skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One very important concept to learn about - hypergamy. I recommend any straight male having problems with inter-sex relationships, marriage to give the redpill perspective a chance.
I see, maybe I was a bit exaggerating.

I'd really like to talk more about birth Tensorflow and TPU, but unfortunately I won't come to OSCON. May be some other time :)
> If your objections center around the fact that WMF does a lot more than develop Wikipedia software

WMF does a lot more than develops one piece of software to manage citations, yes. Nothing wrong with the software, I'm sure people who made it are awesome. But it's like discovering US federal government didn't solve a problem with a faulty light on your street and proposing that an electrician that did should thus be the President of the USA. Nothing wrong with the electrician or fixing the light, and maybe he'd even be a great President, but that in no way follows from his ability to fix the light. That's just completely unrelated things.

> that WMF's primary contribution is Wikipedia, and almost everything else is secondary

Not so for some time. Also, Wikipedia as a project is way bigger than just software.

> So long as it's being funded by private citizens because of the value they get from Wikipedia, then this should be the focus.

It is. I mean the value and improving it (again, if we correct from Wikipedia to "Wiki sites to gather and disseminate knowledge", which are more that just Wikipedia). But opinion on how to improve that value may not only be "improve this one particular feature".

> Yes, that means the people running Wikipedia conferences and local meetups will have less power.

Than who? And why? There are processes that decide which directions are prioritized and which are not. Right now two of them are happening as we speak - board elections and strategy consultation. Any decision that happens leaves somebody unsatisfied, because it's not possible to satisfy everyone. That doesn't mean everything is terrible, sorry.
My version of "religious reasons" reads: I promised by wife what I will love her and stay faithful in marriage. I will do everything to keep this promise. And I pray to God to help me keep this promise.
Re-arm with what? Bad advice?
Python – Scrapping 10Ms of India's transportation data in 36 hours
Any data to support the idea immigrants vote more conservative than natives in UK? Would also be useful to specifically consider recent immigrants, as immigrants 30 years ago might have totally different demography.
C# can't because .NET has outright banned the usage. But now the length restriction has been lifted, at least in .NET Core. I think you still need Windows 10 with path length limitation disabled for the full .NET Framework. It's actually a bit confusing because the limitation was lifted in .NET Core first by using \\? prefix internally, but then not long after Windows 10 introduced the ability to remove the limitation for the api without the prefix, but it must be enabled by group policy or registry patch...

Anyways, it shouldn't really have mattered that Microsoft didn't care much for this for a long time. If everybody else had just been using the prefix since Windows XP came out then Microsoft would soon have been forced to change their own software as well.

For example with Python and non-MS C (e.g. clang and gcc on mingw), they should simply have made the standard libraries implement the file api using the prefix. Of course if you have a need to call CreateFile directly you would still be on your own, but if everything else created files you couldn't interact with then you would probably fix the problem.
My experience with Closure and Uglify matches the benchmarks seen here:

https://github.com/babel/babili#benchmarks
How do you square this question:
Does a billionaire's understanding of the world really affect anyone at all?

With this later comment?

Let Zuck go on his little The Simple Life experiment and let's worry about, I don't know, net neutrality being destroyed or whatever.

Honestly how? There is a "billionaire" currently tearing apart net neutrality because he doesn't know about (or care about) the internet other than as a way to make money and to bully people.
> Statoil is (partly?) owned by the norwegian government

Statoil is 67% owned by the Norwegian government directly, and another 3% is owned by the Government Pension Fund Norway (which is the "small one" of the two Norwegian sovereign wealth funds - the biggest one which usually gets all the attention only invests outside of Norway)
Noone understands quantum mechanics. It's a bunch of equations or tools that provide predictive power.

OMG, the scientism in this community is disgusting.
This is really, really interesting, especially considering how different Venda is from languages like Xhosa or Zulu, which are geographically much closer than Kenya (is Bukusu the language as well as the tribe?)
I wonder when we're due for another crossing?
I usually have high confidence that scientists will do their jobs. If a Republican controlled EPA confirms the catastrophic effects of climate change, you would expect more bipartisan support to tackle the problem. As far as I can tell, conservative viewpoint on climate change is varied, from 'the effects of man made climate change will be mild and not catastrophic' to 'golabal warming is caused by increased solar activity'

The point I was making was that there is no reason to stir up hysteria just because you heard the words 'Republican' and 'EPA' in the same sentence
> you must be a citizen of the US to purchase real estate in the US

Why would you want to do that? People want to invest in the United States and give us money, we are instead suppossed to spend money and create a blackmarket to prevent them from doing so at a loss?

> People are living on the streets yet there are empty homes available that aren't for sale and artificially propping up home values in the area

Housing prices are high because government spending on public services that increase the attractiveness of a location subsidizes land ownership whenever these services are paid for using taxes other than taxes on land. The solution is not to ban ownership of land but to tax it.

When government spending is not funded by land taxes, it allows landowners to charge higher rent in response to increased government spending on public services, even if they did not inveset in improving the private property located on the site. With a land value tax, landowners are directly charged for the public services which increase their land value. This means that they have to invest in improving their property if they want to increase their profit, such as by increasing the number of available housing units on the site.

Foreign investors may still buy homes and try to lease them, but they will end up funding the government and public services which only benefit the residents which actually live in the US, and they will be unable to pass on this tax burden to renters.
I 100% agree with their concern over the pollution caused by bottled water.

But, shouldn't the solution be that tap water is drinkable as is -- it is already filtered to a level of potability in the US. We established public utilities and municipal departments to manage providing clean water because it is a public good and a human right.

Their idea (attaching additional filters to tap water) already exists all over the developing world (e.g. most middle class apartments from Delhi to Mexico City have water filters). The problem with filtering at that final step is every household solves their own potability problem instead of investing in a public solution.

People with money don't demand drinkable tap water from their governments when they can filter it themselves -- leaving the vast urban poor without access to clean water.

Thus, we need to demand our tap water is drinkable!

And in the US, it already is!!

Perhaps they are furthering a pernicious lie that tap water isn't drinkable while claiming to be part of an environmental solution?
The space shuttle Columbia was destroyed with all hands after it was hit by some insulating foam from its own external propellant tank [1]. The noise from its launch was also a serious threat [2]. I think it is fair to call it fragile. Of course, all space launch vehicles are fragile, but for a manned vehicle the shuttle sure had tight tolerances for safe operation.

Edit: I would argue that the huge mass of the (STS) oribiter was pretty much its greatest problem, and could be largely attributed to the requirement that the whole thing must be reusable. Not only was it problematic to bring all that mass down, but consider this: the system could bring almost as much mass to orbit as the Saturn V rocket [3], but almost all that capacity was consumed by the orbiter, leaving "just" 27,500 kg for payload. Of course, that is still a huge payload capacity, and the orbiter itself could, to an extent, be considered useful payload.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste...

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/sound-supp...

[3] The maximum takeoff weight of a space shuttle orbiter was around 109,000 kg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_orbiter#Shuttle_...) while the maximum LEO payload of the Satrurn V was around 140,000 kg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V).
Protection under US laws to non-citizens including 5th amendment applies only if you are physically on US soil (excluding space before immigration at port of entry). So if you are non-citizen US house owner living in foreign country, it would be tricky to file lawsuit seeking such protection.
Edit: Emacs is a great example btw. It is single threaded, and a lot of it is written in elisp, which is slow and makes emacs have noticeable lag if you turn some features on. The question was whether it was instant, rather than usable.

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First and foremost, atom has pretty much noticeable lag, even for someone like me who thinks emacs is instant (which it isn't).

I agree that it requires a sensible plugin design, but the GIL will only get you so far. I haven't used atom much, but I suspect the heavier plugins rely on async tasks, which can be implemented using python's threads, or for python 3.4 and later using asyncio. This takes me to my next point:

People also under-estimate how FRIGGIN FAST v8 is. JS executed in v8 (or node) will run so many laps around cpython it makes a web-technology-hater (but whatever floats your boat!) like myself cry and bang my head to the wall. People seem to think that they play in the same league. They do not.
Python script to get 180+ WPM – Automation
I caught about 20, ~8lbs. lake trout on Lake Michigan last summer. The lake is not literally dead.
Thank you for proving that there are actually Trump supporters out there who approve of his sexual harassment of women.
That is true but even so it was the complete opposite of what I would have expected given Japan's large population and relatively small size.
> did anyone else found the surface stylistic choices ... more than a little weird?

I saw it's Guardian, so it was expected.
You would still loose:

- new DNA combinations entering the mix. They are quite damn important.

- beginners minds. Without it, systems will be stuck in what we assume are the best fit.

- disrupters. Newcommers, by lack of experience, misunderstanding or just because they are not blinded by the status quo have the tendency to change things.

Basically, even if you don't have "old farts", our system will get old.

There is a reason why nature promoted renewal of individuals inside a long living but dynamic group and not long living individuals inside a static small group.
Thank you too, for also proving that there are actually Trump supporters out there who approve of his sexual harassment of women.
So how long till next arm?
It is speculative, but worth a punt. Better than the horses.
Yeah sure, other companies does that as well. But in the meantime they deny that climate change is even a thing (at least in the US) but Statoil does not do that.
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Raspberry Pi 3 + OSMC (Kodi) + 2 HDD connected to the router.
Ingenuity MAY solve it in the FUTURE. It's a potential.

Limiting our consumption WILL solve it NOW. It's a certainty. We have the power to do it. Just not the will. We loves our steaks and cars.
Statoil/Circle K. (the gas stations business) were spun off from Statoil proper years ago and are fully independent company who was just leasing the brand.
AHEM, http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=931
I don't think it has auth, You can still use the API,
you can hit
https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json
to get the ids of all top stories and then hit em individually to get information about it.
> What's really scary about these recent developments is that we're losing the ability to critically analyze the ideas and arguments that are being used to influence people.

Who do you mean by "we"? I'm pretty sure I still can analyze arguments.

OTOH, that's what I'd say if I lost the ability too. Oh noes. We are all doomed now.

> exist completely outside the normal rules for fact checking or veracity

Could I get a copy of these rules? Or, even better, could somehow major media outlets each get a copy? Because I am under distinct impression that most of them somehow missed the memo about these rules existing.
Yes but neural networks use experience to make decisions. The more experience it gets, the less creative and flexible it becomes.

This is why you need new individual:

- to not be blinded by a vision of the past;

- to ignorer status quo;

- to see things differently;

- to bring creativity;

- to bring a bit of chaos.

They are rare, those who, among us, can cumulate experience and a beginner's mind.
So I think what you meant was, unmanned servicing has not been performed yet?
Yeah I understand, but I assume they are still purchasing their oil from Statoil. Probably a lot of other companies does that as well but I am not sure of which.
Or in short, "I'm hoping for the best".
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Let's not forget that the transition between the worst days in the 19th century to the best days of the 20th Century we had an enormous amount of war.
Science is building a hypothesis that can be proven or disproven after hard work.

Computer science is science.
AOLServer did that many years before Rails happened, but many developers weren't paying attention.
FS compression does not compress the whole file in one block.
Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
I don't know if compromise is the right word for making decisions together. Sometimes compromise means seeing the terrible movie with the predictable plot because your spouse is going to love it. If you compromise by seeing a movie both of you know you'll both hate, that's a poor decision.

Of course, movies are easy, and life is hard. Decisions about jobs to take and where to live and how to spend money can get tricky. If one person has a job offer in SF, and the other an offer in LA, moving to Fresno is a poor choice; if both jobs are the job of a lifetime, it's going to be a hard choice. Respectfully reaching a decision together, and working together to put the decision into practice, even if you don't like it, is key. But if one person never gets their desired outcomes, it's not a good time for them.
For roman soilders there is the main problem that the Roman empire existed for so long that almost nothing is true for all of them.

The uniforms they are always wearing in movies are probebly only really standardised like that for a small part of the empire, and even the not completly.

"The Complete Roman Army" is the best book on the subject.
It's hard to be sure. But observing both the Wiki animation and this GIF, it appears that stars don't orbit at a constant radius from the galactic center. Rather, they appear to move significantly closer and further.

Does that seem right? If so, that's much different than planets orbiting our solar system. To a first approximation our orbits appear circular. Yes I know there's a certain eccentricity but for most planets it's not much.

I don't like the idea of our solar system getting too close to the galactic center. It gives me a vague sense of dread, like "bad things can happen there".
Jeff Bezos talked about something very similar in his most recent letter to shareholders[0]:

"As companies get larger and more complex, there’s a tendency to manage to proxies. This comes in many shapes and sizes, and it’s dangerous, subtle, and very Day 2.

A common example is process as proxy. Good process serves you so you can serve customers. But if you’re not watchful, the process can become the thing. This can happen very easily in large organizations. The process becomes the proxy for the result you want. You stop looking at outcomes and just make sure you’re doing the process right. Gulp. It’s not that rare to hear a junior leader defend a bad outcome with something like, “Well, we followed the process.” A more experienced leader will use it as an opportunity to investigate and improve the process. The process is not the thing. It’s always worth asking, do we own the process or does the process own us? In a Day 2 company, you might find it’s the second."

[0] https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/z6o9g6sysxur57t
I suppose it's possible that just the right amount of mass extinction events are necessary for intelligent life to emerge.

Too many and evolution doesn't build up any momentum, too little and there isn't enough change to make intelligence (i.e. adaptability) worth having. So the Drake equation would need to be looking for that Goldilocks zone of mass extinctions.
Exactly. And asking the opener (or somebody in general) to do so would've been a reasonable and polite response.

Unceremoniously closing the ticket on the other hand seems to me to indicate the maintainer really doesn't care.
This is a total non-surprise. He's following through on campaign promises, is all. And seriously, the EPA has been on a short leash since the start. Sure, it was worse under Reagan and Bush vs Clinton and Obama. But remember:

> 1970 was a year of tremendous environmental action by Nixon and Congress.The President signed the National Environmental Policy Act on January 2nd, delivered a call to make "the 1970s a historic period when, by conscious choice, [we] transform our land into what we want it to become" in his State of the Union Address, and ended the year with the creation of an independent agency to regulate the environment.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/galle...

Nixon has a bad reputation, obviously, but he was arguably quite enlightened about environmental and social issues. He might have championed a national minimum income, if he hadn't crashed and burned.
I'm very conflicted about the donate me guilt tripping. On one hand these companies need cash to operate and they do a world of good, but on the other reading their financial reports I'm just not convinced they are efficient with the money.
No, old fart are like that because they now "have it figure it out" and are happy with they point of view.

That's just how the brains work: it uses experience to create a map of the world, a paradigm. The older you get, the more experience you get, and the harder you can endure a paradigm shit.

Renewing the populating, beside the absolute biological necessity (you are adapted to your environment now, but probably not to the one in the future) is the only way nature manage to balance experience and flexibility.
Goals vs. OKRs: What's the difference?
Thanks! Right now, it's either like todoist (freemium) / free for offline use, subscription for sync between devices. What do you think? Also, may I know how do you currently organize your thoughts?
That's a sad read. But he's not wrong.

Nobody knows how to organize a society to effectively use the technology we have.
A 2010 Mac mini connected to the TV and Logitech keyboard with trackpad
>Because Google has broken Java portability

Android was never intended to be used for Java portability so nothing has been broken.

>I cannot just take a random Java library and have it work on Android.

Android is not compatible with Java so why would you expect a random Java library, meant to work with Java, to work on Android?

>Thanks to Google now I need to search for Android Java libraries, instead of Java libraries.

A comprehensive list of libraries that work with Android has already been created so why would you need to look for Java libraries?

>Funny every time I search for Java on https://developer.android.com/develop/index.html I get several hundred results, and yet Google doesn't call their fork Java, go figure.

The Android SDK is a fork of the JDK. Did you expect them to rename every instance of the word "Java" to something else just for the sake of differentiation?

>What I care is that now I need to write two libraries instead of one.

I'm sure there are a plenty of libraries that work on either platform, but such is the nature of a fork. Support the platform you care about.

>Oracle (and Sun before) doesn't have a problem with companies that follow the license rules, there several commercial JDK vendors all of them nicely getting along with Oracle.

Google doesn't use the Oracle JDK they use the OpenJDK so why is a commercial license needed to use a forked version of an open source project?
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Why not use Java folks? Write once run anywhere and reasonable file sizes and memory usage.
Kinetic impactors are not missiles. Repeat: Kinetic impactors are not missiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment

These are not things that get fired. You don't launch them.

They don't follow a trajectory. They might just travel straight down from a geostationary orbit, depending on implementation. Yes, a guidance package might be necessary (depending on target discrimination, and precision, which in warfare isn't always required). They aren't gliding like smart bombs though.

At the speed of re-entry, and with possibly just 100 short miles to close, a defensive interceptor would be unwarned, have to acquire possibly many targets (one need not drop only one). Intercepting vehicles would have to close on a target in an arc representing a distance longer than the hypotenuse of the right triangle between the kinetic slug, the interceptor's launch site, and the defended target.

The slug is simply released with no indication of ingress. From a geostationary orbit, it just starts getting closer very fast. Cover it with EM absorbant, non-reflective material, and there's even less hint of activity, until the re-entry burn at approximately 60 miles altitude. Unless the target itself is equipped with interceptors, and lots of them, it will be difficult to notice and recognize in time, and even harder to catch and defeat.
https://nim-lang.org/docs/parsecfg.html

(Scroll to the examples.)

An exception would be thrown on error. That exception could be trapped in a simple try/catch block.

Nim is very similar to Python -- but statically typed and compiled (quickly) to machine code. There are many situations where Python is a better choice than Nim, but if you're looking to translate Python code for speed and type-safety, Nim is worth considering.

And if you want to translate Python to Nim gradually, look at this magic:

For calling Nim from Python:
* https://github.com/jboy/nim-pymod

For calling Python from Nim:
* https://github.com/nim-lang/python/tree/master/examples
Economist and political sience study markets without third party enforcment. There many ways to do it, one of them is to use personal investment to build trust.

Invitation to ones house is building up a trust relationship, both offer each oother higher risk of exposure but build up a long running buissness relation.
It is the other round. Sydney is a hot place for chinese migration years before Vancouver
How hedge funds can use web scraping
Pretty much the fast track to being hit with the holy trifecta of libel(internet), slander(investors/landlord) and harassment(spouse). Do _not_ do this.