skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered if this is truly the case. If the tech is proven to work, it'll leak eventually, and make its way across the world. Some countries might enforce patents on it, but most wouldn't (especially those with the greatest energy demands, India and China).
The climate varies greatly between different places on the same latitude. She seems to live near Abakan, Russia at about 53 deg. N; according to Wikipedia, this has average daily means ranging from -18.3 C to +20.0 C. Compare with Manchester, UK (53 deg 28'N): about +4.5 C to +16 C.
Still doesn't answer why engineers are let go. It's not like they didn't learn lessons too, and their expertise could be used for "that v2".
Should have read the PEP in full. Thanks : )
Windows 10 pushed me to Linux.

I spent the last few years slowly but surely weening myself off a dependence on Microsoft tools (at home anyway). I switched my dev environment from VS/C# to Python/Komodo. Email from Outlook to Gmail/Thunderbird. Stopped using IE a decade ago or more. The idea behind it was to make sure I wasn't really bound to a particular platform.

The last few times I tried Linux, I'd either end up with Windows withdrawals, or some game/app I forgot about that I still used, or the kids would complain (or wife) and would end up back on Windows. This time, I've kept another machine running Windows on it, but my primary machine I installed Mint 17.2 on it, and no dual booting.

Things I'm missing - Can't play Witcher 3 (but apparently a native version is coming soon), and I'll probably miss out on SW: Battlefront. However a bunch of other games I play have native Linux ports, in particular Kerbal Space Program. I went a little nuts and buy a brand new gtx 980ti that might not get stretched as much as it could by switching platforms.

Things I'm enjoying - The font rendering seems nicer? Maybe it's imagined though. Komodo IDE runs way better under Linux than Windows, I have no idea why. I like the fact that my time investment in learning Python is paying off because a lot of the support tools/background tasks are written in Python. Especially good is now being able to see open source/dev projects that in the past I would skip over looking at because hey - no native Windows port.

It's been a couple of weeks since I switched now, and no regrets yet. Thanks Windows 10.
A Modern Day Take on the Ethics of Being a Programmer
It does if you use a fifo instead of a text file. This is the difference between basic Unix literacy and actual Unix proficiency. I'm not being insulting; very few people take the time to learn the tools Unix provides. And naturally, a developer is going to be more interested in writing tools than most.
Awesome, I was planning on packaging my sandstorm app for the new appstore today anyway! https://github.com/Azeirah/brainstorm
You know as well as everyone here that "Windows support" generally means two or at most three versions of Windows, and that adjacent Windows versions are a lot more intercompatable than any pair of Linux distros. What do you gain by pretending to be stupid?
Ask HN: Do you (still) use Facebook?
I have a "sociological" interest about facebook use. In my social circle facebook is clearly going out of fashion. I am a guy in his late twenties. Does it happens to you as well?

To make this more interesting, please add gender, age (as I did) and perhaps were your friends are "migrating".
> what happened to customer obsession.

It worked. He was the customer.
Ah, I think I misunderstood your intentions. The nature of the article made me think it was another "Privacy is dead" rant. Thanks for taking the time to carefully research the new policies of Pocket.
Yea, I then added it to my Wish List and it says $130 and "In Stock August 29th" but adding it to your cart does nothing.
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> We would consider OpenBSD if it ran on AWS

It probably could if Amazon wanted to support it. It does already run on Xen (which is what AWS is built on, IIRC).

> "NIH syndrome" resulted in signify rather than using normal, proven tools like GPG

Whoa there, pardner! Let's not be so quick to label every attempt at improving the selection of software in a given category as "NIH syndrome", eh? By that logic, "NIH syndrome" resulted in GnuPG rather than using normal, proven tools like the original PGP :)

GnuPG is great. Don't get me wrong. I use it all the time, even on OpenBSD. GnuPG is also a big program. It has a lot of features, and tends to be very complex. In the context of package signing, most of those features - like encryption, webs of trust, all that jazz - are way overkill; the OpenBSD folks just needed a tool that can apply a digital signature and verify that signature, and signify does that job pretty darn well.

There's also the fact that GnuPG is GPL-licensed, and OpenBSD has a pretty strict policy against including copyleft software. The implications of copyleft might not be important to you or me or the dog next door, but they're very important for the OpenBSD folks.
It seems not quite different from what Jobs did. The real difference is the degree of vision associated with reality.
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Postgres and Node.js
They don't have to use it exactly as OSX uses it

It's not doing all of that stuff in pid 1
What didn't you like about Windows 10?
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Even if everything you say up to the last clause is perfectly true, it doesn't follow that he blames them for the failure. He simply and objectively doesn't need them if the product they were skilled to do is a flop and has no future.
Steve obsessed over details that would benefit users; Bezos apparently forced choices that would benefit Amazon. Seems quite a bit different.
Microsoft's lack of interest in UX is well on its way to killing Windows. In fact every previous version of Windows and Office from 3.1 onwards had a lot of UX/usability/design input.

Google care so little about design they've just spent the last few years trying to get everyone to use their Material guidelines, and Google's doodles are legendary.

Facebook is a lost cause, so I'll give you that.

UX isn't just user experience - it's customer experience. And if your customer experience is bad, you don't have customers for long.

You can deal with this with hyper-aggressive bully and thug marketing and legal lock-ins. And as a plan, that totally works - until it doesn't any more.

Good UX is cheaper and creates less friction for everyone.

Ultimately, it's just much easier to deal with customers who don't hate you or your products.'
Recovering from the wrong abstraction (2014)
Windows 10 impressed me, but overall, I miss those POSIX-like conventions.

I miss how in OS X, I can at least open up a terminal and go to shop. cd / mkdir / tmux / vim

I'm disappointed by the call homes.

The lack of a package manager. Chocolate GUI is kind of a joke. Even Synaptic could queue multiple packages back in 2000.

MSFT promised an SSH client. It's nowhere to be found.

Overall, I'd rather fork over the cash and get a POSIX-like environment with OS X. If not, Fedora and Ubuntu are so featureful.
Go read the book "Everything store" and come back. You're not the first one who's been saying stuff like this about him. While reading the book I was amazed how the entire history of the company is full of doubters saying he's doing it wrong and the company will fail. Yet time after time the doubters were proved wrong, and after two decades its growth is only accelerating. Sure he's not perfect and how the company treats employees is far from ideal, but he definitely is not a blind pathetic CEO.
Are you perhaps a tech worker with lots of tech friends?
Market rate means nothing to employers. If they could give you 3% raise per year and get away with it, they would. The only way for non-union developers to protect their interest is to look out.
The cycle of software life:

1. Motivated team in a larger company builds new, cool product (in this case Messenger)
2. It's good and becomes successful
3. The rest of the company wants to get in on that, think of ways to add value
4. A bunch of stuff gets bundled, some good, most bad
5. Some of the original team stay around, most get disillusioned and go work on something else
6. Eventually, the app becomes another iTunes
Same thing I really didn't like about Windows 8. Ads on my desktop, in an operating system I paid money for.

In particular Toyota car ads in the music app.

I did like the UI improvements, the notifications system etc, that switching between new/old apps didn't feel jarring anymore.

I think the kicker was the github project calle dunfuck windows 10 or whatever it was, where you ran a bunch of batch scripts to remove/kill off the monitoring services, and I just didn't want to have to worry about that.

Also the fact that on my other machines, the nagging to upgrade to windows 10 is constant, I had to go find/remove some random windows update patch from June/July to get rid of gwx.exe.

edit: lastly, the licensing terms of the operating system itself, IANAL, and I couldn't tell what rights I had to the o/s in the future.
Old Believers are actually not the members of any sect. It's religion, and it's just old, no any fundamentalism there. And it's called that way because of Russian Orthodox Church splits and reforms in 17th century.
It seems dangerous to use this instead of Tor. If you're in a county censoring the Internet (possibly using deep packet inspection) just getting around the censorship may not be safe enough.

It's better to use a system that can actually help to protect your anonymity.
Call us when they're not so secretive.
I'd love to see some modern tools to make developing models easier.

Most of our models are built on top of already existing models so we have this huge corpus of C and Fortran spanning from mid 80's. I'm partially guilty for this myself my first instinct when it comes to a new project is to reach for C and "pinch" huge chunks of algorithms from existing code (and most of those algorithms probably came from GSL or NR or similar originally). I can knock up a prototype very quickly since I don't have to rewrite heaps of "boiler plate" algorithms but then I have to deal with the pain of fine tuning the C code. Re-factoring C or Fortan is not great. I'd love to be able to use a higher level language.

I'm kind of aware of languages like Python, R and Julia but don't have the time at the moment to learn them.
Nanoporous graphene is pretty awesome stuff. The numbers are up in the range of 4 litres per square centimetre per hour per megapascal. Or more practically, just a one centimetre by one centimetre "hole" at the bottom of a 100m tall "tank" (it can actually just be a pipe, the key is the water depth not the reservoir capacity) would produce 4 litres per hour powered by nothing but gravity. Of course there's the requisite effort of approximately 100N of work per litre to lift it up that hundred meters, but being otherwise passive is a good illustration of how much more efficient these materials are.

Yes I know I'm ignoring things like biofilm buildup, particulate settling, etc. I'm mainly trying to illustrate the "basic work" required to get drinking water from sea water using the latest technology. Most existing reverse osmosis membranes are only capable of 1 litre per square centimetre per megapascal per DAY. That's not even a remotely practical rate without mechanically applied pressures, and since we're now dealing with hydraulic pressures... a lot more engineering and maintenance.
-18C in the winter and 20C in the summer sounds like a decent climate. Typical four seasons environment. Nothing "extreme" about it.
The entire bull case for AMZN is always "Amazon reinvests all their cash flow into the business" and "Bezos is focused on the long term". Why are they calling it quits already?

The same is true for Google. So much lip service about moonshots and long term thinking and the new CFO comes in and talks about cost discipline and potentially capital return. Turns out dual class shares don't make you anymore 'long-term focused' than the next company.
SLY: A New Common Lisp IDE (fork of SLIME)
For all the negativity, I really like Windows 10. I had been using Windows 8.1 and consider it to be one of the worst desktop operating systems I've used in the last 10 years. That's partially why I like Windows 10 so much. They fixed so many of the backwards ideas that came with 8.1.

That being said, I mostly use it as an entertainment consumption device these days. I have a PC that I use solely to play games and watch shows. My every day computer for development is now a Macbook Pro with OS X and all the nice posix-like tools included.

I think that's one of the bigger long-term issues Microsoft might be facing. It seems in the last 5 years or so there has been a fairly large exodus of developers from Windows to Linux or OS X.
I couldn't disagree more sir.

Microsoft just started giving a shit about design with all the flat stuff and clearly it's failing harder than ever. They should focus on engineering and solving hard engineering problems more than ever if they want to survive, not design.

Google does now seem to care about design but its core product still has one input box and button and that's still the main way they make all of their money, and engineers still run that organization. They hired the hipsters when they made their money.

In the end design is not indicative of shit in high tech companies, I think my opinion is valid.
The state of IT in Australia is horrendous. My colleague and I are flabbergasted at the state of programming round here (Adelaide).
> Microsoft's lack of interest in UX is well on its way to killing Windows. In fact every previous version of Windows and Office from 3.1 onwards had a lot of UX/usability/design input.

Please don't state that Apple does a better job. Please don't be one of those UX guys.
His instincts on the Kindle paid off spectacularly, which is why his instincts on the phone were trusted.
Good UX comes from good performance. Everything else is subjective.

If it's sluggish, buggy and anything else that the Engineers usually deal with, it doesn't matter how Material their design is.

The design can be iterated on and experimented with as long as you can ship. A psd isn't shipping.
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I can appreciate that it's been a bit like that, but isn't the truth really somewhere in between?

Oversized egos are a problem at the best of times in open source, especially in the kernel. Which has traditionally had a culture of casual indifference toward the security priorities of PaX/grsec, and some would say toward security generally (I don't buy that - there's a lot of concern for integrity in the kernel, and that at least buys you some security).

Whilst it would have been great if Spender could have completely changed his personality, outlook and perspective on the world so that he could commandeer the linux kernel from the outside-in toward his vision of a safer kernel, is that really compatible with the wider project? And so, it's equally depressing there hasn't been more recruitment from the kernel side - the side that actually has resources - to figure out a path toward getting PaX stuff mainlined from the inside-out.

I guess my point is: grsec has one focus, one priority. But the Linux kernel is a project that has a much more vast, broader scope of competing priorities to untangle, and I just can't see that such an enormous, busy and byzantine project ecosystem truly will ever see a clear mandate to get something as disruptive and single-minded as grsec mainlined.

Not only would Spender have to become a different person, but the core kernel teams as well.

In any case, I've reduced my patreon donations and put what little that is towards grsecurity. It's certainly that important and useful to me.
Why is the article link to DaringFireball and not the original source at Gizmodo? (Why is DaringFireball not a banned site on HN? His commentary rarely adds any value — certainly not to this story)
The problem with the Fire Phone isn't the hardware, the hardware is great, the problem is Fire OS. No one wants a half baked Android fork and a walled garden. My wife purchased the Fire Phone during their last promotion, and within 15 minutes she was reflashing to CyanogenMod.

The phone would have been successful if they had simply run stock Android, preloaded their own bloatware like Samsung does, and perhaps a dedicated button for Firefly, which is a pretty neat app. The reason the Fire Phone failed was Bezos is an egotistical asshole who doesn't care what the customer wants.
Tl;dr We have a lot of guns
I am not in favor of guns carried outside the home, but I am in favor of the US Constitution and the legislative and judicial system which interprets it.

That said -- mass shootings are a tiny fraction of all shootings in the USA. And the real question should be: if you take away the guns, do MURDERS and ASSAULTS go down significantly, or only the gun murders and assaults? I keep hearing about the latter, from gun control activists. However, in China and Britain, there have been a spate of knife attacks in which perpetrators somehow (how?? I can't understand it) also killed and wounded many people. If murders don't go down then why bother going door to door to confiscate guns in an era where people are able to 3d print their own?
You could almost be talking about Steve Jobs there.
> "Free" and "ad-supported" mean completely different things, and always have done.

"Free" in the context Amazon is using it (what Richard Stallman would refer to as Gratis) means that I do not have to pay money for something. That is a literal economic/dictionary definition.

Therefore, ad-supported in this context is a subset of "Free," as is any other form of non-monetary subsidization. So long as the end user is not paying, it is free.

The Free Software Foundation is free, but not ad-supported (though it strives to be free both in the sense "libre" (open/available) and "gratis" (not costing dollars).
Please list the features that were patently anti-user and done for Amazon's sole benefit.
Really? I run it on a PowerBook G4, and while it's sluggish, it's not entirely "unsuable". If a 10-year-old single-core machine can handle OpenBSD, I'd be amazed by even the slightest performance issue on a quad-core, hyperthreaded, modern PC. What's additionally surprising is that this is the case on a Thinkpad, of all things; IIRC, the OpenBSD devs dogfood OpenBSD pretty heavily on Thinkpads due to their FOSS-friendliness.

Does your laptop have an Nvidia GPU, by chance? In my experience, those do tend to have very bad performance on OpenBSD. Intel and AMD/ATI GPUs should work better.

Also, it's worth mentioning that OpenBSD's kernel has a whole slew of debugging and error checking features compiled in by default; compiling a custom kernel without such features can be done, but the docs don't really recommend it, since it becomes excruciatingly difficult to troubleshoot any problems with it.
I thought the amazon phone was super cool technologically but I have no need for a phone designed to sell me amazon retail services and products. It'd be like buying a WalMart brand phone, doesn't make much sense as i want freedom, not vendor lock in.
Wasn't the phone ridiculously expensive with lots of features that nobody wanted?

Once again, betting on 3d leads to a loss.
In the end, this comes down to a question of ends justifying the means.

I don't think anyone can argue with the fact that the company has done very well in many ways. So has Apple. We've learned that both Jobs and Bezos weren't/aren't very good people to work for.

Maybe it's naive of me to think this way, but I'd like to think that companies can be wildly successful without being life sucking and horrible in the process.
Dropzone 3.5 for Mac Released
It's an interesting example of how objectification and anthropormorphism can be the inverse of each other.

We treat the business like a human, assuming it 'blames' people. The business treats humans like objects, throwing them in the garbage when they are no longer of use.
Speaking as a generally pacifist observer from Australia (frequently cited as an example of how reaction to a mass shooting resulted in a change to stricter gun ownership laws, introduced by a conservative government no less)... Is there sufficient desire across the population for reduced gun ownership that a general strike would force some political action despite the involvement of the NRA, or is that a socialist fantasy?
What's Paper?
Me too, but I suspect it might take someone of tchrist's level with experience in both languages to give a good answer. I would be interested in how TCL handles the issues tchirst has to deal with outlined in his famous SO post[1].

Note: If you read that post and think, "Wow, Perl requires a lot of setup for unicode and TCP doesn't require nearly as much" without understanding the specifics of why each step is there, and how TCL handles the same issue, you are likely underthinking the issue.

1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-p...
This looks pretty cool, are there any comparisons to NLTK et al? The examples seem pretty straight forward and well commented, but overall Documentation is a bit lacking.

Now the really important question: Is it pronounced the same as a "mai tai" or more like "mitty" ?
One Way to Fight the California Drought: Study Trees [video]
Not if you are a farmer that doesn't get any water from the state because of cutbacks.
Simple.

If you are a designer, you can go work on another project.

If you are a BA, you can go work on another project.

If you are a manager, you can go work on another project.

If you are an mobile developer/hardware engineer, and they aren't building any more OS/hardware, they can't move you onto another project.
I have an unpopular opinion: Every citizen of the US should be trained in public school on how to use a gun and basic gun safety/cleaning. Upon completion of the course the citizen shall be given a firearm. It's amazing how the leftists are so sure sex ed prevents unwanted pregnancies and STD's, but when it comes to guns they take the abstinence only approach.
Heck - you are right! Brought up wit.ai earlier today and it rendered a blank page - thought they had been shuttered.
But now I can see the full site and the service looks stronger than ever.
A low of -18 C isn't uncommon, but a daily mean of -18 C across a whole month (day and night) is pretty cold! It's colder than any major North American city except Fairbanks, at least. The other cities I think of as being cold all have significantly higher daily means in their coldest month: -11 C in Anchorage, -10 C in Minneapolis, Montreal, and Ottawa, and -4 C in Chicago.
From my - perhaps "limited" as it's only been to a few years - experience they aren't _all_ let go. With the rest, its easier to start fresh with lower paid devs than give raises to the older engineers who will begin to request being paid appropriately for their time and commitment.
Vista pushed me to Mac OS. And then I went from .Net/Visual Studio to Objective-C/Xcode and making apps instead of websites. So much happier now. (but that was in the days of IE6)
An American Startup Is Letting Cubans Share Internet Connections for Free
Back in elementary school we would watch Bill Nye videos all the time. Aside from not having to listen to my teacher speak, I didn't really look forward to watching him. The show relied on loud volume and wackiness to be entertaining as oppose of letting the raw science fascinate you. I really wish program's like this were made, I would've definitely paid more attention.