skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple fans blow expectations way out of proportions. Apple products are fairly decent but far from perfect. Being a web dev, the only reason I use a MacBook Pro is for having a performant Photoshop without a VM. Otherwise I prefer Ubuntu due to the hardware choice and for almost every other aspect.

To be honest, with the Retina MacBooks, the memory consumption has only increased with the 2x graphics and images becoming more common on the web. But the RAM on a MacBook Pro is seriously lacking. 16GB is simply not enough even without running a VM. All it takes is around 100 browser tabs and an IDE for the ram to exhaust.

I wish they had a 32GB version that's not a desktop. And no, their hardware isn't necessarily perfect - despite what the fans like to believe. I have seen 4/15 MacBooks with pretty uneven display backlight that normal users don't notice. The best thing about MacBooks in 2016 is still the trackpad and a pretty design - everything else is outdated now. You can find equivalent or much better in all other aspects of hardware.
In my team we usually work with the principle of 3

"if it's non obvious wait for 3 cases before abstracting it"
Nice! I must say we live in the most beautiful city in the world... Maybe I should attend them.

I am quite busy at the moment working part time consulting, and trying to get my own thing off the ground, however I was working with a friend to try and get a game out. We had to put it on hold for now but he continued work on something else for a while:

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

Think he made that in UE and Blender for the bear modeling. Pretty neat.
Article gives 3 main reasons why companies such as Samsung, LG, Sony, and HTC continue to make smartphones (and lose money w/ the exception of Samsung):

1. every new smartphone bearing the company’s insignia serves as an engineering showcase for the various component businesses that comprise its vast conglomerate

2. LG believes it needs a smartphone to connect to its growing ecosystem of smart home, TV, and in-car gadgets, plus phones provide free and ubiquitous advertising

3. Others see smartphones as a conduit to generating profits elsewhere. Xiaomi is famous for selling phones at cost and then seeking to capitalize on a well-disposed user base by selling additional services and extras like luggage.

Of these 3, the only one that makes financial sense to me is 2. For companies that are so heavily invested in connected white goods and home automation, selling a smartphone that can control a home hub at cost is akin to giving away a free remote control for a TV. It helps bring users into the ecosystem and can help guide their fridge, TV, security network, etc. purchasing decisions.
Sleep Paralysis Is an Inescapable Waking Nightmare
Well ... it's an alternate backend which has been known to be "a bad idea to use" since 0.11. LXC stopped being the default a long time ago, and anybody using it right now REALLY shouldn't be.

Not to mention that I'm not really sure that Docker Inc has strong feelings about semantic versioning (I don't work for Docker).
The Bezier Game
Glad you liked! I honestly just wanted something really simple to peak at HN.

Feel free to open an issue, though! Contributions are welcome.
This kind of cultural criticism often relies on intuition and aesthetic perceptions that can't easily be sourced or fact-checked. Like, look at Barthes's Mythologies for a whole bunch of examples. I wasn't really blown away by this essay, but Snowden as a symbol is a pretty interesting topic.
Also from Cape Town, we build mobile products (apps are part of what we do). One of our first products was a mobile game (don't want to spam it here, PM me if you want a link), and we've built many products for both local and international markets since. We learnt a few things from it:
- The SA market is much too small to make a return on the investment.
- The international market is difficult to get into from South Africa. Marketing a game to the point where it makes a good return is expensive, even more so from SA.

There are many people in Cape Town building games though, have a look at http://makegamessa.com/

If working with us sounds more interesting than a typical fintech job, let me know and we can chat.
Mozilla to end Firefox OS smartphone support after version 2.6
I wrote an AV Scanner (for the lulz) in the early 1990's and ended working at Symantec for my sins. Some of the programs were seriously well coded with self-hamming code, polymorphism, multi-partite capabilities, etc. Some of my favourites were the 'Eddie' series - written by a Bulgarian guy with a liking for Iron Maiden. :)
My first ever language was Pascal in grade 6... Singing birthday cake.
> Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure there were. I probably just wasn't looking in the right places.

I don't know. I think a lot of us take for granted the amount of high-quality digitized information that's network accessible now.

Before book scanners, before digital publishing, I remember everything on the internet having to have been created specifically for the internet. Remember the "amazing" early digital scanner / cameras? I remember seeing my first scan (I think it was of a wine bottle label, oddly enough) and thinking "Wow, that's something from the real world!"
An introduction to C++'s variadic templates: a thread-safe multi-type map
Didn't really noticed any issues in that matter so far. But if you find one, please, feel free to report on the issue tracker.
Of maybe a phone that respected user privacy. Even if you couldn't open source the modem firmware due to the FCC, you could at least put it behind a IOMMU rather than having it as half the SoC with the power to take control of perpiherals and read memory whenever it wants, independently of what the CPU is doing.

Just give me something 5", with a big battery, big frame - as you describe - 1080p, I don't care about the display war, decent storage, usb-c, an sd card slot, and a camera that is alright and it is an instant purchase for myself and everybody whose tech purchasing I influence if it is FSF certified.
Android is Apache licensed, so they don't have to release any Android code that they modify. The kernel is GPL2, so they would have to release any kernel changes, if they made any. The Debian distribution they use can be unmodified, probably. So everything they actually create can be in proprietary-land.
Age of Ultron
Because "only one process in a container" is a dangerous rule (because it has so many exceptions). In certain cases, that idea makes sense, but you shouldn't contort your app such that you only have one process in every container. Not to mention that there are other issues (PID 1 has unique problems that databases and your app aren't used to having to deal with).
I made sure to read all the previous comments here and the article kindly submitted to open the thread before posting this comment. I see the article links to a related website[1] with interactive advice on how to reduce risk of cancer, based on the study findings. That website has a page that sums up research has been showing for years, in multiple different studies:

"Research suggests that only 5 to 10% of cancers run in families. Some factors, like age, are outside our control, and some we just don’t know about yet.

"The really good news is that up to 45% of cancer in Alberta is caused by factors we can control.

"So while it’s not possible to completely prevent getting cancer, there are many proven things we can do to greatly reduce our risk. This is what cancer prevention is all about."

As I look at the site's advice, I see

Eat Healthy (I should still do a bit more to reduce calories while increasing dietary fiber from vegetables and whole grains, but I'm mostly on that already)

Prevent HPV Infections (I've got this covered)

Get Screened (some screening programs are useless, actually, but I participate in the screening programs with proven benefit)

Limit UV Rays (easy to do in Minnesota in the winter)

Live Tobacco-Free (I have always done that)

Be Active (I exercise moderately every day)

Maintain a Healthy Weight (I can improve on this a little)

Drink Less Alcohol (I go weeks at a time without drinking at all, and have never been drunk)

and control other risk factors, which I do.

You could do all of this too.

[1] http://albertapreventscancer.ca/
Efficient in the sense that you get more bang for your buck healthcare wise in the UK than you would get from the US or any other country that follows the US model. NHS is already barely able to make ends meet right now and would basically flop as a system if it had to match US wages for doctors.

US healthcare in comparison to UK healthcare is bloated, costly and inefficient in the sense that a whole lot of money is spent with nothing to show of it (patients are not getting any better services).

For more information on this read "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care"

Also is the use of 'sic' really necessary? I find it to be pretentious.
I'm not the grandparent, I don't have it installed. :P
>Believe it or not, the F-35 is built to save costs in the long term. It has a huge upfront cost because what they are trying to do hasn't really been done in a modern airforce.

coughSpaceShuttlecough

[okay this was glib, but there are some real parallels there, including trying to be all things to all people]
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If you're looking for a smartphone, I still recommend the iPhone 5/5s - the form factor is perfect, the price point is good, and the hardware should be new enough to handle anything you might want to throw at it for the next 2 years.

My iPhone 5 is reaching the end of its life...I'm planning on getting a dumb phone next with a ton of battery life, a decent camera, and a nice keyboard.
Yeah, I don't think we disagree about any of that. "Gluten is a chemical" is admittedly not a very common bit of food pseudoscience, but I do see it occasionally. Sometimes the theory is that the added gluten is some kind of industrial byproduct (half true), and sometimes it's that it is somehow "less natural" than other gluten. For whatever reason I think this view is more closely associated with paleo than GF.
The name "Scientist" is about as good as "Engineer" or "Programmer." In other words, extremely confusing when used as a product name in a technical domain!
You're gonna love this gem, too: "In this way, the whistleblower’s whistle stands for an object representing a sort of sexualized salvation from the ubiquitous evil dealings of the internet’s major players like Google. The word itself implies the mouth, in order to be a whistleblower one has to blow."

Or this: "Why do we need individual heroes at the center of digital rights conversations? One might look to Leo Steinberg’s famous art historical text, The Sexuality of Christ In Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, to interpret this phenomenon." -- The premise of the stated question is hardly established, and the given answer does not relate to it at all: what it does is give an instance of a historical figure being the subject of sexual imagery.
I think people shouldn't get their panties in a bunch. Letters used to take months to travel from one end of a continent to another for some 3600 years and people coped just fine. We won't have near-real-time chat, but the rest of the internet ecosystem will work as before. Mail, forums, cat videos, etc. pp. will work fine.

The engineering problem is already solved for probe communications anyway.
He is 100% serious.
I heard that this game also comes with a free oneway ticket to Australia.
It expects you to use a phone to manage it, but the Gear S is a phone in its own right:

http://www.samsung.com/us/explore/gear-s-features-and-specs/

LG almost brought a 4G one to market last fall but pulled it at the last minute.
You mean something like this?
http://www.evolveo.eu/en/rugged
UK wants to be able to serve wiretap warrants in the US
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Helping to create a viable ARM server market, if that's possible, is an entirely different and potentially much more rewarding thing than making another bet on a perennial long term loser like AMD (sometime before their most recent peak and decline in the x86_64 domain it was noted that they'd never made their shareholders money if they'd bought and held their stock).

Intel is kind of the opposite, they're usually very good (and have almost always been a fab line powerhouse (the major exception would be when they exited the DRAM market)), and only occasionally get really wedged. At this point, I wouldn't expect support for AMD to do more than drop Intel's prices a bit, and maybe not at all given how the server, desktop, laptop and mobile markets are moving.

It's also an indirect bet on TSMC vs. GlobalFoundries and/or Samsung.
> You are claiming purposeful ignorance and insight on the same subject. If you don't care and then go one to make an argument which you have claimed no real knowledge about. Just don't get involved in discussions when you don't care about the data.

First: "not caring" in this context means that I don't consider the content of the bible to be relevant to this argument, which is not to be confused with lack of knowledge, aka ignorance.

Second: I very much care about the data. Now, do you have any data for me to look at?

Now, to avoid any confusion, let me re-state my claim: The bible has not been demonstrated to be a reliable source of knowledge about the world. Therefore, it's irresponsible to make decisions about your or other people's lives based on information from the bible.
It's presented as satire, but I still think an idea like this could actually work. There are many unexplored applications for gamification. If reason won't make us do “the right thing” we may as well try some tricks.
Cool Project! I use w3m for hn, but what you've looks a bit cleaner!
> I'm talking about systemd inside a container (as pid 1). I think that's the part that's not working.

Ah sorry, I misunderstood. I'm not sure why you'd want to use systemd as your process manager in a container. systemd has a very "monolithic" view of the system and I'm not sure you gain much by using systemd over supervisord (I'd argue you lose simplicity for useless complexity).

> Overlayfs is still causing some problems though.

I've been looking into overlayfs and I really encourage you to not use it. There have been an endless stream of bugs that the Docker community has discovered in overlayfs, and as far as I can see the maintainer is not particularly responsive. There's also some other issues (not being POSIX complete) which are pretty much unresolvable without redesigning it.
Oh - it was an encrypted message to the OP. Here's something general: BEGIN KEYBASE SALTPACK SIGNED MESSAGE. kXR7VktZdyH7rvq v5wcIkHbrvAOc8o HtD9ll30QZYRrt1 63n5tVSjvbZwtwt nQVqdDHEZIYWqWk 57rCih2L43U8D3v uDU7bYeatPFXDSw ZikNjVdebkJILFR kJOj6IN4D9bYNmB i2nHNFWj4btITlY zaRLkk6i76FyoyS K2Bq54fZpCtrDLQ 2FONdETOnbaI0ic FvHxWlsrpGVrdNs wSVZpOWekpe0eVy YV4z1lt7ONQ4Qo2 p3cX0bRLsKiIWHX B667fNFKpAEqXxU W93RkSAvfjXBvFX zkPRUCfcAFReAQz 6nEzbsy4YfQ7m01 iEvaCvMqXgEZTOx 8F9GoqyQ6gnHfHP lG9Si8v2LNP048x F1Y3oqxh1OEaJai IjpB67iffOBo00. END KEYBASE SALTPACK SIGNED MESSAGE.
> Correction: This story originally featured photographs of Cape Town labeled as Johannesburg. We regret the error.

Classic.
Sounds like the Oukitel K4000: http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_237295.html

I got one a couple of months ago and it does seem to be well built. Most impressively is the battery life that goes on for days.
Considering keybase-release[0] was "Last Updated:	2015-11-03 22:36", community/keybase is a lot more recent, but still from January, so not recent enough.

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/keybase-release/
Can someone explain me what advantages has for the EU and its members having a country like UK with those concessions?
I've never understood why OEMs think there is value in altering Android. As far as I can tell, it just gives them higher costs in exchange for some vague perception of additional value in terms of the customer value. It would seem more logical to me for OEMs to say "screw it, let's just make the best hardware" and minimize their software development costs which they are paying to Google.

I would have thought another lesson from Windows is that bloatware is hated and doesn't improve anything - although in the Windows world, the PC makers likely made money by including the bloatware on their machines.

Of course, none of this would solve the update issue as far as I can tell because the carriers are always involved in checking updates. Obviously, Apple bypasses this issue - but my question is why does it still exist for other phones? Carriers always say they need to check the phones - but why? And if so, why don't they need to check iPhone updates? My cynical assumption is that carriers want control and they add actually zero value but do this to maintain control.
Sure but that's one of the reasons I use Linux.
How We Teach Programming, and Where We're Going Wrong
Here is the video from OSCON in Amsterdam with the creator of Sonic Pi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENfyOndcvP0

He is a very good speaker and got me excited to try to do some of this with my 9 year old daughter.
Usually the high density is actually a problem for future growth. For one, there are concerns about the mass of people being exposed to various risks, primarily related to sanitation. Then the high density becomes a problem for further development, because any change involves dealing with more people and problems, making things more cumbersome and expensive. This is where a city like New Delhi "grows" by simply sprawling with slums. This in itself is not that attractive for quality people.
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A new venture firm called BlueYard
That email isn't public, I think.
In any case, you should have one now.
No, you update the shared library using your distribution's package manager and then restart the affected services using one of the small scripts for that purpose.

What's the issue with that?
> 2. 'docker update' command, although I would have preferred 'docker limit'. Ability to change container limits at runtime:
- CPUQuota - CpusetCpus - CpusetMems - Memory - MemorySwap - MemoryReservation - KernelMemory

This is not correct. You cannot change kernel memory limits on Linux after processes have been started (disclaimer: I've done a bunch of work with the runC code that deals with this in order to add support for the pids cgroup). You can update everything else though.
At the time NeXT was not in great shape either, IIRC they where contemplating killing their hardware in favor of just providing an alternative OS and where starting to pitch their visual IDE in the market. The consensus at the time is that NeXT would not have made it if not for the acquisition. They where not bankrupt by any means but what little market share they had gained had started to erode.

Slightly before this time, at the dawn of the web I had a NeXT box and they where great machines, but they where expensive and outside of early web dev and some scientific stuff they where not heavily used. Sun was eating at their scientific market with the Sun Stations and web dev kind of took off on every platform so the price point became less and less justifiable. My personal opinion is that NeXT would not have survived had Apple not come knocking at their door and would have suffered the same fate as BeOS, though jobs had the resources to drag it out far longer that Be did. It was not his success at NeXT that brought Apple back to the table with hat in hand, but rather it was his success with Pixar.

It was a time of consolidation, The Amiga had died, Atari was long out of the game and the Mac OS was aging rapidly hardware was fixed the only two options on the table where PC and Mac everything else had fallen by the wayside and the Mac's operating system was on life support. Copeland had died which was supposed to be the savior OS and as such the Mac, while holding it's own in pure hardware specs given the move to the PPC was not capitalizing on modern hardware or computing due to the OS. Meanwhile the hardware game was set so Steve was having no luck breaking into the market with his own hardware platform. Apple and NeXT needed each other and Apple needed Steve so it was a do or die for both. Apple was on the ropes pretty bad, there stock was $11 a share (god it sucked to be a broke college kid) and Gates shortly after this point would bail them out with a loan to stave off anti-trust allegations for another decade. Had the NeXT / Apple merger not happened both companies would not exist today. Kind of funny to think how close one of the largest companies of the times, almost blinked out of existence.
China’s Monumental Ponzi: Here’s How It Unravels
You can't go to a bank for advertising money or to write code. wanna buy a building got 20%-40% down and a revenue stream for the last 2 years to pay for no problem. equipment maybe.
Really, really shallow reporting, for example confounding Moore's Law with Dennard scaling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling).
Working effectively with test data in JavaScript
These headlines are starting to annoy me. Yes, it says "possible cure", but I'd bet if you asked the companies involved if they were comfortable with the headline, they would say "no".
Notepad++ is my light-weight text editor, for the stuff I don't already have in my Visual Studio solutions. It's free, it's good, it's fast, and you can run it portable if you want to. Windows only, but that's not a problem for me.
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The Rent-Seeking Is Too Damn High
MasterCard also has an API: https://developer.mastercard.com/

Just as the VISA API, this requires you to be a "verified partner" or be sponsored when going to production.