skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you find it shocking. The only shocking thing here is that the CBC article is misleading in that it doesn't explain that she adding hashtags saying “one cop, one bullet” and “All Cops Are Bastards”
are you kidding? That's like more than year old story. You are confusing everyone by posting the story
Do SDKs count? AWS has been great so far.
Software would not be "where it is today"; it would be a fundamentally different place. Many of us see that place as being far better than what we have.

It's strange to me that you mention Google and Apple, because in both cases they built their empires largely on using open-source software that was available to them, and keeping some software closed isn't obviously relevant to their business model or success.
There are other services already, as mentioned by some other posters.

But why don't you see a lot of new entries into the market and more competition happening right now. Totally speculating, but it could be because AirBnB has brought so much attention that a number of states in the US are creating new barriers to entry for other companies and are preventing some of the innovation. States are trying to prevent revenue loss on bed and sales tax etc so they want to make sure they legislate the hell out of short term rentals.

In Florida where I am, if you rent your property for short terms (generally < 6 months at a time I believe) you are treated more like a motel operator than a property owner. So you are subject to a host of taxes and potentially license requirements that you wouldn't be otherwise. There are entire companies down here that manage these types of properties for the large number of absentee owners. From what I understand those companies require a licensed real estate agent if they are going to market the home for rent because the home owner isn't doing it themselves. Not sure how that plays with AirBnB, but I'd think you escape it if you posted your own home up there. But I know last year Florida was trying to change state laws to make it more difficult for these sharing type services.

I think AirBnB used the oops, sorry we didn't know excuse a lot. And then they have had a war chest of cash to work with the states to come to some reasonable agreements, or lobby for changes. But I don't think it is over by any means, and so new startups have more hurdles to overcome in some of the states most prone to use a service like this. I think once it shakes out and the rules are better known and understood, then you might get some startups that popup. This is after the initial cash outlay from AirBnB to lobby for reasonable rules etc.
So I'm a sucker for conspiracy theories, and this one's a new one on me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_R...
The guy protests charity's that get money from Bill Gates, he actively attempted to prevent children from getting computers under the OLPC's program because they could run Windows with a 7$ extension card.

When Steve Jobs died he made this post on his site:

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.

Sorry but i don't need a hyperbole to relate my position that this guy has quite a few extreme views, and takes quite a few extreme actions.

P.S.
Wanting to cancel a program that was aimed at bringing computing to children in underdeveloped nations is actually worse than dying out of stubbornness for your beliefs, it's actively denying people who have very little just because you think that running Windows is a Sin, this is the equivalent of Christians evangelists holding out donations to African countries that do not institute anti-gay and anti-sodomy laws.
To be fair, containers aren't a virtualization solution; they're more of a packaging mechanism.
Why Doctrine ORM is not suited for PHP
Nah. Least squares is necessarily optimal under a normal distribution, but that does not imply that it does not work if the distribution is not normal. It might even be optimal for some other distributions, I just cannot remember, and I have to watch the frying pan.
I've seen it irregularly on multiple machines, Windows 7, Windows 8 and now Mac OS X. It's actually really soured me on the whole idea of a multi-process architecture. I understand the theoretical benefits, but I don't see messages that a particular tab crashed that much more often than that the entire browser crashed.
I agree with what you're saying, to a point. If it hadn't become monetisable, then services like Youtube and Netflix etc, would never have taken off. I wouldn't have been able to convince family to use email. I would still need to stand in a queue on my lunchbreak to transfer money from my savings account to my current account.

Instead, the web evolved, some people took advantage of that for their own ends, and we've ended up with a system which is better for most people, though a long way from being perfect for each individual group.
He seems to disagree with OP completely. But, I find OP's point about noobs valid:

> People who get down voted (esp noobs to the community) have no idea why they were.
I don't know about your case, but most of the time I found complains like yours , is from people who never actually tried the language, or just heard a bad story or have one bad experience reading a bad legacy code.

I think Torvalds and Stallman fall in that category actually. Stallman even mention generics which C++ doesn't have and it is very different to the templates mechanism that C++ does have.

As for the people who actually uses the language (specially after C++11), most of them would tell you that there is a great subset of the language that works for them. A valid argument I have heard before is that subset is different with each people and the problem arises when maintaining somebody else code. Well that happens with every language (Have you ever had to debug a memory corruption bug in an old C code with void* all over the place? Hint: it's not pleasent )

C++ is a language that allow you to use abstractions with a very reasonable performance and very reasonable resources, and in that niche there is not a real alternative.

Yes, you can have a fine tuned VM running Java or .Net code that might be comparable with C++ but with a cost in memory. I don't think Rust or D are ready yet to be a real competitor.

So... no... we can't move away from this "horrible" language yet.
Meizu Launches the Ubuntu MX4 for Developers in China
Great. It's incredible how the little but amazing Smalltalk world produces such a great quantity of innovations !
What jumps out at me is that, as far as I know, CBT training focuses on having the therapist provide cognitive tools to reduce awful automatic thoughts and emotions. The therapist empowers the client. Some therapists bring from their own prior experience the ability to manage anxiety, shame, and guilt by leading the conversation, but others approach their work like computer programmers -- for them the task is to get the code in there. If you have ever seen a talented salesperson alternate pushing and withdrawal as they manage the prospect's anxiety and vanity while bringing them to a purchase, you have seen the element that is present in some CBT, but not part of the official training. Without that management by the therapist, the client may feel worse in sessions, and might come away with the sense that CBT is belittling. An irony here is that the greater respect of empowering the client may feel like less respect.
I don't see how the Streisand effect would apply here. Posting a photo of the graffiti and adding the captions “one cop, one bullet” and “All Cops Are Bastards” is pretty clearly harassment.
Backblaze might be interested. If they're happy to shuck drives from external enclosures they're possibly happy to hack firmware.

But I'm guessing the drive manufacturers test the platters and use faulty platters for these firmware restricted drives, like CPU makers test the cores.
Murray Shanahan, the author of the book pointed to by this Easter Egg was actually a scientific consultant for the movie.

Here is reddit AMA with the director of Ex Machina - Alex Garland - and two scientists that helped him - Adam Rutherford and Murray Shanahan:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/35brre/i_am_director_...

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If you are interesting in process / thinking behind the movie, there are also interesting interviews with Alex Garland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS-OJHSY8bk (Q&A with film journalists)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvH-5rBEsgs (Talks at Google series)

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BTW another Easter Egg: BlueBook, the name of the search engine company in the movie, comes from Wittgenstein's work:

The Blue Book was dictated between 1933 and 1934, and contains certain themes unaddressed in Wittgenstein's later works, including deliberations on thinking as operating with signs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_and_Brown_Books
Nope. Just good reporting. See my other comments here.
With a small issue that Bill Gates have never said it, the entire quote is by RMS. Bill Gates made a comparison on the fight against big tobacco and the anti-trust campaign against MSFT in the mid to late 90's in that issue, but this isn't even quote mining, it's a complete distortion of the facts.
Furthermore, there's a strongly canted wealth distribution curve already built into society. A few uber-wealthy people gambling at high but still "recreational" levels would skew the statistics this way.

More information is necessary to establish this claim.
How would purity be different in Rust than any function signature without any &mut?
<37% of the total vote though and they get a majority in parliament.

Our system is hopelessly broken and getting the politicians to fix it would be like getting the turkeys to vote for Christmas.
I've worked with the executives of some large banks, telecoms, and transportation companies. The CEO and board generally only has held the IT team accountable to budgetary performance and risk (uptime, intrusion, regulatory) metrics. The only IT impact on customer sat is uptime, by the traditional view.

One bank IT group I know that reports on uptime to their business partners relative to operating expense, prints the charts and graphs on plotter paper weekly and posts them in the cafeteria. Most of their bonus is directly tied to those numbers. So, "cut costs and keep me up".

Delivery IT groups are very rarely measured by customer satisfaction, they're measured by project and budget performance to baseline (on time, on budget, etc). Customer sat is the responsibility of the business partners that drive the requirements, programs, etc.

This this effective? Not really. If they recognized Lean product development principles they'd incentivize everything by end-to-end cost of delay first, and risk reduction second.
Not necessarily. I haven't researched it beyond what my doctor told me, but "studies have shown" that for people who have prayer as part of their life to begin with, prayer can be very helpful. Not for the GP commenter, so that suggestion wasn't helpful, but certainly for people already open to it.

And doesn't that make sense? We're not merely bodies and brains, a biological machine built to specification, arriving at a particular day exactly like each other and exactly like we were born. Besides differences in brain mechanics and chemistry from each other and from our birth, we are also each the various experiences of our history. We have as much in difference as in common with each other.

Quite apart from the question of whether prayer and what's prayed to is reality or not, people do believe in prayer and what's prayed to. If that's an effective part of their therapy, I see no reason to question it. If it lifts them out of the horror of depression and keeps them alive, I'm very happy for them, and for me if they're in my life.

-- Signed: a non-partisan, small "a" atheist.
Being asked to pray is not the right way to go. But, gaining a spiritul practice of some sort and learning/practicing mindfulness can be a tremendous help to someone suffering from major depressive disorder, such as myself. It has helped me quite a bit. Though I am still depressed, as I have been my entire life. It's a good tool in my toolbox of things that I have to help myself.
Very confusing, can a mod add the year to this? (2014)
With any sort of proportional vote system it would have been a Tory/UKIP coalition running the country.

That seems unlikely.

For one thing, as a matter of fact the Conservatives and UKIP did not achieve a majority of the popular vote between them at the general election. Under a fully proportional system, the result on the day would not have given them a working majority to form a government alone. Some sort of minority Conservative government would have been a more likely outcome.

For another thing, you're assuming that people would have voted the same way under another system, which is far from a safe assumption. This was probably the most negative campaign we've had in generations, and a lot of the arguments in the final weeks were about how to vote tactically to block one outcome or another. Knowing that every vote counted could easily have significantly changed voting patterns.

frankly I am quite happy to accept the downsides of FPTP if it keeps UKIP out of government.

That is a very dangerous, short-termist position.

Whether you like it or not, millions of people did vote for UKIP at the election, as is their right in a party-based representative democratic system. Those people have effectively been disenfranchised.

For that matter, so have millions who supported the Lib Dems or the Greens. Along with UKIP, these three parties between them attracted popular support on a similar scale to Labour and the Conservatives (roughly 24%, against 30% for Labour and 37% for the Conservatives) yet have only 10 seats between them in Parliament compared to Labour's 232 and the Conservatives' 331.

National parties are also heavily over-represented now. The DUP (0.6% of the popular vote) has the same 8 MPs as the Lib Dems (7.9%). The SNP (4.7%) has 56 MPs, while UKIP (12.6%) has only a single MP.

There are pros and cons to having a "clear winner" and first past the post does provide that, but the idea that the system has generated a government that is anything close to representing what the people as a whole want this time is even less credible than it was five years ago.
I use it a lot, and find it to be quite tolerable once you get it. Its verbosity is a wart, but it's understandable when you understand what it is. ObjC has [[similar syntactical] issues].

The trick to it is not to over-use or abuse the language's many features. I tend to write C++ that is a fairly thin layer on top of C, using the STL for data structures and algorithms but using things like my own templates very sparingly.

I like Go, but it's really only well supported server side. Rust is promising but not ready for prime time.
> The design work we see in the modern web is (IMHO) a result of making the web marketable and thus monetizable.

What you call "marketable and thus monetizable", I (and I'm not a designer, though I do a little of my own print and web design) call "human-friendly." It's not that people don't want to read, it's that we have learned over the span of human history how to present information in a more accessible way, culminating for now--though surely not terminating--in high-signal, short forms: lectures, web content, stuff like that. I'm not saying that's an unequivocal good; as this post might show, I like to write, and I have more than occasionally been told that I like to "lecture" because I have and share thoughts that take more than a few sentences to get to their conclusion. But it's not purely for marketing, it's because this is how most people think. It's not a new thing, it's not Those Kids And Their Short Attention Spans, it's why a catchy slogan has always done better than a reasoned argument. You can speak to them in your language, and get mad that they Just Don't Understand, or you can speak to them in theirs.

There's a reason the absolute best work on the NSA and spying was John Oliver asking Edward Snowden if the NSA can see pictures of his penis. That one interview did more than literally every electron perturbed by the EFF and other groups to get this into people's heads.

That's more than marketing. That's human communication. And dismissing it is fashionable in nerdy circles and absolutely tragic at the same time. We need to get out of our own heads and understand other people, dammit. It's the only way we can really do good.
Yet Another Balkan Micronation: The Kingdom of Enclava
Satiety is nothing. The reason overweight individuals have a tough time is that they are VERY satieted by carb foods but because the brain produce Dopamine they crave it and can't stop. Fat people = addicted to Dopamine. They will eat cookies, sandwiches and other simple carbs every day and between meals.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2381335/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/processed-carbohydrates-are-addi...
> There is also an option that you can think long and hard about the tools you use and come to conclusion,

I think this is the benefit we can gain from RMS' article. Most of what he's outlining here are very extreme executions of fundamental viewpoints. Most of us are not going to turn down watching a show on Hulu or a documentary on Netflix with our friends if we value that kind of social interaction more than having our "freedom". The important thing here is that by reading this and going "why the hell would anyone do that?", RMS has perhaps made us think about the software we use on a slightly deeper level than we usually do. Whether you or I draw the same conclusions as him is irrelevant, the most important thing is that we took a second look at the stuff we use because there's someone out there that either doesn't use it or uses it differently.
When used with caution, perhaps. Separation from a god-belief coincided with the start of my depression, so prayer would be super-not-helpful.
Depends why the therapist is suggesting it.

If he thinks that praying in and of itself will be valuable, eg, because the patient is religious and a calm, focussed mental state would be valuable, then it is good therapy.

If the therapist is suggesting that the patient ask God to cure him... well, that's not good therapy.
I was surprised there was/is? restriction on individuals purchasing commercial slots. Anyone know why? Esp since it's pretty trivial to circumvent.

To ensure only commercial speech gets broadcast? Can't have those free-thinkers, radicals, and artists being heard by the masses?
Totally speculative, but I think this might have something to do with a high demand for good therapists. For instance, I spoke recently with a friend who was studying to practice psychoanalysis and when I asked him if he was looking for clients, he turned me down in such a way as to suggest 'you're not on the level of my clientele' or at least 'I have all the clients I need.' This was in New York where I'm sure there's a huge base of wealthy potential clients willing to pay a premium.

If therapists have no problem finding clients, word of mouth may actually be the best system for them.

Please correct me if I'm off-base here.
Most someones responding to train accident have bolt/wire cutters, jaws of life, etc.

But, yes most random good Samaritans would be impeded. Not sure if that is bad thing.
It wouldn't be much cheaper, though. A WD Blue 250GB on Newegg is $47. A WD Blue 1TB is $55.
> easily

You and I have different definitions.
Rust functions can still have side effects: they can access unsafely global variables and read them even without unsafe access. They can call libraries that do IO. I.e. they are not referentially transparent.

Constexp would be pure, because they can't rely on ANY external state, in order to be const.
Evolution is a type of intelligence. The two are not mutually exclusive -- memetic evolution is design.
Scotland isn't really that left wing, I'm saying this from the perspective of someone who lives in Scotland (currently and for most of my life) and has lived in England and abroad. People here just like to pretend they're superior, you're no better or worse, frankly you're not even very different, you just have a chip on your shoulder.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/05/scotching-a...
But among those 65000+ animals, only one has successfully increased its average lifespan significantly in the past 1000+ years. Chief reasons being advancements in sanitation, medicine, and overall diet quality. So "going back to nature" cannot be naively taken as always good.
that is... a healthy way to look at it.

My experience has been that using containers to go multi-tenant leads only to misery and pain.

But it does seem a reasonable-ish way to handle packaging, though I have less experience with that use case. It does seem like it would work, assuming you still have a way to update everything, and assuming everything is happy with the same kernel.
Mobile First, but What’s Next?
Yeah, I hadn't heard of it either. He started talking about it and I said, "that sounds like a conspiracy theory," and then ended up looking it up in the session because he wouldn't let it go.
I suspect that it might be because the people who are driven to be entrepreneurs also have a higher likelihood of suffering from depression.
This reminds me of https://vimeo.com/63653873, where they used Google Maps Street View to make hyperlapses.
Not just smarter, but on real problems, and the really boring parts.

It was a really good read, and applies to more than just learning the Cello. I particularly loved the bit about how it's easier for children to pick up new things, because they don't know (or care) how bad they are. I know feeling self conscious about things definitely impairs my ability to learn things I really love from the outside.
Not to mention, in a circuitous way, encryption and security.
This is just plain old bad opsec.
This is a big part of what DT folks love, although only a part. Essentially the argue that we've already written one great language (supposedly), so why bolt a weak language atop it? Why not just use the same one twice?

Of course, now we need a type language and checker for the type language, a higher order type language, and so on and so forth infinitely. You end up with a rammified hierarchy of types (just like we had back in 1910).

So that's all fine and good and doesn't actually require dependent types yet. In this case, Magpie appears to do something called "Type in Type" which is to compress the whole rammified hierarchy into one layer by just asserting that this is the case. It turns out that this is unsound---you can craft ridiculous things like Girard's Paradox to break it---but for "pragmatic" types that's probably not a huge problem. We're already inconsistent because I assume Magpie is Turing complete.

In order to get dependent types you need what's called the "dependent function space" which lets you accept an argument and then have the return type "depend" on both the type of the argument and the value of the argument

A : Type
B : Type -> A -> Type
depend : (x : A) -> B A x

which I don't think is expressed in Magpie.
This is further compounded by the stigma & blame that surrounds mental illness, which can be quite severe in certain cultures/countries e.g. China