skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that there's no money in that. And the GPL license means that anyone can just fork your stuff whenever they decide they don't like your monetization strategy.

Maybe building a distro based on FreeBSD would work as you describe?

I haven't looked into Linux/Unix for a long time, right now I want to switch from Windows 7 to some Linux distro but I'm having trouble deciding, and I remember what a pain in the ass it was to keep a workstation Linux problem-free.
That’s not really my point. It should be there by default...
So this is at best exactly as secure as visiting wikipedia directly in a TOR browser? TOR itself operates by routing packets through a hidden layer so that the exit node which talks to the end site doesn't know who is the requestor, just a hidden node address to send data back to. Here he is essentially operating an exit node that only talks to wikipedia.
Almost never at the frontend. Sometimes at the backend. Once a month probably. But you never know which of these you may need. Asking stuff like this on an interview is idiotic. I'm talking about web dev.

It can be really useful if you're writing a compiler or something like that. There's a lot of problems in molecular biology, which need some complicated algorithms.
https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy.
The CS industry at large rarely conducts interviews that land good employees. What HR does?

Algorithm questions should be a jumping off point. All good programmers know that the first questions a great programmer really asks when handed one of these questions are more like "can I use the built-in" or (x library that solves the issue) or maybe "how fast does it need to be I know a slow perl solution to this" or even better- "where did this requirement come from maybe there's a better approach entirely that could save us dozens of hours and produce more maintainable code" or "can you tell me about this process that hands programmers disjointed arbitrary tasks I'm not sure I want to work in that environment". Heck, someone who first writes out the code for the automated test before tackling the algorithm is a great choice.

If someone's first answer to a generic algorithm question is to perfectly produce a textbook answer, the interview has gone wrong in a number of places.
Rust: Enable WebAssembly backend by default
I believe the one sentence about ms moving its german headquarters to munich last year should have been expanded.

I wonder if ms moving its hq and everything that comes with it sped up someones decision making.
Teenagers have always felt a need to connect with others. Social media allows you to think you are fulfilling it without actually engaging with other people. When I was that age, I had to get up and go out. And I spent time with lots of other teenagers, which also taught me to figure out who I liked and didn't, what I liked to do, and what I did not. FWIW, when my grandpa was that age, living on a farm, he'd hitchhike across Nebraska to meet other teenagers. Every generation has its own version of what they did to meet other kids their age.

That is my real concern - nobody lives a perfect life or is perfectly happy as a teenager. But you take action to find a better life, and grow in those years, on multiple levels, and come out of it having developed into the person you will really be. So who will these kids be who spent those formative years staring at devices? I really don't know... is it just a new flavor of the same growth, or will it be different?
Regarding gaming: it doesn't matter how many games are there, what matters is WHICH GAMES.

Playing games is a social activity after all, especially for teenagers. If all of your Windows-using friends are playing Assassin's Creed: Origins, and you can't because there isn't a Linux version of it then those 2500+ games on Steam do not really matter to you.
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I've only have a pretty basic understanding of how it works, but I thought the checks didn't rely on the compiler. They're special templates that fail when their conditions aren't met

And when I say it didn't take off - I mean that I haven't come across a single large project that has take up using the GSL. Hope I'm wrong - maybe I just haven't looked in the right place?
Forgot I had actually put my fork up on GitHub, and tweaked it for the current versions:

https://github.com/rcarmo/docker-compose-guacamole
> I think our current systems is pretty good at figuring out how much value each person has created, and letting them capture a portion of it.

You are basically saying that Jeff Bezos has created more than 100x the value of, say, Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Guido van Rossum, and Donald Knuth combined?

I think you forget how achieving near monopoly status is like gambling, and how much it depends on being first to market, and about convincing investors (for years Amazon has run on a loss, not sure how they do now).
Isn't what he just described Redhat... as in RedHat Enterprise Linux?
Extensions you have for Chrome can work on Firefox with little to no modification. The extensions you rely on probably just need to be repacked into a WebExtension.
> It seems to me that there's no money in that.

It had sort of worked with Android, so there should be some.

> Maybe building a distro based on FreeBSD would work as you describe?

Is there anything wrong with macOS? ;) (I know, I know, it's not exactly BSD)
I can relate to that, and hope you both find some great friends to build your support network. You hit it on the head, though, that they need to be emotionally healthy people. That’s where my wife went wrong. She befriended people who were not, are not emotionally healthy.

And no, no alimony. No court order. Just trying to figure out how to cut her off in the right way. We are used to a pretty lavish lifestyle and honestly I just feel bad for her. I need to not.
Hah, you're joking, right?

One of the main (non-technical) reasons I've switched to Linux is to not be dictated to by a single entity, who has their own ideas (and motivations) on how I should by using my own computer.
It's very picky when it comes to hardware :D

Android... I dunno, the way Google makes money is mainly from apps on the Play Store? Is it even possible to replicate that on a desktop?
Did you spoke to the lawyer? The judge ruling in her favor would not be worst for you then it is now. If she risk being homeless, the child might even end up with you. In which case you dont have to fear irregular lifestyle you fear now. And if you ended up with shared custody, you would still have more control over what is going on with kid, was able to intervene sooner and still did not had to pay as much as you pay now.
When you're looking at templates for success, then looking at the successful companies (survivorship bias) is a good start.

The fallacy is when it turns out that there are lots of other companies doing the same thing, but those companies aren't successful. This is the problem with all those blog posts examining the daily habits of highly successful people (like, they wake up early, or, they eat energy bars to save time, etc). Clearly, just doing these things won't make you a billionaire.

For what I wrote, I believe this doesn't apply, because of the stark difference between the culture I experienced at FB and other companies. (Admittedly, this is not a stat.sign. sample.) So in my experience it's _not_ true that other companies are doing the same thing...

Having said that, you're right that FB is a one in a million company, and probably nobody reading this will be the next M.Zuckerberg... But still, if you want to be the best in your domain (eg. best todo app), I strongly think these are good patterns to follow.
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Consumerism requires very high prioritisation of one’s career (as otherwise you won’t be able to afford all the nice stuff), which means working very hard, moving around the country/world for better jobs etc. This must come at the cost of friendships and family bonds.
You’re right. I need to just stop paying her bills. I’m worried she’s going to get nastier and keep my child from me out of spite.

And I hear you, but - I work from home. When I said “come home from work” I just meant it like...end of the day. I don’t know why I still use that phrase. Sometimes I go work at coffee shops or something, so then I’ll come home. Sure maybe I’m not as present, since I am working, but she has it so much better than so many others out there..

I’ve worked from home for years. She’s had me home. I help with our child. I cooked dinner. I did the chores. It wasn’t like she was even the only stay at home parent...

I haven’t gotten divorced yet because I hold onto that vision of her coming back and begging for forgiveness. But I should know that’s not going to happen. And even if it did, after all this, idk if I could even take her back. I should probably just file...
I'd have taken custody of my kid the next day she said "polyamorous".
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My idea for a quick fix is to remove likes/dislikes/emoji reactions. If people can't see how others feel about a post/article in an instant, they might have to read and decide for themselves how to feel.
Yes, and that is all I wanted to point out. That Soros is investing heavily in affecting the public and official opinion on some topics, such as net neutrality.

And for this I get called a 'conspiracy theorist'.

Soros is not a 'boogie man', he is a man that sabotages countries for his own personal gain. I do not trust him, and do not trust his 'philantropic' reasons. The end game with him is always the same, getting more money for himself in the end. He uses legit humanitarian/human rights issues simply as tool towards that end goal, and this disgusts me.

As for your attempt at ridicule by association, I am not American so I'm not able to follow; I get that 'red cap circle' would be Trump supporters, but can you clarify the 'paid busloads of people to protest' part?
People with less formal education also equals Facebook and Internet. I had a startup that sold B2B2C products to restaurants. I had to train wiaters and cashiers to use their product on their phone (as the customers would). Most of the times when I asked them to open the internet they would open Facebook app directly. They wouldn't understand "browser" or "chrome" either. When I clicked on the chrome icon for them, they would say "Oh, you mean Google??". And then I had to go on and explain that you could go to the URL field and type an specific address you of a site.
LiMux? Did these guys make their own distro specifically for the city?
Discussed 54 days ago (1096 points):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15389727
Further investigation seems useful.

Eg anecdotally I can see people in India putting on the pounds much more than Chinese---whether on the mainland or in South-East Asia like Singapore. But I don't know the statistics off the top of my head, I only lived there.
>Republican establishment screams about small government and yet they're the ones expanding the scope

One day, GOP, this will haunt you.
Gosh thanks for the tip! Was about to come here to comment in frustration!
It's gotta feel bad for the local reporters that are literally risking their lives reporting news in Cambodia, to then have their views go down 80%. Because Facebook decided to experiment and implement the Timeline feature. Facebook is barely even tied to the fate or all that concerned, since it's only 18million users.
I've seen some of what looked like Germanification of idioms. Eg 'couple' in British English seems to mean exactly two. In German 'paar' (lower cased!) is basically synonymous with 'a few', and the Americans seem to be using 'a couple' also in that wider sense?
B2b2c? Could you explain?
>So don't make it simplified, don't hail "community-driven", just go and start making suggested changes with the rest of your favourite OS community!

Good luck with getting those accepted, when there's an established man page and for 30+ years simple examples like in tldr where frowned upon in almost all of them.
Interesting, but pixz is too new for it, plus it looks like it's using extension to determine the type, so it won't work for the same reason as above. The benefit of pixz is much faster compression / decompression.
KDE and GNOME are over-engineered, there's too much complexity in the wrong places and this leads to confusion.

More specifically, KDE has too many configuration options, while GNOME is dictating how one has to do things.

As an example:

> "Documents is a document manager application designed to work with GNOME 3. It's included in the default set of core applications since GNOME 3.2."

The file system has been used for decades as a document manager, why is this in the set of CORE applications ?
Hm. I guess you're right. Android was a bad example. Unless something new happens to desktops that would require a new OS (or significant changes to the existing OSes), Android's success cannot be repeated.
The Norman conquest was way back, and wasn't even the latest invasion. (The Dutch conquered Britain in the meantime.)

The Norman conquest played a role, especially in language, but the later major power / colonial empire rivalry would have developed regardless of history, just dictated by geography and clashing interests.
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It seems plausible that people would write shorter, clearer functions that
have no possibility of being incorrect if they had no tests to gain the
confidence of them being correct.

Also, designing for testability only gives you testability. If you ditch this
requirement, suddenly you're free to design directly for ease of use, not for
some proxy like testability.
> Carp is very young and in an entirely different position than Rust.

If anything, Carp's is an advantageous position relative to Rust: You don't risk breaking many other people's code by fixing any type safety holes you find along the way. Which you will, not because you're stupid, but rather because type system design is applied formal logic, and formal logic is frigging hard for humans.

> While I do agree with the fact that one of the best features of Rust is the communication

It's not just that they communicate something, but rather what they communicate. Most language designers that have a user community do a reasonable job of explaining how new language features solve existing problems users face. However, they usually do a poor job of explaining how new language features interact with previously existing ones in all possible cases, and the main reason for this is that language designers have trouble anticipating these interactions to begin with. In other words, language designers don't understand their own designs! Matsakis' blog shows that the Rust's developers do a much better job than other language designers in this regard.
> and I'd be confused, why people were laughing and interacting without words. It was a while till I realized that they were chatting on IRC.

Call me oldschool.. I'm just 43 and I still have that split second confusion every time I see someone speak aloud in the metro or tram here with their glassy stare, looking in front of them, while speaking to apparently no one. Every god damn time I'm like "(0.3 seconds) OH..."

But am I not wrong. I don't need to "understand" anything. My body is that through which I know myself and everything else. All of what we call "reality" is experienced through, and as, a body.

If anything technology should honor, and augment that instead of dissociating us.
Here's the credits for Gunship. Any of those look familiar? http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/gunship/credits
This doesn't replace Jekyll, it's a CMS for those sites.

The advantage of these tools is that you can get a statically generated site without having to use terminal commands or git. It's perfect if you're setting up a simple site for non-technical clients, then they can manage their own content and you don't have to babysit Wordpress or worry about scaling.
Sure, there are lots of cognates. Some of the hardest to translate words are actually cognates.

For example it's almost impossible to properly translate the German word 'Brot' into English. It's a cognate of 'bread', but Germans mean something very different by 'Brot' than the British mean by 'bread'.

Loaning a word ad-hoc is much easier by comparison. Eg Bundeskanzler means exactly the same in English as it does in German. As does Prime Minister.
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>People who complain about man pages tend not to understand man pages.

That's their very issue with them.

>Man pages aren't howto documentations. They're very specifically designed to document the different components of a command, call or configuration file.

Then people who designed man pages didn't understand what the users want first and foremost: howto examples.

Besides, whether they document "the different components of a command" and whether they have howto examples is orthogonal. They could do all the formal documentation they want and still include howto examples.

That they don't (well, most don't, some man pages are decent enough to indeed include example sections) is their failure.
For decades SSA took in more money than was spent, which makes sense, since there was/is a demographic bubble nearing retirement that will need funds. This led to a surplus on order of $4T. Holding this in dollars, which deflates around 2% a year, would lose $80B annually in value. To prevent this, law requires investing the money in a safe place, which is non-marketable securities. Nothing else has this level of backing. For 2016, this earned 1.8% for the fund [1], which would be $72B on 4T, a benefit of $152B. Every month hundreds of B mature, get sold, any excess reinvested. All this can be tracked easily publically [2] and elsewhere.

The current holdings are 2.8T with an avg interest rate of 2.9% [2]. I find the current system far better than simply putting dollars into a bag.

How would you design such a system with the same risk profile while not losing ~$150B a year that the current system maintains?

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/fundFAQ.html

[2] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/investheld.html
I think you’re overestimating how creative even creative people are. Quentin Tarentino’s entire career has been remaking other people’s work, for example. There is a lot of room for creativity in copying.
Facebook has to be broken down to pieces. I think it has reached a state where it cannot be allowed to continue as a single company being able to observe/monitor public and private communication / social interaction of so many people and not being regulated and controlled by the government.
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Facebook itself seems to be quite comfortable with the world it has created; a place where every vulnerable (and even perhaps, not so vulnerable) mind can be influenced by information regardless of factual accuracy!
Most people in their twenties haven't thought of answers to your questions, and don't have the kind of plans that financial advice presupposes.
A product that is "Business to Business to Consumer".

It was a loyalty program for restaurants. I had to sell to the restaurants (B2B), but the main user was their customers (B2C).
Uber touts itself as a marketplace right? Maybe short trips should pay more than they do if drivers are skipping them. Or as MMM suggested, drivers should be paid for driving to pick up the passenger.
Never seen the term used before, but pretty sure it means Business to Business to Consumer i.e. they are a business that sells consumer facing software to other businesses. Example would be a POS (Point of Sale) system which I am guessing based on above anecdote is the family of software grandparent was referring to.
With respect to the supply chain; business to business to consumer.
I guess this is something like a CRM, where you're primary customers are another business, but you're building something that's visible to their customers, so you're also trying to satisfy these end users.
Subjectivity of value is a challenge to be solved, not an obstacle to capitulate before.

Mathematics helps here, too. Game theory to be more precise. Of course, lots of the solutions to fair distribution problems have been discovered before mathematicians got a chance to invent game theory. For two people, the you-cut/I-choose procedure works.

For lots of people introducing money is more efficient: just auction off all the plots to the highest bidders, and distribute the proceeds equally. Auctions are a great way to convert subjective valuations into fair numerical valuations.

See eg things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_value or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_division
Supppsedly people who speak tonal languages are more likely to have perfect pitch.
I believe that it is actually unhappiness and loneliness which are the drivers of consumerism and not the other way around. I believe that happy people are lazy and I think that is why western civilization has outstripped the others. I think, that since our social bonds have been destroyed, we work hard to try to seek happiness that the other civilizations already have. And then our civilization spreads, like a disease, infecting other civilizations and making them unhappy and hardworking as well.

I think that this is a relatively new phenomena, which occurred during the urbanization caused by the industrial revolution. Urbanization caused social bonds to be broken, and people became unhappy and hard working.

There is a super creepy tshirt from one startup I know, which has the text "the pyramids were not built by happy people". I've always wanted to ask them about what this means. But I've never had the nerve.

But it has always haunted me.
Unfortunately, there is no solution in our current system. The only solution would be to accept that the western (current) capitalist decadent society is causing wealth and power to concentrate in a very narrow group of chosen people who end up having extreme power over masses of people that make up society today.

The only way is to try to try to regulate this capitalist wet dream and try to break it down to smaller companies with less power to pay off politicians. Legislature will have to change dramatically.
De facto hierarchy matters. Informal, 'light handed', and voluntary are just examples of organizational hierarchies.

>He has no choice than to respect meritocratic wishes of other developers

On the contrary. Linus can enforce his vision against majority of other senior developers because here is inherent costs friction in forking Linux. It would require large number of misguided decisions for any serious fork to emerge.
I'm going to guess because no one wants to read your new yorker-length-wall-of-text-blog-post-cum-comment. It was an original part of the rules of the site which have now been removed, if I cared enough I'd dig up an archived version of the site and find the FAQ.
A list of only 500 potential problems for an interview.

All right class, remember to read the textbook cover-to-cover over the weekend, as your first quiz may, or may not, cover the entire course.

But don't be nervous, it's only worth 95% of your grade.
The complexity you denigrate in KDE is the result of its massive configurability. The average joe might find it offputting, but I like being able to completely control my environment. I suppose that mirrors Linux in general.

If Linux had to be dumbed-down to make it a generally acceptable desktop environment, something else would invariably arise in its niche. I think things are just fine as is with MacOS as Unix for the masses, and Linux as unix for hackers.
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