skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So they take the MacOS file structure to Linux? Sounds horrible to me. I always loved the structure of the Unix file system. It's simple and rather efficient. You wonder if a specific binary is installed? Look in /bin. You wonder if where to configure something? Look in /etc. You want to write a program that gives you a list of all binaries installed (like a shell)? Use the path variable that contains a few paths and check their contents. In gobolinux this variable is either huge or they use yet another mechanism. It clearly will not get better though.

The file structure should be efficient for the computer and can be abstract for the user as they want a icon on their desktop and not much more.
I've been searching for alternatives too. Problem is I don't know of any laptop that has a similar quality touchpad compared to MBP. Apparently Apple has invested much more in touchpad responsivity, especially to small movements.
At least it's nonviolent, compared to some fiat currencies.
I've had almost exactly the same experience. I recently withdrew all my btc into an offline wallet because I just couldn't trust having to deal with Coinbase support based on prior experience.

One example springs to mind. I bought some ETH once they initially began supporting it, just before it shot up in value. However, the transaction just seemed to disappear and I lost out. I tried contacting support by they just kept closing my tickets without explanation. Very, very frustrating.
AFAIK, gobo "just" redefines the directory hierarchy along with a small kernel patch that lets you see an equivalent standard hierarchy. It has none of of the architecture for build reproducibility that nixos and guix boast.
Aren't you talking about fungibility?
> Look in /bin.

What about /usr/bin? /sbin? I know the background but Plan9's overlay directories are a better alternative to PATH.
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Hadn't been keeping track of Alibaba. The stock has doubled in the last one year. That's pretty incredible
Another way to phrase this is: "Are digital coins on the verge of going mainstream?" to which I reply: Betteridge's law of headlines
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is a play by Tom Stoppard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_A...

The 'There must have been a moment..." quote is from the play. However it is a very ironic play, and it's been my experience that anyone who quotes it does so ironically.
>International payments confirmed and spendable in minutes not days. Escaping inflation Venezuela/Argentina/whoeverisnext.

So cryptocurrency is a niche app for crashing economies in the developing world and those needing to do international payments through unofficial channels?
This is claimed by DHS and not backed by law or legal precedent in the manner you imply.

ICE and CBP do conduct arrests pertaining to border violations within that 100 mile zone, but they aren't shaking down random passers-by for their iCloud passwords. They do have to follow due process.

I don't have citations because I can't prove a negative.
I bet you'll get dramatically different opinions based upon people who bought it themselves or had work buy it for them. Former have to self justify cost, latter don't.

I am one of latter. The touch bar is garbage. It is less accurate and takes longer than the old media. I rarely use it. I use emaca - try hitting meta-f a few times in a row and tell me that getting rid of the ESC key is not annoying

The new keyboard is garbage. I occasionally open my previous mac and I really miss the keyboard. I have a maxed-out MacBook Pro 15" touch bar. Apple has really screwed up its human interfaces.
If you live in a high inflation country you still have to pay taxes in that country's currency. In many of these countries the exchange rate is pinned far away from its real value and it would be difficult to sell a large quantity of cryptocurrency without missing out and theoretically you could also be subject to punitive taxation.
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No, it shouldn't. Instead we need a set of big simple to use open databases. you do not have to publish it immediately, but when it is done. And at least register a trial even if no paper is published.

Otherwise as practice shows scientists do not publish their raw data at all. Or worse, it ends up behind paywalls.

By the way author says the same as far as I can read and the title is wrong.
What about people not using those distros?
Some want to package it for other distros, but it requires you to tag releases.
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> Most people I know see religion as something people slowly liberate themselves from and not as a silo

As a French living in Paris coming from a Muslim family I think ironically you may be the one living in a silo. Most French Muslims do not agree at all with "religion as something people slowly liberate themselves from", this may be common among your mostly white liberal friends I suppose but it is _not_ the case for Muslims. Also, as have been pointed out, there are plenty of Jewish, Muslims and Catholics dating apps in France.
I pay some people on Patreon who have never posted a single thing. I do that because I read some of their fanfiction and liked it, and I wanted to reward them for it. I even do it with Wildbow, whose epic Worm I never read (!) but I read hundreds of fanfic based on it instead.

You have to find your niche.
FWIW, I've been doing LA <--> SF many times a year for over a decade and I haven't taken Amtrak _once_. Every time I've checked, it's been a 12+ hour trip due to a long stop in Santa Barbara. It's not functionally an option to travel between LA and SF when you can pay pretty much the same amt and fly in a quarter of the time door to door.
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It is a good question, but no, I don't think anybody will be able to tell you more than what's in the "Business Model?" section of the article:

But, as stated above, there is currently no
pay model, and we're not trying to make money.
We're testing a product right now, and we'd
like to bring public keys to the masses.

They say they won't sell ads or data, and however they make money will be from organizational users with a goal to provide a useful free tier that can be used by every person in the world. I assume that means that in addition to staying free, it will get easier to understand over time.

It's pretty nebulous, but at least they are saying the right things while saying nothing... :)
I used to use MailCatcher - but I've switched to MailHog[0]

Similar to MailCatcher, but it is built with Go so you dont need to compile etc - it just runs. I find it easier to install.

[0] https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
>I love that you asked this question! The very reason it doesn't happen often is because of friction inherent to legacy payment systems. Cryptocurrencies remove this friction in cross-border trade, hence are making such transactions more commonplace. It's like you saying in 1890 "Why buy cars? People don't travel that much." But the invention of cars is precisely what increased the desire to travel.

This argument presupposes what it tries to prove: the utility of cryptocurrencies.

There's no argument in there on why, if it was trivially possible due to cryptocurrency, the desire/need for international payments would increase.
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Maybe some people didn't want him to talk.
Think about it like this.

If you believed the world is flat you can still get from one village to the next one and you wouldn't fall of the earth. It's true enough for what it is trying to accomplish. If you want to navigate longer and longer distances or go to the moon however this believe will meet it's limits.

The primary thing people struggle with in general with science and philosophy of science is actually more fundamental in other parts of life to which is Truth.

Popper thought science helped us approach the some objective Truth. Kuhn realized (and I agree) that truth is always depending on the context in which it's defined.

We don't need truth we just need useful.
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I have a feeling the touch-bar is part of Apple's strategy to slowly convert keyboards into touch-screens for their desktops and notebooks. They're doing it a lot more carefully than on the phone where they could jump all-in.

If they can improve the haptic feel of it by iterating on a less-critical portion of the keyboard and show people what a more adaptable layout can do, maybe they'll be able to produce a touch-screen keyboard most people want.
This was the most remarkable part about the whole thing as well. 7,000 hours just working on a single fossil. This man must have extraordinary patience
Choose the reward level, wait until the beginning of the next month (so it's paid) and then cancel. It takes more effort on your part but it can be done.
If the drug trade caters to foreigners, then isn't it plausible that locals are selling to foreigners?

In this case, how would foreigners be responsible for "poisoning their society"?

To me this sounds a lot like what you here in the West concerning drugs... America claims its' foreign traders with "terrorist connections" who do drug sales (e.g. all the talk about Colombian drug cartels, or Mexican drug wars).
How more productive did you get due to a change of programming language?
I often hear companies or projects change programming languages due to it being more productive. Just wondering how exactly were you able to monitor for this and how you could guide the adoption of a new programming language to be productive for the whole team or company.
> Los Angeles -- whether you slice by city, county, metropolitan statistical area, or combined statistical area -- ranks nowhere near the top of per capita household vehicle miles in the United States. In fact, the Los Angeles-Long Beach combined statistical area has the second-lowest household fuel consumption in the country, just behind New York-Newark (at least according to a poorly-sourced Forbes article [1]).

Wow, thanks for the info. As someone born and raised in LA, I never would've guessed this.
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> when you exercise, either it is because the company was just acquired (and the share is immediately sold and you pay taxes on the profit) or the company has gone public and the shares are now tradable,

Nope. I'd argue the most common case of exercising stock options is actually when you leave a company before it has had a liquidity event (and you have to exercise the options because of a 90-day exercise limit). It's also when you want the lowest possible 409A/FMV, so that your taxes are as low as possible. Because you can't sell the shares to pay taxes.

There's also the rarer case (as you said) of employees exercising options of a private company while still remaining employed there. This is done in anticipation of an IPO or similar, to get a head start on the long-term capital gains tax clock. It's still not that rare though.
The audio jack is not a hole at all. It is a sealed port with metal plates inside. (Unless you make one for cheapening purposes.)
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Not really. Don't know when you lads/lasses were born, but the Web was already mainstream, with everybody and their dog getting on it, on 1998-9 or so. It didn't have to wait until Facebook.
I have my doubts about culture being something that can effectively fend off chemical dependence.

If anything, stigmatizing a situation only drives it underground where it isn't talked about, and essentially flourishes in the darkness.
Seriously. Whenever I see stuff like this on Reddit or the like I always challenge it because the anti-Monsanto attitude is so easy to buy into - it's the classic corporate bully, storybook Goliath caricature - and so many claims are unsubstantiated.

Skimming this link definitely raises some serious red flags for me with Monsanto, but there's also some very stupid shit in there, e.g. the highlighted "you cannot say that Roundup is not a carcinogen" - hell, I bet the same is true of most foods in the freezer aisle.
You think /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin (and so on) is simple and efficient?

You do know it’s a hack because the original Unix computer was running out of space and they hadn’t invented Union mounts yet... right?
When reading the overview, it says that you can enable the classical /etc and /bin (and /usr/{s,}bin) which will contain liks. These are hidden by default with a kernel module though, but always present.
and much smaller training data..
To my mind, Reader View removes most of the 'icing'.
I've tried so many ways to take notes that now I have basically 5 different apps and locations where different types of notes go. For movies I want to watch, I keep them in Apple notes. For gift ideas, there is a txt file. For things to do, I have a notebook and the occasional email to myself.

So.. not very well, I suppose.
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Are there plans to add react-native?
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Yes, when I say 'mods' I meant those with enough points to perform 'moderation' actions; I know they are not technically mods working for SO.
> To me, a stable energy/capita isn't prima-facie evidence that they are more efficient! It suggests prices are higher than they should be.

TL;DR: If I'm understanding you correctly, you're holding up Jevon's paradox as something that we should _aim_ for? Why?

It's not clear to me how you came to this conclusion. Jevon's paradox isn't prescriptive: how do you conclude what energy usage growth (and thus prices) _should_ be? If anything, most policy experts are defining the goal as decreasing the rate of growth of energy growth (ceterus paribus), which means that stable energy/capita is a good thing, not that usage growth is lower than it should be.
There isn't. In practice, courts will try to leave the business owner with 100% of the business and grant a larger share of other assets to the non-business owning partner.

For example, you get the business and the condo, then your husband gets the house and the yacht.
> Why do the guys sprying this crap wear spacesuits if it is so safe?﻿

The guy on the street outside wears thick waterproof pants and thick waterproof rubber boots when he cleans the street with a pressurized water hose.

Water is generally considered safe [citation needed], but you still don't want to get hosed in it for hours on a daily basis.

- Constantly wet feet catch fungus and foot rot.

- Water lowers your body temperature, making you more susceptible to infection from and outbreak of common cold.

- Containing water contamination to an surface - instead of your clothes and skin - makes it easier to rid yourself of surplus water when taking a break.

- Wet clothes are highly impractical because they are heavy and shed water everywhere you go for hours after.

TLDR; Protective clothing doesn't imply toxicity.
Petter Attia writes about the ketogenic diet in depth [0]. He's an MD, and references studies throughout his writing. They're not always "keto" studies per se, but they are often studies on parts of the keto process. I highly recommend his blog for in-depth keto reading.

[0]: http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/ketosis-advantaged-or-mis...
Surely there is a middle ground though? SO wasn't always such a negative place to be, yet users with enough points have always been able to perform 'mod' type actions.
A physical connector that cannot rotate and will break and tangle cables.
Negative space is easy to see when you focus on it. In these examples, the negative space is flat color, so it's not affected by the illusion.
You can have sliders in the touchbar that you can't have with e-ink keys.

The bar would be perfect for adjusting volume and brightness if Apple decided to remove the awful indicator pop-up in the monitor.
Relatedly, it would be good for their spam system to be aware of purchases. Case in point: I recently purchased (in pre-order) a movie Bluray on Amazon. Only a few days later, I received spam telling me that very same movie was now available for rent on Amazon video (after the release date and after I actually received the disk).
> Science is a process and is close to an infallible thing as we have created as humans. There is no problem with science.

Wouldn't you say mathmatics is the most infallible thing human's have come to creating? The level of rigor in mathematics is much higher and there aren't as many repeatability issues.
Pfft. You want a citation, go make a vaguely anti-GMO comment on a major sub. Include keywords. See what happens.
/bin is a link to /System/Index/bin. And as a matter of fact, so is /usr/bin. And /usr/sbin... all "binaries" directories map to the same place.
https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html
i know this may sound trivial, but I'd probably never use this just because typing exa is a lot more annoying than typing ls. The three letters are on the left side of the keyboard and on the three rows. Sure I could rename it to something I like, but then I won't be able to get used to it, because I won't be able to find it when I log on to other computers. It's a silly thing that has a serious impact on usability...
To add to the list of how many of those problems are already solved in the EU :

> Allowing merchants to save 2% in credit card fees (which doubles their profit margin if it was 2% to begin with).

In the EU those fees are capped at 0.2% for debit cards, 0.3% for credit cards [1]. It'll be helpful if the crypto currency fees gets even lower than those, but 0.2% starts to get pretty low.

[1] http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015/...
> a founder's ex-spouse (who had no direct participation in the startup)

Since both you and another comment so quickly zero in on the divorce aspect in this story, it's worth pointing out that Barbara Mikkelson was, in fact, a proper co-founder when snopes.com started, and worked alongside her husband for 20 years.

This situation is no different than any other founder leaving the company and selling his stakes. HN will have to find another way to blame this on women.

And, yes, there are mechanisms to prevent such problems. First among them would be the right-of-last-refusal: Before you sell, you have to offer the stock to the other co-founder(s), at the exact same terms you're offered. But that's not automatic, and has to be established early on.
250 million people isn't mainstream? These are people sending money to their families on a monthly basis, and where current transfer fees can take the equivalent of a half day of work.

That strikes me as an appealing use case.
I can imagine that a good way to address this is to include a clause that existing shareholders have a first right to do a shotgun-clause kind of bid on the shares.
CoffeeScript. It had its time but it's focus on syntax failed to address much of what makes JavaScript difficult to work with.

jquery UI. Jquery still has some use in banging out a quick page but it too is no longer essential

Also possibly Bootstrap. What the hell is going on with development there?
How does it hurt SEO?
Yes, but only if grouping of subexpressions or non-terminals in grammar productions are allowed (they aren't in CSS).

To elaborate, the problem at hand is to assign different properties to the even and odd elements, resp., of a sequence using just the sequence, alternation, and Kleene star operators in two rules. For example, the rules for the first few items (as) are as follows:

even -> a a | a a a a | ..
odd -> a | a a a | ..

A solution using grouping of subexpressions/non-terminal symbols in grammar rules:

even -> ( a a )*
odd -> even a
Please call when you can make something like Sennheiser HD650 run on Bluetooth with lossless audio (or at most as lossy as a good DAC and amplifier combo) and last more than 3 hours.
Oh, and it having less than 10 ms latency. (Not compensated junk, games won't work with it.)
At GitLab we first used www dot the marketing site and the apex for the app but many people assumed they would have the same content. That is why we introduced about. Cool to see we might have started a trend.
I like to think that we will eventually get rid of HTTP/HTML and replace it with what developers actually want: a pure GUI for IP/TCP, a technology with a single mandate, with no burden of also offering semantics or structure or hierarchy.

Isn't that what Flash, Silverlight, Java Applets and Canvas offer?
well I find it hard to think that website encompasses more than 10% of his/her life.
Guilty until proven innocent huh?

You believe everything the government asserts, at face value?
I want to ask 3 things:

1) Man hours taken in this project

2) Your intended goal

3) Possible avenues to make money.
Going a bit off topic here but your remarks on religion makes me curious. I'm from a firmly -- albeit lazily -- protestant country and don't describe myself as religious in any meaningful sense, but still an interesting subject.

My reference to religious "singularities" was to the apocalypse, or however you want to name it. The End of Days. The Second Coming. Stuff like that. I thought these ideas played a similar role in all branches of Christianity, although ignored by most people for most of the time. Is Catholicism and Protestantism so different in that regard?

More on topic, I see the evolution of (better) AI as a logical extension to the computer revolution, and I see the computer revolution as equivalent in scope to the industrial revolution. So I'm not saying it's a small deal. I just don't believe a whole lot in self-improving AI as a concept all that different from what has been going on in, say, processor design, for decades, and I certainly don't believe in the idea of a runaway, self-improving AI.

To become rapidly and exponentially more intelligent, it would have to either work smarter or work harder (to use an overused phrase). Working smarter would imply that if you arranged your CPU instructions in increasingly clever ways, you could extract exponentially rising performance from your programs. That's not how I remember the assembler programming that I did as a kid; you could be clever but there were some pretty hard limits. The strategy of working harder, on the other hand, would imply that someone would be willing to supply exponentially rising amounts of energy. Again, even if some Zuckerberg or some shady government agency would be willing to play this game, you'd quickly run into hard limits.

So yeah, AI is not the first game changing phenomenon in the history of humankind but it will change stuff. Like did bronze, railroads, or nukes.
MailHog also looks great --

One thing that I use MailCatcher for is its REST API. I can easily check for new messages from tests (eg: Cucumber).

I don't see anything about that for MailHog on its github page.
How's "Fancy context dependent matching"? More dignified, right /s

In this case the context dependence part wasn't up to par, so it was just fancy mapping.
Gratipay (formerly GitTip) used to do that. Not sure how they are doing these days. I haven't heard about them in a while.

https://gratipay.com
I just discovered it, and I wouldn't have clicked on the link but the negative comments got me into it.

I have been laughing out loud for the past hour.
Ask HN: How do you perfom due diligence on a company's culture before hire?
How do you find out what a company's culture is like before applying or accepting the job? Sometimes I see good offers, but there's little info available about company's culture. Also, Have you ever regretted not performing due diligence on a company's culture before being hired? Kindly share your thoughts.
Because computers where originally designed to work within the given limitations.

In current time, where we have more computing power and storage than we know what to do with it, we can allow computers to be inefficient for the sake of becoming easier to use.
A fair point, apologies. I should have made clear that it was the act of generalising that was attached to dumb.