skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that humans have never done anything that approaches even a hundredth of a percent of the speed of light. And I can believe that general relativity never causes strong enough effects to care, except obviously for probes specifically intended to study relativity.

But when it comes to GPS, I guess I just have a hard time taking your word for it. If there were no info either way on the internet, I would probably believe you, but why is there no source that can back you up? It's "tens of thousands of regurgitations" vs one guy saying "trust me, I've talked to some engineers". I have to believe the regurgitations, especially when their explanations and math makes sense.

>It was certainly included. The question of necessity, however, is another matter.

So you're saying GPS satellites do take relativity into account, but the engineers you've talked to said "I guess we could take it out and it would still probably work"? That sounds a little tenuous.
> GNU projects always remind me why programmers alone isn't enough, apps also need good design and UX.

Some people need others to think for them. Some people like to make their own decisions. GNU is for the latter ones. GNU has always been freedom of choice.

Design is overrated. Functionality and reliability are more important. Even Apple has to admit that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11061111
HumanitarianToolbox – allReady
I think you have a good point, but I would liken it to: If I go to a restaurant, and they give me raw chicken, then no, I'm not going to give them my money.

I guess, it's a bad analogy, as food that makes you sick is easier to discern than "shoddy article with no journalistic integrity"
At the end of the day your job as an architect is to magnify the productivity of the engineers. It is entirely possible to create an architecture that is intuitive, decoupled and resilient to changing requirements, but is downright laborious/unpleasant to work with.

One analogy that I like is to kitchen design. You can design a beautiful kitchen with lots of features and counter space using all the latest features, but if you don't cook you won't understand kitchen usability. For instance, counter space should be centrally located between the sink, trash disposal, refrigerator/cabinets and range. You also won't realize how important it is to have strong direct lighting over the counter space.
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Could be great if it didn't use Pascal. How would anybody pick this language
over, for example, Ada? Even dozen years ago, when Lazarus was first publicly
released.
So what is the future?

Will all site who used google captcha be affected by the result of this case?
For argument's sake, imagine there were 1,000 people using adblock on Wired.com. They read 10 articles per week, some of which they actually enjoy.

Suddenly, they disable their adblockers.

Now, how much weekly ad revenue does Wired earn from those 1,000 visitors? There's no way it's $1,000 worth of ad revenue.

In which case, you could be forgiven for thinking this move by Wired is not about solving the website adblock problem, but more a subscription drive.

As an occasional reader I want a better deal on the subscription. Say, 20 cents per week. Apply a quota, cap my plan, all good. But $1 per week is not happening, and whitelisting the site is not happening. That's just me.
see if they paid taxes they could probably only afford to pay him 10k times as much as the average US pay check. I doubt he'd work for that pittance.
Aren't schools financed by local property taxes in US. And the rich parents pay more in taxes and there is more resources in the system.

Also well off parents could help school in other ways.
For a site like Wired and many other established publishers this doesn't make any financial sense. There's still a lot of money to be made from plain old ads, as annoying as they may be to most of us. It's obvious by now that one way or the other ads are going the way of the dodo but it's difficult to think what will replace them or if that replacement will leave us better off. The way I see it, in the not so distant future all these publishers will be paywalled and we may have to resort to 'article pirates' in order to read them because I'm not about to pay 60 different $4/month subscriptions for the eventual article posted on one of the aggregation platforms I frequent. I really don't browse most of these sites, which is what would justify the $4/month, in theory anyways.
That's not a misuse, indicating that a value is a loose approximation is a major use of the tilde.
A PHP project without a composer.json?

Say it ain't so!

https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/tree/master
YMMV, but I had to manually delete Chrome cache files. Clearing from prefs took a long time, but the files remained over machine restarts.
Is this going to make it easier to get luajit on a stock nginx server?

I just see a single bullet point regarding "Dynamic modules", anywhere I can get more info?
Banner and interstitial, interstitial happens every 5 minutes. Often people open my app several times a day just to check their financial status, triggering an interstitial every time. I'm sure finance ads pay very well. What mobile ad networks do you recommend for higher payouts? I would love to experiment.
Why is it very successfully? Have you got any revenue figures to share?

Content partnerships alone doesn't make it successful.
Understanding JavaScript's Map()
Well you really shouldn't be serving static content through Django, you should be serving it through a CDN. If you use something like Django-Storages for uploads, it'll Just Work.

I'm not guaranteeing that everything will work out of the box on the first try, but I bet you'll be very close. You will have to make a few design decisions, but if you're making the right ones it should just work. At the very least it should be far, far easier that GAE.

(The one thing you'll have to watch out for are C-extensions, which, for now, require that you do your deployment from an x86_64 machine.)
'Happy Birthday' Headed to Public Domain as Warner/Chappell Settles Lawsuit
Report: Anti-White Agenda Revealed at GitHub’s Diversity Team
Not mentioned is that it actually does have something to do with security, because once enough users have transcribed a word, in addition to it being returned to the digitization project, it can be used for future CAPTCHAs as a known word. According to Wikipedia, this was at least historically the case for reCAPTCHA.
Deutsche Bank is sort of a bad example as they've gone through some troubled times lately [1]

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34567868
> As Google suggests, it strains credulity that Plaintiff or class members would forego access to a free Gmail account and higher quality Google Books or Google Maps because their brief transcription of a single word might, indirectly or directly, facilitate Google’s profit earning

Call me a data point to the contrary. I don't use gmail or Google Books at all, and Google Maps rarely. I contribute to OpenStreetMap. It sticks in the craw that whenever I use any Google Captcha-enabled site (even if the site's not owned by Google) I'm helping to increase the quality divide between Google Maps and OSM.
What benefit would adding the overhead of learning OCaml be to this project? It's not like a functional or immutable language would add any value here, would it?!
Berkeley to Move CS61a Lectures to Memorial Stadium
Huh, that's a very nice library I'd not seen before! Thanks.
Despite its great reputation, I found "The Day of the Locust" unreadable because I couldn't move beyond a major character named Homer Simpson.
Ask HN: Tiny, accessible Web design as business model
Background (skippable):
I am a web developer currently working as a contractor building brochure-like websites for lawyer companies mostly. The clients insist on modern looks with animations and interactivity all within a 2 week deadline and not-so-huge budget, which usually ends up in inacccessible, bloated sites. During my 2 years working professionally in the field I was your typical herd coder, following the cool kids, doing awesome modern Web stuff. Only recently (mostly due to reading HN discussions and opinionated articles like http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm) have I started feeling bad writing these kinds of bloated experiences.

Idea:
The idea I have had for a while isn't terribly novel (though it might be in this JS-heavy age): run a business modeled upon the notion of minimalistic, tiny and highly accessible websites coded using mostly safe features or progressive enhancement. The goal would be to make them still look good enough visually with the limited resources (maybe a dedicated designer would join me as a partner later).

Draft:
I have created a quick draft of my thoughts and technical goals I would like to comply to with the code. You can view the manifesto here:
http://muon.pl/manifesto.html
and goals here:
http://muon.pl/goals.html.

Doubts:
As every human being who comes up with something I'm having some doubts which I would love to hear smart HN people's opinion on:
1) What would be my potential client base? I'm thinking brochure company websites or personal websites.
2) Would companies even consider having this kind of an 'old-school' website? Some of them are still living the Web 2.0 fairytale.
3) Would people pay for removing features? This seems tough as it requires some understanding about user experience and brand building.
4) How to find clients? Pretty stupid question, I know, but it's hard stuff for an introvert dev.

Much obliged for any opinions or suggestions.
Oh I know, I was talking about sane "defaults".. i.e. if you don't touch the config, the default seems silly. Makes sense to close it in dev, but in default prod? Not sane.
They do seem to have some Alembic support: they ship the libraries as part of the engine download, in their 3rdParty folder.

Alembic is an open 3D file format supported by pretty much all the major 3D modellers these days - including Blender, Modo, Houdini, Cinema4D and plenty of others besides the Autodesk tools.
Any animal high in the food chain is likely to concentrate heavy metals, which is why pregnant women are advised against eating a lot of salmon or tuna while they are pregnant.

Salmon flesh is not, to my knowledge, infected with parasites. I've eaten it straight out of the fish in Alaska and it was clean, soft, and tasty.
Django Channels, which is slated for inclusion in one of the next Django releases, covers at least some of the use cases you'd traditionally use Celery for, specifically running code after returning a response. It does require Redis for this though.

https://channels.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
You forgot some useful data:

"While our first customers came from the above mentioned sources, including press articles, presentations, etc., almost 80% of our first 100 customers came through referrals. Another interesting point at this stage: hardly any user or customer recommended us due to cash benefits or discounts. We offer a 10% discount to our users when they invite new customers. However, when we looked at the number of actual referrals, we realized this program had little response."
We are hopelessly hooked
Vaccines save up to 44 dollars to the dollar
The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900–2007 [pdf]
It sounds like the points you're making are all negative, but it also sounds like a fairly valid argument to me. Sure marketers add too much js with the allure of big data, but whats the cost? 0.1% of users (hn readers and the like) are annoyed by it? I'd gladly piss off a tiny fraction of my users to better understand the other 99.9%.
Understand Packaging for JavaScript, TypesScript, CommonJS and Everything Else
A little more explanation of what that means from the docs:

In NGINX 1.9.11 onwards a new way of loading modules dynamically has been introduced. This means that selected modules can be loaded into NGINX at runtime based on configuration files. They can also be unloaded by editing the configuration files and reloading NGINX.

https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/extending/converting/
Jupp (JOE fork)
This has been my experience as well. They could learn from the improvements that YouTube has made to its comment section.

Though, I realize that chronological tweet order is important to the core user-base.
Is it just me, or does $50m seem like a deal in terms of buying a top-end video game framework that will compete with the likes of unity and unreal?
I've never been able to get Assimp to successfully load anything other than .obj format models, despite what they claim in their docs. Last time I tried was about two years ago though, so maybe it's improved since then.
If you think NYC is cheaper than SF you are really confused.
Doesn't look like it at the moment, though I imagine the .Net SDK will have support sooner rather than later. Hopefully they'll wrap GameLift into the unity sdk shortly thereafter, but to be honest I don't know where the difficulty lies in just using the regular .Net SDK.
What exactly constitutes fraud? The captcha interface (http://www.captcha.net/) has a clickable tagline "stop spam. read books." that takes you to an explanation of what it is and how it works.

Are we saying that fraud is not going out of your way to carefully explain exactly what you're doing as you're doing it?

Saying that Captchas are in any way misleading or fraudulent calls into question "free" software paid for by ads, any app that has a ToS contract, pretty much every financial agreement on the planet, most repair shops, and just about anywhere else that you agree to something without 100% ELI5 in your face explanation before you pull the trigger.
not just for them. This also helps a lot for all OS packagers because right now they have to ship multiple custom nginx packages. As a user you either don't get what you want or you get way too much.

Plus, if there's a custom module you'd really like to have in your nginx you're practically forced into building your own because there's no way to get that module loaded into the distro nginx.

Yes. There's some overhead to dynamic modules. Yes. There's a (minuscule) performance advantage to static linking.

But having the ability to ship modules independently of the web server core is a very important usability feature which, frankly, outweighs the performance overhead for most installs.

If you're really CPU bound on that nginx instance where you need the additional modules and you removing that overhead gives you that little bit extra performance you need, then you always have the option of hard-linking them.
I've replaced Yelp with Foursquare a while ago for finding things around me and trusting reviews. I've found that the character limit and smaller user base of Foursquare makes reading reviews a much more pleasant experience. I also like how there is no star system on Foursquare.
Need to Know: A game that puts you on the other side of the surveillance society
I figured you were aware of the feature itself. I just wanted to clarify for people unfamiliar with Django that it does support persistent connections, even if they are disabled by default :)
Swiss German is not context-free (unlike virtually all other languages) (1985) [pdf]
Show HN: Konsus.com – On-demand freelancers via chat
Wish it were possible to give it a try. They specifically point out usage in a text editor, but not too many developers are going to spend $199 without trying it in their editor first.
Even at this 3-line stage, the stateful log.SetOutput construct is ugly and error-prone. So I'd say a functional/immutable language would already be adding value, and that would only increase as the amount of code grows. At a minimum an init is going to involve parsing config and something similar to a state machine, both good use cases for functional languages.
Why Driverless Cars Will Screech to a Halt
New York, Washington DC and San Diego are all still expensive.

Raleigh/Durham and Seattle are better options.
Oh, nothing in particular, I guess. I dabble a lot--in C++, Haskell, Ruby, Java, etc. I really liked using package managers on Linux. I remember using Homebrew on OS X. Is that still around?

As for the little things that add up, let's see:

- Much of it's hardware-related, and it might just be due to my poor PC-building skills. For example, my case has a fan that buzzes intermittently, and the ports in back aren't perfectly aligned.

- Windows isn't UNIX-based. I'm aware of things like Cygwin that emulate a UNIX environment, but it feels tacked on. Also, Windows 10 is nice, but it's kind of ugly, among other things.

- On Linux, X has given me a lot of trouble, and though Wayland looks nice, it seems like it'll be a while before it's widely adopted and fully supported. I had a problem with GNOME 3 where it took about a minute before it showed the desktop after logging in, for example. Audio was a pain to deal with, it had Wi-fi connection issues, etc. Also, Linux lacks support for a lot of big applications that I use or intend to use (Photoshop, DAWs, etc.).

- Non-English language input is poor in both operating systems (could just be the language I used though). If I recall correctly, OS X had pretty nice language input support, and the option-characters (e.g. Option + E for an acute accent) were really nice and intuitive.
'Happy Birthday' settlement puts the song in the public domain
Fraud generally requires that the victim rely on the "fradulent" statement to decide to move forward (e.g. solving the captcha). So even if you assume that the terms "free" and "security" were intentionally meant to deceive, you'd have to prove that the user would not have otherwise signed up for Gmail if those labels had been different.
Unfortunately, the other kids variable is something that you can only control by moving away. I had to do that in the east bay, California, when the schools started taking more inner-county transfers and running busses. The greatschools score went from ~7.5 to 4 in 2 years. The test scores plunged and they pulled money from the school because it wasn't performing. Like that helps.

You can try to work with the school, the teacher, the principal, but you can't really work with the other parents. I can't even imagine how you'd begin that conversation. "Hey, little Johnny acts like a complete asshole and disrupts the class to the point that they are spending their heads down on their desk for half an hour a day. Can you step up and do something about his behavior?" Obviously I'm never going to be a politician, but how can that ever be phrased in a neutral way?!
Hey everyone, co-founder of Konsus.com here

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https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/

57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.
This decade, TL;DR: As Apple becomes the first computer maker to transition into a luxury goods company, they realize that the smoke and mirrors sufficient for keeping the pseudo-proles happy in other sectors aren't sufficient. Corinthian leather doesn't break your wi-fi.
Thanks for giving it a try. I agree that particular test does not sound like state-of-the-art. But don't judge the whole package just based on one test of one API. It'd be great to have access to these files (you can email them to me at my YC ID @gmail.com). Best would even be to post your experience on our forum: https://developer.ibm.com/answers/smartspace/watson/. We are usually pretty responsive.
Well, since GameLift is engine agnostic you could use it in any engine, it would just not be so tightly integrated.
light blue on white,
light gray on white.
nice site.
unreadable.
It really sticks in your craw that you are improving the quality of data, just because that data belongs to Google? Seems petty.
it's not corporate. Once you're some sort of LLC/GmbH, no money can leave the company without some sort of record who received it and why. That record is conveniently an invoice, but it can also be a receipt for the donation by an established charity etc.
Just found this story that shows that tweet: http://www.techinsider.io/github-the-full-inside-story-2016-...
I see desire/infatuation as catalyst or bootstrapping mechanism for a relationship. In my experience the early stages of a relationship involve a lot of calibration: communication style, likes/dislikes, emotional landmines, lifestyle, etc.

Without the strong feelings that often characterize the first period in a relationship, I or the other would probably have bailed out before even figuring out if some of these issues can be resolved.

Of course, the downside is that I've found myself spending a lot of time and energy in the infatuation phase only to discover that there were fundamental incompatibilities and wondering how I could have felt so strongly about this other person in the first place. But I guess that's unavoidable.
Thanks for the data. I guess rails and node are "hotter," but I'm still not convinced because it appears that stackshare relies on self report (which we all know is pretty fallible). Further, selection bias could be at play in these data. For example, individuals more likely to report their stack on stackshare might be the same individuals more likely to use rails or node. Still, at least we've got some numbers.
Updated List: The Best Front-End Tools for 2016
1) high shutter speed, lots of light
2) 240fps, twixtor in post
3) string splitting into 2, attached to top and bottom of the iphone, presumably stopping it from spinning around?
4) fisheye attachment
Design Issues with OpenStack
Isn't celery plug and play nowadays? If you need a something simpler take a look at django-rq. I don't think a serious job queue is possbile with RDBMS as backend.
Good for them.

It's worth to note that an nginx fork called Tengine (by Taobao) has a similar feature before.

http://tengine.taobao.org/index.html
When C is taken as the baseline, there's a very long list of languages that look better for this sort of program. I don't see a huge reason that init has to be C, or even particularly benefits from it. (Specific init implementations may have the advantage of being battle-tested, but that's a characteristic of the program and time, not implementation language per se.)
Until a few years while ago, Pascal/Delphi was the language most commonly teached in schools here in Germany, and many more learned it outside of it. I don't see why you bring up Ada of all alternatives (C, Basics, Java,...)?!
If it's an attack piece on Sanders in disguise, it's an attack on the other candidates as well—but not even disguised.
It could be a personal donation. But then tax takes part of it first. Basically, would the OSS project like €1,000 or €500? Because either way the company has to pay €1,000.