skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Darnit, I wish I saw the email before I posted this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10549916

Do you have a reference for what license Fluke is available under or the others? The website gave one for OSKit but not Fluke. Additionally, I just found a GPL in /dist on FTP server but wasn't clear if that was GNU tools or Fluke, etc.

Clarifying on web site or FTP might help future researchers thinking of building on this stuff. It was landmark work for its time after all & still interesting. ;)
I don't think this is a realistic request on the modern web - particularly when it comes to JavaScript code, even if it's a technically accurate interpretation of how JS is transmitted and executed. (Licensing is an interesting thing to think about here.)

But hey, for what it's worth, every piece of JavaScript we run is free software compatible. Hooray! https://github.com/idno/known
I'm not sure how it could improve much. Without major changes to the language it'll be hard to reduce memory use much.

Tons of resources have been thrown at e.g. v8 to get us where we are today, but the biggest gains were years ago and the pace of performance improvement has slowed. There's only so much you can do with a highly dynamic, interpreted language.

[EDIT] as for being acceptable, ever looked at how much memory Slack or Atom or any of those other JS-on-the-Desktop applications use? It's insane. Batshit crazy. A Google Inbox tab? Nuts. And try keeping an eye on what they're doing to your laptop battery some time.
Parsing correct code is easy. Parsing broken code is really hard because they have no way to predict the mistakes people will make.
I'm at school in upstate NY. Venmo dominates here as well. It's doing pretty well, but honestly is an unimpressive product.
Over time, I've begun to take daringfireball reviews with a grain of salt. Despite having bought into the apple ecosphere, I don't think iPad Pro or any other product deserves as much appreciation as daringfireball reviews give.
Sure they are great pieces of technology, but the difference is not like it was between a dumbphone and an iPhone. The reviews are much more fanboy like than objective.
> Yes, if you trade in 28 countries then you should have to deal with the laws chosen by 28 different governments.

Except that increases the cost of doing business even further. The whole point of EU was increasing and simplifying trade and creating a open market so that Europe can be more competitive.
Absolutely true - but i imagine the conversation is:

"I want to send you money. Do you have an iPhone?" "Yes" "Okay, here's the money."

versus

"Do you have an iPhone?" "No" "Okay, download SquareVenmoPal and I'll send it to you".

There's a built-in audience for Apple Pay that might prove to be beneficial.
This is great! I would love to see similar functionality integrated into Dr. Racket.
How can Apple source laptop-sized 4:3 screens for the iPad Pro, when every laptop vendor has abandoned this high-productivity aspect ratio that offers more vertical real estate for text?
Very possible. Could be both.
That's irrelevant in our discussion. From a consumer or government point of view the revenue of each company doesn't matter. There's plenty of competition and consumers have choice.
Same here in Chrome v46. Downloading and reading via Adobe Reader works though.
> Oxygen seems a pretty safe chemical to inhale. Pretty good too.

Concentrated Oxygen can and will kill you, or cause severely negative effects[1]

It just goes to show how something seemingly mundane can have potentially devastating results when misunderstood.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-does-breathing-pure-oxygen-kill-yo...
Another happy Harp user here. The team behind Harp has also created Surge (http://surge.sh/) which is simple & well thought out.

I find that Harp and Surge get in the way the least, thanks to "convention over configuration". Just give me my Jade & Stylus, thank you very much.

I'd be interested in hearing how others use Harp with current tooling - React / CSS modules / JSPM anyone?
> What if there's an upper limit in performance, where gains get smaller and smaller with each generation? What if Intel is already hitting that ceiling and ARM isn't? What if in the next few years this will help ARM catch-up with Intel, while still having its chips cost much less? That would be a problem for Intel, no?

There's no polite way to put this, but you don't know much about the problem domain so speculating like this is entirely a waste of time.

The problem isn't the fairly minute differences between ARM and x86, the problem is that your transistor budget (and thus power budget) is largely spent trying to keep alive the myth that there exists a single thread of execution and that one instruction executes until it's done and that's when the next one starts.

I say that there are minor differences between x86 and ARM because compared to something like the Mill or a grid processor out of UT Austin (your data pipeline was physically routed between functional units on the die by a reconfigurable fabric) the differences seem minor. They both have the same underlying microcodes, the x86 front-end is just more complicated in some ways and simpler in others.
Even with Windows 10 and the latest Surface Pro 4, I don't think they're very usable as actual tablets. Virtually every time I see a Surface Pro, either in real life or even advertisements, it's being used as a laptop with the kickstand and keyboard attachment. You almost never see anybody use it as a tablet. This happens so much that it's actually hard to find a review of the SP4 that even shows what it's like to use as a tablet.

So while Windows 10 supports touch interaction, it's honestly not that great at it, and so far as I can tell nobody really uses it outside of content consumption. But by taking this approach, Microsoft skipped the massive step of needing to get new versions of all major software developed for a truly touch-centric interface.

The SP4 is also not nearly as good as a family device. It's much harder to use and is far more susceptible to user error.

Apple seems to be taking the opposite approach. They're taking a hit early on by building up everything from scratch for a touch interface, but their bet is that over the long-term the end result will be better.

I don't know which approach will pan out, of course. I suspect to begin with the iPad Pro will simply serve a more affluent segment of exactly the same demographic that the iPad has always served, but over time it might expand to more professional users as its software develops and begins to rival desktop software.
"It’s a dead platform walking" sounds awfully like it's on the precipice ready to collapse in the coming years. I can see more ARM devices encroaching on x86 territory, but completely taking over seems a little far fetched.
Have you built anything with it? I see that it's invite only at the moment. I signed up just to eventually tinker with it, as that's all I really do, but I like to try things out to see how they feel.
> I can't believe that lines like this are still being written.

Gruber is an unpaid Apple PR flack.
It's possible to increase Java VM heap and memory sizes to gain some performance if you have extra RAM, default values are set pretty low imo.
Are you sure it wasn't asking you to log in to your iCloud account if you where using iCloud to share your password data?
Lots and lots and LOTs of sectors are heavily regulated, which leads to rent seeking which leads to protectionism, either via foreign trade barriers or just making it bureaucratically difficult for competitors to enter (i.e. Uber getting flack from municipalities).

For a long time the rent-seeking was done by unions, but these days its more commonly done by corporations.
In the same breath you decried smokers for affecting your health and admitted to doing two things that contribute to air pollution that affects everyone's health.
Did you talk to him about this? It seems to me that if someone is creating unpleasant or distracting sensations (noise, smell, vibration, flashing lights, etc), the best thing to do is ask them to stop. Wanting to ban the annoying thing is a bit of an overreaction.

To use an analogy: Lots of people on public transportation annoy me by playing music out of their phone's speaker. At no point do I think, "Phones should be banned." I just ask them to turn off their music or use headphones.
Anatomy of a large Angular application
By Law, if you already own the stock (not just the option), you can demand to see the financial information of the private company. A few years ago, there was a story about an ex-googler who demanded and received access to Google financial information while Google was still private.
I see what you're getting at... I don't think you can create something musical by inverting an existing song, but as a strategy for creating new music, it seems like you could create really interesting sounds by playing all of the notes and changing the sound by removing some notes. It seems to be what's happening at about 2:04 in one of the songs linked to the article.

https://youtu.be/FfhDzEgYZug?t=2m4s
PayPal originally offered that, then dropped it. Is there a major business there?
They also upsell you on third-party accessories for your phone.
Fair question:) GHC binaries dynamically link certain C libraries, which must be present (and in the right version range) at runtime. This can cause trouble.

I'd be curious to hear if there's a convenient way to build an entirely statically linked GHC binary. I've searched around some but haven't found an easy answer yet.
When are you going to write us more amazing CPU explanations, Jon? :-) Thanks for all your great work over the years.

Gruber is clearly exaggerating a bit (x86 may not be on borrowed time, etc.), but there is something notable happening, which is that Apple’s (and everyone’s) ARM CPUs are getting fast enough to push into many applications where Intel previously had a big advantage.

Benchmarks aside, people can now edit video, render complex 3d scenes, analyze huge amounts of data, etc. on pocket computers with tiny power-efficient SOCs.

For consumer use, desktop workstations – and now even beefy laptops – are becoming a niche/specialist tool
I stopped using Windows years ago. Right now I have a Chromebook from Walmart that cost $150. I also put Debian on it with crouton. Blender works fine. The shell works great and I do my work in vim over ssh. WebGL games work. Youtube works.

Works great, does what I need it to, isn't a ripoff.

Also, I don't think anyone should use PCs or Macs because I am against fascism and elitism.
Silly thought experiment:

Police dogs are known for being trained to deliver false positives, i.e. saying "drugs" when the are no drugs. Couldn't STINGRAY et al be used to the same effect? I.e.: "the suspect showed a pattern predictive of child pornography" being used as a pretext for executing a warrant?

Where is this wrong? Is there any evidence in favor of this interpretation?
Glycerin, taken orally, has roughly the same LD50 as table salt from the MSDS I'm looking at (glycerin = 4090 mg/kg LD50 orally for mice versus 4000 mg/kg for table salt)[1][2], lest we start a panic.

Second-hand smoke is generally accepted as a bad thing, as is wood smoke, unsurprisingly. I've seen suggestions that wood smoke may be even worse simply on the merit that a great volume of nasty compounds are released, and the particulate material is substantially smaller (due to the higher combustion temperatures) and can enter more deeply into the lungs[3]. If it's a choice between cigarettes and someone sucking down glycerin vapors, I think I'd be much happier to accept the latter.

[1] http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9927350

[2] http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9927593

[3] http://www.ehhi.org/woodsmoke/health_effects.shtml
+1, I started with Jekyll for my personal site but quickly switched. Ultimately I found Middleman had much more functionality baked in, especially things like the ability to use a yaml file of projects to drive a portfolio page, or to fetch a series of release URLs from GitHub and include them on a page upon build. Probably all possible with Jekyll, but not as easily at the time. YMMV.
coops are run to make a profit - its just distributed more equitably amongst the members.
The article says they were charging meetings up to $30,000 for internet access alone. I'd guess it was probably profitable.
Is the iPad Pro as fast as a laptop?
If you're not going to use your IPO allocation I'd appreciate a PM with your token number.
I think the argument AlexandrB is making is: Compared to pollutants such as campfires and car exhaust, vaping is a rounding error. However much you care about banning vaping, you should care 1,000x more about limiting campfires or diesel engines. Even a tiny change in those would benefit public health vastly more than a vaping ban.
Was there a "transition" period for you at all? Did you find your self constantly checking (twitter, facebook, etc.) to manually check for notifications?
I have a short article that covers some similar topics. In the third paragraph I make a strong argument against materialism by examining consciousness.

http://www.gmw6.com/belief_through_reason.html
I've yet to try it but that's the downside that would slightly annoy me. Probably not enough to turn me off of it, but maybe. Would post-commit hooks and some kind of automation make it easier?
I've used skeleton A LOT for a quick and dirty responsive css framework. But unfortunately, the latest version doesn't support nested columns. A big disadvantage, IMO.
100% positive. I don't use iCloud to sync my password data.
People also seem to underestimate the performance difference. Sure, Go is around 20% slower than unoptimized C/C++ (at least, with a numerically heavy algorithmic trading library I use that I've ported to Go). But when I use a great C++ compiler that vectorizes and gives me hints to improve cache performance (eg; Intel's compiler) it's often 2-3x slower.

In a tight loop, you can't afford to have a gc or green-threads or a runtime for that matter. You want excellent cache performance, minimal context switching, and very predictable memory access patterns.

Manual memory management is here to stay.

Don't get me wrong, I love Go (for the right uses) but it's just never going to be a replacement for C/C++/Fortran for high performance code.
You couldn't be more wrong (about the grassroots). Use the google. Just to take one (random) example: the past decade has seen a swell of innovation in business models that make home solar affordable through pooling of capital, volume buying, long-term lease deals, etc. These are startups.
You can disable SMS fallback which makes it so those you iMessage with won't receive an SMS if the message doesn't work while preserving SMS capabilities with non-iMessage users.
> Maybe you can explain to me then how it is that this makes a significant difference in global warming. The carbon that is released by cows and humans after consumption of plant matter was derived from said plant matter. The carbon in those plants came from the air. Hence, this is a closed system where carbon is taken from the air by the plants, consumed by the animals, and then put back into the air by the animals. There cannot be a net gain of carbon from this.

Instead of the energy taken to grow those plants going to feed people - they are used to grow animals. This takes an enormous amount of input energy from farming the plants, to transporting them to the animals. Not forgetting water transport also. Then there is the energy that is taken to manage the huge sums of waste that these animals produce (most of which is stored in huge silos or pits, which ends up leaching into ground water - but that's another thing). Then there is the energy to transport, kill, transport, package, transport and eventually sell - so the energy / calorie of animal food is no where near efficient as it is for plants and beans. Basically, it is not a closed system - we input so much energy into sustaining our meat habit (as well as the ethical implications of killing 100,000,000-500,000,000 sentient animals a day - including fish and the resulting bycatch)

I think we agree when it comes to the impact of a solution - there needs to be a HUGE concerted effort to even make a dent - people can't immediately change the nature of the worlds largest companies - but I believe that our only hope is to promote local change (to get people to commit to a lifestyle change that has to happen one way or another) - and push for governmental reform - will it be perfect? no. Will it be easy? nope. But we have to start somewhere - and I think diet and local economies might be a good first step.
Where do you see these pull requests?
The NNSA Is Taking a Quantum Approach to Next-Gen Nuclear Security Applications
In Denmark we have two competing solutions. One is MobilePay, where you register your credit card and then you can make payments to contacts in your phone book which are also registered. It doesn't matter which bank you have. No fees, however there is a 2500 DKK limit of how much you can use and receive each day.
The other one is Swipp, which is a collaboration between all the small banks, which is integrated in their mobile banking apps, which kind of works as MobilePay, it is just tied directly to your account.
The MobilePay one is the most popular and stores have begun to accept that as payment as well, making it possible to use NFC or a QR code which you scan in the store when you check out. Some smaller stores just have a phone number you transfer money to. Works pretty well and has been for the past ~2 years.
No children was in box etc.. It was replacement for regular ticket, I guess it was cheaper. And comfort in 3th class was not much different.
Why you should think twice before sharing that cute animal video
Paris, maybe, but I'd be surprised if McDonald's loses money in Beijing. Their prices are high for that market and yet somehow they're always very busy.
Please don't call me names.

The thread is right there for everyone to see. Someone said nicotine has CVD impact. I said, so does caffeine. You responded that e-cigs impact bystanders. Well, they don't impact bystanders with CVD impact from nicotine, which is what the thread's about.

You then say, "they do", and provide 3 links, none of which support that argument with evidence. I point that out. You then flee to the abstraction of whether e-cigs are "safe".