skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would be my guess as well. Launch the habitat, and then launch the translunar tug/landing apparatus.
From a technological standpoint, it's easy to pin the channel. It's as simple as creating a file like this in your project: https://github.com/catern/nix-utils/blob/master/pkgs.nix

And importing that file whenever you want to use packages from nixpkgs: https://github.com/catern/nix-utils/blob/master/default.nix

If you want to have a separate channel which you can update on your own, just fork nixpkgs on Github and point your pkgs.nix at your fork.

The Nix binary cache keeps every version of every binary in nixpkgs that's ever been built on the Nix project's build servers. (Note that that's not absolutely everything in nixpkgs, since some things aren't built centrally on the build servers for various reasons, but it's most things.)

However, I might be misunderstanding. Was there some other feature or ergonomics benefit that you were looking for?
Why We Use D3 and Ember for Data Visualization
I edited my comment. I misread your question.

This is the hypothetical solution. Let's say there are 1000 voters. You premine 1000 coins then send it to each voter. Voter then can vote with 1 coin. So you can make sure the voting process is valid, and you can hide the sender in the smart contract. Of course, the technicality is not this simple. But you get the idea.
> greater prosperity can be had with increased repression.

Fake prosperity between 2012 and now. 300%+ debt ratio. High government debt. High (state) corporate debt. creeping up Household debt. Several provinces disclosed 20-30% fake revenue. Xi's government now stresses stability over GDP growth (sign of weakness). Several high-level Chinese economists warn of an economic crash in China.
I get strange looks sometimes, when I say that I like the Norwegian deathpunk group Turbonegro. And then there are those Texan punk groups with names that I self-censor.
I solely demand similar privacy for wage statements
> Seems like an odd incentive structure: You have to pay to be able to post free links, but then you get paid if you do it a lot?

It's almost like the relationship the RIAA has had with radio stations. The stations have to pay to license the music they play and then the RIAA member companies orchestrate payola schemes where they pay the radio stations to play their songs.
Under Victorian Microscopes, an Enchanted World
I use the address probably a few times a month on average, and think I've always received a response. Some delayed, most within a day. Even when disaagreeing strongly with HN's behaviour or policies.
I found this page of undocumented HN tips [1], finds Hacker News Classic [2] and the top post there was Hacker News Classics [3].

[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

[3] http://jsomers.net/hn/

Quite a cool coincidence!
They should switch to a paper bag which is biodegradeable.
At the top schools, students from that background pay zero in tuition or room & board, and get a small stipend to help pay for textbooks and living expenses. (Source: based on my mother’s solidly middle class elementary school teacher salary, my college ended up being free the last 2 years circa 2010, and I had a roommate who was from a working class background and had a free ride + a stipend, based entirely on need-based aid.) I imagine if travel expenses are a severe hardship, the college can probably figure out a way to help.

It’s only a small fraction of the students at those schools who vacation in the Hamptons or whatever. Arguably the richest students have an outsized social influence, but most students are from an upper middle class background (top 10–15% by wealth/income, but not top 1%), and there are plenty of middle class and at least some working class students (though less than we might hope) at all of the elite American colleges.

The bigger problem for several students I knew from impoverished backgrounds was that they were not used to the scholastic demands of the school. Students at elite schools are expected to do a lot of reading every week, are expected to speak up and assert themselves in small discussion seminars, are expected to write competently at a level considerably beyond what many high schools expect, are expected to solve difficult nonstandard problems in their technical courses, etc. For someone unprepared it can be a big culture shock. The combination of being away from home and in a new social environment, having autonomy over (and lack of external structure for) time, and getting smacked with a very stiff workload can add up to a lot of stress even for the best prepared students. For someone who is feeling like they are behind or don’t belong and haven’t had a similar workload before it can be extra hard. Those kids were just as smart and hard-working as anyone there, just not as well prepared in some ways.
The Risks of Digital Democracy
Git + Markdown are a fucking awesome CMS.
UW has a pretty good CS program, and is less than 8 hours away from Missoula (if you lived close to there). UW unfortunately does not offer in state tuition to border states (unless from certain native american tribes).
Well, one of the benefits is you get exposed to topics like the above in a structured manner =)
It looks like they're at least attempting to work towards user friendliness, which is by far my biggest complaint.

My other big complaint is that when something goes wrong its damn near impossible to figure it out. Trying to figure out why I couldn't get postgres working with postgis was nightmarish last year sometime when I last tried nixos.

I'm still really optimistic that this will someday replace arch for me. I just don't know when
Not the Cadillac, the Tesla. The article compares the no-longer-available first version of the Autopilot, powered by MobilEye.
This Amazon listing wants £295 for a ZX81
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Sinclair-ZX81-Spectrum-Pro...

Or this TRS80 for £500 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Radio-Shack-TRS-80-MODEL-100-PORT...

Of course they might not sell for the listed price, there are other listing with lower bids. I don’t know a good way to get an accurate figure for what things typically sell for on ebay etc.
Yeah, but children (and non-communicative disabled adults) do not have quite the same rights as you or I. In fact, their rights are not too unlike those of, say, pets. Except that when children grow up, or the non-communicative issue is resolved in an adult, they become emancipated. Animals don't reach that stage, and it's not a stretch to say that it's about communication capabilities.
What's even better is that crypto currencies are redefining in their own way "money" so I would rephrase what you said in "Why is it anyones business what anyone else does with their computer and internet connection? "
Many universities are located in the middle of nowhere and students "go there" to study, WSU was already mentioned, but Purdue, UIUC, Cornell, ...their are many University towns that don't have many (if any) local students at all.
Airplay 1 currently has a built in delay of 2 seconds (its an old protocol). Airplay 2 will be released later this year and will fix this problem. For video it will not be suitable unless you use an apple tv which automatically corrects teh latency.
yarn use npm registry behind the scene.
I don't think a single home pod claims to produce separate channels. Looking at their animation it distributes ambient sound throughout (I assume the stuff through the mid-range woofer) and focuses the highs into the center of the room (through constructive/destructive interference between the 7 tweeters I guess).

Not arguing it's a good or bad speaker. Haven't heard it and already have a nice speaker setup in my LR. Would be nice if the homepod had a sub out.
For us, American Idol is pointless. But for the singer who got robbed the championship, it's not. Yes, I admit the energy bill is part of the blockchain scalability issue. But blockchain is still in infancy. There is a room for improvement regarding the energy bill.

The political voting is a complex beast so I am not going to comment on it yet. My main focus is for the voting process like American Idol, choosing moderators in forum.
I think that you're missing the giant change that happened in the 1980s when China allowed people to openly amass wealth and start businesses. All of this led to all of the businesses and factories that you call fake.

If they kept trying to run a Soviet-style command economy they'd be at the same level of development as North Korea, with their fake grocery stores, rolling blackouts, and constant famine.
Much of the used book market is about buying a ton of books for cheap and only selling a small fraction of them for a lot. If you buy 100 books for $3 each and sell 5 of them over 5 years for $100 each and another 5 for $50 each you make decent money (idk exact numbers but I have several friends in the industry doing 6-7 figs).

A lot of it depends on who has the most accurate data. If you know something has sold for $50+ say 5 times in the last 3 years you can pay more for it than an unknown. The long tail is interesting and tough to work.
Wave was federated/vendor-neutral/client-synced.

The federation protocol is described in http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/05/hello-world-meet-goog...

Syncing is described in https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/wave/whitepapers/...

It was also every bit as buggy and confusing as Lotus Notes.
Down the Quantum Rabbit Hole
Two kids, had an AngelCare.

We stopped using it nearly immediately. It was a glorified audio only monitor for us, the check for movement/breathing was giving lots of false positives and drove us insane.

Other parents even turned on a beep for each breath, made it sound like a hospital. You subconsciously gold your breath if the device beeps with a tiny delay.. beep..beep....???beep

For us it was the wrong choice.
I always am humbled to think about the many massive wars in China that no one in the West has ever heard of—for example, the Punti Hakka Clan Wars in the 19th century which killed a million people, which is around the same number that died in the US Civil War. Similarly, in one year, 1858, the amount of opium imported into China was the same as the entire production for the decade around 2010. And in the Great Leap Forward bad policy led to tens of millions of deaths.

I personally am unsure whether the CCP is really holding back the gates against a resurgence of death and suffering on this sort of scale (after all, in its earlier years it was responsible for the Great Leap Forward). But if we are to judge by the economic growth and stability imposed upon China since then, they seem to be doing a decent job. Unfortunately I imagine it will be many decades until we can know for sure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China
Ideas for growing my side hustle
I'm in Canada, but I live rural/exurban in the greater Toronto/Hamilton area, less than 8km from town and less than 20km from two major cities and there's no broadband because it's not profitable to run DSL or cable to my road. Telcos/Cable companies just won't do it. The next road over has it, through some fluke.
Environment copying ruses are revealed when something mutates a lexical variable, and the mutation doesn't appear everywhere as it should. (So you have to ban that.)
Oh, so all you're arguing against is my statement that "it doesn't get tricky"? In that case I think you're somehow missing the entire point of these discussions. I didn't make that statement in the abstract; it had some context behind it. The thesis of the article (and hence the basis for my comment) was that linked lists are tricky in Rust -- and presumably not (as much) elsewhere, or Rust wouldn't the focus of the article. I am saying, no, that trickiness only comes about because he's insisting on the wrong design, and if he took the same approach as in C++ (or C#) he would no longer encounter it. That's what "it doesn't get tricky" means. If you pull it out of context and make your thesis that "it does get tricky to implement a linked list without garbage collection" in general, then okay, yeah, sure... linked lists are tricky, pointers are tricky, programming is tricky, life is tricky, etc... but then we get nowhere since all of those are entirely missing the Rust context behind the discussion.
When a complex system is left alone, it will return to its initial state
I think perhaps this is one of those times you should have looked into the package manager and package management system prior to going full rant. I'm with you on the state of package management in general, and most if not all the problems you outlined were very specifically addressed by rust's package manager and system.

There are solutions for these problems, they aren't perfect, but it's getting better.
Yes it looks like they do deduplication, based on the HTML source:

for (var i in data[yr]) {
var story = data[yr][i];
if (seen_titles[story.title]) continue;
seen_titles[story.title] = 1;
// ...add story to list of stories
};
%s/you're/your

/me shudders
This is very cool! Based on the title “HN Classics,” I thought it might be an implementation of another idea I’ve had. I had this idea to search for stand-out articles that get reposted every so often and always get a lot of good attention and discussion: so-called classics of HN.

I think that data could be very interesting, and would also serve as a sort of “hall of fame” of articles the HN community loves (moreso than just a list of the most upvoted articles of all time).

Of course, you could also figure out the optimal duration between successive posts, and figure out when to repost yourself, if anyone wants a karma-grab. ;)
To do a car analogy (this is Slashdot, right?):

With Ubuntu, every time you want to fix something with your car, you roll it into the garage, pop open the hood and get to work. It's intensive labour, results will vary, and undoing a change can be really difficult.

With NixOS, it's like 3D printing a new car every time. You'll design a model, press a button, and the car gets built from scratch. If you don't like it, tweak the design a bit, and print a new car. If the new car breaks, just go back to the previous known-good one, which is already in your garage. You can even take the design documents to your friend and generate an exactly identical model.
Meet Jeb, a roommate from hell originally posted on SomethingAwful.com ages ago: http://www.wyseguys.com/blag/shitty-roommate/meet-jed/
Yeah exactly my point. People are now going to start arguing that the reviews are not 'audiophile' enough, even though the audiophile field has far more specific focus than what most people can appreciate considering hearing ability, genre interests, environment, past experiences and technical understanding.

Basically Apple's formula: take something from an 'enthusiast' level of a product. Build a reasonable quality thing around that, slap on a 'upper consumer/lower enthusiast' price on it and market it as the 'the coolest thing of these ever made' and...

You get all the mostly regular consumers suddenly arguing in the between space: they are better than all the other regular consumers but too cool to be an enthusiast nerd. GG Apple.
Look, I'm not a huge Facebook user myself, but why don't you list those tools to connect to your family?

Also, if you use Facebook delightedly, it can be a great tool. The trick is to spread awareness of its danger and tell people to use it at caution. At one point or another I think people are going to have to accept that it is a primary form of communication this day and age. Simply telling people to delete the application without better alternatives and citing it's worst flaws are not going to get you very far.
My favorite news source here in europe - Deutche Welle, is also funded by the public:

> While funded by the German government, the work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act[1], meaning that content is always independent of government influence

And I've never felt that my new source is somehow inferior or doesn't have enough budget compared to private ones like wsj.

[1] - http://p.dw.com/p/17MtP
Fighting the Ivory Trade: The Lessons Learned
New quantum memory stores information for hours
I'm not sure what you mean by gender bias, but I am pretty sure, all things being equal, I'd likely let to a woman than a man, even if I were a different sex. All things being equal --income, social traits, etc.

I think guys in these cases would be at a disadvantage.
The keys aren’t known to an individual. They are used as a way for citizens to confirm that their vote was counted.

An example- go to the poll. Cast a vote and get a print out with a private key.

Go home and check the blockchain to make sure your vote is recorded. If your vote is missing, report somewhere official with your sheet of paper.

There’s lots of variations, but anonymity is only given up if your vote is missing. Then you just vote again. Smart contracts make sure your original lost vote can’t be applied.

The US needs something like this because currently our digital voting leave no record and there’s no way for an individual to confirm their vote was counted accurately.
This, 100%.

Pain points I've run into:

1. Lack of clarity as to how language/application package managers interact with Nix (pip, stack, Vundle). Pretty much every time I've asked about this, I've been told to go use `nix-shell` or to install things through Nix. Increasingly, when I get odd behavior with applications I install through Nix, my first resort is to uninstall the Nix version and install it from apt; it might be a bit older, but I'm sure it'll work as expected. I've went through the apt package -> Nix package -> apt package cycle three times from what I remember off the top of my head, with python/ipython, Haskell tooling, and Vim.

2. Nix on Ubuntu feels like a second class citizen. Things that interact with graphics drivers often don't work properly, e.g. video players. (I understand that there are technical reasons why this is the case, but there's no warning that this is the case.) There only appears to be online package search for NixOS (https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html#) and not for Nix on other platforms. Nox helps, but it doesn't seem to be the same feature wise (no ability to see the info you get by clicking the package name) and is also slow.

3. In general package quality is not great for less frequently used packages. Inkscape was missing potrace for a while. Rarely used packages go unmaintained.

4. Poor CLI. Needing to pass `-A` to a lot of commands to use them the "right way" smells of a poorly thought out design. No feedback or suggestions if you type the wrong thing to `nix-env -e`. It looks like there are major changes to this in 2.0, so this might have been improved.

Despite being someone who's gotten their toes wet contributing to nixpkgs, I'm likely not going to be installing Nix when I upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04.
> rust is great for pretty much anything c is great for

No it’s not.

> you can do raw memory manipulation in unsafe blocks if you want

You can but Rust is not great at it. At least not in comparison with C or C++.

In C, people have been writing these unsafe memory manipulations for half a century, accumulating knowledge, working on runtime & libraries, and building tools like verifiers, debuggers, profilers. C++ has even more of these, adding some safety features to language and standard library while still being C compatible.
Satellite based broadband surely is something hard to restrict, and would be nice option for Uighers. But before we declare it as the solution to problem we need to think through any risks that it can pose. There aren't going to be many providers of satellite based broadband which means prices would be high due to lack of competition. There is also the issue of traffic snooping by US government, especially if US companies going to be sole player in this field.
https://www.apple.com/homepod/

I don’t see the word “audiophile” appear even once.
There are biodegradable[1] non traditional-plastic bags too. Might be more expensive in the beginning.

[1]http://biobagusa.com/products/retail-products/
Oh I very much agree that good MIP solvers work well for complementary problems. And, I suppose my point about P=NP was that if we had a general scalable global optimization solver, then it would have all sorts of implications outside of continuous optimization. I didn't qualify convex vs nonconvex and, of course, many convex problems can be solved in polynomial time. Though, funny enough, not all. De Klerk and Pasechnik have a paper,"Approximation of the stability number of a graph via copositive programming," where they prove that NP hard problems can be encoded as convex problems. Pasechnik has a nice explanation here:

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/92939/is-that-true-all-th...
Thanks for the pointer to the book, quite interesting so far.

The author talks of psychopathy as an "adaptation" and not a "brokenness" in an individual ... but the adaptation so far mentioned is only in the sense of "the relatively small number of psychopaths is adapted to prey on other humans". I suppose that having too many psychopaths would render human trust very frail and would make a society prone to failure (and so be a negative pressure) -- so psychopathy can only occur within limits to be successful.

I wonder though whether there's another use for psychopaths: when a society or humanity at large faces a "bottleneck event" where extinction is very possible, the psychopaths "rise to the occasion" and do all the nasty, non-empathetic, distasteful things that a society needs to survive in those weird situations.

If so, then, ... psychopaths are harmful to individuals and society, until they aren't.

EDIT: actually, there's the brilliant Marlon Brando speech in Apocalypse Now (https://simonamooon.deviantart.com/journal/Apocalypse-Now-Ho...), where he describes bastards with empathy, people who love their families yet are able to perform the unthinkable atrocities [on their family] to win. So these folks are the opposite of psychopaths -- they do terrible things when necessary and doubtless feel the anguish of it.

EDIT: in other words, psychopaths are society's ultimate catastrophic re-insurance, the last resort.
Motorcycles are dangerous because of other motorists. Most are actually intending to do you harm e.g the California study on lane splitting. Only advantage you've as a rider, is speed and nimbleness. My rule, when I'm riding I automatically assume no one sees me. I act accordingly. Try make sure, I'm the not sandwiched by cards.
I'm just going to post this quote about going with your gut from Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

"But one example of the unconscious bias that still exists was a Title VII suit brought in the late 70s, and the plaintiffs were women who had not succeeded in getting middle management jobs at AT&T. They did very, very well on all the standard criteria, but they flunked disproportionately at the last stage, and what was that last stage? It was what was called a “total person test.” The “total person test” was an executive interviewing the candidate for promotion. And why were women dropping out disproportionately? It was because of a certain discomfort that the executive had in dealing with someone who is different. If he’s interviewing a man, well, he sort of knows this person is just like me and he’s comfortable. But if it’s a woman, or a member of a minority group, he feels uncomfortable. This person is a stranger to him and that shows up in how he rates the candidate."
this is fantastic. Great snapshot of the past. Thank you jsomers for sharing this.
Somebody, probably a political organization, ran an opinion poll on the UN and got anonymized aggregated results. What part of that made you delete the app? If you get a political phone survey, will you unplug your phone?
These claims appear on many HN threads but I have yet to see much support for them, only assertions, anecdotes and Internet-style rants. They wouldn't stand up in an undergraduate college class.