skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Dispel all the myths you want, but until you dispel the "SVN can't do offline commits", I have no use for it. That's the only reason I read the article, to find out that I'm behind the times and SVN finally caught up ten years later. Alas, it's simply, "see, SVN is just as good as git, and better in exactly one respect (huge monolithic repos)", except still severely lacking what is common use case for me.
Huh. I appealed a parking ticket in SF one time and it was dismissed. I got a street cleaning ticket that said I parked on a Tuesday but the address on the ticket was on the Thursday street cleaning side. Just pointed that out in a letter and everything was dropped.

However, my scenario is pretty straightforward. I'm guessing anything more complex is going to get denied. You can always appear in front of a judge.
I think concats like 1 + "111" can be disabled with import scala.Predef.{find_right_implicit => _,_}. Cant imagine how many things it will break though
Does too much pornography numb us to sexual pleasure?
Much of the code in the fantastic C Interfaces and Implementations [0] is inspired by Modula-3. It's a fantastic book to work through after finishing K&R for anyone wanting to learn how to write safe and reusable C code.

(Regular HN readers will recognize the author of the top review on Amazon.)

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Interfaces-Implementations-Techniques-...
I see the distinction you're trying to make, but it's not referencing the design.

Are you suggesting collision detection is not designed to prevent collisions?
When I was doing my PhD I ended up putting all my development into one repo and all my documents in a second because of GitHub's per repo rules. I didn't know about an academic pricing (they might have had it, but I think it was added after I finished) and I asked about the rules because I wanted a number of small repos, but all told would only be a few hundred meg at most. I was told no, so I decided on the two repo strategy. It worked, but it was awkward.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11666734

^ for more comments
Relax, I'm just trying to point out that Tesla did not intend to build a car that would run into stationary objects.
I interpreted "stronger" as "more constraining", which would mean the opposite: able to prove less statements.
It should be simple to switch what's displayed on the screen using javascript.
Honestly I agree with most of your opinion. I do disagree however with this portion:

> So either your insecure, or you're sending dick pics.

While deleting is a big draw I think you're presenting a false choice. Deleting content creates scarcity and a more live experience. Granted it's artificial and to me it's frustrating because I like to keep all content I create, even if it sucks.

I think that coupled with the lack of discoverablity creates more intiment experiences and people are eating it up regardless of the app problems.
The Tesla was designed to avoid this collision. Are you trying to say that Tesla would prefer their car hit stuff?
That's a ridiculous statement.

Like any other bureaucracy, if you get a ticket or citation, you're free to contest it. This wasn't a systematic abuse of power -- it was a bureaucratic oversight.
You'd have to come up with the money to pay those teachers the extra days, though. In my mother's district, their contract is for 191 days - I can't imagine that the union would roll over and work an extra 25% without getting paid for it.
I've been working on something like this for over a year now for Chicago. Most of that time's been spent just simply doing data cleanups.

My most recent update from Monday: https://plot.ly/~red-bin/6.embed

Pretty fucking proud of that, not gonna lie.
> Lastly, this is a huge freebie for individual accounts that now get unlimited repos for $7/month.

It's also nice for student, like myself, who get unlimited private repos for $0 a month.
We've been ready to end the War On Drugs for a decade - coincidentally the very thing responsible for a majority of our prison ills.
It's not always a big deal. The USA got harumphed a lot for signing but not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, and yet it still met its reduction goal while a whole slew of European countries and Canada missed theirs. Actions speak louder than symbolism.
They can still replace it later once they're further along with the rest of the implementation. I doubt they'll keep it.
I know there will be someone saying "We told you so - make games not engines!" (I saw that sentiment several times over the years) but damn, I'm super sad it's come to this... it is the most fun looking engine I've ever seen!
This is super easy to do accidentally if you log into Google while simulating a mobile device in Chrome devtools, because your user agent string tells Google what device you are using.

First verify you don't have an iPhone (or whatever) in your recently used devices: https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity

1. Open Chrome incognito window
2. Open devtools
3. Toggle device mode to iPhone (or whatever)
4. http://google.com
5. Log in

Now go back to recently used devices and you should see the new device.

Occam's razor implies PEBKAC.
Goose Finds Cop and Leads Him to Her Trapped Baby
I think offline encryption works fine if your XMPP server implementes XEP-0198[0]. Prosody doesn't out of the box, but there's a community plugin available[1] for it. The plugins are really easy to install if you're running prosody already, if you're not then ask your XMPP name host. Stream management requires client and server to support this, which Conversations does so I'd assume your server is lacking.

If you're in an OTR converation already, I think the server would just get encrypted garbage, hold it until the other party comes on the network and then pass it off and their client would decrypt it. I haven't read the protocol though TBH.

[0] https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0198.html
[1] https://modules.prosody.im/mod_smacks.html
If you don't want DRM, don't watch media that requires DRM. Nobody is making you use it. It's something you use because want to use Netflix, etc.
In this case, redistribution would be raising wages. It doesn't matter if "the global elite" is mobile. They're not going to move their factory farming operations outside of the US, and if they do, you tariff them when they ship the product back in.
Lightweigt Ruby wrapper around the Electron desktop application engine
You asked for advice on what to do: I'm not a backer and only followed as updates tricked down to here, so take this for what it's worth, almost nothing, get collaborators. Teach some really eager folks the basics and farm out your todos. Pay them if they need it, and build something even larger than you alone can.
Oodles of boilerplate to do stuff that's a (simple and understandable) one-liner in several other languages.

It's a dumbed down language, not a simplified language.
If people go to a media source with the assumption that they're going to be receiving useful information about the world, then I'd consider it a self-evident bad thing for the media source to lie to them and give them information that isn't representative of reality. To put it into machine learning terms, giving people a bunch of training data that is biased (i.e. isn't sampled from the same distribution as reality) is going to train people's judgment to be less in tune with reality.

I don't think I need to argue the laws of the US to make this point, but the press is free to be biased (up to a limit, remember that!) because excessive legal attempts to curtail media bias can tend toward making things worse -- simply putting the people in power in charge of doing the biasing.
Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS): Now Open to All Projects
It's pretty well known that any post that starts with "It's pretty well known" is usually misleading
Wow Gulshan. Youre the best. Thank you much. (:
You need to figure out where to partner with others as well.
None of the suggested alternatives so far are the same as Sunrise's meet feature-- including vyte, Microsoft Invite, Google's Appointment Slots, or calendly.

Meet allows you (the requester) to set the times available for meeting and send a signup page to a single respondent.

It's not about group meetings, or about "office hours" that anyone can sign up for.
The use case is surprisingly broad: a small window of availability for a single meeting.
You can "cache" a dataset in-memory and continue to perform operations on the dataset without having to persist it to disk, unlike MapReduce. Traditional databases can do a lot of that too, but aren't as scalable.
I'll take a wild uneducated guess and guess that they are trying to find the next frontier in "idea incubation" while their current product (YC) is on top of its game. So as to not be "disrupted" by whatever is going to replace YC's idea factory, years from now. The iPhone to their current iPod. In that context, advanced research makes sense.
>They are not acting against your interests

Of course they are. Had they not acted, you would have had a chance at price improvement. Instead, they took your chance for a token payment.
It's been $7 for a while. It was $7/month when I cancelled my service back in 2013. I was paying for private repos when I was doing my PhD thesis and once I finished I just kept my local copies and deleted the GitHub version. Now I just use my GitHub for public projects. All my private projects are on GitLab at the moment.
I find it quite touching how the comments are filled with people telling the developer not to return their kickstarter money because they considered it a donation to allow him to follow his dream.

I suspect there would be enough interest here to drive an open source project too.
Who is "we?" The vast majority of the population thinks everything except marijuana should be illegal. Also, the drug war is not responsible for the majority of our prison ills. The most egregious stuff (three strikes laws) has nothing to do with the drug war.
> Pulling the stick all the way back is the normal stall recovery procedure for an Airbus 330.

Huh? Where? Googling doesn't reveal anything that seems to jive with what you're saying.

https://www.google.com/search?q=airbus+a330+stall+recovery+p...

Perhaps what's happening is that Airbus realized in the aftermath of AF447 that the idea of "pull up, the airplane will do what's right to save you" wasn't a good one and changed their training materials. I don't know for sure as I'm not terribly familiar with Airbus. I do think that the whole input averaging is an awful idea though.
Asian Startup starting to get hit by VC Slowdown
That's a shame. Parking in front of a handicapped-access ramp is a shitty thing to do even if it is legal.
love Cal, call a script to use it in my .bashrc to show current date, user, day/time, logins and filesystem status.

clear
cal
echo "Hey \033[1m$USER\033[0m it's \033[1m`date '+%A %d %B @ %T'`\033[0m" |
tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'
echo "logins:\c" ; who | wc -l
df -h
"Asking someone on a date when it is apparent that they aren't interested is harassment."

> Having autism is harassment.
Pretty good write up. The author glosses over the finance part at their own peril. I'm noticing enterprises with longer and longer payment terms.. As in they mandate their vendors provide net-90, which seems insane to me. It used to be net-60, and even that seemed odd. So be prepared to be flexible to close that sale.
I didn't mean to imply it was invented by webpack or anything (and I used the scarequotes around modern because I'm not sure how long it's been widely used).

I was just pointing out how and with what I use it.
Awesome Opal – additional wrappers for Opal, the Ruby-in-the-browser environment
You could press any button on your key fob, press any door handle, or step in front of the car so it detects an obstacle.
"When Volvo does sell a self-driving car, it will accept full legal responsibility for any accidents that may come. And that is reasonable, because we told the customer he could do something else while the car drives itself.”

Yes.
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A good teacher with a smart class can do wonders, while the same teacher with a dull class can barely tread water.

In small school districts like the one I grew up in, your district can bounce from A+ in the test score rankings with one class of above average intelligence students, to failing the next year when you have a class full of SPED kids, then back again the next year. I've seen it happen, it is what it is. Try as hard as you may, you can't make chicken salad from chicken shit...
Is it just me or if you can't approximate obstacles via a sensor within the complete bounding box of the car -- except for perhaps the top and bottom, can you really even have this feature work reliably?

From a technical perspective, you just don't have all the data necessary, and therefore any solutions will be guesses, hacks and "best efforts", and cannot be improved on via any manor of software update. This voids the "beta" claim made by the company, as no software update could remedy the situation.

Tesla has got to know this, and I think its negligent for them to release a feature (even in "beta") when they know there are hard technical limitations (sensors, not software) that prohibit it from working properly. It puts property and people's lives at risk unnecessarily.

At the minimum, Tesla cars equipped or enabled with these features represent a higher risk to the public, and the owners of these vehicles should be required to carry high risk insurance.
This is a good idea. I was unaware of the 5% rule. Would you consider putting up a site?
I don't think using the phone app is particularly impractical. It's usually as convenient to access as the key fob is, and unlocking it and launching the app isn't that hard.

I will admit that the first thing I did when I got the update that defaulted to dead-man's-switch operation was to put it back the way it was. But I was careful to understand the implications of what I was doing, at least.
> i.e. The real problem with Facebook and the News is that facebook is fucking blatantly spreading propaganda by misrepresenting consensus and then lying about it.

I would say it's good they do that. Just like dang & co diligently try to control what gets to frontpage and what doesn't (specifically, banning certain outlets known to be bad/unreliable and trying to slow down hastily-thunk grab-your-pitchfork movements in favor of rationally-minded and considered stories).

If you don't do this, Trump happens. Trump is a product of a capitalistic-media which kept providing an easy diet of shit. If facebook is preventing brietbart stories from reaching the top, more power to facebook.
Privacy Flaw in iTunes API (Disclosed)
But it should still have sent an email.
Not trying to take away from your extension, which I'm sure is very useful for people who are interested in that kind of thing. I just find it a bit interesting that the article seemed (from my point of view) to imply that the problem with the Facebook trending news headlines is that it is exactly the same as the news headlines from traditional news outlets: it is curated content that is consciously or unconsciously organized to appeal to a particular mindset.

My take-away from the article (which I admit was also my pre-existing bias, so perhaps I injected it) is that the news is essentially a propaganda machine. It reflects the conscious and unconscious biases of the curators and attempts to present a consistent world view. The sad part is how unaware the readership is. From one of the quotes the the author included, people become more extreme in their views when surrounded by others who have the same views. This leads to polarization on every topic -- an us vs. them attitude. With such an attitude no substantial changes can happen. For example, if Trump wins the nomination, how many liberal thinking people would vote for an independent, risking splitting the vote and handing the country to Trump? If Clinton wins the nomination, how many conservative thinking people will allow the Clinton dynasty (the spouse of a former president!) to win the day?

In the end the status quo prevails. So it just seems a bit ironic that your extension, which allows you to dial in your bias even further, is mentioned here. Possibly (if you don't already have it) you can add an option to turn off the trending news headlines altogether :-)
Startup Case Study in How to Listen to Your Customers
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't he host a private repository like the Guardian Project does with his own binary signed with his own key? People would have to manually add the repo, but I believe F-droid lets you do that. Fdroid just wants everything they build to be signed with their key, which to me makes sense. The Pale Moon dev had the same or similar reservations last I checked, but I heard nothing about a private repo.

It would be more work for him of course, maintaining a repo and pushing updates to two locations, but I don't think it would be too much extra work and it sounds like a lot of people are looking for a non-GP repo. Pushing to your own server is easier than updating in an app market anyday.

At the end of the day, he can of course spend his time how he wants, I just think there's a loud if not large group that would like a Google Play Services-less Signal.
It looks like this former uBeam engineer exposed Energous too.
http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2016/04/those-other-guy...

He linked to this story on Energous.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3811296-energous-buy-company...

"Using the 1 watt as our transmitter power translates to 0.000507 watt (0.507 milliwatts or 507 microwatts) at the receiving end. "

But it's even worse than this! The FCC does not allow you to transmit at the full 1 watt (30 dBm) if you focus the energy with more than 6 dB gain. If you want to use a phase array to get 21 dB antenna gain, you must drop your transmit power to 25 dBm or 0.316 watts. Every 3 dBi of antenna gain must be accompanied by 1 dBm decline in transmit power.
US companies generally want to hire people with right to work in US, even if working remote.
The Chinese language family is a pretty big one, at least in terms of population. They all start numbering with Day One as Monday.
That number is not for Civ V specifically, it is across a random sample of Steam users.
This has been a problem for decades. The airline industry is way ahead of automotive here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10
Twitter is not moving away from Scala. Scala continues to grow at a faster rate internally then any other language, and is ~50% of Twitter's backend codebase.
Pretty sure this wont end well for Github. They seem to be making a lot of moves like this recently. It's only a matter of time until a mass migration begins IMO.
This is not the first time BAN have investigated one of their customers.

http://www.resource-recycling.com/images/e-newsletterimages/...
It works for Bittorrent, after all.
I do this in my day job -- international tax lawyer.

As the saying goes, "science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn't done so yet." In theory you can write enough code and SOPs to mirror the laws of multiple countries.

Unfortunately, laws change.

Further, even if the laws remain static, the facts change. People do the weirdest thing -- they change their minds, they do new stuff. Your code and SOPs will have to be adapted.

In theory you can write code and SOPs to handle current law, keep up with changes in the law, and accommodate human frailties, indecision, and mistakes.

Then in order to make the code and SOPs profitable, you must push enough customers through the pipeline at a high enough price in order to make a profit.

It is here that I think you fail in your quest. I happen to know -- from talking to trustees in the Cook Islands -- the approximate number of asset protection trusts established every year. It is a number whose small size surprised me. This tells me the market for international business structures is small.

The market is especially small after you chase away all of the bullshit artists who want to do skanky stuff offshore. Those doors are closing all the time. It's that "the law changes" thing I talked about.

So. Legitimate users of offshore structures. Small number.

Your cost to build a system with software instead of humans. Big number.

The actual tax benefits to companies like those on HN that are larger than a breadbox and smaller than the Hoover Dam -- not a big economic benefit to the income statement. (Hint: it involves the time value of money, which means that you have to be pushing a lot of dollars through the pipes to make the present value/future value numbers to look like "jackpot!").

Sorry. I'm probably just a crusty old incumbent ripe for disruption.

Or there is another possibility -- humans, even at $1,000/hour, are cheaper than code.
I gave him $20.

I don't want a cent back. I didn't pay for a "product", I paid to watch him try this novel approach to a game engine. Money well spent.

Now "Transformers 3" on the other hand... I paid to watch that too. Michael Bay, you owe me $12 back for that stinker.
No you can almost never appear in front of a judge. Random people from around town (who may not even be lawyers) that adjudicate administrative (extrajudicial) trials are not judges.

That makes more sense when you realize that final appeals from these adjudicators' decisions go to the director of the agency.
Right, over the whole year not so substantial. Assuming an even distribution of tourism per month (false, but I lack a better model), that's about 500,000 per month. This is essentially doubling the tourism during the events.

As the article says, sending tourists into an outbreak of a new virus does not seem prudent.
You lost me here:

you can consider the typical “coin operated” sales person at a mature company to be more akin to a script kiddie than a hacker.

The terminology you use belies a lack of understanding of sales' place in an org and is frankly just insulting. To borrow from Lars Dalgaard [1]:

The “coin operated idiots” mindset toward sales is a mistake for a number of reasons. For one thing, it’s a kind of bigotry, because it basically writes off an entire workforce of human beings who create so much value everyday. An outstanding and involved sales force can often make or break a company. It’s why companies with an inferior product but a superior sales force sometimes still win.

But the real problem with the coin-operated idiots mindset is that it relegates salespeople only to the field or to the phone, when they really should be considered part of the company leadership. Not this decapitated thing you “slot onto” your organization when you need to...

Having a salesperson in the room means bringing in a bullshit meter. The sales rep is the one who is going to say, “I know you’re excited that this product was built on/with such-and-such, but so what? That’s not going to excite my customers. How is this differentiated from everything else out there?” They’ll ask the hard questions.

[1] http://a16z.com/2015/06/01/clean-up-your-startups-b-s-bring-...
I'm getting a "Error 403 - This web app is stopped."
That can be handled by gitattributes already. Something like this should help:

[diff "the_file_extension"]
textconv = the_conversion_tool
binary = true

You just need to find/write the conversion utility you need. iconv could do that with `iconv -f UTF-16 -t your-terminal-encoding`