. That's not what this site is for, so please stop.
>You upgrade one point release and suddenly sudo is not there any more...

That is not how OpenBSD release numbers work. 6.0 is no more a major version than 5.9.
Cheaper/cleaner nuclear plants become real–but not in US where tech was invented
> The risk is hurricanes and storm surge, that is why flood insurance is so high on miami beach.

This nails it. Miami Beach real estate values will decline as soon as insurance companies throw up their hands and refuse to insure the losses. Can't insure, can't finance a property.
"Bigger scale" ? I do exactly the same. Except I rolled my own. I have an Intel NUC at the front of my home network which handles routing all traffic out over the VPN. Amongst many other tasks.
If money in media were having an immediate and crippling effect on democracy then it would have already.

The history of American media is a history of very rich people growing, owning and acquiring media. They've always had this influence.

And yes it may be sub-optimal, but it is not new and therefore difficult to directly attribute recent changes to. In fact, it's somewhat arguable that the current predicament we find ourselves in is the result of making media less expensive to disseminate, not the opposite.

Our society and biology are poorly trained to reject incorrect information. So when small unethical actors begin to proliferate doing quick profit cycles on sympathetic populations, we see a lot of uptake for those ideas.

Want a great example that won't pick a big 2016 political fight? PETA. Despite being a rather ineffective activist group with a large incoherent message, they can inexpensively produce tons of populist media that helps keep them in people's minds and associate them (however wrongly) with helping animals.
> Our legal system exists for social and economic stability

> [your description of a horribly unjust legal system as you experienced it]

You really think the system you described is good for social stability? People aren't stupid, the ones who got the raw end of the deal noticed the same injustice you did.
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ipx maybe?
There are specific results that are especially unpalatable, but I'm thinking more of the general conclusion that all human behavioral traits are heritable.

https://jaymans.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/all-human-behaviora...
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1.1) disregard for worker safety and well being
The Geek Keep: Solar cells can be made with tin instead of lead
Interestingly I have a Dell Chromebook 13 running full blown Linux and I am observing speaker distortion. It doesn't matter to me that much, but a bad driver could definitely cause damages to hardware.
Quantcast File System on S3
Depending on the scope of your project porting libc itself might be good idea. Then you simplify porting any tools you need that also use libc. Then you can port a few extra dependencies, then more tools...
Somebody will be tempted to defend him saying: "Well, he takes risks, it's expected that he will fail sometimes."

The problem is not that he fails. The problem is that he never acknowledges his failures nor questions his assumptions behind the failed predictions -- he just mixes them up and say something in the lines of "I was right all the time".
The best message [0] in the thread:

IMHO you must consider nodeJs.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/Golang-nuts/_6K8S...
Krugman is huge scifi nerd. He chose to study economics because it was the closest thing to psycohistory in real life.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/03/01/the-deflationis...
>Does it change the fact that more and more pro users are getting sick of the tyranny of Apple and moving away from them?

I don't know where you're getting this from. Between me and my family, I know of at least 6 tech companies that use tens of thousands of MBPs and most of the users there are professionals. The complaints we are seeing on reddit is not indicative of the number of laptops Apple is selling.
I'm struggling to understand the CDF for the discrete uniform distribution (line 1 of the first page).
I think the equation is missing a "+1" in the denominator as otherwise it doesn't make sense.
Although it has been a while since I took a stats class, so I may be mistaken
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If you are checking out ASP.NET Core, my project would be useful for you https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore
Hi, we recently announced Quantcast File System version 1.2. Besides many bug fixes and improvements, it comes with the ability to use Amazon S3 as a backend store. You can check it out on QFS Github. I personally contributed to this release, and I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thanks.
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The problem is how can users obtain better devices which will in turn provide a higher quality experience. It's absolutely a solution. Providing an incentive and/or partnership with telecom carriers and allowing the hardware (and perhaps supporting the software) to have lasting resale value is a solution. It doesn't have to be a comparison from what immediately hurts the wallet more... Providing users with an entry barrier to obtain the hardware at (or almost) zero immediate cost is exactly why these contracts exist.
Aha, that's kind of what I'd figured. Work on Mac, deploy on Linux.

It makes me think twice about e.g. using Go as part of the build workflow in a big project if it's going to randomly stop working on various OS X versions.
Not much over GNU sed.

A lot of these perl one liners are from the old days, from unix admins that had versions of sed (or find, etc) that didn't have fancy features like -i (inplace edit).
Citations:

- MKL (hand written assembly for most routines)

- gotoBLAS (hand written assembly)

- fastest gpu gemm library https://github.com/openai/openai-gemm (hand written assembly)

- fastest gpu conv libraries (cudnn/nervana neon - hand written assembly)

- Gromacs

gpucc is now basically in clang and I have not seen any gemm libraries written in CUDA C compiled by clang that are competitive. Or conv libraries.

I also looked at Pluto and again see no comparisons to the MKL suggesting it is competitive. It increases the speed of a triple nested for loop by a factor of 4, which is still nowhere close to the speed of the MKL gemm.
One could say it is impossible to ship a product to market. If you don't know where that market is.
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> How is any of it undemocratic ? If people elect candidates who are anti abortion and pro surveillance, then being democratic means those laws should happen.

See, this is why the US is supposed to be ruled by a constitution, rather than just be a democracy. The constitution says that there are things you can't do, even if you have a majority (unless you have enough of a majority to amend the constitution).

Now, granted, that's been eroded under the last few presidents, with (probably) worse to come under Trump. But this is why it matters that we have a constitution that limits what a president can do.
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Any company I worked for, that info never got out of the job tracking system, and I dont remember even seeing it as a hiring manager, though maybe it was there. It was basically just a legal cover to have evidence we weren't being racist/sexist/etc. So I'd say do whatever you feel comfortable with, and I doubt it will have an effect.
On a related note, NewPipe on Android a simple stripped down youtube client.
Exactly. They mean someone like a design professional who is just a usual computer illiterate user who knows Photoshop.
If you feel unproductive or uncomfortable with Perl, you should avoid it and use whatever language strikes your fancy.

Many people however are extremely comfortable and productive with Perl, for a wide variety of reasons. It's really an awesome language that has proven its vast usefulness a long time ago.
How is this different from potential alternatives like Geckoboard, Ducksboard and all those? Is it essentially not just another one?
Water is just atoms put together,. The molecules will do whatever humans decide to do with them, those that know how to that is.

Oh I mean molecules are beautiful. Throw up. Good looking women are beautiful not a fucking tree or something.
Haha, you are right, of course! Obviously its just a fun project, I had an un-used RaspPi lying around and started hacking around getting it to talk to the C64 and then this project just sort of happened :)
Your claim is inaccurate. The NYT and half the Republican leadership (among others) has rather consistently said this candidate was exceptionally unqualified.
We may be talking about different things. I was talking specifically about laptops that are directly comparable with Apple's pro line (i.e. expensive). I seems doubtful that the market for expensive laptops will find much growth in the developing world.

Even if it should prove true that the proportion of high end users is expanding relative to the entire market, it will still just be a bigger slice of a smaller pie. The PC market has been declining for quite some time. That doesn't mean that there will not still be lucrative niches within that market, but does Google really strike you as a company that would or should go for a niche in a contracting market?