skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hardly as though they're coy about their preference:

> For instance, I’m on record as saying [Apple's] most important product, the iPhone, is the best smartphone on the market. So is The Verge overall.

...is the second sentence of an article [1] linked from the words "increasingly subpar" in this line from the article here under discussion:

> Of course, these Google apps still don’t feel nearly as integrated into the iPhone as Apple’s own, increasingly subpar, apps.

So I don't think it's entirely justified to argue that Verge's general editorial preference for Apple's mobile offerings means they're unwilling to judge those offerings harshly where it's deserved.

That said, it's not as though the claims they make in the article under discussion are hard to evaluate for yourself. It's also not as though it even makes sense to claim this article is tainted by a pro-Apple bias; the point they're making is not "android sucks lol", it's that they're amazed the company which makes the Android OS produces consistently better fit and finish in their software for their competitor's OS than for their own. So I'm sort of confused as to what exactly you think you're contributing here.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/3/10900612/walt-mossberg-appl...
Most things in tech come in waves (thin clients, h/w vs s/w speeds) and this is nothing FLOSS hasn't overcome before. A few more stories about abuses with NSA/Apple/FB/Google/whatever and OSS will be back on power user's primary devices and not just servers.

That's not to say it won't take effort. No need to get complacent :).
I'd be interested to see what this looks like for npm.
Nope. I voluntarily ticked the box on 23andme when it asked me if I was ok to have my dna shared with research institutions to help improve science. But SHARING is not SELLING. I'm NOT ok with them selling it because I think that is unethical of them to charge for something I thought they would give away freely.
Have you ever had more than a minor annoyance from not wearing a seatbelt?
Vanhawks (YC W15) reportedly lays off entire staff after running out of money
Aren't all the cities in the latter group already dense than the former group?

I didn't check all of them, but these are the least dense cities in the second group, in people per sq mile:

1. San Jose: 5000

2. San Diego: 4000

LA is 8000. NYC is 28000.

For the former, "build without hassle" group, here are the highest densities

1. Atlanta: 3360

2. Austin: 3358

3. Raleigh: 3158

4. Phoenix: 3025

Las Vegas is 1659, Charlotte is 2720.

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I pulled the numbers from Wikipedia. Here's an alternate theory: the cities in the second list are pretty full. So costs go up, despite the fact that the cities are unusually dense.

Further, it's impossible to build NYC in modern America. Zoning laws now require more sprawl. The cities in the first list are mostly building low density housing. (Hint: even tall buildings neighborhoods can be low density if built wrong.)
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According to me, yes. And mostly not doing enough stuff together and eye to eye -- which makes those words easier and less meaningful when they are not accompanied by actual effort, money, being there, etc.

Digital is a nice way to keep touch or contact new people, but bad replacement for physical socializing. Of course it's also easier and needs far less commitment, courage and empathy, and you can't beat that for people...
Which project are you referring to? Note that this is a tracker item created by a third party, to share information on how to configure VcXsrv to work with LSW. It's not Microsoft official or anything.
Perhaps I am wrong about this, but it was my impression that increases in internet advertising revenue were mainly based on increased volume, not higher prices. I don't see any reason volume should drop when more and more consumers are using the internet and spending more time on it.
Nobody's saying that Puppet or CFEngine isn't the best solution for a lot of cases, only that there are also cases where Ansible, or something like it, is a better choice.

You seem to have a serious down on the whole concept behind Ansible, and I'm curious why that is. Have you had a bad experience with it? If so, I'd like to hear about it, in order to better inform my own analysis of the tool.
Labor would be much more flexible if it weren't so tightly related to those human beings and all their pesky baggage.
> Signing a new lease costs a few thousand dollars

This depends on the location. Boston? Absolutely. Austin? Not in my experience.
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why everyone needs to be in Bay Area to work productively

Could this have to do with the state of the safety net in the country? If you lost your tech job in 2007 and lived in Austin or Dallas you could look at nine months or a year of unemployment. In SF you'd be looking at three to six months until the new job. The attraction of SF isn't the quality of jobs, it's the concentration, the phenomenon is jobseeker-driven. And if you are a landlord you profit handsomely.
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For me to do lists are waste of time. I use Wunderlist to keep lists of things that i might do/read/work on sometime in future. I use my calendar for things that must happen.

None of this is a way to 'solve' procrastination. The best way to overcome it is to do something. Anything. 5 minutes on 'the task' is better than 5 minutes wasted on something unrelated.
Find a method to get yourself to do something. Even 60 seconds is enough because it is more than nothing. As you do that regularly you will overcome your procrastination.

As other posters have mentioned though you do sooner or later need to find the root cause. It could be one of many things, but only finding that will help you to make real progress.

Wish you all the best.
I looked forward to "North Side Current Events" every morning. He'll be missed.
Monorails operate at relatively low speeds. It's much easier to switch something running 20 mph than something at 200 mph, particularly because you start running into issues with the acceleration curves and thus having the two lines angle off appropriately.
It makes sense. What are the prospects of non-Jewish engineers moving to Israel? The Valley depends on large amounts of immigration from all over the world, particularly Asia. I would think that most Jewish engineers who would want to live in Israel are already there by now.
Lots of posts in this thread feel like distributed talking points, and seem to have been put together using a similar formula.

"As a customer of 23andme" ... something about this benefiting everyone ... "good for them" ... something about clickbait (attack the source)

There are legitimate privacy concerns here, and I really wish the tech industry would stop shitting on the concept of privacy and attempting to make anyone who brings those concerns up out to be an insane tinfoil hatter.

We really don't know what kind of information could be gained from DNA in the future, and I don't think it's responsible to tell people to "just trust" that these companies have good intentions.
He mentioned using cloc to get that metric, so not including comments, formatting, etc.
Go's implementation is in Go + may be some assembly.
Thanks for sharing. Immediately thought of NomadList when I saw this post.

> keeping it while lots of competitors (including funded ones) keep coming in again and again and try to copy everything you did but do it better

My current project https://remotebase.io borrowed a lot from NomadList. While it's not successful yet, I can see what you mean.
Unity is not particularly valuable, but X itself is.

Suppose you're developing a cross-platform GUI application (hypothetically, its name could be "Visual Studio Code" or something like that...), and your main development environment is Windows. Now you can build and test it on Linux as part of your regular workflow, without having to sync code etc.

Heck, you could even make it so that launching the project (from a Windows IDE) would do a Linux build, and launch the resulting binary.
Child-Computer Interaction (2015)
Is Uber really "one of the most powerful and litigious companies in the world"?? Journalists sure like their hyperbole.
> Yeah, I'm inclined to just eat that one-time slowdown.

Maybe eventually the world will agree with you. We already eat the slowdown that comes with bounds-checked arrays. And indeed, compilers are getting better at removing that bit of overhead, compared to, say, the 1970s.
They do. It's called Uber and Lyft. And special interests are trying to get them to categorize their workers as employees.
Very cool! Going by the acronym, are you trying to make a Stallman-ish IMAP client that works well offline and only needs an occasional Internet connection to sync?
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Discuss Success, Mistakes and Work/Life
My pops and I attempt to grow a lot of our veggies in the backyard that we have, I'm surprised of the decent amount of harvest that we can get through out the year, the garlic this year is super fire.

We had a veggie compost section in the backyard, but there was a few rats that started hanging out there so it had do to go. Im actually really surprised that in Cupertino there is readily available places to compost food, both at their Community College (De Anza) and through their small businesses, while Alameda County (Fremont / Union City / Hayward / Newark / San Leandro / Oakland?) don't have any options at all.

I guess this also affects Milpitas because that landfill is huge, and with propositions to make it larger I would hope that they keep food out of the landfill, its a huge waste of space.

HUGE derail attempt for this conversation, sorry people.
Age is more than just a number
Yes, asciinema is a wonderful thing I learned about from this blogpost too. And another one from the asciinema.org: lolcat! Command line forever!
If you're getting downvotes (none from me), it's likely from exasperation that anyone is even bringing this up in the first place. Read comment threads on the Verge where people complain about bias- they almost always appear to be written by toxic high school kids who draw way too much of their self-image from which gigantic corporations their parents have bought their devices from.

The comments on the Verge used to be at least a little better than those on Engadget/Gizmodo/etc., but they've mostly devolved into the usual prepubescent Markov chain noise floor that article comment threads on the internet always sink to in time.
Promethease (http://promethease.com/) is probably the most well known in terms of getting health trait data

There's also Athletigen (https://athletigen.com/) which focuses more on the sports science side of things.
BashOnWindows
Check out "How we learn" course on Coursera. It deals with procrastination among other things.
GDI is not a UI toolkit, though. It's a rendering API.

Direct2D is the replacement for that. I'm not sure what you mean by "multiple competing partially overlapping frameworks", because e.g. WPF is not it.

And, aside from WPF, which is really just lagging behind at this point, the rest of the Windows ecosystem is on D2D right now (e.g. UWP).
> People seem to be more concerned about school district quality, restricting the amount of housing supply seen as viable. (I made this one up, apologies if that's wrong).

You are not wrong. We are in this exact position right now. We are likely going to be forced to do an add on to our house which is too small (and all the bs this entails). If we move, we lose the nice school district and location. If we buy new in the same neighborhood we are house poor. If we buy used we have a compromised house like we already own. If we tear down and rebuild, we are house poor again and taxes go through the roof.

It sucks, there's no easy option and the school district is the most important consideration by far.
I see the 'strong job markets' in a couple of areas in the US as a result of both banking reform[1] and the increasing concentration of capital[2].

[1] The old system strictly limited banks operation to their particular geopolitical location. A bank in Iowa couldn't make loans outside Iowa.

[2] The fire hose of money is held by a small number of entities all of whom live in a few small pockets.
They can make users miserable by messing too much with them or trying to squeeze more money out of them
The funny thing about Play Music is that the early versions were really solid. I streamed mp3 from my Google account while driving all the way from Chicago to Cleveland back when I had a Nexus S 4G, and Sprint's network was not what you would call perfect.
Absolutely. I wish this article wouldn't speak so generally when I hear consistent articles about major spikes in:

- Autoimmune issues (especially allergies)
- Obesity (particularly in children) and diabetes
- Autism
- Depression, ADD, and similar disorders
Our attorney, at least, had fairly decent templates for all. For the privacy policy it was a matter of seconds to finish that up. As for the TOS/EULA that was the time consumer. These tend to be more specific, or at least contain specific clauses, that apply only to the SaaS they are intended for. While many of the clauses are cut/paste, there are sections that are more specific. Our attorney time wasn't spent necessarily on the writing, as much as it was ensuring that all the bases were covered. He asked us a lot of questions and this was the time consuming part. I am sure some of those questions could be streamlined into a template. On the other hand, he knows that if a question does come up, we are going to come to him, and wants to ensure his butt is covered if something were to happen.
there's another file_exists for the git directory that seems to be an even more complete example :)
There is a pretty big difference between WPF, and the XAML UI Framework that you get in UWPs. When it comes to desktop apps, at least, WPF had a lot more features, and was generally more flexible and extensible. XAML UI is much closer to Silverlight, if anything.
I wonder if all the benefits may be coming from people having kids later in life. You'd think this would lead to more disease, but maybe we are actually evolving to be longer living and the kids later in life is what is causing it.
This is what I am asking. Why they are not doing it? And if there is a compelling reason for FB/Google, is it valid for everyone else?
this is a great resource, wonder how the underlying docs.json is being created. would like to see it being extended to explain the query dsl.

fyi, the table doesn't render in Safari browser.
If you were able to defeat procrastination with a todo list, you were not a procrastinator.

You just needed some organisation in your daily activities :)
Cheers. Mixpanel is out of our price range. Will try Facebook and Google for now.
Anti-trust? What a stupid thing. People who sue others based on violations of anti-trust laws are not people.
Absolutely. My point is not from user's perspective here, but rather as a developer. WPF has its warts, but it's still a great framework specifically for desktop UI - because it was designed for that from ground up. Doing the same things in HTML/CSS/JS is definitely possible, but requires a great deal more effort.

If you want an analogy, it's kinda like writing web apps in C. Sure, you can do it, but there are much better tools.
Transportation Affordability
> Oh for heavens sake. Why is it every time recession bites it's the poor bloody workers that need to get their rights curtailed, their notice periods chopped, their families spread over thousands of miles just to keep profits up.

When I saw (brookings.edu) I knew I was going to read the above in the FA.
Since I have you here: I teach programming with this portable, safe assembly language (as opposed to the portable, expressive assembly language that was C). It has bounds-checked arrays. It always initializes variables. The type system is strong, so you can't ever create an address out of a number. It compiles with -ftrapv so any signed overflow immediately triggers an unrecoverable error. It has pointers and requires manual memory management, but it has refcounts so you can't ever have a use-after-free error. As a consequence any copy of an address incurs some overhead to update refcounts, and any copy of a struct incurs even more overhead to update refcounts of all addresses contained within. Between initialization, bounds checking, overflow checking and refcounting, I think I've pretty much eliminated all sources of undefined behavior.

http://akkartik.name/post/mu

http://akkartik.name/about

https://github.com/akkartik/mu
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> People have become more aware of the risk factors, and behave accordingly.

I wonder how this could be properly measured. My impression based on rising obesity rates and decrease in overall physical activity levels is that we are terrible at making sacrifices in the present for our future self.

Sure, we all avoid trans-fats, leaded fuel, and other similar choices; but all of these are largely forced on the entire population.
Good school district is mostly a myth. A "good school" is mainly school whose students come from successful families. You could raise your kids anywhere reasonably safe and they'd do just as well as at a "good school" , as long your family and your kids' friends maintain an ethic for education
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About Objects is hiring junior Ruby developers (Reston, VA, some travel)

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You'll be working on building application services, reactive web, and mobile components that help support patient monitoring and a range of other healthcare management tools.

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We'd love to hear from you.
But part of the bizarre genius of the 6502 is that you can't do the same thing.

OK, sure, so you could do this, and it does indeed EOR the accumulator with itself.

STA $70 ; 2 3
EOR $70 ; 4 6

But that's stupid, because nobody would waste a zero page byte like that. Perhaps you have heard of this thing called "best practice"? With that in mind, here is some self-modifying code.

STA L+1 ; 3 4
L:
EOR #$FF ; 5 6

Much better. The accumulator is EORed with itself just the same, and this time nobody can accuse you of being unprofessional.

Of course, if the latter approach is less stupid, that's only in relative terms. Because you could also do this.

LDA #0 ; 2 2
Books: Manshu (Classical Chinese history book), Instrument Engineer's Handbook, lots of embedded books, some young child development books, Forgotten Masters of Thai Photography and a few other photography tomes, an airport trash novel.

Skills: Lots of hardware stuff (component sourcing/plumbing/pneumatics/etc.), additional detail in financial forecasting, video pitches, woodcut printing.
Pure Fiber? (playing off of the Pure Michigan tourism slogan)
I stand corrected! If /r/Android says it, it must be true.
It's the bacteria that causes stomach ulcers.
> It's a daunting prospect, if you're working, have kids, and especially if you've done it once before.

I don't understand that third one. Usually, having done something once before makes it less daunting the second time?
They don't do sequencing at all. What they're doing is using DNA SNP chips which will identify your genotype in the several million positions that tend to vary from person to person.
Throwing your life away to work for these companies is a show of commitment that you don't get from someone who sacrifice to get a job.
Is that claim untrue?
Don't they? What then is the origin of the term, "smoker's cough"?
You could look at the code to see how it's done, but basically, you send a special sequence of characters that update the screen.

The VT100 (and a lot of terminal emulators these days) use what are called ANSI escape sequences. For instance, to move the cursor, the CUP (CUrsor Position) sequence is used, which is "<ESC> [ <row> ; <col> H" where <ESC> is the ESCAPE ASCII character, <row> is the row number (as ASCII, so for row 12, it's the string "12"), <col> is the column number ("40" for column 40) and the rest are the literal characters. So, in hex, it's 1B 5B 31 32 3B 34 30 48 (<ESC>[12;40H).

There are more sequences (move the cursor up, down, left, right, clear various portions of the screen, change colors, etc).

Conversely, the terminal will send ANSI escape sequences representing certain keys, such as "<ESC>[A" for the up arrow key, "<ESC>[D" for the left arrow key and such. It's then just a matter of recognizing these sequences and doing the appropriate thing ("I received <ESC>[A so the user is moving the cursor up. Update my internal structure to represent that, and send to the terminal <ESC>[A so it moves the cursor on the screen up").
Pokémon Go used to target robbery victims, police say
I've consistently thought this. As I'm working on the outskirts of Atlanta, with some of the worst traffic in the country, I wonder why a job would require I come to an office downtown or close. When I can do all of the same work from my home, with one of the pilot gigabit internet rollouts by U-Verse. I have better internet than my current employer, likely all of their locations combined. Why pay office costs for at least my IT division much less the rest of the company that can also by and large do the bulk of the work from their home. I fortunately work from home on Fridays but even a few more days a week of not driving would reduce stress levels considerably. I'm driving to an office away from Atlanta so the commute isn't nearly as bad as it could be but driving has just become insane, period. I know it's all #firstworldproblems but I feel like even local-ish remote workers can be a solution. I understand remote workers from another coutries probably gets dicey tax-wise but it would it cost more than in the most prominant parts of the country?
Which I guess would explain your username then!
While the video is more of a joke, farther down in the article there is a discussion of using fMRI scanners on brains when the participants are told the wine is a $10 or a $90 bottle (it was the same wine in both cases). Not only did the participants agree the $90 bottle was better, but the brain scans showed increased activities in the pleasure centers. They actually did like the wine better that sounded more expensive.
Why am I unable to downvote? yet others seem to have the ability to downvote my comments
The mix of languages used, as evident on Github, is interesting:

OCaml 30.6%
C 20.5%
HTML 13.1%
C++ 13.0%
Python 11.2%
TeX 6.7%

Wonder how that came about...

The feature list looks quite impressive:

* generates highly optimised ISO C++

* advanced resource manager organises compilation and linkage

* often runs faster than C

* glueless binding to C and C++ libraries

* lightweight threads with channels

* asynchronous network I/O

* thread safe garbage collection

* strictly statically typed

* overloading

* first order parametric polymorphism

* polymorphism with constraints

* multitype Haskell style type classes

* type classes with real semantic specification

* semantics can be checked by theorem provers

* strong functional subsystem

* pattern matching

* first class function, sum, and product types

* Tre based regexp processing built in

* bindings to Gnu GMP and Gnu GSL included

* user definabled and inline extensible grammar

* builds on all platforms

* runs on all platforms

* open source FFAU (free for any use) licence
Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I'm more interested in total time. Not time to write. :)
I, too, fear the wrath of Lord Cthulhu.