skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have something similar on Gobolinux, where /System/Links (/System/Index on 015) holds symlinks to whatever is housed in the /Programs directories.

BTW, there exist a pair of programs/scripts in Gobolinux that provide the possibility of putting program dirs in arbitrary places. DetachProgram and AttachProgram.

The first allow you to move a directory out of /Programs. The second symlinks a detached directory to /Programs.

While i have yet to try it, i think these could be used to provide something akin to the /bin /usr/bin split on Gobolinux.
Maybe the server is a single nodejs instance (or something single-threaded). So requests are queued and take longer.
Exactly, truck safety is the most important part of being a driver and it is the biggest risk to the company of course. The problem is safety inspections and securing a load properly apparently are harder to do than drive (from my experience shadowing a safety officer). Perhaps if we have less drivers we could transfer the responsibility of certifying the truck/load as "safe" to a surrogate safety officer better trained for that task than your typical driver who frankly doesn't care and will say things like "it's not my trailer" "I didn't load that pallet" or "running the scales"
Hi Neuro!

Thanks for the kind words! We definitely take inspiration from Watsi and consider the comparison a great compliment!

We don't have plans to extend to the Pacific Islands in the near-term future - but the region is definitely in our sights. We ultimately plan to create self-sustaining communities globally.

If you have any insight on areas of extreme need (like Vanuatu) and/or fantastic local non-profit partners in the area, let's talk! alexandria@newstorycharity.org

Alexandria (New Story Co-Founder)
I approve of affirmative action where it helps to redress an unfair societal imbalance, as it does here. I think it acts as a band-aid, as is commonly said, and I don't think it's an ideal solution to racial discrimination. But band-aids exist exactly because they contribute towards long-term improvement of a wound.

On that point, it's very hard for me to see how Asian-Americans have a societal advantage that needs redressing in the USA.

As I see it, Asian-Americans are being punished - not to admit more Afrian-Americans - but to keep European-American admissions higher.

If we say that African-Americans are benefiting from positive discrimination, we must be consistent and say that European-Americans are benefiting from positive discrimination.

I would expand your use of 'etc':

Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans === Harvard Accused of Favoritism Towards European-Americans
It's just trolling. Describing OS X as a Unix derivative is roughly as accurate as describing Windows 10 as DOS-based.

If he wanted to have a nuanced conversation about OS architecture, he could talk about something specific rather than huge generalizations with terms which make it clear he doesn't know enough of the details to be qualified to make such broad statements.

Similarly, talking about one benchmark on one device for a feature which many people don't even use is not a good foundation for comparing the merits of entire operating systems. That's like saying you should buy a particular car because it has awesome door handles, as if there are no other possible factors which you need to consider.
_The futurological congress_ is probably the most incredible SF book I've read. Absolutely fantastic. And don't spoil it by reading the Wikipedia entry, just run read it.
I think you are misunderstanding how this works. Google isn't "handling" any events at all, your webpage is. Google is instead the source of those events - it is simulating the role of a user.

So the bot loads your webpage into a headless browser and sends it a series of events to simulate a user interacting with it, and waits for navigation requests.

There is probably a whitelist of simulation behaviors:

* mouseover, then click each <a> node
* mouseover every pixel
* mouseover, then change every <select> node
* mouseover, then click every <button>
etc...

Caveat: though I worked at Google when this work was being done, I was on a different team and don't have any inside knowledge - just speculating on an approach that would make sense.
>being "the most insidious discrimination," is somehow more dangerous and damaging than the everyday discrimination minorities face every day in North America and have for more than a century.

This is why it's so dangerous, no one takes it seriously.
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It's a little thing, but Cmd+Shift+3 is actually the shortcut to send a screenshot of the entire screen to the desktop. Cmd+Shift+4 is great for selecting a region.
author here: All of that should be on Part 2, in a week or so.

Part 2 will cover emails (Thunderbird, mutt), pass as a password store, setting up OpenKeychain + a Yubikey Neo on an Android phone, K-9 Mail on Android, Yubico authenticator for Android as a 2-step auth, ssh, and Keybase. Future parts would cover hdd encryption via LUKS, authentication for sudo and more, GPG by NFC on your desktop, GPG intents to open doors, etc.
Finding random people on the internet to complain about change is as hard as finding grains of sand at the beach. The real question is what percentage of users will actually even notice a week after release, much less actually be inconvenienced in some measurable way.
> Everyone should abandon all other databases that don't have special features (ex: sqlite embedded).

SQLite embedded does have special features. It's embedded.
So does this mean I could use pg instead is SSAS for cube analysis?
> "possible to make a UI that works for both use cases!"

"People didn't like it because it wasn't adaptive to the present use. The tablet and desktop views were the same"

Isn't that more 'multiple similar UIs in a single executable' than 'same UI on tablet and desktop'?

If so, it seems the only difference with OS X/iOS is that Microsoft thinks a tablet now is powerful enough for desktop applications. Looking at size and weight of the latest MacBook, they probably are right.
Seems like browser based self-service reporting is the new "mobile photo app".

REVOLUTIONARY!
> I just read this stuff on Wikipedia.

Same here. I've also read up on a lot of different designs, and have been paying attention for a while now.

There are a couple of points that have occurred to me about wind power. 1) Most supposedly exciting, new designs are minor variations on older designs with minor improvements in efficiency. 2) Some esoteric design are actually good for something, but not for massive wind farms. Think wind turbine as art in a public park, etc. 3) Media love esoteric designs and want to hype it as the next thing, even though they are nowhere near the efficiency of a big 3-blade on a tall pole design.
Tools like AWStats might not be up to the job, but there are other tools that do offer these kinds of features without sending data to Google. There's no need to roll your own just to do decent analytics without using Google Analytics.
I wish I hadn't gotten over it. It was a lot of fun for a few years there. I get nothing out of single player though and finding a good server is such a pain in the ass. Or at least it's a fruitless chasing of the experiences I had on my first big multiplayer server, which I'll obviously never be able to re-capture. This is also why I can't get hooked on WoW again.
Author here: oh god, nice catch. will fix it :)

edit: fixed
Data on Mozilla's servers can't be cross-referenced to add to the profiles of visitors and track them across the internet.
Deep linking is now open source (DeepLink Kit)
The point is not to centrally agregate data in the first place because the synergetic effect is too big.

Knowing 24/7 where you are is one thing, and knowing everything you search is another, but if you combine these two, it already becomes very scary.

Google knows so much more. It is a wet dream of spying agencies.

What can we do about it? I think most people don't understand technology enough to see what happens, so education might be the first step.

I personally avoid Google.
This is a great argument for using hiccup[1] and reagent[2] as well.

[1] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup#syntax

[2] http://www.reagent-project.github.io
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But OS X literally is a Unix derivative. Its precursor NeXTSTEP was built on top of the Mach kernel and BSD.

In comparison, Windows 10 has its roots in the Windows NT lineage (starting with NT 3.1, and including Windows XP), which is separate from the DOS-derived Windows line that ended with Windows ME.

(That said, I agree that he was just trolling.)
> Naturally, many try to attack it to claw back more unearned white privilege for themselves.

Asians have white privilege now?

We can certainly see what your Officially Not Racist biases are.
That's true. But React is generally associated with the Flux architecture pattern, which emphasizes small, modular, mostly stateless components.
> compared to modern Linux DE's ... it (Windows) blows them out of water when it cames to both smoothness and resource consumption.

I'm not going to debate this, but I'll just try to assign blame. It goes one place: X.

As long as they all build on X, things will be suboptimal and I can't wait for initiatives and projects like Wayland and Mir gain more traction.

If you doubt anything I say about X, please watch this youtube video which has one of the key X-maintainers complain about how bad it really is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6PFjoYuml0
Also here: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Grouping_Sets
Completely disagree -- the Apple trackpad drivers on windows are awful, and on a laptop, most of your time will probably be spent using a trackpad. Trackpad++, which the author of the article mentions, can help, but it's a horrible program for the following reasons:

1. The developer requires that you put windows into "test mode" (creating a non-removable desktop watermark) to install it at all, apparently to get around code signing restrictions

2. The developer requires that you install the completely useless "Power Plan Assistant" program in addition to Trackpad++

3. The software itself is terribly buggy, causing random 100% CPU usage spikes
I don't get your comment (even sarcastically). It's not that big, but it's still a problem. People who are trying to avoid being tracked would probably prefer not being tracked. The page is self-defeating.
Ron Unz used different methodologies for figuring out the percentage of Jewish 'top academic achievers' and the percentage of Jewish students attending elite colleges, making his statistics suspect. If you're going to count Jews to make an argument, you need to count Jews in a consistent way.

Andrew Gelman has the details:

http://andrewgelman.com/2013/02/12/that-claim-that-harvard-a...
Your use of psychiatric language is annoying. Especially because, as you admit, you don't know what you're talking about.

You seem to think it's acceptable to call someone a psychopath because of the way you perceive their behaviour.

It is not.

You clearly mean to use the term psychopath as an insult, and as dang has repeatedly told you personal insults are not allowed. But I don't care what you say about some rich guy. I do care how your lazy, careless, ignorant use of psychiatric language perpetuates stigma against a wide range of disenfranchised powerless people.
Hi, I typically run my MacBook connected to a 1200p monitor, and it behaves great. I've run all sorts of video content on the computer, up to 4K, and it plays it fine. Scrolling is smooth, though occasionally it'll hiccup here or there. Generally, I'm quite impressed with the performance. My review on the website goes into some more detail about day to day usage, if you're curious.
I think you are missing my point. I'm not criticizing individuals for choosing to change their names. I'm just pointing out that it's pretty shitty that they feel the need to do this. If you're fine with the status quo as (I'm guessing) a non-white person, then, well, good for you. But you shouldn't blame people who don't choose to change their names.
How about after the first time a cyclist kills a driver in a collision?
> Aren't Indians Asians?

Depends on what variety of English you speak whether the term Asian normally includes Indians or not.

For Brits, Asian primarily means "From the Indian Subcontinent" which includes Pakistan for them, IIRC.

For Americans, Asian primarily means "From East Asia" which is China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

Of course, in an academic context, Asian means "Anyone from the Asian Continent" which includes some but not all Russians, all South Asians, all East Asians, all Central Asians, all Middle Easterners (except Egyptians), and whoever else depending on how certain lines get drawn.
Unfortunately the Firefox 38 update broke RequestPolicy.

There are other extensions that do a similar job, including a volunteer effort to continue the original extension, but right now none of them seems quite as neat and reliable as the original.
>It's pretty ugly behaviour to hold onto the idea that a single PoC might be an incompetent "diversity token" rather than just ... someone doing their job.

I've got news for you: People don't hold white males in high regard because they're white males, they do so because they're privileged.

I've never met a "SJW" that actually knows what it's like to be poor, it's all well-off, college educated, mostly white people. Some social justice warriors even go so far as to split people up into groups (PoC?) while at the same time espousing ideas of "equality".

I think most poor people who make their way to the top don't actually get any help, so they end up forming conservative view points, whereas the rich white people just can't understand why poor people don't just stop being poor. It must be because they're black! Congratulations you're a racist.

>Spreading that fictional "parody situation" is fuel for real discrimination.

No it's not. You're basically saying that by not taking race into account at all you're fueling racism. Institutionalized discrimination fuels racism. Why do you refuse to accept that people who are against affirmative discrimination may in fact be for RACE BLINDNESS and not just letting people be racist?

Why can't being blind to race completely be an option? Why does everything that doesn't go your way have to be racism? It sounds more to me like you're just trying to control the narrative to push some political agenda.
The links were provided because these discussions contains arguments (good and bad), it was not about quantification.
RequestPolicy and other tools like HTTPS Switchboard or even Ghostery let you block all content from certain domains, not just JS. They won't even load a tracking pixel. RP is whitelist-based and it can take some time to enable all the domains you actually use. Ghostery is blacklist-based and targets known tracking domains.
Indeed. Furthermore, he highlights the killing of Ray Penbar's wife as a "mistake". However, Ray Penbar's wife was literally about to tell L that Light can kill using methods aside from heart attacks.

The fact of the matter remained: when Light wanted to "hide" a death from the Police, he'd use a different method. (Episode 5: Kill by Traffic Accident).

The fact of the matter is, if Ray Penbar's wife actually got the information out to L, then Light would have lost right there and then. He was forced to kill her as soon as she was discovered.

If anything, his mistake was killing the FBI team through Ray Penbar in the episodes earlier. Ray Penbar wasn't suspicious of Light... but when Ray Penbar died then the entire L investigation focused on him.
very similar to pure - http://purelang.bitbucket.org/ (not purescript).
It Is, in Fact, Rocket Science
I finally got into React after being told by a friend for months that I need to. I'll be honest the whole thing just looks like premature optimisation to me.

I still find the structure of an angular app a lot easier to grasp, it might be that I'm used to it but I remember the first time using Angular that it all made sense to me. I liked it instantly. Coming from Backbone, it certainly was a breath of fresh air. I can't say the same thing about React. Sure it's faster, and if you think your app is going to mutate into something big, consider using it. But I personally wouldn't make it my default choice.
thanks! what kind of content/load would it hiccup on?
Oh man, you totally described my co-founder. How did that end?
Maybe it's just that the accepted applicants were of the same quality or better, in terms of their predicted suitability to practice medicine. The fact is that not everyone can get into such highly competitive programmes, and unfortunately some have to lose out.
Yeah, who wants a touch screen on a laptop that converts into a tablet? That's just crazy. Man, fuck those people for adding functionality that I don't even have to use in laptop mode, but which is essential in tablet mode.
I find it funny that Windows 10 runs well on a MacBook yet it's terrible on my gaming desktop. Color profiles refuse to work, there's no way to prevent auto updates, auto updates completely reinstall the whole OS which can take 30+ min and reboots the computer without asking, video drivers break on every update, games are far less stable than with 8.1. To top all that off it seems to be stuck in some kind of update loop where it reinstalls the OS every night.
You're missing the point so comprehensively I have to conclude it's deliberate.
Or so they claim.

Is there any way for anyone else to verify that?
Apple's windows trackpad drivers are indeed not that great, but I haven't seen a windows laptop yet that can provide a better trackpad experience in spite of the bad drivers.
Nice summary of Google. But in their defence, you'd have to add something that is given to the surveiled people, because Google does. It lures. Maybe, free cinema would a good analogy. And when you enter that free Google cinema everything about you will be recorded, analyzed, connected and sold to the highest bidder. Creeeeeeepy
If you wanted to do that:

b := &a
fmt.Println((*b)[0])
Author here: No. I'm just using the mainline Kernel with Simple Framebuffer support, and U-Boot. U-Boot does the booting, yet there is firmware on the Soc for the first stage booting.
Update the Indian Edition of Stroustrup's 'C++ Programming Language'
The new?. operator in c# 6
I personally like the idea of wind turbines being tethered high-altitude blimps.

I assume the high-altitude ones could be higher than birds fly.

They could even be used as in-flight recharge stations for drones.
Mathematica is adequate for prototyping or detailed Science/Engineering etc analysis provided datasets aren't large and the codebase is small.

Mathematica is very fast for your initial development, but you run into massive bottlenecks when you jump from your small test cases to real world data. In other words you get something up and running quickly, then spend a massive amount of time manually (there is no proper debug environment) debugging edge cases and trying to optimize it for real world cases. The time savings aren't really there for many projects, as you end up spending more time than if you had used something like C++.

The last version of Mathematica (v10) was released over a year ago without an update to the Eclipse plugin, making an already pretty archaic development experience impossible.

The front end debugger isn't a 'fair' debugger. When it works (which isn't often) you are limiting to only running through small code snippets as its impossible to trace anything.

There is no profiler.

The number of builtin functions is huge but many are effectively deprecated in terms of their performance or existing bugs. Many of the functions like Map (/@) aren't optimized. The irony is that once you have optimized your code it ends up looking like that from any other language i.e. you have moved a lot of Wolfram's high end functions.

I totally agree with others comments that code re-use is really difficult. Many of Wolfram's comparisons compare code size with code complexity. Its not always to the case, but 20 lines of Wolfram language can often be very difficult to trace and understand.

Access to curated data is nice, but in many cases there is no information on the accuracy or tolerances for data and it has been truncated (rounded to the point of irrelevancy) or is missing elements. So like anything you still need to verify it or access it directly from other sources. Things like units cannot be used in functions/loops as it slows runtime to a crawl.

But horses for courses, the language is exciting for small projects and maybe a jumping off point for people moving into full development of something.

One of the biggest issues facing Mathematica is simply that Wolfram Research's focus is no longer Science and Engineering but rather the Internet of Things.
Hmm.. what do I have to do to experience those performance problems? I use Mint and Debian on my machines and I never have any problems. Nothing ever stutters or lags or whatever.

I mainly use Firefox, the Terminal, Gimp and Libre Office. No performance problems whatsoever. And I have pretty old machines. An over 5 years old lenovo laptop and a similarely old desktop machine.
You'd be better off with a Surface Pro or something from Lenovo in my opinion. Macs are crippled for Windows since Apple can't be bothered to provide proper drivers. They keyboard is also all out of place and mislabeled for Windows and there's no docking station.
> other tools like HTTPS Switchboard

I will take this opportunity to remind people that uMatrix is now available for Firefox (works on Nightly): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
If the internet is becoming democratic, what explains the increasing number of new, massive and independent internet businesses?
I think the other commenter meant that self driving trucks will likely reduce the cost of shipping.

Shipping doesn't add a whole lot of cost to goods already though, an awful lot of bananas fit on a pallet (I think bananas are a reasonable example here, they are shipped overseas, cheap, bulky and somewhat fragile).
Waterloo? Full question mark.
ECN was a bit of a special case, and a major pain in the ass: it uses a previously-unused bit in the header and "security conscious" network hardware developers forgot the "liberal in what you accept", set-it-to-zero-when-you-create-a-packet-and-ignore-it-otherwise proper default behavior for unused bits.