skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you so sure that people are being duped? What if the present state of affairs is actually desirable by the majority of the populace, if they had a proper understanding?

Put more simply, how are you sure of the rightness of your cause? How would you find out what is wrong, what objective measure could you choose? If your tactics don't work, would you admit defeat--or would you double down on your message, put stronger rhetorical flourishes on it, accentuate the dystopia/utopia dichotomy you propose? Would you still criticize your enemies for propaganda while you espouse your own, arguing it's not propaganda because it's correct?

The great thing about democracy is that it provides a fairly objective definition of what is "correct." The bad thing about democracy is that a lot of people, particularly smart people, absolutely hate it when they're wrong.
Well this is how free market works, isn't it?
As an aside, even in mathematics some proofs can be turn out to be wrong. Like the many wrong proofs for Fermats last theorem even Wiles' original proof.

Basically there is some level of uncertainty , e>0 for any statement.
There's multiple genetic factors that dictate skin tone, and the overlap between these is pretty chaotic.

They even admit there's some aspects to skin tone that are still completely a mystery, there's no genetic marker(s) they can point to as the cause.
Models, Rules, and Schemes all the way down.

Rules are applied to a Model to make more rules, rules are again transformed by rules in stages to compile to targets. Declarative schemes arbitrate between rules, select execution modes such as forward or backwards chaining, hybrid execution, memorization, etc.

Much like the vision in

https://www.amazon.com/Software-Factories-Assembling-Applica...

but more aimed at "getting non-professional programmers to be able to do more easily" and less aimed at "helping a team create software product lines".

Roughly this is the direction that OMG is going in.
Yup, Wendover Productions (massive aeroplane nerd) did a fanatastic video about this, really recommend it if anyone's interested in the economics of airlines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSxSgbNQi-g
I find the popular descriptions of entanglement to be unenlightening. In this case we go from "a pair of socks" to an "unsystematic phenomenon that occurs simultaneously in two locations".

What? Where did the socks go?

My preferred analogy to show that the universe is weird is a pair of coins. You throw one to your friend 10m away, and toss the other in the air for yourself. Your's lands 'heads', while the coin to your friend is still tumbling through the air. At that point you can be sure that your friend's coin will land 'tails', even though it hasn't landed yet, since they are correlated (to land opposite). Somehow the coins 'communicate' through space and time, or act as though they're parts of a single entity. There's no mechanistic explanation for how this happens, it's just the way the universe appears to work. That's the mystery, and quantum mechanics at least allows you to calculate it, if not really understand it.
Don’t come to New York. It’s at least that for a cocktail or glass of wine.
On their website it shows that fiserv is a customer of theirs. Fiserv provides core banking services for almost every major bank in the US which means they know your money situation and your browser habits. Pair the two together and they basically know everything about you, lets see if they sell it to advertisers too? Or have been hacked? Or rouge sys admins? Or ...
Thanks. I appreciate the response. I guess my only option until moving to a more recent kernel is `proot` as our build boxes are still in 2.6.32, but I am happy to have found out about `nsjail` for the future.
That’s fine, no guilt assignment in that case, just the current day outcomes of past generational decision making.
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Clang tidy has more style related checks. Where oclint is better at diagnosing complexity.

Saying that, I've recently felt like the development of clang tidy has been much more active and it will become the do-it-all tool very soon.
This is very similar to my experience, as well. I tried Nix for over a year. It has excellent ideas and principles. In practice, though, I ran into so many bugs that were near impossible for me to figure out on my own. I personally didn't find the community all that helpful, either. YMMV.
Because you need to modify or extend it in some nontrivial way.
> 20,000 lines of code really doesn't seem like that much.

Once I spent close to a month hunting down a subtle but nasty bug in a number crunching module which was perhaps around 2k LoC. Writing code is very easy. Verifying and validating number crunching code is very hard and very time consuming.
I never said that people were being duped. The majority earnestly believes in centralized control by the majority!

There is no singular "wake up" moment or message - it's democracy all the way down. My comment isn't populist, but individualist.

> The great thing about democracy is that it provides a fairly objective definition of what is "correct."

You've got some hills to climb. Good luck.
That particular phrasing may be specific to Amazon, but I've heard the same concept used in other management training classes. "If you agree 80%, then commit 100%" was another way I've heard it said.
Well, you don't have to use NixOS, you can just use NixPkgs either as a way to familiarize yourself or to manage a project--personally, I'm hoping after a few things get fixed I can replace Homebrew with it.

Even though containers have had a lot of buzz and tooling built around them in the past few years, it's good to see how other approaches can solve similar problems with different pros and cons.
Is any job really better than no job at all?
running 'legacy software' is for most use cases probably the most important feature.
So, OpenGL is a bit of a weird case.

Hardware is the one thing that actually varies between systems no matter how declarative your configuration is - this is normally not a problem, since the kernel abstracts it away.

The problem with OpenGL, then, is that every graphics driver provides its own set of OpenGL libraries that is subtly different from all the others. This means that applications need to be built against a specific set of OpenGL libraries from a specific graphics driver, and the kernel is of no help here.

That's fundamentally where the OpenGL issues come from; Nix packages typically expect the libraries to be semi-statefully provided in a `/run` directory. This gets especially hairy when targeting different distros.

EDIT: And because the package doesn't know what graphics drivers it'll be running against on non-NixOS, it can't automatically build against a copy of the correct drivers in nixpkgs either.
Gee everyone is a bit grumpy here today. I think it looks great! I'll probably be using a couple of these
And there's the copyright notice in the footer as well.
R plus C++ or Fortran. R comes with a whole bunch of stuff built in for preprocessing, stats, it has some web front ends, etc..., and it's trivial to hook up Fortran or C++ code.
When I used to commute I would often have to stand for 40 plus minutes twice a day. It's quite normal for millions of Brits, why is America different?
But those two instances are not equivalent. As a huge fan of public health care, from a country that has it, and has deep experience with the health care system, its a known fact that a public health system will establish a panel of experts to determine best treatment for a schedule of illnesses, in some cases there may be no "best option" for a terminal illness, so none is prescribed - hence "death panels" while emotive and a long bow to draw, at least in some sense accurate. But at the least these claims should be rebuked.

I would challenge that Damore's memo in no way states anything close to "women are biologically unfit for tech work", something that was widely claimed. And instead said that reducing populations to averages to make such spurious claims is damaging, and that there maybe some biological root that explains part of the gap in engagement in tech between men and women that cause fewer women to want to join. So in this case, yes what was published against Damore, by media companies, was an "outright lie" and should be legally punished.
Thank you. Spot on.

To elaborate: even only 5 years ago, I would almost always drive unless I was sure it was going to get aggressive that evening. I bought a personal breathalyzer for $45 at Walgreens, because that's how common a need it was. I'd sit in my car for an hour if I was blowing hot. Don't close your eyes, because that's DUI...

The deal with cabs in a town like that is that it is more luxurious than the nightlife itself. $100+ rides from Santa Monica to West Hollywood. $80 from Downtown to Los Feliz. After you track down a local number and call it, if you were lucky, they would even show up sometimes. (But never in under 40 minutes.) "Cash only, no change for a $20."

I just had kind of a blowout with Uber, but even as bad as there support is, it's way above "professional" car services there.
That's why I'd have loved for Thunderbolt to take off.

It looks to be a much simpler and sturdier connector.
So Mozilla are claiming that has a negative effect on their sending reputation.

If that's true - it's a problem with the companies we've collectively chosen to outsource email reputation to - not with people who want to receive plain text email.
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>On the other end of things, I think the libel laws in the US are actually way too weak.

That's a good thing. Strong libel laws result in something even less desirable: a veritable free speech dystopia where they're used by the wealthy and powerful corporations alike to silence investigative journalism, for example.[0][1]

People blindly believing whatever they want to hear en massse from their favorite pundit or source is certainly one of the major challenges of our time, but it's not one that's best solved with stronger libel laws. Doing so would be tantamount to using nuclear weapons to solve poverty.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/08/12/angola-defamation-laws-s...

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/o...
If you tell me which specific piece of software you tried to package, I can probably explain what is going on. I strongly suspect that it is either not Nix's fault, or an inherent tradeoff in packaging software (i.e.: not a design flaw, but simply a result of the correctness of package expressions being more tightly controlled in Nix than in other languages). The main exception to that statement that I've seen are cases where Nix works fine, but the Nix expression takes so long to build that iterating on it is very difficult. Luckily, there is a solution for that in the pipeline: "recursive Nix", which allows `nix-build` to be called _inside_ a Nix build sandbox, thus allowing safe memoization of things like `gcc`.
Rosetta is a protein folding bit of software: https://els.comotion.uw.edu/express_license_technologies/ros...

GP is not talking about http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
> We'll manually submit your startup to more than 365 directories, including Product Hunt, Hacker News and reddit.

If they submit something to HN, there is a high chance that it will be flagged as spam. It's better to submit it here yourself and be ready to reply in case there is some feedback or questions.

[In case you are wondering, sockpuppets are also a bad idea.]
I have a theory about how this obsession with running web browsers in full screen came about, based on my personal observations on what happened at the time:

The graphical web browser was originally mostly used on computers like Sun SPARCstations and NeXTcubes with desktop resolutions like 1152×900 (Sun) and 1120×832 (NeXT). The web browser, in these desktop environments, were not maximized, but were instead used as one window (or multiple windows) among many other windows on a desktop full of other applications, icons, and menus. (See for example the fact that the normal shortcuts Ctrl/Command-N (for new browser window) and Ctrl/Command-W (for close window), which are standard in all current web browsers, actually originated as built-in features of the NeXTSTEP window environment, and not as a feature of the first web browser (which was written for NeXTSTEP). Tabs were not a feature in any web browsers yet – separate windows were used for approximately the same purpose.).

Anyway, the first graphical web sites were written with these non-maximized pixel widths in mind, with a typical web site being a bit above 600 pixels in width and assuming a maximum window height of around 700 pixels. PCs, around this time, typically had 640×480 pixels on their whole display (or maybe 800×600 or 1024×768 if they had a more expensive monitor and enough graphic card memory, but this was more rare). At that time, a user on a normal cheap PC, browsing a web site made for about 600 pixels in width, would find it easiest to simply maximize the window. And running multiple applications at the same time was not a practical option anyway for these PCs, considering the limited CPU and RAM available, so maximizing the web browser was natural.

A few years later, as PCs became commonplace, and therefore became the norm for web browsing, and as monitors and graphic card memory became cheaper, web designers started using the full-screen mode as the assumed mode for using web sites, and as 800×600 (and later 1024×768) desktop resolutions became more common on PCs, web site designers jumped to using these widths as their assumed web browser widths. (See the common practice at the time to have little buttons on web sites stating “Best viewed in 800×600”, and similar.) PC users, during all this time, were thus implicitly taught to always maximize the web browser window. Meanwhile, Sun/NeXT/SGI/etc. workstation users did not really complain since they had ample resolution to spare for viewing these ever widening web sites, and workstations were on the way out anyway.

However, nowadays, with both “retina” displays and much wider than 4:3 aspect ratios (initially 16:10 and later 16:9) being the absolute norm, it’s ludicrous to run (and design) a web site in full screen mode. I mean, the line length shouldn’t be over 55 characters per line anyway¹, so a web site has no business being wider than that. And personal computers are now more than capable of running more than one program at a time, which is only made more difficult by programs assuming they can cover the whole desktop for themselves.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length
I think you have to specify layout=far2 with two drive raid10 on linux if you want that.
I thought Cuda was it's own language, which is accessed by either C or Fortran through bindings
"Death tax" is a colorful way to describe the estate tax, i.e. the tax levied on your estate when you die. That's not a lie by any means.

I think your point is stronger for "death panels". But I don't think it's an outright lie to say that a government panel making decisions as to whether a particular medication is "comparatively effective" is making life and death decisions for some patients. When the FDA doesn't let terminally ill patients try a drug with a low chance of success, it is arguably acting as a death panel. And don't forget that a public option was on the table for Obamacare until final passage. The bill kept changing. A public insurer would definitely have a a board determining which treatments would be covered or not, i.e. a "death panel".

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203513204576047...
So why can't your development machine be internet connected?
The economic if-thens are not moral (well, they are, but not in this sense). The idea that they have a bearing on guilt is projective.

To be fair, you should feel guilty, and so do I, and I work to push back on my own country's historical indecencies.
We don't automate the process at all. I have a bunch of people who help with the submission process and have a good HN presence.
If you don't want the quality, you are free to go procure the medical drugs and services from a back alley, but I doubt it's worth all the verification work that would require...
Dubai police will ride hoverbikes straight out of 'Star Wars'
That link about vocal characteristics is only relevant when talking about huge populations. On an individual basis it's meaningless, there's just too much variation. You need samples of a thousand or more to develop a picture. Where biological differences do exist that might affect intonation in a particular dialect, but not when soemeone was raised with a different dialect or intonation.

Now if "Japanese" isn't a race then nothing is. The vast majority of Japanese are identifiable on a genetic level due to the relative isolation of the country. Same goes for Inuit who were geographically and culturally isolated.

> Middle Eastern and European are better examples.

If you're talking some stereotypically Polish person compared to some stereotypically Arabic person from Egypt, obviously, but there's cases where ordinary Turkish people look more "European" than some groups of Europeans do.

The bell curve on these things is just too wide, there's nothing but overlap in all but the most extreme fringes.
More like two options:

1. "A staggeringly comprehensive knowledge of UNIX", three years of domain-specific education, and a network of people who trust you to--no, who depend on you to be able to get things done with that knowledge

2. A piece of paper just like everyone else in the department, three years of domain-specific education, and a network of people who trust you to--no, who depend on you to be able to get things done with that knowledge (and probably a girlfriend)
I'm confused by this statement. `nixpkgs` contains tens of thousands of packages, the majority of which have binary substitutions via the NixOS Hydra build farm. Usually the only time I build things from source on my NixOS laptop are when I override some package to use a patch of my own design. Hell, when I was using Arch Linux I found myself building things from source _way_ more often than after switching to NixOS.
"Keep customers active with promotions and products."

Sure, but that isn't exactly easy to do for Mozilla in these cases. The people on these lists are not "customers" and they almost universally do not want "promotions and products" in the ordinarily understood meaning.

Serious question - how would you explain your strategy to Mozilla in the context of their lists?
What about Alex Cockburn's Crystal Clear Methodology?
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I've tried disassembling the version of RCT 1 that's on Steam, and the program starts by, IIRC, decrypting the other parts of the executable before jumping into it.
I've never understood how blockchain will solve anything it's popularly claimed to be able to solve. Every week for years now we've heard "we're betting big on blockchain" and "blockchain will solve everything" and it's done... what? It's enabled... what? Other than enabling cryptocurrencies and a specific type of accounting ledger, what good has or will come out of the massive hype around blockchain?
Differences in averages of 5-10% are pretty marginal when you consider the standard deviation on this sort of thing is going to be 50% or more.

You'd be better able to predict someone's physical size from their voice than anything else, but even then it's a guess. I've known very big people with unusually high-pitched voices, plus small women with surprisingly deep voices. It's all over the place.
Isn't MariaDB where it's at, nowadays? And MySQL is tainted by Oracle?
There's a link yesterday about xbox360 emulation on PC. Xbox360 and PlayStation 3 use Risc, so... there's that software.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15479783
Then all new windows end up narrower which is annoying.

I'll just close the window and move on.
It’s really not fair to compare CPython with LuaJIT.

If you compare LuaJIT with PyPy or Numba, the “much faster” argument will simply not be true. What’s different is that both of the above only cover a part of the language, but for specialised (e.g. numeric) application that’s often not a problem.
>the po is the representative of the customer and cares about the long life of the product.

That does not make them qualified to rank and/or write refactoring stories.

IMHO, they should tell the developers how long to spend on refactoring/tooling (e.g. 30% of their time) and developers should figure out themselves how to spend that time.

That isn't scrum, though.

>planning can be continuous, just every two weeks you look at what you should focus on next

That's saying on the one hand that planning both is and is not continuous.

>you plan to deliver a bundle of value every two weeks

I call this mini waterfall. It's a good thing to shoot for if you were y previously doing releases every 3 months. It's not a good thing to shoot for if you were previously doing daily releases.
Meh, I'd take this one. There is literally nothing that is maintenance free. Closest you can get is areas where the cost of maintaining it is outsourced to someone else.

That is, I don't disagree that this is user hostile. I contend it is still the better option by offloading of the cost to you. Instead of by selling you.
You can manually make the window narrower of course, but it doesn't play nice with tabbed browsing. In particular, you now face a choice:

1. Make the current window narrow. But when I switch to other tabs in this window, I need to expand it again, because the people who wrote them assumed there would be many horizontal pixels available. (Responsive layout? What's that?)

2. Move this tab into it's own window. But what to do if I then follow further links that point to other sites? If I open them in the same tab, I must resize again. If in a new tab: should this tab be manually migrated to my wide window? Or should I resize the narrow one?

The ideal solution would be a browser feature (like Reader Mode or Reading View).
You have to read them with a strong grain of salt and make your own judgment. Most people don't like their jobs and aren't capable of writing a fair and balanced review. But sometimes enough obvious red flags pop up, or too much astroturfing, that can be reliable indicators.
It's still pretty big: https://twitter.com/mariachong/status/918553777031954432
> No results found for "women are biologically unfit for tech work".

Under these strengthened libel laws, would you be liable for this misquote?
> some rando's

This is a GNU-approved fork

> weakly motivated

Has lots of strong motivation, like a stricter stance on non-free software, the usage of a "real", more expressive language (Guile) instead of a niche, poorly undocumented DSL (Nix), use of GNU Shepherd instead of SystemD for the init system, among other

> niche NIH rehash

It shares most of the codebase with Nix, so to say it's NIH is missing the point. Nix improvements are shared with Guix, and Guix improvements are shared with Nix

> unless you're already victim to lisp-induced stockholm syndrome

Different lisp offer different syntaxes, features, and use-cases. That you cannot see it makes me think you didn't try too much, and are probably just trolling.
I share your general concern about preserving free speech. I'm fine with a standard that protects most lies. But I think Mr. Damore's case is one that should be over the legal line.

FWIW, there are free speech absolutists, like the late Justice Scalia, who nonetheless share my concern about weak libel laws.

How would you feel if the standard was lowered only for getting a court-mandated public apology, not monetary damages?
What is functional programming