skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Criminals force people under threat of death to sell properties and accept dirty cash for payment. The criminals resell the property for clean money.
Definitely not seeing Windows 10 as a resource pig. I installed it on an ancient 2006 Core Duo 32-bit 2GB RAM machine and was really impressed, it feels faster than anything before. Metro can be really slow at times, but mostly it feels fine.
Though universities carry a lot of blame science journalists who dont read or comprehend the actual science content before writing an article should find a different career!
I've been married and divorced. Now with a new partner who I've been with for nearly a decade and we've got a kid. I'd say the pruning of bullshit from marriage is about 10% of that for having children!
Okay, in my city (Edmonton) we have the province's biggest University, that is mostly served by the LRT, and the university station in underground and hence has escalators.
During peak morning hours, every single person walks up the escalator stairs and it is considered rude to stand in the morning. When the escalator is down everyone complains, because we need to 2x the walking now.
Actually the fact that escalator is broken (i.e one is turned off and the other is closed for maintenance) has created a sort of inside joke, to the point where the escalator has its website to say if its working http://uofaescalator.com/
"A Small But Vocal Group of Vile Trolls Cloaked By Useful Idiots And Hungry For Attention Have Become The New Religious Right" just doesn't get the clicks, besides being a mouthful. And "gamers" aren't one of the approved protected classes, so stereotyping them is perfectly acceptable, except it isn't really stereotyping (like those other icky people do), because science!
Development and Deployment of Massively Multiplayer Games
This confused me for a while, because of the poor example. The mushroom and flower textures have transparent black pixels and exhibit black fringe.

With transparent black pixels, premultiplying by alpha does nothing.

It's changing the shaders to interpret a value like (128, 0, 0, 128) differently that fixes the rendering.

Every non-zero color avoids this coincidence, and you have to change both image and shader to get the correct result. Just thought I'd post in case anyone else had the same confusion.
Let's start a list (a mix of 8 and 8.1):

Notifications appear as big banner accross the screen which is extremely disruptive

When you do a right click, the contextual menu appears at the bottom of the screen, very very very far from your mouse on a 4k monitor.

Full screen apps, with often no intuitive way to get out. Why full screen apps in a world of 4k monitors???

When you install the system you have to click on some really non obvious sub menu to opt out of using microsoft accounts over local accounts. I am not completely computer illeterate and I missed it the first time. This is really cavalier.

Two control panels, like if the win7 control panel wasn't confusing enough already.

Enormous buttons that look ridiculous when clicking them with a tiny mouse cursor.

Hidden (but critical) buttons requiring to move the mouse to the edge of the screen, again a long way on a 4k monitor.

I am sure that if I start using it again I can double this list. There is a reason why Microsoft fired the head of the windows division shortly before he even announced windows 8.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs
Close to permanently rented out to foreign/domestic investors not living there.

Also, lots of the medium-height buildings are historic in nature, so demolishing them is not a very good option.

I agree that there could be some further development, but there should be some sort of regulation to avoid ghost-town status.

Had all of the apartments been rented out to actual residents, the picture would have been much better.
You are missing out by not cooking.
Great example of a building rented out/sold to foreign billionaires who would never actually live there.
In Moscow escalators are controlled manually. Each set of escalators has one operator. During peak hours operators manually instruct people to use both sides, constantly repeating instruction for new people that keep arriving. As soon as they stop repeating, people use only the right side as usual.
Using Excel v. Using R
Rather than engage in the mindless and genuinely inconsequential debate regarding the previous essay, I'd like to bring some attention back to the fact this essay is a genuinely fantastic piece of very clear, appreciable thought.
You forgot to read the rules~
I don't understand how people continue to expect that it is nearly their right to not be spoiled about every book, movie, and so on. You're on the internet, on a website with public comments. If it is such a big deal to not be spoiled about an old book you probably weren't even going to read, then maybe you should reconsider your browsing habits.
I would be curious to know what spybot anti beacon can't block. Is it enough?
I doubt it's all tied up, as his last recorded sale (in 2013) http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1548760.htm must have left him with quite a bit of cash. So motives are not perfectly clear.

On a macro level, the government penalizes selling of assets at 23.8% (current long-term capital gains + ACA surcharge) and on the other hand encourages borrowing by keeping the rates low and allowing the interest portion to be deducted as an investment expense, so what's a rational person to do?
Same here. I guess it's not that uncommon.
Why Video Marketing Is Crucial for Your Business
Forgot about that one sorry.

Compilation to C is a toolchain feature, not a language one.
As long as their property tax checks arrive on time, the city should do okay.
You always need a cross-compiler, or a VM. There is no way around it.
I get vertigo when I'm on a stopped escalator! The habit of seeing the world move is incredibly sticky and makes me dizzy, even if I take the broken escalator twice a day.

OTOH I love stepping down an escalator 2-by-2, the brain has to calculate how far the foot should jump given the size of the steps and the pace of the landscape, it's fun.
Get off one stop early and walk a bit? (Assuming this isn't a joke).
Windows XP was very close to Windows 2000. I have not met any windows 2000/XP user that missed windows 98, even in the first few minutes of using it.
Why would an absentee foreigner rent a flat? Unlike buying it, that's not even an investment. It's just throwing money away.

If this is common we should build more and take the money of these stupid foreigners. If we build enough, regulation is unnecessary - why prevent foreigners from giving us their money?
Here's the Best View of the Most Powerful Light in the Known Universe
Check some of the videos here

http://wiki.dlang.org/Videos

Namely "Tiny, Ubiquitous Machines Powered by D" and "x86 Bare Metal and Custom Runtime Programming".
In relative terms, that is correct.
Virtue ethics could be a useful framework for thinking about it.

Alasdair MacIntyre in After Virtue talks about the concept of a tradition as forming a narrative backbone for a person's life and actions. Conversation is also crucial, and traditions can be seen as extended conversations. I suggest that Hacker News is a place where such a tradition is constructed and maintained. It gives rise to an "imagined community" [2] of this profession of startup development (which is tied into the tradition of open source hacking in interesting ways, sometimes conflicting).

In that sense browsing HN is not merely a bad habit. Maybe the negative tendency is to become a more passive participant, or just gossiping all day. Ideally the site would feed into a larger pattern of creative action, instead of only providing some click buzz relaxation. So we could think about how to use the conversation to give wind to our sails, so to speak—or just how to be more active in the actual tradition, not just the discussion surrounding it.

That's a big discussion and I've already spent an hour writing this comment, after deleting a long and boring explanation of the MacIntyre book's thesis... So I'll just say that Cal Newport's new book Deep Work was pretty inspiring for me, and it's a quick read.

I think you could formulate a dialectic where deep work and community conversation feed into each other. It's like how books are the deep artifacts that conversations can orient themselves around, and the books themselves are like concentrated results of sometimes decades-long conversations.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_community

[3]: http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
Yep, but I have heard it doesn't work very well on laptops, that having hyper-v running messes up with the sleep features. On a desktop, windows 10 hyper-v is very good.
In Madrid I used to walk up the 180 steps, but they were straight. I can't do the ones of Covent Garden because of the spiral.
Alice pays 9% of her $117k income. Bob pays 18% of his $234k income. Those are lower tax rates than the present, so not sure why Alice would be unhappy with it. Carol pays nothing. Floor is the poverty rate, so no one makes infinity.
so… he's not dying?
Found this cyclists full youtube video, it has some extra recording that's not in the news broadcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vf-ia2QhVU

I definitely have complaints on both sides of this. Mostly toward the cop. Where I understand the cops strong desire to get ID from people, vet them, they really need to pick their battles wisely when they can't get what they want, especially for piddly shit. When you're in a big city, this piddly shit is worthless. You just know that at that same time, a 911 call came in for something significant such as a stolen vehicle and the dispatch probably said "we'll have somebody there in an hour" while 3 cop cars roll up for a biker using a cell phone and refusing to identify.

In the audio the cop is talking about taking the guy to jail for using his phone on a bike. Even if it were illegal, it's a misdemeanor traffic infraction at best. A traffic violation isn't something you go to jail for. And the cop is willing to do an unlawful search. I guess I see the cops point of view. Sometimes these stops yield people with warrants. Letting go a guy who might have a felony warrant is not good either. But nobody with a felony warrant is going to make an easy time for you.

My complaint about the delivery guy is why doesn't he give his name and get it all over with? And later why does he resist the cops, kicking his feet etc. Clearly he's getting detained at that point. Why would he put up a fight, like he's going to win? Does anyone ever really get away from the cops? Not so much. Heck these days you risk getting shot in the back too. If the cops were more evil, all they'd have to do is shoot the kid and say the he was going for their gun.

Once the other cops get the cyclist wrangled, Out of breath, the cop runs to the cyclists delivery partner friend across the street. The friend asks the cop why he did that and the cop said "All I wanted was his name, Do you know his name" and the friend says "yes" After that brief exchange the cop goes back across the street saying "everything I did was lawful"

Hmm, not sure about that. If I were his chief, he'd be on 2 week unpaid leave and in 16 hours of scenario training paid out of his own pocket. Of course the union would fuck that up somehow, because that's what unions do.
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I feel some consternation whenever I see loaded language, and in this case it's "cult".

It's completely reasonable to not want your race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. attacked around your home (safe spaces), or to not have violent acts you've experienced joked about (trigger warnings).

These things are different than being against free speech; that's the strawman here.
Indeed. I'm also an ex-smoker. Many of my friends are doctors and nurses. Many of them smoke. The irony is almost tragic.
Are you comfortable standing next to someone you don't know on the subway? If not, you probably wouldn't be down there in rush hour in the first place...
Shock figures to reveal deadly toll of global air pollution
And they all complain about build times. Hence tools like IncrediBuild and Electric Cloud
They literally use money from others to enrich themselves.

From what I understand, they literally create money from thin air: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
I've lived in London for nearly two years and can't wait until I can buy my own place. Not having to deal with landlords and moving would be enough reason.

That article glossed over inflation, rents have changed a great deal in the last 10 years (double digit growth year on year). A mortgage is a fixed cost, the will actually become relatively smaller.

Plus, I doubt I will be in London for ever, but if and when I decide to leave I would have accumulated a nice a nest egg.
The secure enclave on iOS devices is basically a TPM. See https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
couldn't agree more, see e.g. similar restrictions in well-known bastions of socialism singapore, denmark and australia. non-resident investment in manhattan is literally rent-seeking. perhaps if the foreign investment was redirected to regenerating post-industrial cities, or even actual job creation society as a whole would be better off
Please don't post articles that require sign in.
Seems quite restrict in terms of platform support.
D has always been well known in the C++ community given its authors.
I never wanted to have kids, maybe I'm too young for that. By reading this it definitely made me a step closer to be open to have kids in the future. Thank you for that.
QNX is just another company hijacking the term. I don't know which Amiga thread you're referring to, but the people who were 'debating if an effort can be made to convince the copyright owners to "open source" the code' had it right.

You can complain about ambiguous words and RMS having chosen "free" all you want, but these are the terms we have, and we shouldn't give them up too easily.
For starters, have you visited every major city in Europe, including historically famous cities, sites of historical battles, capitals of smaller countries? Sampled the local cuisine in each? Tried the local hobbies? Danced in a local club? Walked the Via Appia in Rome, visited the site of the "300 Spartans" battle against the Persians?

For closer to home, assuming you don't want to travel the world or you've already done that, I personally don't think I'd ever get tired of just enjoying life. Going to my favorite places, watching the city below from the top of a large hill, alternating favorite restaurants, continuing to spend time with friends, reading new books, and continuing scientific and intellectual pursuits.

If you want to discuss this further feel free to email me at jmorrow977@gmail.com.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/08/how-low-...

It takes a few decades for technology to filter through to applications. Charlie Stross had a go at mapping out some of the possibilities provided by cheap low power computing devices in the blog post above a few years ago.
> I am not reinventing the wheel here...

I never said that you were. :)

> yes I did that's one of the reasons I had to code go-observable

I don't mean to sound mean or anything like this, but you do know that this question was directed directly at fiatjaf, and noone else, right? :) [0] I mean, I guess I appreciate the input, but I asked the question because it seemed obvious to me -because I spent several years working with software that made use of Pub/Sub mechanisms- that go-observable was a Pub/Sub mechanism for Go. So... I was wondering if fiatjaf had ever done any such thing in the past.

Obviously, as you are publishing a pub/sub mechanism in a given language it's either because you had need to do it in the past (or you were just doing it for funzies) and are sharing the fruits of your efforts. :)

[0] Or did my comment appear to be a direct descendent of your HN post, rather than a descendent of fiatjaf's question? I've heard that particular bug mentioned once or twice in the past.
For what it's worth, I'd definitely prefer logins from new devices to require an email confirmation when 2FA is enabled.
> I don't need to reinstall the OS or download an uninstaller to remove bloatware. I don't need to install antivirus (yeah, this one isn't required, but the reality is that there is much more malware targeting Windows). I don't need to wait for Windows Update to finish before my computer shuts down or boots up - these are particularly painful.

While some of your points are valid for *nix setups as well (in terms of hardware, etc.) you've implicitly made the assumption that the only alternative to OS X is Windows, which strikes me as somewhat off base in a place like HN.
Same here. However, I once read that this is actually not a example of reversal. IIRC, it's a (less-common) case of the hair losing its color starting from the tip. I'll see if I can retrieve the source.
The top result should be accessible without sign in https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0....
What if bullshit leads to doing well in things that you care about ? For example, I don't like posturing, building portfolio on Github etc, but if it leads me to getting a better job at a place I can solve complex problems thereby becoming a better engineer, I would like that very much.
Very exciting news, that made me happy about the news for a change. I am confident we can make Iran into a normal country if we show them some good will. It is a country full of all political stripes like anywhere else. The confrontational policies of the past has emboldened the Iranian hardliners.

It is time to embolden the moderates and reformers in Iran! When you read about the details of Iranian society, it is very clear that they have a huge amount of potential. Regular Iranians are the most positive to the west in the region. Religion is in strong decline there. They got a lot of real industry there. They are big car manufacturers e.g. They have more scientific output than the whole Arab world combined. Their strain of Islam is not as extremist as the one found among the gulf states like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jemen etc.

We got to give the Iranians reasons to believe that playing well with the west will give them a lot more benefits than antagonizing Israel.

I support Israel's existence but I really wish they had a more moderate and constructive leader than Bibbi. He really comes across as a deranged conspiracy theorist. To make real progress we really need to get Iran and Israel to make the peace.
That might be the case for Surface but I'm running Hyper-V on two laptops without issues. One is a Macbook actually.
"Lander's lab has done a bunch with CRISPR's"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=CRISPR+AND+Lander+E...

There are 5 citations. 2 are reviews. 2 are original research: one in Jan 2014, another in Nov 2015.

A similar search for Jennifer Doudna reveals 44. Feng Zhang has 43.
Maybe he's been doing years of CRISPR work in secret, but I don't think my premise is 'flat out wrong' - he isn't the person to write the definitive history of CRISPR.

Second - the human genome project is surely the key example of an entire field that could not have been birthed without informatics - Celera genomics doing the shotgun assembly showed everyone how important it was beyond a doubt. This all happened in 2000. Lander is saying this isn't enough to convince us all how important bioinformatics is. In 2016, when bioinformatics is so ubiquitous, he finds the need to cite Mojica copy pasting 4500 sequences manually from microsoft word into a BLAST search in 2003 as another seminal example to make sure we all get it? This doesn't strike you as even a little disingenuous or ad hoc?

I guess we have different ideas about how problematic it is if someone tries to rewrite history while it's still happening.
Yet it's a quadcore, which Intel still tries very hard not to sell. Laptop i5s and desktop i3s are still dual-core.
While at the same time, software that maximizes efficiency (todo apps, etc.) can cause anxiety and increase the risk of mindlessly checking off todo items without considering their value (I've experienced this), and games and social media can provide lasting, valuable experiences and friendships.

The computer is a neutral tool that can make good things better and bad things worse. Because still a relatively new invention, and undergoing constant, rapid change in how it affects culture and individual behavior (pocket computers! VR! etc!), we haven't quite figured out how to distinguish the two.

In some cases this means that we unexpectedly find a wonderful application that improves countless lives, and in some cases it means that we discover ways in which the use of a computer can affect us or society negatively.

Personally, I am generally in favor of change, in the broadest sense, even if sometimes it's bad, while paradoxically I myself don't deal well with changes. The thing I love about computers is that they are one of the biggest instruments of change, and yet in my interactions with computers they are wonderfully boring and predictable, in the end.

I have a theory that this is one aspect of computers that draws so many people like me to them. I have access to a vast world of experience, knowledge and people while using a tool that I control, usually from the comforts of my home. And using that same tool, in the same comfortable setting, I can create things that somehow affect (and ideally benefit) many people, through writing, coding, 'drawing', and most importantly the internet.

That said, of course going out into the world is still an activity that is important for happiness, at least for most people. But the fact that I live in a time where I can create, learn, consume, bond, and so on, with this one tool and an internet connection is something I'm very thankful for.
The party is over for soaring tech valuations, big funding rounds
For editing code, I use a full-screen terminal with a wide left margin and transparency dimly showing a desktop picture. The large font I use is super awesome (Input Mono Narrow Thin) and it all looks gorgeous. It makes me happy every day, and it even inspires me to keep code clean. I may be shallow, but I don't enjoy working in drab environments like Eclipse with like Courier New and the default color theme. It makes me depressed.
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We're still coding like it's 1986
60% software engineers do Not have a CS degree, found a 2012 Microsoft report
Not sure why they do it myself or how prevalent it is.

Perhaps subletting rent stabilized housing when the price increases further? In this case it wouldn't be much of a problem.

I haven't seen any statistics, just some anecdotal evidence for absentee renters, especially in the past two years.

Regardless, ownership is obviously a bigger problem.
Yes, you need to have HISTCONTROL=ignorespace option in your .bashrc
We only put up with shitty performance on the web because we're used to it.

We expect proper performance for actual programs.
2016. The year we welcome squirrels – Unicorn Bubble
We weakend encryption to get to the terrorists- and now they got there own.