skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Czech Republic they're center to left, definitely not free market/libertarian. They propose government control of many issues like for example shared economy or housing, banking etc.

At the same time yes, they propose to downsize the government and tax reduction, but not elimination. They also propose digitalization of government and reduction of bureaucracy, but they also want that as a base to build more control on.

Many specifics of the Czech Republic are at play here, since the party is no longer a minor one and at the same time is the only major "non traditional" one (no historical baggage including people - actually that's very important) that isn't Babiš (ANO, but everyone knows the party is him, basically - including people in the party who went public), it attracts the interest of many very different people ranging from left wing radicals to free market anarchists; people who weren't as "radical" (they're not radical at all but definitely more than other parties) rather joined ODS (right, major party), ČSSD (left, almost irrelevant) or TOP09 (center, now totally irrelevant).

Then the free market anarchists created their own party (Svobodní - "The Free Ones", never even became relevant except a very tiny little bit of relevance in the EU parliament) and the result is that Pirate party is more leftist. Sadly soon after conservatives have "attacked" (joined and changed the program) the party and made it conservative, and a lot of previously pro-free market people became conservative because of the immigration crisis and rapidly increasing EU influence that nobody here really likes, left or right (these same issues also gave rise to the fourth biggest party SPD, which is an openly racist pro-russian one, luckily they're largely irrelevant except for municipal politics in few places).
I think Markdown is a good argument for potentially being too simple. It's good for what it's meant for, but it stumbles for stuff like blog authoring.

I am somewhat happy with AsciiDoctor[0], although I honestly feel like AsciiDoctor goes farther in the other direction than it needs to and ends up overcomplicating itself. I spend more time reading the AsciiDoctor documentation than I want to.

Would you be willing to expand more on what you mean about a separation of concerns vs a simplicity of concerns? I was using the term in the sense that Markdown not only doesn't embed logic, it also doesn't embed style. It's literally just content, and you use other technologies to get at the other parts.

In contrast, LaTeX embeds logic, style, and content. When I work with Markdown I don't stop thinking about style -- I just use other tools for that. That separation allows me to then give other people content access without asking them to worry about CSS.

I guess I could see that it's a flat-out dropping of meta-programming from my document generation (although Markdown is a very easy compilation target for templates). But that just kind of gets back to my original point -- do you really need to meta-program blog posts and books, given that it greatly increases the complexity of LaTeX? Would it be better to have a simpler version of LaTeX that got rid of that functionality and said, "I'm just gonna do text layout really well, and nothing else"?

[0]: https://asciidoctor.org/
Hardly seems like the same thing -- the coach is a representative of the organization and communicated something (by whatever means) that they shouldn't have. The organization honored that commitment.

If the athlete turned up waving a _spoofed_ email and they let them in then that would be a more appropriate example.
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Tracking activity for particular keywords on Stack Overflow can be a useful way to track developer interest in a particular product, language, technology, or platform.

Also, how much difficulty they're having in getting something to work on that platform. SO is mostly about solving specific developer problems.
I have heard of video game companies experimenting with GANs for texture synthesis. I don’t see why you couldn’t also try to do some simple 3D modeling, although that may be a much harder problem.
Windows 10 UI is objectively bad on a lot of points like consistency, search from the Start menu, etc. At least up until Win8 you could switch to the classic theme to get something looking like 98’s UI. Now you have no choice but to suffer the big button dialogs made for tablet on any laptop / desktop without touchscreen.
FIXME is definitely a recognizable codetag, I'm glad to hear other people have found a similar use.
The real "moat" is more and better training data for commercially useful tasks.

You can write a lot of papers about Penn Treebank data but I can't imagine anything you do with Penn Treebank will be commercially useful.
> It is sort of like saying "because you are not sending encrypted emails, you are purposefully and negligently jeopardizing your privacy and information security."

Of course a court can say that. The phrase used to describe email is literally like a postcard. If you sent out HIPAA or FERPA protected information on a postcard, would you really expect not to pay a huge fine or go to prison?
> Almost everything I've seen from GitHub in the past year or two has been to help enterprise developers at big established companies.

Companies eventually go after companies willing to spend money, otherwise they don’t survive because consumers and startups are cheap and don’t want to spend money on such productivity tools and services.

That or they could’ve shoved ads down your throat, or bundle spyware in the archives people download.

As they say, damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Next time when you like a service that brings you value, pay for it (using the royal you here).
I'm in the same boat for memory. I've never had children though. Early 30s.

Old people might say it's just part of getting old. Perhaps there's something more to it than that. Plaque build-up of some sort, for example, in memory processing?
This been known for a long time, contributes to diabetes/insulin resistance of the brain. Humans not meant to live in the constant chronic stress that they do.
So we're going to no-true-scotsman our way out of this?

Nothing is binary; I'm not going to say "either leveling helps a game all the time or it doesn't". Sometimes leveling-up mechanics help a game, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it alienates one set of users and attracts another, and there's no magic formula for when it helps and when it doesn't, and the nature of the leveling-up mechanic itself and how fun that is can vary in effectiveness dramatically. It's like having the user's avatar wear a funny hat.
Everybody does open source now. IBM, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, you name it.

One way to look at is that code is no longer that interesting, data is more important.

Does any of those share their data under an open license?
Technology in schools always takes a lot of adjustment to enhance learning than make another distraction. Technology should be seen as just the medium, not the ends to education
This could be how the message was advertised by some but most people i met from the protestors understood googles plans were at least recently rather moderated. They all understood google was a symbolic target for a bigger problem.
But Windows XP, Vista and 7 _could_ look just like Windows 2000. Starting with Windows 8, that is no longer an option.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I thought every version of Windows since 2000 looked like garbage by default. The difference was that you used to be able to do something about it.
Win2K to this day remains my favorite Windows release. It was just so clean and practical. It had its frustrations (setting up a Win2K/WinXP/Win7 system from scratch was always a task and a half, with all the driver installs and updates involved) but once you got it set up it was great.

XP/7 aren’t bad but they definitely felt more gimmicky.
I use a food analogy when talking about tech consumption with my kids, so I'm fine with occasional junk food so long as they're keeping a well rounded diet and getting exercise. It takes some work to get there, but so far, so good.

We have a pretty standard schedule:

- Tech off at 6pm every night and during dinners

- After school till 6 is basically free for all time if they don't have other obligations, which I count as decompression from the day. They hang out with neighbors too.

- Weekends we allow tech, but only if it's educational programming or they're creating something (arts, crafts, stop motion, game programming), so it's a bit more strict.

YMMV, of course.
This is EXACTLY what Apple’s “Screen Time” is built for.
I'm a bit disappointed by the flippant replies. Mercurial is a very solid alternative VCS (Facebook uses it internally) and is friendlier (or at least has less gotchas) than git.
Occasionally I have the notion we exist in a holographic reality is incredulous...when I am presented with examples such as this, and reconsider.
There is an interesting tinge to this attack on screens, different seemingly than attacks on TV in the past, which is eliciting opinions from random people with 6 and 7 figure salaries about how to raise children.

Let's be real: writing a backend data pipeline doesn't teach you anything about how to raise a child. We all laugh when they talk about kale, or activating their almonds, but we're supposed to think random CEOs, VPs, and engineers became experts in developmental psychology simply by being in proximity to silicon valley.
By understanding the real world motivation you can reason about both the stated and unstated goals of the project.
I actually won a copy of Vista Ultimate from an online contest. I never had a reason to install it.
Does anyone miss or want type checking when working with Elixir? After working with Ruby to build large systems for so long, I'm missing a little bit of the safety that types provide. Typescript has been great.
All this could be done easily in C (function pointers, factorial for loop etc.). And sampling a function twice at 0.0001 dx's apart and calling it "doing calculus" is a stretch.

The author seems to be making the case that, contrary to his original skepticism, Lisp is indeed some magical higher-order language, but I honestly don't see it. Lisp's ratio of philosophizing to noteworthy projects seems to tend toward infinity.
Heard a great quote (gonna butcher it) - "What people say or what competition is doing at the end of the day does not matter - if the forces allow, it will allow".
Vatican releases its own 'Pokémon Go' app that lets you chase Jesus
> Emacs/mutt/libreoffice/python/kodi have not been adversarily tuned to fire off the reward centers of our brains

Indeed, some of those could desperately use a little polish to stop firing off the pain centers of our brains. :\
Heavy multitaskers have reduced... what now?

What does 'memory' mean? In this case it's "simple memory tasks" but that's not what these people have optimised themselves for so it's unsurprising that they'd perform worse at it.

"Leading triathletes do worse at 100m sprint" Oh no.
>3D printing up a robot smelter that collects iron from dust in the wind, and spits out I-beams that are a special Martian alloy that makes shipping them back to Earth via a railgun cost effective

Just picturing this is great, sounds like a winning proposal to me.
From Windows 8 it is no longer possible to disable the Desktop Window Manager, presumably they made too many UI changes to be able to continue supporting it, except for the Server Core mode in the Server releases. Trouble with Core is that it's basically 3.1 with no program manager or any capability of running additional Windows applications.
I have been bootstrapping for 4 years, it's getting harder. I know what to build and I'm a solo founder for a software network-security-related product.

I'm advised to hire contractors from elance.com and such and pay them to speed up the development, in the meantime someone mentioned the code will be difficult to maintain, or you can not really control the schedule, or the time you spent on managing the contractors will distract you from what you are doing badly...

Someone else suggested the VC route, which I have not tried, I'm essentially the only developer with 20+ years of network security experience and know what I am doing. However getting involved in VC is another huge distraction to say the least for me, plus all the negatives coming with it as others stated on the internet.

I don't really need VC's money for the status quo, I can afford a few overseas contractors(cheaper), I can self-sustain just fine for yet another two years. But it's slow and making me a bit exhausted. If I hire local engineers or contractors in US, I do need financial help from VC or somewhere else.

And, I tried to find partners, so far no success, in the end I'm fine with sole founder for the moment.

YC etc does not help as I can not go there for 6 months for family reasons. I live in Austin,TX.
Microsoft is pushing some invasive stuff in Windows 10 but they totally get away with it. I don't believe that the only way to stay in business is to play nice, at least not in the short term that managers can oversee and will base their decisions on.

SourceForge is from before my time. When Github was still small, I was still being brainwashed by school's free Windows and discount Office licenses and school educating us in using Microsoft Office. From my current point of view, though, SourceForge was never as big as Github is now. Almost every development company pulls code from Github, either in an automated fashion to pull in updates, or casually as they need random things that are published there. I don't think that was ever the case with SF.
Apple and Samsung fined for ‘deliberately slowing down old phones’
You can always attack science. If the statistics don't work in your favor, just claim replication crisis.
That's true. I perhaps should have put "allowing" in italics to emphasize it's the permission to use, not the actual use, that's unlimited.

No one worries about allowing 24/7 access to a microscope, because although "microscope addiction" is I suppose possible, it's so bloody unlikely that we don't worry about it.

I think certain computers are similar to the microscope in this respect (e.g., an apple ][ with nothing by apple basic).

Obviously, excessive screen time is always bad. The point is that if you can limit what's on the screen (e.g., an apple basic interpreter), people (even/especially children) will self-moderate their screen time, so you don't have to worry about moderating access to the screen (similar to the microscope).

Obviously, if my child starts spending 10 hours a day looking through a microscope, I'm going to intervene. Ditto for BASIC programming. But I don't feel the need to, a priori, restrict access. The odds of either of those things happening (esp. in a way that's not healthy/constructive/short-lived) is so low that I don't worry about it.
Timur Doumler on Twitter: “Just realised that the following is valid in C
The advantages of Elixir over Erlang, for me, mostly come down to the modules in its stdlib and package ecosystem.

If you don't enjoy writing Elixir, you could always just install Elixir, and then write Erlang that calls into Elixir-stdlib modules.

I believe you can even install Elixir packages into an Erlang rebar project, if you like. No need for Mix or anything.
I think the easiest heuristic is this: is the platform a delivery mechanism for advertising? If so, bad screen.
Wonderful 99 percent invisible (radioshow) on the subject

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-86-reversal-o...
"Top mathematicians were beaten by calculator AI that computes equations faster"
It's also not true that because only two outcomes are possible that the null hypothesis is a 50/50 split between them.
Taking Down Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from Iran
I recently stumbled on my original Hero's Quest 1 (non-vga) disks when digging thru a box... I forget who owned the trademark but they had to change the name of the game.. after it had been released :) Thief for life.
I should acknowledge it was more of a caveat than a correction to be honest. Concentrated livestock farming has on the face of things significant efficiency advantages which can make compelling points, yet the infrastructure and resources to maintain more intense systems is easily ignored.

Taste can often be regarded as ephemeral, while fast fattened livestock can be discerned to taste different and are considered inferior in most food celebrating cultures.

There is a possible health factor involved with grass fed (or mixed prairie for better) beef and dairy accumulating a markedly different spectrum of omega oils, which are debated inconclusively, but also formally studied and theorized to be superior for human consumption.

A focus on the strength of methane emissions seems increasingly common in discussions and magazine articles, while the long developed advice from the IPCC is that CO2 demands priority because methane clears naturally in a decade or so, and requires less action to avoid than CO2 output which takes much longer to clear.

My understanding of IPCCs focus on CO2, is that while methane reduction presents an opportunity to buy a few years time, the priority is to convince action on the hardest problem which has been created, is worsening rapidly and much harder to clear.
>How did you come up with that percentage? Have you ever played CS?

Ok, well tell us the percentage of CS players that play at the highest level?
haha I know what I'm doing this weekend.
Harry Edwards and His FRIDEN Calculator
Maybe something happened with xp too, but "windows 2000" was the departure to "NT kernel" land for desktops/home users AFAIK. (I guess xp was really 2000 with windows 95 heritage bling added).

Maybe they did try to force windows millenium on poor saps parallel to w2k - and didn't quit that racket until xp?
It means eating anything that feeds the good bacteria (commensal bacteria) in your gut: probiotics -> short chain fatty acids which is the fuel for these bacteria. That means fermentable fibers - vegetables, fruits, whole oats, mushrooms, barley.

It also means avoiding foods that feed the bad bacteria in your gut, which could lead to overgrowth of the bad and crowding out of the good bacteria. Refined sugar feeds bad bacteria.

In clinical terms, a healthy gut produces mucin, which is the lining or gut barrier, which promotes a healthy immune system (there are more immune cells in your gut than anywhere else in the body) and protects the rest of your body from endotoxin and inflammation.

There are lots of published studies and if you want to learn more, find a video online with Rhonda Patrick. She cites a bunch.
From Windows 8 it is no longer possible to disable the Desktop Window Manager, presumably they made too many UI changes to be able to continue supporting it

Hmm. Sounds sensible. But... shouldn't the kernel be backwards compatible? Like, take a Server Core and install the old Win7 user-land on it?
The price difference between a Tahoe and 4Runner or Ranger and Tacoma could probably put a new drive-train in the latter. Buying a Toyota (truck/suv, the used prices for the cars are reasonable) is still paying for maintenance, you're just paying up front instead of over time.
U.S. President Accuses Twitter of Political Bias
Original title: "Trump Accuses Twitter of Political Bias"
> I'd like you to actually cite those claims you've made

You're making a claim in face of evidence. YOU back it up.

Choose an urban area at random...
https://www.payscale.com/cost-of-living-calculator/Washingto...
https://www.payscale.com/cost-of-living-calculator/New-York-...

etc - Go wild.
It’s not like having someone come into your office at night if it’s a spoofed email. It’s just someone figuring out what your letterhead looks like.

Either way though the client owes the original payment. That’s not in dispute. Legal issues don’t work in some holistic “who do you think should have the money” way, there are specific causes of action.

The first thing a court would ask is does the client owe the money, and is the obligation satisfied. The first answer is yes the second one is no, the client never sent the supplier the money. Nobody claims they did. Period.

Then the client would have a cause of action for negligence, due to someone else spoofing their email. Who wins that one? I don’t know but you’d have to look for some precedent and claim that the supplier was actually the proximate cause for some third party defrauding you. Maybe but it’s a pretty tenuous argument and you’d have to demonstrate clear causality.
It can all be done on a Turing machine. It is a question of tools, and the cultures that build and use those tools, and the interactions between those two things.

Like others writing here and like the author of the post I, too, had my imagination fired by SICP and the culture it fits in. When I pick up a Learn to Program book and the examples are managing a used car dealer's inventory, I can only say "Thanks" to Abelson and Sussman. They turned me on to something exciting.
IMHO the flood of negative Tesla stories over the past few months has been an incredibly successful stock manipulation scheme. These people just got a huge payday when the Tesla earnings report dropped. It's up something like 75 points. Bloomburg is news for suckers.

Another factor is how quarterly earnings reports mean the investment media can't look past the end of their own nose. Obviously a company that is making a massive infrastructure investment to fill thousands of orders already on the books is going to have a cash shortfall in the short term, but it's a temporary problem and the long term prospects are quite rosy.

I mean these are the same people who every single day try to explain 1% upticks/downticks in stocks where the change is clearly below the noise floor. It's not being made for smart people.
Scientists Processed 109 Hours of Oral Sex to Develop an AI That Sucks Dick
I've noticed manual transmission cars are usually discounted relative to autos.
I like this idea a lot. How many reposts don't end up getting a comment like this because no one remembers the original submission? It would be interesting to see a history of every time an article was submitted.
There goes my HN anonymity! (Not a big deal, but if you can edit it out I prefer it, just in case...)

I have some follow up comments, I'll send you an email when I have time to write something detailed.
Stress is enough to severely diminish memory and many other things. When I was worried daily about my continued employment I suffered in many ways, poor memory included. My back was a wreck as well. PT said they see that all the time. Stress manifests itself throughout the body.

Lucky thing it comes back once the stress is alleviated!
Diablo was much more of a slot machine than Fortnite is imo. Neither come close to being as much of a slot machine as watching a baseball game as a fan. Or participating in fishing.
He's in space, probably shouldn't be called a roadster anymore. How about voidster, spacester, solster, starster.