skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That ... would be what MI5 is for. My objections only begin when law enforcement start getting access to spook grade data (which means I'd object to them sharing with the NSA, who're clearly rather permeable to law enforcement currently).
The fingerboard looks much shorter than on a standard violin. Maybe the materials can't support being cantilevered out over the body like a regular wooden fingerboard? If so, bummer... seems like it would have a pretty adverse effect on range, fingering options, etc.
What's wrong in running Ubuntu/Fedora in a VM, if you really interested in trying it out?
Dart has such a strange story.

When it started out it was completely uninteresting as a language and it's only selling feature was that it someday might find it's way in to browsers and that it compiles to JS.

Now that it's ditched the whole "replace JS in browser" the language has actually matured enough to the point where I would code in it outside of browser use case and the VM quality puts it in a unique performance/productivity spot. It is very much a hybrid of C# and Python in good ways with a decent package manager built in.

It's much more suitable to be viewed as a high performance Python replacement - unlike Go it's dynamically typed but offers optional static typing so the level of abstraction is much closer to Python - in fact I would argue that the static typing built in from start makes it more productive than python for project you need to scale up to multiple people.

But it was built by a VM team that knows how to get performance and knows the bottlenecks that prevent JS optimizations - so it's probably faster than V8 and the likes - not CPyhon level.

The VM/class library is small and embeddable which separates it from Java.

And finally the compile to browser was a design choice from the start so compile to JS is much simpler than existing languages (eg. Python/Java)

It's a great language for client side programming and it's usable in server side if you are already using it for client side and want same languages on both server and client.
Android development as of today is painful and application logic is complicated and bloated. Dart and Flutter may be a good option to current way of things.
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I'm reminded of something Sir Richard Branson once said, "there is always a market for the best in the world, and cheapest in the world". To me this quote implied quite a few things:

1) There isn't much of a chance being 'in the middle' of price and quality--you'll get beat by competition that focuses on price or on quality.

2) Business is harder at the price end because it's harder to maintain a competitive edge. At this end of the market there are diminishing returns when trying to keep your costs low. You're also at risk of 'technological leap frogging' from competitors who discover a way of doing things cheaper than you.

3) Margins are always going to be tight because there is a race to the bottom.

So, how does this relate to the article? Well I think Robo-Advice is on the 'cheap' end of the market and the solution for human advisers is to go up market.

In this market, economies of scale are based on the size of your clients' investment portfolio.

Sure there will be disruption but there will always be humans who want 'the best' and who will perceive robots to be inferior to humans. The challenge would be to market 'the human touch' as being better than a robot to maintain that perception to your target market.

I think this logic can be applied to most other industries facing the same robot vs human prospects.
And yet Atom starts instantly on my rMBP 2014 while PHPStorm takes a minute or so?
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And rural France.
I used to want to visit the UK, not so much anymore... when you find yourself mulling over how best to protect yourself in the same way you'd prep for attending something like defcon, it sort of loses its zeal.

Edit: wow, the downvotes are coming fast on this one, guess i found a nerve. needle
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So, are they reinventing haxe and openfl? From the description it kinda looks this way.
It's a custom UI framework, you will only need to use JNI to call system services which shouldn't be a bottleneck - rendering engine is written in C++ AFAIK and it then uses IPC to talk with it.
Apparently. Squatting instead of sitting is pretty common in some cultures. In Indonesia, for example. Friends went there for three years with their young kid, who has now turned into an expert squatter.

Pencak Silat has some movements that start from a squatting position (where Japanese martial arts might have them start from a kneeling position, for example).
Hold on... Economist wants both subscription fee and to serve 3rd party malware (a.k.a. ads) to me?
> So Google is officially making its stand as Dart being the future of Android (the Swift of Android?).

Where did you read that? They just provided a way to build Android apps with Dart (like you can with C# via Xamarin and other such frameworks).
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> why not switch to OS X or Linux

To non-Canonical Linux or FreeBSD/OpenBSD please.

OSX and Ubuntu spy and expose you too, although Windows is by far the biggest offender here.
Brace for the 133 years construction timelapse squeezed in under three minutes.

Thinking of it, that would also serve as a timelapse of photography technique itself.
>I'd take a pay cut to work at a place like that. Enjoying your work, feeling like you will be taken care of, and being able to grow and develop are huge "benefits" that aren't easy to find in many jobs.

So would I, but I've noticed that the only really reliable marker of how well you'll be treated is salary (compared to market average).

So it really only makes sense to chase the money.

It's almost always the employers that offer you concrete benefits, contractually enforced promises and cash that will end up taking care of you and treating you with respect anyway.

The companies that tout vague platitudes (good working environment, friendly coworkers, good work/life balance, no bullshit) above concrete benefits (pay, hours, holiday, free lunches) are usually the shittiest employers in that market.
Another attack that disabling javascript would have defeated.
The sample minimum (or maximum) is not an inherently unstable statistic. If there is sufficient density in the distribution near its minimum, the sample minimum can be quite robust. For example, consider that the maximum likelihood estimator for the upper bound of a uniform distribution is simply the sample maximum, and the minimum-variance unbiased estimator is also based on the sample maximum[1]. (This method was used by the Allies in World War 2 to estimate the total number of German tanks by sampling the serial numbers from destroyed tanks[2].)

Of course, a real thresholding process would not be perfect, so the lower bound of the distribution of accepted candidates would not be a perfect vertical cutoff as in the examples. Just like any process that adds additional variation to the data, this would reduce the statistical power. You could accept more bias in return for lower variance in your test by taking, say, the 5th percentile instead of the sample minimum as your test statistic. (You can think of the sample minimum as the zeroth percentile.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_distribution_%28contin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
The trick is not doing what you love (working on something you are passionate about) but loving what you do (being passionate about whatever you have to do). This idea is discussed in the following books

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion
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Of course none of this is true. But, of course, what is true is that those who sit at home and do nothing ensure that nothing changes.

Well done, you.
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For some reason the website fails to prominently mention the two defining characteristics: it's based on Dart and it uses its own widget implementation.

Honestly, between the use of a relatively exotic language of dubious quality with types that are "optional and unsound" (https://www.dartlang.org/articles/why-dart-types/), their custom widget implementation that who knows how well is going to work, and lack of web support, it doesn't seem very attractive.

React-native seems a much safer bet.
Did the Brazilian govt write off the $10M loan they gave Unitron?

It's a stark reminder that companies' success and failure depend a LOT on the govt's policies. One interesting example is India where many medicines have been forced out of IP restrictions, giving rise to a big generic drug manufacturing business. I wonder what will happen to these businesses (many are publicly trading companies) if the patents start getting enforced because of some pressure form US/EU.
The Cardova tech is very exiting and advancing fast. Today it's almost as easy as making a web app.

Your users need to hack their OS to be able to use your app though ... OS's need to find a way to contain apps that don't need full system access. Maybe by higher level user-mode so that apps need to ask for permission before using API's.
Something that's pretty big in American culture is celebrating whatever your non-American culture is. In many cases, if people couldn't claim to be 1/8 something, they'd feel left out.

When people tell you that, they're making small talk about their family. Don't ask them about the culture they're claiming to be from, ask them about their family.
Cult-like tactics seem to be increasingly common in business these days.

It seems to be a little more prevalent in Japan but it happens in the west too (Goldman Sachs allegedly uses them to great effect, for instance).
Here are two real-world (not hypothetical; a (self-employed) person I know actually has these) problems:

* The person needs to exchange forms in Word Documents with other people (agencies and public authorities) on a daily basis, and the exact formatting matters, so LibreOffice doesn't cut it.

* There is trade specific software for which there is no alternative (open source or paid), which the person couldn't replace with an alternative if there was one (because it's effectively agency mandated), and which only runs on Windows. (And to give you a sense of how special-purpose this is: it has it's own hardware VPN box which you have to put between your computer and the internet.)

So it's sad, but the requirement is not "at least as good as Windows" but "Windows".
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Ask HN: What do you use to organise your marketing efforts?
With online marketing today encapsulating everything from CRO to Facebook Ads, Content Marketing, UX, Analytics, SEO, EMail marketing etc I find it increasingly difficult to organize all the efforts.

What do you use?
MOAI has some nice features that make OpenGL-based path rendering interesting:

https://github.com/moai/moai-dev/blob/develop/samples/vector...
I'm really trying to finish one book (fiction), but I tend to fall asleep before finishing a chapter, :p. Mind you, I read billions of words a day (may be a slight exaggeration), and closing tabs when they're boring is common enough. Can't really do that with code though, I need to understand / write / finish those.

TL;DR as a software developer, I find my primary occupation is reading, and not just code. Secondary is typing. I should get a better keyboard.
How does this affect GPL?
Yeah, that's the kind of thing it can do. We've got demos of live-coding audio algorithms, for example, which is the same kind of process.
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It won't matter if you visit the UK. The UK law extends the rights of surveillance world-wide,

These laws comes in handy at times. As part of the "five eyes" spy agrement, UK and US are intentionally spying on one another's citizens and sharing the collected information with each other in order to circumvent restrictive domestic regulations on spying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
Yeah, that’s probably a major advantage of OS X over Linux; access to native versions of what the general populace would consider 'major' applications.

Edit: Well, the edit just done to the parent comment makes my comment mostly useless now. :P At the very least, speaking to the specific example of Word documents, I’m not aware of any features that current Windows Word has that Mac Word doesn’t (that would result formatting not carrying over perfectly).
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I think it's innocent enough, a country with a huge amount of semi-recent (within 2-3 generations) immigrants is bound to have a lot of people with a bit of mixed heritage, a number of which will be doing a bit of searching for some kind of cultural identity. An "oh really?" and maybe a polite question about which part of Germany their family is from, if they are still in contact with their German family etc will probably suffice.

However there's little excuse for "You're Scottish? Do you know my cousin Kenneth?" to which the appropriate response is "Ohhh Kenneth ... yeah everyone knows him. He's a real jerk" :)
IMO if you've got enough projects that get that kind of attention, it's time to do as any good manager should do, and delegate. Allow others to sift out pull requests and issues, pre-filter emails about the project, so you can do higher-level things (or just write code because you seem to prefer that over dealing with issues)
It is a legitimate, practical concern whether visiting somewhere will increase your risk of attacks on your devices and data. I was struck by a New York Times article from 2012, before organized governmental hacking was the topic of the day, setting out some of the precautions that people took.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/technology/electronic-secu...

This was particularly focused on hacking by China (something we in English-speaking countries had learned to hate and fear over the years), and I found it sad to learn that the same precautions can be appropriate for visiting liberal democracies.
Does it install Linux?
Seems to be a pretty common theme going on now, at least among the five eyes and any beholden countries.

The one thing that makes me (grimace) laugh is that with this level of surveillance, they seem to be either a) incredibly incompetent because of all the corruption, paedophilia and so on that seems to go unpunished/uncaught, or b) a tool used by people higher up the chain for other purposes.
Not really. The User facing side of unity is written in C#.

/me spins finger in the air...

This is like any other 'insert language here' mobile runtime with native bindings to the mobile apis (eg. camera, etc) and its own widget library.

Unity and kivy spring immediately to mind as examples of other ones. Hardly revolutionary.
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Yes, that is wrong. They have also released V8.
Just like cable TV? Just like any sports broadcaster that charge for tickets AND have billboards?

How long is it going to take people to realize that ads vs paid content is not an either/or proposition, and that we should get rid of any ad-supported economy?
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Cool. NASA is awesome again.
Remarkable climate change event caught on camera
Why are the world’s best loudspeakers so expensive?
I see so much misinformation about diseases that it makes me sad since the public is so misinformed.
Go to the website of Dr Perlmutter to get a list of scientific articles about treatment of autism:
http://www.drperlmutter.com/learn/studies/?study_tag=autism
In short: it is not genetic and treatments without horrible drugs already exist.
I never (all right, not never, but at least in the last five years) understood dualboot. Why not just run one OS as a master and then a VM in it?
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Mac Office is not the same as Windows Office.

It lacks the extended functionality (i.e. in Excel: PowerQuery/Pivot/Map, Inquiry) or for some reason doesn't work (Mac Excel does not work with psqlODBC - Windows Excel does).
my dear, you really have no clue about this world and its history, do you :)

go throw some rock on McDonald, that will save us all
I suspect it is hard to achieve the acoustics of an instrument traditionnaly made of wood with plastic.

Thinking of it, I don't remember hearing an instrument made out of plastic which sounded nice even though I'm a musician. I'm not saying it cannot be done, it is just not common for now.
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Not in the world I'm living in.

Windows-only software is far, far more common than Windows+Mac software.

(The software I'm talking about is Windows-only. I know you might mean Mac Office.)

PS: And because writing portable software, deploying and maintaining it is apparently hard, companies are now switching to web-based solutions. Yay :(
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The list of supported SRFI is here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/SRFI-Sup...
and the name SRFI means Scheme Request For Implementation, the process of managing them is explained there:
http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-process.html
Just what I was thinking.

What problem is this trying to solve?

The big draw of React-native is that I can reuse largely the same core code everywhere, and for the parts I can't (mobile UI), I'm at least working in a language that everyone on my team is familiar with, with the same pattern as elsewhere (react/flux).

This to me sits in a weird middle ground between RoboVM/Xamarin and Cordova, but has the benefits of neither (it uses a language that I'm not already familiar with, and doesn't give me access to native controls).

Am I being unfair? (Is there a killer feature here I'm not seeing, beyond being backed by Google?)
The website is looking cool. Anyone know which CMS Sam used? Guess?
But that's the thing. We're always attending something like Defcon ;) Surveillance is ubiquitous.
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> but all I wanted was the window snapping

If you still only want that, there's Better Snap Tool which is just the snap portion of BTT. https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?m...
It's very interesting. And what are the most suitable formulas we can use to measure how robust it is?
I've seen a (reasonably big) company that has deployed a Citrix VDI cluster exactly for this purpose - for MacOSX/Linux users to deal with both of problems you have listed, plus a third one:

* Legacy Intranet websites that only work in IE.
Hardware access and performance. It is only recently that the performance got OK-ish (through probably it is still not, if you feel that you have to get i7 6700K) and virtualizations started supporting PCI-Passthrough.

The setup is still not simple, your common dual-booter will not be able to setup it right, yet.
A kazoo comes pretty close
extremely disingenuous title. I'm an Icelander, and please note the following facts:

* This festival has very little to do with puffins, it just happens to take place in a location where they live. In fact, this is the first time I've ever seen the two tied together.

* There's nothing artistic about this festival, so don't even try to compare it to Burning Man - It's a drink-until-you-drop hillbilly event, with some unprotected sex and possibly some rape added on top, in a cold tent. Local media has always loved the festival, as they get to publish a mix of feel-good stories about how the people are having fun, followed by the current rape and assault count.

* Vestmannaeyjar is a windy little shithole island (sorry folk fra Vestmannaeyjum, en tetta er satt :) ... it's pretty, though.

If you like being drunk, in a tent, singing folk songs in a wet wool sweater while having sex with passed out drunk chicks, this is totally your scene.

PS: Puffins are bullshit to sell tourists. they only come up in the context of tourism. There's a very, very small set of people who eat or hunt puffin in iceland. Granted, a lot of that small subset lives in Vestmannaeyjar.

This has been a reality check from Iceland.
I'm intrigued here, since I can't personally empathize with your viewpoint. What makes state security services monitoring communications (pretty much like all countries) outweigh the desire to visit another country, experience it's culture, sights etc? For me, this would always outweigh anything else, other than actual physical safety - I'm deliberately not taking my dream holiday to travel Egypt, and have been for years now.
(FYI, UK citizen, in case anyone feels it's relevant)
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That's kind of double-standards for Apple. I can update JavaScript without approving, but I have to wait for days or weeks to update native app.
I can't help it: https://www.xkcd.com/743/
It works in SQLite now. I'll wait for the next release. Thanks!
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Maybe this is suprising to the HN crowd, but there are many people who would never want to move to OSX from Windows (or Linux). I had to use OSX for two years, the only compelling part of it is the proper *nix shell, other than that, it was very unconvenient (and slow) for me (on a top-end MBP).
Sure, it might work for big companies.

The person I'm talking about is self-employed and not, erm, technologically affine, so why not just stick with Windows?
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> so why not switch to OS X or Linux

For me : Autodesk Software, Silverlight video streams, Microsoft Office & Atmel Studio
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So they don't trust Microsoft enough to let them collect core dumps, but they trust Microsoft enough to let them run arbitrary code on their machine…?
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>in software development term they are bigger than Google and Apple combined .

I dunno. Since a couple of years, a lot went wrong for them

- Websearch (Bing usage must be abysmal)

- Webmail

- Mobile (I have lost track how many approaches failed over the years)

- Web-tech (IE, Silverlight, all the other proprietary extensions)

- Media sales (They had something for the Zune thingy, right?)

- Web ads

- Languages. Java is still around, JS likewise. The whole .NET ecosystem is kind of holding out, but nowhere exploding.

- Social web

I have a hard time believing their inclusion of SSH in 2015 is making a difference. The whole lot of younger coders I know are either on Mac, on Linux or on ChromeOS. No one wants to do Windows. Powershell is nice, but why learn it if you also work on Unix?

The ordinary user or enterprise desktop is their mainstay and I don't see that evaporating fast. Surface is making some inroads into the corporate tablet/laptop (laplet?) market. And their productivity suite seems healthy despite the design choices.

But that's it. Apple is eating the smartwatch market, the phone high-end, the tablet high-end, the ultrabook market. Android is slurping up the low-end to high-end phone market. Online productivity suites means Google. Search is Google. Media sales is Amazon/iTunes. Social web is Facebook/Twitter. New languages and frameworks come out of OSS or Google or Mozilla.
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Probably because the data is only used for intelligence / contra intelligence purposes and quiet rightly the plod (Police) are not allowed to go on fishing expeditions.
If by "solving" you mean "adding even more problems". It's a crutch at best and a nightmare at worst. Why would you ever prefer WinE over a native version?