skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I just assumed everyone understands that no team will have the ability to cover all your needs. So you actually need to judge when your team cant deliver, then pick the dependency to pull in.
What graphics card are you using?
When do you need to do math like that with intervals?

As a computer nerd myself, I can understand the argument for 0-based indexing in this case, but I don't recall ever being stumped by it being 1-based. When would you need to add a 3rd and a 4th to get a 6th? Harmonic theory doesn't use addition like that. e.g., playing a 6th is not the same as playing a third and a fourth. So, why do that kind of math with intervals?
Talking about cyberphunk / cyberpunk culture, why does it feel that the popular definition and approach nowadays is a defeatist (or sometimes even glorifying) attitude to an unavoidable future of megacorporations and post-industrial dystopia, instead of celebrating the punk side of it? Or am I just checking out the wrong corners like /r/cyberpunk?
I have spent the past 10 years doing this with Engineers Without Borders and conducting independent research. My experience is similar to yours but I didn't buy a vehicle - I used busses and trains.

My research in Africa was around Energy and the many forms it presents itself. I only encountered a handful of negative experiences:

[1] Getting jailed at the border in Mozambique for refusing to pay a bribe.

[2] Nearly getting kidnapped in Musoma, Tanzania by the biggest Tanzania I have ever seen in my life. He proceeded to grab my arm and pull be down and ally proclaiming I was to come with him and play the drums.

[3] In Nairobi during one of the worst storms in the past 25 years.

I just spent that past 11 months backpacking South America. This time, my research was focused on Drones and Last Mile Distribution.
If Sony own the rights to it why would they let people profit for free instead of doing nothing just in case a great idea comes along got a new Lemmings product?
I do see the difference, but I'm not convinced it's anything but marginal.

A ruined life isn't much better than death, and sometimes worse IMHO. Without wanting to throw around accusations (truly! I don't mean to presume anything about you, specifically!), I find that people who make your argument often have no appreciation of just how terrible a ruined life can be. I think it's critical to remember that there can be no suffering after death, and while I'd still rather rot in prison than hang for a crime I didn't commit, there's no question that imprisoning an innocent person will cause tremendous suffering and debilitating handicap.

To be clear: there are other, stronger arguments against capital punishment. My point is rather that this one isn't the strong argument it's often made out to be.
HSTSPreload.com: A simple API to check browser HSTS preload status
Thanks. I think that works out at about 18 mpg which is better than I thought it would be.

I thought it might have been single digits
Standup Bot – SPEED, Slack's fastest standup meetings
Stout can setup a static site for you using Amazon's free SSL: http://stout.is
Taking augmented reality mainstream
"It has killer tooling — some of the best in the business "

Some important things are missing compared to C#. I can't use F# in the immediate window in Visual Studio, so if I set a breakpoint I have to use C# to interact with the program, which is extremely weird and impractical.

F# is a _fantastic_ language though.
Even an open-source client is hard to trust as a native install in your mobile OS. Sooo many ways your phone is insecure...
> I remember 20 years ago coming home and literally being able to draw pictures on my arm with the grime that accumulated during the day. Blowing my nose always resulted in black snot coming out. [...] Those days are mostly gone now.

Watch out. The air is still polluted, and it's a significant cause of death in London. It's just a different type of air pollution, and you mostly can't see it.
If you join your local Cryptoparty, you will likely find someone who will sign your public key for free. Check out cryptoparty.in to find the closest one, or some great resources for starting your own.
From Maker to Manager: The Most Challenging Change of My 5-Year Startup Journey
Although don't get me wrong.. I like what they're doing here.
The representatives become more dependent on their party to win the election and stay incumbent, so the lobbying money shifts to the members in the party leadership who will eventually direct the other members on how they should vote.

The representatives become more dependent on scheduling and organization, so lobbying shifts to those people who control the calendars and schedules.

You can't have a working organization of 9400 people who all have equal power. If it isn't given an explicit hierarchy, one will form spontaneously, and lobbyists will obviously focus on the topmost layers of it.

If there are 9400 targets, you don't lobby all 9400 of them. You lobby the 940 most likely to sway the vote.
Stout (http://stout.is) is a tool which will reliably push your site to S3, and setup all the CloudFront/SSL/etc. magic for you.
Distributed Learning for K12 Part 4: Analyze
Cheaper than SF rent
> Utah abandoned the experiment in 2011 after residents complained they were unable to access services on Fridays.

This is part of the problem I think. I've worked 4-day weeks in the past and one of the best things about it is you have a free day during the week to do all the things you normally can't get to. Go to the doctor, visit other business or government offices that are normally only open while you're at work.

Of course if everyone does a 4-day week, then you lose that benefit. Then you have to cram all those errands into the 4 days, during which you now also have more work to do.

Instead of "everybody take Friday off". It might make more sense to stagger days off so everyone has a chance to have a day off while things they need are open.
No need to deal with TheRealBob. Blockchains make CAs obsolete.
Ask HN: Software for helping visually impaired persons?
My dad is slowly going blind due to macular degeneration (basically the nervcells in the retina slowly dies, starting in the macular region). He still has ok vision but starts to have real issues reading longer texts, long term he will go completely blind.

I'm now looking for software (preferably open source) that can help him when using the computer. Main use case is being able to retrieve larger quantities of information (e.g. emails, news articles, etc) either by magnifying some part of the screen or by reading out the text loud.

Current solution is using a large "analog" magnifying glas in front of the screen, feels like there should exist a better solution. Long term it would be preferable if the solution can also assist him with navigating the web using audio.

Did some googling but mostly ended up on pages with more generic tips on how to adjust ambient lighting in the room etc. Any tips on where to look?

Grateful for the help!
I don't think it does, other syntactic decisions (e.g. C++/Java-style generic declarations, reference sigils) might, or at least make the language seem noisier, but with respect to function type declarations you'd get the exact same verbosity (in terms of tokens or characters), just split differently e.g.

fn class(&mut self, s: &'a bstr) -> u16

versus

class :: &mut, &'a bstr -> u16
fn class(self, s)

all you get is repeating the function name.
> In my mind, it was contaminated and a great risk to eat.

So, I'm interested in how you arrived at this thought. It certainly can't have been learned behaviour due to cause and effect - I don't think there are any recorded instances of food touching a dining table, being eaten, and the eater becoming ill afterwards, let alone that this happened to you (although, it may have, which would be interesting) so was it taught to you, or just over-cautious extrapolation?

Personally, I'm a great believer in floor food, and it hasn't ever worried me or caused health problems ;)
How social media listening and online community can improve your product
This kind of fuckwittery is easier to find in London than elsewhere: "Just put it on a plate" - https://twitter.com/WeWantPlates
I think people who have been freed after decades in jail have very different humble opinions. There are plenty of documentaries and articles and books on that subject if you're interested.
Think about `where` clauses.
> It's available in Fedora 24

It also was available in Fedora 23. I've used it daily, only with minor hickups.

These hicksups include:

- Gparted not working without some command-line initialization, etc.

- Remmina remote desktop not working at all, unless built from source.

All in all, for a guy like me, pretty easy to work around. The tools which needed tweaking wouldn't be the ones "your grandma" would be using anyway, so impact on a typical user would probably be low.

It's not all the way there, but it's definitely ready for the "I use my laptop for web-browsing and email"-crowd.
As a simpler, less ambitious adventure, suitable for people that don't want to quit their job, you might try Habitat for Humanity.

There are international builds where you travel somewhere and work on building homes in areas where there isn't adequate low-income housing. You get to meet and work with locals for a couple of weeks. I went to rural Hungry. I had one friend who also went on the build. He talked me into doing it with him, and I'm glad he did.
Ask HN: Zuckerberg puts tape over his Macs mic – how to do this on your iPhone?
I use my iPhone with it's headset only, anyway + read it has several microphones on board.

I love the simple fix Marc Zuckerberg did with his Mac a few weeks ago - so my question is where to place those on my iPhone or how to kill the Mic's? :)
Notation would tend to be one of the easiest things for which to develop automatic recognition / parsing?
Because paid speech is now pervasive on social networks, especially on topics with commercial consequences, from a variety of competing actors with deep pockets and diverse agendas. Punk stakeholders likely cannot compete in either paid speech or mass audience reach for subversive lyrics.

Readers will gradually learn how to select writers with independent perspectives, filtering out groupspeak, as they have learned to do with advertising.

Edit: manually curated Twitter whitelists, connected to Flipboard, can provide an efficient view of reader-prioritized, coherent perspectives. We need better whitelist support on discussion services.
Not wanting to dive deep inside the code but make a complicated website is like saying "I want to modify the engine of my car but I don't want to look under the hood a single time"

Well, I guess that works if you have a VW Beetle ;)
Foobar2000 my friend
1999 seems to be the first year CIPA tracked digital camera sales. Also, I hadn
t realized how completely digital camera sales have collapsed.

http://petapixel.com/2015/04/09/this-is-what-the-history-of-...
David Jones was my Steve Jobs growing up. Not only did I love Blood Money, he wrote an article on programming for Amiga Format about how the scrolling worked including working source code. I'd been trying to learn how to write a nice framework for my own graphic demos and mini games, but the code I found was mostly by bedroom coders and very scrappy. His code was the kind of code you'd expect an electrical engineering professional to write. Very clean and well documented and technically very good. I may well owe my 25 year year career in games (so far) to that guy, because the game I wrote subsequently got me a game job straight out of college when I had applications in to all the typical software companies at the time such as banks, ibm and bt.
> Since I use Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity, I should be using Mir

You're wrong. That's Unity 8. And it's not the default DE (although you can apt-get install it).
> EC2 is just part of a larger ecosystem...

Exactly. The idea that Oracle can catch up based on pricing & machine specs ("36 CPU cores, 512GB of D-RAM") is really naive.

My current position on this is that IaaS is pretty much over. Aliyun & AWS seem like they're going to dominate. Microsoft & Google & others fight for the rest. Maybe, just maybe, Oracle will catch up with the 'small' players, but I doubt Microsoft++ or Google will be sitting on their hands wondering how much DRAM Oracle is going to wow us all with next.
Ah, the "throw away decades of bug fixes because This Time We'll Do It Right" temptation. I definitely get that sense from Wayland, which is a reason I'm leaving it alone for several years until it builds up the kind of fixes (a.k.a. "bloat" or "cruft") that make X11 Just Work for me.

As far as the user permissions, fair enough, though I personally think hardware access should require root, for the most part.
Where clauses don't go away and their verbosity doesn't change.
'Five Second Rule' for Food on Floor Is Untrue, Study Finds
(Fr) YouTuber Threatened by YouTube on #AskJuncker
You are not alone but not common. I have the very similar experience with reading. I prefer textbooks than novels in general and I am indeed slow in going through them.

I think I understand it more in depth and pay attention to more details than other I've talked to about this. It seems like a forced trade-off to me as I have no choice but to continue this way with reading. I cannot simply proceed if questions are unanswered.

Looking it from an advantage point if the good read is chosen the knowledge is acquired and understood in powerful depth. I guess better teachers we would be.
The original iPhone was so much better executed than the competition that it was ridiculous. The iPhone was the device that convinced everyone that they needed a smartphone. It took many generations of phones before Android really caught up. And none of the original competitors even survived.

So yes, Apple is better at selling. It's also at least sometimes better at executing.
New York Is Killing Me (2010)
I tried their DBaaS offering about 18 months ago. The setup / "control panel" is laughable compared to even the most pedestrian of AWS service offerings. It worked, but it was not a user interface that inspired much confidence. Not sure if they had a CLI to even try instead.
Are you serious?

Most governments in Europe right now are right-leaning.
There is this(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Am...) still outstanding. It has passed the house and the senate so it just need 27 more states to be put into law.

It would seem getting this through 27 states would a lower barrier than a lot of other options.

Add in term limits and repeal of the 17th amendment is a better formula then amending the constitution to overturn Citizen United.
A Lesson of Tesla Crashes? Computer Vision Can’t Do It All Yet
So how easy is it to leave when Oracle stop running it as a loss leader?
In the US. the President is voted upon separately, and often is the opposite of the party that runs the House of Reps. Party footprint in the House has little baring which party in the White House.
The push for pen-and-tablet input has been here for two decades at least. Perhaps there are still issues? E.g. sensitivity, and possibly OCR.

Also, I can take a paper notebook anywhere and not worry that I sat on it/dropped it/dog played with it. Electronic? Game over.
> self-congratulatory I-quit-my-job-to-travel-the-world posts

Hit the nail on the head. It's all quite amazing and awe-inspiring as well; I don't want to take away their achievement. However I can't deny how self-congratulatory it feels.
On that note, a friend of mine (unknowingly) used water he thought was clean, but that came from a glass my cat had been drinking from, to dissolve heroin for injecting. The resulting infection nearly caused him to lose his leg - the lab analysis of the wound revealed the infection was caused by cat-saliva bacteria.

Anyway, just saying there are dangers from pets and allowing them to share your environment. Although, I let my cat take bites out of my food sometimes, and that seems OK so far.
Here's why more features don't make better products
My experience as a student is that there are methods of learning that work well for me but not all my classmates and vice versa. I feel like the issue is that these small preferences aren't generalizable into these abstract forms like "auditory learner."

I also feel like teachers catering to "styles" of learning cripples students in the long run. Instead students need to be encouraged to figure out how to manipulate the material into content that's understandable to them. For example, I hate PowerPoints. I don't get anything out of PowerPoints. But at my school, 99% of lectures are given in ppt, so I have to figure out how to distill that information into something useful. And that's MY struggle. No one is going to help you when you get to college or graduate level education. It would be far more helpful to teach students how to take charge of their own education.
Trait constraints in Rust are syntactically more annoying than type class constraints are in Haskell. This is in spite of the fact that, semantically, both are exactly the same thing.
Charge site owners for the value added. Stay small but still turn a profit. No investor money so not forced to grow and sell out user base (no ads).

Only add useful features to keep user experience decent.
[Sigh, despite giving a description of how this works, meaning that aperture and sensor size are actually irrelevant, I'm being downvoted to hell, for the "crime" of pointing out how Apple has done something new. Most of the comments are ignorant, and obviously fanboy nonsense.

This site does not appreciate substantive and civil comments when said comments go against its biases (in this case, hatred of Apple and love of all things google.)

Further, because I am slow banned I cannot even reply to people.

Therefore, I have given a substantive and civil comment, it is being misrepresented and I can't respond.

Fuck this bullshit. You don't get to see what I said originally.]
> What customers are actually actively seeking to have a closer relationship with Oracle?

The people who sign the cheques and listen to their salespeople.
Yes, I'm reasonably well-read on the subject. I don't deny that these people do exist. Rather, I argue that the "killing is worse than perpetual imprisonment because the later can be rescinded" argument is weak.

This is because either way, people's lives are being ruined. There are a great many people who have been freed from jail only to continue suffering on the outside as a direct result of their incarceration.

Incidentally, I think you've made some assumptions about my position on capital punishment that are mistaken...

EDIT: I seem to have been unclear and this is causing a lot of visceral reactions. Yes, it's worse to be wrongfully killed than wrongfully incarcerated for life (or incarcerated for some length of time and then released). The argument is that it's still close enough that the argument of irreversibility should apply (IMHO) to life sentences. As such, I don't think this is a very strong argument against capital punishment. As an auxiliary point: I think there are other, much stronger arguments against CP. tl;dr: a life sentence is bad enough that the irreversibility argument should apply to it as well.
> I envy this sense of adventure, but a lot of Africa is such a volatile place.

This generalization is so broad as to be useless (akin to "America is a racist, xenophobic place"). Africa is 54 countries and 1 billion people and countless cities and neighorhoods, painting with a broad brush is unhelpful. Only a handful of countries have active conflicts or instability, it is easy to avoid them on a trip such as this one.

[Edit] Here's a fun game that was featured on the Daily Show: see if you can you tell if a photograph was taken in Africa or the US[1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHO1a1kvZGo
From eevee's Twitter:

> she/they/he

I have a similar relationship with pronouns. My own perception of my gender jumps around so much that I don't even bother trying to figure it out. It usually leans in one direction, but I don't have many strong feelings about it.
Yeah, ever since I got very irritated with a radeon card I've used intel exclusively, other than an ancient laptop I had with a trident card. I don't think I've ever even tried nvidia, and with the things I read about it online I'm glad.
I took a train from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Slow and decrepit. No first class even if you wanted to. However, they sold beer on board at prices that were cheaper than even a supermarket. We finished their entire supply. Opted not to take the train in Tanzania. There were no other options for trains at other times.
> I'm kind of surprised there isn't a buddy comedy movie about something similar. (I guess Into the Wild, although very much not a comedy, is similar.)

I love the idea of _Heart of Darkness_ filmed as a buddy comedy.
Correlating NPS with Existing Customer Data
Wired Issue 1.02 | May/Jun 1993 | Crypto Rebels | John Gilmore Challenges the NSA [1]

What if Gilmore wins, and the NSA is forced to reveal all but the most secret information about cryptography? Would national security be compromised, as the NSA claims? "I don't think so," says Gilmore. "We are not asking to threaten the national security. We're asking to discard a Cold War bureaucratic idea of national security which is obsolete. My response to the NSA is: Show us. Show the public how your ability to violate the privacy of any citizen has prevented a major disaster. They're abridging the freedom and privacy of all citizens -- to defend us against a bogeyman that they will not explain. The decision to literally trade away our privacy is one that must be made by the whole society, not made unilaterally by a military spy agency."

[1] https://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.02/crypto.rebels_p...
Larry Ellison: ‘Amazon’s lead is over’; Oracle unveils new cloud infrastructure
I only care about the functionality a paper notebook can do. Being able to write on it and it stays in pages. Not expecting OCR.

Lab notebooks have hard covers, the e-notebook could also have one?
I would argue that OS X still has bad multi-screen support because I shouldn't have to hunt for where dialog boxes and status updates have been placed. Yes, I'm capable of doing so, but that doesn't mean I want to.

Broadly, I object to the inconsistency and high astonishment factor more than any specific choice. For example:

- If a program has dialog boxes open (e.g. a 'find' box), they maintain relative position as you drag the main window across screens. Which, if you move to a smaller screen, puts them in offscreen no-man's-land where they can't actually be used or closed.

- Popups should consistently happen on either the active screen, or the active/furthest-forward window of the spawning program. As is, they unpredictably follow either rule, or borrow from the next bullet:

- Spotlight should appear somewhere sane and predictable. Either the same every time, or over my active window, or over my mouse cursor. Instead, it appears on the window which my Dock has most recently minimized to. My hidden Dock, which I have to use the mouse to locate/move. And then let re-minimize, because OS X doesn't update Spotlight's target when it appears but when it goes away. And which can automatically move itself to different screens without my help, based on where I open programs. Again, invisibly because it's hidden.

- And Spotlight's screen is also the screen where it will open new programs (a good decision). So I can't just look for it, I have to revert to the mouse to move either Dock or program to the screen I've been attempting to use this entire time.

So rambling aside, I think OS X actively causes time-consuming problems for multi-monitor users. I resent that because it's a pain even if I memorize the rules and how to solve the problems.

In particular, I object to tying large swathes of behavior to the Dock, since it's location/contents are both invisible and unpredictable for many users.