skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But these solutions don't get humans fed. I need to eat.

1) This is an spurious reasoning. First because (deer) hunting is a particularly unefficient way to feed a lot of people. Moreover, big cities were created around rivers because water and alluvial soils were here, and agriculture needs lots of water and rich deep soils. The best 'number one' areas for producing human food are today under concrete, replaced by skyscrapers, empty streets, weekend houses, parking lots and underused roads. If your goal is to feed people you are free to promote the idea of cleaning and returning this valuable land to agriculture again.

2) The reasons for managing a natural area or a national park aren't making food for people. There are lots, and lots, and lots of places saved for cattle and agriculture.

3) I'm not talking about animal cruelty. This is not the point here.

Is ok to hunt, is a regulated activity, but, please do not say that people do it for altruism. Or because this is "what ill ecosystems need". Is not true. People hunt for the money.

Maybe a little hunt will do not harm?. Maybe. The problem is that when you give up and cross this line economic interests are created, and is over. You aren't free to manage this natural area under scientific premises anymore. Now the main goal has changed to "how we can have more game in this place and make more hunters happy?" and there is not an easy point of return from here. Each stolen public acre is an acre lost.
I believe that all the ideas you mentioned could work, if implemented correctly by a skilled entrepreneur or dedicated team. None of it seems brilliant or original by any means, but generally speaking, the idea is overrated.. Even apparently stupid ideas (another note app? Really? REALLY? - another bookmarking app? Oh please...) can work wonders if executed correctly.
The New Yorker is a magazine, not a broadsheet paper. I suppose you might have confused it with the New York Times, but the Times doesn't use the style rule in question and so the claim would be untrue about that publication, as well.
I'm founder of one of the signatories on this, and yes. It will cover engagement that does not line up with my personal politics. This is intended to support engagement, not direct how people engage.

As with all our policies, we're forever evaluating how they "pan out". If it pans out badly we'll adjust.
The downvotes say it all, but don't ever write naked options. The strategy has positive expectancy, except every few years you lose >100% of capital, since the risk is almost unbounded.
You're measuring the size of a program that calls GCC, not GCC itself at all. gcc-5 isn't the compiler, it dispatches to cpp/cc1/ld/etc.

cc1 is 20MB over here. gold is 5MB. Dynamic libraries it depends on (gmp & family, isl) weigh about 4MB. All-in-all the programs required to compile even a simple C program come out around ~32MB.

Clang is much bigger. Clang 3.8 is 59MB (I think that includes the preprocessor though, but GNU's CPP is only around 1MB (which still seems huge for a preprocessor)).
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My strategy for .NET: Stay as far away as possible
It wasn't indirect, by any means. Carmack was working on a VR version of Doom 3 (the BFG Edition) while working at id/ZeniMax before he jumped ship to go work at Facebook. There's still tons of remnant news stories about the Doom 3 BFG VR Edition that was supposed to launch with the CV1 Rift.
I recall this being an element in Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". The lunar colonists live much longer than their 'Earthworm' counterparts because of the low gravity.
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> As you age, your telomeres get shorter

The human body has a mechanism to reset telomere length during reproduction; i.e., babies are born with "full length" telomeres.

Can anyone shed light on why this mechanism is so hard to trigger in an adult? What are the technical difficulties in artifically lengthening telomeres?
I certainly like sails, and can't levy too much criticism against it (except its ORM left quite a bit to be desired, although I haven't looked at it recently). I'm only asserting that it will never be Rails, partially because of how and when each respective framework came to be.
> but the latter would have to spend $100k to enjoy the same transportation lifestyle as the former.

What exactly does it mean to "enjoy the same transportation lifestyle" and why would it cost them $100k? Singapore is a tiny island with fairly comprehensive public transport, and relatively inexpensive taxis. What exactly is this middle class person missing out on?

> takeout food ... luxury items in most of the rest of the world.

What makes you think that? Takeaway food is readily available in every developed country I've been in, and usually even cheaper in developing ones.
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Probably arm this time around and if you look at the linux ecosystem you'll see that there's nothing to fear.
How much cruft is in the language because of backwards compatibility?

Java couldn't do generics right, for example, because they didn't want to break compatibility. C# seems to be adding a lot of improvements, but would it be better if they could break compatibility?
If you delete your data directory, you're going to have a bad time no matter what your stack is.
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One of the huge underlying issues here as a country is lack of understanding and communication across groups. If I was trying to help, but I was actually doing something that hurts out of ignorance, then I hope someone would point it out to me.

Again, I think the intentions are good but the execution has unconsidered side effects.
I came here to say the same thing. I had to stop reading, the gifs were WAY too much.
I've been doing VB6 conversion stuff for most of my career, so I definitely feel this.

I think the sneering is more driven by the sorts of people that think that programming shouldn't be easy/accessible to the untrained masses. There seems to be a lot of coding elitism/machismo/masochism out there.
I agree. And I say this with all due respect to tdk, unless you want to be a "typical Hacker News blowhard," don't make irrelevant critiques! It's this kind of stuff that gets me riled up about HN comments. This, and the classic "No. You're wrong..." brusque replies.

We get it, you don't like the style of the article (and you might not like the style of the New Yorker), but why does that matter? The article used paragraphs, was free of grammatical errors, and was highly readable.
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I don't know the future, but it is important to remember that the list of countries came from a failed nation list made by congress and the Obama administration (they also included Iran) [1]. Trump did not just pull it out of the air.

Green cards are also permanent residences so legally that is much harder to stop than not extending or granting new visas.

With that said, I'm against it and think it is bad policy on many fronts.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/29/politics/how-the-trump-adminis...
I'm no expert on this and have not yet done it but from what I've seen people used to create a project on SourceForge until it fell into disfavor and now they are putting it on GitHub.

I also have a project which I would like to open source and have been debating where I should put it. It is a processor design so I also have the option of putting it on OpenCores.

I would be interested in hearing recommendations about where I should put it.
Bigger, better LibreOffice 5.3 released for the cloud
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Thiel had veto powers on the electoral college? Did I miss something?
> Docker... documents how to produce that environment from scratch. I've found that hugely valuable.

> How easy is it to extract and understand the details of the [Nix] environment you've constructed to build your project?

The "extract" part is easy: Nix uses a declarative language to describe the environment, so in that sense it's like docker, but more fine-grained: each package is built in isolation, and installed to a read-only filesystem.

As far as "understanding the details", it depends on what you want to know. You can use "nix-shell" to enter a build environment in a shell, e.g.

nix-shell -E 'some Nix expression'

will enter the build environment of 'some Nix expression',

nix-shell -p 'some Nix expression'

will create an environment with 'some Nix expression' installed, etc.

For example, I'm currently tracking down a space leak in a Haskell program by running the following command after each edit of the source code:

nix-shell -p 'with import <nixpkgs> {}; profiledHaskellPackages.callPackage (runCabal2nix { url = ../myTester; }) { myDependency = profiledHaskellPackages.callPackage (runCabal2nix { url = ./.; }) {}; }' --run 'tester +RTS -M100M -xc'

The command 'tester +RTS -M100M -xc' is a Haskell program which dies if it uses more than 100MB of heap, exposing the space leak and dumping a stack trace.

This will be run in an environment containing Haskell packages built from the source code in "./." (the current directory, for "myDependency") and "../myTester" (for the "tester" command). These packages and all of their dependencies will be built with profiling enabled.

Running this command over and over will just re-use the previously-built environment. If I edit the source in ./. or in ../myTester, Nix will notice that the hashes have changed, rebuild the packages and their dependents and make a new environment using those. This makes it easy for me to test potential fixes.
Peter Thiel is valuable because he has the money, but the people who created that money for him are not inherently valuable. They are interchangeable so they have no real value.
Yep, I read this:

> Entrepreneurs (and their spouses and unmarried children under 21) who make an investment in a commercial enterprise in the United States and who plan to create or preserve ten permanent full time jobs for qualified United States workers, are eligible to apply for a green card (permanent residence).

But didn't get down to this:

> You must invest $1,000,000, or at least $500,000 in a targeted employment area (high unemployment or rural area). In return, USCIS may grant conditional permanent residence to the individual.
> You'll notice so many posts here that deny the existence of fake news, or attempt to redefine it as "bias."

That's a hyperbole -- most of the dissidents here do not deny that completely fake stories occur, but express valid concerns about what kind of things will be labeled as facts or not. Based on what we've already seen (the WaPo list, for example), there are publications they would like to censor with very good track records, including the "Ron Paul Liberty Report." Production budget aside, that's often the first source that reports on interesting new bills submitted to the House, such as the recent pre-authorization for invasion of Iran bill. This is not a fake fact -- you can see it on the House website. And there aren't supporting examples of fakeness provided by WaPo for their list, even though I could find numerous factual errors by WaPo or NYT, like the power grid hacking or Aleppo (usually fixed within a few days, but still).

And of course, there's the fact that powerful propaganda does not need to stem from provably false facts -- it uses selection/omission of stories and crafting heavily-opinionated narratives to 'mislead.' That is just as concerning as fake facts, and a poor attempt to stem the latter would most likely end up stifling unpopular opinions and further empower the propaganda you see on major sources like WaPo/FoxNews.
Its not for backwards compatibility, is for beginner friendliness of a eco-system. If one had a stroke and lost all knowledge on comp-science- what would you be more likely to drop for overwhelming complexity and missing instant results? C# or VB?
The government generally knows what its people are looking for. When it acts against their interests, it is not because it doesn't know any better.
I'm fully aware--I was a poker pro for a while in a niche (HUSNGs).

The post I responded to slighted Negreanu, saying he wasn't a "top pro." He certainly is. Not a HU cash pro, of course, but a top pro? Absolutely. A match for the "best pro players?" Certainly.

The "best pro players" in a given niche wouldn't have sat in the big game, and he wouldn't have sat in their specialty. Overall he's the better poker player.
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Yeah, I'm sure everyone hates VB6. That's why the last stable release was 19 years ago and the IDE stopped being supported 9 years ago.
Ah, missed that on the chart. Thanks for pointing it out.
This whole situation leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth regarding Zenimax.

So their biggest claim, surrounding Oculus being built on trade secrets, is found false but they get a half-billion dollar payout anyway?

Considering the purported fines could be traced back all the way to practically the original Kickstarter...I wonder if Zenimax would have gotten such a sum had Oculus not been bought by FB for $3B[1]...

...or am I misunderstanding something?

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-actually-paid-3-bill...
Uhh, it pretty much is just 'here's a bunch of money'.

He's done absolutely nothing else to get it.
There is no spin as far as I can tell. I read New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Slate and Salon. They are simply reporting the facts, along with how the EO is affecting travelers.
When I was doing .Net full-time I really wanted to get into F#. But...

- I wanted to use it for websites. Sorry, not really supported in MVC.

- I thought it'd be great for doing .Net stuff in SQL-Server and SSIS, like you can with VB and C#. But it's not supported there either.

They always positioned it as "use F# for the extra hard stuff and C# for everything else," but in the end C# isn't terrible for hard stuff, and if that's what you use all day then for you, C# is probably better.