skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was only sharing my personal experience. I have never encountered muslim beliefs in parts of Europe that I'm from (Ukraine & Russia).

Growing up, Catholicism was incredibly dominant. The only other religion I was exposed to was Protestant.
there's a difference between 'afraid of' and 'don't trust closed-source crypto from'.
The point of using spaces is to not worry about any of this. You need a specific fix for less, another specific fix for other diff tools, etc etc. With spaces, everything just works.
The devil is in the details. The items are so open ended that they could just about anything...
Factory OS Housing
It's been a long time since I looked at this, but IIRC under some visas the federal system gives you extra points for selecting certain provinces. The rationale is that otherwise every immigrant will choose Toronto or Vancouver. Under those visas, you have to be resident in the province you picked for a certain amount of time (again IIRC I think is was 1 year) as a condition of your visa. Quebec is one of the provinces where you can get extra points to get in, but only if you satisfy the Quebec requirements (which generally means French language skill or agreeing to take French language classes, I think).

Disclaimer: when I say it's been a long time since I looked at this, I'm talking 20 years or so. Things have probably changed (or I have misremembered). But it gives you some idea anyway. In my recollection, if you choose not to get extra points for selecting special regions to settle in, then you can settle anywhere you like. Programmers, doctors, nurses etc almost never need the extra points, so it's kind of moot in this discussion.
TLA+ in Practice and Theory, Part 4: Order in TLA+
Inaccuracies visible on an oscilloscope might not be audible to humans. Try applying a 10Hz high-pass filter to some music and comparing the waveforms. There's obvious visible changes but it sounds identical.
OpenSolaris derivatives have incredibly restrictive hardware compatibility. Therefore, the likelihood of existing hardware being supported is poor and the list of potentially purchased hardware is short.
Writing a Forth: Quotations
One point that caught my eye is:

"Linux enthusiasts perpetually claim that this year is the year that Linux will finally make headway into the desktop for the everyday user — but it never has and never will."

I guess the author has a (much coveted) crystal ball.
Here is what we've been playing with:
- Matrix Creator: https://creator.matrix.one/
- ReSpeaker: https://www.seeedstudio.com/s/respeaker.html
- Conexant: http://conexant.com (quite expensive, but powerful)
We are also waiting for the Matrix Voice, still on Indiegogo, due late Summer: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/matrix-voice-open-source-....
As mentioned earlier, we will soon release a benchmark of the various mic array solutions, as well as tutorials for setting them up.
I wonder how much time have been wasted trying to make margins and columns look good with a proportional (non-monospace) font ...
I had a similar experience with discounted-if-paid-promptly hospital bill. I got a call saying, essentially "we didn't move the money around our internal systems in time and now we want the rest of the money".

Since I paid with a credit card I could make the case that I was charged before their deadline and they let it go.
I may be misremembering since it has been a long time since I've used it, but I thought at one point Python treated one tab as equivalent to eight spaces.
I would say there is a space in the web world which is truly egalitarian, and then surrounding that are non-egalitarian structures.

The same is true in iOS development, with xCode you can put whatever you want on any phone, so if you ignore digital distribution, there is a space where iOS development tools are truly egalitarian. I could sell iPhone software to you by having someone physically attach your phone to a development machine and install my app.

But for most purposes, the egalitarian web space includes a means for reasonable distribution, whereas the egalitarian iOS space doesn't so I am rounding those off to "exists" and "doesn't exist" for the purposes of discussion, because I don't really think a software platform without a legal means of distribution is a "real" platform.

But sure, true egalitarianism is an impossible dream that can never exist? I agree, but I don't see how it changes the conversation.
When I needed a new pair of headphones, I went to guitar center and the salesman pointed me to the DT770s. Much better than going to the Apple store or Best Buy.
A good example of the ROI of Open Source is the OpenEMR project. That free system replaces multi-hundred thousand dollar hospital systems from companies like Cerner. I used to work at Oracle, and when I found out about OpenEMR I remember thinking "this makes the price difference between Oracle Enterprise Edition and MySQL Community look trivial".

A lot of times I hear the implementation cost is where all the money is so it doesn't matter what the software costs. That is sort of true, but large companies are not incentivized to make it any easier to implement, less they put their System Integrators out of business and/or push them to other vendors. The Open Source community does not have this incentive obviously.

EDIT: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEMR
Except they occasionally miss some nasty bug in that area...

This is yet another danger to security.
Good case study on one successful open source project. Shouldn't be used to draw any broader conclusions about impact of open source on any company's biz model. Some portions of typical software stacks are amenable to open source biz models (such as general purpose server OS), while many others are not.

Note that the study does not actually measure ROI from a revenue perspective, but estimates based on theoretical saved costs: The company invested $1M in open source infrastructure and potentially saved $2M in direct development costs (given that the code base is current worth $3M). [1]

Most interesting takeaway for me is the implications of open source for government funded projects, and a ratification of the idea that contributions of code for some public tool can save the general public tax money. A forward thinking org could try to broker some sort of tax cut based on SLOC contributed to public, government-sponsored projects? Maybe that already exists.

Would suggest studying Red Hat's rise to $2B in yearly revenue to understand how a company takes open source and turns it into revenue.

[1] GFDRR’s direct and in-kind investment in GeoNode over the past six and a half years has been in the range of $1.0–$1.5 million USD...GFDRR’s investment in GeoNode would be a reasonable amount even viewed strictly as a software development cost: the GeoNode software today represents an approximately 200% return on investment in terms of code written, since the current GeoNode project would most likely have cost $2.0–3.0 million USD if GFDRR had produced it alone as proprietary software, without building an open source community around the codebase.
It is interesting to see that it is a well-paying language, according to that chart, regardless of whether one uses tabs or spaces.

I suspect this has more to do with the sorts of programmers who work with Clojure, though.
> families in Chechnya, ashamed to learn their sons are gay, have been "indirectly encourag[ed]" to kill them to restore the family's honor

From what I understand, this is more serious than police.
>> "What compels someone to attack another person because their beliefs"

Anything that motivates humans: patriotism, romance, religion, politics, etc.

In this particular case, it's easy to see why this man's uncle would attack his nephew. The uncle adheres to the Islamic faith, which forbids homosexuality. Breaking the law carries a punishment; this would be motive for a person who takes Islamic law seriously.

>> "how in the world does your nephew's sexuality relate to you? Not one damn bit."

In an honor-and-shame culture, a person's sexuality absolutely relates to family's name and reputation. A family member practicing a forbidden form of sexuality brings shame onto family.

This occurs here in the West, too, albeit on a lesser level: imagine if your nephew was arrested for a forbidden form of sexuality, like pedophilia or beastiality or child pornography. You wouldn't go around advertising that to your friends and family; it'd be shameful.

Amplify that shame in honor-and-shame cultures, and you have motive.
But that is exactly what is needed, more enlightenment with real stories like this. People aren't going to realize racism is a real problem if you just scream racist to them. I am white and used to think anti-racists were a bunch of idiots. Only by seeing the prevalence of racism in social media did I start realizing racism was a bigger problem than I had imagined. Reading "Gang leader for a day", was a major eye opener. I think I partly got into that because of the TV series the Wire and the book Freakonomics, which covered the economics and social structure of drug gangs.

But this requires some curiosity and interest in learning which biggest and racists might not have. And frankly it is hard to change people's mind when you are calling them names. People tend not to listen to people they don't like.

We also have to accept that racism goes both ways, it is just that white racism has much more severe consequences for black than the other way around. But I believe it helps maintain white racism to some degree.

I am not American, so I can comment on this as an outsider, and I can very clearly see that many American blacks have a big issue with whites. It is hard to win over whites if they only have bad experiences with blacks and also see no point in educating themselves on the issue.

I am not passing out blame. I am just saying, everybody can contribute to making racism a thing of the past. The ones who have to do the most are whites.
I'm surprised Apple doesn't include Apple Music for free in its ecosystem. Seems like a minuscule cost to incentivize staying on Apple hardware
“Amazon making a bid here sounds like a play for a decent social seed, likely steming from users of its core properties (shopping and dev). Of all the mega-corps, Amazon is one of the few that has all the pieces and user-engagement, but no social component.”

Well they do own twitch & good reads, right?
"That's $100,000 a unit; you can build a much larger and fancier house for that kind of money."

Not here, where the minimum tends to run around ~350 a sq ft, and higher quality homes can be ~600-800 per sq ft.

(coming from the east coast, yes, this is bonkers, but ...)
Newsflash: First Immortal killed by car during victory dance on the street
Parrot Security OS on Systemd
Spotify's 2016 financials
That's an implementation detail. Code written in these languages is generally trivially retargetable.
It isn't, although I can see how it could seem that way. I'm just an enthusiastic fan.
App Engine Flexible vs. Container Engine?
How fake news led pope to bless England’s Irish invasion
Probably, PGP used RSA for asymmetric keys and session keys before IDEA, can't recall exactly but it was a short lived part of the app and PGP was changing during that time and now has changed supporting most algos with OpenPGP. I think we only added PGP at the time because it was a hot item/had some buzz about it during the time.

In our app, we switched it to Bouncy Castle for digital signatures after removing it for the other features.
incredibly common theme in many pre-Christian myth systems. the good/evil dualism in Christianity is the real aberration, despite its prominence.

one of the more credible hypotheses I've encountered about this phenomenon is that early Christianity adopted many of the positions of Gnostic Manichaeism [0] in order to absorb rival cults.

0- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism
In my experience it's not the amount of decisions as much as amount of work, I've mitigated that by automating as much of my business as possible from invoicing to funneling customer communication from email and phone calls to slack. try and identify what parts of your business you are spending the most time on and figure out if there's a better way
It's probably also worth noting that with advances in manufacturing, new - relatively cheap - lenses can be quite good, even compared with older "high end" lenses.

New Sony lenses are for example quite good.

The situation is different if Obe has (access) to an existing collection of great lenses, obviously.
Coding = thinking in several dimensions
The Optical Illusion That’s So Good, It Even Fools DanKam (2010)
Yep. Though as with most things, it's not so much about changing people's minds as it is waiting for the old folks to die:

>Approval of black-white marriage is higher among younger Americans, and lowest among those 65 and older
Could be they're billed as "temporary" for legal reasons. Another thing to consider is there's a lot of "temporary" housing from the post-WWII era that's still in great shape.
Oh jesus christ no, it's not (and shouldn't be) normal. Work activities should be able to be reliably traced back to the individuals that did them.
I would be annoyed if any of them "gripped" the screen when I was swiping, causing jumpy motions.
It was costing less, now it is a bit more than you say. I think this law forced cheaper operators to make deals with all the other country operators, no one was going to decrease prices, so in the end we got the maxed out price.
The Amstrad PCW was also a Z80 system with 256 or 512 KB RAM accesible using bank switching. Normally it acted as a RAM disk.
Yes, their quarterly report SEC filing[1] literally says "Snap Inc. is a camera company"

[1] https://www.last10k.com/sec-filings/snap/0001564590-17-01035...
Having been on the internet since before Linux or web browsers existed, and studied a good deal of economics and history going back to antiquity, and having grown up in a town founded 1500 years ago, you're really not telling me anything new here. I'm sorry but I disagree with your approach of making sweeping statements of economic theory but limiting them to the timeframe of a single generation. I know your original comment was not meant to be exhaustive, but I found the economic analysis superficial.
My positive experience of interviewing and being rejected for YC s2017
Good thing you've got The State to provide a mechanism for non-owner interests to be represented.
Much saner leadership at the helm of the team that released this one. The leadership/team behind FreeNAS Corral (aka FreeNAS 10) was let go after their abortion.
There's plenty of categories of products where the difference between high and low quality is nebulous, wine being maybe the most famous example. But beats is not one of them.

Holding them up to another $200 pair of headphones and listening to them side by side makes the difference obvious. The case molding is poor quality, lacks removable fasteners that make most expensive headphones repairable, and the leather isn't as soft. They don't get as loud as headphones with nice drivers. These things are obvious to anyone that tries them out.

The only thing Beats has going is the branding image of Dr Dre and now Apple. They're trendy and its the only reason they sell, besides that they're crap in almost every way.

Things might be better now that Apple owns the brand, as I haven't held a pair in a while.
That discussion is about user IDs, not tweet IDs.

Tweet ID from today: 875423039323688960

Number of bits of precision necessary to represent it exactly: 60

Overflowed 53-bit precision long long ago. You can read about it here: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/twitter-ids-json-and-sn...
> mandatory fill rates in private prison contracts

One day people will look back at this and go "they did WHAT?"

The age of savagery.
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the server is closed source
> It's really cool hearing what they heard in the studio control room for the final mix. And often surprising.

But that's not quite what you're hearing - you're typically hearing what happens after the final mix is shipped to a mastering engineer who listened to the recording on a variety of intentionally flawed sound systems (probably including the "car test" - playing the tune on a car stereo with road noise, which is about as hostile an environment as people will expect to enjoy music in). Then the engineer threaded the needle to come up with the most pleasing sound they could muster for the intended market.

In the process the recording will have been compressed and EQed quite a bit, and likely will sound a good bit richer at a given loudness than it did when the mix was done - you should be able to "hear through" the mix better than before, unless the mastering engineer was simply going for loudness-at-all-costs, in which case, it might just be loud.

Anyway, not to take away from your point - good headphones, or even just headphones with different frequency response than you're used to, will open up different details of a mix, for sure, and flat response will give you the best chance to hear any details that weren't pushed to the fore intentionally, which can indeed be eye-opening.
Yes, it's definitely a horrible use of the word 'correlated', because it doesn't say what I think you're intending to say. Derived is a much better word.

I believe that what you are meaning to say is that price responds to demand, and demand correlates to the perceived value of the product. In turn, perceived value is often but not inherently responsive to information about the 'quality' of the product.

Instead, perceived value is a summation of various forms of utility, only some of which are affected by 'quality'.

Furthermore, any determination of 'quality' is rarely made upon information that is as complete as the information available to an attempt to methodically determine the relative 'objective' quality of substitutable products, because of the disutility of conducting such an assessment. More often, the determination is based upon perceived indicators of quality, which are known to be unreliable.

This diminishes the relative importance of 'quality' in the formation of the perceived value of the product, which accounts for the importance of alternate, more reliable information about the product, such as the social signalling value, and especially easily manipulable information such as indicators of "style" and the narrative about the product; this in turn explains the willingness of product vendors to invest in advertising.

With regards to the use of the word 'correlate': price is of course correlated with demand, with correlates to perceived value, which tends to correlate to perceived quality, which tends to correlate to quality. Since correlation requires transitivity, price does then tend to correlate to quality. So what you actually said is incorrect.

I believe that your intended assertion (as I understand it) is also incorrect and over-broad, because in many instances a highest-information assessment of quality is the sole determining factor of the perceived value of the product. This is often true in business to business transactions such as part sourcing, where a person with specialized information is in charge of purchasing, and with products in a commodity market such as grain or beans, where a standardized determination (and guarantee) of quality has been established.

(Thanks for the opportunity I've taken to sit for a while and practice arranging my thoughts, which is the reason that my reply is so extensive.)
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The bigger issues of upgrading I've run into:
* Systems generally still ship with 2.7x
* Dependencies that also have not upgrades (e.g. 3.x doesn't exist) or require a complete re-work now
* Searching for help on X often results in 2.7x help

I've upgraded projects, but this "you refuse to upgrade" business bothers me. There is a reason people haven't: The way Python handled all of this is horrid.

It's often easier to just move to another language.
That one language, in Quebec, would be French, so.... be careful what you ask for.
Mirrorless is another good option, but unless you plan to take advantage of the interchangeable lens capability, P&S is cheaper and easier. The Nikon Coolpix A900 in particular I can recommend based on your use case; I had one before the D5300 and, had I not needed a full-on DSLR to support long-range wildlife photography and the like, it would have done me just fine.

(It's important to consider how something fits into your daily life, too. No camera is useful if you don't have it when you want it, and I wouldn't have chosen any DSLR did I not already carry a satchel with enough room to tote it along every day.)
> leak sound like crazy

That's very true, which is unfortunate. I completely agree they may not be appropriate in a office or other quiet environments.
How about reform? Revolutions have never worked. They just lead to more violence.

I think the problem is that there are too many problems in the US and people focus on too many issues rather than focusing on the underlying issues.

Little can happen until the election system is changed. Hence one needs to vote in politicians who will change it. To make that happen more young people and minorities need to vote. That means whatever you think of prison systems, or anything else, getting more people to vote is number one priority.

What people don't get is that, by merely voting you can make a change even if the choices are shit. If politicians knew lots of young and minorities tended to vote, then the politicians would start attempting to take advantage of that and push issues these groups care about.
Canadian trivia: It has been said by many that Mitel stood for "Mike and Terry's Lawnmowers". When they left Bell Northern they weren't quite sure what kind of company to make -- just that they wanted to make their own company. I actually went to a dinner and was fortunate enough to sit next to Terry Mathews. I asked him if it was true and he declined to answer, so I'm still not sure :-)
It really seems like some corporate tax should go to the cities. These companies are more or less responsible directly for the insane gentrification of the Bay Area, why shouldn't they use some of their immense profits to help the city deal with the consequences of it?
Mods, can we change the title to that of the source report? "OpenDRI & GeoNode: A Case Study for Institutional Investments in Open Source."

The current title, "World Bank-Sponsored Report Shows 200% ROI on Open Source Participation," the contents of this link, and even the World Bank's own blog's title, strongly suggest that this was a World Bank-commissioned study across multiple open-source projects/communities. Note the plural in OP: "to quantify the benefit of contributing to and participating in open source communities." And the World Bank's blog title: "Leveraging Open Source as a Public Institution — New analysis reveals significant returns on investment in open source technologies."

But that's not the case at all. As noted in other comments, this is a single community, a single project. Granted, it's a successful one. But we shouldn't get our hopes up about "oh s*, this is an article I can forward to the C-suite to get us to invest in open source!" What we have here is technically accurate clickbait that relies on the brand of the World Bank's analysis. And, in being disappointingly vague, it tarnishes that brand.
"tough on crime" is an election campaign strategy more than anything else.
Because it requires a brain. A drone can't do it.