skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been vast societal changes too (in the UK). 30-40 years ago a lot of residential streets would have parents home during the day. That doesn't seem true now.

I was allowed to roam as a child. But was in a village area where all the families knew each other, primarily because mother's were home with their kids for 5 years of their lives at least.
The EU courts can declare any bit of UK Parliamentary action 'unconstitutional'.

Only in areas where the EU has competence, and these are explicitly enumerated in various treaties; by default, the EU has no competence, so it only has powers to legislate where those powers are explicitly agreed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_conferral

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3...
This is literally a Forza Horizon 3 "barn find" type of situation :D
Ah, interesting - thank you! So it's the civic structure rather than a particularly lawless student base. :) Not so bizarre then - just different!
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I have a little server I wrote in Java. Admittedly it is not a HTTP server, but it quite happily handles a thousand simultaneous connections with a memory limit of 200MB. It's currently sitting around 26MB, but I'm sure some of that would disappear if the VM did a GC.
The game of poker differs from Go and Chess in that poker players deal with incomplete information and therefore a successful strategy has to include randomness. If you are dealt AA under the gun, you can't just raise 100% of the time, you have to play a mixture of different moves, perhaps raise big 80% of the time, raise small 10% of the time and limp in 10% of the time (for example). With Go or Chess you can just play the best move in each particular situation and you will not lose.

It's just a different kind of game
> canned tomatoes is bad???

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but all canned fruit/vegetables are insanely packed with sugar and salt.

So yes. They're bad for you. Granola is also bad for you. Nuts contain a lot of fat. Kale is bad for your thyroids. And so on.
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The fashion industry seems to do fine with relatively little draconian protections - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL2FOrx41N0
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You're not allowed to carry weapons or weapon-like things on the subway in Beijing. There are x-ray machines at every entrance.
I don't know about trustworthiness in particular, but lots and lots of personality traits turn out to have a heritability of about 50% (or more), so much so that it's a decent rule of thumb to guess that a trait is about 50% heritable.
I was browsing through some web services code I had written a few months prior and was now doing a bug fix for it when I noticed an if statement with a boolean condition that would be easier to read if it were the other way around. I modified the condition to improve readability but in doing so actually flipped the condition. Luckily QA caught it otherwise it would have broken customer sign up through the web portal for a number of clients. Not a great mistake to make but it taught me a great lesson - never ever ever refactor something without the proper tests in place first, it's not worth the risk.
here is question, why do want to deadlift 150kg, how does it help (with anything other being muscular)?
They don't offer $1 each, they offer $1.7M to be split according to some criterion correlated with the number of "weeks they have actively driven for Uber".
Self-control budget or ego depletion was recently debunked in a large-scale experiment:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...
It was a couple of seconds on my Cyrix 300MHz-ish CPU back in 1998. I would have expected it to get a little better since then.
> paintball guns,

Paintball guns are a less lethal weapon used by both border control agents and by animal control agencies.

2011: http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2011/04/border-patrol-re...

http://www.nelsonpaintball.com/animal-control/

I'm not sure how many paintball guns you get for $300,000.

The benefit is hopefully fewer incidents like this where US border agents shot across the border, killing a Mexican child in Mexico. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/10/12/us-border-patrol-age... (Throwing rocks at people is obviously illegal and needs to be dealt with. I struggle to understand why extra judicial killing is an appropriate punishment for this crime.)
The good use cases are:

- drawing (painting),

- manual (hand-written) note taking and sketching.

- I like Omnigraffle on it, too, and other vectorial drawing.

- musical composition both partition editing (with the pencil), and synthesizer/sequencers programming. Also, there's a Logic Pro iOS annex but I've not tried it yet.

- and of course, classical tablet media consumption and social, with the added value of multi-tasking.

However, I feel that currently applications don't exploit fully the ergonomic potential of tablets and of the pencil. But as a programmer, you should be able to write applications matching your needs and expectations, and notably, integrating an application with user interface parts on both the tablet and the desktop.
But there are also obvious evolutionary pressures towards self-interest, even when it means breaking promises/trustworthiness. (Remember, selection happens at the level of individuals, not of whole groups and societies!) The balance between the two pressures could be different in different environments. In other words, it's quite possible that one environment could select more for trustworthiness, another more for untrustworthy self-interest.
Do you self-host any services currently & have they incurred any similar unexpected downtime in the past?

If you self-hosted code reviews/CI, would you expect having a similar downtime causing problem in the future?

I expect the answer to be "Yes" for most companies.
They won 14.7 big blinds per 100 hands, playing 120k hands. That's a pretty good win rate and a decent sample size but I don't know how to calculate the p value
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That's why I've been buying GoG versions over the steam version of games where possible, they're DRM free. Only real issue is the selection isn't as vast and generally doesn't get a lot of the latest games (due to them having all sorts of draconian DRM e.g. Doom 2016).
What? So a lawsuit to allow more people access to knowledge resulted in no one having access to more of it.

Damn, that's just.. I'm struggling to refrain from saying a word that'd get me in trouble.
I find that most of their software is targeted towards beginner/intermediate hackers. Having to recompile /forces/ you to tinker with the source code. When I was learning how to code I would hack the shit out of my window manager (dwm), I learned a lot of C in the process. When you think about it that way, the "arbitrary limitations" on lines of code and everything else starts to make sense.

I agree most of their stuff isn't targeted toward the average user, just this small niche. Their browser, surf, doesn't even support tabs as far as I can remember.
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I use it for LaTeX I guess.

Also markdown.

I can see how it would work really well for authors to an extent
The way I see it, st is trying to replace xterm.

xterm is a de facto standard, in that you can sit down in front of a machine which appears to be running some flavour of Unix, it doesn't matter if it's Gnome, KDE, TWM, CDE, etc., GNU or BSD or Solaris or whatever, you'll probably be able to find xterm and work out the rest from there.

Many devs/hackers use xterm as their day-to-day terminal, and seem to approximate ANSI control code compliance with "works in xterm".

The problem with this situation, as mentioned on the st page, is that xterm is unmaintained and unmaintainable.

st is trying to be a maintainable replacement, making improvements like vector fonts, and not being shy about ignoring legacy/niche/solved-elsewhere features.
Online sites have been overrun by bots and cyborgs for years at all but the highest stakes. Most players are already being fleeced by computers online.
Thing is as long as web engines evolve you can't have this. There was a moment say 3 or 4 years ago when some people, including key jQuery devs, were saying that Firefox should just switch to WebKit and that would solve web development because there'd be only one engine to target.

What actually happened is that Android phones got stuck on several outdated WebKit versions, Safari on another, and then Chrome forked WebKit into Blink.

So instead of one engine, you now have...like 5 or 6, realistically.

Trying to target standards compliance instead of relying on browser quirks is still the best strategy, both for devs and the ecosystem. It was in 2002 and it still is in 2017. Without it, we wouldn't have iPhones, Android phones or Chrome, for crying out loud.
+1 on the last part. I've just started trying to lose about 3kg (slightly more), and the trigger is that my jeans were feeling tight & my t-shirts now looked unflattering. It's difficult to find clothes that fit me and rather than replace my semi-custom wardrobe imported from overseas, losing weight & getting in shape seems a better option. 3kg for me, if purely fat, adds 5% to my body fat percentage (ie from 15% - 20%).
+ portfolio maker for new devs, designers

+ multi-platform software that let me use my wireless router as a wireless mesh network... is possible?

+ hydroponic year-round grocery store & restaurant

+ screen-based multiplayer music games

+ plant identification software for phones
You know why we create software? To automate things, stuff that before required lot of accountants can be now down with software + one accountant. So we made accounting "cheaper" cutting a lot of jobs; should we stop making software because it makes labor cheaper? should we stop making robots because it makes labor cheaper? Fuck that; if socio-economics has a problem we need to find a solution that doesn't involve stopping how far and wide knowledge can be spread.
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This sort of rules out binary distributions, or changing settings on a remote machine where you don't have the build dependencies installed. The latter may be irrelevant for a terminal emulator, but not for the general case.
I know. Sad set of circumstances.

I feel humanity will always be riddled with the 'lowest common denominator' problem. I don't know if that's the best name for it, maybe there's another. It's the reason for this CGP Grey video(1). Current events at the moment really bother me. I don't know if I'm being cynical or if things are really as bad as they seem.

1-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
OK, I got it. But how much can the top person get? Maybe the company doing the math /sending checks takes $1.5 million.

In short, it's a scam, like most lawsuit settlements. The lawyers get rich, the state gets some fines and the company admits no wrongdoing and does it again and again.
Seriously, sneering at VB6 in 2017 is elitism? Using it today comes with countless drawbacks, but is actually not any easier than using C#.

I used VB6 for all my Windows applications when my alternative was to use C++ + MFC or Win32 which was significantly more difficult. There was an actual advantage. Today, there is no advantage whatsoever.
Out of interest why do you say "modern Perl" who and what are using Perl these days?
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Following that to its logical conclusion would mean that EU courts can decide that Parliament isn't actually allowed to decide to invoke article 50. One might wonder why they're even trying to leave.

Parliament is in fact sovereign, and always has been. EU court decisions apply in the UK exactly to the extent that the UK government permits them to. e.g. When EU courts rule that UK prisoners have to be allowed to vote in UK elections, the government ignores that.

When it ascents to unpopular EU laws, it does so voluntarily, after having been involved in drafting them, something people would be wise to consider when imagining that "returning sovereignty" to the government will magically fix everything.
So how come your Uncle never took the Car out again? Surely if restored it's worth a fortune.
This really applies to more than just code. Any time you rely on an outside provider you're opening up yourself to risks. Ultimately it comes down to whether or not you trust the ability of the provider to provide you with service more than you trust your own ability.

Really though, this situation is just re-hashing the fact that everyone has to be careful about single points of failure. If you're screwed because a single service provider you rely on is down you need to think about increasing redundancy. This goes for absolutely everything whether the service is for DNS, VPSes, or version control repositories.
Vivaldi is an Electron-based wrapper for Chromium - thus it's Blink, not Presto. Since Opera moved to Blink a while back as well, I'm fairly certain no extant browser uses that rendering engine, and I believe its development has ceased entirely.
What also helped was the better communication that came with this team structure. Artists and developers weren’t seated across the hall or on different floors. The team sat together which meant that developers were seated right next to artists.

Interesting. Seems to advocate for shared office space and interrupting co-workers (later in the same paragraph).

The author clearly feels that there was a synergy there and doesn't presume to claim any wisdom as to why this was the case.

So we're left to tease out our own conclusions: keep team sizes small, cross-functional and in shared office space.
Mobile adblocking has exploded in Asia, but it’s still tiny elsewhere
Even using 4 languages is too many, e.g. Java and Scala for system building, Apache Groovy for build scripts and unit testing, and Javascript for web side as in your example. Go with something like Kotlin, which compiles to JS, Android, and JVM bytecode, can be used for Gradle build scripts, and has builder-style syntax useful for test scripts. A single language is better than 3 or 4.
Well this is one clue why - http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th...

Apparently (in 2015 at least), the iOS app had over 18,000 classes. There was even a presentation with a FB dev bragging about it's 'scale' tho suspiciously it's been scrubbed from the web
What if an app does something during runtime that you had not catered for? This effectively means potential downtime for the app while your admins are trying to figure out why the app is failing.

I agree SELinux adds something to the table, but the article shows two examples (httpd_sys_content_t and httpd_can_network_connect). Let's assume there is a third httpd_can_foo_bar that is required down the line. And then a http_can_bar_quux a few hours after that. All in all this can be a bit risky. Perhaps if there was an easier way to administer SELinux?
In your final paragraph you seem to be saying that because politicians lie, they're obviously incapable of making better decisions than the populous at large.

That's not quite what I said, but the difference probably doesn't matter.

The principal argument for having a representative democracy rather than a direct one is that normal people cannot realistically be well enough informed on all major issues to make reasonable judgements in their own interests. No-one has enough time to be an expert on everything while still living a normal life and doing a regular job. Instead, normal people delegate decision-making authority to specialist people who do have the time to become better informed and thus have the potential to make better decisions on behalf of everyone else than the normal people could themselves.

Crucially, the normal people are supposed to delegate this power voluntarily, typically by holding elections to find a suitable representative, and this is the ethical basis for some individuals wielding more power than others in society. The point is not for someone to be "in charge" because they are somehow more important or worthy or otherwise better than everyone else. The elected representatives are there to make decisions on behalf of and in the interests of society as a whole, the same way you would consult a specialist lawyer on legal matters or a specialist accountant about your tax affairs.

However, I see little evidence that this is what actually happens in practice. If that's because politicians don't really believe or mean the rubbish they say, I have no sympathy. But in reality, having worked with various government representatives and MPs over the years, I see little evidence that most of them are any more competent or better informed in private than an interested but otherwise average member of the public either. Frequently there may be no suitable representative available to elect, which defeats the entire ethical basis for the system, and even with an apparently suitable candidate at election time, the system is hugely vulnerable to principal-agent conflicts of interest.

So on really big decisions, including the kind of issue where a referendum gets held after a multi-month period of debate that gives ample opportunity for everyone who cares to examine the issues and form their opinions, I see absolutely no ethical basis for making society as a whole defer to a small number of MPs. If people are smart and well-informed enough to choose good MPs in the first place, they're smart and well-informed enough to make a reasonable decision on a specific issue with several months of notice, and having done so, what basis is there for saying any elected representative -- who presumably campaigned on a range of issues and probably got elected with far less support than carries any referendum -- should be empowered to override the will of the people on a specific decision they have made?
This Australian disagrees. C'mon man, consider the tone of the OP.
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My Mom exactly this in '76 in Germany, for two or three weeks as I recall. She looked after me and my brother once or twice a week. It was at least a 3/4h drive from our home. No one gave a blink. It was a valuable experience for us.

What could possibly go wrong? There where lots of adults in the camp. The camp supervisor had a landline phone so in case something severely happened he could have called home or an emergency.

I think our cognitive ability for risk management for abstract risks is pretty poor. The foreigner kids predator is a black swan event. It's much more risk for kids to be harmed by someone he knows.
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I want to, but this article was not enough. Say I have my own binary running as a service, and it has to do these things. What do I do? This article seems to be geared specifically towards nginx/a httpd.

I should probably just read the manpages.
> The issue was that people with disabilities across the country (i.e. non-Berkeley-students) were suing Berkeley for not making their videos disabled-friendly.

What the f#$k? Suing because their videos are not "disabled-friendly"? What does that even mean? God, the lawsuit trigger-happiness of some people...
I make a point of banging on any vehicle that's nearly hit someone and not noticed/acknowledged it - regardless of whether it was me they nearly hit or not.

People get mad (especially people driving vans/small trucks), but it's disgraceful that people are driving multi-tonne vehicles and are completely oblivious to their surroundings.

I'm glad your daughter is ok.
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No Thanks! Given the never ending list of revelations Redhat's deep ties to the US security industry and the NSA are problematic. Why should anyone not already a part of the government security industry trust selinux?

By not coming out openly and explicitly criticizing the US security services for their anti constitutional and blatant authoritarianism Redhat has demonstrated which side it is on. It has no qualms enabling and supporting this behavior and is not a principled member of the free software movement. Something for which it has yet to be held to account.

Given the movement against Trump is exactly against this kind of authoritarianism the lack of scrutiny of tech companies like Redhat, Palantir and others is hypocritical. By not speaking out you are supporting these actions.

The fact that it is an absolute pain to configure and representative of a user hostile software model makes it that much more easy to avoid even for those with more practical considerations.
Another source I had said they do sell EOL'd parts to legacy customers. License must have went through at least for that.
They have used a chimera though, UXKit: https://9to5mac.com/2015/02/05/uxkit-framework/