skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It applies to every version of Windows 8.1, according the docs, not only Windows 8.1 with Bing. To be fair, its an intermittent problem, so could just happen on longer intervals or some other scenario.
Sounds like "disparate impact"
It would be like a net in the sky!
IMHO, "hard SF" has developed as a term for books that have "hard physics", everything else like biology, chemistry, sometimes even mathematics is usually lacking.

As an example: The Cheela, the microscopic intelligent life forms in the more famous hard SF Dragon's Egg, are described like eukaryotes with an eukaryotic life style, but they're so tiny that they don't need any of the complex "inventions" of eukaryotes, for example, they wouldn't need any "plumbing" in the body since they're small enough for diffusion to deliver nutrients. IRC their DNA is triple stranded; DNA is double stranded so that it's more safe from mutations as you can always read the opposite from the opposite strand, if you had a second backup in the form of a third strand you would have no stable chemical bonds between the bases. Triple helices exist but these doesn't help with stability and are implicated in transcription. Edit: Similarly, there should be massive problems in the later communication because the Cheela shouldn't have a base 10 mathematical system as they don't have 10 fingers, you could still display it as base 10 but there has to be a conversion (see https://www.quora.com/What-does-one-mean-by-Every-base-is-ba... ).
This is an extremely self contained program, doing a particular set of things over and over in an isolated environment, with about four or five users, and "bugs" are generously defined as "bugs reported to me."
I see a different problem: lack of jobs that don't drug test.

I don't do any drugs and never been a fan of weed, but I sometimes won't apply for a job if they drug test. I wish I could stick to this every time.

The no-drug-screen screen is actually a good filter. Companies with drug-screening are, on average, more unpleasant to work at.

Just say no to drug screening, kids.

Edit: alright, to be fair, some of those jobs mentioned have good reason. But the jobs that tested me didn't
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The other radio stations e.g. Soundsystem, Pop, whatever are another option. But fully agree that the For You section is pointless and worst of all unimaginative. I rarely want to hear a playlist of 30 Drake songs in a row.

Spotify absolutely kills Apple Music when it comes to their core and community generated playlists. But I absolutely love Beats 1 so keep using it because of that.
The deletion thing has been known for months. Now Apple does something?

And a special version of itunes? Does nobody over there collect mp3s?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11714045
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11714045
WeeChat is a more modern client. Lots of scripting possibilities and you can hook into it from remote / mobile easily.
Your article is timely. Two days ago I went live on my first github project called Wheatbin: http://wheatbin.com and I'm not sure what to expect.

Thanks for sharing your insights. And Vym is a great name!
The federal stuff is a normal compliance thing. Put up a poster and have a policy.

The "good reason" is driven by workers compensation insurance, especially with people who drive or operate dangerous machinery.
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you can use netease music
you can have a try Netease Music
Probably trying to find a solution for the PR issue
That was covered at least in passing. The comet they capture and use to reach the Cleft provides the sources of carbon and other elements that are hard to get. Presumably long enough to build and launch slow missions to capture and redirect other sources (happens 'off screen').

> "The black stuff has all kind of goodies on it. Carbon, obviously. But also nitrogen, ptoassium---" "Micronutrients," Markus said, "that the Cloud Ark will be needing."
Douglas Adams got this so right so long ago.

Paraphrasing: "The job of the galactic president is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it."
Yeah, I feel the same way about <-, but it's interesting to know that Elm did the same thing, so it isn't a random change.
I'm not suggesting government sponsored education, rather, the absence of corporate and super PAC spending in down-ballot (and up-ballot) campaigns.
Some not-so-hard science fiction on the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11702939
To be sure, you submit the provisional patent application, and never file the utility. It's only $260 to file. After 1 year the provisional dies and you have a permanent record of the prior art.

In this case there is a provisional patent from 2014, and this application follows from that provisional.
Damn annoying but just keep going through whois, you'll get one eventually.

<TIN-FOIL-HAT>I often wonder that if you do enter a domain name and its free then it gets sent to a list of ones to squat on. Probably just paranoia but it happened once to me several years back and suspicious ever since.</TIN-FOIL-HAT>
What would you rather them do? Folks can't have it both ways. In one corner, people bitch because apple isn't doing anything, and in the other, they start bitching because they did do something.

This stuff gets old after awhile. The older I get the more I hate the Internet.
You care because you don't want to deal with workplace injuries and druggies stealing your stuff.

Roofers are high turnover, low/moderate skill folks. If the business model requires reliable guys, you may consider it.
A tired old bumper sticker quote that I wholeheartedly agree with. Right along with Mark Twain's "If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."
Context: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/30/microsoft...
Does the racial make up of your average tech company make them racist organizations?
For anyone who ever used BBSs (which is something else I miss), Terminate would ring a bell. That was one spectacularly awesome terminal program. Oh, and requiring 3 HD floppies to install it :p
Yet many federal employees aren't tested. I spent five years as a DoD employee with secret security clearance and never had to take a drug test.
While conventional voting is far from great, the first time someone hacks an online vote is going to set it back for decades. It could be better now, but it almost has to be perfect to get people to switch.
Yup, and neither of those is a full consensus. Iirc, the only person holding out on the record proposal for R5RS was Kent Dybvig, and that was enough to block it. Prior to R6RS, the RnRS was only ratified on full consensus, not almost consensus.

Note that I'm not opposed to the new "80%+ vote in favor" system (I think it's a very good thing), I'm just pointing out the history.
I know the Haxe compiler is written in Ocaml, and that's a decent size open source project. I believe Facebook uses it for a number of their programming language related tools too. It seems to gave a sweet spot for writing language parsers and compilers.
I find it kind of funny… as if "politics" can only decided by being prodded like chattel to voting booths.

History of man shows many effective ways of influencing governing systems on many different levels, some more violent than others… and with modern technology ways people could only imagine of in the distant past are possible (beyond the present skinner box of political theater most elections are, and arguably to some degree or another, have always been), of which most people (forget about those who even show up to a voting booth) will never be interested/knowledgeable on/have direct means to do anything about.
So then, using your logic, the governments of East Germany and the Soviet Union would, at the time, have been considered permanent, as those governments were expected to last forever as far as anyone knew.
Grandgrandparent: firefox is shit because it doesn't have feature X which causes it to crash if a single tab becomes unresponsive

grandparent: firefox is building it

parent: it tooks them 7 years and it is still not done?

you: why do you care, who cares if mozilla updates slow?

me: ???
You'd figure it out eventually, especially if it was exceedingly annoying and/or your job depended on it.

Example: what if your internet drops out for an hour every Sunday morning at 2am? You'd notice. (Mine does. Damn it Comcast!) If guy's wife relied on the printer similarly, it might be as acute as losing internet for you.
> If you assume regular renter turnover

Your modus ponens is my modus tollens. People want to avoid their rent going up over the long run, so they react to rent controls by increasing their willingness to commute instead of moving.
What does Peter Norvig do exactly at Google?
They're trying keep mfg in the UK and the unit price-volumes are too low (they're likely playing super conservative with their orders).

There are other elephants in the room as well...
Larry Niven was awesome at apocalypses. The short story Inconstant Moon is one of the greats, plus he did a couple of thick novels on the theme with Pournelle -- Lucifer's Hammer and Footfall.
Have you ever written software? Do you know what the acronym WFM stands for? Do I cringe every time I shrug sheepishly at the person in charge of customer service? My company's software is used by millions of people and man do they run into some of the most esoteric shit that we cannot produce in the lab. Once I got lucky and my sister's off-brand Android was displaying an edge-case bug we weren't even sure was real. Side-loaded a severely over-logging build and finally found the sucker.

Special iTunes build just means it dumps logs faster than... Never mind. The images that just popped into my mind weren't where I thought that was going as I typed it.
If you want to watch the sausage being made in real-time, there are a couple of channels of C-SPAN.
Amazon open sources its machine learning engine DSSTNE
That's a comparison of syntax, which has nothing to do with compiling to Javascript.
I've had a lot of problems like that due to bugs in 3d acceleration and AMD GPU drivers. The latest kernel 4.5 updates practically fixed all Chrome issues. It's fast and doesn't break while rendering any more. I can also open other apps that use 3d acceleration and everything works fine.
Only Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit. Mozilla Corporation, where all the programmers work, is a for-profit subsidiary, wholely opened by the foundation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11700611
Spotify is great for many more foreign and obscure genres and artists. It's nowhere near complete, but it gets closest to having everything I look for.
The comment seems disingenuous. But many of the things people like about SF are difficult to copy. Perhaps it would be easier to build more units in SF.
"They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.".

That was not even close to the ending of Aaron Swartz.
It's great that this happened. It's annoying that it indicates the best way to get support from Apple is to make a prominent blog post.
> We were born to run on the savannah, not swim in the ocean, and to have done anything but run would have been to misallocate precious energy resources.

And yet the littoral zone and the shallows of lakes and coastal waters are very rich with protein and nutrient rich food, which easily provide a significant multiple of the energy used to procure them. And there are shell middens in places like Australia that go back tens of thousands of years that show that humans were fully cognisant of, and able to exploit these rich food resources. Not to mention that modern humans have a marked propensity for living near water bodies and just generally hanging out on beaches (where you see nearly no other large animal life that isn't aquatic).

Finally, that photo at the top of the article is quite weird. I don't think drowning women are terribly preoccupied with modestly preventing their dresses from floating up.
I prefer to use Firefox. I ended up switching because Netflix refused to work in Linux unless I used Chrome. At that point there was no point having two browsers installed so was path of least resistance just to use chrome for everything.
I think I ran into the issue before as well.. however, I think that's an issue with how Chrome handles its notifications. I don't think there's anything in the library that could cause this behavior. A known issue is that the library is currently broken in Safari. I will investigate why when I have some free time.
Sorry, I meant to mention the demo is at http://nickersoft.github.io/push.js/demo.html.
Min: minimal web browser based on Elecron
I think the press echo chamber trope about how "Apple is a hardware company" is lazy thinking.

WWDC last year provided a simple explaination explaining the whole Music shitshow -- remember the incoherent presentation?

Cook probably delegated the Music product to Dr Dre and Iovine, and they grafted their music insights and radio on top of Music.app, which was a mess to begin with. ...Or some similar organizational mess where lots of big egos weighed in hit and run style.

Remember, the PR push from Apple last year was all about how brilliant Ive, Dr Dre and Iovine were. There was a wired cover gushing about how they were "saving" music.
Issue 1: Settings App -> Music -> Show Apple Music (toggle this off, obviously)

Issue 2: iTunes being so terrible is probably the best argument against resolving Issue 1.

I believe the default is not to automatically use Apple Music, though, and rather to prompt the user to try it. I know that I declined, and haven't seen it since.

Though the iOS Music app has been getting worse every year regardless. I keep meaning to write a replacement that just operates mostly the way it did until iOS 6 or 7.
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This is a known issue. The underlying code works, but the library doesn't for some reason. Will investigate when I have the time.
I am guessing WFM=Works For Me, in case anyone here is wondering.
I just tested on Chrome 50.0.2661.102 (64-bit) on OSX 10.11.4 and it seems to work. What OS are you running? Did it ask you permission to show notifications? Are there any errors in the developer console?
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I worked much of my career for defense contractors and I've never been tested. As I understand it, they are required to have a policy for testing anyone suspected of drug use - but they are not required to suspect anyone.
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How the Giraffe Got Its Neck
Which map if you don't mind? Curious if it's one of those I played with my friends in high school.
> After 1 year the provisional dies and you have a permanent record of the prior art.

It's a permanent record, but it's not published. This is not a great plan.
We came within moments of buying a customer a new phone in exchange for shipping us her old phone with a non-reproducible bug. Got lucky and found the issue just prior, so sent her a little something nice for the trouble.
We do this for customers all the time, customer has a special hardware/software setup, so we will send people out on site to diagnose odd hardware problems.
I think you're seeing this from a "what is legal" standpoint versus the author's issue with "what is safe". If the speed limit is 25 MPH and people regularly go 50 MPH, endangering the lives of the residents, raising the limit so they can legally go 50 MPH only means they are legally endangering the lives of the residents. They don't slow down at all and are rather likely to speed up, as many drivers view the speed limit as a minimum instead of a maximum.

For example, on my road, which is not in a neighborhood and is a country road that serves as a connector between two highways, the speed limit was raised from 35 MPH to 45 MPH several years ago. Accordingly, traffic went from averaging 50-55 MPH to now averaging 65-70 MPH with occasional amateur race car drivers going by so fast you can't tell the type of car they drive. I have found it treacherous to check my mailbox and mow my lawn at certain times of the day (mainly "rush hour" and, oddly enough, Sunday afternoons). Twice in the past five years my mailbox has been obliterated by a speeder losing control of their vehicle and running off the road because they were driving too fast and/or distracted, one time right in front of my eyes as I was walking to the mailbox.

Generally, if you set a speed limit on a long straight road, you can expect the public to exceed it by at least 10 MPH. This effect has been observed by the GHSA[1] and IIHS[2] and is easily researched privately if one is so inclined.

[1] http://www.ghsa.org/html/media/pressreleases/2016/20160412sp...
[2] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/51/4/3
Quick apology for confusing the terms "push notification" and "desktop notification". I forgot "push" usually refers to sites that use service workers to send notifications to the desktop regardless of whether the browser window is open. This library requires the window remain open for the notification to be shown.
Oddly, I've used the username "user" on multiple windows 8 installations and I've never had this happen.
I agree on the build system and macros. As for traits/type classes, there's work being done on implicit modules to fill that role. [1]

[1] http://www.lpw25.net/ml2014.pdf
> It's annoying that it indicates the best way to get support from Apple is to make a prominent blog post.

Posting somewhere public (for example, a company's social media page) to get support appears to be an increasing trend.
It does, and I do cringe when after days of troubleshooting it's the best I can come up with. It's an exception, not the rule, but it happens.
CUPS is better, no doubt. And from a sysadmin perspective CUPS is great, but there are still crazy gotchas.

Part of this is the byzantine config of network discovery, CUPS, driver sources, etc. A big part of the problem is the pieces may be there but distros have done a mediocre job getting everything together on this in the best way for the user.
You did an SF-86 and went through the whole OPM background check process for Secret and weren't drug tested? Seriously?
I think that's called a university undergraduate math curriculum.

You could look at the top n undergraduate math programs in your state and see what the flowchart of courses are and their corresponding syllabi and just go from there.
Didn't someone prove this to be nonsense?
Maybe you should just install an old version of iTunes
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Why was the title of this changed? It may have been editorialized but it wasn't misleading or clickbait by any means.
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Yup.

Also yup, customers will have the weirdest fucking edge cases on your software. Maybe not xkcd/1172 weird, but definitely out there.
To be honest most of the bay area is at best only slightly more affordable than San Francisco. According to trulia, median rent in Fremont is about $3200 (http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Fremont-California/market-...), compared to $4500 in San Francisco (http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Francisco-California/). Factor in the expense of a car, which is necessary in Fremont but not San Francisco, and the prices look significantly more balanced.

In this case, it seems like it would have been a better choice to build the school in San Francisco proper, than its outskirts. The marginal gains in affordability aren't worth sacrificing proximity to the tech industry.
Well, I'd assume white counts as a color, as well as other light colors. Plus they then go on to talk about printing clear things. You need to absorb energy from somewhere so I figured UV was about all that was left.
Well, the startup I'm working on does all OSS, so all the time I spend on the startup (working on product anyway) is spent working on OSS. And since we're not making any money yet and I don't get paid for that time, it's pretty much "my own time".

That said, depending on the week, anywhere from 0-60 or so.
We can't have that. Someone fix that bug and get it to start using up CPU cycles!
My startup browxy.com, an online java compiler, has reached 20000 users
It's a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (In particular, what the band Disaster Area's songs are about.)
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I actually agree and I would love to see HN adopt a separate "save" flag aside from "upvote" (like Reddit does), but... it is what is, for the moment anyway.
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A larger cycle would be outrageous! Maybe it's just my imagination, but I'm guessing that there's some connection to Anathem. Or even to that immortal alchemist/cryptographer.
See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740200
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Apple sent two engineers out to look at something that couldn't be repro'd? Super unproductive.

Sounds like solely a PR move. A good one, I think, but a little strange. Basically just "let's listen to some tunes while we score these PR points."
Shape-shifting mobile prototype is half smartphone, half Rubik's Cube
The thing is, if they're tracking your gait they're also tracking a bunch of other details about you. Even if you learn a new walk, if you don't change anything else they'll realize that's your new walk.

You'd have to maintain different personas, with different outfits, postures, gaits, cell phones..and still hide the fact that your phones, if you use any, probably connect to a lot of the same towers & networks. And those personas would still be tracked, even if separately. Sounds like an awful lot of tradecraft for the average citizen.
Sorry about the snarky tone, but I am a little annoyed at the build more housing crowd because they are uncreative. It's kind of like the people who think education and health care will be better if we just spent more money on them. The people who, before Elon Musk, who wanted to get humans to Mars by just increasing NASA's budget and buying more 100 million dollar disposable rockets from ULA.

The problem is is that no one wants to get to the heart of the matter because it's just too hard or maybe even counter-intuitive. More money being spent on development, rising land prices and so forth is something that fills everyone's pocket and ignores whatever actual underlying problem exists in the larger system. It's a process where every additional dollar just leads to diminishing marginal returns and eventually negative marginal returns once the city gets so full that everyone's quality of life is damaged.
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Yeah, I kinda feel like this whole project is pointless. As many warts as OCaml's syntax has, for the most part I actually like it.

It seems like Reason is solving a non-problem. When I first went to the webpage, and saw "Build Systems Rapidly", I thought maybe it was a new build system for OCaml. I was hoping it would be a Cargo-style build system/package manager for OCaml.
Exactly -- the broader the user base, the more likely it is you'll run into people with really bizarre and difficult-to-replicate issues. I've seen our main product grow from nothing to an industry standard, and darned if we aren't still seeing bugs crop up that had gone undetected for years.
I found Childhood's End an extremely unpleasant read, and so that comparison makes it hard for me to even think about reading Seveneves. It was just so depressing, taking the concept of isolation to such an extreme it felt abusive. Or maybe I shouldn't have read it while isolated myself (literally living and working in the middle of nowhere without transportation and minimal contact with anyone I was close to).

Maybe if I'd read Seveneves without ever having heard this comparison, I would have made it through to the part that makes you proud, but at this point I doubt that's possible.

Going to skip this one, and I'd suggest everyone else skip Childhood's End.