skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We clean international geopolitics so you don't have to!" /joking

That's what pre-coffee cell typing with a glitchy digitizer gets me, I guess. Leaving unedited to stand by my words (and shame).
I run Ubuntu Touch on a Nexus 4, and have done for about 6 months now. It is slow and the mail client often crashes. And it doesn't have Snapchat. And the camera app is rubbish.

Apart from that, it is a lot less stressful to use than Android. I got fed up with it being slow at one point and reinstalled Android, and it had so many nag screens about reporting data to Google, and so many privacy options that I had to be sure to configure correctly, that I put Ubuntu back on it the same day.

I carry a second phone to run Snapchat and take photos.

EDIT: They do make you sign up for an account before you can download apps from the store, which completely boggles my mind. Their singular advantage over Android is that they don't hassle you for information, yet they almost throw that away by making you sign up to download apps. I just used a fake account, but I wish they didn't make you sign up.
On the other hand, it's an internal thing. If it is a poor choice in the end, they'll change it -- that's what investors have confidence in.
Only in theory. No recent PM hasn't also been an MP (last one was 1830–1903, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil).

I cannot imagine in this day and age that someone would be selected as PM without also being an MP. Now, I can imagine them losing their MP seat during their term as PM and staying on.

The Tories and Labour know that the way the PM is selected isn't exactly Democratic, and they know that if they were to select someone who hasn't had a single vote that would be politically disastrous and likely result in a change to the way PMs are even selected.

The UK's whole political system only works because of mass voter apathy and ignorance (see the AV vote for examples).
You and I must simply have different understanding of the word monopoly and what it means to legally enforce one, so I guess we're not going to convince each other.

Gary Johnson is standing in fifty states isn't he? He's not doing that illegally is he? So there is no monopoly. If there is then it's not being enforced, legally or illegally.
Commonwealth Games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Games
Antifragile Planning: Planning 90 Days at a Time for Optionality
Why "secure"? Why not "anquan"? Google tells me that is the Chinese word for secure and since there are about 3 times as many Chinese speakers in the world than English, shouldn't we be considering them first? Or maybe we should consider Spanish first?
Announcement on front page of the Logo Foundation: http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/
Since both Solar City and Tesla are burning cash right now, I highly suspect Solar City is going to face a massive layoff of their sales staff and massive cut to marketing, which is where a majority of their costs are right now. With that gone, Solar City might be profitable, or at least close to break-even, based on existing solar installs.

That's what Tesla is probably hoping for anyway, I highly doubt it will work out quite that nicely. This seems like a highly risky acquisition from a financial perspective for both companies.
If you increased our energy consumption by 1 % per year, we would all be dead in less than 1000 years because at that point the surface temperature of the Earth would have reached the boiling point of water.

EDIT: In case the down votes are for the numbers. The total emission of an ideal black body with surface area of 510.1 million km² at 373.15 K is 560,791 TW. The world total primary energy supply in 2012 is estimated to have been 155,505 TWh which is 17.75 TW on average. That is a factor of 31,591 from what Earth could radiate into space at 100 °C or 1,041 years of 1 % growth per year.
It would be nice to have an editor which can work locally and edit remotely using keyless SSH (e.g., using PEM files) which is a common use case for cloud setups like EC2. Near impossible getting this to work on Sublime or almost anything else. I'm surprised there isnt more developer request for such tools.
I just had a small debate about this with some friends of mine. Let's imagine you live in a battleground state, and for the sake of argument, let's also assume that you're in one of the 48 states that are "winner take all" in that they assign all of their electoral college votes to the overall popular vote winner in that state.

Say that state is Ohio. In 2012, the popular vote in Ohio was as follows (Source: Politico):

B. Obama 50.1%

M. Romney 48.2%

G. Johnson 0.9%

J. Stein 0.3%

Let's say you're much more aligned with the Green Party platform. Why wouldn't you vote for Jill Stein?

The answer is because your vote would likely otherwise go to Barack Obama, as the next closest candidate. So you're taking a vote away from Obama and putting it toward a candidate that has no chance of winning.

If enough people do this, the second place candidate would win, in this case Mitt Romney. As a Green supporter, this would likely be the worst case scenario result. And yet, unintuitive as it is, your vote contributed to the candidate on the opposite side winning.

"But if enough people voted Green, they would win," some cry. OK. Historically speaking, the Greens have averaged around this result... likely no more than 3% in any given state election. Do you really think that they're going to multiply their votes by several orders of magnitude by election day?

This isn't the case in every electoral system; for example, in a Parliamentary system such as Canada's, you vote for your local MP, who runs on the basis of a riding, for which there are usually several within a city. The party that wins the most MP seats gets to form a government (PM, etc.) So the election becomes a much more local affair, rather than being a winner-take-all battle among the entire province, and results in practice in a multi-party system. Unfortunately, that's just not how US presidential elections work. The ridings are the size of an entire state, so your vote has less of an impact.
Is it pertinent to point out that he also garnered the most votes against him than any Republican candidate in history?
Can verify, still a thing. There is even a fun saying that goes with it.

"Normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works."
That's the mature way to react to reality. Vacuuming can be a problem for users.
The Goodwill games lasted a few decades. They were created during the Cold War.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
Brazen bikeshedding.
> In what ways is the security story on debian better than the security on ubuntu?

See danieldk's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=12201051&goto=threads%...

I'd add that Ubuntu encourages the use of PPAs, which are a security nightmare.
> Considering Musk was one of the founders, along with his cousins that currently run it.

Are you implying nepotism? Would you have said that it was "basically expected" if neither Musk nor his cousins would have been involved in SolarCity?
I guess given this endevour was started with an educational focus the philosophy is on spreading the platform to the largest number of people, as opposed to letting a few people purchase many.
> One of my coworkers has been employed for over 2 yrs and has produced nothing of value.

It's possible your Slacker Coworker thinks you lack respect for them and their contribution to the team. Evidently, the Boss still has confidence in the Slacker.

If your goal is more equitable work loads, try working on your influence skills. Start by understanding people without judging.
Honestly, I've tried to switch to Atom in the past and I have found that it was slow.

Sublime has what I need and it's quicker to start. I don't need something that I can customise with CSS, I need a fast text editor with syntax-highlighting.

On a plus-note, I have just convinced myself to use Vim with the following options: set number, set mouse=a, set colorscheme evening and syntax enable
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No runtime dependencies at all. That is pretty cool.
Arrayfire is c++ with Opencl, cuda, and cpu back ends. Limited to 4d.
http://arrayfire.com/indexing-with-arrayfire/
Table manners, itsy-bitsy rules for itsy-bitsy people as Robert Pirsig put it.
Membership choose the leader of a party and would have done so in the Tory party had Leadsom not dropped out.
> Now the conditions for opportunity are available but more restricted. <

Restricted, yet it beats rest of the world hands down in terms of opportunities.

When the rest of the world looks at America, they just see a nation which got lucky with land and capital. But the fact is, America had people before it was discovered by the Europeans, and there was no great civilization here unlike almost everywhere else in the world, which leads you to believe that maybe it isn't really all about the geography.

America is a plentiful place where individuals who wanted to achieve something (the 'American way of thinking') they arrived here. This still holds true, and will continue to hold true as long as this American way of thinking remains around.
Since I've apparently got an inflated sense of self-importance I've decided to start writing about topics I find interesting. And since I spend a lot of time thinking about open protocols (mostly in relation to IoT stuff) this seemed like a good place to start.

This is my first attempt at trying to actually collect my thoughts into something more organized than an HN comment. Definitely interested in if people are going to be interested in what I've got to say. All feedback, comments, and insults welcome. :)
After the hangover
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201716
In Portugal it's just 7500, though our President doesn't really have that much power, he's more of a figurehead.
Show HN: Breakthrough in quantum physics
Sounds nice :)

Do you have any front-end projects that are "clearly defined and have its own degree of novelty"?
Thank you. I am glad that you like it.
Out of interest, did you manage to track down a physical copy or read digital? I've been trying to get one for my father but devilishly hard to find at a reasonable price.
Woow.. didn't know about these ones :)
Thanks for sharing!
That's what I'm implying. Certainly didn't decrease the chances of this.
I can confirm that the query optimizer introduced a rather serious bug (significantly suboptimal plan for queries involving low cardinality indices), which caused serious issues in our system.

This, in addition to the fact that index merging has been broken in MySQL 5.6 for more than an year now (in some cases it will cause empty resultsets to be returned), and that it is still broken on MySQL 5.7
> I meant no disrespect.

I don't believe you.
Repository: https://github.com/ernw/ss7MAPer
Official local datum is GDA94, which is usually within about a metre of WGS84. /me pats pocket protector

I think the idea here though is that the underlying terrain has scooted around a bit in the last twenty years, so a new datum would save on the need to print new maps and update the databases containing trig points and such. New coordinates can be labelled as explicitly aligned to the new datum, get some versioning happening.

Unfortuately it seems impossible to confirm this, because the Geoscience Australia website does not appear to make any reference to this purported new effort that's been making the rounds of late. New website layout, maybe their CMS is broken.
Except jaynos is claiming the opposite -- that Solar City shareholders are getting screwed over to benefit Tesla shareholders.

It's easy to understand your point of view; jaynos's is a little more mysterious.
I honestly hope so. Not sarcastic or demeaning, I just think that neuroscience is what is necessary for the mythical "AGI", since we don't have a strong notion. I don't believe for a second that it's unknowable, but right now I don't think we know.
Maybe, but if I need five for what I want to do and can only buy one, it's not going to spread, since I won't use it.
Browser market share in July 2016
Many major US cities have a Microcenter. They're the most recent, name-brand Pi zero. The one with the camera ribbon attachment.

Not everyone is near a Microcenter, but there's an entire subreddit dedicated to people buying and shipping them out for people. Supposedly they don't make much if any money off it, mostly just covers gas+shipping+$5.
MIT Team Develops Portable Drug Production System
>But it's also a way to get people familiar with the candidates early on.

That is largely what it is all about. It is basically theater. All the rules are made by the political parties themselves whether their own rules or by the state laws they have voted for. In the 1800s they just nominated whomever they wanted (and this is basically what the smaller political parties do since they are so small they don't have the money to do these long extended campaigns) but then they started doing the primaries and caucuses to give people input.
A better standard HN car analogy:

Postgreql is trustworth and predictable and engineered and engineerable. Its like a German union automobile plant press operator sitting down on the job and crossing his arms until the broken safety switch is fixed, which will take precisely 3.25 hours and cost $X while the resulting assembly line shutdown costs 1000 x $X. But it'll be safe and nobody gonna lose an arm. Your downtime and related costs are more or less predictable. Maybe not the highest productivity plant in the division, but nice safety record.

Mysql is best effort. The safety switch on the press breaks, redlining that machine and shutting down the entire plant. Hmm if I stick my arm in that 50 ton press while its operating, that'll hurt a bit, so lets just not do that. Dude's a real tryhard, which always ends like you'd expect. Of course safety regulations were literally written in blood so at some unpredictable time in the future you'll get a $1M personal injury lawsuit for loss of an arm and a $10M OSHA fine, and the plant will be shut down for the criminal investigation for a random indeterminate amount of time plus the interval required to remove arm from press. Your downtime and costs are completely unpredictable, but probably mostly over a very long term for many people on average lower than postgresql. The plant will have a higher productivity metric result, and also a worse safety record.
Question about Postgres architecture: Why were secondary indexes designed to refer to ctids instead of primary keys?
I'm not trying to sound smug or dismissive, but I don't have much time for deep discussion right now. The question that pops into my mind is this:

How many unsuccessful languages have multiple long-lived commercial offerings?[0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro_Common_Lisp

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LispWorks
Well, in my experience it was done in a case-by-case basis and led through the great work of NGO "Thorn" (the one founded by Ashton Kutchen & Demi Moore)

I don't know about accountability, but we provided support in a proactive way and never more than we were comfortable with (no carte blanche access to data for LEOs, etc.)
And there were, what, only 900 before?
Elon Musk: An obvious fraud?
DNT can't protect you against bad actors really. These are the people/companies that are honoring the DNT clause.

http://donottrack.us/implementations
jaynos is saying that TSLA is unlikely to go much above $235, but Solar City had a lot of potential to move above $26.70. By converting them now, they've basically thrown away all the potential future movement.
Have you worked for a startup or in a situation with tight engineering or software deadlines? I ask that because for those of us that have had to work that situation, it is not so baffling.
Ah, sorry - forgot about JWZ's sense of humour.
Pantheon is in Rome and is a Roman Temple. Just sayin, saw it with my own eyes. Never been to Greece.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome

https://m.imgur.com/a/cFOq7
Usually buyouts like this are priced well above the current trading range of the acquisition, presumably in order quell shareholder opposition. In this case I think it is probably a more than fair price for SolarCity, even though it is lower than where it has been trading. SolarCity's future prospects at this point mostly hinge on integrating with storage technology, now that net metering is starting to get killed off slowly. Tesla can provide that, so it is only fair they get them at a bit of a discount. If someone else who can pay comes along and thinks they are worth more, they will.
Vim can open files remotely by ssh, copying the file to the remote server on each write. To edit the file example.com:foo.txt, do:

:e ssh://example.com/foo.txt

It should use your default ssh config/setup/etc.
> They wrote code that depended on hardware controls

...similar to Toyota's electronic throttle control system design.

Also, if you rely on hardware features for safety, it's still ok/good to design the software as if it didn't depend on those features whereever possible.
No, we won't. At least not in our lifetimes.
At Black Hat, the ‘Internet of Things’ Gets Put Through Its Paces
OR and WA are exclusively vote by mail. It's really convenient.
thanks for the shameless plug, I was looking for exactly this the last time I tried making a habit out of reading RSS feeds.
https://archive.is/uEQK7
Both solutions are less effective than mail in ballots, online voting, or extending the vote duration (e.g. 7 days).

People just bring up a "voting holiday" because they want an extra holiday. The reality is that many people would use the holiday to relax, go out of town, or get stuff done and voting percentage wouldn't improve.

Ditto with weekends. People go out of town on the weekends, do you think they're going to stop because of a pesky vote? Even if they did for one year word would quickly spread that that is a "quiet" weekend and everyone would go for that reason.

If you really want to improve voting: Drive through voting, like McDonald's, that takes the same amount of time as McDonald's to do, and that you have a seven day week within which to do. Literally make it a 5 minute job where you don't even need to exit your vehicle.

People might scoff at that, call it lazy, but people ARE lazy. They want minimum hassle, minimum time, and maximum value. That's why drive-through places even exist.
There should be a way in the general elections to reject both candidates.
@pg recently tweeted: "Prediction: Micropayments will happen, but the main beneficiaries will be new publications created to take advantage of them."

I'd love to hear from him and any others who think the time has come (or not), and what has changed or still needs to change. Such a huge percentage of CPC advertisements seem to me to be predatory, and yet that is what pays for Google, among others...
I've not much read in the field of communication and had some negative preconceptions. But this was a very interesting read! But how should one progress ones thinking from science like this?

All it tells me is that working for Uber isn't all fun and games. Heck, content like that is found on every corporate intranet.

As an economist I think: "Well but people are using it to make above minimum wage money, so it seems to be working". (Explanation re replies: not to be dismal, but the working of the market via Uber is not really in dispute macro-wise AFAIK. So how should you weigh #N complaints by drivers in a qualitative piece of research?)

From a legal perspective: "It's pretty clear this is illegal in the Netherlands, since it definitely is a employment relationship."

Entrepreneurial thinking: "With a little more clarity in the platform and a little more honesty / openness towards drivers, Uber could be drivers walhalla but at a cost to the consumer".
I didn't claim there was a monopoly this year, though, did I. In fact the GOP establishment would want Johnson to stand in 50 states as many of them oppose Trump and resent that he has taken over their party.

Some would call that a straw man argument: establishing a fact I never disputed.

On the other hand, there is evidence presented above that that occurred in previous elections (2004, 2000).
If people are like me they will probably not be voting for someone but against someone. I really don't want candidate Y to win so I'm going to vote for candidate X because that candidate has a better chance of winning than Johnson (or my pick Stein).

Although my state usually goes pretty solidly for one political party so I might vote for Stein anyway because my anti-vote won't be enough.
>> Also, the Satan missile is a scary, and surprisingly huge, thing.

There were some current articles on the SATAN 2 missile which is just as scary:

The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), thought to weigh at least 100 tons, is considered to be the largest atomic weapon-carrying rocket ever produced and is capable of carrying as many as a dozen warheads inside its shell.

With an estimated range of 10,000 kilometers (6,213 miles), the Sarmat missile is “capable of wiping out parts of the earth the size of Texas or France,” Zvezda said.

The report also said that the missile has been designed with stealth technology, which enables it to be fired at a target without being detected by radar systems.

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/05/11/465010/Russia-nucle...
You presume there is a functional market for executives.

An alternative explanation would be that poor governance leads to organizations spending more for qualifications that are defensible if a mistake is made.
I wonder if we'll get "cantankerous cortana" or "sassy siri" with smart-phones
This is something I'd definitely be interested in trying. Like stated elsewhere here, the Netherlands has a culture similar to this.

I've had 3 internships so far, and the most recent one has had a lot of overtime. Maybe I'll try to start my first full-time job in the Netherlands.
My understanding was that Neovim's main strength was the fact that it is a fresh rewrite for modern platforms only. Whereas Vim has tons of legacy code in it for all sorts of legacy platforms, which makes it harder for people to contribute code, and makes it harder for the dev team to find and fix bugs, or to add features, etc.
Classic Olympic events are not much more than stylized version of military training for Hoplite warriors. We may not do the Hoplitodromos[1] any more, but the running, jumping, throwing, lifting events go straight back to infantry training in antiquity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplitodromos
What's your basis for thinking that SolarCity has more upside than Tesla?
Google's hosted CloudSQL (a hosted &customized MySQL solution) had tons of connection drop issues. Last incident it took them 72+hrs to resolve and they had no idea what and why caused it (the resolution was a side effect from another issue that resolved for some other custom complains.)
With respect to Clojure, you don't write macros, but many of the really interesting language features within Clojure are built upon macros. (core.async and core.match come to mind). It would be difficult to add them without macros.

I do actually think of my code as a tree/graph structure. Not just in lisps but in other languages as well, I'm always manipulating a stack of trees and thinking about how the data flows through the branches.
I see clunky names as neutral, as the reduction in search engine collisions usually balances the difficulty in typing.
Of course nothing survived unscathed but if I recall correctly the Pantheon's marble interior/floor is still mostly original.

The Catholic Popes melted down anything they could find to create Christian things.
Your story makes me want to get a bearded dragon again. :) The one I had was really really old (we were his retirement home) so could have been that.
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