skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish someone would try to reimplement Symbolics Genera under an open source license and make it run on modern hardware properly, without VLM. Its design and philosophy is quite different from Unix derivatives, being so object-oriented in the right parts and extensible on the source code level. The user interface was very reminiscent of the notebook interface in Mathematica - output in the listener wasn't plain text as in Unix CLI, but arbitrary objects like bitmaps or graphs or interactive widgets. You could click on any of them and inspect its state or open the source file that implements it.
I don't mean to be pedantic, but that statement would definitely be improved with a link to a source
I believe we're seeing the systematic destruction of human rights in the West. Many governments from former British colonies desire a centralized economy. They want to watch their citizenry. As we dismantle the West, it will look more like China.

China can point to our destruction while dealing with 3rd World African countries. They can show how their form of government is the same as ours. They can tell the Africans that it's okay to be a semi-brutal dictatorship. As a result the Chinese government can get along with new trade partners better than the US.
I can't see how your chef example could work well without any tactile feedback.
> They have to replace them themselves as well.

It happens. I've done field replacements on Dell laptops for DOA components for non-technical friends, most recently a dvd drive and previously a keyboard. Dell shipped the components and I swapped them out for exchange. Dell quoted moderately long (over a week) round trip if it went to a service center but my friends wouldn't have attempted it themselves.
Agree with untog; freedom is hugest and I'd add having a decent risk tolerence. But since value is also important I'd say my knowledge of economics helped me grow the most; especially relative to other developers. My instincts honed from that allow me to very easily tell fads from real solutions and plan for long term team development.
In the 19th century the equivalent was "preacher".
It might make some victims feel better, which can be considered a form of a moral compensation.
Here is just one example (of many that immediately pop into my head) of a recent situation where I needed to use cash for something completely legal - buying a birthday present for my significant other who I share credit cards with. He'd potentially see the purchase on our statement and so I paid cash to make sure the surprise wouldn't be ruined.
You can also add the `--export` flag to get kubectl to omit unique metadata that would be ignored on import; keeps your exported files a bit tidier.
Have you tried running tests from stack repl --test? Its so much faster. Id love if i could use file-watch and the repl together.
It is certainly not a binary thing. But as the saying goes, a big enough quantitative difference becomes a qualitative difference.

The US government can not lie too much about the US wealth. Somebody would immediately call the lie, and people would become mad. Even here at Brazil, that scales way lower on press freedom, the government can not lie about any objective measure of wealth (but has extensive lies about subjective ones). The Chinese government seems to lie about their numbers every single time - everybody just discounts them by now, but there is no reason to assume the official numbers have even the correct signal.

And yes, I'm saying exactly that. People there have no way of knowing if for anybody they see progressing in life there isn't a dozen other having their life ruined, because those later dozen are invisible.
Using powerpoint (or related tech) enables sucking at public speaking and presentation skills, in a way that lecturing in front of a {black,white}board does not.

One of my favorite education-related blogs is University Diaries, by Margaret Soltan (an English professor at George Washington University). She writes quite entertainingly and excoriatingly about the use of PowerPoint as an alternative to teaching: http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?s=powerpoint
According to a friend with a restaurant, quiet restaurants get worse reviews and people don't seem to enjoy themselves as much.

Obviously there are exceptions, and some particularly expensive restaurants are pretty quiet (I have eaten at some of them with said friend and we have discussed this phenomenon).
Patient plays guitar during brain surgery
I assure you the reason they didn't accept anything but cash was not because they were cheap but because they could mix in and clean up dirty cash from their other clients for a fee without an audit trail.
Valve is in a uniquely comfortable situation: they don't have to win VR, they only need to avoid losing. They can be open to cooperation because cooperating with them implies accepting that a huge chunk of monetization is already spoken for.
I'm afraid I cannot debate with you about conspiracy theories.
Morality of militaries is a complex topic. In the real world as it is today, militaries are necessary to maintain peace, so one could argue that providing weapons to soldiers may not always be morally wrong - especially that most of the time, those weapons are never fired against a human target.

On the other hand, selling fake bomb equipment directly endangers lives of the operators of such devices, as well as lives of people they're tasked to protect.

If that's not pure evil, then at least it's a highly refined form of evil.
I know Windows since 3.0, and do GUI related coding since those days also had some friends on the Amiga demoscene, mostly with the 500 model.

I know UNIX since Xenix, and used DG/UX, Aix, HP-UX, Solaris, OS X, FreeBSD and lots of GNU/Linux distributions starting with Slackware 2.0.

After a decade of using UNIX like systems, and Windows as well, while researching everything that came out of Xerox PARC, and being an Oberon user for a short while, I came to realize that Apple and Microsoft developer cultures are closer to Xerox dreams of how computing should look like, than UNIX where X Windows is just a manager of xterms.

Also I never was a big fan of C, even back on MS-DOS days, where I would rather use Turbo Pascal or Turbo C++.
My story
What I have learned in this module is that it teaches me how to interact with other people and raise my views as an individual and again to know more about them and their culture. Also how we behave as people as it is affected by our culture; the way we think and behave.
How was it efficient?
Right. It doesn't mean much anymore, but it certainly has history. OP seems to think this infatuation with work is a new phenomenon.
I red Go as Golang, that title made little sense
Yeah. I live in South Korea, which is dominated by a local instant messenging platform, KakaoTalk. Anyone who cares to be social is on KakaoTalk. Text, photo, video, files, appointments, notifications, polls, payments, booking a hairdresser ... the list of things that are done through Kakao is long. A phone without a KakaoTalk client is useless.

I guess his response would be that the web-based approach changes the pitch from "make a version of KakaoTalk for our mobile OS" to "make a web version of KakaoTalk, which also runs on our mobile OS" along with "and you don't even need to talk to us for deployment".
Math Challenge: Computing the Average Rotational Speed of Earth
What if valuable ideas are consistently lost or people's productivity is drained because someone feeds his ego interrupting others or encouraging people to ignore whoever takes the initiative to present an idea?
No, but you also can't study 1 woman having 9 babies, and conclude yourself an expert on pregnancy. I'll prefer to get my advice from the doctor who studied 9 women, having one baby each. Note what I said about a mature language having to go through several write-eval-improve cycles.

Diversity matters. A language that one person tinkered on for thirty years is far less likely to be useful, then one that ten people tinkered on for three years. Or, in the case of Python vs Haskell, a hundred people who tinkered on it for twenty-five years.
Why would it be important to spend Bitcoin here? Could you automate payments from a wallet so I dont' need to remember each to sign a tx each month?
I'm wondering if integrating MyPy into the build, or even using Cython for performance, could have helped.
MTN Suffers $108Mln Loss, Remains Largest Digital Music Distributor in Afrika
Came here to mention this. It is the superior solution because it will take an arbitrary JDBC driver thereby supporting far more databases.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=HSBC+drug+laundering
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=drug+use+in+prisons
> Fear is a wonderful motivator

Depends on the person. I find that getting good sleep, vigorous exercise, and a clear direction works much better for me.
Rkt: A security-minded, standards-based container engine
It might.... under what circumstances?
some victims.... which ones?
can be considered.... by who?
When it comes to blockchain-based message boards, I feel like it's a question of when not if. There's a small but vocal culture that has demand for censorless social media. You can see it bubble up when Reddit bans entire subs[1][2][3]. We've had other discussion about blockchain-based social media too[4]. The difficulty seems to be in creating a viable currency/social model and not technological feasibility.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/1/14478948/reddit-alt-right-b...

[2] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-23/reddit-bans-pizzaga...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/09/...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12401403
WhatsApp was the big missing app for Firefox OS. In Mozilla's target markets, WhatsApp was huge but the company didn't want to invest any engineering resources to support Firefox OS, understandably. Firefox OS was an unproven OS with no market share and no J2ME support.

In response, Mozilla Research started a "j2me.js" project to try running the WhatsApp J2ME app in JavaScript, sharing some code with the Shumway project to run Flash content. If that worked well enough, maybe WhatsApp would become interested. It did actually kinda work, but the project did not proceed for a number of reasons. Also, j2me.js was renamed "PluotSorbet", due to trademark concerns:

https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet
What is the justification for celebrating the big jump in first day price? Why isn't it a condemnation of the banks who got SNAP to leave a lot of money on the table?
Zeroth Theorem  of the History of Science  (2007) [pdf]
My feeling with discussion about the "deep state" is that it understates the difficulty of organization. It's hard enough to get an explicitly public/structurally aligned/highly incentivized group of workers at a company to stay organized (the failure of the unionization movement is a stark example, but even mainstream companies struggle).

More likely, it is that careerists naturally produce work that reinforces long held beliefs and values - it's a big ship and it doesn't turn quickly. If leadership comes in and starts doing things that work against those values then the careerists might fight those directions, do them slowly, do them poorly. In a small company those underperforming workers would probably be fired. In a very large enterprise it might be difficult to locate those workers and/or costly to replacement if they have specialized knowledge/skills.
DNA clues to why woolly mammoth died out
I became a much, much better developer when I stopped thinking that computers mattered all that much compared to people. Compared to my co-workers, compared to my users. Computers are only a way to solve a problem, they have no intrinsic value or worth. But people do.

Building human-first systems is the only way to go. (It informs stuff like project management, too.)
Heh, where I live in Brooklyn there are no places that take card for less than $20 (sometimes $10). It definitely required some adjusting.
Which is almost exactly what high school is in some parts of the US (that is, in places where it is 10-12 grade.)

The thing is, while the US tends to have the Elementary/Middle or Junior High/(Senior) High split in most places, the grade levels aren't the same.

I've seen (and this may not be exhaustive) the splits with the following grade levels:

1-5/6-8/9-12

1-6/7-8/9-12

1-6/7-9/10-12
Nice writeup of the prickly network bits related to Consul and docker.
Play! This aspect of learning is crucial for children too, but as a developer nothing pushes learning like playing around with things that interest you.
I work at an indie ISP. One of the biggest growth opportunities I've ever had was when my job gave me a bare-metal server in one of our datacenters.

It was sitting in the junk pile, with a cash value of maybe $700 if we were to sell it on ebay. So I asked if I could use it, and they set it up for me.

I had never configured `/etc/network/interfaces`. I had never used the `ip` or `route` commands. I never knew what would happen if you tried to `traceroute` when your gateway is misconfigured.

Now I've done all of those things :)

For me, any opportunity to get my hands dirty on something I've never done before, I jump on. I have taken jobs because of that one criteria. If I'm not growing at my job, I either take action (talk to my boss) and make sure I get new opportunities, or I start looking for another job.
The use of advertising for manufactured goods or mass services required the capability to produce same. Pitching influence (as the Medici did through their art) has a very long history.

The first newspaper adverts for goods were patent medicines (think, basically, Viagra of the 19th century), starting about mid-century. As the factory method came online, and it was possible to cheaply and rapidly transport goods throughout a country on rail, the problem of creating a market for those goods, as well as identification (branding) arose. Hence advertising.

There's a good brief summary of that transition in Hamilton Holt's 1909 book, Commercialism and Journalism (also speaking to the problems of influence within media and journalism). In particular, the 30x growth of the periodicals business from 1850 - 1905, which Holt attributes principally to advertising (though he gives other factors: improved mail, cheaper paper, faster printing, literacy, as well).

https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holtuoft
Not if you do it right:

\t\tsome_func(arg1,
\t\t arg2,
\t\t argN)

will look right no matter what the tab width is.
Also related, tax purposes, e.g. they can pay workers under the table.
Where's the AI? At best, it looks like they use a pre-trained algorithm to generate output based on a few inputs. Similar to the deep dream visual effects Google was generating a while back.

Amazon's recommender systems adjust dynamically, based on what users buy. Google's handwriting recognition is learning every time you select the correct choice and continue with your next scribble. How does this learn anything?
I really miss HyperNeWS [1], which I worked on with Arthur van Hoff at the Turing Institute, and I used it to port SimCity to NeWS on Unix [2].

Arthur van Hoff (who developed HyperNeWS and other stuff like Java [3]) and I are working together again, this time at his 360° VR video camera company, JauntVR [4]! I'm developing a secret project called HyperJaunt, that I can't say anything about yet, but you can guess by the name that I'm pretty excited about it! ;)

We are looking for a lead software engineer with leadership experience in Amsterdam! [5]

[1] http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/

[2] http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/HyperLook-SimCity....

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/aavanhoff

[4] https://www.jauntvr.com/technology/

[5] https://www.jauntvr.com/careers/apply/?gh_jid=251962

LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.

The Role:
This is a highly challenging and highly technical role offering the chance to define the early days of a new industry. Candidate would have to know or be willing to learn mobile 3D graphics programming (OpenGL/GLSL/Unity) with focus on interactivity, network optimization and performance tuning. Candidate should have strong leadership skills. While we are looking for prior experience as a good indicator of future success, our main criteria includes passion for VR, intelligence, creativity and strong work ethics.
Recalling that Andy Kaufman kept a part-time job as a bus boy> https://youtu.be/oJrrKhBkDBQ

Do right by your boss, give appropriate notice. No need to burn a bridge. He is likely accustomed to seeing good people come and go.
How Not to Do It: Breaking Up Ammonium Nitrate
You only need collusion among a majority of mining power to ignore a transaction, not all miners.

It's still effectively impossible because it would undermine confidence in the system (which is why people are willing to pay miners in the first place).
> In europe most of the population seems to prefer to pay in cash (for clothes, groceries, electronics etc. pp.).

That is a very coarse and completely unfounded statement. The situation differs greatly per country; you can spend months without touching cash in the Netherlands or Sweden. In the Netherlands we've passed the 50% mark for electronic debit card payments at a point of sale a decade ago!

Online purchases are soaring too across the continent, which means that for clothes and electronics there is a shift towards less and less cash transactions each day.
The appeal is largely that credit cards let you spend money you don't have, and debit cards, by definition, don't. For people who have a hard time operating within their budget with credit cards, this is a huge difference.
Their iOS repo was finally updated couple of weeks ago after last update from August, 2016.
Yeah. The thought of not going to see a doctor or not calling an ambulance because it might cost me something is literally unfathomable.
Which means your bank knows if you buy a sex doll, if you have diarrhea, if you are a member of a political party or if you donated to your cult.

And I don't believe in the legal system enough to think that the information is not shared.

Also, cash is one of society safety net. You see, nothing is black and white, and society is not perfect. If it can control everything, then the citizen has no margin, no grey zone to try things that the current society consider wrong.

And this is a problem, because you can't make society evolve if you can't try what you want to change for first.

Cash let a small part of society locally try things that are not (currently considered) right. Without it, you would soon have a static society.

Another problem is that, because society is imperfect, it will create rules that in certain situation are bad for the people. Without a way to bypass the system at a local level, you are at the mercy of errors (not even talking about evil doing), with no short term solution.

Without cash, if visa or bank x doesn't like you, you are screwed. Without cash, if you are doing something moral but illegal, you are screwed. Without cash, if you are doing something that society consider immoral (ex: going to a gay bar in a repressive country), you are screwed.

Yes cash is abused, but a life without cash eventually would derive to something way worse : a rigid society.
last year I made a resolution to do daily code sketches for fun:

https://www.instagram.com/zach.lieberman/

I have learned a great deal from the act of daily coding and treating code like a creative medium without any pressure on what I make or why. I found myself tackling hard challenges so I wouldn't get bored and learning a variety of new tricks to help make the sketching easier. I wrote about the process here:

https://medium.com/@zachlieberman/daily-sketches-2016-28586d...

I think daily activities are the best for growing -- short, concentrated, and limited in scope and can fit with the rest of your life.
Colon and Rectal Cancers Rising in Young People
I also heard that louder places sell more alcoholic drinks?
I think for both examples VR becomes an immersion add on to a physical machine. Both examples are interesting because they involve much larger forces than haptics will provide.

For example you can imagine a ski trainer like an artificial wave so you get the real forces and the sense of exposure you get looking down a large mountain. For cutting meat you need a simulation medium that can be cut with a knife and change density somehow on command.
Wow. This was gorgeous, thorough and horrifying. Thanks for posting.
As mxfh pointed out, these are guest-welcoming areas of rich people. Elite people in Germany (pretend to) not watch much TV.

(I never owned a TV, within or without Germany.)
Noma dishwasher becomes co-owner of world-famous Danish restaurant
> very long time to boot

Actually a typical Symbolics 3600 didn't boot much longer than a SUN... my NXP1000 Lisp Machine boots in three minutes from a very large image.
Slightly off topic, but aren't all of these alternative uses for block chains going to explode their size and cause more storage and bandwidth to be used on many servers around the world?
Isn't this pretty dependent upon the specific cache architecture? Definitely nowhere near an expert here, but I thought that CPUs all had varying sizes / layers of caches, on top of additional spare implementations - i.e., victim caches, etc. How much portability does this one-sized tool have, or is the variation between CPUs not an issue?
So anyone who isn't creditworthy (ie. poor) pays additional tax in the form of higher-priced goods. But to heck with them for being poor, right, because you get the convenience and cash back?
> If the condition is not currently treatable, you can isolate the person from society - but this will already win you all the safety you can get, so there's no point in punishing them further.

We have to remember here that some prisoners are a danger even to their cellmates--I've heard of some who threatened to kill any cell mate, then did so. For that population of violent people who are a danger to everyone, isolating them could be both harmful to the prisoner, but the right move for society.

Though I suppose it's an open question whether executing such prisoners would lead to less suffering.
Nice. The inline code editor is very cool. Been looking to freshen up my JS knowledge so this is a good find.
Very interesting, as we're looking into doing essentially exactly the same very soon. seems even more urgent with docker just having announced free/enterprise editions. Would be very interested in a blog post / some more detail about how it went down!

more generally, what were the biggest upsides / downsides from moving to k8s?!
Obliquely relevant: A healthy society needs a bit of crime.

https://kpulawandsociety.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/durkheim-c...
> In either case, neither queue builds up in the home router -- that is exactly the problem, since we can't control the queue size in the modem or ISP! But by traffic shaping to 3.25/0.85 Mbps in the home router (either manually or automatically with fq-codel), we force the queues to build up there, thus giving us control.

YES! I understand what you're saying. (I had been treating the cable/DSL links and their terminating equipment as a black box; your description was being far more specific. Thanks for sticking with me to make yourself clear.)

And as you point out, the fix in all cases (at least, until our ISPs get serious about solving bufferbloat) is to force the home router to take control of the buffering by shaping the traffic a bit below the actual link speed. Thanks.
Excellent example. I love the visual kinesthetic combination of these books and wonder if there has been studies on it's effect on learning.
Last I checked, wrapping arithmetic and checked arithmetic are both supported. What is your complaint?
Why do you assume they are my countrymen? I said I'm Canadian. Furthermore, I point to where fake news and alternative facts have led the US. Freedom of the press is a double-edged sword that is only wielded properly in the hands of the just and intelligent. I am sad that I have this conclusion these days.