skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes they do. I also learnt a bit about git from them glg and git whatchanged ale quite useful.

One problem I had with gulp. I had dir name gulp and zsh got confused weather to go to the dir or execute the cmd.
Arguably you don't need a desktop environment at all! (I certainly do my best to avoid one)

You've identified a key issue though which if that Unity sucks and on the verge of PC users as a whole considering Linux distributions as a contender in a 3-way choice Ubuntu is rapidly becoming equal to Linux in the public eye. Not sure what we can do about it though.
There were paid staffers doing that at MySpace back in the day. I talked to their head of security; not a fun job.
> need to have at least a masters degree to ensure a middle class lifestyle is driving the tuition explosion

This is actually a function of student loans. Because higher education is accessible to a much larger portion of the population than it otherwise would be via easy credit, a bachelor's degree is no longer a differentiator. Hence the need for more advanced degrees to set oneself apart from other job candidates.
Columbus, OH company kicks off training program with world's largest Ruby logo
Excellent. Thanks for sharing the photos.
What's funny is that when I first saw this project years ago, I was excited precisely because it wasn't JavaScript. Basically, I despise JavaScript (thousand burning suns, etc) so something that is definitely not that was exactly what appealed to me and made me want to learn it. (Webassembly is pretty exciting to me now, obviously.)
Please don't use "jipped", it's an anti-Gypsy slur.
I frequently have my machines connected via multiple interfaces. I put together a little simple C program that can be run as a script.

https://github.com/colindean/getip

I've not actually used it as a script in a while, and it appears to be broken in that regard at the moment (something about ld not being able to write to the tmp directory). However, its Makefile is still operational. Maybe someone will see this and submit a PR that fixes it?
You'd think HN would spot a market opportunity like that and exploit it. Good programmers with unfair criminal records at below market rates?
The P.I. Dr Alan Stern said at the Denver science museum a couple weeks ago they are a using as many of the backup instruments as they can to double the capacity. Many of the crucial instruments like the antenna have duplicates for the nine year journey.
alias nope="git commit -m 'ಠ_ಠ'"
I work at Apiary and we have a format called MSON for writing data structures in Markdown.

https://github.com/apiaryio/mson/
>Was it ever alive?

Outside of US? Ya it was as alive as alive could be especially in Europe and Asia. I was flooded with constant adverts on TV and a good chunk of people did indeed a Windows Phone.
In the comments of a recent mathematics-without-apologies blog post[1], there was a back-and-forth between Jacob Lurie and Urs Schreiber (the author of the OP article on nLab). I've been trying to parse the material on nLab for years, good to know I'm not the only one who seems to have trouble with it. A refreshingly blunt discussion, not to be missed!

1. https://mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com/2015/05/13...
Cannot believe it. The market share of Windows Phone is even lower than Java ME. https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...
Big markets are bad for small startups
Sure, but people should also be free to refuse to listen to things they find distasteful, and to refuse access to people who post things they find distasteful on platforms they operate.
Free speech is between you and the government. If a company that runs a forum says it bans people for abusive comments there's nothing to do with free speech. We see with Reddit that the ugliest users are the ones that are the loudest and drown out everyone else.
Two questions:

* If the info there is as outdated as you say, where could one find a reasonably complete and up to date intro to car computer technology?

* Are there any tools out there that can be used for simulating a car network (CAN bus, ECU etc.) for lab purposes?
I agree with you on the dev tools.

That's why I would like Xamarin Forms to improve, it uses the same XAML/MVVM/C# setup that Windows Phone does, and is a joy to work with. It's just very limited at the moment.
alias hn='elinks http://news.ycombinator.com/news'
In C, you can convert back and forth between void * and some integer type, aliased as intptr_t since C99, so they must be equal under the univalence axiom.

Ah, "nuclear weapon" ... gotcha!
There are things you can do on a couple square feet of screen and keyboard you can't do a dozen square inches of mobile screen, like create good content. There will always be a need of an OS that can manage this.
I've been able to get two people to quit smoking by giving them a superior option in every way, including the subjective effect and satisfaction that they feel: vaporizing a full spectrum extract of the tobacco plant.

Everyone has seen electronic cigarettes in convenience stores everywhere, and they are billed as smoking cessation devices. The problem with them lies in that they only contain nicotine. The tobacco plant contains other psychoactive alkaloids like anabasine that smokers are used to and enjoy.

Whole tobacco alkaloid is a new type of juice for these devices. The two smokers I helped quit hated regular e-cigs because they are lacking. Very quickly they preferred vaping WTA juice to smoking. Smoking is dirty, smelly and socially discouraged.

Give them a better option and they will switch in droves.

I've examined all the tobacco extracts on the market, and the cleanest by far comes from a guy named Jeff at wholecig.com

He created his own process using only non-toxic solvents, it takes him 4 days to make one batch. He is an innovator and a nice guy.

In the future no one will burn raw tobacco, they will vape a full spectrum extract.

Update: I got an email saying this was the best written ad he's seen in a while, and I wanted to publicly say I have no ownership in wholecig and am not employed by them. I called Jeff about an order and got to talking to him and we swapped chemistry notes, I really like the guy and want his business to succeed because I think he's doing gods work, and saving lives through innovation.
From memory, I think the points made about (teen smoking) smoking in "Tipping Point" were pretty good without thinking it through deeply (on my part). Cliffnotes I remember is that teens keep smoking because "cool people" smoke not because "smoking is cool" etc.
I don't know how to attack the demand side but I guess some sort of reverse "Don't Mess with Texas" campaign could be a start.

Then again one of the appeals of smoking is the fact that it's rebellion of sorts so not sure any campaigns work.

Keep on hammering the supply side is the best bet I'd guess. The demand side seems really tricky.
What alternative would you suggest?

Banning it.

I'm not even joking. If your only goal is to lower consumption rates, prohibition works. If you use cirrhosis deaths as a proxy, then alcohol consumption declined during the Prohibition era. [1]

The problem, of course, is everything else that happens in the wake of enforcing it.

An alternative option is to do nothing, because it's kind of a bikeshed issue, anyway.

[1] http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-3/209-219.htm
Most of those services in cloud on azure will be .net and windows based. The growth of azure will be the grwoth .net and windows.

Sure you can run Linux services on azure, but windows services are nicely integrated.
I know one way: depict smokers as unlikeable beings in popular media, instead of the other way around.
> All evidence suggests that apps do not influence which phone a user buys. Users install less than 1 app per month.

I hope you realize that the second sentence does not serve as evidence for the first, at all.
There's a YC for thathttp://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/yc-start-up-true-link-finan...

Personally I find online scams more difficult to deal with. I've installed ad block plus and malwarrbytes, but blog spam inevitably gets to my parents.
Well in zsh running =scp would run /usr/bin/scp not the alias.
Unfortunately, that isn't a world in which you could connect a USB camera to your laptop and just have it work after the system finds the right driver.
I came here to share this article.

Anyway, I think your best bet is to outsource this kind of work to the sort of company described in the article. It seems to be a regrettable necessity for any sizable user-generated content site.

Also, of course, please try and get in touch with the relevant authorities mentioned in other comments and assist their efforts in tracking users who try distributing that kind of... content.
#make intermediate directories and touch a file all at once

#e.g. mktouch ~/Desktop/test/file.md would make the test dir if it didn't exist then touch file.md inside of it

mktouch() {

if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
echo "Missing argument";
return 1;
fi

for f in "$@"; do
mkdir -p -- "$(dirname -- "$f")"
touch -- "$f"
done
}
> Also while it's true that kat.cr is serving adware, it does not do so on the frontpage.

Unfortunately the warning has to appear on any page on the domain, since once you skip it you're essentially white listing the domain. That's why you don't get another warning on every page.
Not exactly true. You can build Web Apps for existing Windows Phone devices and Windows 10 mobile, you can import your iOS or Android apps directly to Windows app store.
Completely share this point of view. I was a heavy smoker for a ten years and no level of taxation would make me quit. Back at the time I would rather smoke and stay hungry for a while if I was to choose. And quitting is very hard. I have had dozen of failed attempts to actually quit smoking for good. Having said that, I know a lot of people who smoke just to socialize and occasionally; they are not addicted and seem to have no problem with not smoking at all...
The problem with those kind of stats is they fold in every $0 Android device that are purchased and used essentially as glorified dumbphones. If you've ever used apps on those devices, you can plainly see why nobody would install anything onto them. I'm not going to cite average numbers of apps installed, because those stats fluctuate wildly and are typically bullshit. They also don't help substantiate usage.

Windows Phone isn't only unsuccessful because of the lack of significant applications, but acting like it isn't a major factor is just being wilfully blind to reality. Microsoft can't just endlessly throw money at the problem. They can't buy their way into popularity if there is no organic momentum that follows, and there isn't.

Windows Phone overall fails to make a compelling argument. But having backseat YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter clients and no SnapChat or other similarly flourishing services until it's so late nobody cares anymore is a substantial disadvantage.

Finally, that statistic you chose to offer is almost irrelevant. I probably install less than one app a month on my Macs, but that doesn't mean the apps I've already installed aren't extremely important to me. Just because people aren't constantly hunting for new apps doesn't mean they don't use the ones they have.

By that measure, the fact that I've only installed one password manager in five years means I don't like or use password managers. Quite the contrary, it just means I love 1Password and use it every day.
I would note that the negatives from smoking generally fall disproportionately on the poor.

If you are unsuccessful at discouraging people from smoking, people are going to pay more through health outcomes later on.

Health problems will be particularly difficult for poor people to overcome, even if they have help from the state (which may be increasingly over-burdened).
# trim off trailing spaces

alias rstrip='sed -i "s/[ \t]*$//"'

# delete .pyc files

alias delpyc='find . -type f -name "*.pyc" -delete'
Step 1: Uninstall Chrome...
I have and I'm sure the mosquito nets are effective.

The point isn't to say they're not, but rather to say the nations that have been most successful at preventing malaria deaths are those that are most developed, or have access to anti-malarial drugs (which are dirt cheap).

The flu kills thousands every year and used to kill many more (the 1918 flu epidemic killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people around the world), but we don't even consider it to be fatal anymore due to our level of nutrition and medical care - which comes from development.

Also keep in mind the US used to have malaria-spreading mosquitoes and a fair amount of malaria-deaths, but now it's considered eliminated as a public health concern. Maybe some of the techniques it used could be applied to Africa, and not just band-aids that keep Africa hooked on western 'aid'.
So perhaps psychopathy could be thought of as a disorder where no one in considered "in tribe," as opposed to a disorder of complete lack of remorse?

Regardless, a proper definition of psychopathy needs to distinguish between these 2 cases of "lack of empathy," and many of the definitions floating around don't.
How does the AMI handle the certificates? It seems like everyone would use the same cert and thus log on to any instance of the AMI.
Don't fall into the “build trap”, be the Bad Idea Terminator
True. Microsoft originally envisioned "ActiveDirectory" (in 1994, before it got that name) to replace DNS. http://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/timeline/t...

The original plans for dotNet were "applications as a service" in 1999 and what is known as their "Azure" cloud service platform is heading the same direction (like the plans about AD in 1994) too.
A proof in mathematics is not purely syntactic because it's not purely logical. For instance, in some steps of a proof, we do something to both sides of an equation and argue that it is still balanced, based on rules that are outside of logic. Such a step can have a nonconstructive element.
> Simple pre-processing and code-to-code transformation is typical in many different languages and environments.

True, but I suppose it's still nice to avoid as many unnecessary steps in deployment as possible.

> That's only because of your background. ASP.NET or GWT guys would not agree, I imagine.

Well, there are good and bad abstractions. Many abstractions get in the way eventually if you're doing anything non-trivial.
Hard not to catch it when its loaded in progressively on a 20Mbps connection :P. Websites are way too fat these days.
The author of this, Oona Räisänen, is one of my standard examples of someone who is genuinely a hacker in the proper (by which I mean, the Stephen Levy "Hackers" definition; if you want to use the prior MIT prankster meaning, I won't stop you) sense.

This post of Oona's - http://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicopt... - in which she extracts, from the audio of footage from a news helicopter, the location of that helicopter, is an excellent example.

Given that someone here recently defined "hacker" to me as "person who can write code", the word is in serious danger of being so devalued as to be useless.
I too would be glad, it's been enlightening already. We have common interests it seems :)

By structured string you mean well-formed formula I guess.

"perspective of totality" means taking all `things' together at once (if that were possible)
Yet another post about quitting your job with a similar quote, "I had some old stock options, which thankfully were worth enough to pay off the rest of the house."

99% of us don't have that luxury and makes this "dream" of yours unobtainable for the rest of us.
Godly Dreams  there is 15 uploaded on YouTube please do not ignore thank you
If it's "obviously [an] onerous requirement" then what does "they will at least have repay the favour to the users and the community" mean?

You clarify that "customers should be allowed to get the derived software on the same generous terms as the company received the original on", but that assumes that the companies have customers. Very few companies that use academically produced bioinformatics software have downstream customers of that software.

For the vast majority of companies that only use the software in-house, which is likely 99+% of all companies, how does using the GPL or any other free software license lead to the company repaying the favor? What's wrong for asking for payment in cash instead of other more nebulous contributions?
PC sales always decline in the run up to a new windows version.
Firefox uses the same list by default, it's easily deactivated though.
Democracy works not because it provides a means of putting people into power, but because it provides a bloodless means of removing them.

In the past, factions went to war in order to take absolute power. When they achieved it they would destroy all rivals and enforce strict conformity. They would try to avoid the necessity of constant fighting to hold on to their position by employing various means to cement their legitimacy in the minds of the ruled. One of these was the idea of an aristocracy which had an inherent right to rule. Another was harnessing religion to declare that the rulers held power by divine right, making rebellion a sin. Regime change would only come about through violence.

In a democracy the competing factions can bide their time in the anticipation that they can get into power again. Because of that, they do not feel compelled to use violence to seize power, and by the same token, violence does not have to be used to suppress them.

An interesting side effect of democracy was the relaxation of the need for absolute conformity. This facilitated social mobility, commerce and the flourishing of literature and scientific exploration, all of which would have been seen as subversive and dangerous to the status quo in the older way of doing things, and consequently, rigorously suppressed.
This is very idealistic, though. A society works on give and take. Courtesy keeps the society stable. There ought to be some negative consequences for billowing hatred.
True. Most of this site's visitors probably live in the US or maybe Western Europe. Extrapolating what they see around them to the rest of the world is silly. I for instance live in a country where the exact opposite conclusions can be made at least compared to a lot of posts in this thread: OSX? Non-existant, probably more so than Desktop linux installations. Chromebooks? No one has seen them. Windows Phone? Doing fine and is second in sales after Android. Apple's iOS? Sometimes can be spotted in the wild, but it's not popular at all.
I've been thinking of developing a proxy that compresses responses and forwards them to you, specifically to handle sites not optimized for mobile. There are already solutions like this but I think a self hosted version is what people need.
I spend quite some time on their irc around 2000. Good times.
But until we reach the new economy where robots completely replace everyone, we don't need "fig leaf" jobs. There is actual, useful, work that can be done. For example, people can be put to work repairing our "crumbling infrastructure" or building new infrastructure (c.f. FDR). Some of them can provide day care for working mothers. Etc.

Basically, take all those cool programs that the left seems to like and make folks who claim to be unable to find a job be the ones to actually do the work.

Once robots take over, eliminating these basic jobs will be so cheap that no one will object. Until then, we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves.
That depends. I quit my job about a year ago to work on my own thing, and sometimes people think I am a weirdo. I am based in Spain, so a bit different from what you might have in the US in communities of young programmers.
فيلم ولاد رزق
Wow, this is pretty awesome! I really like the idea of tooling moving out of editors, into libraries that can then be easily integrate into automated tools (reformatting, type checking, scope info, etc.), and of course rendered in editor.

It also allows projects/languages like this to get a lot of benefit without boiling the ocean. A bit similar to Clojure's hosted-language approach in that regard.
I hope that day comes soon. Convenience is key. I'd switch in a heartbeat. Juul claim something similar, they use nicotine _salts_ which they say give vapers a similar hit to smoking which they don't get with regular e-cigs. I'd not heard about anabasine (what are psychoactive alkaloids?)...
Tax and dividend. Don't toss Pigovian tax money into the general fund, return it to the people by sending everyone a check for their share. Solves progressivity, forms the basis of a basic income, and ideally directly defrays some of the damages from externalities. (Last is somewhat less true with tobacco, where the biggest externality tends to be health problems that society ends up paying for.)
You're correct, it's an ignorant argument, and I see it posted all over the place. I wish America had a better education system, because it drowns out the real conversations that should be happening around free speech.

You have the right to say whatever you want, you do not have the right to say it in my home. I'm curious as to whether or not these individuals understand this, or are just another level of troll trying to stir the pot.
Microsoft is not transitioning windows to a subscription service. They're transitioning to the same model as iOS: you buy the OS with the device, and you get updates for the lifetime of that device, but you cannot cherrypick the updates, it's all or nothing.
Machine Learning is the best way to detect illegal images. Here's a story on this topic: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/detect-digital-child-pornog...
Guilty people also self-report crimes to which they are obviously close and for which they assume they'd fall under suspicion anyway. A fairly heavily trafficked, public website featuring CP images may well already be under investigation.

In any case, self-reporting does not absolve one of suspicion; else it'd be easy to get away with pretty much anything.
> When I got my first office job a few friends had to coach me to not talk about salary. To me it seems the only one really benefiting from not talking about money is the company paying you.

And the people who make more than you :). Sorry but I see this point thrown around often in this context, and there is truth to it, but also a little more to the situation than that.
I really liked how the author's points on how college helps in intellectual development, making friends and also having some fun in life. Life is not all about work; which most of the proponents of dropping out ignore.
Good On you mate ! Thanks for sharing.
Wonder whether they're using compressed sensing [1] to capture and transmit the images.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing

edit: ans no (I think).
It is interesting to me that the one constant tradition in astronomy from antiquity to today is that we name features observed in the heavens of abstract shapes after things specific and unique to Earth.

From the man in the moon, to constellations shaped like swords or crabs, and now Pluto's whale - we seem to impose ethnocentrism on everything, no matter how remote.
This is soooooooo cool. I'm going to see whether this can be added to a long-running Python daemon for runtime inspection...
I'd unreservedly support banning the substance except that (1) organised crime would profit from it, and (2) nicotine itself is not the problem, but rather the combustion of tobacco leaves which is not the same thing at all. I think prohibition is not a great idea but I wouldn't be averse to some jurisdictions trying it out and analysing the outcomes of the long term, like 25 years or so.