skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how is it a bandwagon instead of a future standard

Not saying I subscribe, but there's a view that a web browser should be for browsing web documents, not peer to peer video. There are limited development resources, and some feel those should be allocated to making web browsing faster and more power-efficient, rather than making a new networking platform and dealing with all the performance, compatibility, and security work that entails.
I'm still annoyed they didn't ship it with a Type-A -> Type-C cable. Would that have ruined their ability to do the fast charge? Because if not, it would be really nice to not have to bottleneck it through an adapter or buy new PC hardware that supports a Type-C port to xfer data or charge it via PC.
my solution to this problem is easy.

just don't pick up the phone.

what is compelling you to pick up an unknown call? do you think you're going to win the lottery or something?
NPR has the same problem any large segmented bureaucracy has, the inability to pivot. They have killed upstart, personalized shows filled with really creative, talented young voices appease the old local radio stations.

This isn't new, in 2007 there was the Bryant Park Project:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryant_Park_Project

And much of the talent there is now elsewhere and leaving NPR. Podcasts are going to eat NPR's young audience if they are not careful.
A term used by the bitcoin and goldbug communities to mean "real money".
If you're looking for channel level advice get the book Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares. Then think who your customers are, what you're good at, how much you can afford to acquire them (1/3 of the lifetime value is a good yardstick) then choose a channel that fits those things you've identified the best.
I'm looking to do the same thing and the best contender so far seems to be FastMail. For $40/yr there's 15GB for mail, 5GB file storage, IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, custom domain and web views for all of it. The DAV stuff is hard to find anywhere else that isn't under a huge price tag.
non-violence or pacifism aside, military grants are loaded with mountains of mind numbing paperwork and bureaucracy ...pass.
Ha, got eerily accurate results. Some funny ones as well, but interesting tech.
DRM on USB devices. No thank you. I know - it is for the users. But we all know how it will turn out.
You can not eliminate this source of coercion without for instance giving people free living wage. Eliminating such contracts would not eliminate the coercion but make it worse. Maybe not as bad a contract, because people can still walk away, but still could end badly.
I gave it this one [1], it claims "I think it's a blurry picture of a boat." which is not entirely bad description but obviously misses the point.

[1] http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/lovecraft/images/9/95/5b...
I am in the warm embrace of the CLI, where the author's problems just don't exist and I can get stuff done. I like it.
We have to have a variety of tax bases (consumption, income, property.) Otherwise those with income/assets in excess of $500k can easily move money around to avoid paying a similar share to people who are less well-off.
What stuck out to me is

"In an asynchronous world, you have 3 actions indicating asynchronous work: start, done, and error. In our system, they all are of the same type (like ADD_BREAKPOINT) but the status field indicates the event type."

This is a great suggestion (I have used a very similar schema before, although in flux), and should be the standard suggestion in redux tutorials.

Not enforcing this can lead to a proliferation of inconsistently named constants, especially if a team is learning flux/redux and has not yet settled on a naming schema.
FB also seems to be a bit of the former. Here (https://www.facebook.com/GoodMorningAmerica/videos/101533728...) is an anecdotal clip that ABC/GMA stole from this guy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU13ByIYkew) with no credit, they flipped, and re-watermarked his video. They got 22mm views on something the author only has 0.5mm views. Terrible ABC, terrible.
Is "freebooting" related to "bootlegging"? https://www.google.com/#q=bootlegging
It says "any image" but I think they really mean "any photograph", based on the samples as well as the stuff I uploaded to it.
In this case, given that Android developers may not be used to installing a tool with an extensive set of dependencies, it's probably noteworthy. Whether those Android developers have docker installed and working is another question.
The last time this was on HN, we talked about how they had just one position they were hiring to do the work.
Foreign Legion and The Gurkhas are not private mercenary units.

These are regular army units where the enlisted are not native nationals.

The first sentence from linked article about French Foreign Legion says that The French Foreign Legion is a military service branch of the French Army established in 1831, unique because it was created for foreign nationals willing to serve in the French Armed Forces.

I repeat if it did not sink in: Foreign Legion and The Gurkhas are not private mercenary units, they are not private armies.

The main argument of calgoo was that "Private militarizes armies should NEVER be allowed to exist.".

This is very far from being "a very nationalistic position". He did not say that foreign nationals should not be enlisted into national armies.

So please, could we stop this bullshit now?
I was really looking forward to upgrade my paperwhite, but this is total disappointment. Almost 3x more $$ than paperwhite, but the very similar specs; LED lights are just fine on paperwhite, same DPI, same size, same touchscreen, absolutely nothing worth upgrading IMHO! Buttons are ok but never missed them, definitely not worth money.
And I still can't read IT books on that 6" screen.
What a shame. Amazon is without ideas, and money. Or paperwhite is simply good enough?
I agree with you, there's going to be more shades of grey using intuitionistic logic. I guess I was taking the point of view of the Jesuits!

So actually I understand about Dual numbers, but from what I see this is not the same thing as smooth infinitesimal analysis (there's no playing around with the logic.) I feel like if we scratch this a bit more we are going to understand what Grothendieck was on about with topos theory [1].

[1] http://www.oliviacaramello.com/Unification/Unification.htm
The truth is that navigation apps are not really designed to give you a larger sense of your route but rather just what you need to do to get to the next turn. Partially this is due to the relatively small size of smartphone screens but it is often actually actively difficult to zoom out or scroll ahead while in navigation mode. It's so focused on the details that you miss the big picture.

What if you made a different kind of navigation app, one that was designed to help you learn the streets as your travel? It could teach your about the main freeways and arterial roads. It could monitor your driving and give you points when you successfully reach your destination without turn-by-turn "hints" (though it would be ready to help you out if you got too off-course).

Granted, I'm not sure how big a market there would be for kind of app, but I'd love to try it. I think it'd be an interested experiment at the very least.
Maybe "release" isn't the correct term. Ubuntu publishes new AMIs with the latest security patches quite regularly. When I spin up a new instance on say 14.04 I want it to boot with a fully patched kernel.
Still 6 inches. I'm not sure why ebook readers standardized on that size, it feels too small at least to me.

Finally bought one last year and ended up choosing the Kobo H20 partly because of that - it's 6.8" which is not bad, but I suspect the sweet spot would probably be somewhere between 7 and 7.5.

Edit: for people looking for big readers (for technical books and such, where 6" is quite useless), the ones I'm aware of are the 8" Bookeen Cybook Ocean and the inkBOOK 8 (the later was still vaporware when I looked into it, not sure if it's available now).
I tried a bunch of different images and I got 'two giraffes near a tree' a bunch of times. They were drawn images though.
I thinks that's a very good question.

I can name countless cases of "semi-trivial" AI being used to improve people's lives. Tree/graph searches, linear regression and clustering algorithms are used all over the place: in science, engineering and medical field.

However, when it comes to more sophisticated algorithms I am hard pressed to point out strongly positive use cases. I.e. something that actually make a positive impact for large groups of people, isn't a gimmick and does not involves massive privacy violations.

Hm, I guess handwriting recognition is used by postal services. There are a lot of expert systems running behind the scenes in some industries (stuff that involves logistics, for example). Voice recognition helps disabled people to interact with computers. Machine translation can be useful at times. Although I've never been a situation when it made any significant difference in my life or in lives of anyone I know.

Stuff like face detection in cameras or voice recognition in phones and cars seem cool, but nothing would really change if they weren't available.

The most impactful uses of fancy AI that I know involves marketing and surveillance, and I don't consider either of those uses as a positive thing.
I've been pretty happy using TextAngular so far

http://textangular.com/
My experience with The Guardian has been very positive. There was a user "ChangingWorld" who was a complete anti-vaxxer and no matter what you said ignored all reasoned discussion and reverted to personal attacks.

After a fair bit of discussion, I got sick of the personal attacks on anyone who tried to engage with her and who didn't hold her view, so I started flagging her abusive comments.

The Guardian moderators, to my great surprise, took notice and actually started deleting posts that violated their policies. The tone of debate, needless to say, took a turn for the better! No longer were participants held to ransom by manipulative and personal attacks and no longer were articles about vaccinations derailed.

She eventually stopped commenting after I posted the following:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/14/california-se...
Anyone knows if the complaints in the article are still happening in 16.04?

I recently installed it for a friend of mine and it's his first time using linux. So far so good but the problems listed in the article worries me...
The long history of women scientists
Apropos nothing, I just checked my email records and I have 294 purchase receipts from Amazon Kindle books going back to 2010. I've read the vast vast majority of these on various iPhones and I have no complaints. It works great for me for 6+ hour sessions of reading.

I'm still looking for the right PDF reader, currently using GoodReader which for me is merely acceptable.
No, I do not have movie budget data, although after working with the data and seeing the movies present, I do not believe your quote is accurate.
I understand your point, but if offering opinions from one political camp is viewed as 'trolling' by the others, then I would say we need to fix our approach to discourse.
Slashdot created their moderation (funny, insightful), metamoderation and tagging and karma and thresholds and filters how long ago?

https://slashdot.org/faq/
https://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml

Everyone just ignores their accomplishments. Sites consider the solution too complicated to implement. You end up with reddit style up/down/report/gold and best/top/hot/controversial which isnt rich enough metadata to let users sort comments in powerful ways.

The answers to these problems have been around for long over a decade. Yet no one has even come close to one upping slashdots system.
Are we talking about the commercial/military space sector, or about the burgeoning public/research/cubesat sector? I can't help but feel like the former doesn't really have an incentive to make things more efficient given the way the contracts typically work, while the latter might be more interesting.
The day after MDMA always is shot in my personal experiences. Very lethargic, feeling worn out and out of it.

The day after taking LSD on the other hand was a great. Was very productive and motivated.

To each their own.

EDIT: Important to note than I'm never active on MDMA, always a couch potato so the feelings of lethargy may differ.
I've owned about 4 Kindles (always upgraded, never had one break), but I just don't see any reason to upgrade to this model, especially given the price.

I don't understand why they haven't included waterproofing yet. Or at least IP68 certification so you don't have to worry at the beach or by a pool.
If only we'd band together to kill open office plans.
> work based on one outpost on one piece of pottery

Well, 16 pieces. Although how it ties into Biblical dating I don't really follow.
Measurement of Universe's expansion rate creates cosmological puzzle
t. George W. Bush
I had to share this one, I sent a screenshot of the Yahoo homepage from a while ago (yeah, I had that hanging around...) with the main image being of Donald Trump.

The caption guess was "I am not really confident, but I think it's a television screen and he seems ."
How to Prototype Mobile UI Patterns for Real Users: Part 2
The article also places a big emphasis on people driving to the incorrect locations, hundreds of miles away from their intended destination. To me, this is a user error rather than a system issue. Every GPS system has the user confirm their destination address to keep this from happening.
You're not the first person I've heard to complain about this, but is it really an issue? When it's on the lowest setting you're hard pressed to see the glow in even the darkest of rooms, and the battery life is still amazing.
No, it's not the same. In the US you would usually have your land-line and address listed in the phone book by default, and you could pay a very nominal fee to have it be 'unlisted'. Your mobile number would never be listed at all.

As an American living in Europe, I was surprised to see all land-line and mobile numbers published in our local directory (I'm in Britain) which even included a reverse look-up index so you could scan tables of numbers and see the corresponding names! That disappeared a few years back but most of the numbers are still listed if you know the person's name.

I'm all for privacy but I think the fear of having your number posted is overrated unless you have an actual reason (stalker, abusive ex, etc...) in which case a free and easy way to totally opt-out should exist. I've had my phone numbers and email address publicly posted for years and while I get the occasional weirdo, it's totally worth it for the random interesting calls from strangers.
I don't know how many years its been, but all this time and the only reason I see to upgrade from my gen4 Kindle is my lack of back light, which has never really been a huge issue as I don't do much night reading.
> There are many reasons why the UI should not care about how the server requests are ordered.

Sure. It was just an example. My main point was the change here felt like a hack and they forced a mechanism that should be processed serially into one that is meant to handle parallel.

> In our case we use the same connection but it switches "contexts" and we want to ignore everything from a previous context. In simpler situations you could make sure the your connection is destroyed before the UI is destroyed, yes.

So wouldn't it be best to sever ties that will cause issues and reconnect them versus anything else? That's typically the pattern you use when you want to replace event handlers. The way in the article just wastes a lot of CPU cycles to support an awkward pattern I've never seen someone use before.

Just my 2 cents. But like I said I've never used Redux so maybe these patterns are normal here.
Linux QoS for humans
"I seem to be under the weather right now. Try again later :(" i.e. we killed it.
This article was very inspirational for me when developing the CMS for a previous startup and informed that development extensively.

Personally, I found the most beneficial thing to be abandoning HTML entirely. Instead I developed a JSON data structure for documents which was stored internally. This is very powerful for a couple of reasons:

1. Any user input can be mapped as pure functions on top of your internal document structure. This way you can also enforce business rules easily. Additionally, any function which you don't support will never occur. (No more Word garbage!) ContentEditable works fine as an input though.

2. You can write functionally pure mappings from your internal structure to other formats. This of course includes HTML, but isn't exclusive to HTML. Content can also be mapped into native mobile components as well.

3. You can be flexible with input types. For example, it was fairly trivial to (for fun) add a Markdown mode which would map any Markdown input onto the internal document representation and then back to Markdown.

4. You can introduce new semantic concepts which HTML doesn't have elements for, like a "quiz." This makes it easy to rejigger the display of such elements later on, or to have the same semantic element render completely differently on mobile and desktop (for example). With HTML, you're stuck doing error-prone tree parsing or Regexes.
I am like you, here is my money, just get me a larger format kindle, or kobo for that matter.

You can't read comic books or magazines in such small edition.

Kobo honestly looks better. There must be some technical challenge to issue something 7-8" sized.
I got a paperwhite for the touchscreen and backlight - both made the device a lot better for reading in bed, and that was a long time ago: a 1st gen paperwhite replaced a 2nd gen kindle, and the turn-page button on the 2nd gen was loud enough to bug my wife if she was trying to sleep. The battery on my paperwhite still lasts a week or more of regular reading, so I'm not about to upgrade for battery life (I have an anker for long trips anyway).

I guess maybe the big bezel would have to be a lot more comfortable for me to want to spend on the upgrade. OTOH, I'm a loyal customer who buys kindle books from the amazon store (or gets them from the library), so amazon already has me as a customer anyway, so maybe the device sale is no big deal.
In fact, if you've signed a non-compete and later wish to leave the company, it's in your interest to do your absolute best to make the company fail, so you can't be sued after exiting.
Thanks for the feedback hotpockets :)

We actually do start lower. In practice, Seedrunners works with multiple funding targets per month, the minimum being €100,000 and the maximum €1,000,000.

With €100,000, we invest in the top 5 startups at €20,000 each. At €1,000,000, we invest in the top 25 at €40,000 each.

The idea is that with every new funding target reached, our investors get more diversification and each of the top startups more money to succeed.

We tried to show this principle in a more graphic/friendly manner on our investor page: http://www.seedrunners.com/invest/
I can't edit it, but that should read "Given that he's a Scala quant". I'm not a Scala quant.
Hot Loading Angular2 with State
Ehh... I think neovim was also started to create a decrufted version of the vim codebase. That goal is still perfectly valid.
Check out flux standard actions for even more consistency:

https://github.com/acdlite/flux-standard-action
Requires OSX or Ubuntu? Damn it, well, it looks interesting...
Maybe it's just because I'm part of the old-fart grey-hair "get off my lawn" crowd...

Stuff like "haha xD" is fine for online chat, but seems unprofessional and is inappropriate in something like a HN submission, especially if you're trying to get people to look at a project.

And as a counterpoint to brieflify, there's:

http://longform.org/

https://longreads.com/
It can't recognise B. Gates photo. Ok.
Introducing MetaPipe
Slightly relevant: https://medium.com/project-tofino/designing-a-browser-that-i...
I already have a great portable e-book reader that's light enough to hold in my hand. It's my phone. And it's a sunk cost. Oh, and it's not locked to a single bookseller.

I spend all day reading text on screens; when it comes to recreational reading, why are my eyes suddenly so precious that they need a special display that's supposedly easy on them? Like, the rest of the day I'm beating them up or something? $500CAD is almost the up-front cost of a Nexus 6p. And when I get tired of reading Proust I can play Neko Atsume.

This is vesselmancy -- the same wayward urge that had fools plonking out for leatherbound copies of Encyclopedia Britannica as late as the '00s, when they could have -- should have -- known better.

The container has been abstracted. The value is not there anymore. Amazon is just doing arbitrage on the delayed response the background culture has to value migration. $60 leather case included indeed.
Did you use it in the ol' rc.conf days? :) Things have improved greatly since the systemd switch.
It works great, too, for abstracting away fetch logic to middleware (as in this blog post) or to a shared module.

And it is in the redux tutorials, but buried in the advanced section. http://redux.js.org/docs/advanced/AsyncActions.html
Avoiding all that "fancy unicorn stuff" might not slow you down but it will slow down the next person who picks up your code but who cares that's their problem.

You must come from the same school as "who needs tests they're a waste of time".
The Soviet Union also really liked to re-define words like you're trying to do with "consensual" here.
someone should randomly generate images and copyright every combination of pixels possible.
Are we too reliant on GPS? I don't think so. There's Galileo and GLONASS, after all. Your smartphone probably already supports GLONASS, and I imagine we'll see widespread Galileo support once the constellation is more complete.

Are we too reliant on turn by turn directions? Maybe. On the other hand, stupid failures like the ones mentioned in the article are pretty rare. That's pretty much by definition, otherwise they wouldn't have made the news in the first place.

Are we losing navigational skills? Maybe. But what the article discusses isn't a lack of navigational skills, it's a simple unwillingness to use them. I'm sure that Syrian truck driver didn't go off course because lacked the skills to find out where Gibraltar is, he merely neglected to even make the attempt. It's a failure of planning, not a failure of skills. If someone leaves their house unlocked because they didn't double-check that it was locked when they departed, we don't call that a loss of door-locking skills, we just call it a failure to pay attention.

Finally, the article tries to shoehorn in a mention of self-driving cars, I guess because it's the cool thing at the moment. "It's not okay for a driverless car to get bewildered for a bit because it's in a city center." Well sure it is! People do that all the time! It's not like a self-driving car needs GPS in order to avoid crashing.
This would be more akin to judging an author based on what media company prints the magazine (Hearst, or Time, for example).
I'm not an expert but I believe the industry gets paid a chunk for "radio play" in general (and things like radio play) on a per station/location basis, and then that chunk gets divided up not on the basis of what was actually played, but on the basis of how popular it is. Not saying it works, but that type of scheme sort of works for the hits, and much less well for obscure music, but obscure music probably does not get played too much.

but anyway, something like that is how they'd get paid for music they don't own.

These arrangements were worked out back when "radio" was "disrupting" the live music and recorded music industries, and people were trying to "monetize" the "eardrums"
Yes I've been dying for a DX again. I had one years ago and it was my favorite gadget. Perfect for the PDF books and what not.

I'll pick up a used one someday.