skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's what the parent is talking about, though.

I'm like you: I have adblocker software installed everywhere I can, and when ads on mobile FB and IG show up, I do my best to immediate click the "dismiss ad"/"this isn't relevant to me" button before I even have a chance to look at it. If I visit a site employing anti-adblocking software to require me to disable my adblocker, I close the tab and never go back. I hate advertising in every form and do my best to avoid it. For me (and you), companies building up ad targeting data for us is useless because we aren't receptive, so it just amounts to some creepy company collecting data on us for no good reason -- or worse, to attempt to find our advertising weak spots and make it through our defenses.

I think the parent is more talking about people who are ok with advertising, and who might actually find it valuable. In that light, I think, rationally, it's better to have targeted ads (assuming the targeting is done well), than untargeted. It might be creepy how the ad companies are able to do their targeting, but the end result should be much better. A vegan isn't going to want to see an ad for a local butcher, and a childless person has no use for ads for baby clothes.
"The key to good English spelling is the meticulous study of etymology"

I'd argue it's the key to good understanding and use of any language
> My mother is dying of lung cancer from smoking right now.

I would like to say something encouraging, but can't think of anything fitting given the relative anonymity of this conversation.

> she would smoke around me despite it causing me and my sister to have asthma attacks

For me it was mostly my father. There was a time when everyone in my family (except me) smoked, but my siblings and my mother quit before or around the time when I got asthma. My father hung onto it for another 15 years. Then during a checkup, his doctor theorized that he may have lung cancer. The tests came back negative, but just visualizing this fate vividly caused my father to quit smoking from one day to the next.
Unlike CS programs in high schools and universities. They're stuck in the 50s rehashing sorting algorithms for their students. Meanwhile an entire community of "programmers" was trained and let loose in the wild to endlessly engage in pedantic debates about type systems, or which ALGOL like language is the best for this-or-that.
When I had my internship at Amazon it was mostly cubicles. It's actually quite annoying and I had to have my earphones to get work done. Is it any different now?
Some good tactics here. I wonder if some people are innately better/worse with directions. I'm horrible at directions and I have tried to ditch Google maps while driving and being mindful of my surroundings while walking downtown for dinner, but I always get turned around. My wife on the other hand, she always seems to know where she's at.

I also found this quote ironic:
"Stop and enjoy the scenery. Set your phone to vibrate every 15 minutes to remind you to note where you are, Richard S. Citrin, an organizational psychologist from Pittsburgh, said in an email."
Yeah, there is still a big difference between JavaScript and an installed application. I agree that they are functionally similar, but they are philosophically different and a paradigm shift from the brief moment where computer users nominally owned their data and had control of their platform.

They still can, of course. You can get any number of word processors to install and run locally. However, a smaller percentage are doing so. For better or worse, they are putting their data, the output of their labor, onto computers that don't belong to them. No, they don't have to, but many do so. The numbers for something like Office 365 are amazing. It's great business for the cloud providers, but is it really good for the end user?

Then again, does the end user really give a damn? Evidence suggests not. I'm not sure if they are making informed choices, however. With the increased censorship going on, I'm a bit concerned with the trend.

Meh... Just some thoughts on the subject. Even if it is a problem, I have no idea how to fix it. I'm not even sure it's a problem.
Do you assert that that's not the primary demographic you believe is pushing things like this?
Anyone tried this version ?
The caddy source code is licensed under the Apache License. As a user, you can modify and/or use the software in pretty much any way you see fit -- as long as you download the source and build it yourself. You can add or remove features (including the controversial header) and use it as you wish, but redistributing modified versions and calling them "caddy" may not be permitted.

Binary packages from your distro should also be fine.

If you download and use the binaries from the caddy web site, you are bound by their EULA.

To be safe, use the version provided by your distro or -- even better -- build it from source yourself.

You may want to read the actual Apache License [0] yourself, skim over the "Licensing conditions" section [1] of the Wikipedia page, or, at the least, review GitHub's bullet points [2].

[0]: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License#Licensing_condi...

[2]: https://github.com/mholt/caddy/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
You could also check out Eclipse OpenJ9's -Xgcpolicy:metronome option. It only works on Linux X86-64 at the moment, but it is designed to better regulate GC pauses. If you want to learn more, you can open an issue to ask for more details at https://github.com/eclipse/openj9/issues .
I suspect you were not down-voted because they didn't believe that it was accurate, but because they believe that it didn't meaningfully contribute to the discussion.
Django, python 3, PostgreSQL, and vue.js. Its what Im using and works good enough to to let my little team compete with bigger ones (sometimes run circles around them).
> I do recall reading about some trend major publishers did, with seeding 'bad' versions of songs with the same titles as the 'real' ones, confusing people in to wasting bandwidth and resharing 'bad' files. Was that terribly effective?

I remember Madonna's "What the fuck do you think you're doing" mp3's. But it really didn't make me change my habits, or even really annoy me.

Actually, I still haven't changed my habits, as Spotify and Deezer don't have everything I want to listen to, and unlike Grooveshark, they don't allow me to add my own music.
That's a different problem. Some things are hard wired by biology, but individual organisms learn during their lives in spite of vague feedback. That's what we're trying to replicate.
> lscpu has predictable output compared to the dmesg.boot log file

The CPU info appears in the same place each time, assuming no other changes took place. Even if something did it would effect only it's relative position.

And yes the extra info provided by lscpu is very irrelevant for nearly all use cases.

> In my world parsing output from command line tools that use predictable identifiers in their output is easier than parsing similar data out of unstructured logs.

Sure, but if your argument is that you can't easily do this without the reinvention of the wheel, I disagree.
music is an analogy and not informative.

A camera thieve shouldn't profit from a misdeed, and the picture shouldn't be in the public domain by default. So, the photo has to be deleted because noone can claim copyright?
Three Years in Identity Theft Hell
though I'm very weary of the russian boogeyman theory which seems to be behind everything these days..

there is actually a case here assuming russian-cuban ties are still strong after the USSR - e.g. if USA is trying to clean up shop entirely, it could be a warning that such activity will not be taken lightly..
I get your lisp comparison but the fundamental difference is that in rust even the craziest stuff is bound to be safe. I wouldnt be comfortable doing this sort of stuff in other languages, but I'm OK doing it in rust.

Re error handling, Option's map method doesn't do the trick? Sorry on my phone and reading code is hard.
Behind his curtain, it turned out that Alan Kay was a good man but a terrible wizard.
> Why are they so focused on sound?

The reporting and public statements are focused on sound.

As to what the investigators are focused on, I doubt we are getting the full picture since it probably involves lots of things which are restricted info..
You're in the minority, though. The majority of people don't even have an adblocker installed. The companies that are able to give their services away for "free" wouldn't be able to do so without the majority of people who are at least marginally accepting of their ads.

I'm not trying to say you have an obligation to look at ads (I hate advertising nearly as much as you do), but I do understand and accept why these practices are there, and believe that, for the people that do see ads, targeted ads are more useful than untargeted random noise.

I would happily instead pay monthly for things that are largely ad-supported, if they'd give me that option.
Sadly the internet is full of bullies, trolls, and those overburdened with a colossal sense of entitlement, and I feel a lot of sympathy for the Caddy maintainers. I endured a similar situation a few years ago. We coped with it, to some extent, with gallows humour by printing the most outrageous comments and sticking them up on a sort of wall of shame. I particularly appreciated the tweet branding us "software terrorists".

(Btw, this nonsense is exactly the same mob behaviour Jon Ronson talks about in So, You've Been Publicly Shamed - which I highly recommend).
First hand account of that apocryphal story about Foucault dropping acid in the California desert. That first photograph, though. Looks like the cover of an Aldous Huxley novel or an issue of Omni Magazine ;)

Here's the paragraph from Logigue de sens where extolls the virtues of a successful trip:

"One can easily see how LSD inverts relations between ill humour, stupidity and thought; no sooner has it short-circuited the suzerainty of categories than it tears away the ground from its indifference and reduces to nothing the glum mimicry of stupidity; not only does it reveal this whole univocal and a-catagorical mass to be rainbow-coloured, mobile, asymmetrical, decentered, spiraloid and resonating; it makes it swarm constantly with event-fantasies; sliding across this surface, which is at once punctiform and immensely vibratory, thought, freed from its catatonic chrysalis, has always contemplated the infinite equivalence which has become an acute event and a sumptuously adorned repetition."
I see your dubstep and raise you gabber.

that stuff is literally dangerous I think.
It is absolutely possible to influence an outcome based on thoughts. There are countless studies on this effect. Psychics in that sense don't foresee the future, they influence the outcome of the future. For example, the most common way to know what someone is thinking is for them to tell you, but I believe thoughts have another medium of transfer which is not well understood yet. Think about wavelength, radio frequencies, etc. Just because you can't see/touch it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Btw try this: close your nose and mouth and think about something, you'll realize that you're kind of talking/transferring your thoughts in the air.

Here is a good link "Scientists Transmit Thoughts from one Brain to Another": http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/scientists-transmit-thought...
Can you name any relevant "tobacco-related" activities that are not "smoking"?

(Technically, it's true that the term "cigarette smoking" is too narrow. When my mother asked my father to quit cigarette smoking, he happily obliged and started stuffing a tobacco pipe instead.)
That frees a block of native memory, not an arbitrary Java object...
Tax it to death. A pack of cigarettes should cost $20 or more in this country. Ensure that the externalized costs are included with the price and people will quit.
Sure, there are words like this, but they're very much the exception, not the rule. An analogy would be English words like "flabbergasted", which is clearly composed of "flabber" and the past tense of "to gast", neither of which is ever used in its own.
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It's not just them, several popular business models are predicated on interruption and distraction. "Here's a link to another story, inserted after the first paragraph of the one you're reading now." "Subscribe to YouTube Red [Remind (interrupt) me later]"
Peer review is already mostly done by volunteer researchers and there are a bunch of nonprofit journals out there that organize peer review without passing it on to a for-profit journal.

The only value that the for profit journals still provide is the prestige of the journal, which has built up over the years.
Nothing quite screams "competition" than a product with an order of magnitude in price differential.

No. Do the right thing here.
And that's why FB's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp were so brilliant: Zuck recognizes that he's going to inevitably lose some people from FB, so he's diversified.
New Social Network Charging 10¢ per Post
Makes sense. Some thoughts:

* Agreed that (too many) discussions unrelated to work can be frustrating. My experience is that the vast majority of conversations I overhear are work-related and at least a bit relevant to me, but I imagine different office cultures are different, and it also probably depends significantly on how you arrange seating.

* The tradeoff between asking questions and figuring things out by yourself is an interesting one, and I think people start their careers in different places. My personality is more on the shy side, and for a long time I was worried about wasting people's time, so I would spend a very long time on any given problem before asking for help, which hurt my overall productivity. Having an office environment where it feels normal and welcome to ask questions would help people like me quite a bit. But I understand that some people are on the other end of the spectrum and give up too soon and end up asking more questions than they should.

* Another thing that I think differs from person to person and from office to office is how much you expect work to be a source of social connections. At one point I moved from a "social" office to one where people quietly focused on individual work all day (and where it felt very difficult to start a conversation, even a work-related one), and it was much more lonely than I would have liked.
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Titan specifically (none of the other moons are big enough to have any significant effect). Even if you're aware of that, it's a pretty surprising result, since it took so much more delta-v to capture into Saturnian orbit than it would to escape (mostly because we wanted to fly Cassini to Saturn and capture it into orbit in a reasonable amount of time; the trajectories that could've been used to escape from Saturn were quite slow).

Some of the options were pretty crazy. This paper:
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.42893?journalCode=jsr

noted that it would've been possible to escape (in the year 2014) to Jupiter (2021), then use gravity assists to also visit Uranus (2029) and Neptune (2061), or use Jupiter or Uranus to escape the solar system. Cassini also could've used any of Io/Europa/Ganymeda/Callisto's gravity to be captured in orbit around Jupiter, or entered into orbit around Neptune using Triton. I assume the main reason none of these options were chosen was that, with limited fuel remaining and the spacecraft not expected to remain operational forever, it was seen as more valuable just to stay at Saturn until end of mission (as well as pick up a bit more science diving the probe into the atmosphere).
I smell a rat. If they're planning a pricing model like Anime Strike's on top of Prime Video, they can forget about it. Anime fans are pissed: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anime+strike and if they think they can one-up Netflix by doing anything like this they're going to be in for a very rude awakening.
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The former is an application language. It may be a high-performance compiled application language (like Go, Java, etc), but if you can't write a driver / OS in it it's not a systems language.
Headline should be: Habits, good and bad, amplify under stress
Solaris is dead. Maybe you didn't get the memo?

And your comment has absolutely nothing to do with Linux or the Linux community.
Yes. The other insight is that the physical pain is located somewhere likely, somewhere where things already aren't optimal and where you're ready to accept there's a problem. I found that part really fascinating.
Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?
Sure, the rope could pull an evacuated chamber, inside of which another chamber could fall without much noise. (assuming you could handle the velocity and stretch in that much rope. thrusters are probably easier)

The longest vertical shaft you're likely to find is around 3km, which gives you a little over 20 seconds of freefall and a couple seconds of violent deceleration.

But the problem is, you're dealing with acceleration squared. The Bremen tower already does almost half that time (9.3s with the slingshot), so it's probably not a big enough difference to warrant the effort and travel.
How so? There was BEA JRockIT, IBM J9, Azuul, Oracle and HP also have a JVM iirc.
Yep. I learned Korean while in the Army at the Defense Language Institute, and I think the simplicity of Hangul makes it amongst the easier of the harder languages to learn there.

One of our instructors was a more conservative, slightly older woman who'd often write down the Hanja (Korean for Chinese characters) behind the Hangul. I mostly rolled my eyes because it seemed too extraneous (and not at all required for the DLPT). Its a dying skill in South Korea from what I know, and obviously not at all well known in the North for obvious reasons.
This is precisely why there is a big push in Saudi (and likely other similar countries) to train people up on STEM and such..
Thank you for replying :)

No need to get into specifics. I think I understand your point and I must admit I am inclined to share your feelings about it too. Hopefully soon Nim's concepts will become stable enough to be used in such places too.
I'd say "hack" implies there's some sort of trade off, perhaps in readability and portability or additional assumptions.
Comcast and Charter both have native IPv6 which is about 50% of the US market.
I have noticed that there is a tendency in people coming from Jewish culture to have a deep seated hatred of Islam and even the rational sounding ones will bake up very elaborate rationalizations to justify hatred anything that has to do with Islam. It may have something to do with their culture.

Speaking of irrational hatred, Sam Harris comes to mind. I have read Sam Harris' books on Islam and he comes across as very shallow petty and judgemental towards a religion which is not centrally controlled and has as many variations as there can be... but thanks to the US interest on oil in the middle east and people looking for reasons to blame the victims, his ideas took off. (If you're not convinced that Harris is highly driven by feelings and tries to rationalize them, you should listen to his podcast with Scott Adams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAVMbuETnX0)

In this article, the author, also Jewish, focuses on his Islamic side of Yusuf and tries to convey the idea that he was lost for a while and is coming back again as his "original" self. Never mind the fact that "Cat Stevens" is not his real name either. It was just a stage name he picked for himself.

He converted to Islam influenced by his brother, a Jewish convert and a founder of Peace Child Israel, an organization dedicated to improving relations of Jewish and Arab people through the arts. I would argue that he was not happy being Cat Stevens because it is not normal to live the "rock and roll" life; many performers of his era have perished because of the lifestyle. Conversion to Islam might have very well saved his life. Even though he had to take a lot of shit because of it, I think he played the character very well. Now, he's trying to sum up his life and find the "middle way"; which is why he goes by Yusuf/Cat Stevens. Good for him. Looking forward to his new album.
> Undergirding democracy is the idea that citizens are intelligent and trustworthy enough to deal with yellow journalism, propaganda, etc.

The Nov 2016 US election, and the investigations into news propagation on sites like FB, is outright proof that citizens are in fact not intelligent enough on average to deal with this.

I'm not trying to shit on people or be flippant, but... it's not looking good. Certainly censoring people or legislating FB into oblivion isn't the answer, but I'm not sure what is. "Educate everyone better" seems like a catch-22 at best, likely destined to fail.

And I don't think this is an example of a company influencing elections. FB was pretty unwitting there. Others found creative, unintended ways to use the platform to do their dirty work.
Absolutely. Note that the interviewee starts out by stating they haven't talked to Larry in decades and only worked with them for a few years.

If someone doesn't evolve over a few years, let alone a few decades, then something is gravely wrong.
I understand now. Thank you!
Where are you based? I've been in many rental properties over the last 10 years; my own, my parents, and friends of. Oth of us. Every single one I've seen has banned smoking.
> Can you name any relevant "tobacco-related" activities that are not "smoking"?

I'm only pointing out the actual article title. HN guidelines are to use the actual article title (with some caveats). As that's not the case here, I think it's useful to provide it.

Since you asked, as for other tobacco-related activities, tobacco is consumed in a number of different ways, smoked or otherwise. One of the bullets at the top of the article explicitly mentions:

> Smokeless tobacco is a known cause of cancer.

Wikipedia lists:

> Dried tobacco leaves are mainly used for smoking in cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, and flavored shisha tobacco. They can be also be consumed as snuff, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco and snus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco

Vaping is also an alternative which I suppose one could consider distinct from smoking.
I find that literate programming is a little less relevant with programming languages that offer better abstractions and modularisation. With literate programming, you're free to structure your code in chunks, like:

read numbers from file into array
iterate over array
add each element to sum
display sum

Where you in Pascal/c would have to explicitly allocate temporary variables that doesn't really have anything to do with what you want to achieve.

Today we have languages with list-comprehension and iterators - and even c has good support for inlining functions - so you don't have to choose between abstract/clean and fast/clever.

C++17 even has some support for compile-time code execution, if I'm not mistaken.

Between all this, the structural improvements of a well-written literate program, are less important.

And finally - "archiving" or exposing features as programs or libraries - allow for a solid api and easy sharing and re-use of code/functionality across teams much more easily than copy-pasting chunks of code.

WEB-like systems do give languages like c, Pascal or java a macro-like extension with focus on ease of comprehension. But as we have better languages, that isn't very important anymore.

I do know of one example of an attempt to move a huge project to the literate style, the lisp symbolic system Axiom:

http://www.axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/currentstate.ht...

> Literate sources is the main thread of developing Axiom
(...)
> LITERATE SOURCES Motivation: Axiom needs to be well documented to live. To achieve this end it is being rewritten into literate software form.
Backups, backups, backups.