skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why limit yourself to only one editor? Learn some emacs basics, learn some vim basics, use both or either as you see fit. Gedit, atom, notepad++, sublime, whatever you are comfortable in will work best for you. Whatever your development cycle best supports is best.

Spacemacs is a nice middle ground and more intuitively usable than either so that is my main editor. Hard to escape emacs when you're working on lisp due to slime. Hard to escape vi when you're setting up new machines.
But sad it only goes back to Mac 10.9.
I'm willing to bet NYC has better DMVs than most places. This is not a typical experience.

> Anyway, I am sick of t shirt libertarians stereotyping all government as dogshit.

I'm just speaking from my own lived experiences with DMVs.
Different disease prevalence. Different response to drugs.

Jews for example more likely to have Tay Sachs disease.

Sickle cell disease affects blacks disproportionately.
Climbing, running, playing guitar, reading, hanging out.
For every problem worth solving there is an answer that is simple, easy, and wrong.
Well... This is one reason why tech literacy is so critically important. As long as it's a privileged few in the grand scheme of things who can add things to the Internet, it makes it that much easier to control.

It's why many countries are so fond of regulating manufacturing. When you strip access to the means of production from the everyman and lock it behind regulatory barriers, it's far easier to control what can and can't be done.

Not a pitch for any ideology. Merely an observation.
anyone interested in the how the Mafia has gone global like any other multinational I highly recommend McMafia (the book not the Netflix series) https://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Unde...

The Guardian writes

"The effects of the Russian organised crime boom have been experienced as far afield as Tel Aviv and New York, and all parts of Europe. In this reading, the East is little more than an opportunistic supplier to the West's insatiable demand. 'Organised crime is such a rewarding industry,' writes Glenny, ' ... because ordinary Western Europeans spend an ever burgeoning amount of their spare time and money sleeping with prostitutes; smoking untaxed cigarettes; sticking €50 notes up their noses; employing illegal untaxed immigrant labour on subsistence wages; admiring ivory and sitting on teak; or purchasing the liver and kidneys of the desperately poor in the developing world.'"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/06/society
Yeah, I never feel lonely now. I remember feeling lonely all time before my daughter.
Modern software engineering has a much to do with software engineering as putting decals on you car has to to do with engine fabrication.

If you want to engineer software you should start by making transistors ands putting them together into AND gates and work your way up. It will likely take you a lifetime to master the skills unless you can find a programmer to train with (and not a JavaScript hacker).

Let’s not “no true Scotsman” these folks or anyone for that matter. Everyone starts not knowing everything. Everyone ends not knowing anything.

These people are making cool watches where none existed before. Therefore they are watchmakers. The aesthetic design is an equally important part of the package: who cares if that’s were they decided to focus their first efforts. I imagine a large number of us so-called software professionals started the same way: changing an HTML tags color, hacking a new sprite into a favorite game or changing the color of our DOS prompt.
There are some situations where both illnesses and treatments behave differently depending on race-linked genetics; sickle-cell aenemia vs malaria is the famous one, but there's a long tail of medicines that are slightly less effective in nonwhite people because of who happened to be in the clinical trials.
deference - humble submission and respect

Respect - is this improper?

Submission - really?

Or am I misinterpreting you? Is there something verifiable that I'm overlooking? Why the particular hostility to Russia? China is a far worse country in most any respect, yet no one bats an eye. I wonder if skin color has anything to do with it.
Interesting that the article doesn't mention Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus. In order to be eligible for his micro loans people had to commit to building a toilet/WC/loo amongst other things. Given that approx. 140 mio people in Bangladesh borrowed micro loans from him he must have had some influence on it.
This echoes my experience. Comments are mostly useless, but people who email me are generally more helpful. I have an email link right next to each post, so it's probably easier to email me than it is to write a comment.
Honest question - why?

There are kids enlisting in the army now that were born after XP was released.
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I dont understand what your point is.
It's still a work in progress but there is an initiative at openmovement:

https://www.openmovement.org/?konzept

I'm a watchmaking engineer and I know two people on the project, I'll be pleased to tell them any feedback.

By the way the watch you linked is a clone of Unitas 6497, the work is awesome nonetheless.
Also hubzilla (nee red/matrix, unlrelated to matrix; descending from friendica which DID federate with Facebook and Twitter for a while, until FB & T closed off the federation API bridges)
On the contrary, only those able to meet the bar would be on the field, and we wouldn't have self taughs calling themselves engineers.
Video games and occasionally programming since becoming ill. Before that add cycling and rhythm games to the picture. Life is hard.
Just implementing algorithms for my side projects when I get the time to. I don't do much else, maybe watch movies with a few friends or YouTube.
At first glance, and as a last line of defense, that is a less bad idea than many others.
Ugh. That sounds terrible.

In switching from private to public in California schools, I had a similar experience. Grade 3 was private, grade 4 public. There was little learning happening in grade 4, but my grade 5 teacher at a public school was one of the best influences in my life.

I think individual attention is the single biggest factor. An experienced and observant teacher will find something in a pupil to drive their interest and enthusiasm. If one teacher has 40 kids to teach, that amount of attention is simply not possible.
I really prefer Seamonkey's Mail cleint (it has the same roots as Thunderbird), especially since you can always switch back to an good old desktop-like theme. Has been rock-solid since 15 years.
Another option is aggressively tutoring students who fall behind. Finland does this to great success. I'm not sure what the ratio is now, but at one point there was a tutor for every 7 students on average in Finnish schools. You're absolutely right that it would be costly and politically difficult.
People of different races are predisposed to different diseases.

If you see medical care as going beyond just treatment but also inclusive of education and preventative measures, then if you don't factor in race you will be doing a disservice to members of races that are more susceptible to certain diseases.
Over the last 6 months? Study and teach myself programming (attempting a career change). Outside of that...hiking, kayaking, some socializing at bars etc, short road-trips. Still have many of the same "life-chores" as parents (cooking, cleaning, errands), but they probably aren't as stressful or come with the same time crunch. I think children can be great, but i'm not sure i'm cut out for it 24/7.
If you're going to personally redefine what the word normal means, I guess you've got me.
Make the changes on a non-active replica database (assuming your database supports replication), then promote the replica to be primary. If you don’t have replicas, the concept of “zero downtime” is really at risk as your primary database becomes a single point of failure.
Kogan was pretty open in his BBC radio interview that his research on personality types and political views (which was the nominal purpose of gathering his data) shows only very weak effects.

I could easily believe that CA's data set provided valuable information not available otherwise about people's political views (if it recorded what people had read and 'liked'), but I'm very sceptical that there was any particularly clever analysis going on.
I think the strangeness may come from the fact that the author is thinking of things that genetic research either has discovered or will discover that would be more controversial, but he's being careful not to actually mention any of them.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1249221 is very cool - '3D-printed Watch with Tourbillon' (it does look pretty big though ;)
I don’t think your assertion is supported by the facts. Your own Wikipedia citation even seems to counter your claim.
While I am highly skeptical of RF radiation as a significant cause of cancer, I sympathize with your attitude.

Quite disingenious is the ionizing vs non-ionizing radiation dichotomy. I guess this is historically rooted in the cancerous effects of gammma photons.

Consider the following dilemma: is visible red light ionizing radiation?

If not: how can the non-ionizing red light trigger chemical reactions? or are the cones that sense red light strictly thermal sensors (i.e. bolometers)?

If yes: perhaps we should ban all visible light :)

I prefer this example because

* it is not a hypothetical radiation influence, i.e. most of us can see a red strawberry, in a sense this is a benign photo-chemical reaction, even though red light is typically not classified as 'ionizing', nobody denies cones can sense red light.

* beccause it illustrates that 'ionizing-ness' is not only dependent upon the characteristics of the radiation, but also on the characteristics of the subjected reagents/cellular structures/... which would be a monumental task to verify the harmlessness for all used radio frequencies and all subject reagents/cellullar structures/...

That said, we have bigger problems with other carcinogenous things/behaviours/... so I think the antenna scares are relatively unfounded, although we should keep an open mind for when a more serious effect is ever reported, after all we are using parts of the spectrum that I suspect were virtually completely absent as potential evolution pressures in the past.
I think the majority of users of each do not debate the relative merits but simply use them for what they are good for. I use Emacs a lot because I use org-mode a lot. if there was a stand alone og-mode application I might be willing to give it a try, if there was a vi based version ditto but I don't spend any effort to debate the merits of them, I just use what works for me for now.
I'll bite - yes, I think it leads to both a good life for them and benefit for country.

I don't know what your gifted education programs were like, but I never recall feeling like I missed out on my childhood. Occasionally I would take different classes to some of my friends (but with others), and that was about it.

Far from keeping people from being free to develop and think for themselves, most of the gifted classes I took actively encouraged that, with open-ended problem solving and free-form classes often led by student interest.

But children need to be reined in, they don't have the reasoning skills or understanding of adults; the one time I was allowed to fully control my own syllabus it led almost directly to me losing the ability to speak Cantonese, which I'd been fluent in up to that point. As a kid who'd spoken it all his life, I simply didn't believe all of the people who told me I'd forget it without practice. Because I was a child.

I don't know exactly how free-form Sudbury Schools are, but I'd have extreme reservations about sending my children to one.
Work, side programming projects, fitness, home improvement / yard work, art and music, travel, spend time with other family, video games. I schedule my days because there are endless things to do in this life. Boredom makes absolutely no sense to me.
"Giftedness" doesn't just refer to high IQ, at least not as the US educational system treats it. It also refers to a cluster of personality traits that combine to make some kids utterly fail to thrive in normal classrooms, yet completely turn around in specialized environments.

I can't take any article seriously that doesn't appreciate that giftedness is an educational concept, not a function of intelligence.

My insight regarding giftedness is that if we could afford it, all kids would thrive if they could be placed in the kinds of small classroom creative learning environments that gifted kids can only thrive in. In other words, we're all "gifted", it's just that some of us are less adaptable than others.

And while intelligence might be heritable, nurture is far more important when it comes to the development of children. The argument that it's largely heritable is the argument that the educational system is fine as it is and doesn't need any new ideas or money.
Are you saying no downtime is impossible or merely expensive?

Erlang/OTP with relups is an example of a system that provides zero downtime online upgrade and rollback with zero downtime.
That referendum is an interesting edge case, as I wrote in my post above. Spain could have handled the Catalan issue much better, that is certainly true. One crucial difference is that neither the EU nor the Spanish government threaten violence and military invasion. This contrasts very favourably with Xi Jinping and his cronys incessant bullying of Taiwan.
Modern C compilers do some very tricky things with undefined behavior.

See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=... for a very detailed example.

See https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1307 for some strict aliasing examples.
> in a scarily coordinated matter

This is how you know you’re a conspiracy theorist: when multiple sources report the same thing, you assume it’s a sign of scary collusion instead of the simpler fact that it’s the truth.
Social events, the occasional book/movie, tech-related stuff, photography and sports: Hiking and mountainbiking in summer, and splitboarding in winter.
Just overwork and paid extra for that. Gotta make some buck while I can.
Interesting. So what would be your definition and/or examples of 'creativity' in math, science, or software development?
PS: the Netflix series wraps the topic into a plot/story and is nothing like the book. Although I did like the Netflix production, the fact that every scene was shot in Croatia (mostly Zagreb) was annoying to my eyes and made it feel like they didn't care too much about production details (whether the story played out in Nice, Marseille, Warsaw ... it felt annoying to me because the architecture between cities (if you know them) are very different. It just didn't seem to fit. But don't let that take you off. If you liked Sopranos, Gomorrah you will enjoy this (and probably forgive Hollywood's ignorance toward locations within Europe). :-)
They built outhouses so people weren't defecating wherever else they were before.
I wonder how it is done in Dynamodb or Mongo.
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Self improvement: reading and writing math, coding, and playing Starcraft.
Is there any GFS as service?
Does someone know what the differences are between the final version and the draft that Chrome and Firefox enabled in Feb 2017? How much did they have to change for the middleboxes?
It depends of the quantity you need, but there is some that use stamping to make gears.

But you can also saw the profile manually.

Assembling is hard but doable, the hardest part is the adjustment!
Good additional context!

I think the fact that steadily increasing tax rates over the decades before 1974 also coincided with high economic growth is a good point against libertarianism.

And the fact that tax rates have been quite high since the early 70s, and yet Sweden's share of the global economy has been basically constant, is also interesting. Libertarianism would suggest that should not happen, and yet it works just fine.

I think avoiding being clobbered by World Wars 1 & 2 was the most important thing :). Probably "neutrality" or "non-aggression" is a better word than "pacifist".

Good points about Sweden having a liberal economy other than high tax rates. I agree that has worked well for Sweden.
IIRC tools for making time pieces were the most precise of their time; custom ordered and very expensive. The history of the persuit of time keeping accuracy, and its important to much of modern civilization, is very interesting IMHO.
That person sounds really poorly-adjusted, agenda'd, and borderline-hateful.

Not only are many of his claims dubious, unwarranted, or hyperbolic, but there are a few gems like this:

> Remember when the CEO globally emailed a picture of his ugly newborn and drugged up post-birth wife to the entire company because he thinks we all submit to his cult of personality?

It's not uncommon for that to happen. People share pictures of their new kids to their departments and whole companies all the time. Usually it's because new kids are a joyful experience, for, y'know, humans in general. CEOs do it too--for cynical reasons or not--and raging against that, to say nothing of the criticism of the "drugged-up" mother (epidural anesthesia is incredibly helpful and medically essential in tons of births), displays a somewhat shocking failure to grasp typical corporate-people behavior in America at best, and an axe-to-grind willingness to engage in ad-hominem slander of people's families at worst.

Even if any of his claims have merit, I have a ton of trouble believing anything from someone who talks like that.
People of different races have different metabolisms and physical characteristics, making them more susceptible to some illnesses but not others, and respond to different medicines differently. This is also important when considering the impact of biology on forensic methods in legal system. Race is also a good predictor of other factors.
Working on side projects. Teaching my Chinchillas tricks is also a very time consuming task, and it helps me learn how their minds work and also how similar they are to my mind sometimes.

Those adorable stubborn balls of fur.
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It wants me to log in to see your tweets?
What happens if the computer is taken offline before the task is done?
After the sad end of Pebble I've dreaming of, someday, making my own smartwatch. All the other existing smartwatches don't compare to Pebble's simplicity and robustness.

The nRF52840[0] seems to be a very interesting chip for this use, with lots of resources and low power consumption. An e-paper display[1] seems also quite interesting since its power requirements are so low.

Do you know any interesting project on DIY smartwatches?

[0] https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/nRF52840

[1] https://eink.com/product.html?type=productdetail&id=14
Why is a comparison with Scotland/UK ignorant, or deliberately muddying the waters? I'd say it would demonstrate great political maturity, if the PRC were to allow Taiwan to conduct a binding vote about independence, and accept the outcome.

It would greatly increase the PRC's standing in the world, and its soft power. Right now, basically nobody trusts the PRC, and their increasing influence is simply a consequence of their spreading money around.
I remember the first day I used Rsync (developed by famous reverse engineer Andrew Tridgell of Samba fame [1]) and the first day I used WebDAV and later on WebDAVFS. Nowadays, I use TransIP STACK (1 TB free) and Google Drive (15 GB) plus public key cryptography.

Dropbox might've been the first in the field, but it has no selling point above STACK for me since it doesn't implement public key cryptography just like the other providers. Google's sell point is that compressed photos are free storage (although -obviously- unencrypted).

Which suggests, to me, that they're accessing the data or perhaps saving a few GBs with say ZFS dedup (ultimately not a trade-off in the interest of the user). Because otherwise, the lag would be client-side only (after all, the clients employ the cryptography).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tridgell
Are there no frameworks for formally validating smart contracts or using thereom provers? The small code size, non Turing completeness, and extremely high penalty for failure seem to all align.

Hell, even in an offensive sense it makes sense. https://anee.me/solving-a-simple-crackme-using-z3-68c55af7f7...
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And I can imagine a small techie tourism trade for people who want to say, "Yeah. I've been to Matlab. For two weeks, I breathed it, ate in it, and slept in it."
Perhaps, but so far modern scientific discoveries have been fairly devastating towards the various hypotheses of "scientific racism." Just recently it's gotten to the point where some white supremacists are convinced the field if genetics is a Jewish conspiracy because they got their genes tested and... surprise... they're 5% non-white.
[on the Cforall team] FWIW, the Go docs are somewhat ambivalent on the OO nature of Go[1]. Along similar lines, our main objections to object-orientation are that, in "traditional" implementations like C++ or Java, it tightly couples a number of features that we believe would be better served by a more orthogonal design.

More specifically, C++-style OO couples (1) in-memory layout of types, (2) behaviour of objects, (3) encapsulation boundaries, and (4) the hierarchical "is-a" relationship. In Cforall, (1) and (3) are handled by the usual C mechanisms of struct types and translation-unit boundaries [we go to great effort to maintain C-style separate compilation, though we will likely build a better namespace/module system at some point], (2) by traits, and (4) by a yet-to-be-implemented system of RTTI for specific "inherited" types [likely when the undergrad RA who started our exceptions implementation comes back as a Master's student this fall].

As you mention, many use-cases (including widgets in GUIs, but also abstract syntax trees in compilers) require some sort of heterogeneous collection type to work properly, and for this OO is the right model. We just don't want to force the entirety of that model on every use case, so we can just take traits when we want to write a polymorphic function over related types or an ADT like "Set" which requires its keys be sortable, or just take RTTI for exception handling, when the set of exception types we're handling is known statically, but we need to determine if the thrown exception inherits from one of the caught types.

[1] https://golang.org/doc/faq#Is_Go_an_object-oriented_language
Agreed, HN has a moderation problem. I think the culture here has changed significantly over the last decade (how time flies), but particularly in the last year or two. The former open-mindedness has been replaced by a somewhat militant leftist culture, at least in some respects. Strong opinions, with no reasoning to back them up.

Anyways, the point I was trying to make is: older people are often drastically overpaid (seniority, unions, bad contracts, legislative protection, whatever......historic baggage). Countries (and in turn companies that outsource to them) that do not have these issues have a distinct competitive advantage in this respect.

So while it's fine to criticize short thinking, there is also a legitimate and serious issue involved as well.