skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe someone can clear this up for me.
I'm struggling to understand why it is that size. I'm not going to be silly and say it would it be a simple app because I don't know enough about mobile to make that assumption.

However, I see plenty of other apps that appear to have way more complexity than the Facebook app. They are all significantly smaller. I don't understand what's happening there that requires that much bloat. The UI appears fairly minimal. From an outside perspective (probably an ignorant one), it just appears to be making API calls and throwing out the data.

Genuine question. Where is this bloat coming from? Is it just a pile of thrown on band-aid fixes and kitchen sinks, or is there something that I'm missing. Even third party applications do the same job, yet treat my battery and storage with respect. They seem to be fully capable of the same things that the official app is capable of.

Part of me wants to assume it's the whole, "move fast and break things" approach.
Moxie says this happened in the first half of 2016, but the censored month seems have eight characters, ruling out the first six months.

My bet is on December. My hedge is that I counted wrong.

Edit: I counted wrong. <digit><digit><space>[April,March] works just as well.
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“make and npm” doesn’t sound overcomplicated. It sounds like someone didn’t take the time to find out what they were working with, didn’t really need to because it’s not their area, and decided to have an opinion about it anyway.
You both have intrigued me. Seems that I need to read the series. Thanks!
Medium is becoming a pamphlet...
While I'm really interested in this for making languages available everywhere (tm), basic things like signed integer overflow being undefined behavior make me question is C is fit for purpose even here.
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The interesting part of the news is this:

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The sources said the program was discovered by Yahoo's security team in May 2015, within weeks of its installation. The security team initially thought hackers had broken in.
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this is from Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive-idUSK

I can imagine being in that security team :) But there is also something more profound in this about secrecy in our times.
The only thing I could honestly see myself using this for is reading. I don't see much use for VR outside gaming. The movie going experience is already pleasant enough that i don't really see myself transferring from that model. Home watching movies is always a semi-social experience for me as well, but I feel as though putting on this mask, and having to coordinate with your partner when to start the movie, kind of takes away the whole point of watching a movie. From a business perspective VR is way to obvious of a field for any one company to get a strong hold on one corner of the market. It will take some serious technology or innovation to break through and i've sat here for the last 20 minutes trying to think what that would look like and I can't come up with a single idea besides maybe having a patented solution to the motion sickness problem. Even then, it's highly unlikely that one company will win out in this market like apple did with the iphone. That being said, i'm glad google is creating competition in this space, even though i believe it will end in a net loss. Making the platform depedent on a new phone might be good for the phone, but i think they are ensuring that the plateform itself loses. Maybe if they made the field of vision adjustable, so that every phone could be used with it, this VR would have a much larger market. Also, they could still push their new phone by saying " You think the VR experience is great with your iPhone? try this new phone that is specifically built for the VR, oh, and by the way, it's much better than the iPhone in all these areas, why not give it a shot?"
The supposed WSJ paywall workarounds have never worked for me. I find WSJ posts to HN entirely useless.
I have specifically said "educated Chinese", which would not be the general population.

The ability to read classic Chinese is not comparable with doing Calculus. The former is a language, the latter is math.

In particular, the basic vocabulary of classic Chinese is more or less the same as vernacular Chinese. The differences are the syntax and usage, which once acquired, would not be forgotten.
This is why it is advantageous to have a national health system which can negotiate on the behalf of everyone. For example citizens of the UK enjoy lower drug prices than the US because the NHS negotiates the best prices with drug manufacturers.
I've also heard the opposite being true - being charged more because you're insured and the rate negotiated. If this is coming out of pocket on a high deductible plan it's insane. One place I see this continually is Rx drug coverage. For some generics it's cheaper for me to pretend I don't have coverage (totally legit and legal).
SpaceX should hire these guys and make a modern successor to KSP, with a lot more money and technology behind it.
What happens when you start a process on Linux?
Are you proposing those GA results for comparison with the primary results?

The 2012 primary results were:

Obama: 6,158,064

Romney: 10,031,336

The Dems' nomination of the sitting president was a foregone conclusion so no need to get out the vote.
It should be an IoT integration framework, which has 3,3 MB. That sound huge to me. If I have an embedded processor that has 1 MB of Flash, than that is already huge. Still this has to fit my application besides that framework.
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I just wonder if VR is ever going to be for the big masses. Right now it feels like 3D Television. Everyone is pushing it and I admit it's nice like 3D television is nice.
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Remember, the Fed only targets the low end of the yield curve with any ability (literally overnight lending), and sometimes it doesn't even do that well. Just look at the spread between the the overnight rate and the target rate to see how far off they are at times.

Anything past that down the curve is far more driven by economic forces and inflation (which, yes the Fed does control/target however you want to word it, but only really pathetically). Even the 30-day paper whips around far more than the Fed has handles on.

Gross is just hurt because he's getting dragged across the coals lately. Never take advice about markets not working / being irrational / etc. from somebody underwater.

Corollary: never listen to how the markets are brilliant / doing the right thing / blah blah from somebody holding a winning position either.

Find the guys who are getting taken to the cleaners and trying to understand why and reevaluating their situations. You'll learn a hell of a lot more from them.
Social media posts can be used against you in court in China
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Have you used any VR headsets? Sweating is definitely a real issue.
To be more specific: discovery oriented activities seems to work well with chatbot, while search oriented activities seems to work better within the world of apps. Thoughts?
It also backups your email to MS servers for free.
> It's not hard to understand just.. ugly.

To me, code that's easy to understand is beautiful. If you've got different ideals, then probably go ain't the language for you.

Or use it for a while, and you may find your standards if beauty shift.
Great idea, I'll check out!
How effective training for customer service agents can be a game changer
> "educated Chinese", which would not be the general population.

I think most people in this thread assumed 'educated' just means high school and college-educated, which is why everyone is disagreeing with you so vehemently. Since most people have at least a high school education, that's clearly not sufficient to be 'educated'.

It seems your definition of 'educated Chinese' is basically tautological and prescriptive -- a Chinese person can't be considered truly educated until they have gained the ability to read the classics. I would hazard that only a tiny fraction of secondary school graduates each year would be truly 'educated', under your definition.

While that's a view that is consistent with thousands of years of Confucian tradition, it might be helpful to state your assumptions and definitions up front next time.
In the US, officially-sanctioned euthanasia that I was personally acquainted with in a hospice took the form of death by dehydration and starvation. Both are barbaric, considered war crimes in a different context. In the case I was personally acquainted with, asphyxiation by rapid flooding of CO2 into the patient's airspace was prohibited.
No, instead you had unremovable "useful" apps like "Apple Watch" instead.

Luckly they managed to at least let users hide that in iOS10, but it's still a cesspool of rarely used apps.
It's worth noting that `man proc` has pretty exhaustive, though incomplete, documentation of the various files. It's a great read to learn about some of the files available.
Oh, the huge manotee!
Isn't htop just top with colours?

For a quick global view I like atop, then if I need to drill in a subsystem, iftop, vmstat, free, etc...
I think you and your chinese friends might be miscommunicating or misunderstanding what you are talking about. Part of the problem might be that the western conception of what a language is, is wildly different from something like chinese.

The situation is not really helped by western linguists trying to force shape chinese to fit their own notions and many chinese people just following along with whatever the west came up with due to the prevalence of western cultural standards.
You don't need to trust the second part look up wiki on ancient Indian and Chinese empires.
Goodbye, I enjoyed reading your work and comments here.
"Pwned by the Owner" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4oB28ksiIo), a DefCon 18 talk about a stolen Mac that one day popped back up on the owners DynDNS service, he was able to connect to it and had some fun afterward.

Not a technical deepdive, but entertaining.
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> But even if software could do a job of a radiologist, it wouldn't replace one any more than your ekg reading program replaced cardiologists.

I don't think the radiologist is going anywhere soon but the role is changing. Radiologists are increasingly having to deal with more and more derived information. They need to understand the algorithms being used as well as the biology, anatomy, physiology and disease being investigated. I can see a time when algorithmic specialists become a regular part of their multidisciplinary team.
I worked for Oracle Social as a software engineer for some Facebook Pages WYSIWYG application, and this is their business model - as explained to me - when I asked, "Who is going to be buying our product?"

My manager: "Oh, so we have all of these enterprise customers that purchase software from us. Basically, they are presented with a list of all of our various enterprise applications [FYI, there's a TON of them] with check boxes next to each one. Our application licenses are sold using a subscription model. Most companies don't bother reading the list and just pay for everything, which will include ours."

WTF? I wrote some of the Ruby on Rails code for the application my team was working on. Also, this was in 2012; Facebook Pages had just been released, and no one even understood why a "Page" was the name given to a concept in which businesses could establish Facebook accounts in order to promote their brand and products, but a "Page" contained multiple "web pages" of content within the larger "Page" object.

In short, our product sucked at every level and even I, a member of the development team, didn't know how to use it. But because it was on the almighty "Product List", it added millions of dollars to Oracle's net income, despite the fact that I'm guessing hardly any customer knew what it was, let alone knew how to use it.

I resigned shortly after the first release, so I have no idea what happened to the product or how long it remained an official Oracle enterprise software application, appearing on the "Product List".

While it was nice being 26 years old and making a $70,000 salary, receiving a nearly-guaranteed $10,000 annual bonus, having a 401k package with company-matched contributions, getting full healthcare benefits which included a FSA, and being able to order all of the free snacks and beverages that one could think of simply by telling the secretary to add them to the supply list . . .
I just couldn't work at a place where innovation didn't matter, the customer didn't matter, and even the product didn't matter. Not to mention that, after having worked there, with 100 other people, for 3 months, maybe 10 people knew my name (and my product team consisted of 8 people - I'm only including 5 of them in the 10). I happened to discover one day that I was the youngest employee there, and I'm pretty sure that people didn't like me based on that fact alone.

Oh well, I applied for a similar job at a digital marketing agency down the street the next week, and soon thereafter, began working again, now earning a salary which was $10,000 greater than what I made at Oracle (and which included all of the same benefits).
It's worth keeping in mind that China's needs for military capability differed from the various Western empires.

Rome fought with Persia to the East, the Gauls and Vandals to the north, and Carthage to the south, as well as the colonised peoples of its own empire, pretty much constantly. As I understand history, China was buffered by land (north, west, and south), and sea (west) from any significant challengers. Most of its threats were internal, the notable exception being the Mongol invasions, but that wasn't until the 1200s BCE.

On the other hand, what China did have in absolute spades and wheelbarrows full was technology (including, for the record, wheelbarrows). I've only learnt of the major study of this myself in the past year, British biochemist Joseph Needham's absolutely epic Science and Civilisation in China. Needham conceived of the work whilst in China on behalf of the British government during WWII, and proposed a 5-6 volume treatment in the 1950s. Seven decades later the work continues, with the total volume count approaching 30. Author Simon Winchester tells the story of Needham in The Man who Loved China (a single volume, should you fear to ask -- not a foregone conclusion as several digests of S&CIC run to multiple volumes themselves).

The breadth, scope, and precociousness of China's explorations in science, maths, and technology are staggering. The volume listing of the work itself gives some sense of the scope and scale, this is given at Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_...

Scientific thought. Maths, astronomy, & geology. Physics. Mechanical engineering. Civil and nautical engineering. Paper and printing. Spagyrical discovery (alchemy and immortality). Military technology. Textiles. Ferrous metallurgy. Ceramics. Mining. Botany. Agriculture. Agroindustry & Forestry. Biology & botany. Fermentation & food science. Medicine. Language and logic. Two volumes, topics unspecified, are given as "work in progress", I suspect these would concern military and weaving technologies respectively.

http://www.nri.cam.ac.uk/science.html
This is why we have alleys.
Understanding the conversion is helped by using the same time unit:

1 knot (per hour): 1852 meters/hour

1 meter per second: 3600 meters/hour

So 2 knots is 3704 meters/h, or less than 3% more than 1 meter/s. Good rule of thumb.
Careful what you wish for. I have an Ubuntu phone which is mainly web app based, and while its fine for most things, traveling abroad without a roaming plan renders the phone pretty useless.
When Rome ascended Hellenic civilization was in descend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_period

Greece became pretty much part of Rome.
I'm from Toronto, that's what informed my original comment. The path is primarily used by commuters with offices in the downtown core. There aren't typically places you would choose to spend prolonged time in - they're often closed on weekends.
The idea of 'superblocks' is a great ideal, but needs to be adapted, not duplicated for cold climates.
Agree that cities in generally should be much better suited to walking.
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Stable in purchasing power hence increased value vs currencies that lost purchasing power.
Web development is very volatile.

It is also a discipline that lowered its entry barrier a lot, and now coding camps are producing a deluge of graduates, all of them attracted by the promise of a 6 figure salary.

Even if pessimistically only 10% of them are good, they graduate every 14 weeks compared to 208 weeks for a CS graduate.

As of 2016, learning JavaScript might be very profitable, but I wonder for how much longer.
Well, at least it's open source, right guys ?
why are snake oil so expensive then?
Yes but with probably some Google collaboration. Huawei has multiple phones before and after the Nexus 6P that look pretty similar.
It's my opinion that the 40mm f/2.8 from Canon is a much better lens than either the 50mm f/1.8 II or the 50mm f/1.4 (haven't tried the STM version) in terms of color, contrast, distortion, and as the GGP said, size. Although it's not a very fair comparison, because these 50mm lenses are both much older. This is one of my favorite travel lenses, and I do agree that it changes the camera handling (for the better). I love how it goes with a 5D.

However, I think one of the biggest reasons the 50mm gets recommended so much is because it is such a huge difference for someone to go from a f/3.5-5.6 kit lens to an f/1.4 or an f/1.8 in terms of DoF, and for beginners trying to move up this can be a huge eye opener.

Personally I think the 40mm is much easier to use, and it's certainly much sharper wide open.
didn't know that; always thought it's just calorie in < calorie out. will check out that book, thanks!
Oh no! Hope everything ends up OK. RethinkDB is so fun to use. Would it be normal for development to slow when an acquisition is happening?
As many have noted, this piece does plenty of axe-grinding, conclusion-stretching, and fact-spinning, as well as simply getting a fair bit wrong. But for all of that it does convey a fundamental truth: there was a hell of a lot of established civilisation going on outside the general scope of Western History -- principally the Mediterranian basin.

In particular, China was home to a huge, advanced, and highly active culture. I'm only slowly becoming aware of this myself through recent reading. As I've just commented, I only discovered in the past year the work of British biochemist-turned-sinologist Joseph Needham. His Science and Civilisation in China, proposed as a brief 5-6 volume work in the early 1950s, continues to be developed to this day. Just reading the titles of the 24 completed volumes gives a sense of the scope of invention and discovery covered. There are at least two more volumes forthcoming.

http://www.nri.cam.ac.uk/science.html

Simon Winchester's The Man who Loved China gives the background for this story, and is highly recommended.

Again: while the particulars here are distorted, the underlying truth isn't: there was a phenomenal civilisation in China during the time of the Roman empire, and it easily rivalled, and quite possibly surpassed, Rome.
True, sadly enough. But my point is that the Drug War didn't stop people from doing what they wanted to do. Unjust laws tend to get ignored.
And people wonder why enterprises are risk averse and nervous of open source and new innovations from startups.

Are there any circumstances where a company can reasonably go dark for a week?

If it is an acquisition it's pretty disrepectful of people investing in their solution.
Residential parking permit programs are essentially designed to make sure enough street space available for residents near their homes. If you bought a house under a RPP program and then the government suddenly issued RPPs for 100 people living in six cars worth of street frontage, I'd say you have a right to be angry, though probably not a legal cause of action.
Here's an incomplete list of graphical RSS readers for Linux that have had releases in the last year:

QuiteRSS [http://quiterss.org/]

KDE Kontact [https://userbase.kde.org/Kontact]

Liferea [http://lzone.de/liferea/]

RSS Guard [https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard]

Seamonkey [http://www.seamonkey-project.org/]

Thunderbird [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/]

Firefox ("live bookmarks") [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/]

In the console, I like newsbeuter [http://www.newsbeuter.org/]
Unfortunately, though, the earth is not a cube.
See, 9 times out of 10 when I try this I end up getting a generic Google search result page back. It's gotten to the point where I rarely even use Google Now beyond the items parent mentioned above. Google Now is awful at conversing (unlike Siri, Echo or Cortana) by which I mean if I don't use exact syntax the other services seem more forgiving whereas Google gives me a search result page. What the hell am I ever going to do with that? Has anyone ever used voice dictation then actually wanted to see a search results page? At least anecdotally everyone I have asked about this said if they get search results back they just immediately close it sometimes even to open up a web browser and re-search for it!
Besides acquired products (Nest) and Android phones, Google has a pretty poor track record of long term hardware support. I can still get firmware updates for my 4 year old Linksys router.

I've been burned, and I refuse to purchase yet another Google device for a market they're just testing the waters in. I'd rather spend my money with someone who needs it to support their product, and that product is their business.
I'd be pretty sad if they abandon it. I have used and use it in many projects.
> The tone also angered me

I Read the article and I understand that it's flawed in some parts. However, that's exactly how the non-western major world civilisations are called. Barbarians, mysticals and unscientific etc are the words used to describe them. I would urge you to look past the eurocenticism as I did and you'll discover that there's truth in the facts.

If we leave out the mislabeling of images, the fact remains that the eastern world was in fact more connected, advanced and globalised compared to Rome.
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Sound travels slowly, and your ears are very sensitive to inter-ear phase differences.

It won't sound like mono.
These were hardly scientific questions. It's just more political B.S. and it's obvious that their answers were graded on how much the reader agreed with/enjoyed the answers.
If you look at the Roman empire in it's decline, towards the end, it did become more barbaric, corrupt and uncivilized. That's what ultimately led to it's downfall. So you have to also specify the era.
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> people would vote for more mass transit

Serious rail projects take on the order of 30 years. I think it's much more likely that people would go somewhere else, rather than endure an entire adult life without acceptable transportation options so that maybe the grandchildren would have it better.
Shit! We just started using RethinkDB. This is pretty scary.