skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nerds are unpopular because a big component of the definition of "nerd" is unpopularity.

It's embraced, but it's not a component. Humans communicate nonverbally more than verbally. Nerds are betas in the classical animal hierarchy and it's outwardly obvious to most other people without a need for interaction. In addition to the physical betrayal, they (or we since I include myself) focus on obsess about problems as a virtue. This is viewed as neurosis and beta behavior by many. Who wants to socially interact with someone who gets caught up on details or problems that don't relate to social relationships? Not high school girls which forge the the self-perpetuating social circles in high school. Nerds are also withdrawn, which does not help the image and puts most of them farther behind over time. There's more, but this article is quite...juvenile. It's from the perspective of someone who still doesn't grasp the basics of what goes wrong for kids in school, in regards to social status.

The PUA communities are agnostic about this stuff and really have broken it down in a methodical manner that the author would benefit from.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/mark-zuckerberg-wall-...
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I am in the same situation, it's frustrating that Apple segregates the store by country this way.
> Where's Tokyo? Hong Kong?

The graphs are for new completions, which almost by definition favours developing countries. Evidently Tokyo and HK didn't complete any 200m+ buildings in 2015. And while São Paulo has a very impressive concentration of tall buildings, it has zero above 200m.

I agree about 200m+ buildings being a strange metric, though. For all intents and purposes there's little difference, from an urban dynamics perspective, between 150m and 200m construction.
From lab-scale plants it's clear that they are at least as resistant as the chinese chestnut the fungus is from.
http://www.esf.edu/chestnut/resistance.htm

Of course the proof is a forest of full grown trees, but there's every reason to expect this method will get us there.
Since he's gifting all profits from foreign ventures to the US Treasury, there is no "pressure".
They are already allowing apps to do stuff which is against the rules. I am on a personal crusade on Twitter against apps that spam me with notifications to "come back".
Same for Estonia, I don't think I've ever seen a review on Estonian iTunes app store. Not a single one.
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TempleOS does just that. What you type at the command line is the TempleOS systems language (Holy-C if I recall), it's compiled and executed. The syntax of Holy-C is such that it's not too onerous as a shell language.
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Sure, except popular vote does not matter, nor should it. If it did, CA and NY's echo boxes would run the US, and there would be no US in short order. Don't forged why the Unites States exists; taxation without representation.

He could have lost FL _or_ OH and still won.
Can you tell us more about the project and the current status?
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I really hope that it would be finally possible to use touch id to identify myself when leaving reviews. I do not understand why reviewing seems to be the most sensitive thing I can do on an iPhone, as it is the only feature that always requires the whole password.
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Think of something highly dangerous and highly improbable any POTUS could do and it most likely it will happen with this guy.
One has to be careful not to get carried away by those little mistakes, lies and glitches as it may be just a bait to distract general public from the bigger picture and his agenda.
The emerald ash borer is currently having the same effect on the billions of ash trees in North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer#Invasiveness...

It's a similar story. The species was accidentally introduced from Asia in the 1990s, and it's spreading dramatically across the continent. No effective strategy has been discovered to stop the destruction as of yet.
Do we really need Trump news on HN. I've left Reddit because of the political insanity there, I'm hoping it doesn't come here too.
Black screen here on "MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)" (with the mighty Intel HD3000)
As long as you get your mutable code right. If there are any unintentional holes in your instantiate/operate/consume box...
You're right, we've come this far because intelligence is a competitive advantage. However, we do not fully understand the mechanisms of evolution, and I thus find it hard to categorically deny all other beings' ability to think extensively. Their intelligence probably wouldn't be competitive ("how do I get there before that guy"), but maybe there are other kinds of intelligence. Kindness and compassion is not a human invention, and may well be an evolutionary advantage under some circumstances (grouping is needed for survival, and the group survives better by sharing), leading to intelligence based on kindness and not focusing on any single individual.
This is simply untrue. Ayn Rand doesn't speak about international free trade in Atlas Shrugged, as the rest of the developed world in her story turns into People's States. She did support international free trade, but not "free trade" of TPP and TTIP.

What remains to be seen is whether the domestic trade policies of Trump will be in alignment with what Ron Paul and other Ayn Rand devotees propose. He promised deregulation, so it might happen [1].

tl;dr: Trump might be moving the world towards a Galt's Gulch analogue without being an Ayn Rand devotee.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/23/trump-tells-business-leaders-...
More people speak Belarusian than Kabyle, why was Belarusian locale removed?
(forced to use a side account to comment on this)

You have to look at it from the Trump teams point of view. They honestly don't see that the 'free speech' argument holds water. They see it as abuse of a public position to spread falsehoods.

Basically EPA employees in the Trump Team's view are perpetuating climate alarmism ( again in the TT view ).

So they are stopping that.

Just flip it around just for a second. I'll choose an equivalent that would cause liberals to shut down the twitter of an official.

Imagine a Department of Health official was tweeting photos of aborted foetuses and keeping a tally "350 aborted this month. #whatawaste".

There would be calls to stop that official speaking out.
Tor == "The Onion Router".

TorGuard == something completely unrelated to Tor. Per the TorGuard website (https://torguard.net/faq.php):

"Is TorGuard related in any way to the “tor” project? No, The reference to "tor" in TorGuard relates to "torrents" and guarding one’s privacy when using bitorrent. We are not related in any way to the “tor” project however the company does support through donations."

Orbot, OTOH, is part of the Tor Project (https://www.torproject.org/docs/android.html.en) and Globus (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.globus.vpn...) claims to support Tor.
Gentoo has a firm stance towards admin/user choice, and are willing to take action (eudev) to uphold the ability to choose.

This in stark contrast to certain devs over at Fedora and Gnome that hold that choice is bad. Just observe a certain site ebassi maintains...
Google Maps? in 2001??
sure. Never denied. But we are breaking apart that java code part by part. The docker build size is also very small as mentioned in the article. Our app involves lot of bandwidth so we good with smaller containers.
His obsessive marijuana habit as a youth; his decades-long black nationalist religious associations; his gangster affiliations; his lengthy professional work with convicted terrorists; his family's foreign intelligence connections, etc, etc.

I suspect all of these things were widely reported, yet largely spurious accusations.
cut their teeth!

I'm surprised there are hardly any PhDs specifically in "deep learning", given the youth of the term. Would a PhD in some related area of statistics count for something?
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Personally (not the author) I am more annoyed by the gutted single inheritance no traits type system.

You have numeric pointers into arrays, they're called indices.
They can try to buy Sumo Logic.
What I've noticed is that if you pay for premium service, the apps keep the connection up way better and offer nice features, like switching your country from an easy menu.

Tha being said I've been quite happy with http://privateinternetaccess.com/. A good Android client, fast, don't ask any personal information when you register, they say no logging, the Android app doesn't ask any permissions and so on. I can choose the key length and additionally block all connections if the VPN is not connected.
The f.lux effect never looked as nice as the one on Android though - it looks like it just paints over another layer of orange color instead of removing the blue components when rendering. It makes my eyes hurt in the evening in a way that the night mode on my Pixel never does :/

Also it kicks in and gets really strong hours before I go to sleep.

Hopefully Apple themselves will do it better.
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> I hear this one a lot, do you have a source to prove this?

What kinds of source would be most convincing for such a broad question such as this? How about the fact that as many people have escaped extreme poverty since 1990 as there are human beings alive in Europe [1]? Average global purchasing power more than doubling [2]? Or maybe global agricultural output growing more than twice as fast as the world population since 2000 [3]? Life expectancy at birth increasing by more than 10% [4]? The massive decline in fatalities from armed conflicts [5]? Growths in industrial productivity that dwarfs even the industrial revolution [6]? How about access to technology that can instantly connect you to half of the world [7]? Price of renewable energy finally at parity with fossil fuels even in the face of the Republican party [8]? The number of people living under elected representatives instead of authoritarian regimes nearly doubling [9]?

Better yet, what evidence do you have that invalidates all of the above? Even if you're the world's ultimate nit-picker, the data is overwhelmingly positive.

> I've spent time in third world countries and not even the poorest people were working and eating in rubish dumps and guess there slept?

I didn't see them running around with technology.

The only region in the world where less than half the population has access to at least mobile broadband is Subsaharan Africa. Even now the wealthiest nations have citizens that fall through cracks in the system and live in destitution but the big picture is clear: the world is better off now than it ever has been.

[1] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/report-2013/mdg-report...

[2] http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=xx&v=67

[3] http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do...

[4] https://www.clio-infra.eu/datasets/search

[5] http://www.hsrgroup.org/docs/Publications/HSR2013/HSRP_Repor...

[6] http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/global-economic-monit...

[7] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.P2

[8] http://sunmetrix.com/sunmetrix-grid-parity-map-for-residenti...

[9] https://ourworldindata.org/democracy/
Except that “rockets” built with Erlang have been aerodynamic, production-ready, and deployed some 20 years before Elixir has even existed and they are still in use today. They did not start breaking off and, yes, they actually went to space, as opposed to what you imply in a very sneaky way in your first statement. If you want to be fair, you can say that Elixir is another skin of Erlang, the other way around does not hold.
I'd argue that even before the "good science" really established itself broadly (that is, before the last few hundred years in Europe) there were the results that have all the rights to be called "good science" and Ptolemy's formulas actually have all the right to be recognized as "good science." Note, the formulas, not the models that people believed, the "firm spheres and stuff":

They made good prediction for where the planets are going to be. They covered all the known planets. They produced accurate results for all the observations of their time. It took the lifetime work of Brahe and his development of his own observatories to even collect enough data for Kepler to be able to recognize differences between the approximate circle paths of the planets.

In short, just like Newton's, Ptolemy's formulas are a "good enough" approximation when knowing their limits.

I've even read one scientist, and I tend to believe him, claiming that Ptolemy himself, during the development of his formulas, must have used the Sun-centric model, and then he produced the "projected" result which was more acceptable for everybody who just wanted to calculate where the planets are on the sky, as seen from the Earth.
I don't remember any truly spurious accusations against him.

The only one I can think of is the MLK story.
In 2009, Obama removed a bust of Winston Churchill (lent by the UK to George W Bush after the 9/11 attack) from the Oval Office, returning it to the British Embassy in Washington [1].

Obama had a bust of Martin Luther King on display in the Oval Office.

After Trump's inauguration, a WH press-pool reporter noticed and reported on Twitter that the Churchill bust was back in the office (it was), then added that the MLK bust had been removed (it hadn't, it was simply obscured by a door).

It was never really a story - just a handful of tweets - and the reporter tweeted the correction within an hour [2]. Trump has used this as an example of "media dishonesty:".

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/462314...

[2] http://www.snopes.com/mlk-bust-oval-office/
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That is his job. Spicer is very explicitly a PR person.
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That's just laziness on part of the refactorer. At that point, you need to use an outer if-else statement. Ternary operators are confusing when nested.
Then you have a fav icon, the page title, possibly a mute icon, a close icon and a throttle icon? The mute icon and page title aren't visible anymore as it is with many tabs open, so adding another icon doesn't sound like a good idea, especially if visibility is important.
No, what you are saying is simply unfunny.
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Ah Poettering. He seems to code more than he thinks. Just observe a certain change he made that could make systemd-pid1 hang.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12655048
> I'd argue you're making up facts if you think Trump has any plans to press the abortion issue in any meaningful way. There will be zero legislation.

He literally already has signed an executive order about it.

'Donald Trump has signed an executive order to ban federal money going to international groups which perform or provide information on abortions.

'The US president's order shows he "wants to stand up for all Americans, including the unborn," his press secretary Sean Spicer said.'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38724063
I expect that's a function of their traditional position in the educational market. That market is extra-sensitive to accessibility issues, for legal and practical reasons.
Its scheduled for Java 9 or 10, not sure which.
Clinton fake news “paid him about $1,000 an hour in web advertising revenue”
Can any economist here explain why skyscrapers are a bad idea?
> Trump would set up the surveillance state

I'm puzzled by this comment.

The US surveillance state was set up prior to Trump.

Is anyone still doubting the complete slurping of everything the TLAs (Three Letter Agencies) can get?

It wouldn't matter who the President was right now, this thing will march on.

Maybe it's convenient we get to lay some of the blame on DJ Trump. That's all.
About freaking time, I've been waiting three years for this...
There are many cities where building a 200m+ building is impractical, ridiculous, or totally out of character, yet these cities are highly dense, and by any definition, "great" cities.

I'm really confused as to why they'd pick this particular metric. Later on in the article they talk about density patterns which is a much better predictor of health.
You do realize that Safari's engine WebKit is used for mission critical things in macOS and iOS… many apps like Mail, the App Store, iTunes and many thousands of 3rd party applications, right?

Every WebView in a macOS or iOS app is backed by WebKit—it's not just a browser; it's an extremely important system software component on over a billion devices.

I think Safari Tech Preview and WebKit Nightlies are a good tradeoff—I'd rather that than frequent instability on my Mac or iPhone just for the appearance of being an evergreen browser.

You can see what's being developed and what's being considered for WebKit just like you can for Chrome and Firefox: https://webkit.org/status/
Wonder where they'll go once their codebase becomes crippled with interface{} type and nil pointers check, and they stop using chanel to return to mutex for performance reasons, or more control.

Note : sounds snarky, but it's an honest question i find asking to myself after having tried many server side techs and feeling limited with go.
Highlights PDF :
http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Report%20File...
Really good nes! I just wanna buy such new seeds now, is it possible?
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It's under development: https://webkit.org/status/
Why would you stop learning?

You misunderstand me. I did not say that Elixir is not different from Erlang, what I said already two times and this is the third time is that you cannot send me to some case study about how code deployed on the Erlang virtual machine performs well at high traffic and imply that the performance seen is a quality of Elixir, because it is not. Can we agree on this? That is the one and only point that I was trying to make, and if you read carefully and want to understand I think I have expressed that thought in a quite clear way. It is also a very factual truth, not a subjective matter, when we discuss syntax preference we do not discuss throughput because throughput is not a quality of the syntax. Even less so in the case of Elixir which runs on top of the Erlang virtual machine. Performance could be discussed as a function of syntax if, for instance, Elixir compiled to virtual machine instructions for the Erlang virtual machine and then had its own layer of optimizations etc. and then there would be some inherent quality of the Elixir syntax which makes those optimizations easier. But the fact of the matter is that Elixir compiles to Erlang which is then compiled to instructions for the virtual machine. Yes, Elixir it’s just syntax, I suggest you read its source code and not take my word for it. There is nothing incredible that Elixir has invented, it just looks like Ruby which made it easier to read by ex-Ruby programmers, that’s all.

Yes, of course I am biased to have a problem towards Elixir programmers making extraordinary claims when they lack cultural knowledge and brag about things that have not been invented by Elixir in any way but are qualities of a system which they very much enjoy criticizing in ignorance. I have even heard Elixir programmers talking about a so-called Elixir virtual machine which I find amazing and tells me a lot about their community and culture.
On the evening of that day in 1967 I was a nine year old space junkie watching Batman -- a phenomenally popular TV show in my demographic -- when ABC interrupted the show with a bulletin that "one astronaut had died on the pad" at Cape Kennedy. No other explanation was provided. I was mystified. I knew there was no launch that day. Our astronauts just didn't die on the pad, and why only one? Before I could figure it out ABC interrupted again and said three astronauts had died.

It's flashbulb memory... I can remember where in the house I was sitting, I can remember the rabbit-ears black-and-white TV, and I can remember the black-circle dominated graphic that ABC put on the screen. And I remember the horrible picture of the burned spacecraft on the front page of the Washington Post two days later as my father held the paper up to read an inside page.

Apparently ABC got a lot of angry calls for interrupting Batman.

Weirdly, years later I was working at a very high profile Silicon Valley start-up, when our cock-sure management dramatically announced a huge new project that they had named "Apollo." I realized immediately that it was, to the day, the 30th anniversary of the fire. I confess that I am a small man, and did enjoy pointing out the anniversary to others. At least no one died when our Apollo failed. RIP Roger, Ed, and Gus.
13 years ago they had funnier conspiracy theories. Now it's all related to NSA and confirmed :/
Thanks for that. The Newspaper demo site seems to show it working quite well on the news sites I usually browse.
With the exception that the Windows Subsystem for Linux can just rely on the opensource glibc et al. So, they basically 'only'[1] have to implement the syscall interface of the Linux kernel. They do not have to do any work to reimplement all the core Linux libraries in a compatible way.

Wine has a much harder task. Since the common Windows libraries are closed source and non-redistributable, the Wine project basically has to reimplement every API/ABI that Windows provides. This is a much larger and harder project.

It would be a nice gesture of Microsoft if they released some of the core Windows libraries as open source. But of course, that's not going to happen.

[1] This is of course much harder than it sounds.
So many people in positions of authority are the least qualified.

Trump, and his advisers, picked people whom he could manipulate.

I do believe in a lot of what Trump promised though. A lot of us felt left out of this new economy, or taken advantage of? Yes--the better health care insurance was fine, but if your close to being homeless, it doesn't matter.

That said, if the appointment of Rick Perry doesn't prove that wealthy, lucky kids will eventually be the boss; I don't know what will? (He supposedly didn't understand the basic concept of a simple centerfuge? He didn't understand the concept of the spinning machine, and what it could be used for?)

I grew up with wealthy kids. I grew up in Marin County. A lot of you will recognize the county. It's the county your boss might be eying on their short list.

All those kids, even the kids who ruined their minds in college ingesting too many drugs, are doing well right now. That generational money got to them.

Hacker News doesn't like to bring up just how much money, and inside guidance helps a person, but in my world it's a law.

What are qualification anyways? I'm sure all these appointees have glorious looking resumes.

I think everyone of you has looked at that inept boss, and wondered, "How on earth did he/she get there?"
Although it's a densely populated city it's not without its surface parking lots. They're just smaller than in other cities where half the downtown core seems to be parking lots. You can squeeze in a bit of development here and there without necessarily having to raze buildings.

There's also opportunities to upgrade old industrial space to residential, no net loss in housing.