skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The burden of proof is up to Microsoft in this since they don't disclose the source or the communication protocols in full. There is information being sent we cannot decode right now. We can't even begin to investigate properly with the information we have.

Furthermore, even if the current system is OK, this might change at any time without prior notice due to a pushed update.

Finally, others doing it, too, doesn't make it any less wrong.
It is, I think, going to be very difficult to enjoy writing code in a less powerful language when you are exposed to languages that hold awesome power.

In fact, this has been the basis for much writing on Lisp too. Paul Graham has written entire essays along the same lines.

If you work in a job that forces the use of a less powerful language than what you've been exposed to, you can, I think, go through a sort of depression. You simply long to use the tools that you know hold much more power yet must resign yourself to the tools you have.

You can overcome the problem by being present in your work. The language might be ugly. It might be totally underpowered with limited means of abstraction and a type system that snmacks you and, sometimes, your client over the head. What you can do is, despite that, commit to writing great software with the tools you have. Commit to improving your work. Perhaps expand the ecosystem with tools borne of insights from your adventures with high-powered tools.

You will have a much more enjoyable time in most languages this way. Perhaps except MUMPS but there might be hope.
Yes, that's why I was explicit that I was discussing my personal conversational standards that reflect my personal history, which is different from yours. As you point out, there are people from a wide variety of backgrounds on the internet, and part of participating in the internet is understanding this and expecting it.

When you see something that you might think is hostile, it's often more productive to give them the benefit of the doubt and presume that they intended good faith but have different conversational norms from you. In the best case, they meant well, and everything proceeds nicely. In the slightly worse case, they didn't mean well, but you've helped de-escalate, and things are back on track for a nice discussion. In the worst case, they get more blatant in their attacks, and at least you'll find out that productive discussion wasn't possible anyway. Not much downside, and lots of upside, in my experience.
I once tried my hand in it.

I had read lots and lots of strategy articles on the web, planned all my deviant schemes in my head, and finally signed up to a newbie PBEM diplomacy game.

I'm probably the first Englishman in the history of the game who never even got off that damn island.
Holger Klein has done some very good in-depth interviews with Martin Delius (part of the parlamentary inquiry) about this issue. Sorry it's only in german, but is definitly worth listening if you can overcome the language barrier.

[0]: http://www.wrint.de/die-ber-gespraeche/
The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds
one of the reasons they renamed "Microsoft SpyNet" into MAPS
You don't expect to be able to listen to the songs forever? Fair enough; I mean, you can always take another subscription service if Spotify would go out of business.

But I've been there.

When Grooveshark quit -- I was a paying member and had no up-front notice -- I lost my complete library. I've looked into making a back-up before and figured out some technical requirements for that (e.g. I cracked the "encrypted" cached files) but never really got around to it. A list of which songs were in my library and playlists would have been all I needed, but I had no such thing.

Spotify doesn't offer this either. Like with Grooveshark, you can find technical ways of getting around it, but they're not jumping at the opportunity to provide a JSON export that you can import into another music service.

The other side of the coin is that not all music is available. Even now on Spotify, if you enable "show unplayable songs" there are a lot that turn unavailable every month. I don't want to think of which part will not be available at a competitor's.

For all these reasons, I agree with the person you're replying to. But I made the same decision as you -- i.e. I use and pay for Spotify -- because those indie stores just don't have enough music by a long shot to make it worth the trouble. Ideally it would be that way, though.
For the curious, this is what it looks like when you try to access dailymail.co.uk from Thailand: http://i.imgur.com/Ah1fwPF.png

Translation:

This site contains inappropriate content and information.
Suspended by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society
Sorry, but that makes no sense.

You set up some weird strawman about skyscrapers, do you have anything to back up your claims?

Housing units, population, jobs, and desirability of the area is what drives housing unit prices. Increasing the supply will always ease affordability.

Restrictions on development, and NIMBYism is what destroys the cost of living and development in cities.

But these cities still aren't building to the pace of
their population growth. To achieve price reductions,
these cities would need to implement an open market,
deregulating land so that housing supply can meet demand.
Assuming that urbanites view this as some crackpot
right-wing solution--'Reaganomics', according to one San
Francisco politician--they should look at Tokyo, where
it's actually being tried.

In Minato ward — a desirable 20 sq km slice of central
Tokyo — the population is up 66 per cent over the past 20
years, from 145,000 to 241,000, an increase of about
100,000 residents. In the 121 sq km of San Francisco, the
population grew by about the same number over 20 years,
from 746,000 to 865,000 — a rise of 16 per cent. Yet
whereas the price of a home in San Francisco and London
has increased 231 per cent and 441 per cent respectively,
Minato ward has absorbed its population boom with price
rises of just 45 per cent.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/08/12/tokyos-af...
5 Biotech Products U.S. Regulators Aren’t Ready For
I don't think anything in the 'The Bad' is unfair, and they're certainly not written from a position of ignorance.

Those are things that suck about go; it's not specifically that they suck about go when compared to haskell; they just generally suck (particularly the type system stuff).

However, I don't think that the situation is so bad I would go as far as to say, "Other than that, I will probably never choose to use Go for anything ever again..."

I maintain that while go might not give smart programmers the flexibility to express their FP dreams, it has a grungy practicality both for developing and maintaining code that is quite effective.

Introducing go and building applications with it in a team is easy because its quick to pick up for the whole team, regardless of background, its simple to use and its (relatively) difficult to shoot yourself in the foot in terms of distributing binaries or developing applications that run at modest scale.

When gogland (the IDE by jetbrains) comes out of EAP, it'll even have a modestly good professional IDE with integrated debugger (no atom, you don't count when your debugger never works on any platform).

...but hey, if you don't like it, don't use it.

Haskell is pretty great too.
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/2211

There are packages for Jessie at the very least.
Open Hardware Pushes GPU Computing Envelope
Honestly, this is a problem with all of the examples.

* Using "cat source > target" instead of "cp source target"

* Using "cat source | pv > target" instead of "pv source > target"

* Using "head -c 100MB /dev/zero > target" instead of "truncate -s 100MB target"
My mum (Linux user for over 5 years now) recently started to make fun about windows. I am so proud
Offtop: what kind of static website generator did he use? Looks clean, looking for something similar for my usage.
I think that's the problem — they are 'bitching' and are therefore dismissed as 'haters'. For the rest of the populace, Wikipedia is 'good enough' to casually link to.

And those complainers often have no appreciation for the circumstances which made it what it is. Many complaints are of the form 'there is an cabal of admins who engage in a conspiracy against me!', or 'how dare they want to delete MY article about my garage band that would otherwise gather dust for the next 20 years!'; and even more substantive criticisms are often coated in sensationalist language, which hurts their credibility, as in this article. No wonder they are not listened to. A dispassionate analysis of the flaws of Wikipedia would be helpful, but so far I haven't seen a single one.
Isn't that because the artists are having shitty deals with the record labels though?
I use Kratom to manage lower back pain. It is about as effective as Tramadol with less side effects and contraindications for me.

I'd give it a 1/10 on my addiction scale (with 1 - THC to 10 - A Year of Liquid Opium Poppy Daily Dose), and a 5/10 on my analgesic scale (1-Aspirin to 10-Opium Poppy).

I don't think the mechanisms are well understood. It definitely wipes out opiate withdrawal symptoms within hours of taking a small dose. And I've never had any physical symptoms from even month long cessation. I like to say 'my' scale, because efficacy and addictive properties of opiates and opiate analogs like Tramadol and Kratom vary pretty wildly. Tramadol is known to have and Kratom also seems to havem some strong SSRI actions also, not found in the other opiate analogs, Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, or nartural opiates.
There is no controversy unless one is fooled by Kratom peddlers' "non-addictive" rhetoric.

I don't have the time to beyond Wikipedia, but there are sources cited in the article. A simple Google search would solve the problem here as well.

The main active substances in Kratom are Mitragynine and 7-HO-Mitragynine. According to Wikipedia[0]:

> Mitragynine is an indole-based opioid and the most abundant active alkaloid in the plant Mitragyna speciosa, commonly known as kratom[1] and biak-biak.[2] Dry kratom leaf contains roughly 1.2–2.1% mitragynine.[3]

> Mitragynine itself acts primarily via μ-opioid receptors, though its oxidation product mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, acts as an even more potent and selective μ-opioid agonist but with less affinity for δ or κ receptors.[9][10] Another alkaloid with a major contribution to the μ-opioid activity of the kratom plant is the related compound 7-hydroxymitragynine, which, while present in the plant in much smaller quantities than mitragynine, is a much more potent μ-opioid partial agonist.

Mu-opioid receptor agonism is how opioid drugs of abuse work.

Kratom contains opioids that bind to mu-opioid receptors in the brain and opioids that bind to mu-opioid receptors in the brain cause opioid addiction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitragynine
As a paying Spotify member, practices like these only make me want to switch to DRM-free music more. Blackmailing artists with "we won't promote you if you don't lower your prices" and wasting half a million on 2 weeks of exclusivity. That's not what I'm paying them for; I pay them because I want to compensate artists.
To share my experience, I tried today with a 50mpx image: it took me 1 full hour and it constantly used 10% of my CPU. But the quality was great (even sharper?)!
Agreed. Beeing used to Linux Windows is the most complicated operating system ever. 98 and XP kind of were still easy but now... I picked up using mac easily, as well as even more obscure systems.
The cheese graters cost between two to four times the price of an iMac depending on the era we're talking about (price fluctuations of the PowerMac/Mac Pro). Counting the fact that you do need to buy an external monitor to go along with it. That counts for something.

Apple never had a usable entry level desktop computer tower. Something with high performance on consumer class CPUs, rather than Xeon and ECC ram. The Mac Mini was always crippled to keep it from competing with the iMac and cheese graters among people who want something better performing.

The iMac is popular because it's the best performance to price ratio. Not because the form factor is any good. For the longest time the entry level MBP (and unibody Macbook before then) was also Apple's best selling laptop and they only recently cut it out from their line-up and replaced it with the Air as their entry level offering. The Air will also exist for as long as they keep selling the current Macbook at those prices because most people are not willing to spend 1449 euros on a machine that barely performs better.
TL;DR : get off​ your high horses and get to work
> Remember that Haskell is something like 25+ years old.

Yet, I'd argue that tooling is still one of the worst aspects of the language. The whole cabal/stack thing is a mess.
How private is this?
> what's the economic return on proselytizing?

Interesting question. I did a quick check. It looks to be incredibly profitable, at least for main stream religious organizations (which tend to also be tax free).

The two top links for googling "profit of church" are:

Eg: From CNN:

"
1. The Vatican Bank has $8 billion in assets
The Vatican Bank, which has about $8 billion in assets, has often been at the center of scandal and corruption since it was founded in 1942. Pope Benedict began the process of cleaning the bank up, and Francis has continued that work.
"
http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/24/news/pope-francis-visit-vati...

"
THE Sydney Catholic archdiocese controls funds worth more than $1.2 billion and has regularly made multi-million dollar tax-free profits.
The royal commission into child sex abuse heard the archdiocese banked surpluses of between $7.7 million and $44 million between 2004 and 2007, a period during which the Catholic church was aggressively defending a claim for $100,000 brought against it by former altar boy John Ellis.
"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/church-stil...

I believe John Oliver had an excellent analysis of how proselytizing tends to victimize the poorest section of society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1xJAVZxXg
I know Musk is a sacred cow around these parts, but maybe you should reread my post as an explanation as to why I don't believe SpaceX is in the business of taking on such risks instead of a polemic against an HN ubermensch.
yeah, if i used my laptop for personal use is no problem bit i doubt there is solid CAT software for Android or Linux which could compete with SDL Trados studio
If someone drove around in a van and offered conversation to homeless people with a christian angle - that would be great. It's also great if someone offers laundry service. Talking to people is great. Talking about religion must be on their terms, otherwise it's preaching or being a missionary - which isn't.

What disturbs me is the idea of people have to feel even a little pressure to participate in his prayers or religious conversation just to get their clothes washed.

It's exactly what missionaries in Africa do: build schools and hospitals and inform about christianity.

If you are serious about charity then don't preach. Even if being charitable is part of acting out your own faith, separate the two.

I think this guy has a heart of gold and like so many others (like the missionaries in Africa) he doesn't see that there is a conflict in what hd is doing.
What if some artists demand to be compensated more than everyone else?

It's a zero sum game after all.
You probably also think Mass Effect Andromeda facial animations are spot on. You are on the spectrum, a lot of us are, doesnt mean social cues arent important.
There are mac vagrant boxes available that work on a linux host. You may need to put

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--usbehci", "off"]

in the vagrantfile.
Once you've seen the inner working of wikipedia you know that this daily mail piece if factually accurate, I'd even say that it only brushes the tip of the iceberg.

The wikipedia cabal has been raised as an issue since at least 2003 when the current article on meta was created:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cabal&direction...
"Ka" at the end turns a sentence into a question, yes. You get a yes/no question, or you can swap in an interrogative pronoun if you like. This is ignoring pragmatics.

"Sen"... no. The closest is that present-tense polite (teineigo) forms of verbs change from -masu to -masen to make them negative. However, that's basically the only case that rule works. You also often end up changing the rest of the sentence, just like in English or other languages. For example, in English, indefinite pronouns will generally change when you negate, as the negative of "somebody is here" is "nobody is here", not "somebody is not here". And of course, being a natural language, it's full of exceptions (like how "everyone" doesn't follow the pattern of "everything", "every time", etc.)
To add to what you said: when Mrs Swift demands to get paid much more than everyone else, that money is taken from the payout of less famous artists.
Only .00003% of Things That Happen Actually Matter
Why would anyone expect Hollywood to get anything right? From chess to gun fights to sword fights to relationships to computing to anything.

Hollywood isn't in the business of accurate depictions.
Berlin is a great example of what happens if you have bad laws and regulations hit reality. The renter is king in his or her property. Friends wanted to buy a flat but ypu can realistically only rent a flat that comes with an occupant so you need to wait until they leave until you can move into your own property.

Then this gets paired with attempts to regulate the increase of the rent and people rent for a bloody long time in a city where there is more demand than housing.

The effects this causes in reality then are bizarre. All you have to do is build more stuff and none if this was necessary.
> the idea that a natural language could actually be designed was a shock to me

Perhaps the Japanese grammar was designed by a small group of individuals, maybe even one individual, a long time ago, and promoted officially by the Japanese Emperor of the time. Many writing systems have been designed from scratch in the past. Many spoken languages have risen from regional dialect to imperial language, and at least one language, Israeli, was brought to life after being dead as a spoken language for centuries. No-one's ever found a definitive link between Japanese and any other language. Perhaps at some time, the Japanese grammar was designed from scratch, perhaps using a mixture of vocabulary from many other nearby languages existing at that time, and promulgated to become the language of all Japan.
Enterprise are really adverse to storing/sharing data outside premises
> which was sensitive to a quantity called the baryon number, denoted B. This is a property of fundamental particles that, unlike mass or energy, doesn’t have any everyday meaning. It is equal to a simple arithmetic sum of the number of even more fundamental constituents called quarks and antiquarks that make up the protons and neutrons of atomic nuclei.

This has to be the longest way possible to say "the number of baryons"

The article in general is long-winded, poorly explained and poorly understood.
Extremely naive thing to say. Mathematical truths are merely derived truths about complex structures. These structures borrow intuitive concepts like "sets" or "natural numbers" in their foundations. Mathematics has everything to do with the format of this universe. A statement is only meaningfully true if it is based on axioms that are intuitively true. The direct relationship between what mathematicians agree on as meaningful systems to derive truth from, ie. ZFC , has everything to do with the relstionship between the axioms and intuition that can only be provided by living in this world as a human being.

The old and tired tripe of mathematics being some ethereal detached mental masturbation is so sorely mistaken that I must ask you to respond in as much depth as I did. Because your viewpoint is not only wrong but also the reason so many children grow up to be adults that dislike mathematics. Its a sad disinformation to disconnect the properties of our universe from the science that studies the most abstract type cast of our universe: object.
Yeah, anyone who suggests that is either exaggerating, or doesn't know as much as they think they do.

Japanese grammar is simpler than English in some ways, harder in others. Overall though, it's really, really hard.
5 or 6 grammar points can go a long way? If it's that few then I guess they must be the formal forms. So you'll need at least another 5 or 6 to understand the casual forms that you would use with friends or when you're the sempai in the situation. Want to talk to kids or young adults? Better learn another 5 or 6 forms of manga styled grammar slang. And if you interact with sales clerks, listen to train announcements or want to hear other official announcements, they're going to speak keigo, so there's another "5 or 6" forms to learn.
Rural anecdote from the northwest:

The stream I played in as a kid is now polluted by a feed lot. Cattle are everywhere. Invasive weeds are also everywhere. Native insects are dying off, while their replacements decimate forests, one mountain at a time, heading north. The rivers and streams are full of plastic and algal bloom. Finding a tree that's more than fifty years old is neat. There was a giant fish die-off in the rivers last year. Everyone wants a few acres of their own, but they also want water and sewer, in a nice neighborhood, not too far from town. Subdivisions even trump cattle, the only thing that will beat those out is a natural resource that can be exploited. There are a dozen other environmental issues I could extrapolate on, that are happening just outside my back door, and I live in BFE.

Good times in rural America, nature is really holding up.

This whole city vs. country argument is silly. It's not another species out here; some people care about the environment and some don't, just like anywhere. Will rural populations stay behind the curve on some issues? Of course, but they're still people, like you.
I think what he does is admirable, regardless of proselytism. Homeless people now can at least choose:
- not to get the laundry done
- not to talk to this guy while doing the laundry (I doubt he would force them to leave)
- to do the laundry while talking to this guy

What was the choice before?

Besides that, I agree that there's a problem with the policies, but at least advertising the good example may get him funding or even start new services like that (maybe even non-religious).
Berlin has supply, the limited resource are vintage buildings (pre-war or rebuilt in the same layout) and no market force can create more of them. The abundant 1970ies style developments will never see gentrification.