skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably a silly question, but what's the "obvious reason" for using XXXYYY in this paragraph?

"Some DEC code seems to have gone really overboard with this, with single source files having half a dozen different XXXYYY identifiers. (Sorry, had to use YYY as the placeholder there for obvious reasons)."
Well, yes. Whose side are you on, anyway?
Not going to use my normal id because I'm fully aware I'll get laughed at, but it's clear to myself and a lot of people who may have knowledge of these things that a divine plan is at work.
It's an opinion piece by someone who doesn't work at the NYT, but if you write them I'm sure they'll include a correction. That tidbit also had no bearing on the argument.
I don't think that's a gov't regulation. That's likely an internal United standard.

Delta just raised their minimum to $10k-ish if you read the article...
Of course I've been :)
But unlike the original Wii, there's no Wii Sports to get people who would normally not even buy a console to buy in.
I suppose my question is, why does it matter what an OSS contributor does in his spare time? And why should that prevent him from contributing? Am I missing something here?
In a way yes - if you're a public company you need to be careful about the claims you make in press releases and the like.

In cases like this, the Big Corp communications and legal teams are either writing the blog, or signing off on it.
I was at their keynote in one of the Openstack summit. I can guarantee that at least the VP that spoke about it knows nothing about openstack, and were just using Mirantis to deploy. They just threw Buzzwords around, one of which was Fuel[0]

[0]: https://www.mirantis.com/software/openstack/fuel/
You're right, people would never accept a regime where humans were drained of some of their blood in order to give other humans medical treatment with that blood.
Interesting move after "AMD Rizen" was launched, wonder how this is going to be viewed on the stock market.
Can we let nature run it's course and let species that go extinct go extinct like they always have for billions of years?
>If you don't frame your life in a way that whoever wins matters to you very less, you are doing something wrong.

The answer is it does matter, and that you have such little influence is a failure of the system. I'm not talking about one vote, it's that some individuals have more influence over politicians due to their campaign donations. That is unacceptable.

The answer once again is get money out of politics.
I saw Ben Novak talk at the Interval last year.

He mentioned that a few animals have been resurrected in a slightly different way already. Eg. the Red Factor Canary was resurrected by breeding a Domestic Canary and a Red Siskin. Apparently the offspring had enough geno/phenotypic resemblance to the original Red Factor Canary that this newly created lineage was given that original name.
Can a browser could track how many language/character sets are
typically used by a browser profile, and warn the user when they are
about to use a new, previously unused set, rather than waving the
duty off as the "responsibility of domain owners"?

With now over 1000 top-level domains, and however many homographic
matches among character sets, expecting people to register dozens of
matching domains seems unrealistic.
I used to attend IDF regularly and, while larger shows are always a bit of a grab bag, I do think that it used to have a more coherent identity than it did the last time I went a few years ago. It probably doesn't help that a lot of IDF talks are very low-level so if you're not directly involved, you're likely to be completely uninterested.
Yeah, the first advertisement I heard for Rackspace's consultancy service for AWS was a bit of a shock. Having heard it, I'd assume that they're pulling away from their own cloud-based service offerings at some point.

Just conjecture on my part, but I would have serious reservations about that part of their service catalog right now if I was vendor shopping.
They drain a third of its blood, and they could easily be drawing from an animal that has already been recently caught. They can be out of water for days. Comparing this to a minor inconvenience is a deeply inaccurate analogy.
Not sure what your friend is doing, since weapons are extremely plentiful and disposable. You're also encouraged to find other ways of killing enemies, usually by using your Sheikah Slate powers to manipulate the environment to kill monsters. Think of the weapons as an analogue to ammo in a shooter.
How overdramatic.
You're right - actually among all those, Germany appears to be the most immune to right-populism.
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> Somalia and Iraq are not examples of capitalism.

The Mises Institute, a major thinktank for free-market capitalism, has presented several articles in praise of how things are done in Somalia.
I only have two comments:

> Any popular editor usually has a “Vim mode” that you can install and you can achieve native Vim productivity.

I would editorialize this to say "closish to native vim productivity", since there are virtually no vim mode plugins for popular editors which offer a complete set of vim features. Even EVIL mode (as of the last time I checked it) has a few notable discrepancies which arise from mapping Emacs functionality to vim keybindings.

> I’d rather do my part to ensure good desktop software will continue to exist, even if it’s proprietary. I will not use shitty software just because it’s open source.

Perhaps I'm just a troglodyte, but I agree with this sentiment heartily.
Ive always treated XXX like a sentinel that should be grepped for before committing code. Its really just temporary garbage that shouldnt pollute the repo. The fact that my editor highlights XXX by default is the reason I keep using it.
Because they don't need to, because it's mandatory for hotels.
They did. They moved the passenger and asked them to return. They refused, which is why they were moved out of the way.

Exit rows are easy to distinguish. First 3 rows of the cabin are usually economy plus (maybe 5 with United). I don't like it either, but it's pretty clear and it's not unreasonable for an airline to ask you to sit in the seat number you're ticketed in...
Here's the thing, unless you could somehow get rid of every gun on the planet, crazy with a gun is a thing. Given that people can hand craft a revolver with parts from Home Depot, guns are a thing. I am fairly liberal. I'd rather allow good guys with guns to carry than not.

It's better to allow people liberty than to take it away in the name of safety. It's better to realize that anyone can make highly damaging weapons at home (looking at you Boston Bomber).
Maybe on a per rule basis they tend to be common sense. But if even one rule out of 100 is an unnecessary encoding of business model, then requiring a permit is a de facto monopoly granted to the incumbents.

So even if most rules are common sense, that doesn't change the fact that most permit requirements are predatory business tactics.

I want to feed and house the homeless in my neighborhood but it's illegal due to "safety" concerns. Apparently them sleeping on the street and shitting in the bushes is safer than me building them a tiny house with a composting toilet and a wash basin.
Um, why is this downvoted? USAir, in fact, did not merge with United, it merged with American Airlines.
This is admittedly a bit ranty, but it hits some important points that a lot of sighted people miss, so I'm posting it anyway.

People have started going down the blind programming language road; look up Quorum. What's not obvious about it is that mostly it's used at schools for the blind.

But I think it's incredibly stupid. I'm a very good C++ programmer. I'm at least reasonable at Python. I know enough Haskell that I'm no longer actively frightened of the monad (i.e. a newbie, but past the biggest hurdle). Obviously I both know and actively like Rust.

You can make a programming language for the blind. You can't make people use it. if we go down that path, we end up in a world where blind programmers work for the blind programming shop because the rehab agencies push you there. And then you make less money.

I know at least 10 other blind programmers. 3 of them either work or have worked at Microsoft. 2 of them maintain my screen reader, which is something around 40000 lines of C++ and Python doing incredibly complicated things to fully hook into the OS. One of them is either currently at or has worked at Google; I'm not in touch with him anymore, so I don't know if he moved on or not.

We don't need programming languages for the blind. We need people to stop tying technologies closely to IDEs and then not making said IDEs accessible.

My other project, Libaudioverse, is cross platform. The irony is that this is because VS was inaccessible. I used CMake instead and learned cdb when I needed a debugger. VS is at the point of dreadfully inconvenient but workable now, but I still don't use the Microsoft stack. It puts me in the position of being at their mercy--if they roll out a new UI tomorrow and it's inaccessible (as they did with 2010), all my personal projects stop instantly, and I maybe lose my job when my employer upgrades it, depending how bad it is. Microsoft is one of the better places for accessibility; there are issues with VS for screen reader users that have been around and reported for years.
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If you can't find 3 outside sources about that scientist, is that Wikipedia's fault? I don't think the bar is very high. It seems to me the issue is not Wikipedia. Wikipedia reflects society, it doesn't represent it.
There is a weapon durability system, but it's actually a super well-designed thing to keep the pace of the game active and frantic. Basically, it's the game's way of making sure you experiment and play around with new weapon types, give you more of an interplay during combat by picking up enemy weapons and using it against them, and giving you overpowered weapons without letting you just find "the best weapon" and keep it forever.

At this stage in my playthrough, I often have to explicitly toss out weapons because I have too many -- very rarely do I run out of weapons and have to farm.
Ahh of course. Apologies for missing that.
The very depressing opposite conclusion was discovered in the late 70's:

DE Denning, PJ Denning, M Schwartz, ‘‘The tracker: a threat to statistical database security’’, in ACM Transactions on Database Systems v 4 no 1 (1979) pp 76–96

A general tracker can always be found, unless the data released is extremely restricted. Almost anything is personally identifiable as it can be used to build a tracker into the database.

I am aware of this result from chapter 9 of Security Engineering (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html) by Ross Anderson, if you are more generally interested.
In addition to contract enforcement and standardization, I'd add reducing and/or internalizing externalities. This is fundamentally a power differential issue but I think it's important enough to highlight independently.

As for the assertion that "regulations are not bad, it's needless regulations that are bad" -- the argument sort of falls flat without specifics. The argument can be boiled down to "good things are good, bad things are bad."
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Its not "just" a needle insertion. There's no measurement of how much blood is taken from each crab, so there's no way to know how much damage is done on an individual basis. Imagine any other animal bled this way (https://www.thedodo.com/horseshoe-crabs-blood-tests-15310140...) and then "released" with claims of no harm done.

I did field work to study horseshoe crabs' near-shore behavior as part of my master's work. Fortunately we weren't bleeding them.
As an avid vim user I was trying to google and see reasons to use NeoVim and I couldn't find any except "built in terminal"

Any advice on why I should switch?
16 years since a domestic carrier has had a major loss of life in the US.

Some might say that proves regulation is no longer necessary, but I would argue that it shows that it works.
Tell that to the (Rep.) Mayor of Miami and the engineers there who are fighting on-going sea-level rise.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-beachs-400-million-s...
There's a good Wendover video on airline classes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc

And another great one about AmTrak in relation to flight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjwePe-HmA
Hmm. From Minix 1.7:

$ du -sh *
144K	bin
64K	etc
0	fd0
0	fd1
108K	minix
0	mnt
0	root
0	tmp
22M	usr

$ du -sh usr/*
24K	usr/ast
3.9M	usr/bin
124K	usr/doc
0	usr/etc
436K	usr/include
1.4M	usr/lib
0	usr/local
2.0M	usr/man
36K	usr/mdec
0	usr/preserve
0	usr/run
0	usr/spool
14M	usr/src
0	usr/tmp

So if you're willing to lose the source code, you could fit the entire system into about 8MB.

Of course, you don't get Perl. Or, uh, TCP/IP networking. You need Minix 2.0 for that, which is much bigger; 26MB with source, or 10MB without.
Just for the tl;dr:

"Overall mortalities of bled horseshoe crabs were 17.8% (male = 18.75%; female = 17.2%), while mortalities of unbled crabs were 3.5%."

So it appears it indeed affects the crabs.
Lol "immense" river 150m wide. Ok guardian readers, that may be an immense and scary river in the UK but canadians reserve words like immense for far larger things. At 15km this river may well be the largest thing ever seen by a brit, but canada has something like 50 rivers over 350 miles long. This is a glacial stream by the standards of The North, a part of canada bigger than all western europe. My local dog beach has a river 150m wide.
Without the regulation, wouldn't they have been allowed to cap compensations anywhere they liked?
Let me take a wild guess here, this new 3-4M dollar freezer with it's expensive shiney new thermostat was somehow for some stupid reason internet connected?
I‘m not sure what you mean by that.

In Japan, a farmer’s vote has roughly twice the weight of an urbanite’s.
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> Ignoring the node modules directory

This is one of the most annoying things about being in a node js project, whether you're just grepping or searching for a specific file it's a real pain point if you've forgotten to ignore it
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> Markets require regulation, whether it's in the form of contract enforcement or setting standardized terms for communication in the market. Any time there's a power differential, we need regulation.

I don't disagree with this, but I strongly believe there are better paths to regulation than most of what we see today. In particular, you get a very long way by regulating founding principles -- Transparency, Access, Anti-Collusion.

The problem with a lot of regulation and regulators is they become a party to the market. This creates a whole lot of issues. A lot of the regulation then is designed to protect the market as an entity, rather than the consumers.
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The point of "mindless "anti-regulation" is that "no regulations" is the default position, and it's the proponents of regulation who should substantiate their claims that a specific regulation should exist; also that the lack of sufficient evidence in favor should automatically result in the default position being more favorable. In relation to the Chesterton’s Fence parable, a lot of people think that the fact that no one knows why it's there is in itself the reason to remove the fence, since the most common reason the fences are built in the first place it to provide someone particular the advantage over everyone else (limit access to the territory, markets, etc).
Oh, you know, because the quickest way to go out of business is to kill your customers...
Boy, do I ever feel sorry for the team at Wercker.
Obviously. Are you really going argue that humans aren't worth more than crabs? Would you genuinely let your own family members suffer a preventable disease because you didn't want to injure a crab?
That isn't true at all. You -can- use sticks to hit things, but they are terrible weapons and I never used them outside of the tutorial zone.

Weapons are dropped off of almost every enemy, and were never a problem to get, though there is a fairly high churn rate- most weapons have like 50 strikes in them (maybe 5 battles) before they break. There are a number of weapons with significantly more than that though (Zora's Diamond spear is like 300 iirc)

I never had to farm anything in that game though.
True. That's the main reason, for example, that I didn't get a ticket to I/O. GCP Next had a lot more topics relevant to my interests, despite it having a more "commercial" or "salesy" feel to it. I/O seems to be mostly about Android and Firebase these days.
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That's not an accurate characterization of Somalia. There are plenty of simple activities that would draw the attention of the government.
Bingo. The military was organized not only for defense but to specifically prevent things like this - a religion-driven dictator - from taking over the government.

Anyone that's been paying attention to Turkey for the past decade knew of this. It's one of the reasons I hang on Camfrog, the Turkish are prevalent there (although typically the ones you encounter are just trying to harass women into displaying some skin. Mention politics and their attention changes drastically.)
Complaining about downvotes is one of the worst things you'll see on reddit, there's no need to bring it here. Pedantry is also not very useful but I guess it's not worth "downvoting" over.
You can't say it's 99.5% due to global warming alone though. You can say 0.5% occurring by random chance but you can't just ascribe everything to one causal factor. Could be multi-factorial.
Spoofing isnt so easy for gmail and yahoo inboxes. Some web-clients warn of a return path too. For sophisticated spoofing and phishing unicode domains are helpful. Plus, spoofing emails is just a small attack vector.
Since the transition from regular vim to neovim isn't as simple as typing a different command (especially if you're invested in vim already), I doubt it will ever replace vim for most users.

For some users, the migration may be as easy as "move these files to these folders", but that's still a hurdle most people will say "why bother" with, especially since NeoVim doesn't offer anything that spectacular for users who don't write plugins.
Airlines are hardly cartels. Cartels make obscene amounts of money, airlines currently make a little money but historically lose.

The main issue is price sensitivity. People would rather pay less and suffer rather than pay full premium prices. As a result people largely get what they're asking for.
Zelda is (supposed to be) amazing (haven't played it), Mario Kart 8 was amazing, and Splatoon was amazing (assuming sequel will be).

TONS of gamers didn't get to play any of them because the WiiU sold so poorly, so for a great many people they're 'new' games and worth buying the system for.
You mention that needless regulations are bad. Matt Levine [1] has an interesting theory on regulations: (paraphrased)

1. There are two types of regulations:

- Custom Regulations (smart, particular, specific)

- Bulk Regulations (generic red tape, not reasoned or desired)

2. All regulations are custom regulations.

3. All discussion (like your point) is about bulk regulations, which do not exist.

Regulation is tough. Everything that you believe to be needless, may actually serve a very specific and important purpose.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-24/metrics-f...
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This is rather hysterical. Anyone other than pro-EU, pro-mass-immigration parties win and it's "RIP [country]"?
> there are virtually no vim mode plugins for popular editors which offer a complete set of vim features

I'm aiming to change that: https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim

NeoVim needs a bit more remote UI work to enable every Vim feature, but it's still very powerful to embed right now.
From what I gather online, intel is entering into an exestential crisis as homegrown chips and GPUs are replacing CPUs in the battle for tomorrow's data center. All of the interesting research from Google and others all have one thing in common: a custom asic processor.
I think a lot of us can agree with the last bit, but that said VS Code is actually pretty darn nice.
Meh. America has free healthcare, it's just not advertised loudly. I'm in California and I have Medi-Cal - it's full healthcare and I pay for nothing out of pocket. I have no income and I'm taken care of by Uncle Sam. Not gonna hear about that on the news, though.

Also - it's not impossible to have one's intelligentsia substitute for hundreds of years of existence. America does this quite brilliantly through it's brain drain from other countries and treating them like royalty (Einstein, et al).

Transportation may be lacking, but for the major cities it's rather decent given the fact that our country is the size of China's. If we were as small as Japan maybe bullet trains littered across our land would be more feasible, but it's not the easy. We're attempting this in California by the way, so don't count us out yet. 1 hour between SF and LA very soon.

Environment? We're doing the best we possibly can. The biggest polluters like India and China are completely ignored and they're on our scale of size. How is it fair to compare our environmental consciousness with a state as small as Denmark? How is that a fair comparison in the slightest?
The tab-autocomplete when you hit the ":" key gives out written suggestions.

All the plugins you know and love with Vim should work, and you can write new plugins in virtually language.

New features tend to reach NeoVim faster than with regular Vim; most notably async support.

NeoVim used the XDG system for configs, so it doesn't pollute your home folder with a bunch of dotfiles.

And this might just be in my head, but I just feel like the entire system is a bit snappier and runs faster.

===== EDIT: ====

falcolas pointed out that I was mistaken on the first point:

> The tab-autocomplete when you hit the ":" key gives out written suggestions.

That appears to be in regular Vim.
Weapons wear out. I guess you might need to farm (for 30 seconds) some sticks very early on just in case.

But now I have 4 or 5 more weapon slots than I started with and 3 additional ones elsewhere. And they are all full of different weapons. Now the hard part is figuring out which ones to keep when I come across new weapons, so I'm usually happy when something breaks because it takes the decision away :p
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What about Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. If they are not offered the	unconditional membership the EU will be responsible for all bad things which will happen there?
If you can't evict, then fine the owners enough to make them care.
I haven't looked at libstd, so I can't comment to that specifically. But we don't reorder two-field structs.

Rustc special cases them in a lot of places to do things that I will not even pretend to understand, and not reordering 2-element structs keeps them working. Since this already took 6 months of my free time (I have a lot of free time, though not 40 hours a week admittedly), this was for the best.

You can make an argument that we should have, but it doesn't matter from the user's perspective. (a, b) is the same size as (b, a) no matter what a and b are.
Yep. My team is currently on wercker. I will now be finding an alternative.
>At 15km this river may well be the largest thing ever seen by a brit

The Thames is 346 km long, so probably not.