skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about Vox? https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player
Why is anyone surprised these big tech companies become monopolies? They are explicitly granted that power through patents. Amazon and Google have been granted long monopolies by key patents they hold for things like one click buying and bidding on search results respectively. 17 years is too long for a patent in tech IMO. Something more like 6/7 years seems more appropriate. The patent office (run until recently by a Google alum) basically stopped issuing new meaningful software patents. The judicial system makes it very expensive to enforce patents and the media has labeled rights holders trolls (in fairness some are bad actors). The aggregate of these forces... making patents last too long, making them expensive/difficult to enforce and rarely issuing defensible/valuable new IP is DRAMATICALLY favoring the interests of big tech giants. Therefore, a key step in limiting monopoly power is thoughtful patent reform. Let small startups secure IP faster/easier and defend it without labeling them trolls. Make patents expire faster so companies can have a head start but not own a market for nearly a generation. Those changes would provide a steady stream of new challengers the opportunity regularly try to come "kill the kings". That's how to limit the otherwise inevitable aggregation of money/power that comes with entrenched/unchallenged success.
I agree, too many just ship a deb or a simple archive, which is not the best update experience for non-Ubuntu users, even if i.e. the AUR solves most of the pain.
@patio11 has a great writeup on dealing with Credit Reporting Agencies: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-re...
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What country do you live in and where?
> so if you build from source, you're good to go

Loads of incredibly tech folks on HN (and that would be interested in Caddy to start with). Yet most of us explicitly do not "build from source" most of the time: it's too susceptible to breakage; doesn't play nicely with `yum upgrade`; etc.

Can we "build from source"? Sure.

But why should we have to to avoid something you've added - apparently - just to assuage your sponsors?

Charge for it. That's cool - I pay for quality stuff.

But adware? that's a crap move.
In that case, can we then draw the conclusion that US is giving PKK all these weapons for a purpose beyond fighting ISIS?
Stop equating access to the internet (a utility) with a purpose of the internet (communicating your message). Nazis are free to post up a server from their living room and spread their message all they want to try. But nobody, especially private companies, should have to help them keep it up, that's absurd.

You're convoluting a very simple set of points.
I love it! Sublime Text is an excellent editor and I use it every day. It's worth every penny for a paid license.
Is Sublime super good for webdev or something? Does it have a bunch of indespensible plugins for webdev? I cant see upside when comparing it to Vim, but I see lots and lots of folks rave about it so im willing to admit I’m wrong but would like to know why people love it so much.
Something I've realized is a lot of our habits transfer over from app to app. Most authors of new software make sure to follow the standard OS text editing conventions, and windows, linux & macos are all fairly similar.

When you use emacs or vim, which import their 1970s / early 1980s OS conventions with their keyboard shortcuts, you realize you can be dropped into a very foreign 'defaults' context, and they can conflict.
Indeed, and there's a chicken-and-egg problem here. If you haven't experienced anything like "pure awareness" then there's no reason for you to believe such a thing is possible, and then you'd have no reason to pursue any practices that might give you any evidence of it. And unlike with other pursuits, you can't really get secondhand evidence.

As Sam Harris points out, "beginning meditators often think that they are able to concentrate on a single object, such as the breath, for minutes at a time, only to report after days or weeks of intensive practice that their attention is now carried away by thought every few seconds. This is actually progress. It takes a certain degree of concentration to even notice how distracted you are."

Amazingly, most of us are unable to even recognize (with any precision) when we're thinking. And that's a crucial first step in discovering what's beyond thought.
I currently get about zero matches on Tinder and OkCupid, and I've always thought of myself as an atleast ok looking guy. I don't know where I'm going with this ; you're not the worst is what I'm saying I guess, for whatever comfort that can give you
Hit them back with a question about how they conceive the difference between design patterns as a general concept and methodology stemming from Alexander's work in collaborative architecture, and the one specific GoF pattern language for OO coding that accidentally took over the whole meme.
I'm a pretty big fan of Vox. If you're looking for a stripped down iTunes/Foobar2000-like player for Mac it's a good option.

In addition to local media, there's even Soundcloud integration if you get your tracks from there, which beats using their web app.
Given the current political climate of people being labeled as Nazis simply because they disagree, I would suggest some level of worry.
End of (federal fiscal) year is an OK time for this as there may actually (fingers crossed) be money available to shift away from these products that can be applied toward licenses.

What a happy, happy windfall for all the Symantec / McAfee sales reps with Federal accounts. If you're at a bar with one, they're buying :)
I vastly prefer it to hunting for executables on websites, thank you. And there isn't that many relevant distress to target, especially with things like Flatpack etc.
If the description of the parent doesn't fit you then maybe you weren't his/hers intended audience?

No reason to tell everyone about it.

If someone comments: "It's not much to pay $70 for something you use professionally, and get value out of it everyday etc" -- it only adds noise to chime in "I don't use it professionally" or "I don't use it everyday".

It's a conditional sentence (even if implicit). If one is not on that category, then yes, obviously the argument doesn't apply to them.
This is a great summary. I think it's valuable to say that learning how to map your problem domain onto instances of categories like Monoid is useful because it immediately makes your problem embarassingly parallel, because you can parallelize the addition process (just making sure to preserve overall ordering of operations). I.e., map/reduce. And if it's a commutative monoid, you don't even have to sweat the ordering.
There may be no guarantee, but that doesn't make a structure without associativity any more of a monoid, nor is having an identity element without associativity the core of idea of a monoid. If anything, associativity is the more important part of the concept since without an identity element, you are still left with a semigroup.
> My bet would be that iTunes/Win32 will be replaced with web apps, requiring Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) for DRM.

That does not allow managing your iDevices... while I believe there is some html5 way to access Bluetooth, I rather hope they won't ever implement USB...
The plot in the linked article gives so little information that it is absolutely useless at concluding any sort of bias. It does establish that there is a trend, with higher referrer traffic to sites identified as left/liberal. In order to establish bias, this would need to be identified as something intentional and inaccurate on the part of google.

What differences exist in user patterns? Do users of conservative news typically browse certain websites, while users of left-leaning media search for articles?

No attempt was made to look at the relationship between website size and google referral traffic. Glancing at the websites listed, most of the conservative sites are much smaller, and so I would expect them to have lower search rankings and referral traffic as a result.
Donate to the eff. They will send you an awesome hoodie.
edit: My original post was waaaay too agro, I was way out of line. I misinterpreted your original post as meaning -the minimum size of a larger collider than the LHC would be larger than the Earth's radius-, instead of -a collider larger than the LHC that could hypothetically produce dark matter would be larger than the Earth's radius-.

for posterity:
That collider can't get to the energy levels needed because it doesn't exist. It doesn't exist because it's construction was cancelled after the project was defunded. Where it to have finished construction, it would accelerate protons up to 20 TeV. The LHC reaches 6.5 TeV. All of that information is clearly stated in the link I posted and is completely uncontroversial.

Stop bullshitting.
>a pretty big if. The one time I had to compile the server from source...couldn't figure out how to compile with some of the plugins

And there's the rub: even for as smart as lots of HN readers are (and, likely, as most Caddy users are), why are you forcing folks to do something that isn't standard? Why force people to go about awkward, ugly manual steps to avoid something that didn't even exist a few hours ago?
do pedestrians and other drivers really make "eye contact" with drivers to gauge their intention?

The good ones do
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Just 90 days? I'd rather freeze my credit. I already bought a house and a car. I'm done with needing credit for the foreseeable future. Freezing all 4 accounts (including Innovis, which actually seems like the most competent of the bunch) is the ticket for me.

https://www.experian.com/ncaconline/freeze

https://www.freeze.equifax.com/Freeze/jsp/SFF_PersonalIDInfo...

https://freeze.transunion.com/sf/securityFreeze/landingPage....

https://www.innovis.com/securityFreeze/index
You can edit your post instead of replying with a correction.
>>Turkey is responsible for executing 20,000 Kurdish civilians and destroying several thousands villages in the same conflict. They're still destroying Kurdish cities today, Sur, Sirnak, Nusaybin, Cizre, ... Burning civilians alive by hundreds in one incident.

[citation needed]

Turkey is definitely not blameless in this conflict, but I want to see some reliable sources for the outrageous claims you just made.
I like HNs culture to reply with a call to action in response to complaints. I mostly wrote my comment with the hope that it might nudge all of us to think about our prose a slight bit more. (I know we're all mostly writing as a charity and do not have much incentive to make any improvement, other than maybe the creative joy or reputational benefits.) I definitely do not hope my comment will shift the trend of our community towards negativity over encouragement. But sometimes sharing your honest feeling can incentivise the writers to improve.
Except for maybe when you paid for such access beforehand?
It basically is bullshit if you have nothing to show for it. I could say I'm ex-MI6 and call you names the whole while you didnt believe me. I could tell you that you should try and figure out whether I was or wasnt yourself. No one will bother.

I think you've spent too much time hanging around thick-headed individuals. HN is not filled with the self-serving types of people you're describing. Commenters are eagerly awaiting support for your point of view, and you're practically spitting in their eye. No one will care what you have to say after that.
It's certainly subjective, but for me, what I pejoratively refer to as "magic" is things that there's just no escaping knowing, yet are abstracted in a way that obfuscates what's going on. Often, it's presented as "it just works" which ends up being a hindrance since there's just no getting around the thing that it's hiding for you.
Show HN: Brainstorm Troubles
Yeah, I was just poking through the others to see if I could score any more easy wins :)
A common phrase when I was growing up in the U. S., not coincidentally in the 60s and 70s. Usually in the context of something like, "anti-abortion advocates would prefer women all stay barefoot and pregnant", in contrast to women making their own decisions about childbirth, employment, or spousal choice. Others have supplied references to its usage. And thanks for the reminder that what I consider common usage hasn't been "common" for quite some time. :-)
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I understand that, we had the same feeling when we launch our side project a month ago.
When driving, if another driving appears to be doing something unusual I try to make eye contact to see what they're doing and try to determine their intentions.
Not click bait at all. The article gives all the phone numbers including the "magical" phone number at the end to get the 90 fraud alert ( 1-800-525-6285 ) including the advise to not make any noise on this call.
I moved from Vim to ST around 2012, I missed the textmate hype, and never looked back.

Since then it has been my main editor, cross platform for php, then python, then ruby, to java (...yup), and now clojure and racket. And of course all the SQL, shell scripts, and config file munging in between.

Maybe one day I will learn emacs, but for the meantime I am happy and productive.
I would fain use the curly quotes if only Darwin's groff(1) wouldn't barf on them. For the time being, man pages for one still need to quote like ``this''.
Where are you located? Have you applied to jobs & asked to work half time?
These are the slides of a lecture I gave to design students about all the issues I have with brainstorming (in its most common form). It was originally created for design students at Malmö University a couple of years ago. Given the position I had to spend time teaching them how to brainstorm, despite not believing in it myself and hating just about every brainstorm session I ever suffered through.

Since that's not exactly a good starting point for teaching others, I decided to do my homework into what brainstorming really is (a teacher doing his homework - the educational equivalent of "dogfooding"). The slides turned it into this, and it has since evolved a bit.

It got some unexpected attention this afternoon when I shared it in a comment elsewhere[0]. Seems like it struck a chord with many here, and I was asked to submit it separately.

I'm no guru on the topic, just a (former) interaction design teacher who did his homework for the lectures he gave. I don't know much more than the slides I share here, but I hope they're of interest to others.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15237174
From the link:

> Although GNU programs traditionally used 0x60 (‘`’) for opening and 0x27 (‘'’) for closing quotes, nowadays quotes ‘`like this'’ are typically rendered asymmetrically, so quoting ‘"like this"’ or ‘'like this'’ typically looks better.

Is this link saying I can quit using `QUOTES' in my Emacs-documentation? That style always struck me as odd :)
> are there initiatives

No, people tend to be only interested in professions that are "hip" enough. Nobody is going to glamorize plumbers (even though they certainly should!).
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I'm pretty sure text like:

``quoted''

Is how you're supposed to write short quotes in the TeX/LaTeX typesetting system.

[edit: My point being that the author seems to think this type of quoting originated with X11... which is actually newer than TeX (X11 was first released in 1984), and that the prevalence of this type of quoting likely originated
with TeX when it was released in 1978... which isn't mentioned at all in the article. In fact, since TeX/LaTeX is what all the CS, Physics, and Math types were using for journal articles, it is likely the X11 font bitmap glyphs were intentionally shaped like curly quotes to make editing your TeX source files prettier.

At least, that's how I remember it...]
MDN is so confusing when it comes to their documentation. Some pages are better than others, but some are even contradictory in what they say. Then there is the PHP documentation which is both amazing and horrible. Each page starts off with official documentation which is even worse than MDN, but then they created a community documentation on each page (for that method/function/class whatever) below the official ones which are voted up and down by randoms and actually works out to be some of the best documentation on the web. Maybe we should all just jump to community maintained documentation. If i ever am pushed to a PHP doc page, I scroll past the official documentation and read the top rated community post which almost always gives me what I need instantly.

Stackoverflow is my preferred source of course.
The usual story (as told in Nathan Ensmenger's "The Computer Boys Take Over") has the change earlier than that. He says in the late 1940s to early 1950s lots of women were hired for "coding" positions, which at the time was seen as a a fairly unskilled, clerical work. In the 1950s, the division between high-level "programmers" and route "coders" disappeared, leaving just programmer-coders who did both, and as a result there was quite a few female programmers. Then in the 1960s the computer industry grew dramatically, but at the same time the image of what a programmer was, and what kind of characteristics made you a good programmer, also shifted a lot, and by the end of the 1960s it had become a very male field.

The personal computer revolution is usually mentioned in connection with a different trend. Throughout the 70s the proportion of female computer science majors was steadily climbing, then somewhere around 1984 this trend broke [1]. It's often said that this has something to do with video games becoming popular toys.

[1] https://www.ultrasaurus.com/2008/11/declining-number-of-wome...
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Essentially yes. Maybe women are typically drawn to stereotypically female roles, and men to stereotypically male roles, and having more male-like hormones causes women to be drawn to stereotypically male roles instead.

How does the hypothesis that women are biologically drawn to certain types of jobs, regardless of stereotyped roles, explain the fact that this stuff constantly changes?
It's very odd for me to see the grave accent (`) as quoting mark in bash and other programming languages.
I understand that the accent alone lose its function for the human language. But still uncomfortable to se an accent as delimiter to a string.
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Done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15241373
Any other nuggets of dating wisdom to dispense?
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If you want to create a large number of Objects (like for rows in a data set) using __slots__ saves a lot of memory over just using the standard __dict__. I've always used named tuples for this in the past, but this is a nice way to do it.
Active Duty means Active Duty in the military, so I'm assuming they'd require some documentation.
What stops the hackers to do this first and give their own telephone number? They have all your details.
They did say "if nothing else". Implying that you should do more. I got the 90 alert, it takes literally 2 minutes so it's a great first step.
The word "monoid" has been used with its current meaning since the 50s, maybe before.

I think the authors of SICP didn't describe the picture language as such because it just isn't a very useful concept, not because they didn't know the word.
I agree that most of above is objectively horrifying, but the tone of your post was overly emotional and attracts the kinds who vote based on emotion instead of logic. "the U. S. began... to pull its head out of its ass," is not professional.

> there isn't a non-bigoted defense of -- or inappropriate tone for criticizing -- the confluence of those policies.

>it was the era of "women's lib", or in full "women's liberation". IOW, "a woman's place is in the home, preferably barefoot and pregnant" began to go out the window.

Some people don't think it's a bad thing that women were given the opportunity to be homemakers instead of laborers. I agree that policies at the time were too extreme, but many others and I also believe that perfect gender parity in all careers is also extreme. What is considered "equal" varies depending on the person.

> Also, "watch your tone" is condescending and defensive.

Interpret it how you like. I was critiquing a behavior that I felt hurt the conversation and if left unchecked, has the potential to damage the culture of this site.
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Salient points.

re Sydney and Melbourne (and Australia in general)

FIRB is easily circumvented (just buy properties using a company structure, no need to tell FIRB now)

Also regarding the $800k overage paid, this kind of thing has been happening in Australian east coast cities for a decade, due to our govt refusal to enact Anti Money Laundering funds transfer reporting rules for accountants, lawyers and real estate agents.

Australian govt of both flavours review the AML reporting rules every 2 years since 2006 but never actually change it to include realestate.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/09/us-cracks-down-on-r...

So now I live in Melbourne's east in a 1930's house last renovated in 1980 that sold for $2.2 million earlier this year and I rent it for $650 a week.

Previous owners bought it for $1.1 million 8 years earlier.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4867622/Melbourne-ag...
You can't. Remember the dummies in school who studied 10-12 hours every day? They're your peers now, and you're expected to behave like them.
Interesting. What will be the flow for users who click on 'Download on the App Store' links in desktop browsers now? Will Apple enable purchase in browser on itunes 'preview' pages like this https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monument-valley-2/id11872657... ?
To me it's not the length of the patents, but the granting of patents that shouldn't have been done in the first place. Like the countless patents that follow the "take Patent A and add 'with computer' on it to create Patent B" formula.
Oil companies are the industry, in military-industrial-complex.

(Note that it should really be: military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex, since that is a more accurate description of the conglomerates currently destroying the planet..)
Nazi Germany didn't turn into a totalitarian state overnight. It took place relatively slowly over a period of years and remained within the letter, if not the spirit, of the Weimar constitution.

I have to say your argument of contrast seems a bit disingenuous.
It's not irrational. The absence of proof results in what is known as faith.

In security, you can't prove something is secure, because you can't prove a negative.

You can have reasonable faith that something is secure. We don't call that irrational thoughts. We can test for certain things, but not all things.

Perhaps someone has a better analogy, but that's one example off the top of my head.
Is Blender close enough to a 3D CAD app that I could use it to build my models for 3D printing?

I've used SketchUp a lot, but it has many limitations. Other 3D modelers are either proprietary, or don't seem to provide enough automation to justify moving away from SketchUp.
I should probably get more educated about this stuff.

Meh, it's my fault for not considering an international audience when using my colloquialisms without explanation. It's one of those phrases that I heard so much growing up, it didn't even occur to me that it was indeed colloquial to at least western culture, if not specific to the U. S.
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The setup reminds me of a pretty weird story called "The Human Chair": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Chair
The most wonderful words in science: ‘We have no idea… yet’
Dunno where in Europe you're based but WhatsApp is the defacto messaging app in Irl & UK