skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- HEADLINE: Bring back the standard (console) Live CD

- DESCRIPTION: Jessie had a standard Live CD. While the HTML still refers to this flavor, it is not found on any mirror that I checked for Stretch.

I have to use the live CD to install ZFS on Root. I would prefer to not bother downloading or booting a desktop environment when I don't need one.

I don't know why it was removed, but the name was always strange to me. Name it textonly or expert or something so people don't choose it. Standard sounds like it is the recommended image.

- DISTRIBUTION: Live CD
Given how Uber operates, if Lyft is doing anything wrong, I would expect Uber would already be publicizing it, and indeed be trying to make it look a good deal worse than it really is.
If you need them, even as an investment, you can always rent out a house. Having a small car as a daily driver and a big one for a family car makes sense.

There are drivers that rent Priuses for hundreds/week and earn a living on Uber/Lyft. The owner is making a killing I'm sure.
With Python people are doing data analysis and machine learning in addition to web development, with JS you can do frontend web development and if you use JS for the backend you can even do server side rendering for React/Angular. With Ruby you just have Ruby on Rails.
It's a good question because I understand Japan to be the region in the world where iOS dominates smartphones the most (over 50%?). I know RubyMotion has Android support and it continues to get better but I think it's fair to say RubyMotion is strongest for iOS/macOS work.

The company is under new ownership/management since very recently ... perhaps Amir or someone will look at regional situations and gain more mindshare for the platform.
Maybe. It's good to try an experiment to find out what the results are. They can always revert policies.
I am not surprised by that usage. The are a lot of people for whom the difference between Google, Facebook, and Internet are not well understood.
Good to know, I didn't realize 5.x has that API available. Why it's only available in 5.x makes no since ES has had the API since at least 1.x
To build on what you're saying, I'd also like to pay publishers for content instead of viewing advertising. However, advertising has two useful features.

1. It provides a default way of paying publishers without any action by the consumer (i.e. the see an ad if they don't set up a payment system)

2. It establish a price for viewing the content, (i.e. the price that an advertiser would pay to show you an ad)

For reason 1, I can see how it is necessary to have an advertising option as a default to get the ecosystem rolling.

However I really, really hope that users would get the option of paying publishers directly instead of seeing ads. This is where reason 2 comes into play, it provides a market price for us to pay for the content we consume - just pay what an advertiser would pay.
If we got rid of the 1c penny and 5c nickel, then the dime would be the smallest/thinnest coin... having change in $0.1 increments seems as reasonable to me as having the current (e.g. gasoline) pricing in $0.001 mils.

Just shift up an order of magnitude for physical payment.
The FED is targeting 2% inflation a year so every century or so we should shift an order of magnitude in value.
"Google language" is Dart and it does have generics. So low conceptual barrier seems reasonable reason for success. Rust does have all features you listed and of course generics. Both started around 2009 so it is about same age as Go but not as popular among developers.
As others have said, taking such a superficial shift as indicative of power dynamics is ludicrous.

I wonder, how much can culture and fashion, rather than technology or globalization or something else directly effecting the market, change this? Could it simply be that mad men shmoozing is out, "data driven" workaholism is in?
Perhaps a more interesting measure is how many coins it takes to buy a Big Mac, or whether the coins are worth so little it would normally be done with paper money.

For example, the Big Mac index of the UK is £3.09, which is fairly reasonable for coins (£2 + £2 + 10p).

For Switzerland, it's 6.50Fr, so 5Fr + 1Fr + 0.5Fr.

But for the US, it's $5.06, which needs the paper $5.
I love Emacs Lisp.

Emacs has really good support for it which continues to improve over time.

But.. I love more than one language (and more than one Lisp for sure).
Will you try to persuade me that I am wrong in that regard?
Are you equating a fair American Presidential campaign to people who cut people's heads off and record it?
What if they can't afford it?
> For example, hackers could analyze the preboot environment of an encrypted mac and sniff out the password using a variety of methods.

The password is not available in the preboot environment. The disk encryption key is encrypted with the user's password, which must be entered to boot the machine.

While Apple hasn't open-sourced the implementation, they've explained how it operates in considerable detail. By all accounts, it's a rather good design.
I think the type mess is also a factor, not just the rate of incidence.

If you leave a cup behind once in a while, no problem, just shove it in the dishwasher.

If you make a coffee and leave sugar, and milk out and bits of coffee grinds on the counter every single day that's not ok.

Honestly, most adults are 5 year olds when in comes to cleanliness.
Federal prisoners are about 10% of all inmates. So yes, I would call 1.8% of federal inmates in private prisons miniscule.
Nicotine is a drug. And some small studies have hinted at the benefits it confers (along with the risks, both of itself and in the delivery medium, burned (and processed, and adulterated) tobacco).

Their are also significant social and signaling roles.

Until we can have an honest conversation about this, and actually embrace and continuing objective science on it, we aren't going to find the honest and effective solution -- whatever that may be.
God bless, and may flights of Vorlons sing him to his rest.
From another comment, it seems like it was invented to specifically support Japanese characters. It might have been the only scripting language for a while in Japan so it makes sense that it became popular over there.
> I really have a hard time understanding why people would intentionally do that to themselves.

Most people don't understand it, and that's a real problem. I'll do my best to explain.

Several decades ago I found myself living in my car. I had a job that didn't really cover expenses, but it allowed me to eat and pay for gas.

Why didn't I just quit and find a new job? Well, quitting meant that I would no longer be able to pay for food or gas, and jobs were hard to find in the recession of the early 90s.

Now, I had no debt, no family to support, no need to stay in that city and a four-year technical degree, so I was able to bounce out of that situation relatively quickly, but if those things had not been true, things might have turned out differently. Believe it or not, you can have a full-time job and actually work yourself into poverty.

When the choice is between taking on more debt and having your children go hungry or homeless, there really is no choice. Taking time off to re-train is not an option. Many people are in this situation because they are taking responsibility for their lives and for those of their families.

Don't feel bad about not understanding it. Until you've seen this cycle actually play out, it's hard to believe it exists.
Rate and time spent on the service.
Does anyone know where Babylon 5 can be streamed (legally)?
Interesting! I love Babylon 5 and watch/re-watch it every few years. I've even watched it with several friends over the years and discussed it in depth with each of them.

It's definitely a strange show, but it's sheer story is like almost nothing I've ever seen. It's like a proto-BSG, where we're following many characters and their arcs through a very intense and far-reaching series of events with long-lasting consequences that may show symptoms only very slowly. Like I said, it has this in common with other shows, and it's great. But unlike almost any other show I've ever seen, the first three seasons comprise one cohesive story.

I've consumed other media with stories that are meant to span large volumes of content, but almost all of them end up wandering around a bunch before eventually remembering that they're supposed to be dealing with the larger plot (cough Wheel of Time cough). So to see such a long-reaching cohesive story, something I'd never seen on TV before or since, and have it actually be good, made Babylon 5 an amazing show for me.
You are aware that "the state" isn't a thing, right? "The State" is merely what we call what you're referring to as the workers if it doesn't do what we want it to. The State is just a group of people.

This type of revisionist romanticism towards the USSR is an excellent example of the No True Scotsman fallacy. We don't like the result, therefore it wasn't socialism.
Jenkins + Blue Ocean, Spinnaker, Gitlab all running inside as well as deploying to Kubernetes
The five universal laws of human stupidity
Having a DevOps Engineer that wants me to go the AWS Dedicated Everything Route, I need articles like this to explain to him my fear that our problems will just change, not go away, by going that route. + Adding a fat layer of dependency.
Luxury Office Chairs for Healthy Back and Great Posture
Australia has the most expensive energy bills
(Disclaimer: I work on Elastic's Cloud team)

While AWS ES can be cheaper in some configurations, Elastic Cloud is actually quite competitive in pricing for larger clusters when compared to AWS' ES-service. This post compares the two services, and there's an example price comparison at the end of the post: https://www.elastic.co/blog/hosted-elasticsearch-services-ro...

We support most official plugins, and if you get a gold or platinum subscription you can upload your own plugins. Elastic's X-Pack is included in every cluster, which includes security features like role based access control.

It's not possible for external service providers to integrate with IAM at this point.
No. They are as different as can be. But there are many kinds of different. Some are better than others. And neither of those are good.
It's been a while since I took a math class, but it seems like the logarithmic base is key to understanding what kind of problem you have and the type of solution needed. Comp Sci naturally uses 2, biology and finance tend towards e, etc.

Base 2 problems tend to require clever recursion and dynamic programming to solve, while the natural logarithm often requires calculus.

But then again, I'm not a mathematician - just what I took away from a broad undergrad.
Yeah, I suppose so. I only asked because reversing a singly-linked list just seems like a PitA.
Ethereum definitely looks like it is in bubble territory to me. There's been a 3000% runup in the past few months. Most of the applications as you mentioned are based off the promise of something amazing rather than delivering something useful today.

I think the biggest hurdle is size of the blockchain. I tried downloading the entire blockchain and it got stuck... like downloading one block every 10 seconds, when the blockchain is roughly growing by this size. Found out I had to run geth --fast which donwloads only the headers for the blocks.

I'm just wondering how the average user or investor who is not a programmer is going to get the blockchain and backup their coins properly. Likely most people will keep their ethers on an exchange which is not secure.
In the west terrorism works trough media exposure. Fighting it in media is good strategy. Violence itself is ridiculously low volume per capita.

If traditional media would step in, it would be major win. Instead of having symbiotic relationship with terrorism, where they hype up the terror, they could stick to reporting the facts and situation and not providing non-stop terror-porn entertainment to audience.

Once people realize that terrorism just one small risk among other must bigger risks (like high rise buildings with flammable material) they stop fearing it and the terrorism stops being effective. It will never completely vanish, but it will not attract radicals as it used to.
Meanwhile I could easily imagine a senior web developer with 15 years of programming experience having used JS, Python, Perl, PHP, ASP.NET, and a dozen non-web languages but never a single line of Ruby or Java.
Student debt should have no interest. Better even, there should be free education to begin with.
So what's the argument for the government forcing people to use a coin they have repeatedly chosen not to use voluntarily?

In any case, at this point in history, it would seem to make little sense to overhaul currency denominations.
I'm not against renting, or something as a service etc.. I'm just saying the benefits of actually owning something you need pays for itself. If you're new to skiing and want to try it out? Rent the gear. Going more than twice a year? I'm sure buying good gear is worth it.
My wallet includes a pouch for coins; I think that's fairly standard for a wallet sold in Europe.

Coins are easier to tell apart, and I never like the grubby $1 bills I get in the USA. But, I don't often use cash either -- mostly when splitting the bill in a restaurant, since it's easier to hand the waiter 200kr than have everyone use the card terminal in turn to pay their exact 194.23kr share.
Democracy has it's flaws, but I don't know any other system that works better for society today. One of democracy flaw is balance between freedom and safety, you can't have both.
You can easily resolve this (terrorism) problem in totalitarian regimes (look at Kadyrow and Chechen Republic) but whole society will pay price for that.
On the other hand it's easy to criticize any censorship like moves but radical islam ideology spreads like a cancer through Twitter, youtube and other social networks. You can fight terrorists, kill them but you can't kill the ideology. If you can't kill ideology you need to control it's spreading. What tools do we have to do that aside from moderating content?

Lately I was watching some live stream on youtube about UK terrorist attack to get information about what's happening. I've seen what couple of thousand people wrote on the chat below the video. I didn't seen so much hate, intolerance, racism, fascism from so many people at same time in my life. I've closed it because I couldn't read that, the problem is that probably many young people didn't...

This is very hard problem without any satisfying solution. On one hand we don't want to give up our freedom of speech, we are fearful that some evil actor will use it to manipulate our society, on the other hand, ask parent of a dead kid that died in last UK attacks or any other attacks, ask yourself, what you would give up to get your dead child back.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel :

The service was rolled out experimentally in 1978 in Brittany and throughout France in 1982
Arguably, the backlash from prior instances of political suppression is part of why we have the Orange Idiot as POTUS.
If one is trying to find redundancy in the language, one might want to ignore the redundant items in the list first:

* 2 and 8 are literally just 1 inside of a callback, which is weird to be this list. Might as well also have `var x = console.log(1);` while we're at it.

* 11 is some Nodejs specific way of making a new context and then running code on it. It's somewhat equivalent to doing this in bash: `echo "#!/bin/bash\necho 123" > script.sh && bash script.sh`. I think it's pushing it to call that a way to run a function within the language.

A few are natural consequences of how the `this` parameter and classes work in Javascript. (Not to say that the way the `this` parameter and classes work in Javascript is above criticism, but they do make certain kinds of behavior easy that would require relatively painful reflection in Java to do, so if anything one should compare them to Java's reflection APIs.)

* 4 shows the call method of functions, which lets you provide a different `this` parameter to a function call than the automatically inferred one. (In a regular call to `console.log(1)`, the log function from the console object is called with console as the `this` parameter and 1 as the first normal parameter.)

* 9 and 10 are just demonstrations of that all methods can be retrieved from the object that owns them or the class they came from.

Some of the kinda redundant-looking ones have uses which I think pays for their existence:

* 6 is using an eval-like shortcut to parse a string into a callable function rather than executing it immediately, and unlike eval, it doesn't get access to variables within the current scope, which makes the code easier to analyze. Anywhere `eval` is used with a dynamic string, you've got to wonder about how it could screw with variables within the current scope.

* 5 is the way to supply a function with a variable number of arguments supplied by an array. ES6 has added some nice syntax sugar for this at least: `console.log(...someArray)`.

* 7 shows the `Reflect.apply` function, which is equivalent to `Function.prototype.apply.call`. The global `Reflect` object is provided as a convenience/demonstration as a default no-op pass-through implementation of a Proxy handler. There's almost no need to ever use the Reflect object outside of setting up a Proxy object. Calling it redundant would be like drawing an equivalence between tissues and toilet paper and wondering why anyone bothers buying toilet paper separately: it's because it's put into a convenient form-factor for a specific use.
Why is it terrifying for the "internet"?

It's an action by Google, not the internet. If Google is the "internet" then maybe they shouldn't be.

There isn't anything stopping folks from setting up alternative video hosting/social network sites.
Hey. I forgot about those things. I wonder when they went away.
Depends what you mean by insert, list and array.
Use your power to help get universal health care insurance/coverage.

Hell, all the contract, part time, whatever workers at your warehouses sure could use it.

Right here, right now, I'm not even talking about wage levels and all the rest.

Just help ensure that people, regardless of their standing in life, can stay basically healthy. In the U.S.

Bigger goal: Around the world.

THAT would be a worthwhile goal, and legacy.
That's natural since protobuf is also developed by Google
but the inner function is not anonymous, which is the focus of the question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0n2vurSBIQ is still one of the best scenes with one of my favorite quotes: "...as a warning to the next 10 generations that some favors come with too high a price..."
Worry less about robots and more about sweatshops
https://www.go90.com/shows/babylon5 (U.S. Only)
"spewing their bullshit out in public, where everyone can see how stupid it is"

And IP addresses can be logged :)
HEADLINE: list apt package dependencies

DESCRIPTION: something like 'apt-get deps <package>' returning a list of all deps for a package. This would be super duper when trying to install a standalone package file on a system where the deps aren't already present.
http://x64dbg.com

http://radare.org/r/index.html

https://github.com/joxeankoret/pyew

https://inguma.eu/projects/bokken (hasn't been updated in a while)

http://www.capstone-engine.org/showcase.html

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Disassembly/Disassemblers_... (free/open-source stuff towards the bottom of the page)
I imagine the turbulence caused by a rock falling through water is much more difficult to reverse than the waves caused by a rock impacting the surface of water.
GitHub + circleCI + Aws deployment scripts
ya these changes are about 7 years late, give or take
I never felt closure with this story.

My recollection of events were essentially Ian gets drunk, knocks on neighbors door and makes noise. Police come to "Deal with him"

If his twitter rant was honest then the police beat him possibly causing a concussion.

Whether you want to say that's his fault for being belligerent is up to your personal principles.

He gets concussion and starts strange rant. AFAIK Ian never had a history of this kind of behavior. Maybe his family stated differently. Maybe if they stated he had a history it was of alcohol abuse and not the kind of schizophrenic behavior he was portraying on Twitter.

I take it everyone didn't really look into it much further because lack of options. "Police report says they had a drunk belligerent man come in and then they released him."

Personally, given modern videos of police behavior I believe it is possible he was "acting foolish maybe even violent" at the station due to intoxication and one or more cops decided to shut him up.

Then it kind of ends up being like an Aaron Swartz situation. They weren't murdered but I think they were both victims of improper justice.

Maybe I get down-voted for being a bit brash here or ignorant of more facts with the story but I think people kind of takes on this attitude of
"Well, I'm alive... moving on".

His tweet about spending the rest of his life fighting injustice is the kind of chilling reality of this mentality.

No-one really cares until they or their family have suffered injustice, prejudice, or unfair bias.

Or maybe he really was an Ahole (behind closed doors) if his tweets were an honest realization of his inner self and that's why no-one cares to defend a racist.

So, I think you're right. I think we will never know and I think maybe people don't talk about it because there's a certain kind of professionalism expected of people.

As John Stewart said, you can have great respect for police and simultaneously hold them to a higher standard.

Or maybe we should be talking about alcoholism. I don't know but like you I also feel uncomfortable with people saying "Dedicated to this guy" because it feels phony on some level.

If he had a history of mental illness; as much as I wish his family peace I think society is better if we know the full story.

Recently read the Wiki page on Jim Carey giving his ex-girlfriend (who comitted suicide after he broke up with her) S.T.D. allegedly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carrey#Relationships

As much as I want to ignore reality like everyone else, I think we have a huge problem with phoniness that just makes things harder to cope with.
As the article alludes, economic growth makes things easy for idiots. Once stagnation sets in, competition rises and the focus is on productivity growth and efficiency which means tech and cost cutting. Technology sector would not be doing nearly as well as it is if we had 6% GDP growth.
The question was in good faith and I sincerely thank you for such a well-written reply.

I think some of your points are valid, although some of them (syntax and static typing vs dynamic typing) are mostly down to preferences or getting used to different ways of working.

I think, for example, that, given the choice between those two, i'd rather have macros (lisp macros) instead of static typing.

As for the beard comment, yes, the longer the beard, the easier is to get into Lisp.

I just wanted to note, however, that Lisp is an imperative programming language, just as C or Python is. (Of course, Lisp also allows functional programming and Common Lisp allows fantastically good object oriented programming). So yes, i agree, "most people are going to be familiar with imperative programming languages based off of C-like syntax". But on the other hand, Lisp syntax is much easier to learn than C-like syntax.
No judgement is not good judgement.
Google owns its servers - they can do whatever they want with them.

You dont have a "right" to use google, youtube, etc.

Also, you dont HAVE to use them.

Given this - obviously hate groups do not have a "right" to upload whatever they want to Google services and servers.