skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think iOS 10 does this as well. The funny thing is, a lot of the time I get spam phone calls that are in Spanish (I don't speak Spanish much) or when I pick up the phone, they just cut off the line. So they waste my time and theirs.
I think you're right but I also can't help but think how the very existence of Dota 2 underscores Valve's lack of innovation in the past half decade or so. They literally took a game built on the back of their biggest competitor and basically recoded it on their own gaming engine (Yes, I know there's plenty of quality of life upgrades they brought to the series, but it was nothing that wasn't too obvious or already in place by another MOBA).

In a business sense, this was an innovative move only in that it made Valve tons more money, but from an industry perspective, they couldn't have done less to move the needle.

It's one of the most uninteresting safe bet moves I've seen a company make in the gaming industry since Madden.
Finding shortcuts is literally hacking. Let's shortcut our way to good health by reading Wikipedia instead of seeing a doctor. Okay then
>Temper your fears with what being able to take music everywhere did to make a dystopia.

A culture of self-isolation in public spaces where 50% of inhabitants are stuck in semireality instead of a functional member of the environment? It's a bit dystopic, just socially acceptable.
For some reason (Bad marketing? Bad documentation?) this fact doesn't get much attention, but Gnome's desktop environment is written in JavaScript and styled with CSS.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Development
Anyone remember Sandhill Exchange, and how badly they got slapped around by the SEC? I'd steer clear of this sort of thing until further notice.
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This isn't reddit; sorting doesn't work like that.
It's important to develop a human rights philosophy that is resilient to uncomfortable discoveries about genetics.
Spam calling seems to be a big deal in the US. Not at all where I live. Is it because of different features of the network or because there are cheap English speakers in other countries?
We had these swings by my childhood house and they were a lot of fun:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a275/Liquidrubies/Never%20...
Possibly: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-real...
> It's only surprising to you because you're ascribing to me views I don't hold.

Fine, you're just a terrible communicator then.

> Second, though my details are in my profile, your use of my name is clearly meant to be threatening and is therefore over the line.

Bullshit. For a guy who demands that everything he writes be taken 100% literally, you sure are quick to read extraneous meaning into what I wrote.
> When they published their guidelines in 1993, they suggested most existing playground surfaces, which were usually asphalt, dirt, or grass, needed to be replaced with pits of wood or rubber mulch or sand, prompting many schools and parks to rip their old playgrounds out entirely.

Growing up and doing most of my playground playing in the early 90's on a playground almost identical to this wooden masterpiece [0], I feel like some of those older/dangerous playgrounds should've stayed.

Kids can still go iceskating, even though it causes lots of injuries and you have to sign a waiver [1], why not let kids play on the better/dangerous playgrounds after their parents sign a waiver?

[0] https://playgroundology.wordpress.com/category/wooden-playgr...
[1] http://deserticecastle.com/wp-content/uploads/Skater-Liabili...
Quiet you, we're supposed to be subtler than that!
That doesn't work (well, not reliably) in the USA because the name/number presented in the caller ID can have little relation to the actual name/number of the caller.

I wonder if Google is doing anything beyond simply crowdsourcing spam reports based on CallerID, at least for Google Voice numbers since they own that network so may have access to some data (ANI?) that's not normally available on regular phone lines?
Trip advisor requires jumping through a few hoops to see a price so I doubt they have that data at all. And with hotels getting into the dynamic pricing game it will only get more complicated.

It's hard not to get a little pissed when I'm paying twice as much and things are not done well so I suspect the value factor does not fully capture the effect of London being so damn expensive. Even when I've moved to a more expensive city, it talked time for the sticker shock to where off.
It wasn't long ago that telephone charges provided hotels a significant revenue stream. Good summary here--one which also notes that quality wifi installations are expensive for big hotels, and must be constantly maintained and regularly upgraded.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/2015/02/08/ho...
I'd settle for a standard power/backplate, maybe about 0.6x the size of the PC backplate that's used from ITX through ATX boards... then have the MB size be that, squared... which is bigger than most enthusiast devices (rpi and similar). Something with a fairly standard mounting interface, and power adapter would be a good start.

From there, a standard interface for booting and mounting the OS and additional devices. There'd be a lot of work in that, and a lot of competition, but would be nice to see some work in the open for a more standard platform for ARM devices.
Social and economic reasons plus "good enough" mainly. Like usually is case for language, OS, or service adoption.
I think you mean this one: https://node-os.com/
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But that means giving yet another company access to all of your phone call and SMS data. Since Google already has that information, I'd rather that they provide this service rather than letting a 3rd party scan my calls and SMS's.
There are certain culturally universal emotions; happiness and sadness are two of them, but joy or misery aren't, and I've never seen this definition of misery before in the literature. Is this based on your own framework and anecdotes or is there a source for it?
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Age 14, pass a written test, now you can drive, but no alone.

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Age 15, and now you can drive by yourself and siblings from home to work or school.

It use to be pretty popular to take driver's education in public schools, but this is not as common in smaller highschools. It wasn't offered at my school. My parents sent me to a private driver's education company to learn to drive where I learned to drive automatic and stick, and also how to get into and recover from slides on wet sand and snow. But most of my friends were taught by a family member or a friend of the family.
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There were 3 seperate Japanese attacks on the US mainland. They were all pretty ineffective. http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/5-attacks-on-u-s-s...
I don't know who these people who claim that Chomsky is "wrong" are, but it sounds like coming from some newbies who just finished reading a couple of papers on machine learning, thinking they know the entire field of AI.

From my experience most people who say Chomsky is wrong have in most cases never actually read Chomsky's papers. Trust me it's really hard to finish any of his actual papers, even as someone who majored computational linguistics. I'm pretty sure 99% of people on this thread who are throwing around the term "generative linguistics" casually have no idea what it actually is in detail. Maybe they read some wikipedia article, maybe they watched a 45 minute Youtube video of some famous guy talking about it.

I see it as a same phenomenon as people criticizing that "Blue ocean" theory is wrong, "Black swan" theory is wrong, "Lean startups" theory is wrong, all without actually having read and thought about any of those books and basing their criticism on the shallow knowledge they picked up from blogs, which even I have been guilty of.

My thought: The approach by Chomsky and others in this field may not be in fashion nowadays, but it does provide a significant foundation on top of which many others build their theories. Also for these significant theories there is no "right" or "wrong", the whole point is the theory does exist and it gives us something to think about. Saying Karl Marx was wrong is a foolish thing to say because right or wrong is not what matters. Maybe thousands of years later in the future things may change and communism may end up becoming the perfect ideology for our society then. It's all contextual.
That's just evidence that wages are low. Seriously. If I make 6 times the median, we have a problem in this country. I don't know how you buy groceries for a family and pay for healthcare on 50k / yr.
Usually these "[art form or creator] isn't as good as it used to be" views come from finally noticing the repetition and formulaic structures that were always there. See /r/lewronggeneration. Your daughter could also just lack taste, I'm afraid. If you listen to any of top Pitchfork lists on Spotify you'll hear radically varying styles, even among the 2010s.
Same shit here. Didn't realize Google voice was the compromised source.
How is pay handled if there is no hierarchy? Who decides how to spend the company's money? This type of recruiting-marketing is almost as bad as Google's.
Why is sequential access still faster than random access on an SSD (author claims this)? I understand why for mechanical magnetic media but I do not understand why this is still a thing for SSD? I remember reading about LSM a long time ago, and thinking that with the advent of cheap SSD that this kind of optimization technique wouldn't be as relevant.

Is the advantage of sequential reading a product of the interface and protocol used to speak to the SSD device? Or is it actually a product of the physical media?

EDITED: (I had written sequential slower than random meant to write the opposite)
I appreciated that this article spent some time instructing on how to leave your job, instead of just praising the decision to leave.
How did you find this data, or this competition? I wouldn't mind trying my hand at this, either.
Let's not forget that "X makes you creative" articles are bullshit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8916132
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Why is there no von Neumann probe on Ceres?
No, I meant one that's actually a kernel running on duktape or something.
This story is absolutely insane. How could so many professionals not realize the game was not made by Nintendo?
Why is the Dallas startup community turning on itself?
/dev/random driver changes for 4.8
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The DNC list is only effective against legitimate organizations because the only weapon it has are fines. Most of the spam calls I get are credit card scams, free cruise scams, etc. These people are already committing fraud, so DNC fines aren't going to deter them.
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I don't see how you draw the line. From a physics standpoint the same applies to motorbikes and cars. I feel much, much safer around scooters and motocycles than cars. And while creating dedicated infrastructure for bikes sounds nice, the problem is that it just increases the misunderstanding by many drivers that bikes shouldn't legally be in the road. And it does nothing to arrest this ignorance which is just as important in city neighborhoods, country roads, and state highways, where it is legal to ride a bike, and there is no possible way to have dedicated biking infrastructure.
The oldest rocks on Earth that haven't been recycled by plate tectonics date to about the same era, so there's not much of anywhere for these fossils or etc to be.
Same, with lots of hang-up [automated?] calls. They die after a few rings and never leave voice mail, unless it's voice mail with silence only.

Kaiser also leaves me voicemails in English and Spanish, and sometime waits for me to press a number. Very annoying.
I dated a Columbian girl (an illegal actually) before I met my wife. I remember one day she slapped me across the face and with tears of anger made it clear how stupid I was. My mistake? Uttering the bullshit platitude: "better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable". She said, "you don't know what poor is, we couldn't even afford a toothbrush. We weren't happy we were miserable. How dare you."
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I have run hackintoshes for years, produced music on them, run them as servers hosting applications, used them for software development. They have been perfectly stable with months of uptime, and flawless execution of music production (given licensed software is used, which it is! :) )

Seem good enough to be called a mac for me! :) except can't update osx. would recommend though if you're savvy w/ linux and on a budget apart from the fact that you have no way to license it really. but it's a free legit download anyway if you own a macbook or anything (which I do).
Why does your "philosophy" have to presume that such hypothetical uncomfortable discoveries are actual fact? Why can't you accept that we don't understand genetics nearly that well and that human rights aren't based on genetics? Why do you believe that people who disagree with you are basing their philosophies on genetics? I don't believe a person with Downs Syndrome is entitled to fewer rights, for example.
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Rest assured that there are people working for the government that know more about encryption then you or I or 5,000 entrepreneurs.

For example, GCHQ came up with PKI before the people that "invented" PKI and published it.
> except can't update osx

you mean you can't update from the app store or something? or just in general?
What about the Japanese invasion of Alaska? Nearly 1500 Allied soldiers lost their lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_Campaign
> Just wait till embedded development shifts to node.

It already has. See Tessel (now on v2 of their board), and the Espruino which powers the pretty sweet Puck.js board.
Typo: "< 1yr" should be "> 1yr"
The actual innovation in Dota 2 was on the esports side. From setting up the $1 million International before the game was even released spawned an industry of professional players, sponsors, casters, personalities and production companies. The competitive Dota scene before Dota 2 came out was tiny in comparison.

Twitch was central to this as well, bigger tournaments meant increased viewers, increased viewers meant that Twitch could in turn sponsor even more tournaments.
SSD's write at the page level. If you are flipping bits in a page it has to read the page, update the bits you asked it to update and then write that page somewhere else (for wear leveling purposes).

Thus the cost to do a write that doesn't completely replace the page is a per page cost, not a per byte cost. Thus if you have very small writes you are going to get terrible performance. By extension this also leads to write amplification from a wear perspective.
I wish that's the direction Fry's Electronics had headed in, rather than be an even crappier version of Best Buy...
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yep, it's the federal government, there's a section on how to deal with an "active shooter".

tl;dr: bend over and kiss your ass goodbye

Threatening person with a weapon

Stay calm and signal a coworker for help.
Have that person call 911 and then call the Security Command Center.
Maintain eye contact and stall for time.
Keep talking but follow the instructions of the person who has the weapon. Never grab for a weapon.
Watch for a chance to escape to a safe area.

Active Shooter

Evacuate if possible. Keep your hands up and leave all belongings.
Hide out if evacuation is not possible. Stay out of view. Lock doors and block entry.
Take action as a last resort only when your life is in imminent danger.
Attempt to disrupt and/or incapacitate the shooter by:
Acting as aggressively as possible.
Throwing items and improvising weapons.
Yelling.
Committing to your actions.
I certainly am not confused, but you certainly are too sure of what you know. But that's quite alright, not everyone is cut out to be a scientist.

So how do you verify that the fossil was found where they said it was found?
What makes a Mac a Mac is when you cannot hide files on your desktop by a simple toggle.
This is actually the first time I've heard this. Like really.
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Actually there is only a 3% difference. Which isn't actually that huge (most not hugely complex C programs are valid Objective-C programs, at least with a couple of minor tweaks).

As I said - it's a silly marketing point that isn't convincing anyone already not convinced by TypeScript and they'd do better to drop it as a talking point.
What a pointless trainwreck of a flamewar you started and became uncivil in. That's not cool. Please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12160669 and marked it off-topic.
Well, you can, it's just a scary process sometimes depending on your hardware.

My Hackintosh updated to El Capitan just fine, but some others have had some pretty difficult times adjusting to OSX's updates.
My concern with a court ordering non-contact with Facebook is that Facebook's omnipresence on the internet would make complying with that order quite difficult in practice. Simply going online, with intent to go online, would be sufficient to violate a non-contact order.

In my (perhaps bad) example, the grocery store with an in-store post office, was to try to extend the blurring of lines between two independent parties in the physical world. Post office may wish to exclude you from all their places of operations, but you still gotta eat and get food from somewhere.

To function in this world, you need the ability to get online and if you are online long enough, you will touch Facebook systems.
So what? They bought Counter strike from Gooseman, they outsourced half life blue shift and opposing force, they bought the team behind team fortress, they bought the team behind left 4 dead, they bought the team behind dota, ...

I think everyone that plays dota is actually happy about that.
Why are engineering blogs littered with this kind of stuff? Who cares? The only blog I ever liked is the tech blog from Netflix.
Isn't that what Heroes of the Storm is though? It doesn't seem to have been very successful at pulling players away from Dota.
Then pay more for exclusivity: Car ownership, automated car with privacy, or shared automated.
Well, for the obvious starter, because K was all about accepting things as they are with equanimity, and not getting tangled up in the stories we have in our heads about how things "should" or "shouldn't" be.

It's my understanding that equanimity and rageface are kinda, you know, mutually exclusive.
sonic.net uses nomorobo to filter out spam callers and it seems to be pretty effective.

https://www.nomorobo.com/
Airlines have a very short amount of time to clean many seats. In the short term, electric cars will take a while to charge and cleaning can be done then.
Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't league of legends more responsible for building the robust esports scene for moba's? It was already there when DotA2 came around, wasn't it?
There is a PokeGym smack-bang in the center of the pentagon. I don't think you can't even enter the building without security clearance.

https://www.inverse.com/article/18034-pokemon-go-in-white-ho...
> It wasn’t a Mac, it was a Macintosh clone made by Apple.

True. Contrary to most macs, that one actually looks like it would at least function as a brick.
My own framework. When I outline stuff like this, I try to be careful to situate them on easily-relatable concepts so that people who use different words for the same concepts can work out what I'm trying to convey. Not being a trained scientist, I can't really relate my own experiences to published literature.
As I think I said on Twitter - it's not really that I think something solves the same problems better; it's that one tool shouldn't be solving all those problems (and in fact many of those problems aren't in the JS space at all).

Sort of... think UNIX philosophy vs... I dunno, Windows I guess? With the way it currently does it you are always going to have a horrible public API because the approach is fundamentally flawed.

And that's before I even get into how it solves those problems.

Now is it a bad thing it exists? No, obviously not. I'm glad it does, but we can learn what not to do from it as well.
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I liked seeing a chiptunes musician and promoter promise "LURES ALL NIGHT!" for his DJ set at jwz's new club: https://twitter.com/8bitsf/status/757067417910509568
Generally, the closer you stick to recommended hardware (Nvidia cards and Gigabyte motherboards), the less likely you'll run into trouble upgrading.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12159351