skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason most of the ones you mentioned went bust is a lack of ecosystem. Few and poor apps means it's not compelling for users, which makes it unattractive for developers. I.e., if my mom can't play Words With Friends because I buy her an Ubuntu or Sailfish phone, she's not going to use it.

Firefox OS couldn't attract WhatsApp to build an app because of lack of a user base, which put off many of their European customers who _only_ use WhatsApp for messaging. WhatsApp isn't the only example. Even Facebook was essentially just a webview. Convincing companies to spend the resources to get onto your platform is actually really hard, and usually means developers shell out cash to companies like Facebook and WhatsApp to get them to build for their OS. You end up with this vicious feedback loop that kills the platform.

Android already has an ecosystem with top-of-the-line apps. If you want to build your own mobile operating system, building on Android gives you an immediate advantage because you already have developers building for your product, which means real people in the real world actually have a reason to use your phone.
If we all demanded it now, it theoretically (TM) wouldn't require legislation.
With the rise of scientific thinking, we're seeing a rapid increase in the number of folks who identify as agnostic or athiest [1]. This is natural given that the tenets of most major religions can't be tested or validated via experimental methods.

The problem though is that absent these religious ideologies, we're left with a number of core questions that secular philosophy has been unable to answer convincingly. Namely:

- Where does value stem from? What is good? What is bad?
- What is the meaning or purpose of life?
- Why is there something instead of nothing? What was the original cause? Was there one?
- What happens after we die?

This dovetails with a number of practical issues in today's world. (1) Lots of suicide and depression. There are 30 million prescriptions of Zoloft written in the United States. Many of these folks (I assume) aren't suffering some sort of pathological illness but find themselves looking at a world that appears to be devoid of meaning when these religious frameworks break down for them (i.e. nihilism) (2) Religious extremism that manifests in sectarian violence and war.

Ultimately, secular thought (agnosticism and atheism included) is just an inferior product compared to religions. It doesn't provide out-of-the-box answers to these really hard questions and as a result can be a very scary and lonely ideology.

Relevant point: I'd love to see academic philosophy working to shore up these areas and provide folks a better, clearer framework in which they can live meaningful, enjoyable lives that doesn't require a religious framework.

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religio...
Ask HN: How can we tackle feature fragmentation?
I've been thinking about what I like to call feature fragmentation: frequently I love specific features from different applications or services. I might hate the performance of a particular email client, but like the UI; I might love the workflow of an issue tracker, but miss integrations with other systems.

Can we think of a new software development and distribution model that can allow users to mix and match various features from different vendors (sort of like Feature-as-a-Service)? I have several ideas of how this might be realized.

This model might be most useful in markets with a large number of competitors, e.g., email clients, project management, issue tracking, todo lists, photo management.

For consumers, the benefits are obvious and many. I suspect this model will face resistance from established vendors, but for smaller and newer entrants, I argue that this approach might help them to sell to customers to might otherwise not use their software because of deal-breakers (e.g., a missing feature they can't live without). It also helps them to focus on their core value proposition. Even for established players, it is not at all clear that this is a worse business model for them; might require some business numbers crunching.
>>edit: Also who is going to plugin the Car, if it self-parks?

The snakebot will https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMM0lRfX6YI
Half-Life Writer Marc Laidlaw Retires from Valve After “A Good Run”
Given all car makers are investing in driverless cars- why don't they install sensors or guide-wires into roads to mark lanes, etc. the next time they are repaving/repairing roads? won't that be much safer than having to rely on cameras/radars .
If/When Tesla achieves a full self-driving car, I feel like the Uber's of the world would go bankrupt (perhaps a little drastic). Tesla can just as easily cut out the middleman and create the complete experience.
I also have a Macbook Air and it seems to work smoothly in Safari. I guess there are differences in how Safari and Chrome uses (or doesn't use) GPU acceleration on that page.
This has not been my experience running Linux on mainframes.

The 8000 VM tests I've seen picked apart are typically "a webserver" type load, not meaningful work.
I don't know (or care) much about the tech at play here, but I love the design of that hardware. Hot damn that's a sexy phone.
Unfortunately, yes. I'm in Seattle, and it's sitting at ~10% YoY house price increases for purchases, with some horrific rent increase for units on the market.

Other cities are more stable than SF/Seattle, afaict, without the price raise.
The problem is mature women do not compare to children. It's like saying "forbidding children to vote is as stupid as forbidding women to vote".

Children do not have the same legal status as grown ups. They can't drive, should they drive because mature women can drive? They can't watch porn, should they be allowed to watch porn because mature women can?

Yes, kids not being allowed to walk down the street is stupid, but using the argument that mature women can do it so kids should be allowed to do it is not valid.
You are absolutely right. I was a bit concerned about this myself. But I didn't have any options available to host an anonymous html-page (I prefer not to link my own name to this, since it could potentially make me a target of some powerfull people...) So, I opted for the PDF-in-Dropbox solution instead.

Perhaps I should repost it in the near future. But this time make it a HTML-page, as you suggest.
Really, it's a simple email away from a complete disaster

Send an email to several people on the organization containing the offending JS that calls shell execution, this can have a huge impact.

"Security software" LOL
Human pancreatic beta-like cells converted from fibroblasts
I just don't run across them very often (ever?) at that level. I think 5% is extremely good for a dividend.

Do you have an example of an 8% dividend stock?
WRT post-structuralism, consider the stereotypical interdepartmental procedure coordination meeting, not beer with buddies.
Night Shift - about time.
Would you two please stop going at it in the most tedious way every time you both show up in a thread?
NASA is still around, you know. They could jump in at any time and make it happen, rather than pay some contractor cost-plus for it...but they don't. The red tape they have to deal with to get anything done is just too great.
As a person that has had to learn to drive on the "wrong" side of the road, let me tell you that works really well, until it doesn't.

There is nothing more nerve wracking than arriving at a huge intersection with multiple turn lanes going onto bridges or into tunnels and being the first car sitting at the red.
When you miss a payment, the car will go back to motherbase.
Zizek is to Nietzsche as Dan Brown is to Shakespeare.
I thought it was still a far-fetched concept when I saw this video 3 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt20UnkmkLI
IBM wants to be able to run Docker on zLinux. No Go, no Docker.
Anti-Decay Programming
Philosophy is simply irrelevant.

Discoveries in physical sciences lead to new technology or just to a better understanding of how the world works and how we fit in it.

Research in social sciences, when the political courage exists to pursue it, can lead to better policy, and better lives for everyone.

Philosophy just seems to be a bunch of circle jerking around esoteric terms and concepts with no trickle down benefits. If Philosophy departments around the world simply shutdown over night, would anyone notice? Would anyone be the worse of? Even in the long term? Probably not. Well maybe would be philosophy students would pursue more employable fields for their undergraduate study, increasing the labor pool and competition for jobs.
I thought that continental philosophy was having the same if not a harder time staying relevant?
What's the difference between you and Airbnb?
This use case seems very strange. Why would I want to get out in my driveway when it's more convenient to park it myself in my garage? I'm covered by any rain, and my front door is locked (whereas the door from my garage into my house is usually unlocked).
Sure it is. The s390x instruction set is microcode emulation on top of a POWER-derived microarchitecture, just as modern x86 chips are microcode on an underlying microarch.
Can I ask why the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica PHEV is a game changer?

PS - This is a legitimate question, I know nothing about the Pacifica.
Sounds like an opportunity to sell some roadside assistance (either from Tesla directly, or from a third party that will pick up the slack otherwise).
Apple removing these frameworks is a pretty strong signal that it's going to get harder/impossible to use in a future release.

Probably not a reason to double down on your private API usage.
So... Here's my thoughts on it. At first blush how dare they! But as I let this stew for a while and turned it over a few times, I'm arriving at a different conclusion, helped along by some of the insightful comments here.

Since the police really are doing this kind of thing in their heads anyways, what I see here is an opportunity for accountability. Did the man in body armor with the gun consult the magic number before he shot the kid on the playground with a toy gun? Or did he just get excited? Like body cams, I think this is actually something that could be used in favor of a more responsible police force than not.
Which is safe, but still a massive failure.
This has been proposed before, and the short answer is that it is too expensive to install these things into all of the roads.

Roads are typically resurfaced only once every 15-25 years, and in many municipalities, shrinking budgets mean that some roads are just outright being closed rather than being maintained.
Automated remote synthesis and production of mechanical parts from regolith has the potential to be absolutely huge. Most the problems with establishing human colonies beyond earth are that they require the astronauts to either bring their shelter with them or construct it while living out of a rudimentary temporary shelter. With this, a team of rovers could be sent in advance to build machines, living spaces, and other equipment that's already in place for when the astronauts arrive. It also solves concerns about radiation exposure since the rovers could potentially construct a buried/underground living structure.
I don't think EX typically accesses writable memory, so that wouldn't be a big problem (and hardware could actually enforce that target of EX is in executable storage). It's used as a workaround to have variable portion of instructions that aren't normally variable.

The actual non-reentrant code is becoming less common, but it still happens sometimes.

Although I think it could be possible to implement that writable pages cannot be executed via a special bit in PSW. Not sure about practical implications to z/OS, though.
Because regular cars never break down? I think with self-driving cars it would be that much easier for a remote health check to figure out something is wrong with your car and send you a loaner, analogous to the way tesla lends people cars when anything goes wrong with theirs.
Surprisingly to many people used to the hiveminds on other forums, HN is not homogeneous in the opinions of the denizens. Many of us are fine with the idea of making money, and don't see it as an all-encompassing evil to be slandered at every turn as if it were an argument unto itself.
For crying out loud. They have billions and billions of dollars of cash on hand. Just do the right thing and buy the company. It looks good for them, it looks good for you, it looks good for the ecosystem. Just buy them!
This is the Uber/Lyft/Taxi killer.

Imagine paying $2-4 for a ride in a Tesla for what used to cost you $25-$30 in an Uber or cab.

97% of the cost of an Uber ride goes towards paying the driver, fuel and Uber fees, 3% (or less) goes towards the lease costs.

A Tesla lease is only ~$0.73/hour ($~12,000/yr), including recharging.
Fair point. But it's now also possible to lobby to get access to it
They pay their workers $10 an hour plus health benefits. For the low-skilled labor that most Wal-Mart employees fulfill, that's a pretty good deal.
How do you put an object on multiple different lists with this technique?

E.g. in FreeBSD an mbuf can be on two lists at once: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/sys/mbuf.h?revision=...
Except the system will also replace safe drivers. So overall the safety level may be decreased.
I always wondered if this was doable with standard tech, something like Twilio for the DIY person. This is awesome! I'm guessing the main reason for that much RAM is traffic, can you approximate how much traffic a Pi can handle?
most likely because the local school transportation company owner was related to someone high enough in the school board (not sure what they are called in US) to pass such BS rules.
Sure, just got to get all car makers and governments to agree on a standard and have to approve the increase in cost
The Blogosphere Pays Off More Than Ever
I agree about FOSS/no DRM and abuse potential. I think that the biggest problem here is not surveillance itself, but the power asymmetry it creates. There are two possible options for an (idealized) solution - either no one gets that power, or everyone does. The first one may be more desirable, but I think it'll turn out that the latter is more practical / achievable.
Working as a Barista After College Is Not as Common as You Might Think
Any one who wants a closer look at the ASP pistol FW did a video about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4trmOFxuJw0
Can you explain the math as to how you know there is a 10% chance that we're seeing the US in the last 10% of its history? I don't understand that part.
Indeed--we use the dvd service routinely (most of their movies aren't available for streaming), and it is almost always two-day turnaround on disks. (One day in each direction)
How is a hybrid minivan (2017 Chrysler Pacifica) more exciting than a step forward toward self driving cars? I guess it is a matter of opinion...
WRT becoming smart as per the article rather than good, one point missed in the article is living in the university system means devotion and belief in the class pyramid at the predefined authoritarian apex angle and all that. You can be whatever you want when you're an individual, but when your identity as a philosopher is as a cog in the hierarchical machine, you and your ideas must be strictly limited to fit a cog shaped hole at a precise level, not too high so as to threaten those in positions above you, not too low as to be inadequate.
10 years is a pretty good run for software with external dependencies. Eventually something will change from beneath you, that's the rule of software.

I have a dozen or so websites currently running on a Raspberry Pi that I got during one of those "free rpi colocation" promotions that were around when it first came out. Now the host has decided they can't afford the free colocation any more. So I have to find those websites a new home, even though most of them are not actively developed. That's software, there's always maintenance.
Reminds me of the Einstein quote: "It must be as simple as possible. But not any simpler." (I'm sure I got the wording wrong, but that's the gist.)
True. It's probably the screen, and the lack of active radios.
> Our country will never become a dictatorship, and our country is already a dictatorship. To be more precise it is an oligarchy or what was that word... plutocracy? Anyone has a link to that paper?

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

1) Oligarchies are not dictatorships.

2) The US was founded as an oligarchy and has been a relatively stable one. This being the case, the OP's point still stands.
I made the argument that I did because the public justification for the NSA is terrorism.

But I could have made a different argument focused only on the merits of spying.

Yes, it is obviously helpful to steal secrets. Yes, this gives us an edge in negotiations, allows us to steal technologies, and so on.

However people get pissed off at us when they discover that we have done so. See Angela Merkel's cellphone. Some of our attempts to assist spying leave us open to harm. See backdoors deliberately left in software that black-hats later discover. Lack of trust has a cost. I've seen estimates that US companies have lost tens of billions of dollars in contracts because other countries don't trust us with their data.

And when everyone knows that we spy, everyone else is likely to spy back just to level the playing field. But spying is asymmetric; small players can do it effectively with very little in the way of resources, and big players have more to lose.

When I put together everything I know, I believe that our aggressive spying programs are a net economic loss for us. We could be better off by spying in a much more targeted way, but with very large penalties for anyone who we caught spying on us.

Obviously I have biases and incomplete information. But I'm not convinced that spying is a good justification for the NSA, even if we were honest with ourselves about it.
Your math is a little off. it should be $1.37/hr, assuming 24 * 365 in a year.

But then the comparison is a little off as well, since you wouldn't ever have a Uber standing by for you 24/7.
I can't even begin to describe my loathing for antivirus products. I haven't used one personally in years, but there is a real quandary for a few of my colleagues--they are not very technically inclined. This ranges in consequence from needing help with simple tasks to having absolutely zero instinct/ability to recognize phishing or questionable emails and links. I usually end up putting something on their machines to help but often feel like it's a lost cause.
It's more of a follow-on to MVS, actually; OS/360 is a couple steps back.
Twitter censoring search suggestions
Twitter seems to have actively started blacklisting controversial terms from their search auto suggestions. Ironically this includes the hashtag: #twittercensorship

You can see for yourself by going to the Twitter search page (https://twitter.com/search-home) and starting to type any of the following:

#twittercensorship

#gamergate

#JeSuisMilo

This move seems to be a reaction to the controversy surrounding the de-authentication of @nero that occurred over the weekend.
I think you underestimate the role of the driver. The human does much more than operate the vehicle. When a car breaks down the human is there to communicate and negotiate the situation. When a human stops traffic, as one did to me this morning because her puppy had gotten off leash, she is communicating with a human driver. Or in a construction zone where a workman needs to stop traffic to allow a truck to turn. An autodrive car, lacking that eye-to-eye communication we are so good at, could be very dangerous in such situations.

How will an autodrive tesla deal with a police check?
Also http://xpl.github.io/expression/
Enough of this console nonsense: It’s time to put a gaming PC in my living room
Not everyone lives in a building like this: http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/1212/file-482133303-jpg/images/o...
This is scary. And sad.
A plugin hybrid Minivan with about 30 miles AER/Electric range with capacity of 8 passengers. Now, to simplify it is Volt of Minivans.
> Sadly, I feel like people won't accept self driving cars until they can drive in the snow as well as in dry, clear conditions, which won't happen for a long time, if ever.

Well yeah, I want to be able to drive my car year round. If it doesn't work in the snow it's useless for months for a large portion of the country. Even here in Seattle the rain is a big challenge.
It does so in several sections, I don't think it's just because of the content.
> Ultimately, secular thought (agnosticism and atheism included) is just an inferior product compared to religions. It doesn't provide out-of-the-box answers to these really hard questions and as a result can be a very scary and lonely ideology.

I'm not sure that it's the job of philosophy to construct comforting fairy tales, if it actually is the case that life has no inherent meaning or purpose.

At best, it can give you a guide to construct your own meaning.
Almost tautologically true: "One could question whether the amounts bloggers are being paid is money well spent, but brands are seeing a definite return on investment from the relationship — otherwise they wouldn’t keep spending."
Real-time customizable news feed for advertising/marketing
I'm not sure I'm a fan of how that's framed. If the religion itself can't be verified, it's not like the answers will be any more convincing. I'm also not sure that delusion will be better for people long term. I'd rather we work on encouraging the creation of values via logic, and that we look for purpose through exploration of our interests... instead of some deity/deities. It could just be a temporary problem, and I'd say it's a pretty minor problem compared to the ones we had prior to secular thinking.
This reminds me of one of my first programming jobs as external consultant for the Baggage Handling System at Schiphol in 2000/2001, I was 17 years old.

My employer at that time was using MS Excel to parse the log files of all sensors of the predecessor/older part of the system that is shown in this video. I told her that I could probably do it 10,000 times faster by creating a simple program in Visual Basic.

Visual Basic was way too slow on our "high-end" Pentium laptop to parse that many 1MB log files, so I rewrote it in C++ (learned it on the job)[1]. The managers got insight in the performance of the various components of the system which they never dreamed of having (they were hardly aware that the system was creating this detailed log messages).

By the way, the system is developed (at least partly) by Vanderlande [2].

[1] Took me a couple of days, probably even weeks back then. I would write the code in 1 or 2 hours now.

[2] https://www.vanderlande.com/
It has a Unix subsystem. It is a lineal descendant of OSes which predate Unix by quite a bit, and has grown by accretion since then.

It's POSIX certified. Linux isn't. That should tell people quite a bit about POSIX, but it never seems to...
"Robert Harte, along with hundreds of other people, became a suspect when Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Jim Wingo saw Harte, his son and his daughter emerge in August 2011 from a hydroponic gardening store and wrote down the Hartes’ license plate number"

How is this legal? I cannot believe that this is a satisfactory level of probably cause needed for the police to start digging through people's trash and raiding their homes. It's incredible. On that note, I don't believe for a second that there even was marijuana in the trash before they searched for it.
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We're in a period of recovery after philosophy went down a nihilistic post modern rat hole in the early twentieth century. Actually doing better than some other fields.