skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean Lipka Tatars? Yes, they were (mostly) Muslims serving in the army of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and had been settled there. But not really that many of them - 2 thousand according to 2011 cenzus. Their villages (at least only those two remaining within in Polish border) still have mosques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipka_Tatars
Ask HN: What is something that is essential to know but boring to read?
The anti-gun side cites Australia all the time. You don't get to accuse him of "cherry picking" for citing a counterexample.

If you pull up the list of countries with the highest murder rates, you'll discover that virtually all of them have stringent gun control laws.
This project could be turned into a programming competition:

Start with (ideally) identical plants and conditions.
After one year, find the program that did the best job (judging by the resulting plant).

Next: Adapt the code for different types of plants/flowers.
I remember reading that Vikings used ships rented in Khazar Khanagate to attack targets in Mediterranean as a form of disguise. They payed the rent with things they captured during the raids.
Serverless Kubernetes Homelab with Raspberry Pi
I think this is over engineering. It is cool, but I am not sure if it is practically needed.
1. If you come back home everyday then you can yourself check the watering requirements.
2. If you go out for a couple of weeks, you could ask/get from somewhere the watering requirements of the plant and then give it water at fixed intervals. I think that will work too.
3. The amount of time you spent on doing this, in that time you could honestly learn about watering requirements of plants. And that is something different to know compared to knowing how to write cool code.
Rose McGowan Suspended from Twitter After Ben Affleck Tweets
8 JavaScript optimizations Closure Compiler can do
What would be the purpose of in including Islam as part of Swedish culture? Does Sweden want to get into OPEC?
I expected you to show me a link to this 40%. I guess it is the food that is not even harvested from fields. I realy doubt that 40% of food in the supermarkets is thrown away.

It does matter a lot if electricity and water is free. It would be wasted much more if it was free.

I think it is important to call people hypocrits to make them think about what they do. We are in this together, so we must explain stuff to one another.
I wouldn't like that. What I like about Twitter is that, for the most part, digging in old tweets is hard.
I would not equate scraping with periodic searching for a keyword.

The problematic part is when you scrape data off of websites, and the owners don't want you to do it; as in, they would not even be happy if you manually copied that stuff into an excel file for fun or profit.
I wasn't claiming anything, just providing a different perspective (see the "might" in my sentence).

But could you please shed some light on this sentence:

> Yet, bonobos are indeed known for organizing attacks on neighboring primate groups

Are those primates other bonobos? That could be called going to war. If not, it's called hunting: those other primates are just food. It's not like we go to war against whatever other animals we are eating.
Removing the headphone jack makes sense
Much of the research around meditation and mindfulness has serious flaws
Because their current office would only be big enough for maybe 1,300 employees and they are planning to hire another 102 in the next 3 months, 300 within this year, 1,000 in the next 3 years?
Just like a bull in a china shop is able to effect a lot of change in a short time. Negotiations are supposedly ending in a net positive, I've yet to see one, either for the US or the rest of the world.

The world is not a board game.
That all sounds a bit far fetched if you ask me.

A more likely explanation is trade and cultural exchange [EDIT] and expropriation. The Vikings roamed far and wide [0] [1], and Islam even made it as far as Spain at one stage [2]

As far as they went though they probably never got as far as East Asia where they could have encountered Buddhism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings#Viking_Age

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings#/media/File:Vikings_ex...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Spain#History
> When the director of the World Health Organization's mental-health unit, Shekhar Saxena, was asked last year where he'd prefer to be if he were diagnosed with schizophrenia, he said for big cities he'd prefer a city in Ethiopia or Sri Lanka, like Colombo or Addis Ababa, rather than New York or London, because in the former he could expect to be seen as a productive if eccentric citizen rather than a reject and an outcast.

I can't help feeling that this is based on some pretty skewed statistics. Someone in Colombo or Addis Ababa who's 'a bit odd might' well be seen as as 'productive if eccentric'. I don't expect a first world country would be any different. But the question is how do people further down the spectrum end up faring, and I can't imagine a raving lunatic would do better, on average, in a big city in a poor country than they would in a similarly big city in a rich country.
When has the Russian government ever said the US was the enemy? The only saber rattling sound is coming from Washington.
drinking water without it dribbling out the corners of their mouths?
Did you read the full article? They have an paragraph on that under the section Methodology. IMHO this addresses your concern. What's your problem with that reasoning?
They're crowdfunding one: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/7699463-native-ios-port-...

(There's also a closed-source iOS app called fsync(), but I found it too slow/unstable to use.)
Just a minor thing: when I was looking for jobs and apartments, I would set very specific search options (like posted in the last 3 days, location in nearby cities etc.) and then copy the URL with all the parameters from Firebug. I think all the sites have since implemented their own 'agent' to keep users posted about their saved searches.
When my ISP was failing at their job and denying it, I wrote a script that would post to a website any time pings failed for more than 5 seconds.

My internet got fixed pretty fast after that.
FEMA is dealing with the aftermath of 3 hurricanes at the same time. Their entire staff is working hard to respond. They aren't failing to deliver; they're facing a unique challenge.

All while being condemned for their inability to wave a magic wand and fix everything immediately, and attacked by the media's endless anti-Trump campaign.
I assume this must be because after the initial hack, every kid with a script pointed it at Equifax to see what they could get too. I would not want to be in the IT department at that company right now.
Perhaps the point of all this was not watering the plant, but the engineering itself? Looks like a very fun and inspiring thing to do, I'd love to do some of that one day just to learn the electronics.
Promise-based W3C WebSocket client
When asked that question to the SVPD, the response was, yes,
"Because you have nice stuff!"

...also combined with a lot of easy pickings: people who don't always lock their windows, don't lock their gates, ...
Why using multiple currencies to your site is vital for your business
Fidus Writer 3.3: Citation management integration
Of course they were. They worse sandals and rode on horses. All countries in the past, regardless of size, are poorer even in comparison to the poorest countries today
Why we should give everyone a basic income – Rutger Bregman – TEDxMaastricht
Renaissance Imitations of Arabic Script (2010)
You wanted to provide a zero-byte file of the wrong colour. Unlike in physical reality, in legal world it strongly matters what colors are your bits (or in this case, what color is the lack of them).

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
The word "alphabeth" is also of greek origin.

But no one tries to pass the message of greek influence to the point of there being articles for that in hackernews.
Except data (mere facts) isn't copyrightable.
There was an AI made of dust
Whose poetry gained it man's trust.
If is follows ought,
It'll do what they thought;
In the end we all do what we must.

(from the game)
Pardon my ignorance, but can't this be more easily translated into terms of (modern) object oriented programming, where you avoid mutating state?

Here, the "natural transformation" is a function that takes an input object which adheres to a specific interface (i.e. provides a set of specific methods), operates only on that input interface, and returns another object that conforms to the expected output interface.

Avoiding mutating state means that either those objects have no attributes, or that the state can only be set on construction. (In FP speak, this corresponds currying of common parameters. Or to an internal abstract type, if the constructor is private and you can only create it via a specific set of static methods).

Is this modern style of OOP equivalent to "Functor-Oriented Programming", or am I missing something?
Try that with bonsai
There is no need to nag me. :)
We always welcome contributions, especially those like this one. Thanks!
My girlfriend tried that on her iPhone, but it often didn't update the list of files, or updated only after a very long time, so she went back to emailing herself stuff. fsync() unfortunately still feels very beta.
I'm not 100% sure of what the author had in mind, but here's a possible (and possibly dumb) example.

Imagine you need a 2-parameter "Lasagna" datatype wich is a non-empty list of alternating "a" and "b" elements. It could be used to model something like a timeline, perhaps.

Instead of constructing it by hand, you could express it as a composition of other stuff:

import Data.List.NonEmpty
import Data.Bifunctor
import Data.Bifunctor.Tannen

type Lasagna = Tannen NonEmpty (,)

example :: Lasagna Char Int
example = Tannen $ ('a',3) :| [('b',4),('d',6)]

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.10.0.0/docs/Data-L...

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bifunctors-5.4.2/docs/Da...

That type has a whole bunch of useful instances without even having to auto-derive them.

And you could have functions that manipulated the pairs without caring what shape the "outer functor" has.
Depends on the definition of "ported". If we mean no loss of features, than many many extensions won't be ported in time.

All vertical tabs extensions for example. Every extension with a native context menu. Stuff like Fire Gestures, CTR, Beyond Australis, DownThemAll!, ....

http://arewewebextensionsyet.com shows that still a lot of bug reports exist and even unported extensions. If you subtract the WebExtensions with missing functionality (even uBlock Origin isn't quite the same), you will see the most of the popular extensions are NOT ported.

Also have a look at: http://fasezero.com/lastnotice.html
Nothing fancy, I used "Tasker" on my own android phone. Ugliest thing ever, but I managed to hack it during a bus trip, and it worked.
Forgive me if I'm missing something subtle, but aren't the first two examples Useless Use Of Cat?
I guess, in reality the information is quite boring.
I don't view sex for sex's sake any differently than I'd view masturbation. As long as everyone is reasonably safe I'm not passing judgement and I don't care. I do it whenever I can. I wasn't particularly worked up when I made my original post, I was more coming from a place of being disheartened.

I was reacting to the idea that a man apparently wouldn't have a reason to commit to a women (or multiple women, or any consistent relationship) if he was sufficiently attractive to just go out and pick up random women.

Even from the perspective of purely sexual satisfaction there are good reasons to get to know your partner's proclivities (and vice versa) so you can both have a better experience.

But more importantly, reducing the human relationship aspect of 'dating' to nil is foolish. There are certain biological realities of legacy and eventual death. It isn't a fluke that people form meaningful bonds and social groups, it is part of how we cope with our own mortality.

And yes, I do find a worldview that basically reduces other people to "objects for me to get off on," as offensive, it demeans me and the person I'm with.

Maybe I am judging certain people's decisions and am bad for that, but I'm only judging them in the same way I'd judge someone overcooking and putting ketchup on a good steak. Life can be so much better than that narrow view, but you have to put in some effort (and take some risk, frankly) to experience the betterness.
made, required, mandated...I don't see how this makes a siginificant difference.
So if i understand it you were quite overweight and this was the primary source of your depression?
I feel like there's more and more evidence out there that JIT in Javascript might be a huge dead end. I remember reading a couple articles about how V8 is rolling back a lot of that stuff, for example, simply because in practice it would end up causing things to be slower than they could be.
Makes me think. Can I ask my bank to stop sharing my data with Equifax. Would they honour the request? Anyone working for a bank, what do you think?
I don't doubt you get a lot awful messages from men. Dates have showed me their Tinder / OKCupid apps, and not only was I surprised to see just how many messages women actually do receive, but also how bad they were - generic or rude or outright creepy.

But having briefly used Bumble, where the women must message the guy first, I never received a message better than 'hey, hows it going?'.

Now honestly, I don't believe that's because these women couldn't figure out a better opener. I just don't think they needed to because most men receive far fewer messages and will reply to any match.
"there is no ethical consumption under capitalism"
The irony.. Installing Symantec software, they pose an unacceptable risk.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Business? – IQVIS Inc
The article is based on research done by an archeologist at a university who wasn't looking for evidence of Arabic culture. The research hasn't yet concluded anything.

What do you base your statement on? Your gut?
Fidus Writer is a collaborative writing tool for academics built on ProseMirror. I've used it in the past but found citation management clunky. I might give it another try.
The only thing I can find is this:

>The numbers for the map come from historian Angus Maddison who uses Sestertius records to find wheat equivalent figure for national disposable income and makes comparisons based off that.

But all that says is that some guy used historical records for Roman income figures. It doesn't tell you anything about how to relate income in Roman times to income today.
Antarctica Cover Up – Fallen Angels – Enoch
Yes they are. Why not just send it straight to /dev/null?
Kind of, here is code and info about the webcam+screenshots http://jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/15/automating-screenshots..... Here's my latest used code (which includes folder separation because I had thousands of images taking ages to load https://gist.github.com/jontelang/f0634a98590fe56f4d7a7c9059...)

And here is some information about the file order-keeping. A bit wall of texty. I didn't program this myself, I use Hazel (super recommended app) http://jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/17/hazel-is-great.html
I agree with you, I also don't like these naming conventions. Still I don't use this-> and have never been bitten by a shadowed variable (yet).

> class C { C(int width) : value(width) { } int width; };

You mean to write

class C { C(int width) : width(width) { } int width; };

here, right?
* If these are checks in the name of terrorism, why are they looking for drugs? I saw one story where they were "searching for Bitcoin" - these just seem to be checks for any agenda. How long until they are fingerprinting people's laptop hard-drives for "pirated" content (where that may even extend to just owning digital copies of your own media and "having the intent to distribute")?

* By taking possession of your items, do they then become responsible for them and their contents? What if they damage something by inspecting it (delete a picture, send a text message, drop a camera, etc) - are they even insured to that end?

* Why is there no complaints process? Who is taking internal responsibility? Where is the manager in all of these scenarios? How are they screening the quality of the searches, both from a customer's perspective and a security perspective?

* Can you opt to have someone present or the process recorded for your own personal safety? In the UK at least we are able to film the police (although they really don't like it), if they have semi-policing powers then surely the same rules apply?

* Why is the search process almost always completely different each time? Is this supposed to be a standardized procedure?

* Why are some of these people never told on what grounds they were being searched on? Not even "this is a random screening".

Traveling through Heathrow, the worst I've had is the inside of my bag swabbed and my phone swabbed - but never searched through. I'm actually statistically picked out more often than not due to my beard and the fact I always carry an unhealthy number of electronics. Seems to be an entirely different kettle of fish in the US.
Now add a sidebar widget which lists the last 10 repositories that I committed to.
I've heard that you need to stay in that province (min 2 yrs) if you go through pnp program. then how come you moved to Quebec?
I said "in reality". Can you give me an (realistic) example where using a nullptr doesn't result in a segfault?
No one is assuming anything, they are investigating. It's what archaeologists and historians do when they find something interesting.

Why are you so quick to want to shut it down?
Now that I think about it, you have a point. In general when I think about a (software) vulnerability I think about taking advantage of some bugs or unforeseen behavior of the software. If the software is acting as intended but can not protect you from a certain kind of issue can we say it has a vulnerability ? My answer was no before, now I am in doubt :-).
My phone notifies me when the bitcoin price swings more than 5% up or down from the previous value. Perfect for smoothing small price changes while tracking larger movements scale-free.
I actively share the goal of seeking "meaning, value, importance, and purpose", but I haven't found that the amount of stuff I own makes much impact on this goal (and the impact it does make is at least ambiguous, not clearly negative).

We call people who drive cars to go places "drivers" instead of "arrivers" because driving is the most significant difference between them and people who seek to go places as pedestrians, bicyclists, or train, boat or airplane passengers.

There are plenty of people seek to "maximalize meaning, value, importance, and purpose" but one subgroup emphasizes the significance of the absence of stuff, and so it makes sense to distinguish them by this, rather than the goal which they share very broadly.
Not everything can be automatized though. I believe a good gardener need constant interaction with the plants. I grew a few cannabis plants and I had to learn a lot in order to do it well (and I think I only scratched the surface). Watering is the easiest thing to do, but you also need to be able to provide the right nutrients, constantly check your plants for diseases or bug infections, and provide the right care if needed. Besides, even seeds from the same strain can evolve differently. Indoor growing is even more fascinating as you have even more control on your growing environment (you can even choose your light spectrum). Growing a plant is a great scientific experiment, it covers a lot of fields.
Is there a reason given why he wanted to choose a religion ?
An average new graduate wouldn't be productive in any codebase in a few days. And even if they were, that's a terribly low bar to set. Software development education sucks and most people have to learn on the job. So why not teach them ways to write more reliable and maintainable code.
PostgreSQL/PostGIS vs. SQL Server Spatial
Not only Vikings were traveling as far as Constantinople but also Muslim traders were coming as far as Baltic.

Ibrahim ibn Yaqub [1] trader - Hispano-Arabic Sepharadi Jew (quite a pedigree) have left chronicle of his journeys as far as Wolin [2] and Rugen [3] - islands inhabited at the time by Weneds (Rani) - Slavian vikings - where contacts with Scandinavian Vikings were daily occurrence.

There were probably other traders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_ibn_Yaqub

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCgen#Slavic_Rani

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolin
On the other hand, from Linus Torvalds:

> I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

https://lwn.net/Articles/193245/
But... to be sent, the file is recreated a bunch of times right? Because a computer only ever copies, and never “moves”, right? How can it then possibly matter whether the 0b file was recreated by a computer from the instruction of copying the file (which then just turns into an instruction to create the file), or if it was created directly through instructing the computer to create the file?

Gah, something something colored bits.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Does "cultural exchange" include looting and pillage? It may seem hard to accept nationalistically for Scandinavians but most Vikings stuff in tombs are the result of not a production economy.
While this was a popular plugin for Eclipse - I'm sure there are plugins for other editors, IDEs and browsers which do the same (or worse).
Yet, we often try a multitude of plugins without a single thought about any unwanted features bundled with the main features.
Surly the safest option is to encrypt it yourself first?
Indeed, it's a strategy that a fair number of tree types employ. Off the top of my head, various pines and eucalyptus do the same. Usually part of the secretion happens via the roots, but a large part is done via leaves.

Presumably the same oils that deter insects from feeding on the leaves / needles tend to leach out into the soil over time. And all things being equal, the leaves are most likely to fall near the trunk, making it an excellent delivery mechanism, too.
Since when is it ok to publish this without a single shred of evidence to support the dude's claims?

Laughable to say the least.

Dude probably got owned locally.
Network traffic could be encrypted, so you'd have to analyze the JavaScript.
C++ has taken new features like auto and static if from D, not from Rust.

I would say for the C++ standard committee the bar is high and D has already set the bar.
I travel with no devices or blank devices every time I take the plane. It’s a pain when you get to destination and have to redownload/restore a bunch of stuff/wait for the encrypted drive you mailed yourself to arrive, but that’s the world we live in.

On the flip side I recently went on a 4 day trip where I needed to take a plane, and decided to just leave all devices at home except for a kindle. It made the trip very pleasant (obviously not always realistic).
Yeah right.

Try being really short or bald or the wrong color (the OKCupid stats show that race plays a larger factor than we'd like to admit). How nice or courteous you are won't even be a factor, because you won't get any messages.

Being a 'nice guy' is probably the worst advice you could possibly give to a guy having trouble with women. There are a lot of things one can control, but a lot of things that can't be changed. And knowing the difference, and working on that which can be improved is what men need to learn.
Someone in r/Sweden who works in the field pointed out the severe lack of credibility of the researcher who published this finding so do your due diligence and check your sources before jumping to conclusions