skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple stuff that should work 100% of the time without bugs and without me needing to intervene work on osx like they should. On linux there is always some little problem that bugs you from time to time, or some inconsistency, or some app that does not work, etc etc. Nothing that I can not sort out (I mainly use Arch linux when I use it on the desktop, on servers Ubuntu and Centos), but at a point in time, I started valuing my time much more so I switched to OSX for developer machine.
It's nothing more complex than 100,000s of other apps out there. Yet somehow they managed to create 18k classes?

Scale is handled at the back-end.
Is there a second-market in freight spots already? As in, I'm guessing major manufacturers need to pre-buy to a certain degree and then might not use them all (or are the shipping companies so over the barrel at the moment that it's a non-issue?)
Out of curiosity where did you first hear of Naggum? My route to his threads was a bit circuitous. His work as extended my career, to say the least.
There is a learning curve, but at least with MELPA setting up Emacs is pretty easy. Company is a good autocomplete backend, Irony is a good back end for C/C++, and Company-Go and Emacs-Racer will do you for Go and Rust. Each of these can be installed by using interactive commands (M-x package-install), and configured with a few lines in your init.el (almost entirely just copying and pasting from the Github front page of the respective package).
If quantum computers could solve NP-complete problems efficiently, the entire community would astounded.

As it stands, quantum computers can solve some problems faster than classical computers currently can; factorisation, discrete log and other problems with a particular kind of repeated structure are some such problems. However, we do not know for certain that these problems are not efficiently solvable using classical computers (I'd bet that factorisation will be put in P within my lifetime).

A big goal of the QC community is to demonstrate quantum supremacy: to unconditionally show that quantum computers can solve a problem with fewer resources than classical computers. We've made progress on this (check out Scott Aaronson's blog for more info), but still haven't achieved it.

Lastly, a small nitpick. "P time" is not a meaningful phrase; P is a complexity class consisting of problems solvable efficiently (i.e., in polynomial time) on classical computers.

The class of efficiently solvable problems on quantum computers is BQP: Bounded-error Quantum Polynomial-time, which means that BQP is the class of problems that are efficiently solved by a quantum computer, but only with some probability bounded away from 1/2. This means the QC can return incorrect answers, but there are techniques to reduce the error probability to extremely small values.

The classical analogue of this class is BPP, which is Bounded-error probabilistic poly-time. There's a conjecture that BPP=P, and if we have any sort of crypto then the conjecture is true.
There's inkscape-osxmenu for MacOS[1] (though it was not 100% stable back when I used it a couple years ago).

[1]: https://code.launchpad.net/~suv-lp/inkscape/osxmenu
One big hint: leave blank lines between block elements. (It’s the same in reStructuredText, except that it actually complains if you do it incorrectly rather than being silently inconsistent as all Markdown implementations that I know of are.) Not doing that is the main thing that’s wreaking havoc here.
> GP obviously means all scientific writing aimed at the same kind of audience.

In that case I agree. :)
Who is ESR?
Pretty interesting I must say. Have to admit though, I kind of expected the self driving AI to be trying to win Grand Prix or Versus races instead of doing well in Time Trials. But hey, I can see how that would be utterly painful to try and set up, especially given how times you get hit by items or rammed off the track in more recent games.
I have no clue what you are doing, but I have never seen this happen by just clicking a textfield (Mac user since 2005).

I have my gripes with Apple, but to say everytime over the last 10 years, just clicking a textfield you get the beachball makes me doubt you. That or you are the unluckiest person I know that always touches a broken mac.
This is largely my approach, I very rarely need to leave intellij since it has plugins for everything I use and an integrated terminal, that said I still prefer Linux (xfce via xubuntu) to any off the other OS's when outside the IDE.

I also use the hell out of bash for building and orchestration.
But does the app make money? Do people use it?

The light FB app probably does very well by class count metrics, but it's intended for a totally different market. Stateside, much as we may bitch about it, it apparently doesn't matter for an app in FB's position.
That clears it up then! I on the other hand have had plenty of questionable interactions with (and due to) police officers in different parts of the US, which have ceased once I hit middle age.
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In other companies, you have that choice during recruitment. Here, you need to basically trust that they won't screw you over ("Look, it turns out that the only opening we have that matches your skills is maintaining this internal CRUD app for HR - but no worries, stick with it for a year and maybe something better comes along!").
I'll take liberty to correct your perspective: A demonetization move that directly affected livelihood of billion Indians, but we don't know whether for good or for worse. I don't like Mr Modi, but I was cautiously optimistic the day it was announced. However over last two months, its been clear to me that no thought was put in the decision.

If you want to look at a data driven journalism to the flip flops, you can start here: http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/how-modi-changed-and-c....
I think anonymous logins and Facebook accounts just do not combine very well.
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> In the time of Usenet it was already possible to either search within your local Usenet archive

The reactions to Kibo suggest that was unusual at first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry
It used to be that Apple was pretty dominant in creating decent laptop hardware, but these days machines like the XPS 13 and Spectre are very competitive.

When we replace my wife's 2012 MacBook Air I think we'll probably get a Windows machine, the latest MacBook refresh was pretty disappointing.
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Much of our comedy stems from how ambiguous our language is. How many petabytes on the Internet are wasted with comments correcting someone's use of language? How many hours are spent as kids in classrooms learning all of the context around our languages, and we still get it wrong often enough to be corrected on the Internet and made fun of in comedy TV shows. We're certainly not using it just fine, we're using it in spite of all its shortcomings.

Do you know how often I'm driving while my wife is navigating and I ask "turn left here?" and she says "right"? Now, is she saying "correct, you should turn left" or is she saying "don't turn left, turn right"?

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. –Groucho Marx

I haven’t slept for ten days, because that would be too long. –Mitch Hedberg
If you try please send us the results.
Who is harmed by a "Real Names" policy?

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Rea...
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as well as developer communities that specialize in this type of development?
You've just identified a form of harassment that is objective, and probably would be agreed upon by the wider community. That's ok because it doesn't rely on a single person's definition of harassment.
Because no money is being created, it's being reallocated from other people, so it doesn't directly affect the money supply.

The recipients are more likely to spend it, which creates some demand (and thus inflation), but it should still be less than the increase in spending power it provides them.
Did you read the Naggum link? He is not easily dismissed.
It's not the constraints that change, but the goal as well.

For a hacker/scientist, the goal is that the solution must work. For an entrepreneur who embraced the entrepreneurial mindset, what matters is if the solution sells well. Those two goals are very often at odds with each other.

The problem is that if everyone optimizes for the market value, we'll all drown in bullshit.
I agree. This article is basically click bate for people that are not fans of apple (me). It never answer the question posed by the title. The author has not even switched off of Apple totally... but predicts that they will when funds are available.
You really shouldn't base your understanding of a society on media presentations, other than perhaps very lightly. I just watched a Belgian crime show "La Treve" / The Break on Netflix, but it doesn't mean I assume every Belgium small town is rife with murder and intrigue.
How are they getting what they want? What communists (and in a lesser sense, socialist countries) want is less of a chasm between the lower and upper echelons of society. Just this day it was posted on Reddit that a top London banking boss will already have made more since the start of the year than an average worker will the entire year (!!). All UBI does is make sure everyone has a baseline to live from. That's great, but its just a sedative for the masses. You're a lot more likely to riot if your kids are starving.
I wonder what will lie beyond UBI. 3D-printers for everyone? Everyone can print a fancy car, a lobster, a new arm, etc.. which would basically make everyone completely equal.
The police kill ~1000 a year in the street, with another ~800 when held in police custody (as was the case the year after Sandra Bland died).

But your point is a bit of a strawman. You can still have dishonest/aggressive/sexist/racist behavior that does not result in death.
The whole market isn't moving away from high-travel keyboards. In fact, there's a lot of interest in them, and they are generally preferred by gamers.

How do you explain the widespread perception that laptop keyboards used to be good but are now crappy?

> real rather than purely subjective benefit

Subjective benefits are real benefits.
"transistor buffer" is a single transistor amplifier - or impedance adapter depending on the way you look at it
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If they don't increase the money supply, then it won't cause inflation. Whether they can provide a UBI without doing so is another question.
Advice when mentally ill flock to your service?
I run a service that uses a mix of automation and manual help to deal with customer service issues (throwaway account). 97% of the time, things work really well, we have great customers, we're small and bootstrapped but growing and are very happy with the organization we're building.

But for whatever reason, we've become very popular on conspiracy theory websites, and maybe 3% of our customers ultimately end up using our service in a somewhat harassing way. We've modified our terms of service to ban a variety of forms of harassment, but it's often hard to weed out the problem users from legitimate ones until things get bad, and we're trying to come up with consistent policies of weeding out bad users rather than we-know-it-when-we-see-it.

For reference, these users are likely very mentally ill. The New York Times did a piece on the segment of the Internet that has found us:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/health/gang-stalking-targeted-individuals.html?_r=0

Anyone run into anything similar? Advice?
It's great on windows. Maybe mac's not their main focus, as it's less than 10% of market share.
It sounds more like they are saying "Yes, this is bad, but technically not illegal under our laws". Sounds more like they are doing their job rather than being emotional about it.
Yes. England and Wales have for a while had the Criminal Cases Review Commission. If they see a case that suggests a miscarriage of justice, even after twenty years or the exhaustion of appeals, they can send the case back to the Court of Appeal. It's done some good work.
I was hoping to get all the same key commands from spacemacs in vim. This would be useful for me but it was anything but that.
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>>I have no physical proximity to you, but I have intruded on your personal space.

I disagree, you have caused other people to violate my personal space, but you did not.

>But even if none of that happens: it will affect you. These types of actions cause actual, measurable, harm.

This is true, that does not make it a violation of "personal space" nor does it have to be a violation of person space to have liability for actions attached to it
> These rants are typical but would be much better if people identified the glorious PC hardware they are using. So I looked for that here, and it turns out he is still using Apple hardware.

Yeah, this stuff is really tiresome. What a bandwagon people have going now.
The question you have to ask yourself is if you did something completely legal, but rude and obnoxious to a police officer (say calling them a "dirty pig") every time you saw one, would they turn the other cheek (as they're supposed to) or would they endeavor to harass, arrest, assault you?
It sounds like that line is discussing what happens when two (or too many) WiFi users congest a network, not one entity going around intentionally disrupting the communications of other devices.

It's the difference between not being able to talk to someone because you're in a crowd and not being able to talk to them because someone is standing behind you screaming into your ear.

That said, I guess you'd have to see what those specific repeated rulings were and for example whether they were two neighbors bickering over a network or convention centers blocking all WiFi except their own.
I never thought I'd be that guy complaining about the site instead of making a slightly more on-topic comment, but do I really need a LinkedIn account to see this article?
Since I can't edit anymore: nice of you guys to put me at -3, but Wilders has had multiple election cycles where he is high in the polls but always ends either low or middling. These are facts since one can simply look up past election results.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_deauthentication_attack#...
I'm using both OS X and Linux Mint every day since 2012 (and before that Windows & Ubuntu I don't even know how long). There is no way for me to switch completely to Linux, it is just not enough, I'm working WAY faster in OS X, and the experience is so much more pleasurable.
I think it's entirely possible it's too complex a problem for us to solve. After all, if you think about it by definition a more intelligent being than us would be able to solve problems we can't. Maybe this is one of those, so there might not be any way for us to bootstrap to a general AI.

I don't really buy that argument (even though it's mine, I've not seen anyone else argue this). We design systems so complex and built from learning algorithms and neural nets such that ultimately we don't actually know precisely how they are doing what they do. We could brute force it by evolving a solution maybe. But it's at least plausible that we won't be able to engineer and design an AI architecturally because we're not up to the task.
How else could a cop kill someone ? suffocating ?

Don't downvote blindly, I was really wondering how "lawful" death could occur without gun in self defense.
> [...] and not for crazy reasons, simply because in many market conditions and applications, it looks like throwing money away on the balance sheet.

Would you use this argument to excuse software bugs? What about security holes and data leaks? Besides, the 80/20 rule applies, i.e., a little more effort spent on performance goes a long way towards a better user experience.

> If you're talking about open source projects [...]

Interestingly, this problem is less prevalent in the OSS world, because C and C++ is still very widespread there.
You have to remember he grew up in the 60's and 70's, so you can't use today's cop shows. Back then, they had things like Dragnet and Adam-12, which portrayed things differently.
I don't know, but maybe paying a developer to implement new interface.
Reddit definitely suffers from the free speech and social acceptableness clash. That's in part because the site was founded specifically on the assumption that it would allow freedom of speech, without realising that 'true' freedom of speech is basically 'anything goes if it's legal, social norms and rules be damned'.

It's why they're struggling with communities like The Donald and had a lot of previous issues with the likes of Fat People Hate. Because they realised that their original philosophy doesn't really scale well and puts off more 'moderate' users, yet also realise a large portion of their audience joined on the promise of freedom of speech and go ballistic if things get censored.
Not to detract from its message, but this article is from 2015.

Anecdotally, the expectation I had for my shares at my last startup ended up being 10x (as the article stated) what they were worth after acquisition.
As far as being able to write code in a paradigm I'm comfortable in as opposed to being forced into one when the purpose of a language is to replace C++ (which is what Rust and Go both were aimed at). As well as being forced where to put the opening bracket like in Go, which at first didn't bother me, but after a while it became a code smell of itself. There's plenty of talk about Go programmers copying and pasting code, which violates the DRY principle. I like having the option to use GC in D and still being able to compile my code. I even converted some C# code over to D that a project of mine heavily relied on and it compiles perfectly fine regardless of distro or OS I compile it from, granted it was very small / minimal code.
There are plenty of people on HN who are horrified by the UK definition of harassment.

See, for example, how people react when they read the sentencing remarks or Mr Justice Spencer in Regina vs Joshua Bonehill-Paine

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/sentencing-remarks-of...

There are people who'll try to deny that this was antisemitism; that it was actually harassment; that she wasn't harmed by it etc.
Hiring process also includes a demand to find 11 errors in the job post and enumerate those in the cover letter. Took ~20 minutes to compose the cover letter to their specifications, and they didn't even have the courtesy to let me know they'd received the cover letter. I'd rather have those 20 minutes back.
> Basically they hire 2 people to do 1 person's work.

Pivotal is a for-profit company. We pair program because we think it's more effective for most engineering activities (not all: most) than soloing.

I'm vastly more productive in a pair. I don't take 3 hour "5 minute" Facebook breaks. If I get stuck, my pair usually has an idea, so rather than spending a day fighting I spend minutes. Usually the discussion with a pair comes to a better design, sooner, than nutting it out by myself. Working with a pair makes me accountable -- I am far less tempted to take shortcuts with tests, code, readability, design or other important properties.

Many folk will say well gosh, they don't need a pair for these things. I envy you, brave superhuman. I have ADHD and the crippling disability of being merely mortal, so pairing is awesome for me.
People keep bringing this up, why is it such a big deal?

The "terminal" was nothing more than stock footage. In fact, someone could have made stock footage based on a game terminal and sold it as "generic green terminal screen". It's not like CNN claimed it was a screen so of Russian hackers at work...
Same here, if one sees through the volatility of his posts, there is definitely a lot to learn. I discovered them after reading his obituary by Kent Pitman.
Apple actually released products. The iPhone 7, Apple Watch, iPad Pro, Macbook, Macbook Pro [1]. Do note all these products have their own use cases and niches. Of these, iPad Pro is a new line, while Apple Watch is a stable iteration. IMO only the MBP was rather disappointing, and too expensive for what it delivered (I bought a 2015 MBP instead).

There was also a noticeable lack of product updates though; MBA, iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Pro. That's two times Pro. Apple is losing on the top segment of laptops/workstations. They're doing rather well on handheld/portable devices.

The reason people say Apple is 'losing' is because they perceive the competition is catching up on high quality laptop/notebook design, as well as hybrid tablet/notebook. Wether that is true remains to be seen.

[1] http://buyersguide.macrumors.com
What objections? What will occur if PoW fails to overcome them?

What is it about, say bitshares, or say, dash which is partially based on dpos, that just hasn't worked out?

What vague arguments you have! And on on top of the dubious arguments you previously proposed and failed to defend under simple questioning.

Are you going to answer anything I asked or are going to go another round of you bringing up even more new arguments while abandoning your prior ones?
As someone else has already said, GNU Guile. But here's a handy link to the home page:

https://gnu.org/s/guile

And here's the package manager:

https://gnu.org/s/guix

And here's the init system:

https://gnu.org/s/shepherd
What's worse is that this is highly unlikely to be the only case in which Forcelli sent the wrong person to jail. I don't know if he's come to that realization yet.
But you didn't write "I" in your post, you wrote "you".
Anyone interested in learning quantum mechanics should first learn/review their linear algebra. Understanding quantum states and quantum measurements is really not that complicated once you're comfortable with vectors and matrices.

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In fairness, pairing is not for everybody. We fret about whether we select for extroverts. In my experience, no, but pairing certainly takes a lot out of me.

On the flipside, we absolutely smash out the work here. I love being able to finish stuff every day, every week.
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Lots of companies don't have the cash to pay market rate, in the early stages. Our even the mid stages. In those cases, it's best to make sure you're advocating for your stake on the business. But you're not going to get much unless you're indispensable to the company's success.
> You are not a user, you are a frigging master of the computer universe.

Great line and great comment. I've seen people like you and it's always remarkable to watch. Some day when I have time I hope to spend acclamating to this type of environment. For now my best approximation is tmux/Vim.
>If I choose to buy goods from you, it's because I value the goods more than the money I pay, and you value the money I pay more than the goods.

Uh... No? If I pay you, it's because you have something I need. I'm not giving you that money because I think it has less worth than what you're giving me in exchange, I'm doing it because that's the price.

As far as UK unemployment goes, a huge part of that low percentage is due to zero hours jobs. Just because people are not registered as seeking a job doesn't mean they're better off. It's exact same scheme as Germany, and while unemployment goes down, the percentage of people with a job yet under the poverty line grows almost proportionally.