skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the questions really seemed personal. I found only a couple useful and relevant. Asking how to be the best might reflect an 'get ahead' mindset, rather than a moving with team mindset. Just my two cents.
A point of constructive criticism is that there are some inconsistencies in how large-scale public WiFi seems to be handled. For instance, in Ann Arbor, MI every University of Michigan building AFAIK has free public WiFi (as well as a private network for university affiliates). However, I only see a few listings for the "MGuest" network in the area. Is there a better feasible way of handling this?
làm ơn xóa những thông tin liên quan đến số điện thoại 0967076726 vì đó là thông tin nhảm ảnh hưởng đến cuộc sống của tôi
I have no love for postmodernism, but this seems at least mildly unfair. Sokal's initiating action was entirely political. Responding by saying that Sokal hurt himself more than anyone else is a decent strategy, and might be true too, but it's not a symptom of postmodernism.

Claiming that people outside a field don't understand is a symptom of academics, and of most groups of humans, but it is not something in any way unique to postmodernism.
Probably gathered from the app of https://meshable.io/?

The website is light on details, but it's probably a commercial WiFi-sharing company, like a commercial version of Freifunk (a mostly german initiative where people openly share their WiFi, and meshing is used to extend coverage when a direct internet uplink isn't available), with the interesting twist that they're using an app instead of a custom WiFi access point firmware.

I wonder if they route traffic through open Wifis if any are in the vicinity and then charge for it.
The Master Switch by Tim Wu [0] goes into great detail about how AT&T invented this racket 120+ years ago and has been perfecting their fleecing tactics since. I particularly enjoy the opening of the book at a 1916 top hat banquet celebrating just how filthy rich their monopoly has become under Theodore Vail.

The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner [1] however asserts that the AT&T monopoly allowed Bell Labs to essentially invent the entire information age, but that without the official monopoly, we no longer see the huge investments in basic research, and commensurate major break throughs.

Damn if you do. Damned if you don't.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/The-Master-Switch-Information-Empires...

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Factory-American-Innovation/...
Interestingly the author states his symptoms started through a combination of lack of sleep and dating a disturbed individual [1].

Such a diagnosis is possibly offensive, ableist and unscientific, however there are many such anecdotal reports of people with (developing or fully developed) mental illness pairing up.

While there is little evidence of such pairing up being a cause (i.e. some sort of "contagiousness", as explored in [2]), there is some evidence that people suffering from mental illness (including personality disorders) can be attracted to one another [3].

[1] http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/purging-the-unexpected-ne...

[2] http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/is-mental-illness-contagious...

[3] http://www.medicaldaily.com/law-attraction-mental-illness-ma...
What does it take to be a Software Engineer?
SECURITY Tricky spam – real message forward with passworded mail attachment
I wonder if a "sudden" interest in eastern religions/philosophy is a precursor to bi-polar diagnoses often. My aunt went through something very similar where she was just my normal aunt, then started going deep into buddhism, then had a bad mental break, wound up in the hospital, and was then diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Looks cool man.
"The Linux Kernel" is a tautological pleonasm. "Free gift" "New Beginner" "true fact". Linux is a kernel. Everything else, is not Linux.
Gopher is the ultimate separation of content from presentation. You write the content, I'll read it in the style of my choosing.

Flashy ads and social network dropins need to go away. A good content author can figure out how to work sponsorships and other revenue generation into their work. I don't mind reading through someone's text based plug for a product, it creates a stronger focus on writing quality content rather than link-baiting.
Why Math Word Problems Fail
Threee years ago I experienced a very similar manic episode with delusional thinking, but in my case, it was absolutely the best thing that ever happened to me. The creative energy and imaginative thought patterns I experienced then transformed my life in a positive way. I know this is an atypical experience and I was lucky to dodge many possible negative consequences of actions based on delusional belief systems. For me, the key was maintaining my social connections and using the perceptions and reactions of other people to keep myself connected to shared reality.
I don't know much about psychosis other than what I've told you. I saw a therapist some time ago about anxiety/stress and that kind of thing and I mentioned that I've googled the hell out of it already (bad idea!) and a long list of really scary stuff came up (including psychosis). So I've mentioned that stuff starting the list with psychosis and he laughed and said he would have figured that out by now (and explained that I'd talk differently, etc.) I know that he also works with homeless people/drug addicts, so I assume he met 1 or 2 people who actually suffer from psychosis.

Having said that; if people manage to hide schizophrenia, hiding psychosis is probably also possible. But still, I think psychosis is not the kind of disease you should worry about having without realizing it (unlike e.g., depression or bipolar disorder).

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BTW: You mention you were aware that your thoughts would seem crazy to others. Were you also aware that they are crazy (or did they seem perfectly reasonable to you at the time)?
Have you ever worked some place that requires a security clearance?

Well, for Apple to develop this software, they would insist on it being developed in a locked down facility that doesn't currently exist (what Apple has is in use). I think they have said it's only about $100,000 of developer time (so maybe 2-3 months of work), but the infrastructure that would be necessary for the work to be done in a way that doesn't risk any leaks is expensive.
(text post was deleted; direct post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11187684)

Lagom is a simple homepage for your browser. Not too much, not too little. Date, Time, Weather, and Search - all in a fresh design everyday.

Site: http://lagom.io

Some of the designs: http://imgur.com/a/Eyb6P
Nobody here should want this to be an election issue. A large block of voters are against apple, are pro-backdoors. If this became an election issue anyone seeking to win (all of them) will adopt a middle ground stance. That middle ground will be something like "backdoors, but only if X Y and Z".

Except trump. He won't be middle ground. He'll probably personally unlock the phone using a gold-plated hammer.
Chicken embryo with dinosaur-like snout instead of a beak developed by Harvard
The basics may not be that hard, but the multitude of overlapping tools and frameworks that sit on top of them and try to make things easier is seriously confusing and offputting. For instance, there are build tools called dpkg-buildpackage, debuild, git-buildpackage, pbuilder, cowbuilder, and doubtless some others I've forgotten about. Different guides will recommend different ones.

Once you've made a package, you either try to get it into Debian, or put it in your own repository, both of which come with additional challenges.

I've done some Debian packaging before - both to go into Debian and to put in PPAs. I've given it up: the effort was too much and the rewards too little.
Yes, except that you might want to be a bit more selective in which parts you use from the base system and which parts you want to bundle - some people might not want to have e.g. glibc in each app bundle. This is where it starts to become a little more complicated than the above, see https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Creating-AppIm...
Yep. Split that into bite sized chunks and use something like Amazon Mechanical Turk, as captcha or some other form of crowd-sourcing.
If an WiFi hotspot doesn't have a password doesn't mean it's free.
"The AppImage needs to include all libraries and other dependencies that are not part of all of the base systems that the AppImage is intended to run on" [ https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Creating-AppIm... ]
Are those providing internet access, or just unprotected networks ?
Nothing can make your users think the app is loading faster other than making the app actually load faster. Loading blurred pictures first, or showing a false progress bar just makes the app feel more slow.
The private "small-cap" market is way less liquid and companies are way less valuable according to the market. If you subscribe to FEI's newsletter you'll see that most young SAAS companies are actually finding buyers who are only offering about 2 years profit. It's also a lemon market, which is unfortunate. I recently sold a SAAS and got 2 years profit.
The road not taken: How we found and lost the dream of Personal Rapid Transit
TIL - I'd just never come across it before, and I've listened to a fair amount of Watts lectures over the years. Been a while since I read any books of his, I'll keep it in mind, he was very knowledgable about these kinds of things. The Japanese did make Buddhist practice much more a part of daily life.
Searching by zip code zooms the map into areas 20-40 miles outside of the actual area code. At least that was my experience with the 2 that I tried.
Space is flat, space time isn't. [2011]
In case anyone can't find the Netherlands, I could understand why: http://i.snag.gy/7vbiZ.jpg

This also explains why I'm so frustrated with WiFi abroad: I probably got spoiled here. Here we can find WiFi in the most unlikely of places (e.g. supermarkets, buses); in Germany you can find one in a coffee shop if you're lucky, but that one is probably paid as well, just like all the other ones.
I wouldn't hold up California as an exemplar of a mental health safety net, or expect too much from the services in place in this state. A significant population walking the streets loudly rambling nonsense is largely treated as a curiosity rather than in need of help. If anything, the culture embraces mental health issues.
Research has shown that you should lie in the opposite way to get a better user reaction. If you artificially slow down the progress report in the beginning so that it can speed up near the end, the increasing speed works to counter the user's decreasing patience.
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I've found that reading sci-fi/fantasy before going to sleep helps me transition to sleep mode. I think it's because sci-fi problems are really somebody else's problem, so my brain can let them drop when I put the book down.
The teacher of the future: human or algorithm?
Ok hold on, you've been working with it for months? To what end?

Please tell me you're not using a library that's at 0.20 for production.

So you're using ReactNative for pet projects right?

As soon as you get to writing a real app that's beyond a to-do list, you'll be in a world of pain. Just start with having no support for a sqlite/database or an orm layer on top of it, only a key-value store as your first massive and insurmountable stumbling block.
Some of the designs: http://imgur.com/a/Eyb6P
Well, first of all AppImageKit is not a package manager. For a comparison with xdg-app and other systems, see https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-projec...

As for sandboxing, this is definitely an area which we would like to add to AppImageKit, e.g., see https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/77 - thoughts and pull requests welcome!
I don't why you are been down voted. Normal people would to download the s/w , install and run. As a developer sometimes i wish the same as well instead of hunting down dependencies.
Try by street; We are using Mapbox's geocoding API so it's a bit inaccurate compared to Google's.
I've often wondered why not implement G.709 on the packet payload (as opposed to the whole frame) and see how that compares to TCP retransmission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.709
New Employee Granted 0.01% Equity for 100% of Life
> I trust I can count on Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL will ship a new package for every critical CVE promptly, without forcing me to upgrade to the latest upstream version.

There was an article just a couple of weeks ago pointing out that distributions frequently don't fix security issues:

https://statuscode.ch/2016/02/distribution-packages-consider...

No doubt it's better for high-profile applications, but there are far more applications that people want to use than distros have the resources to issue security updates for.
That's exactly what the AirBnB holders ought to charge. Of course that kind of stuff are business concerns which AirBnB sellers tend not to think about because in their minds they're not running a business.
To be pedantic, that is not quite composition - I've made this exact mistake before too. Composition is where you have a function f o g (o being the traditional mathematical notation for composition), where (f o g)(a) = b satisfies g(f(a)) = b.

Composition is a useful tool, and so is writing functions like this, but they are two different ideas.
Everything was designed to last 40 years. That's why the last electromechanical switch installations were not torn out until 1995. They were old, but functional, as designed.

Do you see hardware today being designed to these specs? A company investing in 40 year quality equipment would quickly be brought under new management, since they clearly are not focused on maximizing returns for this quarter.
Seems like the fix is in for Apple.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-26/apple-lose...
With the new "statically link all the things" trend from go and rust, that's coming anyway.
Given that link, you now both know it. You, however, choose not to believe it.
Yes. But it's still better, since your distribution package manager can just pull directly from upstream rather than rebuilding by themselves.

Edit: Come to think of it, considering how many applications out there haven't had any updates in years... that might not be such a good idea.
Wrong question.

I don't care where I can find free WiFi. Nowadays, every damn coffee shop, hotel or mall has free Wifi—I care about fast and free WiFi with speedy up- & downloads and low latency. Well executed implementation though.

EDIT: Why the downvote?
Linus Torvalds addresses some core issues in his "DebConf 14: QA with Linus Torvalds" talk starting around 5:40 https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=5m40s
Well, maybe. But I also wanted it to sync up with the server too (onItemAdd actually updated component's own state with extra "save in progress" flag, handleUpdateItems would clear it later).
I'm taking a class with Jack Farmer right now on Astrobiology. I can't wait to talk with him about this!
http://www.gobolinux.org/
Lua 5.3 released recently and has integers and bitwise operators. Array access is also O(1) as long as you use integer keys and don't have any "holes" in the array.
AppImageUpdate lets you update AppImages in a decentral way using information embedded in the AppImage itself. No central repository is involved. This enables upstream application projects to release AppImages that can be updated easily. Since AppImageKit uses delta updates, the downloads are very small and efficient.

https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/tree/master/AppImag...
Tables? Frames? That stuff didn't exist in 1993.

(Tables first arrived in Mosaic 2.0 Alpha 8 in December 1994, according to http://www.barrypearson.co.uk/articles/layout_tables/history...)
You can use either static or dynamic linking. An AppImage is really just an ISO container wrapping around your binaries.
The Viral Publishing Game Is Over
I've never used Slack, so I have no idea why people would use it instead of IRC, but they do have IRC and XMPP gateways available: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connectin...
I was tased :(
> have been preselected by an oversight board

Or superdelegates.

Grumble grumble...
The golden age ends roughly 16 years after the birth of the observer.
Yup, 100% agree. We actually know the speeds of a minority of these APs. We'll be bumping them up in the searches + advertising their speeds soon.
The map is really, really hard to zoom in and out.
I find it interesting in a "Post-Snowden" 2016, that the web page with details about a mechanism to produce fat executables (and links to a demo app) is not protected with SSL. Certificates were cheap before... Now they are free thanks to Let's Encrypt.

There's really no excuse for this.
Having worked at a CLEC in the mid-2000s, I can well imagine the pain involved in ATT "making ready" a utility pole. If they have a 60-day window, then in the typical case, on day 58 they'll bounce your work order with some nonsensical reason code. So you hurry to follow up with your service rep that day, but she'll have to "investigate", which will take until the weekend, and then you'll get a "just resubmit it" on next Tuesday. Then if you're lucky the made_ready status in the database will change sometime in the next 60 days. At no point will a tech actually visit the pole in question. They just figure that it's right and proper for a competitor of theirs to have to wait three months to serve a customer.
I guess MetaFilter kind of misses the point of gopher here, since they just serve HTML document on the gopher server, with <a href> links to normal web.

Example:

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.metafil...

What is the point of serving that on gopher? :)
>It really put me off religion and spirituality for a very long time. If these concepts weren't out there and accepted by so many people, maybe he would have been diagnosed and treated sooner and be in a better place today. I don't know.

I'm a staunch skeptic, but I don't think there's a causal link. People suffering from psychosis invariably find something in their environment to create a contextual frame for their experiences.

For example, paranoia can manifest itself as a wide range of experiences. Someone living in rural Nigeria might describe being possessed by evil spirits, someone living in 1950s America might describe being followed by KGB agents, a European Muslim in the present day might describe being targeted by spy satellites and drones. After the release of the movie The Truman Show, psychiatrists saw a sudden emergence of patients who believed they were living in a reality TV show.

https://aeon.co/essays/a-culture-of-hyper-reality-made-paran...
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/16/unreality-star
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/july/voices-culture-luhrm...
http://www.psychosocial.com/IJPR_10/Cultural_Demographic_Fac...
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/193/2/168
People always like to say private roads are impractical, but that is 1970's thinking. Today all we need is a common standard for toll readers like most states have for their internal highway toll system, and people could drive on toll roads and be automatically billed, and your GPS can factor in the toll costs in your travels (just as they do now - in most GPS navigation apps, you can elect to avoid toll roads).

The comparison to utility lines is not particularly relevant, though. If I want to travel over a road, I just need to bring my car and do it once. If I want to run gigabit fiber over phone poles, it is building a road on a road - the fiber cable is itself a road, build on the infrastructure transit center of phone poles.

The more apt comparison is that I want to send data over said fiber channel - it is the functional equivalent to wanting to drive my car along a road, the only real difference is the marginal cost of that traversal is so insignificant on the fiber line (the cost of beaming light along it in a fixed data path) that you may as well disregard it, whereas cars have significant per-distance and per-usage costs associated.

But roads and coax / twisted pair / fiber lines are really great comparisons to roads. They have usage limits, they can become congested, but when they are underutilized they are effectively wasted. It seems like something private enterprise would actually be good at, if not for the fact possessing the road or cable line grants yourself an untenable market position giving yourself a monopoly. But public transit authorities demonstrate very poor ability to adapt to consumer demand for expanded roads where there is great congestion, because they aren't profiting off road traffic and are not incentivized directly to fine the maximum tradeoff of value against consumer satisfaction - there are many degrees of separation between the funding of road construction, the maintenance of the road system, and the consequences of your "customers" being dissatisfied. Usually, the only ways dissatisfied customers who dislike the public road network can demonstrate their demand is by moving or voting out politicians - if those were the same barriers to faster Internet speeds, we would probably be as bad off as we are now with telecom monopolies.
Testing Leap Motion Orion (Beta) Hand-Tracking
Im guessing F# also may want to limit constructs which cannot interop with C# . Not sure if Scala's HKTs are usable from Java
I agree, sandboxing is a must-have feature. xdg-app has a system of runtime so it can run on any distro as long as you have installed the runtime needed by the app. Also GNOME and Papyros will have it while KDE seems interested in it also so it should have quite a lot of support.
Sounds great and looking forward!