skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I don't understand what your argument is. Both articles you link to refer to large penalties imposed against government agencies for withholding the requested records, over a long period of time.

In your original comment [0], you suggested that employees feared of making innocent mistakes that would lead to open records lawsuits. None of the examples you've provided describe that situation. Instead, they involve agencies (and their lawyers) who have decided to refuse a request and fight it out in the courts. What does that have to do with being a danger to employees who handle these requests?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18267039
the best and strongest one ofc
I agree. This was a nice technical exercise/demo, but did not offer any notable usability improvements over other window managers.
I remember this coming out my first year of college and taking the boot disk for a spin.

At the time it was pretty cutting edge and the demos made it seem very polished and useful. In actuality the live version was rough round the edges, fonts and rendering looked soft. It was definitely a proof of concept and didn't really have much breadth beyond the few use cases presented in the video above.

That said yes, it was very cool but even back in 2006 I and my classmates were questioning quite what you'd do with such a product. It seemed like a solution in search of a problem.

Also OS X 10.4 Tiger was when Apple's Mac platform became very solid indeed and started making inroads in academia and enterprise. Most of our professors for example switched from Linux to Mac around then.

I think Looking Glass failed then not just due to legal pressure from Apple but competitive pressure too. I also doubt Sun - which if memory serves had financial issues and was suffering diminishing sales of their SPARC platform - had the clout or will to invest in this particular project.
The CoC has been used in Linux by an Intel-hired transsexual movement to make character assassinations of developers who were not too keen on implementing Intel backdoors.

Those who oppose? Get called transphobic and targeted with made-up rape allegations.

Further reading:

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112
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Maybe try to meet people in non-professional contexts - I met my girlfriend via a language learning group, for example.

We were already friends before she knew what I did and certainly very good friends before she had any idea of my salary.

That said I'm not 'noveau-rich' just well-paid for my age and area.
From my reading of the article, the pension contributions were already being made in this case (it wasn't clear to me if it was directly made by the teachers or the state). Your concern is a valid one, but I didn't see the state repurposing the pension contributions for something else in this case.
WebRTC is Ready. Now What? (a look at the state of WebRTC in 2019)
While you where downvoted that’s likely somewhat true. VC’s have strong incentives to invest all their money even if it means the fund only breaks even vs turns a small profit.

In turn that drives up many costs like salaries and rent for the startup ecosystem. So, less money likely results in fewer but stronger startups.

The issue is the best returns are for more risky bets that may not be funded in such an environment.
Vue CLI 3.0 plugin for creating apps using Atomic Design and Storybook
First time I heard of 'home building kits'. I don't think they are popular here in Europe (Belgium at least?) but the idea is quite neat.

Then again, I don't consider myself handy enough to take on such a project anyway :)
Great! I can't wait for another project adopting an Islamic CoC (not to be enforced!), and read the comments.
"Communications involving the project directly" is a good goal, but is ambiguous when e.g. one developer is belittling another in a semi-related forum like their personal Twitter account where they regularly have technical conversations, their HN account, etc. If (hypothetically) Linus were to be nice and polite on LKML, and reply to tweets about bugs saying "Yes, that's a bug, the developer should be retroactively aborted," I think we'd still not have solved the problem of people not wanting to contribute because they don't want to subject themselves to that.

I do agree on the other hand that digging up 30-year-old Usenet posts would tend to just get everyone in trouble and a code-of-conduct process should ignore them, or at most provide ample opportunity to distance oneself from those statements and then go with what's said today.

My preferred solution is to make sure the party handling the code of conduct process is someone who seems level-headed and likely to use their judgment well. It means you move away from codified rules, but it also means rules can't be gamed. For Linux the enforcement body is the Technical Advisory Board, which I think is a little weird precisely because it's a technical body and not necessarily a good-at-people one, but we can see how it goes. For small projects the enforcement body is typically the project founder, and if you don't think the founder will handle things reasonably, no code of conduct can make them trustworthy.
I don't think it will put an end to this as many people are simply too afraid to refuse (heck, even Linus gave in!), but if other projects react in a similar way, it will be a breath of fresh air and make it more difficult to enforce SoC for all open source projects.
Here's a quick comparison to C++.

Julia relies heavily on type inference, similar to all variables to be marked auto or auto& by default in C++.

Functions are templated on the argument types by default, in C++ terms. So if you call a function f(x) first with an integer and then with a floating point number, Julia will generate separate machine code optimized for each case. Annotating function arguments with types only serves as a filter for whether the function applies to certain types, and can be used for method overloading (function template specialization in C++). The fact that functions are generic by default lends itself well to forward-mode automatic differentiation using method overloading.

Julia is still a dynamic language though. This means that if a variable is bound to an integer in one branch of an if-statement while a string is assigned to it in another branch depending on the value (not type) of a function input, then the variable's type cannot be inferred and needs to be 'boxed', i.e. the runtime type needs to be stored along with the data. In such cases, function dispatch can no longer be done at compile time, and needs to be done dynamically instead. While this is useful for rapid prototyping, it does result in reduced performance, so it should be avoided in code with high performance requirements. The type elision part of this is somewhat similar to boost::any.
Well you also shall not commit adultery so marry them first.
Google+ Migration – Part I: Takeout
I would like to extend this point: "I'd rather have Linus Torvalds telling me I'm an idiot and my code is shit, than ... releasing kernel with my shitty code and EVERYONE thinking that I'm an idiot".
I'm not sure the criticism at UBeam (especially at the CEO) is all that fair. Shouldn't we be encouraging moon-shoots that look impossible? Isn't that the point of VC funds? I'd rather see 100 UBeams than one more social media network or adtech company getting funding.

VCs tend to invest in the team over the tech. In this case you have a young woman leading the team, which (sadly) looks great for your portfolio and makes it easier to raise the capital needed to make progress on tough engineering issues. Despite what she says, she isn't an engineer so she's not solving the hard problem. Actually she did quite a good job to raise 30m USD on basically nothing, it's not really her fault the physics doesn't work out.

The problem is that they haven't built up any useful IP here to pivot with, it's fine if they said hey we failed at wireless charging at 10 feet, but we made 50% gains in improved efficiency of Qi chargers and we're going to still build the next gen of wireless chargers. But they haven't managed that.
He's only heir apparent, and that's because his father (and people believe MBS was involved) removed Muhammad bin Nayef.

There doesn't have to be a coup against the entire family to change the line of succession.
Jesus, how come such things can be patentable?
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The most dangerous founders are those that believe their own bs and that peddle an idea that would be so nice if it were true. Investors tend to push each other out of the way for opportunities to invest in such companies and lose all capability for rational thought.
How immature. If you disagree with having a code of conduct, then not having one seems preferable to making it an insult to those asking for one.
A tool to automatically detect if a research paper has been verified or refuted
Yeah ideally those APIs are well scoped enough to be able to unit test them, but I agree there's some piece missing there.
> Some elements of the Code are unobjectionable; sexual advances, for
instance, have no place on the lkml (though they may at, say, a conference, and not everyone can reliably predict whether they are unwelcome)'

I feel like one of the neat things about a code of conduct is it provides cleanly defined answers for people who are genuinely unsure whether sexual advances are welcome at professional conferences.
How insane is it that "management looting the fund" is a legit concern?
Hadn't consider that, thank you! I will definitely take a look.
> very up-to-date and informative

Is that satire? It said 2-hour ETA 5 hours ago and the last update was over two hours ago.
Yeah but their recovery estimates were completely off. Pulls, hooks, checks and issues still are unusable
Aren't those icons from BeOS?
I built an acoustic guitar a couple of years ago. The wood I chose for the fretboard was Gidgee. Boy, by the time I had shaped and sanded the radius and hand cut the fret slots in, my (desk bound software developer) arms were non functional to the extent I couldn’t even hold my phone up to my ears to make a call!

It was only after the fact that the head luthier told me that Gidgee was one of the hardest woods around, and that sanding the radius into the wood was akin to sanding set concrete.
The author of that article's problems with 7zip can be summed up and dismissed like so:

1. 7zip has had security flaws - so does every other software that interacts with untrusted data, and the author admits himself that 7zip's author has responded quickly (it doesn't seem like 7zip has an abnormally high amount of exploits)

2. People are using/redistributing old versions of 7zip which are vulnerable - and that's 7zip's fault how? 7zip's own website has an easy to use and up to date installer, go after the people hosting the shitty mirrors

3. 7zip doesn't use ASLR - the author of the article literally gives the reason for this: shrinking the binary size (he then tries to pretend like this is some gaping security flaw)

4. 7zip doesn't use DEP on 32 bit windows prior to win10 - do people seriously even use 32 bit windows nowadays? (also, this is as dumb of a "flaw" as not having ASLR)

Fun fact: the article's author recommends you use the OS's built in tools (aka windows explorer), so I guess I'll just have to pretend that any tar/rar/etc files don't exist
There's physically impossible and there's "impossible".
Show HN: GenBrowser – Direct message passing to/from/between clients and servers
I'd argue the exact opposite.

A conventional high-performance car will struggle with its lacking acceleration and narrow optimal rev-range. Every shift is a performance penalty, and the transmission itself is inefficient. It's only really acceptable for straight-line 0-400, where the shift range is only gone through once, and even then it's often too much, with people preferring two-speed transmissions for drag. For a real race, it becomes extremely wasteful.

The only benefit of a conventional setup is the ability to handle extreme top-speeds that direct-drive will have difficulty with. However, in most races you're quite far from 400km/h, making this benefit useless. Instead, you constantly need immediate acceleration and power from variable speeds, which an ICE with transmission will always struggle with.

While this particular car is not that impressive performance-wise, it's tuned for racing, not top-speed. An purely electric racer will run circles around it, with their only downside being tendencies to battery overheating for certain races. On that note, see VW's recent pike's peak record: https://electrek.co/2018/06/21/vw-all-electric-race-car-fast....
Upvoted for the reference. If only we had a copy of the Second Book of Poetics...
A lot of very relevant comments at the top of that discussion
I think think there are two separable sets of problems that both important, but can fixed independently of the other:

1) The lack of responsible stewardship in overseeing the pensions and how they were invested.

2) Under-contribution to these funds.

Follow-up:

I think the best way to deal with 1) is to do something like the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, which is "jointly sponsored by the Government of Ontario and the Ontario Teachers' Federation" [0] . You can still have greed ruining things, but at least the administration of the plan is totally dominated by a sometimes adversarial entity i.e. the state government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Teachers%27_Pension_Pl...
"Don't be a dick", in modern parlance.
It is so satisfying to look at. They got animations exactly right. I'm not sure I want full 3D applications (or notes on the back of windows), but the hint of 3D space for window management seems just right.

This is not difficult to do with today's technology. Maybe a similar WM will come along again.
Poe's Law in action.
Your mind is shrouded by your zealous emotion that you are handicapped in your perception.

> What exactly is so confusing ...

I can see you how you don't understand; unfortunately, you are having trouble understand the other way.

> Frankly when people ...I'm often convinced it's not actually out of genuine confusion ...

It doesn't take you a few sentences away to getting close to name-calling. It is very difficult to listen at this stage.

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> it's not even clear how hard you actually tried.

You are putting me in the wrong camp. I love Perl and I have been using Perl for over 10 years. I am not confused. Perl is Perl5; Perl6 is an experiment that hasn't succeeded yet, And Perl6 is irrelevant to Perl5 from a language point of view (although, not vice versa).

I have students that I want to show Perl to. They, being young and natural, will not put their heart to Perl 5 if Perl 6 is out there -- different alright, but Perl 6 surely is newer and must be the future, right? Then they find the state that Perl 6 is slower than Perl 5 and obviously less mature, so they wait -- by moving on.

I have colleagues and old admins who are looking back but all their current thought are: Perl is dead, how is Perl 6 doing.

> People in the Perl community have admitted for a very long time that there were many mistakes ...

Acknowledged mistakes that have no action/effort of correcting them are not admitted. Sunk-boat fallacy is just a n excuse for not admitting mistakes.
I'm trying to add a new user to my organisation (Monday morning, new joiners...!) and despite getting confirmations I purchased another seat, I cannot invite them. Or when I do, those seats are gone, guess it's down to which data store I'm hitting on each request.
I got down voted last time I mentioned this like it is some sort of conspiracy and not historical fact, but Microsoft literally used the phrase "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" [1] as a strategy to defeat competition. So anytime you hear of them embracing something you would do well to be skeptical of their motives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
https://vimeo.com/239238204

Video shows physical material tests and simulated structural tests. What else would you suggest?
Once my current computer dies I'm done with lenovo for a while. Admittedly I got a mid range computer (yoga 2 pro) not a Thinkpad, but I don't think that excuses the fact that screws simply fall out of the bottom of the machine. Screws which require a nonstandard screwdriver of course. That being said, it is still kicking at almost 4 years, but it has been sent in for repair twice. I'm contemplating my next laptop as a relatively disposable Chromebook running arch.
I remember this. It has cool visuals, but I remember thinking something along the lines of this is the window manager that would be developed if you went and got some devs from the demo scene and said, build a window manager. Looks great, I really would not like to use it in real life.
> Meritocracy is meaningless without an utility function.

I'm not sure what you mean in the context of Free Software/Open Source. FOSS is something that is useful to everybody, and meritocracy ensures that the folks who are the most knowledgeable decide how it's developed.
I haven't read the source quotes, but I would argue that a pure meritocracy does not organically establish and maintain itself. Humans don't behave like perfect robots, we're messy. We have cognitive biases, sometimes we act irrationally, we like to form tribes and in-groups and out-groups. We trust some people and distrust others, and that can affect our judgement both consciously and subconsciously. Without rules and governance, there is nothing to enforce a consistent meritocratic system.
Preventing infections that may be caused by the abortion pills
Did IBM make the x220? I thought Lenovo produced that model (I have a Lenovo x201).
Colloquially in the US pension fund == defined benefit plan managed by your employer. A public pension would be managed by the government for governmental employees & a private pension would be managed by a private company for its employees.

Defined benefit pensions largely only exist in the public sector in the US because they are phenomenally expensive. The reason public employees don’t want to switch is that these are huge perks.
I don't think they had ever really intended it for widespread use. Sun had already jumped on the GNOME bandwagon back in around 2000, given that CDE was extremely dated looking by then.
Well, a Christ is mentioned in 4 different rules. I feel like it's probably jesus
I see an update 7 minutes ago.

>12:56 British Summer Time

>The majority of restore processes have completed. We anticipate all data stores will be fully consistent within the next hour.
> It's incredibly sad to me that we've abandoned that for the sake of "thinner"

I suspect they don't want to let customers add memory or storage space down the line, especially from a third party hardware vendor- they want that memory and storage money for themselves. And if your laptop breaks, they don't want you to attempt to repair it- they want you to just buy a new one.
Putting aside the 'leavers' who were basically misled, and at worst can be judged ignorant, there's a huge number of 'stayers' who are extremely worried about what's coming. Enjoying the reality strikes me as extremely unproductive and extremely lacking in empathy. Surely there are better things to be gleeful about?
This.

In Europe each country (with an Amazon presence ofc) has its own website, each with its own stock and sellers. Buying from the US website is often a no-go, because of the shipping times and the customs fees, and also buying from other european countries is often bad as you forego free shipping and returns.

But anyway thank you for your product, it's already pretty useful for brand products. :)
So-called 'sharia finance' isn't more ethical, not that there anything unethical with charging interests.

What they do is a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid calling what you pay for a loan 'interest'.
Some suggestions:
- Try finding a sport you can perform together with others. For me this was climbing/bouldering - if you have a climbing hall near you, I can highly recommend this.

- Try building a social "net" that will catch you on the days you feel down and motivate you to keep on doing your activities. This helps me immensly, especially with exercising or sports.

- Think about getting a dog (or another pet). A dog will always motivate you to go outside and be there for you when you dont feel too good. If you are into pets, that is!

- Patients with "normal" depression are often told to reduce their sleeping hours to 5.5 - 6.5 per day. You should however consult a doctor before integrating this into your schedule. Consulting a doctor on this topic might be a good idea anyway. (In Germany, health insurance covers this - so I do not know if this is applicable to you.)

- Get some warm and weather-proof clothing (Thermo-pants, long underwear, fleece or softshell jacket). This makes going outside (and subsequently going anywhere) much more bearable.

- Think about "light therapy". Getting enough light in the morning can change your motivation for the day greatly.

Regardless of aforemnetioned ideas, I'd recommend on taking this issue to a psychiatrist. They are certainly more qualified to give advice than I am - and can, contrary to popular belief help you in more ways than just getting you medicated.
Well classic stuff like xterm and vim work great; it's the new stuff like browsers (or maybe the js heavy pages they run) that are flaky.
The title and article are using reglion as a context when it's not. As a consumer I am not converting to Sharia finance, I have just found a product which meets my requirements.

The index fund I am invested in turns out to be mainly high tech stocks with a low fee, just because it has 'Islamic' in the fund name doesn't mean I'm a convert to the religious philosophy.
It seems to be a perennial point of confusion, but as far as I can make out from googling, it's not strictly true that lasers follow the inverse square law. Why is the parent being downvoted?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.optics/P-8VmDlY4...
That’s the Microsoft line, but it’s bullshit. The company squandered like 5 years on the Windows 8 disaster, which was a failure based 100% on Microsoft pushing forward with a bad strategy. There’s still a PC on every desk, and some helpless saps are scrambling to upgrade from Windows 7 in 2018.

Nobody, anywhere is or was pining for high tempo Windows changes. What I’m seeing is that more and more institutional customers are looking at mobile, Chrome and other offerings.
Be not a grumbler

Edit: in all seriousness (in accordance with The Rule), I think open mockery from a serious project is extrodinarily important
There’s no reason government employees should get taxpayer guaranteed annuities. If the government employee unions want annuities upon retirement, they should be purchased from insurance companies. That way taxpayers can be certain there were no shenanigans in underfunding or mispricing or malinvesting. It would also create more transparency in how much people should be paid in government vs non government jobs.

It would also make government budgets a lot easier to understand and harder to fool taxpayers.
It's going to be interesting to see where this goes. Techies have been up in arms about Google and China, Microsoft and the military. What about the Saudis and murder?
That's a universal argument against having any morals. I wholly reject your apparent position. It is simply venal, wholly convenient for your own self-enrichment, damn the consequences - it's pretty much evil personified. You're a cog in a machine that runs on human suffering, and you're actively denying your culpability.

Yes indeed, we only find out where our line is when we consider problems in isolation. But just because you can only find out where the line is by poking out some other line and finding out where the two cross over, is no excuse not to define a line. It is absolutely not right.