skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet there are many thriving GPL projects, running on billions of devices worldwide, from routers to servers. GPL has created an environment where Netgear and Linksys collaborate on developing the same pieces of software, not due to morals, but due to it being the best option for themselves. Same with IBM and many other companies working on GPL sofware.
"Good and Bad Procrastination" (Dec 2005)
http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
What is Monte Carlo?
I really thought they had a blog post somewhere or maybe a tweet or something stating they were planning to support a vm, but I'm failing to find the link. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly. In any case, they do have a forum section dedicated to virtualization:

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?board=37.0
Wow, prick the hive-mind's balloon and get down voted to oblivion. Nothing is wrong with what you said.
>At the end of the 80s and throughout the 90s, a common belief was that the CLI could be completely replaced by the GUI

And it has, except for backend programmers. Most Windows programmers stay all day in Visual Studio and the like, for example.

But as far as end users as concerned, that is the 99% of computer users, the CLI might as well not exist.
http://keepamericaatwork.com/h-1b-nonimmigrant-guest-worker-...
MIND BLOWN!
If my work could be simultaneously consumed by millions of people and they all wanted to pay 5 or 10 cents, I'd be totally ok with that.
FYI, there's vps2arch that does the same thing with a different approach:
https://github.com/drizzt/vps2arch

Edit: it doesn't really do the same thing. vps2arch could be implemented on top of takeover.sh for better reliability.
3Blue1Brown explanation of eigenvectors and eigenvalues is very insightful and intuitive [1]. One of my favorite videos from his channel is "Who cares about topology? (Inscribed rectangle problem)" [2]. They way a Torus and Möbius Strip come up as solution to the problem is so elegant.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDu9oVAE-g&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmgkSdhK4K8
There is an idea known as "morphic resonance" which encapsulates this idea.

Another sideline issue that this idea addresses is: how did the cells of your ear know to grow into that shape. Obviously we know that stem cells are the base building blocks that can be 'reprogrammed' to become various parts of the body -- but how specifically do the cells know how to arrange themselves to make the specific 'ear-shape'?

The proposal morphic resonance states is that somehow those cells become in tune with some specific frequency and that frequency controls the growth rate. Almost as if nature has a wifi network that holds the 3D CAD files that cells use to organize themselves.

Obviously pure speculation, but fun to think about nonetheless.
Beautiful avatars as a microservice
You might wanna checkout http://enso.me or http://meet.jit.si (Dislaimer: I work at Atlassian)
It may take more than just the event space. The grandparent gives good examples and notes basketball and baseball are better attractors.

My town, Indianapolis, manages to integrate most events right into the downtown along with the convention center, hotels, and the financial district. Lucas Oil Field and Victory Field are around the corner on the edge of downtown; that section feels slightly more dead. But Banker's Life Fieldhouse is right there in walking distance and hosts concerts, circuses, Disney on Ice, etc., in addition to the main draw of NBA and WNBA games. So there are multiple events per week, plus conferences and conventions during the week. Plus youth sports events. When you add up the hustle and bustle of weekday office business, restaurants, and all the events, it feels like there's always something going on. Somehow all that fits in a relatively small downtown. There are no expansive parking lots like one might expect for a football stadium outside the city, so that helps the feel; I don't know where people park when Lucas Oil is full but somehow they get there.
5 to 7 standard size cup/mugs per day. I drink it black, no sugar or creamer. I used to worry about the health effects. But studies like this [1] suggest that it their might increased health benefits up to about 5 cups a day. So I have decided to enjoy my coffee and just keep an eye on it to not interfere with sleep.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/182/12/1010/2195423/Ass...
Good articles. So much for Imzy being a 'kinder gentler version of Reddit'. Looks like the same old activists have colonized the strategic key areas and are using the same old tactics of attacking the poster, not the content, and raising such a stink in the process that it silences normal people and drives them away. Then they will claim that their enforced orthodoxy has spontaneously emerged via the 'hive mind'. It is overwhelmingly likely that these are paid activists.
Arch also does it. The first time I encountered this was when I accidentally deleted my EFI partition and was unable to boot. Boot into live media, chroot, run grub-install and rejoice.
I don't know, but the Wikipedia article makes it sound like Dynamacs were modified Macintoshes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone
Microsoft didn't have a mistake to realize. From very early on, one of the must-have toolsets for Windows NT was the Windows NT Resource Kit, with a whole bunch of command-line tools -- provided by Microsoft. There was in fact a whole load of command-line tooling for Windows NT, well before PowerShell and back to version 3.1 .

Far from this being the reversal that you propound, actual history is even more in favour of your argument. (-:
You have to care to be ashamed.
There's a new topology video out! As cool as the first one!
I like the idea from the CP Grey video on automation:
Better technology did not make more better jobs for horses.

Horses are still around, but the population peaked around the turn of the century (19th-20th).

How good does automation have to get before large portions of the population find themselves in the same position as early 20th century horses.
Literally everywhere. It's the post first coffee crush.
if the right wing is correct and these climate shifts are not due to our present efforts then the problem is far worse than if it were the result of pollution, and the effort to counter-balance the environmental shift will require much more social and economic adjustment.
I agree. However I do always wonder why conservative views are devalued. I am a paid NY Times digital subscriber and I think the price is robbery however despite being conservative, I do find value in the other viewpoints. It seems like many equate conservative viewpoints as 'not worth supporting.' In my opinion, it's worth it for me to read the other side because I don't necessarily need an echo chamber reinforcing my own bias. Perhaps ironically, I subscribe to The NY Times and not the WSJ.
Everything on the web used to be free. We got used to that.
Obviously, this is too complex a problem to discuss here, so I'll make only a few points: (1) It isn't really relevant for my point about paying the publishers. If anything, IP protection makes my point stronger. (2) I'm not suggesting to abolish IP protection, because I'm not sure I'm right. That's why I said I believe IP protection is not needed. I know I cannot argue my opinion sufficiently. (3) My biggest issue with IP protection is that since there is no unambiguous definition of what IP is, all IP laws are necessarily too restrictive. Leading e.g. to the current craziness with patents. (4) Film crews out to be paid. There are different models of financing than copyright. Music industry got pretty far with the transition. (5) As for drugs, the governments should announce which drugs are needed, and when companies deliver such drugs, they should get a one-time payment. In present language, the governments would buy the copyright from the companies and release the recipes to public domain. It would be financed from health insurance.

Etc, etc. But again, I know there are holes in my reasoning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta#Economy
I reviewed pfSense around nov 2016, it failed on many basic security best-practices, and was rejected for our purpose.
I don't know about enforcement frequency, but what I have seen here is that there is a lot of traffic calming, and deliberately engineered chokepoints where traffic must slow down considerably or stop for cars heading in the opposite direction. This isn't just central London, either, but in the suburbs.

The complex junctions with multiple islands for pedestrian crossings (often carefully fenced such that you _have to_ cross at the zebra stripes proper) are another difference from the US, and structurally contribute to this effect.
Uhh, you got on the wrong ship if you think Ubiquiti has nothing to defend, your employer is a constant and consistent GPL violator[1], and due to the constant failures and overpromisiong on features (TDMA in particular) alongside the serious supply chain issues Ubiquiti has had over the past decade, your major customers are dumping your hardware en mass[2].

I don't see Solar or IoT cameras/switches/power strips saving Ubiquiti either, the fiber CPE might buy your company a few months of runway, if supply issues don't strangle it tho.

1 - http://libertybsd.net/ubiquiti/

2 - https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31113160-ePMP-Elevate
Theft != copyright infringement.
Tamma+Tamma+Again+launch,+Varun-Alia,+camaraderie,+Badrinath+ki+Dulhaniya
> Ok, I guess I don't really care about redistribution for it's own sake - I only care about fixing poverty. I guess that's why we disagree.

But that's the same thing. The only way you can get people out of poverty is by either causing them to legitimately have jobs that without-subsidy pay wages above the poverty line (the problem being they aren't qualified for those jobs), which if anybody knew how to make happen we would already be doing it; or to to subsidize them by taking money from wealthier people and giving it to people in poverty.

Doing this by taking money from middle class people instead of wealthy people only pushes the middle class people towards poverty and exacerbates the problem.

> Incidentally, your scheme wouldn't work so well in India. In India there are far fewer rich people (proportionately) than in the US. Europe needs to tax the middle class for much the same reason.

This is a problem that solves itself. Where there is less inequality you can pay a smaller UBI. If everyone had exactly the same income then you wouldn't need one, but neither would you have anyone in poverty. (Or everyone would be, but in that case you have no options.)

It isn't that you never take money from "middle class" people, it's that it makes no sense to take money from them at a higher rate (via a phase out) than you do from people who make more money than they do.
"You'll gradually get more density and less traffic this way over time, assuming that's what people want (and if it's not, they'll get what they want instead)"

That's not how it works. Aggregate preferences doesn't, necessarily, give you the best of worlds. All kind of local minimums and nasty equilibriums are possible.
That's probably more expensive per article then the print product, which included costs of physical production.

Journalism has always been about advertisers and scale. The problem now is lowered barriers to entry drove up supply, reducing advertising $ available to "real journalism" and entities like nyt and wsj still have vestigial anchors pulling them down further.

Couple that with growing adblocking and it's a bad recipe. How do you put that genie back in the bottle? The net effect has been lowered standards by former standouts in a race to the bottom. I don't see a fix, much less an easy one.
A $20 CPM? I'm thinking it's nowhere close. That's exceeding TV level CPMs.
Sounds like you'd enjoy playing around with array programming languages like APL (dyalog, microapl), J, or Q w/ kdb+(kx systems). As one of the oldest paradigms, there are a few open source and proprietary-commercial offerings.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can fill-out missing parts of images that fit plausibly into the existing scene. These are computer programs that are much less complicated than our brains.

So, you have one interpretation, but there's no reason to think it's more likely than the fact that your brain is really good at filling in missing details.
Kick Devices Off Your Network
Agreed that current figures don't tell the whole story, but it's at least as unwise to not consider the current figures to get a sense of order-of-magnitude.
Isn't the point that those are the most prolific platforms, where a common API to the system, POSIX, would be most beneficial to us as developers? But it's simply not possible to do?

From what I can tell POSIX has been replaced by per language stdlibs, with the portability of your software tied to the portability of a languages stdlib.

POSIX was mainly designed for C, most other languages have a higher level abstraction.
Amazon vs. Flipkart and Uber vs. Ola. It's not about capital dumping
can confirm. filipino here now in US. my uncles were seamen. no fin planning in life. You just retire and hope your children will take care of you. It's like the equivalent of military here in US
It is, music, software and movies are pirated illegally too.
While in theory art would be efficiently transferred from the ideal seller (artist) to ideal buyer (rich #1 fan), in practice the idea that information falls in the right hands automagically is kinda laughable
It looks pretty odd to me too.
Why CQRS matters in software design
Only waiters get their share from the tips.
I've spoken to waiters (mostly filipino) during a cruise and the $50 monthly excluding tips is real.

I made a typo in my above comment.
As a dishwasher, you get $450/month - fixed and without tips.
> whether there is anything we can do to change it

There is zero question if there is anything we can do to change it.

The question on the social level is if we will, as a species, regulate the behavior of individuals and institutions.

On the individual level the question is if you and I will choose to take responsibility and choose our behavior as individuals and stop saying, if a billion other people don't change it doesn't matter what I do so I won't change. We can all take responsibility for our personal actions. If people in previous generations had, we wouldn't face these issues. They didn't so we do, but maybe we can for future generations.
The Houston Chronicle has a similar dual system. The print newspaper is online but paywalled: houstonchronicle.com the "chron.com" version is mostly buzzfeedish fluff that's free.
BetterConnect+ app – all that you need to achieve your chronic-health goals
I want something like that in docker :)
> Smart people end up having to run SmartPerson + NormalPersonVM(pre-alpha) in parallel.

This sounds a lot like autism spectrum disorder. Only some smart people work this way; for others, the social mechanisms are intact and operate normally (and sometimes very efficiently). For anecdotal evidence and some insights, see Eric Raymond's blog post[1].

[1]http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7060
This scripts creates another root, then substitutes /sbin/init using `mount --bind`, then reloads /sbin/init, which pivots into new root with fakeinit.

IMHO, systemd in container mode can be used instead of fakeinit.
BetterConnect+ puts at your fingertips, all that you need to achieve your chronic-health goals.

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BetterConnect+ is a free download. If your doctor has not yet subscribed to BetterConnect+, you could still use our app for self-management…

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Does it work by checking the referrer? Maybe you can workaround by configuring a browser add-on (like RefControl) to just send facebook.com as a referrer while on WSJ.
Take a look at Parinfer[0]. It's for Lisp editing, but S-expressions are as general as it gets.

Also you can use Ranger[1] or Finder or NERDTree with Vim/Nvim to utilize your file system as a tree structure and afterwards "extract" it with tree[2]

[0] https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/#introduction

[1] http://ranger.nongnu.org/

[2] http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/
Universal Basic Income and cost of things
This (like a lot of things at Google) varies wildly across PA and even among managers within a PA. All my managers so far have been extremely supportive of 20% time, and I've personally worked on three different 20% projects over my last four years (including two which have been open-sourced). That being said my engagement model has generally been less "one solid day a week" and more "a few days in a row once a month or two" in quieter times for my 80% gig, or "an hour or two every day" in busier ones.

My understanding is that while I'm a little bit of an outlier, in general 20% time at Google is nowhere near as dead as people on the internet tend to claim (at least for engineers).
This link is being blocked, the reddit posts are being blocked when I try to access this from UK. Google Cache brings up some of the reddit threads, eg this works https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:79bh37...

and this didn't work. https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5taltk/attentio...
but now it works again.
Something is going on.
Pretty sure the conflation has been around ever since rocket science and brain surgery have been used as a comparison. :)
He did too. Everett tries to make the point that because Piraha doesn't use recursion (which we only know by his own account, and nobody else's, since nobody else knows Piraha as well as he and the Piraha do, also by his account) then Chomsky must be wrong.

How is Chomsky wrong if Piraha doesn't have recursion? According to Everett, always, Chomsky's position that recursion is the distinguishing characteristic of human language, must necessarily mean that all human languages have recursion.

This is exactly like saying that, because it only snows in winter, it's not winter if it's not snowing.

For Chomsky to be right, it suffices for a single human language to display recursion. If even one human language displays recursion, then humans in general can learn any language that displays recursion- because we know well that human infants learn the language of the linguistic communities they're reared in (and therefore any human can learn any human language). For instance, even a Piraha baby raised in a Brazilian family would learn to speak Portuguese, and Portuguese has recursive embedding.

Everett of course claims that Piraha, somehow magically unlike any other human being in the world, are incapable of learning any other language than Piraha. He also claims that they were unable to learn simple arithmetic, beyond 1 + 1 = 2, despite his, um, best efforts.

In fact, all human languages except Piraha, and only by Everett's account, display recursion. Which makes Everett's claim about Piraha so hard to accept. The fact that he remains the only (self-professed) authority on Piraha makes it even harder to take him seriously.

Generally, it's not so much that Chomsky has won anything here. Everett is so clearly a total troll, and his books the printed equivalent of clickbait, that it's ridiculous to even claim there is anything like a debate to be had. It's like "debating" a climate denialist.
What is a PA ?
There's certainly a stack when running under C51, for function call returns. C51 just assigns local variables into 128 byte data segment. But say, PUSH ACC works just fine when you drop into assembler.

Then again, stack on 8051 might be sometimes pretty small. From 10 to 128+ bytes.
> Doing good things for bad reasons is better than doing bad things for bad reasons

To use ancient metaphor, doing good things for bad reasons is like building a house on the sand: fine for a while.

"And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."
What I don't get is that they could just leave the first two paragraphs and let every see that, then require you to subscribe for more - google would accept that and they would still show up in search, right?
"Problem Solving" is a good reference for understanding algorithms and data structures. It uses Python but Python language is not its main focus.
However, "Problem Solving" is one of the best places where I've learnt programming.
Formula suggests how many relationships are needed before ideal partner
Asynchronous IO, hardly anyone uses the POSIX standard of select and poll anymore, and instead use kqueue (bsd/macOS) and epoll (Linux).

I should add that this is for performance critical software.
>The lesson learned was that I needed to start questioning my convictions more. Just "feeling sure" isn't enough to certain of something.

Well, that's the life lesson I learned in the maths lectures and exercise sessions I attended. Seems like drugs are not required to understand this ;)
/clap
What i want to say is that given explanation is more complicated than necessary. If we have no flaws (?) with simple: "no wish -> don't do" why there is a need to construct such complex things with self-tricking?
Actually, I'll be surprised if he hasn't received any offers by now. I would perhaps specifically hire him to deal with databases as I am pretty sure he's never going to make this mistake again.
other people disagree. If you don't want to hear about it, hide it.
Luckily every other major newspaper has you covered then.
No, sorry. We're still making a new release almost every day, and we have no stable branches, only master.

We'd prefer people to just install our own package.
I've heard Google's VCS is basically their own reimplementation of Perforce. Are there any major differences ?
I don't tend to link youtube videos on HN, particularly of the comedic type, but I'm just going to leave this here for anyone who wants a good laugh for their morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I