skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine most people upvoted because it sounded smart.

It's fascinating how easily cruelty can be popularized by using the right, nice-sounding words. Coating/mask your bile in a rhetoric popular with a community, indirectly imply some terrible things, perhaps obfuscate anything that could raise any uncomfortable, thoughtful questions, and presto! You'll have the right set-up to manufacture consensus.
Dropbox supports LAN sync, which is like BT Sync. I'm surprised this isn't a killer feature for companies. If I upload 100MB to a shared folder, other sync tools will download a copy for every user. That could be a huge amount of traffic. BTSync and Dropbox solve that problem.
I'm brave/a masochist. I've been using it since the very start. It has come very, very far—performance especially.
Men vs Women Explained :)
Probably a mix of that and the fact that Drive supports a hybrid of traditional folders and tagging that you can't ignore (it would break things) and you can't cleanly implement on Linux (there's no real reliable mechanism to support tags that works on XFS, ext4, and Btrfs, which seems like the bare minimum today you'd need to cover).
http://www.shacknews.com/article/90184/batman-arkham-knight-...

There's a screenshot circulating that has 12 people listed. And I assume those aren't all developers.

But count is neither here nor there. Who knows how much was multi-platform middleware and how much custom code needed to be reimplemented.
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One of my first jobs ages ago was to convert a large Perl codebase to ASP 2.0 because my new boss, a 22 year old CTO, was replacing a guy more than twice his age and Perl was "for old folks" as he put it. This one person turned the whole company into a Microsoft dev shop with one decision simply because he didn't feel comfortable around Perl code.
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Only if more than 1 provider is available in your area. With my ISP, sharing with the public is not allowed. As such, any torrenting that happens I am responsible for. The only other provider we have is dial up, which I don't consider an alternative.
When I'm viewing safari, is it visible that content-blocking is going happening? What happens if multiple apps all try and content block the same page?
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The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That's not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it's just what draws me to Atom.

It's super easy to hack on and contribute to.
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i remember reading virtualenv is like the simplest little program. what overhead are you talking about?
The anime translation business was on the brink of disaster until crunchyroll came around. They just could not sell DVDs of episodes that anime fans could afford and if took them 2 years to get product out and fansubs hit the street in 2 days the commercial product can't survive.

Note there is a genre of anime inspired video games (particularly for the PS vita) that I imagine are doing well commercially and there the complaints about bad voice acting do not apply. For instance the voices of Neptune and noire in the current gen of hyperdimensional neptunia are better in the English than Japanese in my opinion.
I guess it would depend on who you ask.

Ask someone from that wedding party that gone attacked by a drone predator missile last year what the U.S. flag represents.
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Replacing Wasabi code with the prettified output of Wasabi seems like a terrible idea to me. Is the result similar enough to the original source that it will still make sense? Do comments get preserved?

Programmers just love to change good working code into the new style or new language. One has to always view the impulse to change skeptically.
You don't have to go through their site to download it. Just go here - https://github.com/atom/atom/releases
I think your comment is really out of place here, because I don't think anyone here is arguing for what you're arguing against.

Regardless, the Confederate Flag is something other than a symbol of overt racism. It is the emblem of the Confederate Army that is most recognizable to modern people. It's certainly because of that fact that the flag is also a symbol of overt racism. When presenting media of a historical genre, to represent the Confederate Army, I think it's appropriate to use the Confederate Flag.
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Ueber looks allready historic and they havent even won yet.
"Nobody has yet figured out how to Taylorize software development." Agile/Scrum...

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-an...
Unless it's a CSV. Or XML. Or JSON, Or <insert another popular format>
You signed a contract with Apple governing what they can and can do, and what you can and can't do. Your complaints on Hacker News after the fact are not binding on Apple.
Of course, but if you find yourself in one of these instances of editing a large file (search and replacing database dumps is a common use case for me), you'll be disappointed. It's easy to argue that should be left to command line tools, but ST3 actually does a pretty good job at this.
As someone working on a compiler which is not a primary business of this company I disagree. Our main product is a large library with quite a lot man-years of work put into it that we offer on lots of different platforms and frameworks – for the most part with near-identical API and capabilities. Compiling the source into different languages rather than rewriting everything is a very valid approach. In our case almost all bugfixes and new features can be merged directly into the other products and work (the exception being the glue parts to the respective platform/framework).

Being able to precisely control the output and thus guarantee API stability is a major factor in developing this in-house, especially as most converters only concern themselves with replicating the visible behaviour of a complete application.
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Do you know anyone at Fog Creek, or even anyone who has ever worked there? Did they tell you something that would lead you to believe that a blogger for Fog Creek would, completely unprompted and with no real need, make up stories about why people left?

Or could I just as easily argue, with the same total lack of grounding, that you're a secret shill for Atlassian trying to poison the well? (You aren't, of course, but you take my meaning.)
Well, no, it's not empirical until we design some experiments to test the theory, make predictions, test them, come up with potentially observable data that would falsify our hypotheses, publish our results and let them be peer reviewed, reproduced elsewhere etc... The jump from anecdotes to empiricism is a large one that is not to be undertaken lightly.
> But it takes a lot of people and time to figure it out for each app on the store.

They've already approved these apps. They already have the people to approve these apps.

> And when it comes to this kind of stuff Apple doesn't like spending lots of people and time on these kind of things.

Incorrect. They've already demonstrated they want to do this. After all, you had to have people find and remove these apps in the first place.
Absolutely correct. I worked 7 years at a mega-bank that always had "contractors" on staff. Shortly after I arrived, the bank was wrapping up lawsuits brought by former contractors who (correctly) argued that they were misclassified and should have been employees. From that point on, the bank became very strict about enforcing the same 18/6 rule you saw at Microsoft.
The X developers didn't break remoting, but that doesn't mean contemporary gui toolkits still use the features of X that made X "network transparent." As I understand it, most features of the protocol are largely ignored except for the parts needed to pump bitmaps over a network.

Here's an LCA talk by a dude what works on X and Wayland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
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Java doesn't only work on Linux, it works on windows too. That's the great thing about it.
Google abandoned its previous Github comptetitor. Unlikely many outside of the Go-phers will use the new one.
That's for per-user isolation. This is about per-project isolation. A single user can have many projects with different dependencies.
Downloads are also available from https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/tag/v1.0.0.
It's funny because what got me is how dumb it sounded: the words "such a colossal error as writing their own language" made me think "that's the kind of thing a mid-level IT manager at an insurance company would say".
This kind of dubbing wasn't exclusive to anime in that era, publishers basically bought the rights to cheap visual content and produced their own stories and scripts on top of it for maximum impact in their respective local markets.

Germany: Die Zwei / The Pesuaders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persuaders!#Redubbed_versi...

Most famous and polarizing was probably the reworking of three different original programmes (Macross, ‎Southern Cross and MOSPEADA) into Robotech

Earliest example might have been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up,_Tiger_Lily%3F

but the french perfected this sub-genre in the 70s:

http://physicalimpossibility.com/2011/05/22/movie-rip-offs-a...
>That is not a sensible comparison.

Well yeah, since the mosquito evidently survives...
Yet when you see a Hacker News headline that is just "Atom 1.0" it is close enough in the same category (tech news) where it can be confusing.
For ~50M (statistics?) iPhone users, they're a monopoly, no?

IANAL, but I feel like there were previous monopoly cases successfully brought on behalf of far smaller groups than that. E.g. the fact that I'm a vegetarian doesn't invalidate a steak-knife monopoly
Uber does give you the ability to choose higher quality if you'd like. An UberX is a low quality ride by a likely inexperienced driver with the benefit that it is cheap. An Uber Black gives you a nicer car with a very likely (but not necessarily, but in my experience they are professional private limo drivers) experienced driver.

I agree on our societies approach to "value" only relating to cost at the expense of quality - but that's a different topic all together.
Java was never designed to "whip up a quick script". Today as in 1995 there are better alternatives to do that. Also Java was designed to abstract away from the underlying OS to provide "write once, run anywhere" so its "as designed" that OS integration is lacking.

Personally I think the tooling is the best part of Java. Having an IDE helps you build more robust software by providing far more context than a text editor ever could. The build systems have reached the point that its very easy to do the right thing to build robust software. Compared with what came before (make, imake, configure etc) the tools are much better.
Not really. I don't think we should forget about symbols like that flag. They should be debated openly and freely. Same goes for the debate here. But if a large group of people are intimated by the 'speech' (Flag) then I think it's perfectly reasonable to remove it.
Fansubs are almost always better than the commercial releases, because if the show is even relatively popular (and shows that get official releases usually are), a group will edit the official release's script.

You honestly can't beat the time and passion fans will put in. Most of translators working for places like CrunchyRoll get paid per release, so they have no incentive to spend more time on a release and give it a quality translation. On the other hand, fans have already read/played the source material and will use background knowledge to properly translate the material.
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I thought this was an Onion headline at first.
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I saw a quote from a historian years ago (I wish I could find it) that went something like this:
When I was young I thought the Civil War was about slavery,
When I started to learn more about history I thought it was about more than slavery,
When I really studied the Civil War I realized it was completely about slavery.

It's easy for people to get tripped up by their own ideologies and lose site of the time period that the Civil War occurred in. If you're all about states' rights these days, it's easy to focus on that part of the Civil War because it fits your narrative. Unfortunately it ignores that the only states' right that they were really concerned with was that which kept slavery legal.

I know this because there was definitely a time when I felt that way. Thankfully I eventually realized I was wrong.
> Since the only metric that matters is "cost", then that doesn't happen.

That cost is short term cost, which as you point out is just accepted instead of long term cost.

We've probably reached the point where MBAs and the like have very few olives left to remove from the employee salad.
They are. Games are not recognized as art here in Germany, so they do not get the same treatment as movies or books and have to remove the references. International releases of these games are actually illegal in Germany and owning them is an indictable act, although actual criminal charges are very rare (since there's hardly a way of controlling the digital distribution).
I'm fairly sure that racism in America is pretty much alive. Racism doesn't always mean calling someone a racial slur or re-enacting the curb stomping scene from American History X, more often it means looking at other people as less than you or more dangerous or unemployable. That racism is still very normal in America and it will take more than a generation for it die out.
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I work as a contractor in The Netherlands and currently wouldn't want it any other way. The payment is indeed good and there's plenty of work available for the (at least somewhat) capable developer, so in fact this puts the developer in a very powerful position.

Also, it seems we still have a shortage of qualified IT personnel in the coming decade(s), so there's little reason to stop doing contract work and become a permanent employee.
Totally agreed. Why pre-order to get the exclusive content when you can have it 6 months down the line in the "Game Of The Year Edition" - and usually much cheaper
and with all of the bugs ironed out. What's not to like? :)
I hope they vet these drivers well --imagine a driver taking the drunkard for a ride on the way home. With all the surveillance even uber drivers get in trouble with assaulting unintoxicated fares, imagine the opportunity for unscrupulous valets taking intoxicated passengers home...
that's what PYTHONUSERBASE (the environment variable) is there for!
I'm pretty certain virtualenv just changes some environment variables.

I found a writeup [1] on how to write your own virtualenv. It doesn't look like there's much overhead there.

I suppose one could justify not using virtualenv if they're on a system with limited resources or network access. I've known people who spent hours building a compiling python 2.7 from source on embedded systems because they rolled their own distro, and in that situation it would make sense to not want to mess with virtualenv if you just spent hours getting pip working.

1: https://www.recurse.com/blog/14-there-is-no-magic-virtualenv...
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Well, once you've whiled aways enough years under the fluorescent lights of your local MegaCorp, you can begin to see the comparative appeal of startup land.
That's exactly what I thought it meant before I read the article.
So we are to assume they will remove Dukes of Hazard from iTunes to complete their kneejerk reaction to this issue? There are probably quite a few album covers with that flag or approximations of it, let alone TV shows and movies.

American Civil War games are not racist nor is representing the Civil War or any other conflict in a game. What is next? Scrubbing history books of any offending flag or words?
> It astounds me that there are large numbers of whites in this country who think the Civil War was about anything other than slavery.

Indoctrination with these beliefs in pretty common at high schools in places like Mississippi and S. Carolina, and even at (rural) high schools in border states. We watched Gone With the Wind in my History class in high school. Not when discussing e.g. "the role of film in civil rights/modern history" mind you, but when discussing reconstruction. It was pretty explicitly treated as a more-or-less accurate portrayal.
Anyone can make a mess of anything if they are not sufficiently careful. This is not unique to nix.

Personally, I enjoy the nix philosophy of using small programs that do one thing well. Also, I prefer text to proprietary binary formats that _I_ can't do anything with.

As a *nix and Windows developer, I've never understood the mentality of wanting to build huge monolithic applications. But, I do think the tide is turning. I think more and more developers are allowing themselves to be influenced by ideas outside of what they are used to and that's a great thing.
Exactly. No one really talks much about how biracial people are mistreated in the US, but it happens all too often (A couple close friends had to deal with it all their lives). And yet I've had people tell me "But Obama is President, so there can't be racism now." Pfft!
I don't have a horse in this race - I'm a 'Northerner' who doesn't fly the Confederate flag and has never been a fan of people who do, but I never felt like it was my place to call others out. As such, I don't particularly take issue with the removal of the flag from public institutions. It's probably a good thing.

However, I do take issue with narrow oversimplifications, and as such I would encourage you to do some research before making such blanket statements.

I have some people close to me who once wore t-shirts that had elements of the flag on them. If I were to ask them why they wore it, they would not answer or think anything along the lines of "overt racism." They're just people who have a bit of a redneck streak, are into country music, hunting, etc.

Symbols are what we make them to be. As someone in the design world I am very aware of this. Perhaps your experience is that everyone around you who sports the flag is an overt racist, but that hasn't been the experience for me. Do I still think it's misguided to use the flag? Personally, yes. But I think to paint the issue with such a broad brush doesn't do anyone any good.

Same thing about those "who think the Civil War was about anything other than slavery" - I think there's a solid case to be made for that among the "power brokers", but as is the case in history, things were much more nuanced, particularly for the rank and file. Search around a bit for why your average non-slave-owning Southerner signed up for the war, or even look at a guy like Robert E. Lee.

If you're interested in the nuances of the secession question, check out http://history.stackexchange.com/q/2056 - lots of good points on either end of the spectrum.

TL;DR: History is complex, be careful about blanket statements.
Yeah, you could do that. And I wouldn't think it would be that hard either.

I'd make a cascade that detects all letters and numbers from major font sets. That shouldn't be too terribly difficult.

Now, use the cascade to scan the document. Now, convert the document to a list of all detected characters (we don't actually care what the chars are).

Once you have this, do best fit bounding boxes around the data. You'll have to figure out what distance you want to exclude from the bounding boxes.

Now what you should end up with are a few boxes indicating the regions of data on the document. Now, crop each of these regions of interest and feed them into Tesseract.
Likewise, especially since "competitive" is such a huge range. As an example, if I'm currently making $100k, I might entertain a position at a slightly interesting company that's offering a "competitive" salary of $95k. However, I don't think there's anything that would make me go through the hassle of interviewing for a job paying a "competitive" $60k.

Basically, posting the salary range gives me a quick and easy way to weed out those companies which aren't serious without a significant investment of my time.
alias mate="atom" - old habits die hard.
I was checking out that Andrew Dickerson dude's Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/andrew52987/videos - it's like a showcase for mosquito torture!

Check out this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s1_f9fyjME
Direct quote:

"The people who wrote the original Wasabi compiler moved on for one reason or another. Some married partners who lived elsewhere; others went over to work on other products from Fog Creek."

Unless I'm mistaken, this was all that was written about the reasons people left, which to me does not seem very "bizarre". Sure, he could have included "... and some left for other companies" but there's a difference between omitting the obvious and saying something like:

"Let it be known that all the ones who were truly good programmers, and by extension, real human beings! Only the best stayed at Wasabi. No one who was a good employee left for anything other than a personal reason. No one!"
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Absolutely, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make some progress.

I think we have actually made progress with HTTP and all the REST. But I feel that the great failure of distributed object systems in the 1990s and 2000s has left a great void when it comes to new thinking about more fine grained sort of interfaces between programs.

Functional programming has influenced so many things but hasn't really arrived in the systems corner of the world yet. Also, looking at the sort of query capabilities of online streaming databases and complex event processing systems I get the feeling that there may be a lot of potential in combining that with Unix pipes and text streams.

Publish-subscribe ala zeromq is also something that could be a core part of modern Unix.

Sorry about the half-baked mess I'm dumping on you here :)
Apologies. I was referring to this Hacker News page. I was born in raised in Georgia, so I'm aware of such people. It just seemed like the argument wasn't strong in this context.
I, and many other people regardless of graphics card, CPU, or RAM, are experiencing an issue where the game slows to a stuttering crawl after a while. Adding RAM extends the playable time period, but only staves off the inevitable. There are many lengthy threads on the topic, with people suggesting things like putting the pagefile on an SSD to ameliorate the bottleneck, or using third-party programs to aggressively clear caches. For every homegrown solution, there are people who claim it doesn't work for them. Google "gta v pc stuttering" for an overview.

Seriously considering asking for a refund myself.
Welcome to what I've felt with Emacs since I first used it.

Might be time to work on some tutorials and examples to make Emacs easier to hack on and contribute to...