skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moreover: We're talking about a decade here. It's not a very long time. For more than 99.9% of human history, you would expect one decade to be pretty much identical to the previous.

But you could make a pretty long list of the changes in life from each decade to the next since 1900, so at this point I think the onus is on the people who want to prove that the next decade will not be materially different from the current. I'd certainly bet on change, and probably accelerating change.
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new counter increment pigeon. who dis?
As I described in another comment, that item in my menu was missing so I had to follow a series of very weird steps until it appeared.
I'm not a user of any of those stacks, but I love the name! :)
If all ad methods hypothetically disappeared, what would be the alternatives for businesses to promote their services and goods?
I bought a 6P late last week after the screen on my 5 died (it was a replacement I DIY'd after cracking the glass on the original).

Probably the worst timing possible given the MWC is on.

First impressions have been great. The build quality, speed and screen have all been a nice incremental improvement.

The Nexus 5 had been rock solid and I probably wouldn't advise anybody rush into the upgrade.

Stock Android is fantastic.
That doesn't seem to address the parent's point that no one is forcing them to take the job, and they find it to be better than their other options. How, then, would banning them help?

Is Uber responsible for the generally poor opportunities in the economy? Does their offering of these positions disrupt a solution to some public goods problem? (A good heuristic for whether one should care about a kind of lawbreaking, btw.)
The ship has been grounded for a lot longer than the last 3 CEOs have been around. they should have scuttled it and sold it off for parts a very long time ago.
On a side note, I'm totally stealing the trick of making MATLAB colorbar axis white as in Fig. 2 http://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/175655/fnhum-10-00...
Beef jerky?
You can consider ditching Apple platforms for good. They don't want to support developers? They can get lost. I think it's the only language they understand.
I'll add to that - by your logic shouldn't medical doctors and car mechanics also switched to being tipped positions? That way rich people can voluntarily pay more through tips, while the poor people don't need to tip.

Since that doesn't happen, and likely won't happen, that strongly suggests that your argument isn't valid.
I wonder if something like Realm.io will be adopted more widely https://realm.io/docs/swift/latest/

They seem to have adoption in some bigger companies, but I don't know if any of them are using the Swift version yet.
What value does that comment add?
>[...]but the 5X has all sorts of issues with bad performance. For example, opening the camera will often freeze the phone for 10-20 seconds.

Odd, I have a nexus 5X and I do not have this issue. The camera is pretty responsive. I think I've experienced some momentary freezes (the number of which I can count on one hand after 3 months?). YMMV? Although using "ymmv" makes no sense because they are the same device...

Also, the battery life is great and it is an good device over all.
Interesting, I listen to music all day, all types of genre, lot of classical pieces too, but I can't recall them like I can with video. But I am a very visual person in general, I also see what I think about, even words or numbers.
I'm from the VoIP world and we share this pain. Kudos, this must have been a huge undertaking.
A few years ago, Mozilla Labs was prototyping a client-side API called "User Personalization" for users to express their interests or purchasing intent:

https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2013/07/a-user-personalization...
What I've read is that even without facial expressions, the sense of the other person being there is surprisingly strong because of the subtleties of seeing how a person moves and reacts to you. I can't find any of the articles I've read saying that, but I'll transcribe a bit of this audio interview with two people right after they tried Oculus's Toybox demo:

"For me the biggest takeaway was how much is added when you're with another human being in VR and you're able to intuitively interact with them."

"I felt like this person that I'd never met before -- I felt at the end of it like we were bros. ... You're sharing this VR space but at the end it feels surprisingly intimate."

That's from here: http://voicesofvr.com/228-candid-reactions-to-the-oculus-toy...

Note that it's already that good even without any representation of the other person's facial expression. All it would take to add facial expression are some sensors on the inside of the headset. There are even companies working on inferring what your eyes look like from the expression on the more-visible bottom half of your face.
At these prices, is mainstream vr dead ?
Bruce Schneier. Which is why this question shouldn't be "the voice of reason" but "the foremost recognized voice of reason".
I think you've miscategorized a distinction. I'm in my late 20s, and I share both of the proclivities you describe: I'm both curious about things and prefer to find out if it's relatively easy to do so.

What you describe seems like a lack of curiosity, and I don't think easy access to information is a cause of incuriosity, though it could be a contributing factor.

Curiosity, and by extension a general sense of play about the world, are sucked out of most people by adulthood.
To my ear, it's a subset of Gen X, and definitely doesn't encompass all of Gen X culture.
I agree as a Hungarian who speaks English and German. German pronunciation was much easier to learn and not just because of the writing system. Simply the whole phonology is closer (except for the German throat-R, we roll our Rs in Hungarian).

English has this weird flow to it, this kind of liquidlike smeared sound. And the intonation and stress is also very alien.

It's also usually easier for a beginner to understand another beginner from a different country, than a native speaker pronouncing the same (simple) sentences.
Or to check the quote once the ride has started.
You clearly haven't tried very many demos (if any). To give just one example, Windlands is incredible and is not anywhere near as good outside of VR.
I was thinking that if no agreement can be made and the number of species keeps rising, the prokaryotes would get split into one or a few species and the current species would become sub-species (or some other appropriate label). This would be similar to how astronomers kept finding objects like pluto they didn't want to call planets.

By the way, my spell check doesn't even recognize the word prokaryote (although it does have eukaryote).
For the productivity obsessed on HN making negative comments, I'm surprised more haven't tried this kind of stuff out.

I have used white noise or waves for a long time to drown out outdoor noise around me.

My initial start with this kind of stuff was listening to various stations on somafm.

I like finding music that fits well in the background, isn't too engaging or something I'm familiar with, and hopefully devoid of vocals so I kept looking and came across a few instrumental tracks on itunes.

There's maybe a reason babies benefit from wave/sleep machines. White noise does have an effect that can aid in focus and concentration, science, placebo, or otherwise, I'm happy for the sustained productivity boost I've been able to have for several years.

I did buy brain.fm on a whim a while back it has replaced simplynoise or more to that point. If there was a bit more information published on how it was put together I'd be interested, and if not, I'd probably keep using it.

Would like it to be a downloadable or app that I could keep with me. Some things aren't for those who can't put themselves in other people's shoes, or imagine something may work for others that doesn't seem to be imaginable or work for them.
Neue Haas Grotesk [0], the original name and style of Helvetica.

[0] http://www.fontbureau.com/nhg/
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Yup, that one crossed my mind as I was reading the article. Looks like we're still a ways off this though.
> On the plus side, you can always stick a bulky battery case onto a thin phone.

That depends on a third party bothering to make a case for the device at all.
A review of compulsive buying disorder (2007)
Does this also include conversations, word-for-word? And facts told to you in those conversations?

For instance, if as part of a conversation, someone rattles off a long number or nonsense string of letters, can you repeat it back exactly long afterward?
This is absurd.

First he complains about the fact that we use an alphabet. Does he even have experience with heiroglyphic languages like Chinese? Basically the Chinese dictionary is split into 200-something "families", so when you don't know what a word means, you get a dictionary, and you flip to a family, then you basically brute force your way through the family to find your word.

Now he complains about the pronunciation. Sorry, but that fucked up pronunciation is one of the main _strengths_ of English. English readily absorbs needed words from other languages. Some languages like French actively remove words from their language.

And the phonetics? Go try out fucking Czech. I've heard it's legitimately impossible to become fluent in Czech. Or Austrian dialect, which has something like 4 different "r"s.

"Hawaiian no consonant is ever followed by another consonant" ... yeah you also frequently run into the german nightmare of neverending words like "humahumanukanukaapuaa". You think that's a better way to deal with things? An easy to pronounce marathon?

The large vocabulary is undesirable? The large vocabulary, with extreme possible specificity, is what makes English so attractive for scientific application.

And complaining about grammar? English has one of the easiest grammars to learn and get started with, sure it will take a few decades to not make any mistakes, but for just getting going, it is remarkably easy. No genders (some languages have 5 or more genders for things, see czech), no conjugation.

Sorry for the rant, but if you're just gonna post some BS one sided oped I'm gonna do the same. I personally don't think English is the best choice either. But one sidedness is ultra-obnoxious.
I've not used a VR headset before, but I've heard the games that provide the most immersive VR experience (at the moment at least) are 'cockpit'-based games such as Elite Dangerous. There seems to be some recognition of this from Oculus, as they're bundling EVE: Valkyrie with the CV1: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/rift/#eve-valkyrie
But if the number of different species in that category is in the billions, it may be necessary to use a different classification scheme:

"This number is very difficult to assess, but the discussed range varies from tens of thousands to billions;[48][49][50][51] most recent approaches and studies appear to favor the larger magnitude number"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species
It would have been really really hard to save Yahoo, but it could have been done. Obviously it will play poorly for everyone short term as many will lose their jobs.

However, just like the fail fast & learn, I dont think she will, nor should, pay a permanent price for this as she is actually a much smarter executive from that experience.

The problem with yahoo has always been well understood, no one knows what the fuck it is. It provides some value to a lot of different groups of people. It came out of Mayer's tenure looking the same way, a big company with a lot of pretty good things centralized in a disjointed way which was a missed opportunity.

Yahoo finance should have been broken into a stand alone site and become an investing portal selling side services to people and market data to others.

Yahoo should have restructured as a news organization and retooled the UI to look like bloomberg.

Fantasy sports should have been split out into a business and either sold to, or transformed into draft kings, etc.

Search engine actually quite valuable if it isnt someone elses results rebranded.
There's also Isabelle where TU Munich played a large role together with institutions from other continents and still does.

Also look at http://www.elsman.com/mlkit/ which incorporates many modern features, some of which can be found in similar form in Rust, recalling that the idea for regions wasn't invented by and is older than Rust.

There you'll find more Danish SML folks and links to SMLtoJs and somewhere down a link to the Smackage SML package manager and smbt Smackage build tool.

SML doesn't appear to be as dead as it seems from the outside.
Wait there is a typo in the title. I think you misspelled computer .
My experience with writing real production Haskell code is this: your first large Haskell project will be a failure, largely from missed deadlines and being unable to properly judge what is going to be easy and what hard. (Unless you deliberately aim low and spend much more time than is really justifiable on something you could have done in some language you know better in a few days)

Your second one will take longer than it would have in PHP or J2EE or whatever else you're used to building web stuff in. It will, like the first, also be ugly but unlike the first project will eventually work. It'll also fall over catastrophically early on, but will be salvageable. Once past its initial deployment/perf issues, it'll sit and hum away quietly in a corner with much less care and feeding than traditional web technologies. (Though you'll keep wanting to go back to it, because it's more fun to work in that than whatever else you're working on)

The third production Haskell project will come together much more quickly. Unfortunately, by this time you'll probably be bringing other people on and this will be their first big Haskell project. (See above about what happens to first big Haskell projects) So the parts delegated to other programmers will fail to work, and there will need to be lots of hand-holding and discussion of type design at first.

Selling management on this is indeed difficult. I'll admit that I'm still not clear on how we sold the first (failed) project to management or how I convinced my boss to let me use Haskell a second time. I mean, I was there, but I don't know how I did it.
Does firefox have the Buddah Nature?
It was! You can do, if you ever catch an itealadh to Scotland, get in touch and we can organise an impromptu round!
Picking any compile-to-JS language (not counting ES6/7) is a risky proposition though. There are a lot of people regretting their five year-old "legacy" coffeescript applications today. GHCJS is improving at an astonishing rate, but at this point I still wouldn't use any compile-to-JS language for a serious production application. There's too high of a risk of building something that becomes unreasonably expensive to maintain in a few years.
>>The takeaway is that although overflow is technically undefined

As they say: technically correct is the best kind of correct.

>>This made some pragmatically minded security folks quite angry

They sound very entitled to me. The C standard is clear on the issue, it's not some arcane hidden thing, it's just a fundamental behavior of basic types in the language.
It's very annoying to read the entitled comments from a person who is clearly in the wrong bashing the GCC crew.

>> it was the most widely used method of defending against overflows, and recognizing that such code was already everywhere in the wild they feared all the vulnerabilities that would be introduced by gcc dropping branches for i > i + proposed_increment.

As mentioned by maintainers in the thread there is already a flag to catch unsigned overflows. They even mentioned a way to catch those overflows in the code.

I want a compiler to be technically correct and do optimizations which are possible as the whole point of writing things in C is for them to be fast and efficient. It's nice that GCC has quite a big repertoire of flags, checks, sanity checks, warnings, sanitizers etc. They are very helpful. Demanding that the core compiler doesn't use the language specs to produce better code is pathetic though.

It also didn't "break" any real world things. You just need to use proper compiler flags to compile your non-conforming code if you want a newer version of the compiler. Then thank the hard working compiler maintainers for providing those to you as they could've spent their time on something more fun than fixing shitty code for you.

/rant
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Depends how long you plan to keep your phone. Lithium-ion cells have finite lifespans, and if you plan to keep your phone for years at a time, or if (like me) you tend to purchase slightly older phones, removable batteries are a godsend.

FWIW, though I'm not happy about the non-removable battery, I currently use a Nexus 4. It's gotten worse over time, but I used to be able to comfortably get about 2 days of runtime on a full charge. Now it's about a full day, though it sometimes needs a little help if I'm in an area where reception is weak.
GitHub AMA goes a bit awry
The command line switch '-fno-strict-overflow' will grant you access to this alternative universe.
Does this music ever repeat ? I can't tell if it is a play list of previously AI generated music or continuously novel AI generated music.

I stopped listening to focusatwill.com because the repetition was too distracting even with a paid subscription.
I had the same worry when i purchased a note 3. It really becomes natural after a few weeks(at least for me).

Just dont drop it on your face, reading in bed. A little more mass haha.
Yeah that part wasn't super realistic. A good dictionary file would've cracked that bad boy in less than an hour.
Beginner Haskeller, intermediate programmer is what I meant. Great for learning a new language, not great for learning a first language.
And there are many that are. For those that are you really have two or three options morally:

1) Don't visit the site
2) Visit the site and don't use an ad blocker
3) Pay for premium service (e.g. youtube red) wherever it's available

I refuse to accept that there's some moral high ground to using an ad blocking service. Especially for people like us (I assume you work in tech) where a huge percentage of our salaries is paid for by these ad systems.
Sounds pretty cool. Thumbs up for the idea.
German version.

USA: http://www.samsung.com/us/
I finished the article but went immediately to Google for "Fort Douaumont", to learn more details of "the world’s most impregnable fort, [which] was, by a series of almost incredible errors in February 1916, virtually undefended" and the recapture of which "is estimated to have cost the French as many as 100,000 men".

Wikipedia has a pretty good writeup:

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

> Kunze and his men reached the fort's moat and found that the wall casemates ("coffres") defending the moat were unoccupied. Kunze managed to climb inside one of them to open an access door. But his men refused to go inside the fortifications as they feared an ambush. Armed only with a bolt-action rifle, the Pioneer-Sergeant entered alone. He wandered around the empty tunnels until he found the artillery team, captured them and locked them up.

> By now, another group from the Brandenburg regiment, led by reserve-officer Lieutenant Radtke, was also entering the fort through its unoccupied defences. Radtke then made contact with Kunze's troops and organised them before they spread out, capturing a few more French defenders and securing the fort. Later, more columns of German troops under Hauptman Haupt and Oberleutnant von Brandis arrived. No shots were ever fired in the capture of Fort Douaumont. The only casualty was one of Kunze's men who scraped one of his knees.
I just worked on something similar at a hackathon this weekend with the Muse Headband, it was really fun. We used a support vector machine to maximize the "calmness" output of the band, which is some weighted sum of gamma and beta waves I believe.
I think you read the graphs wrong, they are % of players with better than 80ms ping. So going from 30% to 80% was an incredible improvement!
One con about Nexus phone is... well, try and buy one anywhere outside of US or some large country. You can't. I can't understand how that's possible with a company of that size.
Hey, placebo effect is good enough. The placebo effect works even if you know it's a placebo.
"Full stack would be..."

For us older engineers, full-stack was hardware up to OS up to apps. Quite a few projects did that. Haskell is more full stack via that definition given it can build hardware (Bluespec), OS's (House), system code (Ivory), and web apps. Worst case, use it as a DSL to output the language of your choosing like 4GL's used to.
OP Here: This game was developed for the Hack.Summit Virtual Hackathon. We developed it with 3 people, in 3 different countries. The platforms that you see in the levels are generated based on commits from the current repository (level) you are playing.
Parent comment is just trying to be helpful, and people are down voting it. The comment points to a legitimate concern so ... like all advice, take it or leave it, but I think it would be gracious to say thanks rather than pile on.

Also you really can't legally use the image of a performer without their permission, if you care abut such things.
Perhaps it would be prudent to have disability insurance on yourself and not worry about the driver's insurance. How do you know that drunk driver that hits you while your crossing the street has insurance? How does anyone know anything? Insure yourself, the it makes no difference what other people are doing. It's called personal responsibility. Definitely a foreign concept in Europe, but not completely extinct.

Think about this.. In a normal taxi, how do you know the driver has insurance? Perhaps it has expired. It's no different than any other kind of business. Relying upon someone else to be insured is just foolish.
> I wonder why BBC is running a story about this again?

The BBC's science reporting is just shitty. They will repeat essentially any claim that is told to them. Off the top of my head, I can recall:

* They ran an article about a "three-headed frog" discovered by some schoolchildren, when in reality it was obviously three frogs engaged in amplexus. [0]

* They ran an article about an entirely forgettable mathematical crackpot who claimed to have "solved" division by zero. [1]

* They ran an article about blondes going extinct. [2]

* They ran an article that was essentially the plot of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. [3]

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/3534361....

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2006/12/06/d...

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2284783.stm

[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/6057734.stm
The feeling you described reminds me of the genre "jersey club" -- you can spend hours in a buildup that never breaks into a drop. Absolutely horrific, I don't understand the genre at all.
I had the same phone, bought for the same reason, and had the same problem.
It was a hugely expensive phone, with terrible, terrible lowlight photos and broken AF.

Furthermore, HTC refused to replace it under their replacement policy, as I had placed a custom ROM on the phone.

The woman on the phone actually said: this is a known hardware issue, but you changed your ROM, so bad luck.

Never would buy another HTC phone again.
I have been using this the past few months, there is some repetition but not enough to notice. It seems brain.fm is keeping track of what it does and doesn't play for me and asks me for feedback if I liked a track or not.

I used focusatwill for a bit too, I liked the mobile aspect of it. brain.fm captured me as a customer with a lifetime offer.