skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if I were building a site myself, that's how I'd work.

Unfortunately people outside the software development team don't think in markup, and they're the ones from whom the requirements often come.

Even more technical users often base their designs on the worlds of desktop software, or type-setting, or desktop publishing, or a myriad of other domains where "I want these two boxes to always be the same size and aligned to the bottom of this third box, and I'd like the font size to fit across the resultant size" is a perfectly reasonable request.

We can't keep going saying "Well the web doesn't work that way, you're going to have to rethink how you think about sizing" all the time, eventually the web has fix itself so that sizing and aligning fits better with how a lot of other domains work.

Flexbox is a step in the right direction but it's not a complete solution. (And we're still supporting IE9, so we can't even use that yet, thanks Vista!).
Industry 4.0 is setting sail, is the UK on board?
I think GIMP has a great user interface, it enables me to work fast, do things quickly, with high precision. And I am one of those who switched from Photoshop to Gimp. It is not because GIMP is better, but it has all the important features I need and it runs on Linux.
I am still on Windows 8.1, so if anyone that tries it can confirm if this works well with ConEmu and if Vim works well? Also, what the performance is like compared to running stuff on full stack linux. Also, does one have access to full hardware, like GPUs? That would be a good start. On Windows, my tool of choice was/is Babun... but damn 32-bit cygwin and it tends to get real slow (git especially so).
Content is dead
I agree with your general advice, but I'd add on that university education in the UK is expensive (though not as expensive as the US), so they should be prepared to learn another language (for life outside the University course).
One could argue that the impermanence makes it even more of an art form as the work of art only exists for a brief moment in the grand scheme of things, and so the artist must be one true to the art as they could not be working for the everlasting glory of fame...

...Or that could be taking the analogy a bit too far.
All government agencies did it they held billions in realestate so paying rent made much more sense.

This is even quite common in business corporations sell their HQ to get a huge influx of cash and lease it back this is a pretty standard accounting trick.
You couldn't really code on an Atari 2600 or a Super Nintendo either, but all of us somehow turned out OK. I wouldn't sweat it.
Scroll down, there's "When this is what you really need:" and a mixing console.
Oracle to Set Up Startup Incubators in India
> It's much less pain in ass than reboot or work on frankenstein OS.

No, it's an incredible pain in the ass to get this working properly, when I could spend 20 seconds rebooting
Tips for Spackling and Plastering a Black Hole (1999)
No. This is a "Windows subsystem" [1] that implements a LINUX compatible ABI for LINUX application binaries. GNU has nothing to do with it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT
Be developer friendly
I think the article is still spot on - the "minimal design" frenzy has influenced more than just bootstrap landing pages.

The YouTube App on my iPad looks wonderful, but for the life of me, I can't find any back/forward navigation buttons. I suspect they were minimized away (I'm on iOS7 on my iPad2, this may be different in newer versions).

My Android phone (Cyanogenmod) has a wonderfully minimal interface that even includes a universal back button - but a "go forward" button was presumably deemed too messy and either thrown out completely, or hidden so deeply that I did not manage to find it in a year. This is especially bothersome in the Android browser...

Yesterday I used a personal Oxygen sensor, for safety reasons. It's a wonderfully designed piece, with just two buttons. Yet their functions are so overloaded, there is no way you can use the sensor without studying and memorizing the user manual.

My Windows PC becomes "simpler and more beautiful" each time the Windows version number goes up, but always at the cost of useful (but messy-looking) interfaces. Quick access to wireless network properties? Too messy! Modify the DDE-commands that the Explorer issues when double-clicking a file? A GUI is too messy for that, users should just use regedit.exe. The "go up"-button in Windows Explorer? Why, "go back" should satisfy all our users' needs!

Of course, destuffying messy interfaces is a noble and important cause. But the degree of mimimalism that current designers seem to strive for is, in my personal opinion, too radical, and I enjoyed reading a piece that points out how sometimes, great interfaces must have lots of buttons.
Why Nature Prefers Hexagons
> Avoiding the stencil buffer (why?)

Maybe there is a software patent he tries to avoid?
A Case of Delphi for Enhancing Google Chrome on a Microsoft Surface Book
>all the text, sounds, textures models are present on the client side alone

This isn't entirely true. All the quest text, monster says, NPC interactions and more are sent by the server. Sure, the models and sounds are part of the client, but the server tells your client where to place which mobs, how much health they should have, how they react to you, etc.

>The content that is available on Nostralius is literally not available on any live server any more

Yeah, hosting a game server that is no longer available because the company that used to host them stopped offering that option should probably not be against the law. Even single player games are being created as "multiplayer" nowadays, so it's bound to become an even bigger problem in the future.
This surely can't do eyeliner or mascara (too precise). Foundation or lipstick require material that I don't think can be airspread. I mean same as others, if you can pull it off, that's great, but I seriously doubt it.

Maybe for kids...
The way we think about sex is terribly broken
And they should be able to do so.

We are free people (I hope). If one decide to buy tobacco, it's his own responsibility, and he should have the freedom to do so.
Online forex Trader
Sorry, I don't agree that there's a material difference. You're comparing one highway to the single busiest train station in the city, and that just doesn't make sense.

Trains are not going to be the answer. Nobody is going to be taking the train 50 years from now, or any other form of fixed-rail urban transit.
If indeed Tesla uses a custom version of Ubuntu, then it is guilty of not redistributing the source code.

As per the license... the license to use it is revoked, not until they distribute the code, but until all licensors grant a new one.

It would really be funny "if" this were an organized leak.
Japan Is Fast Approaching the Quantitative Limits of Quantitative Easing
Debt is the new currency.
url is http://www.deeplearningbook.org/
User centered design vs. task centered design – Digest
No, that's not what embrace-extend-extinguish is about. The worry about EEE is that they establish dominance through vertical integration, introduce incompatibilities through both incompetence (bugs) and malicious behaviour (features), which will weaken and destroy the free standard implementations.

I'm not worried though. This is a neat hack, and may be useful for some people who for whatever personal reason won't switch to Linux proper, but it will not gain anything like the dominance required to push through incompatibilities. Unix applications already deal with a heterogenous environment, to say the least, and Winux will just be one more participant; not a particularly important one at that.
Subverting the Agent on Network PATROL (CVE-2016-2348)
Isn't it, like, obvious that excessive sugar is bad for you?

It tastes good, and you consume a lot of it. Kind of easy to make an inference. Doesn't require any research.

I was taugt from my childhood that excessive sugar leads to obesity and diabetes. Not that I cut down its consumption by a lot :), but at least I was aware, as everybody else around me.

Maybe it's because we're all hypochondriacs here so we assume that anything is bad for you unless proven otherwise.
When you use translate3d, the element is moved to a different rendering layer, rendered by the GPU. This improves the fluidity of it
No Windows 7 support, and I guess I will stick with Windows 7 in the near future.
> Instead there should be a tax on taking carbon out of the ground or importing it into the country.

Doesn't that have the same problem? Anything energy intensive just shifts outside of the borders of that country where the tax is enforced.

IMO, carbons taxes need to be built into the trade deals. You need to say "we're creating a level playing field between our countries, but we do that on the basis that we are both going to do our bit to solve common problems".

The major reason tackling climate change is difficult is because it is a tragedy of the commons.
Maybe he talks about "popups"
People can't 'ignore' data they don't know about. It (the data) was buried and hidden (conspiracy maybe?). Now it seems things are swinging back to the other side of the pendulum and people are going ketogenic.
And how many times must central repositories be compromised, and
vulnerabilities such as this one be disclosed, before people start to
realize that /completely/ ignoring the progress of the well-known
package managers and how they implemented mandatory signing over a
decade ago (with some exceptions), is nothing short of negligent?
>I've found Windows to be the OS that "just works" and gets out of my way

I've had the opposite experience. Windows does not "just work" and it certainly does not "stay out of the way".

I have USB headphones I can't use in Windows because they connect but Windows doesn't let me switch to them. When I plug in an external monitor my OS comes to a crawl and it doesn't speed back up until I restart the whole thing. When I unplug a monitor it loses my windows.

And did you hear the story about the guy who lost his job because Windows decided to update the .NET framework right before he was scheduled to do a presentation at a business meeting? Doesn't sound like Windows stays out of the way to me.

I wish Windows "just worked" but it doesn't. It breaks all the time unless you're a power user. Giving my parents Linux was the best thing I ever did for them because it turned their laptops from a source of constant frustration to an always-on communication machine. We went from hundreds of ads and dozens of toolbars on windows to a Linux machine that just works.

Now I'm just trying to get my dad to switch to Linux for work so he doesn't have to install his printer drivers again every time he wants to print something. All he uses for work is Chrome any way.
ah, but a LOT of publicly funded research is not freely available... (yet)
But here the problems are clearly in the laws. Don't complain to the engineers where the flying cars are, but complain to your representative for deregulation in the laws.
Because we're not going to go back to DVDs. And eventually, something like popcorntime will just become the ubiquitous, go to solution that ultimately hurts them further, because it'll do what can't be done legally.
What a joke, don't waste your time.
Watch paint dry is also a real game, so to speak; see https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ObckU6cpDJ4 (2013) for example
Can't agree with you. Adding one option into grub config for Xeon CPUs and one optional (you don't need ACS patch if one PCI / PCIe port used) kernel patch for Intel consumer CPUs is clearly not "pain in ass".

It's might be hard to setup few years ago, but now it's super easy. With AMD hardware everything just work out-of-box.
The Sharing Economy Doesn’t Share the Wealth
I didn't even realise they had it in the share menu. You can also access it by holding the refresh icon in the address bar.
Neovim is one huge undertaking. So far they did wonders. Along libreoffice it's one of my favorite projects in spirit.
Here is a more balanced and more scientific article about sugars and health:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/is-sugar-real...
It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings
Why don't you look for another job?

Instead of spending 75K on living expenses while figuring out your "startup idea", why don't you do this:

1. Take 40K, and spend 4 months traveling some part of the world (Asia, South America). Meanwhile investigate a startup idea and find a co-founder. Work out of internet cafes/hostels etc. Now at least your money was well spent. Start building something (prototype).

2. Now you have an idea, prototype and cofounder, raise money (YC) and build your startup. If you can not raise seed funding, apply for jobs and get a new job. Do not burn through all your savings please.
Ruby might be messy, but I disagree entirely that it's ugly. It's one of the most enjoyable and human programming languages I've ever used, and is what I work in daily with much enjoyment and satisfaction.
My high school had a computer lab with PETs. Wish I'd taken more advantage of that at the time.
Morning,

Why would you limit yourself to music? If you manage to have people send you all their social feeds, you should probably analyse all that data in all the most meaningful ways you can.

In my social feeds, you can find books, movies, political thoughts, decoration ideas, photos of trips, etc.

I really don't care about people sending me what they're listening to (and really, I'd rather follow people on spotify), but having a general data mining tool for my social stuff is maybe something I'd use.
I note that with the exception of the sam code (which unfortunately uses the Lucent Public License Version 1.02, this editor is very liberally licensed (ISC/MIT/CC0).

If the sam code is optional or easily replaced, this could evolve to become a serious, modern text editor with a truly liberal license (something surprisingly absent from the current landscape, to the best of my knowledge - I've done a couple searches for an editor that could be embedded with an LGPL project, and the choices were pretty limited. This looks quite interesting.

From a portability standpoint, is there any chance of creating a native Windows version using something like http://www.projectpluto.com/win32a.htm ? That was another kicker when I was searching previously - only the really big editors like vim/emacs appear to have Windows ports...
Blizzard isn't interested in "building a living world" and never has been. From its inception the purpose of WoW has been to farm the likes of you for gold.
> What is XML good at

Supporting XQuery/XPath queries and typing with DTDs are the big ones for me, including all the surrounding tooling. You can get replicas of both of these in JSON now, but I don't think they're as mature.
Line activates chat bots
Had Yudkin posted HN comments, he would have learned quickly that telling the truth is not only profoundly unpopular, but actively being penalized.
Can anyone who's tried this out comment on the terminal?

Does it have all the same issues as gitbash/cygwin/mingw/winpty (garbling, bad resizing, etc) or is there finally a decent local terminal on Windows?
An oversupply means demand for solar panels that can be produced at a profit is less than the supply of solar panels. If they can't produce the solar panels for a profit, eventually the companies will be too broke to further expand supply. The supply of solar panels will sit at an equilibrium, limiting Humanity's move to solar energy.

Solar panel manufacturers must continue to become more efficient every year to drive demand. An oversupply is not an economical problem - The world knows it needs much more solar energy than it is currently using. The problem is a technological one.

Solar panels must use less than a certain amount of goods and services compared to existing energy sources for it to be economical for society to switch to it. You could enact a law to forbid the use of coal energy tomorrow, allowing only solar energy, but it would work as well as the Khmer Rouge forcing city dwellers onto farms - which would only result in mass starvation because city dwellers lack the skill to farm using less than a certain amount of goods and services. i.e. profitably. The technology is not there yet in terms of replacing all energy use with solar power.
HiVision: Crane Operation with Virtual Reality Goggles
>Winux

I've deemed it "Frankenstein OS" because they've sewn a whole bunch of parts together to make an unwieldy monster that doesn't quite work as good as the individual pieces did on their own.
Inflammation and plaque on your artery walls are two different things. Also, sources of saturated fats such as meat and dairy cause inflammation.
Not for movies that we old people like. Either the movies are not to be found, or the quality is lousy, or it's seeded by one person with a dial-up connection.
>> "I can knock out two movies a night."
>> "Rapidly running out of quality content here."
>> "They don't acquire at the rate people consume."

I think you consume movies at a much higher rate that the average person. The stats I can find estimate on average people watch between 1-3 movies per week.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows.
Forget Encryption, WhatsApp Is Vulnerable to Phishing Attacks
Speak for yourself, I am cleanly shaven.
It may seem like an attack, but you can also consider it fair comment as he is an expert tell us that sugar causes weight gain, when he himself is obese for many years now.
How can you both be an expert on weightloss and obese at the same time?
The industry was pretty regional back then, which may make for a fuzzier historical record. U.S. insularity means some histories neglect this, and assume what's true for the U.S. held true elsewhere (which is a safer assumption today).

Interesting that the author says the 1200 "seemed to rule" in the UK in early 90's. Why didn't it succeed elsewhere? It seemed powerful and good value at the time.
Golang constant errors
Haha. This is awesome. I wonder what the final output would be. A full song?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716748/

http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v67/n8/full/ejcn2013116a....
This frankenstein contraptions isn't going to work correctly until they add so much bloat it's not even worth it.
Towards Bayesian Deep Learning: A Survey
Ok, can you give me a link to a clear pricing structure that offers this?

We use C#, .Net platform, and write sql directly, so language performance isn't really an issue for us.

I've had disks blow up on me before, but didn't lose any data because of HA.

I've also had power supply issues before. If we had been running baremetal, the automatic VM migration could not have worked.
I call it NSA/Windows.
If being nice precludes offering a legitimate criticism, then I'm happy to be mean. I didn't use an ad-hominem, or attack some trivial mistake in their implementation. I am opening a conversation on, what I see as, a growing trend to emulate physical books on the web and impose a layout limitation where (I think) it doesn't make sense.
It means for supply to continue to expand while maintaining equilibrium, manufacturers must continue to lower its costs, year after year relentlessly. The oversupply is a hint some of them are having trouble doing just that.
People have had 25 years (Wild guess) to become literate, and they haven't. What makes you think that's going to change?
Zuck tries Facebook Live...it  doesn't go well
I was expecting something like this: http://www.simplybasicsoftware.com/images/SBPscreenshot2.jpg

I just love those kinds of interface. I don't think I would enjoy using them, but I love the history that sometimes go with them. Typically they're in-house apps that just get extended until they do every thing, and only an old guy named Gary knows how everything works... sort of.
I don't have a strong opinion on this, but if you really believe that as an absolute, how do you balance the harm to society? For tobacco, harm being costs for increased health care, health impacts on non-smokers, and frankly the simple impact it has on the happiness of those subjected to your freedom.
Turning realtime into a platform: deepstreamHub raises $1M seed in Berlin
They don't care about other people in the same room trying to concentrate on what they're doing?
Exploring the Solar System
Yes they're very good at "seeming" the part. Until you check the cites/references.

Please excuse me for lumping Kahneman, Tversky and Taleb into the same bin (stating beforehand, feel free to dismiss or form your own opinions because of this). My justification is they cite eachother all the time, write about the same topics and are quoted as doing their research by "bouncing ideas off each other" (only to later dig up surveys or concoct experiments to confirm these--psych & social sciences should take some cues from psi research and do pre-registration).

This is now the second time I notice that one of their anecdotes posed as "research" doesn't quite check out to be as juicy and clear-cut (or even describing the same thing) as the citation given.

The other one was the first random cite I checked in Taleb's Black Swan. A statistics puzzle about big and a smaller hospital and the number of baby boys born in them on a specific day. The claim being research (from a metastudy by Kahneman & Tversky) showing a large pct of professional statisticians getting the answer to this puzzle wrong. Which is quite hard to believe because the puzzle isn't very tricky at all. Checking the cited publication (and the actual survey it meta'd about), turns out it was a much harder statistical question, and it wasn't professional statisticians but psychologists at a conference getting the answer wrong.

Good thing I already finished the book before checking the cite. I was so put off by this finding, I didn't bother to check anything else (most papers I read are on computational science, where this kind of fudging of details is neither worth it, nor easy to get away with).

Which is too bad because the topics they write about are very interesting, and worthwhile/important areas of research. I still believe it's not unlikely that a lot of their ideas do in fact hold kernels of truth, but I'm fairly sure that also a number of them really do not. And their field of research would be stronger for it to figure out which is which. Unfortunately this is not always the case for the juicy anecdotes that sell pop-sci / pop-psych books.
Bridle:The Unfriendzoning Assistant
Bridle tracks your friend's / girlfriend's / friendzoner's menstrual cycle for you , helping you to do the right talk at the right moment. Just select the current day of her cycle and you've unlocked her mood transitions. So the next time you'll know , what is the best time to ask the right question !

---I am trying to compare how things like these are perceived among the tech community guys vs others ---
Well you do want it, if your running 30 million a year website off it. A little amount of downtime can cost a lot.
It becomes pretty clear that it's not a troll when one puts his/her best-effort to interpret "realtime JavaScript cloud". It's a critic with a very obvious point.
My anecdata is different. Most programmers i've met in my career aren't part of the FOSS crowd, they own iPhones and MacBooks and happily run Software from the Mac AppStore for their dev purposes, or are on Windows, have never built a tool they use from source and without a line by line guide wouldn't be able to do that on Linux.

The few coders that I know that are part of the FOSS crowd, have their ThinkPads or Dell XPS Developer Editions with Gentoo,Ubuntu or Arch.
This isn't for them, its for the ones already on Windows or OSX.