skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some languages even sort

aa ah az ba bh bz ca cz ch

treating "ch" as a single letter that comes between c and d.

or

ab ah az b c .... z aa

treating aa the same as a separate letter at the end of the alphabet.

Then there's other rules for sorting that aren't directly alphabetic, like that names beginning with "Mc" should be treated as "Mac" or "St " as "Saint ".

"10 cats" should sort after "2 cats", not before it.

Anyone who tries to sort by just numeric ordering is doing it wrong.
Creators update came out back in April. I think you need the Insiders Program right now to pick which Linux distro you want to install, normal way only gets you Ubuntu?
Sure but who is going to lend you $100,000 at 3% for 15 years, with no asset securing the loan?

Again, the specific numbers of your situation would go a long way to shutting up the skeptics here. Either your initial rate was absurdly high, or you're exaggerating.
The actual title is over the 80 character limit.

Promises: Efficient Linguistic Support for Asynchronous Procedure Calls in Distributed Systems by Barbara Liskov and Liuba Shrira
ip is a great tool, the only thing I am still not used to is that, ip's output is more like for machines instead of human to digest, at least for me. I feel a sugar wrapper is needed for more enjoyable reading on the terminal.

this post is very useful, hope the author can make a github page for it...
I would say that a lot would change for the housewives...
The "soft anecdote" is for the people who are bored by hard numbers and wouldn't read to the end if they didn't want to find out how the story ends. And right at the bottom is a carousel to take them to the next similar article.

So, yes, it's an attempt to manipulate emotions, but it doesn't have to mean that the data doesn't support the overall point. A clickbaity headline isn't indicative of a bad article either, it just hints at the readership they're trying to attract.
No, it means the author didn't find it in their research time. Which seems crazy, one of them is "iptunnel -v" and version is the first flag covered in the ip man page
I fell in love with UltraEdit about ten years ago, and then I forgot completely about it. It amazes me how "obscure" it is when it's a fantastic replacement for ST, VSCode, Atom, Brackets, and dare I say, even Emacs/Vim.
I don't know what the "easy" method you're referring to is. I did include an else-if chain and did my best to not inflate it.

Even though it was 5 years ago I need to revisit this blog to update the pronouns anyways, so please do correct me.
Facebook does not benefit from liberating data. Blockchain users do, the public ledger is what gives blockchain value. There is no good reason to run social on blockchain, it reduces surface area to profit and there's nothing forcing it to stay.
>it doesn't hurt them either.

Sorta true, but if you are in an industry with a low entry cost (hypothetical example) dairy farming, and you have a large herd and facilities. Another smaller dairy farmer comes into the market. You see that they are taking some of your business. So you call your friend Mr. Mayor and voice your concerns about how $expensive_compliance_regualtiob is necessary to "protect consumers" and a law gets passed. Your competitors cannot to afford the afore mentioned new process and are as such drive. Out of business.

So, are big companies hurt by free trade? No, it's how most get started. But once in power, they will lobby to make sure they maintain it
across a network in modern parlance
Except that, in practice, that’s precisely what CBP interior checkpoints are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Border_Patrol_in...

The DHS/CBP regulations claim 100 miles from a border and/or international airport, but the Supreme Court has (so far) held that warrantless searches in this case apply only at borders and their functional equivalents. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception)
Education That Takes Us to the 22nd Century (CrossRoads 2017 Alan Kay)
What does "lower-level" and "buggy" mean? I really doubt an HTTP server is going to have any troubles.

We are running game servers on WSL, where you can imagine we are using fairly to-the-metal socket work over UDP and no issues with libcurl or libopenssl for TCP sockets.
Love T2, I'm not affiliated directly (aside from being an KS backer) but if you liked the tribes franchise, take a look at Midair, a game being developed by a lot of former T2 players (although from what I understand, it has more of a T1 feel or a blend of the two): https://www.playmidair.com/
All the linux commands I need I can find in windows-native format using scoop.sh. No filesystem trickery needed.
> So, is there a simple and universal way to compose these functions?

proceeds to add layers of complexity

Why not just write a function to compose them? Argue against the competition, not strawmen.
What does it matter? If they refinance your loan, and then go out of business, your loan is still a contract and you'll just make the payments to whomever ends up buying the loan portfolio.
Meanwhile, CBP recently ran a roadblock on Interstate 93 in New Hampshire, ostensibly to catch undocumented migrants, but the majority of arrests were of US citizens, and the majority of those US citizens were arrested for -- surprise! -- drugs found when they or their vehicles were searched:

http://www.concordmonitor.com/New-Hampshire-interstate-borde...

As the article notes, essentially the entire state of New Hampshire falls within a the 100-mile border zone in which CBP claims no warrant is needed. Perhaps you should forward your HN comments to those officers to clarify what they are and aren't allowed to do in that zone.
Noting else quite does it for me like T2 does/did, I know a lot of it is nostalgia but the game is also just clean. Somehow it looks and feels better than many modern games to me. I still think the UI (buggy as it was sometimes) looks great, it still feels futuristic and game UI's 10 years later look like trash.

Having in game mail, IRC, and an actual clan system I think was awesome and ahead of its time as well.
> a robust and efficient free market tethered to a redistributive social safety net.

The latter would destroy or corrupt the former. It's a horrible idea.
loop i = 0..100 {
out = ""
if i % 3 == 0 { out += "Fizz" }
if i % 5 == 0 { out += "Fizz" }
if i % 7 == 0 { out += "Fizz" }
if out == "" { out = str(i) }
display out
}
Compromise Reached Between Trump and Democrats on DACA, Border Security
30 Days Timelapse at Sea – Through Thunderstorms, Torrential Rain and Busy Traffic
Per capita social spending was vastly greater in the 1980s than the 1970s and it was vastly greater in 1990s than the 1980s:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/01/16/us/politics/16fiv...

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/01/16/us/politics/16fiv...
My company gives incentives for losing weight, stopping smoking, and other "healthy living" criteria. What's inappropriate about it?
the poor do not usually 'have debt', and when they do, the interest rate is high (payday lenders, credit cards). Inflation does not benefit people with high interest rates, it benefits people with very large pools of money borrowed at interest rates near or lower than inflation. That is mostly institutional investment and banks, and select high value leverage traders, a mostly wealthy subset.

The poor are hurt by inflation because their wages are more severely devalued by real value loss. If you're spending most of your wages on day to day expenses, the effect on "margin of survival" from a small devaluation is hugely magnified relative to if you're spending very few of your wages on day to day expenses. I suggest you work through some math on the back of an envelope to really understand this effect. An easy case: Let's say you are barely scraping by, spending nearly 98% of your wages on expenses and there's 3% inflation. What happens next? What happens if you spent 20% of your wages on expenses in the same scenario?

The common retort is that "wages catch up to inflation" but that's nonsense. The whole premise of inflation being used to stimulate jobs is that it devalues the real cost of employment: you can't have your cake and eat it too.

Finally, "encourage investment" well if you think that every investment is wise that is reasonable. However, inflation pushes people into investment. So what that effectively means is that cost of the risky business behavior of the top classes is socialized. You could also see it as 'encouraging consumption', which if you believe in conservation as a moral good, is antithetical.
I was replying to the second part of your comment, where you accused me of pedantry for some reason. I'm explaining to you why I commented that "it's the environment" wasn't helpful, in spite of your downvote.

peace out :)
Neither has logfromblammo answered me nor am I hung up on notation. The notation is only incidental.

They are claiming that it is a well-defined number system with numbers "having a first digit and a last digit and an infinite number of digits in between." I say show that it works.

You are saying the way this works is to disregard the digits after the infinitely many digits. Sure, that would make a consistent system.

They seem to be saying something distinct from your interpretation. It's possible they mean to take the real numbers and adjoin a new "infinitesimal" element, for instance.
I've been a Microsoft developer for a long time, but in recent years it's become increasingly hard to justify and the Linux subsystem hasn't helped. Not because it's not an interesting feature, but because my desktop has become even more useless as anything but development than it already was with Visual Studio infecting everything.

I'm sure it's a step in the right direction for a lot of people, but I bought an old 2015 MacBook and it's been a so much better experience than windows that I'm actually considering getting a ubuntu machine to see if it can work as my main machine. If this sounds odd to you, you haven't programmed on a MacBook with a Danish keyboard.

Honestly Microsoft does a lot of things right these days, but it all comes with terrible user experiences. .Net core is great, but the devops required to run it in production, frankly has us considering java spring.

Sorry about the rant, but the fact that you even needed to write this blog is a good illustration of what's wrong with Microsoft. Tech is supposed to run out of the box, with minimal effort required.
RL has everything necessary to explain qualia - perception and value judgement. Qualia is the way we represent external data and our own internal values. It's not magical, just a nuanced representation. We know how such representations can emerge by unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning.
How do we know? It's never existed in reality.

(Of course, I'll admit, neither has "true" Communism ... or so its supporters claim.)
> you will never see MS contributing to Wine will you?

This is basically asking Microsoft to open source Windows.

> Will we ever see office for linux?

They already have Office for macOS, Android, and iOS. They also have SQL Server for Linux and .Net core. "Linux" isn't really a viable desktop operating system compared to the other operating systems mentioned.

> Why can't we get a proper POSIX layer for windows (like they used to offer)?

POSIX is dead. Linux compatibility is far more relevant to modern computing.
Profound indeed, and very similar in principle to the Toyota Production System / Lean Manufacturing.

It’s too bad these methodologies aren’t more prevalent in corporate culture. Imperative Command & Control methods always seems to dominate.
Want to _really_ impress us, Microsoft? Give us a Windows Subsystem for Linux.

I chose a maxxed out Dell XPS15 laptop with Windows 10 to replace my 3 year old rMBP with the (foolish) expectation that it could replace my Mac. Apple had lost sight of what mattered to developers, and I was angry. But now, 2 months later, here I continue developing and existing on my old rMBP.

Bash in Windows is incredibly slow on some actions. I didn't document all my activities, so I can't point to which thing was slow. But for a developer using Python, Elixir, Node, Nginx, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Git! SSH! and some other smaller accessories, WSL was far less performant than a Linux VM on my Mac. And it was far, far less performant than on native Mac.

I very much appreciate what Microsoft is trying to do. Perhaps in a generation or three they will finally leave behind most of their protectionist behaviors and embrace what works for them (for better or worse) - MS Office and the host of Windows apps that businesses depend on.

Apple is no saint or savior. But thankfully, some of what they did in the years past (dare I say during the reign of Jobs) is what has made them special. #1 - latency. My Macs work 99% of the time as expected. They run for weeks or months. My high end Android phone, even after factory reset, has occasional mind-boggling hangs (after which 1000 UI events register and take effect). The same applies to Windows 10! It works fine, sometimes, for a few things. Then it goes nuts. Wipe and reinstall (remove the Dell bloatware) and it's better. But it still lags so far behind macOS.

There is no utopia. There is only pain, frustration, and anger on the part of users. But please, give us developers (who practically _live_ in your environments) something.
'Deprecated' means "stop using this", not "this doesn't work anymore", albeit the former usually implies the latter, especially over time.

The Linux kernel's promise not to break userspace means lots of ancient shit still works even though maybe it shouldn't...
What I know is

Student loan is quite inefficient, people going to University of Phoenix with low job acceptance rate majors get the same/similar interest rate with people going to Stanford for Computer Science. One side is way more likely to pay back than the other. That side is the horse, while the other one is the burden to the portfolio.

There are for-profit schools which spend 70% or more of their budget to solely marketing. I don't see they are producing good workforces.

Long term value: driving the masses to correctly study things that have higher chances of concretely contributing to society on short - medium term. I think it's quite valuable.

SoFi's way to survive is to collect high quality borrowers which risks are smaller than the average of the student loan portfolio.

Let's say govt gave all 8% (idk the real numbers) for everyone, but there are good students/alumnis in it whose risk are calculated actually as 4%, SoFi would refinance the loan with 5%. 1% margin is for SoFi.

Borrower is happy, SoFi is happy, student loan system gets a slap of reality in the long run & people would realize the inefficiency of the loaning system.

In the next phase after they have gathered the good borrowers, SoFi needs to nurture them to ensure their productivity, while offering other finances if needed. This is still not materialized yet I think. But, acquiring good borrowers & continuously serving them is the holy grail of the business I think.
The Pico Process subsystem isn't fully baked yet -- in earlier talks Microsoft mentioned that while the API itself is pretty generic but the current implementation is just hacked together to support the Linux subsystem for now.
"Imagine, though, a time when the automation reaches a stage where all weeding and most insect killing can be done mechanically with a robot instead of chemically with pesticides. "

Why bother with that when we already have controlled facilities where pests simply can't gain a foot hold in the first place, making that labor totally unnecessary?
and it's not really close

Uh, not really close to what? Close stopping it's MBA feeding frenzy? Close with any of the MBA's it hires on a personal level? Close to any other company in terms of hiring these kinds of candidates? Close to being able to support the positions it's filling, and will have to lay them all off?

What is "close" supposed to mean in that headline?
Inflationary currency values work done tomorrow over work done yesterday. If there's a major catastrophe, like, say a giant hurricane that devastates a coastal state with a healthy economy, then the returns on work done tomorrow have a effect that can cascade through the economy magnified by the money multiplier. On the other hand, if you valued work done yesterday, and a bunch of value is destroyed by a major disaster, it is a sunk cost, not an unfunded liability that affects the person who depends on the payment of that liability, and the person who depends on that person, and so forth.
Hill Climb Racing 2 Hack Tool No Survey
Agreed that you can do much more than "trivial toys" with the current WAAPI! But you can only do a small part of FM without feedback (unless you're just talking about vibrato as opposed to canonical FM synthesis). Look at the modulation paths (aka algorithms) of original Yamaha FM synths...
Thanks for the link. I'm working on a post for my site about the recently deposed/pardoned Sheriff (Joseph Arpaio) and will probably quote something like this:

> Pfaff tries his hand at some of the messaging that will be needed here: He argues that incarceration is simply an ineffective way to combat crime, while it imposes all sorts of costs on individuals and society that likely outweigh its benefits.
Is this really much shorter than my Haskell example? If we count the import decls it seems to be a bit of a wash.
Top 15 Most Popular Blogs – July 2017
> This makes using RHEL/CentOS an option for those who prefer newer software over long-term stability.

But there are already plenty of distros that provide that option. Long-term stability is precisely the advantage of RHEL, for people who value that.
> As of 2012, all modern browsers ship a mark-and-sweep garbage-collector. All improvements made in the field of JavaScript garbage collection (generational/incremental/concurrent/parallel garbage collection) over the last years are implementation improvements of this algorithm (mark-and-sweep), but not improvements over the garbage collection algorithm itself, nor its goal of deciding whether an object is reachable or not.

WebKit uses a constraint-based garbage collector that does not rely on reachability alone. This is an improvement over the classical garbage collection algorithm.
"I have always wondered who are these farmers in the dirt in the early morning?"

Southern California vineyards, for one. Come work in 100+F heat at 9:30AM.
I just run gnome-terminal or terminator in WSL with vcxsrv.
Jobs of the Future – AI Interaction Designer
There is something I don't understand about this whole debate: why is it considered a "search" of a phone when data is decrypted or exfiltrated?

If one "searches" a safe, and finds inside a paper with some random characters on it, the safe has been searched. The paper was there, it was discovered, the interior of the safe was viewed. The meaning of the characters may not be understood, but the safe was searched.

If one "searches" a phone, and finds inside some random pattern of bits, why is the search "not completed" until the bits are deciphered into something the agent understands?

It seems to me that the act of searching doesn't imply understanding what was found, yet for some reason all the public discourse - including legal analysis! - is predicated on the idea that "searching" a phone means deciphering its digital contents.
Arc of the story in three phases; all from one magazine:

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-03/this-lend...

2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-24/sofi-rais...

3. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-13/sofi-s-lo...
Martin Shkreli sent directly to jail, judge calls him 'danger to society'
> Not sure why it was flagged.

The conversation has become a lost cause for reason on HN. Follow the mob....

> Equating serious problems with more minor ones

Whats the problem with employees having sex in a car or car park at all? One assumes it was not directly in
public.

On what planet outside of 'frat' movies do people have sex obviously in front of random co-worker going to drive home. Lets take what is said here in context.

Firsty one must assume it was all hearsay and gossip, the statement itself is nonsensical unless the carpark was full of trees?

It is obviously also a selective statement with the person not actually claiming to have seen it themselves.

Like, it defies all logic, but people eat up these crazy narratives to mob follow, even if it goes against their base morals.

Sex is ok. It's not an evil sin. So what if a story went around about two people having sex, possibly in the carpark. Dam those young people and their hormones, shaking fist.

Should someone even suggest it's ok, flag them down into the ground, sex rhymes with sexual harassment, it must be bad.
Conan jabs at the new iPhone’s facial recognition system
For example with songs I'm in the process of making, I like to have a list on me with just the titles so I can note down acoustic observations made while listening to them on various speakers or headphones, for the next iteration of "mastering". Or little bits of info for my wallet, e.g. when a handwritten thing gets so old that I want to refresh it, then I'd rather make a printout and stick that in there. I like to make "cheat sheets" too, for work stuff or for all sorts of things, which aren't elaborate enough to warrant desktop publishing efforts, just proportional text. Granted, I don't print a lot, but for me it's still some of the very rudimentary things one might do with text.
They verified my condition with my doctor and medic alert, which has a copy of my prescription.

The problem is my medication needs to be reconstituted (fancy word for "mixed") and is given via an IV (a shot).

I can and do both of these things, but with these kinds of medications they simply can't just give them to you -- they have to be "administered". That's a topic for another post, but it explains why they just can't give me the box of medication and supplies. Probably some kind of liability issue.
I dunno... this article is certainly colorful but I can only imagine there is some embellishment going on here. No facts or evidence to support any of it. And just to clarify, there isn't actually any sex in this particular CEO's sex scandal?

But believe me, this was a wine-soaked orgy of a frat house. Used condoms in the staircase, sex in the parking lot level crazy.
Do you have to turn it on and off? I tried one apple watch sleep app and you had to set it before you fell asleep and turn it off when you woke up- I never remembered.
I think the last paragraph summarizes it well:
"None of this had anything to do with technology not allowing the existence of public education - if anyone could afford it, it was the British Empire at the time. They just had other priorities."

Britain had industrialized, had colonies all over the world, went to war with China over allowing to continue selling them opium in this time among other things.

Education was not a priority for them - they were busy exploiting everyone they could get their hands on.

If that sounds strangely familiar - it is because it is not unlike another country you know very well in modern times :)

That was nearly 200 years ago, we as a species haven't changed a whole lot it seems.
Drawing for Kids Children Coloring Games for Toddlers
Not everyone has this luxury, but I simply avoid languages that require an IDE to be productive or think abstractly. Alas, not everyone can get away with this. Also, IntelliJ is also a very nice editor. I have used it a decent amount and liked it well enough when editing Java.
It's tracked labour productivity growth very closely:

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/22_wage...
Nomula Prabhakar Goud