skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting, but come on, man. Not a single unit test? I found TDD to be invaluable when writing a simple RPN calculator (which suddenly became a Forth interpreter that could do things like compute factorial): https://github.com/pmarreck/elixir-snippets/blob/master/rpn_...

Note that I was never educated in how to write compilers or transpilers (I was a Psych major and merely a CS minor), I just looked at it as a transformation problem. :)
It is not very probable that only public interfaces are used to implement this subsystem. Therefore, we can think that the special exception of the GPL that exclude major components of the OS would not apply. It also explicitly won't apply in the first place because MS is absolutely in the case: "that component itself (1) accompanies the executable (2)"

(1) core NT kernel
(2) Linux subsystem
What I don't understand is why they are so dependent on hydroelectric power. Venezuela sits on a shitload of oil and have a history of practically giving it away to their citizens.
Try magnet links instead. The opinion only really covers pointers.
Exactly. When you want to exchange data, it's much preferable to have typed/tagged representations. If not that, then one should strive to at least avoid regex "parsing" everything. The exception is that plumbing is okay because it integrates output from all kinds of programs that already exist, but if you have control, it's a lot better to have short prefixes like, say, bug:BUG123, git:COMMITID, pkg:DISTROPACKAGE, etc. But these short prefixes miss namespacing. Anyway, this is only true for acme and friends and in Oberon elements are rich and not plain text.
I use to care much more, and then I realized that since most predictions by pundits are wrong, it probably doesn't matter that much. The economy will adapt either way, although there may be some unintended consequences of higher wages, as the article alludes to..
Which browser are you using? It is perfectly readable in Safari and Firefox. Printing to PDF from Firefox on OSX yields excellent results, while printing to PDF from Safari didn't work well for me.
Deadline Driven Development: Just Stop
A form of martyrism - making a sacrifice for a cause.

You can argue if the cause of anonymity is a greater good (I think it is), but there are always those who are willing to give something up to support it.
The New Rules of Startup Fundraising
Thanks for sharing this. I just started working remotely and need all the advice I can get.
This reads very, very similar to a post I wrote (and also made it to the front page of HN) a couple of years ago:

http://blog.netizencorp.com/2014/03/30/working-rediculously-...
I suspect that a list of the least ambiguous words would be made entirely of numbers.
One of my good friends asked me to make a touchscreen interface for his car's HVAC system.. so there definitely are interested folks out there. :)
The contention wasn't that coding on a phone or tablet isn't productive, it was that you can't do it. I love Pythonista on my iPad, and the latest version makes coding on my phone surprisingly feasible. I wrote a version of snake on my 6+ with my kids.
Why the NFL Went to Twitter Instead of Facebook
Amazon Echo Is Magical. It’s Also Turning My Kid into an Asshole
But if it was an accident, there is no need to feel guilty.
Pro tip: Don't use the back of a beer coaster, use a napkin. They have more space.
How teens hack their phones (and what it means for the rest of us)
> while leaving everything else to the private industry.

That's an exaggeration. Serious countries (France, Germany, even the US) employ "socialist" industrial policies in sectors that have nothing to do with morality (aviation, defense, tech research etc). Countries that don't do it at all are extremely rare in this day and age and usually don't end up well.

I agree with your overall point though.
Most people just like seeing co-workers, getting away from home, etc. Beyond that, some managers have trust or ego issues that drive them to require their staff to be on-site.
I think it works well for high level overviews. This may be in part because it prevents the use domain knowledge and terminology, which is natural for an expert who might be writing the overview, but hard for a layman to grasp. Put more simply, I think it's useful to describe something generally, but not when trying to describe in detail or specify attributes exactly.
Free market~ish as of now. But yeah at some point the government has to either abandon all social programs or become totalitarian and increase taxes. I don't see a good future for Sweden. The brainwash goes deep.
A more correct name for what happened in Western Europe is Social Democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
You mean like France, Denmark or Sweden, where the government accounts for half or more of the GDP, and owns many corporations? But that's not socialism, right?

Heck, in the US, the government accounts for over 40% of GDP, and a higher figure than Venezuela...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending

Yes, some states run socialism worse than others. And some states run capitalism worse than others. Characterizing some states as 'socialist' but not ours (which does contain some socialist elements) isn't useful, because it's not always accurate.
By western diet I meant the gratuitous consumption of highly potent energy sources in the form of white bread/soda/cake/sugar/etc., which is common in North America (can't speak about the rest of the Western world, I hear that Europeans are lean compared to North Americans).

Anyway, my approach is simple and unscientific, but it seems to work for me. I just treat any carb-rich food as fuel (there is a difference as to "slow" vs "fast" carbs, but it's not important for the purposes of this discussion :)).

So, since it's fuel, I use it as such. For example, if I'm in my sedentary/low stress mode, I eat just a token amount of them. If I'm preparing for a gruelling match or bulking up at the gym, I'll load up on carbs (ideally the day before the match). If I'm cutting, I reduce the amount considerably.

As for fat/protein/fiber, that's pretty much an invariant. I just eat a normal healthy amount. I do increase protein intake on the days I work out a lot, though.
It's a fascinating topic and there are many angles to discuss, but the one I would focus on is the acquisition issue.

One of the contradictions of capitalism is that a high-P/E and high-growth company like Google will inevitably close services and squash products that it acquires because it to maintain that high-P/E ratio they will be forced from time to time to get out of any businesses that can't sustain the great numbers that their core business can put up.

At the enterprise level, if I was tasked with vendor management with a company that was acquired by Google or Facebook I would probably call my sales rep right away and be like "you better post a performance bond" or "you better sign an escrow agreement for the source code" or "I talked with a sales rep at company B and he told me this and he told me this (what do you think about that?) and he told me this (what do you think about that?) and he told me this (what do you think about that?) (oh really?) and I would go on with that until he gives me at least a 15% discount or blows up at me and hangs up the phone."

If it was Microsoft I would feel the same way based on historical experience. Not so with IBM. They buy failing or market trailing companies that have something to do with "Watson" or "Cloud" -- generally they don't get any better, but they suffer from at most benign neglect. Generally they did not make the cut or we moved to a competitor years ago, but as notorious as IBM is for discarding employees, it does try not to leave customers out in the cold.
Asshole to CEO, #5: My Startup Made $200,000 in Two Months… and I’m Embarrassed
This is the qualitative to saying drug addiction can be cured by just stop doing drugs. While technically true, it's much easier said than done.
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What are the major improvements that cannot be added to Vim due to its legacy codebase? Honest question from a longtime vimmer.
Didn't read the article yet. But if Google wants to be 100% sure that it NEVER goes down. It should just ask my girlfriend for tips.
This would have happened a long time ago if Honeywell didn't have all the patents on good thermostat design. They have three lawsuits currently going on and have settled with Intellectual Ventures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest_Labs#Litigation That's crazy expensive and it would put almost any other company out of business very quickly.
Also have a young child and curious about what stuff you have automated.
I think you are reading the wrong statistics. What has stagnated in Belgium since 2003 is the percentage of broadband connections that are ADSL. Between 2003 and 2008 alone broadband penetration more than doubled.
Couple. Trio. Threesome. Still room for ambiguity!
Design React UI outside your app
The great thing about vim is that it'll always be there as a fallback.

I keep a file with my passwords, encrypted with Vim's builtin encryption. Neovim removed that feature. If I ever switch to neovim, I can still use vim when I need to open that file.
You are not really disagreeing :), the point was that a while ago I used to work 16 hours / day or work 2 am - 11am and sleep whole day which was really crazy.

Working between 7am - 11pm is quite ok, I agree with all those advantages.
Twenty percent time as national policy seems like a way to foster innovation. Limiting commercial energy consumption to four days a week would seem to incentivize economic investment in efficiency in terms of industrial consumption and in terms of technology adoption in white collar workplaces.
Fair enough. It's hard to remember the actual definition of "socialism" when in the US it's used to slander whatever vaguely progressive policy someone don't like, even when you know they're not using the word correctly.
The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It
Apply HN: Native Web Browser
Native apps provide better UX and performance than the web, we all agree on that now. However, I don't see myself installing every other app, as most times, I would use them just once in 6 months. With limited space on mobiles, there are millions like me who have to compromise with the mobile web. Wouldn't it be nice to have a browser which renders native components resulting in an awesome user experience with great performance?

Well, the solution is already out there! Its called React Native, a framework by Facebook which helps you create native apps using JavaScript. But instead of making apps which one installs, our goal is to make them streamable and build a browser which interprets the React Native code and renders it using native components just like Chrome does HTML. React Native already does this but isn't optimised for it. Let's built it and make the web great again!

P.S. - The project is going to be open-source and there are no revenue models as of now. I'm @troysk704 on twitter and happy to answer questions.
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I know Switzerland isn't a socialist country but for a very rich country they seem to implement a lot of socialist ideas.

Along with the usual social programs they use a very decentralized goverment and are or were thinking of a guaranteed basic income.
Ask HN: A special cd that also cd's in other tabs
in terminal on OSX, you have 5 tabs open, each in a different directory. In 1 tab you type "cd /Users/blah" and ALL 5 tabs also execute that cd command. How would u engineer this?
There are two related but different things that people mean by "remote work":

a) working from home (but in the same city) - relatively easy to adjust to

b) digital nomadism (moving from city to city every few months) - harder
What type of work do you do? Webdev, sysadmin or ? It seems remote working is only just becoming mainstream acceptable. How were you able to start doing so 17 years ago? Has it been with the same company or many companies? Are you independent consultant? Sorry for so many questions, I just haven't been able to figure out how to work remotely full-time. The best I've gotten was 1-2 days a week. Appreciate your reply.
I can link to this good artice in The Americal Journal of Medicine, Achieving Hunter-gatherer Fitness in the 21st Century:
Back to the Future.
http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(10)00463-8/pdf

And the subsequent discussion on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863626
"Anti-woman"? On what is that based?

(Agree that the other antis listed are indeed self-evident, btw.)
In fairness to nutritionists, intermittent fasting is really bleeding edge stuff. There have been some clinical research that shows it may be effective (in particular against pre-diabetes) but more research could be done on this, and plus it would need to filter down out of the scientific sphere.

Nutritionists get attacked both for jumping on "trendy" new ideas and for being too conservative. Really is no winning. Someone is going to criticise.

Plus much of the advice people read doesn't come from anyone qualified, even the term "nutritionist" has different meanings in different places and requires literally no qualifications at all in some jurisdictions (they're essentially "alternative medicine" practitioners).

Dietitians often require at least SOME professional training and certification. That's who a doctor will refer you to, rather than a nutritionist.
Wow - what Honeywell sells is "good thermostat design"? All those horrible buttons and opaque modes? There's lots of room for improvement.
It's only me at this point. That's definitely my biggest disadvantage, I know.
Mitochondrial myopathy. Simply put, I do not produce enough energy to keep my body up and running.

There are many possible causes; in my case, it is a single large scale deletion in my mitochondrial DNA.

Symptoms are varied. In my case: extremely weak eye muscles (I have both ptosis and diplopia), intermittent fatigue, mild aerobic exercise intolerance and hot intolerance.

From a scale of 1 to 10, being 10 the worst, I rate myself at 3. So, I am doing fine. Watching what I eat, doing some exercise and controlling stress made a big difference in my quality of life (going from 7 to 3)
The HTML format is quite peculiar.

It kinda looks like someone ran the original PDF through PDF.js and saved the rendered output to a HTML file.
Harbor: Enterprise-Class Container Registry Server Based on Docker Distribution
Human Longevity raises $220M series B
Interesting. This entry ...

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... was changed into ...

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The value proposition of Nest is the same as that of a basic programmable thermostat: save money on heating/cooling (enough to pay for itself several times over), make your life more comfortable (wake up in or return to a warm/cool house without wasting money), and save the planet (lower bills equals less carbon).

You say thermostats are simple, yet I know lots of people that can't use them. I regularly find my own utterly basic home thermostat set at some crazy level because someone was too hot or cold at some point earlier.

It was a pretty good market,Nest seemed to have early momentum and now seemed to have squandered it.
Not sure how this was posted with a straight face. The article includes a picture of three phones stacked that are very similar in color and design to an iPhone. I had to check the side of my iPhone to be sure it wasn't that device.

On top of that, the video is produced in the same style as the new Apple videos. They might as well have lifted the soundtrack straight off of Apple. All that's missing is Ive narrating.
no.

well, live-coders do by definition .. but for everyone else, it's just an ineffective way to work, even if you are a good programmer.

people really do use graphical programming tools like max/msp.
> but you also still let people down

This isn't true in my opinion. (Unless you didn't do what you said you'd do).
Because their oil is expensive to extract.

If the price of oil extraction in Venezuela for a barrel is 60 dollars and the market price is 40(the price in Saudi Arabia is very low), you have a serious problem.

You will even have to LOOSE money in order to sustain a regular extraction, hoping the price returns to higher levels.

If you stop production, sometimes it is very expensive to restart it again, as geological forces over time close the things that you open, so you need to maintain some activity.
No real plan. I'd prefer someone passionate about the subject over someone available right now. So I'm keeping my ears open if the right person comes along.

For now, I think it's more important to focus on making a great product and start bringing in some revenue. Like I said, I can make ends meet in this area, but it'd be nice to have someone dedicated to that side of the house.
Yes, I love having to hit command/control + F on a site like Craigslist. What could possibly be a better design than forcing the user to use their find function because the site is basically unusable otherwise?
In the US voter registration is not considered secret and anyone can look up who registered and if they voted in any particular election.

See: http://www.bing.com/search?q=lookup+voter+registration
I take a boat and a train, besides a small walk, to get to work, lasting about the same as your commute.

It doesn't bother me at all. The walk is enjoyable and during the rest of the time I read books, blogs, HN, etc on my tablet, I play games, or I just enjoy the view[1]. It doesn't feel like wasted time at all, though I certainly can't do everything I would at home.

I do find two things are crucial: the walk is on quiet streets with lots of trees, and the train and boats are smooth. I spent a few months commuting by bus, and it was much worse.

[1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rrSGcfwJ6G8/maxresdefault.jpg
> “I want to emphasise that the database in our website is accessible to the public,” Comelec spokesperson James Jimene said, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reports. “There is no sensitive information there. We will be using a different website for the election, especially for results reporting and that one we are protecting very well,” he added.

Yes.

> Based on our investigation, the data dumps include 1.3 million records of overseas Filipino voters, which included passport numbers and expiry dates. What is alarming is that this crucial data is just in plain text and accessible for everyone. Interestingly, we also found a whopping 15.8 million record of fingerprints and list of peoples running for office since the 2010 elections.

None of this information is particularly secret or sensitive.

1) Fingerprints are left everywhere anyway. You aren't going to be able to hide these.

2) Passport information is recorded in 2930423904239049203 places already. Much like your IP address, social security number, etc. it should be treated like a username and not a password. [i.e. It is the publicly known portion of your identity]

3) If you are treating PII as private, you are doing everything wrong. These are all basically public record at this point and pretending otherwise is silly. The whole reason they are "identifying" is because other people can look at it and recognize you.

Other "sensitive information":

> Among the data leaked were files on all candidates running on the election with the filename VOTESOBTAINED. Based on the filename, it reflects the number of votes obtained by the candidate. Currently, all VOTESOBTAINED file are set to have NULL as figure.
> Included in the data COMELEC deemed public was a list of COMELEC officials that have admin accounts.
> list of peoples running for office since the 2010 elections.

http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/5...

Yes, having a list of candidates that is already public knowledge is sensitive. Similarly, the list of election officials that have that access is also basically public knowledge.

This is being played up as some "great secret trove of knowledge" when the reality is you've given this information to 2903420934239042390 different people and its basically public record. Simply because information identifies you doesn't make it private.
> it is hardly revolutionary.

When it was released there was nothing like it. It's still the best DIY home thermostat imo. The installation is straight out of the Apple playbook, little included screwdriver and all. It looks both retro and futuristic. Turning the wheel to set the temperature is such a great interface.

Auto-away works really well for me, so being able to crank on the heat/a/c when I'm an hour away is huge. Huge. This sounds lazy, but I like being able to control the upstairs thermostat while I'm comfortably snuggled in watching a movie downstairs.

Monthly emailed energy reports help me pay attention without being too intrusive. It's also adapted to our family's usage really well (the "learning" part of the learning thermostat). I love not having to mess with it too much, although I understand that's not a Nest-specific feature.

Best of all, there's no monthly fee. I can't get behind Nest Cam because of their fee, but the Thermostat is buy-it-once (...so far).

What's so smart about it is that unlike other energy-saving improvements, you can use it in rentals too. My current nest was installed in my last rental, I just saved the old thermostat and took pics of how it was installed so I could put it back.

For me, its set-it-and-forget-it factor is massive, and that's what I prefer almost always. Since I'm the resident utility guy, the less I have to dork around with stuff other people use, the better - and Nest filled that role perfectly (incidentally: that's why my family has iphones and macbooks instead of android & windows/linux desktops, why I don't install Tomato on my routers, etc -- not because I think they're intrinsically better, but because I don't have to spend a bunch of time managing them).

Anyway, my point is I think the thermostat was revolutionary -- essentially nobody was thinking about residential thermostats before Nest came along.

Their smoke detectors on the other hand... don't even get me started.
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People tend to overlook the pervasiveness of food addiction
iOS Animations in Xamarin
If you are interested in making large contributions to OSM, I still recommend the dedicated tools like JOSM. I think you'll find that significant editing will become very tedious on a mobile device.
Webseries are a slightly different kettle of fish to feature films, and generally in the indie world people draw a distinction between indie movies from relative unknowns (which can cheerfully include people with multiple features under their belt, but doesn't include A-list movie stars, for example) and things made by people who are genuinely extremely famous.

Obviously if Tom Cruise, say, decided to fund his own $100k feature film he could probably distribute it at a profit.
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You're not wrong, but it was needless to say. It's like going into a freshmen physics class and pointing out that a frictionless vacuum is hardly a valid simulation of reality. You're missing the point.
Certain diets (the food and drink regularly consumed) make it much easier to decrease calorie intake. This is partially why it bothers me so much to hear "a calorie is just a calorie". "A calorie is just a calorie" if you happen to be a calorimeter. The person consuming only unprocessed meats and vegetables is going to have a much easier time consuming 2000 cal/day in perpetuity than someone who's in an addictive cycle consuming sugary, processed foods like might be found at your average American buffet. I've tried both and the former is a breeze.