skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+9000 like seriously, I get it's mobile "friendly" design, but seriously being unable to display a nav/menu with only 10 items in fullscreen on a 23" 1080p display is the perfect example of a bad UI/UX.
That’s just telling us that it’s easier to get away with something before the authorities take it seriously. Once something grows big enough that window closes, which means it’s not much of a selling point for mainstream adoption.
As an example, he didn't want Stalin to come to power, but he was powerless to stop the bloodshed he'd put into motion

A series of debilitating strokes reduced Lenin to the status of an invalid, and Trotsky naively took Stalin's good faith for granted and avoided attacking him publicly despite Lenin's request for him to denounce Stalin's political opportunism. Omitting major causal factors doesn't say much for the quality of your argument.
If you have 24 disks for a pool, then mirroring across 4 6-disk RAIDZ2 zvols works well too.
There was violence at times, but Home Rule was granted before the revolution.

I'm against violence across the board, for the record. The problem with violence against the police is it doesn't improve your position, it only confirms negative biases people have of the movement. It's counter-productive.
There's already an effort to do something along those lines, not sure if it could be scaled up though:

https://www.franklinrobotics.com
I'm aware of this, and it goes back even further to the New Testament. I'm questioning the part about employing violent tactics Alameda Malcolm X.
It's hard to take a book about web design so seriously when its so poorly designed itself. Right off the bat, the author(?) demonstrates they not up to the job to talk about such a topic.
This code:

#define CSR_FLUSH_TO_ZERO (1 << 15)
unsigned csr = __builtin_ia32_stmxcsr();
csr |= CSR_FLUSH_TO_ZERO;
__builtin_ia32_ldmxcsr(csr);

from https://stackoverflow.com/a/8217313/ seems to work for me with gcc. I don't know how widely supported it would be.
I have the same pet peeve with media, especially in french where média is used only as a singular, with les médias for the plural. Médium is exclusively used for ways of expression, and médiums for speaking with the dead. I get that language evolves but this specific evolution really bothers me.
There is smake[0], which I use a lot, and lots of room to grow with (I.e.: dig in and figure out idioms), but Tcl/cmake could have been very interesting.

[0] http://chiselapp.com/user/Setok/repository/smake/index
It’s usually sold by a teener (1/16 oz) or eightball here (1/8)
Large YouTubers rely on drama like this to get new audiences. Essentially even if they do something utterly wrong it's still financially reasonable for them to do so. Even if their account ends up temp banned, they'll still retain a percentage of new people that came for the drama as new subscribers.
>The Nazi regime could have been prevented if the victors of the first World War hadn't imposed harsh punitive measures to destroy the German economy.

I think you could make just as strong an argument that the Nazi regime would not have lasted long if those harsh punitive measures were actually enforced. I mean, if you have a strongman leader, the best thing for him is an enemy who snarls real good, but who backs down immediately upon confrontation.

I think the truth of the matter is that after world war one, the allies didn't have the political will to properly enforce the sanctions or to expend the money and effort for a marshal plan type response. I think that's why we got what we did, harsh punitive measures that were ignored whenever Germany pushed on them. - but I think that's also the best case for an expanding fascistic government... It sure looked, to the non-jewish german people, that every time Hitler "stood up for them" hitler got what they wanted. It was like the allies set up a paper tiger for Hitler to look strong against.

I'm not saying that's what should have been done, just that the "the Nazis would have not risen if there weren't punitive measures" and "The Nazis would not have held on to power if those punitive measures were actually enforced" are counterfactuals; theories about what could have been. I argue that there is just as much evidence for my theory as yours.
Most successful enterprises of any nature had elements of violence - "every fortune is built on a crime". I'm not questioning their success, just asking if we can do better.
The IBM system/360 wasn't exactly a super computer, but a modular, scalable family of mainframes, ranging from medium business machines to scientific computers. The S/360 built on previous IBM mainframes, like the IBM 605 (first mass produced computer), the IBM 305 RAMAC (hard disk!), the IBM 7070 (solid state) and the popular IBM 1404 (about 10,000 units sold, an image of it found its way amongst the photos of the S/360 on that page). The S/360 was especially important for introducing the octet for a byte.

It may be noted that the IBM 1401 was introduced in 1959 to replace hardwired punched card appliances, especially after these were heavily challenged by the Bull Gamma 3. The lower range IBM S/360 were replacing the 1401 in turn. The S/360 family was eventually replaced by its direct successor, the IBM system/370.

That said, IBM did maintain some real super computing projects around this time, namely project X and project Y (resulting in the ACS project). Project X eventually became the top of the range S/360 Model 92, project Y (ACS-1) was especially important for its legacy in cache architecture and software optimization (optimizing compilers, etc.)

Edit: Project X was actually sold under the designations S/360 Model 91, Model 95 and Model 195. (Introduced in 1969, these were more an add-on to the family, which had been introduced in 1965 and was already approaching the end of its retail cycle.) About 3 dozen of these actual super computers were built in total[1].

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7726/d267b6fb7470066640e7bb...
The large font size isn't even to be "mobile friendly" - the site uses media queries to give mobile viewports specific styles.
Flexbugs - A curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds
Consider the vast white areas toward the beginning. Entire civilizations lived and died there, and nobody living now has any idea what any of their names were.
> At that time I had a certain impression of suffragettes that many people did.

I don't know about the impression anyone else had, but the impression I had came from Disney and Mary Poppins: suffragettes were frivolous society women of well-to-do means who just wanted to find a cause for the drama and attention while neglecting their children and family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvk1NZDFvZU

Riddell goes on to list the chaining, the force-feeding, and the window-smashing; I wasn't even aware of that. The whole suffragette movement for a long time looked to me like a bunch of women complaining for a long time until men, simply exasperated with the whining, decided to give in.

I had never even heard of "deeds, not words", nor about Emmeline Pankhurst, or Emily Davison. Nor was I aware that women had to put up with the exact same kind of mockery that they have to endure today:

http://historyoffeminism.com/anti-suffragette-postcards-post...

https://mashable.com/2016/09/03/anti-suffrage-propaganda/#d9...

http://mentalfloss.com/article/52207/12-cruel-anti-suffraget...
Neither the notions of nonviolence nor autonomy are absolutes. We always have to struggle to make good choices.
Read the article; the -en in this particular case arose after the loss of the case system, in a hypercorrection during a period when -en and -s were the two main plural endings.
Processing has many interesting features, and it appeals to many non-tech adults, too. The difference is huge, though: you don't have every computer sold today equipped with it. You not only need to install it, you also need to know it exists and it fits your needs.
Segregation is common in US cities, and not just in the South. A friend in civic tech likes to say, "there is only one map of Chicago". Over time I've found it to be true: whether you're looking at these types of amenities, census data, crimes, health metrics. If you look at mapping apps like Runkeeper, you'll be able to point out U.Chicago as an island of activity within the South Side.

Over time, ideas of how our cities are and ought-to-be get cemented in and polarized. Housing prices reflect that pretty well and businesses listen to that before opening a new location. When economies do grow, instead of gradual betterment of everyone living there, you see a neighborhood flip/gentrify so quickly; look at Bushwick or Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
Why would the relative fraction of jobs taken up by software matter? Most jobs aren’t police officer jobs, but we still give police officers handcuffs and police cars, because (for that subset of jobs) those tools are needed, just like private workspace is needed for the subset of jobs in software.

> in my experience would be that yes, at the end of the day, 50% of an Eng time is meetings, standups, blackboard discussions, chatting with others, having breaks/wasting time, eating, going to the bathroom. etc..

Other than when a company mandates a poor meeting-oriented policy, like mandating Agile meetings even when it’s counterproductive for everyone, I’ve never heard of anything remotely like what you describe.

Mandating an inappropriate Agile-style meeting schedule is common, but that’s exactly the sort of thing I am saying the open plan office engenders. The fact that unproductive meetings make up 50% of work time in these companies is in no way any kind of endorsement that software engineering (or even other) workers actually benefit (in terms of productivity).

In other words, the engineering tasks demand 80-90% deep work focus, but engineers are forced, like a square peg in a round hole, to contort unproductively to wedge that somehow into a meeting-centric company policy that hurts both the engineers and the people who mistakenly organize & believe in the udefulness of the meetings.
No Malcolm X in my history text, why's that?
'Cause he tried to educate and liberate all blacks.
Why is Martin Luther King in my book each week?
He told blacks, if they get smacked, turn the other cheek...

From ‘Words of Wisdom’ by Tupac Shakur, who made a very good point.
and illegal law is an oximoron.

Wrong. Just because a few guys vote on something and then write it down on a piece of paper doesn't make it lawful.
The Book of Mormon.

It teaches about Jesus Christ and answers questions like “Where do we come from?”, “Why are we here?”, and “What happens after we die?”. It’s had a incredible effect on my life by helping me understand the purpose of my life and provides the right perspective when making big decisions in my life.

I know it’s a true book that can change the life of anyone who reads it.
Energy neutrality? Every utility has differential industrial and residential and commercial pricing, and energy discounts are super common for localities to lure development. China is the extreme end, where some places actually get free power, but even here there's all kinds of discounts our special rates. What do you think Amazon is trying to get cities to grovel for? Special tax discounts, energy rates, whatever they can get.
same here. The history of distance measurement is very interesting.
Yes, a stroke was part of "not having control".

The foolishness of violence is assuming you can put it back in the bottle. That's part of the argument.
Imagine 80 full sized SUVs stacked on top of each other, balanced on a 1” square metal rod.
Having respect of certain things is healthy, and learning things under (expert) supervision is generally effective and safe. Think about cars or electricity. Most societies have some kind of mandatory training for both.

Do most hackers have the patience for learning the basics, i.e. some somewhat complicated maths that could take years to learn? No, most of the time it's programmers, and we tend to just start writing code. That's what "don't roll your own crypto" means. Nobody's saying "don't learn about Galois field" or "don't run through cryptopals".

The Dunning-Kruger effect is real. I've seen broken crypto getting shipped. Or people releasing dangerous crypto under "hey, I made this perfectly functional library that even has documentation how to use it, but it's just a learning project". So while that's still happening, I'm fine with hearing "don't roll your own crypto" ad nauseum.
It's not stopping any well intended company from fairly using data. A law making it harder for well intentioned gun enthusiasts from getting guns is a good law according to me. All well intentioned gun enthusiasts should support it. Otherwise there'd be a day people would get tired of the bad intentioned gun owners and legislate a complete ban on guns.

Also I like the cookie idea. If only people really cared about misuse of their data they'd like it too. We've seen how good 3rd party cookies have been for some democracies.
cool. can we kill pickle next?
Yes, and that ongoing violence was a major factor. You can be against violence across the board, but so what? That's an easy posture to take if your interests aren't directly threatened. On the other hand, telling people they can't use violence to defend themselves against an asymmetrically powerful oppressor implicitly cedes victory to whatever state actor is prepared to employ it. This tends to work out badly for the subjugated population.

Violence is undesirable but you're arguing against people engaging in any kind of self-defense.
Yeah, putting Merkel and other Bundeskanslers for Germany at the end was weird, they're not Heads of State, they're Heads of Government, and in all other regards the video picked the Head of State.

And as you say, back in the days of absolute monarchs, it was easy to know who was "ruling", but in modern democracies there's a lot more people involved with ruling. I think every modern democracy has the Head of State above the Head of Government, but especially in the constitutional monarchies of Europe, the monarchs have been all but stripped of their powers, and the title is merely ceremonial.

At least the US makes it simple, the President is both Head of State and Head of Government. :-)
Snips AIR, a home voice assistant running locally
This was hiring local in Tokyo for a Tokyo based role.
It was interesting reading this after reading the Ribbonfarm essay on the Thirty Years War, because it shows just how damaging civil war is:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/03/21/the-winter-king-of-the...

After Rome breaks up in 476, the Italian peninsula is left a patchwork of small city states that frequently change ownership, and (except for invasions by Theoderic and Justinian) doesn't re-unify until 1871.

The 30 Years War under Ferdinand II in 1617 similarly broke up the Holy Roman Empire - the largest power in Europe for nearly 7 centuries - into a small aggregation of city-states with constantly shifting borders, and they also didn't reunite until Bismarck & Kaiser Wilhelm I, also in 1871.

WW1 did the same to the Austro-Hungarian empire, which still hasn't recovered and may never, and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 did the same for Russia and the Warsaw Pact.
Certainly not. You are missing something.

I am not lamenting the downfall of Silk Road - I think it should have been shut down. I was pointing out that "an oppressive government can do everything" is a weak argument, because we have experience showing the limit and effort needed.

All I am saying that bitcoin has some of the same uses that gold has, albeit in an easier-to-carry-across-border and harder-to-confiscate way -- which was a response to G-G-..-G-P saying "bitcoin has found no use".

Now, "illegal" is a problematic word, because it is a technical definition that changes with time and location. It is now legal to own gold in the US, and it was legal in the 1920's but it was illegal to do so in the 1930s. Gold was confiscated, and (since USD was still denominated in gold at the time), it's value in USD was doubled overnight, or rather, the value of USD in gold was halved overnight.

It is still illegal for an unmarried couple to kiss, perhaps even hold hands in public, in the Saudi Arabia.

The technical legality of owning gold in this case is an interesting discussion, but I am interested in the properties and implications of an un-confiscatable store of value, which in some (limited) ways cryptocurrencies are. It keeps governments in check in a way that fiat currency cannot.

Unless you believe every single government anywhere in the world is, at all times, always "just" and "right" and "good" (for whatever definitions of those adjectives), then it is a good that some "illegal" acts in some places and some times have mitigations. And at this point in time, bitcoin provides these mitigations for the people of venezuela and iran, and has provided them earlier for the people of china.
What I wonder is: Even if it is totally a ponzi scheme/scam, it seems like the price holds even if people have little faith on whether or not it's properly backed.

So, has it _psychologically_ managed to create price stability? So long as there isn't a giant run on the currency where they actually did run out of the necessary US Dollars (as well as insufficient people stepping in willing to pay $1 for 1 USDT), does it actually matter whether or not they have fully collateralized the currency?

I find that to be sorta interesting.
I remember sort of learning (just superficially) Z80 and 6502 assembly at the time (mid to late 80s) and thinking Z80 assembler was much simpler.
I was really expecting a series of yardsticks
A Slower Speed of Light (2012)
If you had read to the end of my post, you'd have seen the part where I addressed your objection.
That's what the subsidies and other incentives that usually accompany that are nominally for
I bought a Spypoint Force 11D for a relative. I haven't used it myself, but I've been pleased with the shots I've seen from it [1].

It's nice to share the observations you make onto iNaturalist, they can then get used in scientific research. In fact, observations tagged "trail camera" are probably the best source of example images from the various cameras: [2]

[1] Example: https://imgur.com/a/xon9M19

[2] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&q=%22t...
Indian streaming service Hotstar sets new world record for concurrent viewers
You can keep moving the goal posts if you enjoy that. Yes, everything becomes harder once the authorities take note.

But if you have managed to acquire bitcoin, e.g. before a government crackdown, or some other way through help from people in other countries, it still provides the "cross border value store" function that gold cannot by virtue of being hard to move.
Generally speaking, as a user, I couldn't give a shit about the company's branding guidelines and how they display the logo, so long as it's not taking up 1/3 of the screen ;).

But I get your point, and agree about digging into those aimless debates. "As a user, I'd like a consistent visual experience across $COMPANY's products"
What a title for an article which is extremely light on actual science. But what really killed me was the anecdote citing a particularly stupid, long debunked myth while freely inventing some bullshit explanation on the fly. Is there a study behind this? No, it just sounds good. Science.

> In the same way someone who habitually increases the volume in their headphones reduces their sensitivity to birdsong, I followed the “gateway” pattern from pot and alcohol to harder drugs
I'm not, because it is effective. Passive resistance is only effective to the degree that more powerful actors are conscientious.
In some contexts the plural of datum is datums, making it a bit more complicated than just a collective noun.
"There's no such thing as bad publicity" is one of the oldest rules in entertainment.
what do you suggest instead: naif, nife, nyve ..?
I wonder what's the point of this trend... the only thing I can think of is the "looks good on my machine" and the mac/retina display resolution maybe? not a mac user so idk...
I usually get mockups/prototypes bigger than it should because the designer eyeballed it on his/her machine
I don’t have any problem with this kind of joke. Parenting can be incredibly stressful, and its difficulty varies widely.
Unless there’s significant gerrymandering combined with primary capture—then we observe more extremism.
And quite in quite a few dialects you'd say "eiers" and "kinders", which is exactly the other kind of "double plural".
LTSpice runs perfectly under wine, which is a bit less of a treadmill.
>One of the most commonly pointed to examples of Hotelling’s Law arises in politics. When candidates position themselves too far left or right, they can lose the vote of centrists.

Parties becoming mirror images of one another can be equally well explained by both candidates being bought by the same groups.
In practice, though, I can nearly always tell when a new app I install uses Qt. It always seems a little off, and some little details end up not feeling right. If you use GNOME or Xfce and are starting a GUI project, it's better to just stick with GTK.
This book [1], which after reading the first page (numbered page 6) will provide all the insight you need to understand the revolutionary changes of Vatican II.
https://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/2nd_edition_final.pd...
I've been thinking about this a fair bit lately. How do you get from where you're at right now to something better? I haven't yet figured out any kind of holy grail approach that works, unfortunately :)

What I have been thinking about quite a bit is the idea of "initial conditions" in software. If a project starts out in a super cowboy way (let's not think about requirements, bring on the code!) and proceeds relatively successfully that way for a while, it's damned hard to reign that back in to a process where you do requirements and think about the problem before starting to write code. Best I can tell, the way to keep things like this from getting out of hand is to nip them in the bud early before they become habits.

That, unfortunately, doesn't help teams that are in the "nothing is thought out" swamp...

Edit: I just remembered the Scott Adams article on HN today too, talking about systems. That's exactly what this is all about: making systems where it's just assumed that you're going to do the requirements work up front. You can still do this in an Agile way, you just don't immediately pluck a card off and start writing code; you normalize the fact that the person is going to spend some time thinking about the solution first and writing those thoughts down.

That, too, is easier said than done. One team that I've worked with was heavily resistant to a 4 point checklist that was automatically added to their pull requests... It was not a burden and was specifically tailored to catching common mistakes they'd been making, but there was still a lot of resistance and ultimately the idea was abandoned.
"I'm right, they are wrong, and the ends justify the means".

For as horrible as I hear the right is, it seems to be only the left advocating explicitly for violence, while I'm told that the right simply arguing for something such as stronger borders is actually committing violence.
Can't read it, font is way too big
I don't think we're going to lose as many "well intentioned" websites as much as we'll get rid of bad intentioned businesses.
And advocate not to cause massive health problems on children today: http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-administration-separ...