skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely interested in the software platform. Have been wary of Echo and Google's new thing due to privacy concerns... you're literally bugging yourself. Having all the logic run locally is a nice breath of fresh air.

Although I wonder if Emerson will force them to change the name, they have a smart thermostat called Sensi. Sense is a really unremarkable and un-googleable term anyway.
Protonet (YC W16) is fighting to avoid bankruptcy
Thanks for your input. There is a few drawbacks when sticking to queue size metric only indeed.
Native app vs web. There is always features missing from one or the other, and I'd much prefer one consistent interface at xyz.com no matter the device.
Uber CEO investigated over allegations of fraud in price-fixing case
I assume if you have that email at @yourself.com, you'd get the newsletter.
With luck, you'll get in touch with me on the right afternoon, and I'll immediately put plenty of energy into this.
"How does it help you if your potential customers avoid your software like a plague?"

You're gonna have to show that would be the result. You'd also have to show that whatever your alternative idea is. You said you want to "break natural constraints on availability." How are you going to do that without charging per copy, or charing a subscription model? And how does your idea make more money that previous, or at least a similar amount?

"Subscriptions border on restricting somebody's financial freedom."

No, they don't.
Tarn's dissertation "Flat Chains in Banach Spaces" is truly awesome, if you have enough domain knowledge to understand what it's talking about. I love those guys.
In other words, "if we think you could sue us and set a precedent, we will give you your money back. But if you're poor, we won't respond to your phone calls."
Latest standards are getting rid of that "work offline".
Not to mention that it never really worked.
How about the 'privilege' of getting new features? Major app updates? Ongoing tech support and bug fixes?

One could argue that those should be included in the purchase price, but today's app store economy often doesn't allow that.
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Calling It Growth Hacking Doesn’t Make It Growth Hacking
Serious question, why do we need apps that work offline? Finding it hard to imagine what you can do on a computer theses days without an internet connection, besides maybe an old single player game devoid of any patches.
You mentioned two good examples of how a data scientist can contribute to a synthetic biology company. Models are useful in many ways but only if they are realistic and backed by data. Today, many models are limited in their usefulness because they make assumptions to reduce complexity, assumptions that are not always true in nature. We'd love to design iterative experiments and gather more data, so we can improve and expand these models. However, to end up with a useful outcome, we would need to a) test many designs and b) capture as many experimental parameters as possible. We are working on (a) -- through increasing ability to synthesize DNA, and by improving our foundry capability and scalability (so we can process and assay synthesized samples and analyze results). (b) is extremely challenging due to the complexity of biology. At Ginkgo, all data are analyzed by scientists and engineers with high degree of biological intuition, so they can fill in gaps not captured in data. For these reasons, we have focused our software and computation efforts on building up wetware and automation infrastructure, so we can run more and better experiments.

We are always looking for passionate engineers to join us to tackle tough challenges. Just because something isn't doable today doesn't mean we can't shoot for the moon! There's no better place to change how biology is engineered than here. Ping us if you are interested in joining our efforts.
I have 2 Yellow Brahma (big bids, very nice temperament, cant fly far so they need a way to get to their perch, one is still too young to lay), 1 New Hampshire Red (she's the alpha, pretty good at flying too), 2 Leghorn (well one might be a Blue Maran), one grey/blue one white (smaller, really fast, great flyers, practically impossible to catch), 1 New Hampshire (still growing and not laying yet, super sweet temperament) and 1 Belgian Bantam (also not laying yet). They hang out in groups by age.

The Bantam/Leghorn/Maran hens have a celebration every time they lay an egg which can be a bit annoying if it's 7am, but usually it's mid morning.

Other random tips, to pick them up, especially fast chicks, place your hand under their belly and let the legs hang down, don't come at them from behind or above or too fast. Laying chickens often will assume a mating pose if you go to pick them up which makes it easier and you can just grab them with 2 hands around the folded wings. They like being pet under their chins, but generally not on top of the head. Be sure to wash your hands even though they look perfectly clean.

They are all pretty spoiled, if it was a harsher situation I would stick to the small fast breeds.

Also, I give them the eggshells back, they love em and need the calcium anyway. Some folks say that encourages them to eat the eggs but I have never seen that. It's only when one gets broken by accident.
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Indeed. At a more meta level, it makes you wonder what are they thinking, still antagonizing Sanders supporters that way. You'd think they would try to move to a more conciliatory discourse at this point, in order to get those voters in November.

Objectively speaking, it's not just dumb but could possibly affect the election.
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"If you use a GPL library you are required to release your entire application source code under a GPL compatible license."

Thanks for contradicting. I almost swore nonsense, but I'm so unsure about everything when it comes to licensing that I thought I'd read about it first, and you're right. I'm flabbergasted; never understood this, and never met anyone confident enough about their understanding of GPL to contradict my (wrong) understanding.

But then, does this mean anyone can ask for the source of closed-source software that use GPL code, like the ones below? (I just dug two random examples).

- AutoDesk software. Uses GPL components at http://www.autodesk.com/company/legal-notices-trademarks/ope... -- EDIT: alright these are all _L_GPL libs, which means just distributing the (potentially modified) lib sources is okay as long as you don't link statically. Right?

- HipChat Enterprise. Server-side, but distributed, to be run by enterprises on their own servers. Uses GPL components at http://sources.hipchat.com/ -- EDIT: in this case, all the GPL components seem to be basic GNU utilities, used by calling binaries rather than being coupled to the commercial software by a linking / shared object mechanism. Right?
Again, I don't disagree with what you're saying, but you're missing my point. I am very well aware of the benefits and can imagine when I would want a copyleft license but GPL's text is not it. Neither is Apache's license text for when I want a liberal license, but I accept it for its patent clause if that's needed. Repeating myself, unless you place your trust, which is a reasonable thing to do, with those who've vetted both licenses' texts to be fine, developers go with short licenses they fully understand. That's the argument here. If there was a well-known and short copyleft license, it could be similarly popular for new projects. I'm unaware of such a license and I'm afraid you misinterpret my argument as a copyleft vs liberal debate, but I've said that both Apache2 and GPL(2,3) suffer from an unapproachable wall of text with the cited clause existing in both and having the same semi-liability-disclaimer bug.
A smart manager would know better than to open their company up to potential employment litigation.

Unpaid wages are one of the few offenses that can "pierce the corporate veil" and leave founders/owners personally liable.
> The original constitution didn't even include the bill of rights because it can't be easily reconciled with slavery.

The original Constitution expressly recognized and protected slavery, true, and did not include the bill of rights, but not because it couldn't be reconciled with slavery, but because the bill of rights was crafted to address concerns raised by critics of the original Constitution; the Bill of Rights (well, the 10 amendments popularly called that now -- the package proposed had 12, one of which still isn't ratified, and one of which took a little over 200 years to be ratified) was ratified within a few years of the original Constitution, and had no problem being reconciled with slavery, which was still around until being abolished by the 13th Amendment after the Civil War.
You can always switch to Android or Windows Phone if you like their innovations better.
It is a lottery with two participants that willingly took part in it. She won big, but if she had died the day after the contract was signed, he would have won big: he would have gotten the house for about $500. Would you suggest he should have paid her inheritance a lump sum if that would have happened?
I find the UI of Dwarf Fortress completely impenetrable, but am fascinated by the level of depth and granularity in the systems underlying the game.

If anyone is interested in the game, I recommend grabbing the Lazy Newb Pack[0] which comes with a few utilities that will make your experience slightly less infuriating.

[0] http://lazynewbpack.com/
>> I disagree that technical people should not have to understand DNS

I think that any good technical developer/sysadmin has at some point set up their own BIND server or similar, if only to play with it for a few hours before uninstalling. This is something that is often missing from developers who went through a CS program just to get a degree in an industry that pays well, without really having an interest in the field.

Good developers/sysadmins, who actually have an interest in the work they do, have an innate curiosity that leads them to try their hand at things like a DNS server. For no reason other than to learn something new and understand a topic they didn't knowing anything about before the experimentation.

Of course, you can learn about DNS without actually configuring a DNS server from scratch - but the real "aha" moments come from working with the server itself rather than only understanding the difference between A/CNAME/MX et al. Learning about FQDN syntax, how DNS master syncs to slaves, SOA serial numbers, etc. - so many interesting things to discover.
If I buy Tweetbot today, and it works today, it should keep working tomorrow. If I want new features I will pay for those features, update the app or make them an in app purchase, or create a new version number and charge for it.

This is like leasing vs buying, the only difference is with your example you'll get one choice, pay the lease, or pound dirt. I'd rather buy the app once and be done, and have the choice to upgrade at my discretion, than be forced to pay yearly.
Unsavory business practices at Uber? No way...
Here's a fun little video from the manufacturer extolling the virtues and showing a demo of their device: https://youtu.be/XYbgnCi7NYI

These are some truly evil people. Apparently they can only target prepaid cards with this thing, which unsurprisingly will disproportionately affect people with lower incomes (the "unbanked"). According to the manufacturer's FAQ [1]:

Intel™ and ERAD-Recovery™ will only retrieve balances from open loop prepaid debit cards. Debit cards attached to a valid checking account or valid credit cards cannot be processed using the ERAD-Intel™ or ERAD-Recovery™ system.

Law enforcement already depends heavily upon lower income neighborhoods to justify their existence, and upon criminal convictions of poor people that can't defend themselves to keep up demand for prison and jail guards. Now they want to take the money of those they can't arrest, knowing that their targets cannot afford to hire lawyers to get it back.

[1] https://www.erad-group.com/faqs
Edward Snowden vice interview [video]
> The startup announced in the spring of 2015 it would be buying 100 million base pairs of DNA to help it move into new production areas but has since upped that amount to the 600 million base pairs and will be partnering with Twist Bioscience and Gen9 to supply the synthetic DNA. Twist has pledged to deliver at least 400 of those base pairs of DNA by the end of 2017.

That last line about Twist delivering 400 base pairs has to be wrong, right? Do they mean 400 million?
I'm not going to try to defend civil asset forfeiture (it's an abhorrent practice), but I still do think America is marginally more free than most places for a few reasons:

- I don't think the number of people in prison is the best measure of whether a country is free or not. By that logic, a backwater regime which simply dealt with undesirables via extrajudicial shootings would be more "free."

- Likewise, the notion that police can "shoot you dead and barely get a slap on the wrist" is quite hyperbolic. Yes, there are plenty of cases of police brutality and we need a better system for prosecuting police murders (ideally an independent prosecutorial office which only prosecuted police). But I'm no more afraid of getting shot by the police than I am of dying in any other unlikely way (terrorist attack, random serial killer, etc.).

- We do still have some rights which are freer than anywhere else. Free speech, for example, enjoys much better protection in the US. Trying to prosecute someone for insulting a foreign leader would get laughed out of court here, but apparently it's a crime in Germany. Our secret police are marginally less brazen than GCHQ. The prospect of a national firewall/blacklist is a lot more distant here.
I would raise iguanas

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/ar/magazine-articles...
> ore importantly, subscriptions are immoral because the end result is robbing users of any sense of ownership. And as a software developer, you no longer feel compelled to innovate, to improve, in order to convince users to upgrade. I for one hate renting things, I prefer ownership.

Sure as long as you also accept that you are not owed bug fixes it updates. If you however believe that with system upgrades you should get corresponding app upgrades, then it starts to sound more like a service. I like subscription because I want developers to treat this as a service: support, fixes, features, etc.
What web app? Do you think every app on app store has web version?
I prefer apps, always I do not want consistent, I want good and smooth.
Web apps sucked, suck, and will suck.
Does anybody know how fork() is implemented? This blog post kind of sounds like fork() would do the slow emulation of it through CreateProcess().
Yeah I've used Swift a bit and found it in need of cleaning up.

To be quite honest, I've found in the last 5 years a lot of professional developers have lost sight of the maxim that brevity is not better than clarity.
> The real NtQueryDirectoryFile API takes 11 parameters

Curiosity got the best of me here: I had to look this up in the docs to see how a linux syscall that takes 3 parameters could possibly take 11 parameters. Spoiler alert: they are used for async callbacks, filtering by name, allowing only partial results, and the ability to progressively scan with repeated calls.
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A list of (at least partly) supported syscalls is here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/release_not...

Not details on which one are fully or partly supported, though.
This sounds like a fantastic idea.

However, if he really gives a flock of chickens to a bunch of families in need, won't that reduce their monetary value over time?

If every family has chickens, the monetary incentive isn't there for others to purchase them, or the higher supply will squash demand and drive the price down.

There's still the health benefit and it's obviously a great initiative.
*copyrighted, not patented
I don't see code, anymore. I just see dwarves, goblins... cats...

But really, the graphics aren't that bad. No worse than any other roguelike.
Read my initial post.
I played a few maps with some UI mods. Overall, I kind of like the experience because it reminds me of reading code in the matrix...
> I'm perfectly happy to pay $20-30 for an app

That's where you diverge from the population. Apple needs a solution for the general problem of people not wanting to pay much for iOS apps. It may disappoint those of us who prefer spending more up front for quality, but Apple has surely determined that more people will buy more apps this way.

(By the way, you compared paying $X upfront to paying $X per year which of course is a worse deal. A more representative comparison would be $X * 0.33 per year.)
I'm from SW wisconsin and it's terrible down there. Verizon is now decent, but ATT still sucks. They both cost about the same so you have to gamble.

Now that I only visit there a couple times a year I use Tmobile which can roam for voice/text in case of an emergency. It's not worth my money to have coverage when I'm never there anymore.
This is what I thought it'd be, too, only I mis-read fortress as forest and thought about a really cool park-like area with tiny trees.
That's awesome! Thank you for that link, a little pricy but the screen would be nicer than what I have laying around and it's more plug-and-play, bookmarked!
> 3. What is your argument against PowerShell? In what ways does it fall short? I have been pretty successful with using it for various tasks.

Powershell is an acceptable scripting language. It's a horrible interactive shell. They shoudn't have made "shell" part of its name if they weren't going to at least include basic interactive features like readline compatibility and usable tab completion.
Beware: their servers do not use ECC memory.

I believe building reliable, internet-scale services on such hardware is impossible. Having single bit errors, which are hardly rare [0], silently propagate is a recipe for disaster.

I applaud Scaleway for the foresight of building custom, sale-out hardware, however, that this is their second effort and still lacking in ECC use is very, very, disappointing.

I would love to use this hardware, it's almost the perfect design, but it's tragically flawed as is.

[0] DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html
fork() is properly implemented by the NT kernel. WSL is not layered above Win32.
That's the biggest problem with adoption of academic-style (Haskell, OCaml etc.) functional programming languages.

The proponents believe that 'shorter = more readable'.

And if they would try to make it more readable it would start looking like Scala and C# (hence their popularity).
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Define "IoT operating system"
It's not as clear-cut as that. This is a case for automotive, and there isn't a single native UI widget set that Qt could use/mimic. It absolutely makes sense to use QML for custom UI development, it really shines there -- using Qt widgets for custom UI on touch screens would be madness.

I've used Qt myself for desktop, mobile, and embedded development. For mobile and embedded I would not use widgets, and probably not even for desktop. I understand why the widgets still has staunch fanbase, but they do not belong everywhere.
Worldwide roaming is included in all of T-Mobile's postpaid plans if I'm not mistaken.
Linux Subsystem for Windows could also be misread the same way. Both are ambiguous.
on the front page with 300+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11862582
I'm not sure it's quite that bad but I was just thinking the other day that I should find out how to turn off the auto-renew that seems to have been turned on at some point. It's a magazine that I get into the house and I find that I'm in no hurry to read it any longer. It still has pretty nice design but I find very little of the content compelling any more. Yeah, there's occasionally a good article but I'm not subscribing to a print magazine for the odd article here and there.
Suppose so. Have you seen Caves of Qud? That's a good middle ground.
I love Discord and I think it'll seriously challenge a lot of communications tools out in the market. Discord won't just stop at communication for gaming. It can be a general purpose communication tool.
Swift is a big step forward over Objective C in many ways:

http://ctarda.com/2016/05/clarity-is-more-important-than-bre...
When the content owners of something that is annoying you show up in the same thread your in, it is appropriate to voice your complaints to them.
disclaimer: I have no idea about Linux auditing: If you 'sudo -s' (or one of its friends) does the log still record the commands done in the "root shell"?
I've archived the link to be sure, and from what I see, MIT is first, followed by GPL2, followed by Apache. Here's the snapshot right now: http://archive.is/L4hLm (http://archive.is/L4hLm/image).
Hm.. It'd be cool if I could run this on Heroku, though maybe that's a reason to switch to something like AWS?
Something that is unusual about modern West is we make it possible to publish all the different perspectives, and we have an ethic in academia to study them objectively and try to figure out which is correct. I think that is a very good idea, and often it is possible to arrive at the truth, at least to some significant degree. So for instance, we can be quite sure that the Nazi idea that the Jews needed to be killed off because they were all evil demons was simply wrong.
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In my opinion, the two most important features as a developer for the App Store:

1. Rolling deploys - right now releasing on iOS is scary and big bang, combined with the review process it keeps devs up at night worrying.
2. AB Testing on images and copy - you can only update this on each (scary) release, so you can't learn what works quickly.
App subscriptions would likely lead to more cross platform portability - if I'm paying $1/mo for your app, I won't care if it's on iOS this month and Windows Mobile next month, but if I paid $10 for your app, I don't want to repurchase it on a new platform.
There is nothing I hate more about social media than that.
If you like Dwarf Fortress, you might like a game called: Factorio
In my experience many PCIe extenders—even those extending x1 to x16 with a separate power plug—do not short the presence detect pins.

Also, I don't think the fact AMD cards work does not mean shorting won't be required for other cards. The PCIe initialization process is complex enough that there could be a variety of reasons why AMD cards can be down-plugged but not your Titan X.

In short (pun intended) I would highly recommend you to try shorting if you feel confident in doing it.
It is more than shady; it looks like glaringly unethical behavior. The nepotism and conflict of interest are completely clear.
That will be one of the key features I'm looking at.

The most basic could be birthdays but also about just keeping in touch with people who haven't spoken with in awhile.
No, but you have a record of the user who typed 'sudo -s' which gives you an idea of where to start asking questions.
> data will be missing that wasn't collected properly the first time

Maybe I'm nitpicking but even if you had that field in the database, it's still up to the application to collect it (unless it's something like a timestamp, but that's just a dumb mistake regardless of how you design your database)
If the FBI knows the truth -- that God talk -- it will be my coronation day. Sadly, they are incompetent and have not gotten to the truth. Hurry up you retards. I want Intel as my bitch.
Practices such as no-platforming threaten to strangle the roots of freedom