skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen quite a bit of "./configure"-less software use "PREFIX=/foo make install" (or some variation thereof) for that (something which I have to address as part of maintaining various Slackbuild scripts). This is usually part of the compilation/installation documentation. If not, install targets are usually simple enough that I can glean which environment variable the Makefile is using to control the installation prefix.

Worst case scenario, the SlackBuild I'm writing has to include some call to patch or sed in order to tweak the installation path, or I just have to cp the build output into the package's root directory (something which I'll likely have to do when I get around to updating the CouchDB SlackBuild, but have been putting off since 1.6.x works well enough on Slackware).
RTFM are usually jerks acting like jerk and it has nothing to do with seniority or skill. Half of those "harsh" people don't know all that much.

Overworked seniors simply don't respond on forums due to lack of time. Seniors with time and willingness to answer answer how they know. RTFM are doing what they are doing just to stroke their own ego.

Being jerk does not imply skill nor lack of it. It just being jerk.
You'll need some kind of artificial "cork". Real cork is in short supply and very expensive. Most wine bottles these days have dumped real corks and switched to fake ones, or have just gone to screw caps (which is really better anyway; corks are an anachronism and inferior in every way to a screw cap).
Regarding manners, it really depends on what those manners are.

Chinese medieval society was very orderly and mannered; there were clear standards of behavior (at least for the elites). But the manners in question were conservative and did not encourage innovation, so they did not advance rapidly and ended up far behind Europe despite having a head start. The enforced homogeneity of thought and thus destroyed opportunities to advance or get past their own biases. Read about the Imperial exam system for some reference on how this was achieved, and note that Chinese geography has the most fertile regions highly centralized.

In the west we developed this system of manners based on freedom, where we let people do things we think are wrong, as long as they're not hurting us. This permits intellectual diversity, which means that when the mainstream experts have it wrong, at least someone else can come and knock them over with reality. Rationalism, not authority. Objective evidence, not subjective feelings.

My main worry is that the modern mainstream morality seems to be all about intensive efforts to homogenize thought, opinion, and policy as widely as possible, to exalt collective justice over individual rights, and to privilege subjective "lived experience" over objective evidence. Freedom of conscience and freedom of speech seem to be "out" these days and it's gonna create some real unpleasant results. It already is.

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(Slightly off topic as well:

It's kind of a myth that society didn't move forward through the Middle Ages. While western medieval society remained in the Malthusian trap up until the 1800's, in other ways it did advance continuously over that time.

For example, studies of documents signed reveal that literacy increased continuously from the 1200s all the way until it hit nearly 99% in ~1900.

Similarly, studies of recorded ages reveal that most people didn't know their age in 1200, but more and more people knew it up until the present day. (You can tell this because people who don't know their age tend to round it to end in a 0 or 5, so you can count the over-representation of this in the data, or even by just looking at tombstones).

Something was changing through the whole medieval era.

And there are other markers (e.g. interest rates went down continuously, rationalism advanced, etc etc).)
A polished and up-to-date Xubuntu. I don't know how much Canonical staff use/develop Xfce or integrate Xubuntu, but please.

(Most of the work is Xfce having to play nice with whatever silly things GNOME has just changed.)
Because it's come up recently and congress voted it down and the courts dismissed it. It's established case law and congressional law that supports his case strongly.

This software is used for self-defense. If you install it on your laptop and someone steals it you can lock them out and take pictures of them, etc. (it is your property after all).
But why does the network need to be involved at all?
Well, it can kinda "make itself".

Electronics and strong materials (steel mostly) are not included, and it takes quite a bit of assembly.

But yes, it awesome.
Out of curiosity did you also check to see if upgrading node would've also been to your benefit? It could just be a side-effect of working at a large company with smart people, but if "people" are telling me the solution is an upgrade I wouldn't be doing my due diligence to ignore them all.

Not trying to invalidate the fact that you found a way to enhance performance via profiling - that's great! But the way you phrased your response seemed very condescending of "people" when there may have been truth to what they said.
There's nothing racist about demolishing apartments. It's stupid because it segregates the rich from the poor, but it has more to do with socioeconomic status than race.
The installer should handle this. When you apt-get upgrade anything besides the kernel, does it leave the old version lying around?

I understand that it may be wise to keep the old kernel around so the system can be booted in case there is a hardware incompatibility or breakage in the new release, but that justifies only one additional kernel. Ubuntu keeps those kernels sitting there until you `apt-get autoremove`, and that means that unless you're running that command routinely, the boot partition is going to fill up at some point, no matter how big you make it.

This is especially a problem for people who use the unattended-upgrades package. I've autoremoved and had it clean up almost a gig of old kernel images before.
If you want an 8-bit float, Gustafson’s “sigmoid” number idea starts to have some noticeable advantage. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/unum-computing/5LYpA...
I'm a guy but I think there should be more stuff like this. Shaming or being ashamed for a natural function is not right. The sooner we get passed that the better. I applaud them for doing something about it.
Ansible only works with python 2.x (with beta 3.x support).
From someone that has never touched clojure ( or any lisp) i would say that the python equivalent using either/right libraries made me feel like running away as far as i could.

Could anyone provide me with an example of a code that would actually read nicer in clojure than in python ? Make it as arbitrary as you'd like, i'm honestly trying to understand
. i've read enough about lisp bluring the line between data and code, so i'm starting to get an intuition of its benefit. I was just hoping to finaly see a real world example, and i'm a bit disappointed.
The point was really driven home by the absurdly wasteful click bait articles from adrev that followed the critique of them.
Just removing the light that has no practical purpose in that case seems more thorough yet.
99% of the cool, elegant "tricks" I've seen have been applications of the following computer science concepts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)
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You can run pkg-config yourself, the m4 macros are just for convenience. Look at the shell the macros expand to to see how to do it.

Though I don't see the point in reinventing your own build system, exactly. Some people I trust seem to be getting into Meson these days but I havent tried it.
IMLS was formed by combining two extant organizations which date back to 1976 and 1956.

Carnegie funded 1689 libraries in the US. Today there are nearly 17,000 public libraries, and about 120,000 libraries of all types. His library donations are worth about $2 billion in today's money, while IMLS's budget is over $200 million each year.

Carnegie's philanthropy was amazing and is to be admired, but I think your statement is a little off, not to mention rather rude.
How to secure MongoDB?
In other news, WhatsApp said their mission is about building a company that is not about ads. We got suckered into it thinking it's pay-for-use app.
An Acquire::http::Proxy in apt.conf wasn't sufficient?
If you have not lived in the US, particularly in small towns or suburbs, you literally cannot imagine the mindset of the typical person living in them.

On the one side of the brain, you have this stubborn independent streak, where you have to own what you own. Then on the other side of the brain, you have this rabid fascist streak, where other people have to be told what to do with their property. And twixt the two, you have homeowners' associations, restrictive covenants, condominium associations, zoning laws, and local code ordinances.

On the one side of the brain, we have a burning desire to own the places where we sleep. On the other, we mortgage ourselves up to the eyeballs and beyond, NIMBY each other relentlessly, and generally spoil any effort to make housing more affordable, even for ourselves, because poverty is simultaneously a grave character flaw and a contagious disease. The cure is to make living in poverty cost more money (per quality-of-life-unit) than living middle-class, so that only the most diligent and disciplined can escape it.

You cannot understand it. It is indistinguishable from insanity to the rest of the world. Without looking too closely, it suffices to say that sensible community housing would severely impair our ability to mercilessly extract rents from each other. You can't really build a residence unless you can continue to make money from it long after you transfer title to a new owner. You have to let people think that they own something, even while you still control their use of it.

(This form of insanity often persists after an American travels abroad, even when the travel is explicitly for the purpose of building affordable housing in the destination country.)

As such, much sprawl is caused by the following pattern. Person finds local restrictions on property use too stifling, and too expensive, and builds just beyond the jurisdictional border. That person almost immediately votes to institute new restrictions on property use in their new jurisdiction.
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I don't know, I would argue that being able to share a document, work on it concurrently with other users, and access it across multiple devices while seeing changes in real time, with really no effort, counts as a pretty significant experience/productivity improvement.
I have gotten the sense that Tech Solidarity has shifted a bit from "what can we as tech workers do directly to support the political change we want to see" to "how do we build for ourselves the society we want to see reflected in the world at large", which is closer to what Sam seems to be proposing here.

(I think this makes sense in a lot of ways, because there are already good people doing the former work, and usually when tech-focused groups try to help out we just get in the way.)
So Comcast spent over $1m[0] in donations and more on lobbying for this specific piece of legislation only to turn around and say they won't take advantage of it?

They've just released this statement today because everyone is so upset, they're going bide their time, wait for this to blow over and then quietly start selling more and more invasive customer information. You don't spend millions on a law you have no intention of utilising.

They bring up their "targeted ad network" which you can "opt out" of in the same blog post. I wonder what "nonsensitive" information they'll be providing their ad partners about you? And what is stopping Ad Partners from cross-referencing several ad networks?

[0] http://resistancereport.com/class-war/comcast-congress-brows...
The most interesting thing about reprap is that it is a long lasting community who does (real) open innovation. There open innovation is not a buzzword.
The reprap community didn't invent 3D printing, but they lowered the price and access and are the single (ahem, multiple) cause of the present flood of low cost, reliable 3D printers.
They experimented, took many false paths, and continue to push in new direction.
They also are the origin of many growing companies : Aleph, Prusa, even the French Dagoma…
Anything running its own renderer doesn't get to benefit from component scaling since they don't use components.
In some US states, unions are allowed to agree on so-called "union security" rules in their negotiations with employers. These require all employees covered by the union's agreements to be members.

Other, so-called "right-to-work" states have outlawed the practice.

The clauses make sense for the union and their members because you cannot restrict the benefits of union representation to only members. That creates "free-rider" problems. The opposite argument is about freedoms of contract and association.

I'm unsure if you are typically allowed to make your own agreements with the employer when there's union representation. That's probably defined in negotiation, and whatever has traditionally been agreed upon for steelworkers etc. may not be the best model for tech workers.
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I think that is only true on first glance. But if you look a little deeper, none of the photo->painting are really accurate. The painters had more than color scheme as information. Van Gough, for example, did not always use a correct perspective. In general, the deeper meaning of art is not in the technique but in the perspective of the artist.

That said, I am amazed by the results even so.

I also want to note here, that I don't see any reason why machine intelligence could not produce meaningful works of art but it will require a new way of looking at it.
I would love to buy an app that uses this. Faxitnice stole my money
This seems to be borrowing from the 'your right to swing your fist ends at my nose' cliche. So, let's put it in those terms. 'Your right to post a comment on an open internet forum ends when it meets my right to only have things I value on my screen.' Surely most folks can see why that doesn't work at all. Moderation is already ubiquitous, and that is not the same thing at all. That's the forum's owner exercising their right to boot your account and delete your comment. I'd be interested to hear any sensible proposals for dealing with trolls that we don't already have everywhere, i.e. moderation and user-centric filtering tools.
Yes that's totally true, though I'll submit that the "deployment cycle" mindset was certainly solidified in the last decade as "the way we do things" - at least on my side in the Army (Obviously I don't speak for everyone, and I know I'm not the only one who had problems with the "cycle" mindset). The politics are also a reason we moved toward that strategy. I just don't think it's a wise one. It probably wasn't wise back then, and I definitely don't think it's wise for the future.

Edit: One of the stories (Myths?) you hear about McChrystal is that he'd ask Company Commanders downrange this question: "What would you do different if you couldn't come home until we'd won?" Granted, that presupposes we actually had a true picture of what it would look like when we'd "won" but it shows how easy it can be to become...disconnected when you know that you're outta there before next fighting season.
"We do not sell our broadband customers’ individual web browsing history. We did not do it before the FCC’s rules were adopted, and we have no plans to do so."

He didn't say "we won't". He said "we aren't currently" which means "we're keeping the option open but we're trying to sound good right now".
Except there is opposing intent of him disabling the software of people implying they use it for illegal purposes.

And there is an explanation that moves his advertisement there from intent to negligence.
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> Namely, LGBT stuff, female and minority representation, immigrant's rights, etc.

offering parental leave is an excellent example of the kind of thing a union would negotiate, and is also pretty well related to how attractive a company is to women (who are more likely to have childcare responsibilities). Rules against firing someone for being gay or a different religion are a great example of something a union would negotiate, and are definitely going to help increase minority and LGBT representation. Why do you see 'working conditions' as unrelated to these topics?
Comcast also quotes grossly unrealistic bandwidth ratings on their service packages, and makes laughable claims about the availability of tech support and field techs. Comcast says all kinds of stuff.
What do many lone attackers have in common? Domestic violence
There is a huge advantage to do that. False flag attacks are one of the tried and true methods of intelligence agencies since ancient times.

For example the official pretext for WWII was started as a false flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident US did it at the start of Vietnam War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

We gain a lot from this. We can for example manufacture "Russian hysteria" - "Look we found a Russian rootkit on a DNC server". We can attack our allies and then make it look like the Chinese did it, and so on. It is immensely useful.
That, and the telcos have a history of being very helpful to the government. I'm thinking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A.

Google seems to do a better job protecting their network and defending user security.
Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01578

Too bad, it is already there :P
Nope, still doesn't do it without manually invoking autoremove.
Fax. Aaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhh.
Analyzing taxes with Rstats, tidyverse
Microsoft integrated Ubuntu instead.
Simple answer is don't auto-detect. Allow the user to set the scaling factor per screen and then just auto-apply that when using that screen. This just requires a way to uniquely identify screens and requires the user to set the scaling factor for that screen once when first used.
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MGQM2LL/A/iphone-6-6s-smar...
I've been using plumatic schema: https://github.com/plumatic/schema in conjunction with compojure-api. It provides a nice way to validate data coming into my REST endpoints. I'm currently using Postgres, but I'd probably still make use of schema if I were going NoSQL.
The computerized detection of hair type and style sounds really interesting. How far down this path are you now, are you planning on a deep-neural-net (e.g. CNN's) or something simpler?

Would certainly make for a unique image-classification problem, with its own interesting challenges; a collection of images of black women with different hairstyles will be a lot more visually similar than a collection of dogs/cars/mountains.
Oh I get it, because Assange is a Russian FSB agent. Yap, makes total sense.
> It seems to me that my internet connection is the same as a telephone connection

You're definitely free to see it this way, but so far (for the most part) the people in power definitely don't agree.
Or you could, you know, just teach them the consequences. Eg, talking to catfish, child porn charges, etc.
Yes we do. In terms of spending time mathurbating what is fundamentally limited and incapable, I suggest we spend more time play with the shiny new toys that do fullfill its very own promises.
Well, I can't use my name publicly on the internet either, because I enjoy trolling too much.
I consider myself mostly reasonable.

I might disagree wildly with you in a number of cases but I try to be reasonable in how I argue my points.

I stay away from pages that use Facebook comments because I don't want to be part of the problem with fake profiles and I don't want everyone to be able to trace everything I ever said back to me.

Not because I intend to say something unreasonable. Not because I fear law enforcement but because I will apply for jobs in the future. And I might want to visit arab countries in the future. Or Israel, who knows?

I think this is a reasonable position. I expect and respect if you do the same - even if I disagree wildly with your opinions I don't want you to get in trouble for them bext time you fly into a country were your ideas aren't so correct.

Or next time a president goes rogue like Erdogan.

I think full name policies scare away lots of reasonable people.

The ones who stay either don't think that far, or don't care or use a fake Facebook profile. I guess none of these attributes correlate well with insightful and polite.
Or maybe I just don't think the government trying to support 158,00 libraries and museums at an average of $1,000 is worth it.

If kids need broadband, then raise the local taxes to pay for it. Or solicit local donations. Frankly, I don't think it would take much to raise $1,000 for a library.

For example, if the local population is too stupid to fund it because they just raised $60 million for a new high school football stadium, then that's their problem, and I don't think I (or you) should have to pay for their ignorance. (I'm referencing a town in Texas that built a massive high school football stadium because they think it's more important that their education investment.)

TL;DR - just because something exists, doesn't mean it should. There are more efficient ways of doing things.
Trash in LEO goes away; trash in GEO doesn't. The LEO satellite constellation replaces (with much lower latency, and greater locality) a bunch of GEO satellites.
And you're laughing all the way to having an excellent life.

Like, this is the market behaving appropriately. If companies can get better talent at better prices by providing better working environments, well, we're effectively buying nicer work environments. Whether it's worth the cost or not is a separate issue, and really depends on the price. Personally, I've priced working in SF instead of Mountain View at roughly $20k/year when evaluating job offers.
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It is not a trivial or easily intuitive problem.

Why do you think this book was written for?

Trivial things don't deserve such wonderful treatment.
What parent describes is what most (all?) tiling window managers do. However, XMonad's default is really weird. Instead of each desktop having their own set of workspaces, there is a single set of workspaces shared by all desktops. If you try to switch desktop A to the workspace currently shown by desktop B, then B will switch to the one currently shown by desktop A.

There is a module to get the more 'normal' behaviour of each desktop having its own set of workspaces, but it can be a bit difficult to set up if you are not familar with Haskell.