skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans are lazy by design. That's why most laws inconvenience on individual level for the sake of greater good. Getting rid of FB may soon reach that level.
Same here. I bought a Dell Inspiron back in 2009 with Ubuntu pre-installed. I still use it to this day though it is pretty much on its last leg. I think the title is a little confusing. It should be that Dell is expanding the number of computers they offer with Ubuntu. This title makes it sound like they haven't been offering it for years now.
Sorry to burst your bubble but advertising is always lying and shilling.
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Couldn’t a relative or someone make an account and post his letters?
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pretending everything is black and white and painting everyone who makes a non complete statement as liar, is what lead to the current political misery.
Thanks. Well, there are interesting things that we had to cut because they were too advanced for an introductory article. We were thinking about making a new article for them in a few months. And Natural Language Generation would be another great topic to talk about.

However, if you already have experience in the topic we would be happy if you would like to write a guest post for us.
A high school friend made a documentary about them.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0840358/
Because they wrote it in an era when internet connections were slow. They have not necessarily moved along the time-to-load-vs-page-size tradeoff curve so much as the curve itself has shifted due to improved connections and computation speeds.

It's like looking at a newspaper from a century ago and remarking "how much cheaper it was back then!" Technically you're right, but the change in nominal price is not a useful economic indicator.
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XFS Project Quotas -- quotas enforced on write without requiring traditional users to be set up.

Handy for untrusted Docker containers which need to run as one UID but still want per-container quotas.
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That's really interesting. At around 12:30 minutes in the talk I linked the speaker, Rob Dickinson (from Intel), says it doesn't need it. I wonder which is correct.

Edit: fixing timestamp and adding speaker's name.
I'm really glad that Firefox is back in the game! But I haven't got a compelling reason to switch from Chrome just yet.
He was a Republican 17 years ago when it was politically convenient, then he renounced his party membership. He was a big Hillary supporter in the last election. He's also too liberal even for mainstream Democrats today, which is why he was considering a presidential run as an independent (and ultimately didn't, because he would have simply split the Democratic vote and taken exactly 0 votes from Trump). You should examine some of his positions on things, I think you'd find that you have a "profound misunderstanding" of his political views if you believe he's a Republican.
That makes it even more important to call it out.
I dislike it intensely. What I had was working for me.
There was a time that Intel was telling us that this was so much better than NAND that it represented an entirely new tier in the storage hierarchy, sitting between DRAM and SSDs.
The swing at the edge of the Earth
Totally agree. It seems one of the factors that helped the US until the 90s was that housing was affordable so people could move around easily. A "strong" housing market seems to indicate that there are no productive places for investing and no wage growth so people need to gamble on houses to rise instead.
Can someone confirm this? Like do a simple energy consumption comparison pre- and post-quantum?
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Do you mind sharing where and how you determined the antibiotic regime/dosage you used? If allowed. Did you just look up the general regime for those drugs or did you tailor it? How did you go about repopulating your gut flora post treatment - ensuring that you didn't reintroduce bad bacteria?
That includes application; you'll need to add the shipping costs to your country.

Of course, you'll pay the shipment to the company.
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space cause there's bugger all down here on earth
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I'd love to know what this concurrency thing is and why it's so fearless in rust.
When MTV first reported that the band was breaking up in 1991, I was just 16 and too naive to recognize how stories like theirs were shaping my own thinking about art and life.

This idea that stories shape ones early outlook on life is something I've been fascinated with for a long time. I sometimes reflect on the stories I heard growing up in a poor rural area, and consider the stories I imagined more affluent kids hearing. Where the same, how were they different? Do the stories impoverished kids hear contribute to "generational" poverty? Which leads me to think about fables and fairy tales, and where they come from and what lessons do they teach.

Does anyone else ponder these things?
The factoid about Unicode seems out of place. Those 139 writing systems cover nearly every language that we have evidence of ever being written. If you can find an exception... it'll probably be in the next version of Unicode. Unicode is leading here, not lagging.

Also, given that we're counting languages, the majority of languages are unwritten.
This 'Year in review' page doesn't look much like the actual CNN news pages looked:

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150102183958-01-cnn-ho...

This is from http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/02/world/gallery/cnn-homepage-thr... which gives a better idea of how the front page evolved over time.
These days, ext4 has project quota support, too.
Cambodia, where the last independent newspaper was just shut down: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-devastating-shu...
The landlord is also getting the “30% rebate” by claiming interest as a business expense to offset rent revenue.
If all you care about are CPU clock speed & RAM then Apple computers are overpriced. I grew up salivating over another few hundred Mhz but honestly computers are fast enough that I really didn't notice a difference the last time I upgraded to a new computer.

Computers have evolved well beyond those basic specs and I buy apple products because I care about the whole package. So until other manufacturers figure out how to build computers that are sturdier, last longer, have better screens, sync wifi hotspots across devices, etc... I expect apple to continue charging more for a superior all around product.
This means that the Senate has now made the tax reform bill a win for those who work in startups instead of a loss.

It is seriously gross that a tax reform bill that is by basically all accounts enormously, even proudly regressive is being sold to tech nerds with a marginal improvement in stock options accounting.

Here's a fun detail of the GOP tax plan: it will, according to Senate leadership, include a repeal of the ACA's individual mandate, which is the foundation on which guaranteed-issue health insurance works.

Prior to the ACA, if you or anyone in your family had, in any previous doctor's visit, been assessed/documented as having any symptom of a very long list of disqualifying conditions, you couldn't buy individual-market insurance at any price. It was simply unavailable to you. There is no due process or meaningful appeal to these decisions, which were made mechanically and in bulk. How do I know? Because half my family --- none of whom suffers from any chronic conditions (or, really, any conditions whatsoever) turned out to be uninsurable when we started Matasano.

If you work for some gigantic startup like Github or Airbnb, and your equity turns liquid in 2 years, here's a newsflash: the GOP tax bill is going to include a windfall for you. That probably would have been the case regardless of whether it included a new perk specifically for startup employees.

But if you're starting a company now, or if you just in general care about the rationality of our public policy and the way we finance government, you should be extraordinarily wary of anyone --- especially an investment banker, even if they happen to be wearing khakis and a zip-front sweater --- trying to sell you this new bill. Their incentives are not the same as yours.
One that was certainly cool at the time, but has since burned up and was superseded by a collaborative effort. :p
I am happy to see a return to the simplified options menu. When I do remote technical support it's much easier to say click on the icon with three horizontal lines then click "Preferences" rather than find the gear icon that may be moved due to screen resolution.
I agree. The article isn't very clear on what the problem would be, though it does mention deflation. Deflation is bad by axiom, and we must be pathologically afraid of it. If housing prices sink enough, that may mean that the overall inflation rate turns negative, which is deflation, and thus bad. Even if this "bad" thing, in this case, would just mean that people could consume, save, and invest more.
Here's what's confusing me: Why would this make any sense, at all?

From the government's point of view, they were trying to maximize tax revenue, right? And theoretically that occurs when the security price is at a (local) maximum, which would also likely be when employees choose to exercise.

Or is the idea here that they can tax options at the short-term rate as opposed to the long-term rate?

And even then, does that really make up for the substantial difference in market price (and thus taxes)? The "market price" (whatever that means here) of an early-stage startup's options has to be significantly lower than a post-IPO company.
No they don't. http://www.dell.com/en-ca/ (to which I am redirected from every link in the OP) has nothing other than Win10 or Win7pro. I don't know exactly who they are selling these Ubuntu laptops, but it isn't to me.

http://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-laptops-netbooks-and-tab...

I'd jump at the chance to buy a Ubuntu laptop. Not for me, but for those family members who want laptops but cannot stand windows. I already am going to spend this chirstmas installing Linux on my parent's new machine, bought at Costco with win10. I would have ordered them a dell Ubuntu laptop, but I guess Canada is just too small a market. Victory to Costco and another "sale" for Microsoft.
In Ireland we had a property bubble during the "Celtic Tiger" years, and suffered a major correction after 2007 [1]. Apartments in Dublin the capital city lost about 62% of their value. 10years later and prices are climbing steadily upwards [2]. It's deja vu all over again.
In Ireland we have a national obsession with owning property.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_property_bubble
[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/ireland/housing-index
Because you can get in early and cash out at a huge return with lower capital gains tax - to reward you for taking the risk)

Even boring big companies in the UK have returned 400% over 5 years with some of their share scheme's - a successful ipo where you have shares early on can produce life changing amounts of return.

One VC backed company I worked for back in 2000 everyone was at one point a $Millionaire if only the coop movement wasn't so stick in the mud :-)
Some if the things he is saying are true and make sense, I've read the manifesto and I wouldn't say a lunatic wrote.

His actions of course don't make sense, with all the respect to victims.
I have used webmachine for web services in erlang, which I liked a lot. Not sure it's much maintained anymore.

https://github.com/basho/webmachine/wiki

Edit: apparently it's still at least somewhat alive... http://lists.therestfulway.com/pipermail/webmachine_lists.th...
Agreed and nice overview btw of the food situation. The main woes started because of the draconian laws I mentioned and plain ugly politics. Since the majority of the private sector was against Chavez policies, they were deemed "the enemy" and that is when the whole import lots of food movement started. That food was sold with subsidies in newly created govt stores as a way to bypass the "big bad" expensive private sector. It must be noted that the private sector also ended up trying to boycott the food supply by hoarding products to make prices go up, which is part of what lead to the whole movement.

But long story short, it is the typical situation of two sides fighting instead of reaching an agreement and compromise. The major blow to the industry came in the nationalization of an agricultural products supplier called Agroisleña, which ended up affecting farmers because the new structure that replaced it, was as effective as the Virginia DMV :).

In summary, trying to impose socialism in the economy will always be a big fail.
> A "strong" housing market seems to indicate that there are no productive places for investing and no wage growth so people need to gamble on houses to rise instead.

You've just summarized the situation in Prague, Czech Republic.
The problem is that "fork" means two different things at this point. Compare "FFmpeg developers fork FFmpeg" in the sense of "...and create libav" and in the sense of "...so they can submit pull requests." One is extremely newsworthy, one is extremely not. If you're posting something to HN, it's a reasonable assumption that readers will think you're posting a newsworthy thing as opposed to not.
I just use the prebuilt binaries. But saying it comes from "some anonymous haxxor" isn't fair to TWRP. The situation is no different from the vast majority of binaries we run (unless if you run gentoo maybe, but if you don't audit all sources I don't see how this adds value).
“It is never a compiler error” means don't waste your time blaming the compiler, first assume it's your fault. For every person who genuinely ran into a compiler bug, there are orders of magnitude more who think they did, but didn't. If you start saying "it could be a compiler bug," you're encouraging them to waste their time.

> When encountering a bug, start at the top, and work your way down when you conclude that the current level is correct.

I agree wholeheartedly. Saying "it is never a compiler error" doesn't preclude this; it encourages this behavior. Even thinking "it could be a compiler error" invites laziness.
Yes, this works identically. You would need a sourcemap library like source-map for JS or libsourcemap for python. Instead of having the browser load the sourcemap you just load it in the library and map stack frame line:col for the corresponding file.

We have an exception service for for our company that relies on private sourcemaps and this is our approach.
>Of course he was right but for this to be effective there needs to be a theory and better experiments and that is what Galileo provided.

It only needs the simple observation the kind of Philoponos did to refute Aristotle's thesis. And his arguments show that he knew what he was talking about -- very to the point.

What would need "a theory and better experiments" would be to create a physics of falling -- Philoponos didn't do that (or said he did). He merely refuted Aristotle. We celebrate Democritus atomic theory for far less (as he did no experiments and it was just an idea he had).
should remain quick and responsive even under heavy load with hundreds of tabs.

What is the use case where someone would require hundreds of tabs to be open?
I could be misunderstanding your question, but the Sentry JS SDK sends exceptions to the server and they are unminified on the server side. The server will attempt to download the sourcemaps automatically, but you can also disable them in production and push them to Sentry manually (when you deploy). So this this gives you one existing option, and at least shows it's possible if you need a custom solution.
Free Basics is a scam by Facebook to get more users hooked. India rightly rejected it.
They’ve gotta keep increasing those gross margins.
that's true with any VPN though.
> Too long mortgages (100 years or more)

This is basically a mortgage and reverse mortgage in one package, isn't it?
Something in this article has to be wrong. A bankruptcy shouldn't result in closing profitable stores, just in a change of ownership from the holders of shares to the holders of debt.

If a bunch of stores are closing AND a bunch of retail chains are bankrupt, the causal structure seems more likely to be unprofitable->closing and unprofitable->bankrupt, rather than bankrupt->closing which makes no sense.
Ask HN: Engineer won't approve my PR
I've encountered this situations a few times where, once I've joined a team, an existing senior engineer (often the one seen as a lead, but never officially recognized as such) rejects relatively minor things on my PR (these are not things in the coding spec, usually both function, usually it's an argument of the form "What if x then y then z happened?", sometimes I think my preference is slightly objectively better)

In these situations I try to tease apart if this is psychology thing ("asserting dominance" or "hazing"), because the way these engineers argue in PR is often very black/white.

For reference I'm more senior career-wise than most of these engineers, but it happens most when I'm new to the company. The last thing I want is 1-hour arguments over minutia or a protracted mutual suspicion. The problem is worse for me when the engineer is remote.

Of those who have been in that situation and conquered it (i.e. the other person would admit they have things they can learn from you / considers you a friend), how did you do it?
I guess they're restricted by the govt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Imprisonment
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As a front end Dev I'll never fully ditch Chrome as its Dev tools are vastly superior. I've tried the Firefox inspect menu and I'm just immediately turned off and confused..

However Firefox has been, and always will be my daily driver for all Web browsing. It's eco system is richer, noscript and the fact that it's not a Google product is a huge selling point.
My current tools of choice for server-side are Python 3 + Django + Django REST Framework (DRF).

I want to really get into Node, but developing with it currently feels like I'm Dr. Frankenstein hacking and stitching his monster together.

I realize Node developers tend to prefer small, focused libraries rather than big, monolithic frameworks. But taken to an extreme, this results in a codebase that has litle beauty, consistency, or symmetry.

Want to initialize an Express app? Don't use the new keyword. Want to declare a Mongoose schema? You have to use the new keyword.

Express uses callbacks extensively, but for Mongoose I can configure promises (oh, should I also install and import Bluebird or just use global promises?)

And really, why is body-parser installed separately from Express?

I'm not disparaging Node in order to elevate Python, Django, and DRF. I really want to embrace Node and build fast, elegant, real-time, universal ES 2015+ Web apps. But as it stands now, exploring the Node ecosystem is exhausting and frustrating.

Edit: if nobody builds a universal, consistent, ES 2015+ framework for Node, I fully intend to do it myself.
To nitpick on your example No 3:

The question is "what amount of money would make the injured party whole again", to which the answer was "One million". To that one million, another million was added in punitive damages, summing to the total of two million.

Punitive damages are added to "regular" damages. The idea is that, for example, you may have only lost $30 when your bank fudged the numbers in their favour. But only awarding you $30 would be too low to discourage such behaviour by the bank, and it would also be too low to make it worth your time and money to sue.
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There are more than three. A lot, in the later stages, died trying to create modern parachutes too, others were more modest in the heights (and above what surfaces) they tested their devices.

Also the several attempts at bird-like planes to fly (with movable bird-like wings).
The provision taxing stock options at vesting has been dropped
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On what OS? It will vary for sure.
Currently, browsers don't support FLIF at all. If they ever do support it, what you're suggesting could be an excellent feature to add.
I've wondered if a keto diet could help, but if there's a chance antibiotics could fix the problem, I'll take that instead. My gluten intolerance appeared 1 week after a serious food poisoning, which could logically point to a bacterial/parasitic origin...

I also happen to have numerous food allergies, so the gastroenterologist thought "add gluten to the list".

If nothing else works, maybe I'll try a keto diet, but I love sugar... I'm already gluten free (I'm french, no bread), fruit free, raw veggies free, lactose free (I'm french, no cheese), olive free (I live in Spain!)... cutting sugar would be hard ;-)
I have the same complaints. I've found NestJS (https://nestjs.com) to be a wonderful solution for a lot of what you're talking about. There's a few recipes to get you up and rolling with a real framework and also an ORM (TypeORM or Mongoose). Highly recommend.
Funny that TV graphics or magazine design in '94 weren't bad, but web design graphics were terrible.

It seems like the web could have been beautiful back then, especially with flat design and whitespace techniques.
> Just recently the Swedish government limited the maximum mortgage term to 105 years. That is some absolutely stupid policy.

It is a bad situation. But on the other hand you can't just change the max mortgage to 30 years either, or remove the interest tax deduction over night, as that would immediately create the problem you were trying to avoid to begin with (an unstable housing market).

I think what they are doing to mortgage lengths is entirely sensible now: they are increasing the required down payments (effectively 25% now) and then requiring a higher pace of repayment initially. That's when it really matters to stability. E.g. if people pay off 3%/year for the first 10 years of their mortgage, it doesn't really matter whether they have a 30, 40 or 100 year mortgage. They will have paid it down to around half the valuation which lowers the risk.
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We didn't conflate the issues, congress did.
Does the FT article give any details of how that fifth is broken down? I suspect they'd be predominantly buy-to-let; my understanding is that there are significant barriers to getting an interest-only residential mortgage.
Or you can pay a nominal fee to GitHub and not have to manage anything...

I like that Gitlab exists but I am willing to pay a lot of money to not have to manage yet another server
"whole thing is just impossible?"

Some stuff is impossible without using 'unsafe', although less than you'd think at first glance.

At first glance you'd think "If you have to use unsafe, why bother using rust?" But it's actually awesome. If 0.01% of your code is marked unsafe, that gives you the bandwidth to audit that part of the code very closely.
There is a third option you know.
All my add ons got disabled and many will never get updated
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Does anyone have any more context on what this actually is?