skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to sound anything at all. I'm trying to understand his point of view. I broke out the dictionary to help establish whether he was using the word as I understood it, not as an attempt at irritating pedantry.

The discussion is about whether it matters that these 32-bit apps (and more generally, all software eventually) will be lost to us. In that context, whether you cherish the thing or the memory of the thing is a crucial distinction.

As for being loving or "in tune", jumping on strangers who are trying to understand somebody's point of view is neither. It is precisely the behaviour of a jackass.

Some people are genuinely upset when they lose the use of cherished thing, be it a pen, a car, or the iOS games or other apps which they enjoyed using, and ignoring that or dismissing that out of hand betrays a lack of empathy.
There wasn't much between Tesla and Solar City until Tesla brought out the battery. Elon has used one of his factories for the other company before for some part (if I remember the story correctly) so I always got the impression he may fold everything together if or when it makes sense.

Not today for sure. But who knows just me thinking out loud.
The only consistency that you're likely to find in anyone is inconsistency.
Probably because the washington post has gotten caught enough times writing fake news:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/01/fake-new...
> Reuters didn't feel a need to talk up their journalism-under-duress skills

The anti-Trump crowd, including major news networks who specifically set their editorial line to bash Trump whenever they can, are throwing a hissy fit. That's all.

Reuter's statement says nothing more than "Hey, we do journalism that doesn't just echo press releases and we handle much harsher environments than this. We good."

The fact that the radical anti-Trump crowd in general and some elements of the US press are throwing this national tantrum, and has been doing so even before Trump even took office is a telltale sign of how this problem is unravelling.

And enough with the Trump posts on HackerNews. Post tech stuff, not political rants and ravings.
The way this is layed out in a table and suddenly properties line up in rows and columns reminds me of the Periodic Table in Chemistry.

Obviously it shows how the ASCII committee used the first two bits as control bits and the remaining bits as a mixture of control and data bits, but I’d never seen it displayed this way.

Really neat.
Nope -- did you?
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> It should be possible to build a prototype post-facto “truth labeling” system from a “stance detection” system. Such a system would tentatively label a claim or story as true/false based on the stances taken by various news organizations on the topic, weighted by their credibility.

So who decides what organisations are credible? Or orders them by their credibility? Someone has to create the list. Someone with obvious human biases towards one view or another.
You can name the process anything you like with exec -a
Absolutely, don't trust it. The fact of Teflon's extreme toxicity at temperatures commonly encountered in cooking is undisputed. Quoting from http://www.ewg.org/research/canaries-kitchen/teflon-offgas-s...:

> The lowest temperature at which nonstick coatings have been reported to kill birds in a peer-reviewed study is 396°F (202°C)

That website offers a lot of evidence regarding Teflon's toxicity in other animals as well, but birds seem by far the most sensitive.

Granted now, birds ain't humans. In particular, our unusually massive and efficient livers protect us from a lot of things that readily kill other animals (e.g., aflatoxin, which we withstand in much higher doses than most other creatures).

But this just tells us that our bodies are somehow coping with the poison enough to allow our survival. It doesn't tell us the poison is harmless to us, and IMO fluorocarbon toxicity in humans has been woefully understudied.
I just checked git-appraise and while it looks rather mature, it uses (as far as I can see by now) an approach which is not that nice if you have multiple public remotes. Also, as far as I can see, each submitter must be able to push to that remote - please correct me if I'm wrong.

We have a different approach for this, which is more powerful (talking about how the data is stored).

Of course, our tool is not mature yet. Maybe gitlab can learn from what we've researched...
> Quantify things like political stability, information availability, cultural problems, etc

Good luck. It's a worthy goal, but we are very far away from being able to do this in a rigorous fashion. There is a reason academia has the distinctions of "hard science", "soft science", and "not science". Cultural and political dynamics, by their inherent nature, might never be objectively quantified.
So link to those articles. This article is legitimately just hero worship.
Went to a client meeting one day early. Not my fault entirely as the organiser didn't bother to give me the change of date.
You could do something similar with http://code.runnable.com/

[Disclaimer - I work at Runnable]
It's actually easier to add two spaces at both ends of the password :)
I'm saying that I should have a choice not to upgrade to the latest features -- including the dropping of support for 32-bit apps -- without having to give up security fixes, which are fundamentally defects in the product.

Imagine if you bought an mp3 & aac player, amassed a collection of mp3 formatted audio, and then the vendor said "oh, we have to do an update because if we don't the player will explode. and we're removing the ability to play mp3 formatted music, but that's ok, you can play aacs." No one wants their audio player to explode, but by the same token it was sold as a device that plays mp3 and aac.
HN being an unobjective far left echo chamber is not new, making the stories kind of tiresome propaganda.
The problem is not "fake news". The problem is people are treating the news like a product in the capitalist paradigm.

If you don't like the way your local bakery makes their bread you go somewhere else. Now if the media reports on something you don't like someone else will tell you what you want to hear.

This issue happens on both sides of the political spectrum BUT it does seem to be a lot worse on the conservative side of things. All the "liberal" news sources like the NYT and The WashPo seem to be doing lots of reporting on Trump supporters, discussing their fears and hopes, concerns and motivations. Even more conservative sources like the WSJ, not including their editorial page, are trying to take a bigger view of the world.

On the other hand my Apple News feed seems to perpetually have a FOX News story. The one this morning was "Is Trump Bashing the new Celeb nude selfie?"

All I know is the people who seem prone to believing the stupidest stories also believe global warming is a hoax and Obama was not born in this country. A significant portion of the electorate has been drinking from the well and cannot be reached.
characterizing what the performance difference between C++ and Java is or will normally be is really hard.

Naive translations from Java to C++ will normally result in only a small % difference.

But clever rewrites where control of memory locality is leveraged, and SIMD intrinsics are leveraged (either via pragmas to induce it automatically, or by hand), good understanding of compiler settings for given architectures, etc, the differences can get quite large, depending on the problem domain.

Then again, there are ways around some of the performance limitations in the JVM, but it often involves writing very painful coding styles. But you could narrow the gap a bit with that effort. (but if you are going to add effort, maybe just do it is in C++?)
Well, from what we've experienced during the implementation and while using our tool, it works _really_ well!
If the media generally practiced the principles outlined in this post, the criticisms levied against the industry wouldn't be credible. Not that Trump has any moral authority to complain about anyone's integrity, but many have been complaining about the increasing partisanship among the U.S. media for a long time, and their complaints are largely valid.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
Also worth noting that the JVM itself only weighs a couple of megabytes. The bulk of the size comes from the Java runtime (ie: the "standard libraries"), and there are lots of things that your app may not need there (XML parsing, serialization, etc...)

A couple of years ago I wrote a simple tool (https://github.com/aerofs/openjdk-trim) that allows you to filter out what you don't need. We were able to get the size of OpenJDK from 100MB down to around 10MB.

Note that the work of determining which classes you need is entirely manual. In our case I used strace to check what classes where being loaded.
I learned Dvorak on a QWERTY keyboard. No problem whatsoever.
Agreed. This was really just written from my personal experience of being bummed out by never launching, then how awesome it felt to finally do it.
Offline-capable websites are a thing. Plus you still need a connection to download the app initially anyway.
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A lot of the technologies in better home construction are usually out of reach for low income families and low income areas. Add in the number of trades that are included in building houses, and I would imagine a lot of push back on getting some of these technologies implemented at a low cost.

I do still believe there is a huge opportunity for companies to disrupt the building industry with modular housing and other economic choices for people who really can benefit from this.
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You're concern trolling. The information is readily out there.

Your question puts forth a sense of "genuine" curiosity, but then later you compare the work the of the Clinton Foundation to that NAACP and Red Cross, and make judgements around that. So you presume to not know any charity work that's been done by the foundation, yet you're able to compare it to other charities. Why be so disingenuous?

The Clinton Foundation website has a litany of literature on its efforts around the world. Charity Navigator gives the Clinton Foundation on overall 94.74/100 score [0].

In short, kindly fuck off out of here with what is either out right lies or willful ignorance.

[0]: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...
Dance, monkey, dance.

Facebook lost me almost a decade ago because of their inane bullshit.
Taking a stand should never be put on hold. Imagine if SO, HN, and Google, all put up a static homepage that said, "sorry, but our services will be unavailable until the Travel Ban has been rescinded." How long do you think it would take before it was rescinded if that happened? I think probably not more than 3 days.
Ask HN: How do I go about open sourcing a project?
I've been working on a startup idea for over a year, and I have a fully functional prototype. I've decided that I don't want to pursue the idea, but I don't want all of my work to go down the drain. I do mentoring for startups often and find that there is a lot of reinventing the wheel when it comes to getting an MVP going. It seems that the vast majority of the code that I've written could be repurposed for almost any other web-based startup in a couple weeks. How do I find out whether there's any demand for this and if so are there any guides to properly open sourcing a project? I don't want to just dump the code out into the ether.
I've heard that before.
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Or possibly researching new avenues of energy generation?

I see potential for nuclear energy in the future, and spaceships will have to resort to nuclear energy because fuel isn't going to cut it for energy intensive long term missions.

And if they figure ways to do it with minimal risk, we wouldn't have to depend on solar energy and hope it gets more and more efficient in the future.

I feel like the risks with nuclear energy are overhyped. With proper security precautions, nuclear plants wouldn't be so dangerous are many think. Except unexpected natural disasters of course. But is it really that hard to reconcile the advantages vs. disadvantages? Many coutries aren't low on space like Japan and can handle things going wrong in the nuclear plant area.

This wouldn't be a problem if nuclear fusion is achieved of course, but I waiting for someone to make a law related to "It'll be there within the next decade". Net positive energy nuclear fusion will nicely fit in with quantum computers that exhibit quantum supremacy.
I should note that if you lean to the Right and/or don't worship the Clintons and the Democratic party, then most of the US media has seemed like a third-world Party Line news for a long time.
Ask HN: Is it legal and ethical to repost entire HN thread to another website?
I want to build a website that will select one 'interesting' hn thread daily and display it on the front page. I am planning to anonymize comments (strip usernames and links to them). I don't intend to make any profit from it, although I might accept donations from readers to pay the server costs. Is it legal (and ethical) to do so?
That's how it always been. The whole aspiration to have code Pythonic is to make it look like business logic, and you can't do this without abstracting things. This is how for example uvloop adds performance when using it with over asyncio.

I was able to do network streaming (including live encoding) of audio and video in Python. Do you think that would be possible if it was native python code? Of course not, I used GStreamer which did that in C. My objective was not to write an encoder but stream the video, so as far as I am concerned my code was in Python.

One of big strengths of Python is that when you need to improve its performance you just need to locate bottlenecks and rewrite them in a faster language. This is especially great when you want to do it in code that is not your primary objective, like in this project, you as a developer care what your code returns on specific requests you don't really care about how service handles each request etc. This is what a high level programing language is about.
I remember being on Twitter on most of election day and seeing evidence of all sorts of manufactured rhetoric from Reuters, and was really disturbed (proof below). There are a lot of other explanations for why this happened, but I'm not inclined to believe them given the reality of what happened on election day.

It looked like Reuters' polling towards the 8th showed Trump taking the lead, but they deleted the data and replaced it with Nov 1 data. Plenty of people caught it and called them out - several people took videos as well so the chance of them being a coordinated effort to doctor screenshots seems low. I don't know if they ever responded to this issue, but it forever changed my opinion of Reuters. If we're to assume the worst about this then it's pretty disgusting if this is the kind of shady stuff the media is pulling. I sympathize in principle, but in reality the question is whether this breed of media deserves anything but contempt.

Tweets with screenshots / photos (more in the same thread):
https://twitter.com/Blazingcatfur/status/796071971700244480
https://twitter.com/ProtectthePope/status/796068457137733637

Also of note (posted elsewhere in the comments here, but downvoted): They posted this article on the 8th, saying there was a 90% chance of a Clinton win. Their data didn't support this claim.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll-idUSKBN1...
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On some machines I've actually masked `rm` with an echo to remind me not to use it, and I would delete with `rrmm`. That would give me pause to ensure that I really mean to remove what I'm removing, and more importantly, that I didn't type `rm` when I meant `mv` (which I actually have done by accident).
I almost exclusively read Reuters and have turned all my friends onto Reuters. If I could read the AP feeds I would read those too.

I'm not looking for what to think, I'm looking for what happened, and Reuters tends to give me that, even if I miss out on some stories.
You can very easily install older versions of software. If you make a local iTunes backup, you can keep the apps and reinstall them locally. If you have an older device that doesn't support the newest version of the app, you will be prompted that there is an older version available that us compatible and be allowed to download it.

The former option works on all iOS devices ever made, the latter works at least as far back as iOS 5 devices.
Exactly - I've played enough Dungeons & Dragons to know that it is possible to roll 1 or 2 on a D20.

If there was a 90% chance of winning, it is the 10% which happened. That's pretty clear by how crazy close it wound up being to. Just 80,000 specific votes in specific states are outweighing more than 3,000,000 across the rest of the United States. That really feels like something that had about a 10% chance of happening (or less really).
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Interesting. Supporting more AE features is a good plus. Can you talk more about the other goals that are different?
Fake News is indistinguishable when it is not a blatant lie, and when every news group is on the same page. Think war on ISIS.
Seconded. Having access to a huge community of people who were a little further along in the visa issue process made navigating it much, much easier. Little stuff like "oh, they're now requiring 2 passport photos instead of 1 and the consular website hasn't been updated everywhere yet" saved a ton of pain.

It was also really nice to see almost in real time how long processing was taking, because you could see when people ahead of you got their interviews scheduled and guess how long you had left.
NeutralNews is all right, but there are some substantial biases in the comments that people get away with.
The landing page looks great! The only thing I would recommend is that you give a way for your customers to provide their own private key, that way they know that you can't decrypt the messages (though, you could still save the data pre-encryption if the sender doesn't check).