skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arch will definitely run on a Pi:

http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi

So will Win10 IOT core, Ubuntu, and several other things:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
Very true. Thanks for the correction.
Doesn't Go have the same thing?
> food is heavily regulated to ensure the health of the nation

Oh the irony.
If you want to be a leader and you say something silly, then you say it with conviction and you go with it. That's what a lot of modern leaders don't seem to understand. They duck and retreat when offended groups or the media go after them - and it looks feeble.

The media and those groups don't really matter.
Yes, the parent was talking about lacking power through the Pi's USB ports thus often requiring a powered USB hub.

My issue is with the Pi's use of micro USB for power, I'd rather it use a barrel connector, it's not like it doesn't have the space. Yes, I know the choice is based on the presumption that everyone already has a micro USB power adapter from a cell phone. The use of micro USB for power on this Pi Zero makes a lot more sense given the form factor.
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.
You work on the USS Enterprise?
MongooseIM is a fork of Ejabberd. One feature I liked about it when I had a look at it (that was while ago) that it had websockets support which Ejabberd didn't have back then.
The SWAT team likely rushed in, saw that there was no threat and then let the father go upstairs. And her account doesn't say if her father came up alone or not.
Right? But there are also plenty of computers with 512 MB of RAM lying around that you can get for free. And they're 'programmable' too.
Do you see some practical benefits of KnightOS or is it more just because we can and its fun? I mean is KnightOS equipped calculator really useful/convenient for something that vanilla TI is not?

In contrast the other open calculator project I know, WP34s, aims to create the best HP style calculator they can based on HP HW. Is your aspiration similarly to make a really good TI style calculator?
Google helps Waterloo's Velocity incubator to expand
Good point although remember that the (full size) Raspberry Pi has composite video output that can be used with the cheapest of TVs.

IMO the Raspberry Pi Zero is more of a reaction to the C.H.I.P $9 computer on Kickstarter and not a cheap computer for people who cant afford a full size Pi.
I think it is merely an effort to not give Intel the monopoly over Google's datacenters. Because otherwise, Google will not have any negotiating power regarding prices of the chips.
This submarine can launch a bomb more powerful than both WW's bombs combined
Empathy design: for people made of blood, feelings and needs
"More advanced health monitors used by insurers are coming, like embedded sensors in skin and clothes that detect stress and concentration. The markers of an early heart attack or dementia will be the same that correspond to an argument with a spouse or if an employee is dozing off at work.
No behavior will escape categorization—which will give us unprecedented superpowers to extend healthy life. Opting out of this tracking—if it is even possible—will mean an early death and extremely pricey health insurance for many."

The health aspects are a long way off. Maybe when they get to the point where they can predict a heart attact--I'm game for anything the wiz kids tell me to strip on, or swallow.

Until that day, I want my privacy.

I want to be able to control what sites, like Google does with my information--yea, I know it's not going to happen.

In the mean time, I can opt out of certain sites that brag about the information they own about you, like Facebook.

Right now people don't seem to care about privacy, but that will change. It probally won't change in certain countries, but I see a change, a small one, in the United States.
Been programming for over 30 years, I like syntax highlighting, along with good formatting.

I do say that there's good and bad highlighting, I will tweak the highlighting colors and appearance if I can, I find many highlighting schemes are more distracting than useful. And I' sure my preferences may not meld with others.
can't they just fix the mutator api and allow better low level support for realtime dom and css interaction?

that would enable defining virtual components in javascript using the standard dom+css for rendering, instead of locking an area of the page to be a unstylable code defined render target - we already got canvas for that
I always thought it stood for Transit
You can also add:

Lua: Roberto Ierusalimschy * Associate professor at PUC-Rio.

Tcl: John Ousterhout * Professor of computer science at Stanford (and professor of computer science at Berkeley when he invented Tcl).

Plus, Python's design was based on a teaching language (ABC) that was designed based on actual usability research.

And, of course, this does not even count the classics (LISP, Smalltalk, Scheme) whose authors have pretty impressive academic pedigrees and whose designs inspired many of the more recent languages (e.g., the influences of Smalltalk and LISP on Ruby are pretty obvious).
India: 500M mobile subscribers and growing the fastest
Actual readable version: http://sprunge.us/cFDM
If there is a user group, then purchasing together and dividing costs might make life a little easier. could be a fun base to work on for making more hardware available too.
Social Media Enabling Smart Decisions
gotta help this guy!
Unclear?
You have to enter in the setting and click a check box where it it clearly states that the pictures will be backed up.

But you're now changing the goalposts, facts are:

- There is no obligation of having a Google Plus account
- Picture backup is disabled until you opt in
- By default all the picture uploads are private
>LCD screens are like, $100

http://www.walmart.com/ip/41177602

>a mouse is $10-$20 new

http://www.walmart.com/search/?query=mouse&sort=price_low&ca...
I work as a software developer on a product that provides a remote desktop environment whose activity is recorded. This isn't the main business of the company I work for; they do contracting work and use this environment for auditing purposes. I mainly do JavaScript/HTML/CSS and some C/C++/Python work.

I neither like nor dislike my job. I like the people I work with, and I get to architect things and play with new technologies, but I'm not in love with my work. I accept that, I don't think I'd find any other work environment in this field to be that different.

Honestly, I was happier when I was serving coffee. My favourite job was when I was in the geophysics field and was sent all over the world on mapping projects. The mining/oil industry crashed though, and that's over for me unless I amp up my education. It wasn't the job itself I liked; it was being sent in these wonderful locations that I'd never get to travel to otherwise, free of charge.
This. I think a side-benefit is that it lets them evaluate alternatives to x86 on a larger scale, and that if anything, the effort will lead to more portable code.
For what it's worth, Diaspora kind of sucks at the moment but it's not gone. Federation works, so it will probably be a good while before the network of Pods gone entirely.
International ambitions in the Romanian tech recruitment scene
this feels about as charming as a stranger approaching with heavy insistence to show a magic trick no one wants to see
I didn't know Free Pascal had generics!
How have you relegated anyone who doesn't believe that supporting indiscriminate population growth with tech is always a good thing as 'cynical, inhuman and shortsighted'?

Parent noted that these technologies are a double edged sword, i.e., having strengths and weaknesses. Nobody is asking that we starve poor countries. Population regulation through resource scarcity is a natural phenomenon and should be allowed to happen. I'm not sure what's inhuman about this? Are we expected to treat people who don't yet exist in a humane way?

The fact of the matter is that the Earth is a finite place and resources are limited. Maybe there will come a time when we're space faring that it won't matter, but we seem a little far away from that goal.
rip you to pieces for a wrong shirt

Oh, there's plenty of small communities that will do that as well. Wrong football shirt, for example.
I'm kind of startled that this type of crime isn't prosecuted as attempted murder.

(If I go out and try to hire a hit-man to kill someone, that's how the prosecuting authorities would deal with me. If I try and trick someone else who is armed into killing someone for me? That's a very short step from paying an assassin -- there's just less money involved. That the armed someone in question is a SWAT team doesn't clearly change the nature of the interaction. QED: attempted murder.)
They could make great strides with less cost by ordering the boarding order. It seems some pattern of boarding window seats first, starting from the back and moving up, would be most efficient. Of course that breaks all the rules on frequent flier statuses, overhead space and such.

Once heard an anecdote about a marching band chartering an aircraft. Flight attendants were floored at the speed everyone was settled.
Reminds me of this concept for boarding trains in China where the train wouldn't even need to stop at the stations:

http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/12/this-propos...
Perhaps I'm misreading Berkson's Paradox but I'm not sure that explains all of it.

We know men engage in risk-seeking behaviors more-so than women, in aggregate. Couple that with teenage men/boys being more likely to be socially isolated and all the other factors associated with the adolescent/pubescent lifestage (hormones raging, identity issues, etc) - again, in aggregate - it's easy to see why you'd get more males than females engaging in this kind of behavior.
Why is Google so slow?
Is it just for , or does it seem like Google has slowed down a lot recently ? I am using a MacLaptop and when I search for stuff recently, 60% of the time, the website doesn't load at all. It just freezes at a certain point and doesn't proceed and I need to exit the site and reenter. Doesn't help if I switch to a different browser too ... Or is it because I am using a Mac laptop ?
More security through (literally) obscurity isn't exactly the best way to secure your network. Nobody will say "oh yeah, I'm sure nobody can see our Li-Fi lightbulbs so we won't put any encryption on the damn thing."--physical security is only a complement to software security.

Wi-Fi can and is plenty secure if you do it right.
> However, I'm not plugging any extra hardware into them...perhaps that's why I haven't run into problems?

Yes. Phone chargers provide plenty of power for the Pi itself, but once you add several USB devices like wifi/ethernet you'll need beefy ones.

But even that is normally not much of a problem, because (especially on the B+) each device has their own port. If you plug several into a hub, however, you'll quickly exceed the hub port's power rating. Hence the need for an active hub.
Of course toasters run ARM these days.
> Say most of the 10 grads use syntax colors in their daily work. This is likely to perturb the numbers.

Wouln't you say that is representative of the general programmer population?
> There's probably an even distribution of bad behavior between both men and women...

We're talking about sexual harassment, not just jerks or any old "bad behavior". There is not an even distribution of sexual harassment.

http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2011/03/1205ff7b-5b6c-40...

http://www.aware.org.sg/training/wsh-site/14-statistics/
SWAT is only called in when there is an imminent threat. The problem is that the swatters can make up whatever story they need to. There's no good way for the SWAT team to actually confirm the story without going in.
Thanks; trying to read that on my iPhone would have required a magnifying glass.
In my opinion, 'Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service’ is a lot more clear than 'DiagTrack'. In fact, it is so much more clear that I find the author's claim it is vague and misleading utterly disingenuous.

There is a legitimate criticism if Microsoft re-enabled the service after the renaming for users who had turned it off under the old name. But that doesn't fit the narrative arc of Microsoft malfeasance. Tech journalism shouldn't be a debate team exercise. When it is, there are no winners and everybody walks away dumber.
Yes, and this also eliminates the need to have "priority boarding", which is really just a way of ensuring that the frequent traveller customers don't end up without overhead space for their bags.
Custom elements / Web components are just normal HTML + CSS, not a different rendering method. The big difference is that their styling is isolated from that of the parent DOM.
College was before 2013 and I haven't looked at it since.
Wat, "the website doesn't load at all." Do you mean google or the websites you're trying to browse..?
I make coffee, drink it...
I also eat biscuits.
Sometimes they make me write some code, so we can buy more and better cakes.
This is only the morning, afternoon it's wine.
My official title is Developer, but I call myself "Responsable cuisine / employé du mois"

This is my first legal job, so I don't know if it's my favorite.
This I think would be a very nice improvement. It would be interesting to see what regulations prevent such a model. After all we are just Self Loading Freight; why rely on the passengers for any part of the logistics chain while shipping people between airports.
Please check the citations carefully.

The very first one I opened said,

> Funding sources: Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, The Beef Board, Kraft Foods, National Science Foundation (PI: Layman). Dr Layman has participated in speaker bureaus for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the National Dairy Council.

Another reported,

> Supported by a Medical Research grant from Meat and Livestock Australia.

Another said,

> Supported by the Dairy Farmers of Canada, The Dairy Research Institute

I am horrified some authors are brazen enough to report the following, and still be taken seriously,

> AA acts as consultant or member of advisory boards for The Global Dairy Platform, USA; McCain, USA; Pathway Genomics, USA; Dutch Beer Knowledge Institute, Netherlands; McCain, USA; McDonalds, USA.

Or how about,

> DP-J, EW, RDM, RRW, AA, and MW-P have received compensation for speaking/consulting engagements with The Beef Checkoff through the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. DP-J has received compensation for speaking engagements with the National Dairy Council. AA has received speaker's fees and/or research grants form the Danish Meat Council and Arla Foods and Campina. RDM has received speaker's fees from the National Dairy Council.

These disclosures of competing interests do not inspire confidence in the works.
bed is just some pieces of wood

Wood furniture is labour-intensive and therefore expensive. It has usually been cheap in North America, but that's not true of all times and places. I'm reminded of Boswell and Johnson coming to the highlands in the late 1700s and finding the country bare of trees. Also, bedding: woven textiles plus stuffing feathers (you can accumulate feathers, but again they have a value).

I agree that it's probably the cost of the bedroom more than the bed, though.
A small addition to noondip's reply:

"Clinical studies show no effects of soy protein or isoflavones on reproductive hormones in men: results of a meta-analysis."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19524224

Also you say that you have not seen enough studies to rule these out; what studies have you seen to make you believe they might be an issue?
Oh, I'm not consider myself a total jerk, but let me show you now some interesting examples of what we could call the gray 'pest business' area:

In the North of Spain the iberian subspecies of gray wolves are strictly protected but still can be legally culled in special cases. The wolf was extinct in the basque country about 1950 and after the law any recently extinct native species must to be reintroduced ASAP. For some strange reason this is translated as an active minory supported by the government killing actively any wolf daring to enter in the autonomous community, splitting effectively the normal distribution area of an endangered species in two northern subpopulations since them. The press often show photos of the local hero smiling with the killed animal because, as they remember us constantly, "wolves are vermin".

http://www.eldiario.es/norte/euskadi/inadmisible-sector-mino...

Now wild boar damages are so high and kill so many people in crash cars, that the same basque government is buying wolf urine with the hope to keep the boars out of the roads. Doing the less possible with the maximum money of the taxpayers.

Out of the basque country, wolf cubs and adults are also being culled systematically inside national parks. Yes, is a National Park and cattle have all priority over pests. Inside our particular northern yellowstone you can see domestic goats, sheeps, thousands and thousands of cows, and even roaming free pigs and chicken. We have also some old trees, zero saplings of three years, and I can guarantee that you will have a hard time finding an exposed grass of more than 6 mm high.

No one of the spanish National Parks is thinking seriously about to reintroducing the locally extinct wolves. No matter how high the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in wild boar and wild roe deer.

Scotland: No trees growing naturally. 100% sappling mortality unless barricated. European Lynx reintroduction is out of discussion; not even in isolated islands or as a single experiment. Blocked forever by the powerful "pest card" by farmers and hunters. If we could ask the scottish plants its definition of pest, they will probably say "sheeps, sheeps roaming free everywhere".

Cougars in Argentina: Kill it with fire. Yes, they are protected. Salmons and minkes in argentina: not pest; dollars. Free pass to all lakes and streams, even if some native species, err... sorry, native pests, will be extinct in the process.

(to be continued...)
I don't get it. People would still need to board into this pod thing and then they'd have to move the pod onto the plane and check to make sure it's secure and such. That seems like it would take even longer.

I suppose one could argue they can limit downtime for the rest of the aiplane by just popping in a new module and going, but there are lots of things going on that mean the aircraft needs some downtime on the ground: refueling, loading cargo, simple maintenance, preflight checks...

Not really clear what problem is being solved and seems to create lots of new problems (airports will also freak out... They hated the A380 and changes required to accommodate that bloated thing). Seems like the sort of thing companies patent because they have lots of lawyers sitting around looking for something to do rather that this actually being a meaningful innovation.
I did now, and the only relevant retort I saw to this specific claim was that it is possible to work around it by using cern.colt.map.OpenIntDoubleHashMap (third party) instead of java.util.HashMap. So someone has worked around the problem by creating an implementation for a specific value type, but as the author explains, that comes with a big loss of genericity compared to the .NET solution.
Current job: leading four-person, client-focused software development/design company. I'm the "managing partner" and spend ~80% of my time writing code/technical architecture and 20% on personnel/payroll/admin/marketing/etc.

I'm trying to take the best parts of a law firm (explicit focus on mentorship, got-your-back partnership mentality, treating people like skilled, autonomous professionals, good pay) and apply it to software dev. I expect a lot out of people but give them the tools and space necessary to get things done. We're going to build a product in 2016.

I have about 8 yrs experience as a working dev. Last job was at a startup that grew explosively but had massive tech/architecture problems of its own making. I wore a lot of hats at this place over 3 yrs including dev, ops eng/head of ops, and some product management on our API (we were a developer tools company) but ultimately got sick of shoveling shit behind repeated poor decisions made over many years. I was a founder before that for a company that had a small acquisition, and before that I worked at Microsoft for a while.

Favorite kinda depends on what you value. I get the most professional satisfaction out of my current job; we do things at a reasonable, sustainable pace, and don't have "crunch time". OTOH there's a thrill at "up and to the right" you get in venture tech that's hard to replicate. You'll probably make the most money in bigco tech, but if you save and invest well in your 20s, you can start to replace a lot of wage income with investment income pretty rapidly in your 30s.
Thanks for that reference. This is also very close to the true non-westernized definition of karma: evil is essentially a virus that spreads from perpetrator/teacher to victim/student. If the victim does not consciously decide to stop the disease, they go on to reenact it in the perpetrator role. Karma isn't a penalty for evil but a description of the cycle and how it is perpetuated; there is no penalty except continued eternal entrapment in the cycle.
Someone made this nice comparison over on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3uc55k/58_years_on/
I do that too! Sometimes it feels silly and a bit depressing to spend my days turning colored lights on and off, but at other times I think of it differently:

I'm writing in a number of languages that (apparently) many people cannot understand, let alone be fluent in. This language allows me to write things into existence, entire complex structures. In fact, within the bounds of the virtual (mostly), I can create pretty much anything I want!

As a child I created a game that my father actually got addicted to. I didn't need paper, pencils, scissors, or any other things that I'm not too good with. Just a computer and a knowledge of it's language (Object Pascal).

As a teenager, I created realistic environments that many people spent hours immersed in, sneaking, attacking, finding secrets, and whatnot. And while I did need a mouse and some special visual tools for that (UnrealEd and JkEdit), it also involved 'writing'.

And now, as an adult, I created my own tools for journalling and time tracking, etc., a number of 'online publication platforms', and even a few minor things that escape the bounds of the virtual. And all by writing in these special languages! It still feels like magic after all these years.

While sometimes I wish my work felt more 'real', like the tables a friend of mine 'hand-crafts', I still sometimes stop and marvel at what I can do with just a text editor and a laptop. And now more than ever before it's possible to create things that actually do stuff in the 'real' world. That might be my next big focus.

And I didn't even mention how all this makes me enough money to not worry about making money, or the fact that I have an amount of control over the results that I suspect many other people would envy.

I try to remind myself of that when I'm faced with some ridiculous CSS hack, a silly request from a client, or a weird bug hidden in the ridiculous amount of layers of abstraction at the basis of my day to day work.
The SparkFun ESP8266 Thing Dev Board [0] has a USB-to-serial so you can use a micro USB cable. They're obviously more expensive but ESP8266 breakout boards like SparkFun's Things and Adafruit's Huzzah are more breadboard-friendly an generally easier to work with.

[0] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13711
No I mean using the sort framework of Go. It takes several steps to set up a comparator function.

compared to list.sort(function(a,b){return comparisonResult}) that was very demotivating to me.