skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You "kill" vim by preinstalling a friendly text editor by default, like TextEdit or Notepad. Many of my technical friends (myself included) use vim, but vim will never be used by everybody, everywhere. When most people first get a new computer and want to edit text, they use TextEdit instead of vim.

This is just plain wrong. You're not understanding the meaning of "kill": that means that it's dead, gone, unable to be used.

Many, many people (millions?) use vim every day. I do, and others I know do too. People who use vim don't care about what editors other people use; it's just as irrelevant as what cars other people drive. I can go buy a Honda, a Tesla, or some 50-year-old antique, and drive it if I want, legally. Other people buying Fords has no effect on that. No one cares about everyone, everywhere using vim, only that it's available and it works. That's not changing, and there's no indication it will ever change.

>The end game of ad blocking is that everybody installs one.

No, because there are technical ways of getting around them. Look at all the sites that have anti-ad-blockers installed, and force you to turn off your ad-blocker to see the site. Of course, the ad-blockers have been working on ways of defeating those, so it's an arms race.

>If theirs is the default adblocker even on just Chrome, they'll have substantial market share. Most people won't bother installing a browser extension if it the default is good enough, just like how most people don't use vim if TextEdit is good enough.

Who cares about "most people"? I don't. My whole assertion is: how will they prevent other blockers, like UBlock Origin, from being used? If they're not going to bother, then great, but that's not what the OP claimed: he claimed they'd find ways of actively preventing 3rd-party blockers from being used, either technically or legislatively.

>Google is preventing that from destroying them by shipping their own as a default instead.

Wrong. Google isn't preventing anything, as long as they don't actively prevent you from installing a 3rd-party blocker. The message I replied to alleged that this would happen.
That's a really interesting problem space, because what do you do when the foundation of the question is terrible, and yet, there exists plenty of information saying otherwise. What is even the ideal result from that query?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes I suppose.
I use paper theme https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme

Tempted to try https://draculatheme.com/
I tend to agree with you, but just to play devil's advocate: what about negative externalities of personal consumption? How do you assign responsibility for burdens on health and social services caused by drug abuse? Someone has to pay to clean up those issues, and while the majority of drug users may be able to maintain their habits without major issues, the minority is a handful. I favor decriminalization, but I can see how a government, faced with the bill, and with only the power to legislate, would try to legislate the problem away.
You will maximize your job opportunities with Java.
Working with big folders tends to be a bit error prone to me. I would like to synchronize my filters/settings across different devices. On MacOs it randomly hangs for tens of seconds and eats batteries for some people (me included).

So yeah, it's mostly done, but better virtual folder support, and a streamlined UI would both be hugely appreciated by me.

But, because it's mostly done, I also will just happily keep using it as it is now for the next three years, waiting for the rewrite.
Rust and SPARK – Software Reliability for Everyone
I'm not sure if this is just a low effort troll or not. Cycling is good for you, the environment, it's cheaper to cycle than to drive, and to many people is very enjoyable. If you really think people who cycle are scum you should consider the irony of your statement.
"JavaScript is the best choice."

(Citation Needed).

This proposal identifies serious legitimate concerns with Thunderbird development going forward, but the proposed solution looks more like a hammer seeking a nail than a thoughtful approach to addressing the concerns.
I feel the same way personally. I feel like I see tons of people complaining about it, but it's just what I want out of a mail client. The UI is a great, the GPG integration is great with enigmail, it's a very polished product.

Not only that, but making one based on web technologies that moves away from the native look and feel it currently has would truly be a loss in my opinion. I'd probably give Claws Mail and alpine another go, maybe even desktop outlook before I'd go to something Electron-esque. I already have enough shitty electron apps - I'm currently dealing with a really weird font rendering issue arising from Electron use in VS Code.
The more underfunded the government is, the less it can invest in schools, mental health care, the environment, infrastructure, a competent bureaucracy and so on. All things that are necessary for economic growth. Americans' allergic reaction to paying taxes is just one more reason why the country is circling the drain.
For what it's worth, I tried a few different OSes, including Ubuntu 16.10 (which was the latest at the time), before settling on 16.04 LTS (which was released a year after the laptop came out). I plan to try 17.04 when I get some time, but I also expect to be disappointed. I got about 10min into an Arch install before laughing myself into a coma -- I've seen smoother Unix installs from the 1990s.

But I will reiterate: this is clown shoes. Expecting this kind of effort from desktop users is hostile.
Google more than any other organization on the planet has bought at least some of its own bullshit. For at least 6-7 years they've been consistently, 100% sure that generally-useful AI (or something sufficiently approximately close) is just a few short years away, and thus any investment in anything else (like people) would be wasted.

They've sacrificed countless customers, products and services on this altar, and will continue to do so probably indefinitely. They've decided they're going to live or die by the AI. Humans work there only to build, configure and maintain the machine. Every time I hear someone say "Google really needs to hire some <people>" or "Google needs to train their <people>" better I shake my head - it's like saying Ford should solve an efficiency problem with their cars by building boats.

Google is not going to do that, ever, and Google is not going to learn humility either. They're convinced they have it figured out, reality be damned.
What you're missing is that those laws are entirely feasible to enforce without having the government snooping on your computer.
The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D XPoint Performance
The line was:

Which says right off the bat that this is someone who doesn't know how airlines really work, or who is deliberately trying to misrepresent how airlines work in order to make it seem sinister.

Good job on quoting only half of it.
Maybe if there was easier public transport (e.g. buses and trains) more people could visit the park.
The visual were great. It looked better than the 2000's mini series. The story failed to capture the book, but it's not like a lot of stuff happen in the book itself, since it's more a description of the ecology and culture of a planet.

I've heard they are doing yet another movie, but they should go for a TV show, game of throne style, not a movie.
I use tmux window instead of splits.

bind-key -n C-t new-window

bind-key -n C-w kill-window

bind-key -n C-n next-window
Ask HN: Dun and Bradstreet number
Do you have one of these for your business?

Does it matter?

Does it make any difference?

Just trying to sort through the marketing speak.

I paid an exorbitant amount for their monitoring service for a year. But I don't think it made any difference, or provided any value. I just wanted to get some other perspective.
In the JVM ecosystem you can use Jetty and have a simple embedded App Server. No need to install or configure Tomcat/JBoss, etc.

Spring Boot and Dropwizard makes this dead simple, a single .jar file with everything you need to run your app.
AIght!

As in a way to pronounce "Alright" and mix it with "AI it"
I find that the mindset that your commute is out of your control is unique to US/Canada. You choose where you work and live, they shouldn't be independent decisions. I've had every type of commute, and I could never go back to >30 mins or non-active (walking, cycling). It's impact on happiness is massive.
What may be interesting is to use cosine similarity between the embeddings of these words to see if synonyms can be accurately identified.

Awhile ago, SpaCy set up a demo doing just that on the Reddit dataset:

https://demos.explosion.ai/sense2vec/?word=cannabis&sense=au...

https://demos.explosion.ai/sense2vec/?word=marijuana&sense=a...
The thing I like most about Anki is that it can show you nice little graphs of your progress. No matter whether that line is curving upwards or downwards, it helps a great deal to motivate myself for regular study.
This is mostly hype until they can actually deliver.

I ordered several of their current lidars 5 months ago and now it looks like the total delivery time will be about a year after the order. And they're mostly unresponsive about what is going on.
Our taxes should be democratically decided so they should not be extortion, at least not on average. But maybe they are not democratically decided. I know it isn't feasible for many people, due to things like family ties, but moving to a country where government spending is more aligned with your values would actually be a good way to vote with our feet.
Unless you choose to live in a walkable/bikable city, there will be less incentive for those non-friendly cities to change. If your city shows no interest in changing to become more bike friendly and you want to bike, then you can choose to live somewhere else.

People tell me how "lucky" I am that I live in a bike friendly area, close to shops, restaurants, etc and within a 10 minute walk from the train station. Then I explain that it wasn't "luck", I purposely chose where I live because of all of these features.
The whole point of Kak is that it's a different editing paradigm, still modal and "text editing language" based, but in subject verb order rather than verb subject order. The idea is to give you more confidence as you type your commands by visually showing what they'll be applied to, instead of having to wait to see the result if you screw up.

If you're not interested in kak because of that paradigm change why are you interested in it at all?
I've been commuting electric 11 miles each way for over a year. In my time I've found limiting myself to 18-20mph pedal assisted is the best use of my battery and my body. I still get some workout but not enough to sweat through my clothes. The bike averages 400w consumption and I've gotten used to running bigger batteries than my commute needs. Currently I'm running Multistar Lipo's at 12s2p for 50v charged and 20ah max range. I consume 6-8ah daily.
I wish I could freeze the program Thunderbird in time to keep it precisely how it is right now for the next couple of decades. I literally want not change. I know, I know. It's a pipe dream, the surrounding environment changes, breaking the program as the OS and libraries evolve. But this constant resolving of perfectly solved problems annoys me.
What gave you the impression they want to be objective? The Economist is very upfront about their bias and positions, more so than any major newspaper I can think of. It's pretty common to see "this newspaper supports x" in an article about a controversial issue. It shouldn't be your only news source, but they've never pretended to be dedicated to objectivity like Reuters or something.
What do super hero movies have to do with science fiction?

They are old stories, warrior epics, with modern fantasy furnishings.
> I need to be able to access them to secure them

If they are using md5 ssl certs, it's unlikely securing them is possible. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a dozen or more security vulns in such outdated devices.
I'm a Googler. I've reported this internally.
That isn't bringing anything to the argument. The topic at hand is should the We be concerned about people that abused the system or the people that followed the law?

It's a high level question. Do we want people that are governed by law or skirt it? I argue the system is more stable and thus the preferred result when people follow the law. As a consequence I believe that we should protect those that follow the over those that break it.

I do feel bad for unskilled H1B slaves. Their poor circumstances are often better in the States than if they stayed at home. Unfortunately they are here illegally. There presence is making our country worse by locking wealth in the hands of the companies rather than making it part of the local economy.
Very tangential: do you have any concerns about or plans to buy mobyproject.com? seems like its oscillating between parked domain and shady ads.
That's very sad! React-Move may implement very simple animation "concepts" that you could perform on your own, but there is immense value in the reusable API that React-Move exposes. If you were to utilize d3-interpolate, or a tweening library directly, you would still need to: handle proper react-lifecycle updates, animation-frame batching, detect when to reanimate, provide a deterministic and reusable api that promotes good composition, support as much of the ecosystem as possible, and at the same time keep dependencies and component footprint as small as possible. React-Move provides all of these things in a battle tested package that, given its rapid growth, has already proved its suitability for the majority use-case and general animation needs of React users.

On the topic of hardware acceleration, there are a some good perks to using class-based/keyframe CSS animation, but you immediately forfeit any ability to utilize dynamic run-time values. It's also important to note that even though React-Move's animation loop is being executed in Javascript instead of the browser's GPU thread, doesn't mean React-Move doesn't utilize hardware acceleration. By mapping these interpolated values to hardware-accelerated css properties, you are in fact using hardware-accelerated transitions, albeit at the speed of the JS thread.

If all of these amazing features aren't your cup of tea, then I would most definitely suggest that you roll your own solution. :)

Cheers!
Same. I did quite dirty stuff with Thunderbird and it always behave well and it never crash. Plus, it's quite ergonomic.
I haven't used Thunderbird for a long long time, but the feature I was missing the most when I moved to Gmail ages ago was some sort of automatic categorization (machine learning) based on content of the emails. One application would be spam filtering, but I would actually appreciate if it could be applied more broadly to classify other emails.

Is something like that now available in Thunderbird?
I'm a front end web dev who decided to learn C (the other week actually). Took about 5 minutes to download and install YouCompleteMe.. What problems did you have?

The one problem I had was that I had to use the system version of clang as I'm using Arch.
Magento EE vs. CE: Understanding the Difference
If I can SSH to a remote host I can use Emacs TRAMP mode to edit files or I can mount the remote machine file system with SSHFS and change the file locally.

I will never be forced to use vi! ^__^
Or even what phone manufacturers do with their screens. The problem isn't ability though it's cost. The market for laptops is seriously cost competitive and customers don't know if a trackpad will be good or bad until after purchased (with the exception of a few brands like apple).
Um, yes? If you think being selfish and stubborn qualifies as a mental illness, I suggest you go talk to a professional psychologist. I'm quite sure they'll disagree. People do stupid and reckless stuff all the time (esp. 16-25yo males as the other commenter pointed out); that doesn't make them mentally ill.
You could try Flow (https://flow.org) as you're already familiar with JavaScript. I've been using it after primarily using static languages and it's been great so far.
web technologies == cancerous technologies, web technologies + thunderbird => thunderbird will be cancer in soon too.
French tech: A hot spot for entrepreneurs, 15 years in the making
Nitpick - the year 10,191 is something like 21,000 years in our future as the dates used in Dune start from a key date that is far in our future (I forget exactly what it is - the end of the Butlerian Jihad?).
The article is in favor of legalizing drug consumption (when it talks about being in favor of the Portugese model)
It works great for me. :-)

Search could be smarter (and faster). Also I remember I had to do something tricky to make search default to "date" sorting instead of "relevance", and that should really just be in the preferences dialog somewhere.

But basically I have no complaints!
We disagree then, I guess.

One of the big dangers of industry regulating is eroding the border between the public and corporate domains. The line between state regulation and public policy is blurred.

Did United Airlines beat up Dr Dao or was it The State? Who should be prosecutted? Who needs to review their practices to make sure no one else gets ausulted.

In the current system, we need to do as ou suggest. Treat the complex of regulators, corporations & law enforcers as a sigle unit. Tweak the regulations (in collaboration with a half dozen corporations and police agencies) and the practices of all involved.

This is corporatism and it's dangerous.
Useful Resources for Machine Learning in Ruby
If you "walk the beaten path" of life - get an education, have a family, work as an employee of some big company or government (or a university like Tom), etc. - then the Swedish tax system is nothing to complain about, really. You get more or less your money's worth.

But IMHO it does limit your freedom, in the sense that you have to pay for those on that path no matter what life choices you make.
Cheap, small solid state Lidar will have applications across vehicles, robotics, augmented reality, surveillance, mapping and 3D scanning and who knows what else. In theory SSL could be as cheap as phone cameras, and will open up a whole range of possibilities.
Trying to pay for services through taxes in the US is like Tantalus trying to drink from the river. No matter how much money is raised, the "price" just goes up even more. Case in point: American health care. The US actually spends more, more, tax dollars per capita on healthcare than countries like the UK or Canada or Australia. OK, the US did put up the cash, so it should get universal coverage right... hahaha of course not. Likewise with the high-tax Bay Area, which has by far the worst roads in the US, with 71% in "poor" condition. Or high-tax New York City, where a single new subway station costs billions of dollars.
I went to court for riding on the sidewalk. Turns out it's not legal here (US, Los Angeles)
Better than NAND performance if ever so slightly for a first generation memory product but I still feel like it would not able to scale to DRAM speeds. The search for a universal memory goes on...
Point of fact: maximum is now, by my calculation of the numbers, $1450. 14CFR250.5(e) included an inflation factor based on CPI-u, since August 2011.

And that's $1450 cash. If you want to give vouchers, they have to be worth more than the cash equivalent to begin with, and the customer has to give voluntary, informed consent to accept them. No one in their right mind would give expiring travel vouchers value equivalence with the same face value in actual cash.
I own a 380x but it's in the corner gathering dust because of buggy drivers and crashes. It doesn't keep running long enough to get hot in my case.
Thanks for the heads up, we'll look into getting that domain if we can.
I'm glad they pulled it rather than let users assume it's being properly maintained. Hope someone steps up to take it over.
Actually, what I want is a 17" screen (it's not just the pixels, I need the fonts to be big enough for my aging eyes) that is not crazy heavy.
Docker Community Edition is the Docker you've always heard about, now with an Enterprise big brother (Docker EE).

Moby is a set of standardizable tools that underly that product which might be shared with OS suppliers, Kubernetes, or other virtualization solutions.

If you want containers for your apps, you want Docker. If you're bundling containerization components into your Linux distro/orchestration platform/custom hybrid cloud solution then Moby will be your swiss army knife :)
I found the Atom vim-keybinding plugins severely lacking in a lot of vim functionality that I use regularly.

I moved quickly back to tmux/vim.
If moby is not a replacement for docker (your words), why does docker/docker redirect to moby/moby (your actions)?
NPR's Planet Money did a awesome segment on a trial program in California to pre-fill out your tax returns. I recommend the read or a listen to the podcast.
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/episo...

The reception publicly amongst people in the trial program was that it was very helpful. Hopefully one day we can see more states try this out for a nationwide push in the future.
>Travel is a choice. That decision is made by the individual. Some people absolutely love being away from their families, believe it or not, and love to travel besides. You adopt that reality simply by taking the job. There's no accounting for that. It's a reality that confronts the individual alone.

I'm sorry but that's the most ridiculous statement I've ever read in my life. I have never once had any company ever try to pitch travel as a "perk". There's a reason why they call out the amount of travel in the job description, and there's a reason any job I've ever had that has a lot of travel they make sure you realize it's part of the job due to the burden. Furthermore, every job I've ever had that included lots of travel compensated you MORE because they understand that burden.

If you're ever in a position where you're a hiring manager and you try to fill a travel-based position by telling candidates that they're getting a lower salary due to the "perks" of travel, you'reg going to be searching for a LONGGGGGGGG time.
It's debatable, as I've said. It certainly can be viewed as an SF. However, main story vehicle is that of 'the chosen one' and of 'the legend / prophecy' which is usually main driving vehicle in fantasy. So, maybe an SF Fantasy? :) Matrix trilogy dwells into that space as well.

I love Lynch's Dune adaptation very much though.
Well, the author seems thoughtful, but I'm sure he's seeking replies on the mailing list. You could propose something else!
It also sounds to me like they didn't have any proper unit tests, which is quite a low-hanging fruit for sorting algorithms.

Also, while I agree mostly with you, there are cases where logging is more useful for debugging than using step-through debuggers. However, such problems are usually related to concurrency where a debugger may alter or even hide the problem, not stuff like this here.
And you just can't hide it.
That's about the perfect distance to make it a good worthwhile workout for someone who is not a serious cyclist. That was my commute when I first started cycling.

My current commute is over 14km each way and I cannot do it daily due to time restrictions (and overall fitness).
Correct. It's no longer David Lynch's "Dune" but Alan Smithee's "Dune".
It seems like the solution is to not use Business Insider. If the article gives a definitive answer how do you not just trust that number?
Don't they have poor touchpads?