skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember my jaw dropping seeing their demo of graphical multitasking on a PC that couldn't do a fraction of that under Windows. Came in part due to architectural choices. Here's some of them for those trying to learn from BeOS:

https://users.cs.jmu.edu/abzugcx/public/Student-Produced-Ter...
A stock exchange in a laissez-faire system could just as easily put in their own circuit breakers as a government could impose them.

Historically in highly Capitalist systems, all platforms for trade still have rules set by the owner of the platform.
How did you enable a popup to appear every thirty minutes on OSX?
I'm pretty sure the BBC know what "briton" means.
Another vote of confidence for JetBrains here. Making the jump from Eclipse to phpStorm for Magento development was worth every single penny!
Given that we still haven't achieved the paperless offices that many want, sometimes I start feeling like not much has changed over the last couple decades, but this album really illustrates the difference. It is rather humorous to look at just how much PAPER they used in development. Developers using paper binders of documentation, tractor feed prints of code, etc... it's nice that at least those days are mostly over!
This is my understanding too. Before EU human rights were written into law in 1998 there wasn't even anything providing a "right to privacy" and it's still not completely clear.

http://findlaw.co.uk/law/z_articles-for-carousel/500284.html

The libel laws on the other hand are quite strong, so filming someone privately in their own home and publishing it could land you in trouble with those.
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I think you should just start to act like one. The following are things you could do for example:

- Try to look at the bigger picture during your work

- Engage in discussions about the whole system

- Document the bigger thing

- Maybe build some test solution with important designs
that are being used in your project so that new devs can learn with it.

I am not a big fan of measurements because in my opinion measurements are never really objective.
And at one point a practical alternative was Java Applets.
> 8. 3 3-hour dev sessions per day.

> 9. 1 2-hour analysis/review/refactor session at night.

> 10. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

Ummmm....
I seem to remember that you can hear your own voice on a landline, so you can more comfortably regulate the volume. Talking on a cellphone is just randomly speaking and hoping the other person hear it right. I think this led to a lot of the shouting on cellphones in in the street or on the train that people used to do. Uncomfortable I agree.
Orwell was right about many things, perhaps not the letter of tech details. Some are far worse.

He was right about the military industrial complex, about being at constant war with somebody for a manufactured purpose, about shifting alliances and villainization of the new enemies. He was especially right about a government using ubiquitous information about its populace to control it, and the crime of speaking out against the government.

And you are wrong about the every room thing: it's not just TV's in every room but everywhere.Your cellphone follows you along with its mic, gps, camera, wifi, BT, NFC, UTDOA, GPS, and CGI. If you leave that behind, then face trackers, license plate readers, UAVs, RFID tags, ezpass, TPMs, etc etc follow you everywhere you go.

He especially did not see the compute power of correlating thousands of inputs on each individual.
Show HN: WingzGrap: Connections Between News Articles of the Chinese Markets
Which one is your country, if you would like to name it? I would like to be able to find out about it and maybe contrast it with Turkey, I intend to study ethical and religious clashes as a material for philosophical views on states, democracy etc.

And because I can't edit my comment for who-knows-the-reason, I'll dump it here: I'm sorry that I even referred to Erdogan and that I said the things that I said after, as I caused the thread to lose its focus, which had to be the people that left those footprints here. But then again, I would not have thought that anybody would argue that people who can destroy and disregard high-importance archaeological findings for the increased speed of the construction work were not ignorant, and those who are openly fundamentalist were not so, and that I was elitist and that I had hubris for calling the miserable miserable.
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They do! For the .com links, concatenate:
"amzn.com/",[10 character string in URL, aka ASIN]

For the .co.uk links, concatenate:
"amazon.co.uk/dp/",[10 character string in URL, aka ASIN]

So, your first link would be
"amzn.com/075664979X"
That actually sounds like copy from Banksy himself... Are we sure he doesn't moonlight as a "journalist" for BI?
How can you give permission if you are unaware that you are giving permission?
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I also live in Austin and have supported the plastic ban. HEB is almost single-handedly undercutting the effectiveness of the ban by selling cheap "reusable" plastic bags at checkout for the majority (at least in my experience) of people who don't bring their own. If they joined the rest of Austin grocers and instead sold paper bags, it would eliminate most of the remaining plastic bag litter. Increasing the price of these bags - coupled with making the canvas bags available for SNAP participants if they aren't already - may also start to change behavior.
And every single version, including minor version upgrades, this setting goes back to "MAS and identified developers," despite me explicitly setting to "Anywhere." If that isn't obnoxiously bad UI design (that I'm sure some idiot will defend), I don't know what is. I love the hardware, but the software is slowly turning to shit because of bugs (especially core bugs like not supporting many Bluetooth or RF mice/trackballs) and "features" like this. No two ways about it.
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I was once quite suprised that R was missing any kind of RESTful service package for exposing R functions as a REST service. What I was looking for was basically some way to invoke a couple of R functions from the web application. In the end I managed to do it with some JRI (part of rJava) bindings.

Maybe it's a good idea to implement such thing.
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I worked at AIG during that crash, in their mortgage insurance subsidiary. To say we were hammered is a massive understatement. Two thirds of the company was laid off during one week: the gating factor was meeting rooms in which to process the layoffs. Many of these people haven't fully recovered: they were "lifers" and most of their skills were tied to that specific company and industry.

Free soda immediately went away, with a very lame justification ("it clogs the drains when people pour them down the sink").

There were news cameras parked outside for a couple weeks, trying to get sound bites from people coming and going.

There were even a few attacks on employees in the streets immediately afterwards. We were encouraged to go out in small groups: alone, there was danger of being accosted by people who lost their mortgage, while in large groups it created the impression we didn't care about what was happening to the world outside.

It was pretty intense. I'm glad I saw it as close as I did, but I'm not sure I would like to do that again.
Markets continue to exist regardless of stability.

Whether people prefer stable or unstable has nothing to do with whether or not said market exists.

There is never a point in which there is perfect stability, or a total lack of instability, therefore there can never be a market - that's the logical conclusion of your premise. It disproves your claim.

Who defines how much instability must exist, such that a market ceases to exist? The completely subjective nature of it also proves it's wrong.
I'm a heavy iPython user and thought iHaskell would be a good way to try out the language on my Mac. Unfortunately I just wound up in Cabal Hell. I spent a few hours tracking down broken dependencies on GitHub before giving up.

This project looks exciting because it lets you get started with a working distribution. I'm happy to pay for the privilege of ignoring the mess until the language has proven itself to me.
Someone filming you in a public place won't immediately commit the recording into a centralised storage accessible to dozens of (potentially corrupt) government agencies, alongside with the face recognition data.
I have a 2-step process.

1 - Are communications easy, fast and meaningful? That's the first step. Contact more than one supplier (on a initial round, think 10 to 20). Make small challenges like posting design files on a secure site that requires the supplier to create an account...you'll get rid of a lot of unworthy suppliers that won't bother and therefore are not going to be proactive in the future.

2 - Invest in requesting prototypes (or samples if making more than one prototype does not make sense) from more than one factory ahead of time (top 3 of the step above). The good factories will perform well at this task...bad ones will deliver half-baked stuff.

With time, the very good suppliers that really want to build a business relationship with you will become obvious and you can reuse them in the future...making your life easier. Don't be lazy when looking for suppliers...that's the biggest pitfall. Invest time and money...it's important.
Sorry this guy sounds like a minor career technocrat angling for a budget increase and pandering to the crowd.

Possibly pointing a finger at the Euro states that still have mandatory ID cards and allow local government to run their own secret police as well as the main federal ones - might be more useful.
If the underlying thing is unstable, a market sitting on top of it will be unstable. If you try to force the market sitting on top to be stable by fancy jiggery-pokery, you've forcibly created a market that is no longer connected to what is below it, which now has all sorts of those arbitrage opportunities for the connected that people love to hate, and also dangerously hides further instability where you can't see it, because in a way it's conserved whether you like it or not.

You may want stability. You may even need stability. But neither of those two things means you get to have it. The universe and the world is fundamentally unstable.

You can look at what is happening in China right now in that way. They've forcibly created stability and reliability. Awesome, right? This worked great, until the absolutely and utterly inevitable black swan event occurred (to the point I have a hard time even calling it a black swan, since it was so predictable) because the conserved instability, instead of getting expressed in little ways on a day by day basis, is getting expressed as one big event.

Just because you fully dammed the river doesn't mean you've stopped the river from flowing, and it's time to build a dance platform in the middle of the old river bed and invite everyone to party all night long. It means you better run away from the entire river bed and everything even remotely near it before the dam catastrophically bursts and destroys everything.

You're looking not at a demonstration of why it's important to artificially stabilize markets... you're looking right at the consequences of doing so.

(In fact, the way that people then interpret the destruction of everything as a consequence of the dam just not being strong enough and we need to put politicians into power that will create an even BIGGER dam is an important element of understanding the ratchet of tyranny, and how what happened to the Soviet Union and Venezuela happened. It wasn't bad luck... it was misinterpreting overcontrol as too little control, and "correcting" in exactly the wrong direction. The failure of today becomes the excuse to grab yet more power, stomping on anyone in the way who objects, and grabbing centralized control even harder, which creates an even bigger disaster which requires even more centralized control... repeat until the society is too weak to even maintain a government anymore. And remember, if your comfortable Western-raised brain is objecting that this can't happen, it has happened, in this decade, to real countries that you can find on a globe. It is not a thing of myth and it is not even a thing of the past. It is a path we humans seem congenitally prone to.)
Do you see their Weissman Score? These guys F***$
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Please take posture and back problems seriously.

Personally, I had a minor health crash from back problems and even lost my job a while back. I manage normally now when I follow training regiments.

Don't sit still in one position too much. Consider a standing desk.

I have bone spurs on my upper spine etc. That ought to have taken a few decades more. (Disclaimer: I have some allergies which made me a bit tired in life, so I was probably more sedentary than even the normal programmer. If you have one problem, it changes your behaviour so you get more...)

Yeah, I was Hellbanned before this. :-) If you have questions post them and I'll answer as a comment.
Default behavior rejects anything not in the MAS or signed by Apple developers. It also resets to this default on every OS upgrade. Seems pretty clear it's not only opt-out, it's opt-out until the next upgrade when Apple will ram it down your fucking throat again just because they can and call it "good design." Fuck them.
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German student ditches apartment, buys an unlimited train pass
Regarding giving out PIN numbers. Banks should make a better effort at informing customers that no other human should ever know their PIN or internet banking password, not even the bank's staff. As soon as you tell anybody your PIN, that means you're being scammed.
I'm not 100% sure the death of Flash is a good thing. Maybe the death of "flash the buggy proprietary plugin" is good but there are tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of devs that are productive with flash and not likely to be as productive in HTML5. It would be nice if somehow Flash could export to HTML5 directly.

That said, Flash still has features that are missing from HTML5.

1. One file distribution.

AFAICT HTML5 has no real ability to do this

2. Easy streaming

I suppose you can break a HTML5 app into multiple files but with flash there's one file and it can start running the content of that file when only some small percentage of it has downloaded. And, it just magically happens or rather it's super easy to setup. Reproducing that in HTML5 is a huge chore.

3. Not running when not visible

HTML5 has no way to stop an animation when offscreen. If you have a requestAnimationFrame Canvas or WebGL or element based animation and your element is scrolled off the screen HTML5 will still execute your code. Flash will not. So, blogs aggregating flash content work. Blogs aggregating canvas/webgl content don't even exist or unlike flash each item needs to be on its own page. There are some workaround but they require you to modify all content where as Flash you can use 3rd party content and still get this.

4. Can copy to clipboard

Yes I know that's considered "unsafe" and yet nearly every website that needs that feature uses flash for it. Google Docs and GMail both use it even though Google's Chrome team claims they won't put the feature in HTML5 because it's unsafe. They need to make up their minds.

I'm sure people who are more familiar with flash can name more features they wish would make it to HTML5.

And on top of that I can easily block flash. I can't block HTML5 so much :P
Ask HN: How to keep a tight tech team in a consultancy?
Every article that I read about managing a development team is geared towards a single company developing a product, where all developers are working toward the same goal of delivering said product in the best way possible. There is some really great information out there, but I can’t seem to find anything that’s geared more toward consultancy-based organizations. Here are some big differences that I see:

* We are working on projects, not a product. A lot of what we do doesn’t come down to what the end-user wants, it comes down to what the client wants (and sometimes those wants are really, really strange).

* Our projects can be wildly different from one another (though we stick with a standard stack as much as we can).

* The entire team isn’t working on the same project at the same time. We currently have 6 developers, at any point we might have 1-3 on the same project. That means that we can have 2-4 unrelated projects going on at one time.

* Our timelines and budgets are relatively fixed, and need to be provided prior to development and adhered to.

Different projects have different requirements and allow for different levels of flexibility. Some projects it might make sense to go with TDD and weekly sprints. Other projects might have an extremely short shelf life and just need to get out the door, so spending time on code coverage and refactoring may not be something that makes a great deal of sense. We have our own values and processes that we use for every project of ours, but the constant changes in our client’s needs make it difficult to form a solid repeatable methodology.

Can anybody recommend some reading material that’s more focused on project-based work rather than product-based? Any personal advice about managing a team where members are often working on different projects from one another? Thanks.
UK parody laws are not the same as the US. For a start, there wasn't a clear parody defence until around October 2014: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29408121

However, that law has since been (at least partially) quashed by recent court rulings: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/17/high-court-qu...

(It's unclear if the whole of the law is now revoked, or just the personal-use parts)
I think he means we have the capabilities to be in a world surpassing 1984.
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All he needed was a reference to Gun Control, Hitler and Bob Heinlein and he would have a full house :-)
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I recently moved from NYC to Seattle. After years of saying I would never leave the city, I love it here. It is a lot smaller than NY but there is still plenty to do and the food here is pretty great.

No pizza or bagels though :-(.
"Laissez-faire economic systems"

You mean like the system where the US government printed money like crazy during the 1990s - 2000s and had official policy encouraging folks to buy homes who could not afford them? Or the central economic planning and corruption at every level in China, resulting in unneeded cities that sit nearly entirely empty? These two correlate ~ cheap money in the US (artificially low interest rates) got transferred to China en mass, fulling growth there, much of which is misdirected due to central planning. So yes, let's apply more central planning to the effects instead of unravel the cause.
The initial online ticket booking was (apparently) deliberately broken for the first few days...
Man, it's tedious work to unearth those stuff. One cannot use big shovels and machines, sometimes you have to work with fingertips and painting-brushes. And the so-called old-city (what I hate to call Fatih) is, I mean whenever you dig a hole you find something. By my school there is the constructions site for another entrance to the already-existent metro station, and it is still not completed after maybe two years. And all they wanted was to dig down a single storey entrance that then linked to the one that already was there. Then they found some 2500 yrs-old Byzantine sarcophagi, and, you may guess the rest...
Finally some common sense. +1
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Thanks for the clarification. I was mixing up E102 as it is labelled int the UK (Tartrazine) which was banned in 2013 due to being linked to aggravating/causing ADHD and Red Dye Number 2 which was banned in North America in 1976 due to being a Carcinogen. [One of the downfalls of being an immigrant is that after a while you can never remember (or perhaps just lose the inclination to care) which news applied in which jurisdiction and not the other and which numbering systems belong where]
CloudFront outage in the UK on BT lasted 6.5 hours
Instead of gov. funded software, I like the idea of hedge fund backed FOSS, where the commercial software competition are publicly traded. This would allow the hedge funds to realize returns, but only if the FOSS produced is viable. Such an arrangement would probably benefit under a non-profit foundation to administer the project(s).
Interesting; I wonder if there's a way to check which company currently owns those numbers.

Then again, I'm sure it's a totally legitimate (no sarcasm) company; hard to make sure that 0% of your customers are spammers.
How about proper ergonomics for your hands on a keyboard?

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/the-model-01-an-heir...

Mac keyboards, for example, use scissors switches or rubber dome, which aren't the best for your hands. Apple used to offer a mechanical switch with the Apple II: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_Extended_Keyboard_II
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Looks like a good exhibition - I'd go if I could get over to Weston-Super-Mare easily...I never liked the big hype around Banksy but did like seeing his work when it appeared. And there are other really good artists there too (ones I prefer to Banksy).

PS. Mike Nudelman clearly doesn't get it
> I'm not really convinced that our "advances" have improved the human condition

I'm baffled. I can't comment on this, if you really don't believe things like going from a life expectancy of 30 to 80 years improved human condition.

So you just wrote several extended paragraphs of arbitrary philosophical justifications that I don't if someone would really fit in, lest any group homogeneously makes assumptions such as "it must be true that our gigantic bureaucratic regulatory regime is in every way superior to what it replaced".

What we're arguing here is about a specific consumer protection mechanism; you seem to oppose consumer protection in general, in principle. I don't see how that is justifiable, that simple.

By the way, I own a significant amount of shares of several large banks. So technically, I'm a banker, but I sure don't want me to "give up and die".
I never had any love for flash but it's demise brought down Silverlight which as a windows developer was a great way to build a LOB targeting mac and windows. It's to bad that Flashes association with ad networks doomed it rather then all the advancements it gave to the web so early on.
Nice recipe for burnout. 11h per day is not sustainable, not healthy and hurtful to whatever you are trying to do.
Doesn't mean much if the capabilities aren't being exploited. 1984 wasn't a book about technology. It did feature mass surveillance exceeding anything we have today, even if described in 1940s state of art terms.
Only part way through, but what an incredible story, both from the perspective of the historical findings and the modern progress in transport for locals.
What do they possibly get by DDoS'ng GitHub ? Is this out of pure malice or are there any probable commercial gains to this?
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R in general is not a good stream language. It is much better for batch processing (using "vectorisation"). Anyway it doesn't mean you can't stream process data with R! Spark or Flink provide some means for grouping streams into windows that fit R very well.

But I agree that integrating R with something else is an unexplored terrain. It seems that R rather tends to be everything: from data acquisition to visualisation.
I feel like you wildly missed the point of the jokes about kanye...