skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counterpoint, I couldn't stand WinAmp. To me, its interface was a mess of tiny inscrutable controls. When I started using SoundJam on the Mac, which was later bought and turned into iTunes, it was a breath of fresh air.

iTunes has obviously turned into something else at the time, but SoundJam was fantastic.
Treating crime as something to be cured rather than punished
I want Amazon and Amazon fulfillment reviews separate from my product reviews.

I've ordered enough stuff from Amazon to know how I feel about the shipping and platform. The only thing I care about in reviews is the product itself. A product shouldn't be penalized if Amazon stuffs up the shipping.
How To Design Programs covers some of the same ground. (It's also in a lisp)
> Because my life is fucked worse than it already is if I don't show up.

This is already the case, but surprisingly people (including those accused of crimes) do not always make choices which are in their long-term self interest.

> If that's not the case, then that's almost the working definition of "flight risk", and you don't release them for any amount of money.

So how do you determine who is a "flight risk"? Past FTA? Past convictions? Don't own property? No family ties to community? From the wrong part of town? Wrong skin color? These are the types of things that will end up going into detention decisions when you take the posting of security off the table and start trying to decide who is a "flight risk". The reason we have our bail system, including in many places a constitutional right to bail for non-capital offenses, is before that Courts would simply deny bail willy-nilly for certain crimes or people they didn't like.
I looked at a few surveys and nearly 50% of the developers are using Windows. I doubt that this can change so much for JavaScript.
If you're quitting because you aren't earning enough, probably not the best to do a startup. You'll probably earn nothing for at least a year if you start a company (generally you want enough savings to live at least a year with no income). If you are planning on learning web dev and coding your own product, it will be even longer before you are making money

Try testing some of your startup ideas with landing pages in html / css / js, and learning to code in your spare time, then if something takes off, quit
See also the Ben & Jerry's management salary thing.
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I don't get it. Is this anything more than post it notes on a grid?
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IBM, Google Cloud and the open community launch Istio 1.0
You are right! Interesting, because the body text visually appears to be dark-gray (at least that's what I think).
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There's definitely a dominance element here in Mexico, too.

My Mexican friend traveled a lot here for work to meet with various executives. These executives would be the ones who set the time.

She'd drive four hours and arrive at their office for a 8am 1-on-1 meeting and be directed to a sofa outside their room. She told me often 30+ minutes would pass and the guy would be in there twiddling on his smartphone, she could see him right through the blinds.

It was like some proof of time-burn to remind you that they had the power.
I know the rather spiffy project http://thi.ng uses org mode for literate programming and web site generation all from the source code. It doesn't seem to be all one big file, but I think each component may be a file.
Interesting how they discount the "headwinds" that white males are feeling, and don't go into detail about the perceived "headwinds" that half the country is currently hallucinating in.
Non blocking disk I/O is one thing where NT is really ahead of all nix OSes. Unlike say network IO where we have all sorts of platforms(go, node) which allow you to scale by doing async IO, there aren't much options for disk I/O, primarily because of lack of nix options.
Seems like nothing more than mud-slinging from disgruntled, fired employees.

If SolarCity would have had "...tens of hundreds of millions of dollars in phantom revenue that would put them at over a billion in revenue, which I'll leave to you to look up how inaccurate that statement is.
Because most of us have a hard time contextualizing and assessing the universal importance of our personal formative experiences.
VMWare Harbor joins CNCF
I try to get everything I can from the Store at this point. It makes setting up a new machine or repaving an existing machine a breeze because you can just run through your Store library and one button install everything.

Every app from the Store is also often one less "every startup updater" application running from some developer who's time is better spent making their own more important software better (hi Apple, thanks for putting iTunes into the Store).

Plus there are applications I'd use anyway like Krita or Paint.NET where it felt worth it to send the devs a quick purchase cost.

Also, yeah, the piece of mind of a little extra sandboxing of applications is good. Security in depth is not just a good mantra when developing, it's also a fine way to live.
Another shameless plug: I think the IBM 3270 (the ones with beam-spring keyboards) was the greatest terminal ever and I missed its screen font so much I had to recreate it.

It's now my most popular GitHub project and is included in the Debian repos:

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
> That's irrelevant to the discussion though

You claimed "in most places where [direct democracy] was practiced (ancient Athens... etc.) it was shown to be more benevolent and inclusive to 'true numerical minorities' than most representative democracies." I'm disagreeing with that claim. I'm asking for a source for the the general claim because I'm confused about what separates "true numerical minorities" from other kinds of minorities.

I'm pushing back on the assertion that is has been shown direct democracy works well for minorities. It hasn't. (It has been shown that representative democracy works, or at the very least can be stable.) The tyranny of the majority has not been conclusively proven (nor disproven). This is an open question, and one that evolves as technology (and the population's education) progresses.
These all sound like healthy corrections to me.
Context is important. Your colleague got a nasty rash from what they did. You offering an alternative could be received as criticism or even blaming them for the rash. The time for offering corrections is probably not while they are suffering the consequences of their action.

You are right of course - people can be tricky in such situations.
I work at Elastic, and can honestly say, this is the second company I’ve ever worked for whose sales team is respectable. They’re a bunch of highly technical consultants, and their goal is to solve customer problems even if the solution doesn’t earn Elastic a dime. It’s refreshing.
Not a direct equivalent, but I've frequently seen people recommend https://eloquentjavascript.net/
another fallacy and a path of no return.
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It also forbids the poor to trade stocks based on inside information, knowingly create monopolies, etc.

Likewise, my 90 year old grandmother is forbidden by the law to beat a Navy SEAL to death.
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Having a sex change doesn’t turn a man into a woman. There is no basis in science for that. If that were true, I could paint a tennis ball orange and eat it like a fruit.

Race is not a “social construct”. If that were true, I wouldn’t be able to blindly tell your race via a dna test.

Where does all this anti-science rhetoric come from? I guess global warming and evolution is a myth too?
The original layout looks quite reasonable. It seems to optimize giving classrooms many windows for natural light and fresh air. Additionally the layout mostly keeps noisy areas such as the gym and cafe away from classes.
Ask everyone you can if they feel the same and I bet you will see that what you feel is common.
Article is corporate fluff. “Improvements and initiatives”, “governance” and “compliance”, “transformational” and “fundamental shifts”...
I hate autoplaying videos in general.
Actually, that's not true. The courts (in E&W, at any case) can ask for a security (so cash or other assets) or a person to stand as a surety.

They rarely do so, but the highest profile one in recent times was when Julian Assange slipped off to that ground floor flat in Knightsbridge and cost his supporters the thick end of £100k

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Ju...
The headline makes my eye twitch. It is technically correct but pushes age bit too much into forefront. It is a bachelor thesis work supervized by Scott Aaronson of all people.

It is going to be really interesting to see if there are other algorithms where we find classical algorithms that run in polynomial time.
You both could give us a hand here: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/118484/mainframes...
Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
I'm sure your strings are not stack allocated, they are statically allocated (and would be statically alocated in any language). Not sure about arrays, but dynamic arrays should be dynamically allocated do, your arrays are static probably. They would be heap allocated, if you would use make.
It seems appropriate to plug Vicktor Frankl's book, Man's Search For Meaning to anyone who can clearly see themselves in an advantage position of privilege in life, but who still feels terribly empty inside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning
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Oh no no no hell no. I though we solved this argument 10 years ago. Its embarassing such a comment is the highest upvoted on HN.

Free speech =/= guarantee of publicity on a private platform.
> You're complaining about the disease and then complaining about the cure

In the ebbs and flows of positivity/negativity frequency, all flows look like cures for ebbs. Really, it's just the another symptom of the same disease that there are intentionally large peaks and valleys at all (unintentional is a different matter of course).
"Hey, I saw your thoughts on X, but actually here's some info that says you're incorrect"

How about "here's some info that..." anything but offering proof that they are incorrect.
There's a very big difference between making enough money to be financially stable and being one unexpected large expense away from not being able to pay some bills or the rent.
as a Oakland resident with family in NYC I couldn't agree with this more.
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Researchers find people read facial expressions differently
I like it, despite the infeasibility. Here are a few more things missing from the plan: 1) The main door should be by the admin offices, for security reasons. 2) The gym has to be rectangular for the basketball court, or large enough that it can contain it. 3) One of the gym's looks slightly non-convex, which is pointless. (Although that might be an artifact of rendering the door.)
Facebook has now posted the announcement referenced in the article: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/07/removing-bad-actors-on-...
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It's also a common tactic for police to do mass arrests on a Friday if some large event is happening on the weekend too. That's how they clean the streets of anything that will embarass the mayor in front of foreign press such as homeless with unpaid fines, activists they know will disrupt, ect. You have to wait all weekend in jail to see a judge on Monday or Tuesday that will almost always just release you. Anybody whos been through the system the first thing you notice is how at least half the people you meet shouldn't be there.
I remember when someone referred to Unix as the User Hostile Operating System.

They obviously never used MVS (z/OS's ancestor), OS/400 (now I/OS or something like that) or Burroughs' MCP (when an OS lends its name to a movie super villain, you have to respect it).
Istio 1.0: the production ready service mesh
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PSP was not cross platform, it was Windows only. I don't know if that's changed recently but I suspect it hasn't.
I just read this (again) during a bit of an existential crisis. It's certainly a good read, and puts things in perspective.
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If you're charged with a serious crime, you just go to jail.

If they think you'll probably flee, you just go to jail.

If they think you'll hurt somebody before the trial, you just go to jail.

Otherwise they figure out some rules (like "Don't go to Bill's house" or "Don't hang out with Frank and Simon") and then tell you that you need to come back for your trial and meanwhile you must obey the rules.

If you break the rules, they might arrest you, and decide you now need to go to jail until the trial.

If you forget to come back for the trial (obviously a few people deliberately flee, but remember these aren't like bank robbers or murderers, they're shoplifters or people who got into a fist fight, so most cases genuinely forgot, overslept, etcetera) the court tells the police you didn't show up, the police find and arrest you for breach of bail. Then you spend a night or two in a cell, awaiting your new court date. Since you were in a cell, ensuring you appear this time is much easier.

For the type of people who forget, the humiliation and inconvenience of spending a night in a cell waiting for the new trial date is adequate "punishment" for their foolishness and wasting the court's time, they mostly look a bit forlorn when I've seen them, they're Spud from Trainspotting, not Begbie, or even Renton.
The author describes the results as 'irrational,' but I'd hardly agree with the negative connotation of that word: I think that the generated floorplans look lovely, and I wish that I'd gone to school somewhere like that. Far from irrational, I think it's quite rational to try to design buildings to be pleasant to live in, not just easy to draw with a straightedge.

Also, the generated rooms look much like the sort of rooms one would build with cob. A cob schoolhouse could be awesome.
In 2012ish the New York times drove a model s in circles in a parking lot and then wrote that the battery had mysteriously depleted the next morning. It was for their review of the then brand new model s. They didn't realize that Tesla was logging everything the s did. The article features a huge picture of the s in the back of a flatbed. Im gonna wait for more than anonymous allegations and "allegedly"s.
You honestly come off as a hater in this comment. It's absolutely remarkable what he did as a teenager, and the kid is obviously a genius. Show some appreciation.
Personal opinion: Zig. Only Go is comparable in terms of C's small and simple nature, but it has GC and (if you really miss that sort of thing) no generics.

Zig may be immature and still a few years from 1.0.0, but I already switched all my personal projects to it because it's such a huge quality of life improvement over everything else for the way I develop.
It all comes down to how explicitly preferences are originally understood and then if the reward function can incorporate implicit analysis.

There have been recent studies about AI powered shirt design - the original input uses existing designs in terms of color and shape rather than the basic naive description of requirements that an engineer would give. Then the designs can be assessed by a review board or put up on a site and not produced until some n quantity of purchases.

You wouldn't try to detect cats in images without labelled data why would you try something MUCH harder without labelled data?!?!?!?!?!
The current "funfact" is that the on/off button on a Z-series machine is only designed to be used twice.
I was curious, but they don't mention increasing affiliation (another of the 3 needs). If advise is accepted it may also provide validation to the advice giver - is that a sense of power? I guess I'm a little disappointed that they only used one scale.

I was happy to see p<0.001 for a change!
You may also want to compare that to the probability of road accident. I don't remember where and when I've read it (and haven't validated the sources) but IIRC, cars have significantly worse number of fatalities per kilometer than planes.
True. However, "eventually" is a long time - the assumption "level 5 hardware exists today" is IMNSHO premature by many decades.
Very cool. I tinkered with creating a mini-game of Barsoom, the Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter series, in Minecraft. It would be great to create the whole planet.
That’s a strange decision with regard to variable definitions, but not really a “scoping” abnormality. As in: that’s the scope you’d expect from a global variable, but not the syntax you’d expect to get you a global variable. Anyways, a base VS Code installation will throw a warning about that.

The other things are also not scoping. I’m not arguing JS is consistent, I’m just saying people should stop complaining about its scoping then offering python as a solution.
Someone just read The Prince.
Wow, I used Erlang extensively a few years ago and don't remember exceptions at all. (Exit reasons and process monitors, yes; but I don't think I ever wrote a "catch" expression, or encountered a library that expected me to do so.)
> The reason why we want governments not to censor and control our speech is because they have so much power.

Specifically, the kind of power represented by the monopoly on legitimate use of force, which means their censorship obstructs the marketplace of ideas in which private actors decide which views to express and relay and success is by persuasion that the ideas are valid and should be adopted and relayed by others.

> Businesses have this level of power now.

No, they don't, except insofar as they direct the institutions of government, or act as arms of government in the form of protected monopolies on essential services.
They are focused on the poor - the decline of unions and lack of traction of economic issues has lead to the drift - or more specifically general refusal to adopt views or stances held which they find unacceptable for other reasons. Typically this is referred to as "voting against their interests" but that depends upon personal priorities be they wise or foolish. Tech workers refusing to work on abuseable projects are technically acting against their interests fiscally. I will try to abstain from judgement here.

Also they do have a large portion of the working class - just not definitively over the white part who traditionally bear the name. Perhaps related to their strong hold on minorities that made them not stand out as a distinct bloc. Parts of their other coalition having views at odds with theirs and friction related is not new (see the Hard Hat Riots for one and environmentalists vs industrial workers). Similarly Republicans have long been reaching them on social issues as well - pre civil rights act related inversion even arguably.

Regardless of one's moral opinions facing their overtures largely rejected and power diminished why should the democrats try to serve them at the cost of others strategically? They aren't special or numerous enough which makes the political capital better spent elsewhere.

Blue-dogs exist and are run where locally favorable but they aren't nationally prominent for a reason.
Flexing its very real political power by showing its true calling as a social antenna.

The grain of salt is that this is part of a "Charm Offensive" public relations strategy emphasizing security at every opportunity.

The article image, of MZ before Congress, adds gravity to his position that few were seriously commenting on at the time.

https://realmoney.thestreet.com/articles/07/26/2018/facebook...

Edit:

Hint: Discoveries were few in number. Here's an account that was returned from a FB search using the name ("Mindful Being") of an account that was flagged:
https://www.facebook.com/mindfulbeing.us/
No, i'm not smart, I'm just not ignorant. Learning Django isn't going to make you learn HTTP spec for instance, you know what i'm saying? the same way, learning Angular OR Vue.js will not make you understand how event bubbling or event delegation works. plenty of "full stack" front-end developers out there who know nothing about the DOM.
Huh, Feynman's host was César Lattes, one of the most famous Brazilian scientists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattes_Platform
League of Legends is no longer the world's most popular video game.
While working with an A-6 Unisys mainframe, I met Tron's original super villain: MCP.

Yes. The villain was named after the operating system. My feeling was that it really hated users.
1..366, surely?
I think this might represent an example of another unique value of quantum computing: as a way to get us thinking about computing problems via a different paradigm that can perhaps be translated back to classical computing.
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They did. The elm-style version is in the standard libraries as:

listToMaybe :: [a] -> Maybe a

(http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.11.1.0/docs/Data-M...)
Especially those "newsy" videos that consume bandwidth with video clips and snippets of text. These are a scourge on facebook feed (before I deleted it). Also hate it on any mainstream media site.

These videos are totally useless too. just regurgitating a video with text from the _actual_ article.
The point of CS is not to make you highly skilled in operating systems or languages or even web apps. It is to give you overall idea about those areas to make you able to choose what to focus on

My point is that those overall ideas are lacking in substance and understanding. People should have just enough background knowledge to keep themselves out of trouble and off of toes. So many CS grads seem to lack even that.
Sounding fine says nothing, it's rather that not sounding fine tells you something, namely that ripping failed. Having some of the least significant bits of a sample flip for example is inaudible and will sound fine.

Sure, op has no absolute guarantee, but the fact that his crc32 matches that of the AccurateRip DB is, apart from his statistical approach, another strong indicator that he actually got it right. The alternative is that either the other user who submitted the crc32 to the database coincidentally ended up with exactly the same read errors, or that it's a hash collision (not entirely unlikely given the size of the checksum).

It's reasonable to assume op got a perfect rip.
I wouldn't call reading fiction "active engagement". The only activity in that is turning pages and occasionally changing the way you sit.

(Or maybe it's just me. Either I don't know how to read books properly, or have all the necessary activities running as background processes in my head, not requiring conscious control.)
This is literally the video I ripped my first JCL from in my post above. I believe the relevant section is around 4:30 :)
Maybe I'm just easily impressed but the idea of a 17 year old who skipped three grades and is already a third-year university student who was talented enough to catch Scott's attention and then address a technically challenging problem like this certainly warrants at least some recognition for the age at which he made this accomplishment.

Or maybe I'm just not smart enough to hang out on Hacker News.
It looks OK. It's light on features and the UX isn't that great (why input popups at the top of the page?). Why not spend a bit more time on it before showing it off to a big audience?
Astronomers assemble 'light-fingerprints' to unveil mysteries of the cosmos
I do, yes.

South America had had a lot of regimes that handed out state funds to this group and that. The Bolivarian Revolution has that. But to which group? From what I've read Mission Habitat housing has gone mostly to Chavez/Maduro voters, for example. Friends of the local party functionaries.

I suppose you might say that's still better than letting the rich and corrupt help themselves to public resources.