skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Said Greek islands that Turkey (under Attaturk) lost when it settled a peace treaty (Treaty of Lausanne) after WWI and which Turkey has had a habit of violations and military interventions of since that time (which has continued to this day).

Know that the invasion of Iraq is of course much more serious, as the are all of the others in the list. The inclusion of the Greek islands was just verbosity from yours truly, and not intended to imply more than a touchpoint for those familiar with Turkey's illegal incursions.

Please don't let that distract you from the more important general topic written above. If you want ignore the aside about Greece - it's not important to the overall message.
If it was just for marketing, then they should do marketing not fundraising.
It's worth mentioning that Google lost most of their team working on self-driving cars this year. In fact, I think every person in charge (Thrun, Levandowski, Urmson, plus whoever else) has left.
To be honest, the Nomad was fairly decent too, though the Creative brand couldn't command the premium price as well as Apple.
Most applicable to our profession is that of T43.616A:

Underdosing of caffeine, initial encounter
I just wish they'd still make a decent iPod. All I want is a really light music player with physical buttons, like the first few generations of the iPod Nano.

I'm aware this is probably a fairly small market, but it's gotta be bigger than whoever's buying the current pricey Nano with its crappy faux-iOS touch interface.
It'd be interesting to implement lane discipline and see how one bad driver effects the rest.
Yeah, it amounts to what you like.

Do you like HTML-like templating and a lot of sugar? Riot is the way to go. Do you like minimal magic, JS-style templates, and/or Lisp? Mithril is the frontend for you.
It is exactly an advertising supported press outlet. The fact that what it publishes is consumer-contributes content is, well, not unprecedented among advertising-supported press outlets, even in the dead-tree form, and (within the bounds of its contractual relations) it is free to curate that consumer-contributed content.

And, no, I wouldn't support ISPs curating content, which is why I support net neutrality regulations.
Ultralow power transistors that could function for years without a battery
Politics isn't a one time game. Those people become citizens, and their children are born citizens.
"It's an educational arms race that's leaving many kids
far, far behind."

This isn't a bad thing. It's an educational arms race that is moving the human race forward faster. Communities that have placed emphasis on education early on have not only typically outperformed their peers, but also add a lot to human knowledge.

Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 870 individuals, of
whom 185 - over 21.264% - were Jewish or people of Jewish
descent, although Jews and people of Jewish descent
comprise less than 0.2% of the world's population (or 1 in
every 500 people).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates

Furthermore, I don't understand the criticism regarding "opportunity hoarding". I don't have children yet, but I hope to have children in a few years once I've built the amount of wealth I would like to have before embarking on that adventure. I don't yet feel like I've built the amount of wealth necessary to provide my children with enough of a competitive advantage to succeed in the 21st century. If I've worked hard to create opportunities for my children, why should I give them away to someone who is not my child?

It's not "rigging the game". Saying that it is rigging the game is a misunderstanding of the game. The game spans multiple generations. The game isn't reset every generation. That's not a game I want to play. My parents were my teammates and my children will also be my teammates.

The criticism of pitfalls out there (e.g. degree mills, payday loans) that entrap and deprive people of opportunities is totally fair, but criticizing the decision to spend the wealth one has earned to their progeny seems like wanting to change the rules of the game.

Wealth inequality itself isn't the problem. Not having access to basic necessities (health, education, sustenance, shelter and the Internet) upon which an individual can start building their wealth is. I think it's reasonable to pay a certain amount to level the playing field at the bottom so those that are determined and principled can reasonably begin creating wealth, but that's a totally different goal compared to reducing wealth inequality. Basic income for example would be a great way to begin meeting needs so individuals can start building wealth.

If wealth inequality were the problem, the 10% should complain about the 1% and the 1% should complain about the 0.1% and the 0.1% should complain about the 0.01%, so on and so forth.
Maybe they should treat it as a side project, and not as a job. When people treat open source projects as their day job everybody loses.
If you adjust the following to 5 metres, you can get an idea of how much of the coastline would be affected by this rise.

http://www.floodmap.net/
I wear my Seiko 5 every day, I need to set the day once every other month and the time once every ~3 weeks, it winds perpetually.

After the world is over, I'll still be able to tell time.

I would love a smart watchband so I can get meeting alerts but I don't see a way they can make a smartwatch that beats my $100 mechanical.
As an example, in the UK, social security provided a formula that determined the "permissible rent".

If I claimed housing benefit, they would look at the formula, and tell me "Your housing benefit is a maximum of £x: if your rent is more than that, you have to pay it out of your own pocket".

The formula dictated the maximum rent for state-subsidised housing: almost no tenant claiming social security could afford to pay above the subsidised amount from their own pocket.

However, the formula accounted for rental prices in the region over the previous few years, and effectively acted as a price escalator. All DSS landlords priced their rent at the maximum permitted, and the subsidy therefore regularly increased with their prices. As a result, buy-to-let became very popular, with a number of training courses/presentations pitching this price-escalation practice, which also helped sustain the price escalation.

As rental prices increased for state-subsidised landlords, unsubsidised private tenants also had their rents increased, both sectors mirroring each other.

The government have since introduced caps to various benefits, which may put a stop to the routine escalation, but it's a good demonstration of some of the legislative flaws. For most people, a place to live is high if not top on their priorities, and most debt advice councilors recommend paying rent/mortgage as the top priority, above every other bill, so even given excruciating increases, most people will still pay it.
> WW2 didn't look great before the USA stepped in.

Wow, disregarding Soviet Union's role is a bit shortsighted.
Most guys know the timing of their girlfriend’s period so that they can be on hand with chocolates, hugs, and hygiene products.

Uh, OK, if you say so.
The Rio IP and engineers went to Sigmatel [1], who essentially turned the firmware for the Rio Karma into a reference firmware for their MP3 player SoCs. The Trekstor Vibez [2] was probably the most well-known player that used that platform.

By the way, the Karma firmware was really ahead of other players of the time, supporting perfect gapless playback, Vorbis and FLAC support, and on the fly playlist editing. The iPod never got on the fly playlist editing, which I really missed when I moved over to using one from a Karma.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/27/sigmatel_rio_deal/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrekStor_Vibez
I too have read that, but my experience is completely different. Nothing burns like the seeds.
The only ROI you are entitled to when open-sourcing a project is advertising. It doesn't entitle you to ask for a handout.
Is the manufacturer dealing directly with the customers? If so, I imagine that direct contact(assuming the things were re branded) is probably worth more in advertising than the recall will cost them. Hell, I am going to consider that company positively, next time I buy a device in that price range.

As for liability, I don't know about fairness, but I think that the isp is really the only entity prepared to deal with this sort of thing on a timely basis. All service providers know the"fix your shit out we un plug you " drill. It flows in both directions, too. Generally speaking, the more you pay, the more warnings and hand holding you get. But the point is that the isp is the first responder here; nobody else is in a position to stop an attack in progress.

Of course, if you make the isp legally liable, fairness aside, internet access will cost rather more.
I think that's because 4C is the point where water is the densest, whereas 20C is a comfortable room temperature.
Wow! I always thought the "rare" part was added because what happens to the fetus is, let's say, unsavory. Now I see it's one of those genius phrases where you can read your own feelings into it.
Not just any newspaper, the Washington Post!

> My wife and I are among about 250,000 people trapped here in the besieged eastern section of the city.

Stopped reading right there.
Your view is pretty incorrect -- given that the article is about a negative Tesla event a short bet comment is not too surprising.
In this case Snowden was legally required to refuse and report illegal orders. He knew the leaders were well aware of their infractions and wouldn't stop, so he couldn't just report the abuse internally.

Unfortunately, dumping juicy tidbits is the only way to get the attention needed to change things. The bad guys are spending our money lying to our politicians about it. Without showing them to be liars again and again (with the release) of these tidbits, they'd simply spin their way out of it.
We're currently investigating two solutions:

1) https://github.com/arachnys/cabot
2) Prometheus with https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter

Keen to hear what others are using
I actually looked the term up online and copied and pasted it here because I generally agree with you that this is not a great use of the term (see my own previous blog post where I bitch about something similar: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-woman-rant...). But, really, as someone who is very openly female on this forum, I am finding the discussion here kind of threatening and dismissive. The comments here create an impression that many men kind of think "Eh, no big deal feeling a woman up virtually. It isn't like it's REALLY sexual assault."

And I have been downvoted and your remark here has apparently been upvoted, which implies a general attitude of the overarching crowd, not just an isolated opinion being expressed. It is no wonder so many women are afraid of not only participation in VR, but even openly participating in many male dominated internet spaces.
I've seen this referred to as a "growth mindset".
I still love my iPod Shuffle, despite the limited capacity (2Gb); The battery life is still amazing!
I was just getting ready to make a reply along the lines of who cares what outcomes for rich kids are as long as there is opportunity for non rich kids. That is to say, who cares if little Richie Ritch will succeed 100% of the time because of his wealth, as long as your average poor can succeed provided they put in the work (i.e., isn't denied opportunity).

Your comment took a way different direction than I was expecting and genuinely made me reflect.

You see, I grew up extremely poor (yes, those "hoods" you hear about), and figure it's possible to make it out. But, I do do what you mentioned above A LOT. To the point that some times I feel guilty expensing my cell phone even though it's a perk.
I had an iRiver player I loved. But, anyway, did you already own a Mac with FireWire then? Were you willing to buy one just to be able to use an iPod with it?
That is good to know.
Does anyone know of a modern high capacity (100 Gig+) MP3 player? The largest I've found is a modified Ipod that can get me 240. Everything seems to be 8 or 16 gigs, I have 300 Gig's of audiobooks and podcasts alone.
My university's library has one of those in the Special Collections sections that can be viewed if requested. Actually they're putting it up for display on Halloween.
For anyone interested in digging into this concept, read up on "Impostor Syndrome".

https://counseling.caltech.edu/general/InfoandResources/Impo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Exactly. It's really having your cake and eating it too.

They need to choose between:
1) If you're gonna raise money, then release all your work for free. No "premium" icons.
2) If you're gonna have a freemium-premium model, then don't have a fundraiser and get others to underwrite your risks.
Obamacare premiums will increase by average of 25 percent for some plans
This is a much better analysis on social mobility:

https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/my-r...
Whether stated or not, this is basically true of all professional VCs. That doesn't mean it's right or wrong, only that if you want to get funded, figure out a way to get an introfiction. It's far from impossible, even starting from nothing, and it's much easier than 10 years ago when far fewer VCs wrote/tweeted/commented in public.
I can think of examples of all of these. But I did have siblings, burn myself bbq'ing, know people who worked in the local slaughterhouse (knife in the arm to get off work), know of a surgeon who made this terribly sad mistake, live in the UK (IRA letter bombs).

Ok, I kinda give up on the last one.
They were also quite huge.

I had one of those, and it went into the recycle bin the moment I got an iPod.
They are calling it pro as I imagine their other offshoot didn't work or make any money. It was that black bar at the top of the screen each time you go to the site. This makes sense, but maybe they shouldn't have tried to name it something different in the first place.
Here is a big list of alternatives:

https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer
As unsexy as the Mac Pro line was, all they needed to do was keep the latest round of I/O (SATA 3, followed by USB 3, then USB 3.1, ThunderBolt) and just updated CPUs and GPUs without bothering to change the form factor. I'm still rolling a 2008 Mac Pro heavily updated. As someone who contracted for 3 Hollywood shows, I can tell you everyone jumped Final Cut Pro X for Avid or Premier Pro. It was sad.

When they touted the Mac Pro 2013 as a computer you could carry to a set to do editing, a friend of my quipped "Clearly no one at Apple has any fucking idea how movies or TV show are made."

That said, as long time digital musician 10.9+ hasn't been a problem for Maschine, Ableton, Cubase or Logic. I still have soft synths that are nearly 10 years old from the first Intel mac days working just fine...
If you're a committed, heavily-invested user of a specific language, and well into your professional career: use that language.

Otherwise:

If you like Python, Django.

If you like Ruby, Rails.

Otherwise: Flip a coin.

Heads? Rails.

Tails? Django.

A lot of very smart people will tell you that PHP is as good an option as Rails or Django. The problem with PHP is that while the upside for PHP is, as they're observing, just as good as the Rails/Django upside, the downside is way worse.

Counterintuitively: I think you should really know what you're doing as a developer before you decide on PHP. PHP isn't by itself going to teach you to be a better developer. Python will.

Avoid Javascript frameworks until you really understand what you're doing. Also, know ahead of time that "really understanding what you're doing" might result in you continuing to avoid complicated Javascript. A trap I can tell you about from recent experience. :)

Probably don't build front-end web applications in Go.
> What the watch gives you is hands-free information

But your phone can also give you that, through earphones or headsets. Smartwatches must find new uses that a phone cannot also do as well, which is a much harder bar to clear.

For example:

> notifications [...] while I'm driving there

Phones can do that already, and will do more and more as CarPlay etc become mainstream.

> checking off items on my shopping list while carrying shopping bags

Siri can probably do that already (I use Trello for my shopping lists and it works fine as it is, tbh).

The one use where smartwatches will likely be unbeatable, forever and ever, is fitness/health: carrying around a phone in those circumstances is simply more annoying than carrying a watch. Once they get cheap enough, they might replace smartcards and badges for access control. If smartglasses become mainstream, they could augment each other (your glasses display and record, your watch stores and computes) and actually replace phones altogether; but alone, I don't see them going anywhere.
Except no... Non alcoholic beers are not available in most varieties if you like a sour, stout out IPA, you're never going to find an NA version. I'd be happy to be wrong, because I do like the flavor, and often wish there were no alcohol.
Nesting LINQ extensions in composable repositories
I still use my classic iPod. I'm amazed the thing still works. I expected the hard disk to fail long ago. I had to replace the battery twice, but that's only a few dollars nowadays.
I'd say 2/3rds are in the SF Bay Area.

SF/SV is still the most concentrated place for startups, so when you want to grow fast it's still probably the most concentrated place for talent and capital. You can certainly start a company anywhere (and people are, and that's great!), but when you want to grow fast many people still move here, now increasingly at the Series A.
I think we can hit $40 to $60 trillion in debt (in real terms) before the system starts to collapse. In other words, at least 20 years from now, maybe much more. I have no faith in either political party to exercise fiscal restraint or conservatism. I firmly believe the excessive deficit spending will continue until the breaking point. Given that belief, I'd like to spend the money (the newly issued debt, as you correctly point out) as wisely as possible.
Mild habanero varieties exist with the same flavor, eg:

http://www.chilepepperinstitute.org/content/files/Suave.pdf

However, I have only seen them sold as seeds, and I prefer normal habaneros so I've never tried growing them.
I tried haskell queues a while ago - under the advice of a friend and compared with a straightforward C++ queue - it was about 100x slower. Abandoned the idea.
I do agree - I've seen a huge move of my social groups to move towards IRC-style chat rooms (Telegram specifically) and it actually becomes extremely difficult to organize "real-life" meetups on them (you can pin a meetup if its "public" to the group you're in, or create another group... that has no expiration date). This creates a system where "the group" becomes a system to be managed in itself, rather than a conversation that people can pop into and out of whenever their interests align or not.

Emphasizing the "fluidity" of real conversations and social groups and just how ideas pop up and die down seems a great benefit - I'd love to work on something like that.
> An important first step is to put the military dog back on the chain and show it the place where it belongs to and never ever allow it to infiltrate politics.

You seem to be under the impression that military largely controls the politics and that's why there are wars. It's not true, at least not in western democracies. Most wars start when they are popular (and they are made popular by career politicians and not military) and end very soon after becoming unpopular (and the military can't do anything about it).

> Military solutions must only be the last step of self-defense that we need to use when all politics failed.

That's a nice thing to say but politics fails all the time. In fact, politics fails way more often than military is used - in most cases, the solution for politics failing is just sigh and wait until maybe something changes, military is used in rare occasion where it's politically feasible and seems to be achievable by military.
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Hardness is not the same as tensile strength.
So far, we don't have any other proved examples to pass knowledge especially between generations than books.
That's exactly what I mean. Even today I think the personal electronics market is a particularly difficult one to disrupt unless your product is so astoundingly better that it pretty much sells itself like the iPod did. Even so, things can easily go south, like when the RIAA sued Rio. That would kill someone who wasn't already a mid-sized corp at that time.

Things were much harder to disrupt then, too. It was much tougher for someone to get access to short-run PCB design and assembly services and you couldn't get SOC do-everything modules for random tasks nearly as easily back then. You really needed to be an established manufacturer who could order a big run of products and/or custom chips. The smaller you were, the smaller the production run, the more your products would cost.

Personal electronic Kickstarters are still some of the most likely to fail. There's lots of reasons for that. It's hard to execute well, and consider how easily HTC loop-the-looped Oculus' design and out-ramped their production. And that's in 2016, using a new design for a sophisticated product. China will have knockoffs of most products on Alibaba literally before your product is in stores.

There were some good competitors but it's a really, really hard market to break into, even if you've got a great product. Apple is the HTC of this scenario, they were a big company that saw a great idea they could do better and executed well, jumping ahead of the original creators.

I don't hold any particular grudge against Apple. I resent the scroll wheel being patented, but that's because I am generally opposed to design/UI elements being patentable. You shouldn't get a 30-year monopoly on something like that.
Well, that's what economical disadvantage is about.

A rich student can afford to attempt to enter a top school many consecutive times, by not having the pressure of having to work as soon as possible. Then once accepted, can afford to have minimum passing grades.

A poor student can only enter a top school by earning a scholarship by having good grades, and sometimes that scholarship needs to be maintained by keeping certain grades. A poor student might also need to work to supplement his income since the scholarship might not cover all costs. So less time to socialize and relax.

Then, there's also a disadvantage of food, health, housing, risk of being exposed to bad influences, physical security.

So it's a little bit of a rigged game.
By late stage for us, I was thinking that you still also have YC for the earliest stage and it's still the best way in the world to "cold pitch" someone but still have a chance to get funded and identified with no existing connections. It worked that way for me, anyway.
Given all the various authoritarian regimes the US has enabled or installed [1], I must disagree strongly with your assertion. Certainly the arrogance you see in US nationalism is something not easily matched in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_...
Would have been funnier if it linked to people walking into lampposts videos.
Not as old, but I still have my Sansa c250:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansa_c200_series

It's my most portable FM radio. I'd rather use the FM chip on my smartphone, I know it's there, but the manufacturer could not be bothered to enable it. So I keep my little Sansa around. Only had to replace the Li-Ion battery once.

Rockbox makes it even nicer:

https://www.rockbox.org/
Conspiracy theory: the diagnosis codes were compiled by Bears who tried to avoid attention to their own kind.