skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested to hear more about how that switch went and what obstacles you faced whilst carrying it out. I've posted elsewhere in this discussion that my intention is to do the same, for similar reasons.
Agree, use it often too and a good alternative I also use often is: https://git-for-windows.github.io/

It gives you a Bash shell with hundreds of useful utilities you used to get only in Cygwin.

Though the most complete is the new Windows Ubuntu system.
It would appear none have sufficient interested developers to work on an init replacement
I've been a happy Windows user since forever and I've never really understood all the complaints.

The crashes and issues are usually years apart.

I've recently installed xubuntu on a netbook that had Win10 on it (Win10's size is ridiculous) and get constant prompts and errors. Before this I tried Lubuntu and was prompted for restarts twice a week (that thing you don't have to do on Linux)

I'll continue to be a happy Windows user on my main machine. For me it's been awesome all the way. *nix systems seem either buggy or expensive.
The election had two candidates that together received just shy of 100% of the vote and that split that vote very nearly 50/50. The rest of the names on the ballot were spoilers, not candidates. That outcome was not a surprise and no one seriously expected anyone other than those two candidates to win or have any other impact than spoiling the vote of one or both of the winners. Which of thse two candidates would win was not known until the election, because polling is difficult and presidential races in the US tend to be close, so the voting was necessary and no votes for either serious candidate were wasted. All of that is true for every US presidential election in recent memory.

And just like in every previous election, no one "listened" to the voters who voted for the spoiler candidates. No one said "if HRC or DT had just done x they would have gotten more of the Green Party or Libertarian voters." People who vote for spoiler candidates self select themselves into a group where they guarantee the winning and losing major parties don't care at all what they think. Voting for a spoiler candidate means the major candidates don't have to care what you think, and they don't, so you end up with even less influence than if you had voted for one or the other of the potential winners.
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I think the best to do a bit of both and gradually increase the exercise or keep a better track of calories.
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Similarly, I get bothered by movies and television involving the misuse of (usually decorative) mathematics.
It seems to be a common theme among the creators' other games, e.g. Wolfenstein 3D.
Yes, a coworker was recently fired and the final straw was sleeping at his desk. He had a long list of other problems though and I'm sure if sleeping was the only one, he'd still be here.
Commander Keen 4 and Duke Nukem 2 with a Gravis joystick of some description.
> Woah! Check yo self befo you wreck yo self.. just login/signup.

How about I don't just to take a (probably automated) test.
Duplicity supports B2: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
He played Joker for longer. And his character's voice in The Flash is reusing his Joker voice (at least that is what my ear tells me)
I recently did a project in C++ and, at times, it felt like C++ was designed to parse every possible sequence of characters as a valid program.
This has nothing to do with this conversation. DNS recursors are not being discussed. This is strictly about DNS resolvers.
I played around with a coworker's Win10 machine a while back. Plugged my smartcard into it (a Yubikey 4), ran 'gpg2 --card-status'... nothing.

Given that I use it for both commit signing and SSH auth, the lack of GPG smartcard support would make WSL a pain to use at best compared to the Linux systems I typically use.
When I was in High School, I went to 2 years of Vocational School at the same time and took advanced studies for college so I'd have something to fall back on one way or the other.
Exactly that.
Also management suddenly asking developpers to document source code when they never cared before, or new organization with business people being put in charge of the developpers.
Suprised no one has mentionned it, but Udacity has a very good very course on computer vision.

https://www.udacity.com/course/introduction-to-computer-visi...
Yep, fair. We haven't gotten the file system performance to where it needs to be yet. You may notice some improvements in the latest insider builds, but there is still much more work to do.
>The scientists found that the more beautiful an equation was to the mathematician, the more activity his or her brain showed in an area called the A1 field of the medial orbitofrontal cortex.

From the sound of that, "beauty" evokes a reward response in the part of the brain (medial orbitofrontal cortex) responsible for processing reinforcement learning signals. This is pretty interesting, since it says that the brain can process a reward signal for a very abstract property that probably has very little correlation with direct sensory rewards.
Probably a victim of the Fastly outage?
You should use https://www.cloudflare.com/. It's free and very easy to implement.
In terms of scumminess I think it is relevant that the student loans (mostly) come from the federal government. Neither the for-profit or nominally non-profit universities bear any risk of default. They make sure to get all their cash up front. This means that their incentives are as well aligned as they might be.

One interesting proposal I've seen is to create a 'skin in the game' rule akin to the one that was supposed to go into place for mortgage originators under Dodd-Frank (but mostly didn't). That is require educational institutions themselves to finance and hold part of the student loans used to pay for their programs.
The number of neurons is not all there is to it - we know from deep learning that we can retain 95% of the accuracy with just 5% of the weights (synapses). So there could be a 20x variation just from the degree of network optimization. The elephant brain is just 3x the weight of the human brain.

Another aspect - consciousness is not created by the brain - it is a result of the brain being in the world (in other words the "agent" being exposed to experiences). To reduce consciousness to a function of the brain is to overlook a force that is guiding, teaching and limiting the conscious activity. I think consciousness, as a concept, is more related to reinforcement learning than the brain.
"Rewrite It In Rust" should be the default, pre-set comment to every article about every vulnerability
Cognitive ability also has implications for adaptability. Elephants don't seem to be able to adapt to deal with human poachers very well, and as a result are in danger of extinction.
Fact checking just offloads thinking onto someone else.

Is X true? You have to go dig around and find the answer (time and energy), or you can accept someone's opinion that you trust (shortcut).
I built https://statesreport.com because I found Google News lacking. The goal being a highly optimized news aggregator that doesn't use ML to create an echo chamber of news you agree with.
Interesting timing on this article.

Just last night I was doing more research regarding what OS my wife's photography business should use after Windows 7.

As mentioned in earlier discussions, a few of my primary sticking points with Windows 10 are:

- Forced updates (because of potential downtime)

- Telemetry (although this is more of a preference, because I doubt it represents a genuine risk to her business).

When I looked at the mechanisms people are using to control those aspects of Windows 10's behavior (WSUS, etc.), I kept thinking how I really don't have the time or interest needed to set up that infrastructure and stay on top of that.

From limited time-is-money perspective, a modern iMac is looking more and more like the right choice, despite the higher hardware cost, and despite the fact that I likely can't fix it onsite myself.
I love Ada, and I've written Ada code, but there are so few people who know it that building a community around an init system built in Ada is very difficult. The barrier of entry for contributions is "learn this language developed by the DoD thirty years ago that you won't use unless you work on embedded systems, in the US, for a living." I agree that it's a better technological choice than C, for any systems-level program, but Red Hat, like virtually any company out there, cares about money more than tech.

FreePascal, Oberon, ActiveOberon, are all great (I'm hesitant to say I know Oberon since I haven't written Oberon code in like 15 years), but besides having the same problem as Ada above, the communities maintaining the compilers are small and understandingly fragile. systemd is still going to be here 15 years from now. Oberon -- who knows?

Modula really belongs in a museum :-).

Besides, they'd all need things like D-Bus bindings etc., a working, stable compiler is just the first step.
Most parts of the US are close enough that a "major victory" or a "guaranteed outcome" is measured at the level of a few percentage points. Even in the hopelessly gerrymandered house elections coming up in 2018 there may be as many as 70 seats in play, precisely because even a "safe" seat is only safe by a comparatively small percentage margin.
I think you're missing the more imminent concern: that entire vendored browser runtimes are shipped as wasm packages, taking away ad blockers, hyperlinking, translating, accessibilty ...
Why in 2017 doesn't every home have a static ip?
There used to be valid arguments for dynamic IPs vs static IPs assigned to every home (security by obfuscation, running out of IP addies, etc) but are there any good arguments for this today?
Apple's target market in general is only a small subset of Windows' in general. A lot of what contributes to Windows' market share are computers that enterprise, government, and internet cafes purchase for their employees/users because they get more choice in hardware and because MS caters to their needs better than Apple. Apple's target market are people who are buying everyday devices for themselves, boutique creatives, and small businesses/startups.

Because of this, it makes sense that people would want to move away from their boring business beige-box computer to something more exciting, and I think thats mostly what is driving this sentiment. Don't forget also that a lot of these computers are using a very old version of Windows and not products like the new Surface.
I know a few people who have re-desktopped. Their new stack seems to be Linux desktop + Android phone, which is getting perilously close to Linux everywhere.

The main reasons seem to be your first three. If you haven't looked recently take a look at what you can get for your $$$ in the desktop world. You can build insane performance beasts for the cost of a good laptop. I mean ludicrously fast and huge-- things like stripe+mirror RAID SSDs right on the PCI bus, 16+ 3ghz+ cores, a GPU-based parallel supercomputer, and loads of RAM. It's tempting and would be doubly so if I were doing deep learning or anything similarly demanding.

The Galaxy S8 also has a dock that snaps Android into desktop mode. I've seen it and it's definitely a usable base desktop, but in the above scenario it works great as a full screen remote access terminal for your big beefy desktop. The gear (sans monitor) will fit into a backpack.

I feel like we're on the verge of something.
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This is something that only exists because of practice.

That is, the complaints you are naming go all the way to how "non-programmers" can't read most programs. They are much more rigid in structure than normal sentences, and to pretend that C or other syntax is somehow more natural misses that they all take training.

This is also why some languages had a specific "then" in their syntax. Most have dropped that, since it could often be completely inferred. (And many languages have an "unless" or similar construct.)

All of that is to say my point is that you are only used to the other way. It is not more natural in most any sense of the word.
It's getting bad when he's the conservative.
I would look at Timothy Kenny's courses on Udemy for a really good explanation on this.

There is also a book called "Cognitive Productivity" by a professor at Simon Fraser university I recommend you check out.

Sadly there is not a lot on this subject. A good example of this is the fact that right now, the only traditionally published book on this topic is literally called "How To Read" and was published in the 1940's.

- - - - -

To directly answer the question though, you should:
1. Read a book and use a pen instead of a highlighter. This allows you to not only underline but also write in the margins insights
2. Type up your raw notes
3. Take your raw notes and the synthesize them into a higher level summary of the main points
4. THEN, THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP, take your synthesized notes and create a "concept map" of them, something visual. Mind Maps are a good example of this, but they're only 1 type of concept map. This is extraordinarily easy to remember, and ideally you want to create a visual diagram for each book you read. These pictures or patterns are incredibly easy (comparably) to store in long term memory than recalling say 3 pages of notes. Also they are far easier to draw and convey to another person.
> My 10 year old 13" Macbook

> My 8 year old iMac

There's no PC manufacturer that comes close to Apple build quality. My dad is on a 2009 MBP that runs great. Well worth the extra dollars up front. Swapped out the HD for an SSD and that thing is so fast. I'm still on a late 2010 MBA. It could be faster, but I use the cloud for compiling software (a preemptible 1CPU/7.5GB instance on GCE is $0.01/hr, for an extra cent you can get another core).

So I don't really understand why people (a) serious people keep buying new computers when old Macs are great and (b) say that Apple products are expensive.
And for those people there is dropbox, google drive, etc.
What everyone seems to be missing is that a large cohort of Windows users is on crappy $500 plasticy Windows laptops with 1366x768 screens, 5200RPM HDDs and 2-4h batteries. Of course the Macbook looks like absolute bliss when compared against that. If people were on, say, a Dell XPS 13, the number would be much lower.

On a personal level, I love my Macbook mainly for macOS. It's the perfect intersection of stable, beautiful GUI/UX, UNIX and corporate (= 3rd parties like Adobe) support. Add to that the fact that Apple goes the extra mile when engineering Macbooks (terraced batteries, the hinge is perfectly balanced so you can open it with one hand but its still stiff, fans that have a different pitch per blade to distribute fan noise across the audible spectrum, MagSafe, Force Touchpad, etc.) and you have a winning combo.
Thanks a lot guys for your early comments! I absolutely agree with you ethically, but what's the matter if a company add to their legal terms that they can display the logo of their clients (users) as a reference? Is it a loophole or not?
Forced updates: select Defer Feature Updates

Telemetry: install Spybot Anti-beacon or run a PS script like Debloat Windows, takes about 2 minutes. The same telemetry is in your current install of Windows 7, btw.
> If you are a university in the "business of finding students a job" you are university'ing wrong.

Then everyone is university'ing wrong!

Universities spend an enormous amount of time and money getting students jobs. Maintaining relationships with recruiters, developing alumni networks, and entire departments of full time staff dedicated to "career services".

There's a solid critique of education programs that are overly sensitive to industry fads [1], but IMO universities and educators should definitely include "finding students a job" as an explicit curricular goal -- balanced, of course, with "ensuring students have a long and healthy career beyond that first job".

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/12/29/the-perils-of-java...
This popped into my head when I read that comment. (Leonard
Nimoy in Lazy Song ... ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dULOjT9GYdQ
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You and your lab do great work. You have my upvote and recommendation, fellow subfielder.
CloudFlare is getting rather large. I'd rather use a competitor. Does one exist?

EDIT: Some discussion on alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11913330
One important point for everyone to keep in mind, whenever you read an article about some years-long competition investigation, is that it is talking about conduct that happened in the past. In this case, by internet standards, we're talking about conduct that happened a long, long time ago (but, in this galaxy).

When Google shopping was introduced it was a search product, actually, and was not "just an ad." It only became an ad in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Shopping#Change_to_paid...
About ELF auxiliary vectors
That's a bold enough statement that I wonder if you have a reply to the OP's question.
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> that is true with OSX too. In some ways, WSL is a more native unix experience

In what way is WSL a more native unix experience than a literal unix system?

> or at least a more native Linux experience.

Well that's rather obvious given OSX is not any more a linux system than Illumos or DragonflyBSD.
> I am yet to see Android 7 devices at prices I am willing to pay,

Well, that only proves that people don't want to pay for security ;)

> one year after its release, with 9% market worldwide.

Android N was not released a year ago, it wasn't even announced a full year ago.

And when it was released it was so buggy OEMs had to wait until February for a fixed version.
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> I don’t know if anyone’s written a static linker yet, but it’s an obvious next step.

Essentially just wasm-merge [0].

> However, just like with native code, there will be problems with different languages having different representations of strings, arrays, etc.,

This is the biggest hurtle. Someone needs to provide a WASM interface for backends to implement and frontends to target that provides a minimal stdlib. Until then, it's libc and posix by way of emscripten.

0 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/pull/919
The Petya ransomware attack made ~$20k less than WannaCry in its first 24 hours
Maybe every memory access related one. I assume rust still allows you to pass untrusted user input around, for example.
I mentioned that. There are still programmers that do justify using assembly that way, and many historically. There are many programmers that just C/C++ over C#/Java/et al for very similar reasons.

I agree, it's not a strong argument, but it is an applicable argument to the discussion. There are trade-offs in every decision, and this is a consideration in those trade-offs.
We are not unique planet with life, before us there are more planet with life, they left Bible to warn us that do not eat the fruit of the tree of good and bad, however, our knowledge not so high, therefore, we do not understand what mean is, unfortunately, the end day already imminent on 2019-2030, but we still discuss " greenhouse Gas",France President Mr. Emmanuel Macron "Make Earth Great Again" and German Chancellor Angela Merkel " Our Mother Earth", both are great.

Our earth facing the end day between 2019-2030, to realize the great ambitions, a great action of saving the earth must to activate now.

President of United States Mr. Trump made a right decision to pull out the Paris Agreement 2015, it is true because cut emission of greenhouse gas do not curbing the climate change, however, he did not promised that he has a way to resolve the problem of emission.
26 is still young! I would understand if people would tell this somebody who is 56 (9 years from retirement), there might not be enough upside to changing career at such late point. But even then I'd say it might be worth it.

But 26 is still a blank canvas you can learn anything easily. I think there might be a bias as many hackers started learning programming when they were 15 years or younger so they assume it has to be like that for everybody.
I've always had the issue of WSL taking a long time to start up (5+ seconds) and had assumed that it was WSL taking up that time. Doesn't seem to be the case, as after switching to conemu, everything is much more speedy and tolerable. Thanks for the suggestion.
> I was 15-20 my brain was still working on getting fiber down for the last mile of the prefrontal cortex.

From what research I've read, that is happening later than 15-20. Its more in the early to mid 20s.
Where even I sometimes experience a bit of a strain is when < is curried with a partial application operator.

Example:

(remove-if (op < 3) list)

that removes items from list if they are greater than 3 because they are inserted as a second operand (< 3 item).

But the syntax invites a misreading as "less than three".

> Edit: < could be called increasingp

How about: crescendo!
Ask HN: 100% remote work for large firm?
I work for a large firm now, and get to work from home on a ad-hoc basis. I commute 20 mins to work one way.

Another large firm reached out about a job paying 45-50k more, but I would be working 100% from home, except when I need to go to a meeting with head honchos. Their location is 2-3 hours from me.

I've never worked in a job 100% remote.

I wondered what people in similar experiences throughout their career have experienced?

Thank you.
or better, gnome terminal with https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv
I just want some command line tools that perform a build. They exist for Mac. There ought to be a Linux port. I don't care about development experience.
Fastly. Google sites.
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I don't see the advantage of such a system over some form of direct democracy.

A right to call for a referendum puts the final say always to the people.

So policymakers will need to ask themselves "Can this law pass a popular vote?" instead of "Will this law increase or decrease the probability of my reelection?"
Lisp has a lot of things going for it. Being "concise" is not one I've seen argued, much.

In

(let [a 1
b 2
c 3])

vs

let a = 1,
b = 2,
c = 3

or

let a = 1, b = 2, c = 3

or even

let a = 1
let b = 2
let c = 3

there's a saving in the lisp version of a token or two, at the expense of having additional meaningful structure / nesting. This isn't inherent to lisp, of course; there could well be a lisp that treats commas or some other visual separator as whitespace and thereby allows

(let [a 1, b 2, c 3])

or

(let a 1, b 2, c 3)

...but in general the benefits of lisp are about power, not formatting, in my opinion.
You still have an engine that is producing a certain amount of power, and this is associated with a minimum rate of production of CO2. Some of the other interesting emissions are greatly reduced in modern engines, but the CO2 production hasn't fallen that much.
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