skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Osv – The OS designed for the Cloud (MSR 2016) [video]
Here is a seven-hour time lapse from the same vantage point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdantUf5tXg.

IMO this is irrefutable evidence of a smaller crowd – which is a non issue... unless the President of the United States spreads falsehoods (formerly known as "lies") in contradiction of reality.
Your (D) option works when things are approved, and is likely the closest thing that happened with Samsung.

However, when the President decides to not allow information out, despite the agency's expert opinion, it falls flat.

For example, climate change is nearly unanimously accepted by experts as fact, however now all mentions of it are being erased. How is that not a case of (C) mentioned above?
You literally just suggested that someone who writes semantically identical code in a more readable language will look pathetic to you. I think you're confusing nerd-cred with engineering ability. For the record, I will employ the person who prefers to write in Elixir but can work with legacy Erlang before I will employ someone who thinks there's special magic in an obtuse syntax...
This is what people have been noticing during and since the election, you can't pin down Trump on anything because he is a controversy machine. He says something ridiculous and the media gives it attention and even begins to get some momentum on the story, but a week later, sometimes even days later, he does or says something that's even more ridiculous and now most people are concentrating on that new thing. Its hard to say if this is intentional or if his bombastic style is just something we're not used to in politics, but it seems to be effective in that the media is always chasing after the latest controversy.

For me it looked like the media had really nailed him on not releasing his tax forms, even going so far as to uncover damning ones from the 90s, but then the inside edition tapes came out and everyone focused on that instead.
At some point you have to rely on policy and not language constraints. I submit that no language is constrained enough to protect against refactoring stupidity while also being flexible enough to be useful to the average programmer on the average project. If not ternary if, it will be something else. So, do you throw out every alternative method to accomplish the same thing, or do you put policies in place to keep the code sane, such as "no chained ternary operators are allowed" ?
I'll keep repeating myself: the cognitive cost of "code" is dwarfed by the cost of understanding an application. If a couple esoteric languagn features take an extra few hours to learn but reduce LOC tenfold, it's a price I'd pay every time.

Not everyone feels this way, the investment to learn these features may not pay off right away, and if you come from a "move fast and break things" language (python/php/js) it can feel like a waste of time.
"Emolument" is exactly the word that's supposed to cover that. Unless he's operating not for profit.

Whether it does or not is ultimately something that'll have to be decided in court.
"and better access to technology for even the poorest folk"

I hear this one a lot, I don't think it matters or is relevant.

I've spent time in third world countries I met people sleeping, working and eating in rubish dumps, and they're not even considered the poorest! I didn't see them running around with technology, nor do I see how that would change there situation much.
There's also <https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/>. And my testing of ~30 VPN services <https://vpntesting.info/>.
What landslide

he barely slid in a electoral vote disaster, despite the electoral vote being meant to be used against men like Trump
They wish he were gone for sure, but they're also too scared of his voters. If they impeach him? They're going to be facing a new pro-Trump Tea Party-like wave in the primaries, and many of them will get kicked out pronto. They need a really, really good excuse to kick him out... to the point where they could say "we really didn't want to, but we had no choice" to their constituents.
Different meaning of misdemeanor. "High crimes and misdemeanors" was a phrase in common use at the time of its writing:

http://www.crf-usa.org/impeachment/high-crimes-and-misdemean...
I guess the number would be different unless you have the details, e.g. their termsheets :)
One of my favorite:

You have written some code you'd like people to be able to reuse. Should you share it as a library or expose it as a service? Talk me through how you'd make this decision for a few cases and what the pros and cons are for each choice.
You are really complaining about ad hominem arguments and being dragged down to my level when in the first sentence of your first comment you called the two big parties "republicraps or democants"?
The history of tall buildings is that of huge egos. Sure, market forces cause rational developers to build more density when land prices are high... but not skyscraper high. The risk is too significant. The existence of these monoliths, in my opinion, is best explained by psychology, not standard economics.
Is that why I keep getting those Asian egg donor ads on Facebook ?
Pence is predictable. Diplomats can build plans around predictable. You can make deals, treaties and alliances with predictable. Your opponents know what to expect from you.

If nothing else, it at least provides some stability.
Interview with Susanne Kaiser, CTO at JustSocial, on the Future of Microservices
I remember reading essay on bees and altruism. Standard line is bees are altruistic because workers are 75% related. Author made the claim that's bunkum because a) Honey bees are rather extreme. b) Multiple male fathers.

Bee reproductive setups are really diverse with honey bees at one end, solitary bees at the other, and just about anything else between.
Common objections to Urbit
Wait...why do you loathe him? You seem reasonable in everything else you say. Trump is basically Nelson Rockefeller with the difference that he never got denounced as the liberal he is outside the pages of the National Review.
Ask HN: How to deal with fear of missing out?
For example, I find that when I'm making an important decision, I often start to pre-emptively regret my decision and second guessing myself. I also worry about missing out when friends talk or do things. These kinds of issues cripple my rational decision making ability. Does anyone else have this sort of problem, and have you learned any methods (or know of any books) to deal with this psychological issue?
Yeah, there is a decent amount of projects on Github, but not much of them are actively developed. f32c (https://github.com/f32c/f32c ) is one of the interesting things I found
This is an interesting thought. Not everything pre-scientific method is completely wrong, but many things look like they were, e.g. :

* the idea that everything is made of (one of, or all) 4 elements

* humorist theory of disease

* belief in perpetual motion machines

* spontaneous generation

AFAICT all of these can be construed to be considered "good enough theories" but they generally fail to make accurate predictions, which "good science" doesn't.
All the things xenadu02 mentioned have shipped in previous Safari releases. In some cases last year, in other cases weveral years ago.
In this case particular, actually, it's the legislature that can prosecute and convict. Still not random people on HN, though :-P
Salvage logging is to cut down trees damaged by something to protect the rest of the tree (fire damage, disease, etc.).
Highly relevant is Marshall McLuhan. 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 didn't anticipate what the internet would do to us at all in any way.
Its not like nobody's thinking about it

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-to-l...

https://www.google.de/search?q=autonomous+bus

Another advantage that seem to be overlooked when people speak of autonomous buses is, it does not need to have predefined routes, timings or pickup points. These can be dynamically optimized based on seat booking.

All that said, I guess the focus is on autonomous cars just so that the technology can be created and tested first in everyday practical terms.
> the world has finally recognized and united around solving the single greatest threat to our civilization

If it's CO2 you are talking about, Trump already said he doesn't give a shit.

EDIT: sorry for citing wrong ("world" instead of "majority of the world", wasn't intentional), but even then, you don't get a majority without the USA.
So you are just repeating Uber's opinion then.
Saudi Arabia is warning organizations of a wave of Shamoon 2 attacks
Think like a painter to make things done
We try to prioritize bugs that block livability for STP. Do you know if there's a bug filed on the JIRA thing so I can get folks to follow up?
Trump claimed that he will do so with hotel profits, but we have no evidence that he's actually doing that. This is exactly the place where his finances should be disclosed, at a minimum, to a bipartisan ethics commission for review.

And it's not like he only has hotels. He owns, or has stake in (not necessarily controlling, but still enough to derive profit) many other businesses. Some of which aren't even in US.

As many people - including several specifically involved in government ethics compliance - states, the only thing that can truly and definitely resolve this problem is divestment and transfer of control to a blind trust. Anything else is going to be suspect.
Well, given that the Flux team has refused for years to allow us to configure the times and for how long it activates itself, I welcome Apple bringing this to the mac.
227 vs 306 is not close. I said near-landslide because a landlside (I think) is usually something >=370. No worries, it might still happen.
Here's my Stack Overflow theory:

Programmers writing dynamic websites are likely to post questions on Stack Overflow. Questions on Stack Overflow create mindshare, mindshare attracts more serious programmers who can improve the ecosystem by writing generic network services. Language prospers, cycle repeats.

JavaScript is the most popular language on Stack Overflow and React is the fastest growing technology.

Without the dynamic website programmers the cycle short circuits and you end up with a terrible "new user experience" from lack of answered beginner questions and lack of interest building on the non-existent ecosystem.
Well, that's only "directly what you mean, without special operators" if you come from a C style procedural background and have already internalized all the special operators you've included there, such as parenthesis and braces. Sure, that's most people, but that doesn't mean they aren't operators.
Lost biodiversity fills me with a bizarrely deep sense of sadness.

I'm really hoping biotech will advance far enough to A) stop the anthropocene extinction and B) eventually reverse it, if not by reviving species then by creating new and wonderful additions to our ecosystems.

On an odder tangent, this is also part of why I'm really excited about space habitats and eventual Mars habitats. When we start creating massive enclosed spaces where we fully control the conditions, I think we'll start seeing some beautiful engineered ecosystems. Utilitarian stuff at first, like those ugly-yet-functional urban hydroponics setups you see today, but eventually I'm hopeful we'll create some 'natural' beauty.
Now if only I could write reviews... but there's a Long outstanding bug where if you download an app in (in my case Australia) move to singapore, change your store to singapore, redownload the app. The store assumes you don't own the app cos it originated in Australia but your account is now singapore with the singapore downloaded app. And you cannot write a review cos the store is confused. But if the app is downloaded in singapore for the first time you can write a review. Invest the store location again and the inverse happens....
This is why he got that far in the primaries and then eventually got elected. Every gaffe was reported on and some of it also not true which muddied the water to a point where people stopped listening when serious things came up.

All of this just for profit and tv ratings. There is also ego in there because who want's to be the last to break a story.

We see the same thing happening when a disaster occurs. For example the airport shooting. So much false information is reported just because they have to be the first/exclusive.
First. As far as the purpose of salvage logging. It is economic. [0]

> "the term 'salvage' is appropriate for operations in which the primary objective of postfire logging is economic..."

From the link the parent posted, it sounds like there's little evidence that it does any of that (the things you mentioned). [1] [2]

The one paper cited on Wikipedia as being pro-logging goes against it in the conclusion:

> "We know enough about both logging activity and structural change to recommend caution. Although ground-based logging activity could mitigate for erosion problems under certain conditions, it is more likely that it will either have no effect or produce more sediment than that is produced by the fire..." [3]

This was published in 2000. I stand by my original comment. Humanity reaps what it sows.

I'd be interested to see contradicting evidence if there is any. My comment came from reading the Wikipedia article.

[0] pg 1. http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/195...

[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/311/5759/352

[2] http://www.californiachaparral.com/images/Lindenmayer_et_al_...

[3] pg 21. http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/195...
Safari 10.0 works fine as well.
Would learning a second language for business, now be a waste of time?
I predict within 5 years we will have near instant, even more accurate translation services and apps. And 10 years, probably babelfish-like devices.

What do you guys think?
Is the cute Meitu app really a threat to our online privacy?
> When ontop of oscillations, they are never obvious from the vantage point of a single wiggle.

I am reminded of the Martin Luther King quote: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
Who gives a shit? Literally anyone can make a #1 Amazon bestselling book.

http://evergreenprofits.com/becoming-an-amazon-1-best-seller...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/8358538/Wh...

http://okdork.com/2014/02/17/hit-1-amazons-bestseller-list/

And so on.
Possibly to do with an appreciation of biology.
> What's it like to feel in constant crisis.

Look no further than the forty-year period of constant crisis that was the Cold War.
You could say Japan committed quite a lot of crime 75 years ago, but the population hasn't really changed since then.

Probably, these days, everyone has something better to do.
Become a Buddhist. Not kidding.
From a design standpoint:
Because the ergonomics of shells and regular programming langauges are very different. 99% of your interactions with a shell is going to be single commands, or short piped chains. Economy of keystrokes is something that a lot of people want here, which is why cd and ls are both that short to type. Most programming languages require at least () to run commands, since not requiring that seems sloppy. This makes your two most common interactions twice as long to type.

Shells have also been built to help glue applications together, and are more concise for the easy versions than most programming languages, sometimes heavily so. Most programming languages, (outside of maybe perl and ruby), don't make this use case anywhere close to their top priority, but shells do, trading off other things like a simple syntax for bitwise OR.

In another sense, shells are exactly what you describe, it just happens that the most popular languages for them happen to be sh/bash/zsh/fish etc, which make a different set of tradeoffs than the 'traditional' programming languages.

I'm only partially aware of the history standpoint. My understanding is that before awk, shells (sh, mostly, IIRC) were about the only scripting level languages on various Unixen.
... ironically(?), at this moment, a post on the USA previously having 4 billion chestnut trees is #4 while this is #1.
Why would you need a third party app on Android? I just use the native VPN support over ipsec. Or are people using them for older Android installs?
Code is really hard to work with without the theory that surrounds it, and is alive in the people who worked on it.

Peter Naur - Programming As Theory Building
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design
Can't they easily block that by setting the old url in the robots.txt on epa.gov?
What stack do you recommend if not rails for a person that dislikes JavaScript (well rather ecosystem than the language / syntax itself) ?
I love Rails and Ruby do not take me wrong but I am not sure if the sole existence of Rails can make Ruby relevant in 2017.

In terms of jobs prospects and similarity to Rails/Ruby what do you guys recommend ?
Java ?
> He has given no indication of encroaching on civil liberties

You mean, except for that part where he mentioned that he wants to strengthen the [non-existent] libel laws, so that "press can't get away with lies about me"?

Or his early remarks on Muslims? Surveillance etc?

> A 'mild' social conservative totalitarian might roll back laws on gay marriage, abortion etc. - but Trump hasn't mentioned it at all.

Now we're firmly in the "alternative facts" territory. Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dngW-FKKuo
Or when he said that Japanese interment camps were a tough choice, but "that's how you win wars"?
The Norwegian Nobel Committee is not a "foreign state".
Wait, there are people who don't use OpenVPN when they set up VPN on Android? Nice.
13,000 years old real “hand” painting
I have the same issue. And it's even worse. I need two accounts - one for the UK and one for Switzerland. And I have to log out and log in of the app store depending on whether I want a UK app or a Swiss app. For a multi-national company, Apple's support for those living across borders is terrible.
Because people who want to live there, who can't afford a house, will try to get the rents to go down, so they can afford to live there.

What people want is pretty much the only thing that matters when it comes to politics (although there are limitations based in what's possible and what's not).
People living in urban environments are lighter than people living in suburban or rural environments.
Ask HN: If tech people are so smart why do they earn middle class salaries?
If software engineers are so smart, why they earn middle class salaries? Why people who seem so dumb are the one getting rich?

Everyday, I see here a new thread about ML/Deep Learning/AI and all new stuff that 99% people haven't heard of. Then, I go the coffee shop, gym, bookstore and I see nobody cares.

Do you think rich people are idiots and going to give up their wealth over development of ML/AI?
Do you think rich people (any one with $1M in assets) will not skew the game in their favor?

If it is not tech, what is best way to get rich then?
Yeah, people always complain about anything. I can't believe people had the gall to complain about the hockey-puck mouse or MobileMe
What would Steve do? He sure wouldn’t eat humble pie as the Trump era dawns
The Best Magazine Articles Ever
The text in the beginning has bad contrast, but it's only for the short quote in the intro. The body text is black.
I'm interested in the tail recursive pipeline trick!

The next post mentions that pipelines are also concatenative, although there is a slight difference and I think "point-free" is more accurate.

"Pipelines Support Vectorized, Point-Free, and Imperative Style"

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/15.html
Thanks, glad you like it! We at Lightbend (my employer) don't think of ourselves as very corporate, but we definitely sponsor Scala development. My team is hard at work on Scala 2.13 (well, except the part of it that's commenting on HN stories).
Apple is trying to limit how often your iPhone apps can bug you to give them a rating

http://www.recode.net/2017/1/24/14375558/apple-limit-app-rat...
Berlusconi used to do the same. They know the media cycle and play it to their advantage. It's a sort of "fire and motion" strategy where you keep enemies talking about the previous position while you're already gaining a new one. Anyone can play it, but your "suppressing fire" must be strong enough to distract effectively; that sort of bombastic bravado doesn't come naturally to "reality-based" personalities on the left who are constantly walking a tight rope between very different positions in their base.
Orwell has to do with both an overreaching left (thought crime) and right (surveillance state).

No, the surveillance state is certainly not a right-wing-specific thing, and in fact Orwell was probably inspired by the Stasi and other Soviet secret police agencies. Just to give you an idea:

By 1995, some 174,000 inoffizielle Mitarbeiter
(IMs) Stasi informants had been identified,
almost 2.5% of East Germany's population between
the ages of 18 and 60. 10,000 IMs were under 18
years of age.

The last line is significant, since the book talks on children denouncing their own parents, who live afraid of them.
In my experience (with Thinkpad X1 Carbon, which also had a capacitive touch strip for function keys), it doesn't actually work that way. Your muscle memory might involve hitting the key away from the center or at a slight angle, which registers properly on the usual keyboard, but is sufficiently ambiguous with touch that sometimes it does the wrong thing, or sometimes it does nothing at all.
In one respect, the gaffe is insignificant to current events. In another, it's vastly more important, because while small it erodes the underpinnings of the system by which we actually disseminate information.

It's like having to choose between being upset about the person that mugged you for $500 on the street, or the bank that surreptitiously added 0.05% APR or the loan you just got for your house. One feels more important in the moment, but the other has much farther reaching implications, not just to your pocketbook, but as to whether you can trust anything about that institution going forward.

If this is the beginning of a new trend for the Whitehouse where nothing presented can be trusted, and it continues through future presidencies, I can definitely tell you which I think will be more important in 20 years.
#PutUSFirst is a political campaign focused on the threat of Trump's conflicts
That actually sounds like a great idea! Or even better, two columns on the same site - on first one latest gaffe, on the second one proper news. You can't avoid having "popular" stories on the page, but if they compete with themselves and not with the important news, they can't push them to oblivion.
Without having tried Kotlin myself, is it in any way compable to Groovy?

Are there any benefits or tradeoffs, based on what you might know about Groovy?