skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not needing an app to share location to a requester is cool. I didn't immediately get that this was what the app was for either - the fact that the user doesn't need an app is hidden from the frontpage under the 'more' link. I think if I wasn't motivated to find out what this was for I would have just skipped on to something else. Would suggest amending the frontpage so that users are bashed over the head with this right from the get-go.
Nice pacemaker you have there, unfortunately, we've ceased supporting the software, and you are too old for a new one to be implanted, so it might break or get hacked and you'll die. How long would you expect us to support it?! And obviously we can't give away our intellectual property!

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/jul/21/software-de...
Because you're making a general point - since when one's unethical behaviour justifies you to retaliate in kind? Two wrongs doesn't make a right, etc.
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I wouldn't segregate the general approaches to life in that sense.

Providing different prices to different groups of people does not result in "everyone winning". It's a classical example of market segmentation, price based on the average ability to pay of someone who holds the currency. It entirely benefits the airliner, and their profits, to be able to do so.

The "hidden city" tickets? A cheaper ticket to go from A->B->C than A->B is a deadweight loss in the market (assuming competitive markets). Prices are not reflecting costs, and airlines again are segmenting based on ability to pay.
Psst... interest rates on some federal student loans are 7%, and can go much higher for private loans.
Automated code quality checks in a cross-platform C project
Crap, I thought GOG.com had the Infocom collection digitally available, but I seem to be mistaken, they just have a couple of things. Nobody seems to. I bought it a long time ago, when digitally downloading things was a novelty.

Well, if the copyright gods will forgive me, it should be in this collection, which I can find no particularly legal way to purchase in a way that gives money to any rightsholders: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-lost-treasures-of-info... I don't know, but it is likely the core z5 files can be found in there with a bit of hunting.

The first Lost Treasures of Infocom is legally available for the iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lost-treasures-of-infocom/id... Though, bizarrely, not for Android.
While this is true, you're comparing a desktop OS to an enterprise OS. You're mostly paying for support from Red Hat for that $4200 price tag, something you definitely don't get with a retail copy of XP.
And after reading that, let's take a deep breath and think about Android.

From my personal opinion, it's not better than and maybe worse :
- Obligation of having a G+ account. Disable it is NOT straighforward at all and it will try to recreate himself often.
- Personal content publicly uploaded/displayed in G+ account
I had the bad surprise, and few friends also to see that the photos taken with my android phone were automatically published on my G+ account !

When you notify what it's visible, you are are afraid about what is not visible...
Which is basically how free market is supposed to work, right? ;).
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Redhat is also only intended for enterprise use (unlike windows XP). You should be comparing redhat to windows server if you want a valid comparison.

In addition, with redhat you get excellent support included (that's what you are really paying for). No such luck with microsoft, you just get crappy bottom tier tech support.

Finally, if you don't like paying redhat switch to centos. Free and no support.
I'm never buying again. If they want me to sink 30 years of my life into monthly payments, I'm going to need a job that will last for at least 30 years of steady paychecks.

And I don't believe those actually exist any more.

Also, I no longer trust the justice system to protect my rights as a property owner. Having been primed by software-based DRM to not want to buy something unless I can truly own it, I find that land property in the US is often heavily encumbered with covenants, regulations, local ordinances, mortgage terms, and recurring taxes, to the point where it feels like paying rent and signing a lease feels less restrictive.
You can appreciate the FSF and Stallman without agreeing with everything they say. I think they did a lot to put open source on the map, and make us aware of the dangers with closed source software in certain areas, even if I think that their stance is overzealous.
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'I contacted my friend. What went wrong? He sighed. “The founders thought you were too theoretical. They got the sense you would be a great coach or evangelist, but lacked the hands-on attitude they were looking for to actually build a team up.”'

They may have been looking for one specific response (and yes, if so they should have directly asked) such as "do you have experience hiring?"
SQLite definitely does not require a filesystem interface, or even standard OS interface. It does require some kind of storage, though, but that could be direct flash, RAM, etc.

I have spent a lot of time with it on ARM Cortex-M-class devices on small RTOSes or even bare metal, and you can adapt it to almost anything by plugging in new VFS interfaces (http://www.sqlite.org/vfs.html).

It does require at least 10s of kb of RAM as a heap to do pretty much anything, as others have stated.
Dynamic queries and data serialization. Imagine sending just a text query (in SQL) around to a sensor network. It would be a fair amount of work to reproduce that on your own but seems like it can open up some nice features for distributed IoT
Instead just /thinking/, try reading the rest of the gnu site, including the article on android: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html. Or you could buy a book which has most of the articles and had a new updated release a few months ago: http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society-3-pap...
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Since when is trying to get the best deal immoral? Airlines try to get as much money as they can from their customers, and their customers are rightfully going to do the same to them.
The `master` branch is the one with the code. This link points to `gh-pages`, which doesn't have any. https://github.com/Newmu/dcgan_code/tree/master
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Really? This is capitalism and a free market economy. They sold the tickets, it's their own damn problem. If they don't like it, they should fix their ticketing systems.

If anybody needs to be shamed, it's the airlines themselves for arbitrary price discrimination.
I like the idea of better bookmarks. Is there a bookmark app that doesn't collect my data and associate it with an email address? I find the fact that Pocket needs an email address appalling in this day in age with all of the privacy concerns. Even then, I don't want some company storing my bookmarks. The U.S. government has proven that they can get data from any website they want to and it's none of their business what we read. I'm not paying them to read my bookmarks, and I'm not going to enable them.
To my knowledge, the law is the same everywhere in Germany. Berlin makes a good example with still low prices because of its history. But there is certainly more protest against investors in Berlin compared to Munich. And more protection from the traditionally less conservative government.
In Munich it counts as embarrassing not to be rich.
Agreed, mostly. Consider though: the company cannot claim the playing field operates on ethics, when they don't play by those rules. Its reasonable then to claim "Caging a good price by lawyering the rules is fair play".
"..Turkish camps in Syria which the Turkmens are being trained, stating that it still takes place unofficially and in a secret way.[6][7] He added that Turkish Forces are training the Syrian Turks to protect their settlements and to join the fight with Syrian Turkmen Brigades in those secretly located camps. Nuceyfi also gave more information saying that Turkish officials have told that military supplies and weapons will be sent to Turkmens in Iraq and Syria in the near future but he isn't acquainted about the exact amount and date.

Later that day, Turkish 'officials' in Ankara, confirmed the statements of Esil Nuceyfi about the before and the positively promising future of the training of Turkmens both in Iraq and Syria"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Turkmen_Brigades#Brigad...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/1201...
How to Work and Travel Around the World for One Year?
Some notes on the eDellRoot key
Regarding Turkey: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/18/turkey-...
+1

SQLite is probably on of the most well tested piece of software on this globe. I do not know if this space saving is worth it.
Strawman much? Windows XP /= pacemaker. Just because I disagree with this line of reasoning for Windows XP, doesn't mean I do for critical medical equipment.

Although XP is unfortunately used for some other medical equipment. However I think the problem there was using a consumer desktop operating system as an integral part of a medical device in the beginning.
Washington Post must be getting some expensive airline travel advertising accounts.
The issue I think most people have with a cooperative approach is that the airlines (indeed, any private businesses organization in a free market) aren't playing cooperatively. They are by definition playing selfishly, with behavior only moderated by applicable government regulations and desire not to anger their customers so much so as to prevent future business.

Ex those considerations, do you really think they would (or could, given the competitive state of air service) leave money with the consumer because it's "more fair"?

Monkey see, monkey do: $%^@ them.*

*For values of @#$^ that don't actually include breaking laws. E.g. obtaining illegal access to their system(s) and creating yourself a ticket.
These models are just clever image uncompression. Nothing scary here. :)

It's just like using Markov chains to make English-like gibberish, but for pictures.

The interesting bit is that (I think) the generative adversarial network is regressing from random noise to an image, which isn't how most autoencoders work.
Why? Placing a canvas markup is pretty much the same.
That's what I'm telling LittleD's author too! I posted here on HN just to show him that it's not my whim, and other people think the same ;-).
> allows you to laugh and blow off the propaganda as fluff

That's how insidious good propaganda is. You treat it like fluff because it's entertaining and you've gotten the message.
It focuses on one vendor because Windows is an OS, and there are few of those easily available to the general public.

It also focuses on Windows because the article is about Windows. :)
It's really not clear who this is addressing. Anyone with technical knowledge will learn nothing from this rather shrill and superficial commentary. Anyone else will either not understand, not care, or simply never end up on the site anyway.

Frankly it reads like it was written by an angry teenager getting mad at The Man for his injustice. If I were trying to convince anyone to use Linux, I would actively discourage them from reading this.
Back in 2004, I wrote code for the Intermec ck1 barcode scanner. It ran uClinux and had a stack size limited to 4K. That thing could only very barely run sqlite 2 (after applying a few patches to it works with the small stack size) and I could never get SQLite 3 to work.

Granted. That was 10 years ago, but it was also quite a beefy device for its time. So while naturally the devices have become quite more powerful in the last 10 years, current IoT devices are also much more compact than the old ck1.

As such I would say it's conceivable that you don't have the memory to easily run current SQLite on any of these devices.
Henry Flagler kept a quote in his office, "Do unto others as they would do unto you and do it first."

The airlines do everything legal to charge more and I do everything legal to pay less. The airline has an army of lawyers, lobbyists, and consultants and I have a VPN.

"Getting a good deal should comply with local laws and the travel company’s code of business conduct." Since when did an airline have the moral authority to declare a code of conduct for anyone but itself? Where did they find this lady?
You'll notice one of the requirements above is "live comfortably" -- so your answer then is no.
I understand, and in general, I hate market segmentation. But I'm willing to excuse airlines for now, because... without it we wouldn't be flying.

You're right - the prices are not reflecting the costs. A typical traveler pays nowhere near the price they would if there was no segmentation. An average tourist ticket multiplied by number of passengers is barely enough to fuel a jet. And you have to pay the pilots, the airplane crew, the ground crew and still have enough to keep the lights on at the airport. Airlines are in a shitty position, and while probably some of it its their own fault, I'm not that sure if being hard on them is helping anyone.
Air travel is not a free market - the capital requirements are insane, the cost of fuel is often subsidized by the government (you cannot tax or excise it IIRC), you have a lot of regulations and so on ...
What happened to the +/- 3 days search thing?

Airlines have gotten really bad about ticket booking and market sector discrimination.
Everything you do in an interview will be judged. Some people will give you an incomplete problem spec and mark you down if you don't ask questions. Some will give you the same problem spec, but feel that you were too hesitant to "just get started" if you ask questions. There is a guessing game going on in an interview, and while it's not 'just chance' to do well vs poorly, there is an element of chance involved.

Since there is this element of chance, a 'blown interview' is certainly worth evaluating, but also not necessarily worth completely changing your process. You may have just had a bad matchup of expectations.
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Takes all kinds. I bought my place after 20 years of payments, on a dozen different jobs. Had savings, so 'between jobs' didn't impact mortgage payments. And I'm out in the county, where if they have zoning rules, there sure as heck aren't any inspectors. So I do as I please. Feels pretty unencumbered to me!
What on earth is that license?
Cheap is relative... for a computer purchased 4 years ago, for under $1k a $200 software upgrade is a pretty cheap migration path.
Good for you that you can exert self-discipline and have a high paying job.

The rest of us have trouble finding work after graduation (engineers with masters degrees that can't find anything more than 45k) or are paid so poorly that they have no hope of ever paying off their loans (teachers in my high school were still paying their loans in their 50s and 60s, mostly because they wanted to procreate and housing in my town is very expensive).

Or maybe you're right. Maybe it is their fault entirely. Maybe if it's too expensive to be a teacher, nobody should train to be one. Maybe if it's too expensive to have children, then nobody should have offspring.

"Just be as perfect as me" is poor social policy. At best, it's merely smug advice.
> (because who, including they themselves, knows how human mathematicians mentally explore their subject?), or easier (because of the much more specialised domain knowledge),

Indeed, the problem is you have to walk up and down various abstract constructions that define what a human mathematician is.
It's not that simple, unfortunately.

For run-of-the-mill desktop usage, i.e. Office stuff, eMail, Internet access, yes, not upgrading is either lazy or stupid.

But there are quite a few companies out there who have built applications that are critical to their operations and which do not run on versions of Windows more recent than XP. To be fair, that is just as big a problem, relying on proprietary APIs without even thinking of an upgrade path. It's not like Microsoft ending support for XP came as a total surprise nobody could have foreseen.

But sometimes, for example in industrial automation, once an installation has been certified, you cannot simply upgrade to a newer version of Windows. If the automation software does not run on newer versions of Windows (and it's an all-Windows game, as far as I can tell), upgrading means you also have to newer automation software, which means spending tons of money and then spending tons more for reprogramming the whole thing. Some automation engineers at the company where I work still have to deal with DOS for a few installations (at least on DOS, the lack of security updates is not an issue, but getting it to run on newer hardware is hard if not impossible, and keeping aging hardware going is a nightmare).
SpaceX has said repeatedly that the current Falcon 9 first stage cannot hover when landing after returning from a launch.

The SpaceX Grasshopper can hover, but that's a different rocket and its not following a trajectoy returning from space.
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> But it also violates the airline’s fare rules, can get your travel agent in trouble and could lead to higher fares for everyone.

From a particular traveler point of view. Airlines are pretty few, and are consolidating, so in about 2 years you can find yourself banned from all 5-6 of them and have to take the train or drive. Has this ever happened I wonder? Can this happen? Airlines building private no-fly-lists and just refusing to do business with some people. Is that allowed legally.

Insurance companies do it:

https://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs26-CLUE.htm

Why can't airlines? I imagine travelers who do it, would get pretty vocal online, so maybe some airline will respond publicly and say "we don't care, come to us?"...
You can adapt, or have you adapted? I looked at SQLite internals, and decided that I'll skip that adaptation for now, seeing if someone else would do that. LittleD's author says that he looked into adapting SQLite, and that's how he decided to write LittleD.
1) turkey hates kurds, meaning strong motivation to silently support enemy of them (not calling them outright allies). let them bleed so they are weak and don't dream about kurdistan covering turkish soil.

2) US-led precision strikes achieved next to nothing, ISIL was strong as before. At one point US boasted that they spend 9 millions of USD daily for these strikes. That means an attempt to bring down organization of a size of state with few plane flights a day and couple of bombs? Not working. Of course I am not a fan of cluster bombing vietnam-style either.

3) it seems to me, and in this I might be wrong that US has higher priority in bringing down Asad rather than ISIL. So similar approach as 1)

4) the simple fact that ISIL is daily trading oil using big oil convoys means either US is completely incompetent to see this & take action (not believing for a second, ac-130/a-10 would squash them in no time), or that russians are much much better than US at surveillance from above (not a chance)

and one could go on and on...
I think you've lost sight of the original point. That Russia was degrading ISIS faster than the western coalition.
You'll find INSERT SELECT UNION ALL interesting when you want to insert rows from multiple table sources. For example, when refactoring a two tables into a single table or loading data into a temporary table (BCP) before copying it into a target table.
Infocom games were the last computer games I played seriously. (I really don't have the eye-hand coordination for anything more recent. Or the competitive urge.)

I have the strangest feeling of pressure in my chest right now.
Right, most folks give you problems just to get you talking. The problem isn't the interview, and fixating on technical answers is missing the point. Its all a process for feeling you out, understanding where you are at in your career, and testing you as a 'fit' in their organization.
What about xeon e3? They have similar prices to i7s.
Honestly, this article is a bit hyperbolic. He didn't blow the interview - I was expecting an article on being totally unprepared, not able to answer a single question. What happened was he aced the technical portion, and went too theoretical / abstract when they wanted things that were concrete / applicable. That's not blowing it - that's a lack of recent interview experience, and is something he will easily fix and correct in the next interviews. But it was refreshing to see that he received actionable feedback from the interviewers, rather than the straight "sorry we can't move forward" boilerplate that usually has to happen.
The entire idea of daylight savings time is idiotic. In a thousand years we will be looked back on and they will sneer at our lack of intelligence for adopting such a silly ritual.
I am absolutely not clear how changing one's IP is different from any other form of currency arbitrage - which is what this transaction is, and also what explains the cost difference between currencies from the airline's point of view - their native currency is easiest for them to transact in, and they pay additional costs to transact in other currencies.

In fact, the airline probably appreciates being paid in its native currency. Airlines from countries with currencies that aren't always easily convertible, such as airlines from the developing world, probably have to keep substantial reserves in currencies their customers tend to use, to ensure that they can always carry out transactions in that currency. If you buy your ticket in the native currency, then you've not required them to dig into that reserve, which is a win for them.

Conversely, this is probably not a win for the original questioner, because they probably paid a fee for currency conversion to their bank, which was probably larger than that paid by the airline, because the airline has more market leverage with which to set pricing contracts for currency conversion.
SpaceX already landed a rocket. Just not from that high up and not after achieving oribital velocity.
Considering how often major US airlines have sought to dump their pension obligations toward employees in deference to management types and investors, making the rich richer and the working class poorer, I don't think they deserve any portrayal as bastions of the ethichal highground.
How and why does J.K. Rowling count as 'children's books'?
Through all the ads on those sites, I still saw nothing about orbit.

The reusable part of a Falcon (assuming it actually lands undamaged)[0] doesn't go into orbit either.

Edit: Stay classy HN.

[0] "I don't expect the Falcon 9 to have a reusable upper stage" http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/elon-musk-at-mits-aeroast...
It's pretty clear that there was no statement of personal opinion on the morality of the national security directives contained in that post.

Edit: clarity
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> MS has well tested security patches

How do you know this? I find it likely that they tested them for the specific use cases of the 0.1% who are actually going to receive the patches, since they are providing a specialized solution.

> And it's also just pointing out another instance of proprietary software and why it's bad, which if that is fud, well the core of linux and gnu are fud too.

You can want to use free software for some things without thinking proprietary software is bad for everything.