skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see where you're coming from - it's an idealistic point of view.

We have violence, violence is bad, if we want peace, we need to get rid of it.

Makes sense.

Is that realistic on any level? No.

So either you can stick to idealistic notions and claim that the world is messed up because people are not like you, or you can recognize that fantasizing about a world that's impossible given human nature is simply a waste of time.

Fantasizing about a better world is a good coping strategy that I use myself. I just don't believe it to be anything but a coping strategy. At the end of the day, I need a strategy to change the real world I'm living in, to my liking.

Telling people 'why not be more like me?' is not a very good strategy :) I dare say you actually lack the nuanced understanding of the world to actually make it the way you want it.

Let's put 100 people of your choosing, the ones with least apathy and most empathy on the planet, on an island. How well are you going to do?

What if they're a bunch of non-apathetic, empathetic idiots? They light themselves on fire trying to make a campfire, they chop off their own fingers cutting up salad, but they are so empathetic towards each other.

A few days later, you're all dead.

The inherent problem is people are dumb - your current beliefs on what's wrong with people falls in the naive category. THAT is the problem - there's no lack of empathy, there's lack of intelligence. Lack of empathy is mostly short sightedness - most people don't think of anything but themselves and their immediate family because they're dumb, not because they are apathetic, they don't have the capacity for much is all.
Given the people still using Newtons, I wouldn't bet against them - although black & white would be the result.
Looks great but no way am I going to go back to Samsung now I have a Nexus 6P. In the past the Nexus phones have always been kinda "nice but not great" but the 6P is easily one of best phones you can buy. The camera is top-notch, the screen is stunning, performance is awesome and battery life is incredible. And stock Android is bliss. I can't really fault it :)
I feel the same with my S2. Spend some time on xda and you have android 6 running on it. It's not even slow except when you're switching between big apps because android have to kill them when they are not in use thanks to the 800mb of ram.
I also bought a 3500mha battery and it lasts the day.
I didn't know about this book, and thank you. I think reading the style and opinion of key contributors to industry, science, nature preservation and other areas also helps me understand their motivations and world views. It's not just a listing of facts, but trying to get into their mind-set. I feel I do not get that from wikipedia.
Seattle.watch, an Exploration in Bluemix, a Raspberry Pi and Time-Lapse Magic
If the arrows were used or sold publicly earlier, they are (almost certainly) prior art. This doesn't necessarily mean the patent is invalid, though. Folks generalize excessively when discussing what a patent covers. You'd have to compare the patent's claims to the prior art arrows to decide if exactly what is claimed was done before.
Ask HN: What is your Parse Migration Plan?
I just read about the 3DO console (that he also co-invented) and how 3DO (VC funded company) had troubles 17 years ago in "The Internet Bubble" book (1999).

Sad to see this picture https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Dave_Nee... and read about his dead, RIP!

"[...] And this high-stakes competition never rests. Just within this last year [1998], two huge anti-Microsoft deals came down when two pairs of Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies dramatically combined - AOL with Netscape and At Home with Excite. The goal in these two Kleiner Perkins partner-orchestrated moves was clearly to consolidate forces in the Internet portal space and keep Microsoft MSN online service to distant competitor. In such efforts to seek advantage over Microsoft and dominate the Internet industry, Kleiner Perkins, whether intentionally or not, has been a huge contributer to the inflation of the Internet Bubble. [...]" (from the book mentioned above on page 71, dated 1999) I think, we can all be grateful that MSN (a CompuServe and AOL alike competitor on steroids) lost and the open World Wide Web won. Coming back the Amiga video, not always the better tech wins.
Funny thing is, those companies are two of the most prolific in the field of AI. I'd more likely believe that advertisers of the future will be the ones who have the best AI. Especially given that the web looks very much like that already.
DataTau (http://www.datatau.com/news) is a clone of HN dedicated to Data Science.

Maybe something similar for AI?
Not to rain on your hyperbole parade ;), but how long is the "incredible" battery life? Asking for a friend with an ageing nexus 4, who swore not to spend that much on a phone again...
That's because most "words" in German are made by "squishing" individual words together into one big one.
Not that I know of, nor the Objective-C EOF. They switched to Core Data which is not the same.
Fitbit refuses to fix the elevation gain calculation bug
I share your opinion. I'm sticking with the S2, the first Samsung phone good enough to buy (the S was too limited). It still works, it's small and light, I can mount it as a true USB disk, no need to change it. I'll buy some other 4" phone when it eventually dies, maybe a Sony Z* Compact.
> I never used this framework, but everything i know from the next era is starting to show its age (including coredata, with its messed up support for multi threading access).

EOF is not Core Data and Core Data is not from the NeXT era.
Waterproofing isn't as obvious as it seems, though. The previous iterations of Samsung S series that were not waterproof included an amazing array of environmental sensors that they can't seem to add and also have waterproofing. The Galaxy S4 had a hygrometer and a thermometer, which are absolutely awesome and represent a really amazing trend of smartphones and environmental sensing. They removed those sensors for the S5 to be waterproof, and I'm sad to see that continues with the new phones still.

At least they are still able to include a barometer, though! That's awesome.
I ditched my S6 for a Nexus 6P about a month ago as I was tired of waiting for the Marshmallow update. I believe it finally started rolling out a couple of days ago, about 4 months after Google released it.

Love the hardware and Samsung Pay is absolutely revolutionary (far better than anything Apple or Google have put out), but the slow device updates and general Samsung bloat mean I'll never go back.
Duh. that paper is... long. And it mentions inheritance 0 times.

Maybe compared to duck typing inheritance increases cohesion. But classes in practice most often discourage cohesion. That's why they came up with Aspect-oriented programming. Not that that is practical, but it comes from the insight that organisation as stateful objects naturally leads to coupling, since you must lump most functionality into one mostly closed concept. And the odds are your next class will have a very similar structure regarding dependencies and implementation. And then you end up with inheritance just to share code, and end up with these totally meaningless ball-of-mud inheritance structures.

> Low level implementations that need efficient implementations of function calls

I'm pretty sure the most efficient "implementation" of function calls are still function calls.
I dunno, I find Googling-enabled conversation to be just different, not necessarily better or worse then pre-Google convos. This might have more to do with me growing up with them though

(also, I misclicked the upvote button and downvoted you instead, sorry!)
It has become almost given that if you are not a (co)founder of a startup yet then something is wrong with you.
Right, the so-called "level of abstraction" is just an abstraction for textual hackers, one that other hackers get but a visualizer like a "c to dot" parser wouldn't. You're basically making the abstract higher order domain of discourse the programming "language".
nice, microSD is back
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
Honestly, I nor anyone else has any idea what she or he means by functional since they didn't provide any sort of example, and it's not even clear that the user would even know functional programming if they saw it. They referenced python, so should we assume they don't understand what map does? Map is just a function which is properly documented and easy to find help on. Is the user saying that they aren't able to look up the definition for a function they don't understand? Are they saying they refuse to look up definitions for functions they don't understand? How on earth do they get anything done if they refuse/can't look up function definitions?

What I'm trying to say is that it's very likely the user doesn't even know what "functional" means. They just hear some keyword they don't understand and dismiss anything that follows. Because when you think about it, it doesn't really make any sense that a programmer could be a programmer if they couldn't look up things they don't understand.
Hotspot is just Settings -> Turn on Hotspot. No configuration (even the password is auto-filled). Not sure what you have been doing.
One of my hopes is facial recognition, to help me remember who this person is who send to remember me so well. Maybe a couple notes on the person that I keep on the side as well...

I often totally fail to recognize people outside of the contexts and places where I usually see them. So a fix would be amazing.
I strongly suspect your first premise (that money cannot be removed from politics) is correct, though I disagree with your interpretation/rationale.

The point that financial wealth and political power are simply two (of several) dimensions of power means, though, that the influence of money on politics cannot be ignored.
> Apple largely does not care what competitors do, Apple seeks to set trends instead of following them.

That's why Apple set the trends with large phone displays and 7 inch tablets right? I think Apple makes great devices and that you don't need to distort the great work this company does by living in a fantasy world about Apple getting everything right on the first try and not borrowing ideas from others because they clearly do.
I agree with you that more housing is needed, but come on -- no-one prefers living in a tent to a 2 hour commute.
There was the whole John Delorean weird business, although that was allegedly plain old cocaine dealing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeLorean#Arrest_and_trial and there's allegations of someone else having their business destroyed for refusing to cooperate with surveillance but I cannot remember the name.

I can't imagine the UK having a tech embargo that affected iPhones; that's the kind of stupidity that brings down governments. However, I should note that the ARM TrustZone technology that's critical to the iPhone security is developed in the UK...
Also, I make a timeline javascript widget a few years ago. Sadly, I can't open source it. I remember that then not was any decent widget or library to build an timeline.

If someone like to see it on action :

- http://elgreco.digibis.com/en/musobjects/timeline.html?busq_...

- http://zardoz84.bitbucket.org/example/poli/index.html

- http://zardoz84.bitbucket.org/example/23f/index.html

- http://zardoz84.bitbucket.org/example/jfk/index.html

Perhaps someday I would make a open source clone of it, with some improves that I have in mind to avoid some performance problems when there is too many elements (see the JFK example)
BRITAIN OUT, eu sez uk must pay 43B to big business
The project banner depicting a damsel in distress on the railway tracks is going to make some people twitch. I'd avoid that distraction by picking something gender neutral. My 2c.
“Training” societies in tolerating interceptions
If I had known what I was going to go through I'm not sure I would of done it, but it's also my personality to never give up. I always keep looking for a way through, around or out of problems. So, I always feel like I'll be OK. I might not get the optimal solution, but i can deal with most situations. Now....what happened to Aaron and Turing...to me that's different.

Our startup wasn't really successful. We didn't return money to our investors. We were 'bought' by another company, but that was just a talent acquisition. Since then we have been successful at the new company...again...because of nothing more than we will stick to what we believe is right longer than others. I'm able to withstand a lot of resistance and I only take a few people's opinions seriously. So other people not liking me or not wanting to be apart of what we are trying to do has little effect on me. Not everyone is like that. If you aren't this startup/running companies is not something you should indulge in...the stresses will break you down.

It's really important to have a people you work with that you can rely on and commiserate with. Without that it could get to anyone, save a true psychopath.

Paul has given reasons for why he didn't want to invest in single cofounders, but I'm not sure he ever articulated it that way. For me having a partner made this experience bearable. It wasn't what I would call fun though.
The objective of the entire ad industry is basically to determine what it is you're in the market for. Funnily enough, I'd have no problem telling someone/thing what I'm in the market for providing the offers received matched my specified criteria.

On any given day of the week, we're all in the market for something, right down to a tube of toothpaste. I've always thought that if advertisers knew, from the source, what that item was, their focus would shift to the value of the offer versus today's focus on identifying potential buyers.
I don't think Apple plays much of a countering game — iPhones are (probably) announced late in the year as they're some of the hottest holiday items globally.

I wonder if competitors would get drowned out if they announced around the same time. (Not trolling, genuinely wondering, as iPhones create a lot of buzz.)
Agreed. It also still works great and it also supports FoxFi which is great to share data with the kids.

My friends make fun of me for how 'small' it is, but I look at them put their giant phablets to their ear and it just looks ridiculous. Wasn't the big thing making things more compact, now we're going back to giant phones again?
I've worked from home for 6 years (with two years in between when I would come to the office 3 days a week).

I never really had issue with the socialization but then I tend to travel a lot (I travelled 7 months this year), and I tend to like meeting and talking to people I don't know.

One thing is sure though is that it's harder to find the drive when working from home. I'm usually more productive from home but if there's any external event that causes me to be down, it's much easier to have unproductive days. Overall, even with those unproductive days, I'm still more productive than in an office (especially places with open plans).
That's a completely false analogy. We rely on text to represent what's best written as text. When you want to speak of a specific automaton or graph, you'll give a figure, unless the mathematical structure is really big (infinite maybe) and thus best described intentionally.

Frege's notation is another example, although it was a bit idiosyncratic, but its legacy very much lives in proof theory.

And then there are string diagrams, proof nets, ...

Do you know anybody doing maths who could say "well I've never felt the need to use a figure in my life"?
This is interesting. On a related note, how come I've never seen britannica.com in my Google search results?

Their robots.txt file doesn't scream crawlers go away.

http://www.britannica.com/robots.txt
It seems like the problem you are describing is battery life, not the use case of being always on.

You are correct though that AR is best when it's persistent. Consider though that for parts of the day (at work for example) you could plug it in while in use.
It is Swift on Rails. If it was Kanye on Rails no one would be offended to see a picture of a man on the railroad.
Yeah, there's a huge problem with discovery and new apps, though, which kardashian has a huge leg up on.

Other challenges are that people tend to spend 80% of their time on 3 apps, and that people are likely experimenting with new apps much less than they were a few years ago, as they've already got their goto apps at this point.
Thanks for the "for dummies" version! I think I might actually have an idea for an application that would benefit from this infrastructure. :)
Not true in practice.

Samsung may pass the updates to the carrier, but the carriers fail to respond in a timely fashion.
> It is a great way to have a clean linear history.

Why is this considered by so many people to be a Good Thing? Engineering is an inherently messy human process, and the repository history should reflect what actually happened. To that end, I've been advocating a merge-based workflow instead:

- The fundamental unit of code review is a branch.
- Review feedback is incorporated as additional commits to the branch under review.
- The verb used to commit to the trunk or other release series is 'merge --no-ff'.

Under that model, merges are very common, particularly merges from the trunk to the feature being developed. But that's OK, because its what actually happened. When most people perform a 'rebase', they are actually performing a merge, while dropping the metadata for that merge.
Hello! I'm one of the founders of NewByteOrder.
Answering the questions:

- the textual language does not require IDE to create binaries, only the compiler that will be open source. The graphical IDE is called NodeLab and it will not be released under Open Source model at the moment (althought we are constantly considering such option). It will be free - that's for sure.

- As a startup we have a plan to make money from making a product. Althought our motivation bases on a strong belief that we can change the way people are able to develop software, program IOT and visually process data, the money is needed to hire people, eat something and live somewhere :) Ok, answering the question in more details - we plan to make money by providing paid support and by selling visual data processing cloud solutions. Luna runs locally or in the cloud. Our editor is able to run in web browser as well. We're working on cloud runtime that allows you to model any data processing graph, that our cloud infrastructure will process in parallel and will return results to you. That are our next steps. Currently we want to release the technologies, build community around it and prove that Luna solves problems in different domains by making interesting use cases.

- We are a startup from Krakow / Poland / Europe. My name is Wojciech Danilo (https://pl.linkedin.com/in/wojciechdanilo) and I'm one of the founders. I've got pretty big background in visual data processing - I was working as senior technical director in various movie studios for several years before starting this project. There is also a VC behind us - InnovationNest also based in Krakow.

Did I answer your questions? If not, I would love to provide more information :)
I agree with the parts that are visible. However, your data is being sold behind the scenes eg Verizon tracking you through a service you have paid for.

I take huge issue with that. I pay for cell phone service. I should not be used to derive additional revenue for another channel. It's single use not multi.
Mesosphere Marathon for production container environments
I prefer to split a server app into a connection management layer and a backend logic layer. This way the backend can remain stateless which makes for easier maintenance. I use Django as the backend piece in most of my realtime apps (for example WebhookInbox) and it works great.

Of course, native support for long-lived connections in Django would be cool, if only because it would mean the connection management layer could be built with Django too.
Not sure if there is a single one, just like there is not one killer app for the smartphone - though arguably it was the integrated camera that was the breakthrough for the iPhone.

We are betting the killer app for mobile AR is for e-commerce/shopping.
Is it because of taxes as to why countries don't like Uber/Lyft? Because in my opinion they are way better drivers, perhaps because they are driving their own cars.
I've been considering a... is it the "5x", now? Mid-range price. The camera is supposed to be excellent. Somewhat more pocketable.

And, being on Verizon, my understanding is that I can pop in the micro-SIM from my 2013 Moto X and it will "just work", despite Verizon not officially supporting the 5x.

For that is a primary concern of mine. Due to circumstances, I'm kind of stuck with Verizon (in the U.S.). But I will never again purchase a phone whose updates are under their control. It seems to be either a Nexus that I can get to work on their network, or an iPhone.
Is Swift still OS X-only, or can I use this on Linux?
Supposedly blocking ads is immoral because ads provide funding for the so called valuable content.

Here is the thing though: most pages do not have any such content.

One reason I don't want to see the ads because I didn't want to see the page in the first place.

I only landed on the page because it's stuffed with keywords that duped the search engine indexer.

The ads are part of the delay and bandwidth waste which stands between me ... and hitting the back button after seeing that it doesn't have what I'm looking for.

Yes, dear Webmaster, your site will die without your ad revenue.

But every visitor wishes for that outcome.

If I could not only automatically suppress ads, but your entire page, I would gladly do that instead. As it stands, the blocking technology suppresses only half the garbage.
Arbitrary explicit joins make a lot of data reporting much easier.
I am a Wikipedian and have been since 2010. Because I read German, I occasionally refer to and edit German Wikipedia. I'm not so sure that German Wikipedia is really that much worse than English Wikipedia in the topics I follow most closely (psychology and linguistics), and I might rather say that English Wikipedia should be less hasty about adding new articles on every pop-culture topic for which few reliable sources exist.
I actually like GCD, so I hope concurrency doesn't make it to the language, or if it does tries to stay as close as it can to GCD api design.
Well, people skilled in their art prefer to not work for free.
> And we don't just turn on adblockers because ads are intrusive. We turn them on because we want to be free. Free of lies, free of bullshit, free of having proxy wars executed with us (e.g. Coke vs Pepsi, BK vs McD)... we want to live in peace of the non-stopping torrent of crap that screams "BUY BUY BUY" at us, every second. The sheer amount of advertising is Too Fucking Much.

I will guarantee you that ninety-five percent of the population would just stare at you in bafflement if you hit them with this Adbusters-style rhetoric. You want those things, which is fine: more power you! But most people don't care. They are using adblockers because the ads are intrusive and slow down their devices or burn up the battery. If the ads were not intrusive and destructive, they wouldn't take the trouble to block them.

That "we want to be free of proxy wars" comment is especially wrong. People love proxy wars! It's no different from rooting for your local sports team. You have a thing you like for whatever trivial reason, it's entertaining to watch that thing fight with another thing. It's a standard element of human behavior.