skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a LOT of people who talk about their lizard "loving" them, and for them this is the article. My cousin though, has had reptiles since she was a little girl, and not because she thought she was going to bond with them. Instead, she likes lizards. She likes to watch them, and interact with them, and find them fascinating. Personally, I find them boring, but I get it.

There are some pigeons that routines stop by my living room window and spend hours there, and occasionally I watch them. Over time, I've learned to recognize a lot of their behavioral "routines", the constant maintenance of their personal space, grooming, cooing, fighting, mating. I've seen their sleek young pigeons come, and grow into adult birds.

They're not terribly complicated really, but they're interesting. They do have relationships with each other that express themselves in mutual grooming, or fighting, or in the case of mates a total exception to the "personal space" rule.

Nothing about my affection for them comes from a sense of connection, or the possibility of connection. They are frankly disinterested in anything other than other pigeons (friend, foe, mate, shelter), and food; everything else is something to be wary of of. I just enjoy seeing them go about their lives, often making pleasant noises, and just being alive and different.
A more detailed (and accurate) account:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ

Stuart got one significant factual detail wrong: the race condition was in Lisp code.
Using tracking to develop daily habits
The problem is the externalities of insecurity. The company who is insecure doesn't suffer all the consequences of a security breach, so they don't spend as much money to mitigate it.

If software security was similar to say building/fire safety or food safety where serious cost/legal consequences were attached to failures, we'd likely see more spending...
Open means it is documented and anyone can interoperate or create a compatible implementation. The S3 API is open and there are many competing implementations, but Amazon de facto holds the reference implementation.

A SaaS value add "orbit" is another way to monetize. Personally I think going all cryptocurrency on this is overthinking it in most cases.
I just want to put a plug in for @mhartl's Softcover (https://www.softcover.io/)

From the website:

Softcover is a new publishing platform based on the production system and business model used by the Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. Using Softcover, authors can build multi-format ebooks (HTML, EPUB, MOBI, and PDF) from common source files, optionally bundle them with media like screencast videos, and publish them to Softcover’s integrated sales platform with a single command.

I converted http://www.cfenginetutorial.org from AsiiDoc to SoftCover -- the HTML build time plummeted from over a minute to just a second or two. Wow! And it looks better than it ever did.
That is what I have found in most of my research of computing since Burroughs attempted to use an Algol variant for systems programming.

The general opinion is that those systems failed due to technical issues, however most of the time failures are caused by political wars.

They are even worse when they are caused by those that don't want things to change, like what seems to have happened during Longhorn development.

So one needs a group strong enough monetary and political, to be able to change ways of computing, sometimes even loosing a couple of battles to eventually win the game.
Alright, I have a hard time following some of these papers because of the wording. Does this basically mean the language is immune via the compiler to failures or attacks from abstraction gaps between what high-level language shows and what low-level target actually does? Or something else entirely?
Seems funny, considering Amazon's cloud is (as I understand it) heavily backed by Java. If there's a cloud to aspire to be, that's the one.
That is an interesting question, but does Jacobin expect Swift to exclude part-timers? That would be a tricky philosophical position...
You're warm, you feed it, you groom it, and let it groom you. You presumably never hurt it, even when it's vulnerable. That's trust. I'm not sure that human love is so much more than that, run through a metacognitive filter.
Thanks for the info, that file appears to be a clean and intact list of english words, except it is under the path:

anonymouth/src/edu/drexel/psal/resources/koppel_function_words.txt

And down the rabbithole we go; after copying the file to src/jsan_resources we now get a new error:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LOGGING STACK TRACE <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
java.lang.NullPointerException
edu.drexel.psal.anonymouth.engine.InstanceConstructor.getAttributes(InstanceConstructor.java:182)
edu.drexel.psal.anonymouth.engine.InstanceConstructor.runInstanceBuilder(InstanceConstructor.java:121)
...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LOGGING STACK TRACE <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
java.lang.NullPointerException
edu.drexel.psal.anonymouth.utils.TaggedDocument.makeAndTagSentences(TaggedDocument.java:380)
edu.drexel.psal.anonymouth.engine.DocumentProcessor.processDocuments(DocumentProcessor.java:184)
...

:)
I prefer to be judged on the content of my comments rather than the number of internet points displayed by my name. It allows for much more honesty and sincerity in discussions, and I think those are two qualities that HN could use more of.

Also I don't enjoy being profiled and I'll continue to play this game of whack-a-mole regardless of a change in the rules.
> Unless Windows 11 comes out by then

I agree with your points, However, the chance of Windows coming out is zero, unless you think Microsoft could simply rename Windows 10 to 11.

There is no team inside Microsoft working on Windows 11, as far as I can tell. The Windows team is working on improved versions of Windows 10, which seem to be appearing twice a year at the moment.

Any reader from the Windows team is, of course, welcome to comment ;-)
I recently saw a sunset that looked a lot like a bomb going off due to refraction over the ocean. That didn't make the sunset dangerous.
They are already saying that.
Reminds me of this essay I read yesterday, which painted a pretty startling picture of how insane things could get:

http://www.flassbeck-economics.com/how-climate-change-is-rap...

Here's a snippet showing how rapidly predictions are escalating:

* Late 2007: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announces that the planet will see a one degree Celsius temperature increase due to climate change by 2100.

* Late 2008: The Hadley Centre for Meteorological Research predicts a 2C increase by 2100.

* Mid-2009: The U.N. Environment Programme predicts a 3.5C increase by 2100. Such an increase would remove habitat for human beings on this planet, as nearly all the plankton in the oceans would be destroyed, and associated temperature swings would kill off many land plants. Humans have never lived on a planet at 3.5C above baseline.

* October 2009: The Hadley Centre for Meteorological Research releases an updated prediction, suggesting a 4C temperature increase by 2060.

* November 2009: The Global Carbon Project, which monitors the global carbon cycle, and the Copenhagen Diagnosis, a climate science report, predict 6C and 7C temperature increases, respectively, by 2100.

* December 2010: The U.N. Environment Programme predicts up to a 5C increase by 2050.

* 2012: The conservative International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook report for that year states that we are on track to reach a 2C increase by 2017.

* November 2013: The International Energy Agency predicts a 3.5C increase by 2035.
With your nickname I was expecting Modula-3. :)
The box says 1-5 players. Is there really a single-player mode for this game?
Oh, yeah, I should have mentioned that: IntelliJ IDEA with the Haskforce plugin. The plugin isn't maintained any longer, though, so it's not the best solution, but it was perfect when both ghc-mod and hlint worked. ghc-mod still works, because I can't go back to coding without it, speeds everything up so much to have instant compiler feedback.

For example, there is this fatal, unresolved bug that no one knows how to fix: https://github.com/carymrobbins/intellij-haskforce/issues/28...

EDIT: It's working again (for projects that do not exhibit above bug): http://i.imgur.com/jPo4Tas.png
Oh, that is separable to make manufacturing cheaper. They ship the same powersupply worldwide and just swap out the plug. It's not for your benifit. Although if you travel a lot it is handy.
Some Cliff's Notes on VLM's post for anyone who, like me, didn't fully get it at first:

GMT Games are a wargame company. They specialise in the classic style of wargames, with hexes and tokens with attack and defence strength and whatnot. That said, they have also published things like Reiner Knizia's 'Battle Line', and the famous Cold War geopolitics game 'Twilight Struggle'.

GMT Games release games using their 'Project 500' model. They develop games, and once one is nearly finished, they make it available for pre-order, at a discount. If they get 500 pre-orders, they produce it. If they don't get 500 pre-orders, they don't produce it, and the people who pre-ordered don't get charged [1].

MBT is a modern rewrite [2] of a classic hex-and-counter wargame from 1987 [3] which models tank warfare in Europe during the version of World War 3 which looked most likely at the time.

DVG is Dan Verssen Games, also primarily a wargame company. They have done a number of kickstarters. Some just sell the game at a modest discount, like Warfighter - World War II [4]. Some upsell pricey vanity options, like The Cards of Cthulhu [5].

Eurogames are a hard-to-define genre which, IMHO, emphasise mechanics giving rise to involving, complex play rather than realism. Settlers of Catan is the godfather. Further examples are Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Alhambra, Kingdom Builder, etc.

Grognards are players of classic hex-and-counter wargames [6], and, metonymically, such games themselves.

[1] https://www.gmtgames.com/t-GMTP500Details.aspx

[2] http://www.insidegmt.com/?p=498

[3] https://boardgamegeek.com/image/87628/mbt

[4] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/11606594/warfighter-wor...

[5] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dvgames/the-cards-of-ct...

[6] https://grognard.com/About.aspx#pageTop
I get the sense privacy review is "how can we maximally invade privacy?" I'm sure it got through fine.

Since everything is free now, spyware is the only viable B2C business model.
But everyone can't have an equal share of water, because there is already not enough water to go around in the first place.

Unless you mean everyone will get only one cup of water. But then, the farmer will be fucked, because one cup of water is not enough to farm. And if the farmers can't farm, then you'll have another set of problems on your hand: NOT ENOUGH FOOD.
Diplomacy is wonderful. I find it hard to get 7 people to commit to 4+ hours to make it through a game, so the mail option is good, but IMO in person is more fun.
Uber doesn't make any profit though. The question is what percentage of driver revenue is actually required to pay for the engineers/servers/background checks/insurance/driver incentives and is it really any less than Uber's percentage?
Yahoo, from dot com hero to zero
If by 'not really grounded in business or technical fact' you mean not how things are typically done now, that's sort of the point. But there are some important precedents: Publix supermarkets for example, a Fortune 100 company with 170k workers, is wholly employee-owned.
Every time I see that suggestion I wish people actually had some experience with what Lisp Machines allowed, or at very least worked with what is left of them, commercial Common Lisp environments.
>...it will be interesting to see what they try next.

It seems clear to me they've had the meetings and made the decision to ram Win10 down user's throats come hell or high water. They've given no indication that they regret the Win10 hard-sell or that it was any kind of mistake or misstep. On the contrary, they have doubled-down on the strategy and dismissed all objections along the way. The misuse of the red X to mean "OK" instead of "No" or "Cancel", breaking Windows Update so you could not block or hide the GWX are clear signs of their intent.

Win10 is the core of Microsoft's strategy to compete with Apple and Google. They want to become a marketing company and Windows 10 OS [Operating Spyware] is key to their long-term strategy. They want to shutdown support for all the remaining operating systems and push everyone onto Win10 as quickly as possible. The strategy is further revealed by their announcement that Cortana (and its associated collection of personal data and tracking) cannot be turned off in all but the Enterprise or Education versions of Win10, neither of which will be generally available.

My view is that this strategy will backfire. Win10 is not going to be installed in any business that needs high data security either for operations or regulatory requirements like HIPPA or the SEC, etc. The vast number of companies currently using Win7 aren't going to move to Win10 unless Microsoft reveals the scope of the spying and provides tools to shut it off without buying the Enterprise version. Everything will come to a head in 2020 when Win7 support is slated to end. At that point, I am planning on moving to Linux and I don't think I am alone. But what I do is irrelevant to Microsoft (essentially a consumer user of Windows) but what the installed base of business users of Windows choose to do will determine the future of Windows. It will be interesting to see who blinks first.
When I wrote that I was thinking of entire sections of roadway that washed away in northern Wisconsin when it rained 10 inches in 12 hours a few weeks ago.

My guess is that they should still wait until they wash away again before they build them to withstand such events.

http://media.graytvinc.com/images/800*600/iron+co+5.jpg
Ticket to Ride Europe is a great beginner game that holds up well over time.
Well, if this information is correct, then there is room for disruption starting with the cities with the highest taxi prices. Therefore instead of writing an article, build the app. Let it fly in NYC and offer 30% lower rates.
Who woulda thunk, forcibly upgrading users and possibly causing harm to businesses just might be a sure-fire way to get a class-action lawsuit on your hands.

I wonder if anyone on the Windows 10 dev team and/or their managers have ever heard of HIPAA, and how telemetry could... cause issues.
With all the privacy setting opted in, i.e. no data to be sent to windows 10, I still have Cortona process running on my machine, which I seem to be not able to kill off( not spending any more time doing it as it is only Windows specific works machine, which I rarely use). Is there a option to uninstall Cortona ?
Yes. With good tooling (such as Emacs), markup is much more pleasant to write in S-expressions than XML.
You're quite naive. My wife maxes out on prescription pain killers that her (really quite good) pain doc gives her. It means laying in bed doesn't cause constant pain, but everything else (including showering or sitting in a chair) is unbearable after a short time.

We know so much less about the human body than we think we do. When giving birth to our first son, she was given the maximum dose epideral and was told she wouldn't be able to walk for a few days because of intense numbness. Not only did she walk to the bathroom shortly after giving birth, but it didn't even lessen the pain.

Not everybody responds to and gets the benefits of modern medicine as we'd like. I'm grateful that medicine does work on me and my children though.
I think this is in reference to the setting that says (paraphrasing) "Send samples of my typing to Microsoft so Windows can offer better suggestions as I type."

If you don't disable this in a "custom" install, or later in the system settings, it's on.
This assumes that people will pay for some service. But I think there will always be someone who will just provide a free service to get rid of friction as much as possible and monetize via ads. Nowadays it's extremely cheap to run an app. Which means these hypothetical blockchain based apps will always be competing with a "closed" yet free version of itself, which has 0 friction.

Using the Twitter example, I can't imagine how a service that makes you pay for Tweeting can grow larger than a service that's completely free. The only motivation I can think of is people actually making money (in the blockchain currency) by Tweeting or any value generating activity, but this is also based on the assumption that this network becomes huge, otherwise stacking up these points won't matter that much anyway. Which goes back to my first point--I can't think of how this decentralized Twitter can be larger than its centralized counterpart.

Just trying to understand if I'm missing something. Can anyone enlighten me?
Programming Language Neutral Gui
It probably won't have that much of an impact. It seems to use 0.5-1% CPU on my computer.
Thanks for the tips dude.
Is that the case? It looks like there's still confusion out there:

* http://www.pcworld.com/article/2974057/windows/how-to-turn-o...

* http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-disable-hidden...
I've experienced those types of speed ups when doing "puzzler" programs in Haskell as opposed to Java (the language I make money programming in). If given a few weeks to implement a REST API or something much more real world, I'd kick Haskell to the curb and cleave to Java like a long lost lover. Libraries, tooling, community support and information...these are the language's "killer" features.
Rick and Morty writer’s room
As this fascinating WW2 training film for US Combat Engineers demonstrates, improvised roads are still important for modern military operations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-FDY8uMlsI
Wow, that is a remarkable amount of stuff that is working. My experience with wirewrapped boards is pretty mixed, some are solid and some are just flaky as heck.

Really curious what they find out about the disk, nothing at all coming over the interface sounds like a big (and usually simple) issue, like card in the wrong slot or cable plugged in backwards or to the wrong connector.
I was curious about how writing process on Rick and Morty works, and have collected some cool information.

I know it's a bit offtopic for HN, but I think you guys will find it interesting.
Google Is Quietly Recording EVERYTHING You Say
It's highly unlikely that a small, disorganized co-op is going to be efficient enough to take advantage of the situation and be able to out-compete Uber.

That said, the reality is irrelevant here. Jacobin is the kind of magazine where economic reality is treated as a suggestion, to be discarded as is convenient.
Take a look at what the Smalltalkers are up to these days, with custom visualisations for different classes:

http://gtoolkit.org/

I don't know how useful this is in practice, and it's not representative of what IDEs for mainstream languages are doing, but it's pretty cool.
Because we've moved the climate in one direction or another by 10% already, and we've never polluted so heavily before. That's pretty significant.

That stat is also normalized over the past 30 years. Change is accelerating, so it would be more than 10% over the past 10 years.
I find it really reassuring to see you saying that while in you mid-40s. Due to a series of stupid financial decisions in my late twenties I'd kind of given up on the thought of doing anything much more than getting by, guess I should do some reading and get that sorted.
Scandinavian countries: 80 - 90% of them speak English.

http://www.fluentin3months.com/scandinavian/

http://www.thepolyglotdream.com/scandinavianenglish/
>> Inside, the Factory is packed with all the perks of a Silicon Valley campus: nap rooms, scooters, 3D printing stations.

Showers, showers, showers.

When working long hours, I shower to refresh myself and they are great for people that don't go home for a day or two.
> I get a few crashes per week related to known bugs

Interesting! Can you link to the issue?
I thought I had read recently that Microsoft is not going to continue with the incremental release numbers. If anything, they'll probably just drop the version number, call it "Windows OS" and have an Arch-like rolling release strategy.
I disagree completely. Uber's inception/success was partly because of existing taxi services' "barriers to entry". Medallions were worth about $1 million each when Uber started in NYC (http://bloom.bg/2aCEeQA). That's a textbook case of an economic rent.

Taxi service was often discriminatory in NYC and other cities: taxi drivers often refuse to pick up black passengers assuming they won't pay once they reach their destination and I've had gay friends openly complain about how SF cab drivers used to throw them out on Pride or after a PDA with their significant other. This was the status quo for decades because of the barriers to entry of municipal taxi services' monopoly. They never had to anything about it since their was no competition and if you didn't like it, you probably shouldn't take a cab.

Besides Uber's barriers to entry are it's scale (low prices and reliable service) and brand than de facto monopoly status (which I assume is what you're talking about since you mostly talk about competition beside summing up your link). The fact that a co-op could potentially "disrupt Uber" is evidence of that.
Agreed, that was really bad, and there should be repercussions ...

However, I've updated half a dozen PCs to Windows 10, including two on the last day. One of those was my wife's, and she has no technical expertise at all.

What I can say for certain is that I have never seen a forced update, and I have never been able to install Windows 10 without agreeing to the EULA.
Whether obtained as Discount or Fed Funds, the money allows the bank to loan out more money, because it increases the bank's reserve, no?
Now that 29 July has passed, the last date of free upgrade, they hopefully won't pester anymore
My girlfriend poked fun at the weathermen going apeshit over 30mph winds earlier in the week. Then she got stuck at Newark on Monday waiting for the storm to pass. Karma.
You should see the tech on a modern farm. Self driving farm equipment, drones that scout for deer in the fields and scare them off so they don't get reaped, satellite analysis of fields to analyze the best crop locations and disease/pests. Solar and wind electricity, water filtration and geo cooling/warming.

Honestly a not-poor farm makes most city neighborhoods look like the third world in terms of tech.
Skydiver jumps from 25,000ft without a parachute, lands in a net
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitching_Betty

Lots of [citation needed], but interesting historical background on voice warning systems.
Not clickable for me (firefox)

Edit: ah the mouse pointer just keeps normal. Here are the sources: http://www.statista.com/topics/847/apple/
http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/by-the-numbers-amazin...
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2858887/apples-2014-in-...
http://www.statisticbrain.com/apple-computer-company-statist...