skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no, it's another Snowden fan boy that see's him as the Second Coming with associated perfection rather than a mixed bag of a person. One that thinks we should never critique any idea he has because he did something one time. That's not logically justifiable but let's try that.

Reality check: Snowden is both a whistleblower and a traitor. Heroically leaked evidence of abuse in domestic collection. However, he also leaked all our specific capabilities we legally and with America's support used on foreign countries ranging from competitors to opponents. Even Snowden admitted the good those tools do... did... again opponents like China. No good reason to ne to blow all our capabilities and many assets while leaving cooperating and competing nations to do same stuff against us PLUS have moral high ground.

Did he do this for a great reason with a gain worth that loss? No, he said why he didnt take time to differentiate the files: he didn't want to be caught with them, interrogated, bear journalistic burden, etc. So he just dumped our unredacted, foreign ops onto foreign journalists to dodge that risk and burden. Went from hero to total coward when I learned this. No self-sacrificing patriot of U.S. would blow all legitimate, foreign activity to save his own ass. That's what he said, though.

So, far from infallible God, your beloved Snowden has a complex, moral situation. He seems like a principle-driven person who took enormous risk to get information the public needed to know. He then published that plus stuff he shouldn't... which public largely condemns him over... just to reduce chance of harm to him. Quite selfish and treasonous. So, I have mixed feelings about him while being greatful for good stuff he did. And so... "but Snowden said!"... does not a good argument make unless it's specific, NSA stuff. Try again.
Funny thing, I have created a few template languages (one of the first I created was used to build a local EU commission site and was programmed in ansi C because Java was not mature yet for web, this was time of Altavista for those who remember..) and the more I have seen and created them the more I tend to think that less is more.

IMHO the best templating language available widely at this moment is mustache (and/or handlebars) as it's almost as simple as it can get and that's the way it should be. Logic should be at code and templates should just render text given to them.
The title quote is badly chosen. It's not about being burned out - but about leaving being burned out behind him and winning the Nobel Prize ...
I think any alternative solution you come up with for whatever facet of localization, internationalization, and human language support you care about ... is going to be worse than: choosing decent Unicode-aware languages and libraries; choosing your own limited range of Unicode support.
I've just noticed that the linked iOS app -- https://github.com/rephorm/pass-ios#readme -- is no longer there. Not sure if it has a new home somewhere else.
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Facebook Bug That Made Mark Zuckerburg Quit His Job at Facebook
> But nevertheless, all user-space threading is cooperative.

Not necessarily. You can do user-space pre-emptive threading on any system that support pre-emptive signal handlers and that lets you mess around with the stack, particularly if you can generate signals from timers and/or IO operations (both of which you can with POSIX timers)
Sky TV Warn Customers of (Speculative Invoicing) Letters
Nothing crazy about doubting the moon landing with 1960s technology. Watch the Aulis production based on the book Dark Moon.
I'm still hoping the smart TV thing will turn out to be a brief fad, and we can all get back to just buying a dumb screen that other things can be plugged into.

The software on TVs I've experienced is universally awful, my parent's one is particularly bad - you can go and make a cup of coffee in the time it takes for the Netflix app to start. When I heard that I bought them a FireTV stick and haven't looked back.
It's ok, you can take the foil hat off. The broadcast from the moon was relayed live to TV stations across the world. The tapes they're talking about were just NASA's recordings of that direct broadcast. So there never was any opportunity for the tapes to be edited like that, because they didn't sit in the chain between the cameras on the moon and the broadcasts everyone saw on their TVs. Fortunately other news organisations (and probably governments) also taped the broadcast as well, hence we still have recordings available.

In fact, it was technologically impossible to record the entire live broadcast on a single tape because tapes with enough capacity didn't exist until many years later. Therefore a faked broadcast from tapes would have had visible transitions as they switched from tape to tape. These transitions would have been visible on the taped copies of the broadcast which the currently available recordings derive from.
http://ktamura.com/salary.html
Agree that coroutines are inherently non-preemptive and cooperative, but not all user-space threading is cooperative.
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You'd think an organization as important as NASA wouldn't have to worry about budget cuts year after year.
Of course you can always increase the font size. And OS X has better support for 4k than Windows; on Linux it's still pretty bad.

Since I run Linux, this was one of the factors for choosing a 34" display at 3440 x 1440 with a "normal" pixel density of 110 DPI.
You think that's bad? There are several episodes of the original Hartnell Dr. Who that were also erased for financial reasons, of which no copies exist at all. :(
Why does it imply a simulation? Perhaps it can be explained by an anthropic argument: Perhaps the kind of mechanics behind spacetime in which time evolution is computed in a stepwise manner depending on density are extraordinarily more likely because they somehow allow for much simpler mechanics (sets of laws with lower entropy are more likely to be the ones we find ourselves in, especially so if we assume that all non-physical sets of laws are realized as well, so that the impact of such a difference in entropy on the probabilties could be vast).
This Idea sounds interesting
Could he move to post-paid? WiFi calling is amazing in areas with bad reception. In the basement at my work, WiFi is the only way to go.
Glissando Illusion
Live update and rerandomization in Minix3
In reality we are never designing classes for a bookstore, shapes, or animals. Often times the problem is new and the classes go through an iterative lifecycle of design/refactor.

Book authors should spend more time thinking about examples. I see this in almost every oo book.
Woah.. I used to hang out near those guys 8 years ago (was a student there). I wish they would have teach us things like that. Great project !
MIT introduces the first cryotron (1957)
Great point. Reminds me of another issue: people who claim it's just about the malware are likely to be visiting arbitrary sites loading JS, etc from them. Plenty of malware risk there. Must be blocking ads for other, different reasons. ;)
I'm surprised there isn't a Rockbox for TVs yet.
According to this 2012 article, Dudley Allen Buck also worked with Ken Olsen (who later founded DEC) at MIT on the development of ferrite core memory in 1952.
Yeah, that's the gripe i have with pass - while it's probably safe(ish) to use, it's far from being as user friendly as lastpass.
That's so cool. Link to the product: http://goo.gl/T1km6m
I'll reiterate a point I believe to be true.

I don't think it's a case of the public not really caring about their privacy, I think it's a case of them not fully understandind exactly what data is collected on them and how it can be used nefariously by companies and by their government.

We in the tech field tend to have an above average knowledge of these things but Joe Public is very ignorant of it.

I believe if people knew exactly what was being collected and how profiles of their entire lives, their thoughts, their actions and their potential thoughts and actions, they would be a lot less happy about it.

The problem is educating people who probably already have enough shit to think about in their own lives and convincing them that this isn't all conspiracy theory.

It's a monumental task.
Right back at you though: I'd argue that the majority of people complaining about OCaml (or even the JVM) being unusable for them (and using Go instead) would actually be able to deal with it easily.
The beauty of Erlang became apparent to me when looking at a the structure of Google's Certificate Transparency structures.

There are C implementations with loops, gotos and memcpy()'s. In Erlang I could do this:

<<Version:8, LeafType:8, Timestamp:64, LogType:16,
ASNLen:24, Cert/binary>> = PemBin.
I agree. I'm only saying they take something while dodging all methods to compensate its creator(s). Quite a selfish choice which damages creators. There's other angles but isn't it odd that not one person (except me) admits to doing that? Like they're reframing it in their heads to be A Good Thing rather than some selfish benefits plus potential harm.
Hm, looks like the developer didn't have time to maintain it. Hardly any commits to github recently.
Monkey now offers HomeKit-enabled keyless entry for apartment dwellers
Yes you can. There might be considerable future value in the work done so far

Ah, the Winklevoss Gambit.
Science Hidden in Your Town Name: How place names encode ecological change
You'd think an organization as important as NASA would have chosen better which tapes were suitable to erase and which not.
Favorite factoid: one (discontinued) power source for pacemakers is evidently Pu-238.

http://osrp.lanl.gov/pacemakers.shtml
The main question is how hard would it be to install a proper Linux on this device. ChromeOS is useless.
Beautiful stuff, man. One of the more interesting questions I've seen asked in my casual hobby readings lately is: "Is the Universe quantized?" Meaning of course, is there a final limit to how small things get, and, with the passing of time, does it flow freely or pass in very tiny quantized periods?
Testinfra – test your infrastructure
I don't want to begin a flame, but I don't think Dr. Who is nearly as important as original tapes of the first men on the moon.
Awards of Source Code poetry 2015
Bower: building a community is hard
There are some projects making baby-steps but I'm not sure how far they got.

For Samsung TVs the SamyGO project can do some stuff - http://www.samygo.tv/ - but it's more about hacking the existing firmware than making an open replacement.
It's not too complex or expensive to manufacture or even design welders. But the problem is that the market is mostly B2B and thus dominated by "nobody got fired for buying XYZ" mentality of practically price-insensitive customers.
You hope? Why do you expect this to be a fad in the very end.

Oh I also think TV's should all be about we glamouring for the resolution. Seems 4K is here to win.
>It's amazing how the Physics world bifurcates into two camps: those who think that the connection between entanglement and measurement is common knowledge, and those who adamantly deny that it is true.

The fact that there are two legitimate camps means that no one knows for sure what is happening. And you are obviously in one of those camps. So to insist the world is a particular way is to deny how much is still unknown and acknowledged by others in the physics community.
" In science, prediction comes before explanation"

I'm going to be a little picky about your choice of language here.

It seems to me that, at least that your are predicting randomly, you can't possible make predictions with a good model, that is, a good explanation.
It depends on the content and the users' goals.

Pinterest is mainly focused on pictures and its users like to scroll at leisure through long lists, collecting items that catch their eye. On the other hand, G+ is more focused on reading single articles: notice an interesting headline, read the first few lines, click to read more.

This distinction between grazing for images and hunting for text articles is why lack of horizontal alignment makes Pinterest more enjoyable and G+ harder to use.
I had not seen this. It's not Microsoft throwing developers on maintaining Forge though or some official API, just a few templates. Seems to me more like a push to promote VS than Minecraft modding. Maybe a sign of good things to come.
Unfortunately the daemon model bites again: On a host running any docker containers with user-namespaces, you can't run containers with net or ipc from the host.
As someone with very little knowledge of encryption etc. please advise - how safe is dropbox? I would have guessed it would be a relatively frequent target for blackhats.
Can you think yourself into a different person?
Yup. Last time we had flood conditions, the list of closed streets was ... enlightening. Most of them translated to something like this: "Between Waters St.," "River Rd.," "Wetland St.," "$X Brook Rd.", "Wharf Ave." "Ponds Drive", "Canal Rd.", "Boatmen St."

Just because everyone has forgotten about the paved-over waters doesn't make them disappear.
Why do you think e author didn't understand the low end market? It sounded to me like the author was claiming the total cost of owning the phone was higher than other lots end phone. That there were more expensive phone existed with cheaper plans. And by more expensive I mean a few tens of dollars.
WeWork: The man on a mission to dominate Europe’s deskspace
How do you fund R&D in such a market?
Canonical Releases OpenStack Autopilot Open Source Cloud Management
The Shield Android TV has just had a price reduction to 179. After trying Chromeboxes, Chromecasts, and vanilla PC's, it's the closest to streaming nirvana - when it works.

The Shield TV runs Kodi as well as any PC. Nvidia's gaming ecosystem runs very well either from the cloud gaming grid or local PC. They deserve credit for taking the platform well beyond what Google could do with it.

However, my worry is that Google will abandon the Android TV OS in favor of Chromecasters and sticks and leave Nvidia to pick up where the Nexus Player has failed. The Android TV OS interface is simple enough, but there are glaring issues that continue to frustrate. Simple things like customizing the launcher are impossible. Also, there are persistent bugs at the OS level like a flakey ethernet driver and unreliable voice commands.
You see, this is the thing that kills me when thinking about the quantum world. The Many Worlds interpretation is so clean and obvious, except for one thing - it requires creating a new universe for each quantum entanglement event. Gah!

Of course that does make me think about forking processes and copy-on-write, and the idea that our reality is just a simulation in a computer and that maybe creating new universes is not as expensive as we might at first think...
I was being tongue-in-cheek, but we do have recordings of the lunar broadcasts and, as I explained elsewhere, there's nothing particularly special about the NASA tapes. They were essentially just VCR-ing the live broadcast the same as everyone else, although I suppose their recordings may have been tapped into the video stream earlier in the chain so perhaps of higher quality.
Requestbox: An Alternative to RequestBin, Powered by Phoenix and Elixir
Open+Social+Sharing+Widgets
The Birth of Monsters: Telescope pinpoints earliest giant galaxies
Ask HN: Which are the best headphones for less than 200€?
I have a budget of 200€ and I am looking for a headphones to avoid the noise in the office.

Ty!
I wrote a simple python script to blacklist bad domains for unbound https://github.com/khainebot/DNS-Unbound-Blocklist-Downloade...
I have been using Syncthing on my desktop machines to share my KeePass database between them.

My home server keeps a copy available via SFTP, which is accessible using the KeePass2Android app. That saves me the manual process of updating on my phone, allowing me to avoid using Syncthing, there, which would crush the battery.
I have severely cut back my usage of Facebook over the last 12 months. I forced myself to try to use it as much as some of my friends, a small subset of whom seem to use it obsessively to post trivial updates on their thoughts and actions dozens of times a day.

I just found myself annoyed by the sheer quantity of non-content, vacuous feel-good stories or images, links to click-bait articles or just outright ignorance and stupidity from people I wouldn't have otherwise suspected that about.

I removed my family and colleagues from my account a very long time ago. It very quickly became clear to me that having anyone like that on there was a grave mistake. Sure enough I was given some tired rants about how I was heartless to have removed them from my list ha ha. That's how seriously some people take this. It's bizarre to me. None of these people need to know anything about what I am doing socially with my friends.

I still have an account but I basically just check it once or twice a week for maybe less than a minute to see if I have any private messages or event invites. A few of my closer friends use Facebook messages as a primary method to organise meetups for board games or drinks and the like.

Since basically cutting down my usage to a few minutes every few days I can't say I've noticed any difference in my social life, but I've definitely noticed a decrease in the amount of inane rubbish my mind has to process from the News Feed.

I have maybe 180 people on the friends list and I'm starting to realise that I could quite happily go the rest of my life without speaking to perhaps 75% of them ever again. I'm not even sure why I accepted their friend requests in the first place. Maybe I was just caufght up in Facebook as a new experience initially.
Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets?
Show HN: Selffify – Take funny selfies expressing suggested emotions
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It's a simple and funny app to take 9 selfies, each one expressing a random suggested emotion and in the end the app will combine all selfies in a single photo to download or share it in the social networks.
All good. FWIW I have neither downvote rights on HN, nor insight into the way other HNers think - so it's all quite speculative.

WRT bluetooth peripherals -- I used to feel this way about mouse, keyboard, car, and in-one-ear headset. My position on all has changed 180° over the past year or two. Not so much the grandmother conundrum, but the performance/latency, bother to charge or replace batteries, and general swankiness.

For gaming apparently BT headsets (and presumably mouse/keyboard) are too laggy, but for workplace convenience it's hard to go past them. Buy your grandmother a spare set of batteries for the third drawer, and consider that my rinky little Logitech 2 x AAA mouse is running on original batteries some 14 months on. These things are amazingly power-conservative. And even just one less thing to plug in when setting up a laptop (I travel a fair bit) is hugely appreciated. I simply wouldn't countenance a return to a wired USB mouse now for business use. Similar experience with BT headsets, and in-car use -- difficult to consider not using that tech now.

MS may well be working towards this area -- it's not a novel idea, certainly, and I recall about fifteen years ago people touting the benefits of thin client workstations you could carry around with you. Unfortunately keyboards and screens had to be provided at the other end, and few workplaces considered this convenient (compared to, presumably, just issuing laptops to mobile users, outright declining a BYOD approach, and/or enforcing a SOE). It's all one big cycle.
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Large part of the cost is the tooling. The tooling to build a modern 12C is pretty much the same one would need to build the 10, 15 and 16 versions.

But they would be low volume items. Few engineers who grew up without them would adopt a pocket calculator. The 12C is still alive because, it would seem, finance people are very resistant to change.
> Why did you work on getting insurance

Yeah, why would you want to be insured ...
I really like the documentation. Kudos on the brevity and immediately understandable style.
I've seen a mod for controlling J2EE appservers from inside MC. I think it would be fun to start with, but lose its appeal after a while.

Most 2D interfaces are fairly poor. A 3D one would be just as bad.
Me too. Its sad that they feel the need to do this to appear relevant or trendy.
Agilent could choose to ship products without that functionality, but they make a business decision that it is cheaper to make many models with the same hardware, and differentiate them only by unlock codes/different firmware.

If you believe that you should be able to do what you want with physical items you own, any functionality included in a product you own should be fair game. If Agilent want differentiated products, perhaps they should sell products that are actually different.
There is also QTpass:
https://qtpass.org/
https://github.com/IJHack/qtpass
Eric S Raymond releases hardened, slimmer NTP beta
Extra dangerous electrocute-o-daptor with lamp test feature
I'm sorry but I disagree with most of your comment (with the exception that we concur that the muslim population needs to take responsibility for their own communities - through their religious leaders being more vocal about "fanatic" elements).

You seam to have a very rosy picture of the Ottoman empire.Without going into too much detail, most historians would agree that it was an aggressive expansionist empire with intolerance to non-islamic sects.

"The terrorists you see today would become terrorists in the name of Christ just as well." - This is patently absurd, at least in this century, and a horrendously apologist argument.

I would recommend reading several key articles illustrating the Saudi Wahabi link to ISIS and how its clear that this is an intrinsically Islamist problem: eg.

http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2014/11/wahhabism-...

Also, I'd advise reading Sam Harris's "Sleepwalking Toward Armageddon"

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/sleepwalking-toward-armag...
> We should have had a historian running around saying 'I don't care if you are ever going to use them -- we are going to keep them'

The really couldn't figure out by themselves that they shouldn't throw away the visual evidence of one of the most important events in human history?
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I don't see how that would work with length contraction and time dilation. A unit quantum length object in my frame of reference would have different length to one in a frame at motion relative to mine, and time for it would pass at different quantum clock ticks. I don't see how a universe like that could work when it came to interactions between moving particles.
I can't find the details now, but I'm sure I once saw an API provided by Maps on Android which allows any app to register itself as capable of providing directions or transit information.
Hello there, fellow Kazoo developer!