skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said they had to hide their origins, just change their name. "X - an affiliate/subsidiary of Al-Jazeera." You only see it when you actually go to the channel. Then once you hear the reporting and commentary you can balance it with your predispositions, but at least they have a chance to sell themselves, if only for a minute.

If I tell you there's a new channel called "X" and you go to check it out and notice the affiliation, then your judgement will be your own. But if I recommend a network with an off-putting name, you likely won't check it out, even for a second.
I'm skeptical that an ordinary Java person would ever think of this particular solution.

Composing a list of `A -> A` functions into a single one is already sort of a tall order. They would also have to realize that `(B, A) -> A` is equivalent to `B -> (A -> A)`, and that they can compose `A -> A` under the `B` environment. I just don't see this happening.
Because i don't want something on my wrist. Sell me a pendant or a pocketwatch.
For international users: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35301279
This is really interesting as well, and I'm of the opinion at least a shred of 'corporate information' should be more widely shared among employees, specifically as it relates to company health, longevity and compensation programs.

There's only so much that can be learned from publicly available statements. So, when somebody might want to point out "Hey look our company has been profitable and growing at 3% for the past XX quarters so why are you not even giving small-fry employees a COLA raise?" it could be a reasonable discussion. I don't see that happening, as you say, based on the "might makes right" platform of ranking.

It's a pretty bad situation for employees in my opinion, and yet I don't think there's any established 'format' or 'platform' where such information is more widely shared or discussed in US workplaces.
A Quarter of People Won’t Make a Single Call on Their Cellphones This Week
I found this tool in another HN discussion about this Win 10 privacy. I don't know if this tool works to solve the entire problem: https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking/. If anyone can vouch for this tool's effectiveness I would like to know.
yeah, i should probably change that tonight
That's all fine and dandy but none of that nuance is in the comment you're defending so I'm not sure why you're trying to retcon it in now.

That's what made it so strikingly offensive: it's trying to portray 1.6 billion people in many countries around the world as a uniform group with a single belief.
I'm sorry but why do people love a news organization that is funded by Qatar? People claim that they were completely separate but they weren't at all and gripped by controversy that one would expect from an organization based out of Qatar [1]. I think there are better sources for American and global news than what is essentially the media arm for the corrupt and fascist government of Qatar.

[1] https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/al-jazeera-...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10547264
Show HN: 3D shooter in your terminal using raycasting in Awk
Social media when it is talking about your startup is particularly hard, trying to constantly manage the perceptions is a ... huge challenge (even if you don't have any internal challenges). Founding a startup is also a good way to work 9 years worth of time in 3 years (or whatever), I sort of view them like the life-extraction machine in the Princess Bride sometimes. You are constantly trying to balance all the forces, mini-max everything, wonder about what you are not doing, and it can always feel like the wheels are falling off the whole time.

I need to write a blog post on this myself very soon. Props on talking about it more, and the general theme of having more public conversations on the subject.
actually JSC is on there, you just need to select something other than the default 32bit machine.

This link should show JSC there:

https://arewefastyet.com/#machine=29
It is not. You are citing a single example of one company that got seed funding from a few investors who are not top tier players.

Your point provides zero evidence to a bubble in the advertising industry, which is a behemoth filled with established players driving measurable value for their customers.
We changed the url from https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore to this, which points to the GitHub repo as well as containing more background info.
Yes, that's right, for (1) crawling and general index building, (2) scraping and data extraction, and (3) testing or web automation.

Some might be wondering, why this project vs other Selenium web drivers. Answer to that is: https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/40qa0q/a_purejava_sel...

The primary difference from wget and curl is the ability to fully render pages, sub-resources, CSS, and JS. Also allows interaction such as clicks and keyboard events.
That would be the Nash equilibrium across splitting multiple cakes over and over again.

For a single cake, offering a fair split is just as hard to predict success as any other split. It also assumes there are no other signals, which is why it's not very insightful to begin with.
a includes b is trivial in any language and is not a justification for Junctions.

Please take another open minded look at the examples others have posted here. Post again if you still don't see what they do that's useful and not trivially doable in any language and I'll have a go at explaining them to you.
General Electric to Move Headquarters to Boston
That's a good argument for playing the numbers that have won more frequently than average in the past, which is exactly the opposite of what the OP had tried. Of course, this is assuming they use the same mechanical system, balls and everything else for each drawing, which is unlikely, but I'll defer to someone who follows the lottery more closely than me.
Something like that.

F-150 is in fact, the best selling vehicle in the US, and has been for 35+ consecutive years :)

I believe this is true even if you cut out commercial fleet sales.

So, basically, apple may be able to make a profit doing a non-truck for sure, but counting out ford's ability to react would be .... dangerous.
I think if there's one thing Ford should be afraid of from Apple it's not taking marketshare, it's taking profit share. Apple has carved out exactly that slice of the the smartphone market where you can make a profit, and left everyone else to fight over the no-margin remainder. Apple could conceivably do something similar in cars by building one or two models that compete directly with the most profitable cars (though it seems that all of Ford's profits actually come from big trucks--hard to imagine someone hauling a half-ton of manure in the back their rose gold Apple Pickup).

[1] http://www.autoblog.com/2015/04/30/ford-f-150-profit-per-veh...
That's a false dichotomy.
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I hear that people on various anti-depression drugs tend to behave more like proper rational actors. Maybe if we all agreed to take the pills economists could actually understand what is going on...
"Al Jazeera America went on the air in August 2013 after it bought Al Gore’s Current TV for $500 million."

Why did they pay half billion for Current TV? First mistake.
> Actually it's not clear what else is being collected, because Microsoft won't disclose what's being collected. Is there evidence that only data about usage of Windows store apps is being collected?

Microsoft has disclose what is being collected[0]. People just choose to ignore it and making conspiracy theories instead. So where is the evidence that Microsoft is lying?

[0] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85...

> Which would be needed to take into account when deciding on if that app should be used.

How? Neither iOS, Android, or Windows restrict HTTP. Any app can conduct analytics and unless you're running them one by one and analysing the packet dumb you wouldn't be the wiser. At least Windows tells you.

But that's what all this is about. Most other major operating systems conduct similar activities but there is no public outcry about that... Why the double standard?

> Yes, because Microsoft won't tell anyone what it's collecting!

Yes they do[0].

> That right there is undesirable behavior for many that we have plenty of evidence for.

But not something you can readily avoid. I'd go as far as to say that the vast majority of apps or applications send basic telemetry back to the manufacturer, it is the norm now, and has been the norm since before 2007.
Personally I'm hoping that electric trucks will eventually allow late 80s early 90s sized compact pickups (like less than 190 inches in length) to find a market again.

Though I'm not holding my breath for it.
> Though I hope you are not calling Twitter a fly-by-night marketing startup :)

That remains to be seen.
More of a commentary on the appetite of the average cable consumer. I imagine their online business will see an uptick as they do more streaming content and (hopefully) continue to publish interesting pieces and documentaries, especially on the ME, that are hard to find elsewhere.
This 100 round progression reminds me of (though is not equivalent to) Zeno's Paradox.
What I’ve learned after half a year of working remote
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An Integrated Development Environment as the name suggests integrates all of the tools in a developer's environment: editor, compiler, debugger, source control, servers. An editor is just one part of that.
No, I'm seriously suggesting that some airlines prefer to purchase Airbus products because their advanced avionics and automation systems bridge a competency gap in order to maintain operations and growth at the expense of safety.

Are you seriously suggesting a traveler of reasonable means will look at their ticket that says AirAsia on it and think they have made the best possible deicison?
Neither of those are CLAs. Please correct your comment.

I'm particularly perplexed why you linked to that Mozilla document, for two reasons:

1. It says what it is, and as I said above, it's not a CLA. I've signed that document. It's required by everyone to get commit access to the Mozilla repositories. Here's how it works if you want to contribute to Mozilla: you send in a patch, they accept it, and say thank you. Nobody has to sign anything. (The same process goes for Swift, by the way.)

2. I specifically mentioned such a committer's agreement in my comment. It's even in the part you quoted.
Go ahead and provide evidence that they're wrong or lying.

People have been drum beating this privacy stuff for over six months now. But they seem to lack specific evidence, so now I invite you to present it.
I'm skeptical.

Over the past 5 years or so, Microsoft has lost developers as a core group. There are certainly interesting things happening out of their dev group, but with the rise of Cloud infrastructure, cheap (free) alternatives to WINS stacks rose tremendously in popularity.

I was a Seattle Techstars 2013 Founder, and the only two teams using MSFT tech were those whose founders were ex-Microsoft employees.

This just feels like a ploy to get developers back on to Microsoft's platforms, then slowly bleed them dry with fees.

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My experience with the new Microsoft: One of our major products runs on Microsoft SQL Server. Sadly, many developers/ops folks did not realize the difference between SQL Server Enterprise, and SQL Server Standard, and opted to install SQL Server Enterprise on servers, despite not using any of the Enterprise features.

Not only does SQL Server Standard pricing differ compared to Enterprise, but how it's price differs. Enterprise is charged based on a per-core license, requiring both a core license for every core, as well as a minimum of 4-core's per physical processor.

During a routine Software Audit, MSFT determined we had quite a few more SQL Server Enterprise installs than we licensed, so sent us a nice fat bill. We asked for leniency. It was a mistake (ours of course), but we didn't use any of SQL Server Enterprise features.

MSFT wanted no part of that.

So we ponied up our bill, and decided to never use MSFT tech again.

Contrast that with AWS. Due to developer error, we had one of our AWS keys compromised and an attacker used it to mine bitcoins. Amazon sent us the bill. We contacted them, and they gave us a one-time forgiveness.

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The morale of this story: Use microsoft technology at your own peril. Also, having developers handle infrastructure is cool, but don't discount the value of a dedicated infra team.
Al Jazeera America to Shut Down by April
Yes, I did, you can watch lot of their content on Youtube. I am not talking about their news, but their opinion programs.
GNURoot is based on pchroot. I spent some time trying to make it work.
Once got to hear the tax director of Cisco give a talk about Silicon Valley "innovation." He was from Pittsburgh, and used to work for Detroit (not sure which company).

In a nutshell, his talk came down to this:
Every business innovation that Silicon Valley thinks it created, Detroit thought of first, decades ago, and implemented, decades ago, and moved on, decades ago.

Vertical integration used to be a big thing in the automobile world; at one point everything was done in house. Once they began standardizing assemblies and other parts, they began farming out parts to external suppliers because there was no reason for them to control every aspect of the manufacturing process; it was cheaper to let one or more external suppliers handle that.

Everything old is new again.
Researchers find neurons that encode time and predict timing behavior in rats
It isn't in this case.
co-author of blog post here.

We covered some of this, at a high level, here: https://blog.twitter.com/2015/the-what-and-why-of-product-ex...

Certainly not everything needs to be A/B tested -- depending on the nature of the change and the kind of insight one is looking to get, MAB may be better, if it applies, or a number of other approaches can be more beneficial, including not running an experiment at all. After all, Twitter itself came from a side project at the podcasting company Odeo. If Twitter was a/b tested, I'm sure it wouldn't move any podcasting metrics in a meaningful way :).

I'm obviously biased -- but I've seen really important insights gained from A/B tests, and wouldn't dismiss them too easily.
It seemed far more accurate and reported on issues glossed over or ignored by other major networks.
Basically there are qualitative reputation costs at play, which is why it's not really a zero sum.

An anonymous, blind experiment would be more interesting, but less entertaining.
like pgAdmin, for example, since IntelliJ IDEA is just far superior at doing the same thing, and it's just right there where you code.

You don't mention the two things together, but VS has the server explorer which you can use to hook in to a database and do administrative tasks (both design and data viewing)
What would you suggest? That's the sort of thing I'm looking for to prepare for this meeting this afternoon. Have you found something that works?
Samsung's smartphone profits are ~1/2 what they where a few years ago and it's ~1/5th Apples even with a much larger and growing market share. Yes, there brand is growing slowly, but being GM and selling more product on paper thin margins is risky should the market change in any way or a slightly more efficient competitor shows up.

PS: IMO, Samsung is in the perfect place to work on the software side of things. Sure, it would be expensive, but it's one of the few ways to push actual growth. Otherwise, there going to pull a Dell, ride the growth wave and then shrink as growth stalls.
SoundCloud Signs Deal with Universal Music Group
“We are going to build smart cars, but we also need to build smart roads, smart parking, smart public transportation systems, and more”

This is what will slow down the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles, be they in the form of a transportation service initially or not. The infrastructure just isn't there yet.
I'm sure that mattered, but not as much as the overall business model.

I don't know who decided to gamble on another cable news network, but both cable news and cable in general are saturated markets in the U.S., and they're saturated on a sinking ship. It's unlikely the next generation of viewers is going to watch nearly as much "classic cable" as the currently-exiting generation.
> If you allow your employees to use certain means of communication for private messages, you bar yourself from reading them. If you prohibit private messages on that channel though, you have to enforce that.

Just curious, are you in the US? My employer's policy is essentially "Your work-provided laptop is for work. However, we recognize that you'll access personal websites and content from time to time. Don't miss deadlines because you're on Facebook or the NY Times all day." However, they explicitly retain their right (but not responsibility!) to monitor, log, and retain all traffic and activity on not only the work machines, but the work wifi (including guest wifi).

I asked about the US because I know privacy protections are much strong in the EU and I had never heard that allowing private messages bars an employer from reading them.
Increasing admission means they need more professors. Assuming an elite university has the best professors around, any addition ones are going to be of lesser quality. Now the school is putting out worse students because their professors aren't as good as they used to be. Their quality of research drops because the students and professors suck and their reputation as an elite school goes away. Additionally, if you open the admissions more, you will effectively get students with lower grades. The more easy it is to get into a school, the less people think of it. You are catering to the lowest denominator.
Regardless of their propaganda or slant, these outlets are useful specifically because they are not part of the US media cycle "play list". US audiences are in a filter bubble. Also some of the domestic outlets are too busy reposting Vines to cover enough stories in between sports and weather.

Once encountering a story on those alternate sources, you can read with some critical thinking maybe, and then look for other sources to corroborate.
I'm really puzzled by this. I remember about 10 years ago GM (I think) was making a big deal about their electric platform that was going to be the base of a whole slew of electric vehicles. It sounded like a good concept at the time. But now? Crickets...

Correcting myself: it was a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle and more than 10 years ago, but still an interesting concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Hy-wire
> I spent a few weeks of my spare time trying to get the parsing of free-text recipes to work (essentially MFP's import from link). The results were decent, but I realized that if it's only 90% accurate I still need a lot of user interface functions (like MFP) to let users edit/fix the inaccurate bits. It started smelling bad so I decided to strip it down to its most basic function.

As a regular MyFitnessPal user I have to say, their recipe importer leaves a lot to be desired. Whenever I use it, I inevitably have to make corrections because it mapped the parsed ingredient to the wrong item. (And their UI for making corrections is not particularly great either.)

It's probably a good idea that you decided not to go down this road.
I did not have a chance to see Al Jazeera America, but based on the number of times John Oliver used AJA clips on his show, and based on the topics related to those clips, I strongly suspected I was missing out.

I'd like to know when things our going wrong in our society (because that's how you can start to fix them), without the weird pro-Russian slant of a channel like RT.
Well, I would say that vertically centering a thumbnail to the left of a block of text would certainly be easier with flex box. My previous solution would have been:

.container { position: relative; }
.thumbnail { position: absolute; margin: auto 0; width: w; height: h; margin: auto 0; top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; }
.summary { padding-left: w; min-height: h; }

With flexbox that becomes:

.container { display: flex; }
.thumbnail { align-self: center; }

There are a lot fewer traps and design is a lot more scalable in that you don't have to worry per se about width and height.
You may want to ask on the chicken-users list (chicken-users@nongnu.org, subscribe at https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users). The current list of maintainers is at (http://wiki.call-cc.org/maintainers), you could also contact them directly. Or on free node's #chicken

Now, the C source is not included in the repository itself, so if you are (somehow) building from that(for instance, you already have a working chicken), you are ok. They are only included in the "release tarballs".

How does your package manager get around bootstrapping compilers, in general? Guile's approach requires maintaining a one-shot interpreter/compiler in C, that's only ever used once. I don't think all projects do that.
I mean, they're promoting the freedom to use a bunch of 2006–2009-era ThinkPads and MacBooks, and if you use the git release, a couple of motherboards from the same time period and maybe one 2015 Chromebook if you're lucky.

I appreciate that this work is being done (though I'm unclear on where the coreboot/libreboot line lies, but anyway), but calling it "freedom" is a stretch. It very much feels like the freedom to move to an abandoned island and not pay taxes or be subject to any government.
A similar feat for Super Mario Bros 3. The guy used Excel to write NES assembly!

http://tasvideos.org/4961S.html
Fun quote from http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.en.html for example:

"Any program in your computer, that someone else is allowed to change but you're not, is an instrument of unjust power over you"
It's pretty funny. So if I understand correctly, in the first stage 7 out of 8 squares are red?
Edit: I played it a bit more and I think I understand the first stage, but I haven't made it past it yet. If all 7 stages were identical, then you'd need a 1/16 chance of winning each stage to make the odds come out correctly. So I'm guessing the stages get progressively harder.
Ask the people who work at Google and Facebook.
I ported GCD to Linux when it was made available/open-sourced some many months ago. Effectively, GCD uses a bunch of (named) FIFO queues, protected by semaphores, and manages some OS threads, which dequeue tasks(or blocks) from the queues and execute them. It provides some nice higher level abstractions and functionality (e.g groups ) on top of that. It also supports both synchronous and asynchronous execution semantics. The OS threads are of course managed by the OS scheduler. (unfortunately, pthread workqueues are not supported on Linux yet -- the original implemntation creates workqueues for each defined priority and that's how priorities are supported in GCD. On Linux you can use setpriority(), ioprio_set() and other such APIs that don't really offer much in practice. But I digress).

Contrast that to coroutines/fibers where tasks(i.e functions), which run in the same I/O thread(though not an absolute requirement). Cooperative multitasking is used, where a running function can yield control to other runnable functions by explicitly calling a yield like function -- that is, there is no scheduler that preemptively stops a function and runs another. You need to do that yourself.

There is some overlap between the benefits and properties of tasks that run on OS threads and fibers, but for the most part, they have different pros and cons. You can't really use in practice fibers to get the benefits you get from a GCD like framework (which utilizes multiple H/W cores to run functions/tasks concurrently), but also, you can't use GCD to improve throughput on a per-thread basis and deal with long-running and/or blocking lightweight tasks, or implement a fair-scheduling execution scheme).