skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this would be a good example of the "gratuitous negativity" that was on the frontpage the last few days?

While there seems to be something funny going on it is most likely something more than just adding an email address to a database.

When I was younger this was how I though. After maintaining and interfacing a few applications over the last few years I am a whole lot less annoying I hope.
Only tangentially related, but I find it weird that guides like this still suggest seperate root, home, boot and swap partitions.

What is the point of separating / from /home? I know the /boot thing is due to max size stuff on certain modes of boot, but shouldn't be required for UEFI?

And I really don't understand why you'd want to run swap. On a modern machine with huge amounts of RAM, if a process is using enough RAM that you need to start swapping it to disk, I'd rather just invoke the OOM killer and kill the badly behaved process, instead of slowing my system to a crawl while it tries to access memory at disk speeds.
Thiel seems to hope and expect technological progress to improve people's lives, and this seems to be the main drive for his interest in technology. But isn't it possible to be interested in technology for the sake of it, for the "wow" factor only?

I mean, for instance he's very much into medicine, including anti-ageing medicine. And it seems that the slow pace of progress in this area, when compared to progress in IT, frustrates him. Me, I don't care much about medicine. Maybe it's because I'm relatively healthy, but I believe it's also because most people are healthy, so if suddenly everybody was, it would only be a quantitative change, not a qualitative one. A healthy human body is not something new. So, staying young and healthy until you reach say 100? Meh.

If the goal is to improve life, there are other ways to do that rather than waiting for technological miracles. Money, for one. I mean, the life of a wealthy person nowadays is, I suppose, absolutely awesome, and it does not require very advanced tech to be so.
Question for the Americans on this forum: What has the media coverage of Snowden actually been like in the US, then?

From the comments all over the web (not particularly HN), as well as John Oliver's "we didn't cherry-pick these" remark about those street "interviews", I got the idea that the Netherlands, the EU, or the rest of the world has seen a wholly different news-coverage of Edward Snowden than the USA.

For instance, this comment on Imgur really puzzled me: "Watched the whole interview after seeing the last image of it that was uploaded today. Dude seems nice. A little naive, but nice". That sounds as if the person who wrote this truly hadn't seen Snowden speak and/or explain his motives before today??

This guy's face has been all over the news for the past two years, and there have been numerous, in-depth interviews with Snowden, and live video appearances, that were in fact full of great soundbites suited perfectly for news coverage. And IMO, assuming one is remotely interested in a serious answer, some were in fact easier to understand than the few words Snowden got in between with John Oliver. Mainly because he got to finish his sentences and they asked sane questions (by which I don't mean the "Can they see our dicks?" question, that one may be crass, but it is actually an effective summary, in some sense).

Somehow it seems like this appearance on a comedy show, talking about dick pics, is actually the first time for a great many people to hear Snowden explain himself and the issues at hand (that have been at hand for the past two years).

I am very on the fence about this. Taken at face value, this interview was absolutely totally cringeworthy and awful. This guy gave up his life to bring the truth to light, he is a hero[0], I'm fairly sure that John Oliver sees and agrees with this, yet he shows him a pair of rubber testicles with stars-n-stripes pattern.

On the OTHER hand, maybe the question "But can they see our dicks?" really is the last question that can make Americans actually care about this subject matter, in which case John Oliver did a great thing, if it actually works, that is wonderful. And I cringe for your country.

Another nice mindtwister to think about: That folder, purportedly containing a "dickpic" of John Oliver. Two possibilities, which one is worse: Edward Snowden, man of Truth, exiled for life, in Russia, having to play along with a semi-scripted silly comedy sketch (you can see his discomfort) pretending there is a picture of John Oliver's penis in that folder. OR the alternative: John Oliver actually handing Edward "f-cking" Snowden a folder with an actual photograph of his naked penis.

(I'd probably have more respect for the latter, also fits better with these ridiculously Strange Times we live in. But I guess Snowden's facial expression would have been somewhat different)

[0] About the "traitor" part. A certain number of (corrupt) people in the USA might "honestly" feel betrayed by him, in an informed manner. But what he did is so much bigger than that, the rest of the world knows him as a hero.
Bill Gates on Microsoft's 40th birthday
6 of the top 10 articles at the time of writing are corporate news sources (sciencedaily, nytimes, washingtonpost, cbc, bbc, medium).

I don't have any data but I would be interested to know if these companies are gaming the system. It sure would be in their best interest and I can't help but shake the feeling that they are after looking at the front page sometimes.

It would be good to get a 'hail corporate' button / profile setting that could toggle some of these domains from your front page.
Thanks for the suggestion. I considered this, but I was worried about how it would affect my support guarantee if I had bought the device from a different country. It might be fine, but it might also lead to all sorts of bureaucratic headaches if I ran into any problems.
This service sends one email. Confirmation would just mean you get bombarded with the exact same number of unwanted messages: 1.

Confirmation would still be useful, though, to let the actual user realize they entered the wrong address.
Just don't forget that Peter Thiel is a co-founder of Palantir which is equivalent to a private-NSA that is currently funded at $1B.
>What's one's purpose if so many people can do it better?

Locality! Your neighbors need your help!
Mostly just thinking out loud (congratulations, you're a rubber duck).

I think I heard something a while back, about Microsoft changing how they did volume licensing. Because it really was too much of a PITA, and they wanted to simplify things.

I suppose one different would be what's required to get back into compliance one you inevitably stuff things up. In the one case, you have to probably pay (money is fungible) and/or remove things you have installed. In the other case, you have to find something you might not know where it is (if it even still exists) and provide it to the public (and be sure that doesn't violate an other licenses you have). ...I think I might be moving the goal posts a bit here, but that's what you get for being a rubber duck. ;)

If you follow what's generally considered good development practices (automated builds, everything in version control, etc), GPL compliance should be dead simple. So congrats, it sounds like you work for people who don't have their heads up their asses.

...hey, maybe that would be a good basis if we ever did turn into a proper profession: version tracking and automated builds.
1) \ is usually taken for escapes, | is non-directional
and therefore doesn't work with arbitrary nesting, and
/ causes the same problems as <.

> Keep in mind Rust goal almost from the start was
> something that is familiar to a people that worked
> with Gecko engine. With that in mind, I can't think
> of a similar family language that did this.

Isn't this the classic Golang emergency excuse?
"Golang was built by Google engineers to solve Google's
problems, so could you please kindly **** off, dear
non-Googler."

Nobody claims that <> isn't "familiar". People are claiming
that <> isn't very good, and they are correct with that.
Those languages which made <> "familiar" picked <> because
they added templates/generics/... after the fact and tried
to bolt them onto an existing language without breaking all
existing code.

<> was usually the least worst option for those languages.
It doesn't follow that a language designed from scratch
should adopt <> without thinking, because there are better
alternatives when designing a language which has Generics
from day 1.

> You know what happens when you call Index/IndexMut.
> To say it isn't so, is outright fallacious.

extern crate rand;

use std::ops::{Index,IndexMut};
use rand::random;

fn main() {
let mut arr = MyFunnyArray { arr: [0,1,2] };
println!("arr is {:?}", arr);
arr[5] = 23;
println!("arr is {:?}", arr);
}

#[derive(Debug)]
struct MyFunnyArray {
arr: [u32; 3]
}

impl Index<usize> for MyFunnyArray {
type Output = u32;
fn index<'a>(&self, _index: usize) -> &u32 {
&self.arr[random::<usize>() % 3]
}
}

impl IndexMut<usize> for MyFunnyArray {
fn index_mut<'a>(&'a mut self, _index: usize) -> &'a mut u32 {
self.arr[random::<usize>() % 3] = random();
&mut self.arr[random::<usize>() % 3]
}
}

Looks pretty arbitrary to me.

2) > No we don't. I think having user and built-in
> defined types is perfectly ok.

Sure, but how is this even related to the topic?

4) > Related yes, same no. In same way i32 and u32 are
> related but not the same.

As you might see, they are called i32 and u32, not i32
and UnsignedInt4Bytes.

> As I said in previous question having some subset of
> language be unable to modify is IMHO a good thing.

I'm not sure what you are trying to argue here.
Consistency has nothing to do with being "able/unable to
modify". People are unable to modify most types, it
doesn't matter if they come from a third-party crate or
the core language.

6/7)
> They can't. You can tell by mutability of array which
> one will be called and which one will be returned.
> You CAN'T EVER change type of mutability of result.

Not sure what you suddenly try so say with "you can't
modify this", "you can't mutate that".

As shown in 1) [] can do whatever the developer implements.
Sure, the usual language rules apply, I think nobody
disagreed on that.

9) > Whenever I see macros/operator overload/syntax being
> given too much freedom, it always ends up with
> incomprehensible DSL-s that you can't disentangle from
> regular code.

Yes, that's exactly the concern I'm raising here, because
that's what Rust is encouraging.

10) No, not really. Just compare the issues caused by using <>
vs. other approaches.
I heard the podcast a few days ago, but I struggled with understanding the point on globalisation "pulling back" and CA and TX being "inward-looking" vs. DC and NYC being centres of globalisation.

What do Cowen and Thiel mean by this distinction? What does it mean to be "inward-looking" in this context, and how will it manifest itself in an edge over outward-looking/"leveraged to globalisation" places?
I'm surprised by the amount of hate towards Peter Thiel. I consider him one of the bests. I think his class on How To Start a Startup was the best one, with really thoughtful insights. It's obvious he's going to be focused on the money, he's an investor.
His point about monopolies is widely misquoted and causing a lot of confusion. I think he should have been clearer about distinguishing creative monopolies and what we commonly consider monopolies, in the negative sense. There are nefarious monopolies like Comcast that are insulated from competition because of an unfair advantage. A more nuanced position should entail something like the following:

- We want competition because it allows nefarious monopolies (and other companies) to be overtaken by better companies.

- We don't want to discourage companies from attempting to obtain monopolies in their markets, since this gives them to opportunity to capture monopoly profits. Monopoly profits are not inherently bad. If a company becomes a monopoly, we want them to be a creative monopoly.

- A competitive market in the sense of having low profit margins is very different from a competitive market in the sense of whether or not new entrants can come in and compete.

- It is a bad thing if a company has monopoly power through something other than being a superior company, is capable of preventing new entrants, and is uncreative. We want to preserve the ability of new entrants to come into the market with superior products and overtake monopolies.

(edit: formatting)
A friend of mine moved to London for a stint and tried to get an account with HSBC, which required working with the branch back home. They had him running in loops to open the account, but the point where I got called in was because they couldn't accept a fax, it had to be someone coming into the office, so he sent me.

By "couldn't accept a fax", HSBC means that he walked into the London office with the original, filled-out form, the staffer took the form, and faxed it from the London HSBC fax machine to the Melbourne HSBC fax machine, and the Melbourne office wouldn't accept it 'because it was faxed'. "But the original has been sighted by your own staff, as you requested" => "Sorry, we don't accept faxes".
For myself, I appreciate the fact that almost all of the Arch packages are 'un-fooled-around-with'.

Very often, I've run into issues with Ubuntu packages solely because they have their own strange versioning, and roll certain patches into weird versions.

I think it boils down to the management philosophy:
Ubuntu tries to make it 'as easy as possible', whereas Arch says, 'if you have a bug or problem, take it up with that program's developer'.
> In my opinion websites display the true intent of the web, decentralized spaces for people to express ingenuity and share ideas. I dislike the centralization of the modern web(I say that with a LinkedIn, Github and Twitter account) and the effort to streamline and reduce the variety of presentation of information.

+1 for putting it out.
I find it against the motive and principles of an open web, to consider Internet synonymous with Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn or any service. Yes, they do help us to put content online easily but with a cost. It looks like you could do whatever you want with your content, but it's a false sense of control.

Web is much better the decentralized way.
Is it the highlights of their life? Or is it 80% politically biased news stories, pinterest desires, funny videos and pictures, complaints about random encounters with people, and lots of "This"ing?
> This chart looks perfectly normal since the green line is smooth and the blue line is relatively stable.

The first chart goes to over 1,000 votes. The other ones stay one or two orders of magnitude lower. Cheating or not, it's absolutely normal that a stochastic phenomenon looks smooth when there are many events, and not smooth when there are few of them.
Yes and if we had an immovable object it would be immovable.
Somehow I think this person is not a very good plumber.
The reason Gentoo forked udev is that they have a commitment to user choice. That is, you as the user gets to decide everything. If you want to use udev, fine, if you want something else, also fine.

So they created eudev because it was becoming more and more of a hassle to dig udev out of systemd for use with non-systemd installs.

And i think LFS has also adopted eudev for their "traditional" book now, because they ran into the same issue.

Something like this should really give pause for thought in the "init" debates, as it is a stark reminder that systemd has gone far beyond being just about init. And thus all those videos demoing systemd vs "random init of the day" boot times end up being a distraction rather than enlightening.
According to GitHub, what is the most used programming language?
That's gneiss.
> As long as you have healthy relationships and meaningful activities it will never become a problem.

If someone subjectively perceives this statement to be true about her/his life - then s/he is not suffering from depression - pretty much by definition.
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I think you missed my somewhat deeper philosophical point :)

Who gets to decide what is really a picture of a panda?

If we'd manage to craft a picture that could with very high certainty trick human neural nets (for the sake of argument, including those higher cognitive functions) into believing something is a picture of a panda, "except it actually really isn't", what does that even mean?

Human insists it's a picture of a panda, computer classifier maintains it's noise and shapes.

Who is right? :)
I suspect the point is that people often say, in discussions about the GPL, that they expect commercial users of their BSD/MIT/etc licensed software to /usually/ contribute their changes back even though they're not obligated.

My anecdotal experience with this, having done many contracts providing commercial modifications of OSS, is that the companies that contribute their changes back is a tiny tip on the iceberg of use and modification.

That's not to say this is bad, if it's what one intends. But it's frustrating to watch people denigrate the GPL, sometimes, because of their wishful thinking about other licenses.
Well I think it makes sense, there is tons of different situations that an electrician can face and if they don't have the experience, they could rig the wiring bad. I worked with my dad before, he has over 30+ years experience, he has showed and told me of jobs that were done by guys with only a couple years experience where they messed up the job bad.
I am a heavy FB user/frequently depressed person. I wanted to show my agreement with something stronger than an upvote. Depression -> distraction-seeking -> FB wall would be the link for me too.
I'd say the advantage of seperating / and /home is that it makes a re-install more painless. You can keep your personal data and config without copying it to another drive and just reformat / alone.

And swap is required if you want to use suspend to disk which is the reasoning the article has.
What is Agile Scrum (in 10 Minutes)
The Pentagon's groundbreaking IPv6 project hasn't broken much ground
There are a few people who make very many submissions. Some people submit more than 2 stories per day, every day. And those are often duplicates-but-different source of other articles already on HN.

Better enforcement of the deeply interesting guideline would help but stories that are intensely interesting get many upvotes so it's unlikely to change.
To give some context, zero rating in Australia came about as a response by smaller ISPs to the 'Gang of Four' 'cartel' of large telcos, who have settlement-free domestic peering between themselves[1], and until ~2009-2010, had a monopoly over international transit (via ownership of submarine cables to the US)

Australia is a country which imports the majority of its content (submarine cables are not cheap), so smaller ISPs have an incentive to direct eyeballs to 'friendly' content sources - those who peer at major peering exchanges locally, or directly.

At least with the independent providers, this has been used for good - unmetered Linux mirrors, Steam, Netflix - as these providers do not have any content of their own, unlike Telstra (who holds 50% of Foxtel, alongside Newscorp).

[1] this 'cartel' was created under pressure of the competition regulator/ACCC in the late '90s, ironically. The criteria isn't based on any merit, just the largest market share holders at the time.
I feel dumber for having read this. What are this guy's credentials? Why should I consider him qualified to write such a polemic on American plumbing?
> I get depressed reading HN because a lot of the stories are about people my age who are making a lot more money than me.

I'm certainly not getting depressed from this - but I find this trend fairly annoying as well. There is fairly dominant sub-community on HN who try to communicate as often as possible how extremely smart they are and humblebrag about some start-up or how they declined an offer from Google.

But I think this sub-population is actually minority. The majority of HN readers is just curious about the subjects itself - those contribute the highest value on here in my experience.
I read your post twice and checked the web site, but couldn't understand your product. Can you please provide a use case?
What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years
Something not mentioned in the article: only SHA-1 certificates with expiry dates past the 1st of January 2017 will be marked as “affirmatively insecure.”

https://www.entrust.com/sha-1-deprecation-update-not-chrome-...
> on the theory that someone is flame warring in the comments.

... one mans flamewar seems to be another mans: it takes a few tries to explain this.

I'm find HN is very civilized. On other forums I see people talking about nuking entire counties, calling each other names etc all while posting under a full, real life names.

The thing that bugs me at HN (except interesting content disappearing like this post describes) is anonymous downvotes, - and mostly not because they hit me (usually they don't do : ) but because so often they are so obviously a result of political correctness and groupthink that it hurts.
I don't know much about PeerJ but I'm intrigued by their efforts as a publishing company to foster open collaborations like this.
Cool. I wonder what the governing equation for the particles is...

Also, If I open developer console in Chrome (docked at the bottom), it seems the mouse position is off like 100 pixels or so.
The ALFS side-project may be a nice way to bootstrap a new distro though. Basically it automates the process of building a LFS install via the use of scripts that parse the LFS book markup.

I'm following a distro, Gobolinux, that used that to bootstrap their latest release. And supposedly it took more time to get the Consolekit+polkit+whatever rigamarole working so it could offer a desktop.
I went camping in the south everglades this winter and we were told that you don't need to worry about raccoons invading the campsite. Mostly because they are all gone due to the snakes. You now have to deal with vultures at campsites.
I think Chrome only shows the red sign in the address bar, not the usual warning page.

This step was announced some time ago, and since certificates usually need to be replaced frequently, there should be very few problematic certificates, if the CAs did their job.
It may be time for a constitutional amendment forbidding the United States government from any action that would impact the Internet -- save those maintaining free and unencumbered flow.

It'd be better for each of us to fight off APTs and other problems by ourselves than to head too far down the road of good intentions and unintended consequences.
I hope they do the no bezel thing on the next xps 15. It's super sexy, but I need the extra ram and real estate in the 15.
you can run on a Macbook, linux and windows with parallels.
so it covers them all
> Ubuntu tries to make it 'as easy as possible', whereas Arch says, 'if you have a bug or problem, take it up with that program's developer'.

Arch says 'as vanilla as possible'.
"These two stories are submitted at almost the same time. The first one failed to reach front page even after more than 10 upvotes. And the second one got on front page after 2 upvotes. This indicates the first one is very likely to be a failed attempt to cheat which got detected by the system."

Why does it indicate cheating? Couldn't it just mean that there is a variable that you are not accounting for in the ranking algorithm?