skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>I would be surprised it if didn't surpass the UK by then.

Define 'Surpass' please.

These are not just economic metrics, one needs holistic development. Infrastructure, energy security, national security, access to good public schools etc.

As Indians we need to accept the fact it will heck lot of more time for us to see any real change on the ground.
> There's a stark difference between what people who dislike the concept of "safe space" think a "safe space" is and what a "safe space" actually is.

The concept of safe spaces originally came out of the societal intersection of the LGBT, Riot grrrl and 3rd wave feminist movements of the late 80's/early 90's, where there was an existential threat of violence and intimidation from opponents/bigots/homophobes/just dicks.

As you say, vital for those movements and the people in them at the time.

Where the threat is not of violence and intimidation, but rather of hurt feelings due to encountering someone with different political or religious views from you, I think it's better for society as a whole for those feelings to get hurt; or preferably some spirited and hopefully non-intentionally inflammatory discourse to occur between people of opposing views so that we can better understand each other and progress as a society.

I'm not saying that safe spaces are not needed any more, just that they seem to be increasingly used where they are not necessary.
Seems to be on the same timelines as batteries that charge in 30 seconds and fusion power.
How is Paddle working for you?
Oh man, best game ever. I really wanted to learn it having putting it off for so long. I can see how I could use it in a framework of mine. Gives me an excuse to use open web technologies again.

I was revamping some old code of mine, removing outdated technologies of third parties like YUI... But I noticed that I needed them for layout. But flexbox can provide an alternative for me.

Thanks a bunch!
The commit that introduced this:

https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/commit/a93d2994842ef694442...

> Showing 208 changed files with 5,479 additions and 1,841 deletions.

It looks like they squash all their commits and just push one big diff for each update. This isn't really what I've expect from a product that advertises itself as open source security software.
What we learnt launching a Canadian telemedicine clinic
The most useful under-used feature of email
This is even more fascinating... Warning: graphic image.
What Killed the Infographic?
SimScale - Technical Lead/Senior Java Front End Developer (m/f) in Germany
Apple's core customers are iPhone and iPad customers now. They realized that catering to consumer electronics customers is far more profitable than catering to pc power users, and adjusted everything to fit the profit model that makes them the most money. At times, I wish they had spun off Apple Computer as a separate entity with OS X so that the computer division wouldn't have to sit and play fourth seat to the rest of the business.
Google's rendition of IMAP isn't following any standard but their own. Fastmail uses Cyrus IMAP server, which most certainly follows standards.

I've been a Fastmail user for almost 10 years. Never an issue that was not solved in very short order and most professionally. Fastmail offer a modern product with old world service and charm. A win-win.
This is the best way ever to learn!! You sir deserve a cookie...
Would be nice if the article explained what it means by a "parameter pack" to begin with.
I didn't realize they charge so little for their major upgrades. Sorry to assume you didn't do the math.
Lending Startups Look at Borrowers’ Phone Usage to Assess Creditworthiness
Simulating YC
The professor is the one who brought up the safe place terminology in this instance. Not the student.

One thing to realize, also, is the context of love (as the topic of discussion in the classroom was in 1 Corinthians 13) in many evangelical circles.

Love, defined in many conservative christian circles, is devotion to the Church, the Husband and God, to the exclusion of all else. Even when it hurts. It's about staying in an abusive relationship because you need to submit to your husband's wishes, no matter what. It is not the selfless emotional connection of one person to another. It is the subjugation of the self.

This student may very well have felt victimized for how love was being talked about. But all we know about the classroom discussion was that the topic was 1 Corinthians 13. Not what was actually talked about with regard to that chapter. I've heard 1 Corinthians 13 be twisted in some very evil ways.
For me though, Firefox is already the best browser on mobile though.
TUI fire (with sound) for the holidays [Python 3]
I'm sure others who have been around longer remember other examples, but in my life I have never before or since witnessed a media blitz for a "technical" standard as the coming out party for XML in the '90s. Almost overnight the book shelves, magazines (yes those were both things back then), and even TV news proclaimed the dawn of the new age. A wave incoherent mass insanity swept the industry with the promise that this sometimes white space sensitive text data format with all the deliberate under and over specifications that are hallmark traits of design by committee was literally going to solve every problem in software engineering, enterprise IT, and of course investing in the dot com dumpster fire (pre first collapse). The emperor never had any clothes. Disk space, network capacity, cpu time, sanity, dignity - mattered not. No problem could not be solved better with XML. Dissension was heretical.

Any one else remember that?
Actually, Apple's onerous/expensive licensing requirements on Firewire are probably what allowed USB to beat it.

"Thunderbolt"/Displayport: yes, after decades of making laptops with proprietary adapters, they finally conceded that point. Intel deserves some thanks here too, I think.

Facetime: what lawsuit are you talking about? It's still only interoperable with Apple's software on Apple's platforms. Proprietary.

Webkit, Darwin, and LLVM: these are all good things. Note that all of them have non-Apple (and also non-NeXT) origins.
> That game is basically my reason for installing wine and playonlinux.

Alpha Centauri has a Linux native port though! I'm not sure if it's still available somewhere however (there's probably a torrent somewhere).
"4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)" Wow why does it need so much RAM.
You wouldn't joke about it if you saw my dancing.
No problem. I think everyone got out their pitchforks without reading Mozilla's announcement and looking at the repo.

There are always issues to help out on. Here's a bit more info on contributing [0]. I imagine it won't change much as the project is officially handed off to the community. It's largely led by the community anyways at this point.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction
Yes, there are others, but I imagine (I would like to be wrong) that Amazon is the only one with any significant marketshare. Maybe something in China.
As far as I can tell, it's not universal, but still somewhat common. (My computer has always done it ever since I bought it new in April.) It is a bit annoying. But since I use the MAS so irregularly, I can get by. I do wonder what the cause is, though. I'm less certain I'd like to know how Apple have so far failed to get to the bottom of it.
India has been for some years consistently making the news on great and diverse systematic corruption fighting actions.

Good to my theory that corruption is the main reason why (democratic) countries don't develop. As far as I know, I have only Italy as example of country that fought corruption and didn't grow after it.
Oh I didn't know it was in spec. Also, it's just in range for a pi zero. How convenient.
I like it. We need more people asking, "why can't <functional element> also be art?" Old-world cities have an embarrassment of riches in this area (this starkly contrasts with American cities), to the advantage and well-being of their citizenry. And they got that way because people asked that question.

Most people never ask, or worse knee-jerk assume that any "impure" design must have some huge hidden downside.
It would be cool if they loaded Android onto the pi zero, and then used chromecast with their apps/games.

Not sure about the USB XBox controller support on Android though.
There's actually a native Linux version of Alpha Centauri. One of the old Loki ports.
Why the U.S. Pays More Than Other Countries for Drugs (wsj.com)
It's the variadic part of a C++11 variadic template:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/parameter_pack
It's a perfectly fine limiting case of G + Λg = 8πT.

A minor point: it's "the Newton equation" or "Newton's equation", but not "the Newton's equation" (in the same way that one could write "the Eisenhower presidency" or "Eisenhower's presidency", but not "the Eisenhower's presidency").
I've seen this issue for several apps (Spotify, Amazon Video, etc.), and I always just shrug it off. You can use both with an AppleTV, but the application has to be installed on a secondary device like an iPhone and then streamed via Airplay. Both of the explicitly mentioned applications work great, with that one exception of not having a native application on the device.
Designing Protocols for Nuclear Warhead Verification [pdf]
Bulletproof TLS Newsletter
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Opera and IE were no different in architecture.
I would bet a large part (or all of it) is that anime and cartoons and toys aren't seen as toys, as things just for children, it is normal adult interest. Much anime is very adult and dark. Other anime is war filled.

It's no different than painting pin-up girls on on your B-17. Also, btw, US Cartoons bugs, daffy, woodpecker are not uncommon nose art subjects. google "bugs bunny nose art".
I run Zimbra, and their webmail UI is the best I've seen - much more functional than GMail.
All the reasoning is BS. They just want to cut the middleman and keep all the earning which is totally fine but don't insult our intelligence and come up with ridiculous reasoning.
On the Security of TLS 1.3 and QUIC Against Weaknesses in PKCS#1 v1.5 Encryption [pdf]
SimScale – Senior Software Test Automation Engineer (m/f) in Munich/Germany
Anyone got the source to Navigator 4 still? I'd rather use that.
I think games are much easier to sandbox than general desktop applications. Games mostly just need access to input devices, output devices, hardware acceleration, and disk access in their own private folder, all things that are relatively easy to provide in a sandbox.
Well, for Webmail, then, I would say Tutanota or ProtonMail, both of which are good.
You can launch your games in Offline mode, which stops the need for having to go online/update/contact-the-Steam-servers-before-launch.

It's not totally straight forward though. You need to unplug your network device (or turn off wifi, etc) so the initial startup times out, and gives you the option to use Offline mode.

There might be a command line switch way to do that too, but I've never looked. ;)
> The defense to "you're being a jerk" can only be "I'm not".

No, because the response is going to be "Yes you are", and we descend into a shouting match. The reply is "What is your standard for 'being a jerk', and is that standard a reasonable one?"

> There's a huge difference between telling someone that their beliefs are wrong to telling them that they are bad and should feel guilty, especially if the doctrine says that everyone is bad and should feel guilty all the time.

That seems like a fair description of how "victimhood culture" treats the rest of us.
The surprising story of Rosa Parks – before she refused to give up her seat
I bought HitTail (a SaaS app) in 2011, grew it, and sold it last week
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/04/18/indias-ch...
Announcing Kapacitor, an open source streaming and batch time series processor
Should they all be terrified...

Where did I advocate that anyone should be terrified? This is what I said about such fears: "his feelings are completely irrational and entirely his problem."
Thunderbird has been forked.
http://www.fossamail.org/
Here's the original story of the purchase and revamp: http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2012/01/25/the-inside-story-of-...
> This stressful, ongoing debate fuels the seeming paradox of an “endearing” military force. In Japan, where indirect communication is highly valued, cute illustrations have long played the role of tension-breakers and mediators in situations of conflict. Thus kawaii mascots, whether miniskirted girls or bunny-rabbit decoy launchers, are both a reflection of pop-cultural trends and a way to defuse the very touchy issues surrounding the military’s undeniable presence.

Contrast this to the way [The Culture][0] dealt with their ambivalence over having to tool up to fight a full-scale war (the Idiran War). They specifically designed their warships to be ugly, and gave them ship class names reflecting the ugliness of their roles (e.g. Gangster, Torturer, Psychopath, and Thug). While depicting your weapons as kawaii is very different from depicting them as heroic/inspiring, I think the Culture's lack of euphemism is the better way to go.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
Tony Hsieh got rid of bosses at Zappos – and that’s not even his biggest idea
I told myself a few months ago that I would never put anything else on the MAS nor would I advise a client to. It's a nightmare.
Edit: I'm an idiot. You're right, I must have been thinking of CEC.
I don't know if it still exists, but I'm sure it could be found or would make a good service. I seem to recall paying about $10/mo to a company that would provide secondary MX services. They did no delivery/webmail etc, it was purely "You can list us as a secondary MX and when yours is online we'll forward".
This is true, but sort of specious. The point is that for the grandparent (and me) Thunderbird meets all these requirements, and other stuff doesn't. Could we adjust our decades-mature workflow to accomodate other tools? Sure. But it would suck. So we use the tool we have that does what we want until something unambiguously better comes along.
I have the same trouble finding good curators as I do finding good games. I don't know what curators are good just like I don't know what games are good. I'll look at someone and I'll think, "Is this person really any better than filtering by genre and then randomly buying games?" And I don't feel confident the answer is yes a lot of the time. I feel like I need a meta-curator.

I agree that this is not a particularly novel problem, though.
Just curious why you type 'china', 'India' and 'UK' when you type country names? I've seen this many many times. As Chinese I don't make such mistakes. And you guys surely have better English than me..
I am not a rocket scientist but I think the horizontal take-off is a huge drawback.

* The wings would only be useful at relatively low speeds and then just add lots of mass.

* Wings that are efficient at high mach-numbers would be less effective at take-off. Presumably lots of fuel would be burned at low speed to make up for this.

* The structure would need to be strong enough to function whilst horizontal and filled with fuel.

* It would need a large heavy undercarriage capable of supporting the entire take-off weight.

I am unconvinced that horizontal take-off has much benefit anyway. A flight within the atmosphere to a launch site would inevitably use lots of fuel and eliminate any payload capacity. Also, it is hard to believe that anyone is going to allow a massive hydrogen fuel tank to fly over populated areas.

A more traditional single stage to orbit would make more sense IMHO.
Call to Power was the result of some fairly convoluted boardroom-slash-courtroom warfare conducted between 1995 and 1998.

In the mid-'90s, legendary boardgame publisher Avalon Hill noticed that MicroProse was doing well with computer games named Civilization, remembered that they had published a board game way back in 1980 with the same name (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_%28board_game%29, https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/71/civilization), and observed that their board game and MicroProse's computer games were, at least thematically, similar.

Based on that similarity, AH argued that MicroProse's Civilization games had ripped off their IP. MicroProse and Sid Meier disputed this, with Meier saying he'd never played the board game before designing his Civ, but AH stuck to its guns. Since they'd published the board game, they argued, and since (they asserted) MicroProse's computer game was just a derivative work based on it, all rights to the Civilization name for both board and computer games belonged rightfully to them.

They then licensed the name to Activision to use in developing its own computer Civilization games, to compete directly against MicroProse's in the marketplace. MicroProse responded to this by buying the company owned by the original designer of the board game, Francis Tresham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Tresham_%28game_design...), arguing that if the board game gave anyone claim on the Civilization name it was Tresham, not his publisher AH, and that in acquiring Tresham's company they'd also acquired not just any computer-game rights the board game would confer, but the rights to the board game itself too.

AH was in pretty desperate financial straits by this time, so in 1998 they caved and paid MicroProse $411,000 to settle the dispute, yielding to them all rights to the name and stopping publication of the board game. (See http://home.earthlink.net/~pdr4455/fah.html) MicroProse then gave Activision a limited license to the Civilization name so they could publish their work-in-progress game as Civilization: Call to Power.

Call to Power came out to mediocre-at-best reviews and sank like a stone, ending Activision's dream of taking over the franchise. But MicroProse's victory was short-lived, because their own financial situation by this time wasn't great either; just a couple of months after the Avalon Hill settlement the company was sold to Hasbro, at which point it was more or less dismantled and became just another zombie brand.
Google is using a phone number provided for “security” purposes to telemarket
I just received a call from a "google specialist," also known as a telerobot, marketing google's advertising services to me on a number I provided as a way to retrieve my password. Don't they have a moral obligation to separate these two activities or is their security procedure just a thinly disguised way to gather information for marketing purposes?
Little Bites of Cocoa #137: Rich Comments in Xcode Playgrounds
I briefly plugged it in to an Android to check the cable worked. lsusb detected it, but I didn't have a chance to test any games directly on the phone.
We use either Postbox, Thunderbird or Apple Mail and all of them should work with Gmail like every most common mail client. So the point about IMAP doesn't have a practical impact for us. Am I missing something? Good to know about their strong reliability though
Given that Features are an effective way of getting traction, why create anything but apps that will get featured? i.e., not a dice game.

I also have a theory that Apple are partial to apps that will make them money, so a free app (unless monetised with Apple's ad platform) may struggle a bit.

Two of us in my office got dev kits and had Streaks Workout ready for ATV launch. Have had a couple of features and charted OK. Nothing crazy, but more than a handful of sales each day and the app is priced at about US$3.50.

Discoverability is poor but so are a lot of the apps out there.
http://makezine.com/2012/02/28/how-to-splice-wire-to-nasa-st...
Britain's Prince Charles calls for forest protection at Paris climate talks
:) Who knows?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
I saw this on hacker news a while ago but it seems like a great alternative to thunderbird. I've used it and I really like the look and feel of it compared to thunderbird. I'm pretty sure I saw an option for IMAP too. It's called N1 and it's from Nylas. https://www.nylas.com/n1
Wow its almost like you wasted your time on some stupid rant about shit people already know.
Your VPN provider can read your traffic, but so can your ISP. Should I stop using the INTERNET as a whole? What about email providers they all read my email? I would be more concerned with your personal website being in the US and you being in the EU, this means the NSA can select you as a surveillance target because you are not in the USA. Wow I guess that means connecting to your website would be a valid use case for a VPN

Take off your fucking tin foil cap for a minute and consider nobody gives a shit about your python libraries.

PS: I love the use of "statistically speaking" especially in a context with no statistics at all.
PPS: I am using a VPN right now and you cant stop me.
SHA-1 deprecation has been on the table for a long time now.
COP21: Ghana's green energy gamble on 'poo-power'
Microsoft Tries to Declare a Christmas Truce with Apple
It's almost like I read a book by George Orwell about this kind of thing.
My favourite and perhaps a lot of people’s favourite feature in Keras in the Graph API. It is immensely powerful, yet done in such a simple and elegant way. Honestly, everytime I use it or think about it, it makes me wonder how you came up with the concept and executed it that well :)

BTW, we are looking for excellent API UX designers. Interested?
Italy was already a developed nation and birth rates have been falling for some time.
Yes, it is nice that the "Evacuation produced an unprecedented explosion of mass empathic understanding, by enabling rural people to step into the lives of the urban poor." But all that poverty and suffering existed long before this reaction. Why did it take the evacuation for people to step out of their bubbles of privilege? It literally took shoving the reality of these children into these people's lives, forcibly popping their bubbles.

Self-serving cognitive dissonance is empathy's arch enemy. It is equally if not more powerful. Sadly, it is only overcome when things get so bad people cannot avert their eyes to the suffering of others. Even then (e.g. Rwanda) empathy too often loses.

This is not history. This is now. Unequal and racist criminal justice. Growing economic inequality that feeds on the exploitation and commoditization of people. The tech industry's living in a bubble of good times and power, building frivolous and self-indulgent products while people are being gentrified out of their homes. The lucky 10% putting their already privileged kids in private or effectively private schools, abandoning the children who need it the most to ever more neglected public schools.

[EDIT: I knew this would be an unpopular comment. Started with 4 upvotes, then two downvotes, the latter confirming my point of view. What other reason is there for a downvote other than my calling out selfishness (who can deny that?) and cognitive dissonance? Any down-voter care (have the guts) to comment?]
To promote Verizon, obviously.