skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good sign but not that impressive, people are expecting a top-notch change-maker one from Nokia. At least it should be with flagship android specs. Not many people would pay the 'Nokia premium' for the specs of this phone nowadays. There are plenty of homogeneous ones are just doing fine with lower prices.
I still can't understand how standardized testing is useful for anything. The only true result of an educational system isn't apparent until years later. I assume it's popular for political and business reasons (testing companies are all for profit) which ultimately have nothing to do with children learning.
The Sony A1E 4K HDR OLED TV Is the Screen and the Speaker
Solving the Zebra Puzzle with LINQ and C# 7
The US is a member of the WTO, but banned online gambling for years without any real sanctions against them.

Countries can and often do unilaterally break portions of global trade deals, and don't care unless there's action taken against them.

Oil producing countries are in a full blown international cartel, but does anyone stop them? Nope.

Is China going to get hit, whilst they're producing so much of the raw materials needed for electronics?
Does anyone know what the name of the color scheme the author is using in their terminal?
As a Pole you shoul know better. It isn't true in all cases, i.e. Jadwiga was king, not queen.
It can though. We are a java shop that does HPC and deep learning. Our work is open source. We've been around 2.5 going on 3 years now. Over the years we've surpassed bottleneck after bottleneck in the JVM.

It's a faster wrapper around c code for us. We maintain and created:
https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp

which wraps a lot of c++ components. This is also how we do GPUs and the like with our own memory management for our "numpy for java":
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/nd4j/tree/master/nd4j-back...

Short of it "off heap and NO GC" matters a lot.

We have 1 c codebase we use that's meant to be controlled via JNI here:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/libnd4j

The speed gains we've seen are massive. Java can't compete with good ole simd and the like for numerical computing.

We are a big advocate of the JVM as a platform but let's be clear about its weaknesses. You need to use unsafe (see: netty,aeron, and any other low level database written in java or using java as the core language with some c++)and other tricks out of the box for real performance.
Maybe like Valve / Steam they do it because they can... until someone with a lawyer drags them through court and they're held accountable for building theft and fraud into their business model.

http://www.pcmag.com/news/350574/valve-fined-3m-in-australia...

Before it even went to trial they globally overhauled their refund system, presumably after realizing EU, USA, CA etc also have consumer protection laws designed to protect consumers from companies that are committing fraud.
Oh, you properly identified and raised the bug? From the comment, it sounded like you abandoned ship and installed Fedora (which may or may not eventually have the same bug).
Hope that your downvoters can argue why they downvoted your comment.
It's all carefully thought out, by some MBA Dinkleberry, or the "sophisticated-slick" CEO. They would rather have you procrastinate the unsubscribe. "I'll do it tomorrow?" Every day they have you, they make money.

Even the FB requires 10 clicks to deactivate.
The best thing about dd is that you can use it with conv=noerror, which will let you recover as much data as possible from an otherwise damaged device.
LinqPad is so worth the relatively paltry sum it costs to get a license for the full version.
>Only someone who has spent too much time away from people could possibly think that the meaning of this sentence is that somewhere, there is a fat cat sitting on a mat.

or someone who did not grow up using the English language.
Contact your credit card company, and stop payment. If you tried unsubscribing multiple times in good faith, then that should be enough.
Softbank of Japan tried pulling this fiasco years back, and the above tactic was used by subscribers.
Blender (https://www.blender.org) for native 3D modeling.
> What would you say if a Torvalds would laugh at its users, saying that if they didn't change that low level kernel security setting, the users were ignorants and deserved their troubles?

That choice of example is particularly weak, given that Linux developers are explicitly working on hardening the kernel's internal security: https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Pr...
Canceling your credit card may not always work; there are methods in play which let companies who provide subscriptions to get your updated card information and continue to charge you.

In its most innocent form, this is useful when your card naturally expires (or is reissued), since you don't have to go back and re-setup your CC with dozens of companies. In its most nefarious, there is no way to stop charges short of completely shutting down a CC account.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13349838

I "kinda" agree with you. Java has the right stability and speed trade offs and can be wicked fast. It beats the crap out of most garbage collected languages save maybe .net and the CLR.

For real applications I agree with you that c is the way to go. Java with c and off heap memory gets you a pretty long way.
Cleaner as in? Aurelia is on the same idea as Angular 1 by the same inventor.
In general, I tend to a agree with you. i.e. Big Brother is bad, but if Big Brother is being Big Brother to protect you against the abuses of Uber then the case is not so clear against increased govt data collection.
That was probably a bad off the cuff example, my point was that there's a happy medium between concise and verbose, and I think we're better off erring on the side of verbose.
'Svelte' means 'slender and elegant', 'urbane', 'attractively thin, graceful, and stylish', or 'lithe', depending on which dictionary you consult. It comes from the Italian svelto meaning 'quick'. Those are all excellent connotations!

But yes, it seems that a lot of people, at least here in the US, aren't familiar with the word.

It doesn't matter though. I build tools for my job because the existing ones don't meet my needs, and then I share them because there's no good reason not to. I couldn't care less whether or not people use them as long as the ideas get out there. So if someone decides not to use Svelte because they don't like the name, all I do is shrug.
I did the same thing with Java, for the longest time. Makefiles invoking javac, almost the same as I did for my C/C++ programs. It does start to break down once you start to get into more heavy-weight programs. I wouldn't even want to see what a hand-made makefile for one of my C# solutions that has a couple dozen projects and a few hundred code files would look like...
What clojure and even scala do with the JVM scares me. The most concrete example I know of is using objects for everything. 1 of the fundamental problems I have with many of the higher level JVM languages is how much they hide from you. That being said, most people won't notice. I do numerical software in java so might be a bit more sensitive to some of this stuff.
The old philosophers had much greater breadth because the whole vista was open to them. They were treading on soil for the first time. Newer philosophers are dry academics who are just filling in a few details. Who wants to read that?
So what is the best way to clone a disk(or in my case a raspberry pi sd cars)?

I tried to backup one of my cards last week using dd > .iso file and then tried to put it on a new card. I tried with /dev/Rdisk (faster) but none of the new cards was bootable.

So this is saying just use copy.

(I ended up just creating a second boot disk, and ftping the files over which seems less than ideal...)
VAT is payed by the buyer. The percentage depends on the country where the buyer lives. The seller is required to collect the VAT from the buyer and pay that to the relevant country tax authorities.

The location of the seller is irrelevant for calculating, collecting and paying European VAT. Its applicably to any company in any country in the world.

However, for now having a company outside the EU does make it more difficult to be tracked by EU tax authorities. But its likely that at some point in the future that will change. And tax authorities fine easily.
> conceptually the problem also applies to containers.

Yep. c.f. BC's talk @ 34:21 "To improve storage efficiency"
Before everyone cries foul, let's not forget that what the government is proposing to collect is just a small subset of the data that private companies like Uber and Lyft already have on you. There it's accessible by untold number of people for all kinds of unregulated purposes.
If you can answer the questions in the test correctly your level is the at least the highest level that can be measured by the test.

Why would it be a reasonable assumption that her level is the highest that can be measured? Should the test be changed so mediocre people can get the maximum score?
If the last decades have shown something, then that firepower is not really relevant for resistance.

I think a corporate government model may jump in if the anti-terror infrastructure can't handle it at some point.
> If she had known the answer, would that make the question any better?

If anyone can answer what the 'correct' interpretation of a piece of writing is, it's the author. If they can not, well maybe the authors intent wasn't what the questions are asking.

Of course this is a fundamental problem in the way we teach and test literature. No piece of work has a single meaning because meaning is found in the merging of the work and the viewers background. What we teach is that works have one correct interpretation and if you do not read it that way, you are wrong.
Doubt that is going to be any easier to get them to do.
transfer of culture through beat rhythm priors distributions is a pretty neat idea. For cultural awareness, choose bayes theorem. Reminds me of Aumann's agreement theorem!
Have any full scale molten salt reactors actually been built?
I agree that it's ridiculous to ask a student to interpret a poem on a test and expect them to interpret it in any way that resembles the test creator's interpretation.

But there are some things about poetry that are not subjective and that are related to the art of writing it and thus worth teaching.

In particular, metre/scansion and rhyme/rhyme schemes are crucial aspects of the art that can be identified objectively. (Analogous to expecting a music student to recognize syncopation or read musical notation.)

You can also test recognition of metaphor and simile without requiring interpretation thereof. With allegory you get into issues of cultural exposure to the source of the allegory, but if that source is something else in the curriculum you could ask a student to identify the allegory without interpreting it subjectively.

And of course, many of these techniques are used by effective writers of prose (which we generally hope for students to become) - just typically more sparingly.

You can also (as with visual arts and music) teach students to identify poetry of different styles or from different eras.

Basically, you can teach and you can objectively test recognition of a lot of techniques used by poets. These standardized tests may have been ridiculous, but that doesn't mean that including poetry on a standardized test at all has to be ridiculous.
You might not have written it in exactly those words, but the corollary of your observation still holds.
I would recommend this link actually: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/milestones?state=open
The quick answer is no. The funnier answer is we received an award for this particular piece of software (which is still in use and sold for phenomenal profits to this day). We were invited to go to an HP board meeting and receive the award directly from Meg. Unfortunately our entire office was shut down and we were all laid off before the reward date so that our division could save on overhead. Our division manager (who I met on the day we were laid off) accepted the award graciously.
I Fought ISIS with the Kurds in Syria
>> "In high school I decided I was going to study philosophy in college. I had several motives, some more honorable than others. One of the less honorable was to shock people."

Really miss PG being more active on his blog, HN, YC, etc.

PG is active on Twitter:

https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg
That's the default emacs color scheme. The terminal is just SLIME.

https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/
Very much like web components, except a) they work everywhere without polyfills, and b) they're nicer to build, because they have a friendlier API and templates are more declarative (with web components you still have to do a lot of grubby manual DOM manipulation) and you don't have to learn a bunch of confusing new shadow DOM stuff just to encapsulate styles.

Also, with Svelte you can do server-side rendering, which is a bit of an oxymoron with web components.
Proto Actor:Ultra-Fast Cross-Platform Distributed Actor Framework for .NET and Go
There is no such thing as free production because resources are not unlimited.
Your article mentions waste twice:

>What’s more, the new plants should produce little waste and might even eat up existing nuclear waste.

>That means they should dramatically reduce the amount of nuclear waste that must be handled and stored.

But doesn't go into detail about exactly how much waste is generated, how waste is handled and where waste should be stored. This is exactly the problem with nuclear, and our ongoing battle with Chernobyl's corpse is exactly the worst manifestation of that problem.
Ouch.

Also, seriously people, use the bs flag on dd.
That only solves some of the many failure modes. Much like preventing the Challenger disaster from happening again did not prevent Columbia from failing.

EX: What happens if a meteor hits it.
I believe the idea is that tokio, because of its zero-cost abstractions will be able to be efficiently be the foundation of those styles.

Check out https://github.com/dpc/tokio-fiber/ for co-routines being re-envisioned on tokio, and https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/613 acknowledges that the actor story is still a work-in-progress.

I have seen no indication that either coroutines or futures will be less ergonomic or performant due to being built on top of tokio's futures.
See ABCL (http://abcl.org/) and JSCL (https://github.com/jscl-project/jscl)
Towards the end:

> This doesn’t explain why
philosophy is different to physics (and basically all of the other subjects). Why would you want to be like Socrates, and not like Newton?

And I don't feel convinced the author has an answer.
No, you should use

sudo sh -c "cat foobar.img > /dev/sdi"

or

sudo -s "cat foobar.img > /dev/sdi"
NYC Police can also search you without a warrant before you enter the subway. It's illegal, but if you say no, you cannot enter the subway. If you say no & continue to enter, you will be arrested.
You'll need to look for an alternative entrance.

NYC is an shining example of a police state. It's getting worse each day & nobody cares, except me.
The presidential candidate who’s using the internet to reinvent French politics
Interesting article, and I agree that a lot of the reason for reading old philosophy is so that you know how philosophers should think and argue.

But I always thought there was another practical reason - old philosophy is referenced all the time in newer philosophy - you have to read the older stuff to kind of learn the "language" of philosophy with all of the issues that have been covered and are still being covered.

Plus, old philosophy isn't necessarily irrelevant to contemporary ideas - Pre-socratics had theorized about atoms, for example. Or it's not like ethics, epistemology, or phenomenology will suddenly become irrelevant, though theories surrounding them might change a little bit and be refined and lose references to god.
So it's just echoing the input values?
If I could broaden this question a little, I think the 9P file-system is still used more than Plan 9 itself. I'd like to hear from the folks using it, why? What does it offer that you can't get with NFS or AFS?
Generally speaking, yes. This is driven by three things, largely: Rust has a very wide variety of use-cases, we don't want to stabilize a poor API forever, and Cargo exists and works well.
I suspect it's supposed to be popCnt (no "r"), which is short for "population count", which is the number of set bits in a byte/short/int/long/what-have-you.
That is not what I said. I merely mentioned that one of the possible alternatives was Communism. I do not know any alternatives that have worked and instead of pointing out a non existing fallacy, I would expect someone to actually point to viable alternative to Capitalism instead of simply being critics of it.

Also Capitalism is as old as the notion of personal property which predates any notion of State.
From what little I know, the people in hazmat suits are those who are in an area where they could pick up radioactive particles on their clothing; the suits can be shucked as part of an exit process to keep all of the radioactive particles confined. The hazmat suits do little to protect against the actual radiation, most of that is mitigated by limiting the time you can spend in the area.

There have been a few "dirty jobs" type shows which have shown this process in action: when replacing a turbine on a nuclear generator, there was a literal line in the floor everyone watched - materials and people could only move in one direction with respect to that line without a lengthy cleaning and inspection. There's also a few Veritasium YouTube videos about a visit to Chernobyl which goes into detail about the exposure limits.
Two of the three Tokio core team members are on the core team of Rust, and one of them is on the language design team.

EDIT: to be clear, that means one is on both. The third member is very well-known as well; having built the async primitives that this is built on, as well as initially implementing Cargo. Bona fides aren't an issue here.
Realistic burn-down estimations with Monte Carlo modelling
Oil out of the ground is the nearest thing then. Once its automated, it has negligible marginal human cost.

Or, did that mean something about 'poor planet we're exhausting its resources'? Then never mind.
> French politicians similarly surrendered to the terrorists.

How do you feel calling someone striking a terrorist?
Too add most modern 'philosophers' publish for the sake of publishing, not because they actually have anything new or interesting to say.

Philosophy is an unbroken conversation going back thousands of years, why would we want the cliffnotes summary written by 'academics' who most times demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of what they're writing about when we can go straight to the source and read the original.
Naming is related to scope and I'm surprised there is so little about it in the article. While trying to find an universal principle I came up with this rule: "identifier's entropy should be proportional to its scope".

Global variables (if any) are long explicit phrases while inner loop variables can be a single letter.

Without taking scope into account the naming guidelines become dogmatic and impractical trivia.

EDIT: wording
Ask HN: Do you believe the Russia hacking story?
I'm interested to hear from security experts: have you seen any evidence of the claims in the media? From a technical perspective, do you believe that 1) Russia hacked the DNC and John Podesta, and 2) Russia provided exfiltrated data to WikiLeaks and under the pseudonym "Guccifer 2.0"?

Keep this on-topic for HN: what are the technical arguments being made that attribute these acts to the same attacker, and what are the technical arguments being made that the attacker is related to the Russian government?

I'm surprised that the tech community hasn't been more vocal in demanding evidence for these claims. In 2010, Bruce Schneier was skeptical of claims that Stuxnet was created by the U.S., or even targeted a specific nuclear enrichment facility[0]. Of course, he later agreed that evidence showed it had targeted the Natanz plant[1]. This is the skeptical and scientific approach I expect from the tech community. Am I missing something the rest of the community has seen?

[0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/stuxnet.html

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/02/another_piece_o.html
There was a better story about a printer / print server I remember reading somewhere -- someone here will remember and link it I'm sure. This story is so obviously contrived -- what would happen to the gentleman after his car would not start? By the time he called Triple-A or whomever, the car would start again, so the problem of time would be obvious even to a non-engineer.
I like Perl, but I can see the argument for why it's not readable. People often mistakenly use sections of code with crazy looking regexes as an example...that's not really the issue though.

To me, it's a combination of two things:

- The culture that it's good to have many ways to do the same thing.

- The abundance of sigils on variables ($, %, @, etc), and how that gets unmanageable once you have complex data structures. Especially once you mix in references.
>If we're trying to assign meaning to words as used by humans, that's not even in the region of correct. It's not even wrong, it's on a different planet entirely.

It will totally be fine for 99% of applications. Marginal returns.
As I recall, some influential people in NICE and/or the NHS really wanted this to work because it's vastly cheaper and more available than in-person CBT. This result is consistent with a longstanding but controversial hypothesis that the overall quality of the therapist-client relationship is far more important than the nuts and bolts of whatever theory the therapist follows [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict
i owe my career to Perl. I was a liberal arts major and in 94 there was a language i could use because it was designed for folks who needed to use what they could understand at any time without knowing it all, with the aim of building cumulative mastery. Kind of like unix, learn useful things and piece them together.

This was by design as Wall treated Perl to be acquired the same way we learn a spoken language.

That is why we have really good and really bad perl5 code out there.

I remain a learn-by-debugging programmer instead of a play-with-a-lang-from-squareone type. My pattern is, if there is a compelling app i'll learn the language/framework. (bonus points for pg support.). Bricolage got me into HTML::Mason and mod_perl. Discourse got me into ruby. Actionhero got me into nodejs. Flask in python. PHP became unavoidable (sigh).

I find PHP to be my language of "wow i can't debug this at all" but good php is really good - the same way perl detractors see perl.

Low barrier to entry (perl php browser js) is a gift and a curse, but a good dev can make anything a joy to use.

With perl anything done after the faux-OO world blew up takes a lot of effort to understand even though it should be the reverse.

I still use perl for scripting in linux but have avoided it for new apps. After a lot of nodejs async, I am tempted to use Mojolicious and avoid the Mooseshaving
Make sure they don't put it on your credit report.
Keep two directories data in sync
Thanks. That's fascinating.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author
I'm using case-sensitive HFS+. When I last reinstalled macOS on my laptop it was one of the options available. I thought about it and thought a case-sensitive file system was more sensible.

Any problems with case-sensitive file systems must be solved if we want a smooth migration to APFS, which is case-sensitive. I've already reported or helped fix a handful of minor bugs related to case-sensitivity.