skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. I like to see some new method thrown at the UI controls when one switches to full screen / no toolbars. Possibly stealing swipe type methods from mobile.
Browser developers (and by extension, web standards developers) appear to be extremely reluctant to work at any protocol level other than HTTP.

To this aversion I attribute several pathological outcomes that affect many of us. Layering-violation constructs like WebSockets, failure to use SRV leading to hacked-up apex DNS A record tracking, timeouts/misbehaviours giving IPv6 a bad name, the general reinforcement of HTTP as an inefficient and poorly specified RPC transport.

And, yes, ignoring DANE. Fun fact: even using DNS A records for endpoint name resolution in HTTP is a convention; it is not mandated in the document body or in any of the normative references.

My greatest disappointment in HTTP/2 is that it reinvents multiplexing. Not so much that it wasn't necessary (it was, at least it was if you are Google or Facebook or Twitter scale), but that it occurs inside the protocol rather than in a separate layer that other future protocols could use. To me, that's exemplary of how HTTP has been developed despite, rather than in concert with, other protocols.
Yeah, trackpoints are useful, but not as a general purpose mouse/trackpad replacement.
I was a beta tester of the Advantage 2 and the problem is completely gone with the new firmware.
I wish people tried harder to reduce click bait titles.

So do I, but do they have incentives to do so? Can we maybe think of ways to incentivize them?
Yes, to view a dream, users pay the price shown on the left. I thought I explained how the site works well enough in the "How This Works" section, but it seems like that approach isn't working. Do you have any suggestions on how I could better explain this to people? Might it be a good idea to have the "How This Works" section pop up automatically when people visit the site?

Is the interface confusing to you? If so, what would make it more intuitive?

I'm willing to pay anyone (in DreamCoins) who helps to develop an effective explanation. You can cash out DreamCoins, so there's real value if you want to help me out.
The residents will not get any compensation. That's just the way it works in Spain.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12175861
This is actually a big problem in the USA. Everyone has a powerful car with automatic transmission. On level ground these will eventually accelerate to 15MPH unless the driver uses the brake. A manual transmission, or electric drive, is ever so much more civilized.
I beta tested the Advantage 2. They replaced the rubber keys with mechanical ones using the same size for the switch.
Underspace – a prototype for dynamically injecting React components into DOM
> all of the programs studied were written in C or C++, and that this study predates C++11. Moving to C++11 and using atomics and scoped locks would probably change the numbers substantially

I keep seeing this claim, "C++ is better now!" Does anyone have any experience that really defends this claim?

One of the reasons that I've become so enthralled with Rust is that it's adopted a memory access system which aligns with everything that I've learned over my career in distributed systems:

-all data const/final by default
-No nulls, fully initialized structs
-semantics that require the developer to adopt good practices in accessing memory across threads

I can go on, but it's already obvious to me that Rust is a huge leap forward in terms of threading and the guarantees it makes.

I left C++ a long time ago, and it happened to coincide with a atomic increment bug/memory leak that took me 2 weeks to track down in the STL String library. This was back in 2000, early days of multiprocessor x86. This exact thing is solvable with the new C++ atomic support, but does it guarantee that you'll use it across threads like Rust?
Hm, i find this kinda hard to port over to a typical chaotic/radial european city.

In Moscow, for example, there are wide radial and circular roads, from which branches of small roads diffuse into the meat of the city under pretty much every angle.

Any attempts to rope "superblocks" off would likely collapse the traffic completely - there aren't any alternative roads like a grid would have.
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DOD names 7 to $142M deal for modernizing contract system
It's not using React, it's using Ractive (http://ractivejs.org), which we use for all of our projects. It was designed with that goal (among others) in mind – making cross-browser DOM quirks something we don't need to worry about.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4wfyz3/mocas_t...
I'd expect the total automobile traffic to be reduced, rather than all of it concentrating on the through streets. Making driving less convenient will push people who don't have to drive to leave their cars at home and go with public transport, bike or foot instead.
"Pirated software" is not the right term to use in this case.
The most popular choice today are behavior trees. They are very powerful, modular, and there are even visual tools for putting your building blocks together.

The Unreal engine also comes with such a tool for example:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/AI/BehaviorT...

A good intro which highlights flexibility and reuse:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisSimpson/20140717/221339/...

Having said that, FEAR's AI held up really well. It's still top-notch.
No it is not a direct transfer. This is not talking about a transfer from taxpayers to oil companies. It's about companies keeping money they made instead of paying that money in taxes.
Yes. Two modes: default scroll, means you can scroll without obscuring the screen. Or double tap to get a cursor in a text box.
It's unfortunate that the best part of this show was the opening title sequence. Binge watched the entire season in one sitting, what a cliched disappointment. Checked off all of the 80's tick boxes; single mom raising boys during tough times and a deadbeat father, kids on BMX bikes solving issues much larger than themselves while being bullied, tired cop getting a new chance at something meaningful, set in a Stephen King town with Spielberg characters/settings and a megacorp alien cover. Brought down by an ultimately unfulfilling conclusion, that even some great acting(by Eleven) couldn't prop up. Bummer.
While waiting for an individual to step up, it might be worth seeking feedback on StackExchange's Code Review site. So long as the code works before posting, it often provides insightful reviews by experienced professionals:

https://codereview.stackexchange.com/

Good luck.
A lot of "AI"/machine learning/etc. examples show impressive results on relatively narrow and well-controlled use cases. A lot of people look at those and extrapolate to much broader and less controlled environments with lots of messy corner cases and assume it's just a bit more incremental work to get there. Whereas, in fact, getting from essentially a demo to mostly just works in messy real world environments can easily be 90% of the work.
I've had conversations with Kinesis about this. Even though there is a enthusiast community there is not enough of a demand to send manufacturing overseas. Also, because of the key well design those PCB's need to be soldered by hand rather than wave soldering them. The net effect is that they are hand made in the United States which is why the cost is higher.
Another classic is Code Complete, but it's not a free ebook.
I was a beta tester of this. AMA
It's a US publication, so they mention 10mph at first, later explaining that the actual limit it 20kph (12mph).
I was so happily surprised when I saw customers of Taipei's 7-11s picking up their online orderings at 11pm(Or whatever our) at the shop. I always thought such a thing should exist in Europe, where for some reason you are never home when the delivery arrives.
You might want to check out the Papers We Love repo at https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love. That's my goto resource.
Edmonton the first Canadian city to be mapped by Uber
I also would like to see how it turns out. Some people might switch to bicycling or walking. It might even decrease car ownership numbers.
Disparity in tax payments is a form wealth transfer, though I will agree it's not physical. The fact that it is not a physical transfer of funds is a sleight of hand.

Edit: spelling.
Reasoning from whom? The interested parties won't tell the truth. In the cited period 1998-2001 Greenspan warned of "irrational exuberance", though he did not exactly do everything he could to stop the bubble either.

In reality, opinions from anonymous engineers who know what is being sold may be the best you can get.
Been through similiar experiences, with same outcome. You just learn not to give a fuck about bullshit. You don't have enough energy for it.
A new 3D Scan solution to boost game productions. Beta running
The python runtime is fairly heavyweight, on the order of megabytes, unless I'm mistaken. This would be something that would be downloaded with every page request (although it may be cached in most cases)...

So I'm not sure it will be something you will want to use in a lot of places.
Upstart console output example not working
This article goes into more detail on the career of the designer in question, Ed Benguiat, than the one discussed in that thread does. It also includes an interview with him. Not sure why it's been flagged as a dupe.
> a tax cut is identical to the absence of a tax raise

Wat?

Assume I earn $100 and tax is 30%: I pay $30.

Tax gets cut to 20%: I pay $20.

Tax doesn't rise: I pay $30.

30 != 20. A tax cut is a tax cut, "absence of raise" is a different thing.

> Those rules not matching what you or I would have chosen doesn't mean they're either a gift nor theft.

It doesn't mean they're not a gift either. Those rules are the result of a complex set of factors including campaign contributions, lobbying, revolving-door promises and occasional outright bribes. They are not Holy Scripture and everyone is entitled to criticise them, which includes defining this or that break with words like "gifts", "giveaways", "pork" and so on.
Excellent analysis.

> Access to higher education in India is available only in English ... this creates a general differentiation, an unwritten apartheid.

I couldn't agree more. Have always felt this without being able to fully articulate what it was until now.

I've always felt having so many languages has hurt India more. I can validate that Chinese people in the west can still think about heading back to China and living in a place like Shanghai, without causing a dent to their standard of living or salary expectations. It's nowhere near true for Indian expats. At least not yet. I would argue (but can't confirm) this was part of the reason why Punit Soni went back to US (https://www.linkedin.com/in/punitsoni).
Wow. That is reassuring. I'm used to boat and plane autopilots. They disengage quite abruptly and usually after the situation has degraded. Leaving the pilot to figure out why and then take action.
This is not a very practical mini computer. The design has been lopped off from a larger Mac rather than designed from scratch. The full-sized keyboard means it's still quite large - certainly not pocket-sized. A more practical approach would be to have a smaller, pocket computer as a companion to a larger laptop (or desktop computer) rather than try and make the smaller laptop the main computer.

Almost 20 years ago (in 1997), a British tech company called Psion released a small handheld computer called the Psion Series 5. Some images here:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=psion+series+5&source=lnms...

Suprisingly, no one has made something similar (that I know of). I imagine it could be made today with an e-ink screen for extra long battery life. A pocket computer like this would be perfectly capable for everyday tasks like email, wordprocessing and using spreadhseets (but not for video or graphics work).
I don't know how the Bay area will ultimately play out. I do know though that even given current building and whatever changes to policy that may allow for more housing and supporting transportation and other infrastructure in future decades, not everyone in tech can/should/will squeeze onto one small seismically-challenged peninsula.

There are physical limits for the short- to mid-term and there's some upper limit to what even wealthy tech companies are going to pay for new CS grads to work in Mountain View or Cupertino.
Wait someone lived in NYC and was cat-called only ONCE? Most women are cat-called or otherwise street harassed in NYC on a regular basis. I base this on talking to my friends who live in NYC and my experiences visiting.
“Huge Edward Snowden leak incoming.He just posted this code and then deleted it”
The first, practical one was Concurrent Pascal (1975) used in a number of OS's:

http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/

Later, Eiffel's SCOOP model in 90's was immune to races for a long time with researchers doing mods for better speed, deadlock detection, livelock detection, etc. It was ported to Java at one point. The research page in the link below shows they're probably still the top players in this given steady stream of results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOOP_(software)

Works in combination with Eiffel's Design-by-Contract which can knock out semantic errors he mentions:

https://www.eiffel.com/values/design-by-contract/introductio...

Ada's Ravenscar also did safe concurrency. Ada 2012 and SPARK have Design-by-Contract with SPARK also proving absence of common errors in code automatically. Cyclone was a C variant that used region-based memory management and analysis to show absence of dangling pointers, etc. Rust improved on that with a better language, dynamic safety, and race-free concurrency.

So, there's been stuff resistant to concurrency problems for quite a while among people using safer languages. Rust is just the latest and most open.
Extravaganza – August 2016
Huh. Good to know, thanks.

I installed a battery disconnect on my 2006 Jetta when my mechanic couldn't figure out why the battery was draining overnight. There was a short somewhere.

I found someone to clean the sunroof drains (I had cleaned all the drains I could figure out) and the electrical problem went away. Bonus, the notorious Jetta foggy windows on start problem went away too.

Now, I'm hesitant to remove the disconnect switch because I don't know the root cause. But with your pro tip, I guess I need to resolve this one.
You could reduce the height of the number row by half, add that vertical space to the space bar, and turn the spacebar into 3 parts: regular buttons on the wings where your thumbs rest, and capacitive trackpad in the middle.

Add cellular support and I'll gladly toss my smartphone, which I don't use anyway. I've always just needed a laptop, I'm terrible with touch screens, very painful to use. I would carry this around and have a smart watch for basic text / calling, gps
can we call the method without doing t.F()? like just F()?

I accept I have to modify the statement I made.
When will WSL land? I'm teaching my children how to program and it would be handy to have more Linux tooling available.
This is unfortunately the price we pay for using proprietary software (and hardware). I use a Mac, but there's no way for me to prevent Apple from doing the exact same thing. They could even hide it completely.
What does a website platform need $850 million more for?

1. I'm sure their staff costs are massive. They have offices around the world, yet the one they hire most for is in SF, one of the most expensive places in the world.

2. I'm also sure there's a fair amount of pet projects going on which are not essential or even important to the business. If you look at their departments page [1], you see they have a whole lot of departments, some of questionable impact on the business. I also heard they also have their own machine learning group that they are looking to grow. This and a whole lot of other things that you'd expect in cash-printing tech giants like Google or Apple but not startups like Airbnb.

3. They even recently launched their own in-house design studio [2]

So yea, $850m is a lot of money but given their expenses I'm sure it'll be gone in no time.

And since you made the comparison with Tesla: Look at Twitter. Where is their money going? They compare to AirBnb as AirBnb compares to Tesla. Their product is a glorified website that displays 140 character messages. They have raised about $750m in VC, 2.1b in their IPO and their quarterly revenue is about 600m. As Peter Thiel said, there must be "a lot of pot smoking going on"...

[1] https://www.airbnb.com/careers/departments
[2] http://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/05/airbnb-launches-internal-de...
I've never understood the reasoning that administration and teachers put forth that the smart and "gifted" need to set an example for the other kids. A student is at school to be taught, not to set an example and teach the other kids. Every child has a right to learn. Teaching is what the teachers are for. If you were slacking off and still passing with minimal effort, they should have accelerated you to the point you could no longer do that without working at it. That would have better taught you the value of work in addition to not wasting years of your life. In my opinion, it's a crime that schools waste so much of the lives of intelligent children for no better reason than "but that's where a child of such age SHOULD be."
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Also...

https://www.google.com/search?q=subsidy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

sub·si·dy -- noun: subsidy; plural noun: subsidies

1. a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive.

--and--

https://www.google.com/search?q=subsidy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=...

sub·si·dy --

late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French subsidie, from Latin subsidium ‘assistance.’
The good news is that you can at least remap what the zoom knob does using MS's IntelliType software. But you're right, hugely missed opportunity.
I'm in the exact same situation and have been pondering that keyboard also. Do you plan on doing a write up after you get it?
Apple is buying a Seattle-area startup to get smarter about AI
Can we have “today-i-read” or “stuff-i-liked” repositories?
Can we have "today-i-read" or "stuff-i-liked" repositories so that whenever you find/read something worth sharing/saving, save it to the repository for others to see or your own reference?

Proposal is to use https://github.com/Idnan/like-on-git. Whenever you find/read something interesting, click the "Like" button and it will be added to your specified repository for others to see and easily spread knowledge. Thoughts?
Whenever I see people discuss topics like this in person I usually ask them what percentage of crude oil is actually burnt?

To my surprise most people don't know where plastics come from and a myriad of other materials that are important in your daily life.

More than ~2/3 of crude is burnt in one way or another, but that remaining ~1/3 has life saving utility.

Even moving to an electric economy will still require crude oil: we need carbon composite wind turbine blades, plastic insulators on wire, feed stock to create bearing lubricants, chemicals to wash silicon to produce power inverting chips, coke to produce steel, interior plastics for cars trains buses etc.

I think it should go without saying burning hydrocarbons is not our best use of them, but this industry requires more than just outright banning/taxation, we do actually have to reach across the political bridge and begin to think intelligently.
I've bought a few of the model 1 from http://www.ergocanada.com/ in the past. Be prepared for a hefty markup and non-trivial shipping costs. It might be cheaper to buy in from the US in the end.

You might also have some luck contacting vendors that sell other Kinesis gear and see if they'll special order it for you at a good price. http://www.shopbot.ca/m/?m=kinesis
> ...but the company denies it is an issue...

It sounds like the person you spoke with wasn't familiar with the product. They've been aware of the problem for years. It's mentioned in the manual [1] and on their website [2].

[1] http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/conto... - Page 28.

[2] http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/support/technical-support/troubl... - "Weird behavior with Advantage keyboard".
I think the idea is to apply this to grid based cities, like the kind predominant in the US, rather than to "chaotic" city plans, like in most old European cities. Barcelona is in many ways atypical of large European historic cities, in that regard.
Here's a vim tip that has me using macros way more frequently! Map <space><space> to @q. That way we to record a macro, space space to play it. Much easier to remember, especially because I usually only use one macro at a time like you said. Plus you get the satisfaction of mashing space and watching your screen light up with changes.
The elephant in the room is that personal mobility is going to undergo a complete redesign in the coming decade as vehicles drive for themselves. This will bring about a complete change in usage patterns so doing anything in this space is pre-mature and we should hold off to see how society's requirements change. For example maybe on street parking will become a thing of the past as your self driving Uber goes on it's way to pick up new passengers after it drops you off. Perhaps we'll have more drop-off points like at an airport instead.
I know you jest, but for folks who really don't know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt
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Hey Kinesis, if you're reading here, I'd love to see a controller upgrade for the original Advantage to get around the sticky keys bug. It's not even a problem to lose the built-in USB hub. My two old Advantage keyboards are trucking along just fine otherwise!
You can get the beta Windows Subsystem for Linux right now by enabling Developer Mode on your computer and downloading it.
Persepective: Interested in buying a smartphone with a fingerprint sensor?
They are working on the experimental aspect:

> Dr Giannini added that it should be possible to observe the phenomena he has modelled in experiments using current technology, and the team is working with experimental physicists to make this a reality.
I'd guess that people in the US spend a lot more time on freeways than Europeans do. A powerful engine is good for that (quietness, ability to overtake / maintain speed on hills). Automatic transmissions are great for freeways because they allow for cruise control. I have a pet theory that if everyone on the freeway used cruise control all the time the freeway would be safer and less stressful. That's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to self-driving cars :)

Edit: I would imagine it would be straightforward to restrict the max speed that a vehicle can reach without the drivers foot on the pedal (there may even already be such a rule). The ability to regulate the speed already exists within the cruise control system.
One of the biggest problems with cars in the city is that they are ridiculously overengineered for that environment.

It feels too slow because all that power and speed gives the illusion of control. If it were possible to electronically put cars into "city mode" (low power, acceleration and speed), say, based on GPS coordinates and municipal laws, they could share the public travel ways with more equanimity with other forms of transportation.
Firefox was never intended a better lynx; hating on Mozilla for that is a bit ridiculous. Have you considered using surf or xombrero?
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