skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used it to Miracast things to my TV (via the Xbox One), and nearly gave a PowerPoint presentation from it once. That's where I see it being most real world useful is for last minute presentations where I already have easy access to my .pptx files on my phone and can Miracast directly to some TV or projector.

It's also the interesting thing here too about how Continuum is in competition with the UWP that enables it: in my case all my devices run Windows 10 and have access to all the same apps. With roaming and cloud services I can just pull up that app on any other device and switch devices freely. I rarely need to Continuum cast to some other device within my home because that app and that data is already accessible there...

So I could see saving the day with a last minute PowerPoint presentation somewhere where the only laptop I thought to bring was my phone, but that is mostly it. If there were coffee shops or hot desk spaces or hotel rooms with Miracast-capable screens and bluetooth keyboards scattered around the country you could see it being even handier for things like random Word document writing on the go for the traveler that doesn't want to bring a laptop everywhere...

So I've liked it for what I've used it for and I can think of scenarios where I would use it more, but I find day to day I don't use it much.
Germany and France were quite happy to take Greeks money for VWs, BMWs etc.
In a perfect court system where the overhead of a lawsuit is 0, sure, that would be an acceptable outcome.

In reality that's not the case, and there is no overarching principle any sect of libertarians hold (as far as I know) that harm can only be addressed via lawsuits. Since the overhead of lawsuits grows ridiculously large when the number of plaintiffs is equal to the population of the country (or even world), the far more practical solution is to just directly apply a Carbon Tax. This is pretty much equivalent to a lawsuit without the overhead of the courts. The biggest difference is while after a lawsuit the wealth is distributed directly, here the wealth is distributed by lowering taxes.
For me, if it doesn't make sense to link something to my accounts then I'm not going to (Google, Facebook, anyone).
For primitives, yes, but not messages.
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nix/guix was not ignored.

There are a host of other reasons that we could happily debate for years (no thanks), but bottom line: you can't use it everywhere you can write/compile Go code.
"Economic problems breed political instability..." - yes, but popular/populist political systems seem to also breed these economic problems. A strategy for leadership is to stop trying to align with any economic theory ( such as it is ) and appeal to popular discontent based on one or more fallacies in economics, or abandon any pretensions to that and use something else to gain power.

Isn't this essentially the Arab Spring come to Turkey? In that case, the democratizing influence of the Web and smartphones seems a critical element.

We, the oh-so-enlightened in the US face a 2% growth target and can't maintain that. Kemalism in Turkey was stable for a long time, but is now at risk.
The stock price on July 1, 2012 was 15.84. Today it's 38.30. So over the last 4 years she's more than doubled the stock price. And her compensation is tied to that stock price, which to me points to a "sell me" strategy by the Yahoo board. Add to that the fact that revenue hasn't even close to doubled in that time (though net income has been fairly healthy due to some cost cutting), it seems to that the market has been anticipating this acquisition. I don't think anyone has been buying Yahoo stock expecting a turnaround. Considering the trajectory of Yahoo since 2004 or so, I'd say that's as good an outcome as shareholders could expect.
4chan, Fark and SomethingAwful are an even more unfortunate source of platitudes.
Didn't include any assembly tutorial since there is a lot of DIY Smart Mirror out there. You are right I'm gonna include an how to use the software right now. The camera is black taped behind the mirror so that we can't see it. Integrating into the frame should work too.
Really? Why? What do you think would happen if it was successful?
Bitcoin; What could SegWit look like if it were a hardfork?
Hehe, it worked out for Guidewire :-)

https://guidewiredevelopment.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/gosus-...
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Obviously you can question his motives, however this is not an indirect subsidy if you consider the emission of carbon dioxide an externality - which I presume he does. Instead it would represent the levelling of the playing field.

Oil companies do get direct subsidies through tax breaks, so no mater what you think is going on here, energy is not pure market. In practise, how often do you see a pure market anyway?
This is why nobody plays the long game, because of crap like this spread around. Articles like this force people to play the 'quarterly' short game and we don't get as much long term research as we need as a species.
> Gulen movement was comparable to Scientology

Well, yeah - at least in the eyes of my social circle, but I doubt that he'd gather so much influence if everyone thought the same.

> What do you think about press being cleaned ? in the west it's seen negatively obviously, but is there other details that may explain, like in the Gulen movement case, the decision ?

Well, I have very mixed feelings.

Someone made a point that a lot more people were complicit in the nazi atrocities than were indicted in the Nuremberg trials, and that makes sense. So the ones directly involved with the coup plot, yes, absolutely prosecute and punish them swiftly. The rest is trickier.

Obviously Gulen and his supporters need to be dealt with. But how can we be sure that the trials will be fair and equitable, and not a mockery of the justice system, like the Sledgehammer case that Erdogan participated in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledgehammer_(coup_plan) )? How does a government prosecute thousands upon thousands when its courts and prosecutors can barely hold under the current case load?

How can we ensure that the tens of thousands accused are actually guilty? Of course a trial is done to test exactly this, but there is no right to a speedy trial in Turkey, and people routinely die in detention waiting for their court date. How many are genuinely suspected to be guilty rather than merely detractors who are being conveniently removed? They've done it before, and they'll do it again. This makes me extremely uncomfortable, because who's next?

Especially with the press, I think it's important to preserve free and unrestricted speech. But it's also true that that ship long sailed under Erdogan, when news organizations would get fiscally investigated if they dissented loudly. So given that I don't think it'll improve, should the Gulenist reporters go to jail? Perhaps - if their only crime is to write articles supporting backwards views, then probably not. I'd rather them ousted and judged in the court of public opinion.

So, mixed feelings and no good answers.

> Is Erdogan feeding the people populist lies in order to rally them ?

That's the kicker - he doesn't have to. This situation benefits him greatly, and fell conveniently on his lap. Some people of course accuse him of organizing the coup as a false flag, but I think that's too much of a conspiracy. All he'd have to do would be to notice it a tiny bit in advance, prepare for it, and allow it to happen. Or even just get lucky enough to narrowly escape, but then make use of the situation fully.
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Why would you use JSON in a high performance context anyway?
I fear if such a view is prevalent, eventually focus might shift from 'solving problems that matter on scale' to 'how much money can I make out of this'. Hope research and innovation do not succumb to desire/pressure to grow revenue. I don't believe such projects cannot have any (indirect) monetary accountability. However, Investors should have a softer take on the outcome of these projects.
It's tempting to make parallels with 1930s Germany, but that was just such a unique situation. These are usually "all unhappy families are different" situations.
We called those type of government 'liberal democracy'.

Democracy says nothing about check and balance, or respect for minorities.
Nice to measure it but wasn't there already proof of larger amounts of oxygen in the past and the earliest life (one of from what we know) was a bacteria that produced the first oxygen in abundance and explains the higher levels and is indeed thought why, or least factor in why early mammals were larger and during the dinosaur days (sorry but easier to call it that for many) the oxygen levels were higher than today by far.

Nice article to matchup with this http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photos...
Uh huh. Funny how a billionaire has so easily convinced you that adding costs to his competitors (and consumers) is really "removing a subsidy".
Think about all those dependency management systems (npm, Maven, NuGet). Look at a project with huge number of dependencies, picking on piece of functionality from one library, something else from another. All tied together with some depedencies file and maybe with some additional dependency injection magic. Not backed up by version control, but instead the package repository.

Not that many projects add a real DSL, but I think you can end up pretty close also with just objects and language features.

And where do you then run this system? Of course in Docker container, probably picking up Linux components with apt-get from left and right.
The C# binary serializer is not really comparable in terms of what it does. It's more like Python's Pickle library.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/703073/what-are-the-defic...

C# binary serialization is only useful in certain circumstances. It doesn't work outside the .NET world and it even has compatibility problems within the .NET world—you can break deserialization by making certain changes to your code. From the Microsoft documentation:

> The state of a UTF-8 or UTF-7 encoded object is not preserved if the object is serialized and deserialized using different .NET Framework versions.

(From https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/72hyey7b(v=vs.110)....)

Also see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229752(v=vs.110)....
> The whole reason Erdogan (with ISIS's help) attacks the Kurds

Erdogan attacked Kurds long before he lost his parliamentary majority. He attacks them because it's politically convenient for him to have a unifying enemy (most non-AKP Turks do believe the Kurds should renounce violence and drop their separatist demands). In fact, the HDP reached such a high level of support in those elections because a lot of people finally saw through the game and were tired of playing it.

I don't disagree that Erdogan all but helped IS/Daesh against Assad and Kurds, I'm just saying that his attitude towards the Kurdish problem has been more or less the same since the '90s.
Given the medieval wealth disparities between the billionaire class and the average person, I find it difficult to trust their pontifications on financial and political matters. They are still people, but people operating on a very different moral compass than my own. Living in wealth and comfort is one thing, but the morality needed to acquire and retain billions in the face of all that could be done with it means we operate under very different rules.
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Right? I mean, special snowflake libraries that everyone can use do exist, don't get me wrong, but they're usually created by people whose sole job it was to create exactly that, a reusable API for <insert domain here>. There's very rarely an opportunity to repurpose old code in a new project if the goal of "API-izing" it wasn't in mind when it was written, and many times when people try it's a disaster.

If code could be re-used efficiently, we wouldn't need half as many programmers as we actually legitimately do.
I'm looking on a phone, so maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see much gratuitous whitespace change. The only place I see that is in the declaration of hv_storvsc_request.
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That line of code was demonstrative. The actual book uses 'Data.Char.IsSpace' which properly handled it.

"Returns True for any Unicode space character, and the control characters \t, \n, \r, \f, \v."

Before you chastise them for not handling something, verify it. I'm not affiliated with the book but you probably deterred people from buying it.

https://github.com/BinRoot/Haskell-Data-Analysis-Cookbook/bl...
Can you explain why the lack of a central package repository is an issue? All of the languages I use in my daily work have central package repositories, but I don't use them for discovery, I use google, GitHub, etc., because to feel comfortable using a package I need to answer some meta-questions about the package ("is this package used by a lot of people?", "is it updated frequently?", "are there are a lot of reported issues and do the owners respond to issues diligently?")

It seems to me that while I'm on the GitHub page anyway, it's reasonably convenient to just copy-paste the URL in a file so I can pull in the package and use it. I can't imagine just using a package repo for discovering new packages, that would be tantamount to just pulling whatever random code someone wrote that looks like it might solve my problem.
Interesting take on it, I would probably write the headline "Alphabet spends nearly $1B trying to find new businesses". Using the New York times logic nearly $15.3B was lost last quarter by startups[1] :-) But setting aside that Google's spending as much as 6% of the existing startup ecosystem, they are still not spending a material amount of their free cash flow of nearly $7B last quarter.

And I wonder Why not?

[1] http://nvca.org/pressreleases/15-3-billion-venture-capital-d...
There is a danger Uber could lose the rights to its own name if it becomes the common term for this in the language. It's happened before. Its why Kleenex makes such a big deal about being a "facial tissue" and Q-tips refer to themselves prominently as "cotton swabs"
Your message will be about 5% the size of the xml one, and it will be backwards compatible, unlike the built-in binary serializer.
Anarcho capitalism, which is not necessarily the view of every libertarian (some being "minarchists"), would be the absence of any government authority. Without a government the regulation you speak of is non-existent. There is no contradiction.
I would love to see some reliable statistics that prove support even anywhere near 50% in major European countries for a reintroduction of the death penalty, especially since your remark about "popular opinion" seems to suggest widespread public support for the death penalty that is subsequently ignored by politicians.
I could see a valid argument for only doing science that will be worth replicating, because if you don't bother to replicate you aren't really proving anything.

Exactly. A lot of the science I've done should not be replicated. If someone told me they wanted to replicate it, I would urge them not to. Not because I have something to hide. But because some other lab did something strictly superior that should be replicated instead. Or because the experiment asked the wrong questions. Or because the experiment itself could be pretty easily re-designed to avoid some pretty major threats.

The problem is that is that hindsight really is 20/20. It's kind of impossible to ONLY do good science. So it's important to have the facility to recognize when science (including your own) isn't good -- or is good but not as good as something else -- and is therefore not worth replicating.

I guess the two key insights are:

1. Not all science is worth replicating (either because it's too expensive or for some other reason).

2. Replication doesn't necessarily reduce doubt (particularly in the case of poorly designed experiments, or when the experiment asks the wrong questions).
When we tell coal plants "Hey, you can't dump unlimited amounts of particulate pollution into the air," would you characterize that as an "indirect subsidy for solar power"?

Or would you call it "not letting coal plants externalize their costs on everyone else"?

Why are carbon emissions any different?
Without versions you don't have package management, you have a download script.
Not that it isn't important in physics, it is important but for different reasons. Nobody is coming around selling physicists anything based on a non-repeated experiment. Drug studies has a lot of perverse incentives in play, and the subsequent interpretation of results for, for example, off-label use are also skewed toward one set of interpretations. There could be billions of dollars in sales at stake.
The dumb programmer is the most efficient one.
Yes Lumia 950, 950XL support Continuum today. No, they aren't x64 phones and don't support x64 apps. They aren't restricted to the app store, you could sideload UWP apps if you had them. UWP apps these days are "full windows apps" for all intents and purposes these days. There may not be as many UWP apps right now as there are the long legacy of Win32 apps and the deep wells of Android and iOS apps, but there are some very good UWP apps out there, some of which are very useful in Continuum.
I got the inspiration from these kind of projects, I saw a Jarvis one like a few weeks ago (voice activated), I wanted to make one with a Minority Report style in mind though :)
I feel the argument was muddled by the libertarian clauses. It would have been more concise and poignant to make the same argument while leaving that out. He is completely right, that carbon not being taxed like other regulated substances, the fossil fuel businesses have the best subsidy possible, and the economics are completely misaligned.
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Science is a tool. Tools are means, not ends. We use sciene to gather facts we can agree on. But sciene isn't the "truth". Science isn't the facts. It a process. That produces facts. If and only if they are reproducible. Otherwise it is faith, religious, or a narative.

What's more, the scientific process is used discretely. One fact at a time. Understanding of our world, its meaning, these things are accumulative, over the entire context of our experience, and utilize things like feelings, and faith, and religion, and narative, to create.
It's not a loss though, they just invested some profits in R+D...
That's already happening. Ie. ExxonMobile: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/03/exxonmobil-sued-po... or Volkswagen: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/04/us-civil-sui... But as another commentator pointed out that's a very inefficient process because courts generate a huge overhead. And the US already spends way too much on lawyers imho.
It's not strictly about that, it's an irrational fear of the API growing pains that Facebook went through. That is to say, apps the user installed having more access than the user liked. Whether through malicious means or ignorant users, it was a common trope "back in the day".

I understand it's completely irrational, but i have yet to link my FB to a single thing due to this irrational fear. I'm sure if i used FB more i would have worn away this fear, but there is honestly no page on the internet that makes me feel more old than FB. I go there and all the buttons and overload of "things" makes me feel like i'm looking at a AOL sign-on page from way back.

Mind you i'm 32, so not that old.. but still, there is some type of age and or usage issue going on in my head.

I say this not as a complaint, but more as a curiosity for fellow developers. I'm sure i'm a small minority of FB users, but it seems as if i'm a fringe user who had their trust broken and is very tough to get back.

I'm totally willing to go to FB (albeit, infrequently), just unwilling to link stuff via their API.

Also, to be clear, when i mentioned the trigger word "Privacy", i did not mean Privacy from Facebook. I was referring to spammers/scammers/etc.
Damage to the commons via pollution should be paid for by the polluter.
Agreed. If anything, and if I'm reading it correctly, he's actually trying to explain why libertarians would be opposed to this:

> "For people that have a sort of libertarian bent they get a little confused because they need to appreciate the high level principle of why they are opposed to government intervention."
> I would love to see some reliable statistics that prove support even anywhere near 50% in major European countries for a reintroduction of the death penalty

The UK public until very recently had decisive majority support for the reintroduction of the death penalty. Last year the NatCen British Social Attitudes Report found 48% of the 2,878 people it surveyed were in favour of capital punishment. This is the lowest figure since the survey began in 1983, when around 75% of people were in favour. Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Great Britain in 1965.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32061822
There is a lot of misinformation about what happened in the 2000 election and about the Florida recount.

In the 2000 election, the close result in Florida triggered an automatic machine recount under Florida law. The machine recount still had Bush leading. So Gore sought hand recounts in only four heavily-Democratic counties. The Florida Supreme Court then ordered statewide hand recounting only of "undervotes" (ballots where the machine failed to detect any vote for any candidate). But the recount process itself was a total disaster: http://www.factcheck.org/2008/01/the-florida-recount-of-2000. The various counties doing the recounts were applying totally different standards to counting the votes.

In a 7-2 decision,[1] the Supreme Court held that the Florida recount violated the Constitution's "Equal Protection Clause," which requires the law to be applied equally to all people. It found that recounting only some ballots and recounting them using different standards in different places resulted in unequal application of the law based on where people voted.

In my opinion,[2] the Supreme Court got it right. The right thing to do would have been to stop after the machine recount. There is no way a hand recount was going to be a more fair and trustworthy process than the machine recount. The machine might not properly count what everyone intended to vote (e.g. because they didn't punch out the chad on the voting card all the way), but machine error is going to be random. Hand counting, on the other hand, will be biased toward favored candidates. Moreover, a subsequent $1 million study commissioned by news organizations found that Bush still would've won under most recount scenarios.

[1] The oft-reported "5-4" decision in Bush v. Gore was not about whether the recount was valid. 7 of 9 Justices agreed it was not. It was about whether Florida still had time to do a proper state-wide recount within the statutory deadline.

[2] I was too young to vote in 2000, but at the time I supported Gore. I too was infuriated about the 2000 election until I actually studied Bush v. Gore in law school.
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