skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you allow me a devil's advocate comment, don't you think the fact that playing a modern violin and figuring out how to making it sound the best and being 'done' could be because the modern violin is constructed better?

If a modern violin has tighter tolerances maybe it is less sensitive to moisture / temperature changes, making it sound 'the same' under a larger set of conditions than the antique instrument.

The antique instrument being less 'perfect' could be more sensitive to day-to-day environmental changes, making it more challenging to play (as you have to learn to compensate for these) but not necessarily because it is a better instrument, but possibly because it is a worse one technically speaking.

Now of course having an instrument that you have to 'figure out' all the time likely makes you a much better player, able to adapt to other instruments more easily and so on, so it might well be that a 'less perfect' instrument is the superior one, but just wondering about this
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1) They don't ask for my consent, I'm not going to worry about theirs.

2) I find that ad supported content tends to be not worth paying for. I do pay for subscriptions to magazines and sites that are worthwhile (a paywall is a very good indicator that you're not wasting your time).
Do old developers just want to interact with everything through an emulator of a Smart-CathodeRayTube? †

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100#/media/File:Vt100-advent...
So are you going to give me a better estimate?
It would be an incredible feat of engineering to be able to "transpile" an existing executable to WASM - if you're familiar with dynamic linking, the ELF format itself (or Windows' PE), the common processor instruction sets, etc - you'll know that won't be a problem anytime soon. Short of an x86 VM written in JS, it just ain't gonna happen.

Now, about having other languages compiled to the web, we already have that. Looking at specifically Haskell, we have GHCJS, and it (thankfully) works pretty well.

You may not like the idea that there will be new web projects using technologies that you lack proficiency in, but this is no different then how the rest of the software world works. For example, Google's Go language is picking up steam - in fact, I use it at work. If I didn't take the time to learn Go, I simply wouldn't be employed to work on that project. Similarly, I know people who are enjoying an incredible competitive advantage in their market by using Haskell for their web development (both backend with GHC and front end with GHCJS). If you don't learn Haskell, you won't be hired for those jobs. I do, however, guarantee that they'll still have the source on hand.
This will be a great way to connect to individual EC2 instances. You'll be able to automatically get a shell, a tree file browser, and a text editor all in one webpage without have to fiddle with anything.
He may have editted his comment, but it doesnt mention `force`. As written, there is no race condition.
"White wall it" damn this one made my day.

I think CEOs where companies are versatile and skillful in the core operations of the business (think Bill Gates, Satya Nadella) will always have a huge advantage over companies led by people only proficient general purpose management and general purpose operations research.

The ideal role of a CEO is "Head of Operations + Chief Architect". His workflow should be top-down (market assessment) => bottom-up (product design) => top-down (operations management) => bottom-up (operations) reloop.

The more distance he is able to travel between the bottom and the top, and the faster he can do it, the greater the competitive advantage of the company is.

The CEO of this satire seems to be rather on top of his business ;)
JPEG has a very poor lossless encoding stage; this is well known. Several archiving tools (most notably winRAR) already do some lossless reencoding of JPEG.
> Dropbox management is obligated by law to act in the best interests of their shareholders, i.e. to make them as much profit as possible.

Can you cite the law which you believe makes that obligation?

The reason you can't is because it's not actually a legal requirement and the reason is obvious: it's hard to say what the best interest is over all but the shortest time frame:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule

Dropbox's management might argue that they benefit more from open-source than they're giving away, that this kind of favorable attention will help them hire the top engineers who make far larger contributions to their bottom-line, that the pricing models are complex enough that this just doesn't matter very much, etc. Absent evidence that they're acting in bad faith, it's almost impossible to say in advance whether those arguments are right or wrong.
Isn't the point of AR that the particular AR can contain anything feasible? Why should McDonald's tell me I can't use a Burger King app inside their store? (I guess they can, but that would be obnoxious.)
As I mentioned else where. Many will fall for the sunk cost fallacy and instead of giving up or realizing that God wasn't on their side they will rationalize that away and continue to the point of "God wants my all" and turn to suicide bombing.
Agreed. BBC World News is also available on some cable networks apparently (https://bbcnewschannelfinder.com/).

(Live streams also exist, both "unofficially", and legally but geo-restricted on Livestation, apparently.)

PBS and NPR are the only American sources on TV I considered fairly comparable in tone and depth to news programs in other countries.
The technical rigor in these recent Dropbox blog posts is admirable. Seems like an impressively talented engineering team (or maybe just good at marketing :)
http://imgur.com/kZlyN61?r
They almost certainly do not, mostly because of how slow doing so is.
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Well,

If the electrical stimulation is effective, I would say it would probably be preferable to most drug therapies since just about all drugs have serious side-effects when taken over a lifetime - certainly mainstream rheumatoid arthritis drugs like Prednisone can have horrific side-effects.
Apparently not in NZ and AU, not sure about elsewhere: http://economicstudents.com/2012/10/coca-cola-vs-pepsi-the-e...
Uh, no. Source: was just in Nashville pricing fiddles. The "cheap Chinese" ones went to $4K but the "good ones" were $5K to $15K.
They already have that control. What they shouldn't control is the operation of someone else's app.
Chrome has both the advantage and the curse of working with the rest of the web. That means they can't break existing CSS properties, and any GPU rendering needs to work with every existing website out there. The constraints they are under are much more restrictive than the constraints you are under.

There was a project to go all-GPU rendering within Chrome when I left, but it was a big project, and I don't know if they ever finished it. Even if they did, that still doesn't speak for WebKit/Edge/Firefox/Servo. (Edge is usually pretty modern when it comes to GPU acceleration, and I've heard Servo is heading this way, but Apple has historically cared very little about animation performance on WebKit, instead hoping to drive people to write native iOS apps.)
Space is cheap but the bandwidth isn't. At Backblaze the download traffic costs $0.05/GB = $50k/PB.
Maybe he had to deal with C/C++ APIs. He does flat out say the two main modern languages are Swift and Objective-C. I know using OpenCV from iOS is a real nightmare for this reason.
Do you fly primarily in the US? Because I have noticed that most US airlines seem to be in a race to the bottom, but this is not the trend worldwide. I fly both Lufthansa and Turkish relatively frequently and everything about the experience with them, from the airports, to the customer service, to the food, is head-and-shoulders above every major US airline.
slides http://www.systor.org/2016/slides/ssd_failures_systor2016.pd...
The web existed long before ads. And it had higher quality content, too.

In this ecosystem, ads are parasites. If there is a workable method to filter out the parasites while leaving the rest of a site intact, one should use it.

Though I would like to see a search engine that only returns sites without ads. I suspect the results would be better.
Here's a comparision of Super Mario Bros 1 NTSC vs PAL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUI5xFEW_tg

They show more graphics at the top and bottom, probably nothing that affects actual gameplay, but it's nice it's not just black regions.
It doesn't search HN, rather it redirects you to the search at hn.algolia.com. The same works for many other sites. So for example "foo doesn't work !so" redirects to Stack Overflow search for "foo doesn't work" and "Foo !wfi" redirects to Finnish Wikipedia search for "Foo".
What? I meant as individual consumers. There's a whole lot more to food safety than whether it smells OK. We have regulations so end consumers don't have to study the history of every company involved in the retail chain or risk illness. Similarly, we can have regulations to prevent customers from unknowingly buying artificially unrepairable objects.
If someone wants to partner with me on this, I'd be happy to do it. We have the underlying platform for it already.

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>The number of 'scientists' that do not employ sound thinking and reason, will always out weigh the number of brilliant minds. There is a reason why almost all science can be traced back to five individuals (Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Einstein).

This list is a bit too short. Most of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics can't be attributed to any of them, and even then it only covers physics.
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> season 1 pretty much wiped "making the changes world a better place" from the lingo of SV companies

Did it really?
I have very little overlap with the musical taste of my mother or father (or my sister for that matter).

When I was 5 or 6, and first heard Scott Joplin's music ("The Sting" was on television), it was a religious experience. Music I had never heard before spoke to me. And it was like this for every new transcendent musical experience afterward; it felt like something external (and was in each moment seemingly unrelated to my upbringing).
That's not really that bad, if they only do what they say (send notifications of new articles), I don't see what's so horrible.
How would GitLab help with this, besides just being the code repository of choice?

In other words, what features does it offer for early stage projects that Github, Atlassian, etc don't?
My biggest gripe with traveling is the TSA. I thought I read somewhere that airlines can voluntarily hire their own version of the TSA? If true, I might leave a bad review specifically for having to go through the TSA.
I quite like that this outlines the benefits of both non-judgementally, and provides guidelines about when to use each in different situations. I've seen too many discussions where people argue that one is better than the other, when as I see it, they are two different tools and they both have legitimate uses. There's a little overlap, a few cases where your own preferences can allow you to choose freely, but by and large they don't really contend with each other. You can largely have a clean and accurate history and a feature branch workflow with PRs, while using both rebasing and merging.
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My kids(8 and 6) each have a 2DS and we have Wii and Mario and Zelda are among their favorites. Many of these are re-releases of old Nintendo games on either the virtual console or things like Mario 64 DS or Ocarina of Time for the 3DS, but also newer games like New Super Marios Bros and LoZ Twilight Princess. They enjoy these games right up there along size Minecraft and what ever that bear game my daughter plays.
court usually asks to block URLs, not to sniff data between PirateBay and CloudFlare.
It's because parent comment presented it wrong. This is not at all what the test is.

In blind tests, people generally preferred the sweeter Pepsi. In unblinded tests, people preferred the incredibly brand-dominant Coke.

This whole thing is a case study on brand perception, not sensory perception.
> Take that as a proof that Stradivari really was VERY good

The other thing that I think is very interesting is that Stradivari really developed his own pattern for violins, while modern makers have a lot of knowledge to build upon.

He may not have been the first to copy Strads (or he may have been, I'm just not sure) but Vuillaume became very famous for making masterful copies of some Strads. In 1855 he purchased 144 instruments by Stradivari and some other of the "great Italian masters", I think mostly as a dealer but he also set out making great copies of Le Messie (a Strad), Il Cannone (a Guarneri, which belonged to Paganini), and some others.

I think Vuillaume's violins then became patterns for other instrument makers to use, and we have this legacy now where most modern violins are patterned after a Strad or a Guarneri.
Best way to not carry a balance is to not have a credit card. It's very easy to say "don't carry a balance" but most people do. When I used credit cards I often carried a balance, despite my best efforts. If you have the discipline to NEVER carry a balance, more power to you. But most people don't and the points just aren't worth it.
You miss his point. It is much easier to consume Objective-C API from Swift then consuming swift API from Objective-C. Even more so if you need the library integrated at a C++ layer of your app.
As a Linux user I'll take anything when it comes to Skype, even if it feels a little cheap to get a packaged web app, I dont know why, there is no reason for it really, its not like I'm going to use it offline anyway.
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> On the other hand, I like having a history of the mess of how I actually implemented something, because it's more accurate and more detailed, both of which help when I go all DETECTIVE-MODE: ACTIVATE.

The "mess of how things were implemented" has 0 value for your fellow coworkers when it comes to understanding the code and tracking down bugs.

Each and every commit should as much as possible be "atomic" with a clear message describing what was done (not the how) and why.

It is in the commit message that the developper should go on explaining their implementation decisions.

What I picture is a feature branch with multiple small commits leading to the full implementation of the feature. When comes the time to rebase and merge in master, the merge commit could include a detailed explanation of the implementation choices that were made.
What was the advantage of using QT instead of Electron? Isn't Electron optimised for the platform it runs in?
The End of the Build Master Era
PNAS journal link here : http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/06/30/1605635113.full... : "Vagus nerve stimulation inhibits cytokine production and attenuates disease severity in rheumatoid arthritis".

"In one circuit, termed “the inflammatory reflex,” action potentials transmitted in the vagus nerve inhibit the production of tumor necrosis factor (TNF), an inflammatory molecule that is a major therapeutic target in RA. Although studied in animal models of arthritis and other inflammatory diseases, whether electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve can inhibit TNF production in humans has remained unknown. The positive mechanistic results reported here extend the preclinical data to the clinic and reveal that vagus nerve stimulation inhibits TNF and attenuates disease severity in RA patients."
Billboards don't reach into my pocket and try to steal my identification, nor do they spontaneously come-alive and follow me around the city in which I saw the billboard. My TV also knows very little about me.
Why is this downvoted? (serious question)

Where can I find the "code of conduct" for HN?
Seems like the sort of thing that belongs in your CC&R. Much as HOAs get a bad rap for being absurdly nosy, this seems a reasonable use of their power. CC&Rs and rental agreements quite typically have sections about not doing business in the unit.
And "Fire" changes from the weakest weapon to the OP weapon.
I'm not convinced it isn't a purposeful slow release of features to ease people not used to playing the prior games in the series into fully participating.

Then again, that only really makes sense if they really thought it was going to have a bunch of new players, and I'm not sure there were indications it was going to be this big?
Possible, but the maintainer has stated there aren't plans to completely merge it into Django proper.

https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/2ijyuq/added_tom_ch...
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very informative, this definitively zeroed my interest in macOS family, I know very little about swift and macos but what I've seen here makes me think that your sdk expires automatically at every new version released by apple. i'm wondering why so many people like to develop for these systems... ok I've found the answer: for money.
>I've taken some classes where teacher gave us an image where everything was already installed and configured.

My department tries this occasionally. It fails because students either have

a) cheap pieces of shit with unreasonably poor performance under virtualization (I'm talking multiple seconds to bring a different window to foreground under Ubuntu)

b) Retina MBPs, on which Linux has absolute garbage text rendering due to quarter-assed (half-assed is giving it too much credit) per-application support for high-DPI displays. Staring at code for hours is hard enough when the code isn't blurry.

The department runs a Linux lab in one of the libraries with professionally maintained Ubuntu installs that already have everything professors request for their courses, and provides SSH access to those machines.

An interesting side effect is that you either get good at configuring your environment for yourself (to use your own Mac or Linux machine) or you learn to work with just a terminal (use Emacs/Vim and Bash over SSH).
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How does h.264/5 not fit the bill?
You're fun at parties, aren't you?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Facebook#Germany

> In July 2011, authorities in Germany began to discuss the prohibition of events organized on Facebook.

Wait, your evidence that Facebook engages in censorship includes the fact that the authorities discussed it?
> which is known for shady practices

What are you referring to?
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http://ntsconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/NTS_agen...

My wife came out of this conference saying, everyone is just throwing everything at the wall and see what sticks with vagal nerve stimulation. Controls are minimal to none in most studies. Of course her perspective is from the regulatory side.
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Niantic's best move is to keep the hook baited for people who like the simple novelty of walking around to collect stuff and interacting with an augmented version of the real world

Why can't Niantic create an infrastructure for both groups? Trading would give both types of players a place in such a world.
On the contrary, modern runners are genetically different. Not that the population as a whole is genetically different. Rather because society today casts a much broader net in finding and training individuals who have a strong genetic fitness for running to become competitive runners.
IMHO, the concept makes a lot of sense. They're basically just more generalized forms.
The photo itself is a manipulation of what you're actually seeing. You play with your f/iso/speed to get what you want. So long as you haven't lost any data (over/underexposed), you can further develop it in Lightroom. If you're capturing in RAW, this is an essential part of the process.

So your argument is you limit your manipulation to just the camera, with its crappy screen and limited ability to show you color calibrations.

There is something to say about that as an art form. Some people use pin-hole cameras. Some people still use film. That's fine if that's what you're going for. But just because you load a photo into software doesn't mean you're editing it any more than just flipping those settings on your camera.
Agree completely, especially since it's not always readily obvious which airports are better than others if you're not already familiar with them. For example, in Chicago O'Hare is much larger and busier than Midway, but O'Hare hasn't seen any updates in almost 30 years. Though smaller, the facilities at Midway are much nicer.
Sites like Hacker News actually do force you to check every day as there is no way to see the content from previous days. Technically the content exists, but it becomes noise as the actual value of the site is the ranking that lets me see what people were interested in, not the raw list of all stories, and the ranking is live and "rots" over time.
Why not just stay away from those sites completely?
We've started using mercurial evolve at my company. It feels like the best of both worlds. I can rebase and get all the nice clean history I want, but under the hood the original work is still there. It also allows for safely editing public history, without getting into a weird state where you edited a commit that someone else committed on top of.
Here's an interactive map that lets you see the progress of the fight over time: https://www.cartercenter.org/syria-conflict-map/

ISIS' doom seems as imminent as the coming quagmire between the "victorious" factions.
There's also a distinction to be made between the questions "does a Stradivarius sound different than a modern violin" and "can a performer successfully identify a Stradivarius?"

Supposing that a performer does not in fact know what a Stradivarius sounds like and is unable to determine which violin is the Stradivarius does not mean that the Stradivarius does not in fact sound different from a modern instrument never mind which one of those sounds "better".

(I believe there was also a problem with the original test that I don't know if they addressed this time around, which is that it's pretty hard to get permission even to do things like change the strings on a very old violin. So, if they're testing a Stradivarius with old strings against a modern violin with new strings, that's not exactly a fair test.)