skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Half of the country got to suffer under the yoke of the USSR for half a century. The debt is paid.
i am somewhat conflicted on the article. on the one hand his arguments are almost all logically weak, they just aren't compelling in most cases. They are mostly emotional appeals more than logic.

on the other hand i actually agree with a lot of what he is saying so there is that...
Absolutely. The pro-European movement that's been going on for many many decades has as an ultimate goal to unite the peoples of Europe so we can live in peace. United in diversity, as the EU motto claims. A great % of Europeans you met before 2008 would agree with this.

There's now —sadly— little left going around of the "Alle Menschen werden Brüder" that our shared anthem sings (all men become brothers under the gentle wing of joy).

A bunch of unscrupulous cronies sold both northern and southern Europeans up the river just to make a profit for themselves and their friends. No damn statesmanship to be seen anywhere. Long gone are the times Schroeder and other much-more-respectable leaders, we now have to put up with the likes of Lagarde and Juncker. And, of course, Tsipras and Varoufakis, amateur hour, who have been absurdly reckless in their handling of the negotiations and PR.
It's not like code, music sheets are unoptimized for learning. And at the end music sheets are just here for you to learn a music, they are nothing more.

Personally I'm very fond of that kind of music sheets: http://herbalcell.com/static/sheets/legend-of-zelda-twilight...

I've learned complex musics in weeks while it would have taken me month with a real music sheet.
The table has tension, though. Ad opposed to a table made of paper which would not exert force on the book--the book would overcome the table's tension and set the table in motion until the floor exerted an upward force.
And no one will be talking about that next week. Can we please avoid upvoting internet non-news/drama on HN?

EDIT: seeing the downvotes, if anyone followed what happened when they banned the racist subreddits and the backlash of the vocal minority: nobody was talking about it the next day.

EDIT2: plus the fact that this is totally bullying on the CEO. Why should we echo this?
That is "instinct", a different concept from "intuition", thought overlapping in some aspect.
Can we leave this drama to angsty white male American teenagers please, sigghh.
One of the largest sites on the internet had a large % of its content set private by moderators in protest of the firing of an employee.

Now thousands of people are calling for the CEO to step down. I'd hardly call that "non-news"... but to each their own I guess.
Mathematicians use and think about math in a way that is almost completely orthogonal to the way physicists use and think about it. To physicists math is more like a natural language, and definitions are conveniences. This is why mathematicians often say physicists can't do math: by their definition of math this is correct.

For physicists the math becomes a language and a safety net and a set of heuristics that let us simply the problem to the point of being about to reason about it effectively. A great deal of what we use math for amounts to book-keeping. The human imagination is as capable of dreaming up impossibilities as it is incapable of dreaming up the way the universe actually is, and math helps us avoid doing the former while we use systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference to figure out the latter.

Because "thinking about the mathematical representation of physical reality" is such a profoundly unnatural, unintuitive act, and because the math is so strict and simple, it is very hard to for us to use it to imagine impossibilities, whereas if you have a conversation with a layperson you will find they almost instantly run off the rails into nonsense because they don't have the math to keep them on track. So laypeople believe in perpetual motion machines and the like with surprising ease, because they "just make sense" to their intuition (which maps pretty well to Aristotle's physics).
Windows 8.1 can open ISO files directly.
"change.org" is nothing but an internet bullying site.
Brendan answered with advantages, but for how: it's still just a software breakpoint, int3/0xCC on x86 as you say. But the round trip of dealing with that breakpoint is much tighter, because the handler function is called directly in the kernel trap, without even a context switch. Uprobes has about the minimal overhead that a software breakpoint can possibly have, whereas involving a userspace debugger requires a bunch of syscalls and context switches every time.
Slightly off topic: but GTA5 has a mission where you had to do essentially that.
Giggity!
"Phong" refers to two distinct but related things: The Phong reflection model (Ambient + Diffuse + Specular) and Phong shading (normal vector interpolation).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_reflection_model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_shading
> Sponsored AMAs are the first of many possible monetization strategies to take Reddit to $100M per year, which in turn increase the value of employee equity.

There are a thousand different ways marketing people can shove celebrities down peoples throats. If you turn AMAs into exactly that, you wont get $100M a year; you'll just ruin something kinda novel.
And when have emotional appeals ever let anyone down? :-)

Sounds like a valuable opportunity to practice Bayesian reasoning. One thing I like to do in situations like this is see if I can figure out any data that contradict my emotional response, so I can build a data-driven case that makes what seems to be emotionally right as implausible as possible.

If you're a Bayesian, you've got to go with what is most plausible according to the data. Your emotions are data about you, which may be really relevant in some cases, but probably not in the case of international trade...
Very interesting, consider how heavy that screwdriver is.

What would be a ratio of a cost of electricty (to blow an air) to the weight of an object it can raise?

Could this be used as initial propeler to raise a rocket high enough to use this technique as a "first stage engine" in flying object out into space?
http://9front.org/ is the most actively developed fork, and is the most likely to work on your hardware. They don't take themselves seriously, though, and are perfectly fine with being niche, so they don't put much effort into being welcoming to people who don't do their reading.
> Installing conduit and pulling the fiber is about three times more expensive than just doing direct burial fiber. In rural areas it can be more cost effective to just do direct burial fiber.

You caught me only thinking of "town" as town and not the entirety. So in that way, I 100% agree with you that pulling pipes out to Farmer Bob's house is not a good use of capital or time.

However, while I was considering the mistake I made, it also seems that burying the fiber isn't a good use of capital for almost the same reason. I would bet that these rural areas have power and phone (maybe even cable, too) provisioned via poles and thus stringing the fiber along the poles would be the approach I would take, barring some fantastic reason why that wouldn't work [copper handles high winds better? icing? who knows].
I've never used a curved 4k monitor (or even seen one), but I use a 32" ASUS PQ321Q at its native resolution for coding. I love it and can't go back.

It's right at the edge of what I can discern - any higher PPI and things might look sharper, but I couldn't get any more usable space out of it - I'd have to scale it. It fills my field of view so I I can use the entire screen without having to move my head much, if at all.

While I'd not recommend my specific monitor anymore due to non-competitive pricing, I wholeheartedly recommend DisplayPort, 32", 4k, IGZO or IPS monitors for coding. Get something cheaper at your peril, and definitely don't get a TV.
That's definitely in the works.
Brendan, are you working out of the Los Gatos office?
Even very advanced mathematics has this feel. You can get a ways with formulae and the like—and it may even be that there is no other language by which you express yourself—but ultimately you build intuition and, as they say, the best proofs arise as a way of making something perfectly obvious apparently so.

There's a strong argument here to be made that all human reasoning is embodied. This isn't the same as a weaker one which might now be left trying to discuss why human's can talk about experiences we can never know—like the behavior at the surface of the sun. Instead, I mean more fundamentally that our brain is one designed to operate in our universe and that our universe plays by many nice rules. Things decompose and move, time flows, causality dominates. It appears increasingly that all of the tools to understand our universe are within these simple forces your brain can't not build an intuition for. To fail to do so would lead to catastrophic inability to function.
Reddit is part of the cause that no information matters in 2-3+ days. The best, most relevant, important story may hit the front page but after 48 hours good luck in finding it again. Social sites has made topical news have a really short half-life.
Hi Slava! Your project was immensely helpful for me to figure out what's possible. Optimistic updating is definitely the biggest and most challenging feature on my roadmap. I figured I'd save it until last so that by the time I start working on it some of those kinks would be figured out :) but I'm going to take a close look at the blocking issues.

Even when those RethinkDB issues get resolved, I still have some conceptual questions understanding how to make arbitrary queries update optimistically. For example, say that I'm subscribed to:

r.table('proposals').pluck('name')

And I issue the following update:

r.table('proposals').filter(r.row('votes').eq(0)).delete()

On the client side, because I used the pluck('name') operation in the subscription query, we can't possibly know which rows to optimistically delete since we didn't download the 'votes' field.

Do you know how this issue is addressed in meteor? I'm currently thinking I'll have to limit optimistic updating to queries that follow a simple structure, but I'd love a more general solution.
I seriously hope Reddit board does not fire their CEO. Group bullying should not work in this case. This is not a matter of life and death. If some users are upset with the Reddit way, nothing is to stop them from creating an alternative. If they fear most people won't follow, then perhaps their opinion is that of a minority.

When someone owns a platform, they can run it as they please. No one is being woken up at gun point and forced to use Reddit.

If the users win in this case (where we do not have the details to know whether they have treated others unfairly), it will simply be like paying a ransom and not expecting the receiver to come back for more.
There are a number of Haskell-to-JS compilers and Haskell-alike languages which more directly target JS. This is growing quickly but major issues remain and the toolkits are quite immature.

On the other hand, much of React is a natural play out of Haskell's sweet spot. The challenge will be in making Js-alike APIs which handle the flexibility well while maintaining sufficient typing. React-like rendering, virtualdom, data flow... this will all be incredibly naturao.
I think the fact that information is readily available contributes to the accelerated "half-life" of "news" more so than design. Every day there's some new drama or something to get behind.
That was my point. Arlington is not Boston. It is Arlington. It was incorporated in 1807 and has not been annexed by Boston since. That's not the case for former towns like Charlestown and Dorchester (which have been annexed and are now large neighborhoods of Boston), but Arlington is not Boston -- which is exactly why Verizon was willing to deploy FiOS there.

You cannot get FiOS within Boston city limits. Though I'm well aware that you can get FiOS in surrounding cities.
what are you, an angsty white male American 20 y.o.?
A tail-gator
Consider mtl then. It provides commutative capability set building semantics from the user's POV and then only asks the consumer to make final stack-ordering/effect specification decisions.
[/non-celebrity armchair analysis]
Although may be easier for moons, it takes up too much space to be practical for pros.
Pirate Bay founders: FBI has Prenda Law under investigation
What a tempest in a tea cup. Reddit users have a far too high opinion of themselves. We're all getting tired of their angsty drama leaching over into real life.
> "we never really understand higher mathematics, we just get used to it"

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe this statement is attributed to Von Neumann. It has really stuck with me over the years, just because of how true it is.

I agree that what is important is self-consistency, precision and rigor. Intuition is for the birds. Like you have stated it is ambiguous and often deceptive. Mathematical abstractions enable us to circumvent these pitfalls.
I'd love it if you documented some of the following:

• 'Our goal is to solve more of our customers problems everyday. So that they can do things that add value in the world.'

• (Separately) How Microsoft is on the right track.

• How you've viewed Apple (minus the past two years)
Who is we? Speak for yourself.
> No one is being woken up at gun point and forced to use Reddit.

you can say that kind of things for ALL services out there. And even about the country you live in ("dont like your president? Just move somewhere else!").

There is a fine line between phrasing a demand and bullying. It's not because protests are led by minorities that they should be ignored altogether.
I use such music sheets when they exist: http://herbalcell.com/static/sheets/legend-of-zelda-twilight...

it already simplifies reading A LOT.
> group bullying

oh, you mean capitalism?
The CEO is doing the board's bidding. Reddit just raised $50 million. The board is controlled by investors. They don't see the current state of Reddit as a good (profitable) thing.
Found this resource while doing some industry research and thought I'd share
> One of the largest sites on the internet had a large % of its content set private by moderators in protest of the firing of an employee.

Yes and there was already a post on that

edit: btw it's not exactly in the protest of a firing of an employee, and it's not either because of Ellen Pao. It was to show the admins the poor communication between them and them mods + bad moderation tools available to the mods. But a lot of trolls took this as an opportunity to put reddit on fire/blame Ellen Pao.

If you look at the topics of the subreddits re-opening (and they re-opened because admins answered in the positive in r/modtalk), you will see that everyone is insulting the mods for re-opening the subs and not going dark longer. There is no true argumentation behind this, it was just "fuck you for caving we need victoria back"

> Now thousands of people are calling for the CEO to step down

No, that's always been the case that there is some sort of a "meme" against Ellen Pao for different questionable reasons (although I'd have to admit I don't like the fact that she doesn't seem to use reddit). This "meme" is more than a "meme" actually, it has become true harassment filled with racists/sexists jokes, photoshops, doxxing on the CEO. This is bullying, I don't see why HN would endorse that (this sort of story should be ignored)
What does race have to do with this
While Victoria's firing may have been the impetus, it sound like general unresponsiveness from the admins, as well as a lack of investment in moderator tools, was the bigger complaint: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3by2nk/a_messag... .

It sounds like any well-moderated, decently large subreddit would have reason to be pissed.
My favorite path is that (MS Word):

1. Click the tiny icon in the bottom right corner of the styles widget. It will open essentially the same widget, but as a vertical list and with a few additional controls; this is what we're after.

2. At the bottom there are three nearly identical buttons without labels. Click the 2nd one from the left (the tooltip says "Style Inspector"). This will open another floating window. We don't need it per se, but, again, it has extra controls that we need.

3. At the bottom of the window there is another set of unlabeled buttons. We need the first one (tooltip "Reveal formatting"). (Note that the icon is also very similar to the three icons in the previous panel.) Click it and you'll get the "Reveal formatting" panel. This is our target

4. Now close the other two panels. You're ready.

I write code to create reports in MS Word XML and I need this panel to see if I'm getting the code right (i.e that all non-obvious flags like "keep with next" are in place). I know no other path to this widget. And since I don't write such code often, I keep forgetting how I get to this panel. E.g. yesterday I tried to find it, but failed. It's good I saw you reply and made another effort to retrace the steps :)

I totally think a classic Mac-like menu consisting solely of text would provide better discoverability here.
That's very true. So when a drama happens in reddit, since discussions happen IN reddit, it moves on pretty fast.
I actually have quite a few gripes with Elasticsearch. It's a pain to manage - there seems to be no way of killing long-running queries other than restarting it (so if you have users using kibana etc at some point someone will submit a impossibly hard query and kill the server), the quality of the search results just isn't that good and it takes a lot of customization to improve it - I've never been impressed with the results from any of the large deployments (e.g. github). Ideally it would come with good tokenization and synonyms etc out of the box rather than every deployment having to tinker with settings until it seems to work.

That said ELK is great overall and I would still use it for user-facing search, but I think there is still a lot to improve.
the worst is the admin of /r/crappydesign shutting down his sub and all of its content just because he believes in "the cause". The teenager part of reddit is destroying reddit for all the rest of us...
> "USA IT workers make about 10 times the pay and benefits that their counterparts make in India."

There's medium to high quality workers in India that only cost companies ~$15k / year? Nothing I've ever read indicates that. Always seen $25-$30k/year cited, with the number steadily increasing every year.
I disagree with this comment but understand the spirit behind it. This incident just shows the immaturity of the reddit community. People get let go all the time. At the risk of sounding like a monster, it's just business. Nobody knows the reasoning behind it, yet a bunch of people happen to have 'power' in this instance revolt, despite how childish it is.
> Which is easier? Re-running make, or having to write and induce another library to read configuration files?

It's certainly easier for the programmer to just leave some of the work to the compiler, but it's at the cost of being a complete pain in the ass to packagers and users.

Do you even have to do much work yourself? .Xresources is already parsed and loaded for you by xrdb if you can't afford the cost of an extra 100 microseconds doing it yourself. Is the API to interact with that mindblowing horrid or something?

> All of this for values which change once every... how long?

When I'm configuring software to taste, several times a minute. And considering this is likely to be my first exposure to the software, it better not suck completely.
This guy is not smart.

The tech industry is only expanding. Not only in terms of total revenues, but also total employment. In fact its one of the few sectors where employment is increasing.

This guy is not educated in what he is talking about. His narrative about American manufacturing is wrong too. American manufacturing has only increased almost every decade since WWII. There has not been a decrease. What HAS decreased is employment in manufacturing. But that decrease has happened because of automation. Is that a bad thing?

You know, we used to be 70% employed in agriculture, but then we figured out how to use machines to reduce the people required by an order of magnitude. That's how we had enough people available to become a manufacturing power.

Now we are a service/tech power because people are slowly not needed in robot factories.

Employment isn't the goal of an economy. Production is. We can give people a basic income if necessary, if robots are doing everything. But we shouldn't artificially boost employment where it isn't needed.

This guy is supposed to be a tech author and he's talking like a Luddite. In the end I think this guy is just warm in his pants because he doesn't like so many foreign looking people in the industry he covers.

Well, its too bad. The cat is out of the bag. Everyone knows how to program and make tech now. You either bring them here, or they'll go work for tech conglomerates in China, India, and Europe. All the colored faces in Google and Facebook aren't there because they are accepting less money than American graduates--they are getting paid a lot more than most graduates would get in their random IT jobs around the country. We are hiring the best of the best for our tech sector. That's good for America, and keeps America ahead of the competition.
It's a vocal minority. Most of people browsing reddits don't have an account OR couldn't care less about these stories. And I'm not even talking about the good part of reddit who unsubscribe from default subs to get in touch with more interesting smaller subs.
I don't think so because in Meteor.js you rely on iron-router and need to painsteakingly define and manage who can do what, and subscribing to new documents coming in the wire?
Ask HN: What was the Windows “refresh” button for?
Why there was a "refresh" button in the context menu when you right click on desktop in Windows?
I get so tired of this "sky is falling" crap. I've seen the outsourcing, I've seen the H1B fraud, I've seen the shit performance from IBM and virtually every other household name IT consulting firm out there. I've even seen the Google/MSFT/Apple salary collusion scandal. But you know what? In spite of ALL OF THAT five out of the top ten salaries for bachelor's degrees are all IT related. http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pa...

IT unemployment has been 2% in my region for nearly a decade. That means everyone with any skills who wants a job has a job.

I can hardly imagine how you could try to screw over IT workers any harder than is being done by the corporate big wigs and yet IT is still one of the best places to be. And if it gets bad? God help us, we can just unionize. But it's hard to convince people to organize and complain when they're making more money and enjoying more benefits than most people on the planet.
I really wish I could've seen Salvador Dali in Dune... the best payed actor in history!
Being famous for its designs, Apple should have redesign this site. I am not good at UI/UX, but this looks ugly.
There's a lot wrong with what you wrote, but the most glaring is your use of the term "Galilean mechanics".

> Galilean invariance or Galilean relativity states that the laws of motion are the same in all inertial frames. Galileo Galilei first described this principle in 1632 in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems using the example of a ship travelling at constant velocity, without rocking, on a smooth sea; any observer doing experiments below the deck would not be able to tell whether the ship was moving or stationary.

> the term Galilean invariance today usually refers to this principle as applied to Newtonian mechanics, that is, Newton's laws hold in all inertial frames.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_invariance
Its not bullying when money is involved