skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It must be very difficult to figure out which number is up.
It's amazing how many Americans believe the propaganda about how free and liberal we are. Except I have to pay taxes to the US even if I don't live there and can't play poker legally if I do.
I actually just had a small laughter right now by reading it. That's how good it is.

Still smiling after a good minute. Thanks for sharing it.
Rather than simply insulting me, you could perhaps propose exactly what the other options are, besides those two, that you think I'm missing here.

I will then either accept that you are correct and admit that I was wrong, or else show how the additional options you propose are actually subsumed into one of the two options that I've named above.
KDE is not the right place for Thunderbird
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> It was deliberately released by someone internal.

I dunno. If delivery employees know that the company is doing well, they might start demanding better pay.
Thank you! I read the whole article but couldn't find the "here's where to buy it" link. (Maybe I just missed it.) I have no need for a d120 but I have the WANT for one.

EDIT: check out other DiceLabs creations, crazy stuff in there. Link:

http://www.mathartfun.com/DiceLabDice.html
Thank you for taking the time to reply! I'd mention somewhere that it is a web app! Other Window users might be less inclined to take a dive if they think it is going to be Linux/Mac only due to the mockup.
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I consider myself a fairly technical user and I gave up on Fedora after it broke down in two releases after another. IIRC Distrowatch had the same experience around that time.

I like the idea, I just haven't taken time to go back and try again since then, and other distros have stepped up so I didn't have to either.

Maybe the author has had similar experiences that might have affected the choices?
I'm impressed by their plan to 5X their top-line in one year and improve their margin at the same time (which would indicate either raising prices or reducing subsidies).
If CloudFlare is friendly towards DDoS services, that's awesome. Maybe I'll do the reverse of this article: create a DDoS-for-hire site, have CloudFlare protect my site, I'll charge for the service in Bitcoin, then not launch any attack. Maybe I, too, can rake in $100K for doing nothing. /s
Fedex was saved by a night at the casino. Anything is possible.
A point mentioned above, which I agree with, is that this need not be a zero-sum game. I'm not ashamed of my opportunities; I want everyone to have them.
The bigger issue is that once you go past the 5 platonic solids (4,6,8,12,20 sided) you have to play games with the shape and placement of faces.
So, the jobs that leave the US go to China, but maybe the company can increase sales/invest more because they have better economics, and then grow, and then hire more people. Its only a net loss in the short term, not necessarily forever.
No, it is not. However, being able to break out problems into smaller pieces and solving them piece by piece should be a basic skill taught at school or home. If they want to code, then let them.
The big missing thing is modules, which aren't in the kangax compatibility table.
They should work smarter. Individual ability to effect change is negligible in the global scheme. Aggregate ability is what matters. People who seem able to effect global (or large-scale) change are better (or more successful) at combining the abilities of others. Any individual doctor in Doctors without Borders is ineffectual. The combined actions of their organization have real, positive, impact.

So instead of wasting their time on individual efforts that go nowhere or have no lasting effect, smart people should contribute their resources to a collective organization. Either by assembling such an organization and managing it, or by being a part of such an organization and providing skills/competency to it.
There was no link to buy it! Just a mention of Dice Labs. That or I missed the "buy it here" link myself.

I found it a little strange since the purpose of the article seems to be to try and sell some pre-orders of the die but there wasn't a link to go order it.
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I agree with you on this. I used lisp/scheme a fair bit in 2004-2008 and over time have gravitated to C++. Not being able to treat memory as a first class primitive ends up being restrictive eventually.
Young Sabrina Pasterski, next Einstein, built her plane and flew it solo at 14
Time to find a 'Made in America' 3d-Printer for my next fabricator
Great stuff. I'm hopefully setting my HTC Vive up tonight, so I'll be giving this a shot very soon.

There seems to be a significant lack of simple starting points for common scenarios in VR (and yes, I know it's very early). I'm just trying to work on something for a field that is very outside of gaming (so there's no help for me locally), and ramping up on all of this on your own is pretty dang time consuming.

I've been working on prototyping some stuff for the Rift in Unity and, while it's fairly easy to do, there's also a ton of outdated info out there already. And I can't tell if I should just be spending more money on some basic assets and prefabs or if there's a better route. Especially since I'm not looking to make games.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976158
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One reason that was never merged was because it was a flawed patch to a non-problem. - Erin @ SpiderOak
In business, whenever I select vendors I consider their motives and not their promises: What will they be motivated to do for me? Am I a big enough account to matter to them?

In this case, the motives I can imagine are marketing (make their brand more familiar to people outside Wall St, give people some personal connection to them, and have a political claim to serving more than Wall St) or meeting some regulatory requirements (as described in the article). But who knows; maybe there is more money in small depositors than I think.
Yeah, "Singapore is not for everyone" seems an extremely odd argument to me, given that unlike a health club or a gated community, the majority of Singapore's residents don't have any easy way to leave.

The headline of this article is:
"More than half of S'poreans would migrate if given a choice: Survey"

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Singapore/Story/A1S...
Bernie Sanders Facebook groups shut down by Hillary Clinton supporters
Netflix doesn't "own" House of Cards.

Media Rights Capital "owns" House of Cards, Netflix distributes the show. Even then MRC's rights are probably limited because they bought the rights to the concept from the BBC who originally did House of Cards as a mini-series.
Extrusion 3D printers derive from the research of the RepRap project, by Bowyer of Bath University, it is GPL.

The MakerBot derives from this GPLed work - the first MakerBot parts were printed by a RepRap.

This is a RepRap tradition that a RepRap print the parts for new RepRaps, a ceremonial self replication.

So the MakerBot's intellectual property is not wholly their own and in fact is derives from a GPL licensed work.

Is this a GPL violation or did MakerBot relicense the RepRap from Bath ?

Perhaps the MakerBot is a 'clean room' redesign of the RepRap, but Pettis, MakerBot's founder was involved from the beginning and built RepRaps and the the MakerBot designs evolution (and initial part printing) from the RepRap is well documented by Make magazine.

MakerBots not being GPL licensed seems like a GPL violation but IANAL.
A quick glance at https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/5a3296417d23d1ecc90... indicates that publications are delayed by this many minutes before being publicly visible.

Thought the code in the repo is 4 years old and could be outdated and I really just spent 2 minutes looking at it, including the googling for the code.
True. The problem I remember about a friend's d100 was that it was basically a golf ball and the damn thing rolled and rolled and rolled...
How to write better QA tests for faster, more reliable manual QA
Everything old is new again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3UiKkQ3GE. This does look very interesting though; I feel like this is the storage solution that I've been looking for.
>the HOA doesn't own my house.

The HOA doesn't need ownership. They have a valid contractual claim to limit the use of the property based on the person who originally owned the property and elected to make it a part of the HOA. Any buyer accepts those limitations.

When you purchase a piece of property you are not always getting rights to everything you might think. You may not have mineral or water rights. The property may have an easement in place.

>And I was never part of the HOA, yet am required (compelled) to join and abide by it.

You are never forced to join an HOA. A piece of property is part of an HOA or it is not. You choose whether you want that property or not. There is no force and no compulsion involved.

>Contracts are irrelevant

On the contrary. It is all about contracts.
Yeah, I don't know what the term is, either. But I learned the lesson early on. Even amongst those in the know, reserve accepting the words as truth as even knowledge people don't know when to quit when they reach the perimeter of their ignorance.

Take a most recent example that has nothing to do the topic at hand: VW Vanagon camper vans. We took our '81 Westy to a campout that was a bunch of VW Westfalia camper vans (with the cute pop-top tents on the roof, for the uninitiated). Think these folks can bore you with the intimate details of Westies you never knew you didn't care about? Ohhhhh, yeah. These folks know their Westies, and they'll make you wish you never asked. A couple of ladies are admiring ours (as well they should, as it's in excellent shape). They were debating whether the rear air intakes should be metal or plastic. They were absolutely sure that an early Vanagon such as ours should have metal. They were mostly right. Except for the part where VW put out a diesel version in the middle of the '81 model year, at which time VW switched to plastic air intakes for all models.

My point? Oh, I've got one, bear with me. The point is that even when knowledgable people get most of the details right, don't assume that every single detail is correct. In the example of the article, they got most of the way there and then...didn't know when to quit. It seems to me that they started the article with a decent, but not great, grasp of the topic. When they hit the parts that they were a little fuzzy on, they trudged on regardless, got it wrong, and now some question everything they've published. The authors were knowledgable, but not experts, but that didn't stop them from writing like they are experts. Or something something Dunning-Kruger, I'm not sure.
I think a better conclusion to draw from Dunning-Kruger is that self assessment can be problematic.
Regarding #2: I have a complete version of McCarthy's original evaluator at https://programmingpraxis.com/2011/11/01/rip-john-mccarthy/, and it doesn't use a single mutation.
Most interesting Linux Distro in 2016:

Ubuntu on Windows 10 (UbuNTu)

This has already massively improved my productivity in writing cross-platform C++ code.
Voxels, in most voxel engines, are cubes and not points in 3-space. Likewise, in most modern retro-styled pixel art games, the intent really is for the pixels—from the game engine's perspective, not the display's—to be squares. Often a game's pixel is rendered using a square grid of multiple display pixels per engine pixel.
http://node.green/
>> "the state of knowledge about a project is at its lowest at the beginning"

Sounds like the Cone of Uncertainty:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Uncertainty
If Middle America wants those jobs, Middle Americans are welcome to start a fashion label of their own. But since they seem to thrive on blandness in the Midwest I doubt that's going to happen.
The Sichuan area of China gets ungodly hot during summer. Up to 40C isn't uncommon.
If it were a public company, I'd agree with you. I don't think the motivations are the same for a private company as they have direct lines of communication with all of their investors.
If you're wrong, you're potentially spending $4K to mark yourself as an especially likely target for someone who doesn't even have the resources to attack you. It's not JUST risk mitigation, it's also about furthering this ridiculous economy that's been springing up since the first XDCC bots were born.
Generators aren't supported in Safari either.

And if you don't want generators transformed, then why are you using the regenerator plugin?

http://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-regenerator/

Maybe you should have bothered to read the documentation you claim doesn't exist. Or maybe you should help out your coworkers by quitting your job.
Oh? Let's replace "Arch" with "Gentoo" in the article and see if these claims sound familiar:

Gentoo Linux is a great distro for those who want to learn everything about Linux. Because you have to install everything manually, you learn all the bits and pieces of a Linux-based operating system.

Gentoo is the most customizable distribution.

Gentoo also one of the best rolling releases. It’s always updated. Users always run the latest packages.

Gentoo is also known for having excellent documentation. The Gentoo Wiki is my to-go resource for everything Linux related.

What I like the most about Gentoo is that is offers almost every package and software that’s available for “any” Linux distribution
In particular I've found going for a run is great for routing around or through a programming problem . . . in fact I've found that I can't code well if I'm not running regularly.
In a word no. Not everyone has what it takes to program.

Programming takes a lot of problem solving abilities with some math and logic as well.
Ask HN: What are the best open-source iOS MP3 players?
I'd like to know if anything ready-to-use is out there.
Atari 7800 engineer reflects on losing the American console market to Nintendo
So what is all that data good for? The article even says it's a "build it and they will come" project.

It would be interesting to have a "smart city" project which simply mounted a camera ring on city vehicles and inspected the visible infrastructure daily. Pothole? Missing sign? Puddle that doesn't drain? Street light out? Graffiti? Recognize those and generate trouble tickets for them.
Which is what I thought...so why the Netflix hate? Shouldn't we be instead be getting angry at the copyright holders essentially exercising monopolistic control of the market?
There's a great amount of manufacturing in the US. In fact, the US is the world's second largest manfacturer.

The reality is you can't open a manufacturing shop in a hip and gentrified urban neighborhood for "cool points" and expect to keep costs down. You want factories in poorer rural areas, not a place where the media home sale price is close to $700,000.

The China or bust mentality serves big business, but the reality is that you can do domestic manufacturing at a decent cost if you desired it.
But I want it now!

$ nvm ls v6
N/A

$ echo ':('
:(

On a more serious note this really is an awesome release. Kudos to everyone that works on Node.js!

Ever since the "reunification" of node.js/io.js there's been a whirlwind of great activity both in adding features as well as LTS releases (which are critical for long term adoption of the platform).
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What Google should make instead of their OpenPGP extension
Yeah, just like Linux except when it's not. It's useful for folks forced to use Windows because of regulations, but definitely not preferred over a real Linux distribution.
They are one in the same.
Wow, such a big news! I have heard so much praise about it and have been always want to use it. Now dream comes to true. Thanks!
interesting...considering JavaScript itself is a shaky language.
>It's unfair to discuss gender and race without considering class.

Or other issues. Is someone cis or trans. Or maybe even non-binary. Are they nuero typical. What about the types of parents they had; were the parents verbally abusive (or perhaps worse). How tall are they. How attractive are they (especially with regards to factors that one cannot control, at least without extreme cost of resources). Were they medicated as a child, especially using off label prescriptions of medications show long term effects are not well studied in young children. How much of an introvert/extrovert are they?

The thing that polarizes this discussion is that a very small number of the potential factors which result in privilege are discussed repeatedly, and so people who may have benefited from those select factors but who lost out with regards to the factors not discussed tend to become very agitated of the selective focus being given during discussions.
That Quora post perfectly illustrates my confusion with all the claims about Node: every example of Node usage there is 3 to 5 years old, as far as I can tell.

I'm really interested in what large-scale production apps, commercial or in-house enterprise, are currently using Node on the server? For sure, not just misinterpretation and wishful thinking?
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Can't wait on that Exponentiation Operator and A.p.includes!
Capacitor, BigQuery’s next-generation columnar storage format
For iOS Devs: https://github.com/mobileplayer/mobileplayer-ios
I would agree with this. It's broader and still applicable.
Here is the store page:
http://www.mathartfun.com/DiceLabDice.html

Click on 'Add to Cart' for 'd120 Disdyakis Triacontahedron'
Yes, and I always use mathematics as an analogy. Throughout our educational careers we are pummeled by a barrage of concepts and ideas that are hardly ever practical in day to day life but yet we are expected to have an appreciation / rough understanding of them. Same with coding. Sure not everybody will like it, and a majority may actively dislike it but understanding what it is and having a rough understanding of the basic concepts (loops, booleans) is paramount.
I always come back to Fedora. I started using Linux in 1995ish, after not quite a year using Windows 95 (which I'd switched to from an Amiga 3000). Soon found my way to Red Hat Linux (which became Fedora). It's mostly been my desktop and laptop OS of choice for that entire time. I'm tried others, I'm familiar with others, due to supporting many other distros over the years. But, Fedora always seems to hit the sweet spot for stability, Open Source fidelity and contribution to moving the state of the art forward, ease of use, package selection and modernity, and the Just Works factor is historically very high (even without adding binary blob repositories, but some drivers have needed to come from third party repos over the years).

yum (now dnf, which is a name I hate) is also my favorite of the mainstream package managers. It nearly perfectly balances ease of use with advanced capabilities, and maintaining private repos is an absolute dream (stick signed packages in a directory on a web server, run createrepo; repository is done!), compared to anything else. apt is a great, but managing repos for it is just awful (though I haven't had a chance to try aptly, which appears to potentially resolve this issue, though it still seems to be vastly more complex than createrepo).

So, yeah, Fedora remains my favorite, through many years and many attempts using other distros. I've flirted with Ubuntu a few times, going so far as having it as my primary laptop OS for a while. Partly it was because of the popularity of it; it's sometimes easier to install stuff on Ubuntu because the developers are more likely to be using Ubuntu. But, it's not worth the other trade offs, to me.

Also, I like that Fedora ships a close to stock, very clean, version of the most recent Gnome desktop. It feels very nicely integrated, while some of the alternative desktop variants feel bolted together from different pieces. Lots of folks seem to want to revert to the old 2.0 style Gnome, but I don't dislike modern Gnome (except that it has some awful quirks for multiple displays, where both displays do the shrink-and-dim thing, which is terrible for use with projections, presentations, watching movies, etc.).
I was just able to download it (for macOS) from the front page.

https://nodejs.org/en/
I have the feeling Babel has a hidden lock-in.

When I look at the compat tables, everything is getting green, looks like a bright future, without the need of Babel anymore.

But I find myself using post-ES2015 features all the time, because, why not? Babel gets me the latest fix.

(static) class properties, decorators, bind... Also JSX! Even if all browsers are completely on ES2015 in the next months, I can't throw Babel out :D

But luckily it seems like the next ES releases are all much smaller, so maybe the browser-manufacturers will have caught up in 2016...
I have a small plastic container of different kinds of dice, which I use to generate passwords from my own Diceware-style word lists (see http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html). I like the 10 sided dice so that I can roll 4 and pick any number from 0000 to 9999. For an RPG that needs a "random" percentage, two of these (in different colors) would suffice. Any board game store has an assortment of crazy dice for sale.
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what distros have you tried?
last 2 years have gotten rid of most of the pulseaudio/alsa annoyances, i didnt have to do any configuration on multiple machines (xubuntu 14.04, manjaro).
i have one machine with an amd e-2000 that requires the nomodeset, which was annoying to fix, but that's also a pretty niche system. Overall my impression is that most hardware works out of the box pretty nice.
I guess the only thing that would prevent this from working is having the linux subsystem available on the host (and of course support for all the syscalls being made).
You still need security for these trains of trucks.

People can just "security guard" the trucks. Sleep, play video games, whatever.

Get all the benefits of safety, constant movement, better efficiency, maintain SOME of the jobs. Require mechanic training to make it a skilled job, etc.
Illegal is not immoral; copyright is a legal construct designed to reward content creators for their works for a limited period of time before it enters the public domain. Our history, culture, and heritage is a fabric of works created by individuals that enter the public consciousness. If you co-opt culture and won't offer it to people through legitimate means, don't be surprised if they go to the frictionless and better value proposition of copying information from the internet without permission.
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>Hell, now there are people talking about a basic income for doing nothing

Yes, there are. And you know why? Because jobs are being more automated as we speak. What will people do? Where will they be employed? Instead of being happy for introducing driverless vehicles, automated machinery to maintain and harvest our food, we grow scared for our jobs and turn into Luddites. We should be thinking about improving humanity as a whole, not just going "me me me me!".

And I feel you are a bit blinded from your American standpoint. You know who paid for your GI bill and your ability to be in the military? The state - the working people. You most likely didn't produce anything of value in the military, nor did you likely protect anybody. Jose worked his ass off for the tomatoes on your tables, while you most likely stood around with a gun, if that.

>I agree with scripture, work or don't eat

There are many, many people on this planet, and in the US who DO work, but still can't find enough food to eat. Think about that.