skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess my original comment was just lost in translation.

In my first language I think most people would agree that seeing involves visible light and eyes. We say the blind can't see, because their eyes don't work. We say that we can't see in the dark, because there is not light.

Sometimes we use see in a metaphorical sense, like "the blind see with their fingers". No one would confuse the fact that blind people gather some information about their surroundings with the help of their fingers with the fact that blind people just can't see. It's not the same thing.

I could agree that one can say "seeing" in regard to an atom in a purely metaphorical sense or poetical sense but that was not my interpretation of the original statement.

Maybe in English it's just different?
That isn't anyone's assumption. These people are too underprivileged to know or care about your "walled gardens" and "ecosystems". It's supposed to be a good enough intermediate step to drastically improve the poor's access to information.

Yes, it's good for Facebook, obviously, but this is not a zero sum game. The choice to use any better competing service that comes along will always exist. No one else is willing to front the hundreds of millions with little to no returns for 20+ years required, though.
> As opposed to plain text files, which magically survive having random blocks overwritten by hypothetical filesystem bugs or hardware issues without losing a single line of log content?

Neither system will protect you from losing a single line of log.
The problem with journald is that a simple corruption can make you lose the entire log file.
Have you beenin twitter? There's plenty of people there, ready not only to tell you that you're wrong, but explain why and how in great excruciating detail
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my first thought was that commenter's phone died.
It's not that we're young and exciting and the early attempts were old and boring. The comment you're replying to is pointing out the very different incentives between several private companies competing for and government-funded projects with totally different funding structures.
Immigration has a tiny effect on housing demand. In part that's because immigrants are generally far more willing to share accommodation in order to save money. A far bigger effect is elderly people continuing to live in large family homes after their children have left, even on their own after the death of a partner. This is a much bigger drag on housing availability.

The main reason we need working age immigration is our ageing population. Our retiree population is set to massively inflate over the next few decades. Unless our otherwise shrinking working age population wants to be financially buried under the costs of supporting them, we need to support our working age population size and the only way to do that is through immigration.
> No, I'm talking about delimited continuations. No need for TCO. The continuation contains only a portion of the stack (off the top).

I don't think that resolves it. It's quite normal to want to chain together a few thousand or million monadic operations even within a single method (e.g. making a number of network calls, writing lines if you're managing I/O monadically). If doing that results in a stack overflow then that severely limits the utility of this approach.

> Right, but we're talking about delimited continuations, i.e shift/reset, not call/cc. You can simply treat them as threads. They're not at all like gotos (you can read my blog post). My claim is that they fit much better with imperative (including functional-imperative) languages than monads.

I did read it; I'm sorry if I've got the terminology wrong. I found e.g. the "class Foo" example really hard to follow the control flow; in that sense it seemed goto-like to me. I find threads really hard to reason about, so "it's as easy as threads" doesn't really appeal.

I've not seen the term "functional-imperative" used that way, and usually the two are contrasted - can you clarify what class of languages you're talking about?
It's almost beautifully murky that the folks using the app would come to think that what is offered to them is the Internet. This is a distilled example of what heavy ISP control of the Internet could look like.

Getting service to disadvantaged or destitute people is great. But it's so very important that Google, Facebook, Apple, Comcast, Verizon, TWC, whomever are constrained from wanton good-will Trojan horses. The tenor and breadth with which Facebook has entered their heavy-handed lot simply illustrates that sometimes, there's nothing new under the sun.

TRAI taking a very thorough, critical look at Free Basics is a good thing for the people of India.
> The fix to failed integration is not to prevent people from getting in. It's to improve integration.

And why is that our responsibility?

This is outrageous. I were forced to emigrate due to war, poverty or prosecution and happened to be accepted in a country that is not my own, I would have to be 1) extremely thankful of my hosts for saving my life and 2) morally obligated to obey their laws and customs. This is basic morality.

> come down to treating each other as human beings instead of being afraid of "The Different Ones".

This is naive to the point of irrationality. The social unrest that is spreading through Europe is not _caused_ by yellow journalism (they just profit from it), it's driven by actual contact with radically different, incompatible cultures.
Myopia has recently been linked with the amount of time you spend outside, irrespective of how much close work you do: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236638275_Time_outd....
I'm aware of the home mortgage interest deduction. If that was what thrownaway meant, they could have said so, and we could discuss that. "lmgtfy" isn't an argument.

Interestingly, that Grist article doesn't attempt to quantify how much of the deduction goes to city vs. suburban property owners, so it's hard to get a grip on how "massive" a subsidy it is vs. say, community development grants and public transit set asides.
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The Mars Express delay display has a small bug - the developer rounded the seconds but forgot or didn't care about the carry to the minutes in case fifty-nine and something seconds rounds up to sixty seconds.
Anyone know much about the GUI for their control system? http://blogs.esa.int/mex/2012/08/05/time-delay-between-mars-...
I agree the tribalism is not helpful on either side, but Blue origins is nowhere near getting off this rock, or even into orbit around it.
I found this article interesting as well:

Norway Offers Migrants a Lesson in How to Treat Women

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/world/europe/norway-offers...

Where multiculturalism and human rights collide...
But the same people who compare this to yelling in the streets then turn around and tell the sealion analogy. One of the many problems with twitter is that some people perceive it as private dinner conversation and others as public soapbox, and it can very rapidly shift between the two.
The classic coding book 'Code Complete' recommends adding spaces after and before brackets. The idea being the increased white space improves code readability.

I used to agree, but more recently have decided it ultimately ends up making things more difficult to read by increasing the amount of scanning your eyes need to do.
So instead of brightly colored plastic pieces of crap you can also make dark coloured plastic pieces of crap?

I see very few things in my life where plastic makes sense, except because it's cheap when mass-manufactured. I actually would like to reduce the amount of plastic in my life.

One advantage of 3D printers is that you can repair parts that have broken down and can't be bought again. But with plastics you can usually only repair broken plastic parts - maybe you shouldn't have bought a cheap plastic thing that breaks down fast in the first place.

3D printers are a tool with very limited use cases where they make sense.
It's a ridiculous soundbite which I am sure was devised by a PR hack.

There are probably enough US tool makers with YouTube channels to fill a room! (I subscribe to many of them)

If he were honest it's probably because China is cheaper but also because it's much easier. They can order a product, at crazy high volumes, and let the Chinese figure out how to scale. And afterwards there is no bad press when workers are fired.
Listening to the terrorists is always a good idea, especially when they are discussing how to attack us. I suggest you learn a little arabic or turkish, and browse their popular websites to find out what they think of westerners as well, while you're at it.
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This is counter-productive for FB in the long run. When zero-rating hollows out net neutrality, what stops WeChat from teaming up with an ISP to undermine WhatsApp and Messenger?

Imagine if MySpace had struck deals with network operators all over the world to be available without data charges and called it philanthropy.
The reason why the USPS forms look so ancient is because they are so ancient.

Their budget has been destroyed over the years by Congress so there is no money for things like redesigning forms and reprinting them.

I've watched my main post office slowing implode on itself because all of USPS income is going back into funding future imaginary employee retirement funds (due to congressional law designed to destroy them).
I could read with 3 and I have had (mild) hyperopia as long as I can think. YMMV.

Realistically, these conditions are derived from eye shape, so I don't think reading early has anything to do with this. If you have some evidence, I'd be interested though.
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An amazing achievement, and one I'm sorry to have missed watching live as I was AFK.

However, having watched this just now, I could have really done without all the bro-nerd whooping and faux prime time personality-presentation. The latter's awkward and naff and just got in the way for me - the former was simply irritating in the extreme.

Maybe I'm getting old, but I'd rather have a bit of restraint and less of the infantile gesticulation and cursing in the background where this sort of thing's concerned.

grumble

Anyway, onwards and upwards (and back again), SpaceX!
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I guess it's probably closer to creative writing than debate on the internet, but I'd say this is pretty creative: http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
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I wanted to revisit an old thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1282024.

Since the above thread, UX and UI has evolved significantly. Most notably, the shift from skeuomorphic patterns to flat design.

What are some incredible SaaS interfaces that you have come across recently?
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4chan isn't really for discussion, though. It's for pictures, palaver and pissing matches.
This is not tribalism; those two achievements have an order of magnitude difference at difficulty and practical meaning, and Bezos wasn't first in his class either. I was very happy for Blue Origin then and I'm happy for everyone who pushes the boundaries of space technology (hell, I even start to like ULA), but those two landings are not comparable, and trying to do so diminishes what just happened.
Just to be clear, Free Basics runs on top of existing mobile internet providers. It’s just free access to Facebook plus a few handpicked websites.
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Firstly, thanks for introducing me to Harrison Bergeron. I'm looking forward to reading it. I love HN for things like this.

> Holding back a child until the others have caught up is as much the antithesis of fairness as giving an advanced child extra benefits at the expense of the less advanced ones

I couldn't agree more, other then to say apportioning finite teaching resources is a zero-sum game. If you give more attention to one kid (because of their perceived intelligence or for any other reason) then you are holding back another, whether you like it or not.
A lot of manufacturing capabilities have moved. I am engineer not even mechanical, but occasionally I will have to make prototypes. Maybe it wouldn't be super pretty, but if I had six weeks I think I could become proficient enough to make a pretty good units. These aren't super complicated parts, but does require soldering, box cuttings, wire routing etc.
If you look closely it appears to be a fullscreen iTerm2 running a fancy tmux powerline.

Edit: From https://github.com/koekeishiya/kwm/issues/8#issuecomment-166...

"The Apple menubar is hidden using the option that was added with El Capitan. I'm using the program nerdTool to create the illusion of a bar that you see in the screenshot."
What pisses me off more is when they do "evil stuff" and then say it's "just a technical error":

http://trak.in/tags/business/2015/12/22/users-mails-usa-cana...

I also deeply dislike their use of "Internet.org" - it's just shameless. How can 50 websites be anything close to the "Internet"?

Eventually they kind of got the message on that, too, which is why they've renamed the service to Free Basics, but they're still using the Internet.org website to promote it.
> Getting a kid into adulthood with perfect or near-perfect eyesight could well be a greater gift than helping them be an academic superstar.

Isn't there a widely available patch for low-$X00, and a permanent fix in adulthood for not much more than that? People spend 100x that much money on e.g. private schools, which are only a partial attempt to get closer to academic superstardom, not a 100% effective way to get perfect, like the treatments for myopia.
> Unless you're German, than that statement is almost certainly false.

What? Imagine a Scandinavian or a Briton chanting their countries names in any other place than a sporting event (with an opposing country). It just doesn't happen.
Painting, design work (web design, print design, product design, architecture), poetry, fiction writing, composing music, theater acting... Do you want me to continue?

Yes, programming is a creative job. But to claim it to be "the most creative" is rather short-sighted.
> under the assumption that India is too poor or
> backwards to get its shit done

Perhaps until it does "get its shit done" that assumption would appear to hold?

I have often wondered what the middle-class Indian dudes who are trying to block their country men from getting Facebook and Wikipedia access are really scared of. Could it just be they're worried about how it looks?
Indeed. China would love it if they could start over and just offer a "Free Basics" version of the "Internet" to its billion citizens. It would make censorship easier by orders and orders of magnitude (basically as easy to censor as TV is over there).
Abstract:

We demonstrated interruptions of macroscopic duration in
a single trapped and cooled Ba+ ions’s 493‐nm
fluorescence. They are caused by transitions of the ion
into the ‘‘dark’’ 2D5/2 state.—Multiple simultaneous
jumps of three ions indicate cooperative interaction
with the light.

I haven't read the paper but I'd be interested in a quote from the part that supports the statement: "People do take photographs of single atoms. It requires a very colorful atom and a very bright flash,..."

I'm not aware of a definition of atomic color but maybe that's a real thing in analytical chemistry, spectroscopy or some other field. I wouldn't be surprised.

Probably it's just the wavelength of the emitted light.
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The US still has a large number (~12M) of largely skilled manufacturing jobs, and manufactures more product (~$2T) by $ value than anywhere else in the world but China. It just needs fewer workers per $ produced than it used to.

There's nothing about either of those trends that's unfortunate.
Did you check here ?

https://github.com/cjwirth/awesome-ios-ui
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Keeping marketing or financial problems aside. What are the technical difficulties that Facebook would face when providing access to the whole web rather that some specific website?

Data from Facebook or Wikipedia is same as the data from any other website. They will need the same infrastructure. What am I missing here?
How many Americans actually want to go back to a low-cost assembly based manufacturing economy?

I'm a Brit and recently had a rather weird experience as a friend of mine waxed lyrical on the one hand about how Britain needs more honest manufacturing jobs because that's how wealth is created, while also talking up how great his Son's private school is and that he's got a fund set aside for the boy's University education, probably in the arts. It was more than a little surreal.

The fact is UK manufacturing is actually doing pretty well. It accounts for 12% of the country's output compared to a high of 25%, and has mainly migrated into higher value engineering and design. So yes it's a lot lower than during the 70s proportionately, but they are predominantly much, much better jobs. What we should be doing is what my friend is actually doing versus what he was advocating. Educating and investing our way into a higher value economy.
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We would like to build the next version. It will be same set of cross-platform commands but written on C Programming Language in order to provide the high performance for users.

It would be great if your provide your support

The project page is http://nixar.work/pro

More about the project:

The mission of this project is to transform complex Bash commands into easy to understand joyable equivalents for users with any skill level.

We were inspired by Underscore, Linq, Prelude libraries and applied their concept in the Bash command line.

If you know one of these libraries, you can reuse this knowledge.
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How far are we now from forming Voltron?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZv5Z2Iz_s

I'm serious!
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Or Freicoin, which I co-authored with another Blockstream founder. But neither has the network buy-in and security of Bitcoin.
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That doesn't address any of the concerns I raised.
I would love to see Google move to Kotlin.

Sadly the official response of the Android frameworks team is that they have no plan to do so in the near future since :
-if you want to write your app in Kotlin, you can already do so. It is completely supported by Android (even though truthfully you don't have idiomatic support of Kotlin in the platform's API).
-moving to Kotlin would be a very big commitment for the platform and there are some big questions to answer like what about the people who want to write Java ?

Still, if in 2 years a good chunk of the community has moved to Kotlin, it might be reason enough for them to reconsider. Some members of the Android teams are already using Kotlin extensively, for exemple in the DataBinding library.
I currently work for a company that makes small drones (quad-copters and flying wings), and they use 3D printing for many parts. This makes small-scale fabrication and prototyping much cheaper. The drones themselves take photos for various purposes. Mostly inspections and measurements.

Prior to this, I didn't know 3D printing had actual industrial applications.
You can't temper the mob with a look of opprobrium (or disinterest) across the internet.
As counterpoint, A Thousand Rivers goes the opposite way:
http://schoolingtheworld.org/a-thousand-rivers/

I also find it interesting that Larry Sanger's latest post is about the loss of democracy and freedom in the USA. My view, based on Sudbury model of schooling, is that true, vibrant democracy comes from a life lived in a self-governing community.

A link on such things: http://www.educationfutures.org/Respect.htm

An excerpt of that on the basic philosophical treatment of children:

> The root ideas of a democratic education are as simple as they are radical: children should be accorded the same human rights and freedoms as adults; they should be granted responsibility for the conduct of their affairs; and they should be full participants in the life of their community. Democratic schools provide an environment where children can live their formative years in exactly the same manner as they will live out their mature years--as free citizens of a society devoted to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The world these children will inhabit as adults will be a familiar one, a world that has been part and parcel of their childhood.
Catastrophic debts occur in its absence, but fiat money gives a way to handle catastrophic debt in ways that are a lot less harmful than when it happens in a gold based system.
Not going to happen, it's like saying "I hate paparazzi, I can't wait until all cameras break."
As well as Jodd [0], Play [1] and many more [2, 3].

[0] http://jodd.org/

[1] https://www.playframework.com/

[2] http://www.gajotres.net/best-available-java-restful-micro-fr...

[3] http://www.javaworld.com/article/2995526/developer-tools-ide...
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Different incentives = different goals. SpaceX had to cut costs down to even be remotely competitive, and they had the benefit of starting from scratch, with no prior commitments in design of machine shops, etc. and with access to several decades worth of spaceflight experience.

And they have a drive, too. Mars is not a marketing story, Elon seems to really believe in doing it, and a lot of people at SpaceX buy into this vision.
At that price point, yes. Maybe the problem has been not enough power required... I don't know. I just know that most bitcoin companies in Iceland have moved or are moving to get cheaper power elsewhere.
Sadly, it is still the same with mobile phones. I regularly experience being stigmatized for not having one. But it seems to be getting better. I already met multiple others who don’t have one, either.
I find similar things in youtube comments, facebook threads etc. A facebook page or youtube video with, say, pro Israel message gets a mob of commenters shouting down anyone who speaks about the plight of Palestinians. Meanwhile a page or video about "occupation" will have a mob shouting down anyone who speaks about Israel's right to exist. Very few in the mob actually make point by point rebuttals or even actual sense.

The same can be seen in religious forums, atheists, etc. Try to post in a religious stackexchange - with the notable exception of judaism.stackexchange.com your post is likely to be censoredor heavily modified if it's too critical or raises inconvenient issues.

At least, sites like quora and stackexchange have rules that tend to promote a clean end result, with quality answers. On social sites like facebook, however, things usually devolve into over 90% "bad" argumentation as defined by paul graham.

I think there is some internet study that anger and outrage motivates people to respond more than good things.

On Twitter, where people shout into the void and most people in the mob don't have a reputation to carefully manage, you can attract even more angry crap.

On YouTube it's the same principle - comments are public so the angry confrontations with low wuality argumentation are more likely.

The design of the site makes a huge difference. Which is why libertarians are just wrong, there is no "free market", every game has rules. You hear that libertarians? I am waiting for you on this thread!! :-P
none actually.
I think these kind of frameworks essentially reduces lot of boiler plate code. Your code might look a bit cleaner.