skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest you use cheat code "full recovery" or "power overwhelming" or "the gathering", or finish this level is mission impossible
Does Apache OpenOffice fall under this category? Seems very much a candidate - that project is moribund.
>I'm not sure if the goal is solely to stop "truly bad guys" who want to bring down a plane from getting on it, but rather make a note of anyone who might be traveling under false pretenses for any number of reasons.

This is what I'm afraid of. Is travel on a plane now squarely reserved for the honest or those with nothing to hide? There are plenty of very legitimate reasons to travel under false pretenses, including it would seem, hiding from one's own government because of some irrational administrator who decides to use air travel restrictions to carry out a grudge. The restriction on travel, especially within the US as applied to US citizens is very disturbing as it represents a fundamental erosion of our freedoms. Take a look at this case as just one example:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/united-airlines-stops-...
It's not possible to lay an infant on its back if it's wearing a dumb onesie?
You might want to check out Alda aswell, Clojure based (like Overtone), released only a few days ago I believe.

http://daveyarwood.github.io/alda/2015/09/05/alda-a-manifest...
Several months ago, I compared musical languages, writing essentially the same thing in each one:

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/blog/2014/11/07/making-com...

I also wrote one myself:

http://paulbatchelor.github.io/proj/sporth
I'm reminded of the online coke machine: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt

I'm also (many times a day) reminded of some Douglas Adams bits.

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

And this (though you should read the full thing):

Another problem with the net is that it’s still ‘technology’, and ‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’ We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‘crash’ when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs...

So, since Douglas was writing (a) a lot more of us are operating in the 15-35 category where technology is cool and (b) a lot more of the stuff around us is technology in the sense that it doesn't quite work yet. It's become pretty much standard in startup-technology land to make the case that some technology "tick all the boxes," saving time, money and generally being ultilitarian and awesome. people who want to buy tecnology because its cool, play along. They need some way of justifying an internet-of-things coke machine, which they want because it's new and exciting.

Internet-of-things is still at the stage where we're throwing things against the wall. Most of it is not useful, or barely useful and the people who buy it, do so because they want to... for fun.

That doesn't mean none of it is useful or that some generally useless thing isn't useful for you, it just means you have a two legged chair.
The "gather" function is just not added into game by now, the code is not done, you can use cheat "show me the money" to easily get resources as much as you want.
Some software doesn't need a community. Unless it is a framework a lot of software can be relatively stable. For example, NaCl[1], arguably the best high performance cryptographic library, hasn't been updated since 2011.

[1]: http://nacl.cr.yp.to/index.html
"But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."

"Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman seems appropriate here.
Yes, to check cheat code list, you can check cheat.js by itself, they're all listed in switch~case expression
I'm with Namecheap. Basic service is good, but the site is often really slow.

I had a renewal time-out in the middle of a card verification last month - and that's really not something you want.
man his writing is very addictive.
I hope you'll post about his book once it's out!! With all the noise out there, I hope it gets some serious attention.
I don't use Mongo, but I don't see any competitive alternatives to node-pg.
I work at an ISP, we are starting to connect stuff at 40G (times 2 for redundancy) because we want a single machine to do more work.

Improving the kernel would greatly speed up many of our applications with no real downsides.

With 40G to the edge, we also need to be able to properly firewall/filter/and all that fun stuff the traffic!
Note they cite higher numbers as the current status than the Cloudfare article. In the LWN article it says "The kernel, today, can only forward something between 1M and 2M packets per core every second"

Also eg. http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2009_slides/LinuxCon2009_Jespe... from 6 years ago show forwarding at 4 Mpps.

(Forwarding is, of course, receiving AND sending instead of just receiving so these should translate to higher RX-only numbers.)
Check out the StarCraft AI competition if you need some ideas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8884694
I make games all the time for myself, sometimes using copyright protected images. But I can't share the source code or publish the game in Google Play if I do that.

If I want to share or publish, I have to use free stuff or make it myself. If I want to use copyright material and publish it, I need permission and a contract with the owner of the IP, a license or agreement of some sort to use their stuff.

All this applies to everyone, not just the US, if you want to do business. If it's just for fun that's fine but you can't distribute it in anyway, including github.
Letting people join the queue without having to stand in line seems like a better solution to me. E.g. make them take a number or use their smartphone tolet them know when their turn is.
I agree with you on everything except the smart onesie. If used intelligently it could be very useful. For example, if your kid's temperature drops every night and then they wake up then maybe they are cold. Or something.
EEVblog #751 – How to Debunk a Product (The Batteriser)
I'm going through that right now, and finding it incredibly good, but still fairly outdated. It was written for Java 6, while Java 7 and (especially) 8 have more or less re-written the language. All of the advice is still really great, but some of the items are workarounds for weaknesses in the language that have since been strengthened. I'm working through Java 8 in Action[0] in parallel, and it's been a good experience.

I've also been enjoying this Modern Java blog series, which is book-ish[1].

In a similar vein, I really enjoyed Effective Modern C++[2].

I think The Ruby Way[3] is still the best ruby book, and a new edition just came out earlier this year.

I'm looking for a good book about modern javascript if anyone has any suggestions.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20534354-java-8-in-actio...

[1]: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/01/modern-java/

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22800553-effective-moder...

[3]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4514.The_Ruby_Way
Quick summary: it's a treaty that requires all member states to enforce their own copyright laws for works produced in other member states, and also establishes a minimum set of rights and minimum term lengths.
Could someone explain better how they got breathable air? I didn't understand BBC's explanation.
Interesting things happen when you drag a country onto the poles.

More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection
I am using iwantmyname for .io domains. They are charging 59 USD per year. Gandi.net is charging $35 only! Will transfer the domain soon.. Thanks for the info!
Drag Greenland onto Australia or Mexico and watch how much it shrinks. Australia just swallows greenland.
be so good at this as to believe in your lies/stories you're telling

One of my favorite quips from the internet is:

All really good salesmen temporarily believe
whatever bullshit they are selling at the time.
It's kind of like method acting.

They're not lying if they believe it themselves!
An alternative tldr: spend your precious free time giving away your stuff for limited or (most likely) zero personal gain, and then make sure to spend even more time shepherding it afterwards, also for no gain (but possibly considerable frustration, no doubt from entitled jackasses like the author of this article).

Honestly, is this guy really suggesting that when you open-source some software, you should also create "an exciting video walkthrough" and a Slack channel? Seriously?
I've used Gandi, and they're ok. I can't tell if it's just my experience, or some weird issue with using American CCs with a French company, but I tend to have a lot of issues setting up automatic payment for renewal. It essentially means I have to manually pay every few months, which is annoying.
Writing a spec script is legally permissible, and is not a violation of copyright.

Distributing a spec script gets into fair use issues--submitting it to the show producers, or using it a sample to get a screenwriting gig are generally acceptable. Distributing it online generally crosses the boundary into non-permissible uses. (Meaning that it is an actionable copyright violation which the copyright owners could choose to pursue and would likely prevail in court.)
Some argue that Android is itself "a competitor that runs the same OS" - look how many UI/UX features are common to both.

"I'd also question whether every device sold by Samsung and the other "premium" Android developers you mention, could be considered "premium"."

Of course, they aren't. But one can deduce what has happened to sales of the high-end models from those manufacturers by comparing previous handset totals, and ASP (average selling price). Samsung has said that the S6 + S6 Edge sold about as many as last year's S5, which itself was a disappointment in sales compared to 2013's S4. ASPs have fallen (by my calculations from $350 in Q2 2014 to $317 in Q2 2015 for Samsung; from $331 to $319 for Sony; from $237 to $235 for LG [not much of a fall]; HTC from $388 to $237. Motorola/Lenovo isn't exactly comparable because it spans a takeover period.

(One can calculate the numbers from publicly available figures, but I can't point you to a specific place for them - I just looked them up.)

If ASPs are falling, then generally you can infer that fewer top-end phones are being sold. You can easily think up scenarios where that's not the case, but all the indicators are down: fewer phones, lower ASPs, lower revenues.

"Certainly there's a lot of Samsung devices that are aimed further downmarket than some of those from Xiaomi or Huawei (and vice versa)."

But that's always been the case, even before Xiaomi or Huawei were contenders. However before them, there were few choices for premium features as you can get cheaper from Xiaomi and Huawei and OnePlus and so on.

"And even within a single manufacturer, you've not presented any evidence to suggest that people haven't shifted from non-premium Samsung to premium Samsung."

I think you mean that the other way round? (From premium to non-premium.) I haven't presented that evidence because it's impossible to extract from the available data. You'd need a giant consumer panel, like that run by Kantar ComTech, to see those shifts. But we can say with clarity that the companies that used to define "premium Android" are selling fewer phones at the premium end - which is told through lower ASPs, revenues, handset sales and profits.

"(You could argue that would inevitably lead to higher profits, but I'm not sure that high profit is synonymous with "premium", so if that's the assumption then it's worth spelling out)."

Yes, it is generally my assumption - one I think is accepted more generally than just in smartphones - that premium products attract higher gross margins. Other things being equal, that should feed through to higher operating profits.
Most large-scale projects already involve automated liquid handling such as Tecan EVOs and Beckman Coulter BioMeks - these have been around for years.
"...wifi-enabled microcontroller for _$3_..." have been available (in volume) for, at least, a few years now. I'm not sure why, all of a sudden, this is such a promising solution on the most trivial of problems.

As an engineer in this industry, these companies often seem like carpetbaggers, attempting to enter niche markets they know little of, with a solution who's only merit is it's hype.
"My guess is that almost everyone reading this forum spends a shitload of money buying techno gadgets for reasons beyond "it saves me money.""

My guess would be that the HN reader is more discerning and sophisticated than that.

I am guessing that a lot of HN readers are considering questions like:

- how many different sources of data egress do I want in my home ? (as few as possible)

- how many different wireless network topologies should be running, and overlayed, on my home ? (perhaps zero, other than wifi and cellular)

- how fragile should my appliances be to things like DoS, firmware compatibility, licensing, network connectivity, etc. ? (not fragile at all)

Think of your current interactions with your printer. Think of how often that works flawlessly and how often it doesn't and think of the underlying business models and network models that make it so (god-damned) fragile and user-hostile. Now imagine everything works like this. That's the Internet of Things. I suspect many HN readers are quite wary of it ...
Not quite. There were no 64-bit PC's back then or even a quality PC workstation Unix.

Your alternatives were things like HP workstations or a DEC AlphaStation which were fairly cheap. Eventually apps started showing up on NT but they were garbage for quite a while.

Once Linux was available, along with the Pentium, we never bought another big-name Unix server except for some high-end database stuff.
I've used a similar setup to wrap RDP to allow employees to securely remotely access their office desktop. There is a market for someone willing to make this a turn-key replacement for Terminal Services.
> Where I see the real potential is using the native language of DAWs (digital audio workstation) like Protools, Ableton, and leveraging their native languages to write new scripts and library extensions for hardware.

Most of these DAWs are written in C/C++. In many cases, things are really closed down (looking at you ProTools), so its difficult/impossible to write extensions unless you intend to sell it commercially.

Renoise has a pretty good API in Lua for building plugins, which I thought was kind of neat.

Ableton has Max4Live which I think counts for an extension language.

As far as "native" code goes, I've been working a library of high quality DSP modules that you can use to build plugins called Soundpipe:

http://www.github.com/PaulBatchelor/Soundpipe.git
Yeah, he's a good writer; the ones I've read breathe with life. And he's got a nice turn of snark too, low-key but pointed. I'm British, I appreciate that!
Thought it was either written by Russ Cox or it had something to do with Roosters. But seriously, it's more of a personal problem if someone can't make the minute mental leap to discriminate between cox and cocks-the name is perfectly fine and doesn't need to be changed.
I've been considering replacing my media PC with a Roku, so I'm curious why you would call them "empty plastic boxes" considering the Roku can stream from my local server and I block all outbound requests at my router (firewall). The advantage I see is the 5W power draw vs. my current 20W. I'm also unclear on what interoperability would mean for one of these devices. I don't think 2 Roku on the same network have any capacity to communicate either (maybe I'm wrong?).
This is an unfortunately common phone scam. https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/2952493?hl=en
Just don't use GoDaddy. Just NO. They've been way overcharging people forever, and their services suck.
The two registrars I'd recommend are Namecheap and Google Domains.

Yes, Namecheap's site is slow. But their support has been great and they're cheap. (also they have really cheap $1/year whois privacy)

Google Domains is nice too, almost everything is $12/year.
It's already an issue in academic labs that many studies are statistically underpowered. If academic labs blowing through millions each year are producing questionable results due to cost-cutting, then the limited budget of DIY labs is going to be a huge problem.
state.
as I said elsewhere in this HN thread, many of the first REPLs that appeared when Go was first released used this rather effective scheme of recompiling on the fly a single main.go file after each new input the user entered and re-running the whole thing.

nothing's wrong with that except that you accumulate side-effects:

gorepl> f := func() { launchMissiles(); fmt.Printf(">>> missiles launched\n") }
gorepl> f()
>>> missiles launched
gorepl> var a = 2
>>> missiles launched
gorepl> fmt.Printf("oops!\n")
>>> missiles launched
oops!

that's not the kind of REPL I want, and that's not what "my" REPL does (https://github.com/sbinet/igo) nor the one built on top of LLVM (llgoi: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llgo/trunk/cmd/llgoi/)
I'm pretty underwhelmed by the IoT myself, but I don't see what the author's goal is here.

Is it not obvious that if things are too expensive or not that useful, folks won't buy it?

Does the IoT really raise that many new issues concerning integration, usability, sustainability, and privacy? I haven't studied it, but my intuition is: not really.
It is restricted to US citizens only.
dyndns (dyn.com)
Jump hosts exist for a purpose.
Does Communism really claim to be "The One True System"? I thought the argument is that Communism is just the inevitability of Capitalism?
A Startup That Gives You Free WiFi Whenever You Throw Garbage in a Bin
Where do you think the capital has been going all this time?
The Unfair Truth About How Creative People Really Succeed
bluehost has worked for me quite well although it's not really the cheapest option.
You're right about the ads. I should say the entire functionality of the search product itself. As far as "opinion", while you might call it a stretch, it's still quite valid and true. There isn't any standard definition of "relevant".

As far as regulation, eh, I'd love (in a perverse way) to see what the EU comes up with. They could assign officers that get secret reports on algorithm changes. They could mandate that Google justify, in secret, every change, with scrutiny on anything that doesn't serve a clear purpose. They could make it a criminal offense to intentionally change results to skew elections. A government isn't just gonna shrug and go "oh well, trade secrets".

There's no way that Google wants more people thinking "monopoly" and "fair search results".
I don't see any problem with OSS code without a community. I've always thought of the freely available code online like a library full of books: nobody is reading 99% of them, but their availability is important for someone who wants to learn or find new ideas.
What if only the most popular code repos existed?
How much would you pay for content?

That is a completely different question than say...

How much would you pay for us to remove ads from our content, given you can go elsewhere for similar content?

It's not just a price-point issue, either. It is also a transactions costs issue. The old model of paying for one source of content has given way to the new model of forever being only a click away from switching content providers. Determining who gets paid what, enforcing that, and distributing the paycheck, that's basically not doable at the moment,,, except through ads.
I'm trying to imagine this in practice at the local chain grocery store. I think what would happen is crowds of people would lurk at the ends of the aisles facing the registers. In fact, lines would form in the aisles, through which you would have to pass in FIFO order, until you'd earned the front slot that allows you to monitor the formal register lines.
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Awesome, and outstanding work! Very, very funny. I'd love to see what their team of writers could do with this, because it seems very close and would only get better.

Feedback: the only parts that seemed a little stilted and flat were around the licenses, but the payoff at the end made up for the setup. I'm having a hard time describing what I mean. About 85% of SV's humor comes from punching up at the egos, the money, the hubris, the skewed reality of a self-referential cloistered environment. About 15% is more gentle, knowing jabs at the characteristics that Richard and the engineers embody (social awkwardness, lack of skills necessary to survive in this environment, the monomaniacal pursuit of the right way of doing things).

The early license jokes seem to be more punching down--I picture all those licenses are earnest one-offs written by devs in their garages, and it's punching at their earnestness. When SV takes shots at individuals making IP, it's almost always because the founders are incompetent opportunists with bad ideas. Licenses can be bad, but it's better if they're institutionally bad.

It might benefit if the licenses are even more over the top, or are tied to entities or situations that are more mockable from a punch up standpoint. Like cynical open source licenses around software for mundane consumer hardware like refrigerators or blenders or a Furby which could create civil suit exposure for use cases people would normally do. Perhaps a bartender mixing a Raviga actually violates a Vitamix open source license. At his office, they tell the lawyer what they're trying to do--he cites a similar license he wrote for a Kickstarted pocket blender startup--Jian Yang tackled at the end when he brings the Ravigas back (by the kickstarter'd founder who was invited to the birthday party).
What are the other "domain[s] like .io"?
It seems to me that you are equating dislike for these organizations to dislike for those like yourself who do the work.

To this end, it feels like this produces internal noise. When I was reading the article, I picked up on the reproducible builds; the anti-government sentiment was at best a subtext to me. I feel it's good to have reproducible builds that are clean, regardless of who may be thwarted as a result (CIA, NSA, FBI, AWS, ISIS, malware vendors, adware vendors, whatever)
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