skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many others feel the Pope is not Catholic (which of course is impossible by definition).

interestingly enough this could make sense (although quite likely not in the case of Breitbart commenters).

For example, the eastern orthodox church, like the roman church, defines itself as "One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic", so an eastern orthodox christian may well refer to itself as "catholic" while denying the Pope is.

This seem to be the reason that in some places people often refer to "catholic" as "roman catholic".
The article I linked to mentions half a million people who never leave their home, and work remotely.
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PS: There are a couple of extremely minor things I've come across that I'd consider correcting. Do you care for those? If so, github pull request? I'll give an example below.

IIRC you say that all non-trivial interpreters have abolished ref-counting and usually using some mix of tracing and ref-counting (o//r just tracing GC). Your example for an interpreter that was using ref-counting is Ruby.

The example of a non-trivial interpreter that continues to be fully ref-counted is perl.

[rant]Worse yet, perl goes fast and loose in one edge case: it eschews ref-count operations on values on argument stacks, which is a source of bugs that couldn't be more hilarious.

So yeah, perl doesn't detect cycles. It's really quite sad. It's also not fundamentally impossible to add in a tracing GC for detecting cycles. But it'd be a reasonably daunting task given the code base.

I've occasionally thought about whether it's possible (and if so at what cost) to move perl (5) away from ref-counting. Perl (the language) happens to give strong guarantees about when objects are destroyed / hooks are triggered, and that's commonly relied upon in RAII-like use cases.[/rant]
Pope Francis is a good guy leading an utterly corrupt institution

How does a "good guy" reach the top of a "corrupt institution", passing all the gates along the way, presumably guarded by utterly corrupt people?
MittMedia is innovating itself out of newspaper death
so how does it deal with eventually consistency.

updating a document in S3 is bad idea... that said the tech is interesting.
Shameless Ad for their company, with a few ambiguous and generic points about laravel.
>Your arguments are rather philosophical than based on hard facts (IMO that’s a big problem with a lot of psych research, giving the field a bad rep).

On the other hand, I find arguments based on hard facts naive and ignoring that the interpretation of facts (and the framework for understanding them) is what makes them usable for anything, not their inherent quality.
There is parallelism in new vim now
I love the thermal watchdog feature!
Macros and meta-programming aren't necessarily the same.
Someone's been reading Fred Brooks ;)
I can't recall who said it (may have been Bart Simpson) but I've always liked the phrase.

_"To truly innovate, one must be prepared to seek forgiveness not permission."_
> VS Code .. fundamentally changed my perception of Microsoft.

It certainly changed my perception of electron. I don't use it daily because my editing requirements are already well met, but it really is a lovely piece of work.
I have a feeling that to a large degree, what the data seems to show is not an objective measure of how good a language is, but rather "languages I was forced to work with, when it wasn't my preferred language".

The 3 most "hated" languages, Perl, Delphi and VBA, all fall into this category. The number of people actively moving towards them is probably far fewer than the number of people who are forced to pick up and maintain an ancient artifact in them, hence skewing the stats. In most cases, you can spot the pattern of old language being further to the right than the default, newer equivalent.

What would be really interesting is watching this graph evolve over time. As an example, I suspect that initially, CoffeeScript was nowhere near as hated as this, and the hate is coming from falling out of vogue and having its maintenance shoved on developers.
At the current pace of rate rise and the announced pace of withdrawal of QE, it's going more than 5 years before the monetary policy returns to normal. I doubt the current cycle will last that much longer. That will leave the Fed with little tools to react, other than even more QE.
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That email was really bad, "New: Anti-DDOS Next Gen" is not a suitable subject line for what boils down to a 20% price bump in my case. They don't even state the new prices in the email, and the linked page (https://www.kimsufi.com/en/servers.xml) has a different product listing than when I ordered my server, and lists the same model number with different prices because the model number doesn't appear to specify the model anymore, there are different versions with different amounts of disk space. OVH handled the whole thing really terribly.
Because the majority of his electors (the College of Cardinals) are also good guys.

(The article places conservative dissenters at the recent synods at 1/4 - 1/3.)
Why would you possibly want to stay with him, given that the defining goal of the institution is to keep you stuck in a broken epistemology regardless?
I think the author comes across as tone deaf for two reasons:

1. Burying the lede, by tacking the affirmative conclusion on as the final sentence,

2. This quote reads as pompous, not humble:

> I assume that the Arrow developers will eventually read my 2006 paper on compression in column-stores and expand their compression options to include other schemes which can be operated on directly (such as run-length-encoding and bit-vector compression). I also expect that they will read the X100 compression paper which includes schemes which can be decompressed using vectorized processing.
Really? I consider myself pretty introverted in that nine times out of ten I'd rather be alone in my off time, but when I'm out and about doing things during the day, I wind up chatting with at least a few folks every day. Usually this is just for a few minutes, but it is not uncommon at all to meet someone with enough shared interests to have a real conversation.
This is considered normal behavior, and no one would bat an eye at it. It's like that across most of the US.
The fundamental value is the distrubuted and anonymous ledger.
Yes, although I'm asking about marking spam, not unsubscribing.
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Is it possible to deactivate wifi in the control center? most annoying feature in years...
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As long as it's not foreign debt and the country in question is not dependent on imports then it doesn't matter. They can always just borrow more.
So in how many years is Google going to shut down Firebase? It was an acquisition and they don't tend to keep those running for long.
Spreads on EtherDelta (which is widely used) are good, but it's only for ERC20 tokens. The UX is awful and it can be slow because of Etherium scaling issues.

You're right about any token pegged to fiat (like USDT) having counterparty risk. The company offering it, the bank they keep their funds in, and the country's legislation. I wonder if something decentralised will emerge that will effectively minimise those risks.
No proxy support, so I can't use it in my corporate environment.

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/1632

Also a bit annoying that it can't be run in the background, at least on Windows.

https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/new-desktop-ap...
yay another electron app
But that is _exactly_ what is the case with bitcoin. It by design has no mechanism to manage supply, so only thing that affects price is demand, and as demand varies, there is volatility. So volatility _is_ intrinsic to bitcoin.

(And to be clear, I do not mean volatility against other currencies, but volatility against your consumption basket, bread, butter etc.)
Please keep in mind that this article is full of inaccurate information torn out of context.

The gay situation is a good example.

Pope Francis has shown love and understanding towards LGBT group, just like shows towards any other group of people experiencing hardship.

He genuinely loves others, like most of Catholic priests and nuns do - that’s why they chose the carreer path of serving others.

I’m saying most, because there are exceptions and sadly we only read about the exceptions.

Pope Francis never said anything that wouldn’t be 100% aligned with the teaching of church. Never. He has shown sympathy and love, nothing more.
Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States from Protecting Your Privacy
Another Electron app, another thread full of people complaining about Electron.

The solution is to build a common Electron runtime that all Electron apps can use. But it seems nobody is working on it despite all the complaints.[1]

I really don't understand why there isn't anybody working it. If that got implemented, it would put a swift end to the biggest complaints about Electron.

[1] https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673
Sexual repression and fairy sky man or destructive neo Marxist economic and social theories. Typically we have to choose between these two forms of stupid. Pope Francis however, he gives us the option to go full retard and have both.
I think it is offensive to classify a cultural aspect of one of the world’s most successful populations as “insane” or “criminal.”

Sure, the prototypical Japanese work practices might not line up with your culture. I don’t think it gives justification to label them as “insane.”
A growing number of airlines/airline groups have their own API too. Some of them are quite limited, others are quite good. API limits are generally low unless you beg (or so it seems)

- Lufthansa: https://developer.lufthansa.com/docs

- IAG (Iberia/British Airways): https://developer.ba.com/

- AirFrance/KLM https://developer.airfranceklm.com/

- Turkish Airlines: https://developer.turkishairlines.com/

Many of these all seem to use the Mashery API portal, so I'm guessing it was sort of pitch by Mashery and/or Sabre. Lots of these APIs seem like a trial of airlines trying to get out from under GDS systems...
> Just as an example of how easy* it is for even experts to screw these things up

You can't refer to everyone working in IT as an expert. We must have higher standards than just "Can you use Excel? Great, now go set up DNSSEC", which is what probably happened in this case of a generic hosting provider.
> In Japan, you don't just walk up to people and strike up a conversation. Foreigners might, but native Japanese largely don't.

First of all, I've seen Japanese (who are strangers) strike up conversations on occasion in Tokyo: at the coin laundry, at the bakery, on elevators, and so on. It's not like a social taboo or something. But yes, in general, people keep to themselves.

That being said, in my experience, people in New York and Los Angeles also keep to themselves. My instinct is that the apparently introverted nature of people in Tokyo has nothing to do with Japanese culture and everything to do with the fact that it is a big city in a developed country. Perhaps someone from London can bring in another data point?

If my experiences in rural Japan are at all normal, Japanese in rural Japan are at least as talkative as those in the Southern US (where I'm from).
This is very odd. I thought the "mark as spam" button was entirely within Gmail. I had no idea it sent a message to the email sender. Is this standard? It seems counter productive, since it confirms the spam was received. I want it to fail silently and disappear forever.

What should I be doing, to achieve silent spam disposal within Gmail?

I hope I don't have to set filters myself, that would defeat the entire purpose of a smart system that learns to recognise spam.

Edit: we're talking about "mark as spam", not "unsubscribe", right?
Also Chef backlash
The prospect of going back to manual vacuuming after owning a Roomba would make me sad too. ;)
Wouldn't it be better to dig it out? Yes, digging out a volcano from a mountain! A mammoth task and a boring one at that. But considering the destructiveness, heat would be released more quickly through less compressed rocks. It doesn't have to be all the way down to magma.

Drilling down and injecting water may cause quake issues and make it more likely to erupt as I'm not sure if they can see if superheated water will seep to the side of the drilled hole(s)?
The wider issue, of course, is that the entire dogma is a fiction without any basis in reality. Arguing over direction to preserve attendance may be pointless if you've built an organization around a fairy tale.
Do you mean a web browser?
'This is a true story' - first scene of Fargo.

(it's not a true story)
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Wireguard by itself has been on HN for a few times now. The newsworthy part is that one of the top kernel developers is expressing interest in bringing it into mainline, so it is appropriate to submit that post instead of the Wireguard homepage.
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Because they are so corrupt that they can't agree which one of them should be the boss, so they choose an idealist as a compromise, in hope they will control him.
Stop spamming your business on all chat threads.
That only solves the installation size problem, not the resource usage problem.
Websockets and IoT: Why don’t the two go together?
This release cadence from MS is completely killing some internal packaging operations at big corps I've worked at.

(For those who don't know, applications are typically QA-ed and packaged so they can be automatically requested and deployed via MS SMS or whatever the latest version is. No downloading .exe)

Typically this packaging process takes longer than it does MS to release a new version. They're in a constant state of catch-up, and it's frustrating for developers that want the latest and greatest version.
In theory yes, but how do you price bitcoin accurately even as a professional investor? You can't. There's no edge, aside from market manipulation with fake news, and maybe front running with insider news that might affect the price.
They have since acquired more companies to complement the offer and released a new product called Cloud Firestore very recently. They are also doing conferences promoting it in lots of places. Doubt it's going away very soon.
The web browser for UI drawing is only part of what Electron does. It also bundles Node.js and all its APIs, which web browsers don't ship. And Electron also provides APIs for native OS integration, e.g. native macOS menus and whatnot.
There's a bit of imprecision near the beginning of the article of which clarification is only hinted at by the end and might be missed by those not familiar with the details.

"Last year, one cardinal, backed by a few retired colleagues, raised the possibility of a formal declaration of heresy – the willful rejection of an established doctrine of the church, a sin punishable by excommunication. Last month, 62 disaffected Catholics, ...published an open letter that accused Francis of seven specific counts of heretical teaching.

"To accuse a sitting pope of heresy is the nuclear option in Catholic arguments. Doctrine holds that the pope cannot be wrong when he speaks on the central questions of the faith; so if he is wrong, he can’t be pope."

Popes write and say a lot of things but only a special few are elevated to the level of doctrine.

Pope Francis' footnotes on divorce aren't an official proclamation. (Though the article hints that he's working in that direction.)

Infallible[0] statements defining doctrine are made Ex Cathedra - From the Chair of St. Peter[1] which he hasn't done. So, in reality the conservative faction are protesting something which hasn't yet happened.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility#Ex_cathedr...
Contrast with Lua: equally possible to do monkey-patching, but it's considered unclean and confusing to do it in Lua, at least among the community. Generally, there is a thing we could call the 'magic budget' and it's important not to blow it too quickly.
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I can program a contract that can be parameterized with an address of some other sub-contract (then, say, store it in variable), which I call to do some particular logic. If I change that sub-contract address, I can effectively change my contracts logic. Is that what you?

I would like to mention an interesting paper regarding the topic:
Marino, Juels - Setting Standards for Altering and Undoing Smart Contracts (2016).

I see your point about 'pure notions of correctness'. While I agree that some interesting properties of a contract is not easy to come up with (and hence verify), I still believe that there are some 'safety' properties which are far easier to articulate.

I also believe that there is an element of modeling: it may be a viable way of validating properties.
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Alexander said to be inspired by https://www.mediagazer.com
For their new site.

That new site hurts my eyes :)
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It has some basis in reality and affects some 1 billion lives. I'm sure you believe only 100% true, non dogmatic things. Your comment is pretentious and shallow.
Counterpoint: this reform prevents sitting board members from awarding grants to themselves and also diversifies the boards.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/members-scientific-boards-recei...
Looking at the original meanings of the words: catholic means simply "universal" (as in "in charge of the Universe") and orthodox means "having the right belief" (right as opposed to wrong, not to the left). Only the later use of the words in some specific parts of the world gave some new (today often automatically assumed) meanings (created in the lands of their old opponents). The "orthodox" churches are proud to have "the right belief" and they don't think about the newer less positive meanings. They also consider themselves, of course "universal" because they used the very term before the schism too.

Unsurprisingly both modern "Catholics" and "Orthodox" churches claim that their influence is "worldwide" and that they are right.
Yeah the SMTP protocol handles verification of mailbox existence already.
This is a pretty simplistic view. "Good guy" is a non-telling statement. If you are leading an institution that enforces certain values for millenia, believing they are eternal, that not following them would lead you to permanent eternal suffering, and then you suddenly backtrack on them, or at least make the impression that you are contradicting what your predecessors lived by, it's inevitable there will be a problem. If you first enforced strict rules in dealing with transgressors and suddenly are more lenient to things historically considered abominations, won't people you lead that followed previous teachings, disadvantaging them profoundly, feel betrayed? That's absolutely logical and obviously risks your whole organization falls apart. Try telling some Muslim they can drink alcohol freely or some Jew they don't need to be circumcised. Or tell a mathematician that ZFC axioms are wrong and all of math cannot be trusted, and watch the reaction :-D
> This seem to be the reason that in some places people often refer to "catholic" as "roman catholic".

That's not really why, is it -- it's because there are also the Eastern Catholic (as opposed to Eastern Orthodox) churches that recognize the Pope as the leader of the Church while using different rites (including allowing married men to be priests).
I think some of the dislike will be misplaced annoyance against rails.
I don't think that is correct. The extent to which Electron uses resources today is as if you install five copies of Node.js and five copies of Chrome and launch them all.

A common runtime would be as if you ran five Node.js apps using the same runtime and opened five tabs in a single instance of Chrome.

I'm not super well versed on the low level implications there, but I find it hard to believe that wouldn't save a lot of resources.

I mean, do .NET apps load up a full copy of .NET and all its libraries into memory for each app you open?
Oh man I choked on my dinner laughing at this.
That just frames it all up so well.
Pretty cool system. Considering making a VPS for this or something. Frontend can definitely use some work though.
Google cloud storage has strong consistency. And it had an s3 like API.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/consistency

[2] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperability
Education NGO Faces Backlash from Academics After Retracting Essay
Not so much in crowded cities, such as NY, SF, etc.
Wright were 1903 and first jet was 1938 I thought. Are you meaning that it was 50 years before jet engines commercial flight?
Do you have a source on Google docs not using OT? I remember reading Google's description of Google docs with a reference to seminal OT paper.
> while denying the Pope is ..

So you probably can't use the old "Is the Pope a Catholic?" line anymore.

Back to the bears.
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The fact that it affects a billion people and is built on falsehoods should be cause for concern.
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One killer feature I am looking for is numbered headers/styles. Something Google Docs still lacks and I need Word for.
I'm not a believer, but you do have to wonder what the role of a church is. Is it to keep with their dogma as originally laid down, or to adapt that to current cultural norms that change over time?

Arguments can be made for either side. People are free to leave churches who hold views they disagree with.
Slight correction: well funded, tax immune, sovereign, pyramid shaped fairy tale circling the drain. Even CoE here in the U.K. are running hooky hedge funds.

As always, money and power. At least ultra-capitalists are honest about their motivations.
Doesn’t mean it’s wrong!
I should, and do, but a lot of non-techies don't, and this design decision might end up with their Signal messages compromised.

I mean isn't one of Signal's target audience people like journalists and activists?
> [...] but there is evidence that looks "quite extraordinary" to my eye.

What evidence?

All the proponents I've heard advocating this theory have had zero evidence to back it up? Please provide yours.
Why did you sell all? Why not keep a small percentage that you can still lose?

I read stories here of people buying at $7 and selling at $35. Don't be that person. Buy a bit again and see where it can still go. The market cap says it still has a lot of potential.
There was an interesting podcast on the BBC World Service that covered the letter and whether the Pope is really Catholic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv1c3
China is almost credit card free now, except for things like pre-auth at hotels. People use apps like alipay or wechat to pay everything. They have the following advantages:

* Easy to use, you always carry your phone.

* Never expire.

* Password protected, card number and CVV are fragile.

* Works without a POS. Basically in China QR-codes on paper are everywhere.

* Online payment is super easy, you won't need to type billing addresses, etc.
Whether it has some basis in reality is besides the point. The defining characteristic of a religious institution is that it promotes faith as an epistemology, thus explicitly encouraging people to engage in more irrationality.
I use git explicitly via GUI client and have no problems whatsoever. Am I the only one?
This speaks more about enterprise "packaging process". Why can't they let the devs manage their own machines? This is one big reason devs love Macbooks, because OSX just doesn't allow the employer to fuck around with the machine a lot.