skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see it as preying on the poor. I see it as a hobby / investment of the poor due to thousands of other factors that already prey on the poor.

Imagine you have 0 chance of having any savings and barely staying ahead on your mortgage. The breakdown is this:

upper class: easy access to what you want and need
middle class: easy access to what you need
lower class: difficult access to what you need

If you are never going to have disposable income and forever be barely a paycheck ahead, what investments are available to you? You raise your child as well as you can for the school district and streets you live on, at best they go to a low-tier state school -> more debt. You can't retrain for a job because you are half a paycheck away from needing to take a second job.

In this situation, the outcomes are this:
don't play lottery -> 100% stay poor
play lottery -> 99.99999% stay poor

what do you choose?
Japan’s NTT to Buy Dell Systems for $3.055B
15.67%

https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=PGz5VqD0GJGAoAPIrLjABA&...
Depends on context.

You can get a reliable used car for ~12k. Look at how many people spend 2+K more than that.
I believe it's an option far more often than people believe.

Customers do follow dependability and lasting value; nobody trying to their solve day-to-day problems actually wants a treadmill.
Change a few words and you could be talking about masturbation. Do you only masturbate "one-day a year"?

It's worth noting that, historically, haranguing people on values without sufficiently addressing their incentive network often does little to change them.

So what would you do differently?
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It's because Github's CSS toolkit is maintained[0] by the same creator of Bootstrap[1], @mdo.

[0] http://primercss.io/about/

[1] http://getbootstrap.com/1.0.0/#footer
My 4-year-old GTX660 is a mid-range card even today. Give it five or six years.
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I hope we at least get a 20ghz cpu (in consumer boxes) before we hit the limit of speed increases. (and adding more cores isn't the same)
VR Virtual Desktop
What these FPGA-based solutions need is TLS. Then you could have internet facing FPGA-based servers.
What do you mean by always updated?
Modules, namespaces, interfaces, many other things on your list, also have nothing to do with OOP.
> This brave new display technology is a strictly “look, don’t touch” affair, controlled primarily through a standard Xbox One gamepad that seems built for an entirely different way of playing. In the Rift, you have to tamp down that first instinct to simply reach out and grab at the convincing world surrounding you.

This right here validates my decision to order the Vive. I want a real VR experience, not just a fancy HMD. The price difference isn't significant for me and the reality here is that even when Oculus launches its touch controllers they'll have a library of games that dont support it (and developers worried if designing for touch will result in lost sales as not every Rift will have it). Looking at the fairly uninspired games available today, I can't see how they could. You can't just tack on motion control. Its a completely different experience, like say, the difference between a NES game and a Wii game.

I think the Vive leapfrogged the Rift here. The demos I've seen of the Vive software look like what most people would consider VR. The Rift has exclusives but, Lucky's Tail? Farlands? These are boring console games shoehorned to work with a HMD. That's not what I want VR to be. There's a real Sega Saturn feel here with the Rift. The same way the Saturn was not-quite 3D graphics, the Rift ecosystem is not quite VR. At least not yet.
iOS 9.3 versus iOS 9.2.1 rate testing on iPhone 4S, 5, 5s, 6 and 6S
The funny thing is that Yahoo's alibaba stake + cash on hand is worth something like 40 billion, but yahoo's current market cap is ~35 billion. AKA, Yahoo's core business is worth negative 5 billion dollars.
Please explain
> Which would likely be a violation of anti-trust law, as we learned in the 90s

Whatever it is that you think you learned in the 90s that would somehow make that an antitrust violation is quite mistaken.
This seems like a really uncommon case.

The vast majority of bugs I've ran across is an incorrect mental model of how something works: your system, some library, or an external system you're interfacing with.

Aside from building a more understandable system (whatever that really means/entails), from my experience, the best way to counteract this is to, while writing code, always ask: "What if my understanding is wrong? What if someone else's understanding is wrong? What can I do to make the system fail in the loudest way possible if someone's understanding is wrong?"
> Is ~50 million people "mainstream"?

Where is this number coming from? Even the people I know interested in VR aren't exactly leaping to buy this first generation, and that's exactly what the review should (and does) reveal—you should continue waiting unless you want to deal with typical early adopter issues.
> 1 VM to run 1 docker container to run 1 jvm .... probably 10 vms per host.... instead of 20 jvms per host

That doesn't make sense, the Linux overhead is not enough to make it that much less dense. You get better HA by running 20 VM's instead of 20 JVM's because machines crash taking out 20 apps instead of 1. I know the physical host can crash taking out 20 hosts, but you have that problem in either scenario.
It's one of those cultural decisions you have to make early on in a company's formation and make sacrifices to hold on to because literally everyone else you're connected with will expect you to move at the same speed they're moving at.
While the value of watching a "rubbish" comedy (or TV for that matter) certainly is debatable, the content of the show, or at least the accuracy of the physics jokes, are spot on. They are pretty rigorous in their joke fact checking :

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-big-bang-theory-has-hidden-j...

>A lot of the humor is over the heads of the general audience.

>But there are jokes inside of jokes, and for those who

>recognize the science, they’re hilarious. The show takes this

>stuff so seriously that it employs a UCLA physics professor

>to make sure it gets it right.

>Case in point: In a 2009 episode, “The Jiminy Conjecture,”

>Sheldon and Howard heard a chirp and then argued over which

>variety of cricket made the sound.

>On the whiteboard in the background is Dolbear’s law, which

>states the relationship between the air temperature and the

>rate at which crickets chirp.

>“I went to a Dolbear presentation at Tufts, and they talked

>about this, in like 1989,” says one high-profile fan of the

>show, Seamus Blackley, one of the creators of Microsoft’s

>original Xbox game console. “I remembered it!”

>“Once I realized what was going on, it was awesome,” added

>Mr. Blackley, who is also trained in physics. “It’s the No. 1

>show, and it has actual physics in it.”

I'm just not sure there's ever been a show that's attempted to deliver comedy around Schrodinger's Cat or Quantum Uncertainty. They do a phenomenal job with comedy surrounding such technical subjects, but just by acknowledging my fondness for the show, puts me in a minority here.
Github is not a trust, in no sense. The closest part of it is the developer mindshare and hostility to a competitive hosting ecosystem for some incredibly irrational reason a lot of devs have. But even then, gitlab is a direct and successful competitor in the exact same space.
I'm going to build my side project in gwt ( with bootstrap for responsiveness) and host it in google app engine.
I agree. Let's point out that none of these divestitures or strategic allocation decisions would happen without Larry or Sergey.

As you allude, Google's ability to deliver depends on the share price. While they are free from activist shareholders, they aren't free from competition for talent. A rising stock price keeps employees happy. Employees with lots of out of the money options get jealous when their friends experience IPOs.
Devil's advocate here... and I'm adding the caveat that I still use my iPad 1 daily (with the grandfathered, unlimited data plan).

A lot of this is about generating revenues. At the end of the day, Apple is a public corporation. It's not a charity. Apple's primary reason for existence is to generate shareholder value. It's hard for a device company to do that if they aren't... you know... selling devices.

Apple doesn't believe everyone should buy a new Apple product every 5 years. Sure, they'd love it, but that's not the market they're targeting. Apple has branded itself as a luxury technology brand. Would someone make this same argument about Lexus or Rolex or Coach?

If you can't afford that shiny new Macbook, there are plenty of alternate options. No one is forcing people to buy Apple products.

Beyond pricing, older technology can limit software innovation. What if every App developer out there -- including the folks at apple developing the latest versions of iOS -- still had to support my "ancient" iPad 1?

Legacy support would put a lot of young companies out of business. As a developer, one of things that costs me the most time is cross-device support. It's a huge drain on resources, and not every company can afford it.
>which has no reserve requirement

The banks are not reserve constrained, so the reserve requirement is nigh irrelevant.
It's a good thing that the gig economy is only one startup trend among many from the last 2-3 years, and not like, a pillar of the current boom or anything.
If a web developer gets frustrated by having to support Internet Explorer 8, is that offensive? "How dare you! You're punching down at people who are stuck with Windows XP!"

The internet is very good at being offended by everything.
Two things happening here. First, look and feel may in fact be an artistic expression, which is copyrightable, and cannot be copied under copyright law.

More importantly, though is that look and feel may be trade dress, which is a trademark issue, because it helps consumers identify the source of the service. Do you look at Gitbucket's website, which does the same thing at GitHub, and think for a second you're not sure if this is a service that GitHub made? That's trademark infringement.

We also learned about trade dress in the 80s. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29wNCH4RBrk (Coming to America)
I wonder if Gogs will have to change its ui.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374786
Someone said something that I disagree with! The horror! The outrage! It should be illegal!

That's one of the biggest problems with society today. People need to learn to grow up.
I think I remember that most of my issues were SE Linux related. We liked Gitlab and are going with it, I just personally found Gogs a lot easier and simpler to get going and the missing features weren't that important to us. Thanks for the helpful links.
Steam often logs in on boot. I don't see this as a very interesting metric and certainly not related to the popularity of the first generation of a VR device.
There were some 'suggestions' attempted in the 20th century, and they lead to the deaths of millions of people.
When I'm done laughing I'm going to take this suggestion to my college's economics and federal policy faculty...
Thank you for succinctly putting this to words.
Yea, Gitlab and Bitbucket are pretty significantly different in look. Although those two were commercial entities that probably had the foresight to think about these issues.

Gitbucket looks like it's independent devs just trying to create a clone in Scala. It would be pretty cool to have a github alternative in scala :-)
So , really - you actually see typo bugs in the wild? I haven't seen one of those for 20 years.

I do see lots of cases where people didn't test it or used the wrong mechanism.

I have to go slowly because somebody already went fast and broke it.

And a friend once told me "LZW can compress code faster than you can." :) Which does not go to the value of orthogonality of purpose in source code, but I enjoyed the irony of the comment very much.
How well does the git client work with that? I've been wishing I could tinker from my phone but all the Android github apps don't actually pull repos.
The only real competition they have is from the HTC Vive and Playstation VR. HTC Vive is their direct competition, but I do believe Playstation VR will probably sell better due to its price and huge install base (every PS4 owner).

While yes, the PS4 is slower than high-end PCs, developers will have an easier time tailoring the performance of their games to one piece of hardware. PSVR owners should expect PS3/XBOX360 level graphics on a PS4 in VR.
FPGA-based hardware acceleration for "X" seems like a really practical idea. Any chance of seeing this kind of technology expand in the future?
For me the answer is easy. I don't have a good PC (just a 5 year old laptop that I don't use much) so going with a Rift or a Vive is a huge investment and requires me getting back into keeping a PC setup just for VR.

The PS VR is cheaper and I already keep that equipment setup. I don't need to worry about specs/etc. Plug and play. Plus the PS VR is cheaper.

For me I'd go with PS VR and see how that goes. If I really liked it then I might buy a Vive for my (we'll pretend I own a) gaming PC. I could sell the PS VR to offset the cost.

Don't own a console? Already hard-core into PC? Then just going straight to Vive/Rift makes plenty of sense if you're willing to buy in.
What is amusing is that Apple build such good quality Macbooks now, people are keeping them for 5 years. My 2 and half year old MBP handles any dev task I throw at it fine, can't imagine replacing it for a couple more years at least. I also know a lot of gamers, they are happy playing at 1080p with 2500 or 3500 series CPU's as they are mostly playing CS:GO or Dota 2.
Can't confirm that. I have to work with gitlab with different customers on several independent project teams. No installation feels fast. Memory is >2GB. Also have it here on a machine with 4GB. No page loads under 1 s. And the ajax requests seem to take even longer than a full page reload. Its a pitty you now load almost everything with Ajax and there's no option to turn that off. I often find myself to click a second time on a link because the browser spinner doesn't move and your progress bar is not really where my focus is.

I had been using 5.1 for quite some time before. It wasn't really fast either, but things have gotten much worse with newer versions.
hey, thanks! I haven't updated that Foundation page since early 2000s.
This concept of "social consequences" is essentially a flipped framing of a situation to incorporate an implicit utility function of whomever is using the term.

If a person or group of people does not act in a way that benefits you, they still have not harmed you. It simply means they have not chosen to conform to your expectations.
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Competitive advantage for the currency's speculators or for its users?

The latter I'd say are better served by a currency that encodes a price stability algorithm rather than a hyperdeflationary one. The former on the other hand...
Just out of interest, anyone know why the dateline on that article would be Healdsburg?

> Healdsburg, CALIFORNIA (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) executives are in early talks with potential Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) investors...
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FPGA-as-a-service? Brilliant! Get the VCs
In reply to your edit:

Yes, Mono had issues as I said but it did/does work if you can work around it. Granted the windows licenses are cheaper than the dev effort to fix any potential issues so it's not the best situation.

But .NET Core can be used today and it works fine with the framework rapidly being developed. Several major libraries are also in or have completed the migration and we're just waiting on some other dependencies but we do have smaller apps running today.

Ecosystem for the code is the same (and as vast) as it's ever been, that's the strength of the CLR/framework. Mono/.net on linux does have a community but it's growing quickly now with Core.
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We have a perfectly good iPhone 3G (not even 3GS, just plain old 3G) which I think I bought in 2009. But it can't access the App Store anymore. Like, it literally won't show the page correctly if you try loading it up. The CSS is all broken, and none of the buttons or links actually work (presumably the JavaScript is broken too).

So probably around 2012 I bought an iPhone 4 (not even an iPhone 4S, just plain old 4). And even though the App Store still works on that, it was dropped by iOS 8, so we can't even get most of the useful new apps that come out, because most (if not all) of them require iOS 8 or higher.

This is Apple's attitude towards anyone who isn't spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on their products every 2 or 3 years: you're sad and pathetic, and screw you.

Back when Steve was in charge, they had top notch hardware and it lasted forever. Anyone who still has an original iPod knows those things still work amazingly well, they were built to last. But now Apple's software and hardware is going downhill quickly, so the high price tag is no longer justifiable. They've gone the way of Thinkpads after Lenovo took them over.

I felt like a fool in 2012 or 2013, when I suggested to my employer that instead of buying me a MacBook Pro work computer, he buy a Mac Pro, because it would be around longer, and all we'd need to do was swap out the internals to upgrade it, which would be much cheaper than buying a whole new MacBook Pro. Literally like less than a year later, Apple came out with a brand new type of Mac Pro, completely ditching the kind they had what seemed like forever until then, and it's all incompatible internals now.

Honestly I'm tired of Apple's crap and I'm abandoning ship. I'll still use this stupid MBP that I bought for myself a few years ago, but when it inevitably dies in a few years and can't be fixed, I'll probably look into older IBM Thinkpads and switch to Linux full time.
I think the problem with inflatables is you want a lot of stuff in the walls for heating and cooling etc. Plus, the ability to close a door in the event of a leak, fire ect and lower the pressure is huge from a safety standpoint.

PS: Also, if you willing to have seams you could build very large ridged structures, just ship walls vs completed modules.
Ask HN: How can I have a group of service peers assign themselves a number?
I have a set of a few hundred thousand xml feeds that I want to poll every XX minutes.

I'm writing a service in Go that pulls the list of feed URLs from a database and fetches some subset of those feeds. This subset are the ones that this service will be responsible for fetching.

I'd like to divide up the work by simply numbering each server/instance of this service I have running, and dividing the ID of the Feed by the index of the service modulus the number of peers.

What is a robust way that I can have these services discover their peers and reliably assign an index to themselves? So, if I deploy 3 instances of this service, they will eventually discover each other and assign indexes of 0-2 to themselves.

I'd like it so if I add a new instance of this service, or if one goes down, the peer discovery mechanism will notice this and the services will re-assign a new index to themselves and then re-fetch their Feed list based on their new ID.

Is this a use case for something like etcd or Consul?

My initial thought was to have each service generate a random ID/number and then each peer would register with something like etcd. It would then monitor some key for peers and assign itself an index based on the sorting of its key relative to its peers. I'm not sure if this is the best way to handle this situation though.
>no dedicated full sized USB port

Why is the surface the only tablet to have a dedicated full sized USB port? It seems like one of the most important things to have in any tablet.
I have a 7 year old mac at home. Much slower now with Apple's latest OS, even with RAM upgrade.
>>how can a Kickstarted project be a loss leader

Looks like some combination of padded shipping prices, plus sales of accessories that appear to actually be priced above cost. (PocketChip, VGA, HDMI, etc).

So, you can pledge for just a $9 CHIP, but they are subsidizing the losses there with the other pledges + shipping margin.
I've used this tool (neé CloudScrape) for five scrape, collect and dump work from directory type sites.

Works well and fast, multiple proxy routes.

It easily grabs text and attributes with CSS3 selectors. Have to be a "dev" to build a bot in this thing.

Some of the URL filtering is not that easy.

It takes multiple test runs to get it right but they are cheap.

Can't interact with active content very well (eg: forms, AJAX)
Then why aren't they hosting on their own product?
You may as well lock people in an isolation pod. This is the problem, isn't it?
Then you may like this:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ProfSteveKeen/videos
Frankly I just use Nix, which is a little like having virtualenvs for your entire distribution and as such can handle non-python dependencies properly.
Not upgrading from IE8 is the same as using a laptop made 5 years ago now?
I'm hoping to try this approach with a digital piano keyboard. Will it be usable if I can see the keys but not see my hands? I'll find out. (I'm not a very good player, I can play without looking at the keys but I still need to glance at them, e.g. when changing position or playing a wide chord)

edit to note: I do have a Leap Motion, and I'll try that, too, but right now my plan is to use it above the keyboard as a gesture controller rather than facing down at the keys. Lots of experiments to try. :)
Think about the tax revenue!

Lol...
Not sure I buy these arguments. Plants are mining the ground for minerals it just takes tons of water, fertilizer, plant optimization, pesticides, transportation, harvesting etc.

The question is really can a solar panel + responsible chemical process provide a better product with lower energy and lower environmental impact. This needs to be measured in CO2 output per calorie, m^2/calorie, pesticide/poison introduction etc etc.

Its amazing how quickly you would dismiss this as it seems like an incredibly complex question.
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I really hope the creators of Silicon Valley read HN.
I end up doing site:stackoverflow.com or site:quora.com for most of my searches
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>I would strongly disagree with the author that Apple is a "de facto investment bank"

The fact that they have piles of money which they need to park says otherwise. "Advising clients on financial transactions" is precisely what they are doing...internally.

People seem to really underestimate the issues with dealing with such vast sums of cash for which you want to maintain value. It's not trivial, as the author points out.

>But Apple isn't even CLOSE to competing with Visa and MasterCard in that regard

At one point Apple wasn't even close to competing with Nokia or Blackberry in the smart phone space. Then a bit of innovation happened.
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Why is it so specific to Slashdot though? If some product doesn't support Linux - you can expect such questions everywhere.
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Man I used to play a lot with Puppy and DSL, brings back some fond memories. Just for fun, I spun up an Ubuntu Trusty VM in VirtualBox with 64 MB of RAM and it works just fine (after uninstalling Puppet and Chef).

$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 47 44 3 0 1 9
-/+ buffers/cache: 32 15
Swap: 0 0 0
$
> I actually rolled back to 9.2.1

How? I thought Apple didn't allow that. I'd like to go back to 9.1 if possible