skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lovecraft (who lived from 1890 to 1937) was far from extreme, and did not favor much beyond a degree of cultural (and possibly genetic) protectionism. The goal was to preserve the unique beauty of each culture including many cultures besides his own (he was quite fond of Japan).

He strongly criticized Hitler, who he called a clown and who's policies he called barbaric. His main critique of the Jews was their cultural influence: "Aryans ought not to leave their guidance and interpretation to persons of an irreconcilable Semitic culture,...If the Jews had a nation of their own (and they would if they had our guts and self-respect) I’d be the first to insist that it be kept free of Aryan influences. As it is, I honestly regret the Aryan taint (any infusion is a taint if it’s where it doesn’t belong) in the noble and ancient culture of Japan."

(Quote from here: https://chuckhoffman.blogspot.in/2016/03/making-excuses-for-... )

Even today many folks hold similar views: think of SF nimbys and other left wing activists who are critical of the cultural influences of tech bros and gentrifiers.

He also thought blacks were fundamentally inferior; are you going to characterize this as somehow uncommon in the 1890-1937 era?
I didn't know that mkdir took flags- thanks for that. That's really handy.

Reference for -p for anyone else who doesn't know:

> -p Will create nested directories, but only if they don't exist already. [1]

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/165157/what-does-mkdir-p-fla...
This isn't useful with such a small sample (821 jobs) without knowing where the sample comes from. Is it just jobs in SF? Is it small companies only, or does it include large ones? Is it only web companies?

If, for example, this were representing 100% of job postings, I doubt Python would be so much higher than C# or Java, and I'd be surprised to see Ruby so high either. But if this skewed toward startup jobs, then the numbers make much more sense.
Why iOS
Use an error correcting code, fix errors you can fix, report unrecoverable errors to the user so that they can restore from backup.
I'd wager there is a clear consensus amongst philosophers against the cosmological argument, considering 73% of them are atheists.

http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13371
I think this ACS article describes the situation very well:

http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i9/Pushback.html

It's long but a very thorough treatment of the problem. The existing pharma system is very, very profitable and there is a ton of resistance to anything to rock that boat. Lately profitability has been coming from price increases instead of innovation but pharma is okay with that as long as it lets them pay billions in dividends.
Allowing houses to be built is a giveaway to the plutocratic developer conspiracy to destroy the earth, poison our lungs, and gentrify our neighborhoods.
But my point was simply that you can't defend GC by contrasting to manual management, if you do manual management.

> If you use malloc willy-nilly throughout core algorithms, your runtimes become unpredictable.

First, where did I say "use malloc willy-nilly"? Second, do you have experience with that? I haven't much, but I haven't heard your claim before.

Of course "willy-nilly" should not be done with real-time constraints. But I have written a substantial algorithmic program (no RT constraints) in that style when I didn't know better, and it was very well performing. (probably glibc's malloc was optimized for my allocation patterns).

The main problem I see with that style is that each malloc has memory overhead, and that it leads to unmaintainable code.
I feel bad for the people who have told of their issues and suffering in the comments here. But I have to say that every time I see a health article on HN (or in the news) as well as the comments about individual cases it draws me in and gets me down. No benefit. I only get anxiety as a result. I have found this to be more the case in the past several years with what I call (as only one example) the 'cancer industrial complex'. Constant barrage of info discussing cancer, cures, studies, drugs, particular people's problems. A benefit to those suffering or those helping people who suffer for sure. But I would argue to everyone else potentially harmful and very hard to get away from.

Back in the day this wasn't the case. There wasn't this barrage of info. You only knew of a handful of cases in your small circle of friends or family. It didn't seem like danger was lurking around every corner. Anyone else feel the same way?
I don't know if you've noticed, but we haven't destroyed ourselves with nuclear weapons, despite giving it a fairly good go for five decades. The Cold War is over.

We can eliminate many classes of disease with genetic engineering

Sounds good enough for me. Fuck cancer, fuck heart disease, fuck diabetes, fuck obesity. Full steam ahead!
> When you give money to a bank, it's no longer yours

The cash is no longer yours, but the "money" certainly is. It's just taking the form of a demand deposit at a depository institution. We can quibble about the definition of "money". By the Federal Reserve's definition (and the bulk of international and American case law), bank deposits are your money [1]. Claims against money transmitters aren't even M2.

> If the bank goes under, you're just another creditor

If the bank goes under, you're a super-senior creditor partially or fully insured by the FDIC. PayPal, itself, isn't FDIC insured [2].

> if the bank suspects you're a human trafficker or a money launderer, they will freeze your money even if they can pay you back

If a bank freezes your funds, you have regulatory recourse to ensure they're doing it per the law. If a money transmitter does this, you need to pay for your own lawyers and enforcement.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12845.htm

[2] http://money.howstuffworks.com/paypal7.htm
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It also fingerprints you and shows you specific pictures depending on who you 'are' in their eyes. I always get pictures of mountains for some reason, no matter how much I try to appear like a John Doe client
OK, so when I click this post, I go directly to HN's comments section. Where is the original story? Missing URL?
Ask HN: Is there any IMDB for softwares?
Is there any directory for software's of different types? So that we can read review of others before purchasing them.
This seems to be based on the false Python 3/2 dichotomy.

Python 3 is popular enough that it is effectively unkillable. For exactly the same reason Python 2 is also unkillable.

Language adoption is never a zero sum game.
Here's an easy way for any country with a large port to regulate the seas: you can't use our ports if you don't follow our rules. All sorts of impossible things suddenly become possible when there's profit to be made or lost.
Any links to that statement that I can read?
Check out VueJS. It's simple to get started with, especially coming from the land of jQuery.
I think he means portability of the software. What I want to 'ZFS import' on a Windows or macOS machine?
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This is progress from more dogmatic ways of thinking about testing.

One thing that would be interesting to explore is how things can change over time. Something that you thought would be stable may end up not being as stable as you thought. I feel this should factor in somehow.

Quality is a multi-pronged effort. It starts with the architecture, design, coding. As this says, the connection between testing and quality is vague. Testing can give you more confidence the quality is there or it can show you the system under test is of poor quality but it won't change one into the other. If you have something of poor quality, you do a lot of testing, you file a lot of bugs and fix them most likely it's still of poor quality. Testing definitely has a role in building high quality systems but on its own is insufficient.

This discussion reminds me a little of efficient frontier in portfolio management. There is some optimal mix of all your development activities just like there is a mix of different assets in your portfolio. The assets you pick and their mixture affect the probability distribution of the outcomes. Just like in portfolio management part of the problem is that the historic performance of these assets doesn't necessarily indicate future performance.
Yes it can. ZFS will only notice next time you scrub or read the sector.
It may not work for everyone but for my partner's autoimmune disease (Lupus) eating raw cannabis has been very stabilizing. The raw form has the acid form of the cannabinoids, which are responsible for the anti-inflammatory qualities associated with cannabis.

The heated form is also useful, but thr key has been to incluse lots of raw form.
bcachefs is working on it but needs support:

- https://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/Bcachefs/

- https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs/

(I'm not Kent but I love the work)
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Manifest
i rarely think of types when writing JS. where something is not obvious, like i forgot if it returned a string or object i write an error that will throw if my expectations are wrong. i call them sanity checks.
also where something is not obvious you want to rename it so it becomes obvious. so you kinda replace type annotations with better easier to understand names.
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Maybe Apple will come to their senses when >50% of Android apps are PWAs.

Till then I'll use Exponent I guess
0.0001% (about 1 every 1000 orders)

1 in 1000 is 0.1%
"Mob Rule" is terrifying. It seems many people are willing to embrace a good witch hunt... for a good cause, of course. I'm sure Sunil[falsely accused Boston Bomber] would agree, you know, if he wasn't dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Tripathi
I'd say talk to your doctor that you are taking certain medicine just to make sure the doctor knows about it. Beware of placebo effect (which might be good in your case).
Counterfactual Causation adresses that.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-counterfactual/...
And it's not even faithful to the actual (though largely uninformative) original title.

https://archive.fo/rK3OU
You are the one being reductionist. Child pornography, documents proving corruption, Stuxnet, those are all "bits on a hard drive" that can cause real damage, as in life or death even. That's like saying a gun or a nuclear bomb is just an arrangement of atoms.
I'm not sure even that question is a good one to consider - I think the market already has shown what happens when attempts to move off JavaScript happens with Google and Dart. The various other browser vendors didn't bite, and the industry as a whole remained with JS.

IMO the best question we have given the realities is "what can we do to make JS workable?"
rly? #13?
It does include an entire web browser and nodejs deployment. That is pretty heavy for editing text.
yes, I agree with everything you've written here, except one thing:

NY may have been ok with paypal operating that way in 2002, but that has clearly changed:

https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/en_US/licenses/NY_li...
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ZFS on OSX has been revived I believe.
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We compete with them on efficiency. On a self driving car, a 1000W machine for 3d lidar data crunching isn't really feasible. If we can provide that at 10W,which we are aiming for, then we have a selling point.

As for our training chips, without divulging too much on a public forum (I'd be happy to talk more in private or over email), I think we provide the right level of abstraction and precision which would allow a researcher to one click port a tensorflow Model (we plan to support a few others like Caffe, torch, mxnet, etc out of the gate as well) to our chips.
Having used ZFS on Solaris/x86 for years and years, and now on Linux, I would say that your best best is to use ZFS.

While ZFS might not be supported oput of the box on "your-choice-distro" I would point out that Ansible or other automation tools should make it pretty easy to end up with a repeatable installed machine or VM image with ZFS.
1) You can be an atheist and still think that the cosmological argument is a good argument. In other words, you can think that the premises are plausibly true, and that the conclusion is significantly more likely to be true given the truth of the premises than it is otherwise. Being an atheist only prevents you from thinking that the cosmological argument is strong enough to outweigh all arguments against the existence of God.

2) Few philosophers are experts in the cosmological argument anyway, so it doesn't matter what most philosophers think of it.
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> but what about "I want to move the cursor to the open brace character right there"?

Check out avy-goto-char! In my setup, `<SPC> j j {` and then one or two homerow keys would move the cursor there. And the rest of the avy functions are useful as well: https://github.com/abo-abo/avy/blob/master/README.md

There are other options too that can be situationally more efficient, but avy-goto-char is faster than reaching for your mouse (at least anecdotally) and you don't have to think about.
thank you.. my brain has clearly failed me.
You might really like this book [0] -- while its talking about richmond, on NPR the other day they were talking to the author and he talks about how the port of oakland brings in 2 trillion dollars (or maybe it was all west coast ports) in economic GDP spending so its many billions of dollars of merchandise (10 billion tons per year) that flow through the port.

No way EVER that oakland would do anything to the port. The port was setup initially to export the war machine to Vietnam when we were fighting them - the logistics, experience and connections to Asia are more strong with Oakland than any other port...

One of our largest exports from there is arga and wine, heading to asia's REALLY large middle class, obv our inports in computers/electronics are gigantic.

Yeah, oakland should do a better job "profiting" from these exports and provide better services to their residents, but that is one of the most important ports we have.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Refinery-Town-Money-Remaking-American...
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Nervana was acquired by the 800 lbs gorrila of Silicon: intel

AMD has announced a major AI initiative, MIopen.

My point is that all the big chip players are entering this battle. Going to be tough for any small player to make a dent.
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I still won't trust SpiderOak with my data. Their service is unreliable and slow, their client is horrible to work with and their support is disgraceful.

I'll post my usual story:

In February 2016, SpiderOak dropped its pricing to $12/month for 1TB of data. Having several hundred gigabytes of photos to backup I took advantage and bought a year long subscription ($129). I had access to a symmetric gigabit fibre connection so I connected, set up the SpiderOak client and started uploading.

However I noticed something odd. According to my Mac's activity monitor, SpiderOak was only uploading in short bursts [0] of ~2MB/s. I did some test uploads to other services (Google Drive, Amazon) to verify that things were fine with my connection (they were) and then contacted support (Feb 10).

What followed was nearly 6 months of "support", first claiming that it might be a server side issue and moving me "to a new host" (Feb 17) then when that didn't resolve my issue, they ignored me for a couple of months then handed me over to an engineer (Apr 28) who told me: "we may have your uploads running at the maximum speed we can offer you at the moment. Additional changes to storage network configuration will not improve the situation much. There is an overhead limitation when the client encrypts, deduplicates, and compresses the files you are uploading"

At this point I ran a basic test (cat /dev/urandom | gzip -c | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -pass pass:spideroak | pv | shasum -a 256 > /dev/zero) that showed my laptop was easily capable of hashing and encrypting the data much faster than SpiderOak was handling it (Apr 30) after which I was simply ignored for a full month until I opened another ticket asking for a refund (Jul 9).

I really love the idea of secure, private storage but SpiderOak's client is barely functional and their customer support is rather bad.

If you want a service like theirs, I'd suggest rolling your own. Rclone [1] and Syncany [2] are both open source and support end to end encryption and a variety of storage backends.

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/XEvhIop.png

[1]: http://rclone.org/

[2]: https://www.syncany.org/
ZFS is also crazy good on surviving disks with bad sectors (as long as they still respond fast). Check out this paper: https://research.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/zfs-corruptio...

They even spread the metadata across the disk by default. I'm running on some old WD-Greens with 1500+ of bad sectors and it's cruising along with RAIDZ just fine.

There is also failmode=continue where ZFS doesn't hang when it can't read something. If you have a distributed layer above ZFS that also checksums (like HDFS) you can go pretty far even without RAID and quite broken disks. There is also copies=n. When ZFS broke, the disk usally stopped talking or died a few days later. btrs, ext4 just choke and remount ro quite fast (probably the best and correct course of action) but you can tell ZFS to just carry on! Great piece of engineering!
I must be misunderstanding something because from what you describe it sounds like how Gnome, i3 and EvilWM and many others handle virtual desktops.
It's a dynamic languages... what would you expect?

For most boring everyday cases Python's "type system" (it's too much to call it so, but anyway) is quite ok, catches lots of bugs that would seep through in Javascript or PHP, plus functions as first class objects to match everyone intuition and it's quite a pleasant experience.
"Should I: A) Amend my offer letter stating this IP, then backdate/re-sign it together? B) Draft a short statement assigning all IP to me that he can sign?"

If you aren't a lawyer, chances are that you're going to make mistakes drawing up this kind of contract.

An hour's worth of a lawyer's time is a few hundred dollars. You may not be expecting to make that much on the software in a year, but if you get lucky and it turns into a successful business, you'll be very upset if your IP gets taken away.
Is Google another step closer to being unblocked in China?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27417999
Interesting nugget about what China wants most:

> Google Scholar, a search engine for scholarly literature, was among the services on Beijing’s priority list for re-entry, according to Liu, who was speaking to the Sunday Morning Post on the sidelines of the China’s annual plenary sessions in Beijing on Friday.
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I haven't followed his work lately, I've just read a few of his much older books. He might be full of shit now, but I can see how most people here wouldn't be into what he shares, as it's more Feely Science than 'real' science. I enjoy both and have found his perspective on spiritual life helpful, among many other sources of course.
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My point. My only point. Is that the rich have nothing whatsoever to do with what you are describing.

They don't have a secret club where they meet to conspire on how to keep people poor. No, they do what they do every day: Focus on their businesses and investments.

The reason we have the problems we have are far more complex than simply blaming the rich.

Part of it is that we've "bred" the drive to succeed out of most people. No, this wasn't some fantastic conspiracy. I think it happened naturally due to how the US has developed.

I read an article recently about how China is outpacing the US in the rate of business creation by a staggering margin. The level of investment in China on new ventures is mind boggling. That means they are promoting a culture of entrepreneurship as well as supporting it.

This gap you describe is only filled with effort as well as intelligence. When unions create an environment where a guy inserting a screw into a hole gets paid $50 an hour, what do we expect that will lead to? And, when they create an environment where buying a robot to do that job requires the company to continue to employ that person at the same pay rate even when you don't need them. Well, again, what do we expect this will lead to?

Unions have resulted in huge job losses in the US. Until that mentality changes they will not come back, despite what politicians might claim.

I don't have the time to cover other scenarios, the above are not the only drivers. Nothing prevents anyone in the US from making as much money as they want other than themselves. That's the only limitation. You have to be willing to make the effort and take some risks.

And it doesn't have to cost almost anything. I mean, look at the people posting videos on YouTube making gobs of money on ads. Most of the people in that middle class gap everyone refers to are walking around with iPhones or other smart phones.

That's what's funny about this whole ideology, people on Welfare with iPhones. On the assumption they have access to a phone or a camera, anyone can make videos on YouTube and make money. Is it easy? No, of course not. Will it require lots of effort? Damn right. Will some fail? Most will fail. Yet, it's there, it's possible and it is within reach.

I don't understand, do people want to be handed wealth without making an effort or an investment?
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The article describes a hypothetical scenario.

It's clear if you read carefully and pay attention to the dates, but this is the kind of thing that seeds fake news and forwards. Disappointed that shock value and clickbaity titles are being used by a rights advocate group.
Pasting my comment elsewhere here as well:

I haven't followed his work lately, I've just read a few of his much older books. He might be full of shit now, but I can see how most people here wouldn't be into what he shares, as it's more Feely Science than 'real' science. I enjoy both and have found his perspective on spiritual life helpful, among many other sources of course.
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Not even datacenters can withstand lightning.

Data centers do have lighting protection. Lighting protection is very low-tech.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod
... and some truly stunning photographs of Moscow at the time, courtesy of the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4164558/A-spy-s-eye-...
> I'm always a little tweaked when somebody pitching a client product says "we can't access your data".

If their privacy policy prevents them from accessing your data unless authorized, then this isn't an unreasonable statement.

Often a company needs data for a certain purpose, but there is no good technical solution for enforcing that. This is where privacy policies can benefit users, by providing a legal agreement to protect users beyond the abilities of the underlying technology.
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You can put //@flow at the top of your files and install a plugin for your editor and have typing in about 30 seconds.