skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great list! For anyone who's interested in a few more recommendations:

* For my money, John Adams's best composition this century is El Niño (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2IUdBLVkOQ), though Doctor Atomic is also amazing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlUHKHLk_VU). The former is a nativity oratorio and the latter is an opera about Oppenheimer and the Manhatten Project. On the Transmigration of Souls (a 9/11 memorial piece) is also especially moving. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwoasXzLdVY)

* Revelation, by Michael Harrison. This piece uses just intonation rather than the more common equal temperament. In just intonation, the notes are tuned so that the fifth is "pure" --- i.e., the frequencies are in an exact 2:1 ratio. This causes the other intervals to sound slightly out of tune and gives the music a really otherworldly feel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4oKzSRs3sA (Michael Harrison, incidentally was a student of La Monte Young who revived just intonation and composed a 5-hour piano piece called The Well Tuned Piano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfWV4rNB6KE)

* Sleep, by Eric Whitacre. Now a classic choral composition. (Cloudburst is also great, but was composed in 1995 at the age of 21!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5gupbe9E0

* Orient & Occident by Arvo Pärt. Pärt has a lot of great works like Für Alina (which marked his departure from serialism), but most of them were composed in the 20th century, although he's still active! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMaIfNdqH8

* "...similarities between diverse things", by Joby Talbot (2002). For piano trio and vibraphone. The title comes from a mathematician friend of Talbot's who died at the age of 20 and used that phrase to describe why he found mathematics beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tawlg0RN4I

* The Veil of the Temple, by John Taverner. A magisterial work lasting 7 hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62pRsgwSYjs&list=PLga2eRXhIy...

* Chanson Eloignee, by Morten Lauridsen. A lot of Lauridsen's more famous works were composed in the late 20th century, but he is still active. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ajmn9m-C9Y

And there's a lot more that I'm missing. A couple of other favorites of mine that missed the 21st century by a few years:

* Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings by Michael Nyman (1994) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svf9yuouXww

* Danzón No. 2 by Arturo Marquez (1994). This piece is great fun and helped to bring Gustav Dudamel to fame after he conducted it with the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra on their world tour in 2007. (Dudamel is now the conductor of the LA Philharmonic.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXeWiixwEz4

* 24 Preludes for Piano by Lera Auerbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9u5wc2CkL8

Lots of great music out there!
As far as I'm aware buying stolen property isn't a strict liability crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal)
Dumb. Why would anybody in their right mind try to frame intellectual or academic argument around the word assault?

Assault does not imply force as the argument suggests. Assault is literally a physical violation upon a person. Statutory rape is sexual assault even if the victim(s) are completely willing participants who claim no offense or provocation.
yes!
they should fix up infrastructure and steer people to lesser visited sites
I agree somewhat; having had dinner with him once with our local Linux organization when he was in our part of the world over 20 years ago, I think I learned a lot in that short time.

What I came away with was that SOMEONE needs to hold the points of view that he holds, at least as far as they pertain to software development and licensing, since almost nobody else does.

Whether he presents as well as he could is a different matter. The recently reported on comments he has made could and will be perceived as quite distasteful.
I got 2 nice Aeron chairs for £100 from the Government agency in the UK I used to work for. They had tonnes of them.
No need to argue with me. I'm only explaining the original point, not making it myself :-)

But reviewing the thread I see you your question was in response to someone calling them "service providers" to Apple. So your question was entirely justified and it was me who'd lost context.
I've never believed that will never actually happen. For all of turkeys public relations efforts pushing their euro identify, European countries don't care for the Turks, don't identify with them culturally, and will never allow it. Erdogan doesn't help their cause either, obviously.
If there was no catastrophic population collapse, how do more butterflies in the wild help to reintroduce the species?

I'd think they'd eat all of the last of those plants and that's it.

And if it was catastrophic collapse it should be able to bounce back from the few remaining or from surrounding populations, no?
Video Pong for one or two players, build with discrete components
> He just sacrificed his job and legacy to defend the honor of a friend.

He resigned after claiming that a victim of child sex trafficking, was "a member of (the trafficker's) Harem" and "entirely willing".

Defending his dead friends honour might be to raise the question of whether it was in fact his friend who was involved. He essentially gave the "but she wanted it" defence, for a dead man, who is accused of raping a child whom he had "borrowed" from another dead man, who is also accused of raping children.

> What kind of person do you want leading the FSF, a mealy-mouthed politician?

Most people would probably just be happy with someone who doesn't say the following about prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia (and I quote):

> All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.
It is interesting how you presented communist slogan as a marxist.
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Isn't this a re-run of 'Dropbox is unnecessary when we have rsync'?
> It was also found in the 80s that any operating system written in LISP was dog slow.

Lisp Machine operating systems were written in the mid 70s - developed for a new breed of computers: single user workstations with graphical user interfaces.

They were developed at Xerox PARC and at the MIT AI Lab.

> They even started making dedicated hardware interpreters of LISP to try and get around this.

The machines were built to get around slow Lisp systems on time-shared computers with tiny memory. They wanted to have dedicated machines with memory exclusive memory for that one user.

A bunch of stuff was then invented for those systems, including better automatic memory management like generational garbage collectors.

Around 1980 (!) such machines were extremely expensive and still had tiny hardware: around 1 MB RAM and approaching 1 VAX MIPS of speed. Mid/end 80s they had 20 MB RAM and 5 MIPS...

No wonder: an entirely new class of systems was developed on the slow hardware of the time.
Xenakis and Stockhausen definitely count as contemporary classical.

It's actually about lineage. Contemporary classical sells itself on the basis that there's a direct academic - sometimes historical - link to Beethoven, who was the prototypical Genius Composer.

Which is why you usually get all the stock tropes - concert halls, serious audiences in seats listening very intently, serious clothes for the players, a serious conductor at the front, clapping at the end only, definitely no cheering or dancing - that also apply to traditional classical music concerts.

It's also about intellectual content. Pop doesn't usually try to justify itself intellectually. Contemporary classical does nothing but. Which is why it's a long series of "isms" of various kinds, all making more or less convincing claims about their own immense cultural importance.

You don't get points for writing interesting music, you get points for creating a new "ism" - preferably an "important" one - and then writing music around it.

The committed audience is actually tiny - five figures globally, if that - so "important" is debatable.

Even so - the idea that contemporary classical is "important", with the implication that other music isn't, is probably the key to the genre.
As Israel Votes, Donald Trump Proves He's the 'King of Israel'
Totally disagree re. SPA frameworks. Having mastered one of the popular ones, I've found I can now turn out fairly complex apps that I never could have contemplated building solo a few years ago.
I'd argue most of his admirers are just like him.
In an ideal world, a white-hat would write a script that uses all of the hacked data to apply for the settlement on behalf of the hacked users so that the affected users don't have to individually work out how to hack Equifax's claims process.
>>Minsky may not have been aware Giuffre had been coerced to have sex.

>How is this particular statement by Stallman insensitive?

It's insensitive to the fact that if you are a very old, famous man, who is taken by another old, rich man to a private island, where a seemingly willing 17-year-old girl offers sex -

- then the right thing to do is to politely decline the offer, because anyone with a half brain cell, a world-famous scientist more so, can figure out what that is about.

The statement is insensitive regardless of the allegations. It shows that RMS, alas, doesn't think that something that we today can't accept is wrong at all.

Does it make him unworthy of being the president of the FSF? I don't know; he has been right about the tech, I think. I just wish he abstained from commenting on social matters that don't have anything to do with FSF concerns.
It's funny how so many people try to split hairs regarding the exact wording, but even so: sleeping with an underage girl wouldn't have been fine, it would have been unethical, not to speak of illegal.

So RMS' defense of child abusers is stupid, harmful, malignant and yes, unethical.
The boundaries have always depended on who you are. Most of us aren't billionaires with the office of the president of one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, the services of the strongest military on the planet, and millions of admirers to shield us.

This extremely perverse situation tells us a good bit about a lot of our fellow citizens but nothing about what the rest of us can get away with nor the constraints placed upon us.

If I said something that was misconstrued sufficiently enough for thousands of people to hear about it and hate me even wrongly I wouldn't be giving up my position at MIT I would probably end up homeless until lack of Asthma medication caused me to suffocate.

Part of that not having billions of dollars to fall back on thing.
> We don't actually understand genetics at the level where we can say "this sequence will accomplish that effect, no bugs"

does this not ring alarm bells for anyone but me?
Happened to my mother after a hot bath. GP knew the score and so I took care of the for the few hours that it lasted. It was quite endearing in the end with her having no idea how she got to be where she was and every couple of minutes expressing her concern about and questions about it.
Perhaps all that says is that your mental models about how the world works are inaccurate.
The scope of and influence of nonprofits can't be measured in staff and budget.

Linux foundation and FSF have small staff and budget but the total economic value of the projects they steer is in tens of billions.
Most of this is an outright fabrication. Marry their cousin????
> Although Chris Seaton is no longer working on TruffleRuby

I’m still working with TruffleRuby, just at Shopify instead of Oracle.
IP addresses are definitely PII under GDPR.
> completely unpalatable to people outside the world of GNU

It's concerning to me that you don't think his defence of pedophilia (not even just theoretical now - an actual specific case with an actual victim) would make him unpalatable to any people outside the world of pedophiles.
No, but if you want to invest prior to the IPO you have to get what's called Accredited Investor Status by the SEC.

Once the stock has gone IPO anybody can trade.
You could switch, sure. But would you ? You would be losing :

- Message history

- Files that have been shared

- Integrations / bots / ...

- Plus you would need to setup everyone again, create channels, ...

Slack goal is to be cheap enough that it does not represent a major cost for the company and integrated enough that moving would be a pain.
Data Hygiene in the Attention Economy
phpbb forums went away ?
I'm still visit those on a regular basis.

some did close but the reason is facebook sucked people in its time consuming spiral of irrelevant noise.
CentOS 8.0 will be released 2019-09-24
See also https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8#head-516d5e6556bb85...
It still causes confusion, even on the committee. stdlib is non ambiguous, short, and easy to say.
You're essentially just describing what you're not saying, and "some sort of mistake" is much too generic for me. While I personally wouldn't feel much better about a friend having sex with someone a third their age even if that person is an adult, it's impossible to have sex with a minor by accident, unless they have fake ID. Not even asking for it means not caring, no ifs and buts.

"Human nature" is also too generic, the question was, how would you react. I answered that question, and have the former friends I showed the door to prove it. It's clearly within "human nature" to react like that, too.
> Geniuses in one field are not knowledgable in others.

What "knowledge" are you suggesting is required, that RMS does not posses, to understand that fucking kids is not OK?

Is this like when a sports "star" rapes someone, and then the team says they'll have "training". What does this training look like? "Lesson 1. DON'T RAPE PEOPLE. Class dismissed."
I can relate to a lot of this.
I was made redundant yesterday, and in the year that I had I was not effective at managing up or sideways, and many of my resources were allocated to other managers.

In fairness, I was not impressed with my manager. My role was new and he did fuck all to promote it, set objectives, give guidence or make sure there was something meaningful I could deliver. Other manager didn't know what my role was, and circumvented me often using their old relationships. When the restructure came I was easy pickings.
They dont need to be independent but they need to be jointly gaussian, but it is a very small edge case I guess
> it also has far less of an impact on his life or his goals than resigning from the FSF would

He did resign from the FSF as well.

https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns
> He missed the point that regardless of those details she was sexual assaulted. Further, he seems oblivious to the fact that splitting hairs defending his friend distracts from the real issue: that this isn't about any of them, it's about what happened to the victims. I think that take is fair enough but I agree making that case is bone headed. Not because he shouldn't speak his mind, but that it's just besides the point.

I don't know... to me it seems totally understandable (even somewhat admirable) that Stallman would stand up for a deceased friend/colleague and try to set the record straight.
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Curiosity and Data and Customer Segmentation = Goodies
"Huh, this billionaire bought me a child prostitute. Neat."

...I don't think it makes it any better.
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At least rant a little if you're going to compare text editors, you won't get any traffic with soul-less dull list posts.
So the lesson is: Don't selflessly give your work away for nothing out of idealism lest it improve the world in some fashion all out of proportion to the budget involved because, if you do, we shall surely expect your head on a pike at some point for some wholly unrelated personal gaff.

Rather than, you know, finding some humane, compassionate approach to dealing with the personal shortcomings of someone who has done so very much for the world.
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Loop back address, 127.0.0.1, is really a class A block, 127.0.0.0/8, that only uses 1 address
Clients are usually not hiring engineers. They have opinionns on management, on what should be done, on how you should work and in which conditions. They have opinions on you being remote or not, on how you should look like, on your mental health (cf. some pieces on whether people on the spectrum make better employees).

Most of these opinions are not grounded and you can not leverage the related tools to improve the work process.

How surprising is it that, given how few variables we are left with, these variables are heavily over-engineered?
I've seen people banned from official forums because they disagreed with design decisions. And several threads locked with messages like "oh yeah, haha, we don't really want you to talk about that" (https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/elm-0-19-released-what-has-... for instance)

And the github forum rules are a little "threatening" (https://github.com/elm/forum-rules/blob/master/README.md).
Pragmatically: So as to stave off comments such as the one you responded to.
I've made this point elsewhere, but it is Minsky's alleged behavior and Stallman did Minsky a large amount of harm by defending him as though it had definitely happened.

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20992876
Great! That's a very subjective opinion anyway.
Intellectually, the STL represents a significant set of innovations and a new way of designing reusable software, and it is an elegant jewel of design; the C++ standard library does not share those distinctions. If someone is having trouble with a software design problem in another programming language, it might be a useful suggestion to tell them to try doing it “the STL way,” but telling them to do it the “standard library way” would mean something quite different.

There's also the issue of credit. The STL is a work by Alexander Stepanov and Meng Lee. Conflating it with the C++ standard library of which it has become a part—or, worse, with a particular company's implementation thereof—has the distasteful flavor of plagiarism.
"The most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing,"

(Meaning not willing, emphasis on presented .. as)
How do you sleep at night knowing you are smearing other people with obvious falsehoods?
> "entirely willing"

As I understand it, he opined that she may have been coerced into acting as though she were willing. Which is substantially different from your version of it.
I'm sorry to hear! Could you email me more details to boris.borisov@remotemore.com so we can fix it faster?
You could check the list of packages depending on Rustler

https://hex.pm/packages?search=depends%3Arustler
> But he still keeps on with his values, at times at great personal cost.

Until it's too inconvenient. He's said previously that he doesn't own a mobile (cell) phone - but will use someone else's.

He's the tech equivalent of a fucking anti-vaxxer. Doesn't want to deal with the realities and compromises of having convenient communications, but happy to ride on someone else's compromise for his own benefit.

> I think of him as a sort of national treasure

A man who wants pedophilia, child porn, bestiality and necrophilia legalised, is "a national treasure"?

I don't even want to know what nation you think should treasure people like that.
My thought exactly. I was expecting good ol'LAMP or something along these lines. I think here "boring" means "has been released for more than a couple of years".
You don't need a patent to protect a design. There's trademark, copyright and design protections, not just patents.

So maybe Anker are uniquely incompetent in selecting suppliers. Not specifying in the contract with factories not to copy whatever widget they produce for Anker, not registering any of their designs. Yet aside from a) products within the same group ostensibly from different brands and b) same idea but clearly made by someone else, few other companies seem affected. They'll have a few products counterfeited. Not most. It's the sort of thing that might encourage you to be very careful on third, fourth and subsequent products.

I suppose it makes a case to avoid Anker and the identical copies, as clearly inept. Few other companies appear to be quite so afflicted. I'm not convinced it's the answer though. Outside the purely generic: white T shirts, tungsten light bulbs and such, you see very few precisely identical products.
If you visit the Balkans make sure to try it. There are many variations of the börek and all them are great.
I have credit monitoring but signed up for it from this settlement anyway. I doubt anyone will see anymore than a couple of bucks from this. It's a scam and they got away with it. That's what happens when your government cares more about corporate profits than people. None of the things here will do anything to change that short of pursuing your own case against them which will definitely cost more than $125, not to mention time and effort. The bad guys just won. As usual.
Seems like a perfect place for people who like to pretend to work.
You're not wrong about OP's confusion, but a quick note that uber recently reported quarterly revenue of ~3.1bn which means "tens of billions" annually is exaggerating a little.

Does uber count it's fees as revenue or does it count fees and the fares (which get passed back to the drivers) as revenue?

My opinionated take is that if uber wants to pretend that drivers are not employees and it's just a marketplace then they shouldn't be booking the fare as revenue, just their cut but I'm not an accountant and I don't make the rules.
This is a pretty interesting comment in hindsight:

" But I believe in judging each thing that a company does separately. So if a company is doing this thing, which is wrong and unjust, and this thing, which is helpful, I'd rather not add them up. If these two activities are separable in practice, in other words, if it's possible to look at each one, individually, and distinguish it from the other, if they're not tied up with each other, so much that that's a nonsensical thing to do, then I do that. Because that way, I can disapprove of whatever is bad and approve of whatever is good. That's more useful, just adding it up to get one total for a given company."

Treating people that way, and expecting to be treated that way, is part of the reason he's had to step down.
It's just that outside web programming, very few developers/programmers I know would refer to themselves as being able to program the "full stack", presumably meaning from the ISA level up to database programming, GUI and network programming etc etc. although there are plenty of people who can do all these.

Even the omission of the word "web" as you have pointed out, seems to have the smell of arrogance, as if web programming is all there is worth working on these days. But the web programming world, IMHO, is full of this kind of CV inflating jargon, lingo and buzzwords, whether it's "full stack", "Agile", "devops" etc.

Obviously, there is an element of old man "get off my lawn" that I am invoking. I am almost certainly projecting here, but it still grinds me the wrong way.
Richard Stallman Has Resigned as President of the Free Software Foundation
AKA has 'pointers' but not in a way that adds value.
That's interesting. This year, for the first time, I've been working with Rails. It wasn't my choice but I've really enjoyed it. A lot just makes sense and it's been so quick to get things from idea to code.
Honorary Whites
I was asked to scrape some prediction website millions of times every day. Instead of doing that, I reverse engineered their prediction curves from a few hundred data points and served the models myself. Not sure which one is more ethical. Scraping at scale or stealing the models using mathematics. But I know second one is cooler.
High-energy data centres not quite as clean and green as they seem