skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When he lost was during that time when there was a split between FIDE and PCA. I've always wondered if there was some leverage there that IBM could have just gone to the PCA champ for the match instead. As reigning champ, he should have been able to dictate terms to IBM, not the other way around. PCA would have jumped at the idea of having IBM spending a ton of money claiming theirs was the true champion.

My personal view is that computers should have to play candidate matches as well to get to a championship match. Well, should have, it's a moot point now that the desktop can beat the GM's.

Last I looked, computers didn't evaluate their own opening book. They are basically programmed not to play certain things. Computers should only be allowed opening books built by computers. I'm really curious if novelties would develop.
You are correct. There was a concept of rights, but not a concept of universal rights, which is how we understand "rights" today.

I stand corrected.
Not entirely applicable to this particular quiz (most of the questions were relatively simple until the final few), but the interview questions like the ones that Hired and Triplebyte focus on honestly make me feel like an imposter.

I've been a software developer for over 4 years but I don't have a formal CS education. I've gone through CLRS along with MIT's open-courseware--but I rarely use any of that directly in the workplace and so have forgotten a lot of it. And I think I'm a pretty good software developer, yet in the past when I've tried to get into Hired or Triplebyte, I always leave feeling like I don't belong in this profession because I can't tell you the big-O complexity of DFS off the top of my head, much less write the algorithm on a scratch pad.

I've been doing technical interviews for a few weeks now (I was recently laid off) and I'm honestly just a little tired of the brain teasers and non-applicable algo questions--and more often than not, the interviewers flexing their "knowledge" muscles.

Case in point: I'm in final stages with multiple companies for a Rails position, yet only one of those had even mentioned Rails in the technical interviews--the others decided to quiz my CS knowledge and one of them even quizzed my FP knowledge (for a Ruby position…). I don't understand it.
I bought a MacBook in the UK and some time later when I was in the US they keyboard became faulty.

I walked in to a US Apple store and explained the problem. The Genius person agreed there was a fault and then started tapping away at their computer. He umm'ed and ahh'ed and called over a manager.

At this point I was thinking they were going to reject the warranty repair for some reason, but the manager ended up apologizing that they didn't have any UK-style MacBook replacement keyboards in stock, and they couldn't work out how to order the part in on their US system.

As it happens I had moved to the US, so getting a US keyboard was actually a bonus. I told them I was happy with a US keyboard, and 10 minutes later I was leaving the store with it installed in my MacBook.
> IR, it penetrates water better than visible or UV.

What? IR is lower energy than visible red and that's the first color to go when you get a few feet under water (with no local light source).
The program management was very upset, mostly because they looked like a pack of clowns.

How did they respond to that? Any kind of retaliation?
This will eat SmartBoard's lunch and I'm all for it — existing stand-alone collaborative whiteboard technology is shit.

I'm guessing this originated as a tool for Google's internal teams? The market for it isn't all that big outside of startups (but it exists).
At the risk of sounding obvious, simple programs are simple to create whereas complex programs are exponentially more complex to create. Add in more people with more complex communication paths amongst the team and your complexity may easily transcend what's feasible. The biggest problem is inexperienced developers and project managers can't recognize the complexity spiraling out of control beforehand but rest assured when it happens the coding is not "fun"!
Pretty much.

What we like to think of as USB-C are actually 3 individual parts that an be swapped around as the OEMs feel like.

there is the 3.1 bus speed, that can be swapped for older and slower speeds.

There is the Power Delivery spec, that can be replaced with older or omitted entirely.

And then there is the C plug itself, that can be replace with an A or B plug when mixed with any of the above.

The only thing that the C plug offer on its own is hte aux pins that can be used to carry Displayport, HDMI or Thunderbolt signals. But again this depends on the OEM.

It is a downright combinatorial explosion, that is just waiting to set fire to something.

Hell, a while back there was a story about someone getting their phone drained because the C port allows bi-directional power delivery. And their powerpack used the C port for both charging itself and charging other devices. This, in combo with a phone that could charge other devices as an emergency option, allowed the two devices to ping pong a charge between them until both were run dry.

Frankly the C plug and related specs are overdesigned, trying to be all things to all people.
> false accusations have been weaponized in other contexts.

I really think you are missing my point, sadly.
CCC reported that they managed to bypass Apple's Touch ID in 2013, so it doesn't really seem like one is easier than the other.
Spark SQL is actually ANSI SQL.

Plus you can mix and match R, Scala and SQL all together.
I work for a reservation systems company (a GDS) that is used by thousands of travel agencies. Of course, since the system was created 30 years ago, you were only able to create reservation with a text-based interface at the time, with short commands, inconsistent and complex flows to do some non-trivial things etc. So it's despised by newcomers because learning curve is steep.

However, the company has been building new web-based solutions for a while, but all of them have so called "cryptic mode" where you can still directly input the commands, as it is order of magnitude faster, mandatory feature for experienced old-timer travel agents.
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Counter experience (but it was 2009). I bought a used white macbook from craigslist in 2008. I'm from the US, and live in the US.

Was traveling in UK, and laptop keyboard cracked - big hole in the side of the keyboard. Took it to Apple store in London - forget which one - replaced at no cost in about 3 hours.

EDIT: per goatforce5's comment, I had a bit of 'umm' and 'ahh' when I was in London. I thought it would be "out of warranty", but it was the same thing - "not sure we have any parts to fit the US keyboard". They did find one, but that was the potential hold up.
I'd speculate that the biggest hazard would be a stationary object (tire in the road). If so, pedestrians crossing traffic seem less likely to cause problems.
I remember getting stuck in emacs as a teenager on my only computer and having to just hold the power button down to get out because I had no way to search the Internet for the exit command. Haven't used emacs since. Good times.
About this:

"And as a matter of constitutional law, we strictly prohibit doing that in our own legal systems."

If you are talking about the USA, this is fairly common, at least in so far as civil cases. Any time the Supreme Court recognizes a new right, it opens the door to new lawsuits based on those rights, which can be retroactively applied. Consider the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s, when the Court expanded rights at a rapid rate. Thousands and thousands of lawsuits were retroactively filed based on those new rights. People who had been victims of racial and sexual discrimination sued to gain justice for decades of abuse. Once the Court recognizes a new right, the assumption is that the right had always been there, since the beginning of time.
"Menustration products in the male restrooms for 'men' who have periods"

Thanks for reminding me how insane some people from California are... I almost thought this was a joke.
I use mine about 50/50.

At work it gets hauled around as a notebook for writing notes and annotating documents. If I find I need to do some more serious work, I just stand it on the table and start using the keyboard. When I get back to my desk it gets used as an ancillary laptop.

At home whether it's a laptop or tablet depends on what I'm doing. If I'm just mindlessly clicking through reddit while using it as a remote for Netflix, then I'm definitely just using it bare. If I decide I want to type out a lengthy reply to a Hacker News post or do some programming, I'll shift over to the coffee table with a keyboard.

Definitely see a lot of people that bought them with the best of intentions that don't really make full use of them. I've had my eyes on the "convertible" market for years, though, and I don't regret the purchase at all.
Say what you want of Emacs, at least it has a clear exit strategy.
It was only a commentary on whether buying adapters/dongles or converting to new hardware now vs. later doesn't (or shouldn't) matter to users individually, not a suggestion that USB-C adoption shouldn't concern users in a more collective sense.

For what it's worth if I was in the market for a Surface Pro I think I'd have also preferred USB-C, given its momentum.
It's not click bait, what you are defining is regret and regret is not needed for something to be a mistake.

I have made many mistakes in my life - some I regret, others I do not.
Not surprising, since the primary role of WHO is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations’ system.

http://www.who.int/about/what-we-do/en/

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We are the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations’ system.

We do this by:

* providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in partnerships where joint action is needed;

* shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge;

* setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their implementation;

* articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options;

* providing technical support, catalysing change, and building sustainable institutional capacity; and

* monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends.
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Sounds more like you've become more experienced and critical, shit happens :) Boring free-time projects will kill your soul; letting go takes practice, but just giving something away for free is plenty good enough.
Putting the fun in function optimization
Docker and Moby
The latter is indeed what that graph is showing: what percentage of each language's users get stuck in Vim (or more precisely what % of their Vim visits are to that question). It's not being confused with the most used programming languages.
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Careful, you might be being accurate but pedantic. Rather than picking at the parent poster, why not say what you think about the issue?
Spark can also run in a non-distributed manner.

And it's very simple to manage operationally if you know anything about JVM apps.
Back when the only really powerful lasers that could be found for optical tables were IR, I know a couple of guys who lost enough of their retina to be considered legally blind from light they couldn't see. One of them told me, "You know you're in trouble when your eye starts to hurt and you realize your safety glasses aren't on."
Not quit the same, but years back I was to take on the title of "BizTalk consultant". My company and another consulting company had decided that what our customer needed was a BizTalk server.

When the BizTalk implementation broke down and I first needed to look into how it worked and what it did, I found that it just moved a small XML file to an SFTP server and wrote a log entry. So I replaced the entire setup with 50 lines of C#. Luckily my boss was onboard, arguing that we didn't really have the qualifications to do BizTalk.

The idea had originally been that the customer, a harbour, would in the long run need to do a ton of data exchanges with the government organisations and shipping companies. The thing is that they where planing for a future that never really happened.
I believe POSIX defines vi as mandatory visual text editor, which makes it present on any compliant OS and thus a sane default value for EDITOR.
SSHing into a server implies a basic level of technical competence. The user presumably already knows cd, mv, ls, and family. Why would expecting the user to know a touch of VIM be out of place?

That said, any server admin who for whatever reason allows people to SSH in (shared hosting maybe, university, file sharing) should have nano installed. Anything else is just cruel!:wq
Is there a JS equivalent of something like this out there?
> Your comment contains a lot of appeals to emotion and very few facts, if any at all (for example, the claim that the "vast majority" of rape accusations is true definitely needs a source).

https://www.google.com/search?q=fraction+of+rape+reports+tha...

> I urge you and everyone else to think deeply before reiterating what you have heard or read from others.

Likewise. :)
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It's maybe impossible to create a tool that's relatively small, intuitive, and for experts. Vim is relatively small and for experts.

There's kind of a trend of tools that are bright and shiny, but not actually that good at their main purpose. You hit a plateau. We don't need more of these, we need more tools that are bold enough to be powerful, even if they're at first hard to learn.
Those are slower. ZQ is three keypresses. :q is four keypresses.
what's your point then? maybe you're missing my point.
Did you have an opinion on this post?
What surprised me in USA was the poor quality of jeans. If you go to low end places like Target or Wallmart you will find less variety and bad fitting and no attention is paid to the cloth quality either. The stores like Levis etc. have only the latest fashion and everything else would be in a corner. If you know what you want then it is really hard to go to Levis and buy a jeans.

For example I like double seam on side, ideally shining buttons on the pockets and classic blue color.

I always buy jeans in India. Places like Shopper Stop seem to have insane variety of jeans and all styles are available throughout the year.
Why? How can it be worse than Trump, or a career politician? I don't see how Zuck has any worse flaws than they do, but he might be in a better position to actually understand the electorate and the modern world.
Wait, this is how I got so stuck my first time in vim! It sets you up for a whole string of problems in a row:

- You enter an unfamiliar mode, immediately hit "^c".

- That prompts "Type :quit<enter> to exit Vim".

- You mistakenly type "quit<enter>". So now you're in insert mode with recording, as you said.

- You hit "^c" again, breaking out of insert mode, but you don't get the exit prompt like you did last time - the `recording` message blocks that no matter how much you hit "^c".

- Without the reference message to find your mistake, you maybe try "quit<enter>" again. 'q' now terminates recording, 'u' undoes your typing, and 'i' dumps you back into insert mode, leaving you with a text field of 't' again!

- At this point you maybe hit "^c" again. That'll drop you out of insert, but with text in the field vim no longer prompts you to quit. If you enter "^c" again it will prompt you, but you tried that during recording mode and it did nothing, so you don't expect aimless repetition to help anything!

At this point, you give up, google "quit vim" and discover that the colon was important. I'm pretty sure this madness if what I did the first time git for windows popped open vim as the default editor.
I disagree, jeans had significant cultural significance. As well as being associated with The West and the gold rush in particular, jeans were a strong signifier of working-class origins for a good while, and I bet if I were to show you a bunch of different jean logos you'd easily distinguish between those that are sold for fashion and those that are 'work wear'.
That's really cool! I wonder if there are other projects like that elsewhere in the Bay Area
Try that in less. Or Emacs. Or Nano. Or Pico. Or ed.

Doesn't work there, either. Most of those don't even offer advice on how to exit when you hit that combo, do they?

So, how is Ctrl-C the right answer then?
If you press ^C, it tells you how to quit. As to why it doesn't just exit, a lot of beginners would probably expect ^C in a text editor to copy text.
oh hey!
yea I definitely cut contact with a lot of folks without explaining to them that it was to keep them out of a position where they might inadvertently lie to LEO and themselves then be coerced into helping.

I don't think many people understand that lying to Federal officials, even innocuous ones can be prosecutable, depending on zealous they want to be.
There was a site called literate-programs.org (or something like that) where you could add literate programming examples. I think it's gone missing.

Luke Gorrie many years ago made a site like that just for Scheme code, which would also run the code and show the output. A page was also a module and could import from other pages. I helped a bit with the design. I've forgotten what it was called.

Later I made a couple more experiments along those lines, like https://github.com/darius/hmph, but it's undocumented and kind of weird.
your mother obviously made a mistake.

you're an idiot.
Right. Many programs react to an unset EDITOR variable by assuming vi though. This makes sense, of course, as virtually all systems are going to have some implementation of vi installed. Even the almighty ed tends to be missing from the default install of some recent Linux distributions.
Interestingly I work at Google and I haven't seen or used one yet, but maybe it just didn't make it to my building in testing.
Considering ~55% of the sun's energy that hits the earth is in the form of IR, my guess is IR systems would be marginal. I think it bears testing though to be sure.

As you say other creatures are much more sensitive to IR differences.
Gee. Seems like a short time until publishers sue for infringement. Laughably, Outline's terms require that you (the browser) have [1] "all the rights to the Content".

[1] "You represent and warrant that you have all the rights to the Content and that none of the Content: (a) infringes, misappropriates or violates any Intellectual Property Rights; ..."
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You get a prompt if you try to exit and you haven't written the buffer to file
Possibly me :)
I would suggest a modicum of caution. That price point is impressively competitive with Levi's while promising extensive customization. That's a potential warning sign.

You might be better served looking at http://companiondenim.com/
Not sure that you understand what you're saying.

You don't need a new OS/Platform/Ecosystem to run Hadoop/Spark. It is literally just half a dozen Java apps that you run on typical hardware on your regular Linux OS. That is specifically what it was designed for. So rather than write your own Java apps and distribute it yourself why not use a platform that is proven, performant and with Spark will allow you to do things that you could never write yourself.
I'm not getting any relevant results for that
We are getting back to that now.

At the saturation limit of recorded sound, few care, and not to the degree it made it once a major and inescapable cultural force.

Of course back then for a short window (50s to 70s and up to mid-nineties or so) music was expensive to buy, limited collection (needed mail order for exotic tastes and of course you could hardly sample them), the top 40 songs were heard by everyone and anyone because cars just had radio (some novelties aside), and there were few tv channels, no video, surely no YouTube, no internet, no social media, no mobile phones, no mobile apps, no (or very limited and primitive) video games, no VR, no cat videos, no memes, no reality style celebrities (you could get some gossip, but not 24/7 gossip), no Twitter, and so on. Popular music stood out as a unique way to have fun, escape, bond, etc then.
Cmd-T killall emacs

;)
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Let's face facts, housing is a plaything for the ultra-rich.
I'm sure some will survive, but how many? Far fewer than currently exist—which is already far fewer than have been built.
I'm speaking like "Facebook" as an organisation.
IQ is a perfectly valid population metric that correlates very strongly with many traits that we associate with general intelligence.

Unsurprisingly, a single metric does not encompass the entirety of human intelligence. Failure to identify a particular gifted individual does not in any way make it an invalid metric. It means that you don't understand what a population metric is and what it's useful for. To be fair, many people don't understand this and the layperson understanding of IQ isn't valid, but that has no bearing on the 'proper' IQ.

Generally, whenever considering methods addressing evolution or heritability, you cannot confuse individuals and populations.
I had to cover the cliff detectors on my Roomba because it interprets the black patterns on my carpet as holes in the ground. Fortunately I live in a 1 bedroom that doesn't have any actual cliffs.
We get so many people using it in terminals in #emacs. Obviously there's no way to know how many people are not using it in a terminal because they won't be asking GUI-specific questions. I and a few others do try to discourage the terminal users and nudge them towards the GUI which is more featureful, but some people really want to use a terminal at all costs.
You can intercept Ctrl+C on Windows just as well and do nothing, or something different than quitting.
I wash my jeans every 6-12 months, with occasional febreezing after I wear them. This is way more convenient than having to wash and iron my other pants.

My other alternative are my Outlier pants https://outlier.nyc/
How about we make a website where it is easier for students to pay back your loans? The healthcare.gov for student loan payback?

As one commenter said, it's difficult to pay back your loan when your debt is being passed around to different collectors like a hot potato and it's increasingly difficult to get a hold of who owns your debt right now.

Edit: already exists, it's called Studentloans.gov.
>Half of Bach's manuscripts were lost.

So? How does that make "past attitudes" any more "absurdly parochial" than ours, since the vast majority could care less for Bach and classical music today?

>Writing was invented for tax purposes.

Well, taxes were invented to help build cities and defend them, so there's that.
In 2014 the CAD was nearly at parity with USD, now it's 0.74

The average price of goods has increased accordingly. As far as I can tell the actual value of a house has stayed about the same, and the purchasing power of Canadians has gone down.

Foreigners are a convenient scapegoat, but the 15% tax in Vancouver was barely a speed bump. The chart in this article is pretty misleading as it implies that the tax worked and deflected the foreign buyers to Toronto, when in fact prices has rebounded well beyond the previous peak.