skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit of a tangent, but is Wi-Fi becoming more finicky in general, perhaps due to spectrum congestion? I find I somewhat frequently have Wi-Fi related problems of the sort you're describing on a variety of devices. It seems Wi-Fi from about 5 years ago was perhaps slower but more reliable. Am I just imagining this?
I honestly thought when I saw the title that Mozilla were now killing Firefox OS for Internet of Things, in addition for Firefox OS for phones. Turns out, the title was misleading. Plus, it's not the title of the article.
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There are, at least, things like Termux (https://termux.com/), on Android. Just for laughs, I've been doing actual work (using git, vim, and Go) in Termux on my Nexus 10. Only two things got in my way: screen size and the inability to have a browser and terminal on screen at once. What's particularly sweet about Termux is that it has an APT-based package manager.

Given the right tools, even something as locked down as an Android tablet can be surprisingly effective development tool.
Immaturity leading to think that following market trends instead of believing in (and even 'still understanding') you're own quality, will be the only way to sustain your business. Jitter.
This is one of the reasons we put together "Finish Up Weekend" - http://fuweekend.com/

It's a hackathon weekend when you're not allowed to start anything new. You are only allowed to bring things to finish. It's not strictly coding, we've had lawyers, screenwriters, artists, authors, and sewing projects completed. The positive peer pressure is great.

When you finish something, you get to ring a bell so we can celebrate briefly.. and then get back to work.

And there are no prizes, just the satisfaction of getting things done.
I'd successfully finished the Andrew Ng Coursera class using Matlab on my old MacBook Air, and moved on to TensorFlow. Turns out Docker is just too much for my 2 Gb Mac - it totally hangs.
I got it working pretty easily on a web IDE codeenv, but it has limitations and I couldn't load the sample files or use ipython notebook.
I'd love to run through these tutorials on a remote hosted environment with minimal configuration work. Anyone have advice?
The crash issues I had with google map was on Android. I check the reviews on Google Play Store, it is not just me or my Android devices, almost everyone had that crash issues at that time.

I can't figure out how Google can release any software like that.

Google can't blame IOS/Apple for that.
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> Courts in the US are given an extremely high degree of independence, in the goal of limiting corruption.

And exactly the opposite ended up happening in this case, isn't it? Corruption is a world-wide problem, but I don't know how widespread it is in developed countries. And its the same problem, people sitting at the top don't have authority to curb the ground-level corruption. Here in India at least, the government has started implementing something called Lokpal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokpal

It is an agency which works at the ground-level to curb the corruption both in the private and public sectors (and also the ministry). A question arose, however, that what happens if the Lokpal people itself went corrupt? And that's why the concept of decentralization was introduced. The central Indian agency, CBI can check the corruption in Lokpal, and of course, the courts have authority over both CBI and Lokpal. Thus, decentralization is at least, the present way of stopping corruption here.
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I've been pretty happy with Xubuntu for the last few years. It gives me a nice, no-frills desktop UI but still has access to the entire Ubuntu package ecosystem.
I think a lot of people feel this way. I wish I never had to give up 10.6.8, that was the best computer I ever owned.
To punish him
Can you give more details of this, or is it some sort of joke/meme?

I'm actually pretty intrigued.
> So, this is neither good nor bad, just a shift in where the competitive opportunities are.

Many see this shift itself as a bad thing. Instead of having career options in stable companies, most people (who necessarily can't all be founders or early employees in the places you allege are still sources of entrepreneurship) are forced to accept unsatisfactory compensation, benefits, and employment stability -- in return for foosball tables and dog-friendly offices.

I interpret the comments about barrier to entry in exactly this way. If it's easier to "enter" low-status entrepreneurship (e.g. start-ups), but this easiness is offset by a disproportional lessening of the potential upside (especially the stability and security upsides), then it could still be a net loss overall.

It is a means of restructuring the process by which the deployment of capital is used to extract productivity -- a restructuring that transforms the process into even more of a transfer of wealth from poor to rich.
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This was a great read. Congratulations!
You don't get access to the source of any site you're sending HTTP GET or POST requests (dynamic content) to with Firefox, yet you're complaining about client code for Pocket?
I had to do a survey of the modern web world for a greenfield project my company is working on, and I ended up with AngularJS 1.x and Rails. Angular is by far the easiest to get in to, has the most stable libraries, and is relatively well known at this point. I know Angular 2 is coming and that everyone has moved on to React, but it's been more than successful at giving us a stable stack to work around while also producing something that works great for our customers. If React is still around in 3 years and has mature libraries for everybody to use, then sure, I'll take a look. But for now, I think my strategy of being a few laps behind is working, at least anecdotally.
Interesting. Snow Leopard was OS X's peak for me. It was Leopard with perf and stability improvements. Lion was when the iOS influence came to the mac.
You also don't need more than one employee. But the marginal value of hiring more employees (including DevOps) might be good enough to justify it.
Love the idea! Don't see any upcoming dates, though :(.

Do you guys do anything in Chicago?
I don't think it's just Apple's fault. Every time I try to use the Youtube app on my iPhone, I can never find the things I'm looking for, because they seem to ignore all of Apple's interaction guidelines and implement the Android UI instead.

The other day I was trying to send a link to a friend: instead of clicking the standard share icon, you have to click the arrow (that looks like an email forward?), which pops up a non-standard share UI instead of the standard sheet. Never mind the fact that to dismiss a video you have to first swipe it down (minimizing it into some bizarre picture-in-picture frame), then slide it off from there, instead of using a "Back" button/gesture like every other app in iOS.
The newer ones look amazing: https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/bloomberg_keyboar... They have that certain beauty of something carefully designed for a specific domain.
There are old videos of him speaking about development environment at NeXT (against Sun). Sir Steve did like allowing 'creation'.
I would counter that outside of Western Europe people are MORE religious. Religious with a default negative cogitations and belittle of religion really is a bias.

> The vast majority of people are not particularly religious. This includes most members of the major religions.

You just belittled all major religions in two sentences without any data. I can tell that is not your intent and you are expressing an opinion but it is still belittling something without any evidence of your simple conclusion.

https://around.uoregon.edu/content/researcher-religion-influ...
Heh, not from the US initially so that overloading did not occur to me :)

That's an interesting alternate reading though...

"To ensure the integrity of our data, we need to locate another Arizona, since this one is serving us so well."
If the idea is a B2C kind of business - Run a facebook ad campaign with the target audience. You can direct them to a landing page and collect email addresses/ other details.
Facebook pretty much has a global reach, so you should get some validation points.

For more of B2B ideas - You are better off talking to people directly. Mine you network. Look for conferences, meetups, tradeshows where you might find your audience
My comment was a joke based on contrasting two points:

1) "C-like" languages are often described as having "ALGOL-like" syntax. And indeed, C was based on languages significantly influenced by ALGOL-60 (though ALGOL-60 used BEGIN/END for blocks, not curly braces).

2) "IF/FI", "CASE/ESAC" and similar were in ALGOL-68, and Stephen Bourne drew them from there when he wrote the Bourne shell (with which bash was eventually intended to be compatible).
They must have reasonable prices? Here on the west coast its probably now $15 per shitty light corporate American beer. It was $13 last time I went about 4 years ago.

So, I couldn't imagine going just to have a few beers, in fact more likely to abstain on principle.
I agree.

Though I cannot justify it with numbers I will add the theory that, with the advent of a weak US economy combined with outsourcing to less expensive, global programming labor pools, domestic software management has become kind of spoiled and lower in quality.

Software managers are now, more than ever before, empowered to say "We need to add XYZ feature" and they quickly hear back from someone somewhere in the US or the whole wide world who says "No problem. I'll get on that right away!"

And then the manager thinks they've done their job. Like that's all there is to software management.

A lot of domestic software managers don't seem to have more sophistication than that, or more insight than that. Because, in this marketplace, they don't have to.
Sorry if you felt that I implied that being a christian made someone a better developer. I certainly don't believe it does. I know many great developers that aren't christians. The reason I said christian developers is because to see the needs and challenges that we face you need to "walk in our shoes" so to speak. Yeah, a Bible app is obvious but what about an app that helps missionaries in the field complete a specific task or an app for a specific church need. Many of these problems you would only realize if you are an involved christian living your faith.
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I disagree and agree.

I find the core iOS and OS X operating systems to be just fine, thank you: frequent security and other updates that I get on a timely basis (compare to my Android Note 4, which I really like, but getting updates is infrequent).

On the other hand, I think that the web services like iCloud and Siri have a lot of catching up to do.
Deleting submissions and reposting is against HN rules. (reposting itself, within limits, is ok)
No, it's not. Your religion doesn't affect how well your startup does, as you pointed out. This is just an unfortunate case of somebody using religion as a tool to sell you something you may not purchase otherwise.

This is against the Slack Terms of Service.

https://slack.com/terms-of-service Clause #6.7
Rail changes behavior, buses don't. Rail builds cities in a way that bus systems never have. It's not a simple optimization problem.
How do you approach API design?
> would capture std{out,err} indefinitely, which could cause the slave host to run out of disk space

That sounds to me like something everyone would care about. I have started setting Docker's log-opt to max-size=128m and max-file=3 expressly to side-step that kind of nonsense. It's a great happy medium between "logs go out over the network", which impedes one's ability to use "docker log" for quick-and-dirty viewing, but not blowing out the disks. We've enjoyed great success with logspout, since it captures every container, relieving us of the need to configure them individually.
This goes way back - I was a documentation volunteer in the run-up to the Mozilla 1.0 launch in 2002, and Debian did all manner of weird things to their Mozilla package that we then had to sort through to distinguish from the mozilla.org binaries (e.g. someone had to make a list of Debian Mozilla useragents so we weren't specifically checking their behaviour).
hmmm, why do you feel that the new Force Touch trackpads are a regression? I've yet to use one, but I have other products that use Force Touch functionality, and I'm a big fan of my older Apple Trackpad.
So we are back to the Apple in the days of Copland?
Yeah, npm is fine. I understand the React vitriol to a point, but npm "just works" more than pretty much any other package manager I've used, and especially more than pip.
This "Google Safe Browsing" initiative seriously worries me. It's effectively some unknown, mysterious, un-contactable set of AI algorithms/people/who knows what controlling the internet because Google owns everyone's browser.

One of my websites got tagged as "Dangerous" and having "harmful programs" despite having nothing of the sort. My guess is a silly hiccup of their neural network algorithms. And I have absolutely nobody I can contact about the issue to get an explanation. They just effectively killed the site in one fell swoop.
The last 10%
The Cult of Steve?
It think it's actually declined a little.
They're America's bitch. Like the UK. That's the problem.
I don't see the difference between "Buy this Pill to lose weight" and "Download this codec".
Well I used to work for a few Ad Publishers and they are on this list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advertising_networks
That was autocomplete on my phone...
The statement was made Wednesday night, U.S. time:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/695084493825273856

Do we have reason to believe Assange knew about the decision beforehand?

Moreover, do we have reason to be less interested in the larger context of the UN panel's decision than in the ways in which we can paint the motives of Assange's statement?
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Its interesting to think about - is feature creep uniquely in the domain of software? I don't think so. There is plenty of software that has been immune to it (think everyday developer tools, command line stuff, etc). Often the apps with the least amount of feature creep are the ones where they are bounded by the APIs they talk to, i.e. if the API (which they don't control) is static, they can't really add any more features.

Outside of software, we see a similar thing, a wrench (or spanner) hasn't gotten many new features, because the bolt that it turns isn't changing. the goal is roughly the same. The only appreciable changes have been in ergonomics, and even these are effectively static.

On the other hand, we have cars, which are suffering from so much feature creep it is unbelievable. every year, car engines get a little bit more efficient, but they also get heavier, bloated with more systems, infotainment, seat adjustments, window adjustments, etc.As a result, the efficiency of the improved powertrain seldom makes appreciable performance difference. (yes, there are outliers).

Cars then, might be the equivalent of "the ultimate app" which does everything for you, but loses sight of its purpose. Meanwhile, we have a long history of leaving single tools alone, and they tend to work great.

The trouble is that in the world of physical tools, the workflow changes/context switching between using one tool and then another is easy. Meanwhile, in software, feature creep ends up being the solution for poor context switching between apps. In an ideal world, working on an image in photoshop and then pixelmator, and then illustrator, and then publishing to wordpress would be as seamless as using a wrench, then a screwdriver, and then cleaning things up with a rag. Unfortunately, software interface constraints almost necessitate feature creep as the "simplest" way to add functionality, even when convoluted menus, hotkeys, and naming conventions obscure utility.
Assume some model, and do calculations within that model to tell you what the probability of some event is under that model.

What is just about impossible to calculate is what the probability is that the model captures only way for X event to occur. I find people sometimes confuse the reliability of calculations within the model as a defense of the model itself - usually unintentionally, but sometimes intentionally (with industries defending the safety of some practice...).
Free loss leader with upsell describes the Freemium model - what is wrong with that?
"Workstation" is pretty ambiguous. Besides the numberpad, what performance bottle neck needs to be addressed that isn't addressed by current generation i7 processors, ssd, and 32gb of RAM?

Or by a used 530?
Isn't it the case that we can expect roughly one in fifty studies with p<0.02 to be the result of statistical noise?
From the proposal overview:

The Chairman’s proposal will create a framework for providing innovators, device manufacturers and app developers the information they need to develop new technologies. Consumers should be able to choose how they access the Multichannel Video Programming Distributor’s (MVPDs) – cable, satellite or telco companies – video services to which they subscribe. For example, consumers should be able to have the choice of accessing programming through the MVPD-provided interface on a pay-TV set-top box or app, or through devices such as a tablet or smart TV using a competitive app or software. MVPDs and competitors should be able to differentiate themselves and compete based on the experience they offer users, including the quality of the user interface and additional features like suggested content, integration with home entertainment systems, caller ID and future innovations.

Here's the full text of the proposal: https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/201...
But as jerf said, it doesn't have to be that way. It's just an idea file, not debt, unless you pay interest on it. If it saps your emotional, mental, or physical energy, then it's debt. And that may depend on your personality, not just on having "that kind of thing" laying around.
Indeed, anyone who uses the word should also provide their definition of it.
These issues have mostly since been fixed.
A very nice product!
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How is Firefox crashing an Apple issue, assuming you don't hit the same problems with Chrome?
I use OSX as a glorified terminal and the odd game. Unfortunately it's not a great gaming machine, and it's a horrible terminal. Out of the box, OpenSSL and OpenSSH are shipped broken and insecure, and I'm not sure how anyone could seriously use Safari. Games often come late or don't work as well as their PC counterparts and sometimes require remapping joystick buttons with a third (fourth?) party application.

So by default, to do even the most basic of operations, you have to install homebrew and Chrome. I'm not sure how things got this bad. When OSX came out it was kind of forgivable for the first few years, but now that I've been using it for 16 years it's unforgivable.
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Nobody in Sweden can do this. The Swedish government constitutionally cannot do this, despite Assange's requests, given the separation between government and judiciary. The Judiciary cannot provide a guarantee because they are obliged to follow due process for each and every request for extradition they receive, and until they receive one they cannot rule on any extradition.
I honestly thought it was just me, but I agree the software quality has been at an all time low...
well here (netherlands) you have zoning. they are the only ones allowed to do anything in 'social housing' zones. the government asks higher prices (for land) in other zones. i needed to pay off the government for 30000 when i bought my place because it used to be in the social housing zone too. that 30k/unit needs to be factored in when comparing coops and others. i believe legally others are not even allowed to charge under 800.

But you kinda prove my point about artificially high prices. there is no reason for the prices here to be a lot higher than next door.
I lived in a similarly sized 1 person appartment for years. it cost me 480 euros/mo. and that was the best deal anyone could ever get here (because in my case too, it was from the student's coop). here the 200 euro/month would get you absolutely nothing (not even a room).
Don't let movie physics fool you. Fusion reactors don't have a tendency to explode. (Well, at least not any more than any other industrial device connected to megawatts of power...)

The problem with fusion is that they are notoriously hard to achieve, so basically they are always in the brink of fizzling out.
But how do you reconcile that with those that marry through arranged, sometimes forced marriages, to those in some poor countries? This law is intended to reduce that scenario which is a wide backdoor to normal immigration.
You could look at something like Project Wonderful, but I think they're a little more geared towards small-scale niche advertising (gaming, comics, blogs).

Actually, never mind. I just looked and their top 5 sites are all well under 1,000,000 page views - and 4 of the 5 are webcomics plus Omegle which I think is one of those random chat sites that popped up a few years ago.
Everyone who cares already know.
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What annoys me the most is when my mba awakes from sleep, there are around 10 processes that update their state and it means my CPU usage is at 100% per core for a few minutes. The computer is unusable during that period.
The gutting of iWork hit my office hard. I'd be using Numbers, Keynote, and Pages for years in a professional environment. The lack of support for some of even the most basic desktop publishing features is mind boggling. (e.g. There is no longer a way to rotate column header labels in the new Numbers. What? Why not?) There are a hundred trivial features like this that were totally scrapped across all iWork software. Really basic stuff. It was a disaster for anyone using the software professionally.
Hm... judging by the cover, this looks like absolute crap.

> Some studies have shown a continuous decline in semen quality since the beginning of the 20th century.

Studies also indicate a continuous decline in testosterone (in males) over 20th century. I'd welcome someone correct my biological knowledge, but I would guess that testosterone influences production of sperm, not the other way round. So they're probably studying the wrong thing.

> One postulated contributing factor is radio frequency electromagnetic radiation emitted from cell phones.

So... how do you then explain the decline from 1900 until 1990?!?

> Questionnaires accessing demographic data and characteristics of cell phone usage were completed by 106 men

Trying to do statistics on a small, ...

> referred for semen analysis

... biased sample, seriously?!

I'm too paranoidly afraid of the negative effects of radiation, but even I'm inclined to call bullshit on this study.
My biggest problem with all of the new libraries coming out is that it leaves me with the feeling that nobody want to improve upon what is already out there. I understand that paradigm shifts may require a rewrite. But nobody is shifting every 2 weeks and getting anything done.

When selecting technology, I want to make a decision that will grow with me over the next several years. When perception is that each library of the day will be thrown out in 3 months, falling back to jquery/php is a really attractive option.