skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first I hear of a "US led coup in Ukraine." Can you share some information on that topic?
Sounds interesting, definitely gonna check this app out after launch ;)
That's a fair assumption when the company is in the spotlight. (E.g. Product release, news announcememnt). It's not valid when the focus is on a job position.
We saw busted PMTUD on a customer's network trying to get to us via a misconfigured network link. It's a bad problem to debug. None of us knew what PMTUD was, or that TCP can require ICMP to work, until that day.
Can you tell about other dedicated server providers you mention. I am on lookout for one.
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It looks like a good idea. You guys should hire a copywriter with good English, though. You're not conveying the idea laconic enough.
You do have a whole rest of the site to discuss YC companies if you want to.
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Gnome-terminal, rox-term, sakura and terminator are actually all based on the same terminal emulation backend: libvte
I have a demon of the second kind to sell you…

“We want the Demon, you see, to extract from the dance of atoms only information that is genuine, like mathematical theorems, fashion magazines, blueprints, historical chronicles, or a recipe for ion crumpets, or how to clean and iron a suit of asbestos, and poetry too, and scientific advice, and almanacs, and calendars, and secret documents, and everything that ever appeared in any newspaper in the Universe, and telephone books of the future…”

— Stanisław Lem, The Cyberiad

Also, this:

“[…] to making many books there is no end, and too much studying afflicts the flesh.” – Ecclesiastes 12:12
It seems to me that at least a weak form of panpsychism seems hard to avoid without giving yourself much bigger metaphysical problems elsewhere.
SASS and LESS are CSS DSLs, you are doing limited programming with CSS, at that stage you may as well do programming in a Turing complete language like JS and reduce the number of tools in your tool chain.
Become friends with your kids' friends' parents.
Thanks for letting me know about sakura, I think it's the first one to actually match the rendering speed of xterm.

I do have one question though, why are the colors more pale in sakura than in xterm?

And is there any way to change it?
Another day, another hack, another story ignored by the main stream media:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-25/hacked-us-documents...
hide_menubar=1 in roxterm config :)
" I would need to detect the country a user is coming from before I show them a price"

You mean, like anywhere in the US where the price shown is without tax and you calculate it afterwards?
Android can be told to treat certain APs as limited usage, which means they're not used by apps that are set to WiFi only, or for which you've disabled mobile data.
I was referring to the universities.

The FCT-UNL was very strong in functional and logical programming back in the 90's, when the informatics degree started as an offspring from electronics.

We had Caml Light (OCaml predecessor) was used in quite a few classes, the other being SWI Prolog. Logical Programming was also part of electronic degree.

Since a few of the teachers are still at the university I would expect that they have eventually moved from Caml Light to OCaml, if they keep teaching the same classes.

I am from Aveiro, studied at the FCT-UNL back in the early 90's and nowadays live in Germany.

Actually the ML language I tend to use is F#, due to tooling and me spending most of my time on Windows.
What Herb Sutter calls premature pessimization.
Konsole is great.
Just a few to get you started:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/08/false-flag-in-odessa/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/30/the-media-ignores-the...
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/02/18/us-and-eu-are-pay...
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/03/25/shocking-videos-h...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/us-backing-neo-n...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-has-installed-a-neo-naz...

edit: Heh. Downvoted. Sometimes I feel people really don't like hearing the truth about what their empire does in their name. Lets not get started on Gladio B... I know... Conspiracy theorist... yadda yadda.
Using big words doesn't make your point more valid. Just sayin'
What software did you use to generate that graph?

I'm currently using munin, but would like something more cluster-oriented (as-in, seeing the big picture, not individual servers)
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The phrase that always comes to mind when speaking of disability, and creativity in the midst of mental illness, is "better to be hated than pitied."

There is something being said with TempleOS. We don't necessarily know what it is, because the premises employed are, as parent says, so divergent from society. If all we can get out of it is some mocking laughter and some anger and frustration with the author, so be it - that's far better than to dismiss the work and then push the agenda of "help this poor hopeless person live _normally_." He should be helped where it's reasonable to do so, of course, but that is primarily a problem to be dealt with by immediate friends, family, and institutions, not a bunch of strangers poking in at random.
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If I'm stuck on Windows, I just use a Cygwin console and ssh to the world.
The job of economics is to justify why the rich should remain rich. The really good economists can even come up with a plausible story that this is just. Economist would have been B Ark Golgafrinchans.
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1. Stop assuming I am stupid.

2. I know code reuse technics in css, they are mentioned in the presentation. Cascades do not work for component based development. Adding multiple classes to an element leads to awkward code and also will lead to namespace conflicts if you don't name everything very specifically.

3. Vendor prefixes are there and will be used for new features too. They will not go away. Precompilers can't avoid generating all prefixed variants.
> Irish people until recently were considered to be "black", and in the UK, still kind of are.

Is this from personal experience? If not, can you link me somewhere?

Do you mean sounds Irish / looks Irish / is Irish / is Catholic / something else or a mix of these?

I don't disagree with you (not sure either way tbh) but do have a personal interest.
There are all sorts of problems with this narrative. It entirely misses large components of the contemporary economic situation, and seems to be written from a rather imperialistic standpoint.
> xterm is bloated and unmaintainable (...) It has over 65K lines of code and emulates obscure and obsolete terminals you will never need.

The way these things are usually implemented is that there is an interface of a "terminal" and implementations. As long as implementations do not break the abstraction and do not require modifications in the interface and other parts of code these implementations do not decrease internal software quality. They only cause bloatedness in terms of size of source code files which doesn't matter much.

I read something similar on Neovim's site, that they removed support of obsoleted architectures. And as an opposing example it seems that Linux kernel ships with drivers for very old devices and doesn't have plans for removing them.

Note that I don't know if in xterm's or vim's case implementations for obsolete subsystems cause real damage or only increase code size.

And when I was choosing a terminal implementation, I mostly benchmarked scrolling performance and looked at font rendering quality and xterm won. It is also actively maintained outside of Xorg [0].

[0] http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html
Cool. I've been thinking of building the (almost) exact same thing for a while.
>Talks about cargo capacity in terms of TEUs (shipping containers, I guess) rather than gross tonnage, which is the way we've always talked about ships forever.

Gross tonnage has little to do with cargo capacity, as it covers weight of hull, machinery, fuel etc. Net tonnage is more relevant, but it is not a good basis for comparing the capacity of different types of cargo ships. TEUs are a good way to compare container ships to each other, so at least in that respect the article is fine.
I didn't say it was a keyword. It's a standard function-like macro (not a function, as I wrote).

I would think it just as bad an idea to overload `NULL` with something non-standard.

The standard things in the language are something to be learned, and they should remain constant and not change per-project just because someone can do it differently. Do it however you like, but don't clobber the standard names, is all I'm saying.
Huge collection of porn.

Seriously though, I would say the fact that in theory, we can have knowledge accessible by anyone on the planet, and that's awesome. I believe on day it will.
My understanding of "coup" is that it refers to the military overthrowing the government. In this case the US is giving aid to the Ukrainian military in their support of the government against separatist rebels, no?
I see Boom and Bust cycles as an effect of the natural feedbacks and delays of the economic system

Basically http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mastascu/econtrolhtml/sysdy...
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> I'm not trying to be a jerk, but how many friends you do or don't have is entirely up to you.

Right, because someone with no friends probably have never thought or believed that it is their own fault for being shy/uninteresting/boring (and that they're shy/uninteresting/boring in part because ... they have no friends). It has probably never crossed their mind at all.

> I'm an introvert and it is tough meeting people. I'm not saying it is easy to move out of your comfort zone, but it is necessary. If you want to be more social and have more friends, then make conscious effort be more social and make more friends.

In order to be social, you need to try to be social. Right.
> Linux kernel ships with drivers for very old devices and doesn't have plans for removing them.

I think as long as there is someone to maintain that driver, it doesn't get removed.
I use the Xfce 4 Terminal on a i3 with no DE. Works wonderfully and has all the features I care for and need.
I agree - the Wärtsilä-Sulzer is both more powerful and longer (but not taller). This steam engine at Kempton from the 1920s is taller:
http://www.kemptonsteam.org/history/the-engines/

Still, whichever is largest, all these engines are very impressive.
This is utter nonsense. An article full of dogmatic assertions with no backing data.

If you want to understand the world, look at the numbers, like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png

A non backed assertion example:
"Technological revolutions result in negative turns in the distribution of income, as income flows towards those who take early advantage of the new technologies."

Today the number One distribution machine is the computer of the central banks that let them print billions of currency a day(dollars, euros or yenes) backed by nothing real in the material world.

This people print on a single day the wealth that takes a year to generate in the real world. Look at how much shadow money there is in securities and derivatives compared with the real economy. As Warren Buffet says, it is a weapon of mass destruction.

Even something technological like Facebook earned most of their money from an artificially pumped stock market, not from the real world selling products and services.

I have profited enormously from the stock market because I understand this, it is not so hard. It is way harder to create valuable products out there in an economy that is taken for ransom by the banks, big companies and governments that are robbing them blindly.

Another powerful assertion:
"Russia’s annexation of parts of Georgia and Ukraine brought back another monster that we thought had disappeared between the 1930s and the 1940s—the territorially acquisitive authoritarian Great Power."

Russia should have supported a violent coup d'etat in Ukraine that replaced their pro Russian democratically elected gobertment. They also should have given them Sevastopol, and also let the US putting "defense" missiles there pointing to Moscow.By the way they should also let the US to destroy Russia-EU commercial relationship, and why not let foreign companies control their bast natural resources(as the biggest country in the world).

Russia, like the US or China, has her own interest, like any other country.

Thinking a modern country is going to behave like Iraq when you invade their country to take their resources is probably not a good idea.
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> However, the element of permanence that all societies need should be provided through the enforcement of the rights of the individual, not by protecting the economic or political status of some vociferous sectors.

Am... no, it ends with an assertion that human rights should be respected, not trampled by saving insolvent companies, invading countries and enforcing fundamentalist beliefs.
Yes if means you can't teach to the test. The problem with standardised testing is not testing, it is the design of the tests. Any test that can be gamed is a bad test.
Simple cycle gas turbines have efficiencies of 30-35%, whereas a large diesel engine can reach ~50%.

A combination of gas turbine, steam boiler running off GT exhaust and a steam turbine can reach efficiencies of ~55%. However, the system is complex and expensive, and not well suited for driving ship's propellers. Once additional kit like gearboxes are introduced, the drive system efficiency is no better than a direct-drive low speed diesel.

Finally, the diesel engines burn viscous, high-sulfur fuel... not really sure if a GT could handle the crap those engines use.
> But what is wrong with Gnome-Terminal?

The dependencies: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/g...

If you're using Gnome, you probably have those already so it's no big deal. The same goes for Konsole in KDE: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/k...

If not, pulling in a few hundred MB of dependencies for a terminal emulator seems distasteful. st is much more self-contained: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...

That's why st is usually compared to xterm; they're small, basic and desktop-agnostic.
Algorithms are not the only thing that make a tech company, but without scheduling, multiparty-route-optimization, or other clever algorithms central to their business, Uber and Lyft are just transportation companies that capitalized on the fact that young people like to call cabs with a button... instead of a phone call.
yeah but thats not the point http://www.bizocean.org/2014/08/7-steps-to-writing-quick-and...
Russia was not invaded.
So, let me disagree with a few of those:

- CAMERA: there's an intent for that, you don't need the permission, although it will require tapping the "take a photo" and "ok" buttons

- CALL_PHONE: ditto, although it will require tapping the dial button.

- READ_CONTACTS: again, there's an intent for that, allowing you to select only the contacts you want to share with the app.

- READ_PHONE_STATE: either they want to be compatible with a very old version of Android, or they want to uniquely identify your phone, permanently. They might also want to know who you're calling or who's calling you in real time

Regarding MANAGE_ACCOUNTS, etc: some apps do that, and it seems to be all the rage. Unless you have multiple apps sharing a common account, I don't see the point. It's just leaks all your configured accounts on the device.
With a capital J in the title, this reads as a really creepy attempt at resurrecting "the leader".
"What does it mean to be moved by the beauty of a vision you can’t believe to be true?"

It doesn't mean anything, it's just like we like fantasy and science fiction, it's the remote worlds filled with wonder, evil and heroic deeds. My favourite musical is Jesus Christ Super Star. How can you not love the song 'Gethsemane' in which Jesus struggles between taking the rough road and dying for his cause, or escaping now and living in peace with the things he has achieved so far? Let alone that he isn't even sure that his death will be justified?

You don't have to be a theist to appreciate that. (As I am not)
But if removing them would simplify other parts of code, I think they would do it, like they did for i386 recently.
Ireland is usually industrious without long hours. There was a UK based study on it recently that gave positive results. I can't find the link at the moment.
Cool site, but it doesn't seem to work. It doesn't display the same list that the app displays. Reading the list the app displays looks scary. Reading the list on the site makes it sem ok
This is what I clicked the linked expecting actually, and now my employer likely thinks I am looking for other work, heh.
Ask HN: How can I still be a developer in my 50s or 60s?
40+ developer here. I have been doing freelance work almost all of my working life. I love being a developer and would not want anything else. Recently I'm also working remotely and I can say that works perfectly for me.

Having said that I'm worrying about the second half of my career. Will I be still able to do this in my 50s or 60s? How can I make sure I'll continue finding those jobs?

The thing is I'm a Java backend dev without really any specialization. I got interested in Haskell and scaling systems but don't think my CV stands out in any way (my employers however are usually very happy with my work).

Should I specialize? How? Should I try to get a permanent position (I wouldnt mind if I still can work mostly remotely)? Should I focus more on my public profile (github, blog etc) which is not much so far?

To those 50+ here, are you still developer? How did you manage that?

Any feedback appreciated.
Is the paycheck also virtual?
Ah, that explains everything, thanks ..
Yes, the text far from even trying to be objective (maybe "economist" is he who "explains" but it's not economy that is in the text), it's full of merely unsubstantiated "common motifs" that float in the US-centric media and are more product of propaganda or the need to have some "feel good" simple "explanation" than even try to understand the forces present in our world.

The economists actually learn that US had very strong protectionist policy for its own economy and that it actually helped. Free market is mostly an expression used for something that is used to sell your stuff to other nations or to allow your companies enter some market.
It's easy for the US to attack the middle east, because the US is almost self-sufficient (they grow plenty of food and have a lot of oil), and they get almost nothing from the region. It would be way harder for most other countries to attack/be attacked, because most countries simply need the exports/imports to survive.
The demo currently goes to an error page. I am guessing issues with load?

On Chrome, and this may just be a personal thing, but the font is hard to read against the really clear white background. I don't normally mention these things but it seems the thin font really doesn't stand out and it wasn't a pleasurable experience.

Personally I would just tweak the font-weight as at 200 it is too low for me.

Luckily as I changed the font through Chrome Dev Tools, it kept my style changes intact. A behavior I didn't expect to be honest
at 33 minutes no results are shown for that query. was something interesting taken down?
I personally love Terminology:
https://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology

It's modern, incredibly fast (could even be GPU-accelerated), fancy (if you want it to) and stable.

See previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5438089
Interesting. They didn't specify Swift as one of the languages. Probably means nothing. Or...maybe it means the code you write won't be in Swift...for now.
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Depends who you define as "government". Do you mean the ousted governemnt of Viktor Yanukovych? Or do you mean the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk? Or the new government of Petro Poroshenko?

Revolutions are such messy things.
Out of nothing, I'd guess their MRU worked by just pushing an incoming free connection on top of a LIFO stack, while for the "most recent request sent" strategy you had to keep track of request timing and insert incoming free connections into the middle of the stack, complicating things.

Within their solution just had to convert the LIFO stack into an FIFO queue, keeping it simple.
"opam install -y ocamleditor" finally did the trick ) thanks
Still WFM at 0:36.
st is not about rewriting xterm.

it's about removing features, and then rewriting.

for example, it doesn't even have scroll back! ... which is the reason i don't care much for it.
Strangely enough this explanation does not involve any economical arguments, figures or analysis. The main topic is demonising Russia.
I would rather celebrate Festivus instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus

Featuring the Airing of Grievances, Feats of Strength, an aluminum pole, Festivus dinner, and more!
I like that. Just my 5p. When economist explains - journalist listens and statistician laughs.
It has been suggested that consciousness is an emergent property of complex systems. Maybe that should be written as: consciousness is an emergent property of integrated complex systems.

Anyone around these parts familiar with the work of Ken Wilber?[1] He wrote a lot about 'Integral Psychology' and the like. At a glance IIT appears to fit nicely in the framework Wilber et al. expound.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber
I'll bet anyone $5 that Apple is developing a VR (and/or AR) product for release.

It's not hard to figure out. Tim Cook has been in the media saying (I paraphrase slightly) "wait 'til you see the things we're working on that no-one is talking about yet, tee hee". There are more or less exactly two possibilities here: either Apple has come up with a product of a whole new kind which no-one or almost no-one has thought of before, or it's trying to repeat its Macintosh/iPod/iPhone/iPad trick of taking a product category which people have been talking about and trying to make happen for years and actually releasing a successful, polished product which appeals to consumers. Now, the last time Apple released a genuinely novel product it was HyperCard and Ronald Reagan was president of the USA. (Or arguably it was the Newton, in 1993.)
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"VR" gives two hits, App Engineer and Senior Software Engineer, with "VR/AR development"

Apple has lots of prototypes going on all the time, judging from their myriad patent applications, so this doesn't mean that much, in itself...

But, VR/AR seems the inevitable next step in miniaturization, as the display can be much smaller than a phone or watch etc. So I would be incredulous if Apple wasn't working seriously in this area.
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This guy managed to produce the text with the same characteristics like observed in the Voynich manuscript by using "an encoding device called the Cardan Grille, first described in 1550 by Girolamo Cardano."

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/rugg.html
For anyone who can't see it (try refreshing): http://i.imgur.com/vSvOsHF.png
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