skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my school there was always a small group of students who went down the OS path in Computer Science. A lot of people stuck around til some fun C stuff but then stopped when it got to writing compilers, kernels, and entire OS's.

Seemed like a small niche that really got into it though. I have a few friends that went that route and seem pretty competent
Perhaps new platforms also help drive this, such as the investment in mobile operating systems by a number of companies over the past ten years or so, and next IoT.
this is actually something we are playing with :) we have a couple of drafts in the pipe but you are welcome to bring some wisdom over to LokiJS - it's free for all to use and for all to contribute, even if it's just on a theoretical level. Cheers
The advantage of ports is that they are compiled for your machine. The minute you get precompiled packages, you might as well be on Debian
> What's below a service industry job? Nothing. Nothing is below.

Coal mining? Unemployment? Disability?
Sorry? I think we're talking about entirely different things. Basically what I'm saying is that the same people who are interested enough to buy bitcoin are often times the same people who will know how to get it, even if they have to go outside of more traditional and direct means.
Enough to say "Yeah, but everyone else did it, and it wasn't that many, so..."

...and here we are.
>Please do not move the goalposts like this.

Please do not follow me around in different threads and try to police my comments in different contexts, with earlier quotations taken out of context.

I am more than able to reply in a single thread to any objection you want to raise -- so that the narrative of the thread is kept intact and people can follow what each party said.

Also, you can criticise my points and disagree or totally consider them BS, but criticising my commenting, with whatever assumptions you made and didn't check with me (e.g. that I "moved the goalposts") I find rude.

My "simpler" and "less significant" refer to the same criticism. Pretending that I meant "simpler" in some "simpler syntax/tenses" way, and now I've "moved the goalposts" to "less significant" is disingenuous given what I've written in this thread.

I made it absolutely clear from the start of the thread that by "simpler" I meant less significant overall.

I was asked "by which criteria I say it's simpler", and I said "Vocabulary size for one. Applicability in different social contexts. Historical roots. Volumes of works created in it".

And I also extended that reply in follow-up comments, e.g. going on to say that standard english "is a more established language, with a longer history (literals and otherwise), written rules, plethora of books, and billions of speakers the world over. In fact, it was the AAVE that's derived from English and not the other way around. Without English there would be no AAVE. Plus it's also tied to a particular subgroup (and not even for all of its communicational needs)."

Where are those "changing goalposts"? I was talking about a language being less developed (simpler) from the beginning, and I articulated quite clearly what I meant by that, which is the same as the language's general significance, not just as a organized way of talking (syntax/etc) but as a historical/cultural artifacts.

If anything I find the opposing team playing with invisible goalposts, as if only syntax/grammar/etc counts in evaluating a language, that is, as if a language is just some formal linguistic construct, and does not have an associated culture, applications, history, literature, etc.

I guess this is part of the continental divide in thinking about culture.
No, I think the GP is right: in order for democracy to work, a significant part of the population must understand how it works, or at least care about how it works. "Educated" does not always mean "high-income" or "high-status" -- it can also just mean what it says.

If you only go by a set of established rules, you:

- are running (part of) your government by autocratic decree.

- still risk the population rejecting your form of "democracy".
Zulu for everyone?
I'm pretty sure that DHH strongly opposed .or(), but I'm not sure why. I'd really like to know if this is true, and if so, what the reasoning was.
I hope you never have to experience a loss because of carelessness.
I personally would accept a huge hit in performance for a fully libre system (software and hardware) and would be willing to pay more than the average desktop/laptop price for it. I know I'm not alone but I wonder if the market is big enough for a company to start producing hardware products on that core principle.
Not at all an expert, but is having lots of smaller ships really more cost effective? The thing about a carrier is you can mount aerial strikes against targets thousands of miles from the ship itself. Those smaller ships would be cheaper, but I imagine they would be armed with artillery and maybe cruise missiles, so they won't be able to project power over as large a range. I'd be curious what the relative square-mile-protected/dollar is.
You cannot even login to Spotify without Facebook account being active, so your steps 3 and 5 would not work. Those steps require you to sign in with Facebook to the old account.
you realized the reason for these things not supported in Google for Work is due to them being new or not work focused

Google for Work has to be stable over features all the items you have listed are pretty new all the family stuff is extremely new and still isn't complete it started with hack into google Music but we are now finally seeing it move into google main accounts as of today you can see it here

https://myaccount.google.com/preferences?utm_source=Google&u...

but you still can't add users from here

Google Fi isn't a for business product is more of an experiment on how to build a better MVNO and also to improve Android i expect in a few years they will sunset it

Google spaces is like two months old.
My mom's side of the family has been Catholic for some generations now. I think we even have some martyrs in our family. Mom's very staunchly Catholic, though she's more progressive than all the popes prior to this one. It's more of an identity to her than an ideology.
If you enjoy this, you might also enjoy a DIY Apollo Guidance Computer build by John Pultorak [1]:

"John Pultorak created a working reproduction of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), wrote a complete manual that will allow you to build your own Apollo flight computer clone and released it in the public domain."

[1]: http://www.galaxiki.org/web/main/_blog/all/build-your-own-na...
syncing isn't as straight forward mainly because not all DBs have replication protocols like CouchDB does. However, LokiJS provides a Changes API which serializes changes from a set point in time so you can easily process those.
I also dislike anti-discrimination laws in general though. I think a good compromise would be to limit them to certain kinds of jobs. This also reminds me of wrongful termination lawsuits, and anti-discrimination happens to be one of the reasons. I have been thinking about Yishan-style CEOs for a while now.
What is HN-worthy is decided by HN users. They voted enough to flag it. Probably because there's not anything very interesting or valuable to discuss about it. It will either be an echo chamber or flame baiting.
Those statistics are total garbage. Do they compare states and provinces with DST vs. those without? No.

Additionally if DST is so great, why not stay on it permanently like Russia?

There's also a link to an article on "How to get six pack abs" right after, so seriously, the scientific merit of this is highly questionable.
> Oh, and quite a lot of math and science dates back to pagan Platonic and Vedic philosophers.

FTFY.
You echo the issues I've encountered with Meteor and the reasons why we got rid of it. MongoDB is the worst when having to do, well, anything with it. We've moved to FeathersJS with a SQL Backend and could not be happier.
Are you want to increase the Battery Life of your Laptop, so here's HOW
Recently read the phrase 'don't optimizing for comfort'.
The alternative is that "prosecute Clinton" is basically synonymous with "use FBI and DOJ resources to put Trump in the White House".

Taking out a major-party presidential candidate during the general election season is going to have very unfortunate implications for the way US politics works. Just imagine in 2020, when President Trump decides to have his re-election opponent investigated and orders an indictment during the general election season. Except that in 2020, it will be a targeted removal and not simply a coincidence. I don't want to live in that world, and indicting Clinton now will lead to that world.
Yes and no. It's not wrong to just stop the simulation forever. Torturing or repeatedly killing a virtual being for fun is wrong, but turning off ("killing") a virtual being for the purpose of it being turned off is acceptable.

However, it can be wrong to erase their universe, if that potentially destroys something interesting the virtual beings have created.

In other words, the intent matters. Killing a mouse for fun is immoral, killing it to research cancer is not.
How about fixing the clients you already have before introducing new (paid!) ones?
Farewell Lambda Architectures: Exactly-Once Streaming Ingestion in Druid
At least in southeast Brazil it is pretty common to turn off HVAC at night when the workers leave and turn it back on at sunrise, even large companies and buildings do this.

I work at a giant multinational company and you have to request an exception for HVAC and lighting outside office hours.
A quick Google shows that at one time some of them were automatically detected, yet others weren't. StackOverflow indicates that some Linux tools for observing keycodes have been ported to OSX from time to time. There's probably some research and effort to get corner cases covered.

On the other hand, it's not as if all those keys are available on alternative keyboards such as the Model M or the Happy Hacking. Hence it might not be worth penalizing the MSNE 4000 over what doesn't work too heavily.

To be clear, I run Linux primarily and Windows secondarily and OSX not at all and even under Windows I don't use the multi-media keys other than I once remapped the back and forward buttons under the scroll stick. The main reason I use and recommend MSNE 4000 is ergonomics.

The best resource I've found on keyboard ergonomics is Xah Lee's keyboard guide:

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_review_gallery.html

In the end, it's a matter of finding what works for me. The other keyboard I like is the Thinkpad's. YMMV.
That's beside the point. The parent was simply asking what use exists for an anonymous currency.
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“RE: ACPI Machines and IRQ 9” by Jake Oshins (2001)
Where I've worked the AC shut off every night at 8pm and on weekends, though I think it was on 8-12am on Saturdays. Got unbearable sometimes in the summer. (California)
I wonder what PCs would be like if Intel bought Compaq in 1991 with people like Rod Canion and Jim Harris staying on. I think they were there when Compaq reverse engineered the IBM PC BIOS for example. Thinking about it, an alternative would be buying AST Research instead, which shut down in 1996 (just before ACPI was created) and was having trouble even beforehand.

Actually, this also reminds me that one of the first machines in which ACPI was tested was a Compaq laptop, back when laptops in general were much more expensive than even in the mid-2000. Of course, this was years after Rod Canion etc left the company. I wonder what they thought of ACPI and UEFI.
Regarding trains, it was a safety issue. Standard Time (and time zones) were invented to keep train schedules sane. The reason is because two trains occupying the same section of track simultaneously causes loud noises and news articles and paperwork.

It was safety, not passenger convenience. As long as engineers kept to schedule—and railroad pocket watches were legendary for accuracy—blocks of track over the horizon could be shared by trains even going in opposite directions at different times.
not sure what OPs reason is, but I agree. I am really disappointed by the Ethereum team considering the option of providing a revision in their chain's history in order to prevent a loss caused by an independent application. There is a conflict of interest since very prominent Ethereum devs have vested interests in the DAO and revising this history goes against many of the ideas that they stated Ethereum was built around.

Watching some of the talks from the first Ethereum Dev convention highlights this hypocrisy as they specifically advocate for "the code is law".

I still have a vested interest in Ethereum as an Ether holder, but the last few weeks have not really impressed me about it's communities adherence to their stated values.
I'm basing it on what those companies are actually doing right now in the real world. Both companies have paid drivers babysitting their "driverless" cars on real roads right now, and they will continue to test them this way, out of the hands of the public, for years, gathering data in a safe way over millions of miles driven. Because that's the way to gather data when real lives are at stake. Both companies are also adamant about having LIDAR and additional sensors in their vehicles that Tesla has decided aren't needed. Neither company has or will release a version to the public until they actually think it is safe to turn control over to the car entirely.

Now compare that to Tesla - beta software and sub-par sensors that can't detect stationary objects in the road (there was a recent case where a Model S on Autopilot hit a stalled car on the freeway despite plenty of time to stop), can't detect obstacles at windshield level (there was a recent case where a Model S hit a parked trailer when summoned), and apparently have trouble distinguishing between sky and lightly colored objects in full daylight (the most recent accident). This is a company that is prioritizing technology releases ahead of human lives.

Significantly lower accident rates compared to Model S Autopilot, if that wasn't obvious. In the future, you will take accidents per miles driven in autonomous mode and compare between Tesla, Google, Apple, Uber, etc. and then see which one has the lower rate. I am saying that Tesla will be the worst.
This is very interesting. Options are really an unappealing mechanism to incentivize employees. I feel like they prey on people who really don't know any better, and don't understand the tax implications or the possibilities around future dilution.

As a rule of thumb I discount face value of options by as much as 70%, that generally doesn't go over very well with people trying to convince you to accept them in lieu of cash.

The single trigger RSU is a very hard sell though, as we can see from this example it hurts both Investor and Founder equity stakes, unless people start balking at options (which they should) it won't fly.
DST has no purpose whatsoever when the days are of equal lengths, and it only helps when there's a difference between summer and winter days.

Extreme latitudes should benefit the most from any manipulation of the time of day, but they don't, which hints that this whole thing is based on bullshit.
Pendulum – Python datetimes made easy
It seems relevant to you and off-topic to others. In such cases the votes and flags combine to produce a community verdict. Nothing has changed about that in the last few months.

We sometimes turn off user flags in exceptional cases but this doesn't seem like one to me.
I'm not talking about minimizing for the sake of minimizing. I'm talking about not using JavaScript for the sake of JavaScript. Or better, not using JavaScript because you can't be bothered to understand what your problem is or how to avoid it.

- Page content doesn't need to be side-loaded in AJAX.

- Site layouts don't need to be set in JavaScript at page load. Animated menus don't need to be done in JavaScript and neither do pinned toolbars, doing so usually causes issues and stuttering when scrolling because you have a script running every pixel shift.

- Every link on the page doesn't need to be a JavaScript function, it makes bookmarking or opening in a new window difficult to impossible to what benefit?

- If you do want something to open in a new window, you also do not need JavaScript.

- User controls don't need to be JavaScript and when they are, they usually fail to work in mobile.

- Popover slideshow galleries don't need JavaScript to manage page reflow. Most shopping sites do this for their product images and it completely falls apart on Mobile when you pinch-zoom.

Far to often I find myself on pages that are unresponsive (not referring to Responsive Design) because they're so laden with JavaScript that everything comes to a screeching halt. Or worse still, some syntax error in one script brings the whole page down or one script reference doesn't load and the page is completely unusable.
Agreed. My parents bought a hard drive from Amazon a couple of months ago - something I used to assume would have been absolutely fine. When it arrived, it became clear that the drive had been pulled out of a server, possibly relabelled and then sold as new.

Now I just buy PC components from Scan. As for Amazon - I stick to the stuff that comes directly from their warehouses. Even the items that they handle distribution for can't be trusted anymore.
This story is getting flagged off the front page over and over. Clearly there's a segment that doesn't want to see this news or discussion of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037042

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037308
Everyone parrots that DST is for farmers, as if livestock look at the clock before going about their business.

It's for factory workers. It always has been.
People will still want and need a concept of local time, so you'll end up with pretty much the same thing, possibly better, possibly worse, but not markedly different.
Keep in mind the amount of monetization that occurs around purchase data in the present system. The ease with which you can associate transactions to real identities isn't even comparable.
I did say simpler -- but I explained straight away I don't mean it in the "Go is simpler than C++" sense.

In the very first response I got, I was asked to clarify "simpler", and I explained that I mean the overall "ecosystem" (history, culture, literature, vocabulary, applications) of the language.

Maybe a better word instead of "simpler" would be "poorer" and "richer". In the sense of the Java and Nim ecosystem's for example.

So, not the syntactic/etc rules (of which I don't care much at all -- anybody can create a full set of syntax rules for a new language, that doesn't make his language important).

AAVE is simpler is that it's a special purpose dialect with a smaller history, less applications, and limited development (due to racism, lack of an official state, non representation in most forms of writing, etc). It's more an artifact of racism (and a group identity thing to combat it) than an actual language (even if it has the "complex syntax" that some people thing is the only thing that matters).
Pendulum is a new library for Python to ease datetimes, timedeltas and timezones manipulation.

It is heavily inspired by Carbon (http://carbon.nesbot.com) for PHP.

Basically, the Pendulum class is a replacement for the native datetime one with some (I hope) useful and intuitive methods and the PendulumInterval class is intended to be a better timedelta class.

An important note about the Pendulum instances is that, unlike the native datetime ones, they are mutable via the appropriate methods.

To those wondering: yes I know Arrow (http://arrow.readthedocs.io) exists but its flaws and strange API (you can throw almost anything at get() and it will do its best to determine what you wanted, for instance) motivated me to start this project.

It’s still fresh so any feedback is appreciated :-).

Link to the official documentation: http://pendulum.eustace.io

Link to the github project: https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum
"Over the last few days, we have learned that mankind can chase down a comet speeding through space at 34,000 mph, but resisting the outrage machine, kicked into high gear over a trifle, is completely beyond its powers."
> Describing the problem as excess false positives is confused, because these are true positives.

This is deeply wrong. A "true positive" in this context would mean that the resting brain activity of multiple subjects is actually correlated with arbitrary length, randomized, moving test windows. Again, the data is untreated; they are imposing arbitrary test windows and looking for increases in brain activity (increased image intensity) correlated with the stimulus-ON sections of the pseudo-treatment.

From reading some of your prior comments on the subject, it seems prudent to point out that the causal link between stimulus and BOLD effect is quite literally observable: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130346/
There was a PE firm that came around about 4-5 years ago trying to raise money on this very premise.

Their thesis was that

- startups would remain private longer.

- employee's lost their options when they leave

- longer periods to go public means more employees return options to the pool which means employee option pools can be smaller

- longer private periods leads to more rounds raised which benefits investors over employees as the former can participate on each round to keep from being diluted

- exits would come eventually and the investors would always have superior terms, I believe that they were working under the assumption that investors would never have mandatory black out periods after IPO so they could essentially participate in the opening day IPO pop.

This is one of the coolest and most maddening things about finance. Every time you think you've come to a big realization, usually you find out that someone else came to the same conclusion many years ago and has been making money "arbing" it out ever since.
And communists! Don't forget communists!
As stated... This is only useful for businesses using office 360.

Getting your friends to use skype is as easy getting them to switch to windows phone. I used to have skype to speak with friends abroad, but most have switched to Whatsapp... I now use whatsapp.
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Apple now ships UEFI updates with every version of OS X.
I'm not sure we can say it had no impact. Two cousins playing who can get the most soldiers to die for their side, sickening stuff.

Perhaps there was some Gambler's fallacy involved - like wow, stopping shelling and blowing whistles before we attack somehow isn't fooling them, lets keep shelling whilst we walk on over no-man's land, it's got to work this time for sure; can't change it now, we've nearly won!??
Just wanted to thank everyone for posting their stories. I had no idea that Show HN could have that strong of a impact on people's side projects.

I'm working on something right now, but was fully expecting it to not get any attention and just be something fun for me to work on. Now I'm thinking it could probably use a bit more polish, because maybe there is a way for it to gain visibility.
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Totally agree with you on this point (not the OP's link specifically, but the awesome-x trend in general), too many of them add craploads of crappy links just for the sake of a high number.

Maybe it's just that my learning style is different from the majority's but I don't see much benefit in a massive dump of links. The idea and the intention of a community curated list on learning resources is good and lovely, it's just that github is not suitable for this.
> I guess we are through the looking glass where a documented lie (on your own website) about how you handled classified information doesn't disqualify you from running for president.

I mean, if she were running against someone who didn't lie constantly, maybe it would? But she's not, so here we are.