skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be so tempted to write back something like, "You deserve to live free of that kind of anger. If my website makes you that upset, please stop looking at it. I suggest incinerating your computer and stapling your eyes shut to ensure that it never happens again. Life is too short for anything else."

That would probably only bait the troll into doing something worse, though.

I wonder if it would be helpful/cathartic to have a central repository of hate mail that everyone could share their "fan" letters to.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1633/
The mechanism OP posits, and which SPIEGEL actually mentions in their reporting, is that subjects would tend to ignore these stories because they either did not notice them due to the language barrier, or did not much care about them due to their unfamiliarity of SPIEGEL and its low importance for the US market.
Of the 50 /usr/bin/ python files on my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop, most are versioned in some way. None are called from "env".

37 /usr/bin/python3
4 /usr/bin/python3.5
4 /usr/bin/python
3 /usr/bin/python2.7
2 /usr/bin/python2

The 4 that aren't versioned are

speedtest, speedtest-cli, dh_python2, apt-offline

So two from ubuntu/debian, and two from a package
> In the past few years the vast majority of new development in ZFS has taken place
in DelphixOS and zfsonlinux (ZoL). Earlier this year Delphix announced
that they will be moving to ZoL https://www.delphix.com/blog/kickoff-future-eko-2018 This shift means that there will be little to no net new development of Illumos.

So, basically, Delphix was a (the only?) commercial user of Illumos and now they're abandoning it for Linux, which means Illumos will starve for manpower going forward?

It also sounds like FreeBSD also lacks the resources to maintain an implementation of something like ZFS, which is ironic since not too long ago it seemed like one of the marquee features they had that Linux didn't.
That's a good point, but what about a rating system that isn't directly user generated? Imagine that information on the number of times an article/content is viewed, and the length of time that content is viewed was used to generate a rating for that piece of content. There could probably be other indirect factors for "content weight" that could go into the rating.
I love thread like this where I can identify people's general age based on hardware they talk about. Ah daystar accelerator.
When there is a dialectic presented, resist the temptation to choose a polarity and look for the synthesis instead.
Why haven't the ecosystem of infrastructure companies lobbied and infiltrated government the way that defense companies have?
Do you happen to have a link to the reddit post or to your article?
Nowhere did I see you address the dNTPs.

Nucleic acid computation vs electronic computation is rather like SpaceX vs traditional rocketry, in that in traditional rocketry you have to build your entire infrastructure and medium from raw materials each time you want to do a new launch.

Adelman is right that process of oligo synthesis is energy cheap and amortizable, but he's not a chemist: the dNTPs themselves are not. A nucleotide triphosphate is not an easy molecule to make by virtue if their instability, and their usefulness derives from their instability.
I suppose my question should have been "what the hell is a broker", because I have never heard of such a practice! It's difficult for me to imagine what value such a middleman could conceivably add. Thank you for the explanation.
Sure. But that's not foundational. That's just a job.
But the compiler is the same, so you specify the dialect you expect to use rather than running a different binary. Although to be fair, at least one distro decided to start shipping gcc like gcc-X where X is the version, so you can have multiple GCC's installed. I'm not sure that was the best idea, but its what they did.
This is a crap response. I went to Shanghai about 3 summers ago right when Denver was finishing up the "A Line" train from Downtown to the Airport. This project cost over a billion dollars and the damn thing can't run smoothly or stay operational. Tons of issues. Meanwhile we took the Maglev train from the Pudong Airport to the Shanghai City Center. The Maglev cost $1.2 billion dollars [1]. The train can travel up to 270 MPH [1]; it takes about 15 minutes to get from the Airport to the city. The Denver train? 45 minutes, goes somewhere around 45 MPH for $1.1 billion dollars [2]. The train in China goes 6x faster then the Denver train.

So, tell me again how the Chinese infrastructure is not good?

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/go_east_young_man/2005/03...

[2] https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2016/05/31/otoole-takin...
Have you heard of JSON? [{"a": [{"b": "c"}]}]
I think US has used its military to armtwist other countires or wage a war when they don't agree to their terms. And so far it has given a great economic ROI for the corporations and top 1% at the cost of taxpayer money. System is working exactly as designed.
First, This is about RHEL 8 (Beta) not 7, 6, etc. Second `#!/usr/bin/python` is a different animal than `#!/usr/bin/env python`. One is hard coded. The other is `PATH` based so will change depending on current `PATH`.

On RHEL 7 (and earlier) `/usr/bin/python` must be the Python 2 the system shipped with or your break `yum` and other admin tools. When people try to install their own python by doing a `make install` as root, `yum` breaks and it's hard to recover the system.

What the article is saying is that RHEL 8 addresses this by having a platform python that the system tools use. So RHEL 8 tools will not use /usr/bin/python
One is easy to pin on a particular category of non-essential products (The world won't stop if non-smokers don't pick up vaping), the other (air pollution) is a communal externality of nearly every single productive activity that our society engages in (Because those activities involve either electricity or transportation, or both.)
Oh it went to private hands. Hands that owned stock in Halliburton, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin etc...
Oh interesting... I have tried both and had the opposite experience. A steak Sous-vide to rare and then finished on an ultra hot cast iron skillet with oil, butter, fresh herbs comes out better and more consistent than the reverse sear. How long are you leaving your steaks in the water? Are you putting oil, butter, or any aromatics into the sealed bag?
It is totally true that we have wasted trillions on wars we will never win at the expense of improving our infrastructure which is very clearly inadequate.

It is true that our education system (pre college) sucks.

It is true that we don't enable people who don't have money to succeed.

Most of what Jack Ma said was true. Do I think that the Chinese have all the answers, that the Chinese infrastructure projects are all value adding, that the US should behave like China, or that China should take a larger role in the world? No, but that has nothing to do with the truth value of Jack Ma's statements.
> Would love to get in touch with your friends!

my e-mail is in my profile. Drop me a line. I can ask them :-)
It depends on your competition and your chosen keywords.

For most niches, it makes sense to write around 6-15 long articles (>6000 words) and then a bunch of 500 word articles that lead to the big article - most of the time a guide (you're doing on-page SEO and target long tail keywords with those small articles).

But people like Brian from Backlinko also show other ways. Strategies like Backlinko's depend on the backlink structure (he writes about it here [1]). If you try to do it without caring about the backlink structure (you certainly should, too), the way I've described is the most economic (basically a hybrid solution).

[1]: https://backlinko.com/skyscraper-technique-2-0
OK, Jack Ma,
what if USA wasn't strong enough to be feared by others? What would we have? War. Pax Americana is probably a great investment, others might want to be thankful (up to a point) as peace has lifted all boats.

Plus, that $14 Trillion was invested in US companies, granted military leaning ones but still the money was put back in our economy. And USA sold and will sell a lot of weapons because of that R & D
Yeah, MailChimp .. people leaving them fast rates.
Here’s one: I used to work for a company that made social media compliance software for financial companies. Agents/brokers/salespeople had to connect their FB accounts and agree to have their PMs monitored so the compliance department their home companies could monitor what they said. This was so the companies wouldn’t fall afoul of FINRA/SEC/etc.

IIRC, we could see the agrnt’s half of the exchange only, and they were certainly informed of exactly what was going on. The software did other things, too, such as being able to post approved content on their behalf, but this was a core function. Their alternative was to not be able to use Facebook at all.
I hated it at first but came around over time, to the point where I haven't switched to the modules workflow yet.
Juul uses nicotine salts, where as standard vape juice is just freebase nicotine. The salts are said to be 'milder' or easier to consume.
In the US, vape juice comes in 0, 3 and 6mg/mL doses. Juul does not publish nic levels, but its probably closer to 48+mg/mL.
This is so true. I went to Shanghai about 3 summers ago right when Denver was finishing up the "A Line" train from Downtown to the Airport. This project cost over a billion dollars and the damn thing can't run smoothly or stay operational. Tons of issues. Meanwhile we took the Maglev train from the Pudong Airport to the Shanghai City Center. The Maglev cost $1.2 billion dollars [1]. The train can travel up to 270 MPH [1]; it takes about 15 minutes to get from the Airport to the city. The Denver train? 45 minutes, goes somewhere around 45 MPH for $1.1 billion dollars [2]. The train in China goes 6x faster then the Denver train.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/go_east_young_man/2005/03...

[2] https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2016/05/31/otoole-takin...
> In the meantime, the "Go way" is about following common conventions for working within the language's limitations.

Except the problem is that "the Go way" changes in a way that breaks your previously-"working within the language's limitations".

An example of this that comes to mind is how the Go 1.5 vendor/ change was done. The community had rallied around several tools that would do vendoring and then would modify GOPATH to include vendor/ and would then symlink the current project into vendor/. All this required was a vendor/src. The Go 1.5 vendor/ implementation was almost identical but they removed the src directory -- which meant that pre-1.5 vendoring was now broken by Go (you can't really have two copies of your vendor tree in a repo and symlinks wouldn't work either).

There are a few other examples of this, but this one sticks out as it was the first feeling I got that the Go development team doesn't really care how the community has decided to work around a language defect. It literally would have just taken them one additional directory to not break every vendor/ project.

(Also, there has been absolutely no discussion with distributions -- as far as I'm aware -- on how packaging Go binaries should be done so we're all forced to come up with our own ideas. The Go modules stuff has considerations -- like builds requiring an internet connection -- that distributions would've had input on, but we didn't get asked about it.)
May I enquire about this marinade? :-)
This is not how you get a successful blog.

Look at popular blogs, and when I say popular blogs I mean blogs where people keep on checking your posts, participate regularly in conversations, etc. They are all highly active.

On the other side, blogs that post rarely AND that are famous are very rare. People tend to forget about them. Note that a post that buzzes thanks to a link on HN or reddit doesn't make it a popular blog.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18712382
The "evil media conspiracy against poor misunderstood underdog Facebook" line seems to show up in every one of these threads. Have the "Definers" been directed to step back from the "Evil Soros" theories and go with this instead?
Obviouly to attract customers to your paid tiers, eventually.

People's gmail/youtube accounts are routinely closed without prior notice.
Not necessarily. It's a reasonable model, and claim, that there exists some optimal amount of military spending. It's also a reasonable claim (at the very least in retrospect) that the US would have done better had it used the trillions of dollars it spend between 2000-present on education/health/infrastructure over Iraq etc.
US military spending was at over 600 billion dollars in 2017. This is more than a third of worldwide military spending. It is also more than the combined spending of at least China, Saudi, Russia, India, the UK, France, and Japan.

See the wikipedia page on military expenditures for budget estimates and their sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
> I've run my own software company for ten years, a large
> chunk of which I was also remote working on a small island
> (off grid).

I'd like to know more about this. The island and how you setup your off-grid existence.
Charles Stross has posited that we've invented Artificial Intelligence with the advent of corporations.
How about we employ construction workers and engineers to build stuff that makes America truly "Great" again instead of this crap about lets build better bombs
Not really. The bulk of their US workforce is in NYC.
> Much of the defense spending has been largely a jobs program that employs thousands of people

More accurately, it's been a subsidy to the capitalists controlling particular corporations, with strategic distribution of jobs among Congressional districts as political cover (or hostages, depending on how you look at it.)
Both. I prefer using Bootstrap because I know the shortcuts, but if I need to duck down into some @media(max-width) I can. I also have a much better idea of the concept (it’s not just a lack of a fixed width; it’s changing font and element sizes and floats as you go up and down).
If you look past the clearly frustrated tone, what he says makes sense.

It's much more likely that Google was trying to improve their user experience by working around an IE bug, than deliberately harming their user experience for a PR article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
I think my hope, with the massive amount of SSN data that Equifax has, was that we'd see the SSN system being looked at to convert to something almost like a private/public key type of system where if someone obtains someone's SSN, another one can be generated pretty painlessly with the old revoked and can be linked back to the owner.

I know the primary issue is that the SSN wasn't intended for the use case it is used in, but we're at the point now that it is so probably best to protect it in a manner that protects the user/owner.
This is interesting. If you're not writing for anyone except yourself, then why post it online? Why not just use a journal or an audio diary?
If that is their projected revenue source, I think most of us would agree that SpaceX is over valued
Yes, it's fair to say that the expectation presented by the FAANGs are polluting the general expectations of users. You have to live up to a higher standard which often requires you to leverage their cloud offerings. This higher expectation isn't necessarily a bad thing on its face as a better user experience often helps your business succeed.

It would be wonderful if we taught people how to navigate the digital age. It would be similar to a driving course or personal finance. I know I had none of the above when I went through school, so I won't hold my breath, but I would support an initiative to provide more practical skills in school.
Mod, please add a (2017) date tag. This was not recent.
I was in Stuttgart in 2001 or so. If that's what a 1st world country looks like, I'm starting to worry about the US.
The Featured Article. (Alternative meanings of the F-word left to the reader's imagination.)
Do you call the situation in the Middle Ease peace? Not saying that it's the US's fault ...
Author here. That's fair if you feel that way.

What I would say, however is "rude" is attributing malice when there is a perfectly reasonable alternate explanation to a story.

That's really what I take umbrage with; our standards for truth should be higher than the insinuations of a MSFT intern with no clear evidence, and a total lack of the net community as a whole even to consider alternate possibilities.
From what I've heard, vaping can be dangerous because if it condensates into the lungs all chemicals used to get the fragrance can't be expelled anymore, so it's not that different from traditional cigs.

Luckily I quit smoking over 20 years ago and never ever considered trying ecigs. But still like the smell of burning tobacco, which is why since the day I quit I didn't have a single puff, not even to light one for a friend; after all those years I still like it.
What do you mean by 'finished' and 'solved'? You speak as if there is some sort of societal goal in mind here. You've clearly got an agenda here and I think you should make it clear that you've got a goal in mind here regarding whats 'right' and 'wrong' for other people to do with their time, lives, and money.

If people want to smoke, let them smoke. Is it bad for them? Yeah. Does it have a negative cost against society? Yeah. But its a slight cost that I'm willing to bear to uphold personal liberty and freedom of choice.

Overall, smoking rates are pretty low, and we're probably on the other side of the overall costs smoking writ-large will have on society. So its fine. If people still want to smoke, warn them of the negatives, then let them smoke.
certain widely eaten food plants contain small amounts of nicotine: tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, chili peppers, even some kinds of tea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Occurrence_and_biosyn...

so billions of people are consuming a little bit of nicotine all the time. OTOH, wikipedia notes a few adverse effects, especially for children and during pregnancy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Adverse_effects
What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi?
Mike Brown, Konstantin Batygin, and Surhud More just spent time at the Subaru telescope looking for Planet Nine. This thread summarizes their search and what they'll do if they don't find it: https://twitter.com/plutokiller/status/1071978898458464256
If you have a very well-defined problem and aren't doing much exploratory programming, Go works reasonably well for demanding math stuff. This describes a lot of cryptography work, and Go is a top-tier language for that. But for exploratory scientific and math programming, Go is pointlessly painful. Julia is a better option, and I would do Python Sage before I did Go, despite not loving Python.
$Trillions to employ thousands of people is a bad deal.
> In order to improve the experience
...
> yum install python results in a 404.

I'm not convinced the attention is focused on "the experience".

Returning 404 is hardly a user friendly experience, even if the linked blog post (and thus the solution) is trivially Googleable. Maybe an error/informational message with instructions to `yum install python3` or `yum install python2` could be displayed instead?
Great move. I recently experienced the whole Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Python 3.5 and 3.6 on my system and it is just plain messy.
Yeah, they can co-exist, but now I have 3 versions of Python. How many people didn't know better and have have tried removing 3.5 and completely broke their install and possibly ruined their weekend or evening.
It also sends a message. A proper / official way for distributions to deal with this situation is needed.
Not the author, but guessing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/33k8sp/gos_error_ha...

https://www.openmymind.net/Golangs-Error-Handling-Good-And-B...
AUDITOR: So that's how you store these visits... wait, why are the values next to the URLs so... strange?

ALICE: Column A is the URL. Column B is just a token we use to ensure it's a valid entry, and it's the default sort. As you can see, it's gibberish. No personally identifiable information.

JANE: We deriv...

[JAKE hits JANE with his elbow, discreetly]

JAKE: We derive great pleasure from helping people connect with each other, is what Jane's saying. And that's something we truly believe in.
Good idea for whom is what you should be asking. That money wasn't burned, it was sent to the bank accounts of major stockholders in Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Halliburton etc... Lets be very clear, there are people who benefited and still benefit greatly from US Military spending.
Sure, but what percentage of the US population do you think hero-worship him vs. what percentage hate his guts?

5/95?

1/99?
Presumably with RHEL being around for 18 years users would be able to run "yum search python", see the packages are versioned, and yum install the version they want. All sans blog article.

It's far from the first time in 18 years a package name has changed with a major version upgrade.
The fun part about the e-cigarette epidemic: states have a perverse incentive to keep cigarette smoking rates from dropping too quickly. The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement gave states an annuity from tobacco profits, and many states took a lump-sum payment instead. That money has already been spent. If cigarette smoking rates (and thus, profits) drop too much, they have to pay back the money.

Everything with e-cigarettes was fairly hunky-dory and not an 'epidemic' until 2014, the year teen smoking rates plummeted and e-cigarettes took off. Most of those teen smokers who took up vaping instead of cigarettes will likely never become cigarette smokers. This alters the math on the annuity payments that were already cashed in for up-front money, and thus the states could end up in the red on their bond payments. Thus they have a financial incentive to keep e-cigarettes from fully replacing combustible cigarettes, even if they are a definite harm reduction tool.
Google completely bricked their home hub, so on the bright side at least Logitech users can still use the damn thing.

This reinforces my belief that unless there's officially supported API/CLI access & the end user can control (should they opt to) the cadence of updates - you don't own the hardware.
I disagree with the whole notion of "learning" a programming language. It's studying, maybe trying out or learn how to do [something] with it. It's like a real language can't be learned, but only studied. "Last week I learned English?" "Really do you now know all of it?"
Not meant to be snarky, just a tad confused on what exactly you’re asking. Have you ever made an RPM yourself? Dependencies are specified there. Or are you asking about dependencies that don’t exist in standard RHEL repositories?
I had enough faith in MC's ability to keep their own backups that accidental data loss was a risk I was willing to accept. It never occurred to me that they would intentionally do something so counterproductive as shut off my account with no warning and no possibility of recovery (or so they said -- see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18717279).
This is true.

If you run your blog like a business, as in you have a real need for growth and to turn a profit, you will need to pump out content on a regular basis.
It looks like the librerouter.org ssl certificate expired 15 minutes ago.
> While things hsve improved greatly in recycling, there was a time in Germany where people were asked to diligently sort their waste, the recycling companies were caught simply incinerating or dumping to foreign garbage markets. It looked like it worked, people thought they were being good citizens to learn years later it was a scam of sorts.

That's not in the past; it still happens across Europe. A lot of "recycling" is actually just shifting carbon emissions from Europe to developing nations.