skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure we'll all just end up killing off people to form our own mini kingdoms. The warlords with the most kills wins control of their domains.

Basically this is what happens at the international level, since there is no global authority - countries can kill as much as they want. And they established themselves through killings.

If you do that at the local level, you will end up with the same - lots of warlords establishing themselves through killings, assisted by forming alliances, etc..
Here, I think, we have reached the root of the issue. You believe that the very identities of millions of Americans are wrong.

You're free to believe that. You may very well be right. I don't know. For my own part, I think that they're unlikely to agree with you any time soon and likely to continue acting in what they see as their own interests.
What you describe is exactly the problem with CSV: many less tech-savvy people decide to use it to provide some sort of very minimal API (even if it's periodical manual exports sent by mail; some people consider that automation!), don't account for the possible traps (like double quotes in the value of any field), then call it a day -- more like a lifetime.

Then there's inertia, there's a boss saying "we absolutely must work with these people", and... the rest is history for many of us.

NOTE: I've been writing custom CSV parsers at least 10 times during my career. That makes roughly 2 such parsers every 3 years. And that comes from a guy that's not very active in his career.
As far as I can tell, file management is mostly beyond the scope of Darktable. You point it at a folder of photos, it stores the metadata in that same folder, and you export the edited photos somewhere else (another folder, or upload to services like flickr). Darktable doesn't do anything to take ownership of the original photos: no renaming or relocating.
The only thing I found strange about HandBrake is the subtitles handling. (Somes I can't just copy them 1:1)

For everything else I loved it.
All the places in the book are real, by the way. The Watership Down warren is here:

http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=449912&y=156897&z=115&sv=44...

...and there's actually a warren there. Watership Down makes a nice walk on a sunny day (although a much less nice one on a December weekend when it's raining and sleeting at the same time, to pick an example completely at random).

Adams does a fantastic job of making a landscape that's only a few kilometres across seem epicly huge.

Full list of Google Maps links here:

http://mythgard.org/academy/watership-down-geography/
> Somebody left a phone on the ground, oh damn it, it just scanned my fingerprint and is breaking into my bank account

brb picking up an old google phone on craigslist
You don't think government taxes by force? What about all the people imprisoned for not paying their taxes?

She became a wealthy woman from her successful books, so she paid far more in than she ever took out. Her estate was valued at about a million dollars when she died in 1982. Her total receipts from social security $14,000.
If you want individual programmers to be "held accountable" for bugs they write, it seems that you do not consider their employers or managers even to be involved. This is an overly-simplistic understanding of where bugs come from.

Your argument depends on the premise that Rust is necessarily better than (say) C. If it turns out that Rust has a bug in it (it's software, it should have bugs, and it's relatively new software as well), then should the programmer who chose it over something else be liable? What if the alternative were an extremely rigid discipline for C programming using a very mature toolchain? I suspect your evidence for Rust being safer isn't worth taking to court.

Thought experiment: if an Evil Dictator simply killed programmers for writing software that contained bugs, would it give rise to a race of perfect programmers? Or would it crush the industry and impair the economy? Would you stake your life on Rust being bug-free? But you can financially ruin almost any engineer for life with the value of a suit for 100,000 credit card numbers. Under that regime, engineers who assumed all the risk would reasonably expect a much larger share of the profits. Are you starting to understand why programmers are not held individually liable for every bug they write?
Too bad the API is an absolute mess, I worked on a WebRTC application 2 years ago and it was a nightmare.
No point in building elsewhere if any earthquake will cause the structure to collapse, killing everyone inside, even on more solid ground.

I'd love for chip design to be the weak point for once. Let's make it happen.
Can you really not draw a distinction between appspot and google.com? They run googleusercontent.com to maintain that separation for Google Cache, after all.
Sales reps mostly talk to people and convince them to buy things. Relationships and human interaction are paramount.

I'm unwilling to speculate a couple of decades out when I don't think anybody has any clue what's going to happen in the next 5 years, forget decades.

But what I will say is this - there is no plausible way to automate human sales relationships in the foreseeable future. I don't even know of companies who are even seriously trying right now.

If you take the unbridled enthusiastic position that everything can be automated in 20 years, sure, all those sales guys are toast. I just don't see a pragmatic basis for taking that perspective. Tech gets better and that's great, but what you're talking about would be some Manhattan Project stuff. People have been talking about the potential of those advances since the 1960s. Wake me up when someone announces a date when they'll ship a product.
Command-Tab Plus on ProductHunt
I like Star Wars and all but let's not trivialize the death of a real person with pseudomystical nonsense from a muppet, shall we?
>>It is possible that for a given population of people in a particular place on the planet they may find there is a shortage of water

Yes, that's what I meant. And this can be a MAJOR issue. Not sure why you're trying to downplay its importance. I mean you can look at places like Haiti today to understand the true effects of regional clean water shortages. They are absolutely devastating.

The other thing you haven't mentioned is contamination, which is a lot more difficult for the natural water cycle to handle. For example, underground water reservoirs are an important source of clean water for many villages, towns and cities all over the world. If they get contaminated, you can't just wait for that water to evaporate and then condense back as relatively clean water.
PDF readers manage to parse text back somehow effectively, maybe not on formula / formatting heavy PDFs. Anyway good call, accessibility is not only for mainstream websites. I'm sure the blind dude that aced math classes in college would agree.
2016 please just end already.
Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
...and what did you learn in the process?
No, we run our own signaling server and wrote the connection establishment parts ourselves. The client ends aren't that complicated in that regard.
> For the blind, PDF is the worst possible format

I'm surprised. Nobody has created an accessibility solution for PDFs after all these years of ubiquity? What's the story?
It's literally impossible for CSV to be a useful format if you cannot make any of these assumptions. Every field with a distinct encoding? Really? The focus needs to be on making CSVs about which you can reasonably assume a lot of these things so that you can actually write software that processes them.
excel doesn't use comma by default as separator on comma separated value files, enouh said.
There's many board games of a lot of types coming out in recent years. I also usually prefer the ones that seem 'pure' in that they have a focus on a few mechanics that work well and are quick to explain. A couple examples are Coup, Codenames and King of Tokyo.
Heinlein: "Beyond This Horizon".

One of his earlier works, with their contemporary-culture-driven stereotypes; nonetheless interesting.

P.S. A lot of murder in today's world is currently de facto "legal", whatever some doctrine written down somewhere may say. Having an honest perspective towards, recounting of, and analysis of this might improve our approach to building and maintaining societies.

P.P.S. I'm not advocating for murder, but for a more honest conversation about power dynamics -- and communication of this to younger people learning to navigate the world.
I don't know, if my large, commercial application suddenly starts taking twice the memory, or takes twice the time it used to take to start, can I 'have it'?

And if I can 'have' that, where do I stop?

That was my principal problem with C++ in the end; you'd get some people in the codebase, and then it was endless fear of someone screwing it up, or deciding that it was such a good idea to add 'boost' thingies to the application because it was SO much nicer. And added 20MB to the installer size (let alone memory footprint).

I remember one day when I investigated why the new version of our commercial application was taking about a minute to startup while it used to take about 15 seconds...

After a long time, pain and effort, it turned out that someone had decided that one of the String class accessors would take it's String parameter as a value, and not as a reference. ONE character source code difference, but it made the millions of Strings created at startup being duplicated, converted back forth from UTF16 to UTF8, destructed etc etc etc.
I mostly just thought it was fun to write. Put my pain down on a page, get a little bit of catharsis. I actually had written out some "counterexamples or suggestions" but decided to keep it terse and with the general style of the other similar posts.

I was not aware of the scorn for the style, I just knew I enjoy reading them.

As opposed to your μTSV may I suggest DSV. The Art of Unix Programming makes a strong case for how it's superior to CSV [1]

1. http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s02.html#id2...
Using the "μ" in a header (e.g. Content-Type) is at least historically compliant as it exists in ISO-8859-1...but doing so needlessly would be insane.
Iana enterprise numbers
Haha are you a Rick and Morty writer?
That was my experience as well. An underdocumented mess.
Yes, I entirely agree. But how?
The argument for liberalization is that it's the only way to continue to grow the economy, and the Communist's Party's current legitimacy rests on lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the last few decades.

Having won a revolution only some 70 years before, Party leaders are well aware that power taken with consent of the people can certainly be taken away again [1][2].

[1] http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1133212/tocquevilles-...

[2] http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Comm...
He wrote a sequel, Tales from Watership Down; a collection of linked stories set in the world, most of them telling the story of what happened to the warren afterwards. I thought it was rather rambly and lacked the power of the original --- but there are some more El-Ahrairah and Rabscuttle stories.

Review:

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1997-01-26/entertainment...
"assembler is the ultimate programming - the last stop: highest performance, maximum control, no safety. "

Nah, that's microcoding, synthesis of control/data paths in NISC, or use of FPGA's. Assembly is for people that can't handle doing a custom ASIC on their own. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_instruction_set_computing
Her reasons were given a long time before she ever received social security (1974). Rand's moral system did not require her to file lawsuits that had no chance of success.
The Theory behind Apache Brooklyn: autonomic blueprints
Multiple DNS: Synchronising Dyn to AWS Route 53
The real problem is when it becomes a mandatory authentication system. We've all seen the ridiculous password requirements some sites have, that in reality offer no additional protection -- and their implementations are often questionable; Chase Bank still is case insensitive for example. All it will take is for someone to think it's a good idea, and make a push for that as a standard.
I know what you mean: a direct example of what was being discussed would help.

The Dunedin consort have some very short excerpts from the Bach passions on their site, including the Herr, unser Herrscher chorus mentioned in the first paragraph. There is a longer video trailer available.

I am familiar with large force performances of the Bach passions and found the small ensemble approach sufficiently interesting to purchase an actual recording.
You must be trolling. The entire thread is women finding reasons in everything but themselves at all the possible plights in real life.

Also the idea that women are emotionally regulating 2 people in most relationships is such nonsense that it doesn't even deserve discussion.
I first parsed this as an app to help you message Kevin Rose quickly.
The Architecture of open source applications
Aren't the publishers still big gatekeepers? Are there any examples of works by unknown authors that rose to prominence without going through a big publisher? (I wouldn't count something by a prominent author, as they have the name recognition to not need a publisher, at least not as much.)
Lawsuit: Versace Uses Code Word to Identify Black Customers
There is at least some value in filtering low-quality submissions, wrangling reviewers, and making editorial decisions when reviewers disagree or are just being assholes (e.g. attempting to hinder a competitor).
signal ftw!
The real problem with C (and to a lesser extent C++) nowadays is not just memory leaks or segfaults, but all the security vulnerabilities you get from the lack of memory safety.

Your code might work 100% correctly for your users, but it may also put their system into risk when processing arbitrary and potentially malicious data. When your system needs to handle data that may come from anywhere - and almost every system does - writing Herb Sutter-correct code is no longer just a nice-to-have.
I see what you're saying but I would also like to point out that it works both way.

States can and will revoke reproductive rights, same sex marriage and other rights. IMHO, Anything that impacts one state directly while not affecting the larger population should be controlled by state, everything else should be federal. This includes marijuana legalization, reproductive rights, same sex marriage, gun control etc. because they are not state specific and majority/minority status of a state has nothing to do with it.
We are slowly moving towards anarchy. I'm still not sure how I feel about that.
AMEN. It's easy to write CSS. Just hacking away until something works... It's hard to write GOOD css and if you have any ounce of good programming taste it's difficult.
The Legion of the Bouncy Castle 1.56:
Graph Databases 2nd Edition
Having an external motivator is often a helpful way to develop a new habit.
CVE-2016-1000338, CVE-2016-1000339, CVE-2016-1000340, CVE-2016-1000341, CVE-2016-1000342, CVE-2016-1000344, CVE-2016-1000345, CVE-2016-1000346, CVE-2016-1000352, VIGILANCE-VUL-21455.
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerabilite/Bouncy-Castle-multiples-v...
> Windows 2000 was dog slow even with 128MB memory.

I never found it so. That's pretty much the spec of my first Quake gaming rig. Of course, you omitted the CPU, which is a nontrivial detail. I remember the jump from Pentium II to a 800 MHz p3 being a big, big deal.
Publication in trusted journals is a major component of getting hired and tenured at universities. There should be less emphasis on this, but it's an attractive option for review boards working outside the field of the person under review.
Versace Sued for Using a Code Word to Allegedly Profile Black Shoppers
3 whole pages... Today's active grognard community of hex based (and other) military sims with their 60 pages of manuals for MBT/Panzer or the COIN series games are providing plenty of pressure from the other end to keep things level. To say nothing of the guys with a lineal yard of book shelf space of pathfinder rulebooks or binders full of advanced squad leader and federation commander...

I'm just saying theres many levels of orders of magnitude higher complexity games pushing down from their more complex territory to keep the eurogames simple, relatively. If there's a push against eurogames its probably from the bottom up. The days of the bottom being very weak like chutes n ladders or monopoly are mostly gone so eurogames have to up their game a bit, which seems to result in games more complicated than a single page like the old days of carcassone.

Still for request for simple games, there's card games like Fluxx, which is old but under continuous development such that 1990s fluxx isn't 2014 fluxx. There's a whole genre of bluffing games, Sheriff of Nottingham and the various who is the werewolf games. Then there's organization games like the dice version of space cadets which takes about two minutes to set up and about three days for your voice to recover from all the arguing (unless your starship is more disciplined than ours LOL)
Robbing producers of wealth that did not also happen to be the owners of politicians is directly contrary to Rand's moral system.
I gave a reference to Feynman's note. The "stateful calculating agent" is the physicist or student.
I want to play this game :)
Ex-Versace clerk says store had ‘code word’ for black customers
was =(
deques support fast prepending. You can implement them on top of shared memory, although as the canonical implementation is block based and uses indirection for access, the dynamic resizing capability is less useful.
For iOS you can use Bowser browser, which has WebRTC support.
If this thread were about the effect of Star Wars on technology and tech culture, it would be on topic.

But the death of a celebrity is exactly the sort of mainstream, intellectually vacant news that this site is supposed to avoid.

The death of a woman who was chained in a bikini to a pretend space slug gets this much attention, but the death of the woman who confirmed the existence of dark matter in the actual, not fictional universe is barely being discussed, on what's supposed to be a forum that values substantive intellectual content over trivia.
Not unless you MITM the connection, otherwise it wouldn't be an effective measure.

There's a pretty good write up I found here:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek

commit for the ios version is here:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/SignalServiceKit/commit/78...
Not saying you're wrong, just saying you should have said that in your response to the parent, otherwise it comes off as you dodging his point.
This is actually a GoogleTV by LG, which they killed off.
There isn't a solid UDP proxying story for browsers, generally.
Title should be "Elon Musk tweets about starting a tunnel boring company because of slow traffic"
Actually your DSL is probably more secure because it wasn't designed by complete muppets. Who thought it a good idea to put everyone on flat Layer 2 network. Remember the time they were handing out block devices without scrubbing. How is the new Ceph backed block service. What's the p50 latency? What about p90?
> Spending a microsecond waiting on memory

that's an eternity!
Is there anyone out there who actually believes all CSVs are UTF-16? That's such a weird idea that I have no idea how somebody would arrive at it.

That's what always gets me about this genre of list — I often find myself scratching my head, trying to figure out if I've missed something or if they really listed that thing as a falsehood programmers believe.
Interesting concept, but seriously what is up with the comments on this blog post?? I could not have been more surprised or confused by that.
Heh, for being a hypothetical construct, I sure do get a lot of requests to provide data using it as a format. :)
The phrase itself is well known and has been kicking around for ages. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous drug trip:

"And close your eyes with holy dread"

But also Wycliffe's Bible, from the late 1300s:

"The hooli drede of the Lord dwellith in to world of world"
Sure. Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow series was picked up by a publisher after the first book was self-published. (It also took a major dive in quality IMO, but he seems to have recovered with his newest novel). I think this is becoming a more common pattern (popular self-published book leads to larger deals), although I'm just a reader and not involved in the industry.
If I ever get swept to the curb with the detritus of destroyed jobs, I might just teach former truckers how to hijack automated trucks, and then charge for the course on how not to get caught.

Many of the people in those dead Appalachian coal mining communities distill untaxed alcohol, deal prescription painkillers, cook meth, or grow cannabis to pay their bills. If you don't retrain people into lawful careers, they might just retrain themselves into prohibited ones.

And that spills over onto everyone else around them.
A thing that gets lost often in these discussions is that while human populations are fairly good at adjusting, individual humans often are not. Sometimes the end result to a tech shift eating your job is that you will never have a comparably good job, regardless of what you try. And maybe your kids will not either. This is a hard truth.

If it happens to you and enough of your peers in one area, it can devastate the local economy. None of the solutions for this are easy, and history is full of examples of it.
You can escape file names that look like options with '--'.
You don't have to replace sales relationships, you just eliminate them.

My life has become so much better with the advent of Amazon Prime and related services. I go to a website, find what I want, click a button, and whatever I want shows up on my doorstep two days later. It's fantastic, and nobody is trying to mislead me, or upsell me, or convince me to add on some shit that I really don't want. More things should be this easy.
> Employment taxes, workers comp, etc may seem like they are helpful, but because they raise the cost of hiring employees, they discourage businesses of a certain size from hiring

The outlawing of slavery made cotton more expensive. We still have cheap t-shirts.

There is no excuse for rolling back labor protections when there is so much wealth available to society; its the distribution that's the problem.
The tragedy of Galois is that he could have contributed so much more to mathematics if he'd only spent more time on his marksmanship.
Science libraries are fantastically helpful for tracking down the origins of error in scientific thinking. For example, the female doctor who gave PMS its name also gave a recommended treatment, though she admitted that it was uncertain why the treatment worked. A later book - a collection of papers, iirc, said "yeah that old treatment didn't actually work," but added nothing of substance to provide better treatments.

Just a few weeks ago the caller to a Science Friday called to complain about male whiners who couldn't tolerate the side effects of the male pill they were trialing:

Jessica: Hi, [...] I tried about six
different birth controls. Depo-Provera made me
manic and suicidal, yet that's still on the
market and considered acceptable for women to
take. [...] It's okay that I was suicidal,
and that that form of birth control is still
on the market. [...]

- http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/looking-beyond-condoms...

Maybe if doctors spent more time in science libraries iatrogenic illness wouldn't be such a problem.
There's no lack of cybercrime around to force people into hardening their own security.

People still don't care. And it is still asymmetric in that the people with loose security aren't being hurt by their own loosiness. And it is still impossible to ensure your system is completely secure. And it is still asymmetric in that attackers only need one flaw to win, defense must fix every flaw.