skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just yesterday, I switched back to Android after 4 years of iOS and I am really really pleased. I especially like the interoperability between apps and the "draw over other apps" capability.
In relation to the linked post:

1- I'm not 100% convinced that web-based apps are always the way to go on mobile platforms, there are many pros and cons.

2- While Chrome for Android supports a wider array of web standards[1], that difference doesn't (yet) seem very significant looking at various sources such as caniuse.com.

I just wish Apple was working more actively on Safari develpment, both on desktop and mobile: they started from a very good position (e.g. the circa-2010 Safari for iOS was vastly better than the circa-2010 Android browser) and they are now rapidly losing ground.

[1] http://caniuse.com/#compare=ios_saf+9.0-9.2,and_chr+49
> It isn't a threat though, the company has no choice but to enforce their trademark when they see it infringed. Otherwise they lose the right to that trademark.

This is such a silly argument. I'd like to see it happen. Company loosing trademark because there exists npmjs.org package with the same name.
That's also a valid solution. Definitely better than copying and pasting code snippets as OP suggested.
402 Payment required. https://http.cat/402

The HTTP status code has been there since 1994, but no-one has implemented it yet...
This. It just works (mostly), although be prepared to put up with some weirdness if you have custom fields and pixelated avatars.
Unboxing Packages: async Part 2
I always have difficulty understanding how the people who do all the work and make none of the decisions are always to blame, and the people who make all of the decisions and do none of the work always avoid blame in the public discourse.

Now, that's a very crude and strictly incorrect observation, but to me it seems perceptions have been heavily skewed against labor for a very long time.
Next I will explain why _Van Helsing_ is one of my favourite films...

That would be interesting.
It's a code of conduct. Not a code of thought.
The article says this is repairing a loophole:

> The 1959 law on which the regulations are based already required employers to disclose the hiring of such consultants. But the Labor Department argued that previous administrations had allowed an enormous loophole that effectively exempted consultants who coached supervisors on how to influence employees so long as the consultants didn’t interact with the employees directly.

But won't they just hire the same people as "workforce relationship consultants who are TOTALLY not anti-union"? Isn't there an infinite supply of loopholes here?
Good management blames management for this. Bad management blames the sysadmin and publicly says that "the sysadmin did it".
I think the main reason for the decline has been the fact that it's been in maintenance mode for a long time. Not adding any new content is a serious blow by not having a new freelancer is going to lead to a decreased visibility regardless.
I noticed this first on the @YOLOCrypto twitter account yesterday - https://twitter.com/yolocrypto
Something... awful.
I think one of the big things about BCC isn't how much (or how little) money he made but how well documented the process was. We've all seen plenty of projects do 10k months but not many of them are sustainable or so well documented in a blog.
"If you don't give me the thing I want then I won't be able to prevent myself from hitting you in the face." ... polite?
How to Beat the Rise of the Machines. Octoblu to the Rescue
Groovy still has anonymous classes. And yes there are other languages that have anonymous classes I just didn't feel like enumerating them especially the OP article was about C#.

Let me just say this so there isn't any assumption that I was bashing C#... C# is a far far better language than Java with the only exception for me being it doesn't have anonymous classes.
Nuance has people who will transcribe if the calculated confidence as reported by the recognizer is below some threshold.

Google must be betting that the tradeoff in making this API free will be worth it over time in the machine learning input they will get.
CMUSphinx is really easy to set up, and then being able to train it for one's specific domain probably beats state of the art with one-size-fits-all training.
It would have been amazing if Jodorowsky's Dune actually got made and released. He really was too far ahead of his time for the studio.

I feel that in order to make a roughly 2-hour long film on as complex a subject as what the novel portrays, the only way to illustrate that complexity properly is to ascribe to surrealist elements. That is the only form that can provide the necessary density, if done properly. Lynch knew this, which is why he took on the project, but was later pressured by the studio and his vision was lost. He did a pretty admirable job considering.

Lynch's pedigree speaks for itself:

Blue Velvet: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_23
Lost Highway: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116922/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_16
Mulholland Drive: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_14
Twin Peaks...
etc...
The secret to a successful app is A.B.L
Concorde had a fatal crash... but then they went out of business (er their division was dropped?) -- but everyone wants faster than sound transport between continents. I doubt BOOM will ever be a detracting brand issue.
AppFS ( http://appfs.rkeene.org/ ) is exactly a decentralized package manager, except it uses HTTP as a transport and does end to end verification (i.e. not like HTTPS where only the transport is verified) of all data using PKI.
I really want somebody with a budget to take this on like LOTR.
It's an example of Antonin Scalia's advice to "yield indefensible terrain---ostentatiously":

Rarely will all the points, both of fact and law, be in your favor. Openly
acknowledge the ones that are against you. In fact, if you're the appellant,
run forth to meet the obvious ones. [1]

[1] Dan Slater. "Scalia and Garner: 'Yield Indefensible Terrain---Ostentatiously'" in The Wall Street Journal Law Blog, April 29, 2008.
The cost per ton of payload is hoped to be significantly cheaper than traditional aircraft. Also, it can land anywhere, so no need for a for a runway.
Short answer: No.

Long answer: Yes, there are community-provided patches available on the SourceForge project, but they were never merged and a new release was never tagged by the project team, so effectively no.

* https://sourceforge.net/p/mcrypt/patches/10/

* https://sourceforge.net/p/mcrypt/bugs/39/

* https://sourceforge.net/p/mcrypt/patches/1/

* https://sourceforge.net/p/mcrypt/patches/6/
I really liked "Jodorowky's Dune" but I'm convinced his film would have been a disaster. For example, the ending would have consisted of Dune, the newly sentient "enlightened" planet, flying around the galaxy to enlighten the other worlds.

It really had little to do with the book.
You can very easily buy options and futures oil and hedge away the risk for quite a while. Serious investors do this.
not any of our wildcard

But if you get a wildcard, it doesn't leak anything about the names or details of your internal servers.
Awesome, a third-party with, effectively, administrative control over all my machines and data. What could go wrong?
For me lawyer seems way more childish in this exchange. Azer just seems to by firmly standing his ground to ridiculous claim.

It's not true that if they don't get kik package on npm they'll loose their trademark. It's not true that they can't prevent their lawyers from going after him, there are multiple ways to avoiding that. 30k$ is not high price for doing something you never had any intention of doing.
They have a jobs portal thingy, if that's helpful:

http://jobs.redhat.com
Man, these book-movie comparisons always annoy the hell out of me.

If a painter paints a cliff-side seascape, and a dozen years later a sculptor sculpts the painting as a bas-relief, you don't judge the sculptor because his sculpture didn't measure up to the painting. He's not a painter. He didn't paint a picture, he made a sculpture. It's the same subject, even the same perspective, but they are two completely independent works of art made by two separate artists. The fact that the cliff was in both works is inconsequential because the works stand by themselves.

The same goes for novel-film "adaptations". It's a different work, produced by a different artist, and involves a completely different process to accomplish. They aren't supposed to be the same. They can't be the same. If you like the novel, enjoy the novel. If you like the movie, like the movie. If you don't, that's fine too. But stop comparing them, please.
Diversity at Amazon (2016 survey)
Nice. But what I want is open-source speech recognition.
The Betting Algorithm the Bookies Don’t Want You to Know About
If you want to learn to draw from life, the biggest hurdle is learning to interpret visual signals directly -- what artists refer to as "learning to see". Your brain naturally wants to turn visual input (edge, color, pattern) into higher-level concepts ("house", "nose", "cat", etc.), which is wonderful for general survival but unhelpful when this interpretive step inserts itself in the path from your eyes to your pencil.

However, there are a variety of exercises you can do to learn to see low-level visual input over higher-level interpretations, like copying images upside-down, following a visual edge with both eye and pencil, using a viewfinder or grid to narrow attention, measuring angles/distances between landmarks, moving attention to "negative space", etc.

You can find these kinds of exercises in most life drawing books. I particularly like "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", as it's structured for independent study, it has a focus on quickly producing results for absolute novices, and it has a scientific bent -- although anything it says about physical neurological structure should be taken with a grain of salt.
AI my arse - Microsoft have just got Nathan Barley chained to a keyboard somewhere
Yeah it's really similar, not just in premise, the writing style really reminded me of the narration in that awesome film.
I don't think there's any requirement that you use Google Compute Engine in order to use this API. Yes, you sign up for an account, but of course you have to sign up for an account to use it. This API is part of the platform.

Similarly, you can use the Google Translate API without using Compute Engine, App Engine, etc.

Note: I work for Google (but not on any of these products).
It is weird that this article didn't make it to the top page.
Research on how to backdoor Diffie-Hellman
define safety. The problem is right there with all these words "safe","diversity","inclusiveness" which now means something different than what they are supposed to mean at first place.
And people are tricked into agreeing with this narrative because of course, people want to be safe, people want diversity, people want inclusiveness. But by safety you do not mean physical safety. By safety you mean "a environment where radical left-wing ideas cannot be challenged". By diversity you mean "people being there not because of their skills but because of their gender,race or sexual orientation". By inclusiveness you do not mean more of everybody, but "less white males". That's "newspeak" and it's misleading on purpose.
Someone who is not cool.
So the only negative thing I can say about redhat was that whilst dealing with implementing Openstack for them, they surely had become a behemoth of a company... meaning that they were at one point the scrappy up-start we all wanted to beat IBM/HP etc... but they had become just as "enterprisey" as the others.

Obviously there is nothing wrong with that as their revenue shows, its just that the internal corporate DNA changes to a certain degree.
How Google’s financial predictor 'predicts' the past
The Folding Electric Bike Argentina's President Gave to Barack Obama
No, you do. And you failed your godwin.

The relevance is that this guy isn't the only one who believes it, just the only one we're currently talking about for being honest on social media.

His speech is no more actionable (and thus no more worrying) towards any individual than "Just bomb Iraq" was in late 2001. Cough.

In lieu of threats you don't get safer for banning him because 1) bans don't actually work against criminals (not that he is, but if he was) and 2) if you're really at risk there are billions more who feel the same way he does. Better to avoid a false sense of security and just be on your toes.
Won't be Airbus then, as their main CAD system has fairly powerful scripting bits. ;)
P2P Investing has expanded to Insurance
But isn't Apple an Open Source company? ;)
The point is that even showing up costs time and possibly travel expenses. Court proceedings are slow, so without a lawyer, you'll spend days of your time in court fighting the case.

It's possible to defend yourself without a lawyer. People have done it successfully. However, to be successful, you have to spend a lot of time learning, understanding and using the law to your advantage, and it's usually not worth it. Even lawyers will hire other lawyers to defend them, if they're defendants in a case outside their area of speciality.

There's a pervasive attitude that representing yourself without a lawyer lowers your chance of winning, though there are no hard statistics either way.

If you don't show up at all, you'll almost always lose. In many cases, if you fail to show up, the judge is required to rule in favor of the only party that showed up. Even if that wasn't the case, if the judge is only listening to one side of an argument, they're likely to agree with that side.
>It was an old plane. It was marginal economically. It had a fatal accident. And then, just as it was returning to service, the travel slump after 9/11 happened.

I agree that all those are the primary retirement factors but I did not want to bring them up as they where being discussed elsewhere in the comments.

I'm interested to see that people where complaining about the potential of Concorde stratospheric pollution all the way back in 1972[1]. Maybe it was not so much a reason for retirement but one of the many reasons the concorde received such a poor public reception in the 70s. I think Boom has some serious hurdles ahead of them in this regard. Environmental regulations have done nothing but grow since the 1970s and many countries where outright banning the concorde from their airspace then.

[1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/ACPTimes...
Not all anonymous classes are lambdas.

There are many situations like async streams or even synchronous iterators that require multiple methods.

Erik Meijer even mentions somewhere in this video that he is remiss that C# doesn't have anonymous classes:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Ke...

Around 47:50 he says "feature request for C# anonymous inner classes".
It's amazing to me that Dune, in 412 pages, develops a more fully fleshed-out universe than A Song of Ice and Fire does in 4,223 (so far).
Not that, but certain "luxury-brand" cars specifically don't want you fiddling with anything, and to simply bring it in for a service.

E.g. The weirdest part of it (after driving an old car for the longest time) was they explicitly tell you not to have gas-station attendants check your oil for you. If you're leaking/losing oil, the lights will at some point come on and prompt you to take the car in for service.
The Concorde cost ~£1 billion to develop in the 1960s. That's something like £17 billion, inflation adjusted.

Also, not for nothing:

"An advertisement covering two full pages, promoting Concorde, ran in the 29 May 1967 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. The advertisement predicted a market for 350 aircraft by 1980 and boasted of Concorde's head start over the United States' SST project.

The consortium secured orders (i.e., non-binding options) for over 100 of the long-range version from the major airlines of the day: Pan Am, BOAC, and Air France were the launch customers, with six Concordes each. Other airlines in the order book included Panair do Brasil, Continental Airlines, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa, American Airlines, United Airlines, Air India, Air Canada, Braniff, Singapore Airlines, Iran Air, Olympic Airways, Qantas, CAAC, Middle East Airlines, and TWA. At the time of the first flight the options list contained 74 options from 16 airlines." [1]

Guess how many they sold? 14. LOIs for unbuilt, undesigned airplanes are meaningless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
It is interesting, but perhaps it doesn't mean much in the end. All it really signifies is that Macbooks are PC-compatible. Microsoft is under a lot more pressure to support 32-bit processors, as they're still kicking around - Apple meanwhile only have to support their own hardware.

I would also say that Microsoft's End-Of-Life security update promises mean a lot less now that they've demonstrated willingness to subvert that system to force-upgrade people.
Oh, sorry, I'm not a native English speaker so yeah I tend to make stupid mistakes like these.
The startup blog is here: https://medium.com/@Brooklyness1
I haven't seen Julius before, thank you! How do you decide which one to use?
The Beginning of the Self-Help Genre:  Work by Samuel Smiles Published in 1859
> the Kik guy was very polite

I don't see how saying "our trademark lawyers are going to be banging on your door and taking down your accounts and stuff like that " and using word "dick" in second message can be considered very polite.
My only fear is that ultimateGuitarTabs will use these developments to make visiting their site on mobile even more of a hellish experience.
True, to an extent.

I'm assuming you are referring to the Arduino family when you say "8-bit AVR controllers"? If yes, they do in fact do a great job at making things somewhat easy for the dabbler, and have many resources available online to peruse for help.

Taking the next step to full-on embedded development (STM32 in this case), as you are finding out, is quite a big leap. Not that it can't be done, but that it really is challenging.

Guess it depends on your background and your familiarity with software development and/or hardware in general.
I think you just need to register for the Google cloud and can then use the service as you want it. There is probably an advantage if you upload it directly from a Google VM (no costs for uploading from a Google service/very low latency) but it would surprise me if you have to have a Google VM. I can after all upload files to S3 and googles cloud storage even if I host the application on my hardware.
X200 user here. AC wifi, 3G for fallback, minipci-e 64GB, SSD, 1TB HDD, AFFS screen; ultra light, robust, battery replaced ~every 2 years. The only things it needs to keep up with the web today are uBlock and IRC gateway to Slack.
Really highlights reddit is way over due for a refresh of it's logo and style.
Show HN: IBAnimatable 2.0 – Configure custom transitions in Interface Builder
I'm not sure why you think "piracy" is a problem, and why it's worth warping the rest of society to bring piracy under control. Nevertheless, what makes you think that encryption, data mining and whatever won't just drive "piracy" further underground, further decentralized, and harder to control? That seems at least as likely as centralized computing (which I think is what you mean by "the cloud" in this context) and the attendant ability to collect data/spy on everyone will be to control something as poorly defined as "piracy". I mean, we could stop it today by just ceasing to enforce copyrights. Poof! Piracy gone, completely under control.
Like most machine-learning applications, the source code isn't the interesting part, the data is. Google started by training on millions of phrases from Google 411, and then they've been able to continue training anytime someone issues a voice command to an Android device. They have orders of magnitude more data than you could fit into a GitHub repository.
Didnt know about that one.
It's absurd because the obvious choice from the beginning should have been a library of abstracted OS concepts. Even if it starts as a single method/function for determining the homedir, making sure it can easily handle more abstractions is the obvious choice. People wanting homedir() will likely also want a way to separate a path from a file, know how to separate path components based on platform ('/' vs '\'), and a few other obvious things (see the os module you referenced).

A low barrier of entry for submitting modules is generally a good thing, but if it's too low, you end up filling your ecosystem with crap.
TIL: neoreactionary, anti-democratic blah blah blah

aka libertarian fruitopia
One vote per hour, ouch. I guess everyone has switched to MATE/Cinnamon/KDE/LXQt/i3/Awesome/etc.
I first learned about CMUSphinx from the [Jasper Project](https://jasperproject.github.io/). While Jasper provided an image for the Pi, I decided to go ahead and make a scripted install of CMUSphinx. I spent something like 2 frustrating days attempting to get it installed by hand in a repeatable fashion before giving up.

This was 2 years ago, so maybe it's simple now, but I didn't find it "amazingly easy" back then.

I do have a number of projects where I could definitely use a local speech recognition library. I have used [Python SpeechRecognition](https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/blob/master/exam...) to essentially record and transcribe from a scanner. I wanted to take it further, but google at the time limited the number of requests per day. Today's announcement seems to indicate they will be expanding their free usage, but a local setup would be much better. I'd like to deploy this in a place that might not have reliable Internet.
Not sure about that. I'm away of the PPA's + NodeJS's NPM packaging model.
> It's a code of conduct. Not a code of thought.

Given how most codes of conduct are written there is virtually no difference between the two. If a code of conduct in a community applies everywhere its members might be on the internet or in the real world, then they are not free to say what they want publicly anymore. If one can be excluded from an opensoure community because of a totally unrelated comment on some obscure forum as stated by codes like the "contributor covenant", it's pretty clear that this kind of code of conduct is a code of thought.
> "No. I'll actually release something else with that name" [implied by 'I'm actually building a project etc]

It think you got it wrong. He's just saying that his using that name for the project he is currently building. It's already released. It's on npm. Maybe lawyer mistakenly inferred future tense like you did but there was none.
> Next I will explain why Van Helsing is one of my favourite films...

I hope it wasn't sarcasm because you made me look for it on Netflix :).
"Google may choose to raise those prices over time, after it becomes the dominant player in the industry."

...Isn't that specifically what anticompetition laws were written to prevent?
dom.ipc.processCount does not do any load balancing. It just does one tab one process until the number of tabs is greater than dom.ipc.processCount when that happens every new tab ends up in the last process.

For right now any settings other than one are not tested or supported. After electrolysis ships tuning the dom.ipc.processCount value based on the number of cores and and such is planned.
I am a David Lynch fan, I loved Dune. I lent out my DVD copy to a few people and everyone hated it. I've never read the book, I really should, considering that when I do actually read (very occasionally), it is more than likely sci-fi; and I've never seen any of the series' that were made. Basically I watched Dune because I'm a David Lynch fan and all of my knowledge of Dune comes from the film, so I guess it's not all that accurate? Anyway, I liked it because of the atmosphere, and the story; it's certainly unique, but that's Lynch for you.