skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BB-8, drones and VR headsets on rent as startup lets ‘try before buy’
that's awesome, thanks for the link!
Absolutely. I'm currently working on an in browser IDE for a language I've created that compiles in the browser, and it has both a code view and a WYSIPCTWYG (what you see is pretty close to what you get) design view. Tabs work well as a separation between code and design, given the context. We also use an accordion for the controls which you drag onto the canvas, as there are more controls than we can fit into the palette in a comfortable layout. Granted, I created my own, but they're proven concepts.

I don't think I've once looked at my car and asked "Steering wheel? pedals?. Are car designers still using these things?"
Boy, it would be sweet if ARM or someone would sponsor some kind of common system architecture. Sure, lots of vendors would keep making their own boards like Pi, beagleboard, ODROID, etc. But having an extensible architecture like UEFI or similar to facilitate bootstrapping while still being open would be awesome.
Based on existing proposals, the DAO offers a new type of investment mechanism.

Regular crowdfunding allows accredited as well as non-accredited investors to lock their money in with a start-up in exchange of various type of securities (preferred equity/convertible debt etc...). In this scheme the investors have most of the time absolutely 0 liquidity to exit their investment until the start-up goes public.

The DAO proposals in contrast offers a revenue sharing proposition. The startup can receive a lump sum or stream of payments in exchange for a promise to execute on their business plan. Once the company gets revenue (on the blockchain) a piece of it (like 1%) will be redistributed to token holders (as a form of dividend if you want).

In contrast to illiquid/bottom line offer available in regular crowdfunding platforms, the DAO offers a topline/liquid investment. The liquidity comes from the fact that although the DAO technically "locks" its investment with the startup, the DAO token themselves are a tradeable assets which can be exchanged against other cryptocurrencies (BTC mainly) as soon as the DAO is officially created.

In this light the DAO is akin to some kind of decentralized investment firm because the token holders are not directly owners of any share in the beneficiary business. On the other hand it is a transparent investment firm because no portfolio manager takes discretionary decisions about which startup funds will be allocated to.

the fund allocation logic is organized as "proposals" that can be voted in a secure and transparent fashion on the ethereum blockchain through a smart contract.

hope this clarifies some aspects of that project!
At those levels it isn't in a depository account, it will be in either a managed account (where the bank is managing the funds in existing equities and bonds) or a self directed account where the account holder is directing it. In my directed IRA account any cash generated is "swept" into a 'double tax free' (aka California bonds that are specifically both California and Federally tax exempt) until I decide where to put it. It isn't something the bankers have any say in where it goes.

If I had a billion I would no doubt be making some bets with it that were speculative (I'm a big fan of fusion and the industrialization of low earth orbit) but that would not put the rest of the portfolio at risk of loss.
I don't care, really. I profit from idiots who buy domains. So, keep buying, please!
Do you have any ideas on a website that allows you to buy an outfit with an api?
Are they there for some meta feature like spares/patching or part identification, perhaps?
You must be joking. The only place I've ever gotten adequate audio quality from an FM transmitter is in a tunnel more than 1/4 mile long. They're crappy even driving through the middle of nowhere where 9/10 radio stations are noise.
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People forget that Linux is the dominant
kernel/os because it dominates nearly every
market that isn't the desktop

People also forget that Linux came to prominence once backed by corporations having and a (valid, IMHO) agenda to not be controlled by Microsoft. The severe OEM and license agreements negotiated in the late 80's and 90's certainly motivated R&D into alternatives.

And people forget that there are other very popular markets[0] using other toolsets[1].

So, when you say:

here on hacker news the culture is really
more corporate than hacker.

It seems to create a paradox.

0 - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/16/sony_playstation_4_k...

1 - https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths
IMO T-Mobile is somewhat of an exception there (or at least they have good marketing which makes me believe that they are an exception :).
> Considering how high the bar is, there's all the incentive in the world to try and be Google better than Google, at least the way I look at things.

Goog has ~20 years of patents behind them, and anyone coming up now will have to figure out a way of being 'better' while not infringing on any patent. And/or, they'll need to have enough deep pockets behind them to weather patent infringement suits.
I wonder if "proving Einstein right/wrong" will still be the #1 clickbait headline for physics articles 100 years from now.
I'm not sure it's fair to group x86 with x86_64 - the latter is much more pleasant (or less unpleasant). It certainly is a huge instruction set, and if you really want to know the ins and out, it's going to be a long journey. But for playing around, it's actually kind of fun IMNHO. I don't think 32 bit x86 really qualifies as fun. Maybe fun, as in trying to solve a complicated murder mystery fun, but not so much as in playing with water colours fun.
Not much of a scramble if it's just ROT13...

[0]: https://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackware/slackware-current/s...
It doesn't have to refuse to function. I have a Cat B15, with an FM radio. It will warn you if you don't have a headphone plugged in, but you can continue and try anyway. If you have line of sight to a strong station (in SF and can see the Sutro Tower), it will work without an external antenna.

Of course, headphones as antennas will stop working when headphones go USB-C or an Apple-specific connector.
Even Tmo still employees questionable billing practices, where they try and pass off as many fees as possible as "taxes"
> "In North America, the fur trade is an example of the sustainable use of renewable natural resources," Herscovici told VICE News. "This is the key concern of modern environmental thinking."

The chutzpah is strong in this one.
Source code etc on the book homepage for those interested:

http://rayseyfarth.com/asm/index.html
Magic, using Twilio?
So true. It's easy to forget one of Apple's greatest accomplishments is breaking the telecom industries stranglehold as mobile software gatekeepers. Telecoms along with cable are still two of the biggest impediments to technology progress in the US.
The law doesn't work that way: knowledge is rarely illegal. Knowingly gathering without permission may be. Using a Google product as a tool in a crime doesn't make Google responsible for the crime and relieve your responsibility.
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What you described sounds a lot like what I used to do for years. It works fairly well, and you can tack a headless Fragment onto it for things that you don't want directly connected to an activty's lifecycle (rotating the screen mid user sign-up shouldn't restart the HTTP call, etc).

This works well, and I'm at the point where I develop it without thought while creating new apps, but I've been playing with a less constrained DI flow instead using Dagger 2.

The more business logic and multiple copies of shared UI elements in different Fragments are directly connected to their parent Activity, the harder it is to re-arrange and re-use them. I've been working on migrating all core elements of our application into a shared library project, and that would've been impossible with a closely tied codebase.
This book was what made C click for me (in the few chapters I digested way back when). I actually stopped reading twice because I suddenly understood something that had blocked my progress in C, and went on my way for a year or two until I decided to pick the book up again.

For a quick idea of what ASM can look like if you build up the foundations step-by-step, and understand what you're working with:

.include "record-def.s"
.include "linux.s"
#PURPOSE: This function reads a record from the file descriptor
#
#INPUT: The file descriptor and a buffer
#
#OUTPUT: This function writes the data to the buffer
# and returns a status code.
#
#STACK LOCAL VARIABLES
.equ ST_READ_BUFFER, 8
.equ ST_FILEDES, 12
.section .text
.globl read_record
.type read_record, @function
read_record:
pushl %ebp
movl %esp, %ebp
pushl %ebx
movl ST_FILEDES(%ebp), %ebx
movl ST_READ_BUFFER(%ebp), %ecx
movl $RECORD_SIZE, %edx
movl $SYS_READ, %eax
int $LINUX_SYSCALL
#NOTE - %eax has the return value, which we will give back to our calling program
popl %ebx
movl %ebp, %esp
popl %ebp
ret

With the definitions in place, its like a whole different language.

For reference, the definitions are simply a text file with contents similar to:

#System Call Numbers
.equ SYS_EXIT, 1
.equ SYS_READ, 3
.equ SYS_WRITE, 4
.equ SYS_OPEN, 5
.equ SYS_CLOSE, 6
.equ SYS_BRK, 45

Or (record-defs.s in the example) clearly describing the data with:

.equ RECORD_FIRSTNAME, 0
.equ RECORD_LASTNAME, 40
.equ RECORD_ADDRESS, 80
.equ RECORD_AGE, 320
.equ RECORD_SIZE, 324

This book opened my eyes to the concrete, data driven nature of the problems I'm trying to solve, at an atomic level.
It somehow dispelled all the magic behind programming, while exciting the mechanical side of my brain, leaving me with that "its just a machine, I can solve any problem if I just trace things patiently until I understand the parts and how they interact".
Hence the "sub" in subgenius.
The bypass links are actually pretty neat.
Do many sites implement them this way? Seems like a win both for accessibility, and developers who love their keyboards.
This was true years ago but less and less as time passes. Buy a phone from TMobile and it'll have the Android built-in tethering removed and their crapware installed.
Today even with a Nexus phone from Google (no TM software installed) you still have to jump through hoops to tether.

Also, their CEO is kind of a dick, and seems childish on Twitter after the whole EFF thing.
I simply can't listen to commercial FM radio these days-its the audio equivalent of going to a website without ublock. The few stations I listen to usually have apps (classical and public radio) and I'm often in wifi territory anyways, so no data charges (like at work).
I found it. Zinc.io allows you to buy an outfit through amazon.
Perhaps they are the circuit equivalent of a trap street [1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
Not sure if it makes any difference, but I tend to Google syntax rather than solutions...

I often know "what" I want to do, I just can't remember the "how".
The cool thing though is the flexibility it gives you. Want to get an mobile notification when someone rings the door? Easy! Want to add a morse code to unlock the door? No problem! Want to have a personalized ring tone? Sure, just trigger the camera, do some face recognition and send a custom sound to the speakers. Want to disable the bell after 11pm except on weekends and holidays? Just a small patch!
It's enabled on my phone, the headphones have to be plugged in, and the reception is fine.
I would pay for a Giant Z-80.
Out of curiosity, have you looked at the 3rd edition?

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Absolute-Beginners-Guide-3...
Okay, but at least on my phone (OnePlus One) the antenna to the FM radio is grounded. My guess is that they didn't think it was worth it to design an antenna or otherwise support the feature.

Am I wrong to think that other companies act the same? What else could be a reason to disable the FM radio in a phone? When you're designing a product, every feature costs money to develop and support, and in the race to the bottom nature of consumer electronics it might make sense to not support FM radio. Most of my friends (at least the normal ones) seem to prefer something like Pandora over FM for background music.

What's stopping someone from selling a phone that has a functional FM radio? I usually say the following jokingly, but this seems like a problem for the free market to fix.
i love the 555

http://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652

evilmadscientist's datasheets are fantastic tools for learning
I've been nothing but impressed with TMO. Back in my Sidekick 1/2 days they were pretty good... jumped to ATT for original iPhone and stuck with them until iPhone 6 when I switched back to TMO. Very pleased with everything about them once again.
And you demonstrate my point beautifully.

First, "validating" an email address is pointless. This is why I can't use things like "+" or UTF-8 in an email address. You send to the email address and see if you get an error. The only people who should be parsing email addresses are mail programs.

And, second, RFC822 actually specifies a grammar so why would you expect a regex to do the job?
> I used to have this Arch Linux distro.

I think you'll strike a better balance with Ubuntu than Arch.

> I trust American capitalism to do a well-enough job.

Stallman's right about one thing: general purpose computing is under threat. What if buying a CPU that can boot without a signed bootloader from its manufacturer becomes so uncommon that it's outlawed? It doesn't sound terribly far-fetched to me. For now I have the freedom to buy x86 chips and opt-out of Trusted Platform. But I can foresee a day when that's no longer the case.

> I just don’t want to spend 3 hours looking up what broke my Wi-Fi drivers this time.

Yeah, I hear you. I've been using a linux laptop for my regular machine for 4-5 years now and sometimes there are some hiccups.
It's similar to the Apple-Foxconn situation. Foxconn was abusing its workers and not Apple, but people felt that Apple was at least partly to blame for the situation and had a responsibility to call for improvements.
With source/drain shorted together and tied to a data line, and the gate grounded, they might just be high resistance pull down resistors. I.e., they would rely on the gate leakage current to create a high ohm resistor. Creating real resistors on silicon IC's is area expensive, so most need for real resistors is first designed around and what's left as absolutely necessary is usually created using tricks. This might be one of those tricks.
I'm not sure what you're referring to as an "anti-feature". By design, if a process requests memory when it's already at its limit, the kernel will wait until more memory is available -- which could require a writeback, if the contents of the pagecache are dirty.

Would you have preferred for the kernel to instead allow the process to exceed its memory limit, even if that means evicting something else outside the container? If so, why not just set the limit higher?

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding something.
A jacket that massages you on the go
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Yeah but *BSD isn't nearly as wide spread as Linux.
The major record companies make an enormous amount of profit, and take nearly no risk. At this point, they're not signing anyone who doesn't already have a fanbase. It's the musicians that are broke.
I've been able to receive most local FM broadcast station with little to no antenna. They are so powerful that you generally don't need a special antenna to receive them...
It's not accurate. "Permanent" means "something that lasts forever," not "something that lasts for a while, until it stops existing."
It's a couple thousand gates or so

You're around an order of magnitude off. It's 3.5K transistors, and slightly less than half of those are NMOS pullups, with many of the gates containing 2-3 or more transistors, so it's less than 1K gates. That of course depends on what you count as a "gate", since many of them are compound-gates like AND-OR-INVERTs and there's also transmission-gate logic too. The decode PLA also has tons of large-input gates (hence many transistors-per-gate).

This article may be related:

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=401
Why would the two other courts ruling similarly keep the supreme court out of this issue? Is it for legal reasons or more of a practical matter for the government?
The Death of the Cyberflâneur (2012)
No, sorry; but I suspect it's just as good.
> being vocal actually is a loss in productivity

You're talking about someone who is too noisy. This kind of person probably benefits from an open environment with instant feedback. Even though the group may suffer a bit short term, in the long term, that person will be a better team member when they learn when and how to speak.

People who are too quiet can also benefit from being among a respectful group. Safety in numbers, and you can learn from your peers.

These are not hard and fast rules. I'm just discussing times when open environments can help teams. The parent of this thread did not mention any of the benefits of open offices.
Based on how compatible it thinks you and your date are it could also include things in the order that it thinks you should use against/with each other... from nerf guns to condoms.
Image classification has everything to do with statistics: you're guessing the probability distribution over the classes conditional on the input image vector; the model is trained through a process of statistical inference (using gradient descent).
Defective ‘breast cancer’ genes also linked to aggressive cancer in men
FRCP?
Yeah, I used to recommend it to students who were struggling. So far everyone I know who's tried it has succeeded. It teaches in a very clear way.

I hope my books do too :)
John McAfee Apparently Tried to Trick Reporters into Thinking He Hacked WhatsApp
Fuck everything about this.
I think you're reading too much into the comment. Your argument is that they're ignoring history. Just because there was something before Linux doesn't mean Linux hasn't changed things. The point about Linux seems valid to me, seeing as it's the dominant kernel in nearly every market.

You go on to praise Windows, as if it's okay to ignore history when it comes to MS.

Eh... I think people in HN get overly offended when people state the fact that Linux has been historically revolutionary.
Since when? TMobile US?

I've had Nexus and iPhone devices on multiple TMobile plans, never had any trouble tethering: just turn it on like normal for the OS.

The only thing I've had happen was I think I remember some years back, I was on a grandfathered unlimited plan from before smartphones and tethering were ubiquitous, they started new plans with unlimited data+tethering and if I tethered too much it'd redirect to a captive page saying "please don't" and throttle me pretty heavily to convince me to switch, but the Simple Choice plan I have now is actually cheaper than that plan was.
Without responding to the rest of your post, I hope that I may take a moment to spit on anyone who said:

> I bet you failed to take care of her properly and that's why she died.

This is an awful, awful, sub-human thing to say, especially for someone who doesn't know anything about the situation. Among the responses that I got when my cat passed away, the one that meant the most to me was from my vet, who said "you must have taken very good care of your cat for him to have lived to the age that he did." This helped an enormous amount with the intense guilt that I felt.

As such, and particularly to stand up against the assholes who said otherwise, I hope that I may say that I'm sure you did everything that you could for your cat, and made her life as healthy and happy as possible.
This is a good reminder of the various bubbles I live in -- geographic, racial... okay, those two.

Appalling. I wish it were more unbelievable.
Ray Dalio has an amazing video explaining the difference between this recession and the others [1]

TL;DW: People are slowly paying down debt/waiting for inflation to kick in

[1]: http://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0
I've had 2 reporting to me. I am not naturally one myself. Its a trait that has to be monitored and kept in check to certain degree but is I think a very good trait when properly focused on work (while at work).

I've had VPs ask me about how productive those programmers were with side remarks about seeing them frequently talking with front desk and hr (presumably socially). One was really productive so not really an issue for me but not good having to explain that.
It's likely they were left-overs from a previous revision, maybe as part of fixing a different bug.

There are signs of this patching in other parts of the chip too, like this one:

http://visual6502.org/wiki/index.php?title=6502_datapath_con...
The Supreme Court doesn't have to take appeals and usually doesn't. One factor that inclines them toward taking appeals is resolving a conflict between the case law of the circuit courts, so the circuits ruling the same way would make it less likely for the Supreme Court to take a case on the issue than if they split.
I once dreamed of immigrating to the US and working in the Bay Area... but it's become apparent to me now that there's something inherently wrong with that country. I guess I'll go to Australia or Canada instead.
Altavista.
That's a good point. 401 Unauthorized... They even used the right word.
I have met people who never had an office, so they thing that open office is great and wound't want an office...
There is also the geographic bias. Only the very large companies can afford to do hiring at schools that are very far away from their headquarters. For example, I go to school in the midwest, and we get Google, Cisco, and a few more big names, but then it drops off really fast.
What is a DAO... ? What is The DAO? It is answered really well in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn_7fdmfZY8&feature=youtu.be...
This article was published a year ago FYI.
Overview of Archimedes bot platform via specific use-cases (digital banking)
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Because you're chastising pjmorris for "pardoning" Elon Musk when, in fact, pjmorris was specifically calling Tesla and Elon to task for their lack of oversight.

Your mocking tone makes it hard for me to be empathetic toward you when misunderstandings occur.
When Exxon (formerly Standard Oil of New Jersey) and Mobil (formerly Standard Oil of New York) merged, some wags commented that the old trust was coming back together, and Rockefeller would be proud. It wasn't the whole thing, though - the trust also included Chevron (Standard of California) and a few companies (Sohio, Amoco, Arco) since bought up by BP. And I'm sure I'm missing a few.