skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that you're responding to a different person. I didn't say the "not like conservatives are forced to get abortions" bit, and I recognize it as a fallacy. I fully understand why people who are against abortion see it as murder, and consider it as moral imperative to stop it wherever it happens. I was merely pointing out that this difference stems from the different views on what personhood is, not on whether a fetus is alive or not. No pro-choice person will deny that a fetus is alive, or that it's a human being. The sole question of interest is whether it is meaningfully a person, with the rights that entails.

If having brainwaves were sufficient to impart a natural right to life, we'd treat killing any animal with a brain as murder. We don't. So, no, that's not it.

And also, I don't know where the exact answer is. I do know for sure that anything without a brain is not a person. When it comes to brains, it actually intersects with the issue of personhood of animals, since at various stages of fetal development, the complexity and brainpower is analogous to that of animals. Now, I do consider it quite likely that some animal species have personhood. It is most likely the case at some stage of fetal development, as well. But we still lack the precise definition of what it is, to be able to draw a clear line. So for now it's "I know it when I see it".

With respect to your question on life support equipment - I do believe that there are valid cases involving brain activity where the human being in question is no longer a person, because the brain function has deteriorated (due to damage etc) too much for self-awareness. In which case, yes, I would consider pulling the plug to not be murder.
"stagnation of web browser tech": why do you think Blink became a thing in the first place? Also: Progressive Web Apps and Web Components are not fully there yet on Safari (WebUSB, WebMIDI, etc...Look it up). It is not in their interest to move App developers to the web and AFAIK, they didn't start moving again until too many made fun of them, calling Safari the new IE6.
Say that all you want, those guys play(ed? I'm out of the loop) in the big game, and...whoever you're thinking of, basically--didn't.
Something related, I made a script that helps me to clean up my git repository of already-merged branches (I tend to not delete them until after a release cycle).

In this script I added a checklist of things to "check" before running it. It has worked in my favour every time I run it.

Here's how it looks like https://github.com/jontelang/Various-scripts/blob/master/Git...
Good point. I don't think Google did exactly that, but I did find this: https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-man... It still is Google specific data though, so sadly it won't generalize as more than a set of ideas to test.
Ah. Poor entrepreneurs, I guess. Denigrated by the working classes.
Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory
Not all, or even most complaints I've seen is from 'those' groups, whatever that is supposed to mean exactly, are enthusiast really the worst issue with persobal computers ?

Back to the issue, most complaints I've seen/heard are from actual professionals who wants - or needs - magsafe, more RAM, more ports, more storage, more speed, or better batterylife.

The new MBP doesn't give you much more than what you already have, and for people having machines starting to wear out, buy another of essentially the same thing feels like a bad deal.

For me personally the biggest issues are magsafe and no RAM upgrade beyond 16GB. I simply run out of RAM all the time, but I would prefer not having to switch to windows simply to get more than 16GB RAM, with all the pain that would entail. Magsafe because it have saved my machine several times while on the road or working from home with kids running around.
I would say that's cute.
I didn't mean to come off well in the story. It was pretty dumb and could have ended quite badly.
Does it support virtual environments that are within a vagrant machine? That is a use case that I hardly find integrated in IDE's (other than pycharm) and so I usually quickly go back to vim and terminal again.
Can someone explain their distance units to me? I'd read "km s-1" as kilometers per second. which can't be right and isn't just a typo as the magnitude is way to small for "km".

"It was suggested a decade ago that an underdensity in the northern hemisphere roughly 15,000 km s−1 away contributes significantly to the observed flow"
Most work that ACLU does on the federal level involves strengthening the 14th Amendment, such that it is the judicial branch of the federal government that grows stronger, specifically with respect to its power to limit infringement of individual rights by the states. That's narrow enough in scope to not be worrisome.
In my early 20s I could drink 5% ABV beer all day long and never get too drunk to pass a field-sobriety test.
for example, in .bashrc on osx:

RED=$(tput setaf 1)
NORMAL=$(tput sgr0)
PS1="\[${RED}\]PROD \[${NORMAL}\]\W\$ "

produces prompt

PROD ~$ <-- prod in red, directory ~
Here is link to the document mentioned:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCx...
Even though the OS itself is not updated, most of the libraries etc gets updated via the google services package.

Not that I am defending not updating the OS, but its not nearly as bad as removing the support completely.

I still have a HTC Desire HD (bought in 2011) that gets updates in this way. I still keep it around to see how long it will live (that's one solid phone), but my main phone is a nexus
Yes, we can. But every bean is different, even a different roasting profile means it needs to be calibrated and adjusted differently. It's not a simple matrix of input parameters and bean (yet).
You know, I remember reading years ago that during the launch preparation for Apollo 16(?), they did a routine pressure test of the Command Module atop the rocket a few days before launch. The technician in charge made the simple error of forgetting to open a pressure release valve during the test which lead to an overpressurisation of the CM causing significant damage, including separation of the heat shield.

The ENTIRE Saturn 5 rocket had to be wheeled back to the hangar and the CM dismantled and rebuilt, resulting in a month long delay in the launch.

When the Apollo launchpad manager was asked if he had fired the technician in question, then answer was allegedly "Nope. He is the one guy on the next launch team that I know will NEVER make the same mistake again."

I am willing to bet that Gitlab is now a company that will never slacken off their backup checking in the future.
Sample size = 1. While this study might be an indication of the kinds of things to look for, the results are not significant.
Not sure if it is still available, but in the UK there was a stout called Sweetheart Stout that was brewed to 2.5% alcohol making it like a very sweet Guinness. It is lovely, used to drink it all the time 20 years ago.

Iirc it was in earlier times marketed to ladies and also pregnant women because it is high in Vitamin B12(?) or something. Legend had it you wouldn't get rickets (bendy legs) if you drank sweet stout.

In Scandinavia lett øl (low alcohol beer) is in all the supermarkets, this is 2.5% alcohol pilsner.
Nepal treks
Curious, what kind of stuff is coming out that's better than Tesla?

I'd imagine there's all types of companies trying to solve this in different ways.
That only matters if you are using 32-bit software. Deleting the 32-bit software is not somehow a benefit with relation to that goal. You are saying that it is better to run all 64-bit software. I am arguing that there is essentially no benefit to a device that is incapable of running 32-bit software when it clearly still has the hardware.
I'm not from the US, but I love the landscapes there and visit fairly frequently to hike and camp.

Aren't there differences between public use of national parks and BLM land? e.g., most national parks have quite strict rules for camping, while the BLM areas are much more flexible and relaxed? Personally, I think it's great that the two options exist and are distinct. I don't want to discount your general point, but more so wonder if ALL of that land should be set aside for purely private or NP use.

(Arches NP has put backcountry camping on hold. In the best areas of Zion NP, there are fixed camp sites that are quickly reserved in advance, or camping is not permitted. Tourist attractions are getting busier and busier with each year, so BLM options for backcountry overflow make sense to me.)

I'd be worried that it's easier/cheaper to privatise these lands than the reverse.
> Imagine if you're the CEO of Gitlab and seeing this right now

I kind of hope the CEO of Gitlab isn't reading HN right now
vim (and emacs) can do that without the need for a terminal multiplexer (though in vim you need to use a "plugin" for it, or, at least, you used to, and I'm sure the new async functionality in vim 8 has improved the experience quite a bit)
One of the worst things about Orwell's prescriptivist tone is how he steadfastly refused to assume that any of his advice applied to himself. And that's a good thing. His advice if followed would make anyone a less interesting, more lumpen and bland writer. Thankfully Orwell payed no attention to his own advice when writing.

Do as he does, not as he says, in this case.
You take much more damage by car and industrial pollution than secondhand smoke, so there's no need to overreact for neighbor smoking in their property. Don't get me wrong, I don't smoke and hate when somebody does that beside me, but all this "ban smoking 10 meter from anywhere" looks pretentious to me -- there are much bigger health hazards living in a city. I see smoking as a small nuisance, like a cars passing by a window at night and it's a price you pay for living with a bunch of other people around.
Do you have any sample audio?
While i agree on the value of libre software, i think we should not exaggerate what's happening here.

1. Most people are not aware there is such a thing as libre software, let alone why it would benefit them. Most people therefore will not channel their frustration at this move into a demand for libre. In fact, most people won't even realize apple did anything. They'll blame the original developer.

2. In apple's view, if there is 32-bit software people need or want, some developer will fill that gap. Apps to them are easily replaced and ephemeral. That is not necessarily wrong or in conflict with the view that all software should be Free.

So I don't think this decision matters much or will have much consequence. But it still is regrettable.
Politics and the English Language is a pretty seductive essay, but on deep examination, it doesn't really make its own case beyond some sentimental appeals and rhetorical flourishes. In particular, its thesis seems to be language has "declined", but never cites any older uses of language save a line of the Bible, which he contrasts with bureaucrat-ese and journalistic writing; he makes rough insinuations that the language can somehow affect (or even effect) thought but doesn't bother justifying how or why beyond simple rhetorical devices ("But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought [citation needed]"); he insists on a few rules to keep your language sharp, but these rules are ridiculously broad and, indeed, so hard to follow while producing clear writing that he breaks most of them himself within the first two paragraphs: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992

The idea that you can adopt simple rules and somehow come up with speech that's not amenable to deception or fluffery is appealing for obvious reasons, but that's just not how language works: you can follow Orwell's rules to the letter, better than he does, and include just as much deceptive fluff; or you can ignore his rules and write forceful, interesting prose. (Orwell himself does!)

A rough analogue in the programming field would be the idea that you can "enforce" good code by nothing more than enforcing style guidelines. The idea that you can prevent lies in politics by banning the passive voice is roughly as silly as the idea that you can prevent bugs in code by banning tab characters.
Introducing The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming journal
They are not secret anymore, aren't they?
I have heard rumors that someone (I have no idea who) has been fired from Apple for contributing to Rust without permission a while back.

Some employers do not like employees doing things on the side without permission.
So developers have roughly 9 months to update their apps or they won't run on 5 year old hardware? This doesn't sound as devastating as some of the tweets and headlines would imply (that seems to be common these days).
"I have almost 50Gb of free Dropbox storage btw, through referrals + events like the space race.!" which, I can assure you[0], the significant amount of Dropbox users don't have.

For cost comparison (UK pricing);

iCloud:
50GB: £0.79
200GB: £2.49
1TB: £6.99
2TB: £13.99

Google Drive:
100GB: £1.59
1TB: £7.99

So, Google wins on free tier, but Apple takes it on options and cost thereafter, and 15GB arguably is still insufficient for "OS storage" in any real tangible terms.

[0] no I don't have data. I do know plenty of Dropbox users though, and next to none of them have any extras.
I've setup a postgresql backup before that would use pgbasebackup and get the latest xlog segments then I would start up postgres and run select 1 against it. That simply wasn't enough as I still got corrupted indexes but at least data was there. If I were to do it again I'd probably run a whole production test suite against it. The cost is extra hardware and time as backup boxes aren't made for performance for a 1Tb+ database it would take more than 24 hours.
HN comments are available as a public dataset in Google Bigquery, so you're perhaps 30 minutes away from an answer.
Replication systems can break. They work working on fixing the broken db2 read replica when they accidentially nuked the primary db1 server.

> db2.cluster refuses to replicate, /var/opt/gitlab/postgresql/data is wiped to ensure a clean replication

> [...] decides to remove the directory. After a second or two he notices he ran it on db1.cluster.gitlab.com, instead of db2.cluster.gitlab.com

That ops fail on db1 wouldn't have been such an issue if they weren't in such a vulnerable position with an invalidated read replica.
If you are on iOS 10.1 or later, you should get a dialog box that clail the application "may slow down your phone" (this dialog'a appearance is remembered and only shows up occasionally per app, I believe).

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/06/ios-10-1-32-bit-app-aler...
No, the number of hands is relevant here, not the number of days played.
Not completely true, AArch64 performs better because it has more registers (means less fetch from memory), and more advanced instructions. Here is an article about this:

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-an...
Java Stakeholder API, 0.9 released
if #2 is correct, holy shit did gitlab get lucky someone snapshotted 6 hours before.

Dear you: it's not a backup until you've (1) backed up, (2) pushed to external media / s3; (3) redownloaded and verified the checksum; (4) restored back into a throwaway; (5) verified whatever is supposed to be there is, in fact, there, and (6) alerted if anything went wrong. Lots of people say this, and it's because the people saying this, me included, learned the hard way. You can shortcut the really painful learning process by scripting the above.
That does not match the scientific consensus [1]. You'll have to do better than a single study, summarized in a Forbes article, if you want to make that claim.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_smoking
Perhaps, Do you really want to delete the dir XYZ with 300000000000 bytes in it?
I use supercomputers which only have a terminal interface. I found it was easier to do most of the development of the code on my machine with a GUI (e.g. Pycharm or VSCode) and then push code to the cluster for production runs. I use vim for minor adjustments, but it seemed way easier to just push code rather than configuring vim when something like VSCode is so much easier to get set up.
For most users this is an annoyance, but not enough of an annoyance to turn them on to free software ideology. It's hard for me to imagine what sort of closed-source irritation could outweigh the horrendous irritation of prioritizing using (and, in fact, just using) most free software.
The maintainer is working on it: https://github.com/DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode/issues/123
maybe somebody can help him ;)
True. I watched a 60 year old manufacturing plant shut down for 7 days once because someone saved an excel spreadsheet in the wrong format and it deleted a macro written more than a decade prior that held together all of their operations planning.
There is a warning, when you first open the app. The warning is that the app developer should update their app. It started appearing either in 10.1 or in 10.2
I cannot comment on how poorly the BLM manages land, but private ownership, especially farmland, does an objectively terrible job at managing soil. Half the world's topsoil has eroded away due to farming in the last 150 years. https://www.farmland.org/our-work/areas-of-focus/soil

To say that agriculture is good for the land on average is just an outright lie.
Generate Mondrian tiles using Typescript
I could not agree more @soheil, let me also say that Sid aka @sytse is not only a top notch CEO but he's also a hard working, caring individual who truly not only cares about the product but the whole community so, so much.
>2. Regular backups seem to also only be taken once per 24 hours, though YP has not yet been able to figure out where they are stored. According to JN these don’t appear to be working, producing files only a few bytes in size.

>3. SH: It looks like pg_dump may be failing because PostgreSQL 9.2 binaries are being run instead of 9.6 binaries. This happens because omnibus only uses Pg 9.6 if data/PG_VERSION is set to 9.6, but on workers this file does not exist. As a result it defaults to 9.2, failing silently. No SQL dumps were made as a result. Fog gem may have cleaned out older backups.

>5. Our backups to S3 apparently don’t work either: the bucket is empty

I think we've all seen that with some kind of report or backup or that's regularly reported: an empty file or none at all is generated due to some silent error.

I highly recommend creating a monitoring check for file size for each automatically generated file.

At $work, we also generate quite a few config files (for Radius, DHCP servers, web servers, mail servers....). For those we have a mechanism that diffs the old and the new version, and rejects the new version if the diff exceeds a pre-defined percentage of the file size, escalating the decision to a human.
Piskel – A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art
I think you're assuming the upcoming A11 chip will also be capable of running 32-bit software. The hardware may be changed, for the sake of simplicity.
Parent stated:

> In practice only two architectures matter: x86 and ARM.

So I replied about x86, because that is the architecture I know best.
That's a real shame, they're ubiquitous in Scotland; any brand's "70 shilling" will be in the 3.5% range. Belhaven Best is also extremely common, and that's 3.2%.

It's common in England for pubs to have at least one bitter that is below 4%.
Russia is planning to ban the sale of cigarettes to people born in 2015 and after[0].

0. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/world/europe/russia-smoki...
> Surely then all we need to do is to correlate environmental conditions with brewing settings. Assuming there is a relationship to be found, it sounds like the perfect application of either statistics or machine learning.

Big companies have been trying for many years, and after millions of dollars spend in R&D they still don't have it figured out yet. Imagine providing a full automatic machine that can produce a cup better that WBC contenders - it could cost thousands of dollars in service fee every year, and still be cheaper than your run of the mill barista. They really want to do this, but it is far from trivial. Either the blend and roasting profile produce a bland coffee that is less susceptible to variations in brewing parameters, or you need to fine tune it multiple times a day, each being different for every roast you have. Things such as when it was harvested, how much rain the plant got, how it was roasted, how old it is, ect. all influence it, along side things such as current external parameters such as humidity.
Well this is your use case. I use Linux every day but I never touch python code directly on remote systems (it's getting automatically or manually deployed). All my python code lives in virtualenv locally here. But I understand when people work for many projects they maybe want to encapsulate it more (vagrant etc.).
You're right. I'm sorry.
It took ten years to get a doctor to take me serious about some crippling pain I experience.

Still undergoing diagnosis, but MS, fibromyalgia and lyme disease are on the list of likely possibilities.

But, now they can try various treatments for nerve damage, and my pain isn't making me feel utterly insane.

I may be in a wheelchair before I get diagnosed, but simply the knowledge that there is a group of people out there who can understand me takes a heck of a lot off my shoulders.

I would absolutely keep trying.
I'm sure. Either it's a well guarded secret, or they havn't been able to full map the relationships or it's infeasible to make a truly great cup purely with a machine (yet).
My dev is yellow, staging orange, and live red
could be delta-v?
> regret not recording the source of it

The googlable nugget is actually "organizational scar tissue" (it caught my attention too). It's from Jason Fried. On twitter:

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/2758624714

and also apparently in "Rework", quoted with more context here:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1012423-policies-are-organi...
It's amazing how decisive both pilots are despite the large amount of process going on.
I was looking for Ron Schnell's original Maclisp verison of the DUNNET game. He said it might be on backup tapes from MIT-EECS. But I suspect such backups do not exist any more.
Indeed, If one day a year is what it takes for you to remember to care about backups, you probably shouldn't be involved with backups. This could happen to anyone from a person losing their home photo collection, to a hospital missing critical data within a patient management system - I know because I've been involved or seen first hand both of these exact scenarios. It's what we learn from our mistakes that defines our future, not the people telling us we made them.
I prefer console in general, for everything. I've been doing this for 20+ years, and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Not funny per se, ironic. But there's no smiley for "ironic".
Flaws Found in Popular Printer Models
> " I am referring to the context of a standard tournament where the loser is eliminated after losing their chips."

Why would you refer to that? That's not at all what happened here.

In the game that was played (long-term HUNL cash) the worst player cannot beat the best player at all. Not easily, not at all.

Not to mention they didn't run the cards out.

You're commenting without reading the article, seemingly.
A machine calibrated multiple times a day by an experienced barista... I have never questioned the value of this. A machine is likely to produce a more consistent result, but it cannot calibrate itself.
Agreed, selling of public land without an actual reason is almost always a bad idea, even economically.