skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I like to merge at the first opportunity its comfortable to do so to save me the potential stress and hassle of having to force myself between two cars at the last minute. But I've also never felt any animosity for people who pass me while I'm chilling in my lane.
Yeah, and then we have to put pressure on MEPs again and again every time the bastards who can't be voted out of office try to push some new variant through, and the moment our attention slips and we let even one through they win. Permanently, since there's absolutely nothing MEPs can do to reverse this once it passes, unlike in an actual democracy.
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The second paragraph in my original post literally talks about vocabulary limitations exactly the same as you are describing.

Linguistic determinism doesn't seek to model language.
Doesn't most/all news on Bloomberg Terminal make it to the public sites, with some delay? The cost of the terminal includes expensive hardware, high quality support, multi-language API bindings, etc.

c.f. https://www.quora.com/What-is-so-special-about-the-Bloomberg...
Regarding your niche (2): what open source project do you have in mind?
New Zealand has some 'Merge like a zip' signs. I've not seen them in Australia but people do know the rule. They just don't follow it all the time.
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Unfortunately it's illegal under GDPR to run a web service without telling users how their data is used and getting them to confirm they understand. We hate it too, but we have no choice. In future as Matrix becomes more P2P (like Ricochet) then this will go away, unless you choose to store your data on someone else's server.

Most people are happy that we actually spent the time & effort to explain what happens to their data in Matrix (especially given it's unusual relative to a centralised service), and to do so in non-legalese. https://github.com/vector-im/policies/blob/master/docs/matri... is the doc in question fwiw.
> Professor Loeb [...] a project [...] that seeks to speed up our search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Never underestimate the ability of someone to make overly grand claims on the flimsiest of evidence if their grant money depends on it being in the news.
You really just don't have to think like this on the msft stack. I'm so glad I chose msft ASP 20 years ago, instead of php, or RoR or python, or node or any of the myriad other stacks that have come and gone since.
yeah, doing real empirical stuff is messy. but that's exactly why people should learn on real data, and not in a sandbox.
Votes are weak if there is no one or nothing of substance to vote for.
Well, then why not standardize them ?
Regarding Brexit, I got so fed up with all the media spin around it, that I set up a TVHeadend[1] server on my network, and started watching (rather listening to while I work) BBC Parliament live via a small window on my screen using VLC. Once you start hearing the de-facto source for news events, it's amazing how brazen the mass media are in the manipulation of how they reported those events to support their own agendas.

I've been doing this now for about 1 month, and although some of the coverage is mundane, most of it is quite interesting. It's also good as background 'noise' as I work from home, which can be too quiet at times.

For technical news, I follow HN, and a few other sources. I tend to cross reference the reporting and try to see through the manipulation.

Beyond technical and political news (both of which can affect me directly), I no longer have an interest in other more 'general' news. Sure, an earthquake in Indonesia may be newsworthy for example, but as it doesn't affect me directly, why waste my time with it?

We've all been conditioned to suck up all world news as if it is important - Most of it isn't, and only exists to fill airtime and/or sell adverts. Calculate how much time it takes for you to consume your daily news, and then ask yourself if that was time well spent. My guess is that it probably isn't.

Finally, depressing news sells, and good news doesn't. People want to feel that they have a better life than the sad people shown on the news. The same thing goes for Soap Operas, they trade on this effect to keep viewers. In fact the absolute reverse happens - over time, people get more depressed watching depressing news, than they would if they didn't. The effect is more pronounced in people who 'catch up' on the news just before bedtime.

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[1] https://tvheadend.org/
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"For example for police force, they cannot play too tough due to law restriction, then those really bad guys basically don't give a fuck, so it may not work. "

Isn't the point of Scharffs Method that you do not have to be tough? You can be friendly.
Neutral ... in general you are having a conversation - you are not pushing - and therefore the tough guys do not feel pushed and do not block and reveal information without realising it.
Governments are constructs created by people. You can’t circumvent them.
I personally have never seen more efficiency on the road than Manila. Merging is just on an entirely different level in the Philippines. I would recommend going of course (not just to observe their driving) but there is no shortage of YouTube videos of traffic/Driving in Manila.
> For the last 4-5 years, Hacker News has been pretty much my only source of any kind of news outside of the topics that I work with on a daily basis. This is true.

Why?

Hacker News is a content aggregator, no different than Reddit, Twitter or Facebook. The posters here are not unbiased, nor are they likely to be experts in every subject they comment on, unless it's about tech, and then only maybe.

I can understand preferring Hacker News for technical news, or to avoid mainstream news, but as a primary news source? I think you're letting HN's elitist cultural bias cloud your sense of objectivity if you think this one internet forum is a better a news provider than any other.
People who have issue with Git are just doing Git wrong.
They are the same that build a feature on one single big commit impacting lots of files. They forget to merge their hotfix back in dev branch, etc.

And Git punish those peoples, but your tool don't, how can i trust the code base ?
I'm afraid it's pretty random.
AFAICT that is not native:

> Sblack works exactly like a browser with small tweaks. We inject the dark mode style at the end of the Slack’s html, and that’s it

I bet it's just embedding a WebView, and the app is small because it uses the system's WebKit2
It's funny to think a lot of the « We are the 99% » are probably actually part of a class of people that are the 1%.
Tor is and has always been end-to-end encrypted. What do you mean?

It's not encrypted between the Ricochet process and the Tor process (which is a point for potential improvement), but if you don't trust your local machine you've already lost.
Microsoft also isn't your average developer that imports libraries from strangers.

Ever time I run an audit (which is monthly) I see at least a dozen conversations in NPM packages we use. Sure, some of them don't apply to our usage, and others can't really impact is, but occasionally there is one we should be concerned about.

We server admins can push buttons to upgrade, but that doesn't mean developer code will keep working.

Many developers live in this world were they think server admins will protect their app... But we're more likely to break things by forcing your neglected package upgrades
Git doesn’t scale.
I suspect you'd find you'd created a monster of gamification, and would end up with a KLF-style pile of burning money at the top of the league table.
Lock in is an economic concept, it’s not just about code but about “switching costs”. Ecosystem benefits, data gravity etc all come into play.

There are two kinds of lock-in: high cost because no competitor does as a good a job - this is good lock-in, and trying to avoid this just means you’re not building the thing optimally in the first place.

There is also high switching cost because of unique interface and implementation requirmenrs that don’t add any value over a more interopable standard. This is the kind that’s worth avoiding if you can.
You're entirely right. Defending against the encroaching of our rights and the freedoms afforded by the internet (or freedoms in general) requires constant vigilance. A one-time win doesn't matter - big interest groups continue to exist and continue to pour money intro ensuring their interests are disproportionately represented.

This is a losing battle for us. It's a gradual chipping away at our rights that will continue because it simply requires too much effort on the part of citizens.
.im domains need to be renewed 3 days before expiration. I had a bad habit of renewing my domains 1-2 days before the deadline. So I lost it. Lesson learned.

I decided to change the name to Volt and set up a redirect to volt.ws 1 month before expiration.

This should have been announced, yes.

AV were flagging the app because I compressed it with UPX, which I no longer do, and because it wasn't signed (it is now).

But in general yes, huge delays and not much communication from my part. That's not going to happen any more, I'll post a detailed blog about it.
You mean like in the US congress? Or the UK surveillance laws? Or the Australian security law that caused controversy recently?

> Permanently, since there's absolutely nothing MEPs can do to reverse this once it passes, unlike in an actual democracy.

So how's the reversal of the net neutrality decision working out in that democracy again?
I let my kids practice with hammers, nails and wood (tools / supplies) before I introduce building a piece of furniture (the educational end-goal). These models are the tools of the trade.

I agree with the sentiment that if work is messy, teaching should have messy as well. But not when you're starting out with new tools.
For people who prefer videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0I8OdK7Tk
But they don't have to use the same client? The web, iOS/macOS & Android SDKs are completely independent, and have different clients written on them. Riot may be the main one, but Seaglass (on the macOS SDK) has full E2E support, and there are loads of projects building on the matrix-js-sdk which inherit its E2E support. Meanwhile the nheko project has an independent from-scratch implementation of the E2E stack, Fractal is adding it too (thanks to funding from Purism), and even Pidgin has it (albeit read-only currently). (N.B. that the reddit post gets almost all of this wrong :|)

So yes: Moxie has a point that the more implementations you have, the more bugs and security holes you may have, and the slower the project can evolve. But for us, freedom to control your own data and conversations and provide an open network & platform to build on is more important.
For what it's worth, foreigners driving there may not be aware of the rule. I tried as hard as I could to be a conscientous, informed road user before my first trip to Europe (studied signs, rules of the road, etc.) but still got an angry motorcycle cop whacking my mirror in France because I thought emergency vehicles would pass on the shoulder and had moved over to allow this, not in this Rettungsgasse (or the French equivalent)
What facts made you come to the conclusion that her popularity and ratings are boosted "more for being a particular gender than for her ability"?

The specific claim that "she was pretty much forgotten outside of sci-fi readers for a long time" seems suspicious, considering she won a National Book Award in '73, was a finalist for a Pulizer in '97, and was declared a Library of Congress Living Legend in 2000. When was this period of forgetfulness?
Also, I would be glad if an insurance existed that was based on keeping certain metabolic/blood markers in a healthy range.
which translates to a decrease of 30-75-ish % of chance of death by cardiovascular/neurodegenerative/cancer.

an insurance like this would certainly cost less
The word 'attack' is probably the confusing bit here, and it's not essential. The point is, if you start to comment on someone personally, e.g. about their motivations, in the context of a disagreement, it's almost certain to provoke the other person further and lead to a negative spiral. To prevent HN from being taken over by ill feelings, we all need to have the discipline not to react that way, even when another commenter is wrong or provocative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
yup, the electron app sucks :) we are very very glad folks are writing native clients, and can't wait to kill it off. meanwhile we're working on its perf anyway, and if you look at the client redesign in the OP (riot.im/develop) you'll see it's actually getting better.
Slack does not have vendor lock-in [1], which implies significant cost and thus inability for most customers to switch to alternatives.

In case you didn't know, Oracle has lock-in over their customers because their platforms expose proprietary features not delivered by competitors, or because they have certifications demanded by law in certain industries.

The cost of switching from Slack to something else is insignificant and there's nothing that Slack can do to prevent competitors from emerging, short of burning cash to acquire them like they did with Hipchat.

Slack does not even target the market of Oracle, because big enterprises prefer and even require on-site solutions. I've worked with German companies threatening to fire employees if Skype or Slack were found on company owned computers.

Comparing Slack with Oracle is like comparing Snapchat with Microsoft Exchange.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in
Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation
It seems that the sugar mess with the creation of Tryptophan in microorganisms. We are unable to synthesize it, so we don't have this methabolic path. So far, so good. We could share our Tryptophan (from chocolate, milk, red meat, fish, eggs...) with the gut microbioma, solving the problem in part but:

1) It seems that tryptophan is related with control of inflamatory processes. I understand (but I could be wrong, is not my speciality) that therefore a healthy level of Tryptophan in gut protects us from developping crohn's disease and similar problems.

2) And as Tryptophan can be used to make serotonin and melatonin, It seems that badly stressed humans had yet low levels of Tryptophan. I'm hypothesizing that this sugar could be particularly harmful to them, even if is proven safe for non stressed people.

3) Tryptophan is needed for melatonin production.

4) And, low levels of tryptophan lead to obesity. Tryptophan triggers the "stop eating" satiety message, so stressed people typically eat continuously, and gain a lot of weight.
> Pijul is the only version control system based on a complete mathematical theory of patches. [1]

Can someone please provide a link to that theory?

[1] https://nest.pijul.com/

EDIT: This? https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3903
Of course I'm not suggesting that.

If you dive into "SJW" and "the communist movement" and whatnot, you're doing ideological battle, and that's what we don't want here—not because we could care less about political correctness, but because it's predictable and tedious. And it consistently leads to worse. There's no intellectual curiosity in that, so please don't post any more of it here.
Whereas I just this week finished ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ after my partner put it aside temporarily, so thought "why not?" as I was in between books, so entered into it with zero expectation and.. loved it.

Some truly wonderful writing — actually beautiful in points — and grand ideas and vision. Heart too, which is often missing in sci-fi.

Contrast that with the very-oft promoted and recommended “The Three Body Problem” which makes many an appearance in HN, which I started the other night which is — bluntly — awfully written. It has some wonderful ideas, which is what has kept me from putting it down, but I've been cringing at how poor the dialogue and exposition often is. It's borderline amateur. imho, obv.

If you like Atwood's worlds, you'll probably like Le Guin's. If you simply deride their encouragement as 'SJW', you're probably pushing your own agenda.
I can't wait for the day that we have AI that can tell whether the user really wants to know X.
The reason everyone knows who Homer was or who Sappho was is that there was a continuous line of people quoting them and being inspired by them, from Ancient Greece to today. There were probably Greek poets before homer that we just don’t know about and even if we did discover a pile of pre-Homeric Greek poetry, most people would never study it or learn about it.
Even if it were true, it is 30 minutes from Nice, from the Italian border and within an hour of some of the best beaches in the Mediterranean...
> it's cheaper to pay the cost of the migration when you know you want to migrate

Agreed, on principle and based on experience. This does require you have reasonable abstractions in place as otherwise you’ll end up refactoring before you can migrate. But that’s a good thing in any case.
I've found that Instagram use is growing amongst nearly all of my friend groups (including HN demo and non), while use of all other social apps is fading (not counting WhatsApp). For reference, mostly age 24-32 in the US and Western Europe.
maybe it's time to mark bubble-sort with a latin-cross (deprecated) too[1][2]

[1] https://users.cs.duke.edu/~ola/bubble/bubble.html

[2] also bubble sort is shapeist and efficiency-shaming :)
It shouldn't. At least if you've been reading any of the recent pieces on genetic testing from NYT, CBC, etc., or the various blogs that have picked up these and spun them either further, suggesting that such tests are snake oil and give misleading information. Short answer from the author (a genomicist) and agreed to by me (another genomicist), is that that the genotyping used is accurate and that the reports explain that they are only looking at major variants and that most traits are polygenic.
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At the rate you spend, if you're on live human support calls for a total of an hour a year, twitter might break even on you.

They'd rather lose your business, than lose money talking to you.
Again, all that doesn't change your life much. The difference in quality of like is nowhere close to the gap you bridge when you can stop trying to make a living and doing daily chores. You hit diminishing returns.

But being able to influence politics, the economy, and knowing personnally many people that can, is a huge difference in what life you can experience.
Why doesn’t Google make Gmail more like Inbox?
Hi Dragos, thanks for your feedback.
DybamoDB is on-roadmap
> DTrace was designed with maps-only for a reason.

You write this like you are implying that the DTrace designers somehow foresaw that spectre would be a thing and therefore array accesses would be a risk. This is obviously false. I’m sure there are reasonable reasons to not have arrays but predicting spectre 10 years before it was found is not one of them.
AWS, at least, didn't make any promises for updates for serverless Lambda that I can see in their docs.
One of the problems is, to my understanding, that many people do not really understand how the EU Commission and Parliament relate to each other.

As a result, they come up with theories about how things work with "undemocratic ways" and other such misunderstandings.

In short, the Parliament is voted directly, the formation of the Commission is done with a kind of proxy (national goverments are in the loop). There is a control loop between the Parliament and the Commission; the Parliament has to OK the new Commission and if the Commission goes haywire, the Parliament can pull the plug.

As for integration, now that Great Britain is finally removing itself from the EU, we can expect more tighter structures to emerge. One of these is the European army, which has been floating around on an idea level for a long time, only to be continuously torpedoed by Great Britain. With president Trump casting serious doubts over the future of NATO and the core premise of the entire defence alliance (the idea that everyone is in it together, i.e. attack against one is an attack against all), it is only logical that Europe formulates its own pan-European defence mechanisms.

For the EU, as one of the supernational geopolitical power players, it also makes sense to tighten the co-operation on other areas, too. One of these is security. Probably one of these will be economical, and so on.
I've been thinking that for 20 years, but it's still holding. Our system have an incredible resilience... or inertia.
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..which we don't have and no one, ever, has lived in.
Not reading news is like constantly taking painkillers. Yes you don't feel the pain but the problems remain.

Reading news more often than once a day is masochism.
There must be a pixel-per-inch ratio in this equation. A 14" monitor running at 640x480 will have around 57 ppi, while iPhone X has like 462 ppi.
> There's few times as good as now to contact your local MEP and voice your concerns about article 13.

Practical question: how do I do it?
The NFL takes over stadium operations during a superbowl. They bring in their own staff and they’re much more rigorous than normal event staff.

I wouldn’t play with national events like the superbowl. I think even minor mischief can bring you legal trouble for years.

With that said during normal events the employee entrance is usually easier to get into. At least one stadium I was at cared more about you when leaving than entering. They wanted to catch thives.
That’s an incredibly ignorant and misleading statement. It’s sort of like saying a database isn’t valuable because 99.999% of requests hit the cache, and not the disk.

Everything was built on Amazon and video is largely hosted on S3. Yes, there’s a large CDN in the mix too. That doesn’t take away from the achievement.
If you read news stories about the mueller investigation you can catch glimpses of this as people who have been interviewed tell reporters over and over again that it’s close to wrapping up.

I’m sure everytime everyone is interviewed the agent tells them they’re just wrapping up a few loose ends and they think the whole thing is a big misunderstanding.
And wait until they fit 12 parameters on 20 observations where each of the observations has as well a massive measurement error.
Your typical bootcamp course takes 8-10 weeks. It's (hopefully) a carefully crafted experience that will get people to a standard where they can be useful within a fairly constrained setup e.g. build crud apps with rails. Given that you're not going to be able to provide this and that even if they did have a bootcamp available they wouldn't be available for a couple of months your task sounds impossible. If switching jobs isn't an option you need to work on expectations and push for alternative resourcing options.
Obviously, because writing didn't exist at the time.
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That’s an unfortunate name collision everywhere.

I know three women, all over 30, who chose the name Isis, and a kid who was given it and goes by Tara now.
Disclaimer: it's my tweet that is linked in this story, and I submitted it. There's no news story as far as I know. Better links are appreciated.

Mandrill stopped delivering email at 04:51 UTC on the 4th of February. Nobody knows whether the received emails are lost, what the cause is, how soon any change will occur. It took Mandrill over 9 hours to acknowledge the issue.

They are posting the same message over and over, and have now been silent for over 9 hours.

Mandrill also recently got rid of their status page. A few months ago, their API has started returning nginx errors, and their status page looked like a Christmas tree; every reload would indicate different green/orange statuses. The certificate their MX servers uses is invalid (wrong domain), which prevents email delivery from compliant Danish email servers.