skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had a "commute" from my bed to the adjoining room.

Now my commute is significantly longer, but most of it is on a train. I walk to the train station, and from the station at the other end to the office, and along the way I listen to music or podcasts or read books on my phone.

If I were driving it every day I would probably go mad.
xorg developers seem to think the X server currently does cover this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38517
It's better to wait for multiple, large randomized controlled trials to be performed before making claims about improved brain function.

But maybe, for now, we can eat more chocolate for another ~proven benefit: "Flavanol-rich chocolate and cocoa products may have a small but statistically significant effect in lowering blood pressure.."

http://www.cochrane.org/CD008893/HTN_effect-of-cocoa-on-bloo...
How a free computer changed this Harlem teen's life
>I do think Airbnb is using the local policies as an excuse and can do more to make themselves more acceptable to cities.

What about the fact the I just would never feel comfortable with strangers walking in and out of my condo building. And I'd imagine this would be case for communities with childeren, people wouldn't want random people from the internet walking around their houses. Thats why there are specific laws and regulations around where hotels can operate.

Would the proposition to the cities that could offer their citizens more more money ( is this proven?) by sacrificing quality of life?
I think it's a perfectly valid topic. We can't pretend men and women are the same, especially in cases where a person's gender is unusual for a given circumstance. In the interviewee's case that certainly applies, so her perspective on that point is relevant and welcome.

I do happen to disagree with her on a few key points, but I do think the discussion is important.
"I agree but in my opinion the only one."

"In practice, it's more expensive than life-in-prison" doesn't do it for ya?
Touch Bionics in 60 seconds
I remember that game... I think I still have the original box in a closet! The art was amazing. The music incredible. The 3D systems were very cool for the time. I sank dozens of hours into it and then realized the AI was utterly and hopelessly broken. I had pissed off an alien civilization and had absolutely no defense up in a system they were adjacent to. They sent a massive armada to that system, but then that armada just sat on an uninhabited planet doing nothing. This armada was so massive that it could have steamrolled every one of my planets, but it just sat there getting bigger as more ships joined it. Eventually, I gave up on building an armada big enough to dislodge it, ignored it, and wiped the aliens out with my own ships. I never did get a hold of the patch that was supposed to fix the AI. How does it play (I assume you are playing with the patch)?
Why I'm breaking up with Slack
Seems pretty straightforward to stop one of these with an impromptu roadblock. However they've also got an array of sensors with which to record the hijackers and alert the authorities with, precise location and all.
Obligatory EWD reference:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036...

...if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.

2 December 1988
There is sub-lingual immunotherapy available for hayfever. I don't know how much it boosts the immunity to allergens. I'm currently on year 3 of a 5 year course.

Hopefully it works -- does not seem to have had a huge effect so far.
I think the consensus protocol is absolutely not under control of 5 maintainers. Convince a few of the miners and exchanges (e.g., f2, ant, bitfury, coinbase, blockchain.info, bitstamp) to actually start running classic and we'll have 2MB blocks on the longest chain in no time. Conversely, suppose those 5 maintainers release a hard fork version of segwit tomorrow without a block size increase--nobody would upgrade.

The consensus protocol is dictated by exactly that, consensus, not this allegedly omnipotent cabal.
> Bitcoin Core is not really an "entity". It is a diverse set of technical experts working on improving Bitcoin using a consensus-driven decision making process. There are hundreds of contributors from various backgrounds, associations, and geographical locations.

That's a bit dishonest. The majority of the main core team works for a single company. There is very little diversity.
The article clearly has substance, it just doesn't align with your opinion on the topic. dang definitely didn't "single out" the commenter, which a cursory glance at dang's comment history will corroborate - hell if you go back far enough he's told me the exact same thing.

If jheriko had phrased their comment more constructively, there would likely be no issue.
> The big spike seems to be over

Yeah because people got frustrated and gave up.
It's important to consider whether increased speed does in fact cause accidents. Let's use data to determine an acceptable speed rather than arbitrarily decree "speed kills".
An example of the "inaccuracies, misconceptions and general dumbing-down to meaningless of the subject matter" ? cause I don't recall any.
I always find it strange that rentals of several weeks to several months are banned (or people try to ban them) in so many places.

What do you do with interns? You're obviously not going to pay them enough to live in a hotel. They're obviously not going to sign 12-month leases.

It seems like there are people who legitimately need to live somewhere for several months at a reasonable price, and are neither tourists nor residents. Did the Prop F people just want all the tech companies to stop hiring interns, and all the universities to stop having visiting scholars, etc?
A struggle within MIT’s IT department over its future
It's a testament to the skill of publishers' FUD that we're still having this conversation. Authors don't get paid, reviewers don't get paid, product is disseminated via pdf, and there is still a "debate" outstanding such that a Fields Medal winner has to get involved to push things forward a bit.
My understanding is that companies won't sell the products that are used in assisted suicide to states which carry execution.
Nothing weird about it. It's to protect the host/landlord. If you rent out a place to someone for 30 or more days in many jurisdictions that person will have long-term tenant rights and it's much much harder to legally kick them out.
I'm not sure this guy was insane so much as severely depressed. He did kill a plane full of people but it was a much more passive act than having to swing an ax at someone else in close quarters. Why do you think he waited for the other pilot to go to the crapper?

Also, the argument about now having to judge other cabin crew members mental state falls a little flat since the pilot that left the cockpit clearly wasn't even able to judge the guy he was with. It's sort of like arguing that now you have to read two minds instead of one.
Perhaps there is an argument that you're entitled to a relatively stable set of neighbors, so that you can get to know them and learn which ones to avoid.

But you certainly don't get to choose your neighbors. The US went down that path in the 50s: massive and hugely oppressive racial segregation whose echoes are still being felt.

You are not entitled to decide who does and doesn't walk near your property, only on your property.

I don't feel comfortable sharing a country with Trump supporters, but that doesn't mean I get to prevent them from finding housing.
This is simply not true. Pure propaganda being promoted by XT/Classic supports.

Of the top 20 contributors by LoC [0], only 4 are associated with Blockstream [1]. Of the 7 maintainers with commit access on GitHub [2], only one is associated with Blockstream (while two are Classic supporters!). The lead developer, Wladimir van der Laan, is not associated with Blockstream in any way. Of the hundreds of contributors over the project's lifetime and tens of contributors on an ongoing basis, only 6-7 are associated with Blockstream in total.

It's also worth mentioning that Blockstream was founded by several prominent Bitcoin Core developers that have been around for years and have a very strong track record. They raised funding in order to contribute to the open Bitcoin ecosystem and work on low-level Bitcoin infrastructure [3]. It's not like some company popped out of nowhere and started hiring Core devs.

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ1q0qaUYAAl_wh.jpg:large

[1] https://www.blockstream.com/team/

[2] https://github.com/orgs/bitcoin/people

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141117154558-1213-the-futur... Reid Hoffman (co-founder at LinkedIn), one of their investors: "Blockstream itself will function similarly to the Mozilla Corporation. Here, our first interest is maintaining and enhancing Bitcoin’s strong open ecosystem. And the structure we’ve chosen will give us the freedom and flexibility to prioritize public good over returns to investors."
I've said for many years that any job I can't walk or ride to in less than 30 minutes is not worth it.

I'll either move jobs, or move house to make it shorter than that.
Maybe not, if they're able to borrow RAND's NTBM (nuclear tunnel boring machine) from Area 51.
Which is, interestingly, the American middle class.

Some Wall Street money is proprietary, sure. But a pretty good chunk of it is our 401ks and institutional pensions.
Is it at all like Opera Turbo?

http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/what-is-opera-tur...
That's advice for helping newborn startups grow, not for designing late-stage business models.
Asciidoc seems superior to me at least.

IIRC Dokuwiki wasn't too bad either.

Standard Markdown used to lack some important constructs, again IIRC.
> $20B+ business

There is no way it's worth that much. As we saw from the Square IPO ("valued" at $6B+ in their last round of private funding; current post-IPO market cap about half that), the valuations of the past few years are all wildly overstated, just as the pundits have said all along. AirBnB will never be worth that much in a public market.
Have you tried Betternet or Hexatech?
Exactly the problem.
I cannot comprehend a situation wherein open source is negative. Clearly it might not be the most lucrative path but we are all net consumers of technology.

What's the better alternative to billionaires getting their software for free?

It's unlikely that companies will contribute manpower to software if they then have to pay for it too. If you have a better strategy I'd like to hear it.
Actually, the only drama I see is within your illogical statements. Question is, why are you making them?
That doesn't sound very promising then.
You are a single guy younger than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year

Ding, except I'm in a long term committed relationship. Interesting that it thought I was single (I said no to every single dating/chat app on the list), no facebook, etc, only thing I have is instagram.
Should we really be relying on the medical system for loving support? That's the direction where depressed people will be drugged up and plugged into the matrix.

If a person has to rely on the medical system for affection, I'd say there's a bigger problem in society.

Suicide is the symptom and focusing on artificially preventing without looking at the way government, debt, taking away religion and throwing the good parts out along with the bad, expectations of conformity intrudes in our lives, it is burying our heads in the sand.

Just look at the way society values lonely fifty year old man compared to a twenty year old attractive women - the latter can go on tinder and receive a firehose of affection, while the former would merely be seen as a creep.
> Every feature you mention was available in the '90s.

The fact that you could log irc transcripts, index them, give them a web interface, and write bots to chain things together is not the same feature as Slack integrations. If that is your bar for a feature, then we might as well give up trying to write innovative software, because it all uses the same opcodes anyway.

> I'm not saying Slack is bad, just that it's nothing impressive or innovative.

The attitude that a new product is not innovative because its features resemble features from past products leads to no logical conclusion except that nothing is innovative. Everything is based on previous ideas.

If a product were merely the sum of its features, then Apple would not be alive today.
As an American you just assume people are talking about driving when they talk about commutes. That made your comment horrifying to read at first. :)
is chocolate a nootropic?
It's also nice to check out CUDA if you have a Nvidia card. You can run parts of your code very easy on the GPU gaining a lot of speed.
Tesla Model 3 invitations going out for March 31 debut event
I'm going to focus on plagiarism in non-fiction.

In some circumstances, readers need to be able to evaluate an author's work for originality or contribution to the state of the art. If paraphrased or word-for-word ideas aren't quoted, the reader doesn't know if the line of argument is 1% new or 100% new.

Plagiarism—in a context where someone's work is being evaluated (generally, in academia or non-fiction publishing)—is a deliberate confusion of who contributed what to the argument being made. Which matters for evaluation of rationally presented ideas, to understand where arguments are coming from so criticism of those ideas can be located more easily.

If the thesis is taken from someone else, that's a gross abuse of academic standards. If you want to defend someone else's thesis on different grounds than they defended it, you can do so, but it should be made explicit that that's what you're doing, which entails citing the source of the thesis in some explicit way.

Furthermore, by citing sources, if a reader appreciates one line of thought but not what's built around it, they can go to that other source or author and start down a different path. Failing to cite sources makes that more difficult. IF it's recognized as most likely a quote, and IF the original source has high pagerank, it's easy to find. If not, you have to go consult academics in the area in question to see if they recognize it, or query the author to do what he or she should have done in the first place: cite the source.

I don't view it as theft, or anything like that. More like abuse or a waste of the reader's time and intellectual effort in trying to evaluate a complex argument without hints about the geneology of the component ideas.
It's not a shame, it's evolution -- we get better at building solutions for things we used to do manually -- it frees us up to focus on things that really matter -- like Angry Birds and whatnot.
Can Nicotine Be Good for You?
After the flight, I took another look and found that the autofile tree is provided as a PDF "book" - https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/afpdf.zip
Heyyyyyy ... http://i.imgur.com/VucG9gy.png ... That's basically Spotify (desktop application). The resemblance being so high makes this a little iffy, and suggests this project won't stay up (at least in its present form) for too long.

That said, why hasn't Google yet created a desktop application for Google Play Music? It's mind-boggling to me. I would love to ditch Spotify (primarily because 1) I don't like its searching/discovery UI, and 2) its desktop application is slow and buggy as well)
This is true of Linux, non-app-store Windows apps, and non-ap-store OSX apps.

But with the App Store walled garden craze came a much better idea: let's end this "all programs having full run of the filesystem" nonsense and sandbox them, such that it is very hard for a user to compromise his entire machine by installing one bad program. iOS has always been this way, App Store OSX apps are increasingly this way (already has filesystem sandboxing), I believe Windows App Store is pushing this direction, Android has this to an extent, etc.
It's likely and believable that the different flavors seem to run at different speeds with different architectures. I also wouldn't be surprised to find the Oracle implementation to always be faster. I have a real hard time believing that OpenJDK has some huge flaws that prevent its production use as a blanket statement.

Hell, way back in the early 00s I remember having to use the JRocket JDK instead of the Sun one due to some weird corner case- so I am fully aware there are cases you can run in to that would necessitate one implementation over another. But calling OpenJDK unfit for production at this point in it's life is either FUD or straight lack of knowledge.

What are you running that OpenJDK seems to be so incompatible with? I've literally never had an issue with OpenJDK 7 or 8 and I've deployed applications that serve millions of requests per day in many flavors of OS.
Does it generate source code, Java for Android?
Not really. I use msys2 every day, and I've never used it to compile things.

And PowerShell is kind of useless since I can't use it on any other computer I interact with on a daily basis.

I use a github-synced environment, that includes things such as my zsh and vim configs.
Unity is high level and really easy to code. But it is not opengl .. I have been watching courses onot computer graphics to try and figure it out but tough going as I said.
Client Authenticity Is Not the Server's Problem
You're right it was a budget decision made by NASA, but the engineers should have stressed the point long before Jan 28, 1986.

I think the term for that is normalization of variance. If my buddy has driven drunk many times and not killed anyone, then he can drive drunk tonight and not kill anyone. Except tonight he drives drunk and kill 7 people. The sin here is in letting someone amass a history of drunk driving incidents.

The issue I think wasn't raised was that all the successful launches before Challenger were outliers...the engineers knew it and instead of raising the issue early and saying the o ring implementation was effectively duct tape, they changed the spec to allow for extrusion and slipping of the o ring.

In fact, on the day of Challenger's fateful launch, Thiokol engineers were relieved, and even congratulated each other that the shuttle even made it off the launchpad. Despite the expansion in the joint, and o ring failure, aluminum oxides filled the joint, sealing it. If not for abnormally strong wind shear, this seal might have held, and the disaster might not have happened. In this alternate timeline, would Thiokol and NASA have ever addressed the issue?
This is Electron-based, but it looks a lot more integration than a normal Electron skin. I consider it may be worth looking into especially with the media button integration.
> for the sin of refusing the JCP process

That is one interpretation; I can think of others.

> Do you think they wouldn't do the same against any Java fork with a realistic chance of supplanting their implementation?

I think they wouldn't sue anyone complying with their very clear, very standard OpenJDK license. Google, apparently, thinks the same, and has now decided to comply with the OpenJDK license, too.

> OpenJDK open but not a realistic choice in most production deployments

What? AFAIK, Google, Twitter and plenty other companies run their servers on OpenJDK. It is absolutely realistic for most production environments. In fact, Oracle's JDK differs from OpenJDK only in a few monitoring features.

> Oracle JDK/JRE remaining as de-facto gold standard; a process that forces strict compatibility tests on any competitor

That's just not true. The Java standard is the standard, OpenJDK is the reference implementation and one of the most widely deployed implementations.

> RedHat is not the only Linux build with significant marketshare,

Neither is Oracle's JDK. OpenJDK, IBM's JDK and Azul's Zulu all have good market shares.

> and I won't get sued if I write a different POSIX system.

Probably not, but you wouldn't get sued (or, at least no one ever has been sued) if you comply with OpenJDK's open source license. You may well get sued if you don't comply with Linux's open source license, too (which happens to be the same as OpenJDK's).

> and people outside do not seem to realize it

Perhaps, but what's the difference? If they start doing a bad job with Java (so far they seem to be doing fine work), the community will fork OpenJDK.
> Never again will you have to hunt through your tabs to pause your music,

> Supports media keys (play, pause, stop, next, previous)

A relatively recent Chrome feature that many aren't aware of is the ability of extensions and apps to use Chrome- or desktop-wide (global) hotkeys. So if you're using the Google Play Music extension, you can, for example, hook it up to your media keys and it will work even when Chrome isn't focused. Go to chrome://extensions/ and scroll down the Keyboard shortcuts to learn more.

(I'm sure that there are many other reasons people prefer desktop apps, but this was the big one for me.)
Interestingly, that actually tends to happen after the first financial windfall.
no one is saying they're omnipotent, or impossible to replace. however, you have to admit that replacing them/core or convincing all of these people/companies to adopt anything other than what is coming in core v-next is an uphill battle. I'm going to assume you've been watching this whole blocksize debate, the endless roundtables, conferences... and we're still on square 1. Actually, with classic I think we've at least moved one step forward and a lot of full-node adoption is underway.

Miners are a different story though; understandably, they're very reluctant to change (who would with so much money on the line). It is also unfortunate how miners switch back and forth between classic and core so quickly.
Isn't that how NYC co-ops work?
Researchers discovered the one thing everyone needs for happier, healthier lives
> An internet should have made traditional journals
> obsolete. It shouldn't be taking this long.

The futurists failed to see the negative value points of advertising, and how it drags everything down into a pit where "you won't believe what happens next."
My commute last year was a 5 minute walk.

At first I loved it, for the same reasons you listed. But then I started to realize that living so close to work blurred the line between work and life. I couldn't mentally detach from the job after coming home. Even on evenings and weekends I'd think about work.

That's when I realized an important purpose that commuting plays, which is a transition period from work mode to life mode. So now my commute is 15 minutes: short enough that I don't go insane, but long enough to help me put some mental distance between myself and my job.
Last week in Opensource
A compression algorithm.
DOD officials say autonomous killing machines deserve a look
Are you implying that there is a scenario where higher speeds could result in fewer accidents? How could that work at current driving speeds? All the data we have right now about people driving shows that speed indeed kills. You have to consider both automated truck crashing into and being crashed by somebody - and that's usually going to be a human driver.
One can only hope so. Or that they have some other major disadvantage. This is going to prevent a large amount of people from earning a living. Additionally it's going to kill a decent segment of SMBs who do truck driving and cargo transport on roads.

One more low-skilled job disappearing without replacement.