skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086 (85 points, 12 hours ago, 29 comments)
This brings up an important point: there are lots of people out there who are rejecting technological augmentation of human intelligence in favor of the older ways like rote memorization and reading the manual. It's like people who want to study a map first rather than just depending on getting real time directions with GPS while driving. Or reading deeply from primary sources about history rather than crowd sourcing questions to historians.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but I suspect that like the Luddites and their looms, augmented human intelligence via computers will win out in the end. People will simply find it more efficient to tackle learning from a agile perspective using search and crowd sourcing to grab what you need when you need it rather than doing a lot more reading up front and later sifting through what they need and don't need (YAGNI for knowledge?).
RiverSimple Rasa prototype on the road
Zer0: new addictive number-game like 2048 and Threes! [Web,Android,iOS]
Hilarious to see a fix specifically for Ultima IX in this release - https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13683

Ultima IX, apart from being a terrible, awful end to a great series was renowned for being buggy as hell.

Kudos to the wine developers, if you're fixing things like this, you have an unbelievable attention to detail!
Economics in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged [pdf]
‘Virtually impossible to beat a machine in this age’: Garry Kasparov
Can someone explain how him forking the code is not forking beyond his insistence that it isn't. It seems like a pretty cut and dry fork. He intends it to some day be merged, but fork and merge is a common pattern. I think he's trying to avoid the stigma of a "fork" vs a fork but the difference is a gray area, and his dance over terminology is silly.
The lies that so many of the citizenry buy into are far from nuanced. Rather, they are bald-faced. Often, the liars simply rely on Status Conferral, Ignorance, and Indifference to get by. I contend that Twitter is as much hindrance as help.

It has been a long time since the citizenry last needed to fully engage the Check Boxes of Government: Soap, Jury, Ballot, Ammo. A lot of folks are having a hard time believing the last one is an option. Know Your Roots, indeed.
Out of curiosity: Is there any Windows killer app in 2016 I need WINE for?
And when someone "steals" your identity, they didn't really steal it right?
Maybe they were tombstones for dead teenagers who would have appreciated you taking a selfie with their tombstone, putting a cool filter on it, loading it up with edgy hashtags and getting likes on your instagram. Each generation has its own way that they want to be remembered. YOLO!
Hello, I'm the developer of zer0, a puzzle-game like 2048 and Threes!, with a new kind of gameplay.

In this game you have to create the tile n° 0 as fast as possible. Can you do it ? And can you go further ?

Take a fast look at the game with this GIF : http://imgur.com/6k9wioB

How to Play ? It's very easy :

- When two or more tiles with the same number are adjacents,

- you can click on one of them and they will merge (on the tile clicked).

- The number of the new tile is reduced by 1.

- You have to create the tile n° 0 !

Feel free to share your time/score and your opinion of the game !
Good luck and have fun :) !
Water Issues (focus on Texas, fresh water), because of drought issues
3G/4G services in Gilgit-Balistan, AJK this year – Govt
The romans were already capable of creating pretty nuanced lies. I'm very certain we are, too.

As for control of public opinion in the age of the internet, I don't think it's hard at all. First of all, we have several industries that are focused on just that - PR, advertising, political spin-doctors - and secondly those industries get more and more sophisticated tools through modern data collection...
It's baffling to me how the FSF came to the conclusion that JavaScript is not 'Free software'.
I know the name 'JavaScript' is proprietary but the technology itself seems to be as free as it can possibly get.

I think a problem that's coming up now is that the lines between proprietary and free software have blurred.
The FSF movement made sense in the old days when we had to pay a one-time cost to buy a CD with software on it. Today because everything is delivered as a service, it becomes very difficult to distinguish the software from the service itself. We're not just paying for the software anymore - We're also paying for continuous software updates, security patches and the ongoing management of underlying hardware infrastructure... The money has to come from somewhere.

I just don't understand the purpose of the FSF anymore... For the same reason that a 'Free Hardware Foundation' wouldn't make sense - You have to pay people to look after the software infrastructure in the same way that you have to pay people to get the silicon out of the ground to build your hardware.
I wish these anti-github blogs and fud would stop and people found better things to write about.

Github is fantastic.I love using it over anyone else.

GitLab and Bitbucket are good too. You can even host stuff yourself.

Its nice to have choice. Choose the one your like.I Choose github and that is my choice.
Oh John, Is there anything you cannot do?
Sometimes I wish that every article had a short tl;dr at the top.

This post looks great offering awesome pics and an interesting topic but I am too ADD to read it (and wondering if it's worth the time).
I thought Apple was an Irish company (like Google,Pfizer Tyco, etc all those companies that have done tax inversions). How can they be compelled to follow US law? Just because they have an office here?? What if they moved ALL THEIR JOBS to Canada and Mexico? Would the CIA then have the right to engage them because they were foreign? Would drones accidentally crash into their headquarters? Or is the CIA going to start a campaign against Apple? This looks a lot like cancer when the body attacks itself.

Though I agree with the sentiment that terrorist behavior is abhorrent, we cannot allow the terrorists to win by succumbing to the pressures they create. I understand the need for improved intelligence to predict and prevent future incidents, and I think there is no better example for the value of human intelligence (humint). Rather than engaging in the dirty business of scouring everyone's dirty laundry, I think the gov should crowdsource this effort. The gov's role should be in developing infrafrastructure, methods and plans on how to assess, verify and value the information they receive-rather than pursue the acquisition of data themselves. Ultimately it's still the same problem they have with their own agents-how do you know the information you are getting is true? Wasn't the search for WMDs in Iraq an example of unverified intel acquired by our own agencies?

As Snowden pointed out, no one lives in a vacuum. The gov has the metadata of every tel no and IP address that phone connected to. Those are probably much lower hanging fruit. The individuals that own those devices may be couriers, innocent bystanders or unrelated websites. But that is the job of the agency-to rank these leads, pursue them and prosecute the highest risk ones.
Very interesting. Thanks!

In the long run shouldn't recovering more money from defaulted creditors lower interest rates for people before they default?
Well, at least they made their hardware and software survey public:
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Could you elaborate on being firm during negotiations? What aspects are you 'firm on'? I guess there is a technique to all this but not having changed a lot of jobs in my career and getting by on references I am probably less clued into negotiating tactics than someone who has moved every 2-3 years.

I would really like a site where they can teach you these skills or take care of it for you. A few premier sites that can act like agents already want you to have a GOOG/AMZN/APPL pedigree.
The image you linked is the very reason I'm wary of consulting SO for javascript answers.

I have found that MDN is a way better resource, including pedagogic examples for most (if not all) concepts without using bloated libraries.
Which pre referendum Scottish promises haven't been fulfilled?
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Why do our cell’s power plants have their own DNA?
Much less so now than in the past now with Valve/Steam's fairly good support for Linux/SteamOS.
You are exactly right about this. The same way that the two-party political system "disagrees" and "clashes" with each other while perpetuating the same essential policies, the "good guy" Apple and the "bad guy" FBI will put on a circus that makes us clap and cheer while our data is fat-piped to the NSA data center in Utah.
Office, though it doesn't work with WINE. Other than that not for me. Games for some people I think.
foobar2000 is still by far the best music player.
Only if you want specific titles, there are a lot of Linux games on Steam these days (117 out of 231 of my games work on Linux).
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Yes. And that's the problem. Not the foreigners.
Overview of serverless architecture tools
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"Here, Apple engineers are effectively being conscripted to build forensic software — a hacking app — for the FBI." "Instead of being asked to hand over its own information, Apple is being instructed to help hack into someone else’s — someone whose only connection to the company was owning a phone that Apple produced."

"That’s a particular stretch because (as Apple argues in another ongoing case) Congress has already passed a federal law outlining exactly what companies must do to help police spy on digital messages: the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1992." (1)

A "hacking OS" more precisely. Now compare what is being requested with the apparent legal basis for it:

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

"(a) The Supreme Court and all courts established by Act of Congress may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.

(b) An alternative writ or rule nisi may be issued by a justice or judge of a court which has jurisdiction."

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That's really the whole act!

Which FBI claims to simply mean "we can order anything to anybody" including ordering Apple to make "a special operating system," and then later, obviously, even the special chips to allow FBI to snoop continuously, if they want. It's not an accident.

Should this particular act be allowed to be used to effectively ban encryption? That's how much is at stake.

1) http://nypost.com/2016/02/18/will-an-18th-century-law-force-...
Now my day is wasted, shame on you !
(this is my rough way to say thank you ;-)
No no no, you don't understand it from the FBI's perspective: they NEED back-door access to all iPhones BECAUSE they are very careless with evidence and passwords all the time.
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No matter what kind of program I write, there seems to be some way for unexpected delays to occur.

If Apple were somehow forced to perform this “burdensome” activity, they should take their sweet time and claim one unexpected software/hardware issue after another. Why not? It is entirely plausible (lots of precedence) and since they are by definition building something they did not have before, they could even say they have no experience with what they are trying to build so they can’t know how long it would take. :)
Back when I was 16, playing Shadowrun, we used to say that paranoia was not a disease, but a survival strategy.

There are moments when I get close to freaking out about it. I am currently reading Gravity's Rainbow, and now, for the first time, I get the paranoia in that book, I feel it. It is even less pleasant than I had imagined.

And even with FLOSS and the best encryption technically possible, we have to ask ourselves, what does it lead to?

In a society where the state no longer trusts the citizens, where citizens need to use military-grade encryption to keep the intelligence services from accidentally flagging them as potential terrorists because they have a gross sense of humor or a weird hobby, the very fabric that holds society together begins to erode.

If we go down this road, we will become even more estranged and isolated than we are now.
In my case: Evernote, Office and SQLyog. Also the Adobe Suite, but if find that to be unusable under wine so I go for a VirtualBox.
This seems like a fairly narrow view on how people learn from others. The assumption the author makes is that if you look up the answer in the back of the book you won't think about how it's done. Yes, some people will do this for the sake of time, but in my experience I think SO does a good job of encouraging a learning environment by requesting answers provide context.

The example given by the author about moving buttons in iOS tries to make the case that there are unknown implications to finding a "hack" to solve a tough problem. I look for this type of information on SO all the time – usually not to implement the exact solution but to learn how others have solved similar problems that will help me think about the specific issue I am tackling. That's how I learn. Not for everybody, and I recognize we all do things differently.
making me think that the supremely clever people behind
these projects (no sarcasm!) never experienced the pain
that comes from split ecosystems. Because if they had,
they wouldn't have started "cats" without getting
concensus first.

What consensus? Do you understand why cat needed to be created in the first place?

It was created because it was impossible to work with these terrible, obnoxious (ex-)Haskell people anymore.

The main change from scalaz to cats is not the code, but the community: Friendly people behaving like adults who don't act gravely offended when people discuss potential approaches which don't look like 100% what Haskell came up with.

I think scalaz will fall out of use mid-term, because everyone is sick of their shit behavior.
The greater autonomy of Scotland. Devolution max. There is barely something new done from what I read in the news
For a long time I would have agreed--Office is Windows' killer app since the Windows version is way better than the other OS versions.

But looking deeper it's getting harder and harder to justify Office:

For presentations I prefer Keynote. It's not perfect but still better. Spreadsheet I use Google Sheets, inferior to Excel but good enough and live collaborating is unbeaten and this is my number one requirement.

Word is the only one where is no substitute for. Google Docs doesn't have paragraph numbering and misses a review mode which is super important when negotiating contracts.

So, Word is Office's last lock-in.
POUM was anti-Fascist and anti-Stalinist. If you think it was an error to support such a party in Spain at that time, I'm afraid it says more about your judgement than Orwell's.
I tried to like Galactic Civilization II, but in the end, I came back to the first MoO. For example, I don't care enough about micro-management to build individual things on my planets. Give me the sliders. Also, MoO's research system is still without equal: each playthrough different technologies are available (for each faction, and thus for the whole galaxy) changing the character of the game.

Sirian wrote well about its charms at http://sirian.warpcore.org/moo1/
Lotta the Codeweavers Wine devs are gamers, so of course they want their games to work too ;-)
This is the common return opinion for my game ^^ ! Everyone love it, but now they hate me because of the time they spent on it xD !
> take pictures of food

Maybe that's why the FBI is so wound up over this. They often confuse hummous and hamas.
Ask HN: When did Snowden become the voice of reason of all things InfoSec?
Granted the guy had some access to 3 letter agencies, but honestly, most of what he did was just grant us access to that info through leaks and whistleblowing. Now it seems he is a demigod of information security.
The worst part about the locked questions is that they often appear in top spots in Google. So you see the question in the search results, exactly what you've been looking for, but then some bureaucrat has locked it.

It would be more honest if they'd delete locked questions from the site, then they at least wouldn't spam Google result pages ... but the way it's currently implemented is infuriating.
Smartwatches have overtaken Swiss watches in global shipments
Bringing dead people back to life works on TV, cinema, and, according to Cheney, in real life (at least at Easter).
'Five-dimensional' glass discs could store data for billions of years
Can I stream Vimeo videos through Chromecast?
Homeopathy Effective for 0 out of 68 illnesses
Photoshop. The only reason i am still running OSX is Photoshop.
And when the manual / API lies, stack overflow tells you how it really works.
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The fact that they bother to go on crusades like that affirms to me that GitHub is indeed operating according to an "ethical" framework—just not one I share.
Sometime you just have to collaborate with people that live inside the Microsoft bubble... And Excel is still a pretty hard lock-in for "power users".
Alismajean.blogspot.com the economic situation of haiti is more than you think
and Steam, but that also might be game dependant i guess
No need to impune Haskell developers thanks. (Even if that wasn't your intention your comment does read that way.)
The problem is not the lack of alternatives for personal use (I use LaTeX as a Word alternative), it's collaboration. If you are required to produce Word documents, PowerPoint presentantions, etc., using certain corporate templates, or as part of a standardized workflow, then you really need windows.

Also there are other, more specialized programs that require Windows such as SolidWorks, etc.
Noooo Winamp!
First, until you reboot your servers, they are not really patched. Second, you are happy about unattended core system upgrades to production machines? I don't think this is the right feeling to have :)
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One of my supervisor's colleagues wrote a book on bootstrapping which I've been meaning to read:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Knowledge-Rebuild-World-Scratch/...

He also gave a Google talk a while back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdRV8ccyEE0
I'm happily running Office 2007 with PlayOnLinux.
Because you sound like a shill. I'll disagree and comment.

Github has many reasons to not like or even to use it. It is centralised. It is proprietary. It is a bad company. Other services get built around it and it alone. It is becoming a One True Login.
AFAIK wine is still needed for a bunch of old app:

I have installed ubuntu on the computer of my old parents. Wine was mandatory to use powerpoint viewer.

Personally, I need the windows version of firefox to watch catchup TV (DRM protected using flash).
Powa Technologies, once a UK fintech Unicorn, is in administration
I believe that legal advice is actually one of those things where liability is associated, and you can probably sue your lawyer for lying about the law to you

Hence all the legal forums with "this is not legal advice"
By European standards, Minnesota is rather south. The southmost parts are on the same level as Tuscany, Italy. The northmost parts of Minnesota are on the level of Paris. When you live in Nordics, days during winter or late autumn (without snow!) can feel really dark.
I don't know which translation have you read. The fact is that translators rarely understand all the subtleties of Eco's original, translate it incorrectly and thus the translations are much more confusing than they should be.
Also, having a Windows VM provides (usually) a much better experience (but yeah, you need the Windows license).

I'd say games, which benefit from the shorter abstraction and hardware acceleration
Well, I assume Apple have multiple concerns - one is that the cops will leak the backdoor. But even if you could backdoor iOS in a way that couldn't leak, I think Apple would still oppose it.

Apple see this as the thin end of a wedge, establishing the principle that the feds can force Apple to put backdoors in iOS and Apple can't say no. The thick end of the wedge will have much wider scope and much less oversight.
The sale of the property automatically triggers an adjustment of the taxable value towards the sale price, so you don't need anybody greasing the wheels on the back end.

Detroit is in dire financial condition, so it would not be surprising if there is reluctance to aggressively adjust assessments. Which isn't meant to justify them not fairly valuing properties, but there is no need for collusion for the situation to arise.
Interesting. Mind recommending someone else we ought to read instead?
Cardboard+Cutout+Bill+Clinton+Not+Play+Saxophone+-+Start+Cardboard+Cutout+Busine
Mission Impossible tone was copied from 1973 Indian movie
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I asked about this in the fairly early days of SO [1]. Nowadays, it's clear that you're not just answering the OP, but thousands of other people. I think that's worth taking into consideration.

> Question askers should probably include a line about whether their happy for the premise to be rejected or not

This is a good alternative to being too hard-lined one way or the other.

[1] http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/45536/on-answering-t...
Foucault's Pendulum is also a fantastic book about paranoia of this sort, and how it draws people in.
So http://jobs.heise.de/ and http://jobs.golem.de/ could be relevant.

And if you are searching for german start-up-like companies, a few of them are also posting on the HN Who is Hiring.
This. As a consumer and professional I've become progressively more resistant to putting anything in the cloud for fear that any service I use and value will be 1) acquired and closed, or 2) go out of business. Any platform we use in the cloud is an investment...learning how to use it effectively, transitioning all our related content to it, etc...so when they go down it's often non-trivial to find an alternative and adopt it. The transition costs can add up. I think the reality is that people (consumers and businesses) will spend a lot more time and effort vetting new apps and platforms before investing in them as users. This means that new startups will need some serious legs and a way of explicitly addressing these underlying concerns. They may have to put aside a large chunk of capital just to be able to say explicitly that they have an operational five year or ten year plan. Otherwise users like me won't use the next cool thing because the odds are very good it won't last even a year. Part of the value of the really big successes like Salesforce is that they are clearly not going anywhere. Where I work we've invested in using a machine learning model deployment service which makes it relatively easy to expose our models as API endpoints, but since it's a product offered by a startup I know I'm hyper aware it could shut down any day out of the blue. If that were to happen we'd have to find another service to transition to, trial their product, and adapt all our stuff to it (potentially lots of new code to write and lots of learning how to use their platform effectively). It'd literally set us back months. Yes, potentially good for my job security, but who wants to fiddle with that kind of stuff. I want to move forward, not back or sideways. So yeah, the startup world needs to come to grips with this. I suppose what we might see in the future is a lot less VC funded startups, and a lot more bootstrapped startups which organically grow much more slowly. But even these startups will need to buckle up for a much longer growth trajectory because they'll have to overcome the idea that they might just shutdown.