skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried WSL briefly and discovered that the overhead of forking processes is annoyingly high, just like when I'd used cygwin in the past. (Maybe I should have expected that, but...) Try doing something like:

time for i in $(seq 1 100); do /bin/pwd; done | wc

Compare on Linux (or even Mac OS) vs WSL. I was disappointed.
A platform for collaborative story writing. Any feedbacks/comments?
The problem is that you can't arrive at such a thing by ordinary exploratory coding without a strong conceptual framework guiding what you're doing.
CygnusEd on the Amiga.
I really loved the incredible machine[1] Apparently there was a version released in 2011.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_(series...
In the history of Lisp, the paper by Richard Gabriel: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WIB.html, “Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big” is insightful and beautifully written.

I am surprised it is not mentioned in the article wrt the “winter period” in which Lisp popularity waned.
This Bridge Turns into a Tunnel and Connects Denmark and Sweden
Queue management, albums as first-class, actually useful social/discovery features—so much good. RIP Rdio.
I agree, strong barriers between layers are important. Right now the best way to build them is by using different languages or runtimes - it’s hard to mix layers if they require explicit network or shell calls.

If everything was in lisp the layers are naturally blurred.
Here's a somewhat search-related idea I've thought would be useful (almost wanted to build it myself): searching for political news with different viewpoints.

For example, if I search "Trump ate a banana", then I get articles on that event from Democratic, Republican, and other points of view - possibly tagged as such. I've always felt that it's tough nowadays to get a clear view on things because it's easy to fall into an echo chamber and only see articles that a certain group supports.
If you don’t foresee a downround risk and huge pressure to grow as part of a high valuation raise, you’re way out of your depth. My impression is that SoftBank is very effective at hedging entire markets and using (gullible? desperate?) founders as a stalking horse to push stronger competitors that they’ve also invested in. I think it’s a solid investment strategy when you’re placing a lot of capital.
I am not anti-blockchain, there are applications where it makes sense. But 90% of the time when I hear about a blockchain related application its a regular application which just so happens to use the blockchain as storage because its a buzzword.

It feels like the world suddenly discovered the hammer, and now we think everything is a nail
You could always contact Vogel direct:

http://petervogelinstruments.com.au/contact/

or if you like the synthesiser, you could buy (part of) the company:

http://petervogelinstruments.com.au/invest/

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Edit: The website is also spruiking a $50 app which appears to be based on the original CMI source?
I'm trying to eventually move to just a laptop with an eGPU as both my work and game machine. I'd love to ditch Windows for Linux now that Valve's Proton is a thing. However I've spent too much money on Propellerhead's Reason and its Rack Extensions to easily give it up. Bitwig and Ardour are of course 1st class choices for a digital audio workstation on Linux, but I just found out that VSTs are OS specific as well.

No matter what I end up doing, I'll miss texting from my computer through iMessage.
Brazil vs. Argentina – World Friendly 2018 – Telegraph
Thanks for this. I'll check it out.
Much good luck tomorrow.
>People are happy where they’re at right now.

Are they though?
Harvard Researcher Fabricated Results Since 2001
Even if there are a few number of offenders, there’s a system that supports those offenders/distrusts those who reports incidents.

Otherwise, how would you explain why this happens? Logically, the women to whom something happened would say something. But statistics show that most don’t, or that most only communicate to close friends, despite stats from the original article.

So we know that incidents are rampant. We also know that most men don’t know this, as represented by the surprise at this article as evidenced in this thread.

We can only deduce that there is an emergent dynamic that actively discourages women from speaking up and encourages/allows these offenders to continue. This might look like bias by men that men are blind to. This might look like messages that discourage women. It’s only logical that men wouldn’t be able to see this and that men would have huge blind spots around sexual harassment issues.

(And of course, this is what women have been saying continuously — if only men would listen.)
Two weeks is the questionable speed record in my family. From 'hm, why do I almost black out when I sneeze or cough' to funeral.
I do that too. I don't need to be up to date on everything, for what? I don't need all this useless stuff screaming at me all day
Good SW engineering practice helps. Code review, collaborative design, etc.
Beautiful video of a beautiful country. But people seem to be quite in a hurry as you can see at 0:19 https://youtu.be/BRsswQkf3Es?t=19
Am I the only one who is worried when he said:

“When you're so early with a powerful technology, sometimes you have to self-regulate.”
Stop merging if you need to cherry-pick https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180709-00/?p=...
I have a Pebble 2 HR and two OG Pebbles. The app store and most functionality is still active through http://rebble.io

If you want a Pebble, definitely get one. I wear the HR daily, and will wear it until one of us dies.
Caffeine - http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/

Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Right-click (or ⌘-click) the icon to show the menu.
In 1538, the chief minister Thomas Cromwell pursued an extensive campaign against what was termed "idolatry" by the followers of the old religion, culminating in September with the dismantling of the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury. As a consequence, the king was excommunicated by Pope Paul III on 17 December of the same year.[84] In 1540, Henry sanctioned the complete destruction of shrines to saints. In 1542, England's remaining monasteries were all dissolved, and their property transferred to the Crown. Abbots and priors lost their seats in the House of Lords; only archbishops and bishops remained. Consequently, the Lords Spiritual—as members of the clergy with seats in the House of Lords were known—were for the first time outnumbered by the Lords Temporal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England#Shrines_...
Macromedia Flash.

Not the browser plugin, but the authoring tool to make animations easy.
Merges is the stupidest thing there ever is in the land of source control. Contrary to the author I struggle to find even a single use that would make merge merited.

My main point is that merges are not easily computable. comm3 = merge(comm1, comm2) is not a kind of function you can run and see for yourself. Instead it is a kind of hand wavy magic in which we declare that those two apples plus a lemon equals three mangoes. You throw the beauty of hash tree out of the window like an overdue christmas tree.
It's Jekyll [1] powered static site, here is the source code: https://github.com/sinclairtarget/sinclairtarget.github.io

[1] https://jekyllrb.com/
The downhill slide started when The Weather Company bought it in 2012. TWC’s site was useless for all the ads at the time and that’s largely what pushed me to search and find Weather Underground. After the acquisition they plastered Weather Underground in ads as well. IBM hasn’t helped them, but they didn’t make them much worse either.
Loomo Robots Delivering Lunch to Your Desk in China
RaptorJIT is good for writing applications like Snabb. Snabb is a networking framework that’s very low level: cycle-counting loops, device drivers, DMA, etc, in Lua. In this domain of high performance software networking the advantages of supporting other architectures don’t currently outweigh the costs.

That’s why it’s a low-level system programming language that prioritizes working very well on x86-64 over supporting other platforms like 32-bit heap, MIPS, Xbox, no FPU, etc. Just got bigger fish to fry right now.
The race is on toward the first 2,000-pound pumpkin in Canada
Think about how much collective time that would be multiplied amongst the millions of users. Huge!

So maybe Google did the world a favour by binning Reader.

I used Feedly for a while, but I pretty much abandoned my RSS fix after the demise of Reader.
A good sales manager in a busy new car dealership will make 140K a year. A general sales manager is at 165K. A General manager could be over 200K... these folks typically have a HS diploma in their pocket.
They have experienced unrelenting growth for over 30 years and counting. Greatly improving their lives along the way. They are in a better place than ever before. Of course they are happy. More than anything, Chinese are pragmatic. will that continue into the future as the population ages? Remains to be seen.
The general public had no conception of any of these things.
I have a ton of widgets on my Android home screen which are exactly that. Google at-a-glance, music player, calendar, stock screener, photos, it's awesome.
Facebook needs to be regulated or the US will become the next China. Once the other tech companies see that they can censor political views they disagree with, they will and the US will have what China has without even the state mandating it.
Friedrich Hehr: German Executioner
I believe GP's point is that you won't even make the first version of the software good if you aren't allowed to iterate on prototypes, with feedback from actual end-users.
youtube-dl[1] always seems to work for me. Can't help with ads, though premium has been great for me.

[1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/
One thing I really wanted, but never picked up was a Little Printer from BERG. [1]

The only thing holding me back was the use of thermal paper, but the overall concept is excellent for us compulsive list makers.

My dream is to find a narrow impact printer (2" wide) that I can print to via network or USB.

[1] https://vimeo.com/32796535
It would be nice to have some kind of Google-Photos-alike without the Google part. E.g. I can host on my own NAS.
Well... it would be but that's not what we do. In part because people know that one day they too will pass and they hope people will remember them kindly and forgive them their trespasses. Think of it as a 'pay it forward' mechanism.

"Nothing but good about the dead".
It's not that, they're just not explaining the reasons.

For example, women control a majority of assets in large part because they statistically live longer than men. This makes them a higher percentage of the population in general, but a much higher percentage of the population of retirees with retirement savings. And they do most consumer spending because they're typically the ones who do the shopping for the family, even if on average half or more of the money is from the husband. The numbers are largely accurate.

Though it's not clear how many 80 year old widows are inclined to invest their nest egg in a startup.
I was so sad when I found out that they've pulled the plug on that project. Too late to export data, so I lost all my data.
surrender of the commons to the private wishes of the powerful.
> then it got broken

Got broken? I think of it more as having failed to obtain/coordinate the resources needed to progress.

What it means to have a healthy language ecosystem has advanced. 1970's Prolog implementations couldn't standardize on a way to read files. 1980's CommonLisp did, but had no community repo. 1990's Perl did, but few languages then had a good test suite, and they were commercial and $$$$. Later languages did, but <insert-your-favorite-thing-that-we-still-suck-at>.

And it's not easy for a language to move on. Prolog was still struggling with creating a standard library decades later. CommonLisp and Python had decade-long struggles to create community repos. A story goes that node.js wasn't planning on a community repo, until someone said "don't be python".

The magnitude of software engineering resources has so massively ramped, that old-time progress looks like sleep or death. Every phone now has a UI layout constraint system. We knew it was the right thing, craved it, for years... while the occasional person had it as an intermittent hobby project. That was just the scale of things. Open source barely existed. "Will open source survive"? was a completely unresolved question. Commercial was a much bigger piece of a much smaller pie, but that wasn't sufficient to drive the ecosystem.

The Haskell implementation of Perl 6 failed because the community couldn't manage to fund the one critical person. It was circa 2005, and the social infrastructure needed to fund someone simply wasn't the practiced thing it is now.

And we're still bad at all this. The javascript community, for all it's massive size, never managed to pick up the prototype-based programming skills of self and smalltalk. The... never mind.

It's the usual civilization bootstrap sad tale. Society, government, markets, and our profession, are miserably poor at allocating resources and coordinating effort. So societally-critical tech ends up on the multi-decade glacial-creep hobby-project-and-graduate-student installment plan. Add in pervasively dysfunctional incentives, and... it becomes amazing that we're making such wonderful progress... even if is so very wretchedly slow and poor compared to what it might be.

So did CL get broken? Or mostly just got left behind? Or is that a kind of broken?
That's still opt-in because the user elects to submit their telemetry data, even though they didn't seek out the setting.
Try the Red language.
Squaresoft, the company that made Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Xenogears. After merging with Enix, their games just lost that magical touch they had.

Firefly TV series.

Comme des Garcons Kyoto perfume.

And, of course, I second the MacBook '14-15 revival! Touchbar begone!
$5.77 from the UK, I wonder if it's a regional variation.
I cannot believe this is happening in todays China. Even if the gov doesnt like the christianity how is it significant that they cant just ignore it?
As a Chinese consumer I desperately need a viable alternative to Baidu. A consored Google would do so much good by bringing proper competition to the market.

I know censorship sucks. But peole concerned about it should fight it by means that minimze harm to users. Stronger encryption, tools that bypass the great firewall, standards and protocols against censorship and dictator influence, these would be a lot more meaningful than bashing a single company and a single product.

All companies that do business in China contribute to censorship and oppression indirectly by paying tax. The point have always been and should be makig sure these businesses bring a net benefit to the people.
I recently went camping in mountains that I hadn't camped in for 15-20 years or so, and I remember constantly dealing with yellowjackets and bees all sorts of other fauna. I think I saw one yellowjacket the entire trip, and we had food out like crazy.

Plus, whereas I was used to waking up to the sounds of birds and animals, our campsite was completely silent. There was one hawk in the distance all morning.

It was strange.
What's the alternative? Only work on master and only on one document at a time?
The ability to quickly spin up a "radio broadcast" in Grooveshark for friends was amazing. With a small group of five friends we set up a Friday DJ rotation where one person would queue songs all day and the others listen in. All the "broadcasts" got saved as playlists, which you could "favourite" from your own account and go back to whenever you wanted. People could make requests when they had a "next track" that would segue well with what you were already playing. It was really fun!

I have never had a period of more high quality music discovery and I sorely miss those playlists, many of which featured obscure/rare/live tracks that simply aren't available in today's music services.
HP 200 LX
I feel like Google and Mozilla are acting too lenient here. In my opinion it doesn't matter if you wait 1 month or 2 years to remove support for old TLS versions, affected parties probably won't notice or act until it happens. On the other hand I understand that Google and Mozilla are very careful about user's experiences and their market share.
With HTML and minimal CSS?
Where are you shopping? That's 4.99euros, the price at Amazon .es and .fr, even though it's $3.03USD in USA
I've always been pointed towards Whitesides[0] for this, but found the advice overly specific for chemistry.

[0]: https://intra.ece.ucr.edu/~rlake/Whitesides_writing_res_pape...

EDIT: reading @adtac's reference, it also recommends "Writing Technical Articles"[1] as an additional reference (the URL in the paper is not copy-pasteable because of a unicode tilde)

[1]: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/etc/writing-style.html
There’s a full chapter about Ensemble in this book:

https://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/547367445/-blood-sweat-and-pi...

...which I coincidentally listened to via Audible today. There’s a lot more to the story than, “...shut them down... for insufficient profits.” They wanted to branch out from the RTS genre, prototyped a bunch of different ideas, but didn’t really get far enough (or enough traction with MSFT, which wrote their checks) to ship them. Microsoft was wary of them launching new IP, so tasked them with making Halo Wars, which was an RTS for consoles. This was a drastically different undertaking than RTS-for-PCs due to controllers (instead of keyboards + mice), and they all got burned out working on it after many years. Microsoft shut them down after Halo Wars shipped.
It seems like it's just limited on desktop? After dragging a certain amount on a desktop, I can't pull the swing back any further.
The Romans ignored, ridiculed and fought Christianity and then they converted to it.
The "best" use of blockchain type technology I have seen is the NIST randomness beacon, though I can't think of many applications other than a lottery or where you need to formally prove you used random numbers to pick something.

[0]: https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nist-randomness-beaco...
[1]: https://beacon.nist.gov/home
OP may very well be referring to California. There are some districts where concealed carry permits are "may issue" -- issued at the discretion of an authority like a sheriff -- as opposed to "shall issue" -- mandatory issuing if you meet the legal obligations / restrictions. In practice, this results in celebrities and the well-connected getting permits, and "nobody" citizens with clean records and legitimate personal safety concerns being denied permits.
The Sears catalogue was radical in the era of Jim Crow
I don't think safety issues are preventing anything here. You don't have to iterate on live systems or real patients. You can test and develop on mockups and simulated scenarios taken straight from real life. But you need to be able to get regular feedback from actual end-users.
The Saudis don't require a means to recycle - launder - their money. Nearly the entire world will accept their money, no questions asked.

Saudi Arabia's only serious pressing concern economically, is building a non-oil-based, sustainable economy before the oil growth era stagnates or reverses course. They have rapid population growth (50% in 15 years), the clock is ticking against their ability to sustain a future with 50 or 60 million people.

It's not enough to just replace oil in the equation as it is today for their economy, they have to figure out how to do it for twice as many people. They need to figure out how to build out a $1.5 trillion non-oil economy within 30 or 40 years.
This is a fantastic perspective, one that I hadn’t thought about as clearly as you’ve laid out.
Yep. For example see what they have done to the peaceful Falun Dafa practitioners after they showed up in large numbers. This almost makes me think of mind viruses duking it out using expendable hosts - and studying it epidemiologically.
I don't see the issue with this, they clearly warn you not to modify the WSL filesystem from Windows because you'll break it: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-n...

They advertise it as being useful for development work, and it perfectly fulfills that purpose for me
Jeez I haven’t heard that name in forever, completely forgot about it.
I personally find function keys useless (I’m mostly in Vim and map things to leader + mnemonic key sequences), so the Touch Bar tends to offer more value for things like media control. It really boils down to personal use, rather than a fundamentally flawed design.
I recommend http://inoreader.com/ - I'm not affiliated with it in any way, however I am a very happy user of it.
I love Artemis, it's not even remotely in the same genre. Artemis is a bridge simulator, which is neat and super fun, but so much smaller in scope.
This legitimizes the form factor, which is what is attractive, IMO. It’s the modern pocket watch and every pair of pants has had a spot for it since the 19th century. Talk about a stealth wearable entry.

Personally, I’m getting sick of lugging around a oversized slab in my back pocket and as much as I like my watch, I find myself taking it off or leaving it on the charger more than I thought I would. Having something with a slightly larger screen would hit that UX sweet spot and kill two birds with one stone.

And as far as form factors go, the CC size is pretty much universal. Just think of all the places a small screen like that could go.

How about a folding display or larger battery for a hotspot? Seems inevitable. If you’re questioning building one of these things, there’s plenty of supporting evidence that the idea fits the MAYA principle.
God you're bringing up my own personal PTSD. I also had a problem one time in production where my certificate code wouldn't work, and it was live, and everyone was freaking out.

Anything with security, encryption, passwords, certificates is extra hard, because a lot of times the error messages are just too cryptic (ha!) to get to the root cause. They are trying to not give away anything if possible, which can make even the most trivial errors hard to spot.
McMaster-Carr is probably a little bit close to the embodiment of something like that
Chalmath only started talking this way once investors and employees fled his fund.
You're praising innovation blindly. Not all innovation is good, and many supposed innovators are crocks. I understand blockchains enough to where I could build one of my own (note that I say blockchain, and not cryptocurrency) and I really don't see much use for this particular datastructure outside certain niche applications.

What are these truly innovative uses for a nested chain of data blobs whose contents include a hash of the previous link?
WSL is very, very slow. Be warned.
55 minutes later, back down to 3.03. Irony, thoust hastest met thin ematch:),
and Byte magazine.
Ah, I see, sorry for the confusion. I've always personally used terms like re-encode because the end product is still a digital encoding.

I suppose a lot of people in the music world would prefer to call it bouncing. I think all these terms are valid.