skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but definitely not preferred over a real Linux distribution

TBH, If I had to choose between "any real Linux distribution" with WINE and Windows with "a real UNIX terminal", I would prefer the latter.
Remember that performance with Babel transpiled code is still sometimes faster (in some cases, substantially so) than the native ES6 implementations, as optimizing continues on V8's end.

And be sensible about how much transpilation you want, you can use newer presets that don't need to transform the code as much, while still having the ability to layer in newer features (async/await, ES7, etc).
If netflix lets users from across the world access their US service, US content owners are going to demand payment based on netflix's global subscriber base. A title that was worth 1 million for streaming rights in America, might be worth 3-4 million worldwide. The US companies are going to demand the 3-4 million.

The amount of people who can figure out a VPN solution is probably not that substantial.
Not in Australia. Better Call Saul is on a Netflix competitor called Stan.
Correct link: http://nytimes.com/2016/04/27/technology/apple-q2-earnings-i...
Indeed: a technique mastered by the Soviets.

At the end of WWII in Europe, Churchill wanted to simply string up the captured leaders. The US pushed for trials -- and the Soviets agreed since they felt it legitimized their own show trial apparatus.

To paraphrase Pogo: we met the enemy and he was us.
Launching Equinox and the importance of software packaging
Facebook Launches Video Live Streaming
Live coding a view library from scratch to show how they work under the hood
Couldn't agree more. Our current Jenkins box took several days to get fully operational, and upgrading just feels like too big a risk. Especially since it's so central to the developer workflow
Great Filter
1. Walk the walk. Stop doing evil in the world. Evil begets evil. Time and again our national policies put self interest ahead of morality. We support dictators. We arm terrorists. We arm everyone, because there is so much profit in it. We invade other countries on false pretenses. We invade a country promising to back the long suffering minority, but abandon them as soon as our self-interests are fulfilled. Then 10 years later we invade the country again, leaving it in ruins. We bomb other countries without declaring war. We ignore international law, because we can get away with it. We imprison and torture foreign suspects ignoring our own laws and morality about such imprisonments, but of course they're foreigners so morality gets suspended. This is all just off the top of my head.

2. And if we really must attack, send in troops. Yes, some of our troops may die. But it is more honest. War should not be easy. And when we say fuck it, our troop are more valuable than civilians in the firing line, what does that say about our morals? See #1.

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The US is Quietly Helping Saudi Arabia Wage a Devastating Aerial Campaign in Yemen: https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/03/30/us-quietly-helping-saudi...

How Bribes to Politicians From Arms Dealers Keep Wars Going. And How the Wars Keep the Politicians Going: http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/04/25/bribes-politicians-arms-dea...
...Because they feel entitled to the content...
I guess nobody has to speak of openSUSE yet. I would say, if you've never tried it you really should. I had the best experience with openSUSE I've had in many years. Now with openSUSE LEAP it will be even better. If I ever needed a package I could easily find it online via package search[0] which I used to get Steam and other software. I only ever really had issues with the DMD compiler. I must of used it for 6+ months on my old laptop. It is definitely a great successor to Slackware which was my first use of Linux (at least it used to be based off Slackware waaaay back when).

[0]: https://software.opensuse.org/find
good news. Anyone looking for a remote nodejs job
we have a few listed http://webwork.io
Especially since this preset is two lines long, referring to two other plugins
I wish to see other alternatives, Unity is not my editor of choice but it seems like the new standard :(
from a philosophical perspective there simply must be a limit at which a corporation can grow. maybe they reached it.
> If your knowledge of evolution is limited to having read 'The Selfish Gene', you should be aware that you likely carry several misconceptions

I know this is veering wildly offtopic, but when I see misconceptions about evolution on HN, they're usually not being displayed by people with too rudimentary a science background, it's mostly people with an altogether unscientific background such as creationism or other religious and philosophical ideas that are in conflict with factual information.

> Incidentally, I've also spotted this on the TV show QI, many of whose clever 'facts' are misleading at best or just plain incorrect.

I'm not familiar with that show, but that's a common problem in science journalism now, and it's not even confined to "popular" science anymore either. Maybe it's always been that way, and I just notice it more nowadays.
How to master your life with the decision-making diet
(Lots of interesting data; upvoted.)

> It's $79 for us to fix an iPhone 5/5C/5S screen right now

Interesting, since I have a 5s with a broken screen glass that I haven't bothered getting fixed yet. :)

It used to be quite a bit more, I think? Have you figured out how to separate the glass (etc) from the actual display, or have replacement display+glass packages just gotten cheaper?

(If you are replacing the display - is there any significant performance difference between the stock display and the replacement display?)
Babel benchmarking in Node 6
Tom Brady's four-game suspension reinstated by court
Because for netflix to provide a service to you in your country, there is often legal hurdles in doing so... If you think netflix's motivation is "lets keep these people out because we want to" ... you're not very smart. Netflix will gladly take money from anyone willing to give it, assuming they can legally do so without higher costs to them that outweigh the gain. No business turns down customers if they dont have to.
One of the things I noticed in college was that the journalism major seemed to attract a class of people who are not good at comprehending complex systems. If you don't understand something, it's almost impossible to communicate the concept of it to another person.

My dad was a chemical engineer and whenever News 7 had a story about the chemical plant my dad would mutter about how they got the details (and pronunciations!) all wrong.
No need for more technology. Just increase the price of gasoline about 100-200% and people will start using their brain instead of their belly (or dikk) when buying a car.
Hillary Clinton Trolls Shut Down Pro-Bernie Sanders Facebook Groups
Epsilon. We don't have a formal proof, but most people who have looked at the proposition consider it to be almost certainly false.
Node v6.0.0
Given the last year, I'd have listed Linux Mint as Worst Distro for a Networked Computer.
yet for the most part PCs dropped significantly in price but smartphones seem to be holding the 400+ range which is still woefully overpriced for most of the phone buying populace because not only are you putting out 400 bucks but usually under obligation to send forty to eighty more a month. That is a good chunk of the the lower and middle classes.
Over on the education side of things, we have a lot of problems with Campbell's law. Once people focus on a quantitative indicator to evaluate things of any importance, it essentially gets corrupted. Like test scores, university rankings... On the software side of things, there might be things ranging from website hits, ad clicks, page rank, karma points, etc. More on the development side there might be things like commits, github stats, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
All the capabilities the author points to are part of BEAM, which has nothing to do with Elixir. You could write the same code in LFE and it'll perform in the same way.
You can take the dialectic and synthesize an encompassing model. No authority need be accepted. No particular model need be wholly accepted.

I can agree, for example, that certain forms of expression can make some people uncomfortable and exclude them from participation, yet not agree with the proposed dictate that all professional groups must now shun anyone who has ever defended such forms of expression. However, if the context of tolerance is expanded beyond such a narrow formulation, then my conclusion is that those forms of expression should also be defended and we should refrain from punishing the actors retroactively. (Even as we ask people to refrain from them in certain contexts.)

You can expand such a discussion into emotional, psychological, and historical realms, as well as those of personal experience. It's always possible to expand the context of a discussion, since it's impossible for a person to understand every context at once.

I did this once with my ex-girlfriend's right-wing Christian mom. She was willing to listen to the plight of a previous ex-girlfriend's family and it changed her outlook. I've also seen it happen with a homophobic woman from rural Oklahoma who became best friends with a gay activist man.

It doesn't mean you have to agree on everything, but there is an exercise of self-awareness around the ease with which one human can "dehumanize" another in their own mind. Civil society is generally better served by civic discourse and less well served by shunning and actions usually shown to "the enemy." In fact, the root of social injustice is generally the propensity of people to do this in their minds. ("othering")

I hope that is a good demonstration.
The penalty for automakers should be based on the law as it was written. They need no exemptions based on the scale of their crimes. If they broke the law and knew about it, then someone has to go to jail. That's how the law works, and the only thing that will prevent another 25 years of false governance.
https://www.tree.social/
> 1) It sure is awkward to represent struct fields 1 2 3 as (cdr struct), (cadr struct), (caddr), ...

The Right Way to do this is with a D-List, or Detached List, analogous to an A-List or a P-List. An A-List, if you recall, is a list of key-value conses. A P-List is a list of alternating key-value pairs. A D-list is a cons of a list of keys and a list of values, i.e.:

((key1 key2 ...) val1 val2 ...)

D-lists are superior to A-Lists and P-Lists because:

1. The key list structure can be re-used

2. D-ASSOC only requires one traversal down the key list, after which the index of the key can be cached. This is usually the first step in writing a "fast" interpreter, but if you use A-Lists or P-Lists then you have to change data structures. If you use a D-List you already have the optimized structure in the CDR of the D-List pair.

3. Going from optimized interpreter to full compiler is a simple matter of replacing the linked list of values with a vector of values.

It's a shame that D-Lists are very rarely taught.
Fedora hasn't been completely painless, but it's what I've been running on my developer machine(s) for years now and it mostly just works. I run KDE though, not Gnome, so my experience may be a bit different than the typical Fedora user. Still, if anyone hasn't tried Fedora in a while (or ever) I definitely suggest giving it a go.
Hi Guys, FYI in most new servers (~2005 and later), there is a BIOS setting to make NUMA systems look like they have one NUMA zone. From memory, I think it is the Interleaved option on most vendors. I strongly recommend most clients to turn it to NUMA mode (which tends to be the default for most newer servers)
Pieter Hintjens’ Last Hack
The "non-problem" of a biased PRNG is that you get reduced entropy in your generated passwords, thus reducing security.

The "flaw" in the pull request was fixed in a later commit (by switching to Uint8Array instead of Uint32Array), and then it was ignored by the SpiderOak team.
Perhaps someone can clarify a point for me:
I'm under the impression that whatever the foundation or project that adopts Thunderbird, it would have to be half-rewritten to get rid of its legacy (Gecko/XPCOM/XUL) codebase.

Is that correct? Has anyone estimated how much time/money/manpower that would require?
Who shot down MH17?
Yeah. I agree that this is a slippery slope. SMTP followed this, and there were a lot of whacky things, then qmail came and rejected the bad implementations.

Perhaps it's better to use this law for UI, where being liberal with accepting things by trimming white space is better than rejecting, which would confuse an end user.
Quiet a mediocre article actually. Some of those distros are the best in a category of their own ..
For any exponential function comes time when its growth cannot be sustained. Smartphones are boring and mature, we haven't had killer app in ages - welcome to the PC market of 2007.
Intel Proposes to Use USB Type-C Digital Audio Technology
The Gervais Principle is worth reading about:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

Related to the Peter & Dilbert Principles, but darker and told through the lens of the Office.
Isn't this the place with the CEO that doesn't know how to use email? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/bastian-lehmann_n_3...
> my next secret project

> I am also working on a new hardware device called the Turn Touch Mac Remote. It controls custom built apps on your Mac.

lol. good luck!
Sadly, Slate hasn't been updated in three years and recent El Capitan releases has broken it for certain applications, most importantly iTerm2.
I do not agree with elementary OS as best-looking distro.

Imo this award should go to manjaro kde.
Because email is a decades old technology that, thanks to its decentralization and such a wide spread usage, is impossible to improve.

I highly recommend this blog post about a guy trying to make its own email client and failing to do so miserably because emails are such a mess : http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/02/...

Edit: removed the Pocket redirect from the URL.
For anyone using TypeScript to build your Node.js code, you can now switch your target to es6/es2015 in your tsconfig.json:

{
"compilerOptions": {
"target": "es2015",
"module": "commonjs"
}
}

Assuming you're not using that 7% (http://node.green/) :)

Just make sure to update your package.json to take a hard dependency on Node 6+ if you do that:

{ "engines" : { "node" : ">=6.0.0" } }

This will make it so that ES6-compat is assumed and TS won't transpile ES6 functionality, but it will use commonjs for modules, which means your TS will almost be a 1:1 mapping with the compiled JS and everything should just work.
I should point out that we're really talking about two types of customer service experiences here. When it comes to our Plus merchants, we're facing way less challenges simply because we're interacting with them via tablets or electronic ordering. Where we don't succeed yet, is the customer service part of our Anywhere product. Here we don't have integrations with all merchants and the error rates are higher and so is the level of complexity when something goes wrong.

That's great, but it's your responsibility to manage this complexity. You should refund the money to your customers when there's an error, not give excuses.
I think you're forgetting to include Androids when you address "smartphones" as a whole...
Could you elaborate on this? I know many people have security concerns about Mint, but I've never found their arguments entirely convincing. the opinion of the Mint devs seems to be that there's a stability vs. security tradeoff, and that Ubuntu chose one point on the spectrum, while Mint chose another. And that for a typical desktop machine sitting behind a router without a lot of ports open (or behind a corporate firewall), the tradeoff Mint chose is a reasonable one. I've seen several attempts to explain why Mint should not be trusted, but they seem (to me) to eventually reduce to arguments that more security is always better, no matter the cost in stability or convenience.
How many criminal charges were filed against individual engineers for any those 30,000 fatalities last year? How many were convicted? None and none.

You're illustrating my point for me quite nicely. Frankly, I can't think of a criminal conviction, even at the corporate level, for design flaws in the auto industry without going all the way back to the Ford Pinto.
I have too many ideas and too many names but no time to implement all of them. Currently Im working at one of them. And sometimes I have too many names for the same idea, and its tragic because I cant have two domains for the same app, or cant write a book and give it two titles.

My head is a fountain, sometimes I get up from bed by 11pm or 1am to write down that name, and I filled two pages of a notebook with such names and ideas. Not to mention that in the last ten years I bought many domain names but at that time I didnt have advanced skills.
So I told you how I come up with ideas, they come to me at any time. I think its part of personality, just like some others dont have the skills to program. I can help you if you need with names, I dont steal ideas, and ideas are hard to sell.

And to give you some choices: you can either give it a common name or something unique. I think the latter one is for really creative types. You d like to be a Spotify, not a HackerNewsify.
Due process is not required, but neither are many smart decisions. The point of due process is to increase the chances that you didn't do an innocent person harm.

I think it's very reasonable to say, "We won't suspend your account arbitrarily, and if someone asks us to suspend your account, we'll follow these procedures in making the decision."
I'm surprised they didn't give a justification as to why they couldn't just adopt Parquet[0].

[0] https://parquet.apache.org/
So anyone thinking planned obsolesce might move itself up the Apple priority list? Their per quarter revenue is still massive, but Wall Street always expects more. At its current rate of stock buy back, Apple could buy back all of its stocks and go private in a few years. They could rid themselves of market fluctuations in regard to stock and pump out products while continuing making the ridiculous amounts or revenue and overcome the need to take shortcuts for the sake of Wall Streets obsession with non-stop growth.
Texas Lures Data Centers, Not for Jobs but for Revenue
Not coding specifically, but better problem solving, yes. Coding happens to do a good job of teaching that. I think we should be pushing personal finance in schools before coding imho. Most people learn nothing about budgeting, loans, investments, etc. in school and I think that is a bigger problem
The PC have not dropped significantly in price. High end gaming PC (that you build yourself) always costed about 1500-2000$. It is just that the majority of tasks could be done in lower and lower segments of the market.
That’s a logistic function, not an exponential.
I mean, if nothing else, you have to respect the dedication to creating complete and utter shit.
50.6b net income on 39.4% gross margins. A bit early to be writing Apple's obituary or anything even close. Retail is suffering nationwide and I suspect Apple is caught up in this decline.
> Once that "last mile" is handled, what else is that truck going to do until the next train shipment arrives? It'll sit doing nothing

If you're a responsible freight truck company, you want to avoid this situation at all costs. There's always cargo that wants to be shipped - the only scarce resources are drivers and tractor units, and some companies even let multiple drivers share the tractors to maximize the usage of their tractors (that really depends on the company though, there are also companies where every driver "owns" his tractor).

> The fact remains we don't have enough rail to service most of the country, and nobody is paying for new rail

Yes, indeed. The beginnings of the stock markets actually were railroad construction companies, but these days the financial markets only care about the next big unicorn and not about creating something with real long term value, which a train track certainly is given that, once the track is laid, the land belongs to the company and the only major investments required are 50-year overhauls and regular maintenance. It's a shame.
Came to note the same... really like async functions.
Apparently the keyword in my originally quoted text was "overall", as the UN report includes that figure (http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html):

Among the residents of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, there had been up to the year 2005 more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children and adolescents who were exposed at the time of the accident, and more cases can be expected during the next decades. Notwithstanding the influence of enhanced screening regimes, many of those cancers were most likely caused by radiation exposures shortly after the accident. Apart from this increase, there is no evidence of a major public health impact attributable to radiation exposure two decades after the accident. There is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure. The incidence of leukaemia in the general population, one of the main concerns owing to the shorter time expected between exposure and its occurrence compared with solid cancers, does not appear to be elevated. Although those most highly exposed individuals are at an increased risk of radiation-associated effects, the great majority of the population is not likely to experience serious health consequences as a result of radiation from the Chernobyl accident. Many other health problems have been noted in the populations that are not related to radiation exposure.
All depends on the cost of parts. Part cost is very low right now...I advise people to get it fixed ASAP if they have the money! You never know what it will do--part cost bounces around like the stock market. Last year it bounced really high there for a bit, and now it's come back down.

The backlight, LCD, digitizer (touch "web"), and top glass are all one piece. They come bonded from the factory. I never recommend glass-only repairs, and they're nearly impossible to do yourself. Some shops will do them, but realistically, with the 5 series screen cost so low right now, there's no reason to risk digitizer issues with a glass-only repair. (It's very difficult to replace only the glass without breaking the delicate digitizer "web" right below it.)

From what we can tell, there is very little difference between an OEM display and the ones repair shops sell. The 6 model is slightly thicker. On a 5, you probably won't notice it.

It is all about the warranty if you choose to get it replaced from a shop--some percentage of the screens are just going to have issues, and you want a shop that stands behind their work. (No repair shop warranty will cover if you drop or break the screen, though!)
I often think that Google Reader was the worst thing to happen to RSS. It became the standard everyone used, but never implemented feed authentication, forever preventing the idea of premium subscription feeds from succeeding.

With all the complaints about page weight, tracking, and overzealous advertising, the idea that I could just pay to subscribe to an RSS feed has more appeal than ever.
Microsoft didn't force that, they reflected it. Microsoft just made their software facilitate what users actually wanted to do. They don't care about all that tedious effort to scroll and selectively trim and indent and format quotes for a neatly curated conversation. They just want to start typing. They just want all that junk out of their way. Microsoft merely reduced resistance to what users were already finding natural to do.