skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are "second-class" or even "third-class" citizens in the ecosystem. Can you use those language interpreters and compilers to write apps that can interact with the system and exchange data with the other apps? That's what makes the traditional, document-centric, PC ecosystem so powerful.

While being able to play around with Project Euler can be fun, it amounts to "I can run a Turing-machine simulator" and doesn't represent anything more than a tiny fraction of what people want to do with computers when they say they want to "code". You may as well be playing one of the numerous puzzle games that involve much of the same concepts.

To use your iPod Touch as an example, if it were more like a traditional desktop computer, you would also be able to do things like write an app to manage your music playlists.

The tablet I currently own cost me $80 and came with a C# compiler preinstalled! (Maybe that's an extreme example: It is a Windows tablet, and Android or iOS only come with JavaScript JIT compilers preinstalled.)

Not surprising if it's a Windows tablet based on the PC architecture - those are far closer to the traditional desktop than iDevices and Androids. If by C# compiler you're referring to the one that comes with the .NET framework, that's been there since the first versions; pity it's not so well known with MS trying to push VS as hard as possible...
Why would you ever want to do 'curl please-pwn-my-computer-so-hard | bash'?
Likely because it seems so intuitively logical that fat in your body comes from fat in your diet. Want to stop getting fat? Stop eating fat. It seems so obvious, despite being wrong at the fundamental level.
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Hei, you can install Windows on MBP :)
>> I for one am getting very tired of this year of the Linux desktop joke

You != masses.

There might not be a clear single winner, but there is a clear single loser. Statistically speaking.
Can you explain what link "instability" has with obesity?
You're welcome. Yes, merino would increase the cost massively. I pay 5GBP per pair. High end sports clothing is made from merino: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merino#Athletic_clothing_and_o...

The combination of comfort and temperature regulation is unbeatable, especially if you're prone to sweaty feet.
The paper mentioned in that paragraph titled "Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?" [1] is pretty interesting.

But also sad. Not sure how that problem will be solved...

[1] http://www.econ.upf.edu/~fonsrosen/images/planck_complete_12...
Antena de telefonía causa erupciones graves a una mujer
Damn. The front page of HN for this?

Oh, the Erlang days of glory past, I yearn you so much.
No cgroups = no systemd.

Windows: a better linux than linux.
When it comes to your career, you should never be off the market
Are you picturing some kind of pod-like vehicle about one square foot big?
How would you spend 10M on securing the future of the internet?
Can anyone comment to how nice or awful running some sort of Linux VM (maybe under Hyper-V) and using Putty to SSH to it for development on Windows would be? This work is promising, but doesn't appear "quite there", yet. I run OSX now, but don't really ever develop directly on the machine and am mostly SSH'ed to Linux hosts for development.
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I was living in Malaysia as a student years ago and it was difficult for me at times to withdraw cash(as the ATM’s were either too far away or they used to shut down at midnight). What I realized it that it would be easier if I could pay with my mobile prepaid credit. After quite a bit of research, I realized that was a difficult proposition as telcos liked to take a big cut and they would only pay merchants after 60-90 days.

I also saw that there are many people who are unbanked or to whom banking is not very convenient for. So I’d like to create a mobile payment wallet that could be topped up by your local shop or your friend. You could go down to your local shop, give them say $100(more or less) and it will be transferred to your account(just like it would be when you top up your mobile prepaid).

The money in your wallet could be used to make online payments(ecommerce, bills etc). It could be used to deposit money into a bank account(which you could create on the platform perhaps). You can top up anytime and very conveniently.

In Malaysia alone, there are 10 million prepaid mobile users(from 2015 stats). With an assumption that close to 40% of these people are unbanked(the % is almost double in Indonesia) means that there is a huge possibility to scale this up.

The idea here is to do away with the ATMs and the Cash deposit machines. Mobile is the way to go and we’d like to get everyone there. Make it easier for all.
What is the significance of a fatty acid's being unstable?
Part of the problem is that doing good nutritional science is difficult and expensive, and there's not much grant money or enthusiasm for rigorously testing what we naively assume are the basics.
I doubt it, and part of me hopes not. This seems like a new possible vector for malware.

Microsoft went to great lengths to disallow these kind of one-liners in PowerShell (you need to explicitly add -executionpolicy bypass to even run a script), so apparently they are concerned about users executing random scripts off the net.

OTOH, yes, being able to assume bash on a user's installation would be amazing of course...
Many (including me) feel that this is just the start of a new EEE cycle by a panicked Microsoft, and will be killed off by Microsoft once they managed to reverse their current downward trend – just like other supposedly community-/interoperability friendly projects before, e.g. this project's direct predecessor SFU.
It's good you can root what you own but you'd think something like a $50K car would have a locked bootloader that prevents root like a $10 phone does.

Waiting for the EFF lawsuit that you should be able to root your car without voiding the warranty (and then lobbyists paying congress to prevent that, then in 10 years the supreme court deciding).
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Unless I am mistaken, this does not appear to have a way to easily limit upload/download rate, which would be a deal breaker for me.

Happy to be proven wrong on this of course.
Absolutely! I'd like to add, high culture is also used as a term for cultures that are insular and use lots of culturally specific vocabulary. The Southern Culture and accent is actually considered high culture by many anthropologists! By the same token... So is tech culture... Even when it's really annoying stupid fat lazy and mysogonistic and repeating the same problems in a different language that were solved before computers were even invented!!! Wrap your head around that one!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-_and_low-context_cultur...
Exactly. VersionPress tries to automate that :)
> people who can't use an FTP app and haven't heard of Git/Github pages.

I would also add S3 to that list. I host my (admittedly low-traffic) blog on S3 with CloudFront as a CDN for <$2/month.
maybe he's actually curling https://please-pwn-my-computer-so-hard.own-domain.com/script... ?
Are you picturing a train that actually goes where people need to end up?

A busy road can move more people in an hour than a train can move in a day.
Tomorrow we'll have infinite disdain for binary-party democracies, just like we currently have for monoparty democracies.

It baffles me that people still immigrate to Singapore. What a total disrespect for a thousand years fighting for the right to vote.
Paid content will undermine the credibility. It is one of the worst inventions in the web business!
It is not about discussing on technical details - we're all adults and nobody of us is going to touch that stuff in any condition :) The post was about a junior midschooler - me more than 30 years ago - who during that time had with friends found and "responsibly recycled" (in the forest outside of the city :) a range of various WWII munitions without any issues (while adults at the military installations and Navy base in the city had pretty regularly various mishaps, sometimes deadly, with their weapons systems and hardware) Today, if i had a son, i'd be trying to scare him away from the stuff the same way (or even stronger as the same way didn't work on us back then), and i'd tear him a new one if i caught him with a hand grenade in the backpack :). It is the circle of life i guess...
They do! A rubber wheel, when compressed, is squished against the pavement, making it stick to the pavement. However, a non-overstressed steal wheel stays the same shape, the amount of area in contact with the rail doesn't increase, and the friction involved in rolling stays low.
WhoisGuard is Namecheap's privacy protection service. There is nothing unusual or untoward about not wanting your contact information being used for spear phishing, spam, ... I'm not convinced contact information should be required when registering a domain. Why should it matter who owns the domain?
Same reason you want to `brew please-pwn-my-computer-so-hard` or `apt-get please-pwn-my-computer-so-hard` or `please-pwn-my-computer-so-hard.exe`.

There's little practical distinction between piping a shell script from a random site or downloading a binary from it.
It probably is pure PR. The first poster of the article on HN[0] is hemera — the author of the article, whose account was opened just for the sake of posting that article. (S)he is active in the next post[1], but behaves more like a PR-employee than a hacker having spent two months of research on this stuff.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440612
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441113
Charging for a GPL'd software (all WordPress plugins have to be GPL, at least in practice) is tricky and most companies in the WordPress space focus on services. Which is what we'll do as well. The technology itself, however, will be free and stay free.
I bet that's what they do. Just like Google Video. Maybe throw a "oops we are just archiving it!" in before they finally drop the axe.

Note how it's JS interface makes it difficult to archive now. Is that because HTML fallback on USENET would be too hard for the googlemachine?

The sooner the better.
A cool video! We have built a SaaS app and a bootstrapping on the smell of an oily rag, so have minimised our costs on all third party tools, but we spent up to subscribe to Intercom and glad we did, because the ROI has been excellent.

Hope to see them become bigger and stronger, same as I hope we can make a similar announcement about our app in the future! :)
Community colleges are, in many places, already straining at their capacity. I know a large number of people that I graduated high school with who got sort of bait-and-switched by the local community colleges - they enrolled in a program, then it turned out that there weren't enough slots in that program, so the community college said, "Here, take your core classes this semester, we'll fit you in next time." Then next semester, the classes they needed to take the previous time aren't offered, so they do more useless "core" classes.

Maybe the second year they get into some of their original program courses, but now they are slated for at least a third year, because they can't take their 2nd year fall courses (in their 2nd year), before they take the 1st year fall and spring courses they got squeezed out of.
HMRC is basically the IRS of the UK.
Not at all. I'm just trying to voice ideas out of the box of current 'scientific' dogma, with the risk of being downvoted of course. It is dogma because a lot of people blindly believe the conclusions of 'studies' they read about in the press and then go ahead and fight for those ideas, even though those are often wrong.

Nutrition is one such area, were a lot of people are experts because they know words like 'protein' and 'aminoacid'.

Thinking intuitively or using metaphor is a good way to break out of dogma. We understand a lot more than we care to admit this way.

'Crazy' intuitive ideas often serve as vectors or pointers in a certain direction, which can then be explored using rigorous scientific methods.

That's what I meant when I sad 'just planting seeds'. Maybe it will inspire someone to actually look into it.
A considerable part of our base does not come back after the first two weeks. However, we are noticing an increase of the segment that comes back more than twice a week. They seem to use Jam as a way to get rid of tasks that demand little reflexion/benchmarking (eg. "What's the best oven for <150€", "Where can I eat brunch right now at République ?"). Our ideal user should ask 3 things per week.

About the travel assistant feature, it is indeed a feature that many could use. I have personally discovered this use-case and found it truly powerful.

This week, we have put a lot of effort into making the experience around bars as delightful as possible (put some interpolations and randomness in our wordings, put a few jokes in there, etc...).

About the business model : So far, we have tried to help companies hire talent using Jam. We signed 3 contracts in one month (25k€) but abandoned the idea eventually because we felt the product was not ready for that.
Right now, we are interested in helping brands grow in the student market. Say Uber is looking for ambassadors, we can find them rapidly as our user-base is cash-poor and time-rich and there is already a high demand for student jobs.
Here's a repartition of our requests received in the last 7 days (878 "student jobs") : https://infinit.io/_/BHZzvHE
Neovim development part two
Unfortunately it seems that it won't install if you are running as a domain user: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfZhLruXEAEp56x.jpg:large

It works if I try as a local user on the same machine. Also Windows Store otherwise works fine for that domain user.
We try to be very clear about the project status. We would love it to be magically stable soon but unfortunately, there are no shortcuts. Relational databases and (sometimes) crazily coded WordPress plugins do not fit well into the version control workflows, but we're already quite far in terms of the core technology and I'm confident WordPress will be a fully versioned platform one day.
Bender bugs (Toonz code leaves much to be desired)
You will find windows executables mounted just like the rest of the windows file system, so in bash you can find /mnt/c/windows/notepad.exe but you can't execute it from the bash subsystem (I presume).

The opposite is also true: the linux subsystem files are mounted under a regular directory in windows, so you can see all the files but from the normal windows subsystem you can't execute the linux binaries.

It means there is a big wall between the two systems, and you can't really automate windows things with bash instead of PS if you wanted. At this point though I find that to be a benefit - It would be fantastically confusing if you typed "find" or "python" and had to wonder whether a linux program or a windows program would actually execute.
https://insider.windows.com/ — Becoming an insider is just a registration away, takes no longer than 5 minutes.

Use preview builds at your own risk, though.
Asus Zenbook UX305 series - they are well priced and run both Linux and Windows fantastically.
your surroundings are doing it. the economy is finely tuned to sell and this includes food. the approaches to losing weight that work for the individual will fail when applied to the general population because of reactionary changes in the economy.

e.g cut out fat = products that have more sugar and salt sell more. cut out sugar = products that have more fat and salt sell more. end result will still be bad eating.
Kubernetes team uses Vegeta in their 10,000,000 QPS load test.

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/03/1000-nodes-and-beyond-upda...
http://brew.sh/

`/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/in...

https://rvm.io/rvm/install

`\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash`

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodejs-oneline/tutorial

`curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo -E bash -z`

It is a trend.
I can find more examples, the above is just places I remember seeing this behaviour.
But what does it got that vim doesn't?
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Thanks for grilling me on this. It's very helpful.

So again, you'll be co-opting merchants into a credit issuing agency.

That's certainly one way to think about it. Things like store credit and gift cards are pretty standard. You could think of a Gresham Account as a continually replenishing gift card that's usable at multiple stores.

Or maybe I don't understand your question. What do you mean, exactly, by "credit issuing agency"?

you haven't explained any benefit to the merchant, other than a brief marginal increase in sales, for which they're taking on risk.

Well, the increase in sales won't be brief. These new customers will be receiving income streams that they didn't have before. Those income streams are permanent as long as Gresham Dollar exists as a currency.

Initially, there is absolutely zero risk to the merchant because Gresham Dollar will be backed 100% by USD. Any time we want to renegotiate reserve ratios with a merchant, that merchant can say no. Their existing GD will still convert.

If you're an extremely conservative merchant and you just want free money, you'll sign up for the period during which we back your account with 100% USD reserves and then you'll part ways with us. You're free to do that.

Maybe you won't want to though. Maybe you don't want to lose business to your competitor who IS still accepting Gresham Dollar at a 95% reserve ratio.

What happens if you fly afoul of banking regulations (since you seem to be acting as a bank in this situation), and get shut down by the government?

I hope this doesn't happen, and I have reasons to believe it's unlikely. But if it does, the way Gresham Dollar is set up, we will always have sufficient USD reserves to meet all of our promised GD-related obligations.

A lot of people wouldn't be happy, including our investors, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. And if we get noticed, then we made a statement and raised awareness for basic income. And maybe we collected some useful data along the way.
Which Microsoft loves to do just as much – XNA, Silverlight, TxF, …
It works not bad, and I did it for some time. The biggest pain points are the lack of integration with the file system (I always forget how to set up shared folders) and that it can be hard to set up a decent ssh client. I use Cygwin ssh and mintty, and then ssh into the VM or external machines. Also there are the usual performance and space issues of VMs.

For this use case, "Ubuntu on Windows" seems to be a nice improvement.
We had this as extra courses, Biology was another one, different.
This single thing will make or break this feature for me. If I can use Docker in Windows 10, I do not have much use left for my Ubuntu VM.
Knowing this, it's fun to purposely mispronounce words to see if it will catch on...
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https://www.allthingsmine.com/

Allows you to Manage all the things that you purchase. Add your purchased items and the App provides access to all its images, specifications, manuals, user guides, warranties, videos, reviews etc. Its easy to add products via scanning the UPC barcode, or from the product URL or lookup of our database.
Connect with your friends and discover/share new purchases and discuss it with them. Be notified of recalls, 30 day reminder, price drops within the window

We are adding helpful features such as manufacturer support information (phone number/URL) retailer specific return policy, price tracking for wishlist items, and new categories as well.
I do all of the things you mention without problem. I don't definitely don't think GNU/Linux will die as a result. First off, syscall emulation will always be clunky. Secondly, many people care about their freedom. Thirdly, what makes you think that a majority of people using GNU/Linux will switch. I haven't had driver or network problems for the past 3 years on any of my various machines.
I still dont agree that sugar is the problem. Lustig himself seems to have not figured out what the secret is to health and weightloss as he is obese to morbidly obese.

Saturated fats still do cause heart disease, strokes, alzheimers.. anything where blood is blocked or doesnt reach the organ it needs to.

If anything, processed sugars like HFCS which is extracted from corn by a chemical enzyme process, could be the cause. But the problem to me is when people think chocolate bar, cake, pizza or milk shake.. these are food items with 75% calories from fat.
So if you exclude high fat items and greatly reduce heavily processed sugar foods, you will not have the issues we are facing today.
Tech the tech!
If you want information as to what this is, why you might want to use it, some of the pitfalls, how it works, and several variations, then you might want to read the wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister

If all you want is an implementation with no information, the provided link will do.
What does :v do?
Save money for college, and most schools will just take that directly off the top of your financial aid package...
Considering the CSS horrors I've seen produced by top-notch hardcore programmers, I guess a little and quick CSS trick here and there isn't bad at all.
I'm also confused by their approach to interface. Perhaps there is some hidden benefit to having people accidentally start watching films when they just want to learn more about it, even if they immediately stop?

Maybe it somehow satisfies some arcane distribution requirement in a way that saves them licensing fees on the more popular films? Maybe it helps some department improve some metric that some other department cares about?
That screenshot is labelled "dramatic reenactment", which I believe is just another expression for "fake".
Listening to that phrase would be worse in reality as folk from the North East of Scotland tend to talk quite quickly and without proper breaks between words.

I've probably said something like that many times when I was younger (I now have, as someone described it, an "affected Edinburgh accent"). However, you can get silly Scots phrases like:

"Fit fit fits fit fit?"

Or, my favourite:

"Aye, ane an an ingin ane an a"

The latter I can't say without almost singing (and smiling).
I think this is one of the worst thing about humans as a generation. If everyone accepted scientific evidence and research as the truth as soon as it was available I believe we would evolve much faster.