skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean if you aren't trialing the software, why aren't you paying for it? You've even put 'trial' in quotes, so we know you aren't really trialing it. You're simply using it.

Are you in compliance with the 1Password licence to use it long term for business without paying for it? (I don't know the answer to that)
You can probably go through the cleartype calibration wizard to improve the font rendering, I'm basing that on the assumption that the out of the box settings are probably tuned to look good on generic lcd screens
They already have "fog catchers" in Atacama desert, see for example http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/05/150521_atrapaniebl...
Mrusty: (m)ruby from Rust, now without dependencies
I do not understand, what would the concrete effects of the EFA existence (or participation of a given movent to it) be?
Several hundred tabs? Dear god
I find these sorts of concept look great, and look they would work well, when you have 10 emails in your mailbox, or 3 tabs open in your browser, or 6 files in Sublime Text, etc etc.

I get hundreds of emails a day, work in an editor that is indexing ~11000 files, regularly have 50 tabs open in Chrome, etc. I find many apps that follow the sorts of aesthetics and principles shown in these mockups just do not scale to what I would consider normal professional use.
El Capitan was that for me.... Mavericks and Yosemite were all kinds of buggy, to the point where I was rebooting once a week due to hard-to-pin-down slowdowns, but at the last time I rebooted El Capitan due to an OS update, I had 40 days of uptime.
I don't get why people want osx to die and ios to run on mac. They are already pretty much the same OS. Open up the OSX UIKit port should be enough to solve that "problem".

Also, removing the file system tree would be a huge step backwards. Organizing hundreds or thousands of files between dozens to hundreds of projects is just not suited for a "everything in one searchable bag" for a few reasons: To find something with search, you have to already know what you're looking for - something that browsing a folder solves instantly (how can you know you see all relevant files with a search? Maybe there's an important file that didn't match your query?!) - and the common "solution" with tagging/labels are just single-level folders in disguise....

I'm glad Apple decided to not port OSX to the iPad, or replace OSX with an iPad-esque iOS. Most people I've talked to that experienced windows 8 would agree that when Microsoft did just that, it was a misstep.
OP here.

This is what I tried to address. "Too abstracted" is far too subjective. Is "map" on a collection too abstract?

Dont get me wrong, code can be too abstract. But dont mistake too abstract for the unfamiliar.
What if we had a great standard library in JavaScript?
>The analysis is broken by the focus on the top 1%. They should be looking at the top 0.1%, or smaller.

I think sometimes a picture really does say 1,000 words. This short info-graphic video makes is pretty clear how dramatically top heavy wealth distribution in the U.S. is:

https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM

It also does a nice job of comparing the "ideal", to the "perception" to the actual.
>

I think sometimes a picture really does say 1,000 words. This short info-graphic video makes is pretty clear how dramatically top heavy wealth distribution in the U.S. is:

https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM

It also does a nice job of comparing the "ideal", to the "perception" to the actual.
I'm confused. Where did you get the idea "elites" need to handle everything? Parent simply stated unorganized groups with a non-unified message allows a single member to ruin the entire movement.

So where do "elites" come into play?

Edit: oh I see your account was created 15 minutes ago to just post bullshit. Sigh.
I ran the Ember Complex List test on Chrome and Firefox on my Nexus 6P. Chrome averaged 240ms while Firefox scored 260ms. Both of these results are slower than the iPhone 5S score of 175ms.
Open Source Storage Operating System FreeNAS
If they remove the file system tree I'll switch to another OS for sure. That's my red line.
Also, booked is the correct past tense anyway, so Facebookked is a bad example.
I think the question is the proportionality, i.e., is that 3.5 or 5% impact a disproportionate one. The absolute percentages of even just 3.5% means nothing without seeing it in relative terms. If that 3.5% is caused by 0.0001% of activity then that seems rather significant. I don't see air travel being anything even remotely close to 3.5% of all human climate affecting activity so it strikes me that it really is actually a rather significant matter.
I would assume that a file would correspond with an 'app project' with appropriately structured content inside.

Analogies I'm thinking of include Smalltalk images, or how a compiled .app is a directory right now.
They've even got a much wider field of view (they claim around 90°) which should be useful for most things that don't attempt to be fully immersive.
Parts of the factory firmware are open, including coreboot and SeaBIOS (where applicable) -- but not the whole ROM, and none of the build configurations are published, as far as I know.

I'd love to be wrong though, so I'd appreciate pointers to any sources.
پارک ملت مشهد
Neat, but I'm not sure how much better it is over my current solution (I run Lubuntu on a C720 with an upgraded SSD, and use cros-haswell-modules.sh every now and then to rebuild the touchpad kernel modules and such).

It would be interesting to have more information on what exactly it does (regarding the touchpad, at least). Wiki's a bit light on details (or screenshots, by that matter).

That said, it's nice to know this exists - I might try it before upgrading to 16.04 in a couple of months.
The US Military Is Everywhere, Except History Books
I can't shake the feel that Verge is basically a lifestyle magazine for "geeks". Thus self-expression and entertainment is valued way above utility.

And the mentioned devices were utility first and foremost (aka "nerdy").
This has been posted twice already but only reached FP now. The laws of timezone I guess. Anyway I'm happy it's visible.
For me the irony comes from the library being a name checker for trademarked words that itself could have benefited from some name checking itself.
No lasers in use, just fancy optics
It Really Sucks to Be Named Jennifer Null
The original Pebble seemed interesting. This new one with the whole timeline concept seems over-designed.
OSX and iOS need to converge into something new and unified. Touch and pen(cils) is becoming standard for new computers in the near future, and tablets with keyboards also need to support touchpad and mouse. It may not have been necessary earlier, but with Surface and iPad Pro it's becoming obvious that these are not completely separate platforms any longer.
Improving system modules support in swift package manager
Your post has no basis in reality. Stop believing the media. It just makes you look foolish.
snow leopard had big performance improvements compared to its predecessor, I am not sure the latest releases had that.
Well this gets into the much deeper issue that it's not actually an AI, it's not actually "learning." It's taking things people say and mixing them up and repeating them (someone's going to claim that that's exactly what people do, but I think it's clear that this bot would never be able to gain "true understanding" of words and meaning).

In general, I think the recent wave of interest in chatbots/personal assistants is premature, these ones are really no smarter than SmarterChild, because we haven't gotten any closer to building a system that can actually assign true "meaning" to arbitrary language.

The data has been modeled, cleaned and filtered by the team who built Tay, the bot’s website states.[1]

1. They did a lot of manual massaging of the data anyway.

In addition, if a user chooses to share with Tay, it will track their nickname, gender, favorite food, zip code and relationship status as part of its personalization.[1]

2. These features seem hardcoded.

Meanwhile, its responses – which are meant to be funny, not serious – were developed by a staff which included improvisational comedians, says Microsoft.[1]

3. It also uses scripted content. They imbued it with a totally fake personality. They made it mimic a human, it uses slang that was programmed into it.

It's a hodgepodge of techniques that to me are largely "faking it." So I don't buy the idea that they just sort of turned on this learning engine and had no control over its "morality."

Microsoft knew all of this, they knew it wasn't actually learning language. So what is the purpose of releasing it to talk to people on Twitter? Basically a PR stunt, to get people to have fun with it. From that perspective, a really simple blacklist of words would have gone a long way, and not compromised the integrity of its "learning" (because it was already entirely compromised). And yeah, I mean, a bit of image recognition doesn't seem out of the question either (not saying it would have prevented the bot from repeating/reposting "bad" things, but it maybe would have had some chance to develop a narrative other than "so racist and offensive it was immediately shut down").

Yeah I still do think it is obvious that you shouldn't release a fake AI bot that will blindly repost images that are sent to it by Twitter users, and that there is nothing really to be gained by doing so.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/23/microsofts-new-ai-powered-b...
Anyone who "earns" is technically not a part of the 1% (which should not be taken literally [as a mathematical forumula]).

The mythical 1% are the long standing families, and confederations of interests that control the global economy.

So, to take the fictional character of the Dr. from Eyes Wide Shut, the servants of the 1% may live in upper east side, have successful social position, and generally assumed to be "1%" people by the unwashed (and literal-minded) but are themselves entirely captive members of the economic regime.
I'm curious to see some actual benchmarks... In my experience, Chrome still has the fastest JavaScript. It still renders WebGL pages the best (although Emscripten allows Firefox some impressive feats).

Does Safari have some special extensions for the shitty 'native look' apps I encounter at Apple.com? Did their JavaScript engine become 100x faster in the year or so since I've used it? Is the author comparing an iPhone 6S plus to a Galaxy S3?

This article basically raises more questions than answers since there's literally no objective analysis of any sort...

There's not even an example of a page that runs on mobile Safari well but bad on Chrome, to allow me to see for myself. Just lots of handwaving.

Edit - No responses?

Anyhow, I eventually figured I'd try hammerjs' examples, since that's one of OP's projects. On a Galaxy Note 3, Chrome is pretty shit, Firefox works well. On an iPhone 5S, Safari is shit.
Early 2000's maybe. Xul wasn't around until 99 or so.
I was hoping to have this on my Asus Chromebook Flip. A lot of the ARM machines are wonderfully thin and light with very impressive battery life. It would be great if they could get full-fledged OSes as well.

Crouton works perfectly, but it would be nice if I could give a Linux distro the full 16GB of eMMC instead of X gigabytes of disk image within the 16GB.

Bonus points if I could dual-boot Android and GalliumOS on an ARM laptop. That would be killer.
A fairly unfortunate naming choice.

It looks like the author is Italian, so I would hazard that they're not a native and that this is just an innocent mistake in transcribing what they think "kik'd" ought to sound like.
So for some simple cases it works great.

I have my music, my music app queries the database, presents my with my music, tags them into playlists etc, great.

I have my photos. OK, so I want to keep my screenshots and the memes I downloaded from imgur separate, but those are fairly easy to special-case.

Now I'm writing a novel in my spare time. I got my text document, I got whatever Evernote/OneNote-style system for notes. I found this cool MMORPG map editor I'm using to keep track of where my characters live and go to work, does that count as a picture. And I recorded when I hummed a few bars because I wanted to add a song my character wrote when he was bored, and now it keeps shuffling that in my music. Hmm these things are getting difficult to associate now...
I had that same problem with Adblock.

Much happier now on Safari and uBlock.
Mobile Chrome performs much better than mobile Safari on my iPhone 5s. I'm not sure why, because as far as I know, they use the same rendering engine. But, for the javascript on some sites, Safari will hit a brick wall and Chrome will keep sailing smoothly.
The Only Girl at Her Science Camp
I majored in circuits because back then that's where the money and talent went in Silicon valley. Many of my classmates have since switched to software. The few remaining IC and fab people make pennies compare to the programmers. They also have PhDs to our BS and Master degrees.

Software seems more robust but I don't trust myself to make predictions.
Ah, Bill O'Reilly, that endless font of rational thought and uncannily accurate characterization.
It's not unusual to visit a site (often something neglected but really important, like a support website), and find it simply doesn't load in Firefox.

Then I open it in Chrome and it works. And it's clear which browser the developers tested the site against.
TDD Beyond Basics: Dependency Inversion Principle – Guessing Game Kata Part 3
Now that scripting languages are almost dead?
Though most things fail... So bettering against something is generally a good bet.
Aka The User is Wrong
You can find a matching subtree in time independent of the number of patterns using essentially the same idea as the Aho-Corasick method of string pattern matching. This is done in term rewriting systems -- e.g. I just looked up the Pure term-rewriting language and this code appears to work that way (just going by the comment):

https://bitbucket.org/purelang/pure-lang/src/b7486ed110e5c50...

You could try out your idea by expressing your optimizer rules as a program in Pure. I don't know if after a rewrite they rescan the tree from the root, or try to get smarter and restart the matcher automaton from a point only just far enough up the tree (and back in the matcher) to allow for any change from the rewrite.

It might be interesting to apply Rete directly to the tree represented as a set of tuples, for instance

(define (double x) (* 2 x))

as

(root G0)
(branch G0 define G1 G2)
(branch G1 double x)
(branch G2 * 2 x)

and now a rewrite like (* 2 N) => (+ N N) would go

(rule (branch ?name * 2 ?node) => (branch ?name + ?node ?node))

I'd be surprised if this worked out better in general, but maybe there are some interesting cases.

BTW the GHC compiler for Haskell lets library authors define optimizations by rewrite rules -- like your array of records to record of arrays, I guess.
Safari is slow to adopt new features, yes, but the features it has work properly and everything runs snappily.
Please don't think you are the HN thread police.
How CGA Graphics worked [video]
That $383K is very likely a household income (or tax return AGI, which is a close proxy for household) figure, not an individual income figure.
It would be great to have a standard library but what will it contain and what will be left out?

How about locally caching 10-20 of the top libraries, so we skip including React, LoDash and what-not in every page? And I don't mean CDN caching, but having a separate cache right in the browser.
He would probably get better shooting accuracy if he had been drawing the bow
further, beyond his chin, instead of holding the string wholly on muscles.

Otherwise, very impressive.
Why would they use AR and not VR? AR actually seems useless for that use case.
What technology do you have in mind? I've suffered through far too many awful Google Hangout meetings - if anything can improve remote meetings then I'd love to hear about it.
By all accounts the (state run) Russian Gulags weren't much fun either.

But do you really want to compare your country with the third world, or the first?
Plain Ubuntu / Unity / GNOME works.. out of the box the only problem is the touchpad that need some mainstream love
> I can be a part time drug dealer, shooting rival gang members, robbing houses and pimping whores. But land myself in prison for 10 years due to my 6th possession charge. If you draw a hard distinction statistically, I fall into the 'I can't believe we imprison people for having a little pot'

"You" are a strawman invented to support strict drug laws. How about we jail people for crimes we can actually prove they did, rather then assuming that if you sell pot, you must be "pimpin hoes" and "shooting rival gang members".

> What percentage would have turned violent if confronted during their crime? I suspect that these people who steal your car, break into your home and business and steal your things are effectively violent offenders.

I suspect not, but either way, I don't particularly feel like throwing them in prisons helps things at all. Read up on the gang presence in prisons: its its not like giving someone 10 years for stealing cash from your car is going to rehabilitate them very effectively, and certainly not with the state of prisons being what it is.
It's an unfortunate naming choice, it's obvious the author didn't intend for it to happen given the context of the situation. Nobody is trying to use the ethnic slur against you in this situation, and you are, quite frankly, overreacting to the whole thing.

A lot of horrible things have happened to Jewish people in the past, yes, but that doesn't give you the right to leap down someone's throat for what looks to be a very honest mistake.
This is way better for e.g. my mother's use case. It's horrible for power users. I would be fine with this if Apple introduced some kind of "power user shell". I kind of do this already (on Win, Mac, and Linux) by almost exclusively using a terminal window and browser.

edit: "macOS" is absolutely brilliant though. They should go for the throwback hipster vibe.
That hype cycle seems to affect most things. Ubuntu originally appeared on my radar as a stripped down fast version of Debain with a focus on UI. Now its probably the most bloated Linux desktop I have tried.
Show HN: Exactly – lock your npm dependencies by SHA1 hash
Advantages of cloud based visitor management system
So, if you make $100k per year (and you pay tax on that), and you then go borrow $500k to buy a house, you'd be happy paying tax on that $500k as well? And of course, you would need to repay that debt with after tax income, so you're paying tax twice. Because that's essentially what you're proposing. :)

Debt != income
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346845 (152 points, 2 days ago, 118 comments)
> this is the natural result - businesses that exist solely to profit off of human pain and despair and create it on an industrial scale

There are plenty of middle ground options between criminalization and total freedom. And in fact, if you look at the way alcohol is handled, you see a lot of those. It isn't illegal to possess alcohol in large quantities or to drink to excess, but in some places, public intoxication is illegal (or seen as something of a public nuisance that police are expected to humanely help with). It isn't illegal to sell alcohol, but sometimes it is illegal to knowingly sell it to a drunk person. There are age limits. It's banned at certain events. So forth.

There are a lot of rules, and they vary a lot, and I wouldn't go so far as to say they are rational, exactly, but some are humane. And some do strike a good balance between allowing people to choose to enjoy responsibly (or even irresponsibly), while limiting the danger and nuisance to the rest of society, and while -- on the third hand -- limiting how predatory you can be in selling it and preying on human weakness.

It would probably be naive to suppose that the exact same set of rules would work for all substances, but it does suggest that outright criminalization and junkies on the sidewalk aren't the only options.
The Golden Age of Walking Bots That Never Arrived
Home office desk of a designer
> Problems faced by transgender physicists included colleagues who failed to respect their gender

> identity — for example, by using the wrong name or pronoun to refer to them — and a lack of toilet

> facilities that they felt comfortable and safe in using.

That's a bit harsh against the colleagues who might've had no ill intent, and simply forget to use the "proper" pronoun.

As for toilets.. really? -- I have a big problem with peeing in a urinal with people standing next to me, can I call myself discriminated if there are no means to have a toilet to myself?

This article reminds me a lot of a South park episode of last season.
An article I read way back in the early days of the internet said people were in one of two categories: Searchers and Navigators -- that is, people who were more comfortable getting what they want by searching, and people who were more comfortable getting what they want by navigating a hierarchy.

That really struck me, because I'm of the latter type, and it makes me somewhat uncomfortable to have a search paradigm thrust upon me.
I refuse to use Safari on iOS until they stop hiding the full URL on every web site. Shouldn't take too long, someone will soon figure out how to abuse it for successful phishing attacks.
Well, I guess this raises the question: is it good to use shame or the feeling of public disapproval to achieve (good!) political ends?

Ideally, it would be best if each person could be convinced of the truth as to what is best without any rhetoric, but "purely rationally" (or, purely rationally after a shared base foundation of ideas of what is good, and things like that.)

But totally accomplishing this seems, um, is "intractable" the right word?

So, does this mean that we should [rhetoric] throw that ideal out the window? [/(?maybe?)rhetoric]

What standards of discussion and debate should we hold ourselves to, knowing that those we disagree with might not follow the same standards?

I find the rhetoric on this site "personally effective" (I mean, as someone who already agreed with the viewpoint it expresses, the rhetoric "resonates" or whatever with me.), but does that mean that we should use it?

I don't know that the rhetoric it uses works because the viewpoint is right, instead of regardless of it being right. I think it probably doesn't. That is, I think that effectively the same rhetoric could be used to argue for something false, and that it would be pretty much as convincing.

Should we use/accept(/tolerate?) rhetoric that can be used for bad just as much as for good?

I don't know.

If we should, this seems like it could work, but I feel like maybe we shouldn't.

Thoughts?
They're the least bad alternative. Without automatic software updates, you instead have permanently-vulnerable devices (like most old home routers are today—they can be updated, but it's a manual process so users don't bother.)
The idea is kinda "fun", but I doubt I'd ever want to do something like that. I'd be much more interested in "If you help me build X, you can crash on my futon".
>You mean "on iOS", not on mobile devices in general.

Also on FirefoxOS and ChromeOS where third party browsers aren't possible at all.
Silicon Valley people are assholes.

Who the fuck cares about Android and Apple, and all that jazz and drama when they just offshore all the jobs? Or when they just import workers even when they knew there was problems several decades ago? Also why India and China when the US doesn't even have an alliance with them, you guys put our job security in their hands?

You guys suck. Silicon Valley can burn.
Plenty allow retail investors, e.g. Lending Club and Prosper. That said, I can't really advise participating as a retail investor since institutional investors employ technology (that you have no access to) in order to instantly scoop up loans that pass their models (which you also have no access to).