skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a time when Microsoft was deemed too powerful, with incessant calls from pundits for antitrust authorities to step in and break up the company. I believe it is widely accepted now that the pundits/regulators were dead wrong then as they are wrong now. We should trust that the markets will work their magic.
I think about it like:

- 2008-2012: Becoming actually usable.

- 2012-2016: Libraries porting over

- 2016-2020: Applications porting over (more work needs to be done here. See http://portingdb.xyz )
They might be less interested in the app itself, and more interested in the giant corpus of conversation stored therein.
That fits the profile of a conspiracy theory.
You'd have to take that up with the ZFS folks.
What about soft tabs?
I view it as an invasion of privacy. It's not Facebook's job to do things like that. All it accomplishes is to act like a megaphone to artificially amplify the significance of the story (insert comparisons to Fox News and tabloids here). I'm sure there could be endless debates about the propriety of doing that, but from my perspective, spreading bad news to encourage user hysteria, mostly for the sake of reinforcing platform loyalty, is ethically very questionable.

In any event, Facebook these days is only useful anymore as a convenient login mechanism for sites that use the Facebook login widget, and even there, Google's version works better.
A parking space in Hong Kong sold for nearly $700,000
The argument is that, based on the news reports, the system breaks often enough to risk causing more panic and alarm than it solves, so instead of doubling down on a bad idea, perhaps the right course of action is to reconsider the feature.

You seemed to want my argument to be some absurdly rigid form of "ship only on perfect performance". It isn't - it is more that treating misfires and the predictable, if irrational, responses something like this will generate in actual emergencies as if they were as trivial as, say, bad ad targeting is irresponsible and should be given substantially more thought.
oh poor Richard ... (ceo of pied piper)
Those are some very valid points. In your opinion, does the ease at which defects and/or bugs are found matter? In an environment that I'd hesitate to call agile but we try to be as hands on across the board as possible, should engineers/devs be expected to do very basic and rudimentary testing of a feature outside of a unit test before saying it's ready for QA?
Yep they threw out a bunch of stuff. What I remember: the CS, SS, DS, and ES segment registers, binary coded decimal instructions, protection ring 1 and 2 as only 0 and 3 are used.

Probably there is a lot of more things that were removed.
Still doesn't change the fact that another Uber / Lyft would have showed up in minutes. I still don't understand your reasoning for wanting to publicize this.

There's nothing to publicize.
that would be the most logical explanation, but the article mentions that "The effect is smaller in Europe and especially large in India, but it does appear within each country, suggesting this isn’t the sole confounding factor." Which makes me think that there are other factors at play that add up.
> In contrast I don't even know what Kojima's next thing is

Even after seeing both trailers, I also don't even know what Kojima's next thing is
Wikipedia, in the tourism article, links to WTO:

http://www.e-unwto.org/doi/pdf/10.18111/9789284418145

Million tourist visits per million population:

Finland: 2.7/5.5 = 0.49
Sweden: 10.5/9.9 = 1.06

Spain: 68.2/46.5 = 1.47
Greece: 23.6/10.8 = 2.19

(I quoted above Italy, which does not have that high visitor/pop ratio, but you get the idea.)

And about current competitiveness of operators, World Bank data at http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/where-are-cheapest-and-m...

Percentage of income going to operate a mobile phone:

Finland: 0.34
Sweden: 0.38

Spain: 1.52
Greece: 0.49

And this with typically restrictive data quotas in southern Europe, and no data caps in the north.

I.e. the new EU regulation punishes competitive markets severely. But yes, it might help the economy of southern EU countries by making it attractive for them to acquire operators from north, get rid of competition and start the same level of extraction they do on their own population.
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This post is exactly the kind of post you're looking for then?
The correct way to phrase this is "Developers who makes more money uses (or they are forced to use) spaces over tab".

Because bigger corps generally set company wide standards on the code indentation and that more often that not prescribes spaces.
Yeah, it can start some interesting conversations too - I don't care personally and tend to go with whatever autoformat in the editor uses. My view is that formatting code shouldn't be a human's job, adding linebreaks on long lines, spacing things out to exactly line up, etc is just a waste of my time.

That's the computer's job - it should do it based on human readability rules though, clang-format is probably the best example of these rules applied, it uses a TeX-style formatting engine for code.
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Playtest kit looks awesome, can't wait to try it out
My favorite unit from AoE2. :)
Nostalgia aside I think the Mongol invasions were vary akin to the "disruptive idea" paradigm. They didn't have any technology much advanced than their adversaries but they used what they had very differently than their contemporaries. Not to mention that they kept learning and adopting ideas from the nations they fought.
Very interesting concept!
They're already in that market to some extent.

https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/
https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/
It's almost like the person finder Google made, except it pushes itself on you in an attempt to drive engagement.
Hacker News should be a Safe Space.
I've worked on projects that have been developed over decades and there has never been an issue. We have conventions, developers are expected to follow conventions, and if they don't they are instructed go back and fix their code.
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>I'de say it's highly likely too, but what we need to find out is why would the US deep-state do this?

Budget. If they can spin this as a national security matter rather than a criminal matter they get the money rather than the FBI cybercrimes division.

NK specifically has the advantage that nobody will believe them and there is no political fallout from accusing them.
I set tab to call auto-indent or the language formatter on the code. I literally hit tab once to insert whatever is the defined standard for the file. So my single tab key press inserts or removes exactly the right amount of white space.

It's a holdover from my emacs days; the one thing I could not give up from emacs...
Hey, it was just an idea, I don't think any better or worse than some of the others like go "travel the world" or "go hike" or "feel better", at the end the more ideas the person has, the better would be for him...

For the book, I hope you like it and find it as inspirational as I did... Good luck, think outside the box and don't listen to the naysayers :-)
> C is much closer to assembly

And no-no should program in assembly unless they know exactly what they're doing.
The interesting question is what greenhouse gas emissions will look like once transport becomes mostly electrified and electrical generation becomes mostly non-emitting.

It's no surprise that producing batteries in the current carbon-heavy economy emits carbon. The big benefit will come when you can start to close the loop and take advantage of these non-emitting technologies in order to build more non-emitting stuff.

To make a crappy analogy, imagine pushing cars in the late 19th century as a solution to the problem of hose droppings accumulating in the streets. (Which was a real problem at the time.) It might be interesting to look at how many horse droppings are produced just supplying an automobile factory and how that compares to the horse droppings saved by the automobiles they produce, but it doesn't really tell you what the world will look like when automobiles become common, and especially when they can start being used to transport materials and workers to the automobile factories.
Come on, we've known this for years. Do we really need a study to tell us that? Hell, the only interview question I've asked new hirees since around 2003 is: "do you indent with spaces or tabs". Really cuts through the BS. It's foolproof!

:-p
This is probably the result of industry lobbying.
Well, none of the important ones, otherwise you wouldn't be here :-D
has to maintain _code_ _written_ _in_ Python 2.7 as part of his day job.
> You haven't looked very far! Most open source projects these days enforce code style through some forms of tooling.

Sure, but I've never seen a tool that was able to enforce that no-one was doing alignment.

> But saying that "Any coding standard that relies on humans to do something right is going to fail" is basically giving up and saying "do whatever".

Coding standards that you can implement in your enforcement tool are fine. But any rule you can't automate is not worth bothering with, IMO.

> I mean, why even ask people to indent consistently if it's doomed to fail? It's a mixed indent party for everybody!

Use a language that enforces indentation, or use a tool to autoindent. Trying to get people to indent consistently by hand is a waste of time.
My account is that the Internet is cluttered. Attempts to organize the clutter create piles of knowledge, but those piles contain a variety of simple and complex information, vague and detailed, accurate and creative, and still the piles themselves are not organized. We've learned to sort through piles of information to identify what we want (or something close enough). I think it's exhausting. I'd like to see a curated internet directory that can direct users to quality information as a librarian would. I believe that would stoke curiosity more than the current typical experience.
More like get those tabby cats out of here.
Businesses are run by human beings. Of course they take shortcuts and try and screw people over. Not sure that would really change regardless of the system we're under.
> Aren't the largest criminals best at laundering money?

Interestingly, not with the existing laws. Since you can move up to $10,000 per day without any reports being filed, a criminal laundering under $3.6m/year could theoretically fly under the radar.

> And doesn't the war on drugs create violent criminals?

Yes, but there are plenty of other crimes unrelated to drugs that bring in money. I'm all for decriminalization of drugs (it's a health problem, not a crime problem), but that doesn't mean I'm in favour of allowing money laundering.

I just think you might be missing the forest for the trees here. There's lots of reasons not to want money laundering to be legal. Think of all the other places illicit money comes from; I want those crimes not to pay very well at all.
The effect in the data (unless it isn't random fluctuation. At the moment I'd go with the assumtion that it is a genuine correlation, as the effect is present over all subgroups), might (1) not be monocausal, i.e. a combination of contributing factors like development experience, age of IDEs/tooling, etc. might play a role as well as other aspects. (2) a cause might not be "explained away" because the control variable was considered. Let me elaborate

The years of experience variable might be taken to explain away the effect of experience, and then conclude that tabs vs. spaces must be due to another effect than years of experience. But chances are, that "years of experience" and "tabs vs. spaces" are just correlated to a common, causal property (like "programming proficiency" or however you want to call it). Both "years of experience" and "tabs vs. spaces" are then just incomplete reflections of the underlying cause, both rendering the effect of the underlying cause incompletely.

What I am trying to say is: Its complicated, probably you won't be able to find the one true cause for the effect in the data. If this were physics, one could come up with a predictive theory to put this to the test. In social studies, we just cannot control the parameters well enough.

If you are interested in reading more on this, "Causality" by Judea Pearl is a good (but exhausting read).
Hmmmm.... A Russian peddling undocumented crypto warez implies US crypto is untrustworthy despite the obvious open source code. Don't suppose this would be one of Putin's patriotic citizen artists spreading fake news do you?

Edit: thanks to all the replies. I am smarter now.
Could also be that the reply is also an attempt to play the into the joke (kind of like a vaudeville straight man).
Well thank goodness we live in 2017.
>For durability fsync is sufficient if you do it on the file and the directory. To combine atomic and durable you can do the write, fsync, rename, fsync dir dance.

Right. This allows for the correct behaviour but I wouldn't conclude that POSIX is a transactional API. I would regard this as being able to build a transactional API on top of it; but not transactional in itself. I mean, if you had to do the same dance in SQL (insert to dummy pkey and then update the entry) you would rightly dismiss it.
Your VPN provider could have an ingress point on same ISP and as long as egress was not on same ISP you are still fine.it basically reduces to "don't be an idiot and choose some cheap/un-audited/amateur VPN provider". If worried then use something like Streisand or other roll-your-own option and use a cloud provider unrelated to ISP.
Well assuming correlation implies causation (always safe), enjoy being poor.
Foolproof no, but you should get the Ghostery browser extension. You can tell it to block all social media and advertising tracking on websites you visit. From what I can tell it's effective (websites that require a Facebook login, for example, are broken unless I tell Ghostery to "trust" that site).
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What system do you use? 2.x is installed by default on MacOS, but not Ubuntu 16.04.
If you're looking for efficiency for text navigation/editing you should consider learning vim/using vim mode in your editor.
During 30s and 40s they deported a lot of ethnic groups. Large percent (as much as 40%) died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Sov...
Hey so where is the real socialism yet? you don't seem to realize that all socialism leads to a construct like Soviet Russia. Everything was nationalized, which is basically what Socialism advocated all along. The effects are well known, let's not pretend there was ever a "no true scotman" effect for socialism in Russia.
Is all data on slack just available for viewing? If it were so I think its customers would have raised this as an issue by now.
The silicon is still there, but it's not going away. Intel loves their backwards compatibility. It's also marketing: if Intel dropped support for some instructions, AMD could say they support more instructions than Intel even if those instructions aren't used.
Which ML training set data should I use to infer new applications from screenshots?
Worst customer service I have ever encountered is from scalaway, well second only to 1&1 I suppose.
One... to see if you are for sale. If you can be bought, other state actors will try and may succeed, whether US actually bribes you or not. US needs to know if a successful App is up for taking bribe, including top developers individually, or not, because millions of Americans including persons in position of power might be using that app.

Two... essentially, this is power of people applied. Lot of interest in keeping status quo of power, of narrative, of money. They want to have dirt on everyone and then choose to use it when needed. Putting pressure or not can be decided later, dirt will be collected by default. No point in digging the well when you are thirsty, you need to do it well upfront the need arising.

>What checks and balances are in place to keep this kind of power in check?

Either play the game, or be too big to fail and lobby the government for your needs. I think the best one can do is choose your masters either USA, China, Russia or to some extent India or EU main players.
If you're interested in seeing a lot of posts about projects people are working on in Rust, I highly recommend https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/

Lots of great discussion on new tools, libraries, etc.
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Wow, I am a spaces guy but honestly, didn't care this much. Clearly, I should! I mean, I would have failed that interview question totally. Except, I would have said whatever the team consensus was.
A better term than virus is that async is a monad. Welcome to programming with monads. ;)

JS async produces Promises like C# produces Task, so you can call an async function and use the result as a Promise.
I think when things like this happen, it usually falls under the category of "bad news is bad news" and people will want to reach out to friends/loved ones who may have been affected.

If my friend is going overseas for a month (and there aren't any terror attacks or plane crashes or whatever), I will probably assume they're doing just fine, haven't been mugged or gotten lost in the woods or anything unless I specifically hear otherwise.
I would love it if you licensed this technology to the other cloud providers. IMO it would be an awesome embrace and extend play both in terms of HW and in making TensorFlow faster than its competing frameworks.

Otherwise, you guys seem locked in an expensive Red Queen's Race with NVIDIA's 1000+ engineer HW team.
You are among friends, in your use of tabs and two-spacing at the end of sentences. There aren't many of us, and seemingly fewer every day, but we are a force.
Who is manually entering spaces rather than instructing your editor to do it for you?
I agree. Go does something similar (using UTF-8). The Go creators _invented_ UTF-8, so I trust them. :)
Because french people believe everything is best about France, including the healthcare system :) I wished my comment was just sarcasm, but it's not. Even newspapers in France always entertain the idea "le systeme de sante que le monde nous envie". No facts needed.
I agree with you and kinda wish people would take a combined approach.

Tabs are better for indentation preferences. Spaces ensure that everyone sees the same thing, which can help in multi-line situations.

So I wish people would avoid this black-and-white discussion. Use tabs for indentation, and spaces for multi-line alignment...
Signal is owned by twitter

No. OWS != WS
> every single incorrect "NSF fee"

Huh...how often does that happen? If you don't mind me asking, does that happen even if the account in question isn't close to zero?
When I was working in Windows about 5 years ago they required spaces.
There's one that says "Where are my legs?" Took me a second to get but I think it's a reference to head and body in HTML.
Doubt it. Lobbying influence varies from industry to industry. Both countries try to take extreme steps from time to time on copyright (see SOPA and PIPA attempts in the US), so I'm not sure if copyright lobbying in Japan is worse. I am sure that military, pharmaceutical, oil, and health insurance industry lobbying for example is worse in the US than in Japan.
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Tabs were the default for a long time, so it can be argued that developers who use spaces make a conscious decision and care about clean code more than tab users who just go along with the default. I'm not arguing tabs vs spaces here, but exploring systems and caring about good organization.

If you care about clean code, being orderly and organized probably extends to other areas, too, and that helps you make more money.

In my experience, developers who mostly use default settings are often unorganized and easily confused. They also know very little about the systems they are working with, because everything outside their IDE doesn't interest them.

I'd also bet that many tab users had to check what they use, because they didn't know or care.

tl;dr: Developers who change the settings are more dedicated to their job.
Of course. That's why I vote spaces in every presidential election.
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Don't you aftraid of losing all of your savings due to a robbery? Also if you would want to purchase a house in the future how would you make a payment? IRS won't like a diplomat full of cash in hundreds of thousands of dollars? They will have questions.
Of all the architectures I contract for, I think AIX is the one furthest behind as far as LLVM and Rust support goes.
Would you mind clarifying what your quotes and the linked wall of text have to do with the story?
I mean, I'm aware of it, but can't understand why. It used to be they were at the forefront of new technology, but as with their isdn deployments, sometimes being too far ahead leads to dead ends like this one. It's quite an interesting phenomenon.
Plot twist: Dev Managers tracks your productivity by number of kepresses you make per day. The more the better.
> Interestingly, not with the existing laws. Since you can move up to $10,000 per day without any reports being filed, a criminal laundering under $3.6m/year could theoretically fly under the radar.

Theoretically!

> Yes, but there are plenty of other crimes unrelated to drugs that bring in money.

> Think of all the other places illicit money comes from

All very handwavey. Whenever I've read anything about money laundering it's about drugs, terrorism, & organised crime. And isn't a large part of organised crime drugs?
I'm very much in favour of legalization of drugs.

But there are other crimes that create illicit money: extortion/blackmail, human/child trafficking/exploitation, murder for hire, theft, ransomware/malware, and whatever new horrible ideas get created next.

Making money laundering harder makes criminal activity less beneficial to commit. And while ending the illegal drug trade will greatly reduce the need for anti-money laundering organizations, it certainly won't end the need entirely.
I would also guess it's not widely happening currently. But it's certainly feasille and technially easy, and may become lucrative to do if "VPN" use becomes more widespread or other motives enter the picture.
Oh, no! A tab must equate to four spaces (not two, three or eight, only four).

To achieve equality you should propose splitting a tab into four tabparts and equating each tabpart with a space. That's true égalité
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If they even bother investigating. From the sibling comment:

> But who's going to investigate Wells Fargo over a $15 "mistake" that they fix as soon as you ask them to?

The bureaucracy to file charges for something so small is a non-starter. It's probably happening to tens of thousands of other customers, but then you have to do the leg-work to get other people on board. There's nothing you can do involving the law that doesn't require a significant time investment. And as you've said, the punishment is such a pittance that all the hard work didn't matter in the end.
Copyright holders might not, but isn't one of the main distinctions between civil and criminal law that, in the latter case, the state can (and in theory is obliged to) prosecute criminal cases regardless of the copyright holder's thoughts?
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Limit everyone to one upvote per day?
What would happen if everyone on hacker news was limited to one upvote per day what would that look like?
>trust that the markets will work their magic.

Mythologies aside, this statement falsely assumes that the big tech giants aren't already propped up by the enacted laws of the government.