skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, so much for the greenest government ever [1].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/may/14/cameron-w...
HTML5+CSS is turing complete, btw. (in the same way as a hand-cranked mechanical turing machine) https://github.com/elitheeli/stupid-machines

More discussion of that and a jsfiddle demo:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/5239256
I found both sides of the feed repulsive. They are all biased and misrepresenting facts, just towards different ends. It's sad that these stories appear in anyone's feed, let alone that they get so many clicks and shares.
As a person living Europe, who also grew up in a culture were credit was not available, the obsession with credit in the US is very strange to me.

Why do people need to borrow money so often ?

Is it really so hard to live within means ?

And how come the government allows these sharks to operate freely - isn't this the business that the Mafia used to be famous for ?
I find there's a pretty wide gulf between our day-to-day beliefs vs. what we claim to believe with all the pedantics and caveats added when our beliefs come under scrutiny (especially by a critic).
> ... my level of empathy for this kind of griping is roughly zero. Adapt to the new hotkey and save the complaining for something that actually matters.

It's absolutely amazing how many comments (500++ as I write this) that this "news" generated.
you want a randomized study? :D
I tried it..by shaking my phone for awhile like an idiot. They sure get points for creativity.
> Its actually more likely "Google might stop supporting X, Y or Z that you depend on".. They, you know, have a history of doing that.

For example, Google Reader.
Curiously enough, this information has not been publicly relayed in the national media. I've only read about it on the international media.. It's indeed a pity that we don't know that sometimes our money is spend in a nice way.. :/
The opposite was the case. Mozilla was ditched by Google. It is logically that they say it the other way around, as it does sound much better, and gives the illusion that Mozilla is in control about their fate.

They got ditched after Google enforced minimalism (Australis) on Firefox with giving Mozilla "good design advice's" that of course backfired. And as soon as Mozilla's share dropped enough, Google gave them the boot.
If you don't believe in widespread racism, what is your explanation for why people of color, as a group, keep having a bad time?

Why does it need a different explanation then why many people of the white persuasion keep having a bad time? When you selectively group people together, you will always get an identifiable pattern. But you can't then claim that the pattern is universal, since the pattern was predefined in your selection.
Sometimes I wish you could chain multiple `!important`s, then I realize the horrible idea I just had...
> but the design intention of Lambda is to invoke it asynchronously via writes to dynamodb, s3, sqs, IoT etc.

I wish they (they being AWS or Apex or someone in this space) said this explicitly. Every time I've read about Lambda I've thought it's interesting but am not sure how/where to invoke it in production.
The push to do something in Libya was from Europe, it does have plenty of oil though.
Le film the Neon Demon se montre dans une bande-annonce
Virtru will shield your emails from hackers and the FBI, but not from your boss
And Ctrl + Shift + W to close a window. Ugh. Lots of accidental closures...
This is a long way to spell "we know nothing and have nothing of substance to say".

"Market salary" by its very definition is what employers want to pay workers.
It's hard to argue that most of the employers pay below market.

Employers' whining about shortage in technology sector is caused less by
actual shortage and more by them unwilling 1) to pay more than currently and
2) to train unexperienced candidates (making them employees), expecting
instead a supply of already well-skilled workers.
This is an incentive used in Lean manufacturing. If you save the company some money, they pay it instead to you as a bonus for a while. I have heard of 6 months in full and then 6 months at 50% so it is not such a shock the lose.
How about "table of contents"?
200 years is only a blip in human history. First the machines automated physical labor, then they started automating mental labor, and now they're even starting to automate creative labor. As a friend of mine is fond of saying, society has yet to deal with all the ramifications brought by the steam engine. And we're moving way beyond that.
Mindless fun:

Agile: "is bad, is dead, is not a methodology"

God: "is dead, is not dead"

Cena : "is dead"

Capitalism: "is good, is bad"

Google: "is Skynet"

Apple: "is better than Samsung, is better than Android, is a fruit"

42 : "is the answer"
Aardvark, you could send it a query on messenger and it would find random internet strangers to answer. Got bought by Google and killed.

Trunkly, it was indexing all my social media links and made them searchable. Bought by delicious and killed.
Patents (20 year monopoly) would actually be less restrictive than copyrights (95 years)
Unfortunately, replacing story-telling with CGI effects has become far too common since then. Star Wars is a particularly prominent example, but far from being the only one...
On UEFI systems, the /boot partition needs to be FAT32. So there's that. :P
I thought this as well until I had to use a "widget library" that used REM to style.

If i set the HTML font-size to 16px (the default) the widgets are WAY too big, if it set it to 10px (what they use in their examples) it looks great but everything else is too small.

So I need to either re-style all the widgets (damn near impossible), or set all other elements to 1.6rem...

If they used em, i could just set the container to what I wanted and called it a day.

So em definitely has it's place, but I think the majority misuse it.
Can someone elucidate how these trials have access to internal email exchanges?
An alternative to the Newtonian worldview helps to explain quantum weirdness
Can you elaborate on your points? including this one:

>WxMSW is an eye-sore
If by ideology you mean "backhands from old-money oil companies", yeah totally.
This only works if you're going slowly, otherwise you eat asphalt...or whatever it is you have in front of you.
That seems like a stretch. Judges routinely make questionable rulings. Heck, in this case Alsup did a great job in the first (jury) trial .... and then Oracle appealed and the original decision, which I thought was right, was overturned by judges.
>lure lenovo to restore the back / forward keys on thinkpads and make that implemented on most keyboards

The number of times I've accidentally hit the back-a-page button on my old X201, and wiped my in-progress form entry...

They smooshed those keys right around the arrow keys. The arrow keys I use to jumping around text.

That's worse than having a dual-use for backspace to me.

Backspace is far enough away that it's not hit by accident.
Fitbit already had this functionality 5 years ago (and had to rush to de-index it): http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/03/sexual-activity-tracked-by-...
Ask HN: Are you building something?  How long for? How much longer to go?
I've been working on my project in stealth mode for a bit over a year now. Hopefully release in the next few weeks....
I don't think I've ever had to search for anything in nano or vi to get a system into a state where I can use an editor with good ol' Ctrl-F. But then I'm not hot-patching a server over an acoustic coupler from a phone booth in rural Nevada, or whatever hardcore sysadmins do.
Surely, you mean:

.buffalo.buffalo.buffalo

yes?
You've clearly made up your mind and preemptively called everybody who disagrees racist. That's not exactly conductive for an insightful conversation.

But I'll bite anyway: historical racism clearly still plays a significant role. Whatever the level of present-day racism, I'm sure we can agree that it's orders of magnitude lower than it was historical. The plight of people of colour today can be attributed to historical widespread institutional racism independently of whether any such racism exists today. Also, your model fails to account for the possibility that racism can exist and be harmful without being widespread, and that people of colour can make bad decisions without that being a "property" of their colour (shaming people for "acting white" strikes me as particular counterproductive).

That's not saying that's the whole explanation (or even that it is the explanation), just that your model ("it's not them and it's not us") is a false dichotomy and generally too limited to be likely to yield a satisfactory answer.
Faux-3D Arcs
Neat, thanks.
IMO react is a special case...

I think what that line is trying to convey is that you shouldn't be doing things like adding a script tag that goes in and sets all classes to have "background-color: red", and to try to avoid using JS for animations/transitions where possible.

Just like when someone says don't HTML and JS, they aren't talking about JSX most of the time.
I have to partially disagree. With stuff like webapps or Electron, we still have the same GUI on all platforms rather than using the native widgets. Also JavaFX is drawing it's widgets themselves, and I wouldn't call JavaFX 'old days'.
I was born in a post-USSR, but now European country, where payday loans entered the market in 2009. All I can say is - Google did it the right way, as this business model is very, very evil. Until strict regulation takes place, payday loans with APR in hundreds of percents should be considered loan sharks.

They don't do any good, I've seen it with my own eyes. At first it seems like a nice idea, but eventually poorer and socially endangered groups of people use these loans to pay off other loans or just to make ends meet - again, again and again. That essentially binds them in an infinite loop, which is bad. APR of 300% is madness per se!
http://thehivemind.online/?apple
declarative, not descriptive. And you're quite right.
Ratan Tata makes his First investment in artificial intelligence – backs Niki.ai
I'm portuguese and always found national media to be generally bad. Case in point, todays cover of http://www.jn.pt/ :

- soccer

- X murdered Y

- something about the police

- bad thing Z happened on freeways

- how the weather is going to be on the weekend

- world news: the weather in India is apparently very nice today

:-)
It was. On publico.pt and on observador.pt, at least.

On a slightly related note: What our media totally skipped were the SpaceX landings. They were busy discussing the resignation of the minister of Culture because of some FB insults. Humph. Politics: a reality show that is, unfortunately, real.
Ask HN: What is wrong with Twitter?
I'm seeing more and more people saying that they hate it[Twitter] and that if there was any better alternative they would us it. If you share the same opinion, why? what do you think is wrong with it?
In the future, try using:

.flat.flat.flat.flat { margin-bottom: 0; }

It gives you the specificity to override most things, and still leaves you the "nuclear option" of `!important` if you ever need it.
The UEFI system partition is mounted at /boot/efi. /boot itself can be a regular filesystem, or part of the root filesystem if you have no unusual requirements.
Agreed. How else to explain people who seem actually to believe there are no jobs anywhere that don't require a degree?
Why don't we study our own social media habits with as much scrutiny? I mean, if our version of the Chinese state is free market capitalism, how much of our own social media ecosystem is clogged with "fake" posts, otherwise known as content marketing? I bet we produce way more than 488M of that kind of crap each year.
Afaik, mostly relevant sources of geothermal power in Portugal are in the Azores islands (wonderful place to visit, btw). Regarding wind power, the highest locations are on the northern part of the country (above Lisbon), so most wind turbines are there. Same thing for water dams, as it is natural that most rivers and streams are on mountain's valleys.

Only solar power is quite pervasive, as Portugal is known to have a very high average number of days of solar exposure. I live some 3/4 kms of a quite big solar power array that is the source of the majority of electrical power in the nearby houses. And in Alentejo (just north of Algarve), you can find the Amareleja power station which in 2008 was considered the largest solar power array in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moura_Photovoltaic_Power_Stati...).
News of this latest achievement:

http://sicnoticias.sapo.pt/pais/2016-05-15-Consumo-de-eletri...

http://www.jn.pt/nacional/interior/portugal-funcionou-quatro...

http://observador.pt/2016/05/18/portugal-usou-apenas-energia...

It's not more newsworthy because we already have 50-60% of total electrical energy being produced by renewables so peaking at 100%+ for a few days is getting easier and easier.
ESports startup DOJO Madness raises $4.5M
If the site showed anything beyond red bouncing balls, I'd so happy.
And no, I'm not going to enable JS in my browser.
Jason: Scriptable iOS JSON Client
re: "indexing all my social media links"
Try ascilos (http://www.acilos.com/) sounds like it might be similar to Trunkly
In my opinion, that would go against the principle of least surprise.
I've read zero reports of people breaking into houses, finding a piece of paper down the back of the cabinet with lots of passwords on and no site names, then using those passwords randomly to gain access to an unknown system... A 'software' or 'online' password manager seems like a terrible idea, all your eggs in one convenient basket, if Sony and VISA and the NSA are unable to secure their systems 100% of the time I doubt the maker of your software will fare much better over the long term.
Shared autonomous vehicles powered by solar power and batteries are inevitable
> The researchers said they found no evidence that people were paid for the posts, adding the work was probably part of the employees’ job responsibilities.

Probably? How on earth do they reach this conclusion? Is this science?

> Although those who post comments are often rumored to be ordinary citizens, the researchers were surprised to find that nearly all the posts were written by workers at government agencies including tax and human resource departments, and at courts.

I'm surprised that the article paints a picture of factories where masses of chinese slave workers are producing cheap comments.

It's also very unlikely that they will have these kinds of sweatshops located at tax departments and courts.

Another simple explanation: As of 2009, 10 million people were civil servants within the Chinese government, and maybe, just maybe they are also sometimes bored at work and post cat pictures on the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Service_of_the_People%27...
http://thehivemind.online/?cake
8-9 months and I'm still at idea stage! I think that the first stage, whether it's idea or protoype or MVP (or whatever you want to call it) is the most important one because it helps you focus on one thing and one thing only so that when you actually start coding/working on it you know where you're going and how you're going to acheive it(not necessarily). A piece of advice, don't stay in stealth mode for too long, always keep an eye on the market/the conditions that made you start the project in the first place.
Your comment is one of the best I have ever read, thank you :D !
But the mail is stored!
It depends on how much you are willing to pay. Russians buys whole TV channels.
> Karma has some problems too, and could no doubt do with some adjustments, but I think that it's more useful to have it than not.

I agree that it could use adjustments.

Real-life karma is a good thing, but karma points are mostly a bandaid for "no other way of trying to keep trolling and other poor quality communication down".

The serious downside of having karma is providing undeserved power and prestige via a high status and ability to have certain actions to those that don't necessarily deserve it.

But the only way to get rid of it and get similar benefit is to have a community that can elect users into power that deserve it, like StackOverflow's elections. It would be even better if you gave the power to everyone and they were all wise enough and dependable enough to wield that power as needed, but that is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998)
"My neighbor likes to yell, so I yell louder so I don't have to hear what they're saying. One day, there was a fire in my house, they were yelling for me to get out, but... I just yelled back and almost died."

Answer is not to fight noise with noise, or to hide from reality because it's not Disney Land. There is no easy answer, but propaganda is the wrong answer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
Top tenets of a System Administrator
ObDisclosure: I'm in the embedded/middleware space.

I dunno. My peers don't write UI much at all; I do these things as force multipliers for my own nefarious purposes.

None of it gets "published" in a formally supported way, so I don't have any accountability for 'em. They're intentionally ugly but not dissonantly so. The design is "look, but don't touch." I mainly use them to anticipate integration errors and do something useful to aid in diagnosis of those. The theme here is "it ain't me, babe" or "holy cow, thanks for finding that" - determination on that axis.

But I also put adequate instrumentation in to exploit in the first place. Seems to be a lost art.

To me, the perfect user interface is no user interface at all - maybe a "push to start" button - a physical button. Second best is command line/scripting, third is the sort of thing I write.

In the embedded space, you might get a perception that this is cheating. I just smile.
On their internet websites. I was mainly referring to printed or TV media, for which each cm^2 of paper or 1 second of audio/video costs "something" and therefore is a measure of how much "importance" something has for everyone. I can only assume that trying to get away from petroleum-based products is not important for most of us (portuguese people)..
Hey man this is cool, I posted this for you on hacker news.
Tax Debate: Should Morals Come into It?
Same on Safari OSX. How hard is it to make a form without a ton of needless crap?
Please don't send me smart replies
That would be another poor choice as "mod" is used as "modulo" - there's no need to abbreviate "long" words like "module", because they are not used so often and bringing ugliness and confusion just to save a couple of characters per file is not worthy!

In this case, you don't even need the "fun" keyword as syntax-wise, "=>" alone can be used like in other languages as (parameter1, parameter2) => parameter1 + parameter2, for example - it's obvious enough without having to prefix with anything!

Anyway, I see that you want to be "different" in hopes to be "better", but, indeed, you're just "weird", instead.

"+." for float addition, "^" for concatenation, etc.

"(" <val> ":" <type> ")" instead of the shorter and more readable <val> "as" <type>.

For example, why did you choose "mutable" and not "mut"? See, your language is full of inconsistencies, it's not well-thought, it's not intuitive! For example, you chose "rec", which usually means "record" for "recursive"! In your "for"-loop, you have just "to", not "upto", but then "downto"! A good choice borrowed by some old languages would be to use the optional "by" <step>, which defaults to +1, but in a case of a "downto", would be -1, and thus giving you a more powerful loop!
> Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript

But it does happen with JS, among others. Critical remarks on PLs are met with the most religious of fervour in HN threads.
I always figured this (or an equivalent problem with mmap(3)) was what was behind Erlang's DETS filesize limit.
Big data is a big deal for diabetics – and this startup knows it
In fact, jurors are instructed not to make use of any particular expertise they might have, and instead to rely only on testimony heard during the trial.
Ok, so that example maybe was not perfect. So what? Many apps nowadays talk with remote APIs. Imagine a twitter client, a SCADA app, pretty much anything nowadays, instead of nitpicking.
Btw when you use libraries written in C that very much the same as communicating over the network from your app. Same process, same address space.

Also note: local files may also be rigged... Other languages protect for whole classes of vulnerabilities with negligible costs.

About the reasonable security: http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/latest-security-ne...

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/vulnerabilities.html (Kudos to the curl authors for this nice overview!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_white

Arguably some black people label themselves.
almost two years and this year I'll finish. Its the promise to myself to be self employed. And in case it will fail I dont know.. I view my project as imposible to fail, at least from a technical perspective. But to survive it will need users. I'll talk with you then.
For one, we have twice the number of bacterial species. But it seems more important to me that only 4% of the microbiome is shared between humans and mice.

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v33/n10/full/nbt.3353.html
And solutions that don't understand the problem aren't solutions ;)

In the dishwasher case, sometimes i'm forgetting, others i just want it to go on at a specific time. Sure, I could fiddle with the current method of a button that adds +1 hour wait time when pressed (and doing math in my head to figure out when 1am is...), or it could have yet another clock i need to reset when the power goes out and i could schedule it via time, but those are clunky and have a poor interface.

I don't want my washer going on it's own, we often load it as much as possible before turning it on to avoid wasting electricity and water, that means it may sit there a few days 70% full waiting for a few more dishes before we start it. And if electricity is cheapest while i have guests over, I don't want it running then (as it's pretty loud and front-and-center in our house). Also dishwashers have a bunch of settings (most of them i believe useless, but they are there anyway). Being able to tell the dishwasher to turn on tonight when i realized that i forgot to start it right as i'm going to bed would be convenient.

It's not revolutionary or anything, just a small nice-to-have. Just like how having a connected thermostat has made it nicer to be able to adjust the temperature from the couch or bed, and how having "smart" light switches makes it nice to turn on the fan or turn off the porch light without having to get up. Nothing that will change the world, but each one is a small improvement in my life.
Real-time(-ish) UK consumption details can be found here [1]. At the time of posting (late morning) wind is generating 7.9%, coal 4.1% and nuclear 22.1% of total demand. Unsurprisingly there appear to be no figures for solar.

[1] http://gridwatch.co.uk/
Productivity is a Myth
It might be hard but is it creative enough to warrant a copyright ?

That said, Google should have licensed Java when the good guys were around. Now they are dealing with bloodsuckers :)
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GBoard
Your example is a good one because it is established law that book titles can't be copyrighted.