skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The English schoole-master teaching all his schollers, of what age soever, the most easie, short, and perfect order of distinct reading, and true writing our English-tongue, that hath euer yet beene knowne or published by any. And further also, teacheth a direct course, hovv any vnskilfull person may easily both vnderstand any hard English words, ... Deuised for thy sake that wantest any part of this skill, by Edward Coote, Master of the Free-schoole in Bury St. Edmond.

The English Schoole Maister http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A19300.0001.001/1:5.1?rgn=d...
This is why I never took notes as a child. If I took notes I forgot everything I learned. If I didn't, I remembered it.
He takes into account what you're saying.

"Undoubtedly, a well-sited and well-built wind turbine would generate as much energy as it embodies in less than a year. However, all of it will be in the form of intermittent electricity—while its production, installation, and maintenance remain critically dependent on specific fossil energies."

As an Indian engineer, I'm waiting for westerners to pony up and let us have Nuclear energy instead of toying around with Solar and Wind hype for the developing world. It just doesn't cut it and uranium and nuclear blocking IP keep us in the stone ages, so does western hype around solar/wind.

We needed Uranium yesterday.

300M Indians went to sleep last night without electricity and we have a similar number of farmers b/c wind and solar don't provide us with escape velocity baseload to build out nitrogen and steel feedstock electricity.

Ahemm.... I feel somewhat extremely alone in Silicon Valley and hackernews in my views on this.

Not sure if anyone else in here grew up around farmer suicides and high infant mortality, but it'd make you feel a little bit of angst toward all the solar/wind hype as your lithosphere crumbles.....to lignite 50% ash coal burning through your soil chemistry and ravaging your air to make up the difference of energy shortages.
I don't know how you expect me to take you seriously with "lolwut." But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt once.

> The Republicans shamelessly flaunt their positions and policies.

What is the point of this statement? Do you mean to say that Democrats don't do that? Or is it okay that they do, because you agree with them? In which case it's entirely hypocritical to say that, criticizing your opponents for doing exactly what you do, and a form of intellectual dishonesty.

> Dishonesty and deception? Again, lolwut. Parties are collections of people, they do not stand for specific ideas. Anyone that gets on the Republican membership list is, by definition, a Republican. Example A: Trump.

If I, as a citizen, register as a member of Party A, and vote in their primaries for candidates that lean toward my preferences--and then, come election time, go to the polls and vote for the candidate of Party B, as I intended to from the beginning--am I participating honestly in the political process? Or am I pretending to be a member of Party A so I can influence Party A to reduce the difference between the parties?

If a government sends an operative to another nation, to secretly work for another nation's government, and influence them to lean toward the policies they prefer, is that "getting on the membership list" of that "collection of people"? Is it honestly participating in the diplomatic process? Or is it infiltration, a form of espionage?

If a corporation sends an employee to get a job at a competitor and send back copies of plans for the competitor's competing products, is that merely "getting on the membership list" of that "collection of people" at that company? Or is it industrial espionage?

> Signing up to a different party sounds exactly like what you're describing. Open the door to intellectual conversations with people from different social spheres, force confrontations between real person with real beliefs instead of strawmen.

Either you misunderstand the point and we are talking past each other, or you are the one tearing down strawmen.
"I know another bootcamp that decided to just record their bootcamp and put it online, and charge you $2,000 for access to the videos. 28 people signed up and paid the $2,000, and one person watched past the first lesson."

1. I've noticed this in so many fields.

2. There are devious businesses/entities that count on this.

3. I think Programmers will have employment for a long time. In absolute honesty, I don't find Programming, or Web Developement that exciting. I guess when you build something useful, or money making, that's where the love comes? In my twenties, you couldn't pay me to sit in front of a screen all day.

4. I still think there's room for a better way to pass on this information. I'm not sure if any bootcamp, or school has nailed it yet.
My eset security blocked this url.
If you don't like the internal structure, you can change it! If you don't like the output formatting, you can change it! All with a few lines of shell script, immediately, no compiling, no rebooting!

You can't say the same of systemd. It has to be whatever systemd has compiled in. (Which, by default, is terse status, followed possibly by journal data, or just system status if no units are available) Sysctl status also loads a unit at run time, and then may unload it afterward, meaning it is not useful to see if a unit was already loaded. It also uses a UTF colored dot, combined with different lines that can be interpreted different ways. In other words: it is a complex arrangement of information. And for machine output, you need the 'show' command, and more options.

With sysv, you ask it for status and it tells you if it's running, if the script supports status. Clearly a complicated mess.

Your last comments don't make sense. Sysv init scripts don't have to "find" a program any more than any other method of executing a program. And all init scripts I can think of are fire-and-forget, as much as systemd or any other init program is. The only thing they don't do is continue to try the same operation over time or wait around for a dependency, if that's what you meant (which Sysv scripts aren't really supposed to do, but inittab supports it anyway)

I'll do you one better on your first comment: ALL Sysv init scripts are a different "structure" internally. Even in the way they are used! The reason is, they're just scripts. Outside of inittab, there is no real standard for how they work, so each system makes them work however they wish. They can write them so they're all the same, or all different, and make them called the same or different, and give them different features, or no features. This is why some people love Sysv - it is totally flexible. You can make it do anything you want, and all you need to know is csh.

With other apps (not just systemd, but lots of things) complicated custom domain-specific languages are invented to do little things, like change configuration files' permissions, or send a file somewhere. Csh/Bash allows you to do the same, except it's a lingua franca that is compatible with every Unix-like operating system. It's interpreted, it's flexible, it's portable, it's backwards compatible, it's composable, it's extendable.... I mean, this is really an amazing thing that no other language or tool can claim (other than web browsers). Any problem you have with Sysv you can fix it within Sysv, without requiring compiling code, or even rebooting. I know i'm beating a dead horse here, but I just can't see how anyone would want to throw all this amazing power away or see it as limiting.

If you wanted, you could write a systemd clone in bash, and make service/unit files out of bash. I don't know why nobody has done this yet, but probably because it would be self-defeating.
Which regulations does it replace?
DCFS is the main reason not to raise children in cramped conditions?

How about, you know, basic empathy? (Unless you have some reason to believe that DCFS has unreasonably high standards here?)
I don't think Java is really much slower than .NET code.
Shit, my girlfriend knows about the originals, I forgot. I think that's next.

I haven't heard her mention riverdale. Let's hope it stays that way.
And hippies everywhere are blogging/tweeting/facebooking about Earth Day on their Apple devices.
You can't basic drive format a SSD. You must shred or melt or explode to be safe.
> There were germ theory skeptics, still are, that ignored the science showing how many deaths doctor hand washing prevented

Don't forget to mention that one of the early proponents was involuntarily committed and killed as a result of social exclusion by his colleagues.

Later history was rewritten and a diagnosis of syphilis was used as justification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis#Breakdown_and...
> Physical books provide random access. I can open a physical book to any arbitrary page without doing data entry...

Ebooks provide near instantaneous access. I can open my ebook reader, search for "alkyl-alkyl bond formation" and be provided with a list of references with their surrounding context across many different books at once. Digital books don't require me to laboriously look up something in the index and flip to it, only to find that the specific thing I was hunting for was actually in another textbook.

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> Physical books provide parallel access, I can pile open books on and around my desk...

Digital books provide perpetual access. I can read the same book on my phone on my commute, on my computer during work, and on my kindle at home. My physical books can be left at home or lost.

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> To me, ebooks are like Skyping a lover or dining in an Indianoplis Olive Garden...

To me, paper books are like getting around town in a horse carriage or listening from a vinyl. Fun and entertaining once in a while, but there's a more efficient method available to me day to day.

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> The touch of a clothbound book is not like holding my cellphone and the typeset pages of a trade paperback are distinct from my laptop's screen and the heft of one book is different from the other...

The heft of 600 page reference textbooks or the tiny, inscrutable font of mass market paperbacks are both vices I'm happy to do without.
I try to avoid Chrome but in the past I've used it to search with Google. I'll get "local" Spanish language results which Chrome then promptly offers to translate to English.
All those devices have user data on flash or hard disk that could be recovered. I'm glad they're shredding them.
I've been complaining about this for a long time now.

I wrote a small greasemonkey script to add hl=en to all except a select few google locations. They are the most egregious. Unfortunately for us the industry has chosen to go with IP address determines language and it's getting more and more common.

I DO have accept language configured in my browser and I also DO understand that statistically many people's browsers are mis-configured. NO. I'm not leaving my browsers logged in to every site in the internet.

We'll forever be tilting at windmills.
Unrelated to wind turbines, but related to living on the road - do you have no permanent address? What were the most difficult adaptions to make from living in a static location to living a vehicle like that?
It really helps to go through the manual in order. It is a quick read. There is also a great GNU elisp intro -- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/pdf/eintr.pdf

Work through that before any other lisp resource. I found it he most authoritative.

Caps to control is a life saver. I mostly roll with default key bindings. It just makes life easier. I don't have any hand issues. If you do you might rethink shortcuts .... Some folks are convinced key chording is not good for their hands, but I don't have an issue with it. I don't even notice it. Good luck if that is a concern, but Emacs is extremely customizable so that helps, but get at least some level of muscle memory for the default key bindings .

Once you know what you use a lot and have the basics down you can figure out how to start customizing.
How is this environmental hypocrisy? The shredding is being done by recyclers.
Fine but why not pump it out onto some crops? Here I am paying to heat water for my house and pool -- I should move next door to Google and hook up to their drain pipe.
Why the laptop keyboard design remains ignored? A tribute to Steve Jobs
I don't think "Space = new game" was a good keyboard control choice. Accidentally lost my game halfway through :/
Since browsers are mostly pictographic interfaces, presuming the user prefers or even is very familiar with the interface language of the browser is likely not the best design.
Cool, thanks, I'll do that!
That is a neat module. I will have to play with it. But C-x C-s is burnt into my memory now.
Was this Georgia Tech by chance? When I was there, the "full" intro to CS for CS, EE, CmpE was in Scheme. But for all other engineers, it was MATLAB with no C.
Please don't link that shit here. It increases it's pagerank. Or at least put a space in the url or something.

It's completely infuriating. I mean if I didn't know anything about HIV or medical research, that would sound completely plausible. I went in expecting to read batshit insane conspiracy theories. And I'm surprised how sane it sounds. That's scary.
I wonder how many others also have such strong negative reactions to this sort of mass destruction. It is hard to explain the feeling, but regardless of the product or manufacturer, seeing something which most certainly took a lot of effort to design and create brutally pulverised almost makes me want to cry.

On the other hand, maybe a lot of other people love seeing things destroyed, as evidenced by the popularity of shredder videos on YouTube, or maybe it's interesting in the same way as car crashes and other disasters.
No, you can just issue a secure wipe command to the drive. If the firmware isn't buggy, your data will be unrecoverable.
I fully believe that being a landlord could be shitty. Myself, I'd never do it because the idea of being legally culpable for how I choose whom I entrust with a significant portion of my savings.

Having said that, parent sounds like the type of landlord I wouldn't want to talk to, either. Granted, if I see a 45-page contract, I'm getting out of there. But he sounds like the type to make a very unpleasant experience of reporting the problems that he wants to know about.

As to the rest, that's why I wouldn't get into being a landlord.
Server side sessions aren't the bizarre practice - Keeping track of navigation state on the server side is.

This is like your whole website existing as a single endpoint and making POSTs to the same URL to get to different parts of the site.
While it may be true that 50% of papers are wrong in some fields, the papers that are wrong are probably not the most highly publicized ones or the ones in the most prestigious journals (and when those papers are wrong the incentive to publish corrective papers is high), so this probably isn't quite as big a problem as it's made out to be.
They don't have to shred the whole assembly...
Holy fuck. He is in some deep shit. There is no parole in the US Federal prison system.

Assuming that his inevitable appeal doesn't succeed, the best he can realistically hope for is doing 85% of his sentence, the remainder being time off for good behavior. Other than that, he can try for a Presidential Pardon or Presidential commutation of sentence.
This rendition of the game is amazingly satisfying. Thanks!
Maybe it's just me but, why would anyone want this job?
Considering that Java runs on many more servers than .NET it can't be that bad.
Someone replied to me and deleted it, and I don't want to waste the time I spent writing a response, so here it is:

No, that wasn't my claim. If I have a claim, it's that, instead of simply moving away, people keep building up an active seismic fault that's likely to suffer a catastrophic earthquake in the near future. Even high taxes (some of which funded the policy piece you cited) and massively increased costs of construction (such as proposed in the policy piece you cited) aren't incentive enough to stop.

This aspect of human behavior is worth remembering when someone suggests similar "incentives" to address climate change. It's trying to incentivize the same mindset that would rather build cities out of springs and pendulums than move to stable land.

We should face the reality that humans will eventually deal with the negative side of climate change using (not so?) metaphorical springs, levers, stilts, and who-knows-what, and it will be okay.

I don't click Forbes links, but from the URL it looks like it's about a hoax bill that was proposed for PR purposes. Not interested.
I really hope that specific law comes into play. Especially since it seems to be used to justify not paying flight attendants until they are "officially" part of the crew.
In the US, the local, state, and international language is the same thing.
Cool way for a gov to hide a piece of info from disclosure to public - just make it a subject of NDA with some corp.
Wiping memory was already a part of Go crypto libs a few years ago, but was taken out because it gave a false sense of security (the secrets can be copied all over memory.)
Plants won't help us, just as cows are not making the problem worse.

It doesn't matter how much plants and algea grow, when they die, they send the carbon back into the atmosphere and ocean. We have to sequestrate the carbon and totally remove it from the ecosystem.

Sequestration is what took millions of years, when major events buried large swabs of living matter in the ground "forever".
Java code is, of course, managed. In any case, this isn't a wrapper for Java code running in a JVM; it's an implementation of Java for the CLR.

Not sure what makes you think Oracle's JVM is slower than the CLR, in any case...
MIT Selling 8M Coveted IPv4 Addresses; Amazon a Buyer
https://github.com/tim-hub/TiminesSweeper-3D-
Google stopped respecting 'ncr' quite a long time ago. If it does still work for you it's a lucky coincidence. I've used ncr previously but it stopped working.
MS17-010: DoublePulsar Initial SMB Backdoor Ring 0 Payload Analysis
Actually, counting lines, whether empty, comment, or otherwise, very much is the way to make the point. The reality of actual service units that people write is not anything like the picture that was being painted. You erroneously think that the point is that short is good and long is bad, rather than what it actually is, which is learn the subject and don't make facile arguments based upon rubbish numbers plucked from thin air. Actually looking at reality and counting, rather than pulling the number 7 from a hat, is part of that point.

I recommend reading the design of the Mewburn rc system, http://jdebp.eu./FGA/run-scripts-and-service-units-side-by-s... , and some of the entries in the systemd House of Horror. This whole "It's just writing 7 lines and it's easy!" argument falls apart when one looks at the reality of short service units that are either grossly wrong or turn out to be underpinned by the very things that their lengths are being compared to (which also means that it is still those rc scripts that are being used and maintained by software authors -- from 1997 in the example of apachectl), real world service units that are not short, other systems of long standing that are equally concise, and -- yes -- the reality that people include commentary for maintainability.

One of the amusing things about this argument that is of particular relevance to the Devuan release is that back when Devuan was announced someone put up a "fork Fedora" WWW page criticizing the Devuan people, with a systemd service unit side by side with a van Smoorenburg rc script. It is sad to note that few people observed that the systemd unit described just one service, whereas the van Smoorenburg rc script ran two. Since you are on the subject of commentary, I invite you to observe which of the twain included comments and which did not, as well, and determine what point the "fork Fedora" people were in fact demonstrating. (-:
I don't think you understand that politically, climate change is just an issue for demagogues to demagogue with. I'm sure communists would happily take over and pass a ton of laws that will limit everyone's freedom and take away what little economic upper mobility they still have in the name of "getting something done." But here's the thing about communism--it's track record on environmental issues is abysmal. Communists were and are the world's worst polluters, from the Soviet Union, to China, Cuba, and everywhere else, dumb commies can't find their asses with both hands a flashlight and take away all ability to debate and discuss matters openly and everything just gets far, far worse.

"Strong government action" is just forcing someone to bend to someone else's will. Apply enough force and those being coerced will fight back, violently, if necessary.

It's not like people such as Al Gore are anything more than criminals making away with boatloads of money.

This is how I have viewed political environmentalism in ALL its forms--it is a dodge, a con, away to make tons of money will appearing to "care." People like Gore are the Goldman Sachs of caring about the environment to make money. There are no political solutions for this problem.

That leaves technology. If anything is going to solve our problems, it is us humans inventing our way out of them. That's it. Evolve the technology or die.
> I am really tired of statements like these.

Sure, but is it wrong?
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I'm a little shocked that your comment was flagged for supposedly being hateful. Even if it can be seen as a matter of opinion and not entirely factual, it wasn't hateful to me in any conventional sense of hate.

It is laughable what people are saying here, that they wouldn't want any Singaporeans to read it. What?
Maybe I'm missing something but it doesn't seem to out of the ordinary. Why wouldn't someone looking for a job want it?
Anyone have a link on mobile that works? It starts with a full screen ad that when I try to x, opens the ad in a new window and doesn't even close the original ad
The sheep that I know are very friendly. The flock is now about 9, having been about 16 a couple of years ago. My stepsister loves them and introduced me to them. If you walk quietly and gently into the field, and kneel and look unthreatening, they will comms to you. Some are friendlier than others, some too shy. But some will come over and get petted like a lovely soft dog. Beware, some will even try to kiss you!
A counterargument and something to ponder: we may have lost a huge amount of history, if centuries ago people always destroyed their stone tablets/parchments/etc. thoroughly after using them.
It's not totally clear to me that shreding older models of MacBooks isn't the environmental sound thing to do.

Laptops have become massively more efficient and consume significantly less electricity. It some cases it must be better to take them out of use and replace them with more efficient modern replacements.
Cap and trade, in California, at least.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2017/03/02/californ...
Our sensitivity to light has no bearing on how bright it actually is.

You're going to great lengths to nitpick yourself, my friend. This is downright silly so I think I'm done. You're arguing just to argue. Feel free to have the last word.
Great post! I have only the smallest correction, since many people aren't aware: the creators of Lua strongly prefer that people not write "LUA" (it is not an acronym). See: https://www.lua.org/about.html ("What's in a name")