skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Restricting users because the software is buggy sounds like the wrong way to solve the problem.

Not to mention the error handling:

Any attempt to create a file name that fails the tests will be rejected with an EPERM error

So the user will get a "permission denied" error when trying to save a file instead of "the file name contained invalid characters, which are...".
Reminds me of how one man accidentally killed the oldest tree ever:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-one-man-acciden...

Then of course there's this article, "Vintage Photos of Lumberjacks and the Giant Trees They Felled"

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vintage-photos-of-lumbe...
I've always seen it as a pithy kind of humor, which it seems most other people either miss or disagree with.

"I could care less! (Yet here we are discussing it to death.)" or "They could care less... (less than we do / less than all this discussion suggests they might care)"

^ I think that's essentially how most people use it, mechanically, without thinking about it as much.

When I say it, I usually either mean it that way, or something along the lines of "I could care less! (And I wish I did!)"
A simple example of a "measurement effect" is the quantum zeno effect [1]. You can steer a system by making a series of measurements and gradually transitioning the measurement axis from aligning with the initial state to aligning with the target state [2].

For example, placing a diagonal polarizer between a horizontal and vertical polarizer will allow light to pass through [3]. As you use more and more polarizers that gradually transition from horizontal to vertical, you converge on a mechanism for rotating horizontally polarized photons into vertically polarized photons without loss.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Zeno_effect

2: http://algorithmicassertions.com/quantum/2015/10/26/Quantum-...

3: https://youtu.be/PJHCADY-Bio?t=6m45s
This doesn't help on mobile, unfortunately, which is the time when I find myself most wanting the feature : (
Y Combinator’s hardware expert Luke Iseman has some advice for startups
> 1/2 = 0 is mathematically incorrect. 1/2 = 0.5 is mathematically correct.

Those are two different functions, and both are "mathematically correct". The notation is the problem. The former operation isn't specifying the division operator, it's specifying an integer division operator.
I'm not sure what it's going to be, but I know we're on the verge of another "Microsoft vs Linux" moment. This is going to be a major OS that almost all people will have in their homes (my echo is older than my son, he is growing up just expecting to be able to ask a computer to do what he wants). Bots will be as natural to him as mobile phones are to Generation Z, and the internet is to Millenials.

Right now it seems the proprietary systems are winning the race, which makes sense. Financial incentives are strong... but I firmly believe an open source alternative is better (from a purely capitalistic point of view, I personally compete against amazon... and the further we move from desktops the harder that is).

So, if someone asks for funding, and has a good background, i'll throw a few bucks towards them.
... and chat rooms
Well, hopefully google will have an option to turn off this predictive response stuff. I know I don't want it.

Frankly, about duo (the video chat app), I don't want the other side to see me without picking up... seriously what? I'm probably not their target demographic though with these apps.
Downvoted (it's not as dim as before, so I take back the "oblivion" part): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11726714

And now I shall stop feeding the trolls.
Illumina Opens BaseSpace Suite as End-To-End Solution for Genetic Testing Labs
Yes, it is kind of fucked up. I dont want to excuse silly laws like that, but I think it is more reasonable to expect things like this if you take photos of military installations (at least more reasonable than beeing detained because you said 'someone barked at me').

And up until now I thought the case was closed, because there was no intention of espionage, but appereantly I was wrong (see: jkot in the sister-thread).

> If you don't want your government facility to be photographed build it underground.

You comment gave me a thought: What about the people that operate Google Earth? They must be held accountable for espionage in every counry in the world. Now 'that' is fucked up...
The biggest issue is the structure of the mortgage finance industry. They've grown so dependent upon Fannie and Freddie that there does not exist a good private alternative who can compete on equal terms. And who can blame them? I wouldn't want to buy a 30yr loan paying ~4% interest. They sell those loans as fast as they can and collect their fee.

There's also a reluctance of the political parties to scale them back due to the repercussions it would have on home buyers. Who wants to be known as the candidate that stopped X from buying a home?
On a similar note a Game YouTuber, Jim Sterling (Jimquistion), was frustrated that when he put out videos with some clips of video games or other movies, companies would come in and claim ownership and monetize his videos. He didn't like that since he wanted to be ad-free and these companies would essentially force his viewers to watch ads that he wouldn't even get any money for. These large companies didn't care because it's free money for them.

So he figured out how to get around stupid contentID flags. He put in clips of videos from different companies and spliced them into his videos. This caused a couple of companies to claim copyright over his video, but when there are multiple claimants for one video, Google's system doesn't give any of them any ad money. So in effect he gets to continue to use clips while not having any companies monetize his viewers.
Precisely this.

There is NO open source alternative to Google.

Electricity and equipment to run it will never be free, so there will never by an open source Google.
Android apps run securely on Chrome OS in Linux containers
Why big apps aren’t moving to Swift (Yet)
Funny story with Rihanna and "moving" copies: Jay-Z struck a deal with Samsung to "buy" the 1 million download credits and give them away to people on the internet so her album would go Platinum by RIAA standards in its first week (provided they all got downloaded, which they did). Talk about a joke.
This entire thread seems to be overflowing with pro-authoritarian, emotionally reactive posts that are attempting to defend via diversion the actions in question. I count a couple dozen variations of intentionally trying to divert away from the actual topic. I'm surprised this thread isn't killed yet given the quality of the postings occurring here.
They do: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.nl/2015/11/a-step-toward-...
Merriam Webster's definition 1A for "alien" is
belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing : strange. I think it fits the context very well.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alien
The problem I have with bootcampers is that the bootcamps greatly over promise where they will be skill level wise when they finish, so expectations are way beyond junior developer roles. They also usually come out of bootcamps with a very narrow skillset; they can somewhat easily whip out a web app with a simple backend and rudimentary data sets using whatever framework that bootcamp focused on. Increase the complexity of the project even just a little and they get stuck.

There are some diamonds in the rough and some bootcamps are better than others but in general I'd much rather see someone who learned by hacking on things alone than a college or bootcamp grad.
It can be as simple as reading the WikiTravel article about the country. Doing the slightest amount of cursory research beforehand will clue you in. The journalist has been there before, so it is safe to assume he is in the know. It seems like resisting the urge to write the most trite garbage imaginable was too much for him. The articles he wrote have been written countless times before, so what was the value in his visit?
Python 2.7 Countdown
Serverless (the framework) does this, FYI
You cut flash out and then the need to support it pops up.
Chrome supports HLS natively on Android, but not desktop. Safari and Edge support HLS natively on desktop. Firefox doesn't support HLS natively on Android or desktop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Escarpment
I recently came across minio[1] and was blown away. It is feature complete and comes with a beautiful web interface, though you can't delete files via the web interface yet[2].

[1] https://github.com/minio/minio
[2] https://github.com/minio/miniobrowser/issues/154
I would check out www.silklabs.com, they had a pretty successful kickstarter campaign for their device and just open sourced their platform.

Former Mozilla people I believe.
As a manager it's an interesting balancing act. There are reasons things are done the way they are done and sometimes they are "because we've always done it that way" but more often it's because we've done it enough to understand something someone new to the company or industry doesn't. It's hard to know where to let go and where to draw the line.

I try to provide an environment where new people can 1. Try an idea and watch them fall on their face because they didn't understand best practices. 2. Then try to encourage understanding of those best practices and how they can be improved and change slowly to minimize impact or unexpected consequences.
Give me a concrete definition of free will. This is where such discussions fall over, inadequate definitions.
I think it's very much potato potahto. The current (and pretty much any future) implementation is a business decision.

I actually don't find it all that troublesome. The big selling point of Youtube is that it is relatively easy to get attention there. That doesn't do much to create a situation where it is hard to get attention elsewhere.
Believe it or not, a lot of people live in the flyover states, or for that matter, in the flyover parts of California and New York.

Cities like Syracuse are asking for Uber to come in and they are being told to talk to the hand; it is like asking Verizon for FiOS expansion.
Well, you could still use Google services. I think the largest concern is over the active microphone. If you specifically request something that is different.

Also it would be nice to have control and choice over which services you use. Maybe Google or Amazon everything isn't the right choice. There's OpenStreetMap, DuckDuckGo, downloaded music... Google is very useful but it is far from the only resource out there. Thinking so would be delusional.
I agree. An argument doesn't have to stand up in court to be right or moral and I believe yours is both. If FOX can abuse Youtube policies and the DMCA, I see no reason why people shouldn't abuse FOX and pirate.
>If you upload one of Fox's movie trailers before they do, they should still definitely be able to take you down.

This seems like a special case deserving of special attention. It doesn't seem like something that should be sloppily addressed by an algorithm.
The article is making the case that they've become socialize the losses and socialize the profits... and goes on to say that this is somehow bad because shareholders. It seems to me that the status quo is a good compromise if you believe in the original intent of subsidizing American home purchases.
if you can figure out how a karaoke user would want to install it and show the DJs and have them spread it to others maybe.
Ramsey Theory
Why We Started Inside Sales Bootcamp and Thoughts on Bootcamp Ecosystem
I pretty much agree with most of this with the exception of the single thread comment as all modern UI toolkits (and most old toolkits) are single threaded.

I'd like to add that the deployment was also a nightmare as javafxpackager is horribly broken in many small ways. Basic things like support for UWP targets or modern UI on Windows (not the look actually running in the metro environment) is missing. Integration with Swing is horrible, for the life of me I can't understand why this wasn't the first thing implemented in FX and why it has a separate thread from the Swing main thread...

Looking at the history of programming only one scene-graph API ever gained major traction and that was Flash. It did that thanks to amazing tooling from Macromedia that mostly hid the fact that it was a scene-graph API.

SVG failed as an API (it has moderate usage as a file format but not as popular as the newer Canvas API). iOS has a sort of Scene-Graph API in core-animation but that isn't used as much and it's really simplistic. Most samples mention the immediate mode API, OpenGL or Metal.
There is XAML which isn't exactly a glaring success either... I think it's time for the scene-graph folks to admit that it looks good on paper and can be pretty amazing, but the "market" has spoken... Repeatedly.
Scene graph is nice but when something performs badly you have no clue, too much happens "under the hood" and developers don't like that.
Catch 22. To cut Flash out you need to use DASH + MSE. You come to CDN and say you need it, and they say they don't support it because you first need to use it...

Google worked around it by rolling out their own CDN. Do you propose to do the same?
The Chrome OS has taken advantage of recent work by Docker and other cloud containers to give Chromebooks Android-app compatibility. The full Android framework is implemented in a Linux container that isolates Android from the rest of the Chrome OS and apps in a sandbox.
> Under the DMCA, I get to file an actual DMCA counter-notification to put my content back up

No, under the DMCA, the content host has the option to let you do that after a takedown, and, if they choose to exercise that option, you lose any legal right to sue them for taking your content down that you otherwise would have had before considering the safe harbor.

But, since most use agreements with hosts are structured such that the host would never have any liability for taking down user-submitted content, this is pretty much a non-issue.
I want to thank all people involved in making this open source project possible. Things are by far not set in stone and this library has only been in development for about 2 months now.

We are working with SocketCluster to make µWS default in version 5, and I have gotten a lot of help from a lot of people during these months.

Thanks for support, I will be accepting PR's and receiving issues that we need to fix before making any kind of official stable release.

Also, try to ignore the hateful comments - these commenters build their cases on thin air, and if you actually do find anything you want to change - I will accept PR's that can be shown to improve the library.
"there is also agreement in the scientific community that the firing of neurons determines not just some or most but all of our thoughts, hopes, memories, and dreams." is quite a strong argument against mental dualism and traditional ideas about free will.

But research also supports the plasticity of the brain/mind and we know that we can build/change habits and personality traits (apparently) through conscious effort. Perhaps "free will" should be defined more specifically as the ability to consciously shape the deterministic systems that are our minds?
When developers are trying to do Things You Should Never Do Part 1 ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html ), then it's fair to say that they are lacking some skills. I don't think you should call that a 'no true Scotswoman'
If you'd really want to know, I would suggest contacting the website admin on HackForums.
"What is a girl's name?"

"A girl has no name."
"Use of old style cast -> Well I'm old style, get over it."

"By using Linux I haven't been limited by the lacking Microsoft C++ compilers only supporting a fraction of the language, but instead been able to use the very latest features and tools."
I mentioned a happy hour coupon type app and they were like too many already exist.
Paul Ford and Miranda July Cyberstalked Me
Прогноз на курс биткоина после удвоения сложности майнинга 10 июля
The average Chinese person's life, and China's position in the world, has improved tremendously under the Communist government. This is basic fact, not propaganda.

All I'm saying is that part of the acceptance or even favor the typical Chinese person feels towards their government is because of this actual factual improvement.

I'm not sure what you find problematic here. Do you disagree with the existence of this vast improvement in people's lives? Do you agree with it, but think it somehow plays no part in people's opinions of the government?
Fair point, I do see DJs making the big money but again it's for the experience of the show or festival. I agree the money has always been in live performance. Making recordings is really a way to get people interested - and how those people get those recordings is sometimes less important to musicians than it is to business people. If the recordings are free, but the musician makes money live, then the musician wins - the only people who don't win are the ones trying to get a piece of money from distributing the music recording. Good to chat with you, best of luck with your music!!
Well of course it's not cool when that happens, and while generally most people agree !important is to be avoided, I was responding to the idea it should be banned completely, or the article where it says it's only good for debugging. It's a last resort that needs to be there, and has probably saved a lot more time than it's wasted.
Simplicity – A Lightweight SDK for Facebook / Google Login on iOS
Mortgage subsidization is the whole point of the program, not sure I see the issue in your argument. We get lower mortgage interest rates because they exist.
We have come a long way from Chernobyl. Most of the people posting here probably weren't even alive when it happened. Nuclear power is so well-controlled (unless you build reactors on earthquake hotspots or tsunami zones, I mean c'mon Japan) that you can't even use regular statistical models because the only probable risks are human. Reactors are really, really well-designed these days to seal themselves off in the (super-rare) case of a critical malfunction. The real risk with nuclear right now is the boogeyman fears of a meltdown keeping us from updating our ancient reactors.

So I ask: how do we provide energy to a rapidly growing global population without surging carbon emissions using readily deployable technology? Renewables might work - if people stopped having kids for a while - but aside from truly revolutionary advances in energy efficiency, generation, and storage, we are left with an unfortunate but undeniable fact: we need nuke.
Who wants to be known as the candidate that stopped X from buying a home

I do! There's a whole host of additional reasons that I'm not a viable candidate though.
The origin of countless conspiracy theories
Comparing Xamarin and Codename One
No, you are buying a product whose description is literally "you ask it something, and our cloud service (which costs tons of money and was built over almost two decades) will give you the answer." How do you expect to do that without a roundtrip of a certain amount of information to Google's servers?

How is that "being evil"? Isn't that the product's whole raison d'être? Everything else ("it's going to be recording everything you say and reporting it to the NSA!") is just tinfoil-hat-level speculation and not based on any factual information. If I started saying "In-n-Out could change their burger recipe to include cyanide at any minute and kill all their customers" would you accuse In-n-Out of plotting to kill everyone?

For the record, this is my very own (pretty frustrated) point of view, and obviously doesn't represent Alphabet's view in any capacity.
Interesting read, but is the author being serious when they suggest that the FDA should be setting standards for how software UX is designed? I can't even begin to imagine how much of an unmitigated disaster that would be.
I noticed that PyVMMonitor is built on PyQt. Mind if I ask you some questions about how you licensed the underlying tech stack to be able to sell it?
I'm convinced we are going to reach a point where people trust what the computer tells them more than their own eyes.
Well, also gas stations, convenience stores, and fast food places. Basically anywhere that has a self-serve fountain.
Emulate Raspberry Pi on your computer
I'm not trying to call you or them out or anything, i'm just curious...

Are there any public examples of them doing this for someone?

Because that is a really awesome thing to pledge, but without public actions backing it up it's an empty promise.
> Opt-in encryption is no encryption.

That's a cute slogan, but I can't see any meaningful sense relevant to the present discussion in which it is true.
Directions can be done offline just fine using openstreetmap data and a library like graphhopper. Music could and should be locally stored. And yes, the news has to come from a server, but this could be done anonymously instead of with the full range of google tracking.

I'm starting to get really annoyed at the tendency to put everything online when it doesn't need to be. Online-integrated devices are brittle and have a built-in expiration date. We should prefer devices for which online integration, if it exists at all, is optional and easily replaced by your own server.
Here's a close contender.

https://github.com/leachim6/hello-world/blob/master/m/Mmmm()...
But if you take Webster’s definition, alien is still overbroad. A person OR place OR thing is a much wider scope. 'Stranger' only describes persons and so is still the appropriate word in the context.
In-App Gestures and Mobile App User Experience
there is no proof that author is not fucktarded indivudial that mother can not love
They used different units of measurement for each category. It makes direct comparison unnecessarily difficult, maybe misleading.

Meat->Ounces; Vegetable->cups; Fruits->cups; Grains->ounces; Dairy->cups; and finally, Fat->Grams

Let's look at 2008.

Meat->Chicken->2.10 ounces; Vegetable->Potatoes->0.59cups; Fruits->Apple->0.11cups->Grains->Wheat Flour->4.07ounces; Fat->Cooking Oil->45.10grams;

In other words, they ate more cooking oil than every other category combined! To me, it seems like this was cooked up to support the "Fat is BAD" fad.
No, you're absolutely correct in the traditional way of doing business - just think back to AM/FM radio in the US. The songs were advertisements to go buy the record, which made the record companies a lot of money and the musician usually pennies.

Once people didn't have to pay huge mark-up to get music they rationalized that musicians weren't getting much anyway - so, let's spend our money on live shows, merchandise, fan club stuff - and there's a lot of music lovers that I believe have spent their money from recorded music on other music related things. Not sure there's data to support it, but I've always thought of recordings as kind of the throw-away element to being in the music industry: Nobody makes money on them unless you get them in a TV commercial or a movie soundtrack.
I do not agree with GP for a host of reasons but this is a piss-poor excuse. You could use it to justify just about everything.

Oh the US government is spying on its own citizens? It's their country, they can do as they like.
Minimizing root-mean-squared error fits to the average (over-emphasizing the outliers).
Minimizing mean-absolute-error fits to the median.
We use this at Graphistry for wrapping our analytics & visuals for cloud & on-premises, super appreciative :)
I still don't get why they are noy just backporting the simple things people are missing. Like breaking: print "hello". I don't think being academically correct is worth the current schism.