skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Spark from Readdle for a while. It has customizeable swipe actions, so I was able to make it mimic Mailbox quite well. Has some other cool features too.
Interesting tidbit: Pi Zero is really $5, despite being British, too.
Sure, you can connect the towers to the carrier however you want, and this is why certain carriers can sometimes hack in better quality protocols within-network (see the discussion on voLTE further down the page). Carrier-to-carrier connections, however, still have to use POTS/PSTN (since, if you send a voice call to another carrier's network, you can't a priori know it's a smartphone vs. a landline vs. something else right now, and PSTN is the only standard they all agree on). I agree, it's dumb.

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone_netw... regarding the 64kbit/s limitation.
You can do the first part with Haraka. For what it's worth. I started work on an imap server but decided there was little point as nobody needs a highly custom imap server.
Well, see, in a free country, "allowed" to run is a pretty slippery concept. You don't actually need anybody's permission.

Where Trump does need permission is to run as a Republican. I have no idea why the Republican National Committee hasn't just said, "not using our name". Maybe because that was part of the "promise you won't run as an independent" deal they made with Trump?

And what Trump does have (unfortunately) is a whole bunch of support from primary voters. I cannot fathom how that is possible, but apparently it is. On a more pragmatic view, that's why he's "allowed".
"(To be fair, it was enchanted. But still, Edmund. Still.)"

Yes. The enchantment would strongly affect Edmund. I am surprised the article author thinks this a trifle.
Re: "The Road To Character", an interview of the author on On Point in April:

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/04/20/moral-guidance-david-broo...
Randall Monroe is currently doing a book tour so you can hear him speak and get a signed copy if you're in the right place at the right time.

He was at NASA in Houston today.....
Actually, some nice wines, particularly Rieslings, do have a whiff of petrol/gasoline about them.
> The fossil-fuel industry fought long and hard to sow doubt that ambient lead levels in the atmosphere were increasing due to the burning of leaded gasoline. Losing on that point, they then attempted to prove that low levels of lead are not harmful to humans; this has since been shown to be wildly inaccurate.

The oil industry didn't give a shit about whether or not TEL was put in gasoline. It was the auto companies who put it in there in the first place, and the auto and chemical companies who fought its removal.

> It blows my fucking mind that people accuse scientists of being untrustworthy due to having a financial interest in proving global warming to be true; this is in spite of the fact that the fossil-fuel industry has already been caught putting out junk science that justified poisoning humans to protect their profit.

It blows my mind that people judge scientific work based on its funding source over its content and merits. Not saying its irrelevant, but good science is good science and bad science is bad science, regardless of who paid for it.
> It was assumed that I needed to prove my innocence rather than they prove my guilt.

This was not a trial. How do you propose to eliminate suspects, if convincing yourself that they are innocent is not permitted?
It's more than leveraging scale. See these:

http://businessethicscases.blogspot.com/2013/02/exchange-inc...

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/201...

http://www.economist.com/node/8355026
Oh, puhleaseeee! The Warmists are most well-funded funded there is, getting trillions of tax payer dollars for extremely lucrative jobs.

If the guide is based on "follow the money" the Warmists will lose by orders of magnitudes.
I'm surprised you're being down voted.

Remember the "global warming hiatus" that happened over the past 15 years? The one that most climate scientists accepted? Well, it looks like the models we're wrong. Tweak a few model input and "oops!" it's actually been warming the last 15 years.
People running for President make promises all the time that are within the control of Congress.
CM30 was comparing him/herself to carnivores, so I was asking whether s/he can act like one.

And those forest animals of yours need meat to survive. We don't anymore.

We have progressed to a stage where we can perfectly survive on a 100% plant based diet, but yet we chose to support an oppressive system that enslaves and kills sentient beings and along the way is destructive on so many other levels (see my original post) - nothing 'natural' about that.

CM30 was basically saying that s/he enjoys meat, i.e. it tastes good and doesn't give a sh*t about the well-being of other sentient beings, a very selfish attitude if you ask me.

Please watch those videos I posted and tell me you're ok with what is shown.
I appreciate all of that, but calling for communal punishment with a bogus claim that it's the only thing that will work (something you can't possibly know) still crosses the line here.

It shouldn't be hard to see why. Imagine reading HN and hearing your fellow users call for you to be punished for crimes you are at least as aghast at, and personally more likely to suffer from, than the rest of the HN population is.
Humor – Area 51 – Stack Exchange
I have to click the zoom buttons to force the slides to sync. Does anyone have it in PPT?
An obvious difference is that we do have scientific models of global climate change that give us at least some evidence, but we lack any such information for the case of the existence of a god.
http://www.cowspiracy.com/
This is a sentiment that makes no sense to me. Instead of remembering to not take it too seriously and enjoying the theater (regardless of accuracy), why not remember that the target of such articles is a real person and not an abstract object to be harmlessly ridiculed. Why celebrate meanness?
something irks me about retrospective and I've seen it all. retrospective steals from daring by making ourself feel good about progress done. Fight the retrospective! do outrageous stuff with this bit of tech today.
I say this with insight how this uneasy bright kid does weird stuff with things people don't look at.

I think - leave history to historians.
Shhhhh...you will scare away the clicks, and heaven knows we need clicks!!
Using formulas in Excel isn't merely coding. Using Excel often involves designing data models, tracking state, etc... Programming is largely based on organising and storing data, filtering and transforming data and displaying data, Excel does all of the above.
Yeah, I definitely agree. It sucks because I consider myself a conservative, and for a while was really hoping that trump was just committing to some super duper long-con troll, by saying the most outrageous/offensive/clearly factually inaccurate things possible.

I thought the most interesting angle to him was that he wasn't tied to the money structure (since he's already rich), and could really shake things up (and by shake things up I mean destroy everything with incompetency), but now it's scary to consider someone with his persona (I'd like to credit him with not actually believing/being the things he says) could actually gain traction in a society of reasonable individuals.
Open source companies that are successful are acquired

Acquisitions aren't success though. It's just "failing upwards" for the founders. Successful companies are self sustaining.
About to propose, Facebook can fuck off?
Would you be offended if you were asked (nicely!) to keep such a major life announcement off Facebook? I don't hate Facebook, but I do hate how impersonal it is. I literally can't stand the idea that friends on both sides would find out about the happiest moment of our lives on a "social media" service, doubly so for our closest friends and family...Or do I need to be dragged into the modern age?
Many car stereos actually send the play signal when they connect to a device. My Alpine unit did this, as does my Pioneer AVH-4100NEX. Also guilty: 2014 Ford Focus ST and Ford Fiesta ST I tried, as well as a late model Mercedes ML500.
Or you design the protocol (or rather, the operations which are applied to the data) so that conflicts can be trivially resolved.

In your example you could have a single operation, SET, which sets a field at a particular address to the given value. User John sends a list of SET operations, all in the form of 'SET "<item X>.deleted" true' for all items 'X' which he wants to get rid of. Steve sends a list of SET operations in the form of 'SET "<item X>.name" ???', which don't conflict with what John sent. The key point is to have stable addresses (eg. never delete objects so that addresses within it remain valid forever). And a small set of fundamental operations on them where conflicts can automatically be resolved by the computer (you get get by for a long time with just SET, and if you have just SET then conflict resolution is trivial).

Note that in that system there is no notion of a 'Delete all users whose names begin with 'A'" operation. That's a very complex operation with very narrow use case. And it requires a lot of logic to handle all the potential conflicts with other such complex operations.
Grand Theft Auto V Grass Roots- Trevor PS4 FIRST PERSON
> the film that environmental organizations don't want you to see!

I despise this type of rhetoric.
> a profession consists of individuals who have undergone a standard form of training, culminating in some kind of recognized title and degree.

So the professions were pillars of society when the world changed little and education was scarce. Now most people complete college and "the professions" are a quaint old-timey thing.

It would have been nice if the author weren't such a meandering windbag, but maybe he has trouble getting to the point because he can't bring himself to say he just wishes they professions were still considered "elite".
Beehive Fences in East Africa Protect Farms from Elephants
Check out Haraka, built by an old SpamAssassin developer (ie me). It's all that and has custom anti-spam features like the Karma plugin too. It's in place at some large installs (eg craigslist, who went from 20 postfix servers to just 7 Haraka servers).
The concept of a Christmas Lecture (or lecture series) as an accessible exposition of a topic is very well established - Faraday kicked them off in 1825 at the Royal Institution.
Simple CPU, from NAND logic gates to CPU instructions explanation
I remember paying for The Bat! and loving it.
Um - in this case we're saving the internet (well, really radio spectrum that people use to access the internet) from private corporations, not the government. A totally free market sucks because there will never be a properly-maintained commons. If it weren't for the government, maybe I'd bolt my router to a 10-kilowatt transmitter so I can get my home wifi signal while I'm grocery shopping. So what if it sucks for everyone else! The government quite rightly regulates me in that area and says I can't do that.

If the internet as we know it today ever dies, I'm 80% sure it will be due to private corporations screwing everyone to make an extra buck, not due to government over-regulation.
No. I want offline versions of this, because you can't rely on a network when on the move.
You caught me, anonymous guy with karma less than 10. My 8 years of participation here under my own name has all been a false flag leading up to trolling this one small article.
The problem with Pascal's Wager: which God and thus which set of rituals and rules do you follow? You've got quite a selection to choose from. You go from having a simple Yes/No choice to having thousands of choices.

In the case of action against climate change, the downsides of doing something are minimal compared to the downsides of inaction. It's a much more binary choice than what Pascal put forward.
When Carousel came out, I thought it was a great opportunity for Dropbox to go up the stack and blogged about it: http://kiyototamura.tumblr.com/post/82662241570/dropboxs-car...

Ultimately, I am beginning to think that Dropbox simply does not have the product DNA =/
Or perhaps (and here's a potentially worrying thought), we'll get open source software making any proprietary stuff impossible to sell. Like how the app store has become filled with 'freemium' apps and 99 cent paid apps.

Open source would definitely be eating the world... though quite a few companies wouldn't be very happy in the process.
sure this was an "accident"?
Took care of this, thanks for the tip.
"we should treat it as any other irrational belief"

How do you distinguish between a rational and irrational belief?

I am strongly influenced by Kurt Vonnegut' "granfalloon" - "a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless". Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon :

> The most commonly purported granfalloons are associations and societies based on a shared but ultimately fabricated premise. As examples, Vonnegut cites: "the Communist Party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company—and any nation, anytime, anywhere." A more general and oft-cited quote defines a granfalloon as "a proud and meaningless association of human beings." Another granfalloon example illustrated in the book were Hoosiers, of which the narrator (and Vonnegut himself) was a member.

What makes you certain that believing in "the US" is any more rational than believing in various gods?

To be certain, there is a consensus reality which says the US exists, and if you fail to go along with the consensus you may be subject to negative consequences. Just like if you fail to express certain religious beliefs, you may subject to negative consequences, even in secular countries.
> support contracts aren't zero margin software products, and nobody buys software anymore

There have been other models for open-source software companies, such as the "sell some defaults to advertisers or sponsors".

If someone could manage to work out the details, I think the open-source ecosystem would respond favorably to a bitcoin approach to revenue share (which would make it explicitly not "open source", but I think people are willing to forgive this violation). The hard part is figuring out how to negotiate with thousands of separate tiny "open-source" components, without project leaders making demands too ridiculous.

At the same time, we don't really want a race-to-the-bottom of poorly-maintained software projects just because someone figured reimplementation could net him a bunch of revenue if he prices everything lower... presumably this cuts into long-term software maintenance, which is something that a good system would ideally incentivize both from the perspective of library authors but also from the perspective of software purchasers, who don't want to suffer from bitrot.

(Another approach could be "performance targets" where bonds are created by library authors, but funded by company purchasers, who would be buying up some amount of technical debt in exchange for rights to deploy and use the software in their production environments. These bonds would then pay out to the library author team based on milestones, like long-term maintenance, or fixing scaling bugs, or something... But similar problems remain regarding how to handle the negotiation between thousands of tiny library authors vs companies that don't have 1000s of hours to waste on software negotiation..... Also lots of questions about "rebundling"- we can't have negotiations with all 100k library authors between themselves and some company just to strike a deal for the company to use an Ubuntu-like software system. Answer is probably something like "have an array of default ready-to-go contracts that any new business can use, and then have terms for renegotiation after a certain period of time or certain amount of revenue accumulation by the downstream company"..)
It's fine to talk about non-Bitcoin blockchains, e.g. Litecoin and Dogecoin both have perfectly functional non-Bitcoin blockchains. No one would argue that. The issue is when you try to apply the word "blockchain" to a technology that has been neutered to the point that it no longer has proofs-of-work in it. It's not really a blockchain at that point because you've removed the main innovation that actually makes the blockchain idea useful. That is what the commenter you responded to meant when he said:

> I'm arguing that the bitcoin protocol without the Nakamoto consensus is not an improvement over conventional clearing technology

As an analogy, let's say you design a car with no engine, but still insist on calling it a car because it looks like a car and it has most of the same parts. It's not really an illuminating discussion to keep debating whether or not it should be called a car so long as you understand the objection that the car-shaped-object is no longer useful for the purposes that people commonly associate cars with serving.
Yes, I'm glad we can openly call Mexicans rapists - thanks, Trump, for breaking this taboo.
I wouldn't marry someone who'd announce it on Facebook. It'd be like if you leaned in for your first kiss, and they said, "Wait, let me Instagram this".
This is a freshly spawned up test machine;)
£85,000 (1957) ≈ £1,895,500 (2015) ≈ $2,852,680 (2015)
Curse.com fails to notify Bukkit.org users of data breach
Does anyone know why Knuth is writing some form of C? AFAIK none of the other TAOCP contain C, or anything other than (M)MIX and pseudocode. Why change now?
I've lived in Thailand for 14 years, in Bangkok and now Pak Chong, and speak to Thais everyday. I studied Thai at AUA and then with a private tutor. But that's just my anecdotal experience.

I gave two references to standard Thai, a dictionary and a video teaching basic Thai by native Thai speakers. Both show the Thai words for "yes" and "no". If you have an reference of any kind that indicates there are no words for "yes" and "no" in the Thai language please link to it.
Ferranti Pegasus used the same (and it's still up and running!): http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I039/10307498.aspx
Awesome. The only thing that would make this chart better is seeing the factor of improvement on each stat. The differing units make it harder to eyeball than it could be. Also would be cool if the price was inflation-adjusted.
If it makes you feel any better, I have wonderful memories of visiting Istanbul with my family when I was a child and would love to go back. The people were wonderful and friendly. Im not keen on the direction that Erdogan has been taking your country but that's something that is only my business in the sense that I can complain about him from the comfort of my own country.
But then anyone can trivially shut down the network by submitting a single invalid block. The very first bit of abuse and everything is shut down and stops working indefinitely. How could this design serve a useful purpose? It seems a lot less useful than the way Bitcoin does it.
Jesus, calm down!

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Does that policy also apply to downvotes?
Product placement, the early years.
making any proprietary stuff impossible to sell.

That is the end goal, right? Your margin is my opportunity. The problem in the middle is: open source software is considered free-as-in-never-pay-me free.

I have multibillion dollar companies using some of my open source software. They've never paid me anything. They ask for bug fixes and feature improvements that would take me six months (or more) of full time work. They don't offer to pay (or then even balk at the thought), they just keep saying "you should support us for free because it's open source."

Part of the "we won't/can't pay" is due to programmers being very low status people in organizations. Programmers don't have budgets to buy anything because "lol free open source" and "it's just code, do whatever." If programmers could allocate resources towards getting features/fixes they need from external projects, the software world could be more... synergistic.
You can get Almond Roca everywhere but Aplets and Cotlets are a pretty WA-specific thing, I've never seen them outside of the state.

Those and the Idaho Spud are my #1 treats when I'm back home.
You know whats even more reliable? Coal fired or nuclear power plant. However these solutions are not mass efficient or practical.

Similarly Wind turbines, while practical, are not mass efficient. Carrying extra batteries instead of turbines makes for a much more efficient system.
If pollution is your focus but not global warming, then you'll focus more on scrubbing technologies and better combustion and the like. A lot of stuff can burn extremely cleanly now if you ignore CO2, and the only reading to look at CO2 is climate change. It's not important at all as a pollutant otherwise.

I also doubt that people would be unified on pollution if not for global warming. In my experience, the people who doubt climate change also downplay pollution in general. It's largely the same people saying global warming is a liberal hoax, and complaining about how the government says they can't dump used motor oil down the storm drains, can't buy freon anymore, cars have to come with catalytic converters, and such.
See also episode 08 of the Melton podcast from iMore.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/melton/id928565652
Sorry for the long reply, no worries I don't take it as a critic.
It's actually more like what amagumori said:
the dichotomy is "everyone in the checkout line can see what i'm buying" vs. "all people who know my first and last name can view my entire credit card transaction history".

If you see my license plate in the street today, I wouldn't care at all. I wouldn't be fine if you published that information in a "where is everybody right now" wiki.
From that wiki a stalker would have it really easy to ruin my life; a burglar could break in at the good moment; an employer could know I visited their concurrent, probably for an interview; I go to this church/mosque/synagogue/... : now you know my religion;the neighborhood association could see I have 'too many' (for their standard) friends (or AirBnB customers?) visiting; marketers could see I go often to store X,Y, on vacation to Z, that I'm more of a Fast food Mc lover than a BK, ...

Also:
So taking a photo of (or making a memory of having seen) doesn't violate your privacy . For many Europeans countries it does violate the privacy, if that photo has no public information purpose. For instance: http://uk.practicallaw.com/7-573-6346
The cost efficiency of the Elliot, adjusted for inflation, was 1445 dollars per cpu cycle per second (when running at the listed peak speed)

For the Pi Zero, it is 0.000000005 dollars per cpu cycle per second.
In the Age of Installs and App Rankings, ROI Is King
Think Dots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_%28candy%29) or a more pliable Jujubee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube_%28confectionery%29)
It's quite normal to deny something the entire scientific community is saying. In everywhere except math it's business as usual. Most of our current scientific knowledge was originally someone disagreeing with the majority.

It's weird you are attacking someone who agrees with you in policy. Just because he does not think "correctly". Given that your argument is out of authority, it's bit alarming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
> stereotypically "conservative in tastes" white america

I've never seen this stereotype before. You sure you aren't talking about brits?