skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will most likely create my own at some point. In the previous discussion there were some interesting suggestions for improvements.

eg. http://esploded.s3.amazonaws.com/anon_data/2012/e5YO-dotsie3...

In terms of creating a space-saving reading system, I think a better place to start would be with the writing system itself. Dotsies squishes letters but does not remove them.

I propose a system where each word is reduced to its minimal representation, eg. where letters are removed until the smallest unique form is found (giving more common words shorter forms).

Once I have such a mapping developed (for both reading and accelerated writing) I will see if something like dotsies still makes sense.

In any case I will not use squares: they make my eyes sad. Maybe circles :)
the domain name -is- "cringely.com"...
macOS does have keyboard menu control and it is pretty good. http://lifehacker.com/321595/access-the-dock-and-menu-bar-fr...
But what would the lasting consequences of forgiving 1 Trillion US$ of student debt be?
Read this from Gary:

http://garyrobbinsrun.com/blog/2017/4/close-but-no-cigarette

Amazing.
What happened is that the marketing departments from a bunch of proprietary companies realized what was going on and amped up the bullshit. This is a good thing, it means they feel threatened by the concept of free software, which they should. They have been threatening us, the users, with ridiculous licenses for long enough anyway.

The fact that these companies fear the AGPL so much is probably reason to start using it more. They won't respond to anything less at this point, they need to be dragged into it kicking and screaming. They have made it clear by now, there is no other way that they will even consider the concept of respecting users' freedoms. This will continue to be the case even with organizations like the Linux Foundation, which, if you look at who their biggest sponsors are, it becomes pretty clear which agenda they are going to be expected to push.
> Not only are you assured cunning, but also someone who hates your guts and lets you know in chat!

Wow, this is precisely what turns me off multiplayer. I don't want to chat with someone who hates my guts, or tells me I'm a newbie, or mocks me for not playing perfectly. I remember CounterStrike 1.6 used to be toxic like this, populated by teenagers with too much time in their hands, outplaying you at every turn, and constantly insulting you.

No, thanks. Singleplayer doesn't belittle me, and is more immersive.
Cookieless user tracking for douchebags
What is the collective noun for a group of straw men?
I've been using the escape key for vim since I started work as a programmer 21 years ago. That's a long time and I really don't want to change it. I know it might seem silly to you, but I'd switch to Linux on an XPS before I'd upgrade to a Mac with no escape key. (Not that I have to, plenty of Macs available without the touchbar)
> I wonder how you'd feel if a company decided to disable your fridge years after you bought it, because you publicly pointed out an issue with the product and figured it's worth 2 stars. Tell me, is there a time limit on this insanity?

I don't buy networked products that I'm not okay with losing the cloud functionality at a moment's notice. Caveat emptor.
I'm working on building an indie room-scale VR MMO.

https://orbusvr.com

It's pretty ambitious for a small team, but we did a successful Kickstarter campaign previously and we're keeping the scope reasonable. We've held a few successful stress tests already and Closed Alpha starts in a couple of weeks.
I like the idea in general, but a few issues seem problematic to me.

The school would seem to have a strong incentive to only accept applicants who they are pretty sure will make a lot of money. The incentive isn't to teach anyone who shows up.

The school would also seem to have a strong incentive to control the life decisions of students after they leave. i.e. they won't want to let students switch careers after they discover they weren't cut out to be whatever they trained for.

Collecting a percentage of income seems like it might be difficult to enforce. People are eventually going to decide they've paid the school enough and want to stop paying. Is the school going to constantly face legal costs trying to recapture it?

Furthermore, legally, can you sign a contract that permanantly grants a percentage of your income? I'm wondering if that would be declared invalid by the courts.
Nah.

We have those at my work, and we also have an iMac with a magic trackpad, and several of us have macbook pros.

It's a huge improvement, but it's maybe 75% of the way there. And the points at which it's NOT there are very noticeable and annoying. There's still regularly times where the trackpad just gets totally confused and you can't move the cursor for 1-2 seconds. Mehhhhhh
The Wikipedia article mentions "The combinators K and S correspond to two well-known axioms". I wonder whether Schönfinkel and Curry had Łukasiewicz's axioms in mind when creating it? I'm finding it difficult to find the history of either the combinators or the axioms.
It's not equivalent. Buying is far easier than selling.
In the previous discussion[0] on Dotsies, someone posted a modified version which tries to address this issue, as well as a few others:

"dotsies 3" http://esploded.s3.amazonaws.com/anon_data/2012/e5YO-dotsie3...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3601687
> MindRape

Sigh. Donnie succumbed to cancer last May. He was one of my favorite co-workers, a fantastic friend, and a world-class hacker.
Women in Tech: Three Ways to Fight for Equal Pay Today
Continuous Deployment with Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins
Tattoos can be more than just fashion. I got one last year that is personal and symbolizes the hardships I've faced. It is a reminder that no matter how bad things get it is temporary.
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I agree 100%. You succeed in life because of who you are, not because of what college makes you. College is a business and that's why there is so much advertising for it.
Wait, you don't use your Mac Pro as a coffee warmer on the bus? I can only get a solid 30 minutes out of mine. ;)
Wealth concentration to cities has lots of drawbacks. Housing can get incredibly expensive, mental illness rates go up, local government reflects the people less because of the larger population, and people feel like they need to upend their entire family just to live a quality life. There are tons of places in SF, NYC and others where there are 6 men in a 2 bedroom apartment. All that just so that corporations can reap the benefits of a higher worker density. That's no way to structure a society.
This is amazing. Are you also going to implement Soundex?
Japanese people almost never have roommates. They instead live in apartments that are very small.

The flat sharing / house sharing movement is very young there and only applies to a very small number of young people.
If that is the case, then this would have avoided the real problem that needs solving here. Throwing together some rendering and keyboard handling is not game changing. Getting good performance is the hard problem that needs solving.

Perhaps a future version will focus on making sure it scales?
Data centres aren't the same thing as "the available consumer internet" but yes, I take your point. That said, if there's any country that could find a practical compromise on that front, it would be the UAE, and they're in a very natural location close to many undersea cables, etc.
Architecture Erosion in Agile Development
Use them to start a business, then you can dump the coins into the business and not have to pay personal income tax. Otherwise all other schemes just lead to tax evasion unless you cash some out via localbitcoins.com while on holiday. In Thailand my friends "bank" is a service that converts his bitcoin wallet to ATM codes to withdraw without a card.
Europeans who have never been to the US and only know it by its stereotypes, I guess.
I think the OP's point is that the Mac Pro is not a nicely designed item. Design is all about tradeoffs. In this case, Apple had to decide whether to prioritize form factor and appearance or upgradability and performance. They chose the former, which turned out to be the wrong design for the target market.
If you're interested in emergent AI I recommend Mitch Resnick's Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams — https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/turtles-termites-and-traffic-...
Handmade Ultra-Light Walnut & Brass Mechanical Pencil
> countless millionaires being made,

I think its more accurate to say that countless millionaires that moved in.

Austin still hasn't had its Google/Intel/Facebook yet.
Whoah, front page! My colleague Bertrand Rigaldes wrote about evaluating this model

https://brigaldies.github.io/learn-to-rank-with-linear-regre...
Related, this is a fun tool to play with - well if your idea of fun includes enacting disaster fantasies anyway:

http://gothamist.com/2015/10/13/nyc_climate_change_map.php
This is a surprising to me since, of Robinson's work, I've only read Aurora. One of the primary impressions it had on me was the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the futility of space exploration/colonization.

Perhaps I should muster the courage to try some of his other work.
Project: Build an easy to use tool for backtesting ETF portfolio combinations that you see recommended all over investment blogs. Let users have a shareable link to send around so others can easily see and tweak the portfolio. Start a blog around critiquing recommendations I find around the web.

App: http://app.mytradelab.com
Blog: http://mytradelab.com

Problem: Would like to include details about holdings inside ETFs and how they change through time, but havent found a good data source yet. Would be cool to build in functionality to compare ETFs based on their fees and what they hold, but current holdings is just a snapshot in time.
> My entire generation was.

No we weren't. I was definitely encouraged to go to college and study something I enjoyed that was marketable. My parents' first concern when I switched away from pre-med to Political Science was "how will you get a job?"

I remember as a young child hearing my parents make a comment about a degree in "underwater basket-weaving" or similar. Getting a degree in a completely non-marketable skill has always negatively impacted your employability and your earning potential.
I know that when there is a big public event, I can work from home without worrying about it looking bad. I wonder how many people do that when there is a something big to point to to justify it.
The average male height in middle ages Europe was about 175 CM, which isn't that far off what what it is today.

The average height actually went down since the middle ages, and plummeted to below 170cm in the 17th and 18th centuries, making people like Napoleon which was 168-169CM tall about average for the day.

Being over 6" (182cm) in most caucasian / european descendants nations is considered tall even today.

I'm also not sure what he means by finding "historic armor", modern replicas are made to size, even production runs will have a height range that fits the average modern male (or female, there are replica makers that make armor tailored for women).

Whilst being tall he would also have no much problem finding chain mail or plate to fit a 6" tall person, what he would have is a problem finding one in wearable condition which isn't a museum exhibit ;).

Going further back to say the Roman empire we know based on the documents from the period of Gaius Marius (Marian Reforms) that the required height of a roman legionnaire translated to feet was 5"10-6"0 tall.
To be fair, unless you live in the hood in the Bronx or Brooklyn, why would you be walking around alone at night anyway?

Also... in which parts of Queens did you feel unsafe? Queens is actually quite safe.
As someone who enjoys using Tcl, I find it amusing that Tcl enthusiasts have been making this exact same argument for decades [1], and have been viciously mocked for it.

I suppose now that a Python enthusiast is making it, it will be applauded as self-evidently true and profoundly wise.

[1] https://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html
Computers could understand natural language using simulated physics
Is Your Angular App a House of Cards?
I'm more interested in what parts of Python are 'accidentally slow' or 'accidentally huge' that Python noobs fall into.

I remember when I was first learning Perl many years ago, and discovered that certain varieties of looping on an array (most, in fact) actually created a second copy of the array at the start of the loop. This was memory-catastrophic for certain things I was attempting to do, and was easily avoided, but I didn't know it was happening until a Perl monk explained it.

What are some similar pitfalls in Python?
There currently isn't a single external display with a screen as good as the current iMac (that is, 5k resolution, P3 color). It's a sure bet that the next Apple display will match that.

The last Thunderbolt Display had USBs, ethernet, additional thunderbolt, even Firewire, and I use all of them. I can scarcely find a third-party Thunderbolt (not Displayport, Thunderbolt) display that has more than a couple USB ports, let alone the rest.

Believe me, I'd love to settle for a cheaper Dell, but as soon as you throw in a serious Thunderbolt dock (they start at $200), you're spending nearly as much, and now you've got some clunky lunchbox on top of your desk to boot.

I don't see any signs that the market won't repeat this pattern.
We're seeing this happen in my city.

Areas that were on the verge of becoming urban wastelands 15 years ago are now upscale.

They won't ever admit it but city planners are trying to use economic forces to reverse the white flight of the 60s and 70s by pushing poorer, darker people out into the suburbs and attracting a more affluent, whiter demographic into the city. They're billing these things as quality of life enhancements but all they're doing is making traffic less tolerable.

This city has half the population it did 60 years ago and the commute is as terrible as ever.
My parent post notwithstanding, I think you hit the nail on the head. I agree that it sure felt invasive while I was listening! It only feels less so to me on reflection.
We already have people that perform the software equivalent of rocket brain surgery...

ANFSCD: Have a free laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
I read it already and really enjoyed it. It's a mixture of the quiet descriptiveness of the science in the capital series with the forward thinking genius of his earlier scifi, interspersed with some serious nerding out over the economy and it's role in the world. Thumbs up.
He did: Gopher also does hyperlinking, and was a contemporary (1991 public releases)

The still-used command line browser Lynx was first made for Gopher in fact, before being adapted for HTTP, which it still does.
I agree with you completely, and I am going to put forth a totally unfounded conspiracy theory that popped in my mind, consider it just an exercise in fiction:

What if Amazon, with the fact that they built that huge CIA data center (think AWS for the CIA, plus the other contracts, plus the WAPO purchas...) is now doing an op to determine where grey money may be going and on what...

Think of it as a data op...

the infra to determine where monied intentions are going - it has nothing to to with terrorism, but everything to do with totalitarianism.
Love this tip. I like to hand out a worksheet before my talk personally to each attendee. This way I get to meet them personally to make a connection. This helps me relax as well. :)
Do you have anything you can share about this? I'm very interested to see and am happy to provide feedback.
As a side project I have a reddit chrome extension which I like working on every couple months, but I recently have been working on a node service that screenshots and compares the landing pages of different news sources, think (Huffington Post vs Breitbart) which is endless fun with the new administration

extension: http://iampueroo.github.io/rComments/
news differ isn't finished
Nice! But is that IE I see running on the screen? (gasp)
There's basically two ways to do advanced partitioning. (Of course, there's a "just do it" automated option too.)

1. I understand about disks, volumes, partitions, filesystems, and I want to build it all up.
2. I have goals (like redundancy) and would like to tell the installer to give me that from whatever resources are available.

The former works very well for sysadmins and Linux enthusiasts (the people likely to be quad-booting or whatever), but our research showed it was really painful for basically everyone else -- so we have a UI focused on the latter.

That said, we definitely want Fedora to be appealing to the former class as well. There is an Anaconda feature in the works to add a more-traditional partition manager option as well. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AnacondaBlivetGUI (It's currently targetted for F26, but I'm not sure if it's going to make that with the current schedule.)
Audi RS6 Crashes into a Light Rail Train
Total traffic may be reduced by other changes. Instead of eating in one place, they go somewhere they like a little less but which is a lot closer. Or they may stay home and cook instead. Instead of going to the mall they want to, they may go to a superstore near by or just order online. Another user pointed out that reducing roads makes commutes worse which changes how one decides which job is better, meaning that people may choose closer but worse jobs because overall the improvement to the commute is worth the change.

I have no clue how one would go about measuring all of these factors.
Let's be real: some of the people on drugs or with mental illness can be really aggressive.
I wonder how WAZE interacts with the Breass Paradox. When I started using it, I noticed it could cut 10 minutes off my commute. Over time I noticed that more and more people were taking shortcuts, and now my commute is longer than it would have been had I just stayed on the standard route 5 years ago.

Part of that is surely the growing population with cars in the neighborhoods in-between where I live and where I work, but I wouldn't be surprised if WAZE somehow made traffic worse.
Unless the GPL code matches the Compiler or OS exceptions, yes, you do have to relicense as GPL. This is what GPL detractors refer to when they use the word "viral".
The resell market is good enough that you can sell your laptop and buy one with the upgrades you want for around the price the upgrade would have cost.
"But to be honest the really bad state is the one close to the capital".

Not even close.

A couple of years ago on a SINGLE year there were some 5 or 6 narco-blockades in Guadalajara for example (that's one every few months and we are talking 25 to 35 buses lit on fire in the middle of the day, across major streets that prevent people from entering or leaving the city for several hours, on each blockade event, all around the city at the same time, which btw shows how coordinated these criminal groups are). Have you personally been there? It's really not a nice sight and it's frightening as shit. Especially when they happen so frequently that at some point you just have to ignore it to be able to carry on with your life?

Have you been to Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz? where armed people dressed as Federal Forces kidnap people with impunity? Have you had to move around in the city in daylight and watch how military convoys armed to the teeth go around patrolling the streets instead of the Police (mind you this is a town that has a population of less than 1M, i.e. it's more of a town than a big city so people are not used to military presence)?

Have you been to Veracruz city where the Navy had to literally disarm the local police and take control of police duties for a few months? how about getting stopped by a military checkpoint in the middle of the city? especially after watching in the news how many times military personnel at those same checkpoints fired upon (and killed) entire families because they felt threatened?

Have you ever talked to someone that got arrested AND tortured by the police because they thought (incorrectly) that the guy was a member of the cartel? and then seeing this person suffer permanent hearing loss on one side because of how many times his captors slammed his ear against the wall repeatedly for hours at a time?

I've personally lived all these things and let me tell you, "the really bad state is the one close to the capital" is not true at all. Not sure if it's the news not reporting these things, or maybe there's so much shit going on in EdoMex (which I know it's not really a peaceful place) that there's simply no more room for bad news from other parts of the country, but you can definitely find much worse in other states.

Let's not even talk about Guerrero, where I have friends that witnessed headless bodies being dumped on the road... and then having some shady car follow them to their home because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time.

I'm sorry for being so crude... Mexico is a wonderful country full of great things and I love it. But crazy, crazy shit does happen outside of the capital and EdoMex, and while it's definitely not something that happens everyday, it's always a constant fear in the back of your head... "what if they kidnap MY family because their business was successful enough to stand up?", "what if my girlfriend goes out tonight to some bar that happens to have fucking military-grade grenades thrown at because some random cartel dude wanted to celebrate that same night at that same place?"
Dubious Minneapolis 'anti-fascist' Twitter account gets 6000 followers overnight
It may not impact congestion but what else does it impact? For example if more people are staying home does that affect the local economy?
> I also think a system like this would help a lot of the social divide; right now it's much more risky for poor people to go to college (or trade school), so many opt out.

How does your system address the reduction in capacity that's going to happen once schools start optimizing for highest paid salaries.

Under your system, the first to go will be low paid degrees like women's studies, sociology, etc. and schools are going to optimize for STEM. It's more than probable that they will boost their STEM enrollment to professor/TA capacity, and axe most programs or cut them to make extremely selective.

I guess it's better than having people running in the real world with no skills, massive debt and a useless degree.
That looks great! I was about to comment that you can still see a large one in use, but apparently NY Penn Station took theirs down earlier this year.

https://nyti.ms/2kqiicj
> Why in the design of Windows aren't programs installed or symlinked in the PATH by default? I guess that was a design choice somewhere along the history of Windows/DOS. Is there a reason?

Windows' way of program executable placement is using the holy Registry. It's called 'Application Registration'[1] and was introduced to reduce the needs to modify the system-wide PATH variable. (They thought it was a bad idea to modify a system variable so frequently, and I partially agree.)

You can find registered applications in `HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths`. Very few programs use that feature, which is unfortunate, but popular applications like Chrome and Firefox register themselves in it. That's why you can invoke `chrome` in the 'Run' dialog.

Edit: Another context to add: at the time App Paths was added, to modify PATH you had to edit AUTOEXEC.BAT manually which was painful. Not only that, but also PATH had a length limitation of 128 characters. You can find more details in the Raymond Chen's blog, as useful as always.[2]

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee8...

[2] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110725-00/?p=...