skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's clear you use the suffix '-stan' in a pejorative sense. As though simply adding a -stan is sufficient to describe the terrible, backward, self-serving state of things. It's not even comedic, as you clearly think this term is the right one. This has always bothered me as this approach is insulting given the many countries around the world who use the suffix [1]. They're conveniently far away from the US so I doubt you've ever considered this.

I'd ask you to stop using this phrase but it seems you're attached to it (for no good reason).

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/-stan
Here is what I've said about 80 char in the past.

"If the argument for expanding to 100 or more is that screen is getting wider, then the benefit of wide screen is the ability to fit multiple terminals in one window. For normal workflow, I'd split my windows into two or terminals, depending on what I am doing, so I don't see any benefit in increasing the limit."
yes, to_bytes was just a feeder into the hashing system and it was known to need refactoring for a long time.
This is a good move as it addresses the need for cheaper phones in markets like India where the "Nokia Asha" line of phones are a poor substitute against similarly priced low end Android phones. By making the user experience similar to Windows phone and removing Google Mobile Services, they have made it easier to upgrade to the more expensive siblings at a later date.
For anyone interested, this is also a great article about multiplayer networking:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3094/1500_archers_on_a...

Currently working on an iOS project using a similar system, which so far works great. A challenge I am facing right now is pathfinding in conjunction with synchronous multiplayer. Pathfinding can take a decent chunk of cpu time on lower-end devices, but you can't really multi-thread it since you need all players to calculate the same paths on the same simulation ticks lol... so might come down to rate-limiting the amount of units that can re-path on a given sim-tick.

Making multiplayer games is fun lol... :)
This is maybe not obvious from the US, but the buzz in the EU media is staggering.

Anecdata: I live in the Netherlands, and half of my whatsapp contacts switched to Telegram since yesterday. Lots of talk about privacy and discussions surrounding NSA and Facebook privacy violations.
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They probably sign their updates with a private key.
This is a fascinating question; which the article completely fails to answer. Besides fluffy common-sense tips like being aware of what message a font sends and not using what was fashionable twenty years ago, the only concrete advice is:

"Serifed type is often used for long copy, like books and magazines. This is because the serifs make the characters more recognizable and the text easy to read in bulk at small sizes. Serif body copy usually pairs well with sans-serif display type. There are mountains of exceptions, but you have to understand the rules before you can effectively break them."

Everyone knows the serif-for-body-text, sans-for-headings "rule". What we need to know is the next step: what are those exceptions, what motivates them, when do they apply? Why specifically do you choose, say, Baskerville over Stone Print?

By not answering any of these questions, the author gives them impression that he doesn't know the answers.

Does anyone? Because articles like this just reinforce the impression that type choice is a religion that its priests make mysterious for their own job-security. I really want to believe that there's a science in there.
Nice, never heard of that, thanks
My dotfiles have acquired enough cruft and interdependence in the many years they've been written that I certainly benefit from keeping them under version control. If all you have is a dozen lines in .bashrc and .tmuxrc it's ok, but once you pile up custom scripts and configs it gets out of hand quickly and you actually end up with regressions.
It is once you've gotten used to a higher PPI device.
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Augeas plus ssh (ansible, whatever) plus some special sauce will do it for you mostly.
IMO, given that most blog templates include copious margins, many don't allow readers to resize the text, and some don't even allow readers to scroll horizontally, 80 characters is far too long for a line of code in a blog post.
Ok, it's like keeping cash in your mattress, safe, safety deposit box, wallet, personal vault, whatever.

The point is it's your responsibility to secure it, and if you think you can do that properly then great. I can do it, but I don't think it's easy enough that most "normal" people can do it properly yet.
I live on a boat and don't pay mooring fees. I'm a "continuous cruiser" which means I move my boat every two weeks to a new location. All of my fellow boating friends do the same and most of us have pretty nice boats. And yes, the boats described in the story are very rare.

I can't say I've seen anything like the ones described in the story in my time on the water, with the exception of one 25ft fibreglass that was pretty much abandoned save the odd homeless person who used to sneak on it.

I'm actually amazed that the Canal and River Trust would even give a license for such a boat.

Most boaters I know have lovely boats and are incredibly proud of their homes.
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Finally... :) I've been waiting for a project like this to appear for ages... thankyou OSS developer angels.
What's their agenda? And what newspaper doesn't have an agenda?

You say "It's the Guardian" like it's a special case and the other rags that fill the newsagents of Britain are pure as the driven snow.
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Can you remove Tweets on Twitter from public view without deleting them? I don't frequently use Twitter, so don't know.
Yes, but being common doesn't make it sensible or worth sharing here.
Hell no.

We will go back to a day where whatever speed you get is all your ever going to see. I know people hate Comcast/etc but where I lived all I had was what the phone company, THE COMMON CARRIER, wanted to offer us until the cable companies came in.

We got a wonderful choice of dial up, ISDN, and T1. Eventually they gave us DSL but the roll out was so slow and the initial installs so buggy it was mind boggling. Then one day I get a flier in the mail, try cable! Five times the speed and what do you know, the phone company suddenly cut their prices and offered deals to get people back.

Common carrier means no competition at all. As in, your area may get an upgrade AFTER all the important people get theirs first, namely those with political connections or in tony neighborhoods. The rest of us, well its like waiting for the roads to be plowed.
This is the exception not the norm. Most people don't live like this but i have to agree the prices for renting in London are completely crazy and don't even think about buying a house or getting a mortgage.

I really wish i could buy a house in London (renting it out wold pay for the mortgage and some other bits) but there's no way in hell any bank would give me the amount necessary.

Only rich people and the ones that got council housing will ever be able to live/work in London cheaply.
They wanted the public space in front of the Goldman's building (the basis of which the development of the square was approved). Regardless of whether you support them or not (I don't) they certainly weren't "focused on trashing a church".
They have already proven that WP can run on low spec hardware though with the Lumia 520. It's also a 1GHz, 512MB RAM device.
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Divide yes, but as for the conquer part we'll have to wait and see.

It seems to me that they might confuse themselves and their own customers more than anyone else with that convoluted strategy.

They identified Android's greatest flaw and swiftly added it to their own ecosystem.
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Source?

EDIT: Wikipedia initially said 4.4.1
I'm the author of the article.
I think that the fact of having a repository actually is more appropriate, because (at least for me) dotfiles are really not a static set of files. At least say, once a week, I end up changing something, something that I'm not 100% sure I'll adopt in my workflow. So I create a branch for that change that I can safely delete later if needs be.
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- tab vs spaces
- line length
- republican vs democrats
- favorite colors
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There is only a 'crisis' if you don't believe in a free market.

It's like saying there's a crisis when it comes to affordable supercars.
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> people insist on telling us that gambling is a zero-sum game

people who insist on saying 'zero-sum' is really just passive-aggressively saying that the person indulging on said activity should've spent their time on other non-zero sum activity.
This. I just don't understand what are the benefits of a on-screen keyboard vis-a-vis a slide-out hardware qwerty keyboard. Ever tried using an on-screen keyboard with wet hands? Tried texting in class without looking?

Why can't we get one, just ONE, good Android device with a hardware keyboard?
What an utterly worthless comment. Ubuntu has lots of developers that produce a great deal of patches. I'm not a fan of Ubuntu but you don't have to be to understand that they do indeed contribute to the FOSS ecosystem, and saying that they don't is disingenuous and frankly offensive.

Furthermore discussions about "little things like this" are what people have been pushing for - Linux on the desktop taking user experience as seriously as technical supremacy - for years, and is one of the main reasons people still cling to OSX and Windows.
Not at all. I agree, all newspapers have a bias to some degree.

The Guardian is just the Daily Mail of the left. Also notoriously sloppy when it comes to facts, spelling, etc.

The Guardians bias is basically:

BAD - Big companies, government, tories, rich people, MPs, bankers, anyone in power.

GOOD - The 'oppressed' masses, political correctness, the poor, publishing stolen state secrets etc
I'm late for a meeting so I just say couple of things.

This looks really good and sounds even better! I have invested a considerable amount of time in exploring visual XML document editing, including contentEditable, RelaxNG, web components, textarea input redirection (CodeMirror), especially for DocBook XML.

I'm curious have you thought about things like non-textual (for the writer) elements like widgets for dates, how to edit attributes, types in general (only numbers here).

In the comments here you mention douple enter to clone current block level (para) element. What about configurable behaviors or templates that insert XML fragments Emmet style? I have been looking at ways to declare editorial aspects (things that should happen with common editorial operations like douple enter, selection, copy/paste), perhaps using RelaxNG annotations or LESS style CSS extensions. New chapters, tables and links might come with considerable package which is not evident from the schema (nor could it be).

I try to take a close look later...

BTW: What license are you using? I did not find any mention in the Github repo.
Oh bloody hell. I'm tired of this "Oh but they did X and Y!!!! That's the magic key!"

They did this, in order of importance:

1) They built something that solved a problem.

2) They sold it at a price that the people were willing to pay for that problem to be solved.

3) They built something with powerful network effects, drawing in new users & keeping old ones.

Ian's magic guide to making money by building things:

1) Build things that people will pay for

2) Sell it to those people

ADVANCED COURSE (DLC - send payments to 1QKocu7qqiSGbmaviR4aFVTq3zVWtvdFiA )

3) Charge more than it costs you

4) Charge no more than those people are willing to pay

Astoundingly, I've missed off things like "be mobile first" or "don't be mobile first" or even "it should have been built in this city". I've also managed to not dwell on the language anything like that. Turns out, having loads of people pay you money for a service somehow makes a good business! WHO COULD POSSIBLY HAVE FORESEEN THAT? TIME TO CHANGE ALL OUR PRECONCEPTIONS!

> I’m not suggesting we throw out all the rules and engage in chaos. But, it is a good time to reexamine them.

If a business that makes a profit and has nearly 6% of the global population as active users (and growing, it seems) being bought for a lot of money is shocking then I cannot fathom what world you live in.
I'm surprised and, to some degree, annoyed at the superficiality of some of the arguments in this debate. Like this one:

> Readability - You don't have to scroll over horizontally when you want to see the end of some lines.

It's not having to scroll horizontally that bothers me with long lines. My monitor is wide enough that it can probably hold 250 characters with ease. It's having to read long lines. Something is very bloody, terribly wrong in your code if you consistently find you need to write 150-character lines.

Besides, yes, monitors have gotten that wide that it's not an issue. Is there any serious reason to assume that code is the only thing I want displayed on my monitor at a given time? In a single window? That's as big as the monitor? The only moment when people had a good reason to be enthusiastic about that was the late 70s, when serial terminals appeared and teletypes began going the way of the dodo.

Also, who says the IDE is the only place where I want my code to be output? Maybe I want to grep on it or whatever. On an 80x25 terminal window because the least useful thing on earth is a huge monitor where I constantly alt-tab between a full-screen editor and a full-screen terminal.
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> 1. Why move to London if you're an unskilled worker? Are opportunities elsewhere even bleaker?

Sometimes. Sometimes it's the best option available. Sometimes people move to London believing they have a job and it turns out badly. And sometimes people make bad decisions.

> Why haven't bylaws been passed to curb this? For example, why aren't residences that are unoccupied by their owner for a significant portion of the year taxed at much higher rates?

There's little popular support for it, particularly under a conservative government - historically the party of property owners. The English are very protective of their houses and would fight anything that was perceived to reduce the rights of homeowners.

> 3. Why aren't the barge-lords being treated like slum-lords when the barges they run are overcrowded, full of mould, etc.? I understand it's hard to legally enforce a tenant-landlord relationship when it's all under the table, but there must be something the police can do to hassle these guys until they improve conditions.

Hence the eviction in the article. I think it's legally harder to treat something (legally) mobile as a home. And any law to tighten the regulation of mobile homes would probably be opposed by guardian-reading liberals as oppression of the traveller community.

> 4. Where are the government programs, volunteers, etc. that you usually see in other cities building low-cost housing?

Some exist. But their popularity is limited - voters are happy to see their house prices increasing, and no-one wants to live next to people who, as the article admits, party loudly late into the night, use a lot of drugs, and live in unsanitary conditions.
Likely also for data redundancy if you only have 1 computer (or if all your computers/peers are in one building the untrusted peers could be your 'offsite backup' of sorts).
I thought the historical reason was that punch-cards had 80 characters per line.

...just Googled it: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/148677/why-is...
Is there any evidence in the blockchain of this being exploited? Can you see if there are occurences of MtGox paying out twice?
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"San Francisco has more than its fair share of professional protesters—including those who think they have a right to live in one of the world’s most desirable places even if they can’t rub two pennies together."

Loved it.
>I am an asian, therefore my comment shouldn't be taken as racial.

Just as a point of fact, it is logically possible to be racist against one's own ethnic/racial group.

That said, I don't think your remark is at all racist, so I'm not sure why you felt the need to mention your background.
you cant.
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This might be a stupid question, but I'll ask anyway. So for all of us who have bitcoins still at MtGox, what happens if, let's say, MtGox just disappears tomorrow? I mean, are we protected by law at all, or are we just a bunch of digital idiots now? Too bad?
You could mark your entire profile/timeline as private/protected in Twitter but don't think you can hide individual posts.
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Perhaps we should make it illegal to blow smoke in someone's face then. We already have far too many nanny-state style laws. Criminalising such a common thing is not going to be effective or enforced particularly well.

Comparing people who disagree with your flawed proposal to 4channers or redditors is a pathetic attack and just shows that you do not have the ability to back up your argument.
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Serifed type is often used for long copy, like books and magazines.

Nowadays, this rule doesn't even really apply. How many websites use serif for main copy? Is the BBC less legible than the NYTimes? At small sizes it is not necessarily more legible on screen. There is certainly very little science in choosing fonts; there is more to the world than is dreamt of in science, but a few guidelines might be helpful.

Here's a typical designer's process in choosing a font:

Consider the use - logo, headling or body copy. For headlines you can afford to have personality and be a little less readable, for body copy legibility is the first concern as it is typically smaller and denser.

Consider the medium and size - smaller requires less personality, on screens in particular. In print serif still predominates, particularly on cheap paper, on screen the converse is true and you might have to use larger type if you want to use a serif.

Consider the context - what do people expect? What message are you sending when using this font? Consider things like branding or corporate guidelines - that might limit your choice.

Finally, consider what mood you want to create, what message you want convey, think of a few adjectives which describe your content. Now look for a font which says all that to you when you first see it. Fonts are like clothes for your thoughts, and like clothes, what they say about the person wearing them is a statement of some kind, even if that statement is just: I don't care about appearances (at this point in time, Helvetica/Verdana).

So once you've thought about the above, choosing a font should be fairly simple, and is a matter of browsing through font catalogues available on your device (or google web fonts for example). If you're still stuck, limit your choice to the older ones which are generally considered classics (Gill, Helvetica, Futura, Bodoni, Bembo, Garamond) - using just a few of those would be fine for many uses.

And don't forget the measure and line spacing as this is the most often overlooked and useful way of increasing legibility and impact (defaults are often too tight - e.g. this site has spacing which is far too tight and a measure far too long).
I haven't seen it even once. I just discovered it today. Judging from the number of upvotes, I'm not the only one.
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Linux is a kernel. Android uses the Linux kernel. WTF are you talking about?
To be fair, if you had been found out, I think you would have deserved what you get for being such a glaring hypocrite. I am sure some people were giving up work to protest against a system. You were supporting that system, while using the protests as a place to stay.
It's impractical to produce new transport routes without government powers (e.g. compulsory purchase). And demand rapidly absorbs any new supply. e.g. Crossrail will bring new areas into commuting distance when it opens in 4 years - but house prices in those areas have already spiked up to match.
I'm afraid, for most people, typeface choices appear to be artistic choices shaped by the same dynamics music or fashion progresses.

For artistic web sites, the font choice may accompany, reflect, contradict, ridicule or noisify site 'ideas'. So anything is possible.

For business web sites, a structured approach is definitely possible. UX goals must be followed for typeface choices too, bringing together user's behaviour vs site owner's business targets. A careful choice of font parameters such as spacing, thickness, serif/sans serif/monospace, spacing would be possible.

Edit: a link; http://inspirationlab.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/infographi...
Code is read far more than it is written. Therefore code legibility is important. Line length affects code legibility. Therefore line length is important.
Commuting can end up costing the same (or more) than you'd save by moving out of London. Also time consuming and frequently unreliable (eg. Southeastern trains). It's not a simplistic option for most people.
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Might mean 2000/month?
It is also produces a conflict of interests. If they own two homes, why would they have the incentive to make prices affordable for the general population on normal wages.
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In Vim:

set textwidth=80 colorcolumn=+1

Then you get a coloured column 81 (probably red).

For some things I use colorcolumn=+1,+21 for highlighting 81 and 101, for situations where I allow myself 100 in an extremity.
The article even contains an explanation why TCP does not, and NEVER should, include forward error correction :

> Our simple re-sending mechanism just didn’t perform well enough under these conditions. It was quite common for a re-sent packet to be dropped, and we saw several cases where the original packet and 4 or 5 re-sends of that packet would all be dropped. We were re-sending so many packets, we were starting to exceed the bandwidth of the modem, and then the latency would start to climb, and all hell would break loose.

(then they implemented a -very bad- form of forward error correction in their packets to almost never need retransmissions)

This effectively ignores available bandwidth, and it worked because they were only using tiny amounts of bandwidth, so cheating helped them in this case, without ill effects. It is a dangerous game however. The problem is one of unfairness. If you implement your connections with forward error correction you will have an advantage over others, as you will not follow congestion signals while others do.

And then this happens :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestive_collapse#Congestive_...

TLDR: massive traffic on nearly every link in the network. Effective throughput almost nonexistent. You know, like being stuck on comcast.
Bingo. To quote Captain Jack Sparrow, style guides are "more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules".

They're not a substitute for common sense, and sometimes breaking the rules is for the greater good. I find the similar situations in shops that enforce strict naming conventions.

edit: The other tip is that the 80 character limit is closely aligned to the optimal line length for regular reading: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3618/ideal-column-widt... A bit more than normal is allowable for programming because of indentation and the more structured nature of the text.