skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. Unity is the engine I use, these engines are immensely valuable to developers like me, I can't invest years into building my own stable core right now, and although it has its rough edges and problems, it suits my projects very well. Builds to all sorts of targets, too. For my latest project I'm using the FMOD middleware for positional 3D audio. On the graphical asset side of things, I paint everything in Photoshop, and animate it in the amazing animation software Spine (which has an open source Unity runtime).
Try http://www.wsj.com/article_email/twitter-bars-intelligence-a...
Rust by Example was actually not originally a Rust team project. It was an independent work that was handed over to the Rust team for maintenance by the original author.

As I understand, it received basic polishing and updates to make sure it was correct, but hasn't been edited much beyond that.
New release of HTTPS Checker Adds log of pages and scanning of logged in areas
Sneakers was just as much about social engineering as it was its technical nature. I love this movie. I think I must listen to is as I work a few times a month.

One thing I took away from this movie is Whistler able to solve pieces while listening. It showed me that I should always listen first and interject my input after :-)
Would be interesting how this compares to tools like pixelmatch [1] which basically compares each pixel within YIQ color space using euclidian color distance.

[1] https://github.com/mapbox/pixelmatch-cpp
A better one-up would have been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Knox
In my opinion, the blaming is very one-sided. I mean what kind of municipality sells such rights to a private entity?
You do to get simulations working properly.

Also if you are offloading stuff to the cloud you need low latency.
With all this in mind we still made it to the top of the food chain(not using the scientific term). What we lack in physical prowess we more than make up for in intelligence and our ability to use tools.
I'm just launching a file manager (https://fman.io). In general I'd say use web / SaaS whenever possible. If you do go with desktop, you may be interested in a blog post I just wrote about the technologies we ended up picking: https://fman.io/blog/picking-technologies-for-a-desktop-app-....
Democratic accountability does not depend upon the size of an entity. Instead it relies on how said entity is internally structured (e.g. direct democracy vs. more representative models) and how prone to corruption it is.

Personally I think nation states are rather burdensome. In business one has to handle countless different legal and tax frameworks while fundamentally every human has comparable needs. Why operate ~196 governments when one government would suffice? The inefficiency is just mind boggling in my opinion.
Yet the same feature can be a pain in the ass as you don't control your upgrade destiny. I know, I know, git orf mah lawn!

But when you see normal folks totally confused because the developer decided to "upgrade" their experience in a way that was totally out of the users hands, it can be cringey.
You can download the latest .apk here:

http://dl.bintray.com/rfo-basic/android/v01.78/Basic.apk

(Don't take my word for it though - that would be a security risk. I could be a malicious actor! Poke around on the site and you'll find the link.)

Incidentally, I always do this (or use F-Droid). Google Play gives me the creeps. It angers me when supposedly "free" (as in libre) software only offers binary downloads through Google Play, or makes the .apk difficult to find. Prominent links to a downloadable .apk, people!
Uber, Lyft Vow to Stop Driving in Austin After Voters Affirm Regulations
But then you can recognize that situation, and ask why it occurs?
> merely 800€

I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I hope so...
Apple Music guyz should have Apple Music subscription to play tracks in app. That's the way Apple Music API works. You can use this app without subscription, but music playback will be unavailable.
There should be a truth-in-advertising law

Aren't there? I'm sure I've seen the source of the water printed on the water bottles.
For more than 3 years now I am making a decend full time income with a desktop cross browser testing application ( http://www.browseemall.com)

It is for a rather small customer group but still works great and is growing modestly.
Right, but you can't write intensive algorithms and procedures in JS, because it would be very slow, you have to move those to the server side, which incurs the network lag.
"Look, we're not encouraging over-consumption of sugar. It's just that we know that people will over-consume sugar, and we make food packed with sugar, and we market it to those people."
God is not in conflict with observable reality. He/she/it, if God exists, is outside of it (I.e the unmoved creator)

Science works because the universe is intelligible and in it's creation was made with logic that we can discover with the scientific process.

Problem I see with taking a "if it doesn't pass the scientific method, I am not going to entertain it" worldview, is that you box yourself into a tiny corner of the whole of experience.

There are many things that cannot be tested by the scientific method, it doesn't mean they are not possible.

Even in science you have conflicting views around theories. How is this any different that the different religions?
Thanks corndoge, your link is great. I love the check-list layout.
> "fundamentally every human has comparable needs"

That assumption has been at the core of some wonderful experiments in the 20th century, and the people who had the fortune to live under regimes based on that assumption showed their preference for moving to exactly the alternatives that the assumption is trying to exclude. Or tried to do so and got killed by the people who knew what their true needs were.
> a company producing sugary snacks and diabetes pills does not force or even encourage over consumption of sugar

First of all, it is going a bit far to say they don't encourage over consumption of sugar. Nestle dropped a couple of billion on advertising last year [1], and that is primarily sugary food, or at least food that's broadly unhealthy.

Secondly, what about the tobacco companies? They did not force anyone to consume their products either; but with strict limiting of their marketing, especially to young children, the rate of smoking has gone down a lot in the States.

Studies show that willpower is a limited resource [2]. If you are being assaulted on all sides by a barrage of advertising, cheap snacks on display, and have been marketed to from your childhood, you are going to have a much harder time abstaining from these products.

I understand, or at least guess that you are putting forth a point of personal responsibility here – "Hey, don't eat those Hot Pockets, and you will be all good". But there are a ton of obstacles to that. These large food companies have pretty much ensured that most "convenience" stores carry only their products, and have little to no fresh produce or what you would consider "healthy" food. If you live in a poor neighborhood, a lot of times the only place that sells produce is located really far away, like 5 or 10 miles.

Thus, for some people it is clearly easier to eat healthy, and maybe some of that is on account of their socioeconomic class, current health, etc. But extrapolating that to all people should be a bit more nuanced, and maybe these companies' marketing should be a bit more regulated.

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[1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/286531/nestle-advertising...

[2] https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/willpower-limited-resource.pd...
It really depends on the usage of the application. What does it do? What features does it provide? What are the requirements of those features?
You may need to consider a hybrid app, that has both a desktop component and a web service. If you can implement one or more of the features as a service, it will allow you to update them more easily.
Also, keep in mind that a desktop app limits your install base to an OS, depending on its implementation, while an HTML5 application can be run almost anywhere.
The application that I want to build is for a niche market (but not for companies), that is why I am in doubt between desktop and web.

One thing that makes me want to stay way from web is that if this thing does not work, I would like people to continue using the application, even if I don't update it anymore. If it runs on a server, I will not be able to stop the server until everyone stops using the application for some time. I know some people kill services without thinking too much, but this is a very small niche and my name is relatively known there..

The other reasons of wanting to stay way from web-only is that then I have to take care myself of everyones' data (think application data, settings, etc.); front-end web developments is a pain for me (too many options, none good) as I'm mainly a backend developer; and then there's the latency problem.

As I think I said above, my application is something like a productivity application, where everyone does his own thing and there's no intrinsic need for "social" or "sharing" things. The only reason I can think for web is discoverability, hence my doubts, if "discoverability" beats everything else (for desktop apps)..
I think you are misreading it. It is listing the top 10 possibilities that might represent the number plate and the expected accuracy of each one, with the top suggestion being correct.
There are wire guided torpedoes and missiles that carry a spool with them and pay it out as they travel. Presumably this is a good thing because it can't be intercepted and jammed. Anyway, that missile carries 4200m of wire, which would be plenty for an ROV to explore most of the cave in the article before sending people, who could follow its wire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW
For details, see http://pastebin.com/raw/1W88ywuu

The actual test:

(defparameter *model*
(make-model (cl-json:decode-json-from-source #P"/tmp/json.test")))

(with-table (farmers :title "farmers"
:model *model*
:accessors ((farmer-name "Full name")
(farmer-fruits "Fruits")))
(dolist (farmer (table-entities farmers))
(when (ppcre:scan "Bob" (farmer-name farmer))
(with-table (fruits :title "fruits"
:model *model*
:accessors ((fruit-name "Name"))
:index t)
(return
(loop
for fid in (farmer-fruits farmer)
collect (fruit-name (iget fruits fid))))))))

The :accessors arguments is used to resolve field access once for all when visiting a table. If :index is true, we build a temporary hash-table based on identifiers.
Research finds clues to uncanny electrical conductivity in Earth's mantle
First Impressions: Rails 5 on Google App Engine
I don't really understand what the artist follow does? Maybe have it highlight releases from bands I follow
Beyond crisis: four ways public relations can reinvent itself
1) Yes, still have to see what the results are in terms of KYC etc. though.

3) What I mean is that they should allow companies to identify themselves as a LLC/Limited instead of a OÜ so your customers see "Webshop LLC" instead of "Webshop OÜ". While it might not be feasible to enact in Estonia, some jurisdictions do this.

5/6) It's not that I can't go to Estonia, it's that I won't because it's not very high up on my list. If it was cheap, easy and/or I had some special reason (like a conference, which there also are plenty of) that might move it higher, but I'm not going to go out of my way just to find out when there are plenty of other places on that list. Might sound harsh, but that is how it is.
The one that believes in trickle down economics!
That's not so much a web page as a web app masquerading as a page.

Something that compiles and runs java applications in pure JS is bound to use up a shit-ton of bandwidth.
separation of concerns. Just write the logic in a fairly portable language.
Ah, that makes sense. Yeah maybe break it up if you have time. It is kind of hard to see what's going on.
What Is a Successful Digital Strategy in 2016?
The full results in the report seem to me be somewhat more complex to interpret than the summary, or the original submission title, suggest. On the first question (Q18jt), a 4 point scale without a "don't know" neutral option, there are large numbers of people putting global citizenship before national citizenship (51%-49%). However, when you get to a later question (M2), that asks people what their most important identity is, national citizenship overtakes global citizenship overwhelmingly (52% national, 17% global, 11% local, 9% religious and 8% race/culture). National citizenship is the largest in all countries besides three, and it's the second largest in two of those. When given a variety of choices in M2 the level of people supporting global citizenship (17%) as a primary identity is even lower than even those who "strongly agree" to global citizenship being more important to national citizenship in first question (22%).

In M2 it seems all of the "somewhat agree" and a few points of the "strongly agree" have gone elsewhere including back to national citizenship which creates a tension between the results of the two questions. It’s quite stark in the case of India where in the first question 67% place global citizenship over national citizenship but in M2 51% have national citizenship as their primary identity and only 6% have global citizenship.

I think the first question (Q18jt) would be more interesting if it was a 5 point scale with a "don't know" option provided rather than trying to railroad people into an answer with a 4 point scale. Even then I think the M2 question is a better instrument as it provides a clear set of choices. For example Pakistan goes from 56% global in the first question to 2% global in the second. Most of those seem to move to religion as their primary identity (43% answer religion on M2). Many religions are globally oriented toward all humanity but the M2 question lets us see more clearly what they believe.

Even though the second question (M2) is better it probably could still do with some examination. For example the only country where global citizenship was higher than national citizenship in M2 was Spain, but was that because many people in Catalonia and the Basque Country are choosing global over "Spanish" because the "local" option was translated in a particular way? If they used a word closer to "neighborhood" you could see how that might happen. Similarly was "local" translated more broadly in the Indonesian translation and became the dominant answer there (56%) as people could identify with an island/state/ethnic/linguistic group that was "local", like Bali for example. It's hard to tell without all the data and the exact translations of the questions.
Let me know if you need help. I belong to a network of Delphi devs that can join your cause. Cheers.
People need to read more HP Lovecraft:

Advanced alien race developed a biologically based generic machines (Shuggoths)- but eventually they developed free will and rebelled. (Also same race accidentally developed all life on earth).

Humans will be able to travel to the stars, but only by having their brains extracted and stored in small jars (allowing the mass to be small enough for another alien race to carry). Once at the destination, the brains can be connected to electrical devices which allow them to speak and perceive.

Also a warning against search engines: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
If you like Mafia, suggest trying "One Night Ultimate Werewolf": No moderator, no elimination, ten-minute games, 3-10 players.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/147949/one-night-ultimat...
I thought TI calculators used Pascal, and Casios used BASIC.
Yes. I'm ashamed to admit that we don't fluoridate our water across the Hudson river.

While I'll never admit this in person in front of a New Yorker, water does taste better in the city.

This is not to take away from the fact that water here is mostly safe to drink. There was an incident earlier this year with a broken mains flooding Hoboken which left a little bit to be desired in terms of communication. However, overall I'm fairly satisfied with the water here. I imagine it is the same idiot antivaxxers who don't want fluoride in water but I haven't looked into it.
aninhumer pointed out the main flaw in this line of reasoning but it's not just the lack of long term data. Many companies change models frequently or make quiet design changes – e.g. the blender given a good reliability review changes a couple of years in to replace metal gears with plastic, which requires a teardown to see. If you go to Costco, Sam's Club, etc. count how many things have slightly different specs and model numbers than the ones you can find reviews for, etc. The last time we bought a washing machine, only one of the models which Consumer Reports had recommended a little over a year before was still offered for sale in our region – everything else had changed and most online reviews were just “we got it last week and it's great” comments which don't tell you anything about long-term experience.

In some cases, you can simply conclude that an entire brand is either unreliable or trustworthy (e.g. Apple doesn't sell Walmart edition devices which break within 18 months) but in most cases you have to do a lot more research to know what level you're getting.
For my application there's no intrinsic need for "social" or "sharing" features. It's supposed to be a productivity application where each user does his/her own thing. The target user are mostly non-technical people which probably will not have the need for have it on more than one device, so "sync" of data between devices may not be a relevant for them..

If I go the desktop way, I will probably use Qt (PyQt5) so there's some degree of freedom for cross-platform.
There is a need for both approaches. If you have the expertise to be able to diagnose the problem, asking for the problem to be solved is the right approach. When dealing with non-technical issues, where the person coming to the manager is familiar with the process, it makes sense to ask them to bring solutions (as a first step) instead of imposing something on them.
I think you misunderstood. Care to elaborate on experiments?

"comparable needs" does not necessarily refer to tangible goods. The central needs are probably freedom and a justice system protecting individual rights and us from each other, not e.g. everyone driving the same car.
secrety is the main smoking gun of bad behaviour.
>> [...] moving onto the next game after a few weeks of post-launch support [...]

How do you handle patches for prior games into your workflow (i.e. long-term maintenance)? Do you build up an issue queue and then work on patches in between major releases?
A Spark REPL Server in Node.js
> I am less inclined to believe that now

Internet has created bigger echo chambers, and bigger audiences for extremists of all sides. In that sense, yes, it has brought people together, but often not in a positive way.
Russians are nationalistic, Afghanis divide by religion, and Asian nations are racist. Not super surprising.
I'm surprised by the remarks (in both posts) about China.

People in China cannot be unaware of the country's shortcomings (as a repressive totalitarian state) while also having a strong awareness of, and often direct family or business connections to the rest of the world, which China has influenced and been influenced by for centuries.

Traditionally, Chinese people have had no objection to emigrating, working and settling in other countries, in Asia and beyond - exemplified by how many cities in the world have a Chinatown - and have never struck me as being particularly racist, nationalistic or xenophobic.
It may surprise you, but there are people here who don't mind these sites. It's already possible to flag links that you think have no place on HN. Please use that instead of trying to setup preemptive censorship.
Devil's advocate: why shoud they not do it? Unless every other food producer does the same, sugary foods will still be available but Nestle would lose out on the profits.
5 whys is my go-to debugging strategy for truly mysterious software and systems bugs.

The rubber hits the road at the point where you have an answer like "one of A, B, or C occurred" and you don't know which because none of them are ever supposed to happen :) you know you're within a clue-bat-swing-radius of the problem then.
Let’s Encrypt a Dockerized Rails Application
Playing music and clicking to go to iTunes don't work reliably for me. Most times it just does nothing.
Upwards of 30MB and it took two minutes to execute the call to alert. Only for those who actively hate the visitors to their page.
It feels like many of us were so excited about the automation scenarios, we may have missed what the significance of the latest developments in machine-learning (both algorithmic and hardware-based) would have in other fields - or maybe it's just me.
Fixing Bad Capacitors Revives 2012 Nexus 7 Tablet
Sure they did, because corporations are much better at iterative product improvements than at radical, high-risk research projects with no short-term returns. So?
This tutorial will help you use Let's Encrypt SSL certificate service from within a (Rails) Docker container
What if you told them ahead of time what you were doing, so they would happily cooperate knowing there would only be 5? Otherwise, by the fifth most people will think "man, this never ends..."
It also 'helps' that EHR software has been forced onto hospitals at such an early point. My father constantly checks what orders are given to a patient now because one time, an order he placed at a patient's previous visit to the hospital was placed at the current patient's visit instead, almost two months later. Luckily the screw up was just with food assigned to the patient (high fiber diet vs liquids), but imagine if it was something like a drug being prescribed.
How long will it take to develop your desktop application? If it is just a few weeks or very few months go for it and test the market. If it doesn't work after spending some marketing efforts move away. Indeed nobody can predict your success.

Again, I think it is very difficult to attack the desktop market even if you target a niche market for end users. Enteprises uses are a different story.

One more thing if you insist: look at the OSX desktop market too because the dynamics of the end user consumption are different from Windows.
Oh this is awesome. I always wished there would be something like this along the lines of blood tests. Keep an anonymous public database of blood tests results with known diagnosis of the patient, age, ethnicity, global region, etc and publish it out. Can be completely anonymous and people would basically just get an immutable entry every time they have a blood test over their lifetime with whatever the dataset happened to be that day.

Would be an excellent way to mine for commonalities among different conditions. I just assumed there was already something like that, but private. Seems like it would enable fairly significant study.