skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They tend to let things linger and die rather than keeping them up or improve them.

I had Sprint as a local phone company and DSL ISP in the early to mid-2000s. The other options in this small town were cable, but with a dial-up uplink or Hughes satellite.

Sprint was a great ISP, downtime was perhaps two times over the years. CenturyLink purchased the phone and DSL from Sprint, and coasted along on Sprint's old infrastructure for a about a year then the bandwidth exhaustion set it. First it was the peak times that were unusable, then it was just about anytime day or night that latency was through the roof. Fixing it was just around the corner. When I switched to cable, it took another 2-3 years to resolve it.
Interesting observation about the inverse relationship between crude web design and technical hobby content. I've been scratch-building vacuum tube musical instrument gear for about 10 years. 90% of what I initially needed to know was picked up from 1990's style hobbyist websites. I document all my projects for others to build on my html-only website, maintained with SeaMonkey Composer. It takes hundreds of hours to produce the artifacts themselves and many more hours to produce checked and finished documentation that others can build from.

I occasionally think about rebuilding my site with 21st century web technology, but I haven't convinced myself that it adds more value to my work than producing more and better documentation. I have an infinite list of things to understand, design, build, and document. Chasing web tech trends competes for the available time.

I design and implement embedded software for optical metrology and fabrication equipment all day, so I have no technical barrier to web tech, just a lack of interest.

I can't think of a single hobbyist site that I get information from that has improved after a tech refresh. It's like a signal that the maintainer's interest in the hobby is waning, and no further content should be expected.
> Yeah, there's a lot dismissive about it.

It's not. Different people have different intellectual capabilities. Some can read Hegel, most don't. Some understand Monads, most don't. That's how it is. Some can debug compile-time macros, others can't.

> Or, put more bluntly: stop being an asshole. It demeans you and what you're trying to champion

A personal attack. Great style!
One data point, but sonic.net is great. Friendly service and consistently given top marks by the EFF on privacy concerns. Also, it's reasonably cheap and you can get a static ip with your service.

Edit: I'm not affiliated in any way.
The blow to collective dignity may well be a bigger loss than the 2,000,000. The message is something like your small town can be the next Tijuana. So now arrive the losers (alcoholic frat wannabes ) and the parasites (liquor companies and other purveyors of vice). A lot of them will stay, bringing both cash and fucked up behavior, and the town may drift toward being a place that caters toward the worst of humanity (yuck). Some folks will be happy for that, seeing the money, but some of us are disgusted, seeing the degradation on all sides, whether selling or buying. No, I don't like Bourbon Street or Indian Casinos either, no matter how much money gets made.
I still use a couple of languages that are unstructered.

Strangley, these often feel more "powerful" to me than the structured languages I use. Especially when writing small programs.
Any of the ones living in pre-islamic Egypt/Babylon/Sumeria/Persia? Unless you don't believe the Egyptians/Babylonians/Sumerians/Persians were scientists and their innovations required no science or mathematics.
You missed my favorite quote from any computer science paper:

"Axiomatics of Jumps

[...]

"Just recently, however, Hoare has shown that there is, in fact, a rather simple way to give an axiomatic definition of go to statements; indeed, he wishes quite frankly that it hadn't been quite so simple. For each label L in a program, the programmer should state a logical assertion α(L) which is to be true whenever we reach L. Then the axioms

{α(L)} go to L {false}

plus the rules of inference

{α(L)} S {P} ⊢ {α(L)} L:S {P}

are allowed in program proofs, and all properties of labels and go to's will follow if the α(L) are selected intelligently. One must, of course, carry out the entire proof using the same assertion α(L) for each appearance of the label L, and some choices of assertions will lead to more powerful results than others.

"Informally, α(L) represents the desired state of affairs at label L; this definition says essentially that a program is correct if α(L) holds at L and before all "go to L" statements, and that control never "falls through" a go to statement to the following text. Stating the assertions α(L) is analogous to formulating loop invariants. Thus, it is not difficult to deal formally with tortuous program structure if it turns out to be necessary; all we need to know is the "meaning" of each label."

(p. 289-290)

Not only does "he wishes quite frankly that it hadn't been quite so simple" make me giggle like a schoolgirl for several minutes every time I see it, but it's also a really beautiful formalism.

Not that anyone would ever do it in practice....
Ethnicity also includes culture - a black person in the US sharing the same phenotype as a black person in Africa is not ethnically African, no more than an English white is ethnically French. It's difficult in that there isn't a clean solution, otherwise it would already have been found.
I have had both Comcast and CenturyLink for several years and I just dropped the Comcast connection and kept CenturyLink. I haven't really had any problems with them.
In general in order to break the law you must have a warrant. For example, a cop entering private property without a warrant or probable cause is nothing more than a trespasser. These agents likely violated the CFAA by doing what they did. Because they didn't have a warrant, IMO it probably constitutes an illegal search, but the courts may well have a very different opinion. Regardless of which side loses this argument, this will likely find its way to the appellate courts and possibly the Supreme court, as it seems to be an unanswered question of great importance.
New Mac Malware Used in Cyberespionage Campaign
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They did shoot down a U2; a Mig(31?) was able to gain missile lock on an SR-71. In any event shortly after they had developed the capability we ceased to enter soviet airspace with an sr-71.
I just use 'view'; its the same as running 'vim -R'.
While there are enough unhappy people to quote in an article, there's no evidence a majority of the townspeople object, either as a superficial gut reaction, or after deliberate consideration of all costs and benefits.

For the duration of the current officeholders' terms, decisions about such use of public space have been delegated to them. Unless those officeholders have done something corrupt or illegal – which does not seem to be alleged – then the residents can choose new management at the next election.

I kind of doubt they will. As long as cleanup is thorough, the lingering impact is all good: money and more visitors next high season. Even the opportunity to have had something to "rail against", and get quoted in the NYTimes as a rural local, was a positive. (I wouldn't even rule out the possibility that locals have exaggerated their respective positions to obtain marginally more media coverage about the "real town" from the event.)
Reading Pickled Data in Go
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I'm pretty sure we still find plenty of use in the ideas much older than that... Do we not still teach the ideas of Pythagoras et al?

I'm pretty sure what you're trying to say is religion has no place in the 21st century.

Also fun fact, the early days of Islam saw huge steps forward for women's rights, more so than pretty much any other culture at the time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_feminism#Early_reforms_...). I'm curious why you Mohammed was a misogynist and what that has to do with Islam?
You accuse them of making off the cuff conclusions, but the example you cited is basically raw data. And this is not "dangerous stuff." Yes statistics can be used by some people to justify stereotypes, but the correct response is to see people as individuals and not simply in terms of race, sex, culture, class, etc. We do not need to suppress or be exceedingly cautious about data. The impulse to suppress data comes from a belief that some statistic if demonstrated could justify racism or bigotry. But this is not true. Suppose it was a fact that 90% of people over 6 feet tall never wash their hands after using the restroom and this was discovered by researchers. Those inclined to bigotry would conclude that tall people are dirty and should be avoided. More fair-minded folks would refrain from assuming every tall person they meet is one of the 90% who doesn't wash their hands. Instead, they might wonder if there is a reason tall people aren't washing their hands. Maybe bathroom sinks are too low. Bigotry and racism are dangerous, not statistics.
You can only connect the dots looking backward. How do we know that our society won't be viewed 500 years from now the same way we view the Roman empire or Egyptian kingdom?
What is workspace ? And what does it let you do ?
Iirc they also acquired the paas provider AppFog in 2013.
They do security scans, yes, but not really full-system code-quality review down to the level of every system utility (esp. not those developed primarily elsewhere). At least in the specific case of 'less', it's almost just a formality that it's even in the FreeBSD SVN tree, since the only activity is occasional re-imports of the upstream version: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/less/ Afaict, this Illumos initiative is the first attempt in years by anyone to review/clean up the internals.
We indeed have our own trolls...
> When did using git-based package managers become the norm?

I'm a web developer, so my response was hastily written thinking about my own narrow scope. I'm sure that non-web developers can go their whole lives without interacting with git, but it's impossible for web developers.

Npm (Node), Composer (PHP), and Bower (web) package managers all use git (and often GitHub itself) pretty religiously. I know that one or more of those may support other VCS repos, but git is the de facto flavor.

> Are you saying you normally update your third-party libs with the latest from HEAD instead of using versioned release artifacts?

Not exactly. First of all, that's what I _used_ to do before every language had its own package manager.

Second, I do use versioned releases. However, I use the tagged versions that are determined by the author(s) of the library. I'm not just pulling down a bleeding-edge, un-tested library, and I don't get every single commit.
While it's a good project, it's far from being usable speaking as a skipper. I use Navionics on my Ipad for a chartplotter. I'm trying to get started with OpenCPN on my macbook air, but getting navigational charts which are compatible for Europe is proving troublesome.
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> Where is their own content DRM-free?

What does Netflix gain at this point for instrumenting DRM free streaming for a small subset of their content rather than just piggybacking off their current infrastructure? Why add even more to the cost of in-house content for DRM?

> Without someone pushing for it, it will never happen.

That someone is consumers, not Netflix. And given that the overwhelming majority of consumers don't care about DRM, Netflix has little incentive to care about it also - they have enough to worry about with their content well drying up, and I doubt they are keen on exacerbating that problem by telling their partners to license their content DRM free. Short of either the government stepping in and mandating the end of DRM, I don't think will ever see DRM go away (not to say it won't be hopelessly broken).

All that still doesn't change the fact if Netflix could, they would most likely drop DRM, if not for all the technical reasons - it would allow them to distribute on Linux and most likely simplify parts of the content delivery chain. For Netflix they have no reason to be against DRM free content, but a ton of reasons to not be actively against DRM.
I use Trello, and then I have it sync with Google Calendar. That way, I can handle individual tasks with the flexibility that Trello allows, but use Google Calendar when I need a broad picture of due dates.

For me, to-do lists are far too limiting. Trello strikes the right balance, however, when it comes to customizability.
The NFL's US TV deals, when put together, are for 7 billion a year. The ads themselves are not all managed at the highest level: There are national ads, regional ads, local ads... A big part of what a TV network does is manage the ads themselves.

While a large majority of the fans have broadband, they don't necessarily have something connected to the TV that will output the NFL streaming apps to their living room. There's also no proof that advertisers would pay the same rates for ads than they do for over the air TV.

Handing out the rights to TV stations also has all kinds of other advantages. You don't have to pay the TV stations to advertise the games. There is all kinds of content in said stations that could also be considered advertising: A team will be covered more in the channel that also carries the games than in one that does not. If you have an NFL app as the way to show the games, now you are the one paying the TV stations so that they cover your stuff. The NFL might get a bigger share of the pie, but other people are a whole lot less interested in helping the NFL grow its fan base. And yeah, the moment you start offering all games online bypassing live broadcasts, without at least a modicum of an attempt of blacking out regular TV broadcasts, the networks will balk at you, so if a pro sports league wants to move to online, they have to either only show content that the local TV stations do not want, or go all in, because the TV networks are not going to be happy competing with the league directly with the same content.

Good luck keeping an attempted switch secret too: To move broadcasts inhouse, a league would either have to purchase new equipment and crews, from the engineers at the stadium to the commentators, or to downright poach them, neither of which is easy to do.

So even if it's theoretically possible they'd make more money online, the risks and the political costs of doing such things are tough. We've seen how a player strike harms a sport's financials. A failed move online would be just as big, if not worse, and completely self inflicted.
A new editor that copied emacs' good Lisp support and insane customizability via hooks for everything but had an interface that was approachable for regular desktop users (tabs instead of buffers, good CUA-style keybinds out of the box, no surprising weirdness like nonlinear undo, etc) is about the single most important thing anyone could do to increase the popularity of the Lisp family. Right now, if you want to write Lisp, your choices are:

emacs, which is utterly unapproachable for newcomers, and will always be uncomfortable to use for people that grew up with "modern" desktop GUIs, because it and most of its userbase predate established interface standards and they like it that way.

DrRacket, which is a step in the right direction but is Racket-specific, bloated, slow, and somewhat buggy.

LispWorks, which is proprietary and prohibitively expensive unless you sign up for and are allowed to use the crippleware version.

Given those choices, it's not surprising that most people just give up on Lisp and use languages that you could comfortably program in Notepad if you had to.
Exactly. The HoTT folks seem to be unaware of developments like Mizar and the the Journal of Formalized Mathematics (where you submit a computer proof along with your paper).
Nigger? I can go to 6 different quantumn random number sites.

Why are you such a nigger?

NIST goverment random number site. What do you not understand.

It's like a coriner: "The head is cut-off, do you think he's dead?"

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35:5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two
thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the
west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand
cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the
suburbs of the cities.

35:6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there
shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the
manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty
and two cities.

35:7 So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be
forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

35:8 And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of
the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many;
but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of
his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he
inheriteth.
Yes, we need more regional examples like the Bay Area's sonic, with a decade-plus track record of survival and quality.
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Org-mode, gcal, notebook/pen/paper.

Keep it all in text, avoid vendor lock in. My workflow is timeless and needs to outlast the latest trend.
Jonah Peretti figured out how to spam the web better than anyone with the Huffington Post. He also figured out how to get away with it. It's been called the veneer strategy. The idea is to take a little bit of legit content and make it look like that's the site. In reality all of your real traffic comes into your many thousands of shitty linkbait articles. This throws off Google's spam team and confuses people about what you're doing. Hopefully you sell before the house of cards comes crumbling down.

There's a reason McDonald's sells salads and it's not because they believe it's the future of fastfood. It provides cover when the idea of sickening billions with shitty food occasionally heats up.

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/full_menu/salads.html
What a hateful comment. How can one judge a man who lived in the 7th century by today's standards?! Objectively speaking, a warlord he might have been but a misogynist and a pedophile surely he wasn't.
> Because unless you are a hobbyist or a devil-may-care like professional, you want a big community, lots of resources, great libraries and tooling.

Then use a language which has that. There are a lot of big community languages with great resources. There is nothing bad about using those.

Lisp has several features which makes it slightly unpopular, but at the same time it is different enough, so that it survives and helps some people to express their ideas.
Thanks for taking the time to get back to me. I do have a few more questions:

> The target is to spend more time creating a canvas that can be used to collaborate and present on than juggling several apps- tabs, Notepad, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

The example use cases that I saw on the site didn't really convey this - also, I didn't see a "presentation mode" or anything similar in the app, maybe I missed something in the app that would support this?

Also, can you give me an exact use case that would be better fulfilled by LinkWok than any other tool (and why LinkWok is the best tool for that job)? I hope you have a concrete vision of someone solving at least one specific problem in your app - otherwise, you have bigger problems than a 500 error.

> 6 billion searches are made every day just on Google, out of which 90% have already been repeated within the last 24 hours.

Source? I tried Googling around for it, couldn't find any articles that substantiate that claim.

> How awesome would it be if you did not need to go through the haystack to find the needle that somebody else already found?

That would be great. Unfortunately, all this app appears to do is create a new haystack - one that I will probably use a search engine to discover and subsequently mine for information.

Also, from your about page:

> until now there has been no way to take advantage of the (almost absolute) fact that somebody out there has already found what you are looking for.

In fact, there has: search engines. Search engines order the results by what it detects are the best answers to questions you have. In a surprisingly large number of cases, Google can answer the question I type into the Omnibar without me even having to click on a link!
What's the performance overheads of SystemTap? I've looked at it, and used it for poking at things under a microscope on a VM, but I've never used it on a production system. Could I instrument production code with it?
They weren't Arabs...
"Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Interesting that your only other comment on this profile was a suggestion to someone else to read the guidelines.)
Would you like to point us to some progress on how to overcome these limitations with LDA?
Another interesting Arab from that general period is Ahmad al-Tifashi [1]. He was a poet, writer, and anthologist, mainly known for his anthology "Promenade of the Hearts" of poetry, jokes, and anecdotes of an erotic nature or about sexual practices.

An English translation of the gay chapters is available: "The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book" [2]. I've got it, and it is an amusing, entertaining, and eye-opening read.

For a very very long time, I've had a little puzzle on my website. Someone is caught with the following items:

1. A large needle and thread
2. A roll of paper
3. Three small pebbles
4. A small bag of fine-grained dust
5. A small empty waterskin
6. A pair of scissors
7. A canteen full of cream
8. A fur cap
9. A purse full of counterfeit coins
10. A raw egg

What are they planning?

For the first time, I will give a hint: the answer is in "The Delight of Hearts".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_al-Tifashi

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Delight-Hearts-What-Will/dp/094056...
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Same here, until they acquired Appfog (phpfog) last year.
Looks like this was released in August: http://panamax.io
Please, he opened up a giant can of strawmen and smeared the CL community because he prefers eBooks, different kind of web design and more marketing.

So yes, I consider it douchey to open a completely pointless debate where there could have been a constructive discussion about the strengths of CL.
Full service as in they sell things like accountability, certification, and someone to point a finger at. Smaller companies don't have the resources to do the things Rackspace can, which is why they are able to price their services so high.
When you read the reports it becomes clear that they won't go after people like you. they go after people who either don't know their rights or simply cannot afford to fight back.

If you want to do something about this then help some of the people in this situation take their case to court.
I don't think Weev should have been tried criminally at all, but I kind of disagree with this purely from a technical standpoint.

The FBI discovered a flaw that let them see the IP address of a web server.

Weev discovered a flaw that let him see private information of AT&T customers.

Customer information is generally considered much more sensitive than an IP address.
I'd be interested in how you're using OL3 in your projects.