skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are projecting. I said nothing about having time or not, nor did I share any mindset, nor did I say whether I was bothered. Most of all, I wanted to kick off the discussion by asking if we should guess what information the link would give us. From the title alone, I have no idea. It's a play on words ("the hole / whole argument"), but beyond that, i had no clue.

But, after reading (trying to, rather), I felt that the subject deserved some explaining for people who are unfamiliar with the topic as well. Hence my request for context.

I have never asked for anyone to dumb down anything, that's your frame of mind, please don't put that on me. In general, it seems you just tend to get frustrated by your own frustration. That might be a vicious circle, but I'm no part of it. Should I dumb this down for you? Or do you catch my drift.
Look into RequestPolicy [Continued], it prevents those third party sites from even loading data via a request in the first place. It's very nice having that level of control if you find it to be worth the time to fiddle with a few sites' request settings. I find that I prefer the simplicity in a site loaded without a lot of third party BS (and often not even CSS for sites that use a CDN for it).
> Even if the NSA hacked your windows install, they won't find any plans to blow up the Sears tower and then go about their business.

This is just a restating of "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". That's already been discussed recently [1] already so I won't re-tread.

> Compared to risk that a car accident will destroy your existance, who cares about this tiny risk.

Because it's not about the risk, it's about the intellectual climate the situation creates. Notice that because of car accidents there is a lot of focus on car safety, stopping drunk drivers, texting while driving, etc?

Surveillance is like that. As in a panopticon [2], when there's a chance you're being surveilled, certain conversations and ideas feel dangerous. Sometimes because they're antiestablishment but other times just because you're worried they'll be misconstrued. The net effect is censorship through fear.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9869755

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
I spend more time than I should in a mysql console and this client looks pretty awesome. Great job
In Germany, the Deutsche Post owned DHL operates Packstations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation ), secure automated lockers distributed around cities. You can set that a location, and a package will be delivered there. You'll get a SMS with a PIN to go along to later to get your package. It's designed to solve the problem you raise.
confessed ^^
I think that's the best way to get kids into coding, not some forcefed programming gui, but "Hey, here's a game you can play in class!" and then just give suggestive nods towards the source code and "what happens if you change this?" Next thing you know, kids are all trying to one up each other's programming, pulling apart the source and putting it back together without realizing that they're programming. I got into electronics by pulling apart toys and looking what makes them tick, there's no reason the same couldn't be done for code.
Wait, you must mean highly autonomous Japan. Ha. Ha.

South Korea?

No? How about a less developed highly populous Asian country like Philippines? Surely they must be democratic and "have agency." Oh snap!

Shall we talk about how the term "banana republic" was coined?
My entire outlay is now a single laptop running CentOS 7, a desktop as a backup machine if I kill the laptop, some earphones, a dumbphone and a USB stick and USB mp3 player in the car. I rsync the USB stick for the car periodically and that is it.

As for everything else, browser is Firefox still (ick) and the only services I use are an IMAP box and domain.

I gave up music on my phone, contact sync, email on my phone, navigation, everything. A simpler life seems to be better for me.
I'm curious whether that pun carries over into German. It would be a stroke of genius if the taps were removed with that joke in mind.
The problem is judging between an honest misstep and someone constantly pushing the boundaries to see where they can go without people yelling. A lot of it has to do with the difference between crossing the boundary in that particular case and crossing the boundary in general. To further complicate matters, much innovation results from crossing certain boundaries, meaning that pushing on the wrong boundaries may be the result of an incorrect direction for innovation, and thus resulting criticism may be directed not just at the misstep but as at the direction of innovation.
I think they're both related to upholding territorial claims, which the PRC says is a "core interest" (ie, something they're willing to go to war over), but I don't think it's viewed as a direct domino effect.

The more direct link is potentially to the CCP's claim to legitimacy as the government of China. If they can't defend China's "historic" claims to territory then they could lose legitimacy in the eyes of an increasingly nationalistic public.
Javascript is a mess even programmers don't seem to understand at times

I assure you, JavaScript programmers understand JavaScript. No need to project onto others.
I agree with Guido that the thing I hate the most in Python is packaging in general. I find Ruby's gems, bundler and Gemfile.lock to be a much more elegant solution.

On the other hand, I really like the explicit imports (when used properly). Less magic that makes code navigation way easier.
Yes, multiple databases are really useful for me, for some reason I often need to transfer data from one to another, e.g. legacy database to a new improved one (which I think happens often if you're in a non-startup).

In ActiveRecord you would have to specify for each model to which the database to connect. And then you have to figure out how to call a User model in one database, and how in the other (you have to call them differently, even if table names are the same). I think it can get pretty chaotic with something bigger.
Amazon won't let you deliver to lockers if the item isn't available for next day dispatch, because lockers as they're currently implemented mean that a place gets reserved for your object, and it sits vacant until something arrives.

One other issue with this is that plenty of overly paranoid sellers demand that shipping address equals billing address.
We (USA) have a gigantic navy base replete with nuclear weapons 1000mi from China mainland. Where is the closest Chinese nuke base to the US?
For updates: http://istdasverfahrengegennetzpolitikschoneingestel.lt/ (is the case against netzpolitik already dropped)

Nein -> No
Ja -> Yes
That's utter hyperbole. Windows still has a desktop mode that looks very much like Windows XP did, let alone 95 or 3.1, even.
How do you get from a personal donation to a state-wide proposition, to "inhuman scum"?
I suggest take a look at a different point of view (https://blogs.gentoo.org/lu_zero/2015/02/20/demotivation-fud...)

This post is from someone involved in libav but it refers to the different public e-mails that were exchanged when the fork was originated and they document factually things (at least, as far as I can understand)
This time - join the meal is the only option :-)
As much as I love python now for scripting and other simple tasks now, Processing was the first "real" programming platform I encountered (after learning the forgive the pun basics with BASIC on my trusty TI-89). It was simple to use, and introduced me to OOP, which blew my mind coming from TI-BASIC. I would recommend Processing to anyone that asks about getting started in programming.
> I don't know the extent of the drama

As a heavy user of FFmpeg/libav, for VLC (I'm the VideoLAN president), the drama has been huge, and more aggressive than most forks we've seen in the open source community.

Most of the information you find online is biased, wrong or down-right lying, including the usual blogposts that are quoted from one side or the other one. (like the pkh.me pasted or the Debian wiki one)

Whose fault is it? Well, it's a bit complex to answer, and there has been very dick moves from both sides. Especially since the beginning of the story started in private and was not reported publicly.

Who is doing more work between the forks? That's also very hard to answer, because most of the libavcodec and libavformat work has been done in libav, but most of the libavfilter, ffmpeg and tools work has been done in FFmpeg.

What you should know is that the current codebase of FFmpeg is messier compared to libav, but has quite a few more features, notably filters and more formats supported.

Choosing one or the other gives you different set of features, but mostly different set of bugs and level of support of codecs. It's a big mess...
Law librarians may have killed the world's biggest copyright troll
I saw this yesterday and the amount of Mozilla hate was weird. I know they've dipped in popularity over the years, but theirs is the only browser I still trust with my data.

Anyway, the option to not set Edge as default was incredibly easy to understand. It asked you to toggle which programs you wanted to set as the new defaults. You uncheck what you don't, click "next" and there you have it.
13k/month is not bad at all for a new website in a (relatively) small English city. Time to expand to London? :)
That's so sweet!
Honestly I put it there a long time ago, when I didn't know that most products there are 'toy-quality', so I thought most of them would be covered in Tech News, which now turn out to be wrong.
I definitely change it to google news search. Thanks a lot!
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“While existing private digital currencies have economic flaws which make them volatile, the distributed ledger technology that their payment systems rely on may have considerable promise,” the Bank of England wrote in February.

So, can someone explain to me, how the distributed ledger ( blockchain ) can be used without necessarily betting on the digital currency itself functioning well ?
Control of shipping is one very likely motivation.
or someone else could have stepped up much earlier?
So "you are free to say whatever you want, but if I don't like it I will destroy your life".
Why not? Look at how Google is proactively preventing Microsoft from delivering a good YouTube experience on WP: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/7/4813836/microsoft-reverts-...

All weapons are good in the war for clueless users, the experienced ones will find their way.
Maybe there are apps for that. Seriously, colunchers.com sets up lunches with 4 people for a reason: so that introverted get a chance too.
Nonsense. He was forced out. Forced to resign. How hard is that to understand?
https://blogs.gentoo.org/lu_zero/2015/02/20/demotivation-fud...

My take.
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You're not alone. On flip side, however, there are people who prefer a more informal tone and find academic treatments a little dry. I guess you can't win in that regard since someone else is bound to find your book/guide unapproachable due to whatever subjective reason they have.

That said though, I don't see why an informal tone should preclude getting the information across and sprinkling in some humor -- all without sacrificing precision. Something like Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ book is a good example of how to retain both humor and a thorough treatment of the subject.
I built my own music player / music library after I got sick of lugging around my CD collection with every move.
No problem, happy to help :)
Last Day of School – Where's Wally? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1llu2ME5kdY
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It's not entirely true. Word import and export is not perfect, but it's relatively good in Libre Office. You don't have to use Linux to verify that claim. There will be some sticking points, though:

- Round trips will be problematic. So if you export to doc and then reimport and then export again you will likely have some difficulty.

- Some things won't work (like multi-page footnotes) because Word formats them incorrectly. This will affect pagination, but probably will be fine for most things other than legal documents.

- Fonts can be a problem. If you don't install the same fonts you can have font metric problems. This isn't really an issue because it is easy to install the same fonts. Some Linux distros don't make it easy because the fonts are non-free (as in freedom), though.

I worked for 5 years teaching English and for 4 or those years I had to interoperate with people using Office (they were forced to use Open Office in the 5th year because the school board decided not to renew their MS licenses). I was making very complicated documents with precise layout, multi-lingual fonts (Japanese and English), and many pictures. I very rarely had any problems. Don't get me wrong. I hate Open Office with a passion (and I'm glad that as a programmer once again I never have to touch it). But it's not really much different than Word in that respect ;-)

Some work flows are just impossible, though. If you are group editing a document and marking it up as you pass it around a group, then it just won't work because there will be too many round trips. As I said, there will be pagination issues for very complex formatting and so it is not possible to use for legal work (most people who do serious legal work use Word Perfect, though, because Word's formatting is broken).

As for resumes, I always avoided sending doc files to people for fear that someone would try to edit it. I always send PDFs. However, in the few cases where I was not allowed to submit anything other than a doc file (for example my teaching job), I had absolutely no trouble. YMMV.

And for what it's worth, the programmers at Microsoft actually work very hard at keeping things as interoperable as they can (as far as I can tell). It's just that they have a massively huge legacy app and it's hard to work with. The MS QAs even used to send me bug reports when Word Perfect outputted poor doc files.

I'm not a fan of MS, but in the course of my career I've worked with a lot of past and present MS programmers/QAs. I don't have a bad word to say about any of them. In fact, when we did some joint ventures with MS while I was at Corel, the QAs we worked with were some of the best I've ever met.
"...and its very difficult to be the leader when one is on one side of this split and the other tries everything to
push me out..."

that the gist of it, it's always the other side wanting him harm. he never ever acknowleged any wrongdoing on his side.
You're right, but "least shit" is not the best position to occupy.
Whatever it is, I guess that he leaves the role because the compensation for it was in long term not appropriate for him.
Fascinating that amputating a functional leg could be considered ethical in light of a mental disorder. I am interested in what the road to getting that procedure done looks like.
Really unfortunate because the software is so useful.
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if that's not the creation of and FOB, i dont know what is.
> And connecting to O365 calendars offline? Is that not a stupid concept?

Did we enter a new era where using your calendar offline is considered a special case ? I would assume there are few people who actively modify the same calendar, and it's pretty easy to tell a user when they modify a calendar offline meaning that it's not synchronized on other devices; is there really a need for making calendars online first ?
Well people actually have tried that 4 years ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/123868

and somehow leadership was still a thing for Michael at that time, which really contradicts with something he says now.
How much is non negligible?
Let's just keep in mind that the entire reason languages with immutable data are trending is because we already have all those languages with mutable data to use where they are fit.

A new language today shouldn't really implement Python metaprogramming, because Python already does that.
I get that leadership was a role he ended up in and not one he wanted.

But, that quote above sounds to me like exactly what a leader is?
makes sense, thanks for the response.
10 European companies announced a collective $310m in funding just this week
Does it matter where nuclear weapons are? Can China or the US deliver one anywhere in the world?
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Why is this downvoted? Is the statement incorrect?
Also not practical if you live in a regular town house that has been converted to apartments. There's a minimum size of an apartment building where a concierge is not a complete waste of money, and it's probably somewhere in the small-skyscraper range.
Celery herb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976043
I live in New Orleans and need to point out that this task force is not a solution looking for a problem. Crime is very real in the French Quarter and there is an overwhelming, obvious, and consistent presence of people who only want to take something from you.

The French Quarter may be fun and exciting when you're with a group of people but finding yourself on one of the many side-streets and without a crowd of people can be scary.

I remember in 2005 I got my first iPod. The first thing I did was replace the white headphones with black headphones so nobody would know I actually had something worth stealing. I vacationed in New York for the first time that year and was absolutely amazed by how safe and comforting the place was.

There's this long running extortion con people like to play on tourist. It goes like this...

"I bet you a dollar I know where you got your shoes"

"Yeah?"

"You got your shoes on your feet walking down St. Peter street."

"Now....Give me that dollar."

At 4:00 in the afternoon you just give the dollar or just walk away. Maybe at 9:00 PM street is empty and there's only you and your friend. He's insistent. He's not going to have change. You're reaching into your purse.

This same con has been going on since the 1980's and nobody seems to do anything about it. I don't want people coming to my city and having the experience I just described.

And please note I'm making no commentary on the task force. I'm just making notes on the current situation.
Isn't Russell's paradox more like a problem with naive set theory? By analogy to a software framework, the paradox would be considered a bug in the framework and say nothing about how useful it is.
There's also Charles Stross, a personal favorite. Can't imagine why you would have forgotten to mention him... ;)
The building to convert reef to island is one of the first steps to claim the entire Southeast-Asia sea by China. It will then have the self-declared ownership right to block all sea/air traffics through this region and bully other neighboring countries. Besides having a huge oil/gas reserve and fishes, in term of economic impact, this sea is as important as or more than Panama Canal or Suez Canal. A country with the right to block or own it will harm the rest of the world. Currently, the allies have been formed with a group of countries Japan, Philippine, Viet Nam, America and others trying to stop China but they have not found any solution nor success yet.

Here is the map that China wants to claim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...
He's saying that the general concept of digital distributed currency is stronger than he necessarily believes Bitcoin or Litecoin or Dogecoin are.
Interesting - your bringing up operational security in the context of trying to spot anomalies in data reminds me of the information warfare concepts in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, where the challenge for some of the World War II era characters was to try to prevent Nelson-pattern-like deviations from normal randomness turning up in data available to the enemy, so they wouldn't suspect that their cryptosystems had been cracked.
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Also, barely anyone in Germany knows netzpolitik; nearly everyone knew the Spiegel.
It doesn't make sense to separate Marin from San Francisco. And while we're at it, I'll take Sonoma and Napa. Maybe Davis too, because, you know, YOLO.
> Physical parcels are nearly always delivered nowadays by a system where a driver will turn up on a working weekday, at an entirely undefined hour or in a very wide time window, and expect a signature or at least a human to accept the parcel, immediately, or they take the parcel and go away again.

Have them deliver the package to where you work.

Clearly this doesn't solve the problem for everyone (e.g. if you work in construction, FedEx might not be able to deliver to a construction site), but it does solve a large swath of issues.

Not all companies will let you receive personal packages, especially the larger companies with dedicated mail handling, but it does get you closer.
That's not how an 83b election works. Your grant price is the current value, so your taxable gain is 0 upon election. You only have to come up with the money for the stock. Also, you can make a partial election if you don't have enough to buy all of your stock. Many people mess this up.
I'm not saying you're wrong - it certainly needs to be addressed - but you make it sound like Russia and China are the only villains.

I think these issues need to be resolved without assessing blame, because the world's most powerful countries always try to impose their will on other smaller sovereign states.

Interesting that you mention Vietnam.
Even without if you remove him and the common committers between the 2 projects the 9 first top committers of FFMPEG commit more than top 2 of libav : https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/
> How many commercial PyQt apps have you seen in the wild?

Not many because most people use Qt, not PyQt. It's just easier.
Cute Alzheimer's grandparents
That's not at all what he's saying. You're trying to validate what you do. Your AKA is pulled completely from your mind and has nothing to do with with original statement. A leader has people skills above all else.

> I'm guilty as charged as well

You two are not being charged for the same thing.
Wow, thank you for posting that. Very informative. The post and the NoScript reply [1] both raise some interesting points about how to compensate plugin authors for their hard and continued work that seem like they're still not addressed six years later. I have never really stopped to consider either compensating plugin for their work and I rely on them daily.

1. https://hackademix.net/2009/05/04/dear-adblock-plus-and-nosc...
Nice game, except that for me, the lag is terrible. About 700-1000ms.

A lot of big players on it, and impossible to get going because death is almost imminent upon spawning!
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While not expanded/ing, the Savages Islands are an European example of disputed Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) between Spain and Portugal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Islands
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Did you pay attention to the Prop 8 campaigners? They were and remain jaw-droppingly disgusting people.

> Early on, Prop 8’s supporters decided to focus their campaign primarily on children, stoking parents’ fears about gay people brainwashing their kids with pro-gay messages or, implicitly, turning their children gay.

> Another notorious commercial shows an earnest school administrator fretting that a “new health curriculum” that mentions gay marriage will “mess up” children with reference to “gay attraction.”

> In perhaps the most insulting ad, two gay fathers are quizzed about marriage and reproduction by their daughter; the takeaway, of course, is that this faux-family is twisting the mind and morals of their child with perverse ideas about marriage and love.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/04/04/brendan_eich_s...

(Also it appears I got the donation amount wrong, it was $1,000, not $10,000.)