skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just curious, when was the last time you used a Samsung device ?

A couple of points as I used to share your opinion, but I recently purchase a Edge Plus which changed my views (which while not as extreme were aligned with yours.

1.) For the most part, I do prefer stock android in terms of aesthetics and some key apps (dialer, etc).

2.) Samsung has really toned down their over the top "colourful" aesthetic on phones. They are increasingly following Material design guidelines.

3.) Depending on the carrier variant (and this could be killer), Samsung bundle apps are not as critical anymore and they definitely do not cause weird breakages when disabled.

4.) Having used both a Nexus 6P (considered the cream of the crop when it comes to stock Android experience) and there is very little performance difference between the two.

5.) Samsung (and other OEMs) have always been ahead of the curve of stock android when it comes to features that were co-opted into later versions on Android. They were the first to have quick access toggles in the notification bar, lock screen notifications, etc. So there were always some trade-offs.

6.) Even without getting into third party launchers, etc that can completely ape stock android in looks - Samsung has finally included proper theming support for their devices - so even a novice user can download a "Material Dark / Material Light" theme.

One perfect example that is still relevant to this day is the multi-window option that I use daily on my Edge Plus, which would not be possible on a Nexus device (just yet).
Instant eSports (YC S15) is hiring a full-stack web developer
Cigarette Packet Design
Do browsers prompt like for mic and camera before opening p2p connections? Nobody wants a letter from the MPAA because a random website's javascript starts downloading/seeding stuff in the background without the user's knowledge.
> I had an array of widgets. Those widgets had textures. Those textures were copied over and over and over again, because containers can do that, so I had to go back to rethinking the storage class for the widgets.

Actually, he didn't have to rethink it, and many people don't - instead, their code just copies things. Avoiding copying increases the chance for mishandling ownership and deleting a still-used object (or you can use shared_ptr, an then at some point the reference counting involved might get slower than the overhead of gc.) Beating gc in terms of memory footprint and speed without adding bugs is possible, but not necessarily trivial - and it's often very easy to lose to gc instead.

There are many good reasons why no language ever copied C++'s approach to "values" and "references", where every type can be passed either by value or by reference and redefine copying, assignment and now "move semantics." The proliferation of unnecessary copying is one of those reasons.
Hmm. Being a Prime subscriber, I had no idea you could even get free shipping without Prime.
Of all the complaints I can think of regarding C++, the one I care least about is the difficulty in disambiguating the grammar... Languages exist to help humans, not compilers. Of course, C++ often fails in that regard as well.

Aside, a pox on the house of bottom up parsers. Anyone trying to produce useful semantic errors out of a bottom up parser understands how god awful they are to work with. There's a reason both GCC and clang use hand rolled recursive descent parsers...
Pirated iOS App Store’s Client Successfully Evaded Apple iOS Code Review
>By the time I reach cardinality I wonder if maybe the author is more interested in making things sound intimidating than helping?

I'm overstating my case in that post, but underestimating how hard this currently is doesn't change that there are things you'd want to understand before diving into a Haskell web application. Part of this is on the framework designers, it's mostly/only Scotty that has made any attempt not to incorporate concepts that would be difficult for beginners and it's more "hiding" than "not using".

You don't need 100% grokhood all along the way, but the current status quo is that people frequently flounder and burn out because the resources they _did_ use didn't explain things usefully or cover enough. This is not conjecture, this from a _lot_ of time spent working with people hands on via IRC and Skype and curating a popular guide: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

>"Why can’t I learn Haskell the way I learned $BOZOLANG?"
>...I hope the book itself won't encourage the stereotypes about Haskell the way this post does.

The stereotype that I grew up reading c2 wiki and hacker lore? I've spent most of my career so far writing C#, VB.NET, and Python. I don't even really mind a bit of Python here and there, but I don't have much cause to resort to it any more except for Ansible.

As it stands, our readers have been taking breaks from the book to successfully work on side projects starting at about chapter 9 through chapter 26. Different people find there are different spots in the book where they can step away and get things done. The point is that the rest of it is always there if they need it. Education-by-blog-diaspora has not been terribly successful for many Haskell beginners up to this point. Partly because there aren't enough people for there to be enough angles on something that beginners can reliably find something that "clicks" for them. Another problem is that you want exercises to thoroughly understand a different way of thinking about and putting together programs.

In the end, it feels little different in my head than when I'm writing in something imperative, but the experience is more difficult than it needed to be for beginners for a long time. The book is me "scaling up" my ability to help people. Like it or don't, whatever, but please don't try to make a blog post I wrote into something it isn't so you can try to take me down ad hominem.

>...I hope the book itself won't take this tone. The community doesn't need it.

You can find out what the tone of the book is by checking out the sample provided on the book's website. No need to speculate. As it is, the tone is light but to the point. Readers have enjoyed the dry humor which is not at all like how I write on my blog. Which people have liked too. You should spend less time on HN commenting on things you don't like.

I have writing to do. Goodnight.
From a personal point of view as someone also interested in learning a bit I think building something is often a good way to go. I kind of have a plan one day to hack together the neural network from

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

with some personally selected stock market data to see if it can kick out profitable buy/sells.

(There is some how to stuff in the article under 'Source Code')
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There's a big difference between your buddy paying you $20 to take him to the airport couple times a year and regularly giving strangers rides where you expect to make a profit.

Even if you picked up a hitchhiker and they gave you $20 for your troubles that hitchhiker is not your customer and you don't regularly drive around looking for hitchhikers to make a profit.

It's actually pretty straightforward. That's why the term "sharing economy" is so disingenuous; nothing but doublespeak.
GitLab has merge-requests that work very similar. Accepting them should be easier since we have auto-merge on build success https://about.gitlab.com/2015/12/22/gitlab-8-3-released/
Back in the day, AT&T had technological issues that meant that there were separate "in-state" and "out-of-state" 800 numbers, so every national advertisement always mentioned a main 800 number, plus a different one for the one particular state where they actually had their call center. Single-state institutions sometimes only had in-state 800 numbers, so, for instance, you literally couldn't call California's Franchise Tax Board (the state's IRS-like tax authority) from outside of California (as I learned from bitter experience). Look up "InWATS" in Wikipedia for more details. Now, get off my lawn.
Uber, Lyft and crew should replace public transit at night
Interesting.

1. Is very interesting
2. Well, need to think
3. I think the upsides to a strong data-ocracy is so great countries will copy you

But yeah worth thinking on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11140171
I remember playing combat at Sears in the mall when I was kid. The most recent game like this was Guitar Hero.
Apple ][, bah
The Atari: Game Over movie is on Netflix. It'll give people more insight. The guy was an exceptional programmer and good game designer who was dealt a death march with a hard deadline.
> I've sometimes wondered about a WikiTextBook site which has definitive and progressive tutorials/lessons on topics that don't fit the 'pedia format, starting from pre-school all the way up to post-grad.

I've wanted something similar, but going the other way. That is, you start at post-grad level and can expand things to lower level as needed.

For instance, an article in this format on the prime number theorem would start out stating the theorem and presenting a proof at a level that you'd see if this was a proof from a mathematics journal. At any step in the proof you could expand the article in two ways.

1. Horizontal expansion. This fills in omitted steps, but stays at the same level.

2. Vertical expansion. This explains the step in terms of less advanced material.

Expanded material could further be expanded, both horizontally and vertically. So for instance suppose that in the top level proof of the prime number theorem an integral appeared and was evaluated. Expanding horizontally would fill in the details of how you evaluate that integral.

But suppose you have not studied calculus. You could expand that integral vertically, and keep expanding, until you get down to an explanation of calculus. That would give you essentially a course in calculus--but just the calculus needed to support the prime number theorem proof.

This could be the basis of an alternative way to teach math and physics (and other sciences). Pick a set of interesting, advanced results, chosen so that when you expand all of them the bottom level will have covered the complete undergraduate math and physics curriculum. I think this could be a good approach because it provides more motivation. Everything you learn at the bottom level is motivated because it is needed for that specific advanced result you are trying to learn. Contrast that to the current approach where you have long stretches of material that might not seem interesting but that you are learning because you are told you'll need in 3 or 4 years when you are finally getting to look at interesting stuff.
I'll go ahead and say that it sounds extremely sincere and straight-forward, much unlike most official statements I've seen from the FBI. He does suggest that his view is right, but he does the right thing, as apple did, in supporting a public discourse about the so-called balance between privacy and safety.

I know many people seem to gravitate to the extremes on every issue, but both Cook and Comey are right in saying that we as a nation need to question our fundamental assumptions in our thinking and think through what the would be the best balance between the two, if there be any. As Comey says, and I personally agree with this, the "balance" shouldn't be decided "by corporations that sell stuff for a living" or by "the FBI which investigates for a living,"...or in general, the government. We shouldn't be grass in a fight between two elephants. The American people need to decide how much involvement both government and large multinational corporations have in their lives. That's what this all comes down to, after all.
This is just assuming that they'll even let you order $49 worth of items in one box.

I let my Amazon Prime lapse because I was rarely using it.

A few weeks ago I decided to do a bulk order. I ordered 18 items with a total of $110. They split my shipment into three packages of approximately $50, $50, and one item by itself in another box for $10. Since one of the boxes didn't have $35, they tried to charge me shipping.

I simply removed that item but instead of having two $50 boxes, the shopping cart removed an item from a box and put it into a box by itself to ensure that I had to pay shipping. I spent two hours adding and removing items to discover that there is no way to get free shipping for multiple items anymore.

Eventually I contacted customer service and they said they would take care of it and ship it in one box with no shipping cost.

Three weeks later and my order finally shipped, in 5 boxes, with 5 shipping fees charged to my card.
How so? We give it different variables and let it change them incrementally. Calmness is a 0.0 - 1.0 floating point output from the band.

This was custom-made by the way.
The narrative has always been about hubris, to some degree, but shifting the blame to E.T. was always a distraction from some of the bigger lessons.

Atari had reached a point where it thought it could print money in perpetuity regardless of what it did. And that was true for a while. But you can't screw customers over forever. Eventually they bail, and that's what the big "video game collapse" was all about. Poor quality products being pushed at absurd prices. The lesson here is for startups with lock-in or few competitors: it doesn't take much to have it all fall apart. Make the best product you can.

I mostly marvel at the fact that this was done in 5 weeks. That's absurd. And while it was, objectively, a "bad" video game, there were far worse. They just weren't as high-profile. The second lesson is for developers: always appreciate the fact that you live in a world where patches, releases, and iterative development allow you to retroactively fix the things you had to do in a hurry.
I think it's safe to say that "STEM", when used by politicians, is code phrase for "subsidized training for business and industry jobs."

Otherwise, do you really think they intend to fund more specialists in, say, general relativity, paleontology, and astronomy?

Personally, I find that I lack the history training to really understand the politics that drives a lot of science. For example, pieces like http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/573/a-whig-history-of-crisp... and http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/engineering-life/2016/01/18/crispr... helped me understand the recent "Heroes of CRISPR" firestorm.

Then again, this anti-liberal arts movement started in the 1960s, when all those people trained in college to understand history, philosophy, anthropology, etc. started protesting the actions of a government using science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to conduct war in Southeast Asia.
Except he did go to Congress, and came back with nothing, forcing him to use the AWA.

So who is pushing who exactly? And who has a louder voice in criminal justice matters than the FBI?
This is pretty epic. Did you call them back and demand a refund?
Not surprising, they lose money for shipping. With the competition going down, they might feel it is a good time for price bump.
You don't get it, Comey. The problem isn't that you want this information. Obviously you want this information as an investigator of a crime. The problem is, we can't fucking trust you or anyone enough to cross that bridge, because we know if it's there, you're just going to want more. You and every law enforcement agent in the United States has lost our trust. Call it overreach, or overzealous prosecution, high incarceration rates, crooked judges sending kids to jail for kickbacks... fuck if I list any more, I'm going to want to drink some more.

I'd love to live in a world where I trusted a government, which is supposed to be a composition of its people, more than a profit-motivated, self-interested business, but in some weird turn of events, something vastly different has festered in the last 15 years. You blew it, you asshole, you and every other cop.
River Raid was similar, but Kaboom was nice because it used the knobs.
Gnumeric 1.12.27 aka “TBD” is now available
I took an Uber from Taipei City to TPE airport. I was charged for the a "return fee" to account for the inconvenience of such an out-of-the way trip.

It was still dirt-cheap compared to a equivalent trip in the US.
Report: 41 percent of younger IT pros have hacked
It has a remarkable resemblance to the iPhone 6. It's shocking how little innovation exists these days.
I wonder if they did or what would have happened if they had approached Apple in a non-compulsory manner regarding this.

He is right on the fact that the specific task they're seeking Apple to perform is more or less obsolete and will be entirely so shortly so I'm inclined to believe that they're not really going through all this to abuse that specific tool (though the precedent would be worth the fight in order to abuse it).

It would be sad, but entirely his fault, if his prior efforts to set bad faith precedents to end-run consumer encryption alienated industry to the point where productive conversations are no longer possible.
'I'm Spanish and I think it has been months since I have heard "usted".'

This varies a lot between different Spanish-speaking countries. Heck, in Argentina they still use "vos".
> The average cost to handle a parcel was about $8 last year.

Thats still Amazing low cost considering what has to be done to deliver a parcel. Though I'm more surprised Amazon hasn't set up an Argos style business in high density cities.

For those that dont know Argos it's in the UK and its basically a collection shopfront with catalogues infromt of the counter. You browse the catalogue, write down the numbers and staff go out the back and bring you what you asked for. They have a huge range and while strange at first shopping in person from a book catalogue it works amazingly well for a bunch of shopping needs. It would merge perfectly with a Amazon like business.
Aren't Chinese companies exempt from that type of thing on account of the culture of mimicry there?

I remember hearing about a phone with force touch being sold there but not in the US, might end up being similar
The high profile nature of this court case will ultimately be leveraged into getting Congress to take it up if they lose. I think Apple has a very good case for arguing under AWA that the order is too burdensome, and if the court doesn't agree I think they've got a good case to argue that it infringes their First Amendment right.
Actually, the Atari 2600 runs a 6507 which is a cheaper version of a 6502. Unlike the 64kbytes a 6502 can address, the 6507 is limited to 8kbytes. Worse, the cartridge design limited you to 4kbytes unless you bank switched.

But that was storages, which was huge compared to the 128 bytes of RAM. Further complications happen because you need to time things with the scan lines of the display.
Hadn't thought about it this way before, but he might be turning to the AWA because a reasonable piece of legislation can't make it through congress.
Here's what the ad industry dreams of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits_%28Blac...
I switched from Android to iPhone and hence had to switch from swapping out batteries to plugging in an external battery. Now I'd never go back, the whole reboot/swapping procedure is kind of a PITA
Didn't he and other FBI/DHS officials just get done testifying to congress for the need to backdoor encryption standards?!

Yeah, sorry, but I don't think I'm gonna trust them even though they promise it will only be this one time.
I've been looking a great deal into technology, progress, change, etc., and when you get down to it, the whole concept of the modern workplace is, well, exceptionally modern.

Computers as a work classification didn't exist as such until the 1970s. Office work was largely a novelty of the 20th century (though there were some "clarks" prior to that). And as you note, manufactories, as places where manufacturing, that is hand-making things, happened, outside the home, was a creation of the 18th and especially 19th centuries.

Before that it was mostly farm and ag labour, some skilled trades, and a very thin set of professional classes: law, medicine, military, clergy, and government work.

Commuting required cars, not commonplace until after WWII. Before then, you might have travelled on a streetcar or commuter rail, but that dates only to the 1880s. Prior to then, it was walking. Horse-drawn conveyance only if you were quite wealthy. Otherwise it was "mind the gunk".
> We don’t want to break anyone’s encryption or set a master key loose on the land.

This directly contradicts Tim Cook's statement, in fact he used the same term "master key":

> In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks — from restaurants and banks to stores and homes.

It either is a master key or it isn't.
I don't believe this is tied to the San Bernardino case. The topic of weakening encryption has been brewing for the past 6-12 months, and the FBI is using the SB case as a convenient hammer to put a nail in the coffin of encryption.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/28/the-fbi...

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/second-crypto-war-hearing-w...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbi-has-no-idea-how-to-...

These were all about a year ago.
That's simply repeating the situation, not addressing the criticism. The same argument applies there as well.
4 player Warlords was a favorite in the dorm during college. Many a night was spent on that game.
On our website we try to cater to both on-premises and SaaS users. Our homepage https://about.gitlab.com/ has 4 offerings of which one is GitLab.com, we plan to reduce this to 3 to make .com more prominent. We also have GitLab.com in the top navigation as well as a Sign In button.

Where did you look on our website and expected to find information about hosting repositories on our servers? Maybe we can add a notice there.
So I read that page, and I think the explanation is even worse than what I interpreted it to be the first time.

What they call 'blindly manipulating symbols' I call 'automation'. That is the entire point of computers in the first place, to very quickly perform tasks so that a human doesn't have to. That means describing the solution to those tasks. This is no different than mathematicians using equations. We don't need to do the entire process of solving every problem if they are the same except for changes in some parameters, we can write an equation and plug the parameters in. In software, we can write an algorithm/program that solves some specific problem, so long as the solution is the same and only the inputs are changing. Since programming languages support branching, we can make these algorithms as general as we think is useful.
> I buy less stuff on impulse.

I've always got a couple of running "projects" and it's really nice to have Prime if I find out I need to buy a 20 Mhz oscillator, or a magneto cover gasket, or a pink buggy whip mid-stream.
Perhaps this is the kind of thing they're going for with for instance, their brick and mortar book stores?
We recently greatly increased the speed of .com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 and because of this I removed the notice from https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/

We can still do better on speed and will continue to make it faster.
Not sure they were being racist, you seem to trigger a bit prematurely.

If the CEO happened to be of Bavarian Aristocratic heritage, would pointing that out be racist?

Satya Nadella is of the Brahmin caste, there is not one thing racist in noting it.
Forcing him how? If he came back with nothing, that's his answer. The answer of the American people. Perhaps he should learn what no means.