skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you run your devices without any care for all the background datamining, constant analytics, access to your PII, facebook social graph etc.? you oughta'be ashamed of yourself.
Can I install Arch on this?
Is there an alternative library with similar functionality that you use/recommend?
Cooking meat means our immune system has fewer bacteria to kill off once the meat has entered our bloodstream, thus it's less work for the same calories. Would antibiotics have a similar impact?

There was a recent study where one group of mice were fed raw meat, and another were fed cooked meat. The cooked meat group gained weight while the raw meat group lost weight.
In 20+ years of learning English I've heard it used several times to refer to an obvious question or lack of information

"$noun did $verb which resulted in $result and $result is $something interest which begs the question $question."
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So are the choices listed at the url below not going to be available in the future?

I always liked that there are choices of different sized images (.img not .iso), including xfce and especially the minimal "standard".

And also that the compressed kernel vmlinuz and ramdisk initrd are available separately for each.

Are these choices going to disappear? What are all those downstream projects going to use now?

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/webboo...
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That review sure didn't sound very positive lol
The real solution is to make a ntsc demodulator, combined with 61440 LEDs that get strobed by the signal. Problem solved.
Thanks, I found this to be very useful! I've been trying to learn about physical layer networking and been reading a communication systems textbook (the one by Haykin), and being able to visualize the different transformations on signals was super useful.

The section on FIR, IIR, and how to make high-pass and low-pass filters was also useful to me. I have a decent math background, so I'm finding one of the hardest parts of working through an intro communications textbook is figuring out the EE jargon (in-phase and quadrature, narrowband and wideband, etc).
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Well, the author says it helps 'mollify this malpractice', which I would take to mean it helps improve the readability of nesting functions. Mind you, the author says "incredibly", too, and I'm not sure how to take that.
Do you have any resources on doing this?
I recall that I held off on switching to Google from AltaVista because the former didn't initially support searching for multiple phrases using the OR operator (e.g., "first phrase" OR "second phrase"). Am I misremembering? If not, then Google was worse than AltaVista on day 1, day 2, and many days that followed.
Search the Goog for the article title to get the non-paywalled link
I strongly suspect the guy didn't actually read it, in spite of over-explaining that he did. Graeber stops in several places and carefully recaps in outline form the past several hundred pages to make sure you're following along.
>But don't you think it's redundantly tautological and circular/self-referential to approach it like "Fukuyama himself considered capitalist democracy to be the End of History, so it is the supreme progress/triumph (end of history?) to have that".

I had considered you to be asking about Fukuyama's views. In my views, history doesn't have an end, except possibly for everyone dying out.

>Besides, I was coming from a philosophical perspective to the point where the basis of the things transcend the transient notions;

The what now?

>how/why does having an oligarchy or a corporate tyranny or a state with social welfare somewhere at some point in time is any more significant than some predator somewhere making some species extinct or some big wave scattering across in the ocean a million year ago or after

It's significant to the people living through it! How's that supposed to not count as significant?
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Getting a new CC and wondering what people like about the ones they use.
I think the fact that he posted this on facebook gives us reason to believe this was intended for a very general audience. Yes, his criticism is not so far from mere insult. But it remains true that Ferguson's argument is laughable, and perhaps the author's frustration with its absurdity has leaked into his writing.

This is to say nothing about Europe's interests in preventing an influx of refugees, just that likening the West's conflict with Islamic extremists to the circumstances surrounding the fall of Rome is nonsense.
It can execute up to 20 million coroutines
and 50 million context switches per second.

Is entirely hardware dependent. Also seems to disregard the fact that certain other things are much easier in go than C.
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If you're not from my caste/religion, you're non-human to me; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_writings
At least from one report I read sometime ago, scientists in Los Alamos National Lab were looking at alternatives to Fortran for their future generations of climate models. C/C++ is under their radar. One reason for the switch is to better deal with unstructured grids. They are moving away from the traditional rectilinear grids. This is more in line with many FEM applications where C++ dominates.
So, yes, one of the above. Depends on how countries might negotiate and they can have rules and penalties for rule breaking, just like they do for most other things.

What I don't get is one the one hand it's too expensive for governments to do effective snooping (too much data to sift) but on the other hand trust would be broken because everyone could find anything... but governments would be incapable of finding information that same trust breaking information.

1. despots already leave their populations unfed, the world keeps on going.

2. commerce happened before encryption. There hasn't been good reliable and easy to use encryption till the last couple of years. it's not as if the world hadn't globalized despite that.

3. There are already a lot of rules which apply to international commerce, this add very little in comparison.

4. Govt's who want to share in this scheme agree to rules and penalties for breaking them.
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The real question is when they will release a socketed version. The disadvantages of the PCI-E form factor are somewhat mitigated by the on-board memory, but it would still be nicer to not have to program against them as an accelerator card.

EDIT: Looks like this is in the works already [0].

[0] - http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/25/more-knights-landing-...
For anyone confused/interested like I was, this is an ARM device.
Right. "Heart Disease" is a huge space of medical pathologies, from atherosclerosis to stenosis to cardiomyopathy to abnormal signal creation / propagation to so much more. Hoping to "cure" any one of these is a goal greater than even a giant pharma or major medical research institute would entertain, especially in just 5 years.

If creating the average new drug to merely treat a disease usually costs an experienced pharma between $2B and $6B, then $50M quite simply will not "cure heart disease". To suggest otherwise is akin to promising a miracle cure to a dying child's mother. It's either clueless or manipulative. Let's hope that foolish verbiage arose from careless reporting, and not from Google.
Yay, an example of a useful service!

21.co seems to be confusing the crap out of people, so I'm hoping that some examples of actual services will maybe cool out some of the more extreme criticisms. The whole marketplace for digital goods thing sounds great to me, I just don't know how they're going to make that $400 price tag tenable.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10578937
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Just saw this -
Thanks! For what it's worth, I think the team there does some really neat things with the doves. Not sure HN'll allow you to amend the post to include an INTERN keyword, but you should add it in subsequent whoishiring's. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10557793
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I am not surprised.
Liberal hand-wringing.
This is really dang cool. I started a similar project[0] but have tabled it for now, since I'm not sold on the usefulness of making C easier to use this way.

The way I see it, there are two ways to use a library like this that are worth considering: adapting existing projects, and starting new ones. In my opinion, the gains to be had from rearchitecting an existing project to use such a library are minimal, and for the vast majority new projects, C is not the best choice these days. If you want the performance of C with the programming style of Go, you can probably get away with just using Go!

That said, it's nice to see a polished, working implementation of this idea. Definitely something worth being aware of.

[0] https://github.com/aji/libco
Probably not easily, if at all. Additionally, it's ARM so you'd be limited to what's available in Arch Linux ARM. There's a Linux version of the very similar Intel Compute Stick for about $110 that you may be interested in.
Pity there's absolutely no documentation for any of it.
What good does responding to a laughable argument with a angry laughable argument do?

This fb post doesn't belong on HN.
Lyft looking to raise $500M in new funding at valuation of about $4B
Oh man, didn't see that metal surface bit before... I feel like they launched before they were entirely ready for it. The next gen of these devices might be pretty cool once you are able to sell/host your own services, however it seems like $400 is going to be a stretch for most people when it looks like a slightly modified raspberry pi.

Regardless, I'll be watching 21.co to see what all they end up doing with these things, if nothing else I'm intrigued.
We can't agree on what constitutes a good diet, or even basic things like how much red meat or sugar are unhealthy, or indeed if they are even unhealthy at all. And yet you believe that we fully understand the consequences of modifying plant DNA to add features like glyphosate resistance? The fact, is we don't understand the relationship between food, the human body, and good health.

I'm very afraid of our unscientific GMO processes.
Apple Brings Same-Day Delivery to New York Through Postmates Partnership
I'm trying to figure out what in the world people are going to use these for. Single-app kiosk? Sure, but that's gotta be a tiny market. TV streaming box? Maybe, but it's not clear to me that it really offers anything I care about that isn't already done by Chromecast/Roku.

I dunno. It's kind of a cool idea, but it feels like a solution in search of a problem.
Lol, that number is the main reason I'm so interested. Some very wealthy people seem to think that 21.co knows something that the rest of us don't.
Yeah, I think it's going to be a while before this is well developed. For now, it's kind of like an alpha/beta product as far as I can tell.
Perhaps this is relevant: meat in Argentina isn't aged. You never see it in marketing either... it would seem weird here. Cattle is trucked in to the city (a third of the country is in Buenos Aires), butchered here and sent out to carnicerias (butcher shops) that day. It's a common sight to see refrigerated boxtrucks with cow carcasses hanging in the back double parked outside markets/butchers/etc.
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So....what is that `choose` thing? Curious how that's implemented...
Yep, you gotta hand it to HackerNews. A company donates $50M towards a good cause that can save lives, and everyone takes a shit all over it. How did you spend your last 50 bucks?
>with insufficient PC-ness

As far as I can see, PC just replaces one form of prejudice with another - I would never encourage PC from anyone. However, tolerance of the tolerant and equal respect regardless of differences (which is NOT PC) is something I promote. Simply call him racist - pure and simple. Segregating one ethnicity/religion/gender is nothing short of prejudice (eg. the woman that runs she++ falls in the same boat ... she believes genders should be treated differently, that's PC and sexist. Read her comments on Forbes - she constantly draws lines between genders with stereotypes).

>it was the barbarians who ultimately sacked Rome and not a civil war that did them in.

I would view the collapse of Rome through corruption/apathy and barbarian attacks. If Rome had the finances to support an army, the hordes would have been far less of an issue. You can read more about it here,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empi...
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I doubt it. I only want to see relevant information on my UI. How is a 3D spatial representation relevant to the daily tasks of a sysadmin? The relationship between these two information spaces seems tenuous to me.
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The Power of Negative Thinking (re: exceptions and type theory)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10566776
The "if" keyword should have been "when" instead. It's useful in some cases, but rarely used.
It's the "incredibly" that is tripping people up on that statement, I suspect. I personally love the pipe operator in F#, and use the Clojure threading macros in much the same way - it removes nesting, and it makes logic flow more obvious
Elixir macros are compile time.
> Because of the rigid insistence on legal standing, the only way to curtail the FAA on this issue is to release a person who has displayed a tendency for mass violence.

You're seeing an interaction between two rather unintuitive rules.

Standing is required because legislature is supposed to make the law, not the courts. The courts only "make law" when they're forced to because there is already a "case or controversy" and it has to be decided under the law in effect when the events occurred, not whatever Congress might decide to pass tomorrow. Only then do the courts decide what the ambiguous, vague, contradictory text Congress passed actually means. Then that decision stands as precedent and effectively becomes the law until the legislature disagrees in the form of passing contrary legislation (or a constitutional amendment).

But the thing you're really objecting to is the exclusionary rule. Letting bad people go free is the mechanism by which the exclusionary rule operates, because it's something the police don't want, which means it can be used as punishment for the police when they break the rules.

The exclusionary rule is weird. When you see it in operation your instinct is to think that something is malfunctioning, but that's how it's supposed to work. You think it isn't working because you want the same thing as the police and its method of operation is to do something the police don't want.

The problem is the exclusionary rule does what it's designed to do surprisingly well in practice, and the alternatives don't.
I'm losing all respect for the Oxford dictionary, especially after 'literally' was redefined as 'figuratively'
They went to all the effort of getting it FCC certified and had injection molds made at considerable expense, this is the final product.

It's all about the miner! Which is useless.

It's all about the software! Which is closed source, and has no documentation.

You'll need one to develop with us! Why?

You can buy and sell services with our network! Only to other people who have $400 to drop on a Raspberry Pi.
My advice might sound unusual, but ... consider moving to another (smaller) city. I moved to Canada a few years ago and lived in Montreal and Toronto since then. Toronto is ridiculously hard for socializing. Ridiculously. People (especially below 40) are distant, reserved, sometimes passively aggressive (esp. girls) and even rude. At the same time my experience with Montreal was totally opposite and I made a few good connections in Montreal. I haven't lived in Ottawa but my impression from travels across Canada is that people are much nicer everywhere outside of Toronto.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10498193
I think there is a demographic of casual internet users who might be interested in this product. It's inexpensive and occupies little space, one need only provide peripherals and a monitor. It runs ChromeOS, which is reputed to be very secure (except from Google) and easy to use. Yes, the kiosk application seems of dubious value, if only because people tend to prefer touchscreen kiosks. But I don't believe you are correct that this solves no problem. Where before one might buy a $300 HP tower for one's grandmother, this product is a less expensive and possibly superior alternative.
My mom loves her chromebook, but uses it plugged in to a monitor, mouse and keyboard 100% of the time.

Remember WebTV? It seemed like they were pretty popular at one point, if perhaps not so profitable.
Could be useful for a conference room TV. Slides, hangouts video, demos, etc.
Imagine a skyscraper, each floor is a forest of docker cubes. Now imagine a massive Redstone engine managing them, not unlike one of the Minecraft GPUs.
At least by this definition - the one implied when A players 'manage the risk ofburnout' indicating that a critical part of being an A player is working enough hours that burnout is a risk.

If we take that away, the terms are as good as any, and I think it does a disservice to believe that all employees (sw engineers in this case, but in general I suspect) have equal capabilities.

In the context of my engineering experience, I consistently see ~4 strata. Not all levels may be present at a given company.

* Outstanding - has vision not only about how to do something, but why they need to be done in the first place. Open to helping others learn and improve. Has a way of being able to demonstrate that his or her plan for things is the best approach - and can accept when it's not. Is quick to learn both the internals of a system, and internalize the bird's-eye view of it as well. As such can design complex interactions between components.

* Excellent - just under 'outstanding'. This person gets things done with little direction, but gets lost in the weeds sometimes. Has a deep knowledge of the system and troubleshoots well. Can design key components of the system. Can often grow to 'outstanding' over time.

* Good - Needs direction to make the scope of problems clear. Can usually find a solution to a problem on his or her own - it may not be optimal, but you can be certain he or she will understand it thoroughly. Good troubleshooter. Can design small changes.

* Adequate - give them a spec and/or strict instructions, and they'll get the job done. Don't come to them for any deep understanding of the system - unless you have years to wait for that knowledge to seep in via osmosis or repetition.

Note that none of those mentions as criteria, "willing to go the extra mile", "works around the clock", and "buckles down and see crunch time through".

I think when you add those additional criteria is when you get into dehumanizing territory.
The Klan? The fedayeen?

I'm not really sure your criteria even fits ISIS, really. "Historic injustice" isn't their motivation.
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1) this line of argumentation seems like selective reasoning. For example, one could say, ok I need ajax. Let's use a `fetch` polyfill. Wait, you can't abort the request with it? Fine, XMLHttpRequest then. How do I take my object and serialize it to a querystring again? Oh, I need to change a HTTP header to make my server accept the request body as JSON? Should I just use jQuery? It's too overkill. What about Reqwest? Does it do what I need? Is it maintained? etc etc etc. Point is: you don't know what kind of costs you're going to incur, regardless of whether you're using a framework or not.

2) going off 1), one could come to the (obviously ridiculous) idea that AJAX is really hard. Or that frontend build systems are not worth the trouble (I actually see this "myth" in the wild, and people wasting time due to it). 60fps on mobile is really not a "competitive advantage", even if you're going into the hyper-saturated gaming market (and in that case, you really ought to be writing ObjC/Java if you care about speed at all). Competitive advantage is about creativity and relentlessly exploiting opportunities, it's rarely ever the case where an obscure piece of software trivia will make a huge difference.

3) frameworks exist on a spectrum: if your argument was true, one could just pick an obscure framework. But honestly, It strikes me as wishful thinking to suggest that framework choice is the primary driving factor for a product (that's why the role of product managers exist)

4) there's a very real and recognized constraint that affects all low level systems compared to higher-level abstractions: complexity. jQuery is a DSL for avoiding 10000+ LOC DOM API code. Virtual DOM (or any "retained mode" templating system) help avoid 10000+ LOC jQuery spaghetti. Component systems let you create more DSLs, etc, etc.

5) it is easier to add code than to remove it, and that's precisely why most systems in the wild have technical debt: organic growth. When you start from scratch, in my experience (especially w/ a team over a period of time), it can get pretty hard to untangle the various subsystem out of an organically grown codebase. We had this issue in my previous company: there was a monolythic architecture for a mission critical system, and the 10 year old Session class was essentially impossible to replace without breaking everything. Speaking from experience, frameworks actually make it easier to bail out because there are only so many idioms you need to expect, and code is more-or-less organized even if it is a shitstorm by any other metric. With non-framework code, you get to spend a lot of time evaluating for the umpteenth time why exactly foo is seemingly replaceable, but actually not without breaking bar, baz and quux.
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No tool support?

Kotlin and Ceylon both have very good IDE plug-ins that already work much better than Scala, despite Typesafe pouring a lot of money into their own plug-in.
Martin Sustrik, the author of libmill was also interviewed in FLOSS Weekly podcast a month ago - https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/358
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> abusive business practices

How is this abusive? It's market segmentation, and if they didn't do it this way, they'd do it some other way. This just allows them to have one standard set of hardware, and differentiate in software.
You can get a touch panel and put it over the screen. A lot of them just work with X server. Connect to the usb port and you're done.
I stopped reading the article there. :)
One possible reason is that Ferguson's words lent credibility to a social movement the author considers destructive. Even if the remarks were absurd in the context of the available evidence, few people will read further than to see they were written by a Harvard professor.
Eh, it's a version of their final product. If I remember right this is the gen2 chip already.
Agreed, this is pretty standard. One production run reduces cost and if you want the advanced features you pay more.
* Lazy init for non-unit-test use.

* No need to have 20 parameters in your init method signature.

* Imitates Cocoa standard practices re: delegates.

* Swift's optional binding makes it safe if you don't force-unwrap objects (and makes your code more robust to boot).
WebTV had a clunky UI and was limited to an SD TV screen. 1080p screens are pretty commonplace now. Turning your living room TV into a multi-use computer with a wireless mouse/trackpad unit (about 30 bucks) could be a good investment for some households.