skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same memory as you, but after looking it up an hour ago, I'm willing to write that one off as a bit conspiracy-theorist. It seemed like it was in the context of upgrading their systems to track this sort of stuff.

Of course, as I type that out it sounds like a load of baloney.
Thanks for posting.
> They are decent reasons for improving cron. ;)

Or improve ones usage of cron.

In the end you are dealing with unix. Take a whole bunch of small dumb things and combine them to do large (seemingly) smart things.

If "you" want a single monolithic smart thing i guess you can always inquire at MIT about how their skynet project is coming along.

I find myself reminded of a line i often hear, and sometimes use, when a task needs clarification: "do as i think, not as i say".
How delightfully UNIXish.
The experimental build has support for user namespaces.
Yes! Using ResEdit to upgrade my ship and change game dialog was my intro to hex & tweaking programs. It was thrilling to find snippets of storylines I hadn't played yet and adding weapons like the forklift that I had never seen during real gameplay.
'"But that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey, things were a lot different then."

Well, yes, obviously, there had just been a massive leap forward in technology and industrialization, a booming economy fueling a wealth gap, temporarily course corrected by a financial panic "precipitated" by the failure of two overspeculating brokerage houses. There were also, simultaneously, great advances in progressive causes like worker's rights and food quality, all on the background of decreasing importance of religion among educated whites in favor of science. Not physics or chemistry, but evolution. Tabloids were incomprehensibly popular, partisan media the norm. A loosening of conventional morality manifested as bored promiscuity, female bisexuality, and a flood of new porn the likes of which never existed before.

"That does sound different. And awesome. What did their Millennial kids inherit, what did they experience over their adult lives, say 1929-1945?"

I totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960.'

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/how_does_the_shutdown...
Show HN: Tinder for amazon products
"Death is a mugs game" - http://i.imgur.com/FYU2AYt.jpg
Can you compare psychotic violence of heroin addicts versus meth addicts?

That's what I mean by harmful. Meth addicts are psychotically violent and are responsible for countless murders and attacks.

Heroin addicts get smacked out and unconscious. Perhaps dangerous to themselves.
...but considering that they only need to fall from an height of 258.88 feet to reach 88 miles per hours Marty most likely did made it to the future! Unfortunately he then died instantly by hitting the the bottom of the ravine once he arrived to 1985. :(
Much as I like OSFree, it will be a long time before they get something working that can run most OS/2 apps on it. I have been donating to open source operating systems like ReactOS and Haiku OS in hopes they would get past the alpha stage and get into beta testing and then release quality.

OS/2 Blue Lion is release quality or will be in the third quarter of 2016. It may not be open source but there are over 300 third party source code segments they use for OS/2 and each one of them has to be released from a commercial license to be used as open source. So making an open source OS/2 is going to be hard and take a long time.

I just want to see something challenge Windows 10 that isn't GNU/Linux or OSX and is release quality and not an alpha like ReactOS or Haiku OS.
So my wife lives in Chenzhou, which is a small inland 3rd/4th tier city by Chinese standards; we visit sometimes. Speculators will speculate, and there is a huge surplus of apartments as a result, with no hope anytime soon of really selling them off and putting them into use...new capital wasn't created, it was just sunk into these buildings. They won't create new capital until they are occupied, those people with jobs doing things to create value. Just building them doesn't create capital. It does create jobs for migrant workers, which I guess is the primary goal.

And the houses are poorly constructed concrete monstrosities, no central heating (I hate visiting in the winter). You just can't help but think they'll be torn down in 10 or 20 years before they are actually used. Even in Beijing, an apartment building built 5 years ago would be considered decrepit by western standards. I was looking for a new apartment to rent and came away thoroughly depressed...the prices were high sure, but there was nothing even close to what I wanted anyways. So I stayed put in my current flat, whose rent hasn't gone up in the 3 years I've been renting it.

Chinese urban infrastructure would love to have US urban infrastructure problems. Trains are wonderful, roads are great also if you want to cut down on 10-day long traffic jams. But they are nowhere near the states in terms of infrastructure, and much of it are white elephant projects that will never contribute to the economy in any meaningful way.
Cobble together, composeable, same diff, no?
> There are liveusb (for macbooks as well) - really encourage everyone to give it a spin without installing.

Live boot media has been fairly standard since at least 2003. Ubuntu has provided a Live boot image since at least 2004.

> This is the first distro with ... the new sat solver based package manager.

How does the new SAT solver-based package manager make things better?

Please be specific. The past several times I've asked you for specifics about your claims of the superiority of one tech or another, you've given me nothing but soundbites and equivocation.
Thanks for the detailed reply. I do like 1Pw - it is so very well thought out on mac and ios that I expected something similar on the android side too. Good to see it is being worked on and will hopefully become a first class app alongside your other apps.
I see your point better now, thanks for clarifying.

> When their primary financial incentive is user engagement to sell ads, I have a hard time believing that the latter doesn't influence the use of my data as much as the former.

I don't agree with it in case of Google. I may be mistaken, but my impression was that they sort of separate their products into two groups - the ad-related are earning the money, and then the money is spent on funding something else (like GMail), with little direct connection between the two groups. That is, products like GMail certainly help Google earn more money on ads, but are not themselves optimized for ad-related purposes.

> I think that machine learning has tremendous things to offer society, but I'm not sure I'm super excited about a company using smartish machines to pull meaning and context from my emails so that we can save some percentage of users 10 seconds when they reply to something.

I think you're seriously underestimating the potential for productivity gains here. Mobile use case is perfect for replying to e-mails, but mobile experience totally sucks. This service, if it works as advertised, will be probably saving not 10 seconds, but something like one minute per e-mail. That + friction reduction have enabling properties that make people do things they didn't before (e.g. I often don't reply to e-mails on a phone only because it's too slow, opting to browse Facebook instead), and aggregated that can help liberate a lot of time.
This is cool. And I just found out I had a reason to start using Firefox again.
I think you misunderstand me... I'm not making a judgement about the art produced with any device. The art of photography is only tangentially related to camera gear quality. I'm saying that comparing smartphone camera quality at the high end is an exercise in futility since these cameras are designed to be pretty good general purpose point and shoots, and they both clearly accomplish that.

Ultimately, smartphone cameras have very small sensors, so their "technical" performance (the pixel peeping I mentioned) is inherently inferior to that of larger format cameras.
The Standing Desk Is Over. Now You Can Work While Lying Down in a Dentist Chair
How does this compare / contrast with IPFS?
I'm a fairly recent convert to Fedora from Arch, and I don't think I'll ever go to another distro as long as they keep up the good work. I even suggest Fedora to anyone who wants to try out Linux because Fedora is easy to install, doesn't come with a bunch of extra stuff you don't need, dnf is a great package manager, and the default software is the latest stable version. Perfect for people just coming on board, I think.

I just downloaded 23 and it worked like a charm. I'm not sure how much this upgrade affects me, but it is nice to see how nothing was lost (maybe it is my illusion, but programs seem to load a bit faster?). Good job to everyone who commits to this project.

While I wish Fedora was a rolling release, I'm happy that the upgrade was easy and didn't take very long.
Lessons on Tackling 'Uberisation'
I don't see how that's significantly different than "missing".

If I can't feasibly track down the $100 bill you lent me last week, then it's "missing" even if I know I did something with it sometime and I have a pretty good idea that it's at my house. Or at work. Or maybe in my car. Or maybe I buried in the sand in Iraq. Or maybe I spent it on a pizza party. Who knows? All I know is that I did something with it and it's somewhere.

It's perfectly feasible for the military to track every expenditure from the top all the way down - the Army has the largest budget in the military, but even their budget is only about half that of Walmart, yet Walmart can very accurately track where their money goes. The military already has a very accurate supplier tracking system that tracks the manufacturing of every part used in every piece of military equipment, so it's not like they have no experience running databases or keeping track of paperwork.

If the military doesn't know where trillions of dollars went, how does it know that it even needs those trillions and that the money wasn't just wasted on frivolous items (like contractor kickbacks?)
Norway: photographs taken of the same places separated by long periods of time
Sleek Glass and Wood House Extension with Matching Swimming Pool
SpaceX seems to be testing engines again
I address this in answer to ant6n's comment.
It can't be an abbreviation as that refers to subtractions of letters existing in the word and I only count one 'm' in millions.

Yes it's pedantry and yes I understand that 'mm' is in someways a convention but it's a terrible one.
Engineers don't burn out because of "alerts [aren't] in a single place," but I don't blame PagerDuty for trying to say so.
A more accurate title should say "Someone in Pentagon knows exactly where they spend $800M but it is not for public knowledge"
Semantic Scholar uses AI to transform scientific search for computer scientists
Facebook Prods Users to Share a Bit More
First complete pictures of cells’ DNA-copying machinery
FWIW, it's possible to specify Swarm filters using Compose which Swarm can use to know it should colocate containers on the same node ("affinity"): https://github.com/docker/swarm/tree/master/scheduler/filter...
Abuse is indefensible
As someone that's followed workouts on my phone, I like the idea of using a tv a lot more. Nice!

Random, only kind of related thought: I've always wanted a workout app that customized things for the equipment I have available. Even bodyweight workouts frequently rely on a pull up bar, which I don't have when I'm traveling.
I was expecting a numbered list with a GIF for every point.
I'm disappointed, and should probably stop reading BuzzFeed
I understand folks getting upset because of either ~$800m worth of DoD incompetence or ~$800m of intelligence 'black budget' funds diversion.

But folks should not forget that the entire DoD spend in the 2015 federal budget was a mere $620.5b.

Compare that to Social Security + Medicare + Welfare. Those totaled $1,918.5b. That's 3x the entire Defense budget. That's where taxes are going.[1]

At least DoD has to field tanks and submarines and carriers. The other guys? They move money around for a living. Be more worried about the size and propensity for graft there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_States_federal_bud...
The best way to die? With awareness of the time, in a mixture of gases - 90% nitrogen and 8% oxygen or less.
KEVIN COOK AUSTIN: WORLD'S TOP DESTINATIONS
A much better bandaid is a screen protector that adds an invisible capacitive button next to your home button that will emulate a tap in the top corner. http://www.cultofmac.com/392560/smart-screen-protectors-give...
Thank you for submitting this. An interesting post in the same vein is Who by Very Slow Decay[1]. It's a freshly-minted doctor's view of death.

1. http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/
Unafraid.
Remaining must have gone in bribery which they cannot show on the books or to be show as agent charges :)
Hadn't thought of that! And considering that based on what I calculated in the post he goes off the edge at about 70mph, he probably needs way less that 258 feet right?
Are the only ways to sign up (in order to contribute) either facebook or google?
My version of that was parsing generated C++ code headers through Doxygen (XML format) and then writing up a Ruby script that would spit out generated C++, C#, and Java to expose the SOAP APIs we needed to do. It was fun, and I think the company is still using it, four years after I left.
It doesn't sound like there was a mechanism to vote "no" or object. I'm with you.
Fuel is a minuscule percentage of the cost of building and operating a nuclear reactor.

The cost of uranium is currently about $90/kg. Citing a previous poster, around 70 MT of uranium is used every year, which comes to about 6.3 G$, which comes to about 2.61 $/TWh. As per the NEI, the cost of nuclear energy is 108 $/TWh. At current prices, uranium accounts for 2.4% of the cost of producing nuclear energy.

Keeping the same profit margins under an increase of one order of magnitude of the price of uranium would mean increasing the price of nuclear energy by roughly 20%.
I'm sorry, I genuinely don't recall having a disagreement with you or anybody else here.

I'm fairly surprised at your tone, this comment was directed at the (predominantly) macbook community here. I haven't even mentioned one distro vs the other.. So in fact I'm now interested at what distro do you run.

Its always interesting to talk about a great desktop Linux experience.. Maybe on par with osx. I don't care which Linux as long as its some Linux. The sat solver based package manager was a very serious engineering effort, to resolve circular dependencies among packages, etc. That is also an interesting thought experiment for people who might not know about it. That's a feature that I believe is made redundant by static package managers like Click packages.

In fact, I will gladly argue with anybody on what I feel is the true future of Linux - desktop Android!!!
And it's still $600+ bil. I question the need for that much military spending. And in before, the "because jobs" argument. There are plenty of other opportunities to create jobs other than military spending. Fixing our infrastructure for instance.

Also, you aren't accounting for three letter agency spending...
If you think the only options in the world are ads or pay wall, you are oblivious. There are currently existing, wildly popular content sites using a different model than either of those.

Whether the tide is a good thing or not. It exists. You can ignore it but you can't avoid it.
5 Cool Things You May Not Know About Your Tape Measure
they didn't even try to write the software in-house

Shades of Triggertrap.

https://medium.com/triggertrap-playbook/how-a-half-million-d...
Regarding battery life TSMC vs. Samsung chips, the link given in the other article (http://browser.primatelabs.com/battery3/search?dir=desc&page...) seems quite conclusive -- sorting by score, ratings in both 6s+ and 6s are clearly dominated by TSMC (motherboards without an "m").

This is of course as Apple states a fairly narrow and not necessarily representative test; but if I ever decide to upgrade from my 5s to 6s, I think I know which one I would want :)

Now, I'm not quite sure upgrade would be a good idea -- 5s seems snappy enough, and size does bother me quite a bit. On the other hand, I just noticed claims improved water resistance -- http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/02/iphone-6s-waterproof -- that make me seriously consider getting one...
> But facing increasing pressure from Dell and the resurgence of Apple in the personal computer market, Gateway’s business stalled.

I watched a lot of people buy Gateway systems from the mid 1990s to ~2004, it wasn't Dell or Apple that caused Gateway's business to stall - it was quality. The product got worse and worse. Gateway did themselves in.
Average DRAM Contract Price Sank Nearly 10% in Oct Due to Ongoing Supply Glut
Apple made the iPhone 6s nearly waterproof and didn't tell anyone
> Some modern translations are much, much better

Not that this issue is really closed for debate or anything...far from it
What about the new battery saving features and all in the new Marshmallow upgrade?

Also, Nexus 6P (with the usb 3.1 type C) can get fully charged in under 10 minutes. I've heard that it's possible to get days worth of usage with just like 8 or 9 minutes of charging. That sounds pretty nifty.
Yeah, taking a piping hot casserole dish out of the oven and placing it on a damp rag on my counter showed me this feature. Pretty terrifying at the time.
I still have my 1989 motherboard-- 386, 1 megabyte of RAM, 80MB hard drive... I remember booting it up for the first time and DOS reporting only 640K of memory and calling them up to wonder where the rest of it went. They were very nice about explaining it to me over the phone.

(...hah, I still have the letter confirming my order. "We welcome you as a Gateway 2000 customer and have a good day!" Nostalgia2k for the cow boxes!)
If only everyone knew how far off they were from reading anyone's mind though...these measures are indeed objective, but interpreting them still requires leaps of faith. If someone's heart rate drops during one of these sessions is it because they are bored, or relaxed? Their skin conductance, the things you see on their fingers, will be low in both of these situations. Good luck with the EEG - the best statistical algorithms in the world still can't to distinguish boredom from relaxation. Snake oil, dammit!...but phone me in as a private consultant for $1000 an hour and I might change my mind.
sounds like something that Dell did while taking private the Dell - the abstentions were changed from default "no" to just not counted at all.
Note that there's a lot of money spent beyond the DoD budget. As an example: http://www.pogo.org/our-work/straus-military-reform-project/...
The closest you get to a good, small Android is Sony's Xperia Z(1,3,5) Compact series. They're about 1 cm shorter than an iPhone 6/6S mainly because they don't have the home button, but that's still about 0.5 cm taller and 1 cm wider than a 4" iPhone.
> On an unrelated note, I really don't understand, why iOS 9 (actually iOS 7+) is so slow on iPhone 4S.

This bothers me a lot, and cynical as I am I suspect that this is on purpose and Apple's way to encourage people to upgrade to a new phone. My wife has a four years old MacBook Pro, which after two years inexplicably started to slow down more and more to the point where the most trivial tasks like opening a menu became a major pain. It is very hard to imagine legitimate reasons for why this should happen, especially since my wife installed a bunch of programs when the computer was new and since then did not change anything.
> Social Security + Medicare + Welfare. Those totaled $1,918.5b. That's 3x the entire Defense budget. That's where taxes are going.

Yeah, those other guys just pay old people's pensions and health insurance (that they're been saving up for), with the occasional helping of folks who would go hungry otherwise.
Are you saying that 30% of the social welfare budget is trivial?

Or that paying people to build tools of destruction+pollution is better that paying people to do nothing?
The numbers here are off by about two orders of magnitude on the cost of pumped hydro storage.
They want your browser history
no every time someone fav/hearts a tweet the creator of that tweet gets a message saying someone loves there tweet, if it was just a bookmark then they wouldn't get this
You'd have the elderly eat cat food.
A history of the Amiga (2007)
Your tone is ridiculous, can you give the commenter a break please?
I fail to see what one can different.

Public types are visible, which are the only ones that matter to the module user.

Many languages with modules support public and private comments as well.
And while I'm on a roll, I wonder why there isn't a bigger fuss made over corporate taxes for large businesses vs. income tax.

I don't get to take advantage of the Double Dutch etc. like a corporation would to pay much lower effective taxes. Sure seems like corporate personhood is has all the upside and none of the downside.
NY Fed's $40B Iraqi Money Trail
"Each unit lost to commercial short-term renting costs the city somewhere between $250,000 and $300,000 a piece"?!?! This makes absolutely no sense to me, and the linked slides don't make it any clearer.
I liked the "shroom mode" mouse option in one of the hack packs.

Trails, man....
Rough guide to Russia’s tech scene 2015
This is my understanding as well, hypoxia induced in this manner is a painless way to go. It even numbs your ability to think about your death.
I'd divert some of that military spending if it means we finally get single payer healthcare.

Basic healthcare can not and must not be for profit. It's crazy that it's not considered important enough to be a basic human right in 2015. Better healthcare for all also means less emergency room visits etc.
"Gmail telling you when it thinks you wanted to attach a file but forgot" is hardly unorthodox considering Outlook has had it for years. That said, the other experiments do seem very informal and fun.
As long as we're being pedantic, abbreviation does not refer strictly to "subtractions of letters existing in the word," it is any shortened form of a word or phrase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation (see especially the section on plural forms)

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abbreviation
Fedora's great! It's been my dev environment now for a couple years.
For me the large margins look weird. I understand that margins are usually larger in latex output than for example word document, because they try to keep a reasonable number of words in one line. But here, the page is not filled with text. It's almost painfully empty.
Are you denigrating the good middle-class Americans working honest jobs in our cat food manufacturing plants!?
I think this is an attempt to offset their skyrocketing delivery costs.

I don't think they're doing this because they have Apple retail store envy.

They've done the math and figured out that additional cost would be more than paid off through this means.
So many of us can identify with that, and so well stated!