skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"though it's the UK model (next-day delivery on many things"

I order a couple of books today, for delivery to London. As Prime customer, I was offered several free options:

- same day delivery (6pm-10pm if I recall correctly)
- next day delivery
- timed delivery (day after tomorrow, within a 4 hour window)
"why it needs its own distribution"
Because....Linux ? Seriously, in theory in Linux you should be able to mix and match any DE with any windows manager. In practice it doesn't work like that at all.

Modularity has its price.
As a super happy user of Linux Mint - guys, please keep doing what you are doing! Thank you so much for giving us a proper desktop Linux! You have my (financial) support! Don't get pressured by some random loud Internet criticism and change for worse! Please don't do Win7->Win8 or iOS6->iOS7 regression in Mint as well because of a few unhappy voices trying to acquire power over you!
I imagine distrowatch.com attracts a certain kind of audience.
Because "feelings" is undefined. If the only evidence of having/not having "feelings" in fish is the increase of temperature, why not simply talk about the increase of temperature, without inventing "feelings"? Not inventing non-material objects unless something is impossible to explain without them is the basis of science, it is called Occam's razor.

My server also increases temperature under high load. Should I conjecture that it has feelings?
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That was in 1983. See Yakymenko I. et al 2015 and Pall M. 2013 for more recent sci.literature (they're both reviews).
$25. Then $35. I forget what came before $25 -- back then, discount codes were so common it didn't really matter.
ZenDesk continues trademark trolling, threatens ZenCache over name
You woud be surprised by how bad K-Mart, which merged with Sears, is at keeping things you need in stock. If you want to buy something commonplace, like a particular model of Crock Pot or a particular Corelle dish, odds are about10% that the nearest K-Mart has it vs about 90% that Wal Mart has it. Clearly there is still a big difference enabled by Wal Mart's IT and business processes. Especially since once the odds of wasting time and a car trip go up just a bit the backstop is to order the thing from Amazon.
I don't think most people would have a problem with this kind of thing, just like they don't have any problem with giving up their privacy since "they have nothing to hide". I hope I'm wrong.
Setting up a Golang development environment on Ubuntu Linux
> There's a piece of my soul in that thing.

Good for you, but that's none of my business. I don't want to be harsh, but I don't like this kind of emotional manipulation. You're trying to prime me to be buddies with you and cut you some slack.

I have some questions. In what sense is this an AI and not simply a computer program? Did you use methods that are discussed in AI or machine learning textbooks and conferences, or did you simply put the cool label AI on what is essentially "just" a hand crafted algorithm?

I know there is no clear separation as AI is a subset of algorithms, but still I feel some dishonesty going on here.

Also in other comments by the company, I can see the attitude about the science that (not precisely quoted) "we're not sure yet, we're excited to find out" and "give it a try and compare it to other music how it goes for you" etc. Well, no. You're making the claim that there is some solid science going on behind this, that you have more than a dozen studies and you put pretty, science-y charts on the website. Now I'm not saying that it doesn't work, but please show me the peer reviewed randomized double blind studies that show altered brain waves and some significant quantitative change (preferably not only self-reported things about how they "feel"). Preferably there should be different groups: no music, generic pop music, normal ambient music, some baseline of your company's music and finally the specially crafted fully optimized version of your company's music.

Until I can see that, verified also by someone who's not paid by the company, I'll have my doubts.
It looks like you're also mentioned in the article—I like that your approach seems to be more analytical and less "cultish" than Mustache's.

Do you think Zurich offers any net advantages over NYC or the Bay when it comes to aggressive savings? It seems like salaries are about the same and living costs are higher (at least based on the few times I've visited).
The NES set an awful precedent that we're still dealing with today.
People still get paid for work almost exactly like the TIS-100 game. Notably GPGPU programming. I switched from webdev to playing with h/w chips and mostly haven't looked back.

It's more difficult work.
> I also view it from the perspective of not knowing how to use any graphical installers (do they exist?)

Yes, it exists and works pretty good when I installed it. Set up encrypted LUKS, EFI just fine and I found it reasonably pleasant to use.
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Remember the intern
When is this actualy relevant?

It really shouldn't be in the context of hidden services, considering your setup has to be seriously flawed for the webserver to be able to divulge any information about it's physical location.

Perhaps it'd help with attacking some RNGs, but beyond that it's really just a novelty.
I wrote up my own HOWTO for nginx just the other day.https://www.uhoreg.ca/blog/20160218-1757 I used the acme-tiny client instead of the official client. My post is mostly aimed at Debian-based distributions, but should be easily adaptable to others.
only bob harper would say that the stack is difficult for students to understand but propose structural operational semantics as a solution.
Aboslutely. I'll admit to not having read the actual study, but saying that 33% of pilots improved is fairly meaningless. You could also say that 67% of pilots didn't improve.

It might even be the case that those 67% that didn't improve had half of them get worse. In which case we'd have 1/3 improve, 1/3 no change and 1/3 get worse. Or in other words, a boring average distribution that means absolutely nothing...
Interesting. For a while I've felt that Medicine isn't the science it's cracked up to be - or at least our knowledge of the state of the art is never as certain as presented by science. It seems to have many false paths of thought similar to economics.

In the spirit of confirmation bias, I recently listened to a great podcast relevant to the topic [0] which discusses why this is. It's more than just lazy statistics.

[0] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/02/adam_cifu_on_en.htm...
Why wouldn't they have just re-branded an existing game in development with E.T.?
If many people are going to live close together maybe we also need sound proofing to match the artificial skylight.
submitted ~30 times already, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086
A couple of years ago, right before my 58th birthday, I saw this posted on HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640430
It says more than I can, but I will add one thing. At about that same time my company hired an engineer a year older than me. He's still doing a great job. I'm not in precisely the same business as you, but it's close enough that I still read HN.
Which could already be the case, spec-wise the gzip timestamp is supposed to be POSIX time, which is in UTC and provides no timezone information.
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> Edit: I'm also playing around with FreeBSD for my development environment, since I can use Mate on there. To be honest, I don't really need a DE these days anyway, since I only use terminal and a web browser. I should look into just using a Windows Manager.

FreeBSD has good support for DEs with XFCE and Lumina, anyways. At least I've never had a problem.
I'm more worried about what you do when your self-driving car takes you through a shady neighborhood late at night and a couple of robbers step out in front of you.

If you're in a Google car and they have their way about "no manual controls", what do you do? I guess you're trapped.
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Google Jibe: Better carrier messaging for everyone
Testing isn't a rolling release, that's sid / unstable.

Testing is where the next stable (currently Stretch) is being worked out.
Thank you for this very anti-intellectual answer, now I don't have to wonder anymore why programmers and engineers are getting commoditized.

Seriously, does for you being a good programmer only consist in calling some API or knowing some framework?
Combat was my favorite game on Atari.
Balancing Coding and Theory in Computer Science
it does, you can do this with mcsema today, with some restrictions. i.e. if there are stack variables, it won't reach a fixed point because loads and stores will blow up the size due to a stupid architectural decision. but if everything is in registers, you'll reach a fixed point.
Yep. The issue of MSIE wasn't so much bundling a browser, as leveraging an existing monopoly into a second one and unfairly driving out competition.

> As for people, people didn't sue Microsoft, companies did.

People did sue Microsoft as the US Federal Government (United States v. Microsoft Corp.) and as the European Commission (Microsoft Corp v Commission), even if those cases may have been prompted by company complaints (that was the case for Microsoft Corp v Commission, not sure for United States v. Microsoft Corp.)
Just curious: why is this program not recommended for people using a pacemaker?
Speak+Your+Truth,+Always
Good point: is our authoritarian society going to demand a fourth law?

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by the government, except
where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must obey the orders given it by non-government human
beings except where such orders would conflict with the First or
Second Laws.
4. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First, Second, or Third
Laws.
Maybe because the company behind Ubuntu has practically declared the desktop dead and we want a desktop that is really a desktop and not some future(already dead)fantasy all in one?
Yes Xubuntu is a desktop but i'm not waiting around for the axe to fall and try again to force unity on everyone... I had to change once, better change to distro that is commited to the desktop.
Yes, I'm getting there :) I speak French which is somewhat similar. However, I feel that what is difficult are not the conjugations per se but the irregularities. Each irregular verbs is a new conjugation table to learn!
There are a good amount of dependencies that haven't been ported to 3 yet. Using one of these directly, or as a secondary dependency, is the reason running 3 in prod is impractical for many of us.

http://py3readiness.org/
That doesn't make this guy's comment anything close to true. It's like saying "Writing a piece of English literature is easy. All you need to know is alphabets. Really that's all you need to know." It is hard to express yourself using assembly, and like you said that's why there are higher level languages. Of course you don't need to know what a car is made up of in order to be a good driver, but it's idiotic to think the internal technology is simple.
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If you track 'unstable' you generally don't need to build from source as that branch (or channel as Nix calls it) is updated only after everything has been successfully built on Hydra. There are sets of packages excluded from the build but I think those are mostly interpreted languages (emacs packages, etc).
Delphi Chief Scientist Allen Bauer Has Left Embarcadero/Idera
Cyberwar and Breaking the Forth Wall
> There's a move to give stuff generic names

That's not so much a Fedora thing but a GNOME move, as the RPM containing "Files" is still called Nautilus.

Also, I am a bit surprised since it goes contrary to your argument, because when a user looks for a file explorer he's much more likely to find that looking for "Files" rather than the (rather strange, really) name of "Nautilus".

I would see myself as a technical user and yet I have no idea how the apps on my Android device are called. One is called generically "Gallery" and another one even worse, "E-Mail".
>> I played combat ... With my mother.

80's kid here. My mom could always kick my butt in a small set of video games. Galaga, Ms. Pacman, Tetris. But she can't beat the first couple levels in Super Mario Brothers to save her lift.
How enterprises use GitHub may predict whether they disrupt or are disrupted
I usually refer those as "tracking device"
ILM on creating Star Wars special effects
I wish I could say this about our dependencies but it's not quite true yet.

I do run our requirements.txt through https://caniusepython3.com every few months though.
Curious what kind of things you found intriguing about this article.
Ha! I played 4 player Warlords in the dorms at Ga Tech during its era. Lots of fond memories of Techwood/McDaniel hall. Glad to know that the tradition continued!
The breathtaking mobile ad revenue growth recently reported by Facebook and Google’s parent company Alphabet come with a very disturbing flip side. Many organizations are fueling this growth with ad spend to just get a secondary and tertiary relationship with their customers because they haven’t succeeded in engaging their customers’ attention on mobile. Few, if any, enterprises have won a first-degree relationship with an app on their customers’ mobile device screens.
OTOH, it's exactly what pushed me away from Mint.

I remember not long ago Mint included just about every browser media plugin ever made, including RealMedia, WindowsMedia etc., stuff that was obsolete 15 years ago. Maybe it still does.

All that stuff doesn't just mean bloat, but also significant security risks.
You can somewhat get away with it because desktop Linux isn't a major target (yet), but it's just very bad practice that shows a lack of care.
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If we ever get there - it is the fault of every person that didn't mind walled gardens initially. And endorsed everything in the cloud. And who could have guessed that having root is important. I guess Steve Jobs did - that is why he wanted to keep it for himself.

Once you give control over something important - wrestling it back is hard to impossible.
Google Ad Business Under Scrutiny as EU Said to Revive Probe
If the NYT online ads were as benign as their print ads with respect to tracking and profiling me, I wouldn't block them.

I also wonder why they treat the front page of their online site so different than the front page of the paper. Today I opened nytimes.com and 1/2 the window was filled with a Hilton ad. Have they ever filled have the front page (or even just the half above the fold) of the paper version with an ad?

So I'm not a fundamentalist that thinks advertising is evil. I probably am a fundamentalist when it comes to the ad-tech that watches what I do to opaquely build a profile around me.
Ah, nice one!

Can't believe I paid the extra 9p for a pill box instead :)
> I can't imagine programming without the knowledge of how things work at assembly level.

The author's point is that recursion is a pervasive concept that is essential to understand even how modern computer hardware works:

> the very concept of a digital computer is grounded in recursive self-reference (the cross-connection of gates to form a latch), which, needless to say, does not involve a stack. Not only do real programmers use recursion, there could not even be programmers were it not for that.

The author is not suggesting that we forget about "what's really going on". He's rightly pointing out that you actually cannot understand what's really going on at all without first understanding recursive self-reference.
IF, IF ,IF... meanwhile we are going by just fine while the others wait for Hypothetical Risks and Hypothetical all in one interfaces (this last one is just my rant against Canonical).
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Amazon has their own shipping company, although I've found it to be subpar compared to passing the shipments off to the USPS or FedEx (largely because their deliveries don't have access to existing maildrops or mailboxes).

The recently rolled-out same-day delivery uses their shipping service without a handoff.
Oh yes! Besides pattern matching, this is the biggest improvement to Javascript control flow I've been waiting for. It's a shame it can't be expression oriented by default, but I suppose that in the handful of cases expression-orientedness really shines, typing "do" is a small price to pay.

I have been wondering, it's there any downside to expression-orientedness? Time and again, it seems to pay its weight. JS, for example, has arguably been saved by function expressions.

Random niche question, would "do...while" now be an expression?
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Страны дающие вид на жительство при покупке недвижимости
Maintenance programmer at defense contractor? Most of those programs are permanently stuck in the "good old days"
Or is it our fault for not educating them?
Most consumers just want "something that works".
You are not going to have room size experience with any of those headsets at home at least it's not feasible you are tethered with so much crap that you need a man servant walking after you ensuring that you don't hang yourself on that tether.

If you want a room size experience just hook up 2 OR cameras it will work the same way (but better) as the lighthouse approach that HTC took, and you can hook upto 50 of those cameras currently to track I believe up-to a 100 players.

As far as commercial room sized experience goes Vive is sub optimal, it's heavy, wobbly, doesn't have good audio support and you can't currently track more than 5 people at the time and since Vive only supports 2 trackers per space it's also going to have issues with commercial applications that aren't a single open room.
Articles like this gloss over how small tweaks to a product put it in a different category, with large commercial consequences. In the case of smartphones, having a mobile network radio is a very large difference in capabilities, price, operating cost and channel. Smartphones are the largest business on the planet and growing, and tablets have stumbled for not having met their potential in displacing enough PCs in office productivity use cases. Smaller distinctions are important within the smartphone and tablet markets, like "phablets" and various size and price categories for tablets, and for not-quite-tablets like "convertibles." Microsoft tried and failed in multiple product generations to turn PCs into tablets, while in Windows CE and NETCF they had the basic formula for a modern smartphone but they treated NETCF like a red headed stepchild. Small differences, big results.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/apple-unloc...
It's better to write your code so that it's easy for a later person to understand it while reading.

To that end, use a greater-than sign if reading the code makes more sense that way.

E.g. if the method name is `findAllUsersOverAge18()` then it'd be more sensible to have a check such as:
`if (userAge > 18)`
than to have a check for
`if (18 < userAge)`

Both statements are technically correct, but the one makes a huge difference in terms of reading it and understanding it, without a Q/A: "Why is this conditional turned around?" "Well, Steve is opposed to ever using greater-than signs so we have to invert all our logic".

I also can't help but pointing out- except for certain conventions such as loop iterator variables, it's a much worse programming practice to use non-descriptive, single variable names, such as `x`.
Using digital signatures to solve the spam problem (2003)
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Nobody is saying to not release for US (in fact you can choose to use the noCodex version) but Why Should problems in US or anywhere else limit the experience that everyone else can get?
Yeah that is exactly my point.

Additionally Amazon has added more and more hurdles to the buying process such as add-on items and items shipped from a merchant who has his own shipping charges which do not count towards the 'free shipping minimum'.
All of these things make the whole buying process for the customer ever more frustrating.
If we define ownership as "having the ultimate control" - the actual owner of every iPhone ever sold is apple.
I think the established real-money making unicorns like Uber and AirBnB will be fine. But I'd definitely worry if I was a startup like Snapchat who only survives on hype and VC funding.
Peekr: Free Security Scanner for Container Images
To offer an anecdote from another point of view I'm quite pleased with my Note 3 but all I do on my phone is browse with Chrome, read email, draw occasionally (thus the Note), take some video, watch netflix and some sms and actual phone calls.

I've disabled the fancy stuff like multi display, though.

My baseline expectations for samsung software are quite low so it might just be that I'm happy this phone works at all - but I can't recall the last time any software issues actually impacted me in a negative way. I don't have any carrier stuff on the phone, maybe that's a factor.
One possible convention would be to use "in-between" for the exclusive between. It's probably impossible to convince the whole English-speaking world to adopt it, but it would be more natural than "exclusive between" in code.
The whole point of the three laws is that they are clear, simple and ineffectual.

A fourth probably isn't going to take care of that one little problem.
> Just curious, are there any anti-mustachians who 1) bust ass to maximize earnings, 2) have unabated spending habits, 3) believe they are happier to live such a lifestyle?

I'd classify myself as a bit of an anti-mustachian in the sense that I pay 0 attention to 99% of purchases. I don't think twice about going out to dinner regularly, buying a round of drinks, or going on random trips. It's rare for me to look at a receipt.

Despite spending freely, I still manage to save around $80-100k annually.

Increasing earnings is far more effective than trying to minimize earnings. Trying to cut your spending by 25% is pretty challenging, but making 25% more is totally doable and often involves just getting a few competitive job offers. As Ramit Sethi sometimes says, skipping lattes never actually lets someone retire early.

A lot of the things MMM recommends are actually economically irrational for developers (unless you enjoy them). Why would I ever cook when I can earn $150 from the equivalent time and get a nice meal delivered for $20?

The only bit of spending I pay attention to is rent, because that can eat up a huge portion of your salary if left unchecked—particularly in the places with the highest salaries.
Disclosure: I work for Scalock, the company behind Peekr.
Yes, exactly. I don't like analogies, but language and alphabet is a good one here.
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Never trust battery capacity ratings on off-brand Chinese electronics.
ironically, by not caring about copyrights and such, they provide a better User Experience!
The volume rocker is usually a picture button, no?
Pathological science
This can all be "fixed" in software. In fact, on my HTC One M8 which is running Cyanogenmod, if I double press the power button at anytime, it switches to camera app and I can then take photos by pressing either volume buttons. I don't need to (or do) look at the screen let alone interact with it.
Asia thinks the global economy is a black hole