skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, I'm not on the right. I used to consider myself on the left, but given the Left's recent behaviour I no longer feel I belong there either. I'm also not from the US.

I am however of Muslim heritage. My parents are Muslim (though not the middle-eastern variety) but they encouraged me and my siblings to make our own choice regarding religion (not all Islam is as strict on this as is made out). I chose not to follow a religion, though from a cultural perspective there are aspects that are still a part of who I am.

With that out of the way, I will say that it takes a special kind of cognitive dissonance to believe that the US is only bombing militants [0].

I mean sure bombing that hospital was an accident, and it doesn't happen all that often and the US would never bomb innocent civilians right? After all the official count of civilian casualties due to bombing is very low, right?

Of course it is, because thanks to the previous administration, all military aged men killed by drones are automatically assumed to be military combatants regardless of whether they were or not [1].

And so with stroke of a pen, innocent civilian casualties caused by drone strikes are reduced to single digits.

And last year the US dropped an average of 3 bombs an hour on mostly Muslim countries [2], including 5 that are on the current visa ban list, but where was the concern for the citizens of these countries then?

The above two items are a far worse affront than the temporary visa ban Trump has instituted, but where was the outrage? the protests? the monthly donations worth thousands of dollars to the ACLU? the tears from senators? the acceptance speeches of celebrities calling out the president?

That a visa ban can cause more outrage than either of the above two items makes me angry, and frankly, strikes me as little more than political opportunism and/or people being easily manipulated by political opportunists, rather than genuine concern for the well-being of Muslims.

End the Muslim visa ban! I hear. Personally I'd rather end all the bombing of Muslim countries that led to this mess in the first place.

I might not like Trump and I might not like this visa ban, but at least one of Trump's campaign messages was to get the US out of foreign wars and to stop with its policy of foreign regime change.

The last 10 days have shown that Trump is intent on following through with his campaign promises and if he can fulfill that one, then a temporary visa ban, although inconvenient to many, is an acceptable cost.

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0: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/world/asia/afghanistan-bo...

1: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-ob...

2: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/americ...
Thank you very much for writing this well thought out response. I don't know if it's mood swing as well. Today I brewed light coffee eg. 1 table spoon per 2 cups, 3->6, and made the usual onions,lentils,ground-pork soup and put a little bit of salt (couldn't eat it plain). Oil too. I was pretty productive throughout the day, but this was later after the shut down from sugars/energy drinks. I know contradicting.

That bulletproof coffee is interesting. I also wonder if that 12 hour period thing... I've done this a couple times to reset sleep patter eg. not eat for 16 hours, man it sucks.

Lots of things to fix in life... sucks when sometimes you want to just say F' it and take it. Whether prison, death, whatever seems weak though I realize. we are responsible for our position in life I guess, unless you don't have control (many scenarios I can think of) but I mostly do have control.
What browser are you using ? Are you on mobile ? Dikalo does not not work on web mobile.
This makes sense, but seems to be an answer to a different question about the curvature of spacetime. How does it relate to the universe being a hologram?
"They are making the freaking frogs gay!" --- Alex Jones
As a Trump supporter that supports the ban, I would much rather we give Saudi Arabia and Israel the boot and ally with Iran and Syria instead. We're stuck with Israel but I have some small hope that the other sides may flip as our relationship with Russia improves. The cold war of the 21st century is looking more and more like US+Russia vs. China+EU, it will be interesting to say the least how that will affect our alliances in the middle east.
Where should that be enforced? Browsers? Web servers? Firewalls? If you believe the answer is browsers, you can make that change today. Obviously, others don't agree with you. Why should their web experience be limited by your unsupported point of view? You haven't really made a great case.
This has been available since forever in any of the Dropbox FUSE implementations.
It is remarkable how little attention this gets.

Marxism has nice slogans, but very little attention is given to the details of what is the value of good quality paper clips or whatever.

The assumption of perfect knowledge and that wise central planners can beat bottom up and local knowledge is wrong. It's interesting what a common assumption it is too. Even though government and large organisation inefficiency is often remarked about.
s/Brannon/Bannon/
Another point - even if you want to consider yourself a business ( 10$ instead of $8.25 at this stage why not ), the business plan starts at minimum 5 users ( you can use less user, but you are still charged for 5 ) FYI if you are ever tempted to try this free 30 days upgrade of your pro account that is always 1 click away.
Very interesting article. Stepping back, you might wonder why the keypunch uses a metal plate to hold the character bitmaps rather than a ROM or something sensible. Remember that the 026 keypunch was introduced in 1949, so there wasn't really a convenient way to store bits. It's actually pretty clever to use bumps on a metal plate to drive the printing.

The other side of this is how they stored the mapping from keys to hole patterns, with each key punching 0 to 3 holes. This was also done mechanically. Each key moved a lever ("bail") with tabs, and the tabs trip contacts that cause the right holes to be punched. But in between is a bunch of relay-based logic to handle shifting for special characters, numeric keypad mode, and so forth.

If you want to try out a 026 keypunch yourself, go to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA when they are demoing the IBM 1401.
Inside the ‘Tunnel’ Elon Musk Is Already Digging Under Los Angeles
The top article on that site at the moment is about the "Jewish elite". WTF?

http://www.science20.com/sascha_vongehr/scientists_for_donal...
ha I could attest to that.

I also used to experience those sleep-paralysis events Jesus those were terrifying. Thankfully I have not had that in a long time.

But yeah, sleep is good. My body feels sore all over when not sleeping for a long time, get sick easier, can't even watch tv or do anything, you just hate yourself hahaha or briefly go delirious then go back to hating your current situation, can't enjoy anything.
lol, "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." is new for me...

https://youtu.be/dScq4P5gn4A?t=3m30s
Amazon lawyers are also part of this suit
Academia is not exempt from marketing. And not all marketing is bad. :)

Remember the origin of the term "dynamic programming"?

> "I spent the Fall quarter (of 1950) at RAND. My first task was to find a name for multistage decision processes. An interesting question is, Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from? The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word research. I’m not using the term lightly; I’m using it precisely. His face would suffuse, he would turn red, and he would get violent if people used the term research in his presence. You can imagine how he felt, then, about the term mathematical. The RAND Corporation was employed by the Air Force, and the Air Force had Wilson as its boss, essentially. Hence, I felt I had to do something to shield Wilson and the Air Force from the fact that I was really doing mathematics inside the RAND Corporation. What title, what name, could I choose? In the first place I was interested in planning, in decision making, in thinking. But planning, is not a good word for various reasons. I decided therefore to use the word “programming”. I wanted to get across the idea that this was dynamic, this was multistage, this was time-varying. I thought, let's kill two birds with one stone. Let's take a word that has an absolutely precise meaning, namely dynamic, in the classical physical sense. It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that it's impossible to use the word dynamic in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It's impossible. Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History
Virtue-signalling, the putdown that has passed its sell-by date
> If you could give a computer all the best scripts ever written, it would eventually be able to write one that might come close to replicating an Aaron Sorkin screenplay.

This is nonsense. Children's programming, however, Thomas the Tank Engine episodes, are ripe for disruption.
These trends did not suddenly change from last year where a movie made twice the revenue. So, I don't think you can really blame trends. Not getting in the top 10 is completely reasonable for a given year, not getting 1/2 the revenue of 10th place is less so.

Every movie has some people that like it, but mass appeal takes more. Shrek I is rare, but this year had 15 significant misses and no big wins.
A lot of companies that hire the worst H1B abusers already know what happens when they offshore the development. The only reason they still use these consultancies is because of the perception that development is onshore and higher quality.
Thanks for sharing this. I hope Tesla respond in time, as this seems very unacceptable to me.
Sorry, you had trouble with your new car. It happens sometimes that cars have problems. Tesla is a physical thing and it can have problems. I would be frustrated that my new toy had problems, but I don't see why this couldn't happen with a porsche or bmw. In fact, they do sometimes have problems.
Seems to me "proportion of your target community that can attend without a visa" would be a more valid metric than "number of countries from which people can enter without a visa".

But even better would be to also factor in the difficulty of getting the necessary visa for others.
The author doth protest too much, methinks.
He understands what's going to incite those who speak out against him, and he uses that knowledge to set them up for failure. He did this throughout the campaign and he's doing it now. You're supposed to be upset about the immigration EO.

That the disruptiveness of the immigration EO was intentional is not exactly hard to suss out. I don't understand what failure it sets anyone up for though. I mean, it's the administration that is walking back the order (Kelly's statement about lawful permanent resident status being dispositive). The protests made a powerful statement to people in other countries.
> There is a name for that: price gouging.

No, it's called value-based pricing. Price gouging is raising prices beyond what is reasonable. For almost all products and services charging a percentage of the value that the product or service creates is completely reasonable.

> What if your hospital/doctor/insurance starts doing that?

Sometimes it's quite difficult or impossible to calculate the value created by a product or service and in those instances attempting value-based pricing could lead to price gouging.
For the Con Law/Fed Courts/Civ Pro scholars out there: is there precedent for standing here with a state suing over immigration?
It's a 90 day travel ban. How fast can a lawsuit reach the courts? It'll be over before it goes to trial. I guess it could be ready if the ban is extended.
They can't do anything with the funding they have, so maybe they'll do better with less funding? That's a non-sequitur.
Although I like going to movies on occasion, the ability to turn on subtitles (to better understand dialogue and overcome my kids being loud) and pause/rewind as needed makes watching at home more enjoyable.
Ex Machina's budget was around $15 million, that's extremely low.
He loses all credibility by boastfully declaring himself "christian." He is guilty of the same elitism he decries the u.s. policy for.
My startup is based on Windows, the .NET Framework, ASP.NET for Web pages, and ADO.NET for interacting with SQL Server. For the programming language, I'm using Visual Basic .NET -- as Kernighan and Ritchie, IIRC, stated in their C, the lanugage has an idiosyncratic syntax, which it turns ou I don't like. Since C# borrows some of that syntax, I prefer the more traditional (like PL/I, Pascal, Fortran, Algol, etc.) syntax of Visual Basic .NET.

When I selected this collection of tools, I seemed to see that there were some big, famous, successful, busy Web sites using these tools.

So far, I'm pleased with these tools but would like much better technical writing in the documentation.

Some things about the tools are really nice. So far my code is about 100,000 lines of typing and about 25,000 programming language statements. I typed in all the code using my favorite text editor (KEdit) and have made no use of Visual Studio or any other integrated development environment. For me, KEdit and Rexx as a scripting language work fine. For a scripting language, I may convert over to Microsoft's Power Shell, but I see no big need to do that now.

For organizing my work, I make heavy use of the Windows NTFS hierarchical file system -- it looks terrific, like some of Microsoft's and/or the industry's best software.

For the CORE, I have no more than 15 seconds of understanding what the heck that is. AFAIK, I won't be using the CORE, whatever the heck it is.
If you're an adult more often than not, you'll be trading your time for income. Therefore this is a safe comparatively in offensive question to start a conversation. Given a working person spends around half their waking hours working, many will opt to choose something interesting to them. Whether it's the culture, the vision or the nature of the work it can lead onto more interesting topics of conversation.

It's a lazy one, but so is remarking about the weather or mentioning something about current affairs.
Depending on the episode, Black Mirror uses tons of CGI, but it's usually subtle and the focus is always the story, which is simply served by the effects, not the other way around.
If you ask nicely and otherwise don't mess with people, then this is totally fine - and otherwise indistinguishable from donation model.

The thing is, that in order to enforce the requirement that people should pay per copy, we're lobotomizing the medium. In meatspace, making a duplicate of an object requires work and resources. In digital space, a copy is essentially free (electricity expenditure aside). It's a feature, not a bug. And to restrict it, you need to put in place a lot of legislation and user-hostile technologies that track everyone and make one's life miserable - not to mention destroying the concept of ownership as a collateral damage.

Yes, we can keep the pay-for-copy, copyright-everything model. We can try to enforce the rules of physical world in the digital one. But is it worth the damage it's doing to computing? I believe it isn't, and that's why I think we need to find other ways to pay the creators for the work they do.
> In fact, they do sometimes have problems.

The difference is those companies have their shit figured out.

If I had a vehicle checked like 2 times and it left me stranded, I would blow up in someone's face if I got handed a letter that says "Customer made it up"
I was searching exactly for this! Today, internet provides us a lot of options, but it is quite hard to filter what are the best choices, specially when we are talking about e-learning and JS Frameworks hahaha

Probably I will checkout the next posts.
Perhaps a bit of a tangent, but another way I have always perceived relative distances measurements is with the following analogy:

You are awake, walking around a basketball gymnasium, it's 100x100x100ft. A nice, large room. All other details preserved as well. Surely, our little brains can't contain a 100x100x100ft gymnasium; our little heads would explode trying to fit something so large into it. Yet, when we dream, we are perfectly capable of revisiting this large room in our mind, full spatial properties preserved.

While there are many encoding strategies, looking at how the brain encodes information (or a more simplistic neural network), this gives, in my opinion, a good intuition as to how distance and spatial properties can both differ and relate between two "universes".

You can also observe that our final "view" of the gymnasium is just the surface of the complex underlying thought-structure of the brain. We very much, on a daily basis, only see the surface of what is a very very complex process going on inside the brain.

Perhaps, one may even call that a projection.
Legislation is like a programming language in that its keywords and grammar aren't necessarily chosen for its readability by laypeople.
It really all comes down to pricing theory, right? Marxism says that labor has intrinsic economic value. That's fundamental to Marxist communist thought, from economics to social theory to theories of history.

Liberal economic theory says that there's no such thing as intrinsic economic value. See Diamond Fallacy. Optimal price signaling through a free market would be a necessary corollary. (And I think the Halting Problem could be used to prove that.)

Neither seem right to me, but Marxism definitely seems far more wrong. Nonetheless, concepts like dignity and justice wouldn't exist if labor and other activities didn't have some kind of intrinsic value, however indefinite or indeterminable. The vast majority of people in capitalist societies, especially those in ultra capitalist societies, and particularly Americans, believe in an intrinsic worth to labor. And human concepts such as dignity, justice, and "the value of human life" exist precisely to define what we perceive as intrinsic value. And perhaps that's what democracy is about--a hack bolted onto free market capitalism to aggregate (in a very poor manner) our normative assessments of different kinds of intrinsic values, and to pay those costs more optimally than capitalism alone could manage.
The rates for SAP consultants are double to triple what I am getting.

For me, I would prefer to be paid three times what I am getting now to maintain someone's piece of crap legacy software, given that what I do now is maintain someone's piece of crap legacy software.

The difference in salary, put into perspective: on my current rates I need to save for three years to buy a Model 3. On double the salary, I can buy a Model S every other year.

Forget orange, disposable income is the new black.
You do realize it can become indefinite right? It is 90 days only if the countries share 'data' which the trump regime poorly defined. And its highly unlikely countries like Iran would accept that.
http://legacy.sweetmarias.com/stovepopmethod.php

I've been roasting coffee stovetop for about a year. Takes me about 10 minutes to roast 12 ounces, the result is great, and it only ends up costing about $1/lb more than what I used to pay for roasted beans at Costco. If you like coffee at all, I highly recommend giving it a try!
Since it's been an hour and there hasn't been much response, I'll give my two cents.

I don't work for a startup. However, I do work in a small team of 3 developers, and have recently been faced with the decision of choosing a technology stack to start from scratch.

Before this decision, we were using PHP5; we were constantly putting out fires and couldn't ever get any actual work done because of this awful inherited codebase.

WARNING: OPINIONS AHEAD.

We decided to not go the .NET route for a few reasons.

Object-Oriented programming doesn't have a place in our hearts, as it does with a many OO-only developers. I find that object-oriented code is overly verbose and often difficult to maintain. For these reasons, we also wanted to avoid PHP, Java, and node.js. I feel like object oriented programming is more of an obstacle I have to overcome than a feature.

I hate to say it, but I just don't trust Microsoft. Yes, .NET on Linux is incredibly fast. How many years down the road until Microsoft decides to try getting their new Linux user-base onto Windows? They've done similar things before, and it'll take more than a year of a "Microsoft <3 Linux" advertising campaign to convince me to use one of their products in a Linux-only ecosystem.

Not only that, but .NET core hasn't been on Linux for a very long time. There isn't as much documentation that I can find on running, deploying, and maintaining a .NET / Linux application as many other technologies. (note: I could be wrong here after some more research, it's been out for a couple years, which is probably enough time).

We decided to go with Golang. It's a statically typed language that treats functions as first class citizens. It's not object oriented, doesn't have exceptions (yay), has an amazing standard library (including testing and benchmarking!), is easy to deploy (compiled & doesn't depend on a runtime like JVM or .NET core), and I feel like it's working with me, not against me. Plus half of our stack is already in Go (docker & kubernetes, and now Tyk).

I know that so many of you will absolutely disagree with me and that's fine. I'm not here to start fights, just giving my two cents. :)
An Apology to Alan Kurdi
mumble mumble row hammer Einstein-Rosen bridge..
Perhaps this explains why:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-res...

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperit...
They can (other suits already have in this case) win preliminary injunctions in a matter of days. So sure it'll be over before it goes to trial, but in the mean time the suit can still have a very positive effect.

It would also establish precedent against a new ban of this sort being established.
The point is that after all the crap they have gone through Teslas response was that the car contained no defect, which is obviously false
Is this available for Linux? I couldn't find information one way or the other on Dropbox's site.
Did you read TFA to the end?
I try to read most public mailing list posts (and for some, technical Google+ postings) by Linus Torvalds, Al Viro, Alan Cox, Ted Ts'o, Andy Lutomirski and the pseudonymous "George Spelvin".

I also keep a weather eye on the blogs of mjg59 and (not a developer, but an academic computer scientist) John Regehr.
Honest question: why root for Tesla? Great EVs are starting to appear from other manufacturers, so why cheer for one company in particular?
Worth noting that San Marzano is an Italian DOC, distinct from the US brand SMT, which has previously called their tomatoes San Marzano, despite not actually being that. They engage(d) in various shady practices so I personally avoid them and suggest others do too.

For more info, see http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/68538/are-these-t...