skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There isn't enough research being done on these drugs to know whether decriminalization is the right move or not
How's LibreOffice compare to OpenOffice? Last time I tried the latter, it would create weird formatting in documents when opened in MS Word.
> 5 years ago the electric car would have been on that list.

I don't understand -- are you saying that at some point prior to 2012, electric cars had been in frequent use, and then that stopped at some point?
I still don't see how comparing to success causes unhappiness. This theory is too convenient and is spreading like a disease.

When you see someone who is popular and successful, the normal and healthy response is admiration and inspiration. If you fail to have your own wins of some kind, then this could be the source of unhappiness, but that is because you didn't have a win, not because others did.
Same here to both. Only real conflict is with dunst [0] which also likes to use Ctrl-Space by default.

[0] https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst
I like the idea of this study. I wish there were more data behind it. I’d love to see comparisons based on language, or testing tool, for example. Or code base size, age, author count, etc. There also needs to be some weighting of confidence based on how many code bases are in each group. eg, Since there are only four code bases in the >50% group, it’s dangerous to draw conclusions based on a trend line when that group is equally weighted with the far more populous groups.

Still, I’m hoping the author expands his datasets and analytical methods as time goes on and I’d be interested to see this topic revisited with a larger sample.
Why don't we have push-to-talk on every Android and iPhone in 2017?
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Yes there is
Keyless car stolen using a radio repeater [video]
Probably not any good tools or tutorials, but the wast format is not that hard [0][1] and most compilers accept that format. Just gotta keep the values on the stack in mind while you write.

0 - http://webassembly.org/docs/text-format/

1 - https://webassembly.github.io/spec/text/index.html
VS sure does offer you a way to avoid this. Simply choose the "Empty" Template when creating a new ASP.NET Core project. (Duh. :) )
Because it was all replaced with a software implementation of it that wasn't as good, which soured people against the idea.
The HP-35 Design: A Case Study in Innovation (2011) [pdf]
How is it like to live in Bali as a software engineer?
> My recommendation to use one close to the metal like PreScheme with Rust-style safety that outputs C for LLVM attempts to address that.

Wouldn't it be easier to develop a very basic OS core in Rust, and a simple Lisp 1.5 interpreter written in Rust as foundation for a full blown Lisp?
The adolescent was likely referring to a broader social perspective, not consumer oriented business models.

The adolescent here could be observing a short term trend relative to an underlying bigger picture. People are competitive by nature and the modern information age may be amplifying this for them, at least in perception.
"The founders would recognise a wealthy, powerful individual using the best communication technology available to spread their views, possibly anonymously, because that's precisely what they did, and precisely what they aimed to protect."

They also used the best weapons available at the time and aimed to protect their ownership by individuals. That doesn't mean they either foresaw the development of nuclear weapons or would approve their ownership by individuals.
I didn't realize it when I wrote the above, but this makes my case much stronger: these special entitlements are listed as part of the app. It's far from obvious to the end user, but people who know how to look at them can do so. Either nobody knowledgeable has ever looked at Facebook's entitlements, or it doesn't have one that would let them do this.
> Cost isn't the big issue, there are plenty of ways to do it for free.

Okay, but I was also thinking how easy it would be, for non-programmers. I.e., what would be the easiest way to host it without cost?

> I'm curious why you think this is against GitHub's TOS? We're creating commits and pull requests via their API, which is exactly why the API exists, programmatic interaction with the service.

Yes, but you would be committing data, not code.

Also, I suppose the data would not be not human-friendly to read, so that's another step away from typical github use.
I'm sad to say that I think this is the intended result of social media from the corporate/business point of view.

Instead of TV, with its advertisements being broad and un-targeted, people are building their own hell by searching for what they want. Then the machines learn get an idea what they want, and show it to them. Part of the nature of advertising is convincing people they need these things, otherwise they will be "out" (old, poor, unpopular, etc.).

Instead of maybe one ad in an hour (or a day) triggering you, you're bombarded with reminders of what could be, if you could afford it. Of course the promises are unrealistic and easily broken, but I don't think most people have the mental tools to realize that at the time.

There's all this great positive content out there too! Educational videos, science, all that. But it seems the impact of bad things outweighs the good, which just seems to be human nature - we regret things a lot more than we are thankful for what we do not regret. Even if they aren't selling anything to us.

It's true that we're comparing across the world now, and there will be someone better than you. But that's almost always been true, although for a lot of the time you didn't know who was better, or they were simply some distant name written in a book, easily forgotten. For example, I think few will rival Aristotle, but nobody seems to care about that.

Fear and regret are powerful motivators, but dangerous ones as well. If you can't act for some reason (lack of money, lack of opportunity/ability) it just seems to gnaw at you until you snap. I don't think it's any different than TV, except now amplified via personalization.
https://www.gnucash.org/
The page weighs in at almost 9 megabytes. How is that efficient and fast to load? Lazy loading images would be a small and needed improvement - but of course it would require the horrible jaava skript to be used, which must be avoided at all costs.
I don't think you can at runtime from wasm though. Imports are resolved at load time. Sure there are call indirect that let you dynamically change the function index but not the import/export. Now if you were willing to reload, you could use the JS API to create modules at runtime with dynamically downloaded pieces, but once created, that's it I think.
Gravity simulator written in JS
Isn't it strange that the concorde moment for aviation was the retirement of the SR-71?
A proton is just a location in a vast sea of proton-field
As others have said, this is not an empty project, but a sample project template.

(Oh, and /obj is one of the standard build artifact directories for .NET together with /bin...)
> I think more dangerous than social media is the omnipresence of image recording devices. When I made a mistake as a teenager, people might laugh at me for a day or two, sooner or later it was forgotten. Today's teenager make a mistake and if they are unlucky, their shame gets immediately exposed to the whole world, forever.

This in itself isn't the problem. We all have done stupid shit that we are embarrassed by. The real problem is that, for some reason, we never forgive anyone for their mistakes.
There are limits to such growth. Arguably, the growth of last few centuries has been achieved by burning up finite resources [1]. And even if we'd somehow get an infinite source of energy, at some point we'd run into the heat dissipation limit of the earth. [2]

[1] http://www.inscc.utah.edu/~tgarrett/Economics/Physics_of_the...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat
Because Nextel became Sprint, and Androids and iPhones are PCs with a telephone modem in them, not telephones with an app platform in them. Telephony has clearly taken a back seat, when's the last time you even heard a layman about "call quality"?
Revisiting the Mutilated Chessboard
Yes, you can make an image that compresses to a smaller raster image vs. SVG, and complexity is a good way to do that. Especially possible if your image/logo isn’t just solid colors, but contains gradients or textures.

I would guess, though, that if you make a logo that is larger as an SVG than a compressed raster, you’ve probably made a bad logo. Logos should be simple.
I found the recent EA Battlefront 2 controversy hugely interesting.
Gamers rebelling against micro-transactions, then being attacked for being greedy or selfish by the games media.

It really brought into picture that various interests of major players in that community are not inline creating a huge amount of tension. The journalists are basically a PR arm of the bigger corporations or a specific political agenda.

This article seems to ignore the fact that often groups or tribes often form to protect their own interests by creating various forms of economic and/or social moats. The various groups are all trying to reduce competition by creating monopolies or gatekeepers, which in turn increases the tension or hostility between gamers and the mainstream journalists.

It's pretty interesting seeing this occur in real-time. I'm still not sure how the "gamers" are organizing or whether its just an emergent reaction.
Move my family out of the increasinly bizarre western world to somewhere in Asia. Working towards it by saving as much money as possible and trying to forge some longer term reliable business relationships that could offer ongoing remote work.
Interesting - I've never cared for professional reviewers or anything of the sort - instead I just look for the biggest user review site around, which is currently probably Steam and read the comments a bit and then if I'm on the borderline I'll watch a YouTube video of actual gameplay. I can understand why they existed before, but what's the benefit of professional reviewers in this day and age, when it's far easier to determine what the common opinion of something will be?
Yup, I'm sorry it came across that way.
Free speech is a dangerous idea by itself, and without democracy and solid institutions, it can easily be the tool of populists and demagogues. It's not an absolute value all on its own.
Have you ever heard about byobu? It's basically a tmux wrapper with crtl/shift hotkeys by default.
would this show up under an IPERF3 test? I would think so but just curious if someone with one of these modems can check. Also curious if this shows up testing between switch ports on the modem or if it's just IP outside the NAT.
Maybe I misunderstood the point of your comment but I'm not trying to argue that reading is good for you (which I personally believe), just that it isn't bad for you and I'm not aware of any controversy around that latter point as I have never heard anyone argue that they are bad for you and I couldn't find any studies saying that it is bad for you. If you think that point is controversial I'm willing to entertain the argument but the claim doesn't seem that serious to me.
great, thanks, that clarifies things quite a bit.
When you're stuck, bash things together
Terrafugia sale may accelerate flying car arrival
Ideals over first principles seems to be their MO
An ETF tracker?
This is a case when it's convenient to use the following notation:

Accepted value: µ = 2.792847351(9)

New value: µ = 2.79284734462(82)
yes, was also curious why : it's 16bits per channel color encoding instead of a paletted image.
+1 on Peter Norvig's remark on design patterns.
The solution to big problems that Facebook creates should not be to give Facebook more power or authority (to ostensibly try to correct those issues).

We need to start reclaiming power from facebook, not abdicating more to it.
I basically did the same thing. I developed a portable income and moved to a small town to get myself back into housing.

But most people can't just up and move wherever they want. The jobs are mostly in the expensive big cities. Even services like Task Rabbit, Amazon Flex or Uber are mostly only available in a short list of very large cities.

Meanwhile, we have torn down about 80 percent of SROs and the like and the default expectation is that young, single people should get a roommate. There is a dearth of genuinely affordable housing near jobs that would allow people to live alone and make ends meet working an entry level job. Those options mostly do not exist.

Pretending this isn't a problem because you found a solution that works for you is pretty LA LA LA not listening. Detroit has affordable housing because so many locals are in dire straits that a charity was created not that long ago to pay the water bills of people getting their water cut off: https://www.detroitwaterproject.org

So, basically, your life works because you saw opportunity amidst this debacle, not because everything is fine in the US.
Rather than just e-devices alone, I wonder about the shift in parenting and style of education today. One of the most marked shifts in society today has been the change in direction towards treating everybody as special. Yet children know who the 'smart' kids are, they know who the athletic kids are, they know who the artistic kids are, and so on. How is a kid supposed to feel when he's constantly told he's special, yet he knows he's not particularly great at anything? A wall full of participation trophies isn't going to change that disconnect; unless the child is completely obtuse, it's going to be a reminder of all his failures to ever achieve.

Now enter the internet on top of this and it's a perfect storm. The media loves stories, however fake they may often be, of wunderkind 11 year old creates nuclear reactor in basement during downtime between giving violin solos at Carnegie Hall and solving world hunger. And the image crafting of social media only further adds to all of this.

Most people are not special, and that is okay. Even when I was young this sort of treating everybody as special had already started to seep into education. The anecdote of Einstein failing at math in high school was one that came up more than a couple of times. Of course he didn't. His response to that rumor, perhaps started by a misunderstanding of a grade change scale, was a laugh and comment that he never failed in math and statement that before he was fifteen he'd mastered differential and integral calculus. It's similar with efforts to posthumously diagnose him with various sorts of disabilities, or even attributing, in part, his success to his wife who failed to achieve a teaching certification -- unable to pass the mathematics component, she gave up after two attempts.

Ultimately I think we should treat nobody as special. And require people prove it through their own deeds. There should be every possible opportunity for anybody to achieve such merit, but people should not be expected to be special. It's simply unrealistic and, even if it may make us (as in the parents and teachers creating this facade) feel better about ourselves, I don't think it's achieving the intended effect.
This is something I think about from time to time as well, I haven't been able to see how to actually implement this in a real project. When I studied Computer Science, I had a particular interest in formal design, (studied Eiffel breifly) but haven't seen that aspect of it translate into my work.
I work in enterprise web application development, and the way projects are estimated, resourced and budgeted (in my experience) doesn't seem to offer any opportunities to try this. (Or I just haven't been smart enough to make a plan).
How would you go about creating a formal specification, to build something like a Facebook Messenger bot for an e-commerce store? Or something simpler like a Angular driven warehouse catalog application?
Read the article (and, if you are able, the ones in German) – this has nothing at all to do with Excel having more hotkeys. LiMux has been around for a long time, and those wrinkles had been pretty much ironed out.

Mayor Reiter openly calls himself a "Microsoft fan". He got Microsoft to move their German HQ to Munich, which was a significant deal for the city. They then hired Accenture, an official MS partner company, to write an report on the city's IT problems. It concluded that LiMux administration is poorly coordinated between departments, and that was all the justification they needed to push for a migration back to Windows.

I am surprised this Techcrunch piece is so "balanced", including a parroting of the understated official cost estimates. This deal is a stupendous waste of taxpayers' money, and German-language news (at least those I've read) are much less subtle about it.
tl;dr version:

Memcache is a great cache. Redis is a great data store which also works as a great cache. Memcache has a few advantages for some use cases, but generally speaking, you won’t go wrong if you choose Redis over memcache.
What 'specific political agenda' are people who write about games part of?
The “Facebook sells your data” myth is too often rehashed. Facebook has done studies and actually found that your personal info is not all that valuable in and of itself. Your likes, statuses, friends and photos do not provide meaningful targeting data. (Age and geography are meaningful, but those are already available with traditional media). Facebook’s huge money maker is its ability to let other companies target their own customers on the Facebook platform.

If Nordstrom keeps track of its website customers and what products they look at, and can then target those same users directly on Facebook with related products, they’re willing to pay way more for that kind of targeting than they are “women in their 40s who ‘like’ shopping”. Facebook supports both, but facebooks real success comes from letting companies leverage their own data on the Facebook platform.

That and the fact that they have a billion users log in per day. If any other site had that kind of traffic they’d be killing it regardless of the personal data they possessed.
Some recent research:

Psilocybin-occasioned mystical-type experience in combination with meditation and other spiritual practices produces enduring positive changes in psychological functioning and in trait measures of prosocial attitudes and behaviors

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/026988111773127...

Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression: fMRI measured brain mechanisms

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-13282-7.pdf
I have no love for Facebook, but it's important to recognize that Facebook role in these problems is only incidental. If there was no Facebook, we'd have the same growing fake news, astroturfing and bot problem—these are inherent to social media and widespread internet access. I'm not against regulation of Facebook per se, but the broader question of how we contend with online misinformation and propaganda in an online world is much more important.
> typecasing, multimethods

These features exist for expressiveness, not safety reasons. Although it must be noted that these features make it hard to verify the correctness of programs in a modular fashion. Typecasing makes language-enforced abstraction essentially impossible.

> conditions and restarts

These features exist for debuggability, not safety reasons. Safety means ruling out delimited classes of “bad” behaviors by (language) design.

> friendly runtime overseeing the code execution

Now this is a safety feature, but it is only kind of incompatible with the zero-overhead needs of a low-level language.
Still not 100% convinced, but if it's true this is an interesting example of common conception / human nature steering us in the wrong direction. This problem won't be an issue with driverless cars...
> Yes, it is interesting that the author sees no place in the modern world for the kind of free speech enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

Well, there is such a place. The U.S.

However, in Germany, German rules of speech apply. As a German, I consider this a good thing. And remember, the German constitution was written at the pleasure of the allies -- the US were apparently quite happy with the way our constitution balances freedom and responsibility.

And, corner cases aside, so am I. I prefer "responsible speech" to the US "wild west speech". This is largely cultural I'm sure.

Of course once we accept that Germany can insist on their own model of speech, so can China. Or Syria. Or Thailand. Which I find hardly ideal, given that I'd like to propagate liberal (and, dare I say it, "western") values. But I don't have a decent solution to this conundrum.
The Constitutional guarantee of free speech mandates the behavior of the government to not interfere with the rights of private actors. When a private actor (such as Facebook) chooses to publish or suppress content from a third party, that is a voluntary exercise of Constitutionally protected speech.

Social media services have neither a moral nor legal obligation to publish hate speech.
The Thinkpad T420. Last model with that keyboard.
Increasing the $ per entertainment hour games provide.
The article doesn't say "Nobody should care deeply about game reviewers"; it says "If a game reviewer gives a game you like a bad score, that's okay; it means that you and the reviewer disagree and you should disregard their opinions on games because you are probably looking for different things than they are".
I seem to recall reading that some calculations complexity were dramatically reduced with a new method having something to do with volumes of n-dimensional polyhedra. Can't find it with google because I don't recall enough.
That's not a political agenda.
Yes, this was a widespread believe, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
I'm against someone deciding that I cannot do something because it can be bad for me.

You don't live in a vacuum or a state with a population of one. If your actions have consequences - and most do, even if it's only through the socialized pooling effect of insurance - then there is a moral argument for society to regulate them.

Personally I'm more of a fan of utilitarian thinking that takes into account second and third order effects. It's not enough to regulate X because X is bad; you need to look at what X is currently displacing, black market effects, underlying demand. But it's just silly to deny the moral legitimacy of regulation in itself - we all live in a society and it's childishly selfish to think you can just do as you please. It's prohibitively expensive to capture all the externalities of our actions, so we regulate instead.
The idea that drugs and drug experiences are so bad that they should be denied to all, and even the dieing should only be bludgeoned out of their pain with opiates, is one I find fairly disgusting.

There is a cornucopia of mental states to be experienced. If LSD and/or psilocybin offer lasting relief from the terror and darkness of imminent death, they should be embraced openly. As should any and all other drugs that may ease someone's passing.
This:

http://www.mymoneyblog.com/dilberts-one-page-guide-to-everyt...
Ditto! Would love some clarification.
A mission (or outcome) driven company can only continue its mission if it can be financially viable.

A non financially viable incarnation of a mission driven business will not be able to further its cause compared to its longer lived version. At some point a reckoning will come and take away the path to your objective.

See the recent news about Etsy listing its way.