skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
disclaimer : I make a living as an Android engineer for a big startup, so my vision of the platform is probably a bit different than if I were working in another field.

I very recently bought a Nexus 6P. Very nice device and makes a compelling point for big screens.

I am still in my adaptation phase and need to decide whether I prefer easy one handed usage or a big screen.

The pixels dance on that screen though.

The camera is superb.

The rear bump is another compromise. I don't like it more than the camera bump on the more recent iPhones : I understand why it is necessary (good camera captors just need some room) and for such a large phone, making it as thin as possible is a good idea.

So, to sum up, I like it :)

Before the 6P, I have been using a Nexus 5 for 2 years. Very good device. Some of the best real life performances, especially compared to the disastrous samsung devices.

I also have a 2013 nexus 7 tablet. I only use it for reading / watching youtube. Nice device too.
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Massive discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10686897
I disagree - I think the Sennheiser HD201 cans look pretty decent. Now granted, they don't have the Beats logo on them, but they do have the Sennheiser logo.

Even better, they sound good too.
I didn't really like the article. It was too conversational with unnecessary anecdotes. While reading it I was pretty much annoyed by how the writer didn't respect my time and couldn't just spit out what their main idea was. Like I shouldn't need to read three or four paragraphs to find out if the topic is something I already know about or interesting to me.

This article is basically a fluff entertainment piece for people who just enjoy reading for the sake of it and want to feel smart for it when they're done.
Genuinely like the idea, but wouldn't trust a service that uses PHP on a VPS without SSL. I'm sure you will fix the SSL when you launch, and I'm just a snob with regards to PHP.
All python 3 does is add an onion layer around unicode. Fortunately it looks like these techniques will work for python 2.7 or 3.x. With 2.7 obviously being the preference for pretty much everyone who isn't a python 3 developer.
True. Iran has been doing this for years too.
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Is there any reason to assume that all types of aneutronic fusion are equally difficult to achieve? Extrapolating from other sorts of fusion I'd assume that D-He3 fusion would take much less activation energy than other sorts.
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I know people who built up a business by freelancing on gig sites. It's tough, but by delivering quality results in a timely fashion, they found a few clients who were willing to engage them outside of the gig sites at higher rates. And once you have a few clients, you get more through referrals.
"could not be expressed" is not a derivative of "to be". "be" there allows using "express" without needing the subject (e.g. "I can express my feeling" -> "My feeling can be expressed")
From a business perspective, the only way to implement login as a service properly would be to integrate it with services like Parse. And then you're also vulnerable to competition from within.
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I probably wont be programming that much, if i do not work with a legacy system. The type of programming i do is mostly putting a simple gui on top of a database, in a decade we will have automated that task and making a database application will be as simpel as doing a powerpoint presentations. If i do not move up to management or find a niche i will be out of a job, because i do not have the capacity to figure out the hard parts of programming.
Iran's been doing what, precisely?
That's totally fair. I'm just pointing out that when it says "validity" it's not encompassing the abstract question of "is the patent system valid?"
Yes because of Netflix :(
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Nobody really cares what you think about a third party service using a language you don't like.

The SSL issue, however, needs to be fixed ASAP.
If looks don't bother you too much, you may wish to look into the Koss PortaPro headphones. Sub $50, they look terrible, but sound remarkably good.
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Thats a very solvable problem though, via a paid support offering.
They're well built, reasonably sturdy (although I've crushed the AudioTechnica ones accidentally) relatively affordable and replacement (parts/products) are available easily. And they sound good.
I'd like to draw your attention to this article:

http://futurism.com/18922-2/
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This is what you assume.
And even if they did, these are low tech attacks. Trying to stop people from shooting others (or knifing, or bombing) is essentially impossible, from a technological standpoint. It's like 9/11. How much money and work does that _really_ require? Is there anyone that doesn't think they and a group of friends could not have done the same thing?

[Well, with current tech anyways. A hyperintelligent AI with on-demand wormhole mastery could probably pull it off.]
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Orwell writes 1984: reader finds "the desire to remove undesirable language from our vocabulary quite unnerving."

Orwell writes essay advising writers to remove undesirable vocabary, part of which OP is an extended exploration.

Irony
This is the subject of Nicholas Carr's _The Shallows: what the Internet is doing to our brains_.

In a nutshell, he argues that our brain gets better at things that we do a lot, and worse at things we used to do a lot but now do a lot less. Reading is not different from any other activity in that sense.

And many people nowadays don't read many long, hard books anymore, and instead quickly skim short articles and then switch to the next.

So we get better at quickly getting bits of information from short articles, and worse at staying focused for an hour on the same demanding text.

I find it hard to argue with.
Not sure what your point is? Are you saying what I quoted (or Operation Gladio for that matter) is just a conspiracy theory?
Hunting animals for food is core to what we as humans evolved to be. The way we sweat, walk, stand, etc. all seem to have evolved to be an endurance hunter. Clearly, our evolution favored those who hunt and eat meat.

This is a great point.

In addition, as far as I know, there were no vegetarian groups of people before religious reasons, and later ethical reasons came by.

Hunting consumes a lot of time and energy. If it was completely unnecessary, I would expect a lot of traditional societies just drop it and survive on plants.

The reality was quite the opposite - the game that hunters brought in was more valuable and sought after. That does not make sence if it was unnecessary for better health and survival.
Shure and Westone both offer great IEMs (in-ear monitors) which have foam tips that block around 30db of external sound, and offer good-to-great representation of the source material.

http://www.headphone.com/collections/in-ear
And more popular with the public.

You tell the public you're banning something they don't really use? Fine. You tell the public you're doubling police forces in a time of strong anti-police sentiment? Good luck in the next election.
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That helps out. Of course I have the 0.149 roms found on the internet archive. That set doesn't seem to be on the list.
Or because the T represents a shape, as does the I in I-beam?
Spanish, as well: "Te llamas $NAME" = "You call yourself $NAME", "Me llamo $NAME" = "I call myself $NAME"
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Why invest 10M when he could've just asked Gigster to make a better Gigster?
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Experiments prove it works:

- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/03/james-craig-detroit...

What if experiments proved that home owners and such having a weapon makes everyone safer. What if. What if a gun free zone was proved to attract loons? Then in that case I say those 14 did not need to die.
It would seem they could cause a lot of unnecessary damage IE: "shooting in every direction at once and asking questions later".

It would seem logical that, given their demonstrated capabilities, intelligence would feed them helpful projects; "here, break this for us" allowing them to make the difference they want to make rather than potentially damaging the efforts of coalition forces; "Sir, we were about to find the location of target X through a private chat platform we had infiltrated, however, Anons got there and destroyed the platform...."
Ugh. Yeah, looks like someone submitted my post over the weekend. A shame, since I know lots of folks who just check HN during the week will miss out on participating.
with inflation, flat growth is negative growth, so at least there's that.
I think, therefore I exist.
> The public never said that.

The "public" is not the people at rallies, not even what people in the street and cafes are saying, but the tally of the vote at the next election, and politicians act accordingly.

As you can see from the first round of the regional elections, the French "public" overwhelmingly voted for more.
Your link deals only with iPhone.

I'm pretty sure that Apple's x86 systems use the same HD Audio codecs everybody else is using. They may or may not have better analog output amps (if they have any, but iirc at least some laptops have such) but as for using better DACs - links or it didn't happen.
CityLab is a mission driven organization that is obviously for city living based on their recent articles. Fortunately when they manipulate the presentation of data the way they do it becomes obvious to those in the know what they are up to.

However, the data contained in this article provides evidence of what the planning community is constantly trying to overcome: How do we keep the mid-age and retirement individuals from leaving the city?
It's easier to accept it when you have yours.
> "In the wake of a terrorist attack, the public demands that laws be changed to make them safer" = false.

Well, that may be a subtle difference in interpretation but the general opinion is that we are 'unsafe' and that 'something should be done'.

Opposition parties in various countries have definitely used these attacks to create an impression that 'something could have been done' and that if they were in the driving seat 'something would have been done'. Incumbents are scared of losing voters due to being seen as 'doing nothing' and so will resort to doing 'something' just to stave off the inevitable (admitting that they don't know what to do, and neither does the opposition, mostly because there isn't a whole lot they can do to begin with that does not involve a change of course for the next 30 years and an admission that they royally messed up during the last 30 years).
How do you introduce yourself? I find it difficult to find a replacement for:

- I'm Steven

- Hi, my name is Steven

- I'm named|called Steven

The only thing I could come up with "Hi, Steven, nice to meet you" sounds rather forced.

The grammatical rules of English make it more difficult to use this compared to some other languages. E-prime seems very stinted, especially when asking questions:

Is "less objective" really an advantage over "more subjective" for a hacker?

And let me ask that example question as well. As somebody working in IT, I strive to come across as (nay, to be!) as objective and as precise as possible.
laptops also equal VPN access and work-from-home.

Depending how cheap your employer is you may not get both a desktop and a laptop. I had no desktop from 00 to 05 so that some beancounter could get a bonus for not "wasting" a tiny fraction of our total salary on giving my team both a laptop and a desktop. I don't miss that place, but most of the world works under conditions like that.

So desktops are for people who absolutely cannot ever be imagined to work from home, for practical or primate dominance reasons. That's a rapidly shrinking segment of the employment population.

Ironically by plugging a large display and decent mechanical keyboard into a "laptop" we're just reimplementing desktops the hard and expensive way.
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His point is that even though false flag operations are a thing there is no evidence that these are false flag operations. The simplest explanation is that what you're looking at is real, any conspiracy theory would require an enormous departure from the facts as we know them today.

The second part of his point is that by positing a conspiracy theory you are presenting a view that there is an overarching plan to all this, whereas the reality is more like a bunch of headless chickens trying to run in three directions at once.
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I've modified configuration files on a FreeBSD filesystem image with a hex editor to cause it to obtain a dhcp lease and allow password ssh login for the default account. (Linux cannot read/write to the default FreeBSD filesystem.)

This allowed me to set up the RPi headless and keyboardless.

Of course the filesystem was dirty, but it's nothing an fsck couldn't solve.
Could we also change the number system. All teen numbers are switch to ten-# as in Eleven is Ten-One, twelve is Ten-Two.
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You clearly speak to different Thai people than me day to day. I have only heard them used to mark pieces of information as being correct or incorrect.
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When reading any articles about psychology now I always have in the back of my head the question "How many of these studies have been reporoduced?"

There are a lot of valuable insights from this kind of research but right now it's hard to know which are the valuable ones and which ones are just air.
I agree, but I think you're forgetting something that gets lost in the age of digital music: for some 'what things actually sound like' isn't hard to describe.

If I want to know how a piano sounds, I'm going to listen to an actual piano. If my recorded and played backed piano sounds any different than that, it's not 'how a piano sounds like'.

Apart from that and having owned HD600s, ATH-M40x, E-10s and a pair of AKGs, I'm in agreement with the parent and most of the following posts. Don't buy beats, any of the mentioned headphones here will blow you away for a lot less money.
I find the topic intriguing, but can someone who is well versed with both topology and machine learning comment on what is the key innovation here?

On first glance, the methods here seem a lot like the toolbox of dimensionality reduction techniques (PCA, spectral embedding, or more general manifold learning, etc.) from machine learning literature.

What specific insights from the field of topology have helped further our understanding of data that we missed earlier?
It's highly likely the intelligence agencies already have people involved in the anonymous stuff.
To offer a counterpoint - I use a set of cans with no isolation at all. I prefer the broader sound stage (it feels more like an open air concert than a band in your bedroom) that the open cans offer.

I purchased a set of HIFIMan cans with planar drivers on sale for around $500, and I haven't looked back. They sound better than any other >$1000 cans I've listened to, bar none.

That said, they offer no isolation whatsoever, so you do need a quiet environment in which to use them.
Of course, it's a good movie, so no jerky-cam.

Jerky-cam may have once been a stylistic decision, but nowadays is done to give the illusion of excitement and action without having to actually provide the action, which is way easier for the movie studio. A frequent "jerky-cam" complaint I hear is that people don't know what's going on, they don't know who is fighting who, where it's happening, who's winning... and the reason for that is that there is no location where it is occurring, there are no spatial relationships between the combatants, and the action of the fight does not produce a "winning" or "losing". If you de-jerk the jerky cam, what turns out to be under the jerkiness is just cinematic mush.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic or cynical, I mean that descriptively. Get a modern jerky-cam action scene into something like VLC or mplayer and step through it at 20% speed. Seriously, it's worth doing once, if it's easy for you to acquire the video, as an exercise in media appreciation and education. What you'll find is almost certainly what I'm describing, there's no "there" there. It's not that you're "too old" or slow to follow it, it's that there's nothing to follow.
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I have huge respect for PHP, and many years of PHP development under my belt. I wouldn't dream of using it for something pretty heavy weight such a this. Certainly a factor that would come into play for some prospective users.
I see it more as a functionality thing. I bought them initially for exercise -- I got tired of running with headphones on. These days I mostly use headphones in three situations: exercise, commuting (on the subway) and while working. The train's heavy environmental noise makes sound quality matter less than isolation, and earbuds can fit in my pocket. Plus, as I mentioned above, they sound better than I expected and I don't mind using them on the train even for an hour or two if I'm taking a long trip. Music while working is mostly about comfort and isolation, as I'm hopefully working instead of actively paying attention to the music.

If I'm planning on actively listening to music or doing production work, I use my nice speakers or a pair of monitoring headphones. But that's a much less common scenario for me.
Does anyone understand the pricing? : https://gigster.com/pricing
Thanks for the comment! At the moment we are focusing on frontend and mobile so we have to be able to access the authentication tokens from the javascript. However, localStorage is an option we are currently exploring to use instead of cookies.
For mobile we agree that they have their filesystem to store the tokens securely.
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Hi! I made this opensource single page application to master javascript language and in general programming. I had really much fun experimenting with capabilities (and limits) of canvas with this project. This is the source code: https://github.com/gioblu/Kipplr
After a lot of testing i found this tool able to render 10.000x10.000px (or more with certain browsers like firefox) abstract pictures in seconds. Images before impossible to be created by hand with photoshop or illustrator now can be rendered with Kipplr!! So can be used to generate huge unique pictures (1mx1m) in seconds! I hope you will like!
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And put together a marketing campaign and handle sales, that would be really handy.
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Change is hard. When computers were first introduced to schools there were similar arguments and complaints. When calculators were brought in instead of the slide rule we heard it would be the end of actually "knowing" math. Teachers who are great find ways to use technology and tools available to inspire their students and create engaging lessons. This teacher just sounds resistant to change.
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Yet another thin client lover. I really expected them to get extinct be early 2000's, but looks like I was falling on the same kind of mental trap they do.

Well, my phone is perfectly capable of compiling my software today, so why will I offload it to a server 10 years in the future? If your answer has any mention of "battery", please explain how using a wireless network to transmit the entire software twice will use less energy than simply compile it at the device.

Servers, desktops, laptops, tablets and phones are all here to stay. They'll all get more powerful, cheaper, and more convenient. None will go away.
Unreal 4 has Blueprints that you can almost do everything in or write custom additions/components to [1].

Personally I am not a huge fan of visual as it almost seems more complex sometimes seeing more than you need to at a time. I prefer C++ directly in the engine but for working with teams where others such as technical artists, game designers, artists etc need to modify it helps. It also helps document the architecture of something without having to dig in as much. They have a pretty good balance of direct code and/or visual blueprints in Unreal. The best part is you can always get to the metal with the code behind it, or you can choose to do either visual or direct code only, or both visual and direct code. I think visual programming that obscures the source or makes ugly source is not great.

[1] https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Blueprints/i...
Without having access to the actual source code, I wonder what you consider heavy weight about it?

If you mean the purpose of the app, PHP is more than capable of handling highly sensitive data if it is written by a capable developer.

If you mean traffic wise, a single VPS can easily handle thousands of requests a second, and if you need more you simply add more inexpensive VPS.

Unless I misunderstood your sentence?
Cool website, at least for the ones I know enough to understand.
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How do you define "quality"? Why do you automatically assume that the most important thing about headphones is sound quality for everyone?
Pretty much every ethnic group in the region tried to cleanse every other group. Your source's casualty counts are wildly inflated - even the Serbians only claim ~1,000 killed in Operation Storm - so I'd imagine it's filled with other, more subtle bullshit as well.

If you believe NATO's the reason for ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, I've got a good condition used bridge in NYC to sell you.
Why cutoff at 10, Dang?

Let's try this again:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=HAKMEM&sort=byDate&dateRange=a...
> "I know two video editors (people not things) that create trailers for block buster movies and they do it on a mac laptop using final cut."

I find that hard to imagine. I'm running a pretty powerful desktop, and I was having a hard time just editing and grading RAWs in Resolve yesterday.
It's been a while since I used Clojure, so I apologize if what I'm saying is wrong or out of date. Having used both Clojure and Go there are some significant differences in how coroutines work in each.

For instance, in Go making a blocking system call inside of a goroutine "just works" as Go will create additional goroutines as necessary. But if you do the equivalent in Clojure, you risk thread starvation.

"However if you are using go blocks and blocking IO calls you're in trouble. You will in fact often get worse performance than using threads (in the normal case) since you will quickly hog all the threads in the go block thread pool and block out any other work! ... Since the go block thread pool is quite small, it's easy to block all the threads and thus stopping all 'go processing'."[0]

Now there are some ways around this; I think that you can use promises for blocking IO inside of a Clojure coroutine. But this is one area where you don't have to worry about this kind of thing in Go, even if you do have to know that the default map implementation isn't thread safe. :)

[0] http://martintrojer.github.io/clojure/2013/07/07/coreasync-a...
Could clarify that a bit for me? Thx.
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