skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Went from Delphi to Ocaml to lots of C++ to D.
Basically I'm happier with the products I wrote in D so I keep using it. It's an almost schizophrenic language that always says "yes" when you ask if something is possible. The community regularly "discovers" new idioms within the language.

Learning D for real is as involved as any other language, but what people remark first is the low mental overhead and how absurdly practical it is.

Advantages I see would be: fast to edit, compile, and run. Non-controversial syntax, focus on power, and the fact you kind of already know it.
The Journal of Jocular Physics, a Comic Birthday Tribute to Niels Bohr
Blogspam of

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the original has additional images and references.
How about let's just go general enough to cover both.
Singaporeans pay for much of their own care out of their own pockets, and their major insurance program is designed to cover long-term illnesses and prolonged hospitalizations, not routine care. The combination has produced genuinely extraordinary results: The island state has excellent health outcomes while spending, as of 2014, just 5 percent of G.D.P. on health care. (By comparison, a typical Western European country that year spent around 10 percent; the United States spent 17 percent.)
Yep, I also use the Freestyle2. I'm in Europe and the resellers charge double of the Kinesis price in the US.

However, nowadays Kinesis themselves are present on Amazon and sell a limited selection. Sometimes supply is short, though:
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00CMALD3E
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CMALA46

It's the PC version, but on a Mac, the option/command keys can be correctly mapped.
Well, I haven't seen a source for the claim that teeth were better when we weren't eating soft food, but the Egyptians definitely ate soft food, so I would assume that the hypothesis doesn't apply to them.
Some less popular alternatives not seen in this thread yet:

- twin, vwm (curses based window manager)

- dvtm (similar to tmux)

There is plenty of stuff you can do without X. Some of them:

- Web browsing (e.g: lynx, links, etc)

- music (e.g: mp3blaster)

- videos, surprisingly (e.g: mplayer + aalib)
>even Foss software pushes or bumps other complementary packages.

Citation needed. If you're talking about Ubuntu, that does not represent all FOSS software just like Oracle does not represent all proprietary software; there's many other Linux distros out there, and there's lots of FOSS software which is not a distro. And if they're just notifying you about other FOSS software (with emphasis on the 'F'), that's rather different than a proprietary vendor which is trying to get you to spend your money on something else from them. Telling people about something they can go get for free is not the same as telling people about something they need to spend $$$$ to get.

MS's cloud storage (and Apple's too) is what's called an "upsell". It's one thing for a vendor to try it when you're already talking to a salesperson, like car dealerships do by trying to sell you overpriced accessories. It's quite another for a vendor to try it when you're using the product you've already purchased. If I were car-shopping and I looked at a car that openly advertised overpriced accessories to you while you were driving, that would be unacceptable, and I would not buy the car.

However, given how many people are perfectly OK with this kind of thing, and given how many cars have big-screen "infotainment" systems installed now, I'm actually surprised no car companies have tried forcing in-car advertising to make more money. Sure, they'd piss off some people, who would then buy other cars, but there's obviously plenty of consumers who will happily go along with this, especially if they're told (even if it's a lie) that this allows the carmaker to sell the car to them at a lower price. I could definitely see GM adopting this; their buyers are already perfectly happy to be tracked with OnStar.
Was Vincent Vanhoucke the mind behind Boaty? Or just Parsey?
Wells Fargo reports decrease in retail banking activity for February
Netflix did in 2016 in the Gold Level ($25,000 to $49,999) and 2015 in the Platinum Level ($50,000 - $99,999): https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/
Do dogs whine amongst themselves, or is it a behavior they only use around humans? (like meowing in cats: cats don't meow to other, only to get something from people - it's a trait learned from domestication). I image behaviors learned by domestication behave a little differently: the selection pressure is much greater, and they evolve in response to feedback from a completely different species instead of one's own.
While I agree with you somewhat, I also find value in an iterative learning approach - one that, in theory, constantly improves over time.

My problem with his approach, which I think you hint at, is that to properly improve you need to make sure you're optimizing the right metric(s), and those goals need to be clear. In Mark's case, I don't think that he has a clear goal he's trying to optimize all the time, so the different iterations on the system seem like they're swirling around a drain: slowly getting better and better, but sometimes just moving orthogonal to the most effective direction.
In New Zealand, GST (15%) is paid by consumers on all purchases, from groceries to phone sales.
Well I am more so talking about income taxes, although I didn't specify that is what this thread was about beforehand. Many places have a passive tax on some aspect, such as tourism, have high fees for certain businesses such as incorporation and licensing fees, and have also nationalized a particular industry.

In any case, Cayman's infrastructure was decent compared to other neighboring islands and countries. Since you asked.

Indeed many countries are selling incorporation services to stuff government coffers.

The point is that where there is a will there is a way for a governing institution to fund itself, and it by no means offers any solution for countries that are overbudget and uncompetitive in this front.
In computational seismology we've long had our own creation story for the FFT:

"The first machine computation with this algorithm known to the author was done by Vern Herbert, who used it extensively in the interpretation of reflection seismic data. He programmed it on an IBM 1401 computer at Chevron Standard Ltd., Calgary, Canada in 1962. Herbert never published the method. It was rediscovered and widely publicized by Cooley and Tukey in 1965." [1]

[1] Claerbout, J., 1985, Fundamentals of Geophysical Data Processing, p. 12.
Looking at the how-to section[1] for creating distil articles, I fail to find how to write math and some notes on how best to reference sections of the document.

Other than that, this looks, much, much easier to write than LaTex.

[1] http://distill.pub/guide/
"So, second, to me, buying insurance is an act of unbelief."

Well, that's not the direction I was expecting for this. Probably not much point in arguing, since you're not coming at it from a rational perspective to begin with.

Still, I can't resist trying one thing. Do you look for cars before you cross the street? Assuming yes, how is that any less of an act of unbelief than buying insurance?
Honestly, it doesn't matter to most of us right now. Goodenough's original breakthrough didn't hit the mass market for 20 years. Turning breakthroughs into /products/ is still really, really hard.
In the 15 years I work, I don't think I ever used an employer-issued keyboard. It's just too important to me.
You'll want to stay strictly away from Plato (the philosopher, not the website) if you can't take information in dialogue form seriously.
Two days of fasting apparently causes metabolically expensive parts of the immune system to go into low-power mode w/ white blood cell apoptosis. Resuming eating on day three reboots everything and you end up a fresh young army of white blood cells.
Most of these issues potentially involve direct violations of both standard practices within our healthcare regulatory framework and explicit data protection laws. They aren't absurd at all. They're talking about doing an end-run around our most fundamental privacy safeguards, in relation to some of the most sensitive personal data that exists about any given individual.
I had a highly upvoted comment on the original submission- the thing I missed was that in the original paper they claim they went from metal lithium on the cathode to metal lithium on the anode after discharge. You can't do that. In order to have a battery the lithium has to move from a high energy state to a low energy state- not from one state to the same state. There is something fundamentally fishy about the experiment, but I'm not sure what. The way it is portrayed in the paper, you could basically just switch the cathode and and suddenly have a fully charged battery.
The vast majority of people in the US do.
It doesn't annoy me, it makes me laugh. As for friends and family, I've already switched two of them to Mint/KDE and they're both quite happy with it as it suits their limited needs extremely well (web browsing, simple document editing, watching DVDs) and is extremely reliable.
I found it useful! Thanks for posting. Don't worry about downvotes too much - they often normalize after awhile.
Lifting heavy while dieting actually is helpful for not losing muscle, as long as you eat enough protein: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2016/01/26/ajcn.115....
Anyone who believes they can bathe instead of exercise is probably not exercising to begin with. I doubt this study would result in reduced exercise. But I could be wrong.
My personal favorites are the offices that require some sort of card/keypad/technical approval to go through in one direction, but have a motion sensor to unlock it going the other way. I've gotten past these with a manilla folder (push through, it unfolds and triggers), and I've been told (untested by me) that motion sensors rely on bouncing an infrared beam, so they can be triggered by anything that makes a temperature change, such as a can of compressed air.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/
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> Do planets ever stop rotating?

Of course they do, on an appropriately long time scale. First they stop rotating around their own axis due to tidal forces, after which they lose the remaining kinetic energy to the gravitational waves emitted by their rotation around the star (again, on a very long time scale, but not infinite).

2nd EDIT: <removed gratuitous reference to moderation>.
Full paper:

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphy.2016.000...
ARTFINDER:+OXO+by+Frederic+Thomas+-
You're right of course, but to most users, File Explorer is the normal window into the filesystem so to them the two terms are interchangeable in a colloquial sense.
Where the security system has a practical use outside of existing.
An argument for higher personal income taxes versus corporate taxes. Sales tax is regressive.
Application crash consistency and performance with CCFS
A topless snake demon.
Wow crazy. The article ends by speculating that activities that activate “heat shock protein” pathway may help blood sugar control. It’s interesting b/c this pathway is well-studied in microbes like e coli and we were taught about it in my genomics classes. But I didn’t realize it was conserved to the point that it is significant in humans (maybe it isn’t).

It’s a bit of a misnomer, actually. It was identified in e. coli as molecularly central to their response when exposed to immediate stress, such as going from 32 C to 40 C, but also on exposure to UV, or cold?, pH change, salinity change etc

Basically it’s bacterial-molecular version of calling 911. But because it was first identified by heat shock experimental condition, that’s what it was named.

Did the author just read about "heat shock protein" in humans and assume it was related how gene expression changes in human cells when body temperature is elevated 1 degree C? Or was it mentioned in the primary literature they are summarizing...
I'm very excited for this release. I feel like adopting Yarn and Webpack is a sign that JS tooling is becoming more mature, and there are a lot of Rails devs out there (myself included) that are breathing a sigh of relief that the clean-room feel of Rails backend and ES6-era JS frontend can more easily commingle in a modern, modular way.
I'm skeptical. The conclusions drawn in the first paper were... egregious. I think its more likely that there was insufficient oversight. I'm reminded of the FTL neutrino experiment.
Again you are unaware of extremely common business practices such as a BAA agreement. E.g. when a hospital contracts an outsourced lab all it needs is just another BAA agreement that governs sharing and use of the data.

http://searchhealthit.techtarget.com/definition/HIPAA-busine...
I use an ergodox (https://www.ergodox.io/) with Cherry MX Clears at work, and one with Cherry MX Greens at home.

The ergodox is a split-hand^1 columnar^2 layout, with a thumb cluster. I like the thumb cluster because normally your thumbs are wasted.

Also, as a bonus, I got to build it myself! This is not required, but I had fun doing it.

[1] Each hand has a separate piece of the keyboard, and these pieces can be moved independently of each other.

[2] A "traditional" QWERTY keyboard has horizontal rows of keys, and these rows are not aligned. An Ergodox has vertical columns of keys, and these rows are not aligned.
Most of the expressed opinions here do come from a bit of wishful thinking, but I think you're ignoring that Uber doesn't exactly have a monopoly. The service they offer already has competition and doesn't exactly require an insane technical expertise. Self-driving was a means to providing that after they've already expanded. So far only massive injections of cash have been the fuel behind their massive expansion success. Without self-driving tech, they lose the race to the monopoly they wanted as an end goal and at best need to restart and double down on their losses without leading the industry anymore... or let it burn.
That's actually a great question. I'm not sure at all. It's definitely really hard to look at a dog's ability to communicate in a vacuum outside human domestication.

Couldn't find any papers on whether they whine amongst each other on a quick Google myself.
A Filco Majestouch, the one without the num-pad.
Blogspam of

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with original author credit removed.
I'm sure you could come up with a more charitable response than that.
I have always defined spam as "unwanted and undesirable incoming communication, typically for financial reasons". So that includes mass emailing, but is far from restricted to it.

However, that is a definition I basically invented based on experience (i.e. How I imagine most people learn most of their vocabulary).

If it really has to be done in bulk to be spam-callable, what is the individual version of spam? Harassment?
I guess I’m not the bathing type, 1 h 20 min seems excessive too me. I rather spend this time in the gym exercising and raking in all the additional benefits compared to bathing.
Does software performance still matter?
Several previous posts here in the last two weeks. No comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13880373
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13873035
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830314
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13827524
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13827185
This is cruel & unusual, blocking content for users stuck in places that have locked down Youtube to Restricted Mode only.
It's extremely hard to take this comment seriously when everything you fault Tyson for could easily be launched right back at you.

You call Tyson "a pedant" because he tweeted saying "Leap Day" was a bad word choice. But you are also saying the post you replied to shouldn't have the word "cheesy" so doesn't that make you a pedant as well?

Sure, your point is not simply that the word "cheesy" is bad - you're going a bit more in-depth and trying to make a bigger point (specifically that Tyson is harmful). But Tyson is not simply trying to feel smart by saying he doesn't like the name "Leap Day" - he's also trying to make a bigger point (specifically, he's teaching/reminding us that our concept of a year is based on our planets orbit, not an arbitrary number).

Similarly, you comment that Tyson "gives the wrong idea of what acting intelligent is" but did you notice that you said "intelligent" instead of "intelligently" despite the latter being correct? Aren't you giving the wrong idea of what acting intelligently is to the youth by making gramatical errors that the fragile youth may mimic?

Looking at someone under a microscope, as I have just done right back at you, is not the best way to judge them. Your typographical error will not hurt "the youth" just like Tyson starting a tweet off in a clickbait style with "The Leap Day is misnamed" won't hurt us either.
PiCluster 1.7 – Efficient Container Management
Thanks for the detailed response. It would be nice to have some way to "iterate quickly" (and cheaply) in the legal realm, as a lot of laws seem to have unintended consequences, probably because the are not foreseeable by the folks writing the law.
A lot of dev folks should (in theory) be able to get away with just having a browser on one side of the screen and a CLI terminal with tmux on the other. Both windows with tabs, and fixed in position.

What kind of setup should be used for this? I know I can do this with split screens on the Mac. But is there a minimal Linux setup which provides this kind of experience?
> De-anonymization has NOTHING to do with the current scenario

It does, though. Legal contracts aren't magical spells. Audit-ability is important when data sets are particularly sensitive and extensive. Which is why the new agreement includes provisions for auditing.

edit: NVM, I see down-thread what you mean.
Warrant issued for all data about everybody who searched for a term on Google
Just go to the website (lock-lab.com).
Even though this site is focused on locks and lock picking, the "home security" sections gives information that goes well beyond locks.
The article quotes as follows:

"There are so many areas where Apple does enormous good - far, far more good than any other electronics giant"

Any idea what is being referred to there?

I've never noticed Apple being particularly "good"?
Great stuff! I'm a fan of what's gone up on distill so far. Question for colah and co if they're still around: When does the first issue of the journal come out (edit: looks like individual articles just get published when they get published, n/m). Also, that "before/after" visualization of the gradient descent convergence is intriguing -- where's it from?
Run your end-to-end encrypted chat server using Matrix and Riot
Error should have been a 451, not a 503.
Here [1] is a mathforum.org thread discussing the unpublished predecessors of the FFT. Vern Herbert of Chevron is mentioned, but so are several others. The mathforum thread has a link to a pdf that supposedly contains more information, but that link is dead.

[1] http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=1640228
> there is an element of obscurity to the system that can protect from a friend who wants to play a practical joke when I walk away. I keep xlock on "^O x", but even if I step away from the keyboard without locking it, someone stepping in tends to be confused by a screen that shows no "close" buttons and a keyboard set to Dvorak.

Kinda reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1806/
It does help to perpetuate a myth that there are alternatives to exercise which could enter in to a persons decision to exercise or not, even if they decide to do something else with their time.
That's true. But primarily I'd like to lose weight. I once had a commute that included a couple miles of walking. I lost significant weight because I was forced to do this (well, too cheap to take a cab or a bus).

I've never been able to motivate myself to do that when I'm not forced to.
Ease of measurement is the best explanation, some people like John Gatto suggest a deliberate attempt to prevent mastery (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017ODVVGM). Either way, it's time for a change.
Sure. That's a property of the language, not S-Expressions.

It's just like how SQL decided to write all their queries backwards making it impossible to do good autocomplete.
How Project Amber Will Revolutionize Java
Extension Boilerplate: Building cross-browser extensions using WebExtensions
I missed this subthread before posting my comment -- it was Vern Herbert in 1962, according to a book by Jon Claerbout. Details in my other comment.
BTW, I find it amusing that people take internet points away because they think the laws of thermodynamics apply only in certain circumstances.

They do only apply to closed systems.

(which information we are unable to ascertain about our universe)
Basically, he's using only full screen apps... hence the "window" manager is more of a "focus" manager. It's the perfect setup.
From the github page:

> Disclaimer: This is not an official Google product.
Rep. Heck: Why Should Americans Care About Russia Meddling in Our Democracy?
I use xmonad for this.
Command line / text based Linux Containers monitoring tool
When I discover I've been served undercooked meat, I immediately graduate to tequila shots: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/15/health/the-claim-drinking-...
White Hats Hack MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar
The problem with the sex offender registry is not that it exists, it is that there is no way to rehabilitate and get off it.
> This is really just a troll comment where you put everyone in a group group under one umbrella.

There is criticism of the Gates Foundation too: http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critiq...

David Rockefeller certainly did some good things with his influence. But he was also a globalist, which has had the effect of allowing 1st world companies to replace expensive workers through offshoring.

Some people do good work with their foundations. But a lot of it is cover for tax planning.
We're working on that, in a marketplace usually one side is easy making traffic profitable, the other is much harder (asymmetric).
As I said three times already, self-driving car ultimately doesn't need a driver to be on the steering wheel. Why is it so hard to understand that? That's the whole idea of self-driving car.
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An advanced browser fingerprint calculator aimed mainly at Tor Browser users
* No plan for a one-off purchase option at this time.
* Nylas Pro (formerly N1) stores messages on the server; the new Nylas Mail downloads directly to the client.
Does our genetic makeup regulate our caffeine intake?
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Thanks, this reply is much appreciated.
Do you take into account the time you could spend learning new programming skills when deciding to sleep more than 5-6 hours a day? Purposefully taking time out of the day to exercise is almost as vital for peak cognitive performance, not to mention the investment in your long-term health which appreciates in marginal value (compared to other things you could do with your time like programming) as you age. If you can work that into your existing daily routine, all the better, but that's getting more and more difficult as the modern day white collar worker has an extremely sedentary daily routine (bed -> car -> office chair -> car -> couch)