skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust takes a completely different approach to this. If you behave badly, you're out. Even on IRC. It also keeps discussions direct and accusal-free most of the times.

It's one of the reasons I chose Rust as the next community to work in. I have zero tolerance for such things and hate being in discussions with people that cannot - well - discuss. I just don't want to waste my time on such communities.

Given that Rust now has a surprising number of meetups around the world (Berlin alone has a regular learners group with ~ 25 attendees weekly (some regular, some new)), they have a knack for good community building. And keeping insulting behavior to zero is one important cornerstone of this.

I've been doing community org and tracker triage for quite a few years now: you _can_ and _should_ judge a community by their community spaces (IRC, trackers, bulletin boards) and not by single-person publications (GH, blogs).
> And no, the standard library does not rely on GC like in D.

Does this mean that all of the standard library is written using manual memory management? Wouldn't this slow down its development and expose it to all the same reliability and security problems C has?
Spam calls are a much larger problem in China. If only we had Xiaomi's spam filtering features in the phone's UI. "MIUI users can label an incoming call as spam by tapping a button, if enough people do it all MIUI users will see the number as spam."[1]

1. http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/12/liveblog-xiaomi-explains-it...
Unwilling to engage? You seem to watch the wrong shows... I've seen tons of interviews with people advocating immigration control. Some where even quite friendly.

There is a problem you don't seem to have noticed: The AFD Party does not only advocate tighter immigration control, but it also wants to hold offices. So if the news media document the utter failure of this party to even conduct their basic business without minor and major scandals, it saves us from voting some complete idiot into office.

And where they got into office they continue to disappoint. Some just quit the party, others don't do any constructive work, some collaborate with the extreme right (and then they say they didn't).

The media has an obligation to inform the public about the quality of politicians. That the AFD mostly fields ridiculously incompetent or inadequate candidates is not the media's fault.
I love how Nim is getting along but I am rather afraid to put in production.

The number of compiler bugs is a bit scary.

https://github.com/Araq/Nim/labels/High%20Priority

And also from what I've heard, the tooling isn't very good. Autocomplete isn't context sensitive and using GDB to resolve a variable like "foo" actually becomes "foo_randomnumber".
YEs those warehouses are called 3PL's (Third party logistic provider) the issue with those is that local products and niche items aren't using those since they don't have the volume to be in them. The idea of having one warehouse is good but most of the large companies (Does using 3PL's) already have theirs signed. Now I could partner up with them but it won't allow me to gain diversity in my items.

I know I sound negative about it but challenge me on that cause it would be the easiest scenario to go with if I crack that model correctly.
Did they release the code for this?
This: exactly this. Zeroisation is a fundamental cryptographic primitive, probably the most fundamental. Conceptually simple, but very easy to screw up, and has catastrophic consequences if the assumption is violated.

I want to be able to have an ephemeral secret, and then trust the code to do its very best to get rid of it when it's no longer needed. That doesn't mean just leave it rotting on the heap and promising it doesn't get accesed again, it means burning it to make sure. That's the underpinning of any possible proof of forward security.

Sure, you say, I want a helper process? Fine idea: compartmentation. Now that helper process needs secure zeroisation. And since I want it to be secure, surely I want to write that process in Rust. See where I'm going here?

Whether 'safe' code I trust within my environment can read it again is totally irrelevant, if the machine later gets rooted or booted, nonstopped or whatever.
Thanks for reminding me. I saw a recent records proposal for Haskell that seemed to hit all the marks including performance (it wasn't Vinyl). I seriously hope OCaml considers a similar approach to records in the future, but in the mean time, "out of the box" records in OCaml are sound and reasonable.
While I do tend to agree with you, this is a content-free comment; it has no purpose but to mock the parent commenter. When commenting, please keep things civil and constructive.
I think that Mandelbrot's point is actually quite the opposite - that non-gaussian stable distributions are the norm; and that we are trained to see gaussians and that's why we're surprised. When alpha is very close to 2 (e.g. 1.9 and above it really makes little difference) but even a bit lower like 1.8 you can have some very scary consequences for modelling. In his book he has an example of an insurance market and modelling the failure of insurance companies... Which was especially poignant considering what happened after he died (and what is happening now).
As far as I know the differential lanes are swappable. They each have an identification channel assigned to them, so the combinations are (ACC0, Data1, Data2) and (ACC1, Data3, Data4). Keeping in mind that the function of each lane is found once it's plugged in the cable becomes fully reversible and routing inside the connector is simpler.
Yes, it's me. I did my networking work at Ford Aerospace in the early 1980s. But I left in 1986. It still bothers me that the Nagle algorithm (which I called tinygram prevention) and delayed ACKs interact so badly.

That fixed 200ms ACK delay timer was a horrible mistake. Why 200ms? Human reaction time. That idea was borrowed from X.25 interface devices, where it was called an "accumulation timer". The Berkeley guys were trying to reduce Telnet overhead, because they had thousands of students using time-sharing systems from remote dumb terminals run through Telnet gateways. So they put in a quick fix specific to that problem. That's the only short fixed timer in TCP; everything else is geared to some computed measure such as round trip time.

Today, I'd just turn off ACK delay. ACKs are tiny and don't use much bandwidth, nobody uses Telnet any more, and most traffic is much heavier in one direction than the other. The case in which ACK delay helps is rare today. An RPC system making many short query/response calls might benefit from it; that's about it. A smarter algorithm in TCP might turn on ACK delay if it notices it's sending a lot of ACKs which could have been piggybacked on the next packet, but having it on all the time is no longer a good thing.

If you turn off the Nagle algorithm and then rapidly send single bytes to a socket, each byte will go out as a separate packet. This can increase traffic by an order of magnitude or two, with throughput declining accordingly. If you turn off delayed ACKs, traffic in the less-busy direction may go up slightly. That's why it's better to turn off delayed ACKs, if that's available.

One of the few legit cases for turning off the Nagle algorithm is for a FPS game running over the net. There, one-way latency matters; getting your shots and moves to the server before the other players affects gameplay. For almost everything else, it's round-trip time that matters, not one-way.
It's not as though there were not refugees streaming out of the country recounting the atrocities and the difficulties they faced escaping the regime. Look, the first two years, the KCP itself thought it was illegitimate that it had no name. They didn't even acknowledge they existed.

All you have to do is listen the population. When you have thousands of escapees and refugees recounting the same horrible things, it's not a sinister "propaganda plot".

I've heard the stories from actual escapees who still have nightmares from when they trudged though unknown jungle for months not knowing if they'd see another day, not less make it out free. Decomposing bodies, where you might see a cow, in previous times, so in all kinds of places, you din't know who might turn you in, hunger, dispossession, etc.
Emmigrate to Germany...
"Your suppliers can't necessarily drop ship to your customers, because their items will need to be combined with others - if you have your suppliers drop ship to you, your gift boxes will take too long to come out." - Jefflinwood

That is exactly the issue simplified! Thank for such a good explanation.

You are absolutely right on the last point but we are looking to build a model were our customization is from the item picking part not the warehousing part. Be a tech play more than a warehousing play. Now we currently ship to us the items, repackaged and send back which is a very non-scalable way to grow not to say non-profitable too.
Agreed, and as do I. Perhaps our tone has gotten too rancorous.

Civil people can disagree without being disagreeable, and I know from your comments around the site that you're a civil person, so if my tone has been less than appropriate I apologize.

As for the conversation itself, as you said, it stands as is, and we can let the other readers judge the facts for themselves.
I think watching shitty TV shows is slightly better than drinking ungodly amounts of wodka...
Great. Now your sandbox needs secure zeroisation.

Yes, actually proving all parts of the compiler's data transforms going down to assembly kind of is what I'm after, if we can get it…
The scope of this is pretty stunning, but if you're going to make a billion dollars you can probably invest 100M or so in developing an organization that can pull it off.

I wonder when we'll see the equivalent of VC money in these sorts of enterprises.
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The same people that warned everybody that the state had the technical ability and disposition to monitor all communication? Can you see how your weakness for ad hominem might play right into a disinformation tactic as old as the state, the agent provocateur?
<quote>

With 75 years of climate data cross-referenced with reams of shopping research, marketers can now use the weather to predict sales.

Sears Automotive knows that 5-year old car batteries die after three consecutive days of sub-zero temperatures, so they advertise on day four.

The busiest day of the week at Harley-Davidson dealerships is exactly 22 degrees C and sunny.

When spring temperatures hit 21 degrees C, hair removal products surge 1400%, and BBQ sales jump 200%.

And did you know that when the temperature drops just one degree in the Fall - just one degree - mousetrap sales surge 25%? Marketers do.

</quote>
I think I've become your straw man. I was not advocating. I was explaining why I think org y ends up doing x too when it's already been decided an org needs to be formed to solve a problem that the market is not or cannot solve.
I would be careful about calling policy disagreements "lies".

Keep in mind Bill Clinton and his admin did plenty of horrible stuff as well (communications decency act, DMCA, the clipper and v-chip shenanigans, high strength crypto as a munition, the hounding of Phil Zimmerman and PGP, operation sundevil, etc.

My point is that digital privacy is not a "liberal" or "conservative" issue, it's a new concern that seems to have adherents across the political spectrum.
Both democrats and republicans have been strong supporters of government surveillance and stomping on digital privacy rights. There is no mainstream political party taking up the privacy mantra yet en large because the people of the USA apparently don't want it.

It's our job to change that, but that requires changing people's minds that their privacy is worth risking a successful terrorist attack (which is how everyone in the mainstream US perceives the trade off).
MP3 is audibly lossy, especially at lower sample rates.

So yes - you can hear it's gone.

And if you look at a spectrograph, you can see it's gone, too.
How does he get the information lost in compression? Does he put the compressed and uncompressed version on two different tracks with one phase-flipped?
This is basically a wiki, but with lots of low quality pages. Perhaps shrinking the sitemap to phone numbers that have actual information would help?
I honestly don't get how people can claim that Haskell is unusually hard to learn. I started learning Haskell with zero functional programming experience, and after getting over that initial pure+functional learning curve (which took two or three weeks of casual learning), it was smooth sailing. Haskell is actually a very simple language compared to popular languages like python or C++; you just have to do a bit of thinking to get out of the procedural/imperative/impure mindset.

I especially don't understand how people get tripped up by laziness. 99.9% of strict code will work with no changes in a lazy environment. The rest usually just needs a slight tweak to avoid memory leaks.

To anyone considering undertaking the modest effort required to learn Haskell, I completely recommend it. My code in every language has tangibly improved.
I too find Chomsky a bit too far to the left, and indeed he doesn't have all the answers in his worldview. The questions you pointed out seem important.

Nevertheless, the list of techniques and examples of media manipulation that he has painstakingly documented in his book is valuable in its own right. You don't have to agree with all or even most of Chomsky to give due consideration to some of his work.
I'm responding to a sibling comment:

> the private sector has no interest in, such as welfare systems

Absolutely false. Children take care of their parents, families take care of each other, friends offer housing and food to their friends. At best you can argue that the private sector has stepped back to the extent the state has stepped in.
Monopoly’s Inventor: The Progressive Who Didn’t Pass ‘Go’
Agreed. The key for me is the blocking structure. On the calendar, the next hour, X. Nothing else unless you finish it. Oddly the trigger for me was World of Warcraft where you could hop online to spend "5 minutes checking auctions" and end up 3 hours later wondering what the hell?
If you're on a mobile device, do what I do: "share" or "send" the url to your email app and then mail it to yourself. It goes directly to my inbox, and I don't mark it as "read" until I've "actioned" it.
The actual title is "The dark science of interrogation", which makes rather more sense than "The dark side of interrogation" which is the current HN title.
Right but that's still a technology. It's designed and created by man.
Yeah as the article mentions, Basque cider is totally different from Woodchuck or even the drier brands that you get in the US. The only time I've seen it Stateside is at a Basque restaurant here in NYC (Euzkadi).
Schleicher's fable, a text in the reconstructed language Proto-Indo-European
JRuby+Truffle is funded by Oracle Labs. There's two full-time employees on it, a PhD student at Linz, and many other people who contribute occasionally or work on libraries we use. Yeah, two of us were at FOSEM. We all work remotely around the world.

The documentation is a bit all over the place at the moment, reflecting the different aspects of the project - part academic/industrial research collaboration, part open source product development. We're not trying to get anyone to use it yet, which is why there isn't a single coherent flashy landing page, but we'll get to that in time.
Are you supposed to have a project manager in a lean or agile ? No, you're a self-reliable and democratic driven team with a PO as a single point of contact, with no hierarchy that will mess up this beautiful utopia.
I would say it is unfair to judge any language by their IRC channel unless they are core members of the group.

In my experience IRC channels being rude is the norm rather than the exception.
You're not going to learn anything from a premade docker image, or from ansible playbooks.

At that point, there's no need to provide a tutorial at all.
Hey Michael (and whoever might see this). I suffer from a similar thing. Too many possibilities and cool options, what ifs. I'm an ENFP personality type (the inspirer) and also have some ADD (have coped well with it as an adult). I also sometimes smoke weed (which gets me even more excited about the world).

Ok, two things that have worked for me.

Short term focus:

Pomodoro technique. You work in 25 minute spurts and don't let yourself do anything but work in those 25 minutes. Aim for 5 or 8 or some number you want to get done that day. That way, you won't feel bad if you can't necessarily finish something that day, you put your pomodoros in.

Long term focus:

Google Warrent Buffet's 25 things method. James Clear did a good article on it. You write down 25 things you want to do. Then you decide which are top 5. Then you DON'T touch anything from 6-25. You have to leave those alone. They will overextend you and dilute your focus.

So that's it. Pomodoro and the 5 things. That keeps me in line.
It hasn't yet had the same impact that Apple has though.
Yes, but Singapore doesn't prosecute you for reverse engineering. That's why he is there. Your point of irony is directed towards other acts that are not relevant to Bunnie's situation.
What about the half of the tree that's underground?
I don't have time right now to dig up data on it because I have to get going, but from a financial efficiency point of view, donating directly to private organizations that perform welfare services is an order of magnitude more effective than letting the State tax you and then redistribute your money to welfare services. The issue is the way our tax system is designed right now, it makes more sense for private individuals to keep their money until the government takes it by force to give to those in need, than for those individuals to contribute directly.
Let me offer a counterpoint. The average Internet anarcho-libertarian has grown up so coddled by the benefits of first-world government they don't even understand why they need it. They go out in the street and feel safe and think that's just how human societies are. They talk about jack-boot thugs, but they've never experienced fear of a real one. They have no experiences that would let them comprehend a world without a monopoly on violence. A world where small groups of people using organized violence can terrorize the majority. A world where the background threat of violence at the hands of government is replaced with in-your-face actual violence from the vicious people among your fellow man.
F# seems like a very nice language, but it won't really be compelling outside of the Microsoft bubble until it's divorced from the thick layer of Microsoft .CORP Brand Identity 2010, Visual Studio Visual Studio Visual Studio, and posts from Microsoft Outreach Engineers.

Compare these two Stack Overflow "getting started with" answers for Haskell http://stackoverflow.com/a/1016986 and F# http://stackoverflow.com/a/11974625 With the Haskell answers I don't know or care what platforms, operating systems, editors, or IDEs they are using. With the Microsoft answer it's like a dystopian scene filled with Branding, Branding, and more Branding.

Personally, I spend a lot of time experimenting with languages and ecosystems and the ".NET" platform is the only one where I feel the need to put on a plaid shirt and dockers with a Windows Phone on my belt and schedule a conference call with a committee at Microsoft to tell them to give it a rest already.
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In that you don't know whether what you do will work or not before it does. Lightbulb as an example.
There are some striking anti-vaxxer parallels here.
> Remember "war on terror" propaganda?

Sure do. It was largely spun by a single entity which wasn't state-owned (Fox News). And it was criticized by other agencies for doing so (MSNBC, CNN, Hell the Dailyshow made it their mission).

Let's see RussiaToday's competitors (do they have any?) criticize RussiaToday for defending the Ukraine situation. The entire organization would probably end up in a ditch somewhere, having died in a fatal plane crash.

Sorry, but as much as you want to equate the two, they are not remotely the same. To hold the belief that they are means the person lacks critical thought.
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For starters, finding it on the App Store is impossible. I had to search for your name to get the correct app to pop up. Nothing you can really do at the moment, but just a head's up.

Game play is fun. It's a nice casual game, but of course if you want to score highly then some critical thinking is involved. If I want to kill some time swiping my screen I can see this being enjoyable, but if I'm wanting something a little more challenging I can do that playing this as well.

I'll keep it around for a bit. Thanks!
I think the article does a good job of elaborating on legitimate, empirical, helpful, and non-harmful interrogation techniques. So I would say yes, there is, even if many organizations tend to prefer the darker side.
It's not. People think that because inventions tend to result from tinkering that the two are causally related. They're not. Tinkering is merely one of the ways to provide a mental space in which invention can occur; invention itself is not engineering.

Implementing the invention is.
Very interesting, although it took me a second reading to understand that it is about dev framework (source code) usability, not the resulting task interface UX usability itself. Given how "usability" as a word is conventionally applied to end-user experience and not developer workflow, I wonder if "productivity" is a clearer term to use instead.

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> The standard line of thinking is that government is dysfunctional and politicians are corrupt.

That may be the standard response you get, but doesn't mean that is what they think. I'm sure that if you asked them how their day was going, you'd get a "fine" - which doesn't mean anything either. It makes more sense to look at actions than words: people still call the police if they get shorted a chicken nugget. Mothers still call the police to scare their rebellious teenagers straight. People still vote. So it is more likely that people are unhappy with the present government, but if they could just get their guy in office - then everything would be great. Give us a kindly king :)
It's because of the templating, each secondary line has a lot of space in front. Could be fixed if the template/source were left aligned.
> You clearly have never watched RT.

I don't need to, to know that it's a state-run news agency looking to push their narrative out into the world. They don't even try to hide it. That's quite literally their sole reason for existing. Do they have good articles from time to time? I don't know, probably or they wouldn't be as successful as they are. But I'm not going to find out. I try to minimize the bias in getting my news, not expose myself to as much of it as possible. That's like forcing myself to read nazi propaganda because they might make a valid point in the second paragraph of chapter 23. In the end, it's still rubbish.
What this article says about C++ is not true.
We have engineered GMO food so why not engineered news media? Free speech is really a mechanism to protect advertisers. As I feel myself as a sort of penned livestock that gets to choose between competing capitalists, all I can say is I'm off Western news media as it gives me diarrhea, but if you can consume it then more power to you.
It's for having a smelly dick.
I found this very relatable. Thank you.
> So when Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu all exist entirely for free

it's funny that you mentioned distributions that all require funding from Canonical (or other companies) in order to survive. You would've been better off using Arch, Gentoo, Debian, etc.
I don't know, that gave me a good laugh.