skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I have to change my computer that I need to sync my iPhone with, and it's going to be very painful. Why? "

I have the opposite question for you - why is it painful?

Assuming you have a Mac, you just restore from a Time machine backup with Migration Assistant. A bit of massaging is required getting passwords reset, etc., and your new computer is basically identical to the old one. I just did this a couple of months ago moving my personal Macbook Pro account & apps to my family iMac.

On the other hand, the same applies for any iOS device if you're on iCloud. A few months back, a friend broke their phone badly on a trip, I wiped one of my phones and handed it to them to use. They restored their stuff in a couple of hours, and were productive again. When they returned it, I restored and had my old phone back identical to what it was in a couple of hours. Other than a couple of passwords and the endless series annoying taps when first initializing an iOS phone (this could be much better), there were no problems.

YMMV, but this stuff mostly works for me.
Facebook SDK for TvOS Now Available
s/no expert/completely wrong
What I don't get is why there's so little work on open flow batteries. Those should also scale with the size of your tank, but you'll need much smaller tanks.

But well, last time I looked at plugging anything into the grid, the inverting hardware was the cost bottleneck, so maybe that's why. I just don't really know it anymore.
China's rebalancing timetable
This future is already there !

https://plotagon.com/
If IETF members were all immature boys, the Internet (along with many other things) would probably be a lot worst than it is today.
Explanation: https://operational-transformation.github.io/

Code: https://operational-transformation.github.io/ot-for-javascri...
After reading the FAQ entry under "How will my donation be used", I have no idea what a donation would be used for. "In general, resources are dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Internet in ways that will benefit everyone." Extremely vague.
...and yet, despite what must be hundreds of thousands of calls or emails made by Yelp sales folk to businesses, nobody, to my knowledge, has ever produced a voicemail, telephone recording, or message containing a promise or threat to do anything other than what Yelp publicly offers to its paying customers[1].

I'm actually sure this has happened, since it's essentially impossible to prevent thousands of salespeople from deviating from an approved script when pushing hard for a sale, but surely it can't be commonplace.

[1] https://biz.yelp.com/support/full_service_advertising
They sell ads, including those that show up on your competitor's business page.
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It was never a concern, since I only use platform languages.

If the IDE doesn't matter it is usually because the platform doesn't matter anymore.
Certain languages are more difficult to master in the 4 quadrants that you refer to (read / write / speak / listen) - sometimes languages are much much more difficult to write than to read - it's important to keep those distinctions in mind when speaking about fluency in other languages because not all languages are like English / Roman / have an alphabet, and it's not fair to say someone is not "fluent" if they can't recall instantaneously how to write the thousands of characters that even a native-speaking child would be able to recall.

I'd say someone is fluent if they can perform and understand communications via the various aspects of language, but I don't think you need to be able to express each one.

(For example, being able to type Chinese on the computer via ping yin and fast computerized lookup is an expression of fluency, even though the person might not know how the stroke directions of the character would work if they had to write on paper unassisted)
In my experience, as a front-end developer, the usual reason I need a mess of divs and spans is to support a design that's not a good idea for a web page to begin with.
What I mean is that those axioms of conditional probability seem intuitively true because of their frequentist interpretation, i.e. counting the possible cases that satisfy each probability.

If you devoid them from the combinatorics that justify their meaning, there's no special reason to accept these particular axioms nor the law derived from them.
This is very neat. When playing with this set, I've wondered about this.

...

It seems the text says for 12 pieces there are 2 solutions, but the animation shows four.

Also, there doesn't seem to be a check to see whether the bridge pieces are together. (When all 's' pieces are used there has to be at least one connected pair).
Making sense of atomic design: molecules and organisms
India’s Economic Growth Accelerates
The UP Mini is a great little printer ($600 on Amazon). It prints ABS and it JUST WORKS. Highly recommended. And it does have a heated build platform.

http://www.amazon.com/Assembled-Printer-Maximum-Dimensions-R...
How to Reduce Bounce Rate and Improve Your SEO
Whatsapp playing low, really low. (Can't click/copy Telegram URL's)
This looks very cool. Having varnish in the middle pushes micro services to focus on business reqs even more.
nope, this is different completely. the Gritskevitch idea is to get electric current from magnetism of liquid toroid propelling without friction. This was built in the late USSR. Two proof of concepts in Vladivostok, and one fully operational >2MW HMD generator in Armenia. The PPT I found at padrak with google search contains actual contacts of the son of the inventor. Yes, it's the odd place, but it seems, American Association of Clean Energy is not existing yet, so cannot host such things. I cry, when such tech is marginalized. Unfortunately for us, PR genius rarely shares the engineering brain, Tesla was an exception.
Good summary.

For readability I recommend a logarithmic graph, it helps to bring out the structure of the graph more. Not as dramatic maybe for people who are not used to reading graphs, but I hate to see a graph that is just a thin line stuck to the bottom followed by a sudden upward rocket. Not very readable to my eyes.
If C compilers are such a problem then developers should move to better languages. It's not the 70s anymore.
I find BBC news coverage superior and more objective than news agencies in the US that receive no funding from the government at all. Consumers can incentivize bias just as easily as government.
Maybe we need to write tests to cover the test suites? Why not? They are code too. Then they'll improve.
was reffering to geographical, not political east/west
Haha, the French would claim it's the other way around.
https://www.coursera.org/course/money
https://www.coursera.org/course/money2
I took the first of these and intend to take the second, which I think came out as Coursera's top course at one point. There's a lot to learn here about what money is and how banks operate. That necessarily involves a historical perspective.
Dilbert: Rocket boosters will move an asteroid into the moon's orbit so we can mine its precious metals.

Dilbert's Boss: Why don't we mine for precious metals in Afghanistan? They have lots of them.

Dilbert: That only happens in science fiction.

[1] Edited to add:

http://dilbert.com/strip/2012-06-20
What makes you think we can solve all the problems every time

As I said: "So while I won't say we will fix everything all the time"...

To your other point, prosperity is the #1 way to slow population growth historically [1]. Prosperity comes from development and access to heath services and technology, all of which are energy intensive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic-economic_paradox
Forthcoming OpenSSL releases – moderate severity security fixes
Airports don't have to compete on butterfly gardens. They can compete on basic competence and being able to efficiently and quickly allow people to get through it, and not being a total misery to have to wait in for a few hours when transiting. Singapore beats the crap out of US airports on that and also has a nice butterfly garden to look at. You could put a nice butterfly garden in JFK and JFK would still be a miserable, frustrating experience; nobody would even look at the butterfly garden because they'd burn all their time in just trying to get through the airport.
I think Yelp is missing proof of identity and proof of patronage. It was created before social media took off, and before you could reliably know if someone had been somewhere.

I don't know if you need both, but proof of patronage alone might not be enough to trust a review (See Amazon verified purchases).
I have a Server in Germany. But my visitors are from all over the world. Will I have to pay to every ISP out there so my data gets to their customers quick?
The question didn't qualify "useful" as being crowdsourced or not. And that gets to my point, a review site that has its own reviewers is pretty much the only thing that is going to be useful. Otherwise the system will be gamed by vendetta seekers and the business itself. And I believe it is inevitable that a crowdsourced site will ultimately end up gaming the system to try to offset those effects.
A millionaire who operates 10 businesses while sailing around the world
Haha, thanks, but not my article. I saw it on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3uu0gh/the_beg...
There's still a whole lot more land out there than we need

You can't be serious - there isn't any unowned land out there. Certainly not in the western world. Sure, in the Americas you can squat on government land for a while and hope nobody notices, but that involves being miles away from anywhere and if you're off the grid it seriously hampers your earning potential.

In the UK there is simply nowhere you can do this.

Anything else you pay for can be decentralized

Microchip fabs?
> The are good career reasons to think long and hard before specializing in this stuff. After all, once you go too far down the rabbit hole, you may not be able to climb back out, and nobody wants to be a 35-year-old developer with a completely obsolete skill set.

Exactly

Also you spent time learning something completely unusable beyond a certain niche, that usually does not transport anywhere back to "sanity land"

I'm strongly opposed learning something that will be good for nothing beyond actually making the wheels of bureaucracy and/or legacy turn
> there is no way to show that P[A < R < B] > 0

As the puzzle and strategy are stated, the methods for choosing A/B/R are all left unspecified. If we don't know how they're chosen, it stands to reason that we can't rule out the possibility of R falling between A and B, hence there's a nonzero chance of it happening. If you want a rigorous way to show this even for any given opponent strategy, the player can choose R from an unbounded distribution - which is nonzero everywhere, and therefore nonzero between A and B, for any choices of A!=B.
Has the dress code just changed to 'casual'? This may not be some fundamental shift in people and what they care about. Its just a change in the details of current fashion.
It's interesting that you try to compare simplicity via manual length and say in the same breath that assembly is simple. Assembly language manuals easily dwarf most programming languages: x86-64 is a whopping 3439 pages (of which ~1500 pages is the instruction set reference). And before you say that's just because x86 is unnecessarily complex, ARM is 1138 pages, PowerPC 640 pages. By comparison, the JLS is only about 800 pages, C11 sans library about 450, and C++14 sans library about 500.
Cool! I did not realize there was a board with built-in wifi that ran https://micropython.org/
Most hosts do it for the social benefit -- people to hang out with, traveling without having to leave their own home (via stories/info from those staying with them), and building new relationships across the globe.

More on host incentives: http://www.horizonapp.co/blog/incentives-hosting-hospitality...
A side effect of living on a continent separated by two oceans and having one single language. It's far easier and practical in Canada to be bi-lingual as English/French are the official languages.

Having spent a portion of my childhood in Europe I saw first hand how much of a difference their default state of speaking 2 or 3 languages has on a society. Trust me, learning a second language is worth the time.
Art Meets Cartography: 15K-Year History of a River in Oregon Rendered in Data
Verification for which part? Hetzner used to have DTAG peering but dropped it a year ago because Telecom wants to have a premium paid for it. Hetzner was not willing to carve. This is just the response to some customers wanting to have faster connection to T customers. This story is unfortunately not new.

//EDIT: this thread goes back more than two years: https://telekomhilft.telekom.de/t5/Telefonie-Internet/Perfor...
"The Federal Communications Commission has hired Jonathan Mayer, a rising star in privacy circles, to serve as its technical lead for investigations into telephone, television and Internet service providers."

#savedyouaclick
And if you ask a person in the 18th century if we could grow GDP 30+ folds while increasing various folds also the world population he would say... you are going to finish all the Earth resources and die before you even get to a tenth of that!

It's just to say: 1. productivity is always very misunderstood by people (hence Malthus); 2. poverty is better fought with growth, not re-distribution of wealth
What is a web page, and why would a particular design not be a good idea for it?

If a web page is not a good idea, then what other technology should be used to achieve that design, as well as remain equally easy to distribute?

This mindset is precisely why native mobile applications continue to exist on the market, and why articles like this one fail to convince me. Nobody (except perhaps Facebook with React) tries to really fix the web to meet the demands its been given. Instead everyone insists that the demands should change to meet the original vision and limitations of the web.

Regarding the HTML/CSS interplay, flexbox gives me some new hope that reconciliation is possible (getting both semantic markup and powerful / precise styling).
Take a closer look at the sections on hybrid entities, treaty shopping, and transfer pricing. There are loopholes wide enough to let tanker ships pass.
Noam Chomsky ?
TA does their own review vetting (of course), but it definitely seems like they're less selective than Yelp. As a result, they don't seem to get badmouthed by businesses as often, but that has downsides, as you point out.

In my experience, TA seems to have a larger self-reinforcing effect than Yelp: Top 10 places get more great reviews, stay top 10, even if they're dropping off in relative value or weren't that great to begin with.
> not to smart to talk badly about your C-levels in public discussion

For certain things. But for badthink, seek and destroy.
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If you know of any way to conclusively test whether or not something will eventually be useful I'd love to hear more about it.
> Sorry, this access code had a limited capacity and is no longer available. Request a personal invitation.

For anyone else looking to try it out.
The bricks are simple but there are many of them. When I say that assembly language is simple I mean exactly that. The language is simple. If you know what one mnemonic does you'll be able to infer the existence and function of a whole bunch of others since they're usually organized around a matrix of operations and locations to be operated on. Of course a manufacturer would document each and every instruction separately but if you understand the logic behind an instruction set then you have a much easier time of it.

The x86 set, well, let's not go there, it's just too painful.
Week of Continuous Intrusion – Day 1 – Jenkins
San Diego, California. No connection other than cabs, limos or buses. Sure would be nice if the trolley went there. The cab companies would scream bloody murder, but they're under assault anyway.
This somewhat makes my point, it is the type of comment that shows up every time somebody mentions testing but nobody has ever thought that coverage alone is a good guarantee of test quality, it is however very obviously a useful metric.
As the article states, this only supports lists of pointer types. The result would be the same bad performance that Bjarne Stroustrup warns of in the cited talk on linked lists. Each of these pointers will be random memory positions giving you bad cache hits.

list_append needn't take a second argument that is assigned across. If you've got an array of structs, you can then initialise the struct members in place.
Politics is a part of human behavior. Software decisions are also political. For example, the new Firefox privacy mode 2.0 which besides not saving any information also prevents sites from tracking you by blocking tracking pixels and other similar stuff. This may sound just technical but it is also political, its about maintaining the right to privacy online which is more important than people realize.

When the Mozilla Foundation launched the Mozilla Clubs program to help people teach and learn about digital skills and webmaking this is also a political tool. The Mozilla Clubs program spreads digital skills which can then be used to do civic engagement both online and offline. Here in Rio de Janeiro, we're running these program in poor neighborhoods with teenagers. We're trying to change the internet user profile from a consumer of media to a producer of content. This has political implications as people start to realize that they can and should put their voices, opinions, demands and dreams online.

Mozilla is the single browser vendor today that is not a for-profit company. Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Coorporation and Mozilla Community are together the only open group that is at the same time working on advocacy, web technologies, language design, operating systems, web literacy, net neutrality, human rights on the internet, and web standards. There is no other group trying to do this much for the online world and we all know how the online world affects the offline world.

Yes, mistakes are made. We're all humans but that doesn't mean that we don't learn, that we don't change. Mozilla has a unique perspective in many things and a power that can be put to very good use. If you like a Web made by people and for people, then, you should care about not only the tech but the politics involved because when bad people can't stop others with tech, they stop others with laws... and sometimes these laws are against you.

If you want, check out the Mozilla Foundation advocacy work and web literacy programs. Mozilla goes beyond being browser vendor.
The latest IRS Form 990 for the Mozilla Foundation I can find is here:

https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2013_Mozilla_Found...

It's two years old, but if you go through it you'll see some very large numbers in the officer compensation lines, but it's mostly from "related organizations" and not the foundation itself. I'm not really sure how to parse it, and it may have changed in the last 2 years.
Any strong cipher should be resistant to a known plaintext attack.

If your encryption is vulnerable to known plaintext you should upgrade.
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The Hidden Costs of Discounts
Soylent – What happened when I went 30 days without food
High priced food and Internet service in the terminals due to the captive audience effect. I suspect if business travel expenses were made non-deductible, this would change very quickly.
That's basically what we're doing with Horizonapp.co. There is a Global Nomads group on Horizon, accessible with the following group unlock code: gn2015#insiders
Assembly may not be simple, as in 'very little language'. Assembly can be thousands of different language elements. But assembly is simple as in 'very little variation'. There are maybe a dozen addressing modes. There may be 100 or more instructions. When you multiply them, you get large manuals.

And assembly is simple as in 'primitive'. The atoms of assembler are instructions, and even they may be clustered into only a few groups i.e. arithmetic, branch.

I find the resistance to learning assembler is mostly fear. When debugging I very often resort to assembler display, even for machines that I'm not familiar with. I can learn the gist of it in a few minutes just by looking at a little generated code. And there's nothing like the actual machine instructions to find what really caused an exception.
No, since you will be forced to use transit to reach many of your visitors.

You don't even have the choice of direct connections to all of the world with just a single server in Germany.
Is CONFIG_NOHZ enabled in the kernel? It should allow the CPU to remain in a low-power state if there is nothing of interest happening by disabling all periodic wakeups that can be disabled.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt
OT but what are they using to accept donations? I'm about to set up a donation page on a project I'm running and been looking for solutions. What do people recommend?
Pirates Can Now Rip 4K Content from Netflix and Amazon
Chernoff's Faces
If you're going to mars, why strive for 1g when you can have .38g (Martian gravity), meaning you'd only need an 85 meter radius.
Corruption Continuing Challenge for Law Enforcement (1991)
Life Has No Meaning. And That's Why It's So Wonderful
I would wager that if you're seeing data that makes the US look like we have greater income inequality you're looking at one of two things.

Possibility one -- you have good data, but you're looking at post-tax income data, which would be skewed because of our flatter tax structure, fewer transfers, low long-term capital gains tax rate, and our relatively high income tax as percentage of total tax burden.

Possibility two -- the Gini coefficient you're looking at took national rates and then averaged them, rather than actually comparing incomes of specific people across the EU.

I believe that if you compared pre-tax data across the EU (rather than national data, averaged) you would see the EU having considerably more income inequality.

Just speaking from first hand experience, I've seen the difference between the lives of the wealthy and poor in the US (from Connecticut to Mississippi), and the wealthy and poor in the EU (from Bulgaria to Norway). The difference is much starker in the EU.

I'm sure it probably doesn't sound very scientific, but I'm inclined to trust my own eyes over statistics. If the data shows otherwise, I have to imagine the data is skewed in some way.
Cute backgrounds  is a great HD wallpaper
Yes, there are many, many examples.

Marc Andreessen grew up in Wisconsin and went to the University of Illinois.

I co-founded Open Market (a unicorn in tech Bubble 1.0). I grew up in West Virginia in a trailer with no indoor plumbing & wood heat. Our high school graduated 99 and about 10 of us went on to college. (I did go to an ivy league school, but I strongly suspect it was on quota because WV was so underrepresented.)
Maybe one could try to split up the payload into mutiple GET-request packets, then assemble them server-side.
>:‑)
I really want this for Marklin track (HO trains). The tracks have some interesting geometric constraints, but can also produce really nice layouts:
http://www.scarm.info/blog/tutorials-and-examples/examples-o...

Ideally, I'd input my platform shape and size, the list of pieces I have on hand, and then ask the engine to produce valid track layouts.