skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be helpful to install VM with some Linux if you haven't done so. I'm not sure what the config issue was because I don't know much about Common Lisp, but I wouldn't doubt the issue was something irt to Windows if that is the environment you are using. You'll also discover that many items you want to use in your projects may not be available on Windows at all, and with Linux, you just do an install command and it just works.

I want to clarify that the reason things aren't available on Windows isn't because of some belief system from the Open Source community: it is because deploying for Windows is really tough.

As far as I know, it doesn't matter what distro you use. I went ahead and installed Arch Linux and I love it.
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Emacs 24.3 Introduces Native OSX Full-screen Support
front end, no. It changes too much.
Back end, maybe. Only for the core logic that (probably) won't change.

Basic rule: don't let work create more work if the benefit's not worth it. You probably knew that already, so just stick to it.
Apple has done banner ads in the past. I remember a particularly attention-grabbing campaign they did a few years ago on the NYTimes home page. It was a fairly creative piece.
I run btrfs on my main arch installation. Have for ~6 months. If you get the fsck.btrfs tool (it is upstream) you eliminiate the only real showstopper with btrfs on Linux.

You get the online compression (meaning you use less space and read and write faster on mechanical storage because you have less to read / write at a time), you get the snapshots, you get subvolumes, checksums, etc.
Getting a business to appear in the places listings. It's impossible to edit your own profile. It all stopped working when the business pages merged with Google places. There's no support. It's utterly terrible.
Only if they make deals all the time!
http://hckrnews.com (my preferred interface to Hacker News)
Philip K. Dick has some interesting views on this topic at topic near the beginning of this interview (his time in college with mandatory ROTC):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXqHJYz8NXo
That's very misleading. In the late 1970s computers were already 30 years old.

Yes, the "PC" was new. And that's the whole point - we now have cheap (but rubbish) desktop 3D printers. It's the equivalent of the transition from mainframe to minicomputer to PC.
What about the ability for an AI to design appliances, furniture, etc for you based on what it knows anout you and the answers to any questions it thought relevant. Essentially your own personal architect, interior designer, industrial designer, etc wrapped up into one simple and quick interface.
No worries and thanks for the reply. It's really impressive.
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This is true, but there are also kids her age who do read the paper, and it's actually a prime age for pleasure reading. His sister probably isn't going to take up reading or writing for reasons other than necessity. SaMo is not a crappy community - it's a wealthy one really - and very well educated, so if she's not interested now, she probably won't be in the future.
Great design, but a few things could be improved:

- no preview on desktop

- landscape mode is broken

- no client-side caching
v28 - the last version released under the CDDL. You should be fine.
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2-letter Scrabble words are more offensive than curse words, and anyone who insists on them deserves only two: "F" and "U".
It says this within the first paragraph:

> It is not a guide to using Vim. Before reading this book you should be comfortable editing text in Vim

I think a site like the OP (even if it is shitty) is aimed more at the "I know what vim is, maybe I did visudo once and cried a bunch, but I have never touched it" crowd.
as a competitive scrabble player, one mistake that I think he might have made is overweighting corpus-based probability versus game playability. his transition-in and transition-out weights are a good start, but there's also the fact that n+1 letter words that can be made by "hooking" (adding a single letter before or after) n letter words are far more useful than those that cannot. also the layout of the premium squares, and the letter distribution of the bag, factor into how playable certain tiles are. intuitively, at the least I'd expect one more point for the U, and for the V to catch up with the Z, though of course it's very easy to fool yourself about these things when using strategies based on the current letter values.
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I'm not quite sure what statement you're making here? Where does Princeton, or education at all, have to do with what 15 year olds use for technology?
Are you able to write large applications like this without things getting too messy? I'm interested because I usually write JavaScript in the complete opposite way than you just described (strictly OOP, almost like I'm writing Java). This also means that I use 'this' quite a lot. Do you come from a functional programming background? What do you think about languages like clojurescript?
I get the strong feeling that Stack Exchange is PC-heavy. They seem to be very much in the Microsoft ecosystem.
I'm amazed at how generally unreliable drives are at retrieving stored data with ZFS checksums in place to highlight the problem - it seems that on average every TB of storages has a problem with a block every half-year or so.
I dont think this article, which is interesting, is about what it says it is about. I don't think anyone seriously expects 3d printing to replace mass production any time soon, but i do see it as part of a series of related trends:

We need fewer, smaller physical things, and less stuff, to enjoy life. My new TV is has a larger screen and weighs less than its predecessor, and even so is largely redundant given i have an ipad. I used to need a laptop and a desktop computer, a games console, and so forth. Most or these now gather dust. I dont need a dedicated "movie" room, so i need less space and less furniture. And so on.

When we do want things, we often want them highly customized. Consider the insane variety of phone cases selling in popup stores all over the place.

I suggest to the author that anyone poo-pooing 3d printing today is in the exact same boat as, say, hot metal typesetters looking down on photo-typesetting and laser printers for their comparatively low quality back in, say, 1985. First they lost their low end customers, then all their customers, and then the people who had replaced them lost most of their customers (ok that's in progress).
A bigger advantage for 3D printing has more to do with onsite, personal manufacturing, of which "mass customization" is a secondary benefit.

Many of the objections the industry insiders use to describe additive printing are more or less the same arguments people have made about homebrew computing, back before the Steve Wozniac showed off the Apple I and IBM got into the game. Why would you use personal computer? They are slower than the minicomputers and mainframes. They are "craft" machines for hobbyists.

Ideally, we are moving to a future economy where you "buy" a product by purchasing a license to a design, and then having your household printer produce the product. If it is for something larger or requires more exotic materials, you might place a print order at the neighborhood Kinko's, Ace's Hardware, or print co-opt.
We should consider that the process of choosing who to vote to has some other benefits (other than the small probability that your vote is the vote that changes the outcome)

Mostly, there are two things to do before voting:
1) decide your position on multiple issues
2) think about how much the implementation of the system allows your positions to be communicated/counted (so some positions become more important because the system will allow them to have an effect)

both of these actions can be beneficial (and much so).
1 means thinking about life in society
2 means thinking about effective ways of agregating knowledge and preferences in a society

you could think of the elections as a holiday celebrating the fact that we live in a society, and inviting to think about it
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In other words not particularly practical :-)

I would expect the tablet to be plugged in as a virtual monitor (ie xrandr would should it as another monitor) and if you take the tablet away it should be no different than disconnecting a monitor.
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They said he tried other dealerships and couldn't get such a good deal, so presumably there wasn't much left in it for the dealership.
Did it myself on the advice of a friend. It worked like a charm, no bullshit involved on either side.

Funniest thing was we had gone to a local dealership to attempt a test drive and they wouldn't even talk to us. The guys who won our business then sourced the vehicle from that same dealership -- they drove it up to our house with the local dealer's plates on it, for something like $6k less than the dealer's sticker price.

I left out one detail -- we ran our offer past the other dealers who had responded and none would match it.
How do you know they were still making money on the $739? How do you know the bike manufacturer wasn't offering incentives, much like with a car dealership?
> We need fewer, smaller physical things, and less stuff, to enjoy life.

This isn't an axiom. It's a personal preference. Don't imagine it applies to everyone else.
Perhaps you have a very broken shell.

$ function echon { echo $# $*; }
$ >'foo bar.mp4'
$ for i in *.mp4; do echon "$i" "${i%mp4}mp3"; done
2 foo bar.mp4 foo bar.mp3
If anyone in a deal is walking away happy it means some other party is suffering whether they know it or not.

Ideally (and typically, else markets wouldn't work!) both parties walk away happy. Who's suffering when both sides feel as though they've gotten a good bargain?
Google may actually penalize their phone support for being on the phone for over 3 minutes.

Story: An acquaintance got on the phone with support department to troubleshoot a problem. The support person was struggling to help. As the 3 minute mark approaches, the support person gets increasingly anxious. Finally, he straight up confesses that he has a 3 minute call limit beyond which he may get penalized.

And then hung up on my acquaintance seeking help.
I don't have the energy to type up a big long thing. Been with them over a year no problems encountered in that time, network seems stable and performant, they do not appear to oversell. If you have specific questions I'll try to answer them.
I'm a bit skeptical of a style checker that introduces itself like this:

> Nitpicker is a language style checker which compares your text with a large database of style warnings, common errors, or warnings indicating that you may have once more used the wrong word or preposition. Nitpicker’s goal is to implement the old proverb “shame on you if you fool me once, shame on me if you fool me twice”: the moment your supervisor, colleague, reviewer, or local native-speaker finds a mistake in your text, any repetition is just embarrassing.

Let's nitpick:

> Nitpicker is a language style checker which compares your text with a large database...

I'd probably write "that" instead of "which" - it's easier to say - and maybe "writing" instead of "text"? Not sure if "compares" is the ideal word either, but these are just nitpicks. Rather than tweak these I'd probably rewrite the whole thing.

> ...of style warnings, common errors, or warnings indicating...

Major bug: "or"? Does it check for one of these problems or another, but not necessarily all of them? It should be "and".

Repeating "warnings" twice is confusing too. This second group of warnings: are these style warnings too, or not?

> ...that you may have once more used the wrong word or preposition.

I've read this at least a dozen times now and my brain still slows way down around the "may have once more used" part. I have a few guesses about what it means, but I'm not sure which if any are right.

Also, "word or preposition" doesn't make any sense. A preposition is a word. It's like saying "a parrot or a bird".

> Nitpicker’s goal is to implement the old proverb “shame on you if you fool me once, shame on me if you fool me twice”

Ugh. Way to mangle a beautiful and poetic saying. This version has no power: it's like the nursery rhyme translation, and it's confusing too.

Here's how it really goes:

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

Now that is writing.

But what does fooling people and and who should be ashamed have to do with a style checker anyway? And how would Nitpicker "implement" the proverb? Make people feel ashamed when someone has fooled them twice?

> the moment your supervisor, colleague, reviewer, or local native-speaker finds a mistake in your text, any repetition is just embarrassing.

Is it embarrassing to you or to them? And are we saying that the first mistake is not embarrassing, only when you repeat it?

I'm trying to connect this with the proverb, which is all about who should be ashamed, not when the shame happens. It is all very confusing.

Enough nitpicking. How would I write it? Maybe something like:

> Nitpicker helps you find and fix common mistakes in your writing. It checks for thousands of style errors and questionable wording and offers suggestions to improve them. Let Nitpicker find your mistakes before your friends and colleagues do!
How am I backpedaling?
✓ Claims to be an HTML5 app

✓ Requires iOS for no apparent reason

✓ You must install to homescreen first, even if you are on iOS

What does this do and why did you make the above decisions?

EDIT: To get around this, open up your JS console, put a breakpoint on line 509 inside sunny.js and set `window.navigator.standalone = true;`. Things should be fine from that point on if you have "emulate touch events" turned on.
If this is HTML, then why not take the source and make a cross-browser version? I guess I don't see the harm in just making an HTML iPhone app.

Personally, for instance, I wouldn't be happy if I shipped something as "cross-browser" that looked just awful in most browsers no matter what I tried.
The second #6 example, the one with xargs, is wrong. Xargs(1) doesn't necessarily create a single du process, it might create several.
This is a good read, it is hard to find things written about the issue of medicine vs the business of medicine.

There is always the risk with science that you will "finish" which is to say you'll figure something out and by and large be done with it. Nothing else to see, etc. I read an article many years ago about the long lived efficacy of Asprin, or acetylsalicylic acid. Here is a drug that has been around literally since the stone age where folks chewed willow bark and it continues to be a 'wonder drug' whereas more modern drugs seem to arrive on the scene and fade away. While their were obvious cases like antibiotics which became ineffective against resistant bacteria, there was a number of drugs which seem to have never been effective, rather they were marketed, pushed really hard, and then faded. The paper observed that for all their lack of sophistication, witch doctors and other lay healers had a vested interest in keeping things that worked and not keeping things that didn't work. But that doesn't always seem to be the case for modern medicine. Rather there is the 'new recommendation' vs the 'old recommendation' but rarely any follow up on whether or not the old recommendation or the new recommendation actually do anything positive toward treatment.
Articles like this become more and more important as more and more developers learn JS by way of frameworks like jQuery. If you want to understand "this". Understand call() and apply() first.
Linux still hasn't picked up 'stty kerninfo'.
If you haven't read it yet I can really recommend the book "Getting more" by Stuart Diamond. He covers all of the techniques mentioned in this talk and much more, with hundreds of brief examples from the everyday life's of his students and himself. It takes training and time to apply these principles (at least for me) but it has transformed how I think about everyday negotiations. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Getting-More-Negotiate-Achieve-Goals/d...
Apple's developer support on the other hand, is atrociously bad. This article is about a developer account.
Totally agree on all accounts. My phone locked as well.
Point 7 is wrong.

Example:

a = {k: 10};

b = {k: 20};

var fn = function () {with (a) {this.k = 30;}};

fn.call(b);

console.log("a.k: ", a.k); // 10

console.log("b.k: ", b.k); // 30
Reddit, for starters. There are a lot of great sub-Reddits you can subscribe to and you can remove a lot of the pointless default ones (/r/atheism, /r/politics, /r/aww, etc.) so you end up with a feed that really suits you.

http://inbound.org/ is basically HN for people also interested in online marketing, SEO, etc - lots of great practical stuff ends up on there that never makes HN.
I know very little about you. I've been talking about the signature shape of your arguments.

And I don't know anything of your motivations. Have you read Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"? If so you'll understand that it is possible, indeed sometimes common, for people to take rhetorical stances without actually understanding the position they are taking, out of a reflexive support for their party / faction / coalition of preference. And that those preferences can shape arguments simply to political purposes without actually considering the substance of the question at hand. Indeed people can find themselves in this position without even really realizing it.

Which is why Orwell thought clear language and proper argument so important that he dedicated his life to demonstrating their necessity. Bad arguments an important signal of the possibility of a person so committed to some political purpose in a manner indifferent to the means of achieving that purpose. You could be a political zombie without ever knowing it.

My comment was _right_. "Sense of the Senate" language can, for a layman's usage, constitute law. Your insistence on a point that is wrong, while at the same time eliding that error to some other argument, signals an interest in winning an apparent point rather than in helping people actually understand. This is rhetoric, and at its worst it is very dangerous thing.

I know nothing of your purposes or motives. You may very well be in a state deserving pity more than anything else. But the way you argue is dangerous -- to your country, your community, and to your soul.
Lets do a quick back of the envelope guesstimate. Around 450 people worked on WALL-E. These movies take years to make, but I'd guess that many of those people are only in on part of it, so I'll guess that at any given time, only 1/4 of those people are working on it. Figure that an employee costs $100k per year in pay, benefits, and overhead (I expect that is a low estimate on average). That gives $11 million per year, just for having the necessary employees. I believe these movies take about 4 years, so that brings WALL-E to an estimated $44 million, just for employees.

I suspect I underestimated pay, but I may have overestimated the fraction of that 450 working at any given time. Anyone in the industry reading this who can give better data?

Now throw in equipment, facilities, promotion, and so on, and it is not hard to believe pretty big legitimate budgets.
Sorry, they're part of the game. It's like getting offended at a chess player for castling.
This makes sense considering most PM's I know used to be in sales. Funny thing, after spending many years in sales before becoming a developer, I can see these techniques coming a mile away.

Sometimes I employ "power negotiating" skills and have some fun just to stay sharp.

Here are some of those techniques: http://www.negotiatingguide.com/negotiation/powerarticle.htm
Taliban Attacks Pakistani Soldiers like a routine
The alternative to Feinstein last election was a Republican that merely hadn't said anything on internet freedom issues - as opposed to Feinstein who in on the record as actively bad.
My friends who were aware of how bad Feinstein is couldn't bring themselves to vote for someone who might be no better and who was a social conservative to boot. I hope they at least left that section of their ballots blank.

The internet freedom lobby is comically inept. Voters don't even have the choice to do the right thing if they wanted to.
Cartoon about 2013
The "Exercises and Challenges" page [http://vim.begin-site.org/exercises/] states:

> VimGolf - “Real Vim ninjas count every keystroeke — do you?”

Obviously the writer isn't a ninja.
I appreciate this is brusque and comes from a privileged position, but if my family were "unsupportive" or at least unable to pretend, they wouldn't be my family for very long, alas.
Think about this when people ask the question: "What will people do when robots can make all our needs without needing human labor?" All that does is enable people to work on things like games, art, science, archeology, movies, etc.

None of those endeavors would be possible without labor saving machines enabling production surpluses freeing up labor for such non-essentials.
A hundred years ago people were predicting we'd have robot butlers and flying cars. Those predicting autonomous killing robots enslaving the human race once we hit the "singularity" I think are going to be disappointed.
Do you know how they compare to Linux Containers?
$25 seems pretty reasonable to me if it's the sort of thing you find useful. How is that "ridiculous"?
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/ Andrew Sullivan: balanced political commentary from a British conservative living in America and who voted for Obama.
Shit, it's 3° in Redmond? I better stay inside.
Thanks, not sure what I was smoking there.

I can't seem to go back and edit, though...
I'm reading your line of reasoning and coming to the opposite conclusions.

In the North Korean power structure, superior authorities need to be depended on to improve the "helpless" masses, and a takeover would not be believed to be an improvement because the new leaders would be, at best, equally as strong and wise as the old.

But in more egalitarian societies, the idea of "do it yourself" and "fixing the system" is taken seriously, and the corresponding societal myths reflect this - "The Emperor has no clothes", for example.
It might be that a new market has been found (so to speak). If stealing Apple stuff gets a good return then it may be that previous targets are not being hit as hard as they would have been, with the extra energy being direct at Apple owners. It would seem to me that the potential gains from mugging someone today would be significantly higher than 10 years ago - phone tablet and laptop are all commonly carried at same time by people in this room with me. Even 5 years ago this wasn't the case.
Sadly no mention of Dr Ben Goldacre who has also been beating the drum in this area. Here is a good talk he did at TED (13 minutes): http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_what_doctors_don_t_kno...

He has a website at http://www.badscience.net

He also wrote a book titled Bad Pharma. The Foreword contains me insight into just how drugs are tested http://www.badscience.net/2012/09/heres-the-intro-to-my-new-...
As a serious question, do papers typically get published if they simply disprove a promising idea?

As an example, my friend is doing honours research right now, and her supervisor is very emphatic that she should do an experiment that will be 'successful' so she can publish it. My question is, doesn't performing an 'unsuccessful' experiment progress the state of the art as much as proving something? If a reasonable researcher might have an idea, and I prove it won't work, why wouldn't that be shared within the community as a negative result?
I remember reading "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" when it came out: it was both a great, bold article and the first PLoS paper that I read. I'm glad to see that Ioannidis has continued to study the subject and apparently is making at least some impact in medical research circles.