skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My understanding is that the _configuration_ is usually written by hand, and then the automation takes care of the actual build.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with auto-generating the packaging files in the debian/ directory, as long as the uploaded package contains the generated versions. I'd love to see a tool that can generate a Policy-compliant Debian source package from a Cargo crate, ready for upload.

> (a) is already covered, as is (b). That said, we're still working on making it easier.

I've seen the proposed plan for addressing (a) and (b), namely shipping the full source code of library crates in the -dev package. Has this been implemented, in a way that Cargo can use?
When Apple says Spotify is asking for preferential treatment over developers of other apps, does that include the developers of Apple Music?

Does Apple Music go through the same sort of independent and opaque approval process Spotify does? Do they have to wait the same time? Do they get rejected for unapproved business models?

Does Apple Music take 30% of it's cut and give it away to the rest of the company?

While I am not entirely unsympathetic to Apple's position, I think the preferential treatment argument is BS when Spotify's biggest competitor is Apple Music.
Can't you cast from the Amazon app on your Android and iOS phone?
I'm a huge Randall Munroe fan, and so I was hugely disappointed when he posted that "What if", because it is 100% wrong.

Moonlight is pretty much partially reflected sunlight. The moon is acting more like a dirty mirror than like a blackbody emitter. This is easily apparent through two simple facts:

1) If the moon was emitting light due to its temperature rather than reflecting light from a higher temperature object, we couldn't see it all. Objects at 120 C don't really emit light in the visible range.

2) The color temperature of moonlight is around ~4000K, about 1000 K lower than sunlight. It's not like we haven't measured this stuff.

So, yes, you could start a fire with moonlight. I leave this as an exercise for the Mythbusters-inspired reader.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature

[2] http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/244922/why-does-m...
Ask HN: Where's the best place or best way to learn JavaScript syntax?
I did computer science at university but due to many external life pressures, couldn't keep up the pace with the programming modules. After university i went into IT support instead of coding. So I haven't had much practice but I understand fundamentals well (at least i feel).

Im trying to get myself back into coding as i often need it for work (front end only).

I find i can grasp coding concepts really well but when it comes to implementation i always get it wrong on syntax.

Today i had 6 lines of code and even with the help of JSHint, it took me 1hr to debug. My syntax was wrong.

I've read a 2 books on js already but still the JS syntax rules don't seem to be sticking.

I realise much of this comes down to practice but i'd love if there was something to help me up my game?
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Weighted dice. Go back a century and it's much easier to ban gambling using dice than it is to ensure that the games are fair.
There is scope for considerable refinement in the choice of the second factor p(life|HZ). [...] In our simplified treatment, this constant value has no effect on dP(t)/dt since its contribution is also cancelled by the normalization factor N.

Though this paper does provide some needed formalism around the Drake Equation, I don't understand how its results can be meaningful if it "cancels out" one of the largest sources of uncertainty.
My grandfather plays a video poker game called Deuces Wild and when the payouts are set just right and you play perfect you have a slightly over 100% payout.
He has been playing for over a decade in Mesquite Nevada and has been making a slight profit year after year.

When you add in points rewards you can end up doing ok in free steaks and massages.
The casino knows he wins and is fine with it. My guess is that they like the fact that he is willing to try and help people learn how to play perfectly (which is not trivial) and that makes the other customers play more and essentially cover the small amount of profit he makes.
Thanks for the clarification. So I take it that means I should read the following:

The key feature of reflective oracles is that they avoid diagonalization and paradoxes by randomizing in the relevant cases.2 This allows agents with access to a reflective oracle to consistently reason about the behavior of arbitrary agents that also have access to a reflective oracle, which in turn makes it possible to model agents that converge to Nash equilibria by their own faculties (rather than by fiat or assumption).

as not that the agents will converge on a Nash equilibria, but that now it's possible to model agents that do converge on a Nash equilibria, which previously we could not (at at least not definitively)? That's what it seems to say outright, which I missed previously, I just want to make sure I'm not approaching it from the wrong context.
My daughter practically couldn't be in the car before we put some videos on an iPad for her, I definitely second this as a good investment. We just went with a handful of favourite episodes though - it amazes me how many times she can rewatch the same story but I think that given the option she prefers episodes she knows.

I realise now that we've been watching Daniel Tiger through the PBS for Kids app, the videos we bought on iTunes, casting to the TV over Hulu, sometimes catching the morning showing over cable, and now we have Amazon Prime over PS3 as an option. I should probably make a donation to PBS!
this is a big problem with customer reviews in general. Only rarely you'll see a review by someone who knows what they're doing; most times the reviews are very superficial and isn't helpful at all.
Last month I sent you mail but got no response
Can you imagine what kind of devious behavior would go into writing, wording, producing, and administering that quiz...

Our elections are bad enough with the electoral college, super delegates, and gerrymandering.
Yeah, I use that, but it obviously requires more work than a simple unwrap or expect, so the temptation is to just use those and think you'll remember to flesh it out later :-)
Yes, she did, and I would say she worked at it much more than I did for quite a while. Both of us are what is called traditional, so I think there's a lot of truth to the idea that the man is the leader in the relationship. Not a popular view these days, but I don't care. The women I've observed in such traditional relationships generally do work very hard at it, so saying that is not at all meant to take anything away from them.
The correct answer is fixed on the last option. I don't see how this proves anything.

if (ans == 4){
document.getElementById("question_right").style.display = "block";
} else {
document.getElementById("question_wrong").style.display = "block";
}
«While it’s possible for a user to set the ‘Enter master key on secure desktop’ setting which claims to prevent keylogging, according to KeePass this option “is turned off by default for compatibility reasons“.»

Yep, Step 1 in a KeePass install for me is making sure to turn this on. I hate that this is not the default.
For what it's worth, PBS has an app[1] for Apple TV, and it has much of PBS' content.

With that said, the general problem of certain services being restricted from/to specific platforms is extremely frustrating, and will only get more painful as exclusives become common.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/anywhere/connected-tv/apple-tv/
I'm just quoting the EFF's opinion really:

> They did a great job of informing users that the privacy policy had been changed through emails and notifications
I would build a better Soundcloud, and I would make a point of sales system targeted at the medical marijuana market.

I would also make a dating website for artists.
When is lobbying appropriate in your view? Is it the responsibility of government to facilitate the opening of new markets, for instance? As with TTIP?

How do you square a free market with a global economy where free markets are not the norm? How do you compete with state owned and operated business? Do you let these companies participate in your free market?

Are there any other instances you can imagine besides preventing revolving door monopolies where regulation might be appropriate?

*Your ideas don't sound very different from the form of capitalism practiced in America today which is a pretty far cry from the extreme ideas about free-market libertarian ideals I'm used to from fans of Ayn Rand. What are some principles you find appealing in her writing?
The AC68U is hackable and overall a pretty reasonable device. The only issue I've seen was that it had some weirdness with power levels with some revision of the Merlin firmware (I forget which one), in which it would report much higher output than a spectrum analyzer showed. I don't recall the fix, so it must have been fairly simple.
my father is still using one which i bought 8-9 years ago. running dd-wrt, its unbelievably stable.
Yeah, I agree, Spotify's case is pretty compelling.

I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of the Sherman Antitrust Act (I wrote a paper on this in engineering law undergrad about the Intel/AMD case) is that whenever a company uses its dominant position in one market to attempt to restrict competition in an adjacent market, that's called "tying" and it's illegal.

And this seems like a pretty textbook case of it: Apple has a strong, powerful position in mobile devices, and they're making it harder for Spotify to compete with them for music streaming services.

Apple's argument would probably be "we do this to everyone, our behavior isn't specifically to reduce competition, it's standard commercial practice for all apps".

Ben Thompson of stretechery has been commenting on this recently, mentioning that US antitrust law is based more on how people compete (following rules) vs. EU antitrust, which is based more on consumer outcomes and harm. And the harm in this case seems pretty clear: Apple's behavior, though perhaps unintentionally, is making it very difficult for Spotify to compete with Apple Music -- EVEN THOUGH (in the US regulators' view) they aren't acting with any kind of malice, or illegal intent (their view).

The hard legal question is how to ensure competitive markets when tech platform operators make products that inevitably lead to monopolies, like the App Store. That one really should be legislated because it's a big, complex question that will come up with escalating frequency as more businesses exhibit tech-like winner-take-all dynamics.
I have had this idea - but my solution is different. The solution is that the time on site has to approximate the estimated reading time. Extra measure could be taking by tracking the scroll rate.
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True. Just that I bet with the $$$ that iPhone owners have, a massive chunk of Spotify's revenue comes from iPhone owners
Using way simpler math, the probability that an even number is prime is zero. One cannot conclude from that that there are no even primes (in fact, many mathematicians think the smallest prime is even (https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL15/Caldwell2/cald6.h... ))

Mathematicians do use this kind of back of the envelope calculations to get a feeling for whether a statement may be true, but they can never prove something.
And I applaud that, even if I wouldn't do the same. People need to understand that in a competitive market, you vote with your wallet. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
You beat me to this one with a great answer.

I would only add that a big reason not to name a number is that you're guessing at what they might be willing to pay. So even if your plan is to anchor high, you're guessing and you might miss. You might THINK you're anchoring high when you're actually guessing a number that's relatively low in the range of salaries they're willing to pay.

You gain a lot of information by waiting for them to make an offer.
I am just guessing but from the name it seems that it's about using one "naive and careful" player to observe the game and count the cards while placing small bets. Once the deck becomes advantageous the "wild gambler" joins and starts blasting huge bets. Of course the first player signaled a good moment to join.

This way it doesn't look suspicious as no one altered their behavior (one early method to detect card counters was to observer changes in bet sizings as the count changes).
I usually use Wolfram Alpha or Google for this.
Yes, but this also works in reverse. Wouldn't you much rather the anchor be in your hands? You always say a crazy high number, but you can couch it in terms where its not necessarily the number you are asking for. Anchors work like that.

To make this concrete, if I was a level 5 engineer and I knew total comp was around $300k in the Bay Area, I may say something like, "Well, I have been considering getting back into consulting where I know I can get at least $50k / month, but let's see where we can get here at [tech company]."

Note I wasn't asking for $600k / year, and didn't even say I made that now, I just floated it out there. Boom. Anchor.

Yes, you will get either a chuckle or a "Weeeeeeell" hem-haw. Doesn't matter. Anchor has been set.

Most engineers have internal blocks. They don't believe they are worth $600k / year. Better bet your ass MBAs and sales guys do. And we wonder why they make so much more than us?
Thanks, I didn't know about this. It's set to opt-out and I don't recall doing that but may have at some stage.i wonder what the default is? The explanation below is unusually readable and come across an an explanation rather than the standard dense legalese that is in eula.
In that case one has to be lucky to meet 'after' the initial phase is complete so that they have chance to be selected.
Apparently when I laugh I show disgust, no wonder I'm no longer invited to dinner parties! I partly joke, but it did do a good job at distinguishing different expressions but maybe not assigning them to the correct one.
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Yes, and even if it didn't specifically exempt them it wouldn't necessarily affect the rules of evidence/fourth amendment stuff. My point was that "if a regular guy did this it would be a crime so maybe it's not quite the same as looking through the blinds."
just out of curiosity: I have emailed my resume to	alex.ehlke@tophat.com (may), chris@tophat.com (may), and	olivia@tophat.com (june).

However I have yet to receive any reply from anyone!
https://www.codecademy.com and http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp can get you started out.
That's fair. And see my comment in the parallel thread. In that situation, I think the original tester just never conceived of the possibility that there would be a failure with reporting of fires when two systems which functioned individually were run together. So the procedures didn't have the situation defined in the test plan. It was in beefing up the test procedures that the error was discovered (and others).
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It's not giving shares, it's a share exchange. Again I'm not an expert, but I've seen these types of arrangements before and somehow they got reasonable tax treatment because they were spelled out as such in the original grant (so nothing had actually "changed" at the time).
When I say anchor high I don't mean X + $25k. I mean 2X or 3X.
The last quote on the page should be familiar to HN readers as a different version of "fail fast, fail often".
Build a small product, and look at big open source projects like backbone, underscore, react, etc.
VRML is exactly that I thought when I read the title.

The article didn't disappoint.
Chrome on iOS isn't a from-scratch browser. It's a basic WebView with some Chrome related data syncing. That means Chrome on iOS has more in common with mobile Safari than it does with desktop Chrome.

Any bugs you encounter in mobile Safari are probably present in iOS Chrome as well.
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Robotics is a hugely interdisciplinary field. Some of the hardest parts to work on are motion planning and navigation. For us familiarity with ROS is pretty important and project courses where you build something that actually works are super important. Search algorithms come up all the time, spatial searching especially.

For specifics I'd refer to the CMU Masters courseload or the WPI undergrad:

https://www.ri.cmu.edu/ri_static_content.html?menu_id=469

http://www.wpi.edu/academics/robotics/ugprograms.html
I don't know if "The Web in VR" is going to work out. But, "VR in The Web" is going to work out about as well as "(fullscreenable) Videos in the Web".

When picking a houses to visit with a realtor, would you rather flip through a galleries of photos or stand in each house's living room and look around?
That was the intent, but since the intent is not coming through clearly, I'll take it out next time.
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Liquid explosives are probably a bit more harmful than the <= 75% alcohol you can buy at the duty free.

Not saying that the rules make sense, but that seems to be the reasoning behind them. Dealing with a bit of fire is easier than a hole in the fuselage.
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The cut happens automatically, and it's in place now for all subscriptions.

So any Spotify subscriptions that started through the app at least a year ago are now getting the 85/15 split, without Spotify having to do anything.
Once I tried one of the new VR helmets, it was clear to me that these devices should have some kind of role in improving productivity- They are not to be dismissed merely as gaming devices.

The problem is, I really have very little conception so far as to HOW they can improve productivity. For one, the idea of using them merely as "a virtual giant monitor" is really an unsatisfying approach.
If that's true, why do they do such a horrible, useless, terrible job on the software?