skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for taking the time to write that out. My intention wasn't to call you out specifically, it's just that I see a similar sentiment expressed almost every time Fedora is mentioned, and I finally decided to say something about it.

Part of why you see things working their way into the distribution quickly is because of the "first" foundation[1]. Fedora purposely does not wait for other distributions to do the hard work of integrating new technologies, which means they're often among the first to discover bugs in new technologies. That said, I think that these large integrations are getting smoother over time, as the community is putting a lot more effort into coordinating these large changes and instituting QA that has the teeth to block releases on bugs with flaky integration.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations
Also, remember these are the same pollsters who had Hillary winning the election...

No, polls said "more people will vote for Hillary than Trump" - and they were right. The failure was of the journalists and pundits interpreting that as a win.
Perspective of who the author is. Every author and every website has an agenda. Personally, I cannot support an author who has these types of views, as it is against the inalienable rights of my friends and myself.
Recovering the double-the-amount bond will likely need to be pursued through the normal, frustrating channels.

But perhaps he could take the police officer to small claims court. He could introduce the court transcript where the police officer admitted under oath that he perjured himself when signing the ticket. And he could argue that the time spent fighting the illegal ticket amounted to damages.

That police officer wouldn't be paying the judgment out of pocket. The city would reimburse him rather than risk any complaint from the officer that he perjured himself and incurred the judgment in the course of doing his job the way that he was instructed to do it.
Yeah, the whole solanum family increase reflux in a lot of people, some worse than others. I save my allowance for spicy peppers, and simply don't miss aubergines, potatoes (I eat yams instead), tomatoes, and perhaps related, I'm extremely tobacco-sensitive.
> collateral damage

"Collateral damage" is dehumanizing doublespeak for the killing of civilians.

I don't want to live in any future that sees Obama's legacy in a positive light.
That wasn't my experience at all. Health insurance was literally three times more expensive for me throughout my perfectly healthy twenties compared to now as I'm nearing 40 (on an ACA plan).
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Sweden here. Put on a hat if your hands or feet go cold.
When I first started my shed business and was building my products personally, I worked through two winters in the cold, and to prevent frostbite, I removed my boots, rolled up my pants, and dipped my feet into our hot-tub to restore circulation. (My business was home-based.) By warming them in this manner, the cold didn't bother them for about 4 hours.
There was a short interview with him in Stephen Fry's "Planet word" series of documentaries. His humility was very inspiring.
Texas. Need I say more? The state chose to make ACA as unworkable as possible.
This paper uses AAV (adeno-associated virus), which is probably the most common viral vector for optogenetics. There are several other options, including lentivirus and--yes, rabies. They all have slightly different properties in terms of their propensity to infect different cell types, payload capacity, and so on.

Rabies has the interesting ability to move trans-synaptically. Specifically, it moves "backwards" from a post-synaptic cell into its presynaptic partners. This makes it very useful for studies where you want to label or manipulate connections between areas. On the other hand, this would make it more difficult to study all cells or all cells of a specific type in one area.

Incidentally, I'm not sure if rabies crosses the blood-brain barrier per se. It moves up to the brain via peripheral nerves instead of circulating through the blood. In fact, the blood brain barrier may be a problem for rabies because it prevents immune cells from cleaning out the virus inside the central nervous system.
If i remember correctly, there is a never-enforced federal statute forbading preachers from advocating for/against paticular politicians. It made sence back when written, but it's hard to imagine it ever enforced today.

Not the best citation but i am on a mobile.

http://www.christian-attorney.net/church_political_campaign_...
Seems like they could write an SELinux rule to allow that behavior...
> For example ISO 10646 ("Unicode") has multi-code point sequences denoting still a single character

I only know two programming languages that deal correctly with that: Swift and Perl 6. If you know more, please tell me.
Then again, as a user I actually find a perpetual loader spinner animation far more annoying than a simple "oh noes server is under heavy load please come back later".
"No one in the court system is held responsible."

... That is not entirely true (not to say it is false, but more nuanced). Much of the court system is elected (or directly appointed by someone elected), which is supposed to balance abuse in the long run. Obviously it takes publicity and a lot of wrangling to make an impact through elections, but it is technically feasible.
It seems like the core thrust of this article is that someone isn't around to perpetually support the libraries the author would like to use; i.e., he/his company is unwilling to fork out the money for someone to keep the 'blessed' libraries fully up to date -- so now that's the implementer's problem! I can understand wanting stability and a promise of timely updates for all one's dependencies, but it doesn't seem like the core language team is the right group to foist that responsibility upon.
Generally cold fingers are from poor circulation. Living in Colorado where a few months of the year we get very cold weather so I have learned a few tricks about cold hands (from Snowboarding to Programming I've experienced cold hands almost everywhere).

One awesome thing my work did for me was brought in a hand massage specialist who taught me several stretching techniques for the hand that help increase blood flow which in turn helps keep them much warmer.

Check out the the following page [1], it has pictures and descriptions that teach great stretches. Not only is it good for circulation it's good to just do this in general to prevent other common problems that stem from lack of stretching.

side note stretching has been a real game changer for my programming. Not only does it make me feel more energized, the stretching seems to have increased my work ethics by a lot because I feel more energized to be that team player.

[1] http://www.toc.md/exercises_wristhand.htm

If this doesn't help just grab a desk USB hand warmer and that should be able to help when your hands aren't feeling so nice (as mentioned by other users in this).

edit Also wanted to mention after thinking a bit more and the hands, feet, and head are the places you lose the most amount of body heat from. I wear a hat while programming so possibly having one at your desk may also help keep in more heat? Just a thought, doubtful this is the root of the issue for ya though.
This post is incorrect. SELinux does not fully mitigate this issue. We recommend users update to 1.12.6.

I expect Red Hat to issue a retraction shortly. We notified them last night that this post was incorrect.

Source: Security at Docker.
Stupid question: does this now mean that you can boot a RPi to Linux with zero blobs involved?

Additional question: does anyone have a list of devices that you can boot without any blobs involved? E.x. if someone wants to go "full Stallman" what are the options to do that?
As someone from mainland China and learned pinyin in grade 1 of primary school, which happened in early 90s, in Beijing, I use pinyin daily, for inputting Chinese into electronic devices.

>All my Chinese teachers explained that young schoolchildren were taught basic pronunciation with bopomofo (which uses special characters, not latin letters), not pinyin.

No, we use latin letters in mainland China, Taiwan uses special characters.

The article is very accurate. Older generations like my parents have to learn latin lettered pinyin by themselves to use PCs and smartphones.

And the pinyin form of my name and home address are on my passport.
> This isn’t a question that comes up so often with respect to (say) Python because Python has an effective form of curation – blessing things into the standard library, at which point their alternatives generally disappear. In effect, Python modules are quality-filtered on the taste of the BDFL and the devteam.

I love Python but this statement is absolutely coming from someone who does not write Python on a regular basis. Many stdlib modules are greatly outclassed by third-party alternatives - urllib2 vs requests, datetime vs arrow just to name a few - to the point where no one actually uses the stdlib modules in production.
Consider 'e' in 'he' and 'they'.

None of the things you say are a problem or make sense for someone who speaks Chinese. I think you're just an autist on speed.
Very much this. Some more thoughts:

* Standard Mandarin has a surprisingly small number of distinct syllables, namely about 400 when tones are ignored, and 1300 with tones. English has about 7000 to 15000. So, homophones are a bit more of a problem in Mandarin than in English.

* English disambiguates some homophones in writing (where/were, there/their/they're, and so on), though as less literate people increasingly demonstrate, one can communicate reasonably well without these disambiguations.

* Spanish has an extremely close correspondence between what is written and what is said, and only disambiguates a very few words (typically question words) with an accent, and the writing system works just fine.

* Given that spoken Mandarin works, and disambiguation of homophones in alphabetic languages is only sometimes done, I am personally convinced that some sort of alphabetic writing for Mandarin is absolutely feasible. That might be Pinyin or Bopomofo or some variation thereof.

* Personally, I find the Chinese script very beautiful, but a colossal waste of time (think of the billion of poor kids that had to learn it).

* Would switching to some sort of alphabetic system cut people off of their cultural heritage? Maybe somewhat, but I'd argue it's mitigated by two things: a) Classical Chinese is in fact so remote from modern one that you have to study it anyways in depth, if you are into it. You could still do that, if you are into it. b) Nearly nobody speaks Latin anymore in the West, the horror. Are we cut off of our cultural heritage? Well, somewhat, but there are translations, and if you're really into it, you can still go and learn it, see a).

Great resources on these issues, btw:

* "The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy", John DeFrancis

* "Asia's Orthographic Dilemma", Wm. C. Hannas, extract available here http://www.pinyin.info/readings/orthographic.html

* Pinyin Info, http://www.pinyin.info/

* Language Log, http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ , in particular Victor Mair's posts
Of course in production software type errors are rare. They're generally the first errors that pop up during debugging or testing. Which means the primary benefit of a basic static type system is speeding up the feedback loop of finding all your type errors, and reducing the need for testing.

The funny thing about that blog post is that the top 25 bugs "don't look like" type errors to the author, but almost all of them are type errors given some type system and type definition...and not just theoretical, but by existing languages and usages. Buffer overflow, for example, isn't a "type error" according to C, but it is according to Rust. As type systems become stronger and more advanced, more errors become type errors, which means you'll only recognize them as type errors if you use languages and constructs that make them type errors.
I friend of mine had the same condition, which made winter activities (skiing, snowshoeing, etc.).

She found the rechargeable electric gloves from Columbia to be very useful. Many outdoor equipment/apparel companies are manufacturing similar items now. Perhaps a fingerless pair of gloves would help?

edit: perhaps, something like this:www.heatedmouse.com/Heated-Gloves.html
I couldn't disagree more. The fact that our laws are subjectively interpreted is a blessing. There are so many laws that the Congressional Research Service can't even count them all. In other words, we are all breaking laws every day.[0]

Absolute law enforcement is a bad idea, for the fact that it provides no path towards civil disobedience[1]

Take for example the Texas "sodomy" law, that prevented homosexual couples from ingaging in sexual acts. If the law were practiced in absolute terms, we would have never had Lawrence v. Texas, and gay people would have remained criminals.

If I take a more generous stance towards your argument, and assume that you meant to say only traffic laws should be absolutely enforced, again I think it's a bad idea. It provides no way to argue circumstances in your case (such as "tree was blocking the red light").

In summary, I think absolute enforcement is effectively Orwellian.

[0] https://moxie.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide/

[1]http://archives.nwtrcc.org/omtfp/civilrole.html
Nope, you can chose to not join the class-action (or remove yourself form it) and pursue your own legal matter in court. The judge might try to fold your case into the class-action, but only if that class-action falls within their circuit's jurisdiction.
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Nick gave an excellent talk about this chip at the 1995 Microprocessor Forum (which was around the 25th anniversary of the IBM/370). It was really impressive that IBM could make the PC using the 8086 architecture because there was such corporate alignment around the 3x0 architecture for all computing that was IBM. Nick mentioned that in some ways the PC division felt threatened by the notion that he had created a way to have the 370 architecture go "from top to bottom" on their product line.
Nuclear reactors have been used on submarines for decades. McMurdo base in Antarctica was powered by a nuclear reactor for 10 years which ended in the 70s.
I took this to mean you should never ask a witness if they committed a felony, because they can refuse to answer.
It's Raynaud's, not "poor exercise routine leads to poor circulation and OP just needs a pep talk" itis. Raynaud's is not a disease of the blood not moving due to being sedentary; it arises from arterial spasms that cut off blood flow. To your point, exercise to improve circulation is indeed often prescribed to mitigate the attacks of Raynaud's, but they won't "completely go away," and that's a bummer of a thing to say to someone with a chronic, uncurable disease that you feel you understand.

A number of people doing that in this thread, by the way, not just you. Raynaud's can be quite aggressive, painful, and limiting to the sufferer's quality of life, including the onset of gangrene and the threat of digit loss in particularly extreme cases. I also see people condescendingly do this to those afflicted in my family -- your fingers get cold? That's easy to fix. Come run with me!

Not how Raynaud's works. Exercise? Good suggestion. Will cure the problem in a week? Google Raynaud's.
Ask HN: Entering Java EE should I still learn EJB?
It seems for the most part, JAX-RS is replacing EJB as the preferred technology for business logic.
GDP doesn't matter when it comes to angry families with pitchforks and torches.

Start thinking about the reputational and potential future stock damages from just having this information coming out.
I still use a lot of the Marvell Kirkwood units I had from 2009 or so. My first was a OpenRD board which was I think like $160, but there was a ton of low-end NAS & other gear. My favorite unit was the Iomega iConnect, a simple unit having a plush 512MB flash, 256MB ram, 4 USB ports, gbit ethernet, and an Atheros chipset, and could be had on ebay for $65. Havent had any running for a while, but for a good while these were all over the place.

iomega iconnect: https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/iomega/iconnect

The Kirkwood was fair. 1.6GHz ARMv5TE-ish cores, custom architecture, but sipping data through a 16 bit DDR2 channel. I had hope that Marvell would progress and keep it up, but they seemed to get harder to find and harder to use and less supported and only show up in some random Android STB as the years went on.

But this is the basis I had during RPi's 2012 arrival. Still flush with hope, of decent upstreamed cores, & it seemed rather like an unfortunate step back. That said, I was buying for twice the price of RPi while only paying rather discounted ebay prices, albeit for consumer goods with wifi, flash, cases, & warranties.

I'm still not sure what I'd point people to today if I wanted to suggest an alternative. The good work done in making blobless rpi happen, in building good upstream drivers has been incredibly impressive. I do wish Freescale had better recognized the need for low cost boards. Now a days, Atmel's SAMA5D3-Xplorer board has really good upstream, great peripherals, Arduino headers, and has fantastic power consumption, but it's three times the RPi price.
50 MW is small for all the red-tape necessary to operate a nuke plant. 1500 MW is nice if you're going to need over 1,000 staff. I'm not sure how much headcount they could eliminate with a better design.
Looks interesting, well done.
Been thinking about the implication of Moore law (in the broad sense) and how easy it's to reinvent the wheel using cheap electronics nowadays.

Giving this trend, how far are we from google/facebook/apple/whatever to start giving away hardware for free?

It's not so far fetched to envision such devices to be heavily hostile, for regular users, and makers or tinkerers alike.
Author here. Very curious of HN community's thoughts on this idea. Would you use such a system? What for? Why or why not?

We're considering whether to build out the avatar conferencing system. As mentioned in the blog, there are some obvious pluses and minuses to such an idea, and likely a lot of less obvious ones not mentioned. Thanks!
It sounds like a neat idea, and potentially safer(?). But I don't understand why they're claiming it'll be cheaper:

> But one company thinks that by going smaller, they could actually make nuclear power more affordable.

And later in the article:

> The company believes that 570-MW project can be completed for less than $3 billion. By comparison, a new 1,150-MW reactor at Watts Bar in Tennessee cost around $4.7 billion and began operation in 2016 after years of delays.

Based on those numbers, the construction cost of the modular reactor system is almost 30% more expensive per MW. Are they anticipating the operational costs to be lower, thus saving money in the long run? But the article claims they're trying to save on the construction costs:

> Companies such as NuScale hope to offset the higher costs by saving on the cost of construction

Which isn't true, based on the numbers the article quotes.

On a related note, I wonder if refueling these modular would be more difficult/costly because of their smaller size and the submersion design?
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Yeah, but it's basically same as `setenforce 0`.
Many would argue that not switching to pinyin was a huge error.

Chinese literacy isn't necessarily that great...

E.g.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-literacy-rate-in-China-so-h...
Most languages of the world are written primarily in Latin characters. The only language these characters were designed for is long dead.

The reason for switching to Latin characters has nothing to do with phonetics and everything to do with making the language more practical to use with computers. Keyboards with 400 keys don't really work.

Countless other languages with no relation to English have been using romanized alphabets for many years. Your argument that Chinese is any different doesn't make sense.
Putting anecdata in spreadsheet form doesn't fix the problem. If you look at spending data people are putting less into things like food and clothing and transportation than ever before in part because housing and medical costs are out of control. That isn't some made up feel good story pulled out of the air, it is solid verifiable data from government agencies that collect this data as part of tracking people and transaction for tax collection and other reasons.
This article is very accurate. Everyone in mainland uses pinyin daily for inputs. Only the older generation uses hand wiring for inputs.
Uggghhh I meant masochists. That's a... very unfortunate mistake. As I said already in this thread (RE getting the GFLOPS way wrong), sorry!!!

I meant masochists. Thanks for questioning.
> I think question isn't whether or not mining bitcoins would be productive.

Yeah, that is the question. Because if the math doesn't add up, nobody would do it, meaning Tesla doesn't need to worry about it.
In the end, it doesn't matter who it's "fair" to assign responsibility to; a language you can't rely on is a language you can't rely on. All esr is pointing out is that there's a problem. Personally I think the Rust folks are pretty aware of this problem, and are managing just fine; Rust is definitely still in the early stages of language community growth, and locking things down too much would be a mistake.
Because parts of SELinux which are easy to use are already covered by POSIX.
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> McMurdo base in Antarctica was powered by a nuclear reactor for 10 years which ended in the 70s.

Yes, but I'm not sure that was an overwhelmingly positive example supporting increased use of widespread reactors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station#Nuclear_power_...

As a result of continuing safety issues (hairline cracks in the reactor and water leaks), the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power Program decommissioned the plant in 1972.

Or course, one would hope that more modern design would be safer.
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My HDD on Linux barely has any disk access and is perfectly usable, meanwhile windows just loves trashing it for minutes, even with page file & unneeded services disabled.
According to Wikipedia that is false. CakePHP in April 2005, RoR in December 2005
I think you overestimate the cost of electricity over the expected life of a drive. These arent space heaters. Pennies per day, adding up to perhaps tens of dollars difference between the two options.
As there are only about 400 syllables (ignoring tones) in standard Mandarin, it's a fairly quick exercise to make a complete one-to-one mapping :-)
A couple of quibbles:

- The "invasiveness" of optogenetics is at least as bad as electrical microstimulation, in that you need to implant cannulae to inject the virus, plus some sort of fiber. It's possible to implant very thin metal electrodes that do fairly little damage; the optical stuff is currently much bigger.

- Optogenetics does have a selectivity advantage, but it's a bit different. By finding the right promotor, you can target specific cell types so that the optical protein is only expressed in (say) a specific class of interneurons, or a specific layer, or cells that project to another brain region.

- The virus itself isn't switching things on and off. Instead, the virus infects cells and causes the cells to produce a channel which light can switch on/off.
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