skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I both admire and dislike Banks. Stylistically, his writing is brilliant. But I always feel like I need to take a shower afterwards.

He repurposes the most tired SF tropes (example: the cannibals that eat their victims while they are still alive, yawn, in "Consider Phlebas") to create sadistic (or, as you correctly say, "hypersadistic") wildly unrealistic, overblown horror novels, and because his style is so brilliant people lap it up, regardless of the egregious idiocy of most of his plots and the overall impossibility, ugliness and stupidity of his completely imaginary society.

He never delves into the ordinary lives of citizens of the Culture because doing so would reveal the impossiblity of a "post-scarcity" society populated by human beings who are only capable of being happy if they have "more" than their neighbours. This is a well-documented, empirically proven fact of human life, and it means that the transition to universal abundance is going to be way more problematic and violent than Banks' imaginary world suggests. So his whole imagining of the Culture as a kind of British-Imperial playground for Special Circumstances agents is kind of lame. It assumes a convenient backdrop of humanity as it is not and never has been, which does not withstand even the most cursory scrutiny. Banks avoided all that, and it's too bad because that is where all the really interesting stuff happens, amongst the people who are not special, but merely trying to live decent and ordinary lives.
While I admire the attention to detail, it is all in vain for me. I much prefer the simplicity of a solid line to the awkward fragments dodging descenders. My brain continuously tries to make sense of the incomplete line, and some words no doubt will add to the confusion with long stretches of characters having minimal expression of the underline.

Case in point, the word giggly has what appear to be specs of dust underneath.
Ukraine Military Heavy Fighting During Intense Clashes in Lllovaisk
Can you put a C++ compiler or an C++ IDE on that thing ?
I know of missile control systems done in Real Time Java.

Just one example,

http://www.atego.com/pressreleases/pressitem/aonix-perc-ultr...

Better no GC jitter....
> i.e. If I always rate 3, but sometimes rate 1; then that might be similar to someone always rating 5 but sometimes rating 1-3.

Ah, but then a user might throw an Internet Fit(tm) and cause a public outcry about ratings being manipulated by Uber etc. etc.
I think rhino369's point is that, whatever procedural arrangement might characterize the discourse, the actual burden of proof is on the owner - if they take action and prove their case, they get their possessions back. Until that time, the possessions are in the custody of the state.

Furthermore, I don't think it's true (at least not per the article) that a civil forfeiture proceeding puts a burden of proof on the state - it seems to be that the owner has an opportunity to petition for appeal, which if not taken, amounts to a forfeit by default.
Aside from the many other criticisms raised in the comments, this seems like something of a deal-breaker to me: "It requires that the text be on top of a solid background color."
Arrington referencing Glenn Beck is definitely cause for concern.
In progress. Sorry that I don't have more specifics, but it's coming.
I actually have similar symptoms on a smaller scale - I never remember my dreams, and I generally can't tell you if an event happened in the last month or the last year.

I get plenty of sleep, though, so I'm just going to chalk that up to having a bad memory.
I'm hoping it's low earth orbit, which is a significant reduction in latency versus geosynchronous satellites.
This was my first concern as well, the latency.
You know, Unix has a pretty good abstraction already for managing resources: a process.

Nowadays it is fashionable to deploy applications consisting of hundreds of files in a complex structure, but this is fashion and not technology and that's easy to demonstrate: in the old days, a C application consisted of hundreds of files in a complex structure, that would compile into one self-contained executable. There's no technical reason you couldn't take a RoR app (for example) and "compile" it and manage it just like any other process. Start it, stop it, move it around, one binary executable and one plain text file for configuration, that's really all you need for any application. Really.

I look at things like Docker and think, you are solving a completely artificial problem, and as soon as fashion swings the other way (10 years at most) people will wonder why people ever did this.
There is no reason that chemicals are the only actively defining part of our mind. It may very well be that chemicals are everything we need to messure, it may also turn out that we need to messure a lot of other things. Point is we do not know, and have a growing problem to figure it out.
Breakthrough in brain-to-brain communication using a video game
In my mind, the question should be "was your service acceptable (yes/no)" followed by a comment box where you could leave anything worth noting. I guess you might have to sort comments via humans, but then you'd actually know what was going on as well. I suspect relatively few people leave comments as well, but what they did tell you would likely be a lot more than silly star ratings.
We all "push" beliefs, don't we? what else can humans do? After all michaelsbradley didn't ask you to be a christian or something like that; he just pointed out another resource, those who wish to read it may do so, there is no need to pick on him for this. Now you might say I'm "pushing" my belief, maybe rightly. In a sense all comments are at some deeper level are 'beliefs'. Personally I've found links to "different" views on HN threads pretty interesting, I may not buy the argument, but it's good to know.
Why are language discussions so futile? Because people choose platforms, not languages. Platforms have one main language (in some cases two) which becomes the language of (no) choice for the developers.

Platform examples: Host (Cobol, PL/1), Unix (C), Embedded (C), classic Windows (C++, VB), .NET (C#, VB.NET), Java EE (Java), Android (Java), ... Rails (Ruby), PHP (PHP), Browser (JavaScript).

The choice is always between platforms, not between languages. Languages without linking to a platform (Go, Python, Scala, D, Rust, ...) have little chance to succeed.
Yeah, came here to post basically this :-)

I mean, I think he's probably discussing a real thing, and is mostly on-target regarding the cause. But, he could have picked a better example - how was Beck processing a lot of information, unless we're just talking about batshit-insane conspiracy theories and what gibberish to scribble on the blackboard that night?

And comparing himself to Churchill is just more of the self-aggrandizement Beck is famous for (or self-deprecation, I guess, depending on your opinion of Churchill - but Beck certainly intends it as aggrandizement).
I tried Inbox in Chrome on OS X Yosemite on rMBP 13'' last year's model and it stutters and freezes when scrolling, and takes a minute to load all dependencies. I tried in Safari too, but it does not work with Safari yet, and in Chrome it's a disaster.
Not officially. But I've heard of people who've managed to cross compile and install gcc on Chrome OS in developer mode. Otherwise you can simply install Linux.
Yea i'm sure the people in Africa currently relying on LW radio will notice.
That seems overly simplistic. Sometimes it's easier to get motivated if you have already seen the results or what the taxes/regulations can do.
It's much easier to be motivated to pay taxes for public health care when you have seen it first hand, and not just listened to a politicans pipe dream.
I think that it happened (can't find the link) because up to some point, the departments didn't get any money from forfeitures - when this changed, forfeitures exploded.
It's supposed to be a constellation of ~700 satellites, that definitely suggests low orbit.

(Rationale: With high orbits like GEO, a single satellite covers half the planet, so there's no obvious reason to have hundreds of them. But LEO is much nicer for many reasons (latency, launch cost). If you could cover the whole planet from LEO, that'd be the logical choice; and planning ~700 satellites at once suggests that's the aim).
My only question here is that how this does not violate constitutional rights of citizens for possessing property and having a due process of law? Why Supreme Court has upheld these laws all these years? Wikipedia has good article on civil forfeiture[1] but fails to answer this question. All I can discern from there is that these laws were created 200 years ago to seize ships of owners who can't be prosecuted easily. Apparently supreme court has distinction between criminal forfeiture and civil forfeiture. For the former, due process by a judge is required while for former it's not because a property gets charged for participating in crime instead of a person. This sounds more dumber than "corporation is a person" thing that they rules before. Who is supposed to protect the intent of constitution now?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
On 'network neutrality', I'm lost: Someone please clear this up for me, say, with this 'scenario':

I pay my ISP for 15 Mbps download bandwidth, and
some Web site with video clips pays their ISP for
10 Gbps upload bandwidth. So, I connect to that
Web site and download or 'stream' a video clip.

Then the
Web site better get their 1 Gbps upload bandwidth,
if they want to send that much, and if they send
me 15 Mbps of video then I better get the full
15 Mbps I paid for.

So, what's the role of 'fast lane', 'slow lane',
the Web site paying my ISP for 'more', 'slow downs',
etc.

Or as far as I can see, if I'm getting my 15 Mbps
(from any Web site sending me that much)
and the Web site is getting their 1 Gbps, everything
should be okay. Otherwise, either my ISP or the
Web site's ISP is not delivering what they were
paid for, and I have a tough time believing that that
would be common.

I'm failing to see the opportunity for funny business.

Or, yes, if use the Internet as a video phone, then
there could be issues of dropped packets, out of order
packets, latency, jitter, etc. -- is that what the
talk is about?
50 years after the fact? Probably not. When it comes to corruption, an expensive resource being sold by the government for cheap is usually evidence enough. I don't think such thinking requires a high level of cynicism, does it?

In fact, in a sense the act itself is corruption anyway - forgoing potential revenue which would have to be made up in the form of taxes.
Not the kind that matter though: Is there an accident & associated traffic jam today on road X or not.
Many of those C++ developers are using it, because C and C++ are the only languages with native compilation toolchains that all OS vendors have on their SDKs.

When will Rust be pushed by an OS vendor?
In a way short .com domains display some level of financial cost involved in obtaining them. If I saw a website hosted on hexagon.com I'd assume it's probably legitimate just due to the probable expensive of obtaining it being higher than a phisher might be willing to pay.
'USAian' isn't a word. Deal with it.
> most people would eventually be conditioned into socially harmful behaviors if they were placed in a similar situation.

I think all people is a fair assessment.

Also, there seems to be an incredible amount of mental illness among law enforcement, prison staff, and prosecutorial staff. I listened to all eight audio clips this morning[1], and the gentlemen speaking both seemed to be incredible paranoid, with an "us vs them" mentality about property seizures. They were giggling throughout as if they were happy, but they seemed very paranoid; even delusional.

I also watched the clip that made the rounds on reddit today of the police officer pulling over the ambulance. He's obviously, clearly not well. Something is very wrong in this man's life and he needs help.

Finally, the guards at Dade Correctional obviously have incredible demons - truly psychotic behavior[3]. From the article:

---

Joiner thought he pretty much had seen it all, from guards nearly starving prisoners to death, to taunting and beating them unconscious while handcuffed for sport. He recalls one inmate was paid a pack of cigarettes to attack one sick inmate whose only offense was to ask if their mail could be delivered before bedtime.

But Joiner, a 46-year-old convicted killer, saw something that morning that shook even him to his core.

On the floor of a small shower stall he was ordered to clean, he saw a single blue canvas shoe and what he later realized was large chunks of human skin.

The skin belonged to Darren Rainey, a 50-year-old mentally-ill prisoner whom the guards had handcuffed and locked in the cell the night before. Witnesses and DOC reports indicate Rainey was left in the scalding hot water for hours, allegedly as punishment for defecating in his cell.

Joiner, in an interview with the Miami Herald on Tuesday at Columbia Correctional Institution in Lake City, said he could hear Rainey screaming as hot steam filled the unit that night. He also heard the guards taunting Rainey, saying “How do you like your shower?’’

---

It's incredible that we as a society don't manage to provide for the mental health even of our own state officials. These people seem like some of the most poorly adjusted people I've ever heard about.

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/nicks29/aif-in-doubtatake-ita-behind...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SMpAHJkhm0&feature=youtu.be

[3] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/a...
I think doing it like that is a neat idea. Perhaps there could be an "advanced" page which is as you describe and the current method could be the "simple" version?
It's just a motto, not a legal doctrine.

Presumably it does have some effect. "Don't be evil" seemed to work for a while.
Handling downtime with Yelp
When discussing health issues the character of a person matters none.
Ah, I think you're missing the point.

What the OP was saying is that spending all that time to make docker work was a bit pointless. Especially as a VM makes no real difference to the end user at this stage.

Your points about DR and the like are valid, however if you are going to use puppet, the difference between deploying n docker instances (and keeping the state in the correct way) and VM instances are negligible. (yes, yes, docker is a chroot, so inherits the host's state, but you'll still need to control the docker environment.)

I use cgroups everyday, to avoid memory exhaustion, (25k CPU render farm) and for that its grand. Running it on a public host? madness I say. For things that require high IO(even then its questionable, AUFS...), or low security perhaps.
I have taken over "incredibly simple PHP/MySQL" apps that ran on a single server, and let me tell you: Over a year or two of hosting it can easily happen that a poorly set up environment (it was running on a single server - it's by definition a poor setup, lacking HA...) will end up costing the business more than 50-100 hours in mitigating the consequences of poor configuration management.

You just won't notice, because it will be 10 minutes here, 20 minutes there, and/or "emergencies" where the time spent will rarely be attributed back to the same original project, so most people don't see how much it costs them to have skimped on the original investment.

To me, these tools make sense from 1 machine, and you start seeing serious benefits once you have two (all the investment you did for one machine? You've now mostly halved the investment per machine, since you have a set of containers you know how works ready to go; you have some additional complexities as your cluster grows, such as orchestration across machine boundaries, but amortised per machine the cost seems to keep dropping)

If anything, what we are seeing is that these tools get people to do things that were easy to ignore before, causing people to think they were done setting up their environment because they had a server running the production code.

Never mind how often these setups have been unreproducible, with poor isolation, no failover/ha setup. They're cheap until they're not. And most often they're not - just that people don't really notice how expensive they get because the time is never fully attributed back the right places.
That all would be OK if we also had drones that followed politicians and senior civil servants 24/7 and streamed video and audio to any citizen who wanted to check up on them.
This month, the two largest newspapers in the USA and NPR covered the story. To my knowledge, that's substantially greater coverage than it has ever received before.
As I said, not you, particularly. But bad typists exist, and they tend to want to type less, which leads to code that is worse than it could be.

That said, where's your docstring? Why are your lines longer than 80 chars? Why is your indent 2 chars instead of 4? What does `oid` mean? http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Architecting Android the clean way?
This isn't meant to be flippant at all, but I wonder if Arrington has had his Vitamin D levels checked recently.

VitD plays an important role in memory, and people with extremely low levels often report brain fog. Working all the time indoors over the span of many years, tends to deprive people of proper access to the sun (or peak sun, when you'd normally get the bulk of your VitD). And it's impossible to keep your VitD levels up at ~40 or 50 where they should be, with diet alone.

The sustained lack of Vitamin D has also been increasingly linked to neurological disorders.
Really nice to see Rubinius progressing. Looking forward to 3.0.
It is common in many flows to expect people to do a force push if something is wrong with their pull request, e.g. having 15 commits that look like:

Try stuff
Another prototype
Fix something
...
Revert prototype

It is fairly common (in my experience) for the contributor to be asked to squash those commits.

In my opinion, the more guards in place the better.
Immolation by Fire TV
> You are arrested and placed in a cage before any sort of due process has concluded.

Well, that's not really supposed to happen either.
Pardon my laziness: is there anything to be seen from these documents/media that we didn't know before? Anything surprising/interesting? If so, a quick summary and/or a link would be appreciated.
It is windows 7 only. So if anyone wanted to port it to OSX or Linux they would need to do a clean room implementation.

Q.E.D.
Details behind RapidWeaver's 6-figure app launch
Subsidized?
> when they took PimpDaddy's caddy because drugs

...which noonespecial acknowledged was a racial "dog whistle", although I think it's just an insinuation, not a "dog whistle."
Pause for a moment, replace "Beck" in your comment with the name of any famous person you have even a little respect for, and then reread what you wrote as though it was written by someone that dislikes that person.

All the same thoughts occurred to me too. Then I realized I was being dumb, and fortunately one of the few graces of getting older is that I don't say what I'm thinking as often as I used to.
I think if there's a lesson to be learned, one-size-fits all treatment of people is the dehumanizing factor.

If the person in the video was a 270 pound guy on his 3rd arrest for B&E and had an arrest history that included violent assault, you'd want him to be chained to a bar without shoes while he was booked.

Aaron was a slightly built kid, with no priors, on a non-violent arrest. But those kinds of details don't filter down to the booking officer, and most police stations are equipped to handle difficult "customers", that's why there's 3 inches of protective glass between the officer and Aaron. There's no special "well he looks like a nice kid" booking room.

The police in the video appeared courteous and non-aggressive. Nobody was tased, beaten or abused. Aaron was arrested and was cuffed and detained, the same as for any other person. As they went through their processing of him, they asked him politely, thanked him for compliance, assured him things would go smooth and he'd be out pretty quick. They asked him about his medication, verified what it was, asked when he needed his next dose. In terms of police treatment of a person under arrest, this is pretty nice. Of course he's going to be handcuffed, he is in police custody after all.

They're not going to just find a comfortable chair for him and ask him if he wants to share in the squadroom's latest pizza delivery while the booking officer runs out for lattes?

This is what being under arrest actually looks like.

Standing for 23 minutes is hardly cruel or unusual. He wasn't being badgered, they weren't using coercive tactics on him, they didn't even ask him any questions about his case. It was Aaron after all who admits to walking onto MIT's property without a question being asked of him!

As tragic as what happened to Aaron is, and the feelings about it that I'm sure you and I both share on the subject. Messing around with other people's property and consequently the law enforcement the might come from that is not something you want to be doing ill prepared.

Was MIT's handling poor? Was JSTORs? There's a healthy debate to be had about that. But w/r to the police and the circumstances of his arrest he was treated about as humanly as the system allows for now.

In the end, Aaron took his own life. The same naïveté that caused him to look at a closed service door and think "that's a place I'm going to set a computer up and harvest hundreds of thousands of research papers, nobody will know" is also what caused him to buckle under the immense pressure of legal entanglement. He wasn't put to death, executed, beaten to death, tortured or any other horrible thing. He did something against the law and ended up in the grind of the system. The system, instead of treating him like a sensitive special snowflake like we'd like them to have, treated him like any of the other thousands of people it handles every day.

It's a shitty way to be treated, but if you want to be in a public fight for your principles, it's something you have to be mentally prepared for. If what you are doing might get you arrested, this is how the legal system works. Be prepared.
Because people choose platforms, not languages.

No, because a language is not (just) a technology, it's a community, and as such, people invest their identities in it. If possible you make an enlightened choice about joining a community that shares your ideas and values and is doing similar kinds of work to you, so they are producing libraries and documentation and hosting relevant and interesting conferences. I often feel that people who lash out at other languages, are people who have come to regret their own choice of community.
> In my experience, the problem is complexity.

Simple languages led to complex code bases.

Many of the Enterprise Java sins were caused by the language limitations and developers trying to work around them.