skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just upvoted him, he's allowed his opinion, even though it conflicts with mine.

I may be a 'person' and not 'people', but imagine if we all had to drive the same car, or live in the same type of houses, just because the majority preferred it that way...

If there is enough of us who want something different that making or providing that thing is viable, then we should be allowed to have it, and have no-one criticise us for that choice. It is after all supposed to be a free world.
Courts can't overthrow bad laws, they can only overthrow unconstitutional laws (or state laws that violate federal laws).
Can somebody explain to me the obsession with static linking? Do these people not realize that performance gains from shared memory between disparate applications hinges on dynamic linking mmap'd libraries and COWing shared memory sections to private on demand, reduces duplicate code, standardizes operations, and simplifies debugging? Has the world gone mad?!
Mobx is really nice. For a quick and easy database for an Electron app I added a Mobx observer that persists the state to a json file which is read back at startup. It was just a few lines of code and you get seemless persistence for free.

I've expanded on that idea for another Electron app I'm working on (http://www.serverwrangler.com) that encrypts the data before saving and has a database "server" in the main process so data is shared between multiple Electron windows of the same app.
Yep, that's what I mean, in 99% of italian cities, it is impossible for you to get lost, go around at random, and reach an "unsafe place".
Yeah Mercury (and then Rome) were good names for it. KeyONE just... sucks. :(
Systemd sucks, so it's not a troll.
Reminds me of Sheldon and Amy discussing the same issue in "the Big Bang Theory" TV show!
Recent deal aside, I've long thought that Bloomberg would be a good place for Twitter - they already fund their excellent news services on the back of their financial services products. Twitter would fit well into that and also matches their "real time" approach.
Given your son's interests, I would love to get some feedback on a project I'm working on. It mixes Scratch-esque concepts with a 3D block world similar to Minecraft.

I'm building out the curriculum right now but here's a simple demo: http://course.block.school/demo
This will sound pretty fan boy, but I think it's pretty obvious Musk isn't in this for the exit money and he believe he can build Tesla up to be a great company. He likely doesn't see much value add by being acquired.
Useful. My only concern would be performance.
Pyekaboo: A tool to hijack/hook/proxy Python module(s) via $PYTHONPATH variable
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If I'm feeling miserable about the code, I generally shift gears and work on a more straightforward area of my project. Ideally some class which is self-contained and easier to reason about. More often than not, an hour of that gets me back into "flow" and I can go back to what I was originally doing.
As far as I can tell it's their lowest vote share for decades and all the last few elections have been close.

What you're saying just doesn't ring true. People genuinely felt betrayed by the uni fees.
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I think he's more interested in fixing the world, not just changing it.
But does BTC randomly reward the miners like ETH does as being described in this post?
And in the same breath criticize Bitcoin for consolidation of mining power (which is a valid criticism).
This kind of thing has been implemented a lot of times by a lot of people. It starts with someone who just thinks that addressing deeply nested dicts is ugly, and ends with people trying to tack on all kinds of features to justify their modification of the basic grammar.

Probably not a huge issue if it's an isolated use-case. Not something I would want to see everywhere in my codebase.
Yes, you have to roll your own. But for hardened setups one has build hosts anyway, so it's just a single config setting to rule them all.
I've been using various models of the SanDisk "Sansa" MP3 player for years for similar reasons. Lets me listen to audiobooks/podcasts all day without wasting phone battery, and the controls I use most often (pause/play, forward, back, volume) are physical and can be located by touch alone. Also, durable enough for use during damp/dirty outdoor activities, and cheap enough not to be a big deal on the rare occasions that I do ruin one. Unfortunately they seem to be on the way out (Audible support for my newest model seems buggy and undocumented, and the SanDisk web site doesn't seem to push/advertise them much any more).
The idea that the answer is being sought in an exclusively bottom-up fashion is one of the many straw men in this article. The recognition that consciousness is some form of emergent phenomenon has been around for a long time.
> There's always Flickr, Facebook &c.

I don't use Facebook. Privacy concerns are another reason why I use iOS over Android.
Checkout addict

https://github.com/mewwts/addict
No it'd be more like "if Windows was a good enough OS, people would go to efforts to install it on computers that aren't made for it" (Bootcamp?).

But either way, neither OSX or Windows are "differentiators". Attributes might differentiate the products in a theoretical sense, for example branding, pricing, licensing, support, ease of use, but there's effectively only 3 widely used operating systems so it's senseless to talk about differentiation as a concept. With that low level of competition you're just talking about 'different'.

Redhat is an example of an OS that you could call 'differentiated' due to their business model and niche usage.
You're comparing reference to infer whether underlying data changed? Sounds really really fragile... Does the JavaScript language guarantee this or are you depending on the specific engine implementation? For instance will this still hold if the OS preempts the browser out and restores it later?
Meanwhile I'm an outlier that thinks typing on a Nokia 1100 was more innovative than recreating a typewriter design that goes back to the 1870's
That is a nice feature, but if code is only 1% of your process image, it doesn't matter.
Lets send all the H1B Visa holders home
So for who's [sic] benefit are standups and "agile" in general? It's for the benefit of managers

If your manager takes part in your daily, you're doing it wrong. The daily is for same-level coordination, not for hierarchical evaluation.

In a way, your dailies are to replace your manager, not enable him.
Why not a telco/cableco, especially if FCC reverses Net Neutrality?

Apple is not really in the service business a la Google, Facebook, Netflix, or Amazon, but they could tap into the rents the last-milers will be seeking -- and probably getting -- from the big boys/girls once NN is history.
Hacker (computer) originally was a positive term. The stupid mainstream in the mid to late 80s corrupted a great word. I had a few friends get arrested for accidentally calling a Pentagon and then try and figure out if they could see what the server was for. I don't think they were called Hackers but that was 1985 and this story happened in 1983 http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/11/tech/computer-hacker-essay-414...

The Jargon File, a glossary for computer programmers that was launched in 1975, lists eight definitions for “hacker.” The first reads, “A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.” The following six are equally approving. The eighth, and last, is “[deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term for this sense is cracker.” http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/a-short-history-of-ha...
Or it's simpler than that: security theatre. We're adding a new level of annoyance so people have this false impression their jobs aren't totally beyond worthless.

Fuck the TSA and the airlines. These days I'll pay more to take am AmTrak or just drive. Next time I fly, it will be after taking a train to Canada first. If I have to fly internationally, I'd rather not fly out of a US airport. I've flown through over a dozen countries, and yes, it is getting ridiculous everywhere, but America is still the worst. Especially when it comes to pat downs. No other country I've been through did pat downs except Moldova; and even theirs weren't anywhere near as bad (typically police arms/leg pat downs. No reaching under your belt or any other TSA bullshit for the false-positive/random-number-generator they try to tell you are body scanners).
Think of it like docker without the network overhead, using the os kernel as kubernetes.

Think of it like webworkers with the kernel as the js runtime.

Ram is cheap. Complexity is expensive.
> my money does not go towards someone who drinks to excess

except that you absolutely will be paying for them not seeing a doctor and waiting until they have to go to the emergency room.

People who drink in excess go to the ER and get their stomachs pumped - thats paid for by the taxpayers if the person doesnt have insurance. My point was exactly that - you cannot avoid paying for these emergency rooms visits by changing how insurance works, the way to pay less for these emergency room visits is to decrease them by promoting more holistic care - and how does the government promote things? by providing economic incentives in the form of tax breaks, subsidies, etc.

I guess you missed my point by responding with pure emotion...
Service, configuration and package management are not solved problems in any distro. It's only normal to list systemd and apt as cons.
How many Apple Watches will still be functional in 28 years?
Most of the applications you will have running at any given moment probably have few libraries in common. A typical linker will only include in the final executable any functions you require from your dependency as well, which can dramatically reduce the footprint of a piece of software (when considered in combination with its dependencies). Statically linked binaries also load faster and don't break when you have a botched update.

My distro does support dynamic linking, but prefers static. In practice the RAM footprint and disk footprint is much, much smaller than any dynamically linked distro I've tried. Avoiding GNU also helps a lot to reduce bloat.

Static linking also makes agunix more portable. Stuff like this is possible: https://sr.ht/5HTs.png
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Passwordless.net is a NodeJS library for just this concept. It does make a lot of sense for a large majority of websites that don't need to and shouldn't track passwords long term.
Security theatre. Make people think they're being innovative when their jobs are truly worthless.
Huh? Not sure what you mean but it's not intended as a "server database". It is however used a lot in production as an embedded DB in applications. E.g. I've seen SQLite in lots of Android apps.
There are many many other scratch like languages.

https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Alternatives_to_Scratch

Personally my kids didn't like Scratch but my daughter will do some Racket with me.
glibc and buildtools can be a bit of a pain to work with. Maybe he was exposed to that during cross-compilation.
> modern day (most of them Somalian) pirates.

I think your information is out of date. In 2015, 60% of piracy incidents were in South-East Asia. http://www.agcs.allianz.com/insights/white-papers-and-case-s...
It's also Citi saying this, so you can ignore pretty much anything and everything they say.
Do you want to get firemonsters? Because this is how you get firemonsters.
I got excited by the heading thinking that there was a change to the language and we could refer to the dictionary itself in dictionary comprehension.

Just yesterday I commented that if generators could refer to themselves in generator comprehension (recursion) I could express some algorithm as a single expression.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/41617394/180464

... anyway, this just turns out to be what looks like an "addict" clone.
That's called Vasovagal Syncope [0]. It doesn't necessarily happen because you see your own blood in a bag, but rather because of the physical implications of having blood removed from your body. Drawing slower or smaller volumes can potentially help mitigating this problem. I think it can also be seen as an indicator for other medical problems regarding your circulatory system, so it might be worth investigating further.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasovagal_syncope
That's awesome. I remember hearing about their VIPR squads harassing people after they had disembarked a train at their destination. I'm glad Amtrak fought their bullshit.
Its great to hear you asking about such things because normally no one asks and its a huge waste of experience.

I'd say a few weeks in a short time to get up to speed. The biggest problem is that lots of places are "different" and not just "better". Often I'd like to do things the way I did at my previous job but that could just be unnecessary - taking time to change and breaking everyone elses process.

I would ask more specific questions. Like if you want to improve CD - ask the guy what tool they used in their previous job and how well did it work.

Someone else mentioned monthly informal chats I'd agree. Over a beer after work you can talk about old companies and what your employees miss about them.
Here in Switzerland: flat white ~$6, caramel macchiato grande: ~$9.
To elaborate:

You can look at some programs with your mind, and tell quite clearly what they'll do.

You can't write a _program_ that will look at other programs, and always give a correct answer.
> obviously at some depth the rock is always extremely hot

Not if you keep pumping in water to run a steam turbine.

I assume that's how geothermal energy works, and I'm not going to double check.
If they are still linked to your current identity than change the passwords now (or better yet, yesterday) or delete the accounts altogether.
I know a guy that travels constantly and has no permanent address. And there are a few families that spend years on the road because they want to teach their kids that life is an adventure.

They haven't found it prohibitively expensive or unsustainable. It's worth it to them. Making that lifestyle cheaper and easier will expand the number of people for whom that is true.

Automation, as it has always done, will make our infrastructure cheaper and more robust. It will slash the cost of healthcare and dramatically increase the amount of resources we have available and our quality of life.

So, no, I don't think we should focus more on nibbling around the edges of what is possible. Those things can all be fixed, but that takes political will and convincing the majority of people. And most of them are stuck in the analogies of the past.
They're losing ground, but Islamic State still has social media as a weapon
Use zotero and you have your own personal Pocket with snapshots. In addition, you can add tags, organize stuff into folders, etc.
https://www.zotero.org/
It also depends a lot from what you consider a satisfactory answer.
If you don't need to know so badly, don't spew misinformation in a public thread.
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

A century this year.
Which is why console makers need to make a few blockbuster games to encourage adoption.

The Nintendo Entertainment System came with Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt at no additional cost. Sega made the Genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog.
Yubikeys exist because Googlers were getting phished.
As I said, at about the same weight when I didn't have much muscle, 2000 calories less ~500 spent on exercise each day would have caused weight gain for me.

And did, for that matter until I'd adjusted my intake further down. To notice much in terms of a loss I had to go below about 1600kcal before factoring in the exercise. I believe my maintenance level at the time was ~1800kcal.

If you're largely sedentary outside of your exercise, you can end up burning exceedingly little.
To be fair, it is pretty rare (impossible) to find "secure" software that has zero avoidable vulnerabilities.
Interesting project, horrible presentation.

The colour gradient on the graph is confusing - does green mean happy, blue unhappy, and the movie changes tone over time? Axes of the graph are not labeled, what are we looking at? But, those concerns are secondary.

Bar graph seems a poor choice here, given the nature of the data. Given that there doesn't seem to be any correlation with time, the order of phrases doesn't seem important -- you could forgo the linear presentation, and display the distribution of the data instead.

For example, you could bucket the sentiment values (-3 to -2, -2 to -1, etc) and use a histogram to show the counts in each bucket. This would enable you to compare different movies (one histogram per movie).
I don't know any Scratch users personally. Anyway, that's irrelevant.

IMHO the real reason Scratch teaches its users the "hacker mindset", is the way it forces you to create complex things with a relatively simple and limited toolset. In a similar way to how C64 demo coders push the hardware to its limits to achieve interesting effects.

To give an example, scratch has no 3d rendering capabilities, and the only 2d rendering techniques are using bitmap/svg "sprites", and the "pen", which lets you draw arbitrary lines between points. Despite these limitations, many more advanced users have created 3d polygon rendering engines.
So now that there's more info out, this is only a threat if you have remote management provisioned? And to provision it, you first need code execution on the box?

Is the impact of this bug basically nothing to most users? And to provisioned users, it's just as bad as any bug on a remote management system? That is, the fact it's built in to the CPU makes no difference?
Hey Joe, Great job compiling the data.

I noticed the lack of "Distance From ..." on the Campgrounds/Hiking list in a given state. As a user I'd love to find a good camping spot that's nearest to my city.

There is an issue with escape characters in the content (eg: ' is represented as &#39;)
assembly will probably go robotic.. at least if I was Apple that's what I would do.
Here (and when I see people generally using the term) is the meaning of "shapeshift" simply that you go to shapeshift.io and exchange from one cryptocurrency to another?
Should've bought more last year... way more. But I guess everyone says that now.
Multiple different versions of the same software running in the same environment increases complexity. Ram is cheap, loading code into ram wastes cycles and following new or different code paths trashes cpu cache and recent code paths.
Was this around The DAO? Any good reading on it?
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Gauss's algorithm was also used in an IOCCC entry:
http://ioccc.org/years.html#1996_schweikh1
Oh, thanks!

There's three backup formats: XML (same as Delicious v1 API), HTML (legacy Netscape format almost everyone can read) and JSON.

I can get back with an XML file later. There's also an API that might be of interest.

Here's someone who blogged about that:

http://behindcompanies.com/2011/12/a-guide-to-backing-up-pin...

The question was asked if you can use your API endpoint URL (https://[pinboardusername]:[pinboardpassword]@api.pinboard.i...) straight into ifttt. Maciej confirmed that it should work, the problem is that you’re essentially storing your login credentials in a 3rd party service, and you don’t know if they’re storing and transmitting it securely.
Check out attrs. You can use frozen=True to get the immutable behavior as well, but there are many other benefits over namedtuple.

https://attrs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
I can't wait till we have to travel in paper smocks, chained to our seats like the criminals we truly are.
Meta question: is there a "Hacker News of China" forum where I can find this article discussed from the Chinese perspective?
I have not because I don't write C professionally. We generally have things that require algorithmic improvements due to the scale - language doesn't matter.

C's model requires you to understand the machine model. Haskell presumably requires you to understand the machine model (but less thoroughly) but understand the compiler's model also. It's a little more but comparable. So complaining only about the Haskell runtime just seems ironic to me.
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Statically linked binaries deploy easily, deploy faster, start faster, don't depend on libraries or even on a filesystem hierarchy standard, because they don't require hardcoded elf interpreter and so on.
How does it encourage to use extra variables? If you have a variable with the name use it, otherwise do whatever you usually do like calling a function. It doesn't encourage doing something like

const id = getId();
let obj = {id, otherProp: 'something'};

vs

let obj = {id: getId(), otherProp: 'something'};

?
Qualcomm could be looking at banning iPhone imports into the U.S
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14269305

See this for a pretty powerful rebuttal.

The second Haskell program in this paper, that also out compete everyone, was built in a week by a grad student that did not knew Haskell before hand without talking to the first implementer.
Also excuse my ignorance - but does the heat released warm the Earth's atmosphere? I realize it doesn't create greenhouse gases, but wonder if the newly released heat would make a difference to sea & air temperatures, or just gets radiated away.
> While Volcker had used high interest rates to engineer a crushing recession at the start of Reagan’s first term, he then allowed the economy to expand rapidly just in time to carry Reagan to a landslide reelection in 1984.

Is it really true that one person controls the whole economy?

And if so, why does Glass-Steagall matter one way or the other?

How could Volcker on the one hand crash the economy himself, and then immediately un-crash it, while on the other hand being the guardian of Glass-Steagall, supposedly the only defense against... crashing the economy?

This story seems to be more mythmaking than science.
I can't​ agree more. After using both there is no question that, for me, mobx is better. It is more intuitive and has much less boilerplate code. I've tried to understand why redux is chosen over mobx in some projects, and at this stage I feel it is mainly just momentum and visibility/marketing.
What a well written article. Half way through reading it, my eyes started to swell up with tears ... the image of the father, who was driving the car, turning around to see his son, just sleeping moments before, now laying there dead with a bullet through his head.