skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like trojita and used it for several months recently. It does a lot right, but the biggest reason I stopped using it is a lack of an address book, or some other form of email address autocomplete. Having to lookup old emails to figure out someones email address is just a deal breaker -- especially because the search isn't all that great either.
DoS'd :-(
But what does it matter? The only reason biodiversity is important is because it creates a better environment for all life on the planet, including us. There's no cosmic benefit to life existing on Earth, or at all. If humans weren't around to stop a meteor from wiping all life off the planet what would it matter?
I prefer to use an XXX comment to mark temporary code when debugging a specific issue. It's an easy reminder to myself that it should be removed when I'm done.
At least with Windows, UAC isn't considered a security boundary by Microsoft, it's more of a generic item there to make users aware that the software they are going to run is asking for special permissions.
while you're at math, one thing to note is that if the same crab is caught 4 times, with a 29% chance of dying each time, then the chances that they are still alive is (1-0.29)^4 which is about 25%. And the chance that they are dead is 75%.

Granted I don't know how often crabs are re-caught, or if they would have the same chance of dying each time.
I opened two of the rope documents and I don't even get the problems they try to solve. How can I decide whether these problems are mine as well?

Sure my text editors aren't perfect, but they mostly get the job done, so any editor coming along needs to show that it tries to solve a problem that the user has. I'm not yet convinced this one does, so I probably will never find out what makes it brilliant.
Why do you need to parse the language to get parens correct? For most languages, comments and strings will need to be considered, but neither of these requires doing a full parse.

Of course, I don't disagree with your point that a fast parser makes making a distinction here less useful. However that number sounds interestingly large, without context, do you have more info I can read about it?
I wish Wikipedia had a parallel - amateur Wikki, where "deprecated" articles go. If your official search yields nothing, or you dont find what you search for there - the deprecated article is shown at the end of the link.

Edit: Also, they could allow for a more specific random wikipedia page. My startpage is random Wikipedia, and its polluted with boring towns and country, and unimportant Persons, while i crave for engineering feats
Hey, author here, good question!

I'd guess that there are definitely some x-browser issues with Android right now because I haven't tested there at all. So far I've been working on the core pieces of the library, and making sure desktop works. A few folks have contributed iOS fixes for things like autocorrect. I'd love for any contributions that make things work better on Android! (Or other platforms.)

Thanks!
Anyone knows why is APIDock out of service?
If you're comparing to produce in the US, the produce here has awful quality and is tasteless. Being cheap isn't that great.
I used an array of lines in gzilla[0]. It's not bad, but it _is_ exporting details of the representation up to clients, which gets worse once you add some hierarchy. To me, the nice thing about ropes is that they appear to the client as just a string, with some fancy added methods such as creating a cursor that can advance to the next or previous line efficiently. Of course, to make this work, you need a good programming language; an implementation of ropes in C would be painful.

As I said elsewhere on the thread, the good thing about ropes is their worst case performance. Super-long line? Rope still efficient. 10 million line file? Rope still efficient. Massive sequence of edits relative to the pristine file? Rope still efficient. It's pretty easy to write code which works well in the common cases but then degrades when things get interesting. I'm not going to apologize for caring about that.

[0] http://www.levien.com/free/gzilla-tour.html
Although I do not read hundred of reviews per stay I'm very picky and only choose the best.. this way I have stayed in multiple countries and have had very few issues with Airbnb.

To be fair with Hotels you also have to do your work and read the reviews.
In case you're wondering why this isn't getting the attention it deserves (and it does) it's because the story was submitted and
discussed at length a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14118290
Your chatbot should have a game loop
>This to me seems at the heart of the authors discontent. Unfortunately even online encyclopedias aren't safe from social justice pressures in this day and age.

Rightly so. If I find it easier to get information about pokemon than about a female scientist who's made significant contributions to her field there's a problem.
Do you have a source on racial discrimination by ABB hosts?
This is the boat I'm in. BOTW is the only triple-A game on the platform right now. Even their eshop has a dearth of content available, much of it ridiculously overpriced.
Trump Syria Attack Based on Flawed Intelligence
I don't think this is a particularly good point to make. You're saying that since X happened and since X is worse than Y, we shouldn't care about Y.

There's been school shootings so single murders don't matter?

There were so many more deaths in world war two than in world war one, so WWI doesn't matter?

And this is ignoring the fact that your "worse" claim was based on your own personal ethics which is, at best, subjective.
The common wisdom is that support for AMD chips / MBs is sufficiently poor in MacOS that it's probably not a good idea. Check out https://www.tonymacx86.com/
Possibly it's that the last Wii was such a dumpster fire, and people are desperate for a Nintendo console that is close to modern capabilities.
>Democracy must come with freedom of speech, fair trials and basic freedoms

Yet to find such country. We re not talking about bookish knowledge. World witnessed what's been happening with Blacks in US and Muslims in India.
> Technically someone can have complete ability to pay back their credit card debt, yet they might miss a credit card payment (like I did last year because I was out of the country due to a personal reason), yet that is counted against me.

I am not sure if you have this capability but have you tried auto-paying the minimum balance?
Simplifying Firefox Release Channels
> flight crew denied their request to pay a supplement for the seats, which United sells as "economy plus", and told them to move back to their original seats, Hohl said.

Sounds like they should have removed the guy sleeping in seats that weren't his, not folks who were probably cooperating with the flight crew. Or there's something missing in this story.
I'm probably reading too much or not enough into this but this left a bad taste in my mouth. It stuck me as the rantings of a hermit, disconnected from reality, ranting about "end of the times" and things "have to change." A lot of people are doing the things proposed in many different ways, but this is written in a way that completely discounts their efforts. I would have preferred to read about someone connecting with some of these efforts other than the "out of touch" zealot on a soapbox.
I'm from Poland.

We are seeing failure of trust in to EU because its terrible at PR. Its successes are taken as local governments successes ("our govt is awesome, it snatched the money from those bureaucrats for new architecture!") which failures are easily blamed on Brussels ("We wanted to rescure our failing Shipyards and coal mining, but Brussels tells us we can't because its unfair competition! In meantime French and Germans have no issues like that! This is unfair competition and favorism of west-dominated Union!").

Then you have usual of their weird decisions that are brought as example of overgrown bureaucracy without attempt to understand the reasoning behind it. "Hey, did you hear? Idiots in Brussels decided that snails are fish, what an idiots" the popular saying goes, meantime nobody cares that such decision saved EU from making up separate legislature for seafood farming and trade.

Then we have refugee crisis which is generally something considered result of poor decisions beind done in western EU side that it is trying shift the blame on across all of the union. The situation where in Poland is explictly named amongst the countries that show no solidarity while at same time we've accepted one million people from UA doesn't help neither.

With all of this going on, its easy for populist guys to gain widespread support. However situation in Poland where traditionalistic-populistic gov gained enough of majority to rule on its own is (IMHO) primarily the result of weak opposition, whose entire idea and programme was "we are saner than those other folk" but instead we've got liberal party apparently become traditionalist one with leaks after leaks of them doing disappointing deals with each other or private business. This effectively sank primary opposition party in polls.

They've also made some harsh steps to improve the grim future of our social security system via bumping retirement age as well as forcefully relocating bulk of private savings to the public fund.

http://www.reuters.com/article/poland-pensions-idUSL6N0H02UV...

Apparently there's trend in the polls going on for few weeks now giving them growing support, but its most likely the wave of popular disgust for current gov, which would be story from 2006 repeating itself. I'm unsure if they are capable of fixing things.
> RIP Germany (soon AfD)

I know this is the line being hyped by anglophone newspapers, so I don't blame you for believing it, but we're talking about a party which has peaked at around 12% in national polls. Every single other notable party despises the AfD and is completely unwilling to consider a coalition with them.

It would take a small miracle to dislodge the current CDU/CSU/SPD grand coalition at all (about 66% combined), and the only remotely plausible alternative would be a shift to the left with SPD/Greens/Left. Nobody is talking about the AfD.

http://www.election.de/
If you just want clustered virtual machines, check out Ganeti[0]. It's not advertised much, but this piece of software hosts most of Googles internal infrastructure (not public facing stuff).

Unlike Openstack, it has a proper scheduler, and lets you rebalance VMs across hypervisors efficiently. Also unlike Openstack, it can restart VMs if it (or the hypervisor) dies, if you've enabled that.

And completely orthogonal to Openstack, it has very strong consistency guarantees. It's not made to start 1000s of VMs in seconds, since each master node has to agree on all decisions, and each operation typically "locks" the involved hypervisor. On the other hand, I haven't been able to break it once in over six years.

Note that it really just exposes an API and comes with a superb command-line client. Some assembly required.

Source: deployed Ganeti with great success at a billion-euro company, moved on to promising "cloud" project which insisted on using Openstack and promptly quit after a year of fighting obscure bugs (and naive colleagues who did not want to try anything else :)).

(If you'd like help deploying it, I'm available!)

[0] http://www.ganeti.org/
I'd argue that manufacturing millions of game consoles is far from easy.
Law of Attraction and Personal Empowerment: What Is It and How They’re Related:
As a Syrian, Turkey is the most country that welcomes (and still welcoming) us between its people.

All other countries (except some like Sudan) doesn't require a visa for Syrians, while all other countries require one.

The world still doesn't understand this war we have and think it's a civil war.

People can't imagine that the few news they hear is true, they think exaggerated news.. believe me, it is not exaggerated at all, the opposite is true.

Children died from chemical weapons, a father has held his two twins after they died, all of this are happening to Syrians, and no one cares.

For Syrians, Turkey has done a lot and we appreciate it a lot, and we pray that Turkey stays safe in all aspects.
> Yes, and if we think deeper about it, we'll find out that in mathematics we very often use functions in place for numbers, like it was the same thing. Simple example: √2

√ is a function. √2 is the result of applying √ to 2, which is a number. Since "how Giants scored last season" is a function, it can be applied to a value such as "2017-04-17", therefore "how Giants scored last season, and today is 2017-04-17" would be a number.

I don't follow your P=NP argument. Either P=NP or P!=NP. They can't both be simultaneously true. I also don't follow how the continuum hypothesis is relevant. = is not comparing the cardinalities of P and NP, it's asking whether they're the same set (i.e. all elements of P are in NP and vice versa). Again, either they're the same set or they're not. Even if there was a cardinality between that of N and that of R, I don't see how that would change how we compare sets for identity.
I remember using asterisks for this instead of XXX or ###.
Nah it's actually pretty funny in a juvinial way. Don't forget to play sometimes
OpenStack is a platform for creating an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). So it's running on some physical machines, and manages your physical machines to slice into VMs. There you get to manage / create networks, storage, etc. Basically running a private cloud in your own datacenter/basement/office. Openstack has grown more than just compute. It has a supposedly compatible interface for S3 an object storage system, for example. New components are created after major cloud services like AWS, pretty much. To manage containers or manage applications, you can use CloudFoundry/Kubernetes, but to manage the "infrastructure as a platform" (I want more machines, I want some bucket, I want to run some Lambda function, I want to upload new OS images) you need something like OpenStack. So if you want to build AWS/Digital Ocean, OpenStack is required.
there have been a few instances however as far as I know airbnb have handled this instances by banning the Host for life
Any sources of these stats?

I've actually had "you probably have a trust fund" thrown at me in college because I drove a sports car, but I worked 3 jobs to afford it and pay for education/rent/etc, so apologies if I'm overly skeptical about the trust fund claim.
I'm mostly a hobby shooter but shoot for/with pros at hockey tournaments.

For any sports shooting, mirrorless is a joke. Why? Because the viewfinder lags the action, you can't time a shot and get the puck going into the goal. Your only option is to shoot burst. Which sucks?

Why does burst suck? Because we're trying to take pictures to sell to the players (or more likely, the parents or SO of the players). We are expected to deliver a folder of "keepers" to the table where they are selling pictures. This is a low margin, very short half life type of deal. It's on us, as photographers, to delete all the non-keepers from the card before handing it over. All while being expected to get a keeper every 8 seconds (the actual pros can do that regularly, I average a keeper every 17 seconds in the last tournament).

My keeper rate is about 60-80%, closer to 80%, when I shoot single shot (I used to play hockey, I can time the shots pretty well). That's when I'm alert, dialed in, just shooting, not messing with the camera. That's with pro gear, used to be Canon 5DIII, now is Canon 1DX II. If I shoot burst, my keeper rate goes down to 2% (1DX bursts at 14 frames per second). It's simply not possible for me to shoot burst, delete all the ones we don't want, and get back to shooting every 8 seconds.

tl;dr: sports photographers disagree (both pro and enthusiast)
Courts Are Using AI to Sentence Criminals
I think it might be better to say that contemporary psychology is frequently not being performed scientifically.
is just the result of people doing bad things in layer upon layer.

You can make a decent argument that's the only realistic way extremely large systems like the web can possibly come about. It's not pretty but the track record of the alternatives is worse.
It would be nice if they were grouped by severity (remote exploits vs phishing vs user interface bugs, for example)
> I don't buy the independent discovery idea

That's fair -- and like I said it could have happened. If I did pick it up, I'd be willing to bet it came from print sources and not computer sources. Using Xs as a placeholder is absolutely commonplace. But I remember sitting at my computer and searching for TODO, and then trying a few things before settling on XXX TODO. I tried "TODO TODO" and "(asterisk)(asterisk)TODO(asterisk)(asterisk)" and stuff like that... XXX TODO was simpler to type and easier to see.

What I don't really buy is that this is a "discovery" at all. This doesn't seem worthy of attribution as a thing, not as a meme or as something that stands out as particularly useful or particularly widespread either. There are a bunch of conventions for TODO comments, and XXX isn't everywhere by any stretch.

The kind of thing that I know I picked up elsewhere is 0xDEADBEEF, and that's the kind of thing that feels more worthy of investigation & attribution to me.
I started building this to learn React and Flux.

For now, it's in "Alpha" stage, you can upload a "csv" file and select the "datestamp" column and the "y" column (with numeric values) you want to predict and it will generate interactive charts in browser.

Please let me know if you have any feature requirements or issue.

https://github.com/Prophetly
While it's relatively easy to build an Intel based hackintosh, building an AMD based one is a rare occasion, and it's certainly not recommended if one's goal is a stable, production setup. It's always better to buy a Mac or go the Intel route and build one based on tested/community-approved components:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/april/2017

Good luck!
Agreed! (Author here.)

I had originally started with just the few I'd used or researched in the initial stages. But folks opened issues in Slate asking for more comparisons, so I tacked on other libraries that people were interested in comparing. But I should really move those other libraries to another page in the docs somewhere with a better disclaimer.
Fears Google Hire could allow employers to see your entire search history
I am taking about different types of success. Otherwise you can just define a specific IQ test as success.

My point is if you look at Intelligence and assume they should be more successful with more IQ you need validate the IQ test to verify it's still valid at the outer edges. But, if you look at the most successful people and find IQ > 140 to be vastly more common than the general population then intelegence unlikely to be actually harmful.
My own habits leave me wondering if the use of C-s as a search command in text editors is related to the semantic consolidation that Snellman sees of 'XXX' as a 'FIXME' synonym.

In a lengthy file where I will repeatedly need to jump back to a particular spot, I tend to leave a 'xxx' comment in that place until I'm done.

I believe I ended up doing so largely because `xxx` is unlikely to appear anywhere else, and thus, with a habit of pressing C-s as a left-handed chord, it becomes efficient to hit `x` three times and then C-s through instances as needed.

Any place where such a reference marker was left in the code would indicate that the code editor knew he needed to return to that point, making it likely that a verifiable but non-fatal flaw could be found in the code there, reinforcing the association with a 'FIXME' semantic.
Or they might switch to Linux where that all 'just works'.
It seems somewhat premature to proclaim the death of Turkey, just because they've expanded the powers of a democratically elected office. I often wonder if the system of gridlock (ie, checks and balances) found in many democracies, actually lead to better outcomes than having a system that is free of gridlock but still accountable to voters through free elections.
Agreed. Many moving parts, and every vendor could (and did) add their own variant of the moving parts, to integrate with their hardware/software/... And of course they then try to sell that and not the "standard" implementations, so not enough engineering work goes into those and the core components. It's a "collaborative" project with stakeholders that try to compete where they can...

Visible also in things like the installation process (which for ages didn't have an "official" answer, so you had pay one of the big vendors to do it if you didn't want to try automate it yourself)
> […] and the gulenist(who attempted the coup) […]

Allegedly.
The last tree will be cut not because of cutting trees but because of not able to provide sustainable (growth??) to farmers. It is because products of steel and plastic from multinationals. In the name of safety etc. -- From a farming who use to sow and grow pine tree in about 8 acres for 60 years now we stopped completely and planted eucalyptus knowing that our land may not be cultivatable anymore for next 20 years
Florida seems like an absolutely terrible place to get out of totalitarian risk considering the current executive and legislative at both state and federal levels.
The party whip makes parliamentary confirmations a formality.
True, it goes the other way too. Simply don't use what you don't like. I don't like KDE but many do. Nothing can justify launching a tirade based on personal preferences, so what explains the kind of negativity directed at Unity?

One is free to share one's individual opinion, but one can't speak for the 'community'. For instance just because 'you' personally see no value in Mir, Unity or Ubuntu phone doesn't make it true. Maybe others do. That's just your opinion. Don't pretend to speak for a community. As long as you are not compelled to use it you can choose something else.

Since there is no overarching Linux community no individual or project can declare 'NIH', 'fragmentation', 'duplication of effort' or the particularly measly-mouthed 'good' of the community? Which community? Debian, Redhat, Suse, Mint, Cinammon, Slackware, Gnome, KDE, Elementary, Budgie? Which community are they speaking for? These terms are being used to manipulate and push self serving agendas by bad actors.
Another reason why I put XXX, FIXME or TODO is to be able to rgrep later easier - I want to avoid any kind of subtext which may occur inside variable names etc. so XXX satisfies this.
Only if the current party has a majority government, which isn't always the case.
I'm not so sure.. if you look at Apple's direction over the last ten years or so, you see a lot of convergence happening. Off the top of my head:

* Siri on the desktop
* Gatekeeper getting more restrictive
* SIP
* Neglect of pro users
* New stuff showing up on iOS first
Startup Fallacies: If You Build It, They Will Come
This Map Shows China’s Hilarious Stereotypes of Europe
Not sure what Comcast has to do with anything.
Worth also noting, is the extent of power granted to those who don't agree with the Prime Minister.

> the commons may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister and Cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a serving premier and even mere threats of such action can persuade and/or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien.

> The Reform Act of 2014 codifies the process by which a caucus may trigger a party leadership review and, if necessary, choose an interim leader.

> Either the sovereign or his or her viceroy may oppose the prime minister's will in extreme, crisis situations.

Also what happens if the ruling party does not have a majority and they lose the coalition that gives them enough seats to rule?
They don't appear to show the input anywhere.
Suing someone is very inconvenient. Not only that, what are you going to sue for? Losing a couple nights sleep a week doesn't exactly have a monetary value.