skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed the point. The brilliance in To Kill a Mockingbird is the way it makes us feel the confusion felt by a six year old looking at an adult world.

At the time, many people did see race relations as 'black or white', and people thought there was a perfectly legitimate debate to be had about whether someone that was black was 'less of a man' that someone that was white. What Scout really shows us is that children are not born with this pre-conceived notion, and are generally confused by it... and we should be too.

To address your specific points: the black people were not supposed to have much of a voice in the novel, because black people didn't have much of a voice back then. There wasn't much insight (in terms of speeches or things said) around race relations, because to a six year old girl the insight doesn't matter. All that matters is one of fairness - that a child cannot fathom how crazy adults must be to not give black people a voice or to treat them differently, just because of their skin.

PS: In response to your comment about Finch, you're right. Finch is perfect - because he's Scout's father - and most six year old girls do think of their father as perfect; if Scout hadn't been written that way then her character would have seemed shallow and wrong.

PPS: I've clearly thought about this too much and what I've wrote seems a bit preachy - as with any book, it all comes down to personal taste.
It's not being reported as news, the entire article is full of interesting stories about the gun and why it might be useful for survival.
Oh, I'm not merely suggesting it.

San Francisco is an extremely unfriendly place to people known to have the wrong politics.
I'd tell y'all a UDP joke, but you might not get it.
Always good to see SOMETHING happening with sublime. Wish this occurred more often though.
Wouldn't one cheap warehouse in the city(ies) suffice?
I had a truly magical experience talking to an engineer at Mongo during our sales experience with them. This guy was some sort of super SE. We had a short list of things we simply could not make it do very quickly. He proceeded to tell us how no database could do those things quickly and they were fundamentally broken things to do anyways... (query where property x != y or x doesn't exist was one I can think of) PostgreSQL and Vertica did them all, radically faster than Mongo did.
Good debugging tools that filter out the irrelevant are perhaps better. Odds are that any time you break out the debugger the fix is in your code not Windows, Linux, the JVM etc. That's not to say those things don't have bugs, only that they are orders if magnitude more debugged than most code under development.
This is a good example of why we should let failed companies fail and let good companies then salvage the good assets.

Imagine US government had taken over RadioShack to "protect the jobs" using taxpayers money and spent billions for a so called turnaround.
They might be close to free and that sounds like a decent overlap with amazons low prices.
> they'd probably immediately fork it and provide an alternate download in order to hurt Microsoft

They would fork it, but that is not why.
Random counter-examples: Python, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, ElasticSearch, zsh, grep, ssh, git, ...

There's "one lonely dude complaining on the internet", which you can safely ignore. And there's "half the audience has horror stories to tell", which should probably be a red flag.
Because the expected reaction is supposed to be 'Oh, those silly Soviets. Look at all the weird things they did during the space race'.

I bet they also had lifejackets. Who needs lifejackets in space?!
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Out of curiosity, which laptop are you using right now?
I'm confused. Where did $128/month come from?

You other points on unable to view contents of backups as well as no guarantee of keeping the same IP are noted.
isn't that covered by the delivery lockers?
The problem with your thinking is that you ignore the fact that socialist policies have been implemented successfully in all modern western democracies and somehow those societies haven't shattered yet. It's called a "mixed economy" and you're living in one right now.

The idea that we have to construct a society based on idealistic absolutes is nonsense. Some problems are more efficiently solved collectively, others are better solved by the power of the market. Let's harness the power of both.

If the day comes when AI abruptly puts huge percentages of the population out of work and our society faces collapse, one can easily envision a solution that implements structural changes that incorporates both the benefits of market forces and the efficiencies of collective resource pooling.
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Netflix sent me an email after reading this thread. I've been 100% transparent to them and have done nothing illegal.
I can only talk about our (Postmates) experience but having multiple pickup and drop-off locations increases the efficiency of a fleet dramatically. In larger cities like New York, LA, etc. multiple warehouses are a huge advantage. Off course i'm mostly referring to on-demand or same day deliveries here.

Maybe i should add some more color here. If you think in terms of traditional delivery, one warehouse is enough. But i'm not sure that this paradigm (one van drives to a warehouse, collects a bunch of stuff and delivers it), is what works best for on-demand, 2-hour or same day deliveries. Multiple, fast and easy to reach pickup locations are an advantage at scale. Especially for deliveries where minutes matter.

Ultimately, we will probably see a combination of both.
Jammers are not selective at all - they basically DoS a local area with a signal that makes it so a particular range of devices cannot receive any data due to the jammer being closer/more powerful than whatever device they normally would be able to reach.
And then there is huge difference between Western so called Budhhist living in Southern California and buddhist peasant from a Chinese village.
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Is verbally relating the reason why one does something a prerequisite to conscious thought? Dams don't get built by beavers all over the world by sheer random chance - there's obviously some deliberate intention there. Its also possible they observe and learn this process from their family members:

"When young are born, they spend their first month in the lodge and their mother is the primary caretaker while their father maintains the territory. In the time after they leave the lodge for the first time, yearlings will help their parents build food caches in the fall and repair dams and lodges." (Source: Wikipedia)
> the UI is pretty good.

Thank you, that is encouraging. We're working to make it really good.
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Haha, they just sent me an email about why I haven't upgraded to the latest ultimate version. I think cross-platform .NET(F#/C#) support would be the clincher.
One very interesting paragraph from the article:

"Managed access systems can cost more than a million dollars apiece to install. But some prisons have found a way to lower the cost by partnering with outside vendors. In California, for example, Global TelLink – a private company that operates phone systems at many state and federal prisons – installed managed access systems in correctional facilities at no cost to the state, as part of a five-year exclusive contract. (Which makes sense: Global TelLink believes it will make more money from pay-phone fees if inmates’ wireless access is cut off.)"

Fascinating that one of the companies involved in helping to cut off inmate cell phone use stands to make a profit from their activities. I have many gripes with the American institutional prison system, and this is just one small slice of the corruption that drives it.
In that case, I'll just keep telling you this TCP joke until you do get it.
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Having donated to what I thought was the BSD licensing of this, I'm pretty disappointed.
I looked into the laptop just last week too! But open hardware just mean that we still need some FreeBSD developers to be using it and port the linux drivers (they only make sure that it would be working on stock with linux drivers). From the web page:

> Since we are using Trisquel GNU/Linux, which is the strictest of distributions and strips all binary blobs from the Linux kernel, you can easily install anything less strict, such as Debian and Ubuntu. We have not yet tried installing a non-GNU/Linux-based operating system.

Considering that there won't be a big group of developers using the Librem laptop to start with, I was afraid some of the driver might be missing.
That sounds new like a miserable experience. Does anyone actually like online ordering with instore pickup?
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Thats kind if it. CoreCLR is the runtime that all .NET languages run in. CoreCLR doesn't run on Linux yet but they are working on it and once it dose all .NET languages (Including F#) should run on Linux.
You sure about the 2nd tier part? The ones around here are in prime locations.
IBM came into our .NET shop and jammed in a one-off Java applications that our developers have to support. It sticks out as a sore thumb. If the management learned anything, they will never bring IBM back for anything. :(
The EU and the US are currently working on one such "free-trade" agreement. It will make importing goods from the US easier, but it will also allow American companies to circumvent the stricter consumer protection laws in Europe (e.g. privacy laws and food regulations).

Free-trade agreements are a double-edged sword. Pretending they're universally and unambiguously beneficial by default is absurd. Especially with the amount of lobbying (including domestic companies lobbying abroad via their local subsidiaries) that influences their terms.

BTW, many Europeans don't think of these regulations (privacy laws, etc) in the EU as regulations, they think of them as rights. Facebook & co have to jump to ridiculous hoops[0] to use their business model in Europe -- for the users, that's a feature, not a bug.
My initial reaction was "oh is that all". I mean don't get me wrong, the way the site works is nice, but I was really expecting it to move the code around such that the whitespace formed a picture, or have all the lines of code in random text sizes, or allow you to prioritise different sections so that some were highlighted or something like that.

As it stands it's not really something I want on my wall.
I thought maybe you was influenced by people accompanying you. But I also did some reading and see that loss of self-identity is an often symptom caused by psychedelics, so I don't know.

BTW, eastern practitioners explicitly advice against drug use, they employ other methods to achieve and retain this state of mind: bhakti (love), jnana (knowledge - means analysing the difference between thoughts and thinking process and Atman - the Self who perceives them), karma yoga, raja yoga, etc.

Some people fall into this state spontaneously, Ramana Maharishi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi) got this "enlightenment" at 16, and didn't speak several years after that.

I enjoy reading eastern texts, as artifacts of brilliant thought, also interesting in context of our development towards AI, where we still don't have satisfying theory for consciousness (that Vedanta calls atman). They have also accumulated interesting theories and terminology about mind mechanics. But I think it's worth to remain skeptical. After all, those strange states of mind may be just dysfunctions. For example, anoxaemia, inhaling vapors of glues and varnishes,	sensory and motor deprivation induce "special effects" on cognition and mind too.
> Open hardware

Nope. Its i7 cpu is definitely not what I would consider open hardware. So then what's the point of this? If there's nothing 'libre' about most of the hardware inside then it's just a normal i7 laptop with Linux pre-installed. I don't see how this is any different than just buying a laptop and immediately replacing everything on it with OSS.
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I acknowledge you; go ahead.
If they actually cared about their shareholders then they'd also care about their employees and customers.
I don't disagree with your sentiment, but the sign of a "good" recruiter would be to tell the client when their expectations about compensation are out of wack.

So, that doesn't really answer the underlying question.
Does version 3 fix the issue where the database lies to you and says the write was complete once it hits the network socket and doesn't wait for the ack?

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/
The desktop browser is great, but they gotta reign in the RAM usage. It's getting to be a problem.
The marriage of tech and law. More interesting than it might appear
https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/1607/files

The editor is intentionally crippled.
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I'd be interested in having a look at your listings, but your Careers site appears to be broken; I see a header and sidebar, but the main page is just a "Careers" banner with nothing underneath it. I'm using Chrome on Arch Linux.
It would be nice if you could add Support for IPad. I cannot copy/paste the url. As soon as I tap on the url field, I toggle the info text box.
Well, I guess the GP meant that if you could inflict significant harm on the company by resigning, the shareholders won't let you do that, so you can just start extorting them for money.
I disagree with the notion that 5.45x39 out of a roughly 12-inch barrel would be that great against bears. I thought they would at least issue slugs for the shotgun barrel (which is somewhere in between the small 28-gauge and a .410 shotguns in American parlance) but apparently not . . . you need hardened cast projectiles to penetrate on bears, not soft points.

Compare the 5.45x39 stats [1] to a round more suited and used for defense against bears [2]

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.45%C3%9739mm
2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.45-70

Seems like a nice versatile platform for small game though.
Please, please, Amazon, leave 1/16 of the shelf space for electronic components! Pack them densely, don't offer customer support, and charge high prices. We need brick and mortar places to buy components. It might be worth a lot of goodwill from electronics tinkerers. Although I guess that's not a big enough group to matter, but who knows...
You're correct, I miscalculated their annual loss (but not from their expense line). The assets and liabilities are literally from these lines on their balance sheet:

Total Assets	3,835.75
Total Liabilities	2,627.98

Per:

http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/earnings/earnings.a...

"2014 revenues at Barnes & Noble, Inc. totaled $6.4B USD, while annual losses equaled $1.12 per share."

B&N has 60.24M shares outstanding. That makes their annual loss $67 million. They do indeed have a longer runway than I anticipated, but I still feel that they run a business in decline. Their saving grace from a few years ago (Nook) is now an albatross. What is their next move?
I see this limitation mentioned often when Atom is discussed.

On the constructive side of things, anybody have recommendations for editors that do handle large text files well?

Obviously vi and emacs do. (Correct?)

OSX - TextWrangler and its big brother BBEdit are the best I've found - but this is not something I've extensively researched.

Windows - UltraEdit boasts that it can edit files of arbitrarily large sizes and in my experience this is true. UltraEdit costs money but I have an old version I keep around for when I need to work with bigger files.
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>> "there have been a lot of commits recently preparing the tree for importing a version of the linux Haswell driver"

Not meaning to start a license flame war, but how does this work?

How does FreeBSD import something that's presumably GPL'ed?
Agreed. I had 1.2Gb in use from a single TechCrunch tab the other day. Was probably ads but still.
Selection bias implies that people just like what they're familiar with; I'm sure that does keep people from switching to new tools, but that's not what I'm referring to.

I'm talking about people who actually try new tools and reject them as useful to their problem domains; I try a lot of new tools, and some fit with the problems I solve better than others.

I didn't quite remember what "data oriented meant," but a quick search brought up this article [1] on using data-driven design in games. It brings up some important points, but really the point of data flow design seems to be optimization and efficiency rather than making it easier to write the code.

And I'm all for that, and I thank you for making me look that up since I will likely use that idea, but I'll keep my text editor for most of the game development I do going forward. Except maybe the particle systems, which as the article below points out, are typically already data oriented, and have had good data-flow-based tools for years. ;)

[1] http://gamesfromwithin.com/data-oriented-design
So they re-invented the Safety Squat Bar and made it out of wood.

https://www.google.com/search?q=safety+squat+bar
I'm on a Latitude E5420 right now, but I bought an E7440 last year which I've been using for testing and plan on switching over to as soon as Haswell support is available.
Android malware written by Antivirus companies to advertise own products?
you really need to acknowledge that B&m stores have been critical to apple becoming the worlds most profitable company.
What's so attractive about project management tools? Why do we see so many companies doing the same thing with slight variations?
Your sentence brings up this interesting discrepancy between what something might mean, and what it actually means.

"Increasing shareholder value" could conceivably mean long term growth and doing everything right for a win-win-win situation. It makes sense, in a way.

But really it's much more nihilistic than that. There could be one majority shareholder that smashes the company and fucks over minority stake holders, causes a bad outcome for everyone except him/herself, and finds a legal way to execute the plan. That is a real thing that happens, and can be done as legally and with as much validity as treating everyone well to encourage long term growth.

The shareholders own the company, and it's theirs to do what they want with, even if that means picking up their toys and going home.
I downvoted you because you seem to be conflating breaking the law (even unjust ones, and you cite MLK Jr. and presumably others in the tradition including Ghandi) with acts of terrorism.

I would like to express my opinion that your sort of thinking is very dangerous and something to be discouraged.
It can be, it can also be a context free grammar, which is 'higher' than a state machine (or regular expression)
I disagree with this. Yes, for big companies like Amazon or Ebay it doesn't matter so much but for smaller companies and startups, it makes it more human to interact with if you can see what kind of team there is behind the product. It also increases the trust that there is actually somebody human on the other side when browsing the website of a company you're planning to use.

Also, showcasing your customers does give you credibility. If you are a young startup that have someone like Walmart or McDonals using your product, it means it is not utterly bullshit you are telling.
Yeah, the Chinese have a unit of measurement called "yi" which is exactly 0.1 billion.
I don't agree with the whole "nobody cares about when your company was founded". If it were founded yesterday I'd care.
Do prisoners typically have access to power outlets? This seems like an easy way to curtail the problem.
Terrorism: the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.

I'm pretty certain American revolutionaries used violence and intimidation against British soldiers and British property in the pursuit of political aims.

Do you disagree?
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How does that jive with stuff like this?
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2012/06/26/the-sharehol...
https://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism

Because it seems that generally isn't correct as viewed by the law (i'm not a lawyer blah blah...).
I like the hundreds of repeated lines. I wonder when they are going to rediscover macro assemblers.
I once saw someone rant for pages and pages about how "flux" was a terrible name for anything because it was an archaic term for diarrhea.
I'm not. If it were just a couple thousand, they wouldn't be doing all the shenanigans with review numbers.

This is a test to see what they can get away with before class action lawsuits start flying. If they dumped all 100,000 at once, they'd get smashed with lawsuits.

So,they're going to try to pull it off with 10,000 and see how many lawyers appear.
Alan has also been a great supporter of Women Techmakers, both in terms of internal support and physically going to all the events; I've seen him more at women-in-tech events since leaving Google than I ever did while working there!
Lol, 'my panties in a bunch'. While it feels good to express oneself, it shows maturity to not shout out 'SHIT!', if even to substitute it with 'SHOOT!', and therein lies the logic. It demonstrates a certain level of restraint, while not absolute restraint, but at least a base level of it. You may not agree. You might also be a self-righteous prick, but since you advocate lack of restraint, there you have it.

Edit: and to clarify,

"It's not a very intelligent thing to change the form of the curse words but not their content." - I never said it was intelligent, I said it made me realize how juvenile people sound when they curse non stop.

"And focus on the logic, not the implied naughtiness of my fictional example" - You are missing the point here, which I stated plainly in my first post: One could argue that speaking like a child is to have no restraint over what comes out of your mouth, not the other way around.

"You want to practice restraint? Then don't say anything instead of swearing. It's as simple as that." - Oversimplifying, a sign of immaturity, i'm concerned about you...
Probably true but there's not much that needs to be delivered in less than a few hours.
OpenID Connect would be a good choice for authentication. Which is really just OAuth 2.0: http://openid.net/connect/
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Yeah at first I thought "hey somebody actually took the time too code an elaborate HTML page." Then I realized it's all images. The truth is creating a page like that in HTML is totally possible, but it's a very labor-intensive and technical process. That's too bad.
If you use the same passwords for all online accounts in 2015, you should probably have the keys to the interweb taken away.
I deployed and ran a five-unit open-mesh system about a year ago. After some slight deployment shenanigans, the system was stable and pretty fast.
...and it would mean getting rid of the annoying Colorado-vs-Amazon lawsuit, and Amazon reinstating Colorado affiliates.

And it would simplify my working arrangement (as an Amazon employee).

Oh please oh please...