skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the canals are still here, they weren't lost.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Venice,+Los+Angeles,+CA/@3...
Even in the short term, link rot can be so maddening. For example, does anyone know where to find the demo described in this article? https://www.unrealengine.com/news/epic-games-releases-epic-c...

Nevermind the technical challenges, there seems to be hardly a culture of this even mattering; other than for transferring page rank to the new location of pages for SEO purposes :/
Slack has seriously changed the way we work at my company and it's boosted our productivity by 100x.

Yes we had a IRC server for a while and no one was using it, so we always had to use emails for important communications.

You just got to try it to feel it. Some features on paper don't match with the experience of a product.

If you're worried about using it for large community projects (e.g OSS), then maybe IRC is still the better child for that particular audience, although there's already a couple of communities who have successfully moved to Slack entirely (Gopher comes to mind).
Maybe then this product isn't for you. Even that's a maybe. Fair to say it's needlessly discouraging.

Somebody made something, and is giving it out for free so that people can learn code, improve it or just use it. They haven't made the claim that this beats Slack today, but with a community of users and developers, it just might. Btw, it can be a success even if it doesn't fully outclass Slack.

Your comment is equally valid for the Linux kernel if it were 1991. Who would use a baby OS when they can get a well rounded commercial OS that crashes less often? Look at where we are now.
I think now the preference is to use night vision, IR sensors or the like and remain as concealed as possible.
A $1.5M Kickstarter Project Fails, Leaving Most Backers Without Their 3D Printer
It's a brand I've never understood at a valuation that seems completely insane. Generic designs that are more expensive (relative to the fast fashion bunch) and more difficult to buy (relative to comparable B&M chains).

Serious question: Does anyone know/is anyone a Bonobos enthusiast? I'm legitimately curious about their demographic, and what appeals to them about Bonobos that doesn't about JCrew/Club Monaco/Zara/Uniqlo/etc.
If this is life, in a life-as-we-know-it sense

It's much weirder than that; after all, there's been life on Earth for at least 3Bn years, but space-going life for only the past 57 of them! Stack it all up: if this is some sort of life-created megastructure then it's not just evidence of life, but of presumptively-multicellular tool-building life that can get off its planet and survive in an intensely hostile environment that it didn't coevolve with.

With an estimated 100Bn stars in our own galaxy alone, this would suggest we can expect to see on the order of a million interplanetary-capable life forms in the process of carrying out mega-engineering projects, and yet none of them have come calling on us? Fermi Paradox calls bullshit.
Using a UNIX shell on Windows has very few advantages, mainly just familiarity from those coming from a UNIX shell background. Although it is more verbose, PowerShell is quite good.

As for the terminal, the Windows default is pretty awful. It is nowhere close to iTerm in polish or functionality.
Actually, I want my clothes to be made by robots so that I can get a custom fit that exactly fits ME.

I'm a 6'3" American, not a 5'8" Italian. Therefore, I fit into almost nothing at places like Nieman Marcus, H&M, Zegna, etc.

My choices are solid white or solid blue in broadcloth. My other half just quit trying since every time she finds a gorgeous shirt it simply won't fit.

I would learn tailoring except I can't get the really nice fabrics. I have tried taking pictures of nice shirts and then trying to find the fabric. Everybody looks at me like I'm completely insane (effectively--if I'm not buying 10000 yards, I'm not worth talking to).

So, if Bonobos really wanted to up-end the business, instead of making clothing that makes you look like every other Wall Street douchebag, they should figure out how to construct one-off clothing in any appropriate available fabric in the world cost effectively.

Women would knife each other to guarantee that their dress is genuinely unique.
Learn basic HTML and CSS by 'hacking Elon Musk's business card'
Quoting http://json-schema.org/latest/json-schema-core.html:
"This Internet-Draft will expire on August 3, 2013."
Its package management is much better, since it uses pacman, although sometimes finding the right package is difficult.
There's also "friends": http://moose-team.github.io/friends/
I wonder how this compares to Rocket.Chat, another open-source alternative: https://rocket.chat/
Interesting. From my quick reading I can see why some would disagree with the usage.

Although, I also find it interesting that, apparently, in English law it refers to a nomadic person regardless of race or origin. Which is a use of "gypsy" that I was familiar with.
For sure it's a tax system problem, but in the usual case (where it was already taxed once in Canada) it makes sense not to double-tax child support.

AFAICT most of the money isn't spent here, it's parked here as a hedge in case something goes south in the home country, usually in real estate holdings. The biggest effect I can see is that housing in the city is too expensive for the locals now so families are being driven out into rural areas.
How to Manage a Tech Team Without Being a Tech Expert Yourself
Which countries / cities?
I don't get the Young Turks[1] reference. What do you mean?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks

edit: I assume that was a typo as it was edited to "young bucks" later.
> I'm constantly surprised by the casual racism displayed on DC's ubiquitous neighborhood mailing lists and discussion forums. But at this point maybe that says more about me than my neighbors :/

A general point that might apply to your situation (which I know nothing about): Speaking up can make a big difference. Human beings follow and get their ideas from the herd; if they see everyone making racists comments, they think it's the way to do things and join in. If they don't like it and see nobody else objecting (like you do), they assume they are alone and don't speak up. It's a self-reinforcing system.

If someone speaks up - respectfully and genuinely - then they greatly encourage others who feel the same and also they disrupt the idea that everyone shares these ideas; they show that there is an alternative. Even if the speaker gets some heat and little support at first, IME things often turn around (as long as they keep their cool). Many people just follow the herd without much thought; few are naturally hateful. At worst, the others who feel like you do won't feel as depressed about the state of humanity.
Astroturfing
I prefer using both depending on use case. Powershell for working with Windows Objects and terminal stuff that doesn't play as nicely with a POSIX like shell. Cygwin for everything else (git, bash, ssh, etc).

Cygwin is also much more than a shell (if comparing to powershell), so there's reason to have something like it beyond scripting.
> EDIT: Sorry, I know it's off-topic, but there's no other place to post it (that I know of).

Yeah, as annoying as it is to see hostile comments, it's also kind of annoying to see meta comments. I understand that meta comments are important for making the site better, but it distracts from the discussion on the articles themselves.

Perhaps a good solution would be to have a separate "meta" comments section for each posting. This would be similar to how wikipedia has a separate "discuss" section for each article. This would be a useful place to put comments like yours and mine, and moderators could even move comments over to the meta discussion to keep the main comment section on-topic. It would also be a good place to post title-change requests, and other moderation requests.

This would lower the prevalence of off-topic meta discussion, while also providing an appropriate venue for discussing important topics that make the site better in the long run.
For anyone interested, I taught myself the basics of celestial navigation a few years back after being interested in it for years. Something just feels right and maybe a bit primal about knowing where you are relative to the heavens.

I used the book http://smile.amazon.com/Celestial-Navigation-GPS-John-Karl/d... and really enjoyed it. Fun to do with kids too.

Edit: And the http://smile.amazon.com/Davis-Mark-3-Marine-Sextant/dp/B0014... makes a fine sextant to start with.
Data Infrastructure at IFTTT
Been using cmder for 2 years and I can't live without anymore, it's just a bunch of stuff together but it's great.
As I responded in the other post where I asked the question, under English law that is the definition of which is the version I was familiar with. Referring to nomadic person regardless of race or origin. I've never understood it to reference a particular race. Hence my confusion on why it would be a racist term. Derogatory I could understand, but not racist.
Please rein in your dismissiveness. It is not insane to consider the ways that men and women have advantages. I'm not trying to step into this argument on one side or the other, but this kind of mocking is unhelpful.

> Women are consistently and institutionally disadvantaged across the board. Why do so many men fail to understand this?

I think because it isn't true? Assuming 'across the board' means 'in every aggregate scenario', then there certainly are places where it's men who are consistently and institutionally disadvantaged (two classic examples are judicial sentencing and when a victim of domestic violence).

One can think that women are disadvantaged 'overall', if one wanted to construct a score-card, without believing that women are disadvantaged in every (aggregate) scenario.

In this particular scenario I think it makes sense to say "We wanted more female participation, so we introduced an incentive". This addresses a particular point, and people can argue about whether the goal (more women at high levels of chess) is worthwhile, but at least that doesn't turn the whole discussion into an 'us against them' mentality.

IOW: Please try to raise the level of debate.
Townhouse Warrior – Attention Deficit [rock] (2015)
Let's chat, Zulip, Kaiwa, Mattermost there are probably a hundred more.

Depending on the Scale, I'd personally go with an own Kaiwa Fork, backed by an Erlang MongooseIM Backend and LDAP.
I generally trust the FBI about as far as I can throw them, but given the history of what ISIS has done, and given that you seem to have legitimately made yourself a potential target, I'd say this sounds somewhat legitimate. In either case, always talk to a lawyer before talking to the police, and definitely take your personal safety seriously.

I don't know how you feel about guns, or even if you're eligible to own a gun in the US (not sure how citizenship status affects that). But if possible, you might considering purchasing a pistol and look into getting a concealed carry permit (if required in your state). If you do, get some training and take training seriously.

Short of a gun, spending some time studying a martial art could be beneficial. Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and/or Krav Maga might be good choices. Escrima could also be good... they put a lot of emphasis on "stick fighting" and you can certainly legally own a stick... and that may be more acceptable if you oppose guns on some kind of philosophical basis.
"Curiously, the actual use of the system resembled its name, which was intended to be spurious."

Names are important.
This is also why non-network based communication backups are important. HF radios, NVIS and Morse Code are very efficient and effective when network packets are not flowing.
I don't know. I kinda like the idea of public universities licensing their research and patents to raise money, and I think the public benefit there outweighs making the research public domain, by decreasing the amount of public funding needed, and/or lowering tuition.

I mean, let's be honest here, a patent like this is isn't particularly useful to the public because almost nobody outside of a few very large corporations can afford to implement it, and they stand to make a ton of money from it. The last thing Apple needs is publicly subsidized research.
Based on my (limited) experience in hot parts of the world people manage this by breaking their day up into two and take a long nap in the middle of the day.
Bikes aren't used for transport?
I'm really hoping they charge for a hosted option? It would make sense.
Making online dating a lot more female friendly
> I'd even suggest that a major reason why cars have supremacy at the moment is that they are more inclusive of people than bikes are.

This is mostly true because >>we make it true<<. You see plenty of older people, people with kids, kids themselves, etc. biking around in the Netherlands or Denmark. This is because they have good support for biking, such that people 8 - 80 can bike around town.

Plus, it's not like cars universally win at inclusiveness: They're less inclusive of the poor, for example, because they're vastly more expensive to own and operate than a bike. The poor who need a car because there's no good transit or biking options have to spend a huge % of their income on transportation.

> This redesigned city needs to make room for people who aren't 25 years old and single.

Honestly, it sounds like you just haven't been to any city with a high (15%+) bike modal share, because then you'd see how your assumptions are wrong. If you live in America, that's understandable, because we don't have any major cities like that. But they do exist, elsewhere in the world. Visiting Amsterdam or Copenhagen could be eye-opening.
Why? Massimo Dutti is in Canada, but it doesn't look like anyone of American brands in that space was "destroyed".
You need to go to Holland where you are average-sized.
Every XML parser I've seen is garbage on the performance side of things.

Personally I'm a fan of YAML for both being fast and human readable.
I'm not so sure deer doesn't kill (or at least injure) humans -- surely there must be many roadkill incidents in which humans are injured (as well as the deer)?
Ever had to deal with email deliverability issues? This alone is a very good reason to go with a hosted service. The self-hosted software looks good but I'd never touch that with a stick. There might be cases where regulation/privacy rules makes the self-hosted system useful/required but in all other cases, do yourself a favor and use a hosted service.
Backblaze Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q3 2015
That's really more an indictment of how little PASemi and Intrinsity sold for (in a world where WhatsApp sells for $20 billion).
I dunno about the metric you are judging volunteering on here. Do the people who don't volunteer and don't work have enough money to get to the place where they will provide the volunteering service.

As context and a little thought experiment:

I have just switched careers and have had to cut back on expenses to a bare minimum while I was learning the skills required to get a job in my desired field. I had decided not to work and focus 100% on learning. During this time I barely left the house and if I did I would walk, sometimes up to 10km, because I didn't have the money for even the train (food and rent come first). On the flip side my mother was a housewife while my dad worked (very traditional I know!) but she would volunteer in 3 different places because she could afford to (time and money).
>slide to unlock is brilliant

How? It's a digital slide bolt. They just digitized a simple mechanism that's been in use for hundreds of years.
There are many OSS alternatives to Slack. Some are clones and some are different approaches and many of them are quite good.

The thing these and all other similar efforts miss is the importance of network effects. Everyone uses Slack because everyone uses Slack.

The real problem that needs to be tackled is one layer down: providing an open, distributed alternative for authentication, identity management, and data interchange that is secure and robust enough to provide a backplane for things like this and that is easy enough for anyone to use that it can be pushed out to the mass market. I can't stress the last point enough. It must be stupid simple easy to use or it will fail. It also must offer a good and simple developer experience (DX) or it will fail. DX is part of UX. Things like XMPP are nightmares for devs and sysadmins and fail badly here.

This is a huge missing piece of the web.
Young turks is idiom to refer to usually young people who rebel against authority. I'm not sure it fits here.

Whippersnappers is perhaps a better fit.
The other language front-ends (C# and Oxygene, their Pascal-based language) are commercial products. IMO, making the Swift front-end free indefinitely wasn't a smart business move, because now any savvy developer will just use the Swift front-end and not have to pay anything.
Or he has his amateur radio license and is licensed to operate at higher power levels.

Even unlicensed, he has up to 25mw of power and 8.5db antennas (which with 25mw or less can give you upwards of a mile of clean signal), which may be sufficient. Hard to say.
I wondered about that, too. There's a worldwide ISM band at 5.725 to 5.875 GHz in which you can run radars. But he says he's sweeping from 5.2GHz to 6 GHz. That's a lot of spectrum to be using. There's lots of stuff in there, including satellite links and aeronautical radionavigation.

Here's a similar project which is in the 5.8 to 6 GHz range. With a little work, they could probably make it stay in the ISM band there. One big frustration of gigahertz RF work is that the test gear you need to see what's happening costs far more than the project. I tried to build a frequency-modulated LIDAR once, and ran into that.

[1] https://hackaday.io/project/1682-simple-low-cost-fmcw-radar
Show HN: Learn to code with JavaScript (French)
That's really weird. I didn't love (or even particularly like) the mouse when I used one, but it was at least functional. I wonder if the one you had was physically defective somehow?
and my 1st thought was about _the_ "strategic interface for
remote interactions" cough! move along citizen, nothing to see here...
>Export your critical data from SaaS services if you're business cannot exists without them

You know, my thinking on this has really changed. Consider how many relatively successful life-forms cannot exist without a very specific other species of life. It is also a good strategy to be flexible with your dependencies - but I think nature proves it's not required to survive and thrive.

Taking the long view, it's interesting to consider the possibility (which I'm sure has already happened multiple times in tech and elsewhere) when a company has absorbed it's dependency, and also when a dependency absorbs what was, at first, it's host, and successfully so.

The one thing that throws a monkey wrench into all of this is centralized human control, and a single mind is notoriously ephemeral, changing, and emotional. The CEO of your dependency might wake up one day from a terrible dream of humiliation and failure, and decide that he can't and won't just exist to serve his wretched, ungrateful customers in some insignificant and petty way, and will instead take a completely different path! (This risk is why greedy sociopaths make excellent corporate leaders: their drives are stable, predictable and unemotional, which makes them both competent and, ironically, safe.)
Tips and Tools for Optimising Haskell
Hi all,

I'm a French engineer/teacher in computer science and also the author of this newly created course. It's focused on would-be and beginner programmers, but I'm seeking advice from experienced JS devs in order to improve it, correct any mistakes or oversights, and make it as useful as possible.

It's in French, but I thought the HN community might have some useful feedback anyway. The HN staff is okay with me posting this - they're great!

The course is published on OpenClassrooms, probably France's largest online course provider. Visitors without an OC account are limited to 3 course pages views. If you don't have nor want an account, a workaround is to use a private browsing window, close it after you hit the limit, then open another one and continue. Rinse and repeat until you've seen the entire course. Sorry for the annoyance.

Feel free to use this thread to express your feelings and ideas about the course. You can also get in touch with me through my HN profile.

Thanks in advance!
XAML usually implies Windows.

WPF and/or WinRT and/or Universal Apps.
I think you're conflating "brilliant" with "obvious".

It's like if someone was called brilliant for suggesting that we should turn our phone screens off when they aren't in use to save battery. It's just the obvious solution, and patenting it and enforcing that patent is just meant to create obstacles for competitors.

Apple thinks it own the very idea of the smartphone. They even claimed they owned curved corners... It is nice to see them get a taste of their own medicine.

It would be great if they won, just so we could use the precedent to make them lose all of the asinine lawsuits they start.
SpaceX is 3d printing rocket engines, for one.
I wore a Bonobos suit in my wedding and had a great experience with them.

They have "Guide Shops" in many major cities[1] where you can go try on the clothes, talk to the sales associates and browse their collection in person.

After your ~30 min appointment is over, they email you a size reminder for everything you tried on (so you know that your suit top should be a 40R slim and your pants should be 32 straight cut and that you wear a slightly different size in their business shirts as compared to their casual ones or whatever). 20% off the first order as well meant I paid a very reasonable amount for a well-fitting suit that I was confident would fit without excessive tailoring.

The other options I was looking at either had poor-quality fabrics / seams, fit poorly, or were more expensive.

[1] - https://bonobos.com/guideshop
Sandwich Video is ridiculously prolific.
I've been waiting for a very long time for pact, looking forward to trying it when I get home.

All I really need is a terminal that, once I ssh to a *nix box, won't get in the way.
Our service allows friends to share accounts like HBO without sharing passwords
Lua is kinda awesome, though. Use it with plenty of common sense and it can be a very powerful tool.
I'm a huge bike transportation enthusiast, and I agree with you. You don't have to take a bike literally everywhere for it to be useful. Even in the US, people don't demand that they be allowed to drive through an indoor shopping mall.

That said, there's a ridiculous amount of room for improvement in terms of adding bike paths and protected bike lanes in the US. Getting more of those would result in a huge boom in biking.
This is Josh from artofmemory.com. If you get ghost images, try waiting longer between each use. You can have multiple memory palaces and rotate them to give each palace a rest after use. After some practice, it should come more easily. I haven't written a shopping list down in years.

There are more tips on the memory palace page (http://mt.artofmemory.com/wiki/Memory_Palace), and you can ask more questions in the forum.
Interesting legal point. We never declared war on "al Qaeda" since it's a ultimately just a logo and the combatants could be labeled criminals.
That's good to know, thanks :)
Although, for single dispatch, the S3 system of R is kinda hard to beat -- you just name your function print.myclass and you are done :)
Sounds like MITM to me
My view on that is that it simply maintains focus on the story instead of crappily-made-up fake gadgets that a lot of 90's to early 2000's movies did (take Mission to Mars as an appropriate example). Opinion of course, but I think it makes the whole thing feel more "real" to a modern audience.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7740336