skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been on vim for 8+ years. About 2 years ago I set up emacs because I wanted to start working in lisp land and use org mode. I couldn't use emacs without vim keybinds so I installed evil. I still use both editors, but I find emacs much easier to customize and the 'operating system' part of emacs makes it much easier to manage all the things I need to do. It sucks for big files, and there are some annoying quirks where repeating actions don't quite match vim's behavior, otherwise, I can hardly tell the difference, and when I do it is much easier to adjust to fit my needs. If you have your workflows set, then as with anything, there isn't much reason to switch, but emacs opens up a whole new world of possibilities in other ways.
Well you have the choice not to read anything on NPR. If it bothers you.
Replace Best Practice, with Good Practice and it may be less irksome for you, as it leaves it open for improvement, and is not mutually exclusive with other good practices.
It's really not compelling them. Employees are free to bring their food from home, or order outside the shopping center. It's keeping a handle on incentives, which is what any good government should be doing - incentivizing behavior that's good for the community and disincentivizing behavior that isn't.

In this case, they're removing the ability for facebook to keep the path of least resistance for food on campus to encourage people to eat outside the office, since they're already putting a bunch of effort into making the mixed-use retail/office/living area.

Calling this compulsion is like calling taxes slavery - you might feel strongly about the situation, it might impact you negatively, but don't expect much sympathy from those outside the bubble...
As someone not in Bay Area I find it hilarious. As someone who may have to move there it's enraging.
I have used vim/tmux/screen for almost 20 years, and while I only use a subset of the functionality, I am extremely at home in that workflow. I recently switched over to Emacs because I started spending a lot of time in Scheme.

I set it up over a couple of days to almost entirely emulate my vim setup: leader key, 'jk'->ESC, evil binding everywhere, you name it. At this point, my config file is only 165 lines, yet it provides all the editing comforts to which I'm accustomed. The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to map my enter key to ':' in normal mode.

I still use vim out of habit when I'm in the terminal, but the transition is so smooth I don't even notice which one I'm using. It's difficult to say if it's worth the effort to switch unless you are looking at a specific use case with which vim struggles. I am in love with the ease of CL/Scheme editing in Emacs, but without that itch, I probably wouldn't have switched. I've had many people try to convert me in the past, but they couldn't provide the why.
This is a teaching problem, because (like most things that are taught) there's no way for most students to verify it.

People who seek out areas of ambiguity or contested models in later life, after formal or professional education: good luck to them. They would surely benefit from your suggestion. But the rest of us are going to have to just believe what we are told, having applied certain personal heuristic filters to the info we are getting...
> The cartel ceased operations in 1939 owing to the outbreak of World War II.

World War II was a kind of competition, I guess.
You could use znc.
What? No! One is a noun and the other is an adjective. Do you really want to replace "plasticity" with "malleability"? Or maybe you prefer "malleableness"?

But yes I agree that the writing doesn't flow well. This required a great deal of editing, which it didn't receive. In this particular sentence, the worst offender is "itself". We know we're talking about time; it dominates the first clause of the sentence.
Up: Realtime file transfer and sharing
Never worked at a mass catering company like Compass Group myself, but I know people who have. They are terrible places to work compared to a restaurant.

The smaller catering companies, with <30 employees aren't usually too different from a restaurant, but the big ones are run by corporate bean counters, where everything and everyone is just a number in a spreadsheet.

I guess it's no different from your local mom & pop Italian restaurant vs Olive Garden in that respect though.
Yes, poor article, it's not 300 worms but 300 permafrost samples, of which two contained an unspecified number of viable nematodes :https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1134%2FS00124966180...

> We analyzed more than 300 samples of permafrost
deposits of different ages and origins, buried soils and
fossil rodent burrows. Two samples were shown to
contain viable nematodes.
Halflife under normal circumstances. Deepfreezing it is not the usual for DNA. Just like your meat and vegetables are still edible when you freeze them a year later and spoil in a matter of hours or days at higher temperatures.

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/10...

So that's at 13.1 degrees, quote from the end of that paper:

"Our results indicate that short fragments of DNA could be present for a very long time; at –5°C, the model predicts a half-life of 158 000 years for a 30 bp mtDNA fragment in bone (table 1). Even rough estimates such as this imply that sequenceable bone DNA fragments may still be present more than 1 Myr after deposition in deep frozen environments. It therefore seems reasonable to suggest that future research may identify authentic DNA that is significantly older than the current record of approximately 450–800 kyr from Greenlandic ice cores".

So even if they don't have a thermal model where you plug in any temperature and it will give you the half life there is good evidence that lower temperatures significantly increase the chances of DNA remaining intact for much longer than the above-zero half life would suggest.
> and email addresses. All of these things were trying to make technology more accessible to people

Uh nope. Nothing like that happened. SNDMSG allowed sending messages between users on the same computer. Then Ray Tomlinson added his file transfer code to SNDMSG and needed a symbol to separate user names from the host names, and he picked the @ Nowhere in there did anyone invent anything to make email addresses more accessible to people.

The only reason there were host names and not just numbers on the right hand side was because ARPAnet really has grown and just a few months before Tomlinson's invention names were added https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc226 (20 hosts! really, big network) but this, again, predates email addresses.

Another very early example of email in 1970 was integrated into the NLS (short for Online System) at the SRI ARC https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/papers/scanned-original/1... but this used usernames and not addresses "mail distribution was addressed by peoples Idents with no need to know or specify which host they used".
What Are the Best Practices of Database Design?
So from reading the regulation it appears Facebook can just open a public restaurant in the center. Charge $200 per meal but subsidize it completely for their own employees.
Their messaging application had horrible security in past, and there have been many discussions on HN about Telegram vs Signal. Why would I trust them for ID when their messaging was suspicious....
Yes. But it doesn’t offer some of the features Signal Protocol does. I do use it though.
> pin a core of my cpu at 100% and consume half a gig of ram...

I'm not doubting you, and I acknowledge that I hear that kind of thing with some frequency, but I've not seen Slack (running in Chrome on Ubuntu) use anything like those amounts of resources.

I've had a pretty busy slack client running for several days, and it's using 204,484K of memory and 2.0% of one CPU.
So you would have a decent sized project involving lots of people and manhours, but without support from your vendor?
Danh sách các trường có ngành Xét nghiệm Y học tốt nhất 2018
> In the late 1920s, a Swedish-Danish-Norwegian union of companies (the North European Luma Co-op Society) planned an independent manufacturing center. Economic and legal threats by Phoebus did not achieve the desired effect, and in 1931 the Scandinavians produced and sold lamps at a considerably lower price than Phoebus.

WW2 might have been the deathknell but it was already well on its way to its own demise.

Cartels only really work when you have governments to enforce them (see: wireless and ISP pricing in Canada)... these voluntary cartels very rarely work for a long period of time in a 'free market'. At most they'll get a few years before the public and competitors realize it.

This entire scheme was predicated on the benefit of the lack of awareness by the public/markets. In the 1920s you could rely on a lack of free flow of information (or at most a severely inefficient flow of information), such as pricing awareness in different markets:

> The cartel operated without the knowledge of the public

The internet would have killed this type of thing way faster. But given it was the 1920s and an international operation in a pre-global marketplace it took some time for competition to react. Plus many of the 'controlled' markets were colonial countries where information/markets could be far easier to control than an actual free market with a free press.
“Moderate” politics == corporate donations + laissez-faire - public relations.

This policy is just the public relations part. It’s particularly designed to appease local small business owners without having any measurable effect on the corporate profits.

This is as moderate as it gets. There’s nothing “progressive” about this nonsense. This is exactly the kind of nitpicking contortions moderates perform when they are trying to address social disparities without social solutions. The issue is systemic and the solutions must be as well. The only decent solutions here are broad corporate regulations like anti-trust for prevention and much higher taxes on the wealthy.

This is precisely a result of politicians appeasing local business owners with a public display of affection rather than a real progressive agenda. What could be more moderate than that?
Don’t spend your entire life being ignorant.

When people are spending tens of millions of dollars on trades, maybe it’s worth asking if they know something you don’t.
For every market event you are always going to find someone who predicted it. People predict everything at every point in time.

Getting one prediction right doesn't prove anything. Getting a lot of them right also doesn't prove anything. No one has managed to show a streak of accurate predictions unless they silently purge their incorrect ones.

Humans have a tendency to focus on the successes and ignore all the failures. It's in human nature and it's very hard to avoid it.
It looks like the Golden Gate Restaurant Association endorsed it[0]. I couldn't find a list of which restaurants are members of the GGRA, but the board of directors[1] includes people from the Bluestem Brasserie, San Francisco Soup Company, Ladle and Leaf, Extreme Pizza, Rose's Cafe, Wayfare Tavern, Souvla, Canela, Palm House, The Dorian, and Perry's.

[0] https://sf.eater.com/2018/7/25/17614570/san-francisco-corpor...

[1] http://ggra.org/about/board-of-directors/
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I don't know. I've never used Evil. I felt like I should actively forget Vim in order to get the most out of Emacs. Vim emulation maybe good for editing for some people, but Emacs is much more than an editor. People bring up the Emacs pinky problem, and I agree it's a problem. But the solution for me was easy: mapped the left alt to ctrl, and kept using the right alt as alt.
I probably would happily use hosted solutions, but being in China, everything is either completely blocked, half-works, or way too slow. So we (have to) use Gogs[1] as own Github, Mattermost[2] as own Slack, and StandardNotes[3] as own Evernote (Evernote has China presence, but it's a slightly different product + privacy concerns). I'm also quite happy with Haraka[4] mail server for outbound emails as a self-hosted Mandrill / Mailgun alternative.

[1]: https://gogs.io/

[2]: https://www.mattermost.org/

[3]: https://docs.standardnotes.org/self-hosting.html

[4]: https://haraka.github.io/
It is and it isn't. Unity is great but it's got like a min 5MB download for just a spinning cube. Flash (because the plugin was built in) started instantly and had built in support for streaming. Unity can stream, after the 5MB engine download, but for whatever reason it's not common.
Haha, that mean I can lending loan to somebody now without any government regulation lol....
You are correct the first image is "fake"

It's a stock image and it seems to be orders of magnitude larger than it should be. It's been used on sites from fish feeding to gardening -

http://www.domikdomovenka.ru/products/vidy-nematod
http://akvarium.dp.ua/chem-luchshe-vsego-kormit-ryib/

Unlike the real ones which would be invisible to the naked eye, see photo two in the article.

[edit] Actually at a length of half a mm you could see them with the naked eye, but 20 μm across so maybe not.
GDPR is criminalizing all websites because compliance is impossible. It puts european officials in exactly the possition they want to be in, everyone is breaking the law an enforcement is a matter of who their friends are.

Majors websites are taking steps to remove access from eu. This will only get worse. Be prepared to live in the environmet your politicians have created, or be prepared to come back to planet reality.

I speak personally, as a technical architect for international sales organization. People who basically are not in that position don't realize the way the law is written that compliance is not feasible. You are simply gambling that the shakedown form the enforceres won't be to bad.
I think if you ask Slack about that they'll happily tell you about Slack Grid.

EDIT: Whoops actually Shared Channels is the feature I was thinking of: https://slackhq.com/introducing-shared-channels-where-you-ca...
Indeed, if such a woman had been unfrozen, would she be too important of a scientific discovery to ever be allowed to live a normal human life again? Would she just be a research subject quarantined and experimented on for the rest of her days?
CLASSICS Is the Future of Assaults Against the Public Domain
Is there really much of a philosophical difference between a polyfill that exposes a common API and emulates when not present and a library that exposes a common API and uses native functionality when present?
Microsoft Teams isn't successful because it's a great product, it's because their sales team goes into corporate environments where they're already using Office 365 and offer Teams for free as an integrated extension to the rest of the suite.

Big companies aren't choosing between Teams and Slack, they're choosing between Teams and email.
> I was involved in the early days of IRC, and personally, I'm amazed at how great Slack is.

At my company, we used to use IRC for internal communication and have since transitioned to Slack. The primary difference I see is that in chat, we see reactions to certain messages, in-line paste snippets, and links that use a slack redirect service.

I don't really see much utility in reactions. In-line paste snippets could just as well be a link I could click on to display the image or document in an external application I launch. And the slack redirect service makes it much harder to search my browser history for the document I was looking for.

I've also noticed that in the browser I use (Firefox), slack will, after a few days of using it in the same tab, become very laggy and non-responsive. This requires me to close the tab and open a new one to free up whatever resources were causing it to slow down so much. This was never a problem in the local application I used for my IRC client.

I'm not very impressed with Slack.
Would these worms have been snap-frozen? I.e., they did not freeze slowly so that ice crystals did not form in their cells killing them. How would snap freezing work in these environments.
It should be noted that you don’t need satellites in GSO to triangulate signals between satellites and the ground. It’s not a much more difficult technical problem to have a table of the full ephemeris data for a bunch of satellites in lower orbit, and use that information in GPS receivers. It’s just that our current chips wouldn’t be compatible with receiving data such a system.

IMO the Kessler Syndrome is overblown as a risk. Most of our space infrastructure would go to hell in such a scenario, but it’s not an existential threat like it’s often made out to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEf4DhoyF00

This is about 20 sentences, ...
Antimatter has opposite charge, not opposite mass. Antimatter is not antigravity.
Thanks!

And thank you for helping make Rust awesome.
What's the point of polyfilling a nice API when you could just have a nice API to start with which leverages native functions when present? They don't seem to be philosophically different.

Or stated differently, "jQuery is just a JS polyfill for browsers that don't support native jQuery yet."
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Non-tech people like Facebook (et al). Understandable. Hell, tech people like Facebook.
Because of the social graph, understandably, I get it. You can't fight the compartmentalization of our previously open Internet, I guess.

Or maybe, at least developers know better.. ?

Turns out no. What annoys me to no end is when developers willingly crash right into this "electron react"-whatever hipster bullshit cause its "cool". We had IRC _thirty_ years ago. Slack is not cool. Sure, upgrades are in order for IRC. But it works. Slacks evaluation is so laughable. Obviously it is because of its data - that it won't share.

Anyway. We should know better. We should not willingly put everything into slack or hipchat or whatever. Why would we?

Ease of X, I guess.

Give me an api where I can sync all my stuff locally and, you know what, fair enough, go nuts, but these guys build their businesses based on holding on to their data like vultures (no surprises there) . Understandably. I just thought tech savvy people would know/do better.

Anyway, that's my two cents. I feel like a minority.. Now get of my lawn.
I live in one of the heroin hotspots of Australia, where they hand out free needles like candy.

It's better than the alternative, which is people sharing needles and giving each other all sorts of diseases.

Not only do they hand out free needles though, but also free sharps containers, and there are needle disposal bins all over the place for users to drop their used needles in.

I'm not sure how they convinced all the heroin users to dispose of their needles correctly, but they've done a fairly good job. It's rare for me to see a needle on the street.
As an iOS dev, I use my personal phone (iPhone X) for the bulk of my dev/test cycle but also keep around an old-ish iPod Touch running the previous version of iOS that I dev/test on periodically as well. If something doesn’t perform adequately on the Touch, I tweak on it until it does.

iOS users tend to run newer devices generally which might lead some devs to feel that this extra optimization isn’t worth the time it takes, but I disagree because it doesn’t benefit only users with older devices – it’ll make your app run better on newer devices too and make it that much more unlikely that your app gets killed or causes the OS to kill other apps in multitasking scenarios (iOS kills resource hogs much more readily). In short, everybody benefits.

With this same thought process, I plan to pick up one of the 120hz iPad Pro models to test on soon. It’s one of the most powerful iOS devices available, but driving 120FPS isn’t easy and given how many apps fail to hit the target of 60FPS on similar hardware I’d bet that a huge number, perhaps even most, don’t come anywhere close to running at 120FPS even with the extra horsepower.
Oh, I know, all the splitting up on price-elasticity of demand and so on.

But the issue with sales taxes is that it is applied on the final sale, which generate distortions when the products are being imported, or have a long supply chain spread across a country, as it is a tax on the consumer, the value is only capture at the consumer location, not along the supply chain (that's what I meant as a terrible idea).
Is a set of polyfills philosophically different than a framework?
> I was reading articles about people and companies picking up and moving out of California to places like Nevada...thirty years ago.

That's like saying "I was reading about government deficit 10 years ago, and look at it, it's still growing and we're still here and the deficit is even larger!".

It's a growing problem. California grows less attractive as more of these exploitative measures and taxes pile up, and the impact is noticeable. No NorCal location was in the shortlist for Amazon's 2nd HQ, for instance.

> Been hearing that for thirty years, too.

You've been hearing about fully remote virtual teams thirty years ago, before the internet really existed?

Maybe as some future prediction?
They're just pandering to special interest groups --groups they believe will like this move, and since there is no alternative party in the Bay Area, they know most tech workers will not break Repub, so they can do what they want.

They still get the tech voter and now they will endear some small progressive cause.

But, yes, it's utterly incomprehensible. It's reductionist. Like I said before, ban Uber, ban MUNI, they are taking jobs away from Pedicabs and Taxi drivers...

Anyway, it's not Robots (yet) prepping food at the company canteen, they have to hire workers to do the cooking, serving, etc. So it's more or less a wash. Only diff is probably company cafeterias mostly try to ensure workers have a legal right to work in the US.
> Slack is the first chat application that both techies and non-techies actually use.

IRC, MSN Messenger, AIM, and Yahoo Chat were definitely used by both groups. None of them required a lot of resources to run.
> GDPR is criminalizing all websites because compliance is impossible

I disagree, compliance isn't particularly difficult unless you're going out of your way to do something harmful to your users.

> be prepared to come back to planet reality.

Please refrain from hyperboly, I'd much rather a civil discussion about this.
The paper seems to say that they attacked a victim program that was specifically written to include vulnerable gadgets.

Is code for this victim program available? I don't see it in the paper.

Have such gadgets been found in any real-world programs?
I don’t understand the obsession with Austin. It’s actually quite a small player in the tech industry.
So Elixir was your second language after PHP? If so, I would take that with a grain of salt. Learning your first programming language is really hard because it's all new. Learning your second language is really hard because it's all different. After that it gets way easier because you start being able to see the analogies and commonalities between all languages. Each new paradigm - ie. more procedural to more functional going from PHP to Elixir - is a bit of a hump as well, but still easier than from the first language to the second.
> Sure phpbb is a little clunky but at least I can use it as a knowledgebase.

Newsgroups were far better than phpbb :), and they were more easy to search IME.
In that case, why serve the page at all?
Not even remotely close. Like seriously not even on the same planet.
Europeans have a more friendly relationship with taxes than Americans. But VAT, despite being regressive, is still required, as today we have very complex businesses and you want to prevent gaming, where corporations optimize for allocating their value into a certain channel that is untaxed.

For example, by placing their operations in a separate country with lower taxes and shipping from there. So you need income tax, sales/vat tax, and corporate taxes to prevent any gaps.