skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use both. Currently I have an ipad and an android phone.

Android apps are neglected next to ios. Examples:

* spotify is shit on android. They broke audio playback during system announcements (like google maps directions) and just didn't give a damn for two months. It's not like anybody uses spotify and maps in a car or anything.

* most bank apps on android still don't take advantage of fingerprint auth to avoid typing long bank passwords. Four word passwords with punctuation are super fun to type on mobile.

* fitbit: Until about 6 months ago, pushing back from various subscreens would take you out of the app instead of navigating back to the main screen. There's clearly no-one who matters at fitbit that cares about android. It also doesn't particularly reliably connect to the device. Graphs and data desync from each other. I have not seen this on ios.

* there really isn't any reader on android as nice as GoodReader

* games come second, if ever -- eg kingdom rush frontiers
It's called selective prosecution.

It's common everywhere!
People are hyping up webassembly way too much. Don't get me wrong it's going to be awesome being able to compile C++ and C programs that run on the Web runtime.

But it's not going to be without it's own issues. For one developers will likely have to wait for things like simd, pthreads or 64bit ints until later versions.

Also it won't magically make compiling your language of choice to the web less painful unless it's C++ or it fits into the C++ language model. Even when it gets the ability to hook into a garbage collector (I wouldn't count on it happening any time in the near future) it will likely have to fit in with the way js engines expect.
Is there something similar to mermaid or graphviz, a DSL of sorts, to generate similar diagrams?
Ex-Detainees Describe Unreported CIA Torture
One of the things I take away from this graph isn't just the peak wind speed, but the amount of time you'd be under hurricane-force winds.

A couple minutes of 90mph winds is one thing... hours of 90mph winds is entirely another thing.
Knots are one Nautical mile per hour, and 1 Nmi == 1 minute of latitude. Nautical miles are based on the shape of the earth and are thus independent from the rest of the US unit tragedy. And quite useful in navigation.
I wonder if traffic would improve if didn't take away lanes for carpooling.
If anyone wants to see where it is, the hurricane's moved further up north away from the buoy's location.

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...
You play Go, I take it?

https://www.gokgs.com/
"When We Build" by Wilson Miner: https://vimeo.com/34017777

It completely changed my perspective on how design shapes our world.
It's pretty obvious you're wrong in that assessment:

"The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events."

Your theory is that Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of accounts for the NSA, but the NSA isn't doing / hasn't done anything with those billions of emails. Your premise requires that the NSA come into possession of a truly massive load of data and then never touches it at all. That's absurd.
Just like any other commodity.
Purism are working on a Debian phone! https://puri.sm/

(I wish them luck...)

I bought the BQ Ubuntu tablet. I hate to say it, but it's terrible. You have to set up a cloud account with Canonical to download or update apps (no reason given). Most of the apps are pretty bad. It's constantly pinging YouTube and news websites to show me stuff I don't care about, and can't turn off. No easy way to set up a VPN. No CalDAV, CardDAV. Difficult to imagine Shuttleworth himself using one.

Fine for watching films on airplanes, but very little else.
Even if not taken literally, the particular unit of "inches" is largly meaningless in this case. All we know (assuming the obvious mechanism of measurement) is that the air pressure in <choice of force units> is linear to the reported value. The conversion factor is dependent on the instrument itself (surface area, internal resistance, etc) although there may be a standard that is known specialists.
The feds had an API that allowed them to download the mail caught in the "Arabic spam filter". How do you hide that?
It is a 1-D measurement. It's the pressure exerted by the atmosphere that would raise a column of mercury that 1-D length up a vacuum at 1g of gravity.
Also used in certain fields as its metric equivalent, mmHg.
I suspect sooner or later you're going to try to find a way to claim that anything which merely mentions someone's argument is an ad hominem, and your entire style is close to the fallacy fallacy ("I can name an informal fallacy, therefore your argument is invalid"), but...

It is perfectly fair to say "Scott Adams makes claims about himself which cannot charitably be interpreted as rational or reasonable, therefore appealing to Scott Adams (hint: appeal to authority!) when talking about a desire for more rational and reasoned and impersonal debate does not lend credibility to your argument".
Vaguely related by topic and somewhat obsoleted if we take the linked article's conclusions as fact -

I've had in mind for a long time the idea for a short story (or perhaps novel) set in a future where one is able to purchase an "intelligence upgrade", given enough money, which bestows upon the customer a stronger reasoning ability and an overall more capable intelligence.

If we accept that particularly capable people (disregarding why they are particularly capable, when adults) then imagine a world where already successful people are able to purchase neural upgrades that enhance the cognitive aspects that let them become as successful as they already were able to become.

On the one hand, this might create an exponentially larger social inequality, if it is true that most successfully people are selfish and take advantage of others. On the other hand (and if you believe that at least 51% of the human race is "good"), it might not. Which one would it be, and would it depend on how and why society got to the point of developing those sorts of neural upgrades? I don't know.

I think that the premise could make for an interesting thought experiment expressed in literary form, even if it would depend on its author's personal beliefs. Alas, I am not a creative writer by any stretch of the imagination.
Ah, yes. You are in fallacy fallacy territory.
"The article doesn't really say what he posted."

Support for Trump. Isn't that enough?
Wonder why we don't see winds at the reported speeds(130mph+) in the data?

Maybe it's a limit of the measuring device?
Or hire someone that knows what they are doing? Such a common situation to see people with no experience have a crack at running advertising and then tell people it doesn't work. It's like someone trying to build a website without experience and when it sucks saying HTML is broken.
The ongoing VC seed round crash
Indeed, google on promises 2 years. But are typically much more generous. For instance the nexus 5 came out in Oct, 2013. It got marshmallow, but not nougat. I suspect it would have (it has plenty of ram/cpu), but for whatever reason qualcom didn't update the video driver for the snapdragon 800.

If it really bothers you the open bootloader makes it easy to find AOSP built from whatever community that floats your boat.
But I did not appeal to authority. I gave an example of both the Trump and Clinton campaigns using manipulation to illustrate my point. Why do you disagree?
Boring... They are just trying to sell their pixel phone... Seriously, haven't seen one great hardware product from Google.
The reason Dash Charging is fast is because it moves some of the charging hardware into the brick itself, meaning the phone doesn't get as hot when charging, allowing it to charge faster. One of the main reasons charging speed is limited is because the phone gets too hot, so moving heat to the brick means the charging speed can be faster without having to throttle to keep temperatures low.

You might call the branding unnecessary confusion, but in my experience it's been a differentiating feature, one that less tech savvy people I know mention when talking about reasons to switch to a OnePlus 3. And it's not a marketing gimmick either; I've seen it work in real life, and it's speed is kind of incredible.
It could be power restraints -- the buoy is almost certainly solar powered and may not have enough reserve/design capacity to transmit at high resolutions over multiple days without sunlight.

Or it may have just been designed that way -- perhaps the cost of the necessary equipment to transmit/log at higher frequencies didn't justify the benefit. Perhaps once per hour is sufficient for the purposes the buoy was deployed for.
"Don't listen to this man's arguments, he's in fallacy fallacy territory."

Examples?
They are most likely smooth because there are so few data points. The red line has the peak, one data point halfway down, one at the bottom, one halfway up, and then the next peak. 'halfway' could be anywhere between 20% and 80% and it'd still look like a super smooth line.

Air pressure is less bad, but each data point is still moving a huge amount. If there was a lot of variance we'd have difficulties setting it at this resolution.
lots of time I see people compromise readability to chase this "beauty" and "elegance". Go makes this practically impossible.
Very nice write-up, and a great way to dive deep into an interesting system! But if you plan on maintaining a project like this long term I would recommend using one of the many existing libraries like https://github.com/prometheus/procfs or http://pythonhosted.org/psutil/

There can be a lot of edge cases, and inevitability things will change in the future. Centralising the work of parsing /proc files goes a long way and helps keep things sane for maintenance.
What are these apps that have 50+ MB in code built with? Or what counts as code in that regard?

Snapchat for example is 95MB, 77MB code, and on my phone (Android, so not directly linked, but probably similar) the most unresponsive, crashy and painful-to-use app right along with Skype.
The TC Meetup and Pitch-Off Is Heading to Seoul, SK on October 27
Shorn of their excess verbiage, your arguments boil down in their entirety to "here's the name of an informal fallacy, therefore you are wrong".
This good reader? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Good.iWare...
I think encapsulated in the quote (and what the point was) is the idea that Gold isn't going to do much but sit there and retain its value, whereas Exxon and farmland are going to grow in value over time and produce useful things. Befitting an investor's quote.

It's not saying gold has to have utility. Which it actually does fwiw as a commodity.
It wouldn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_realtime.php?station=42058

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/hourly2/

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/hourly2/hour_01.cwind

I love the ndbc site, have been using it for 10+ years now
Yeah, but let's be honest with ourselves for a moment.
It's true, his "Investment Outlook" is one of my favorite things to listen too.
Inches of mercury -- the pressure exerted by a column of liquid mercury that high.
To be fair, removing the assignment altogether in your example ignores the error much less explicitly than `try { myFunc(); } except { pass; }`
He claims that the backlash against his support of Trump cost him $1M in speaker fees in the coming year. That is 20 years of the median wage for full time work in the US.

I respect Adams' creativity and he's made a significant cultural contribution, but the late-stage Adams career of self-proclaimed genius too smart to be fooled by political correctness is unpleasant. It's very easy to be a libertarian when you won everything.
Is it a real linux system under the hood though? I don't care much about apps or anything, I care about being able to customize it to work how I want. terminal, cron, scripts, etc.
This article tangentially mentions something I've long held, as a privately thought, as essential to the study of and eventual understanding of what defines sentience.

There is a fundamental difference between distinguishing stimuli and _choosing_ to distinguish stimuli. There is clearly a physical basis for fine detection and discrimination of auditory stimuli, whose mechanics lie in the ear, hair cells, auditory cortex, and so on, and these are fundamental to the ability to navigate a _very_ stimulus-ridden world.

However, the ability to _choose_ which stimuli to _pay attention to_ is, I feel, key to understanding sentience. Any system can respond to stimuli - not any system can _choose_ which stimuli to respond to. Understanding that ability of choice - that is, the process of attention - will be, I feel, a key step towards understanding sentience (and, eventually, how our own minds work).
Why would they want to pay?
Unless the format is widely spread and the fee is much cheaper than implementing their own what interest do they have to pay? I feel it's the opposite now.
This is a poster child of the case when you can completely disagree with opinion but should be really worried about the possibility of silencing it.

Wonder if Scott Adams can satisfy the search for intelligent Trump supporters - http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-quest-for-int... .
Could be a risky career move - depending on the point of view as who it flows through to
Well to be honest America got these units from the British. Not every tragedy is America's fault.
Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips.

Explains a lot of recent mass-market innovations that keep the semiconductor manufacturing industry rolling, and goes into detail about the many tricks used to ensure scaling down to the 22nm node.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
Rebel Media, the publishers of this piece, is Ezra Levant's project. He's a Canadian far-right agitator/performance artist with a particular hate on for Muslims. His shtick is OTT whining about Muslims and "leftists". He did, however, expose Canada's draconian quasi-judicial speech "police" as the totalitarian farce it is, so kudos for that. But for the most part he is pushing an agenda and his fact checking is...slightly biased. Just thought I'd mention that as this type of overt political stuff is usually frowned upon at HN.
Then demonstrate how they are wrong, with examples.
Blocky…sucks. Way worse than just learning something like Python.

(And this is someone who's spent most of his professional life working on visual programming systems.)
or, like other northern cities, build the pedestrian passages one story above road level instead of burying them underground, where the light and windows makes them a much nicer place to be.
Yeah - power does seem a more likely constraint when you put it that way.
It doesn't look the same to me... pretty confident the good one (did you see what I did there =p ?) is ios only.

https://www.goodreader.com/
You were just so excited to use "fallacy fallacy" that you missed that their post is actually well reasoned.
Yeah, hard to design FPS games where you can't move. Then again, mobile had a similar constraint - a touchscreen is a piss-poor substitute for keyboard and mouse or gamepads... And yet a massive number of games have found good approaches on this. Obviously the big difference is that phone gaming is "free" on that you already paid for the hardware. Not many people would buy a phone just for gaming.
I just read a few paragraphs and gave up when it said Rome was left out of the civilized world (referring to the middle east blocking china).

I guess he forgot the greeks and hellenization. Oh but the greeks were barbarians too.

The tone also angered me.
Like everything else in language design, it's a trade-off. The negative of the try/catch paradigm is that it's effectively a goto statement, and is often abused as such. Though I haven't worked professionally with a statically typed language with try/catch, I've spent many afternoons trying to find out exactly where an exception is caught (often six or seven frames down) in python frameworks like django, flask, and aiohttp. When exceptions are passed as values it's much more explicit.
"Voluntary, elective euthanasia becomes an option when no one steps up to pay for the extraordinary efforts."

Generally euthanasia is considered an ethical option when medicine can't help anymore, and any prolonging of life would either be useless (patient is braindead) or unable to mitigate the pain of the patient.

Personally I think bringing economics in wil obfuscate the moral discussion.
Couldn't get it to work on OSX (El Capitan) even after installing ActiveState Tcl/Tk. After removing that package following these instructions http://superuser.com/questions/36567/how-do-i-uninstall-any-...

I installed MacPorts from https://www.macports.org/

sudo port install tk
cd ~/Downloads/drakon_editor1.27
tclsh8.6 drakon_editor.tcl

And it works!!!
Interesting idea for making the structure visible and presumably, helping find corner cases that are not handled. You could presumably build a library using Drakon, and then build an app using the library so that the detail of the code in the library is hidden behind simple function calls.

This reminds me of the proliferation of graphical workflow systems such as BPMN and this nifty Data Mining app called Orange3 http://orange.biolab.si/orange3/

I think we may finally be figuring out how to apply a visual paradigm to coding in a way that works for real production apps.
Putting time in perspective
I wrote something to do similar parsing of process state recently. It seems nuts to me that you can't get this all in one call. The naïve way of `fopen()`ing the files you need has a race condition if the PID is reused between two calls to `fopen()`.

Admittedly, probably rare. But why route through calls to `fopen()` and `read()` when you could just provide a function that returns OS-defined structs?
The tragedy is that they're still used now. Not that they were once used.
In the next few decades maybe. But population growth is a very long term issue. Over the next few centuries we will almost certainly solve or adapt to whatever issues global warming creates in the next few decades. Slightly decreasing or increasing the population will not make much difference.
Ancient Roman medicine included surgery and some surgical instruments close to instruments in use today.
More here: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/medicine/ancient-roman-...

As for ancient Egyptian medicine: While the bulk of Egyptian remedies can now be recognized as incapable of providing a cure, and in many circumstances even alleviation of symptoms, owing to their lack of active ingredients, it would be inappropriate to label all of these treatments as placebos. Of the 260 prescriptions in the Hearst Papyrus, 28 percent contain an ingredient which can be perceived to have had activity towards the condition being treated.
More here: http://www.ucalgary.ca/uofc/Others/HOM/Dayspapers2001.pdf#pa...
Record numbers of ordinary people are voting for Trump.

http://img.ccrd.clearchannel.com/media/mlib/15172/2016/06/de...

https://i.sli.mg/erfcMO.jpg
I'm sure Daydream VR is still like that, just like Gear VR was at first. I'm finding the 2016 GearVR much improved, however. It has a separate power jack for the headset, for example, so you can prevent the phone from having to do everything and burning up.
This is a great post, recently I have been trying to re-learn and understand linux (specifically) ubuntu using monitoring tools.
In my opinion htop and Facebook osquery are the two best available tools for understanding how an operating systems and processes work. The osquery approach of recording all OS data in form relational tables (with PIDs as keys etc.) is very useful.

https://hisham.hm/htop/

https://osquery.io/

The osquery query packs are especially useful: https://osquery.io/docs/packs/

Here is an incomplete draft about a similar post:
https://github.com/AKSHAYUBHAT/TopDownGuideToLinux
Cmon Jeff. Android users want a premium experience too. Who wants more crap android phones?
Amazon should think outside the box
This doesnt really explain why it wouldn't. In fact it talks about the exact opposite where people are choosing cars over public transport
Yes, but they said every _American_ company, not every company in general.
Can anyone post some of the details here or provide another link that has more details than The Register? securityfocus isn't loading for me.
Agreed. I tried iOS for six months this summer, and I found the overall UX very disappointing compared to modern Android at this point.

Some things are still better - unified music controls, backups, and night shift especially. And the hardware/firmware is undeniably fantastic.

But Apple's emphasis on poor contrast and lack of differentiation within the UI really hurts usability, and there's still a lot of unexpected behaviors, such as links opening with a web page telling me to install an app I already have.

Going to back to only having two real notification modes - noisy or silent - felt like a major step backwards as well.

But worst of all was the lack of consistency between apps. I get that some people think MD on Android leads to apps feeling too similar, but I prefer that. My phone isn't a piece of art, it's a functional communication device. I want my apps to use the same, practical design language that gets to the point and doesn't get in the way by trying to be "different".
Does anyone know if there's a name for this form of humour? (That is: forcing a split between two things, then describing the second one first in a manner that is ambiguous until the punchline confirms the order.)
I've experienced the same with Upwork/freelancer. Rating systems seem really broken too on Upwork especially. They're either game-able or the platform must like to inflate ratings rather. And I've tried cheap vs expensive and there seems to be no relationship to quality as you pay more.

It's really frustrating as I know there must be really good guys out there but I suspect they establish 121 relationships quickly and move off a platform clipping their earnings. Or some guys start well for some jobs and then you can see they farm off work and the quality goes to hell.

I've considered this problem myself. The best solution I can think of is for a platform with physical offices in likely cities for cheaper devs. People work for an 'in-house' projects a known project manager that has high QA standards, and after X time proving them-self they get clearance to 'freelance' from where-ever and bid for projects independently. Or simply not allowed on the platform.

It would come at a cost of human management, but I imagine many would pay a premium for known quality. And given the amount of freelancer to jobs ratio there seems room to cull lower performers and maintain a stable of quality devs. I guess it would be something between Toptal and Freelancer....

Feel free to steal it. I really need something like this.
FYI a Knot is standard for navigation world wide because the unit is standardized on earth's size. 1kt = 1 nautical mile per hour. 1 nautical mile = one minute of Earth's longitude. Learned this in sailing class :)

Wikipedia: "Worldwide, the knot is used in meteorology, and in maritime and air navigation—for example, a vessel travelling at 1 knot along a meridian travels approximately one minute of geographic latitude in one hour."
>> Very few people want to rent their stuff out.

How far true is this? Do you have any evidence for this claim? I'd think, at least, for things like tools that people keep for a rainy day, they'd rather put them to good use. No?
Any questions, comments, feedbacks are welcome!