skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, like I said the promise goes both ways. The city or other authority offering the pension expects a certain amount of productivity out of the employee and in many cases the employees "pulled out the cover" on their city. In general I support the idea of defined-benefit retirement plans, and even to some extent the right of public employees to organize into unions, but when I think about the secretary at the local bureau who types one letter at a time on her computer, with a pencil eraser, because her fingernails are six inches long, or when I think about the bus drivers who can't be fired from the San Francisco MTA, even though they are convicted criminals who can't hold a commercial drivers' license, then my faith in public systems begins to erode. Goldbricking and loafing can only proliferate a certain amount before the ability of the city to pay for the promised pension is impaired.

Your argument favors the idea of state or national pension systems, because they are large enough to average out the stupidity. With municipal systems you're virtually guaranteed to have a few cities unable to meet their promises.
My friend forwarded me the "recipe" he followed to make this work with Debian wheezy: http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/04/20/c720-deb...

He hasn't been able to adjust the screen backlighting, says he's got to try that again, with that issue it gives him 4-5 hours between recharges vs. the reported ~8 in the above linked item.
That's what I came to the comments for.

wikicreole webmaster, please do configure your DNS thoughtfully, and OP please check your links before posting.
Is that a correct history of Markdown? It certainly seems to have been designed to be easily readable and writable for laypeople.
Hmm... that very well may be, and it even strikes me as probable. The nebulousness of the expectations regarding what CC means, and should mean is central to this entire episode. Part of the reason that CC exists is that copyright makes it difficult to share your work without either just giving it completely away, or striking explicit deals on an ad hoc basis. CC was a partial solution, but it's not really high resolution enough to satisfy everyone's needs and/or expectations in such dynamic and diverse areas as the pursuits of art.

That's why I say that social norm is an appropriate companion to CC here, because the formation of social norms allow for nuance that one size fits most CC licensing really doesn't.

Further, independent artists are typically going to be at a large disadvantage when trying to enforce licenses against large institutions, so to the extent that it is used by small independents, it's in many ways a system that relies on generally charitable intentions all around. I'm sure there are examples of independents taking on larger organizations, but I suspect that if it becomes clear that the only way to get what you want out of a CC license is to adopt a litigious stance, then it's adoption would decline pretty dramatically.
M-q also resizes the table; I mention this because M-q is universally "reflow whatever is under my cursor."
The world's smallest self-replicating program
OTOH it would be easier than usual to find subjects for the trials, you could even have them partially foot the bill.
Huh? We have a pretty good understanding of the externalised costs for these. There is no mystery for storing waste and there is a very strong understanding of how easy it is to decommission. What externalities are you talking about?
It won't. Source: does version control for a living.

The big problem with OP's point of view, IMO, is that you change the authorship of the lines when you line things up like that. If it is done from day 1, fine. Otherwise leave other people's code alone.

Why? Because unless you are using a system that makes blame slow (I'm looking at you, git), blame your goto helper for understanding the code's evolution. Our blame is essentially instant and I use it to debug problem reports while I'm on the phone with the customer all the time.

I'm all for good style guides and obeying them. But rewriting other people's code for you shiny new style hides a lot of useful history.
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His point about increasingly non zero-sum games reminds of a Steven Pinker talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1Uzk#t=890

"Technology has increased the number of positive sum games that humans tend to be embroiled in by allowing the trade of goods, services and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of people."

We still have a tendency to revert to meanness when resources become scarce - e.g. dwindling runways without forthcoming funding or competitors eating away at our market share. In many cases, It plays into the death spiral - visionary thinking, paced discovery and creative exploration of a problem space are replaced with short-term thinking, churn, frustration, and ultimately failure.

In developed nations we've had the privilege of being able to take our time, spending at least 12 years of our lives educating ourselves instead of ploughing fields. Hans Rosling's talks get into this too: technology has allowed people to liberate time previously devoted to sustenance farming, washing clothes, 4 hour walks to the market. That time gets shifted to activities like education.

There's a common them here of not letting our immediate needs overwhelm our ability to pursue goals that can dramatically change our lives and the world around us. Our opportunity is rare and the privileged position we have to pursue ideas can often be tenuous. In a way, if we don't hit escape velocity, we don't simply float, we crash.

Meanness is a hack (one that doesn't even have an explanatory comment).
How He and His Cronies Stole Russia
Am I right in thinking a number of legal highs are based on illegal counterparts, by modifying the molecule a small amount.

Is it possible to predict how close the effect to the illegal one, will be.

[Edit] Also I'm wondering how is it possible that chemists like Shulgin, have an ability to create such a large number of molecules, with psychoactive effects.
Yes, Markdown is really bad. I really wonder why it's so much more popular than Creole, Textile etc.
> Keep in mind that a desire "to improve world" is a synonym for a "lust for power." The first is a positive way of putting it, the second is a pejorative, but it is the same thing.

This is simply not true. Many people see something that is wrong in the world and genuinely want to make it better. I'm not talking about companies like Uber that see how rich people just can't get private car quite conveniently enough and want to make that better, I'm talking about people that see real important problems and injustices and try to improve them, like Watsi for example.

I'm sure that there are some people who just want to grab power and influence and call it "trying to improve the world", but there are also people who genuinely want to make the world a better place with no concern for money or power and work tirelessly every day to do so. While sadly these people are usually not well known, they are the real heroes.
I'm not raising strawmen, I'm asking you things that quite logically follow from your statements.

All I can say at this point is that your theory is definitely in conflict with my observations of the world. So much so that I see the theory as wishful thinking about how things ought to work than how they actually do.
I think being yourself all the time wherever you are is incredibly counterproductive. I don't view myself as perfect, which means there are areas of my own self I want to change, and without me consciously attempting to become different from my current self, absolutely nothing will change and indesirable personality traits will just continue to perpetuate themselves.

Some behaviours just clash with your environment, and there's always the decision whether a change to your environment or a change to your perception of your environment is the wiser path to take in resolving these conflicts. Maybe moving to a different place will solve your anxiety problems (toxic environment), or practicing to become more confident (internal change) will do so.

Telling someone to "Just be themselves, all the time, wherever they are" however tells them to ignore any of these conflicts and in my view is an incredibly pessimistic view in a certain sense. You're telling them that their environent is a certain way, that their self is a certain way, and that they might as well run head first into their environment without changing their trajectory, because that's the right thing to do, and that that is the obvious thing to do, that their attempt at changing either is futile. If they do happen to suffer due to these conflicts, then that is the fault of the character and environment lottery they just happen to have lost.

Now there might be character traits that you want to strenghten, and maybe your perception of your environment prevents you from doing so. I think that's the only case where a limited "Just be yourself (more)" is a step in the right direction. In any other case it's just encouraging virtues and vices in the same way, and due to that, blindness to which is which.
I would not consider Zynga a success.
Old but gold, and serves a perfect succinct illustration in many cases, a bit like xkcd.
I just got this model as well. It works perfectly with Debian Wheezy, as far as I can tell, so I don't see how Linux "will still annoy you".

Anyway, there is one thing that bugs me: If I press the bottom edge of the space bar (especially on the left side) it doesn't always register. Is this just my machine that's defective, or is it a problem with the design? Does it happen with yours as well?

(Usually when I'm typing I hit the spacebar more or less in its vertical center and it works fine, but if I lean back and rest the hand below the keyboard, this problem tends to occur.)

When it comes to the screen, the resolution is OK (holding off on high-DPI is probably better until software support improves!) but viewing angles, colors and black levels are pretty bad. That's apparently one of the things they fixed on the T440s (with an IPS display).
It's the ones that don't say NonCommercial.

And I think that's the real problem, they're poorly named. They should explicitly say Commercial.

Creative Commons made an ideological decision to make Commercial licenses the default, and they promote them as "Free Cultural Works" to make them sound more appealing.
You can make educated guesses about the effects, but at the end there is no substitute for genuine data. You'd think that a good enterprising chemist makes field trials and pays close attention to user reports: "Hey, I love the pills with the skull on, but those with the rabbit just give me palpitations."
This page is absolutely correct that you should not use 32 bit key IDs, ever.

However, some of its information about GnuPG is out of date. As of version 1.4.17 (released in June), GnuPG no longer blindly accepts responses from key servers:

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit...

http://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1579

The fix was backported to wheezy-security as well:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725411
Apático and altivo. But in the context of companies "Sin escrúpulos" makes a good match.
I fail to comprehend how the topic being discussed by the OP has anything to do with minorities or venture capitalists? You're going to have to cough up a little more info to back up your point? +Please.
this is a very narrow minded view. microsoft began creating plugins for utilities that did not follow web standards such as activex that would integrate the browser with the operating system. on top of them being horribly flawed with security bugs, these plugins would then only work for ie. microsoft then pushed people creating web content to use these non-standard plugins in their site because they would not modify ie to include w3c standards that did the same thing. so now many people and companies were forced to use ie because some site they needed to use required one of those plugins.

this continued on until so many major security flaws were found in ie that it drove people who didnt even know what a web browser was to firefox.
It's sad that you don't mention giving him any time to play outside.
No, legalizing safe illegal highs would save lives. People are using these dangerous, untested chemicals because they can get them without running afoul of the law. People don't smoke spice because they prefer it over cannabis, they smoke it because they can buy it at a headshop.
In 1998 or so, Scottrade, my broker, advised me to quit using IE and only use Netscape because of all horrible issues they had making their code work with it and that they advised all their clients to do the same. That's almost a quote.
I cannot believe people still argue that bundling Internet Explorer with Windows was a BadThing™.

http://xkcd.com/1118/

It's so unbelievably mild to the walled gardens of today's app store where Apple, Google or Microsoft could freely choose to eliminate all browser apps on their platform if they chose.
Slim/Jade/HAML etc are templating languages, they're not designed for writing text at all - they're almost the opposite of markdown et all.
Props to the article author for including the opinions of some photographers who were fine with Yahoo's usage of their pictures. It would have been very easy to create a hit piece which only included quotes from people who were offended by the operation.
108. Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.

(!?) Simpler times, indeed.
ActievJob actually does default to :inline, which uses the Rails process to execute the job, so in a way, it kind of is it's own background processor, but you can easily swap out, as it implements an API for creating and scheduling jobs.
Note from the Docker guy: I look forward to reviewing this PR, I agree zfs support would be an awesome addition. However, note that this PR is not against the actual Docker repo but against a contributor's fork. I suppose it's because they don't yet feel it is ready to be contributed upstream. Except it's not marked as a fork in github so not sure if the usual PR system will work? In any case, we are happy to help if we can.

Also note that we have merged experimental overlayfs support in the upcoming 1.4 release candidate.
Hmm, you clearly didn't catch my drift, which I'll accept blame for — my piece rambles on a bit uncontrollably.

My point was to rethink privacy from the perspective of what we as individuals stand to gain by gathering this data. I then asked: who would you trust to gather and store this information, on your behalf? For most people, they wouldn't be able to answer that question — for others, especially technologically privileged individuals / open source libertarians — the answer would be "myself".

Aside from logging in with your username and password, you have few if any opportunities when using apps today to stream your data exhaust into a data vault of your choosing. Rare is the app maker that allows you to export a dump of your data, rarer still is one that openly shares the data it has about you with you.

Curiously, Facebook actually a lot of functionality in this regard through its App Settings page (https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications). Google Takeout (https://www.google.com/settings/takeout) provides a lot of your data for export, but no one seems to have really built any tools for the individual to take advantage of this trove of information for personal benefit.

What I hear you arguing for is the end of user tracking. Indeed, there are plenty of tools that you can outfit yourself with to that end (Tor, Ghostery, Adblock, Do-not-track, Incognito Mode, and many more). But ultimately you as representative of a class of internet consumer are an outlier. There are for more people on the internet and in the world who unknowingly consent to data collection and then have little upside in the collection of that data. It is those people that Google cares the most about as customers (perhaps in addition to advertisers), and those who are most in the dark about "the privacy boogey man" about which you know plenty, but about which they know nothing but confusion and fear.

My question is how we enfranchise those individuals with the choice — either to not be tracked, be tracked by a party of their choosing, or to somehow do it for themselves so that they reap some of the gains of the data capital they are producing.
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Nope, most 'legal highs' are manufactured to behave like legal alternatives, but are chemically different. FAA: "the chemical structure of which is substantially similar to the chemical structure of a controlled substance in schedule I or II" is illegal. Designer drugs have to be made chemically substantially different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analog_Act
What parts of Markdown are closer to conventions of ASCII-text email than the equivalent Creole? Two spaces at the end of a line? List renumbering?
Turkey backs ISIS to attack from Turkish border
It's important to read Creative Commons licenses carefully: some grant other people the right to make money off of your original work in ways you never envisioned, without any compensation to you.

Photographer Thomas Hawk wrote, correctly: "If you are going to license your photos Creative Commons with no restriction, then you ought to be prepared for this type of use. If it’s not Flickr selling them, anyone else can, legally. If you are uncomfortable with this idea, then you should not use Creative Commons without any sort of restriction."[1]

The photographers who are now upset apparently never read those licenses. And they're irrevocable, according to Creative Commons itself[2], meaning there's no legal recourse if someone wants to sell coffee mugs or T-Shirts with your CC-BY or CC-BY-SA-licensed photos. To Yahoo's credit, they are voluntarily allowing photographers to opt-out.

(What's interesting is that of the 14 photographers interviewed by the WSJ in the linked article, 8 actually didn't care. I would have guessed that number would have been higher.)

This is a separate issue from the "handpicked" Flickr photos, with a 51% revenue split. The actual Yahoo announcement[3] says the handpicked rev-share option is "invite-only," so presumably photographers who opt-in are okay with the terms.

Legality aside, I suspect Yahoo will regret this move. Seems to me that the negatives outweigh the revenue (especially since anyone can also offer CC prints), and users may view it as at odds with Flickr's 2011 claim that "at Flickr, your photos are always yours." Also Google+ has better editing tools and free unlimited photo storage (for <=2048px, I think), so that might prompt folks to move their photos over.

[1] http://thomashawk.com/2014/11/the-controversy-around-flickr-...

[2] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/10296

[3] https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157649323144986/pa...
Yes but that's exactly what I meant. ASCII wastes 1 bit by character (the 8th bit isn't used). What if the source was encoded in such a way that it is "contracted" (the unused bit of the first character is the first bit of the second character, etc). Sorry for the 3 days late reply. The decoding function would have to be very small to make it worth it though.
No, I'd say that these don't really add anything to the quality of the piece except loss of clarity. Prose isn't poetry, and poetry isn't neccesairily made better by adding obscure wording.
So you don't say what you consider best. Do you need a discrete GPU and a huge screen? Do you want a lightweight ultraportable with great battery life?

Also after christmas sales are often good for tech, if you can wait. You can often get refurbs from returns for great prices.

I'm on a thinkpad T530. added an aftermarket SSD and 16 gb of ram (You need a W system to get 32GB, but it's possible). Note, get an intel wifi card that supports 2.5 and 5.0 channels. a T540 is a substantially better machine, both with haswell getting better power managment, and the ability to hotswap batteries because of a smaller internal battery.

I also have an hp chromebook 14 running crouton lubuntu 14.04 I got for $236 on woot. It's fine as a secondary laptop, and seems to have good battery life. I do occasionally miss having a meta key. I run xfce, not unity, and I'd recommend a light-weight DE. It is notably slower compiling (things like YouCompleteMe's C++ code for vim).

The other thing to consider is a cheap foreign made computer, like Sager or Clevo. They are bare bones systems, but that's often better for linux support. I'd also look at resources from reddit's r/SuggestALaptop like http://www.reddit.com/r/SuggestALaptop/comments/2448oy/guide...
How Apple becomes a trillion dollar company
> The old man in me screams: It's not that travel has become narcissistic, it's that everything has.

Old men have always bemoaned the narcissism of young people. It isn't "kids these days," it's just "kids."

Maybe it's a cliche at this point to bring this up, but

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

is attributed to Socrates.

I've enjoyed the Language Log's "narcissism skepticism" over the years. Maybe someone else will too:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=narcissism
Yahoo's actual announcement on November 20 says they're using "a subset of Creative Commons images ('safe' photos with license type CC-BY and CC-BY-SA)." See:

https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157649323144986/pa...
Of course; you can't make everyone happy all the time.

However, it's quite obvious that you are hugely influenced by Ruby's syntax. What I don't understand is why, in copying Ruby's overall flavour of syntax, you decided to make it a little worse.

My hypothesis is that you discovered that this syntax allowed an elegant, unifying structure to the internal implementation, which is fine — but as a user, it comes across as an annoying wart. The parser should know perfectly well that after "def" comes a function name, so why does it need the "do" to demarcate the function body? It would have been just as ugly in Ruby, which goes for terseness in the common case (eg., "if" can take a "then").

Criticisms aside, I should add that this is the only thing so far that has annoyed me about Elixir.
Can't accept charity from family? What article were you reading? Not the one we're discussing, that's for sure.
lol not quite in the spirit of the challenge.
Contrast the support for Linus "just getting his point across" in the other responses to you, with the downvotes another person got elsewhere for calling something "retarded." I find it interesting.
Do you actually work at a RoR or Clojure shop, or are you speaking from "cable show watching experience" ? Having worked at a number of such places in the Valley, the number of times I've been told that I can't go home or to lunch or whatever until such-and-such a thing is done has been zero.

Now, a finance startup in New York where the stack is Java and .NET? Absolutely.
.well-known is really long and not semantic. it sucks.
I never create tables in HTML any more. If I ever want an HTML table, I create it in org-mode and export it. It's just so much faster to create what you want.
Must be pretty cozy up there in your ivory tower. You've never been faced with the stress of imminent homelessness, I take it. I have. There's a million things coming at you at once, all the while you're trying to keep a straight head while gripped in depression and fear.

Please, get a clue.
For those not understanding and wanting to see the "source" for this entry... it was a Zero byte file.
Aha interesting, I didn't realise that.