skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What can be done? Well, there are lots of naive junkies out there. You can wait for them to kill themselves. Or you can stabilize them, and help them break their addiction. That works. The evidence is clear.

Religion? Well, addiction is perceived rather like possession by the Devil. Or at least, weakness. Lack of faith. Really, as Bill basically said, those dirty addicts deserve to die.

It's just that Purdue Pharma managed to addict lots of people by rewarding doctors to over-prescribe, and flooding distribution chains in the southeastern US. Maybe economic collapse is part of the problem. But there's a good chance that things will be manageable after the Purdue mess has been handled.

Edit: In a dead comment, revmoo mentioned kratom, a natural opiate analog. The DEA decided last year not to ban it, after massive public comment. Advocates claim that it helps addicts break their addictions.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/14/kratom-dea-b...
this article title is the worst.
Very good questions that I can't answer. And it's not my 'bullshit rationalization' -- I'm not the one who decided to build all these products on this "crapware" stack. I'm just suggesting that this stack was chosen for some (hopefully) logical reason.

If speed of development isn't the reason, then what is the attraction? I'm serious and curious. I looked through your profile and you clearly know your shit. Are we just in a period of a bad stack being popular and used despite there being other, better options?
My sister chose to enter into this arrangement with crossfit. She could have done something else if she preferred. She made an informed choice that being a crossfit instructor was worthwhile.

Your imagined cousin did not have this option. That's the fundamental distinction.

However, it is very much worth discussing slavery in the Greek/Roman context - it did differ very much from American slavery. And even American slavery is known to us these days mainly from works of propaganda (e.g. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or modern propaganda like Django Unchained), so our perception of it may not be accurate either.
Yes it would run even better but it would take a few years to do the buildout.
Even code which isn't "threadsafe" shouldn't crash the VM.
I learnt more about Haskell in ten days of using Elm than I would have in another ten days of studying Haskell, personally.

I think Elm makes a better introduction to FP concepts because there's much less you have to absorb before you reach the point where you can start practicing by doing useful work. Obviously part of that is the fact that Elm removes or hides certain things Haskell has, but an even bigger reason is that you can just say "...and then 'main' returns the HTML element or Html.program that actually gets displayed" and not have to go down the road of IO actions, functors, etc. You can stop at that point and start making working useful applications while getting comfortable with immutability, purity, the type system, and control flow and iteration under those constraints.

Learning Haskell first, you don't have that opportunity to stop and start practicing. You need to move on an understand at least IO actions, functors, applicatives, typeclasses, and other higher-level concepts before you can construct even a simple practice project. Dreaming up a coherent program structure/flow in this weird new immutable and pure world seems hard enough to a beginner without also having to understand how applicative functors fit into the equation. Having that opportunity to stop and stretch your legs by actually doing a project is a major help to a lot of people, that's what makes all the difference. And then 95% of what you've learned transfers directly into Haskell.
Hmm. I'm still running windows 8.1 and never saw that. I've had the annoying countdown plenty of times for normal updates. But never for upgrading to 10. I never customized anything such as disabling updates or anything.
That 200M is nothing to you does not make it nothing to everyone. Some of us are working on Raspberry Pi or equivalent hardware, and every MB and Mhz counts.
I think it's the whole bikeshedding thing, where people will jump to talking about the most superficial thing they have an opinion about.
The fact that modern capitalist society is extraordinarily good at getting people to participate in it isn't good evidence that it makes people better off. It's merely evidence that it has a highly effective police, military, and individual economic incentives. Like, if thousands of settlers shoot all the buffalo and forcibly move the native hunter-gatherers into marginal lands, and the natives later decide to migrate to a city and engage in menial labor, that doesn't mean that they're now better off. It just means that nation-states are really good at controlling territories and people.

see also: http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
The use of "hipster" as a pejorative doesn't even make sense to me here. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are hipster technologies? They aren't new by any stretch.

Using this term seems like lazy authorship and thinking. Instead of explaining, just call it hipster and assume it's obvious.

Like you said, cross-platform support is the opposite of unimportant. The appeal of the web has a lot to do with the fact that a browser on any platform can (mostly) have the same experience without (too much) extra work. It may not be appropriate for Light Table, but a general hipster-like dismissal of web tech doesn't advance the argument.
I'm always suspicious of things happening on April 1st.

Regarding Amazon collecting taxes, they started doing it in my state earlier this year, and I've found that I hardly buy anything from Amazon anymore.
I agree that this is a good change. Unicode, normalisation, character encodings, etc. should really be handled at the presentation layer, and everything below that just treats filenames as sequences of bytes, perhaps with one or two exceptions like '/' and \0.

It is interesting to consider a theoretical system in which paths are represented in 0-terminated count-length format (e.g. "foo/bar/baz/myfile.txt" would be "\003foo\003bar\003baz\012myfile.txt\000"), truly allowing any byte in a filesystem node's name, although that might be going a little bit too far.

Things are much easier for the file system if it can just treat names as bags of bytes.

If you're really talking about bags (unordered sets), that would certainly make for an interesting filesystem since filename.txt, filemane.txt, and maletent.fix would all be the same...
I don't think I remember us covering quicklisp or ASDF, professor. :p
Missile squadrons also have creepy patches. Like this:
http://m.ebay.com/itm/221802923522?_mwBanner=1
Lacinia – GraphQL for Clojure
Lol: "Amazon's decision to collect and remit sales tax to the state of Maine is an important first step in leveling the playing field,"
See ISLr (linked in OP's post) for a good exploration of feature selection http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
Even in Soviet times, people, if they could would migrate to the city, internal passport withstanding. People may despise the tedium of modern work, but the toil of pre-agriculture and subsistence living is somewhat worse --it does not provide marginal benefit. It's subsistence. Weather, plagues and general unpredictability is not usually sought, if you have alternatives.
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Amazon has a subtle sense of humor.
Site stuck at "Loading Your Community Experience".
I seriously can't understand how someone could work for that company in clear conscience.
This seems especially bad because US-based developers who don't test with unicode filenames might not come across this issue, leaving all their non-English-speaking customers broken. (Not that this excuses such developers in any way.)

It also means that, yet again, every app will need to be updated for a new version of iOS. Makes me wonder how many apps will be left behind if not updated? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?
Ultimate Virtualization: The End of Infrastructure
I am fully on this thunderbolt 3 GPU bandwagon as well. I pre-ordered an Akitio node, and I'm quite bummed out that it hasn't been delivered yet. I'm very much looking forward to playing some games on my MacBook Pro with it!

Though if the Mantiz Venus starts arriving before my order is shipped, I may need to switch.

Ps: If anyone else is interested in doing an e-GPU with their mac, https://egpu.io/setup-guide-external-graphics-card-mac/ is a great place to start.
What's wrong with eSATA/SATA/PCIe/USB/other existing technologies? I don't fault Intel for wanting to try their chops in the data transfer tech market but it's saturated enough as it is and real high end computers will make use of eSATA/SATA.
While we're discussing aspects of widespread religions and how they relate to slavery, it might be useful to understand how slavery relates to Islam.

> In the early 20th century (post World War I), slavery was gradually outlawed and suppressed in Muslim lands, largely due to pressure exerted by Western nations such as Britain and France. For example, Saudi Arabia and Yemen only abolished slavery in 1962 under pressure from Britain; Oman followed suit in 1970, and Mauritania in 1905, 1981, and again in August 2007. However, slavery claiming the sanction of Islam is documented presently in the predominantly Islamic countries of Chad, Mauritania, Niger, Mali, and Sudan.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_views_on_slavery
The lead author will be giving a talk on this work next week (which will be live streamed and recorded) as part of a workshop on Representation Learning:

https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/shai-shalev-shwartz-2017-3...
Show HN: Australian road trips
After using hot code loading in production for the last 5 years, I don't see why you wouldn't use it, when it's right there. Maybe it's less thought to do a rolling restart, but it's a lot more effort expended by everything in the system to rebuild all the state that was in your processes.

A behavior is simply a list of functions you've declared that your module will export -- and a convention on what they might do. gen_server.erl is going to make lots of callbacks into your code, and rather than pass a huge list of funs, instead we pass the module name, and gen_server calls the exported functions from that module (this style means all the callbacks will hit your new code if you hot load, without you doing anything special; processing type changes is up to you, of course)
Google uses a lot of signals. The article above is on http, I saw a drop in spam flagging when the web host on my email domain was https only.
Search for the phrase "proofs without words" [0, 1]. There's long been a column in Mathematics Magazine by that name featuring proofs in this style, and there is a book of the same title published by the Mathematical Association of America (which I think collects proofs from the magazine column). Lots of examples from other sources will also show up in a web search.

0. https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=proofs%20without...

1. Image results: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=proofs+without+words&n...
Sparkler: graphs in your terminal that are just a tiny bit fancier than spark
A working app that stops working sounds like an ecosystem problem.
Current production seems very counterintuitive from a manufacturing/industrial engineering perspective. There are around 9 main processes and only about 3 add material. Depending on the chip design, it's probably going to 500-2000 manufacturing steps. That being said, each silicon wafer can hold up to hundreds of chips, making for a big batch. Going up to 18" wafers would make it even more appealing to stick with current methods of production.

With how expensive all fab machines are, I don't see it becoming economical anytime soon for a complete overhaul of tooling.
Kong: Skull Island game version
Incidentally, your theoretical system is exactly how the DNS stores domain names.
The whole "Islam says freeing slaves is a good deed" is untrue and extremely misleading. Everyone always quotes the first part of the sentence from the Quran, but the last half is left out:

> This is a command from Allah to slave-owners: if their servants ask them for a contract of emancipation, they should write it for them, provided that the servant has some skill and means of earning so that he can pay his master the money that is stipulated in the contract.

Yeah, let the slaves go, but make sure they sign a contract such that they have to give all their earnings to their masters for the rest of their lives.

1. http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=vie...
You, on the other hand, have the choice between serving your employer, serving other members of society, serving a master as a voluntary slave, or foraging in the wilderness.

Theoretically yes, but in practice you might quickly end up against all kinds of constraints, especially if you got a bad start.

But if you give your effort to them, they can help save you from suffering the world on your own.

This of course works both ways, the workers are saving the capitalist from suffering by giving them shares of the goods they produce. There is no reason the capitalist should profit from this arrangement more than the workers.
"longer" is a bit of an understatement when lithography can sweep across a wafer at centimeters per second with nanometers of precision. Good luck ever finishing a single chip atom by atom.
> Suppose I were to write "slavery is economically beneficial, ...a bunch of evidence goes here...". Do you believe an intellectual discussion would result?

The problem is that the distortion of your ethics and values would have to be so extreme to arrive at such a conclusion that anyone who read that sentence would know that you have an extremely "different" way of looking at the world, and not in a good way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
That's the same weird meta-argument as the grandparent called out! I mean, out with it: do you want to argue that slavery is economically beneficial? If so, do so. I'll even provide you the non-judgement question I'd ask in return: beneficial to whom? (i.e. "the economy" isn't a unitary entity).

But you don't want to. You want to smear the rest of us without actually getting your hands dirty.
The core problems here are profit-driven corporations and advertising. Without those, there would be no need for anti-drug laws. Back in the day, only corporations with public-interest charters were legal. And "get everyone addicted to oxycodone" was never going to make it as a public-interest charter. But those days are gone, so corporations are fighting with each other about which drugs it's OK to addict people to, and which it's not.
> The cargo is then transferred to a transport vessel and sent directly to customers in China.

Because China does not have the environmental and safety laws that we do and can therefore process ore at a fraction of the cost. This is a major loophole that let's Western companies pollute indirectly and not pay for it.
Except filesystem experts like Dropbox, developers probably shouldn't be letting users name their files.
Worth reading about whether or not Amazon makes money:

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/8/8/amazons-profits
I doubt amount of such users is substantial. I assume we are talking about business decisions here, and as far as those go ditching 0.1% of userbase to radically simplify development process and architecture is a pretty simple one.
Its easy. Just add bills and take away options until your conscience is the least of your worries.

When you're choosing between falling another month behind on rent on the apartment you were "so lucky" to get and getting a throbbing cavity filled at the dentist, you might not think too much about it.
Legalize so that purity is consistent and so that addicts aren't afraid to call in overdoses, fund drug treatment centers with corresponding 'sin' tax money, distribute naloxone freely, legalize and further explore potential treatments like suboxone, kratom, and ayahuasca, and stop over-prescribing opiates for pain treatment.
Death can be prevented in opioid overdoses if patients receive basic life support and the administration of naloxone soon after opioid overdose is suspected. Naloxone is effective at reversing the cause, rather than just the symptoms, of an opioid overdose.[1]

The root of the problem is doctor prescribed opiates.[2] Prescription pain killers that were marketed as non-addictive turned out to be highly addictive. These are still widely prescribed. For example, oxycontin had revenues of over $2 Billion in 2013.[3]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_overdose

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_crisis

[3] -https://www.drugs.com/stats/oxycontin
Whether he's right or wrong, your analogy is so stretched and ill-fitting as to be useless.
Soaring Toward Heaven’s Gate: The Last Jump of Graham Dickinson
I think it is pretty clear that treating a medical problem like a criminal one is close to the worst possible choice.

And it isn't like there aren't other models we can learn from. Portugal springs to mind.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/05/why-h...

There's a lot of interesting detail to be learned from studying their system, but the tl;dr is that after decriminalization, deaths in Portugal due to overdose plummeted.
In a quantum race everyone is both a winner and a loser
> What comes to mind in this situation is reminiscent of dystopian neo-Tokyo in movies, where everything is grim and the people have reclused from life in their cramped cities, into daily drug escapes.

Right now we have a dystopia where everything is grim and people continually drop dead from needlessly toxic drugs which is frankly more horrid than one when people frequent opium dens or whatever. Drug use is not worse than death.
Thunderbolt - all of the versions - can be summarized as "External PCIe". It's just that ePCIe isn't nearly as marketable a name as Thunderbolt.
One group of people forced another group of people to labor for them under threat of physical violence. These people were systematically denied freedoms. Their owners were, naturally, extremely racist.

What exactly about Django is meant to be propaganda? How does it misrepresent slavery other than the exaggerated comedic situations? Do you truly believe Quentin Tarantino was attempting to brainwash people about what slavery was like?
These divisions are very important. As long as mystical beliefs towards Eastern thought are used to cause real harm through herbal remedies and supplements, the public must be taught to give it less importance. Among critical thinkers, it is valuable to look for similarities in scientific histories.
It is. I'm defending the weird meta-argument. Do you believe the meta-argument is false, or merely annoying?

(Note: I don't believe slavery is beneficial.)

If you want evidence, I'm sure I can search my posting history for all sorts of examples where I make very straightforward and defensible claims that fall far short of "slavery is beneficial" on a spectrum of offensiveness, and where the result falls very far short of intellectual discussion. Should I do this?
Most Americans could if they chose scrape together enough money to purchase land in a rural area and set up a subsistence farm, thus living as "truly free men". But that lifestyle sucks and very few people want it. "Exploited" workers have a better quality of life.
Elon wasn't anywhere near a billionaire when he started SpaceX or invested in Tesla.
> nothing will change my mind

This is a HUGE red flag if you're seeking employment long-term in the tech sector.
While there indeed is some ugly notation out there, I usually find that most of it is pretty straightforward once you understand the underlying concepts.

It usually only seems like bad notation if I am misunderstanding things.
I once interviewed for a senior software developer job at a startup where I would be the lead developer in charge of an international team and on call pretty much 24-7 for any issues. The CEO put me through a pretty rigorous interview process over 2 weeks. I asked about compensation from the beginning and he assured me that it was in line with current Silicon Valley compensation. When he offered me the job, it was as a contractor for $20 per hour. I was insulted and angry that I'd wasted 2 weeks of my life on this. Any company that won't be upfront with you about compensation is trying to take advantage of you. I'm glad this lady called them out by name.
The CIA Allegedly Hacked Macs and iPhones – A Decade Ago: According to Wikileaks
It's not something needed. It's a plus, even if it influences society a lot, it's not something like food or healthcare, where if someone plays unfair people die.
And it's not like net neutrality either, because you are not costrained by space (putting cables underground).
People should be free to choose a service, and if the server want to stop providing the service or change the way it does ut, it should be free to do so. Anything else you can use contracts, or change provider, as long as there is net neutrality in place. And it's not something that messes with your health, so no justification for regulation aside from an arbitrary and unprovable "society being held back". Being unable to make something because of regulations, that's some real and provable holding back of innovation.
These overdoses are an an expected and predicted consequence of opioid prohibition.

See, before opioid prohibition, deaths from opioid use were quite rare. You ever heard a pothead drone on about "it's nearly impossible to overdose from smoking marijuana"? The same thing applies to smoking opium. It's nearly impossible to overdose on that. But prohibition (which optimises for potency/volume, in order to reduce the risks of ending up in a concrete box) has pushed us from opium smoking and oral laudanum to injectable heroin to fentanyl and now (in the late 2010s) we're at fucking carfentanil (which is so potent it's been used as a chemical weapon).

This is the "iron law of prohibition" at work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition

The current USian "opioid crisis" is another manifestation of opioid prohibition pushing people from safer, cheaper, less disruptive and deadly drugs to more deadlier ones. Two decades ago some USian opioid users could go to pill mills and get prescriptions for pharmaceutical grade opioids but the DEA kicked down doctor's doors a bunch and that ended up pushing people to the illicit market. Maybe next time you see those scary increasing graphs of opioid deaths vs time, give that a thought? Sum up all those deaths (compared to the baseline, prior to the increased LEA focus on "pill mills) and ask yourself: are all those needless deaths worth it?

The DEA cracking skulls over opioids and investigating doctors is literally the only reason illicit fentanyl (and fent analogues) even is a thing. I am so very doubtful that skull-cracking and door-kicking will miraculously work after decades of it not working. The only way out of this hell is a total unconditional surrender in this "war on drugs".
There are a lot of people working there who aren't close to falling a month behind on rent, and those people were who my comment was addressing.

There are a lot of business out there which make a lot of their money in some very unethical ways, and people who choose to be part of that... I just don't understand. I couldn't live with myself.

I know several people who have died of overdoses, so I'm probably biased, but I'm truly disgusted by what is going on.
Seems to me that Apple would be smart to hook all of the file functions and survey and/or alert on this situation somehow.

I only just learnt about this unicode normalisation recently looking at ZFS which has options for it I had never seen until reading the Ubuntu Root FS on ZFS guides which talk about setting it.
Where do you buy from instead?