skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, an email I got the other day

notices@slashdotmedia.com
18 Mar (11 days ago)

to me
2016-03-17

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Sorry, my bad. Initially I linked it to anonymous page url and got corrected by moderators. But the title hasn't changed.
The current state is not for the faint of heart.
There are occasional Issues which need some logcat analysis.
- But I'm running it for many months and it works out for me.
It is not feature complete though, just mostly.

But I think if the ROM Developer community takes an active interest many edge cases could be polished out.
Addressing most of your laundry list will not result in discernible added value. We can add arbitrary effort to the GDP to make the GDP grow, but we may have already seen all the benefits of that effort by the time it's measured.

The best examples you listed are infrastructure and housing. Both are valuable, assuming we build the things people actually want or need. But, again, we could build a thousand bridges to nowhere and a million new housing units in Detroit, boost our GDP, and waste money in the long run.

Senior care, education (qua education), and climate change mitigation are not obviously profitable, even in the long term. Maybe they're good, but good doesn't address the lack of wage growth for the under-four-years-of-college set.
More Than Enough
Big thanks to the poster, I looked on eBay and bought a early model Curta calculator for 50 euros, I thought that I would never own one, I hope it will arrive in good condition.
Russian kid steals $5000 and blows it all on hookers
I interviewed Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka. He told me this joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NEh8nspzXw
Not trying to be snarky, but perhaps the reason for your burnout is the constant desire to implement/think up of solutions rather than to relax and not think so much?
GmsCore is helpful for Android users who want to stay away from Google (even when application developers don't!). For example, it makes it possible to use Signal without depending on Google Cloud Messaging. (This is also helpful when Google stuff may not necessarily be available, such as on Amazon devices.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10665520

https://o9i.de/2015/10/23/howto-gmscore.html
I have wondered this before as well. I can't think of any industry that is as open as FOSS. There is FOSS available for literally everything you could ever want or need[0].

FOSS enabled me to learn about programming computers with zero cost (other than the hardware of course). Sure the paid closed source tools are probably "better" (usually that mostly means prettier) but it amazes me that anyone on earth can grab a free Linux distro and it will come with access to a huge collection of software that will allow that person to learn and better themselves. In the developed world that doesn't really seem all that amazing. I mean most people would just buy a Mac and go to an expensive university but in a lot of the world where money and education are close to non-existent it is truly incredible.

I am glad we live in a world with FOSS and with people who are extremely passionate about it (EFF, RMS, etc.). It puts pressure on the big software companies to not be total bastards. Imagine a world where only the elite educated had access to the software tools needed to drive innovation. A world controlled by Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Intel, Google, Oracle, etc.

[0] Okay now somebody will point out an edge case ;)
for 5% confidence interval with 80% confidence level you would need 164. For 1% confidence interval with 95% confidence level 9604. For 1% confidence interval with 99% confidence level 16641.
> You'll find out the Ansible VM serves no real purpose as you can install Ansible on the host.

Useful for testing Ansible when someone isn't ready to install and needs to evaluate first.
There is a small miscommunication here. It's America's airlines (the entire industry) not American Airlines (the company).

This article from November last year has more details: http://priceonomics.com/can-airlines-make-money/

> Overall, the industry has lost $35 billion since deregulation.
this sounds exciting, although i cannot think it could ever replace a real, live experience to it's core.
I think the parent's point is:

Yes, you can be short of desirable features for your customers and fail; but the real failure is that you didn't talk to your (potential) customers to identify this gap. In other words, you shouldn't be adding more features if you think your MVP is too minimum - you should be talking to customers to really find out.
"Defence spending is one big F-35"

Looking at the UK defense industry it does appear that the logical end point for defense procurement would appear to be having one fantastically expensive plane, ship & tank. That would then be too valuable to actually risk using....
You realise it's not either/or?

The US is a plutocracy. It's in no sense a working democracy. There's a public voting circus every couple of years, but policy - which is the only thing that really matters in politics - is largely defined by Wall St, the Fed, and by mil-ind corporate lobbying groups.

All of the above are politically unaccountable and legally untouchable. See for example the ridiculous excuses made to prevent the passage of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Transparency_A...
Seems not. No-dependencies alternative focused on size: https://github.com/radogado/natuive
Three Day Rule with Funding, Snapchat Snags Encryption Expert,Surf Air to North
This seemed to work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11368800
That's a great point. I don't have much feeling about the BBC (I've spent most of life in Australia), but my 'go to' thought when discussing the impact of Media on revealing corruption is The Moonlight State, which ultimately brought down the State Government of my home state Queensland ... and was created by the ABC.

Indeed, one could argue that a commercial provider wouldn't have invested in longform (I really meant long-term as much as length) as much, but state-sponsored broadcasters had the time and space. So I don't think it could be the only journalism, but you make an excellent point about it having a special place (especially when protected by legislation from becoming the DPRK Mouthpiece).
In an ideal system sure. Country A funds research into Subject A. Country B funds research into Subject B. Then everyone has access to everything and can work better towards Subject A+B or whatever.

I do not agree with restriction of information that has been publicly funded. It should be in the public domain for the better of humanity. It shouldn't matter who funded it, you pay it forward and maybe one day a country that had access to your countries research does something that your country can use and so the circle goes again.
I don't see why such environments got to be scarce. What's the limiting resource here?
Russell’s paradox: real problems governing/limiting computational axiomatization
Having used both, I find that although Semantic UI has a lot more pluggable components, documentation on anything beyond simple examples and one sentence descriptions is severely lacking. Some components are just plain buggy, and the developer is not very fast at fixing them. It's got a lot of features but the lack of polish and development speed makes it hard to recommend for a larger team.

I think only having a single developer has had mixed effects on the project, which is a shame because it's so close to being great.

Meanwhile BS4 has solid built in components that are just documented enough to be usable despite not having as many. Issues get fixed quickly and it feels easier to follow its conventions. The JS APIs are simple enough as well, and the code behind it is much easier to follow than in Semantic UI.
> How long has Australia had IRV?
As long as I have been around -- 30 years or more.

IRV has nothing to do with reducing the strength of two main parties. It just reduces the weirdness in the case of moderately close races.
Portrait of world's oldest computer rediscovered in Manchester cafe
This is obvious, Google NLP ML system must have seen a lot of "fastest way to" sentences in context of finding a route rather than django deployment or anything else like "fastest way to get rich".
The guy says "Depression and anxiety are, for the large majority of cases, emotional signals." I don't think he'd ever say it was true for all cases.
I've heard from a few people who work in politics in state and national congresses that (non-form) physical letters and phone calls from concerned constituents can have a surprising amount of weight on the decisions of congresspeople. I imagine it's less true for form emails like this, but still probably worth a go.
Just searching for 0DAY-WAREZ[PDFRIP][3l-H4X0R]QUANTUMG4viT4TI0N-S02E04[torrents4TW].doc.pdf would greatly increase interest in basic science for teenagers !
Why? From one of Roberto Ierusalimschy's talks (starts at slide 6):

http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/%7Eroberto/talks/ws2011.pdf

Excerpt:

- Not all languages are 0-based: Icon, Fortran, AWK1, and Smalltalk are 1-based; Snobol, Pascal, Modula, Modula-32, and Ada have configurable bases.

- Currently, many languages are 0-based due to influence from C.

- Ironically, none of them share the reason that made C 0-based (where a[e] means *(a+e)).

1-based arrays:

- Much more intuitive: first is 1st (not 0th).
ISO-C: “E1[E2] designates the E2-th element of E1 (counting from zero).”

- Much easier for non programmers. Easy for (good) programmers :)

- Historical reason: Fortran used 1-based arrays, and most first users of Lua had a Fortran background.
Surveillance by a nation-state is troubling problem, but surveillance by
the populace is an equally troubling problem.

Related reading:

"The Real Reason We Need to Stop Trying to Protect Everyone's Feelings"

http://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2015/11/the-real-reas...

"The Coddling of the American Mind"

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-codd...

"Rage Profiteers: How Bloggers Harness Our Anger for Their Own Gain"

http://observer.com/2014/10/rage-profiteers-how-blogs-harnes...
Why not? Aside from the obvious altruistic reasons, the cost of restricting it is probably more than the cost of not bothering to do so.
Kind of. I've tried making the page just as phony, but that's more difficult than it sounds.
Leap employee here. Have you tried the new Orion tracking software? It's like night and day, especially for VR.
Heh, sure have :)

Problem is most (European, e.g. less donation-financed) non-profits have a cash flow fundamentally different to that of a company: Most of the budget comes from a foundation, the government etc. and is tied to a specific use.

So if the non-profit got funds for a specific project, they have e.g. full wages for 3 persons, much money for train tickets/renting of cars, food and accomodation, renting of kit, paying people like me for needed solutions, office rent and so on - but with fixed budgets for each! Stuff the non-profit could use after the funded project is finished (like modern computers, office inventory, cars) is much harder to get funded.

This setup is meant to prevent corruption, not save the foundation money. The foundation usually has no qualms to grant 10k for renting cars, but will refute 5k for buying a car.

In short, freely usable funds for upgrading IT equipment can be scarse even in well-financed non-profits.
Node Hero – Using NPM: Tutorial
There are quite a few comments on price here. I will wait for more games or at least a compelling game or app before buying one. I'm sure I will though.

Consider the price of the HP LaserJet III. It came out around 1990, and I remember a conversation with a salesperson that said that the price had already come down so much since the HP LaserJet I that it probably wouldn't ever get much cheaper. It was a complex machine, motors, belts, gears, laser, etc., and in today's dollars it cost about $4400. High quality printers today are everywhere and can cost under $100. It's interesting to consider where VR will be in a decade or two.

It seems like an important development; one I've been waiting for since 1977. I was in a graduate-school computer graphics course and I described an idea that I had for a helmet that would capture motion and position of one's head and through two small CRTs present a rendered 3D virtual view. The rest of the class (and the professor) seemed skeptical, but I've always remembered that feeling about VR like there was an idea that was eventually coming.
You are right, Adobe Brackets is in the list of CodeMirror users. But I mean Advanced Editor based on Node.js and Ace (https://github.com/Scriptol/Advanced-Editor). VSC uses Electron, hence the confusion, but not Atom and Codemirror.
Soundcloud is launching subscription music service
Not surprising, that a bullshit friendly recruiting process works when you hire for jobs that consist to a big part of producing bullshit ;)

When the goal is to get people that actually solve problems ymmv.

Btw. that is not a dig against management consultants. I honestly think the world needs bullshit.
Rocket mail
The limiting factor is talent, bureaucratic and pedagogical, and money.
i'm with you on your description of 'those days'. i feel like (and technically true) all my needs are met and i'm much, much luckier than most people. but those are the worst days. i just hope this feeling would end, and for you too.
Is not this sentence: "a tendency for Westerners to overstate their own importance in the Middle East" and this sentence: "the inevitable collapse of the post-imperial order", a little in contradiction? or are you talking about the Ottoman empire?

"The Syrian civil war is a proxy conflict between the (Sunni) Gulf States and (Shia) Iranians with the Russians alongside the latter."

Would be appropriated to say "with the Americans alongside the Sunni"? Is this, then, a kind of proxy-proxy war?

Because it seems to me that we always heard how bad are the Iranians but very little about how bad are the Saudis and company.
I don't think he's advocating that at all. More sorting your life out if that's what's causing the depression.
Virigin tend to take small ownership stakes in companies and just lease their name and branding out to them. In the case of Airlines they own 25% of Virgin America, 51% of Virgin Atlantic and 10% of Virgin Australia.
GTK. Yeah, I think the way location is handled has something to do with this (https://github.com/lefnire/jobpig/issues/1). I'll investigate in coming days, thanks for pointing out
By definition, if it's too M it's not V.
Its a fairly well known accusation that has many pieces of circumstantial evidence as well as many lawsuits.

Many business owners have claimed yelp salespeople have called them and tried to sell them the ability to bring down unfavorable reviews or that they would highlight them.

One google search away:
yelp wins lawsuit that says they are perfectly within their rights to manipulate their ratings:
http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/yelp-extortion-lawsuit/

"Yelp is pay-for-play, and the court says that’s just fine."
You+Think+I+Am+Stupid?
published research be available to the public no later than 12 months after publication

Why wait 12 months? Why can't published research be available immediately?

Does anyone know or have a citation for the rationale behind this?
Yes, I was implying that colonialism is what explains European and now US involvement in the region, or really any region for that matter (see South America, India/Pakistan, China/Japan/South Korea). Being a colonial power requires maintaining colonies, which sometimes requires working against the best interests of the colonized, which induces instability in the colonies.
I think Hacker News is unusually analytic on these things. The attitude is more that the neural computer has a depression bug, is there some hack that'll fix it?
A few things about Foundation 6:

You do not need to include the whole javascript, you can include just the things you need. However, there have been problems with webpack and Foundation javascript developers seem to have no clue about what is going on in the JS frontend world, acting like isolated on a moon station, disconnected, what leads to problems with integrating other things.

Very problematic is they still have FOUC problems - you have to look for various workarounds, but FOUC out of the box! The menu components and everything related to responsiveness suffer from it. I do not understand how this ever got released.

Foundation 5 was ok, but this 6 release is disappointing. The modular handling of menus is a good idea, but overall execution is bad, lots of micro-problems everywhere, it feels not even pre-alpha. Also very monolithic and non-cooperative, ugly to integrate with anything else.

I would recommend looking at semantic ui instead, which also has a good react integration, something Foundation designers do not have ever thought about.

About the community: the people are great, but Zurb gives them only a totally annoying "forum" that is not able to filter for versions, so when you are searching for things you get all the stuff from previous versions, an information design nightmare, that would be easy to fix, but they do not even seem to have a problem with it - this says a lot about the agency behind it.

Also be careful with installing foundation globally: it will overwrite your Foundation 5 binary, if you are using this, be careful. Not a serious problem, but when you still want to use F5 you have to prepare for it! Even with version 6 they still do not have a clue how to handle versioning, this tells a lot about the code quality you will be confronted with.

But they have great marketing, the site and everything around F6 looks really great!
My Counter-Strike addiction would like a word with you.

Although Linux support has been getting a lot better for gaming, admittedly.
Show HN: Tocker – TDD for writing Dockerfiles
This is exactly why you wouldn't suspect it to be malware. :)
I wonder what will happen to journalism when AI becomes so strong that it can recognize ads and remove or mask them, even when the advertisements are placed inline in the running text.
Sensitivity strikes again: RoboCop Kaggle competition edition
Should customers pay for bugfixes?
Will miss groklaw badly. Followed the previous time almost entirely on groklaw.
I've never used a VR headset, but I imagine that most of any discomfort would come from the headset's fitting closely around the face to block out ambient light. I'd think a true addict might instead just use a loosely-fitting non-light-blocking headset in a completely dark room.
Runscope is a great service. I learned about it around a year and a half ago and utilized it to monitor and log an API I was building to act as midware betweens a user-consumed IOS app and an android administrative app for a huge event ('the big game'). It really helped us because we were on such a tight time line. I can't count how many times there was an issue with one of the two apps and I was able to quickly track it down and notify the proper team so they could fix the issue.
There is a difference between "opinions of minorities" and "minority opinions". In this case it's the latter.
So because I'm a shitlord I keep losing track of what the current orthodoxy is, but apparently MiSTing counts as "harassment and abuse". Got it. I'll keep that in mind.
Ah, you are right. It's not so much that the compiler doesn't know something, but that the compiler does know something: T could have been an non-printable type. You are being protected against panics that might have resulted from passing vectors of non-printable types in.

I still think the error message could be a lot better, as the word 'implementation' is confusing. What's happened here is that Buffer was being used in a for-loop as if it always contained printable types, when actually there was no assurance that this was the case.

Edit: Highly recommend reading the comments of the two people that responded to me, as they're both more correct and more helpful while I was trying to work things out as I wrote my comments.
I can't see this ending well for Oracle.
Funny that some of the pharmaceutical research is 60-70% public money yet the results are IPd by the company.
But what is the root cause of pain? I used to be depressed and in a lot of pain. I could have got anti depressants and anti pain rXs. Turns out I was just fat and my body was mad at me. Switched to an active lifestyle and everything got better.

Does that mean it would work for everyone? No. But no doctor told me to go run. they either gave me medicine A or B or C, and changed doses to try and minimize side effects. It's terrible but I understand. I can't go to an overweight depressed friend and tell him he needs to fix his life not take drugs for his bad back.
That doesn't explain the difference between North and South Dakota.
Teachers. Good teachers are rare and it's hard to measure teaching talent. Bad teachers are commonplace and unionized to teeth.

Sounds like a perfect environment for a disruptive AI tech. Like Coursera, but better and fully automated.

Or, leaving AI aside, at least another "Uber for X" app, where X = teaching.
I suppose you can load whatever Linux thingy you want that has a port (I've never tried Kubernetes). That said, the thing that makes machines like this "special" is the aggregate throughput and availability you can get out of them (the dedicated processors are part of that). To really unlock that, you do want to run z/OS and it's tools, and then run things like Linux on top of that. It's more complicated than "this is just another kind of Linux box".
There could be a combination of the two. Say, six shuttles with one human watching camera feeds and monitoring for problems so they can contact the right people. That would help deal with corner situations like crime/vandalism and also service issues ("Hey dude, this guy is sick and just threw up" or "hey I think you ran over something the tire is flat").