skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's normal for The New Yorker to have longer articles. Expectations of the contrary are misplaced.
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Maybe I'll try doing that this weekend.
Get the fuck out of the office; you work too much.

1) Get in the car and take a road trip. The US has some of
the most spectacular scenery in the world.

2) Even better would be to do a road trip and go camping.

3) Best of all would be a backpacking trip.

Hopefully, you've saved a little money & have some vacation time.

Do not waste time with doctors/shrinks. There's nothing wrong with you.
Well they don't solve "technical" problems, so I'm wondering what they are doing in Silicon Valley.

Or perhaps we should acknowledge that Silicon Valley these days is mostly about becoming the biggest brand in service-mediation, and running on external funding while making net losses year after year, and in the process pushing everybody else out of the market. It is not so much about technical innovation anymore. Look at how a lot of open source software is written in Europe and monetized in the US.
This cartel had 4 members. With all the Silicon Valley tech companies, it's a little hard to see how this would be successful at holding down compensation.

In any case, cartels have a historical reputation of being unworkable without laws being passed to force conformance. The problem for the cartel members is they have large incentives to cheat on the agreement.

Probably the most famous cartel is OPEC. "Jeff Colgan argued in 2013 that, since 1982, countries cheated on their quotas 96% of the time, largely neutralizing the ability of OPEC to collectively influence prices."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
Works for me... what browser are you using?
I've been an Android user since forever but HTC's interface kept nagging me to configure the HTC Experience after every little update, even though I'd dismissed it over and over.

It's like that pop-up wondering if you'd like to take a survey while you're entering your shipping address during check out.

It finally drove me to a cheap Windows phone.
When you write tl;dr followed by a very short summary, doesn't that itself imply that the article was long?
That's too simplistic, don't you agree? This is exactly why I prefer serif.
Cognitive Advantages of Bilingualism
Interesting, but does this fit here? What's new about recommendations? And what's technical?
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'clearColor' of null
Crossrail Open House Events Sat 19th Sept
That was my exact thought when flying into Phoenix for the first time.

I really want to try out this radial city though!!
Yeah because we can't possibly have languages which diverge in syntax... I mean I don't use any languages every day where the concat operator is || for example which is short circuit OR for most people. cough PgSQL cough

JavaScript overloading + to mean addition and string concatenation was the worst decision ever given the use case of JS. 1 + '1' * 1 is not the same as '1' + 1 * 1 good job. That definitely wont be evil once the values are in a more complex equation with variables coming from some server side JSON string... at all. Definitely wont lead to any unusual bugs when something like the following happens 1 + '000001'. You might not notice 2 being 12 for a while but your customer will likely notice 2 suddenly becoming 1000001.

At least '~' joins two different string together when writing. Makes a lot more sense than '+' to me ~ Ulti 2015
I am not sure it can, yet. It can do Math, so far. I have opened an issue on Github requesting it.
You don't have webgl, duh.
YotaPhone 2 the world's first dual-screen always-on smartphone
You should learn that on HN you don't need marketing speech to get your message delivered.

You could try giving some insight about the technical stack you are using, challenges you have been facing and things that are more appealing to technical people.
I'm currently rocking the indestructible, inexhaustible nokia 105 (phone flashlight ftw), but next year when I go east to seek my fortune on the continent I've accepted that a smartphone and associated nightly charging ritual will become essential.

What would HN recommend as a cheap, durable android device? These ZTE things look pretty good...

Also, what happened to those ultra cheap windows mobile devices targeted at "emerging markets?"
Cartels are dynamically unstable. That doesn't mean they can't cause a net social loss during the period in which they are effective.
The Impact of Smartphone Growth on Internet and ECommerce Industry in India
This has happened to me more times than I would like heh. Makes me realise the fallibility of memory.
Are you guys hiring in Zurich? Sounds like an amazing project.
Tried and works for me too but not all of my custom roms
...where would you put a day's worth of river water?

Random internet search shows that a small river flows at about 1000 cubic feet per second, which is about 30 cubic metres; that's three million cubic metres in a day, which is three million tonnes (water is so convenient). The biggest supertankers can carry about 300,000 cubic metres, so you'd need ten of them...
This is a cool approach to finding bugs in non-deterministic services. Basically, each request is played against three servers: one running the code to test, and two running known good code. If the variation in responses between test:good is no different than the variation between good:good, you can assume that no regressions are present.
Emacs is an open/unsafe architecture. Whatever I write in Lisp in my .emacs file becomes part of my implementation. It's on the exact same level as the Lisp code rms writes which is bundled with the releases.

Vim scripts like Chromium and Firefox plugins are inferior to their host processes. They can only modify the application behavior through a set of (supposedly) safe api calls. Since Elisp packages aren't second class citizens, like Vim scripts, it changes everything.
How Toptal's Distributed Team Operates from 25 Countries
WORLD'S FIRST LUXURY LOTTERY – OPULENTIA LOTTERY
Win luxury designer goods, yacht and supercar rentals, private jet charters, exclusive tickets to invite-only events and many more!

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Mobile phone tracking crackdown in US
Oh my god... how have I never seen ranger before?
Back in my MS-DOS development days, I used an old program called LIST.COM. Ranger feels lighter than MC. I love it. Thanks for sharing!
>I'm still disturbed by the greed behind this lawsuit.

I'm disturbed that people are taking the billionaires' side in a wage fixing cartel on the principle that breaking the cartel is "greed".
A better model might be that the (majority of the) UK press attempts to fashion good headlines in line with the broad interests of the Murdoch empire.
As a developer, you can absolutely grab the code and run the app on your own own devices. However, there are a few manual steps that you need to take before this works.

If you want to build the v1.0 app with Xcode 6, then use these instructions: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/blob/v1.0/BUILDING.md

If you want to build the (upcoming) v1.1 app with Xcode 7 beta, then use these instructions: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/blob/master/BUILDING....

Happy to help here or in a new thread if you get stuck in the process. We have tried to make it as simple as possible but due to some code signing complexity it can't be a 'download & run on device' kind of thing unfortunately.
newsbeuter author here. If you want to develop your own text terminal tools, I can really recommend STFL: http://www.clifford.at/stfl/

Without it, I would have probably been driven crazy when I attempted to put together a UI. It helped me get from an idea to a working prototype really quickly. In the case of newsbeuter, like 2 days.
It looks like all of the free tickets are "sold out" already. That was quick!
Seems to require a MATLAB installation. I would have loved a stand-alone version.
This has to be a troll ...
I agree with the premise that machines will increasing exceed our capabilities (and are improving quicker than we are). This seems so obvious as to be not debatable.

I also think there are a lot of merits to online-education and Udacity seems to have the right general idea. On-line education needs to be more engaging and entertaining than simply videos and online collaboration.

However, this whole "people need more skills" and "we need more jobs" meme feels like a losing fight with reality. In fact this push for increased human skills seems like it will only widen the gap between the uber skilled and the 99%. In our current economic model, this seems like increased pain for most of us.

IMHO it would be much better if we could stop this denial. We need to pivot our economic system towards a basic income model. I think a much better strategy would be for us to start focusing our best and brightest on full automation of our needs and basic wants so that we can provide most essential services to people with minimal human and resource cost.
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Well, New Town in Edinburgh was laid out on a grid in the 1760s. There are a few exceptions. :)
£440! Very cool but price is a bit high :(
Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
I can mention the ones I'm using on my Firefox for Android.

The most important, without which mobile web would be unusable for me are: uBlock Origin (AdBlock Plus also available) and HTTPS Everywhere.

I would also use NoScript, to completely block Javascript on websites I don't trust, but unfortunately the version for Firefox Mobile is not submitted to addons.mozilla.org and I don't trust extensions that aren't submitted there. Instead I've been using Ghostery lately, not sure what to think of it.

I was also using the LastPass Password Manager, until I migrated to my own solution. I also have Pocket Hits and the Wikipedia Panel for suggesting stuff to read. Because I'm a developer, many times I open JSON links from emails and for formatting, the JSONovich extension seems to work on my Android Firefox.
Looks nice! But I think I found a bug: In the static html demo with a small window (xs), the cells 4+5 and 11+12 have no white space between each other. Chromium 43.
Pay-as-you-go government: It’ll cost you
why so? it's a bubble inside a bubble. i know that feeling a bit, living in Switzerland now
Although true, I think headlines like this give a lot of people an impression that the First World won't suffer. Climate change over +2C will hit the U.S. hard, and the fact that other places are worse off won't be consolation. At the rate we're going, that's not future generations, it's many of today's working people at retirement age.

(For details, an excellent source is Six Degrees by Mark Lynas, who read 3000 peer-reviewed papers on the effects of climate change and summarized them, with extensive references.)
Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you get paid through Stripe
I cannot test it now, how is the latency? It sounds like the biggest problem you could have with this kind of technology.
The immediate mismatch is the alien nature of the parenthesis delimited s-expressions. My advice is that if you find yourself editing text as opposed to the structure of the s-exp or balancing parenthesis manually you are doing it wrong; Emacs has modes like paredit and smartparens to do it.

The next "culture shock", though I think this has lessened now due to other languages catching up, is the concept of closures, functions as values, and higher order functions.

Lisps also tend to be dynamically type so if that is not familiar to you then it will take some getting used to.

There are other high level concepts such has syntax abstractions (macros) but that can wait.

And Common Lisp has CLOS which is a different take, compared to the likes of C++ and Java, on Object Oriented programming.

As for what to do first; I am not really sure, depends on whether it's Racket or Common Lisp and a lot on what interests you. If you like doing small algorithmic problems such as the Euler Project then start there.

For Common Lisp there is Practical Common Lisp which is always a good primer.

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

And Learn Lisp the Hard Way (I am not familiar with it though)

http://learnlispthehardway.org/

For a Common Lisp implementation I would recommend SBCL if on Linux (your package manager should have it) and CCL on Windows or MacOS.

SBCL: http://www.sbcl.org/

CCL: http://ccl.clozure.com/

Also use quicklisp for grabbing Common Lisp projects, it's alot easier than doing it manually.

https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

This might also be useful:

http://eudoxia.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015/#specific-pr...

Someone else will have to give info on the Racket ecosystem I am not familiar with that.
low light performance is the (one of) holy grail of all camera manufacturers, and one of prime properties evaluated when new hardware arrives (be it lens or sensor).
don't expect any major breakthrough there, low hanging fruit has been covered looong time ago.
Looks really good.

I wonder if you can prevent the eInk screen from being updated. Updating the screen would wake the CPU out of a deep sleep state and consume more battery power.
I looked at some of the articles on this particular cartel. I didn't see evidence presented that employees of the cartel were compensated less than employees at other tech companies.

While there is no doubt there was an illegal cartel, I'm skeptical that it was an effective cartel.
Social Darwinism: Myth and Reality
Salsa clubs are full enough of balding dudes.
An Odd Couple: Did Economic Prosperity Lead to the Emergence of World Religions?
I have this with stackoverflow sometimes :p
I thought of that, too, but there is no need to be able to detect it from the other side of the earth. Timed depth charges and sensitive seismometers should be enough.

More ping pong balls also should work. The first few billion may get stuck along the ceiling of the cave, but if you drop enough, some will have to come out somewhere.
There are a couple of projects inspired by chebfun that are adding similar functions to other languages:

* https://github.com/ApproxFun/ApproxFun.jl (Julia)

* https://github.com/olivierverdier/pychebfun (Python)

* http://nines.cs.kuleuven.be/software/CHEBINT/ (Octave)
how about this one :)

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/77735c3ff0772609e9c...
Why is it greed if a walmart worker was being stiffed of a dollar an hour its just as bad as a sales guy losing 20% of a five figure bonus.
Consider me suitably humbled. Thanks for a great (the best?) RSS reader.

Much appreciation and thanks for the pointer!

My own project would involve segmenting common office doc formats for translation, saving translations to translation memory (in standard TMX format), attempting to match new segments with pre-translated and perhaps later integrate some project co-working/server functionality. All a little daunting, so all help, such as your pointer, is very welcome!
Yes, put all of the ones you feel comfortable talking about (being asked questions on) down.

If there's a manager that knows about MOOCs, they'll notice.

If there's a manager that doesn't know about MOOCs, they'll either gratefully receive a new thing to try, or will not care.

I don't see a downside.
Thanks, I'll take a look.
AWS S3 as a static data resource for PHP
If anyone is unaware, they've got some pretty good versions of MI 1 and 2 on the Apple App store. I played it on my iPad a couple of years ago, and it was great. The adventure format works really well on a tablet. You can even play with updated graphics or in classic mode. Easily worth the 10 bucks or however much it costed.
> Do you think the ruling classes are idiots?

Hey, hey now. The ruling class doesn't disproportionately influence/control the market. It's the magic fairy dust of the Free Market that keeps the Just World as it is. /s
It acted to suppress wages across the industry by reducing wage rises on moves.

Effectively its negativly skewing the salery distribution for every one - this is basic Stats 101.
I always wanted an e-ink phone, seems like a good idea, but £440 is quite far from an impulse buy as a second phone.
Machinima Settles FTC Charges That It Deceived Consumers with Endorsement Videos
Ah... Monkey Island. I have such fond memories of not just MI, but also other Lucasarts/Sierra adventure games like Day of the Tentacle, Sam&Max, Full Throttle, Willy Beamish, King's Quest, Space Quest, etc. I owe a large part (if not most!) of my English skills to these games.

Recently, I bought my daughter an old '99 ibook Clamshell on a yard sale. I upgraded the RAM and substituted the hard drive for a CompactFlash card. Most of these games are free downloads these days, so we spend hours playing them. Some of them look a bit aged, but generally they hold up pretty well. The experience is still as captivating as it was back then.
The rice farmers I met in Bihar, for instance, are now growing a new variety of flood-tolerant rice—nicknamed “scuba” rice—that can survive two weeks underwater.

Found this extremely interesting. Probably because, I was surprised by the thought that, this could be done
Instructable: Mini CNC Plotter – Arduino Based
Still the current generation of Sony A7 cameras produce some pretty damn usable results at both 6400 and 12800 ISO, allowing 1/1000 - 1/2000 second shutter time in 'normal' lighting conditions.
The Front-End Is... Well, More Than Most Appreciate
I like it! Can you include a link to uBlock Origin as well?

This being mostly rules that hide DOM elements by CSS I wonder if it works with uMatrix too. Last I checked uMatrix didn't seem to support hiding stuff in the DOM, only blocking resources.
Okay, but was compensation at cartel members actually lower than at other tech companies? And if they were, wouldn't that make cartel members vulnerable to poaching from non-members?

I just don't see how a cartel of 4 companies could possibly be effective across the tech industry.
Technically a push does not destroy heads in git either (that requires a gc), but contrary to mercurial "detached heads" are not visible by default, you have to explicitly go and hunt for them.
> Unions once explicitly took that position. A century ago, when Samuel Gompers was asked what he wanted for his union members, he answered "More".

What do companies want? Uh, more. It's not unreasonable to guess that all actors will look out for their own hide in matters like this.
"Tedious" was exactly what came to mind when I read it. That and "hilarious".
Oh boy. That's my weekend gone.
10x! Fixed
Once upon a time, when it was legal to pimp your wlan-router with dd-wrt [pdf]
Prefetching, preloading, prebrowsing
Shamus Young's Twenty-Sided Tale E-book
MI 1 & 2 support several lectures of the story.
Due to Guybrush inability to explain his real age and various weird occurrences, it can be read as a little kid snooping around a theme park. It explains why he has to think that hard before giving his age, why a tshirt would be a treasure given after vanquishing a sword-master, why some areas are closed off with modern looking out of order signs, etc.
It can also be read as a pirate in a weird weird world.

IIRC, the evil laugh of Le-Chuck and his read eyes were added just before the game shipped against Gilbert (and others) wishes.

Curse and subsequent games completely disregard this and quickly brush it off as another trick of LeChuck. This side of the story telling is then totally absent from the various MI sequels (I don't think there was much involvement from the original team in any of the sequels, Gilbert was briefly consulted for the last episodic game but that's it).

So if Gilbert were to make a new MI game, he would naturally like to take the story where he left it.
In my uBlock Origin I've found an option box (so it's easy). Just search for "Prebake" in options->filter of uBlock with Ctrl+f (or cmd+f on OS X).
Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business
Whatever happened to BERT and BERT-RPC?
Wow. So many armchair geologists, both here and in the comments on TFA. Do you really think people haven't already thought of a dozen reasons why GPS beacons/synthetic DNA/blah blah etc wouldn't work?

Should we get some geologists in to comment on your issue tracker and propose solutions for your bugs?

Ninja edit: https://xkcd.com/793/ applies to programmers, too
The main advantage of replicable science is that it forces authors to be very explicit about their datasets and all the steps that make up their data analysis pipeline.

A lot of computational analysis (at least in biology) is done by students with little background in CS and with no knowledge of version control or best practices. This leads to lots of results which are nearly impossible to reproduce because so many steps have just not been documented.

Being able to show a detailed reproduction, with high quality code that shows all the steps in detail is immensely valuable, and is also a great pedagogic tool for teaching grad students.

I hope it takes off and becomes widely used. Fingers crossed!

Disclaimer:
After Nicolas EuroSciPy talk I offered to help, and joined as a reviewer, so I'm obviously very biased.
Writing your first technology book
As phone subsidies go away there's going to be a lot more price pressure on mobile hardware vendors.
Couldn't get past Pak Pak first screen here.
Just get a Nexus or Sony. Vanilla Android is a much better experience. (or flash cyanogen)
SyntaxError: Unexpected use of reserved word 'let' in strict mode
> If innovation is about new and different, why would we want to be something that already exists?

Because you can follow the same successful approach to encouraging entrepreneurs, but innovate by producing companies that develop new products?

You might want to ape silicon valley because of the huge amount of employment and wealth it generates.

You don't have to be exactly the same as SV, but no reason not to be inspired by it, if you're looking to create a startup culture.
I don't mean to sound rude, but have you actually played Cities: Skylines?

Cities: Skylines, more than any other city simulator I've ever seen, drastically encourages public transit use. The game is made by developers that got their start designing european-style mass transit simulators - http://www.citiesinmotion2.com/ And with the exception of mixed-use zoning, everything your asking for they already have done / just finished, and heavily encourage, in the game.

>In these games public transportation options are limited

There's lots of public transit in the game (Busses, Trains, Subway). Each with custom tracks, bridges, tunnels, etc. And you can completely customize the exact lines and routes of busses and subways (literally down to how often each stop is hit, and in what order). There's also "unmanaged" / "privatized" mass transit (Ferries / Harbours and Airports).

The simulation is exceptionally forgiving about public transit too. People will always choose to take transit, if it's even remotely competitive with driving. People will wait for buses even if they are overwhelmingly overcrowded, etc.

> walkable public spaces such as pedestrian only streets and squares are not possible

This has existed since day one. Click "Parks/Greenery" -> "Paths". You can place paved pedestrian-only streets, or gravel pedestrian-only paths. You can elevate them over/under roads or build pedestrian-only bridges, for instance.

You could recreate nearly the entire Minneapolis walking/bicycle trail network with these tools. And the game rewards you for doing this. (Pedestrian-only walkways generate less noise than full roads do)

> Bike lanes do not exist

They're adding them this month (September, 2015) along with dedicated bus-only lanes - https://www.paradoxplaza.com/cities-skylines-after-dark
I can image something like this as part of a web authoring tool based on react / web components (polymer etc..)