skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you could get the information from the timezone, but how would one do that in code?

The only time that one has the time fold is when you turn the clock backward (let's just call that shifting from daylight savings to standard timezone). And this would only affect code which used wall clock time (time as it's read, e.g. 1:30am PDT), and would also only affect code which wanted to run something only once at a time within that fold (e.g. 1:30am ... not on both 1:30am's).

So, using the timezone method, just check to see if your current 1:30am is in your daylight savings timezone. Hurray! You're in the clear. Go ahead and do that thing you wanted to do only on the first 1:30am.

But the next day you're going to run into a problem. The only 1:30am you're going to get is in the standard timezone. So now you have to check for this timezone change only on the day of the change, which is yet another piece of data you have to keep track of. On the day of the change, do this timezone comparison, and on every other day don't worry about it.

When the clock hits your interesting time of 1:30am, just check to see if today is the day of the change, check what the current timezone is, check what the daylight savings time zone is, check to see if those those two values are the same, and now do your thing. Otherwise, just do your thing.

All of the above also ignores that people change times at different times (11pm, 1am, 2am, 3am), some don't change a full hour, and some don't change at all.

The proposal gets rid of all of that convoluted logic in everyone's programs, and instead it provides a single boolean value: is this the second time I've seen this time because of daylight savings shenanigans.
Lawrence Lessig Talks About Presidency and Policies
Fingerprints on Mobile Devices: Abusing and Leaking [pdf]
I don't think it's a mutually exclusive decision. You can be both. But 2 completely different practices. OpenStack development is largely devops, eg developing auto healing or resilient apps that would for example spin up VMs when a VM hangs.
The POV-Ray source files are included.
Example: https://mscharrer.net/povray/liquid_fire/2/liquid_fire_v2.po...
Rent a luxury car and crack its transponder to steal it later
Not able to download csv file in php laravel
Alexithymia
I read all the comments, and have a totally different point of views. Yes, twitter needs to innovate more. You need to make a number of changes to the user interface and give more options. But I think that for now, the best and easiest thing they can do to bring back most users is to give more power to his Big Players. Help than make more money, be more promoted, have more publicity in twitter than any other social network. Stop thinking that promoted hashtags and other options that are only used for spam have a great return for the sponsor. Celebrities, players, journalists, politicians. People want to talk to them and twitter is the best media tool for this.
JSFiddle for SQL queries (data visualization too)
FBAB – Photo Album Backup for Facebook
I gave up on C few years ago but seems like its time to pick it back up
wow..amazing
A Conversation with Jake Heller Co-Founder and CEO of Casetext (YC S13)
I agree. The fact is that I can now build a database and front end as a team of one. Ten years ago that would have needed a team of maybe 5 developers. Abstractions slow things down at the computer level, but bring a great deal of developer productivity. As always its a tradeoff.
Tsipras resigns, paving way for snap Greek election
Apprenticeships ensure that young people in Switzerland are employable
This seems fantastic compared to my experiments in C + glut. Great work!

The API has macros to automatically generate type boilerplate. Very clever
Reminds me of some of the work of Ryan Geiss (the author of several WinAmp visualizers like Geiss and Milkdrop): http://www.geisswerks.com/
What the author means by "close approximation" is clarified later (under the "Two caveats" header). The point is that you can get an arbitrarily close approximation of any continuous function, just by choosing a sufficiently large number of hidden units. That is, for any epsilon > 0, a neural network can approximate any function within epsilon of the function's exact value at all points, with enough hidden units. The smaller the epsilon, the better the approximation you want, and the more hidden units you need.
> Insane. You've somehow managed to find a way to destroy the value of employment even further.

The value of "work", I would say.

But yeah, corporatism is insanely good at it, and worst of all, in a subversive way. The society (through education and others) is being silently shaped by corporatism tenets so that, by now, even grassroot-like movements - not at all affiliated with the major "interests" - live by these ideals.
Stop trying to fall asleep!

Lie on your bed. Relax. Instead of trying to fall asleep (and thinking about it) think about making yourself as comfortable as possible. Turn this way, move your arm that way,... Once you've done it, the sleep usually follows. In short, think comfort not sleep.

P.S.

I've used to have troubles falling asleep, but that simple method helped me to solve the problem. I would give the credit to the original author, but I can't remember where I read it.
It might start out as selfish. But once you have them, their life matters more to you than your own.
Excellent writing on the pitfalls of OpenGL and how to circumvent those. Applies to any OpenGL programming, not just Rust also.

Here's hoping Vulkan will fix these issues in the future and Apple also adapting this platform.
I didn't have any problems running examples from tutorial at http://tomaka.github.io/glium/tutorials/01-getting-started.h... on windows

If there are issues you could report them on https://github.com/tomaka/glium/issues
A bit of weed helps me a lot.
The more I read about stuff like this the more I am convinced that most modern art is just pretentious crap.
First time I've heard about it in any writings. Put onto my list how to implement it. Any good articles on the RGB vs sRGB colorspace issue in OpenGL ?
I don't know about rail, but I don't think it's true to say we have competition in Internet in the UK. We do have some, but it's "constrained" competition, defined in a way that will never be truly disruptive to BT.

The natural monopoly BT has is the core network and the geographical exchanges in every town. In the case of BT it was handed a national network which it then gets to monetise: in return it had to continue to provide 'universal service'. The problem with this type of set-up is that it puts BT in the position where their best minds are in an arms race against the regulator: they use all sorts of tricks to show how expensive their core network is and they make it very difficult for alternative providers. It's just natural, if they can create barriers to competitors or price competitors out then it's to their benefit.

While I'm not in that industry more I'm citing personal experience - I was at a provider when ADSL was coming onto the scene and they made it very difficult and complex to form your own backbone network. It means that you're going to "innovate" on top of the BT network - which will never be disruptive to BT.

There are other situations where you can see the level of monopoly they have. For example, they basically held the government to ransom when they said they "might" not built the advanced network (21CN) which got them a pile of cash.

It's consumers and business outside of the South East (London) that suffer - consumers because it's basically everyone is held to the speed of BT's innovation, and business outside the South East because there often aren't alternatives.
Its celebrity culture for snobs.
UK orders Google to kill links to 'right to be forgotten' stories
Have I been pwned? Pwned websites
> Less when I throw in hunting, doing my own maintenance and growing my own vegetables.

Why don't you consider this as work?
Ashley Madison subscribers include hundreds of government workers
I was expecting an explanation of what deep linking is, the way the article is written it lacks context: if you don't know what is "deep linking", it doesn't make much sense.

OK, closes tab.
Agreed but you implied the GPLv3 was useless and I felt compelled to defend it. GPLv3 does help with tivoisation. That is why corporations dislike it.
Good example, but in this case it's actually very easy to find weights for the neural network that would do rounding with any desired precision (look for the "stack of towers" method in the article).
Thanks! That was helpful. I agree we can do a better job with the copy on our landing page.

I use Anki as well for learning Chinese, but the use case is different for me.

What YC company are you referring to?
Yes it is a huge mistake. Seek to be a learner, not a teacher!
I believe the use case is for scheduling systems that need to do something at (say) 1:30am. On every day at 1:30am, please run the accounting job.

In the US, once a year you either have to have some locking system set up to avoid the second run (leave a trace that the job has already been started for the day). I believe the person proposing this thinks that it would make this determination easier.

The problem is that it only solves half the trouble caused by dual timezones. There's another day of the year when 2:30am (in the US) doesn't happen at all. If something is scheduled to occur once per day at 2:30am, then that day it is not going to happen.

There are other workarounds available such as avoiding the magic hours around 2am (in the US). But it seems to be a common problem that everyone seems to keep re-solving.

Storing the timezone with the time doesn't really solve the above issue.
The first reaction in my mind was "oh, Yet Another Dash Something", after the API reference utility [1], the app [2], the button [3], the web course [4], the other app [5], the dashboard toolkit [6], and of course the washing powder [7].

Honestly guys, I'm not the sort of person who loves moustache-sounding project names, but a little bit of imagination is called for.

[1] https://kapeli.com/dash

[2] http://paywithdash.com/

[3] https://fresh.amazon.com/dash/

[4] https://dash.generalassemb.ly/

[5] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dash-smarter-driving-every/i...

[6] https://www.thedash.com/

[7] http://www.dash-wash.com/
5 Steps to Re-Create Xerox PARC's Design Magic
I have also been at it for a while now. What I notice nowadays is that the same English->Japanese cards keep coming up quite often, because they have very similar cards/synonyms. Therefore, when adding new words, I take extra precaution to come up with a short 2-4 word sentence that is unique enough and captures the meaning quite well. Sometimes it might take me a few tries though, when I end up confusing it with another card anyway. This may also mean that sometimes I have to go and change a card/note I made a few years ago, because it 'conflicts' with something I want to add now.

So with regard to the clippings feature I feel that generating single-word flash cards might come back to bite you. It makes English->Japanese "production" difficult and annoying in the long run. On the other hand, it also makes Japanese->English unnecessarily complicated with all the meanings associated with a single word. A relatively simple example that comes to mind is 手入れ, of which I would rather have two short sentences describing each use case. Or with regards to the clippings feature, I want it to generate the card with the meaning I encountered, because the other meanings of that word might never actually be used by the Japanese.

I am not sure an app will (or even should) be able to generate such cards. Condensing both the Japanese, while getting the English meaning right, is hard enough for a human. It certainly would be awesome, because at the moment I have to resort to generating the cards manually for the words/sentences I encounter while reading manga or books on my Kobo e-reader. History shows that (1) I am too lazy to generate a card for a word that I had to look up, and that I tend to just keep on reading (and forgetting the word again later on), or (2) that I actually stop reading for a few days/weeks because I feel I have to enter the back log of cards in Anki before continuing.
I've been on a long journey to break out of the (breaking | hourly | daily ) news cycle and on reflection Twitter represents everything that is wrong with that cycle.

There is a perceived need in Western society to hear about events right now even if those initial reports turn out to be inaccurate or plain false. Not only does it seem pointless to spend time discussing such reports but often they are a distraction from things that are important.

If the event is significant, there will be in-depth analysis at the weekend and I'll learn about it then.
Hee, nostalgic! I used to play around with POV-Ray a lot in the 00s; at that time there were quite a few extremely skilled artist-coders in the community [1]. Shame that the software has since fallen into relative obscurity - I wasn't even aware the dwindling developer team actually managed to get a final 3.7 release out in 2013 after years of betas and release candidates.

[1] See eg. Gilles Tran at http://www.oyonale.com/3D.php?lang=en
Not really what OP asked, but I think it's far more important to try and fix the cause of why you can't go to sleep, instead of working on the symptoms.

1. Try to go to bed at the same time every day (and sleep the same amount of time). I'm a night owl and can easily move my day on, but moving it back is very difficult.

2. Sleeping ritual. Mine is pretty simple, I turn the lights off, climb in bed and lie on my right hand side. After a bit (1-10 minutes) I will turn over and then I'm pretty much immediately asleep. If you repeat something it will become ingrained (and will work most of the time).

3. Fix all sources of disturbances. Partner, pets, light, noise etc.

4. Learning to switch your brain off. Try not to watch/read something that's too emotionally charged before bed.

5. After that everything else that has already been mentioned, eating too close to going to bed, having drunk something so you need to get up to pee etc.

For most people sleep shouldn't be a problem, they just have terrible habits and/or environment.
Dbus, a Freedesktop project, being insular with Systemd? Perish the though...

At this point in time the sane thing to do would be to stay away from anything Freedesktop, Gnome, or Systemd. Otherwise you will find your future dictated by RH/Fedora whims.
Lots of good wishes from Pakistan!
I'm just starting to adopt fluentd but I'm scared by the fact that the "official" drivers have different interfaces and unclear leadership.

e.g.

https://github.com/fluent/fluent-logger-php
https://github.com/fluent/fluent-logger-python

and a bit of drama

https://github.com/fluent/fluent-logger-php/issues/36
Right, I'm going to try and put this in very simple terms. The student is the one who broke the law. HE deserves to be punished. CERN are not the employer, the University are. HE was seconded to CERN by the University. However, the actions HE took were done on HIS own. Had HE been directed to pirate the software by either CERN or the Univerity, then you may have a point. As it stands you do not. Pointless. I'm sure you are going to suggest draconian licensing terms, blah, blah, blah... The fact remains that the terms exist and, as a professional scientist, HE should have behaved ethically and operated within the confines of the license. End of discussion.
How a Single Word Increased a Bar’s Sales by +50%
The history of Netscape, part of this is also very well described in Ben Horowitz's book, 'the hard thing about hard things'.
Ashley Madison: 150K Indian Records Exposed
You are wrong. End of. Learn when to back down.
I think it's implied in this OP that the author did not see any meaning in his lawyer job, there's nothing "bigger than him" he's working for, just making a lot of money keeping actual criminals out of prison. There's no "bigger" purpose in that.

As a party clown/musician there is purpose - he can make kids happy, he knows that "something in his future is expected of him", his work is extremely meaningful to the kids, he catches glimpses of that (whether he actually understands that is hard to say, he'd have to be able to 100% become a child to see the child's point of view).
Innovation!
Website for people to report share discuss problem of the world
Don't be ridiculous.
I'll add to this that raising children can be selfish as well if you overdo it and apply "Hollywood morality" in your life - i.e. "they hurt my child, so I'll hurt hundreds or even thousands of people to get my revenge on the one who did it to my child, and it's OK and I am a good person".

That is, doing things for your own benefit at the expense of everyone else around is selfish, but I believe so is doing things for your loved ones at the expense of the society at large. Call it recursive selfishness, or sth.
How about shooting with the double wielded guns. Then simply dropping the second one to reload. That way you would get the extra firepower for what it is worth. Then you can go reload super fast after that.
About 20 years ago, I did something similar with PolyRay, it even allowed you to do animations.
He talks about "soft" errors as if the only way to handle them is to propagate them up to the UI layer, displaying a message.

In many situations the error handling affects the code paths at a more profound level. Something might be considered an error in the callee, but at the same time it might be an acceptable result in the caller, for which a well-defined path exists. Throwing an exception in such situations is just disconnecting the faulting code from the error handling code.
Google's Project Sunroof tells you how much solar energy is hitting your rooftop
The big problem isn't some bozo posting it to pastebin, it's shady "recruiters" that are set up to make their candidates look awesome. This is extremely difficult to detect without on-site validation.
100x Faster 3D Printing Tech
Well, I was confused by the domain since I acutally did my apprenticeship and study in Austria (the one with mountains, no kangooros here).
Well here it looks different, apprenticeship includes working for a company and going to a public school finishing with a certified diploma. These offerings on apprentice.at doesn't look anything like this.
VMWare's EULAs prohibit publishing of benchmarks without approval, so this is interesting to see...

https://www.vmware.com/pdf/benchmarking_approval_process.pdf
I started building something of similar concept a while ago. But had to pause the development for some time. It is written in Go, so much easier to install etc. It has plugins for Hadoop, Mongo, RabbitMQ, File and stdout :) Can take data from tail, HTTP, RabbitMQ, heartbeat and other chains.

https://github.com/mikeszltd/chainsd
... and here I thought the landscape art bot I started yesterday was good. I've got a long way to go. https://twitter.com/LandscapeArtBot
Any expected ETA for Python 3 support?
It takes maybe 2 or 3 seconds or so to unload even a double stack magazine (with, say, 20 rounds). There's really zero advantage to dual wielding.
FWIW, literal crap has been "artified" and commercialized more than half a century ago[0]

> A tin [of shit] was sold for €124,000 at Sotheby's on May 23, 2007

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit
D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer Goes GA with 1000+ Qubits
ha! good call, though I confess I only see the top bar. It is a pure laziness thing. This is a wordpress template and I have been too lazy to change it. Hopefully the content is still useful.
Ask HN: Which email-me-when-my-site-is-down service do you use?
German web developer says good morning and Google understands it
Gameswppr
Your target audience doesn’t exist
I have a hard time understanding the reasoning for this. What argument do they have as to why people shouldn't know about the performance?
Announcing the D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
If you lived in the 1800's, would you have described yourself as an automaton made of gears?
Show HN: TutorMing – Take live online Chinese classes with professional speakers
Recently my Debian 8 server started "being down" from time to time. It does not respond to http,ping and ssh. Nothing is in the logs. Just like the power has been turned off. Only when I reboot it, it comes back.

It's a dedicated server rented from 1and1.

While I try to find the problem or a new provider, I would like to get notified when it is down.

There must be an endless number of free services for this. Can my fellow startup buddies from HN recommend one?
Don't forget bash replacement

https://packages.debian.org/stable/dash
Exactly an apprenticeship should be a minimum of 4 years and either do day release or block.

And as some one who actually came into work (R&D based on campus at Cranfield) via the vocational route as a whats now called professional or higher apprenticeship.

Back in the day if you had called us "apprentices" I and my pears woudl have told you to F%^K off.
Is there any benefit/disadvantage between fluentd and logstash ? I am not using either one, but I'll need to centralize my logs soon. My understanding tells me that these are two very similar projects, but I might be wrong.
I’d forgotten all about Ryan; was obsessed by Milkdrop in 2001. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I think it's been definitely shown he actually has (is?) a large team of professionals, if you watch "exit through the gift shop" you will see the setup for some of the works which uses many different people.
...and in HR: "oh, he is experienced in `Dash'"
No wonder people don't want to work. The UK has pretty punitive taxes everywhere though. 20% VAT on everything you buy being one of them. Property and affiliated taxes are ridiculous too.
forgive my question, but what does "burn out" the consuming population actually mean?

Also, where is this interview? I'd love to read it :)
What are the issues people mention about Mail.app? Are these issues the 'real' pain points, solution to which users are willing to pay? How much? I use Mail.app and feel there is no "painful" issue for which I will be willing to pay to be fixed.

You can always find people who will complain about any product. But the strong enough pain for them to pay and switch is whole another ballgame. Most will shriek away as soon as they have to pay for a product and change their routine/familiarity of using a known bundled product.

> Mailbox.app isn't very good. Mail.app isn't either.

If you lead any discussion or discovery with such statements, you will always find people who agree with the statement. Most are just reflecting with the sentiment in your question/statement. A good example of this behavior is seen on the segment of Jimmy Kimmel's late night TV show. His people go out on street and ask strangers for their opinion on 'obvious make believe' news and statements. The responses of strangers are hilarious.

It is not a particularly good way to validate market.
Don't play that race. Join a different game. Who cares if that person gets a promotion and more stress? You have a better life.
> Good luck getting people to pay for it.

No luck needed. There's a metric ton of people who just crave well-crafted software. I have a project of that nature now and I am absolutely blown away by the amount of compliments and thank-yous sent our way. It's really quite something.