skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This problem actually stopped me bike commuting; one of the paths I need to ride on after dark is along a river wall, and the temporary blindness just felt too dangerous. It should be a matter of courtesy to use quality lights, aimed appropriately. I'm sure a lot of people who personally use these lights are also annoyed by other users of them.
What did I just read. It’s like trying to understand satire from a hundred years ago.

I was convinced it was hopelessly corrupted by the archiving process, but some of the ASCII art still works (mostly).
Who the fcuk is cs lewis!!!! If he says "stick your head in the hole" will u do it dumbass
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In the US, at least, there’s also an issue of wider tolerances in headlight design. When lumens were expensive you’d need tightly focused light cones to reach regulation-mandated light intensities at given distances. The new LEDs are cheaper than manufacturing to those tolerances, so...

As a result we not only have brighter lights, but also bigger light cones.

Engineers and businessmen are just doing their jobs. This will only be corrected by regulatory action.
It's how I learned, back in dial-up days.

Coreutils is a good place to start.

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html
It's tough, because on a remote, dark path (or road in my case) you need a good deal of light because potholes could be fatal. I used to cycle commute on a windy, hilly road with a cliff on the shoulder (and a nice brutal climb at the end) and at night I had to slow down a lot just to avoid outrunning my light.
Whiny victim. Not surprised your wife moved onto better things
Absolutely true. At work, we use 16.04 and Plasma in the version that shipped with it is very unbecoming. A stark contrast to what actually maintained, recent versions of the DE bring to the table.
It's far better than Googling or guessing for them. Looking in those places provides exactly what is on your system and the man pages exactly describe what they are for.

If there is a better source, I don't know it.
Well if the job requires you to use all of them(twitter, facebook, reddit) you are left with no service for personal use only.

Usually you don't have a choice, you use what your friends use.
If your data is outside the EU and you are not there either then GDPR is irrelevant to you no matter where your customers are (they may not be happy of course)
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Common tropes in software for this:

* Switching from polling to push or vice versa

* Merging two overlapping systems into one

* Splitting one system into two

* Rewriting from language X to Y

* Moving from centralized to decentralized or vice versa

* Moving logic from one layer to another (eg smart client vs thin client)
Explains concepts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFAC320731F539902
What's the point of removing the link between your Instagram and Facebook accounts? It's all stores on the same servers anyway.
>Regressions were quite rare, even during the KDE4->5 move.

you must joking right. KDE5 beginnings were terrible.
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Who doesn’t read books in America?
If I was the one asking the question, I would avoid using the word "argument", in all honest. It would be more like, "Tell me about a situation where you and your manager disagreed. How did you work to resolve it?"

Arguing is conflict, and destructive behavior - HR people don't want that because it leads to headaches (at best). Arguing leads to "toxic" workplaces which lead to lawsuits. On the other hand, disagreement is natural, common, and sometimes essential to growth. So the interviewer should be asking about times you disagreed with another person and then worked to resolve it between you two without HR - rather than a time you came into conflict with a coworker.
It doesn't handle dependencies very, some software becomes installable because you can get package conflicts. Fedora KDE spin is better but doesn't run as good on laptops unless you tweak it, both are unsuitable for new Linux users. Is there a good KDE distro that can be recommended to Windows or Mac refugees?
I cannot understand why a lot of cyclists aim their headlights slightly up instead of down. Are they trying to illumunate the sky? The eyes of their passers-by? I aim mine down, so the road in front of me is illuminated for a couple of meters.
It would if the USA has an extradition agreement in place, which we do with a majority of countries. So while you do not commit a crime domestically, if an American can access illegal content on your site, you can be sued in the USA and extradited.
And how is traveling for religious purposes an "objective practical need"?

Sure, a super religious nut might make it one. But usually a closest church would provide a fix for that. Let alone that not all were super deeply religious in medieval ages.

What "objective practical need" do you see in Camino de Santiago? [0] It's more or less a spiritual journey, meditation shall I say? And a significant chunk of modern tourism is based on that too. I could definitely say I had "objective practical need" to go to certain concerts or do certain trips. I find especially the later is great way at maintaining mental health and finding peace with oneself.

There's a good saying by bikers that "all you need to solve a problem is a tank of gas". Does it make motorcycle riding (e.g. motorcycle roadtrip vacation) an "objective practical need"?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago
KDE is great. One reason for the votes might however be that GNOME has been alienating both users and developers for a while now with idiotic ideas, and people are fed up with it.
Then you be happy to know that Unity is no more on Ubuntu, it got canned when they ended their phone/tablet plans. The new default is Gnome, which has grown into a fantastic distraction free DE
How many people are there in this organisation?

[I work in an educational organisation with around 1000 employees and around ten thousand students. There are something like 1 500 client PCs and the usual collection of servers. It is a microsoft shop. Powershell much in evidence.]
Video hosting is a natural monopoly. It costs so much to store and stream videos, combined with the network effect means its incredibly difficult for effective competition. I hope that you are right that natural competitors will show up, but like a facebook competitor I suspect we will be waiting for a long time.
Curious, for what reasons am I supposed to hate it? What am I ignorant of?

I use KDE neon which uses a mildly stripped-down Ubuntu 16.04. I surf, do some web development, attempt to learn Clojure, and make my desktop look very pretty. So far (couple months) I've had the "it just works!" level of experience.

Edit: Actually, I suppose that is distinct from the LTS Ubuntu release /with/ KDE.
I can confirm teaching basic Ada to newbies to "go and correct logic bug X" is 2-3 weeks on-the-job training. We don't even go for Ada experience when hiring anymore, just programming experience, and low cowboy factor...
Not markets.. just billing should work. A department bills another department for work done. If the other department doesn't want to pay, they can internalise the work to their pleasure (and organisational policy requirements), find another provider internal or external, or simply stop needing whatever they needed before.
No, change isn't coming. Sorry.

Trump's victory signaled a social media gold-rush for political campaigns. 2018 is a major election year in American politics. You can bet that campaigns are evaluating and signing onto social media related efforts. To meet this demand, as Cambridge Analytica buckles, others will take it place. The people who benefit by these services are those who make the laws. While legislators benefit by social media targeted services, there won't be a political will sufficient to pass a law that will slay the goose laying golden eggs.
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I’m not saying you can’t learn this way. I’m saying it’s not practical for most people. Many people who would fail this way would succeed other ways. Reading man bash as primary learning material will lead to failure for 999/1000 humans.
If you need stability, but still modern desktop try MATE, they added hi-dpi support recently. Also it's super fast compared to KDE. For me it has been more stable than XFCE even.
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Perhaps we can quantify how silly it is to try to find talent in 8 year olds, rather than just assert it is silly.
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Super-Bright headlights are a massive problem - especially as nearly everyone has their lights adjusted wrong (too high).

Seeing as we're talking about lights on vehicles though, why in the world isn't the use of PWM dimming on a vehicle illegal?

The first thing you teach kids when programming arduinos is to dim an LED using PWM and then move the LED through space; oh look, it's not a dim light, it's a strobing light!

Why in the world it's acceptable to put a strobe light onto a vehicle which by definition moves though space, is entirely beyond me. If you're stuck either behind, or worse, watching one go laterally in your peripheral then it's massively distracting :(
I’m too young for Usenet, but I think it’s an interesting bit of history. I like how open it seems relative to current social media.
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You joke, but I've never worked in a place I didn't hear this literal sentence.
I agree, except how do you control the audience of a website, like keeping friends separate from professional contacts?

What's the best way to do this, a password you give to people? I don't like the idea of forcing people to give up their identity.
Slackware and Arch are still very much alive as projects.

By 'successor' do you mean 'works in a similar way and I happen to like it better' or is there something that you think Void has got that slackware and arch don't have?

PS: downloading the void live .iso now for a bit of distro-hopping on a spring morning.
This may not be what you're looking for, but I've been using SpiderOak on my Macs for about five years. SpiderOak encrypts all your files and syncs whatever folders you want it too seamlessly. I use it to keep the files on all my Macs in sync.
Because the permissions often don't work as the users expect them to work. See this earlier thread for what I mean:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16670291
If you really enjoyed customizing your desktop environment for years, you would have graduated to a tiling window manager. And if you had been smart about it, you would have chosen one with a stable API. And if you had done so, you wouldn't need to "waste brain cycles" configuring your environment because it would be a solved problem. But since your example of desktop configuration is "icons show up here or there", I assume you never graduated to a real window manager.
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As far as I'm aware they consider it to be a feature, and I don't particularly disagree. The rationale is that if somehow someone else manages to add a device to your account (which you get notified about on your other devices), they cannot see your chat history up until the moment the device was linked.

Once they're all linked you don't have this issue again so it's kind of a one-time thing.
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Ubuntu MATE is excellent, but more people should check out Solus MATE if they would like to have rolling release - it's a very underrated distro.
To sell, you need to speak the language of your target audience.
Pivotal's audience is enterprise customers, so their website is naturally filled with enterprisey messaging - high on 'outcomes' for decision makers and low on nitty gritty details.

HN's audience is not really the same (broadly speaking). A landing page that shows you how simple it is to deploy a python function into production on Pivotal Foundry would probably be a better sell here.
Again with this "not caring" comment.

In at least 90% of the cases people don't understand what the privacy policies or permissions mean or what they could be used for. People trend to trust others, in general. And many developers abuse that trust, especially when they're allowed to do it by design with the permissions they're given by the platforms.

When an app asks me for "Access to media" I only give that access expecting that maybe it needs that access for when I will open a media file with that app or to download or create a media file inside the media folder.

I do not expect the app to analyze my media for the type of content I have in there, and I do not expect the app to upload those files to its servers, or any other uses that developers may come up with for that particular permission.

Yet, the permissions are set-up in such a way that they allow much more than people expect them to allow.

Saying "well you shouldn't have given them access to media" or "you shouldn't be using the Internet or a smartphone" is really a nonsense type of comment to make. If it's a video player, of course I have to give it access to the media. That's why I need a video player. But I didn't intend to give it access to upload my media to its servers. That's what the platform developer allowed it to do, without me knowing or understanding that it can do that, not me "not caring."

This is just an example, but it can apply to phone permissions, contact permissions, and other types of permissions just as well.
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Two websites?
I am still missing the (devil) equivalent in the emoji world. Any suggestion?
Strange to see this, maybe it's the target audience that makes this the result? At the office there are about 40 Linux desktop users, none of them use KDE. Most remote users I've worked with (~100) aren't using KDE either. This is of course somewhat anecdotal, but I suspect that the Linux Journal Readers are a specialised group.

Most systems (out of a pool of about 200) I can query run:

- Gnome 3 (about 80)
- i3 (about 30)
- Unity (about 25)
- Mate (about 25)
- Others (KDE included, about 40)

And those are minimally managed systems, all they have to run is orchestration software and IPA, so they choose their own distro and DE and everything else.
You are missing the point, which is that you can bypass the permission system completely by directly launching the camera intent.
I'm with you as far as desktops go, KDE is pretty awesome and has all the eyecandy you'd need from an apple/microsoft clone..but i3 is just beautiful in it's simplicity, and with proper keybindings and use of tabbed windows, I find I don't miss having a true desktop environment and all the clutter. mod+d to open rofi for app search is all I need to launch apps.

Not sure I'd ever go back to KDE or Gnome or XFCE now that i've gotten accustomed to i3wm.
If it is decriminalized, then victims don't have to live in fear of the police.

Isn't this the same as with legalization?

Legalization and regulation often makes things worse, not better.

Do you have examples of this?
We can have non compete provisions in contacts in France but this goes both ways: the company must pay you during the non compete time, when you are unemployed.
Distribution homepage: https://www.voidlinux.eu/
Oh, the downvote machine works here as well...

Whenever the line between a technical discussion and a systemd bashing thread becomes blurry, someone who does DevOps for a living invariably pops up to say how much they like systemd -- usually for pretty valid reasons.

It's also ubiquitous enough that, by this point in time, some of my younger colleagues who do DevOps for a living have never used anything but systemd. Doing Stack Overflow-driven (aka copy-paste) DevOps without systemd is pretty challenging nowadays.

Hence the joke.

Otherwise, yes, of course you can do DevOps on Void. I can't imagine what you couldn't do DevOps on; I know folks who were doing it on Novell Netware before the whole thing even had a name.
Configuring KDE and apps is more then GUI customization.

The file manager has many options that anyone that does any work would be useful, like tabs, splitting the screen, icons/list/detailed view of files, opening a terminal inside the file manager,previews, FTP integrations and all of this is an option, including that you can configure the toolbars to show/hide buttons.

Other example(maybe other DEs have this too) I can have tabs in the terminal app (konsole) and in the tabs that I am SSHed in I use different color scheme(with red on black) so I am aware and not run dangerous commands on a remote server.

My point is that a KDE user is not one that chooses KDE over Gnome due to UI but is more about functionality.
Big C codebase. To be more precise, they said it's C++, but as far as I could see, it was C compiled with g++.

Some code read xml data. Instead of choosing one of the xml-parsers available, author decided to write another one. Instead of using C++ features, atoi() used. For empty strings, atoi() got NULL and segfaulted. Signal 11 has been handled and suppressed in order to avoid crashes. Certainly, the code had other segmentation faults too, which could not been discovered this way. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16671791

I can't edit my post anymore :-)
> Fires are common in crashes regardless of the power plant.

Can anyone cite statistics supporting this statement?
I'm objecting to all sorts of things.

1. 20% in a token sale and 30% to fund immediate development are basically the same thing, except it seems like the designers (I won't call them developers yet because I haven't seen any development) are trying to make more money by waiting until their token is on an exchange, then selling the remaining 30% for what the hope is a higher price. If your goal is to be fair and fund development, at least make it 50% ICO and 50% ongoing dev at an emission rate, but don't muddy the waters by pretending the whole point of a token sale isn't to fund immediate development.

2. As mentioned above, I don't see any actual development work, plans, or roadmap, so what justification to they have for the claim that they will need 125,000,000 WOOLF to fund ongoing dev? ICOs right now are the real bubble in cryptocurrency, as it's literally another dotcom bubble. People who have no idea what they actually need or are actually worth are just throwing out random numbers because they can and people are buying into it. They don't know what their ongoing development is going to involve at this point. This is a bunch of guys getting together at Oxford saying "let's have an ICO, what can we get away with?" Just look at their backgrounds!

3. And finally, the truth is that you really don't need a "Token Fund" to fund ongoing development. 100% distribution in an ICO should be fine. What encourages you to continue development is people actually using the platform in the future, and you can charge them for it. This is supposed to be a University, right? So students are already paying educators for their time, why shouldn't they pay developers? If you have a website that is creating these smart contracts (presumably yes) and needs to be maintained, then charge an access fee for the website which covers development. Then, if people want to negotiate or write the smart contracts between themselves and educators without paying the platform fee, they can. Most people won't, but they could. That's kinda the point of doing this on the blockchain. Otherwise you might as well have a "SQL database powered university".
2011? I can't recall that far back with FB app perms, but I do remember working on a few projects in ... 2013 IIRC? And one of the pieces of feedback I got the most from people I'd asked to test was "why do you need all these permissions?" They weren't all an overly tech-geek crowd, but many seemed to question it.

"I can't not ask for these permissions - even just for a basic login - facebook forces this information to be available to my systems. I'm not using it for anything, and I don't take much of the information I'm given, but to connect via Facebook, they require me to have access to this information". That became my standard-ish response, and it wasn't that surprising why many people got miffed, especially if I was just doing basic "login with facebook" stuff.

IIRC, FB has changed the minimum permissions a couple of times in the last several years (or, at least it's seemed like it - maybe names or presentation of the info has changed?)
Voice quality is pretty much always the same on gsm networks.. I did not find any metrics on the subject.
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It's not just a matter of training.

Let's say you get a job offer from a company which the worst case of NIH syndrome you've ever seen, and all their code is written in a programming language that the company created and the only code in the world written in this language is at this company. Even if the company agreed to train you, would you take the job offer?

Chances are, no, because if you were to ever switch jobs in the future, you want to still be employable, and not have invested years and years into a stack that's completely irrelevant to the rest of the world.

So if the company is of such a literally enormous size and permanent standing to be able to make you a believable offer of lifetime employment / tenure for learning their untransferable skills, like a military or other government body, then maybe. For a defense contractor which could go belly up after some upper-management scandal? No way. For anybody else in the private sector? No way.

Either way, it's still problematic because your hiring mechnanics now revolve around unfirable employees, and the easiest way to demotivate employees is by putting them in an environment where mediocrity is accepted because the perpetrators of the mediocrity can't be fired.

Ada's problem is that it was only a defense-sector language, for reasons specified by others in the thread e.g. compiler cost. Ultimately, targeting tooling to only a specific industry is dooming it to failure; the tooling must stay relevant to many companies and industries both so that people will see it as a career-advancing skill and so that the labor market remains fluid.
Regarding (b): That's odd, maybe this differs depending on where the web surfer comes from? The New York Times definitely does require me to sign up.
That just means the man page you're using sucks.
I'm gonna put my dinosaur hat on and remind everyone that you can still use USENET in 2018. It's alive, well, and if you don't need access to binary groups, it's also free and very straightforward.

There are still some intresting discussions going on, mostly in the technical groups.

I still open it up maybe once a month or so for nostalgia, though I haven't posted in a while.
The strategy from the blog certainly makes more sense than my StarCraft strategy: Always go for the most expensive and badass sounding units, or flood the map with as many of the cheapest units as possible...
> But you're still an adult who is fully responsible for your actions.

That's what the law says, and maybe what you believe but there is a lot of scientific evidence to the contrary.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational and https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Rober... for an oversight of (some of) the ways you can be manipulated.
Exactly, they managed to irritate the users and developers of the other DEs and WMs, the GTK changes made some important apps(like wireshark, Subsurface) and DEs(LXDE and Budgie) to switch to Qt
How so, for this specific type of content?
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