skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I moved to Mac this year after being exclusively on Windows since '98.

Funny, I use a Macbook pro at work, and windows at home. I'm not the kind of person that has strong preferences on tech, I use stuff until it stops working well and then I switch.

My several (over time) work macbooks have been really bad. OSX has so many bugs, many of them seem really serious potential security issues (graphical corruption across processes, login screen flickering to the desktop upon waking from sleep, ...). Lots of other bugs are just annoying and make things janky to use. It also does weird things that make me fear it is a fire hazard (e.g. battery draining within 24 hours while the lid is closed in my laptop bag).

On the other hand, a windows small form factor connected to my TV, and a surface pro have been basically hassle free. Obviously windows has bugs too, but none of the ones I've seen make me question security the way I do on OSX.
Honest questions: are you an avid reader? What kind of writers do you prefer that usually fall in the Kafka-catergory. The Trial was my first Kafka and it bound me from the beginning. The scenes where he is picked up they were gripping and intense and tragi-comic at the same time. Interesting that it doesn't work for everyone. That was my first thought at the OP top: who wouldn't get Kafka? Perhaps this is a subtle cultural effect at work.
AFAIK, there's a timeout for card transaction (something like a few seconds) approval that's preventing such functionality from existing
Python 3 encourages the unaware to write broken code in a utf8-centric way instead. The unaware are going to write broken code.
Apple had a very similar bug in the initial release of Snow Leopard:

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-acknowledges-snow-leopard-da...
A lot of "fast fashion" (e.g. Zara et al) is actually made in Portugal to better react to trends. A lot of medium- to high-end shoe brands are made in Italy.
A lot of traditional brands (Like Aigle) still produce most of their stock in Europe.
Doc Martens have a range still made in the UK (and the quality is notably better).
And then there's the bespoke shoe industry in London... just don't expect supermarket prices...
Not to take away from your point, but Braintree and Braintree-owned Venmo were acquired by PayPal in 2013.
World Poverty Falls Below 750M, Report Says
Current branch is the release preview.

They just want everyone to start at square one.
Something is very weird about window displays in general. Take the list of wi-fi networks; sometimes the entire thing will just stop appearing, doing nothing when you click the icon! I eventually figured out that if I use Windows Search to pull up the WiFi Settings panel, and manually click the list of networks there, then the list is fixed (it does not appear in the Settings window though; it just pops up where it was supposed to be, near the taskbar icon).

I just don’t understand; I cannot fathom what implementation could be so complex that they can’t achieve full test coverage on something like whether or not a damned window appears when required.
Totally! The all-or-none option seems extreme to me, especially in America, where we have lots of roads that can handle quite a few cars.
I wanted to avoid giving details, but who cares?

Get the ISO from here (it's a magnet link, load it using a BitTorrent client):

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6faec726c7bbb9248b3a3ed8d77bd1a7c4598f05&dn=en_windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2019_x64_dvd_74865958.iso&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969

Install it (burn it to a USB drive using Rufus, for example, or to a DVD). Then use a KMS key and one of the many public KMS servers that let you activate Windows without having a key. Cmd as admin:

slmgr /ipk M7XTQ-FN8P6-TTKYV-9D4CC-J462D
slmgr /skms kms.digiboy.ir
slmgr /ato

Then reboot.
If you are OK with a Google account, yes, there is backup. I suspect you have to pay if you want more than 15gb, but that's a pretty OK limit.
It's not about wanting, it's about having an economic motive. Cities like La Cinconada and Norilsk are doing fine, because they have industry.
"There are only two dialects of Irish, plain Irish and toothless Irish, and, lacking a proper acquaintance with the latter, I think I missed the cream of the old man's talk." --Brendan Behan
Going of on a tangent a bit here, but I think there are 2 important related issues:

* API design should fit the language. In a "high on correctness" language like Haskell or Rust, I'd expect APIs to force the programmer to deal with errors, and make them hard to ignore. In a dynamically typed language like Python where many APIs are very relaxed / robust in terms of dealing with multiple data types (being able to see numbers/strings/objects generically is part of the point of the language), being super strict about string encoding sounds extra painful compared to a statically typed language. I'd expect an API in this language to err on the side of "automatically doing a useful/predictable thing" when it encounters data is only slightly incorrect, as opposed to raising errors, which makes for very brittle code. Most Python code is the opposite of brittle, in the sense that you can take more liberties with data types before it breaks than in statically typed languages. Note that I am not advocating incorrect APIs, or APIs that silently ignore errors, just that the design should fit the language philosophy as best as possible.

* Where in a program/service should bytes be converted to text? Clearly they always come in as bytes (network, files..), and when the user sees them rendered (as fonts), those bytes have been interpreted using a particular encoding. The question where in the program should this happen? You can do this as early as possible, or as late as possible. Doing it as early as possible increase the code surface where you have to deal with conversions, and thus possible errors and code complexity, so that doesn't seem so great to me personally, but I understand there are downsides to most of your program dealing with a "bag of bytes" approach too.
Funny thing..

What I heard - this problem (removing files from folders like Documents, Downloads) happens only when you actually move storage of these. Yes, you can move Documents folder into D: and things will work just fine. But this is where this bug will hit you.

I moved my Downloads folder, nothing much to loose here, but I'll surely do a backup of everything before updating.
And it’s easier to do better Q/A when you don’t have to support 200 earlier versions and patch-revisions.
sorry for asking: what is the real incentive of Bloomberg?
can I find the answer on Wikipedia?
I think that’s not true. You can always apply best practices. You have to weigh advantages and disadvantages for each situation with design patterns. Most of the time where you can use a design pattern you shouldn’t (singletons are just the most trivial example)
This seems to only be the command engine itself, which by the way is the sorry excuse for modding support that Mojang put out after Notch's promises. Not particularly exciting, but Blaze3D seems a little more interesting.
It's good to hear numbers of Northern Hairy Nose wombats are picking up. There was a dingo attack (maybe a single dingo) that wiped out 10% of the entire population in 2002.

This site has a lote of information about the Northern Hairy Nose wombat. https://www.ehp.qld.gov.au/wildlife/threatened-species/endan...
Maybe the real problem is that the two major desktop OS are currently bad.
Whoever told you that made it up because it sounded cool.
Eh, I imagine that mostly has to do with Ballmer stepping down and not about slashing expenses.
The friend does not have trauma. Overweight does not have trauma either.

More importantly for overweight advice, it does matter whether you know and really are expert or whether you base advice on latest pop article or a random dude in gym theory.

You can comfort without being enabler. Don't give money to spender, but listen and be friend. (Or don't if it is harming you). Your impulsive friend will not magically become less impulsive just because you had lecture anyway. That is not how it works. He will need way more effort and support and will take long time to change - but only if he wants it.
Status-goods marketing at its finest. I remember that this article gave me a lot of insight on the industry: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/expensive-chocolate-ec...
> In the midst of a German sentence, some nouns will be precluded because they would be impossible due to gendered articles and adjectives. This lessens the cognitive load (of the trained listener) or conversely allows omitting words when the gender narrows down the selection enough.

This is an example for OP's notion of hard to parse foreign speaker English. I'm not sure what you are trying to say. No offense. I also noted the ease that comes from omission of a noun after an article if the grammatical gender hinted at by the article already indicates the noun (Was there anything else you were trying to say?). It's comparable to use of the indefinite it. I've seen that exposed as "omitting a word if the article makes it (word) clear" - you'd use "the" instead, then omit the noun, getting "... makes the clear".

It's used especially in subsentences "_Der_ Hund in dem Haus, _der_ dieses und jenes tat, ist ...", so the referred noun does not have to precede the subsentence directly. However, I find this a bad use of the language and think it's unnatural for spoken speech.

I suppose relational algebra would be informative to understand the problem better. One thing I remember from a first course is the limitation of one primary key per table. I like to liken this to the definite article. Hence, I find your first sentence is missing a definite article, but I don't know where to put it (there's so many options).
> People who claim Scots is "just an accent" don't know what they're talking about.

Such definitions are largely political. "A language is a dialect with an army and navy"
Anytime someone uses the term 'democratizes such and such' in the context of Valley startup I have to chuckle.

But honestly - isn't Stripe just a really clean and useful set of API's for transactions? I mean, a 'developer first' mentality towards payment systems?

All the power to them, I've used them and like them ...

But can anyone tell me why this is revolutionary/democratizing?
Exactly my thoughts. That’s where I landed for my site, and it’s really simple. Edit file, pandoc, scp to server, done.
How is offering a completely voluntary option to subject yourself to a more benign version of advertising than the standard, in order to fund the content you use, "wretched"?
This is something I see folks trip on. I think encode/decode are fine names actually. The problem it's that Unicode strings have decode defined at all, and similarly, that byte strings have encode defined. Byte strings should only have a decode operation and Unicode strings should only have an encode operation. Depending on your input, the wrong operations can actually succeed!
Business and the Cartesian Demon: How Not to Study Business
I purchased a full Windows 10 Pro license key and yet I am going to pirate the shit out of Windows.

I don't want Microsoft siphoning off data from my PC. I don't want Cortana. I don't want ANY FUCKING THING except for a system that is minimal and it works.

Why doesn't Microsoft make a developer friendly version NOT targeted for consumers (aka without all the bloat)!?

Edit from the other post:
Don’t forget the registry system, poor DPI scaling, UI piece patch going back to Windows XP (mouse pointer speed dialog box), BSOD if a third party hardware segfaults, fuck you Windows Explorer, everything freezes until network access time out has expired, control panel nightmare, Metro UI with giant lists(ever tried changing default program for say .chm file extension!?), why can’t I force quit without having to go to Task Manager?, etc.

Windows is a poorly made piece of software rotten from the core. If you look deeper, you discover the horror of how things work and fragments from Steve Ballmer days.

You can try to make an argument that it’s not rotten to the core, but no way in hell anyone would say “Windows is beautiful” in the way one says Unix is beautiful.
Two of the most boring parts of Minecraft, unfortunately. Both are something your average first year CS student could put together in a weekend or two.

If I can indulge in some self-promotion, I have written mountains of code which implements many of Minecraft's behaviors down to the last detail, which may be a more interesting candidate for study:

https://github.com/sircmpwn/truecraft

Seeing Balze3D open-sourced might end up being pretty cool, though.
They need to give you the choice on whether to update or not. If you choose not to they should just maybe give you a warning on every launch and leave it at that.
The code is being open-sourced as MIT-licensed libraries. The libraries mentioned in the article are Brigadier [0], a command parser and dispatcher, and Data Fixer Upper [1], which is used to migrate older chunk data to newer versions of Minecraft.

Apparently more libraries are in the pipeline to be open-sourced alone these two. One possibility is Blaze3D, which is a rewrite of the rendering engine that is planned on being included in Minecraft 1.14.

[0]: https://github.com/Mojang/brigadier
[1]: https://github.com/Mojang/DataFixerUpper
Well I’ve been waiting literally months for a laptop to complete its claim to be “installing” update 1709, and it never does.

The only feedback in the entire update process is a little spinning circle in a list of updates, which spins for hours on end without apparently doing anything until Windows suddenly out of the blue is “ready” to install and reboots. It will appear to get somewhere, reboot again, and somehow return to the desktop as if everything is OK, yet the update list claims that the update failed. Then it spins again.

I mean, even if it’s “good” that it doesn’t auto-install broken updates, it sure seems to be spending the absolute maximum amount of resources in terms of downloading data, consuming energy, wasting my time, etc. I suspect the size of the update is the factor they should most easily be able to control; patch something smaller and maybe it will actually finish. I don’t know, just seems like an utter mess to me.
You could make a public spectacle of incompatible, limited hardware or a file format. It could even raise awareness of bit rot among consumers. I’ve been surprised by the fragility and ephemerality of possessions and creations in the digital age.
"We" is also such a small fraction of humanity. The only country I know where cities were built around cars is the US.

I don't think most Americans - who grew up driving since age 16 - realize just how weird that is for most foreigners. I was surprised the first time I tried to walk into a strip mall and I had to walk 200 meters to find a pedestrian path. It was also weird walking around places like San Jose and Sacramento where you don't see people walking on the streets.
Hint: there is 3rd one
I think GP was referring to a software or service standard for the IoT device to interact with rather than a hardware standard.
He makes things, by himself, and sells them.

And even then he puts the vast bulk of that labor in the public sphere from which he, since he necessarily denies making them, owns no IP.

How can this behavior possibly be criticized as exploitive?
I wouldn't say I'm content with them. I want to improve them, and I suggested a method for doing so, which is force people to bear the true costs of their actions and use that revenue to build up alternatives like better bike lanes, bike only roads, better and farther reaching public transit, reduced congestion etc.

I think car-free zones are fine though, for the record. As I mentioned it just seems like you'd need a transitional period where you build up good alternatives. As an example, I ride BART daily, but I meet a lot of people who don't because they think it's dirty, smelly, and dangerous (in their perception). That has to be fixed before you ban cars entering San Francisco.
1,600 scientists rebuke Cern physicist over gender bias
Instead of open sourcing code, they should fix the Aquatic update. All Minecraft versions after 1.13 are literally unplayable for me (mid to high end gamer PC) due to freezes. Every 5 seconds, the game freezes for two seconds for me. Increasing RAM for the JVM was useless. After the update, the game needed more than 3GB of RAM when before it ran just fine on 1GB (I have 16GB of RAM so no problem there, but the game still freezes). I have never seen more broken updates except with Skype - which, now that I think about it, makes perfect sense, considering it's also from Microsoft.

Why would I use their game library when they ship such incredibly broken updates?
I'd say it's a dialect, not a language. It's more than an accent for sure, for starters scotland has a load of different accents not just one, as I'm sure many teuchters going to Glasgow have found out the hard way.

But I find it difficult to get to the idea that people "speak scots" in rural areas.

I've lived and worked in Scotland my entire life and in 40+ years, not once has someone start speaking in a language I didn't get in general conversation... not once, and I would not regard myself as multi-lingual.

There's local terms that are used for sure, "you ken"

But that's not a language, that's a variety of local dialects.
I think iOS is better. I only get asked to bypass the OS update every month or so and it takes less than three seconds to bypass.

They mover force an update but make you aware you're on an older version.
Do businesses even use windows 10? Every company I've been at has been windows 7, only one was windows 8.1 a couple of years ago.
What does this actually solve? If you are surreptitiously adding chips to a motherboard, you'd just do it between whatever steps are written to the blockchain.

Even if you can totally secure the factory, you can just redirect the parts in shipping. I think "insurmountably hard problem" is a fair description.
You and your company are separate entities. Many Germans incorporate abroad and it seems to work.

What you have to report to the authorities is your personal income drawn from foreign companies you own or work for.
I'm not a linguist, but Scots sounds less like a language than a creole (a mix of languages which span essential terms), or even a pidgin dialect (an incomplete mix, requiring phrases or a third language to replace missing concepts). The article doesn't say explicitly, but I imagine Scots varies geographically, with the mix reflecting contribution from local tongues (English, Gaelic, French, Pict, etc).
I really like the idea behind Brave.

However, I think a fundamental issue arises if you are going to pay people to see ads: What if someone forks Brave, and creates a browser which blocks all Brave ads, while pretending to click on them?

Neither of the two solutions I can think of are pleasant ones: you either need to somehow verify that that ads are viewed by a human (i.e. CAPTCHAs), or use DRM-like mechanisms to hide a token in Brave’s brinary, so that only “honest” browsers can get paid.
Probably my favorite author. The article and comments are dead-on: Kafka is humour. It's absurdist dead-pan humour. To 'get' Kafka, imagine it being read by a very stern and serious John Cleese.
You can keep your normal lufespan, thank you very much, I would personally go for double.
It broke my heart when Lagunitas sold to Heineken. Since then any purchase that would have been Lagunitas has gone to more Stone or Alpine.

The choice out there is amazing; easy to say goodbye to breweries like Lagunitas and Anchor for selling out to overseas companies.
And the third one has gotten much better in recent years
You might be interested in the work of the artist Eva Hesse. She experimented with materials like latex and fiberglass to create sculptures that were almost organic, with skeletons and skin. These materials are decomposing quickly, and while I couldn't find a source for this online, I believe she was intentionally using industrial processes that led to more rapid chemical breakdown. So her creations are (not so) slowly dying, and some are already unable to be displayed publicly, only 60 years after they were made. Perhaps some are only still around because museum curators are "paying attention." But if they can't be put on display anyway, what's the point of the life-support? And is it against Hesse's artistic intentions?

See http://blog.sevenponds.com/soulful-expressions/falling-into-...
There is something better by now, so why add it now?

I actually don't think this about other formats - for instance MP3 is 25 years old and I think it's just fine to support it. It's patent free and its quality limit is all you need for many applications.

This isn't true for VP8, our eyes are just harder to please. (And On2 was never the best codec developer…)
The craft beer market is simply oversupplied. In any of the larger liquor stores in the US, there is a bewildering choice of beers, most of which are simply undistinguishable.
Have you ever driven one? I’ve got a Model 3 and find it a bit different but not too bad at all. I love that I can click the camera button and get a huge HD rear camera view. “Its a nightmare for driving” sounds an awful lot like you’ve never seriously driven one.

I was leery of the speedometer being in the center and not behind the steering wheel, but it isn’t all that different from diving a Mini, where the speedometer is a giant dial in the center console.
I feel that Safari (mobile one) is way closer to the IE6 status with its ban of competition on platform, lack of standardised features and heavy handed management.

You can easily replace Chrome, it's not even a platform default. You're forbidden from replacing Safari.
> Are you prepared to travel to Tallinn and visit local banks in person to try convince one to open you a business account?

This can be deferred though. You can open an account with Transferwise or Holvi online and recieve payments/pay yourself a salary. You only need a bank account once you want to pay the share capital or withdraw dividends.

Also, if you use leapin.eu they get you a "pre-acceptance" from LHV bank _before_ you travel to Tallinn

> If you pay a dividend at the end of the year, it’s taxed as capital gains

Really ? I'm not in the EU but I would assume dividends would be taxed at regular income tax rate or a special dividend tax rate (and the company would pay corp tax). Only if you sell your shares in the company, the profit would be taxed as capital gains.
Apparently the rebrand of Windows as a Service started.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...
I wish i read this just 30mins before :(
Here are some recent (June 2018) slides about multicore OCaml that provide some extra information about effect handlers: http://kcsrk.info/slides/mcocaml_gallium.pdf
Not true. Compare these:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.listdir

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/os.html#os.listdir
Kavanaugh is Confirmed to Supreme Court - Secures 50 Votes in the Senate
https://www.businessinsider.com/brett-kavanaugh-confirmed-to-supreme-court-50-votes-2018-10
This is very true.

I created something like this for our database engine, ElevateDB, in 2011 or so. It divides up the bitmap space for a signed, 32-bit integer (our engines are embedded and have a limit of High(Int) on the number of rows) into nodes and, optionally, has a parallel array in each node for attaching object instances to each bit. Originally I just used them for representing sets of rows, but once you start using sparse bitmaps like this, you realize that you can use them for all sorts of things. Now I use them in buffer managers and many other areas. They're extremely efficient at locating a given row/tuple by its integer ID.
We Found a Way to Increase Voter Turnout in Texas, but Texas Isn’t Interested