skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isnt a mongodb problem. redis has already been targeted and memcached and elastic will. e next. for more info: ise.binaryedge.io or http://blog.binaryedge.io/2015/08/10/data-technologies-and-s...
That's odd. As in not the choice of the day, but that it is not an off day/holiday. Here in India, all voting days are mandatory holidays. It still may not help the unregistered manual labourers, but most office workers are free.
Sounds like the Windows Spotlight "feature" at work:

http://www.howtogeek.com/243263/how-to-disable-ads-on-your-w...
This could also be ad retargeting. You'll often see ads for things you looked at, but did not buy.
I volunteered there as well (with jbermudez5), and have never been so deeply impressed by a group of people as I was by Gaza Sky Geeks. I've spent my professional career conducting tech research in developing countries in SE Asia and the Middle East, and have never seen such challenging circumstances for developing a company as I did in Gaza - and yet everyone there continues to aspire to greatness.

The opportunities for economic growth in the region are incredibly limited (40%+ unemployment; 40% below the poverty line; 80% dependent on some kind of foreign aid; ~50% dependent on UN food aid alone; extreme barriers to importing or exporting physical goods), and yet they enjoy relatively high levels of infrastructure and education (97% literacy; 20% population with a college degree - higher than in the West Bank; female/male near-equality w/r/t education levels; decent internet). All of this combines to make tech investments especially appealing.

I got the feeling in Gaza - relative to many other countries lacking these resources that have garnered a great deal of attention from the tech community in recent years, such as India, Brazil, and more - that the development of tech companies (especially tech, due to minimal infrastructure needs) there can make a significant contribution to the regional economy. The group's additional devotion to including women in the accelerator is especially laudable, and has contributed to an incredibly rich workspace.

There's a lot more info on the crowdfunding website too: http://www.powerupgazageeks.com/
> I hear that women in Japan are still expected to (and usually do) quit their jobs when they have a child.

You don't always have a choice - because there are no or few daycare facilities available anyway, and you may not live close to your parents either.
Which version are you using? I've never found emacs in OSX to be great. When homebrew came along, it greatly simplified and improved my experience because they maintained a better version of emacs. And when I'm feeling particularly lazy, I use Aquamacs.
> the incoming administration has very scant regard for civil liberties

Sorry, they were eroded long before. This is why people must remain vigilant whether it is the person they voted for or not.

http://images.dailykos.com/images/330962/story_image/1249.pn...
I'm German and (as stereotypes would have it) extremely privacy conscious. Having lived in the US for over a decade I've reluctantly come to terms with the lesser privacy standards here.

For a long time I refused to keep a lot of information on Facebook as Facebook seemed to only consider privacy as an afterthought after users expressed outrage (I appreciate transparency about the use of data so I can make my own decision). I refused to use the sign-in with Facebook functionality as I had no interest in giving third parties access to my FB data. Eventually I just gave up and now use Facebook sign-in everywhere because it simply is much more convenient.

When I traveled to China a year ago the utility of using WeChat or Baidu Maps was simply too great. I was well aware that using these applications almost certainly would surrender information to the Chinese government. Interestingly enough, because I assumed that this would happen one way or another during my 3 months stay I felt more inclined to use these applications.

WeChat is the only viable way to keep in touch with all of my Chinese friends in China and in the US.
In Samoa and American Samoa, family members are usually buried beside their homes. It's not completely uncommon for homes to later be extended, causing the graves to be inside the houses or in the verandah.

I visited the home of a distant family member (by marriage) once and their grandparents graves were inside what had become the sitting room/lounge.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i3DWwUsLFBU/Tq3D2VDcwgI/AAAAAAAAAQ...
You guys go first. I'm going to sit this one out.
Wait a minute, switched to Linux because of gaming? I'm considering switching to macOS so I can play StarCraft. (That's not the only reason haha)
Well, backwards-compatibility is sometimes a probability.

For example, a change in the public signature of a function to accept a wider class of arguments might be considered backwards-compatible since the previous calls to the function will still work.

But if your language has type inference, now the previous calls have to actually specify the type of their arguments since the type inference algorithm can no longer resolve all the types.

So you can break SOMEONE'S build by accepting more types of arguments. It will be a one line fix, but if that fix has to be made upstream...
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We charge people for premium features: https://nylas.com/pricing

We also have an infrastructure API product that powers many apps: https://nylas.com/cloud
I think you don't understand the situation in Japan because you see it with Western eyes. There are actually a lot of women who enjoy having this kind of role in society (and who have no interest in a career) - just because they were raised in that culture and do not reject it.

Now, it is true that if you are an ambitious woman in Japan, it is going to be difficult to make a career for yourself and you will certainly face discrimination at some workplaces. But that does not mean every woman is like or feels like that.
Package managers use SemVer for everything, libraries and apps. Continous delivery isn't just for web apps.
Not as a comparison to apple. You want osx you buy the hardware they specify. Buy a laptop known to work out of the box with linux and it works out of the box with linux. Try it on any random laptop, ymmv. Not many of them work as badly as non-apple blessed machines with osx. It's pretty rare I can't get something useful out of any old laptop with a linux install. Is hackintosh still even a thing?
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And firefox if you switch your useragent -- https://linuxconfig.org/play-netflix-on-linux-with-firefox
I think you might be interested in this news from last year: https://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/119166
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No. Sounds like a Windows problem.

I wrote this Common Lisp script to pull the tip of the official Git repo, and then build and install. I run it every few months if I need to restart Emacs for some reason. Works (for me) on Linux and OSX without out a problem. I've been using it long enough that I had to update it to use Git instead of whatever they used before, and I don't recall ever having a build error once I installed the dependencies the first time.

https://gist.github.com/jl2/a6420f0355c5a453b130109df202805f
...or they said that they were jealous to toe the party line.
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In the countryside in Japan you often have graves next to one's home, especially in remote areas where you are far from a temple or a village center - that way you can still visit the grave often.
It's been around for ages. Better known as "Knowledge is Power."

Scientia potentia est - Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power and it can command obedience. A man of knowledge during his lifetime can make people obey and follow him and he is praised and venerated after his death. Remember that knowledge is a ruler and wealth is its subject. - Imam Ali, Nahj Al-Balagha, Saying 146

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientia_potentia_est
Growth in any finite system is inherently unsustainable.
Many economists argue for taxing every equal sized plot of land the same (vs. taxing based on assessed value). There are a lot of benefits to doing it this way, but the main one is that it encourages efficient land use. If a 40 story high rise with 200 apartments in it is taxed the same way as a lot with 6 ranch style homes, then you're going to incentivize building up.
I think what the author was trying to figure out was not just when you should do a major/minor version update, but how that could be done automatically. An example is how in Elm it can detect a major vs minor change and bump your numbers automatically when you publish. Something like that for Go could be built into some tool to help package maintainers (public + private) keep SemVar up to date automatically since there are already types and there are ways to possibly detect changes since a previous version.

I imagine you could write a tool that would check the previous highest "v*" tag in git's version of the project vs now using something like go-guru and determine if any public interfaces were changed and that could automatically determine if it's a major or minor bump.
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Then the conversation should be about how Safari was defective, not the machine itself. Implying that the test revealed a problem with the machine is not correct, simply because it didn't. Installing a non-Safari browser is trivial.
Wait, what?

So if they do publish the report (ie, Buzzfeed) then they get blamed for publishing false news.

If they report that the report was published, they get blamed for making it appear credible

I'll also point out that if they don't report things they get accused of being involved in a cover up.

What do you propose here exactly?
>> Some perfectly fertile couples try for years

> Maybe those couples are not so perfectly fertile after all...

Perhaps seemingly perfectly fertile couples might have been a better way to put it.
I appreciate your response, but still disagree on some things. I'm not necessarily convinced that Obama was as thoughtful as he's made out to be. He's certainly more polished than many politicians but underneath that veneer he seems every bit as calculating and power hungry as most. And to be honest, if he is as thoughtful as many say, and yet still endorsed the expansion of mass surveillance along with some of our recent foreign policy interventions, my opinion of him would probably go even lower.

With regards to false equivalency, I'm sympathetic to your point and even agree that Obama and Trump are not equal on my sliding scale of bad, but from my personal point of view, when both are already so far down that scale it can become difficult for me to parse the differences.

As to any downvotes you have received, none of them came from me. We might disagree here but I think we've both been respectful of each other's views. As a side note, I generally really dislike the downvote mechanism as a way to voice disagreement. If I disagree with a comment enough to consider downvoting it, I find it much more constructive to instead post a rebuttal.
I doubt OP meant literal benches but more long tables with individual chairs. That's how I read it anyway.
The big difference is China is openly undemocratic and the citizens know what they are up against. Here its posturing, misdirection, propaganda, nebulous lists, secret process and the exact same thing only under cover and pretense all working like clockwork to lull the citizens into complacency.

Dial back 10-15 years and try to imagine the response to a news item like this. Hysteria about totalitarianism from the media, endless interviews with academics, ngo and human rights organizations. Grandstanding by politicians and citizens. Where are all these noisy vocal folks? What is orchestrated and what is real?
I'm mostly enjoying the KDE Neon distro. It's polished, built on a stable newish base for the rest of the system.

But as I've said repeatedly in the past, the thing that still drives me completely insane are the keyboard shortcuts, their general inconsistency across DE, apps, etc., the layering interaction of how they're intercepted by different parts of the system (so even when I can manually change them to be consistent, I still can't guarantee they'll be interpreted correctly), and their use of the Control key as the primary modifier in both GUI and Terminal applications.

Linux mostly copied Windows in this regard, and it's just as painful as Windows (and then some) for that reason. I would gladly pay $1,000 for a KDE Neon or Fedora Gnome distro that went through the trouble of thoroughly implementing and maintaining a version with fully Mac-like keyboard shortcuts and keyboard shortcut customization facilities.

I'd pay that per user for my team too. We'd make the money back quickly on savings in hardware purchases.
Conventional wisdom says you should only go with VC money if you have a rapid scaling step that requires astronomical burn rates while you capture market share. Usually rapid scaling like that comes from some sort of network effect (you will switch to facebook because everyone you know is).

Brick and mortar products are less likely to have this property than social-network-of-the-month, so the process can be very different.
Fantastic comment. Burry is obviously a really intelligent guy, but what he did was absolutely insane, and it's important that people realize that.

People can make correct predictions, but there are tons of nuances around them. You could have predicted the Note 7 disaster, but Samsung's stock is up 27% from its pre-incident price. Maybe you knew about VW's problems years ago. Oh, too bad, their stock is up over 50% since 2011. Oh, you knew about the Toyota mat problems? That entire incident amounted to a nearly invisible blip on the stock price.

Betting nearly a billion dollars of other peoples' money on one single thing is absolutely insane. There are a million ways to be completely right and still lose everything.
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Chinese can rip it off, or one of the big players just subsumes your idea in some way. Or it ends up trivialized as "as seen on tv"
> This our terrifying future in America - the incoming administration has very scant regard for civil liberties

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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'not a genius' is not the same as 'a fraud', they can still be very successful. They are very smart in certain areas, and they are extremely good selling things in certain areas, but 'genius' is a bit much
For those curious of possible applications:

Sensors would become more sensitive. You can store information longer. If you were using it in a quantum computer, then you would compute without distortion, and you would actually get the answer you want.
>but wifi drivers are always an issue

This is not true if you have Intel wifi hardware, which is a lot (a majority?) of laptops.
I do tell them they should go home, but they never seem to go. I just want to shout, "it's not for you, it's for me. Piss off!!"
This version of the story included a map. http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-03-31-bye-bye-east-africa-t...

Here's the map image alone: http://cdn.mg.co.za/crop/content/images/2015/03/31/easplitma...
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Out of curiosity what do you (or anyone else who wants to chime in) use for filling PDF forms? Adobe is about the only reason I still dual boot Windows alongside Linux :/
That "usecase" table is pretty handy! I must admit that I'm enjoying all this recent spate of articles on the front-page about Linux compatible laptops and similar programs, even if they cause a bit of an adversarial comment section. :)

As [astrodust] points out, there's been great strides in making the Linux ecosystem "habitable." With more people thinking about putting in the effort to switch, I think it would be useful if we focused on the positive aspects of a free operating system and not just that you can run them on systems without a touchbar. The article mentions configurability and being able to run it on anything. I'd add zero cost and privacy. If you value those things then switching could still be worth it in the end even with other pain points.
Huh, I didn't express any opinion about the situation in Japan, so are you actually replying to what I said? I definitely didn't say anything about what every woman in Japan thinks or feels. I think HN discussion would be better off if people responded to what was actually said, instead of repeatedly making things up and responding to that. I say "repeatedly" because that already happened in this thread.
> What was this limit based on?

It's base on an assumption that the cooling apparatus isn't using squeezed light. If you can squeeze light, then the limit no longer applies.

> Was the generally accepted limit based on what would be "really tough" or something else?

Squeezed light is experimentally difficult to produce. But the definition of "squeezed" is defined as a particular, precise mathematical property of the state of light generated. So it was not some arbitrarily level of "toughness".

An analogy: Historically, there weren't many practical ways to cool things besides putting it along side things that were already cold and allowing them to transfer heat. (This is why ice harvesting existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade ). Therefore, there was a "limit" to how cold you could easily make something, namely, the temperature of the coldest natural stuff you had access to. But once you can build cheap refrigerators, the limit disappeared, and you could easily cool things much colder than ice.

> Has some fundamental quantum physical property been disproven?

No. Squeezing light doesn't violate any laws of physics.

> Is this a breakthrough more significant than setting a coldness record?

Coldness records themselves are almost never intrinsically important. They just make good popular press releases. So the technique is more important than the coldness record, but it's not necessarily that important.
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Dependency hell isn't unique to NPM, but it's also not unique to semver. The primary driving feature of semver is that it provides the framework for a social contract between library author and library user about how automatic upgrades can be performed. This works great until you the number of transitive dependencies is "in the the thousands", which I've never seen on any project save for Javascript projects.
China is fascinating.

On one hand...

- China has done better than any other country on Earth at poverty reduction. Chinese policy since Deng Xiaoping lifted hundreds of millions of people out of subsistence poverty. Free markets were a big part of this, but so were Special Economic Zones starting with Shenzhen, a culture of sharing IP, massive govt investments in infrastructure, research and education.

- China are also the most successful urbanists today. Many of those 100s of millions of former rural poor are in cities now. In the time it took California to debate building a single High Speed Rail line from SF to LA, China connected their whole country with trains that are much faster, much more useful (because they go directly into urban centers and connect to fast local transit), and much cheaper. Ours still isn't done.

--

And yet, at the same time, China also seems to be prototyping some kind of grim meathook future.

- Extremely aggressive surveillance. Near zero respect for privacy. Govt deputizing the tech sector to spy and censor on their behalf.

- Cities with toxic air. Check out this glorious ad in Beijing right now: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1JrMsKUAAAopPT.jpg

- A closed, censored alternate internet

- "Social Credit" Scores based on surveillance, which look like a frighteningly powerful way to neuter dissent

China moves faster than we do, both for better and for worse. I guess our challenge is to emulate the things they're doing right (eg the vastly more efficient and effective way they build transit), while stopping our own governments from repeating China's mistakes and acts of authoritarian overreach.
I doubt they will change, deep cultural roots after all. Since the funeral is a small part of the overall, I'd hold off on the judgement based on my description. I would also point out that advances in science are unevenly distributed and actually don't affect a lot of deaths in certain places.
So long as the investors are here (and often times require you to move to get funded), the startups will be here.
> Ultimately, the talk tears into version numbers in general, but not semantic versioning

He does talk explicitly about the trouble of making major changes in SemVer[0]. The gist of his argument was that minor changes in semver are relatively useless while major changes have a high probability of breaking your software. Major changes in semver are backwards incompatible and update the program's API in place. This leads to dowstream breakage and fear around doing upgrades.

> If I need to upgrade my application due to a security vuln, SemVer lets me know if I can just "drop-in" the upgrade, or if I need to work more.

I think the point he was trying to make was that upstream developers could change internals of a library but keep the API consistent so that downstream devs would never have to worry about scary updates. As you said with SemVer, if the security upgrade is a significant change, then you can expect breakage in the library. What he was advocating was patching issues like security vulns under the hood while keeping everything backwards compatible. Major upgrades could even add new namespaces, functions, and arguments but there's no real point to deleting or mutating old code, that just creates breakage. He wants software libraries to be immutable to take care of dependency issues and versioning to better reflect the changes made in the code.

[0]https://youtu.be/oyLBGkS5ICk?t=13m45s

https://youtu.be/oyLBGkS5ICk?t=30m6s

https://youtu.be/oyLBGkS5ICk?t=46m28s
Good writeup. I made a similar switch after the new MBP announcement this year. I used windows through college (muh games), switched to linux in the 3rd year, used it for about 2 years, then bought a mac which was nice at first because of the nice unix tools while having supported software and a decent gui.
10.11/12 did me in, the OS is so much worse than it used to be, and that brought me back to linux and it has honestly been a breath of fresh air. Everything is so nice!