skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this pseudo-hipster "the web became a worse place when designers got involved" stuff really annoys me.

Seriously, if all the web looked like this it would be more complicated to use for 99.9% of the world, so it would have remained a niche, so its overall usefulness would have remained limited.

Instead, talented hard-working people put lots of effort into making the web look a much more friendly place. This has made the web a much more inclusive place, and thus, much more of the world has started to use it.

RMS is a brand, and this 'zero design' is part of his brand. You already know who RMS is before you visit his site, and if you don't, you probably aren't part of his 'target market'. The jarring "Oh the CSS hasn't loaded" moment is precisely what he wants you to experience. The kind of people who visit his site know how to use reading mode on their browser, are comfortable adjusting the line width in whatever client they are using, so it doesn't matter.

It doesn't mean that the rest of the web would be a in a better place if it had remained looking like this. It would have remained an obscure corner of the world where a group of geeks met, and so many of the benefits of the internet would never have transpired.
Bananas are for monkeys, and just look at how hairy those guys are. Better not risk it.
How so? Seriously praying is an involved, focused mental state. It's not flippantly wishing.
I grew up with whole milk, weened myself to skim (and came to NOT like the heft of whole or 2%), then essentially stopped milk altogether. With kids, milk was brought back into the fridge (whole). Now, I prefer whole (certain premium organic brands are just other-worldly), but it only goes into recipes and the occasional bowl of cereal (like a dessert of fat and sugar).

Most things in moderation and you can focus on the pleasure aspect vs. the health. Whole has more pleasure to it.

If you're going to drink from the bosom of a cow, might as well go fully creepy.
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Why do they have to knock bacon in this discussion to bring milk up? A big part of all of this is just to consume less sugar and carbs. I eat bacon, eggs, and vegetables all the time for breakfast and my blood work couldn't be better from my bagel/cereal/oatmeal days.
Go eat more bacon too: http://authoritynutrition.com/is-bacon-bad-or-good/
Well that'd be research code anyway :)
You'd probably better off rebuilding from scratch based on the research paper.
The software shouldn't be that complicated in the end, the main challenge (to me) is gathering that 86M images dataset.
This is not an edge case.

effective go[0] clearly states
"Slices hold references to an underlying array, and if you assign one slice to another, both refer to the same array."

[0] https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#slices
That site just made me laugh out loud.
My guess is that Netflix couldn't negotiate agreements for a lot of the content that makes the service attractive without relenting on DRM. We'll know when Netflix turns evil, because it will force you to sit through commercials and previews before showing you the content you want and paid to see.
In the Bay Area, BART does a pretty good job of fencing off the surrounding area when its on level ground (because of the danger of the third rail). There's always a fence with some sort of razor wire on top, and no grade crossings for people to get in close to the train. I suppose it'd be possible to shoot at the train or throw objects from nearby buildings, but it'd require a lot more luck and skill.
I wonder, assuming it turns out that the engineer isn't at fault, if he can sue the Mayor afterwards for defamation.
AWS has a couple of issues with Lambda. If you use a binary its very difficult to talk to the process. No port binding means its nearly impossible to talk to processes without prohibitive changes (named pipes are a solution but it requires extensive code changes to existing apps)
Sure thing. It is "Modern Sabahlar". Here's a link to the podcast archive. They are very good about keeping it current. You can also follow them on Twitter for updates.

http://podcast.modernsabahlar.org/
https://twitter.com/modernsabahlar
austinjp already provided references, but I think it should be obvious that not every calorie ingested is a calorie digested. That's down to what types of bacteria you have in your gut among other things, and then you have insulin screwing things up if you eat a high sugar diet.

I hate the "calorie is a calorie" parroting, because while it's true, it ignores every other factor involved in digestion and energy usage.

I've been logging my food intake for a few years now, and I have a pretty solid idea of what my resting metabolic rate is, how much I need to eat when I'm building muscle and so on. The fact is, when I eat the same amount as guys who are similar in build and height, I better be ready to bulk. I simply cannot eat the same number of calories as my peers and expect to not gain weight, which means either my body is more effective at digestion, or I'm more predisposed to storing fat than they are.
"Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco..."

You should read some of his essays :)
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> Whole milk is usually 10% – 15% more expensive where I live, though the lower-fat varieties are all priced the same.

Interesting. That's not the case in the UK http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=254656543 http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=254656399 or Ireland http://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=250005508 http://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=250005606 .
People who want robust customer support will use a service that doesn't scale. This includes people like my parents or your first N users.
Many of the benefits of Lisps that you talk about here seem to be refuted by writeups I've read where large groups switched from a Lisp to something else...often because it was hard to work with, slower to write and harder to maintain.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

Over at reddit.com, we rewrote the site from Lisp to Python in the past week. It was pretty much done in one weekend. (Disclosure: We used my web.py library.) The others knew Lisp (they wrote their whole site in it) and they knew Python (they rewrote their whole site in it) and yet they decided liked Python better for this project. The Python version had less code that ran faster and was far easier to read and maintain.

http://www.redditblog.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html

If Lisp is so great, why did we stop using it? One of the biggest issues was the lack of widely used and tested libraries. Sure, there is a CL library for basically any task, but there is rarely more than one, and often the libraries are not widely used or well documented. Since we're building a site largely by standing on the shoulders of others, this made things a little tougher. There just aren't as many shoulders on which to stand.

...

We were already familiar with Python. It's fast, development in Python is fast, and the code is clear.

...

The entire task took less than a week, with 80% of the code written in a single weekend.

I know of several other large corporate projects over the years that made similar switches for similar reasons. Perl, Python, Java, etc. were faster to write in, performed better, and had better long-term maintainability (okay, maybe not Perl). Nobody regrets those switches except for a couple Lispers who continue to complain about how none of this is true, even after Lisp didn't provide the results, and something else did.

Continuing to claim that Lisp is better than all the proven better alternatives starts to make it smell like religion. Trying to explain away why a Lisp didn't work for whatever reason, but it's still the best start to taste like religion.

At some point its important to just make a call and realize that Lisps are interesting, you can compute with them, and they've had important influence, but they aren't the best way to do things - for many reasons. There's always another language choice that's faster, or easier, or offers a better ecosystem.

GNU CL has been out for a long while now, and it hasn't taken the world by storm. "Better", while qualitative in many respects, is also obvious, and it's obvious across a sample of millions of software projects that there are simply better holistic software development tools.

edit it makes me really happy when this gets downvoted without comment. Nobody ever downvotes an anti-Lisp rant with a pointer to a large and ongoing Lisp-based project. They just virtually claim I'm wrong without any substantial backup.
http://ethanwiner.com/adultbeg.html

> HTTP Error 400. The request is badly formed.

edit: google has it cached, it's a good read
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Which is why there is every reason to assume that when he says this, what he means is like to be more along the lines "people whom we say, or think, are seeking to kidnap, shoot, and bomb us, but where we're unable to find any evidence that they are actually conspiring or inciting others to commit crimes".
i think all that shows is google+, what it offers and what it demands, are bullshit.

i don't think rms is contradicting himself.
> apache2 mpm_prefork fell out of favor many iterations ago.

By whom, exactly? There are still plenty of reasons to use a forking web server (see my other comment in this discussion). Saying it "does not scale" is misleading; even with a event-driven model there are only so many CPU resources that can be used to serve responses to clients.

Event-driven webservers are fantastic compared to forking ones, for keeping open many thousands of relatively idle connections (if that is your definition of "scale"). But many web services simply don't do that.

Preforking webservers, like event-driven ones, still have a rightful place in this world. As with all things technology, you have to pick the right tool for the job.
But isn't the distribution charge nullified by the first person who distributes the software free of charge (and they are free to do so because the software is libre)?
If you're drinking whole milk, you're getting a mix of fat and sugar. If you're drinking skim milk, you've removed the fat and kept the sugar. Skim milk's popularity is a result of the low-fat fad (perpetuated by the US government and others) which made everyone scared to eat anything with fat in it. But the fat is actually the good part of milk, so if you don't want the milk fat you're better off picking another drink entirely - like almond milk.
Anyway I love this.
Especially as what he describes sounds like CBT anyway.
Wow, a real cool way to share your experiences!
Or there is the third option to think long and hard, largely agree with Stallman, but still continue to mostly use the tools you do out of habit and practicality.

I'd say I fall into that category. He raises a lot of very important issues, however it would be too much for me to change my lifestyle to address all of those issues, and then some of his points, such as proprietary software being inherently evil, I don't agree with.
An Atari ST/Mega ST could have a hard disk too.

I ran Franz Lisp on my Atari ST which included a native compiler.
This was written by a VC hoping that Docker is going to be worth more than VMware. I suspect he may be disappointed.
Satiety is everything. The reason overweight individuals have a tough time is that they are not satieted by carb laden foods and thus crave more. Many have broken that cycle with ketogenic diets which are higher in fat.
The design work we see in the modern web is (IMHO) a result of making the web marketable and thus monetizable. You have a point that is would have remained an obscure geek meeting ground, but the reasons for the modern web aren't to make it easier to use, it's to make it not feel so much like reading.

Logos and colors, design and layout are designed to make the web appealing and inviting to some group. Black text on white feels too much like a book and an amazingly large segment of society is put off from that.

Yet his page is fast, responsive, standards compliant, easy to navigate, accessible (screen readers have no problems with it). I don't have to addblock it, turn on readability, or any other nonsense to focus on the content. We've succeeded in simply trying to reinvent what we already have.
Other example is being present if a close friend has something deeply emotional going on. Ideally you should try to stay present with the emotions both with the other person and yourself. If you kept feeling, "lets move on with this", that would not be supportive.
This site uses javascript and an advertising company to track you.
you've made an analogy saying a protest for your beliefs is like dying for your beliefs?

and you are calling somebody an extremist?

talk about hyperbole.
Agreed, the minimal design does have its place but I don't think the web as a whole would be any better for it. Pretty much all the webpages for the modules I study on my CS degree are of a similar kind to Stallman's, because that's all they need to be.
Julia is a little friendlier for people who aren't used to APL's point-free style, but it is designed for performance, going as far showing you how functions are compiled to LLVM and native assembler in the REPL.

http://www.evanmiller.org/why-im-betting-on-julia.html
You're right. But to be more accurate, who in their right mind would proudly proclaim their support for an organization that beheads innocent bystanders because they're infidels or something?

Usually, a "terrorist" is anyone who poses a threat to the established ruling elites somewhere. But we're told we need to be very afraid of some desert loonies somewhere in Hellholeistan. Naturally then, we need governments to protect us by snooping in on everything we do anywhere. For safety.
I'm a little confused by this. I write short xAWK programs to do this sort of thing all the time and don't think twice about it, and yet it's got 23 points here. I'm not knocking it, it's a useful little thing, but is it so unusual and so useful that it's worth 23 points?

Perhaps this is evidence of the composition of the HN community. Is it the case that people here can't or don't know about xAWK, so this is new and surprising?

If people find this sort of thing useful and interesting, maybe I should write up and submit more of the little scripts I create rather than just using them and throwing them away.
Chrome is pretty special. "Oh, you have too many tabs to fit, time to hide the favicons."
I absolutely love Spark and really look forward to SparkR joining the main project this summer.
Not far from the top of the article:

Since free software is not a matter of price, a low price doesn't make the software free, or even closer to free. So if you are redistributing copies of free software, you might as well charge a substantial fee and make some money. Redistributing free software is a good and legitimate activity; if you do it, you might as well make a profit from it.

also:
making closed and open versions is OK by rms.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html
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I was actually thinking outside of slots. A lot of gambling practices are still illegal like sports betting in most of America. Such illegal gambling often leads to some sort of organized crime around providing loans and the actual gambling service itself. But I was also thinking of alcohol prohibition in the 1920's and the current drug prohibition. The black markets that these events created are not that dissimilar from the one around gambling and the core cause is the same.

I do think that eliminating the profit incentive is something that could work. The profit from gambling is cited as a redeeming quality, however, as a reason for legalized gambling to exist. The overwhelming idea, at least in the US, is that if people are going to have a vice (or fun, depending on your perspective), their activities should be taxed so that others (corporations and the government mainly) can profit from them. Perhaps if the money actually went to fund schools and other things that benefit society, I could get behind this viewpoint, but regardless of the claims of governments that have legal gambling, it doesn't. This John Oliver segment about it is pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=789&v=9PK-netuhHA
Oh, it's coming around, alright.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/p...
If you can, I suggest finding a Psychotherapy institute (this is not the "institute" of "institutionalized"). They have many therapists on "staff", and you begin your treatment with an interview that's designed to match you to a therapist that works well for you. The interview asks about why you're seeking therapy and if you have any preferences for your therapist (male, female, young, old, religious, non-religious, etc.). And if you wind up not liking the therapist they recommend, you can ask for another without any fuss.

There are a number of these offices in NYC and I'm sure there are some in other cities as well. I hope you find somebody that works for you.
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I believe this is partially due to he trend to give all sides of a debate equal weight. Too often we consider multiple double blind experiments equal to multiple anecdotes.

There certainly is a way to trust it. http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
Anyone could be a psychopath too, and highly dangerous. I guess they should detain everyone just in case, and grill them for hours.

Of course, it's not like a psychopath could lie convincingly so that he could proceed with his evil plans, so I guess they can't actually let anyone in, ever.
Going further, why doesn't your shell show you while you're typing? I have seen one or two application programs that do this and it is VERY helpful.
Here's a more complete quote, for anyone interested:

"Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco—in a world where only one company sells tobacco. Like any addictive drug, it inculcates a harmful dependency. (Bill Gates made this comparison in a 1998 issue of Fortune Magazine.) No wonder Microsoft offers the first dose to children at a low price. Microsoft aims to teach poor children this dependency so they can smoke Windows for their whole lives. I don’t think governments or schools should support that aim."

http://new.bostonreview.net/BR33.6/stallman.php
Hm, and if there is accident and someone needs to get to the train?
This wasn't mentioned in any of the summaries or fact sheets at the time, which is why no-one noticed it. The first anyone heard about it was when the government's lawyers claimed it granted GHCQ immunity a few days ago. I believe it was also hidden in a deceptively titled section of the bill in question.
Life is about compromise; You only have so much you can do. Mr. Stallman has decided never to compromise on his principle of freedom. We've gained some benefit from his life, though most of it has already been extracted.

Does your software choices harm you, not could harm you, but harm you? Do you want the freedoms described in all cases, or are you willing to trade some parts of them for other goods? That's the bargain you should consider.

Freedom isn't the end-all of life, nor should it be. If you want to live on principle, do so, but it really doesn't make you intrinsically better as a person.
Wow, that's troubling - I'd like to help out. Is there a requirement of years/posts/edits to be made before you can help on the 'conflict of interest' noticeboard?
I run something similar with 4 workspaces. I solved the "browser crashes taking down everything" problem by setting up 4 different profiles in firefox. Create a batch script to fire up firefox in the right profile for the right workspace.

It's worked well for me, when flash inevitably crashes it doesn't take the other workspaces with it, but it's perhaps not the most elegant of solutions.
Agreed, but a max-width on the content would do wonders for readability.
Ok, I just changed to my real name ... It turns out that I had an account under my real name afterall ... I just forgot
Efficiency: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_efficiency (specifically in this context http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productive_efficiency)

Utility: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility

Non-Linearity: This suggests that the utility that someone derives from wealth is not linearly proportional to their wealth. A simple example may demonstrate this more clearly: We give both an extremely wealthy person and an extremely poor person $10. The poor person will get more utility out of that $10 than the rich person will.
I don't think any one is claiming that design is bad and designers should never have "got involved", your parent comment is saying that we've gone too far.

Today, lots of websites use full-width images and videos on their landing pages, make multiple requests for all sorts of assets and use all sorts of tracking and analytics code. More and more often I find myself closing a tab in frustration because the page is taking too long to load. Blogs, e-commerce sites, this is getting quite common.

I interpreted your parent comment as a call for minimalism, nothing more.

> The jarring "Oh the CSS hasn't loaded" moment is precisely what he wants you to experience.

But I honestly don't experience that moment. I see some text and I start reading it. You're over-thinking, IMO.
Being China, it could be a TD-SCDMA variant (the stylized '4G' logo hints at being a China Mobile variant).
That would escape the WCDMA related patents, but its still technically a UMTS/GSM system.
I'm impressed by your ability to leap logical canyons.

As you point out. Milk is for baby animals. Cow milk is for cows. Adult humans are neither babies nor cows.

Green vegetables are for all omni/herbivores.
I am not religious but I can see the value of prayer.

In this case, the therapist could have understood that prayer was not a helpful suggestion - but in general, it's a valuable tool.
But she wasn't convicted for sharing a photo. She was convicted for adding hashtags like "all cops are bastards" and "one cop, one bullet" to the picture. Free speech doesn't let you harass or threaten people.
Hacker News unfortunately seems to be more and more about depression/psychology and less and less about positive entrepreneurship and tech/programming. I want to be inspired.
65,000+ different animals on Earth weened on their mothers milk, only 1 continues to consumes milk outside of infancy (and from another animal altogether!)...

Majority of adults should avoid dairy products, would be order of magnitude more healthy if calories were replaced with green vegetables.
So true although a little ironic that you mention glycemic index, which is a VERY minor issue. Beef spikes insulin more than white rice.
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C++ is a swiss army knife that works with C, which I have learned very well and have great tools for. I understand the concern, but moving away is not so simple.
That being said, I prefer well-designed C-style libraries in a lot of cases, since C++ libraries often have opinionated styles (the language is huge, after all).
Unfortunately it's usually some layer of middle management that is charged with making the infrastructure capacity planning decisions, and their performance is often measured by different metrics than those that the CEO cares about. Diverging incentives lead to absurd outcomes.
I hope this day does come about, when we have slain the dragon, for the rich and poor alike. But there is one huge challenge we must solve first, where do we put those extra 100,000 people every day? How do we clothe them, or more importantly feed them?

Watching the first half of torchwood "Miracle Day" was both enlightening and frightening in that regard.

That's the real problem we need to solve first
The Same-Sex Couple Who Got a Marriage License in 1971