skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not. One is a 3rd party store that heavily invests into cross-platform support. The other one is a collection of useless gadgets with a crappy UI bolted on top of a generic OS.

If the Windows Store dies (or stays irrelevant for games, forever and ever) than that's a good thing. I agree with your sibling comment: This is good for Valve and as long as Microsoft DOES refund people that use the Windows Store I'd say there's no harm done.
Cafe Algiers in Cambridge's Harvard Square Has Reopened
Someone wrote an article a while back about why this is a stupid idea -- mostly things like "if I want to call so and so in Australia I would now need to find out what time of day in Australia is the time I consider to be evening"

Computers already work in terms of utc (assuming correct code ;) ) -- this article is mostly "I know what time I'm in, why should I have to consider other people?"

If we were to get rid of anything it should be DST as we aren't agrarian and there's no evidence that the modern "save power" claims are remotely accurate. But then again it's a politically cheap thing for politicians to change it "help the environment" and helping the environment is always good, right? :-/
The IBM Quantum Computer and the IBM Quantum Experience
Fitness. Helping people for free :)
> because nothing there is a language keyword

What editor are you using where the highlighter doesn't identify user-defined types, member functions, namespaces, local variables? Maybe you don't realize it has these capabilities because it's configured to highlight them with the default?
Getting rid of Daylight Savings makes complete sense, and it's something we should really pursue.

Getting rid of Time Zones is ridiculous. People know that 6am roughly is morning, and 6pm is roughly the evening. When you're dealing with someone internationally, you know not to call them at midnight their time because there's a high probability they may be sleeping. Having time roughly follow a standard around the world makes absolute sense because we're human.
Tinkering with Rad Mopeds
This article is interesting, but in case you're like me and read comments before articles to get a tl;dr, this article is about web design. I was personally hopeful it was about managing teams or projects, which does have analogous lessons, but it's specifically about web design.

Disclaimer: no longer a web designer; take my opinion on the substance of the article lightly.
Sadly, that's because they think UTC == GMT (which does have DST). UTC would be the time that computer software operates in and then feeds humans 'human time'.

You also can't use 'Zulu' from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_time_zones either, for that same confusion.

The problem, like with driving, is that humans are communicating the time to humans, instead of the 'smartest' humans having programmed computers how to convey time for the rest of the humans.
I remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time - I loved the concept. Maybe if we switched to beats we wouldn't have an association for 'noon.'
I'm sure it wouldn't be for everyone. And if you don't like the situation, don't live there. You have a choice. It's not like you joined the Army.
He has hard earned the resources to make it happen big time, there may be many others along the way having less or much less or using a comparable / even bigger pot for different goals.
Mine would stick out and curl his tongue about 10 seconds before peeing. It's all about communication.
That is the best narrative I have read regarding time zones. Thanks!
Can we just go ahead and replace the name "Open Source" with "Citizen Owned", while keeping the concepts identical?
The modern stack is so much more sane than the old batch based system. You can still do plenty of interesting things with it, like casting Blessed Alliance during the end of combat step to get rid of Giest of Saint Traft, or casting Infernal Tutor, then holding priority and cracking a Lion's Eye Diamond, or responding to an O-ring trigger with another O-ring for a permanent exile, or burning somebody out in responding to a lethal mana-barbs trigger.
Man, I miss playing Magic with the neighbourhood kids. Such a seriously great card game.

And here's a wonderful little doc on Vice about Magic, and a group of people who play what's now called Vintage Magic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plr81gaUIr0
> Says who? You? Facebook? Microsoft? Google?

I think you just answered your own question. "Says" the plurality or even majority of the human population who use services from the companies you just listed, despite constantly being under scrutiny for privacy concerns.
Didn't know you could pull by ID! Thanks!
My employer took took a shipment of fifteen Dell computers a few months ago - with ATI Radeon HD 8570 graphics cards (3 years old, with DP 1.2 and 4k support so not obsolete by any means, and certified for Ubuntu 14.04 [1])

Then Ubuntu 16.04 comes out, and guess what? No fglrx driver support any more [2] and users report the open source drivers use about a core and a half worth of CPU, slowing down their entire machines. Apparently our only options are to buy new cards or stay on 14.04 indefinitely.

Meanwhile, I had an nVidia card and I was able to upgrade to 16.04 with no problems at all.

This week you might have resolved not to buy from nVidia - but in the same week I've resolved not to buy from ATI.

[1] https://certification.ubuntu.com/hardware/201302-12679/
[2] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/ubuntu-drops-amd-catalyst...
My wife is from noida, a suburb of Delhi. Her mother, brother and other family live there in the NCR area.

We talked to her mom two days ago and she says it's so bad now she can't even see the road when she goes out in an auto.

Her brothers latest post to Facebook is "feeling suffocated! Have to get out of this city!"

When I was there two years ago, my first time in India, I had no idea what to expect. The second the plane landed and we were pulling up to the gate my very first comment was "Do you smell something burning?" To my wife.

The second I got into the concourse I knew what it was. The airport was filled with smog. It was a little shocking.

The fact that it's gotten so much worse that two years later you can't even see the road is mind blowing.

I thought kejriwals plan for limiting the roads to odd plate numbers one day then even the next was a good idea to help cut the pollution.

The problem was apparently the people, just like here, hated it because it was his plan and not modi's, plus the people never would have followed it because well the saying cutting your nose off to spite your face is appropriate here. The people won't tolerate that inconvenience even though they are literally killing themselves.

The wife's mother retires in august. She has two months of vacation built up. We told her to simply take the two months come June and move here to the states.

China has bad pollution problems to deal with too. But man looking at India you can see an absolute failure of government to serve the people.

There are too many people in their cities. Delhi is a mess. Bangalore as well.
I don't know exactly what indias energy supplies look like but they are certainly past a redline where petrol burning vehicles should be banned. Things moved over to natgas or major mass transit infrastructure should have been the primary focus decades ago.

I can see how it hasn't been though with the astonishing level of corruption and nationalism preventing foreign companies from coming in and investing and solving some of their problems.

It's so sad. I loved the country. It's beautiful. With such character, potential, and such life! But it's just become such a cesspool. Homelessness, corruption, rapes, pollution, human trafficking, poverty.

Law enforcement is a joke and couldn't enforce anything in that country.

If you get hit by a car and it's a life threatening injury, say your prayers because you are dead. Help will never reach you in time. There are no traffic laws, none that anyone there follows, no one moves for emergency vehicles, it's dog eat dog. Brutal.

It's almost my definition of a failed state. I think the good nature of the people is the only thing keeping it from the giant flush of collapsing civilization.
If the things you listed "Low opportunity, low-income, ..." actually caused depression, then most of the people in Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia would be depressed, but this is obviously not the case. The causes of depression are complicated and aren't directly related to being poor in an absolute sense.
Lawmakers: Wells Fargo Employee Files Show Bank Knew of Fake Account Fiasco
I wouldn't go as far as to say it was my best decision in my career, however it was an important one. I've noticed how I've gone from "click-friendly" GUI's and window managers like Gnome/KDE to Fluxbox, turned syntax highlighting off and at the same time increased my productivity/effectiveness. At first I missed the "fanciness", the new felt boring and pale, however as time passed it made me realize that I'm now focusing on the important things and I'm in control. So yes okay, it's one of my best decisions.
For what it's worth: sleep is a learned habit. So if the infant learns to sleep in your arms it's harder for him/her to learn to sleep by themselves in a cot or bed.

But, obviously, what works for you is what's important.
Steam works on all major platforms (aka Windows, OS X, Linux). Windows Store is a insane and stupid idea to centralize the applications for the most common OS right now.

Even if the reason for 'cannot work together' would be Steam, I'd say that's great. Let the Windows Store die, sooner the better.

But I don't think that I can follow your thoughts here. If you have to rewrite parts of your code for a non-Steam version (fine, makes sense, sounds plausible) then .. I still don't see why that version is unable to talk to the versions on Steam. In the end these games are talking UDP I assume. If you use Steam for a lot of boiler plate code or implement that stuff differently/yourself: The inability of these two "ports" of the game to talk to one another is not a technological problem, I think. It's a problem of policy/politics.
That's what I use for lossless cutting. Jumping to the next/previous I-frame is as simple as pressing up/down arrow.
^This. Lets tackle the thing that's definitely a good idea, and much easier to manage before shooting for the metaphorical moon.
Growth Hacking and Snapchat
How are they the same? You can have open source software that is completely controlled by a private entity. There are many different open source licenses.
This should be required reading for anyone thinking time zones are a bad idea: https://qntm.org/abolish
14.04 just switched to the 16.04 graphics stack a couple months back -- do your drivers still work after that update?
Given the massive thrust they produce, and how close they are to delicate things like the tank, it's hard to imagine a system that could possibly work. It would be exquisitely difficult to get the vectors just right, so they wouldn't bush against the tanks or worse, and even if you pull that off, their exhaust will have bad effects as they pass by.

Short of not using them at all, exhaust ports at the top as mentioned by exDM69 sound like least worst option.
HTTP-SS
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12887007.
$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP
EHLO jlgaddis
250-localhost.localdomain
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 26214400
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
MAIL FROM:<president@whitehouse.gov>
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO:<willvarfar@foo.bar.baz>
250 2.1.5 Ok
DATA
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
From: President Barack Obama <president@whitehouse.gov>
To: willvarfar <willvarfar@foo.bar.baz>
Subject: LOLOL

This is an account hijack!

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250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 6AE031F5FE
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221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.
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Freeing my tablet: Android hacking, software and hardware
Time zones are an arbitrary construct anyhow - what makes 0800 morning and 1900 evening other than our understanding of that time means. They are all entirely human constructs. In business - abolishing time zones is a great idea - but in personal life.. maybe not so much - as a linked article pointed out - humans don't normally publish waking hours.
> What possible benefit is there to this?

Non USian here: regardless of who gave notice, the lame-duck period is normally used for wrapping up whatever work/project the departee was working on and handing it over to a colleague or manager. People generally are more worried about getting bad references than office shootings.
Non-scientific proof: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=washing+machine...
That's true, and a good point. I mean that Earth is a closed system insofar as we haven't found an economic way of removing our trash from the system.
For years I've mixed the used kitty litter in with our shredding. If they want to sort through all that, they're welcome to it.
Yes. I bought the same model to replace my mid-2011 Macbook Air. Coming from an ancient one, this Macbook Pro is a reveleation.

Your experience echo mine. I love the new keyboard very much, no problem typing on it. It even has a pleasing sound when i am typing on them. It invokes ASMR. It doesn't feel too heavy, I can bring it around on one hand just fine. The build quality is amazing. Performance is good. From fully charged I can use it all day without charging. I am very much satisfied.
> the plane is not as much flying as not having crashed yet.'
> Aircraft in exile indeed.

That made me think of this; vintage Douglas DC-3 plane in Columbia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-F-cBF5ZbQ
So is time.
There's talk of USB replacing household electrical outlets, or at least heavily accompanying them. http://gizmodo.com/why-usb-ports-could-be-the-power-outlets-...
Laptops are still fragile. I dropped my work MacBook pro about two months ago from a height of three feet, maybe less. It was onto a hard tile floor with the lid closed.

It killed it. The screen didn't break, not a scratch in sight, but it went dead all the same. The screen would not cut on. Plugging in an external monitor worked with heavy artifacts; I suspect some GPU damage.

I could not log in (it locked up after the fall when logging in with the external screen) and my work replaced it.

Freak accident but falls still kill MacBooks.

EDIT:

Also, without a charger, IntelliJ slurps up enough power I can't last more than a couple hours of dev time. Even that is generous.
The numbers are already arbitrary. Even within the US, where the east and west are 'only' three hours apart there are many who believe that only their timezone matters.

For conveying when in time something happened or will happen, using UTC properly is good. There is one singular number that can make sense to everyone. For all other things people perform a lookup, either in their mind or in some utility (paper or program) already.

Times for accounting (arbitrary numbers that presently have local offsets) could benefit from having the offset, and the need for specifying /what/ that offset is, removed.

There is no reason we //need// 9am to mean 'morning', we can use morning for that. Any 'time' that isn't a hard number is a loose social reference for local meanings.
I am shocked when I meet an American who actually knows when to use PDT as opposed to PST. They also think they're being clever asking if I want to have a meeting at X:00 GMT when they mean BST (or Irish Standard Time, which is confusingly observer in Ireland in the _summer_, which is 1 hour ahead of GMT just like BST is).

Of course, when the S can mean either "summer" or "standard" one can forgive some confusion.
I am not sure I would call not building two space stations for the purposes of the program crazy. Remember, that the Apollo program was initiated before anyone had performed an orbital rendezvous of any kind. For quite some time the preferred (by most) approach to the moon landing was direct ascent [0], as rendezvousing seemed just too scary.

The approach of sending a large, but modular spacecraft all the way to the moon also proved to have the ability survive some rather interesting failure modes [1] so maybe it was not so crazy after all?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_ascent
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13#Accident
Ok, pretty much every comment here is about why time zones are important. I agree!

But one thing to ponder: Just like telling time in 24-hour mode is useful, perhaps it will be useful to have some clocks display UTC? Perhaps it'll be useful to talk about international events in UTC?

Perhaps instead of abolishing time zones, we just use UTC as a convention when talking about events that happen across time zones?
It would make for a rather interesting sociological experiment to uncouple the daily book keeping of time from the phases of our planet in relation to the sun.
First 64-bit Orange Pi slips in under $20
I was thinking the same thing. The only reason I think to use Intercoooler is for very simple scenarios, or for people who perfer the server side programming and want to minimise JS programming. Which I can relate to to some extent.

Having said that, I've been doing a side project in KnockoutJS and it isn't much harder than IC. You mark up the HTML and need a little bit of JS to call the api. So it would be like your example but with a line or two removed. And like your example as soon as you desire to do something custom you just add some more code.

On the service side you emit JSON instead of HTML and this can be easier IMO - virtually every language has a JSON library and you just convert your ORM objects to JSON (or just use them as-is!). That is less work than rendering HTML I would have thought.
China does this. They span what would be 3 (edit: 4) time zones in the states (I believe), but are only one.
The drivers Windows uses are a fair bit older. Occasionally you really do need the latest drivers for a game
Basically, a team of 20 voters with boxcutters could spoil the results from an entire precinct.
I want to shoot for the moon; because if you actually try you can sometimes accomplish great things.
We need permanent daylight savings time. Yesterday sunset was around 6pm in LA. Today it will be at 5pm. At least I had a little bit of daylight after work, now it's just depressing.
What about it?

Aesthetics are part of the problem that needs to be solved.
Or, I don't agree with this absurd definition of privacy that the tech sector has gotten itself enamored with, but okay, we'll go with the accusations of being a shill.
The Division has had a major overhaul though - partially in response to the criticism.
> FYI - if you want to use UTC - you're free to do that today.

I tried that out of curiosity once. It did not last very long. I generally organize my time into days: "I'll work on this today, on that tomorrow, and the other thing on Thursday", and I am awake when the sun is up. UTC made it so that the date changed in the middle of the afternoon, which made that abstraction unworkable.
GMT doesn't exactly have BST; rather, many places that observe GMT in the winter observe BST (which is defined as GMT +1 hour) in the summer.

Google is not the arbiter of all things, but a good clue is that Googling "current time GMT" in the summer will give you the time in Britain as though DST didn't exist.
It's not a complete substitute by any means, but FaceTime and video chat in general have done wonders to bridge those geographical gaps.
All of China (not a latitudinally small country) is on one time zone, and that's Beijing time -- one of its easternmost points.

In the west, they use Beijing time, and things like banks and post offices operate on Beijing time, but most other aspects of life just shift. Ie, it's normal to wake up at 10am, etc.
Dumping time zones might be painful, but in the long run it'd probably be the right thing to do. First, it'd make learning about time as a programmer much easier because you'd inherently know that it's a bit complicated and why epoch time and UTC is a thing instead of storing values like "Sunday 4PM".

But more future facing...what are we going to do when we have colonies on the moon and Mars? Things are going to spiral fast if we don't stick to uniform time while we're still mono-planet.

As an example, NASA's Mars photos API provide an option to sort by Martian sol instead of earth date: https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#MarsPhotos
I agree. The article says there'd be some benefits to switching, but there'd also be costs (for example when I travel I don't have to do mental calculations to figure out what time to eat lunch, or when to set my alarm clock).

I think removing daylight savings is a good idea, there's no benefit at all to it, and a lot of costs.

But timezones are handy. Maybe you could simplify them a bit, but to rid of them completely is overkill.
Maybe, but you missed the second part of the statement which was the most important.
I'd be happier making DST permanent :)
Is anyone going to packet capture it and find out?
People are quoting Jobs, hinting that design means "mechanics" (in an abstract sense) rather than looks. But, as a kid first, looks was most of what design meant for me, and even today, after graduating, it's still a very special part of anything.
Is the Pulsejet an Efficient Engine?
Okay

> Are you implying that the people who wrote the software for the internet banking website and phone app I use are the same ones who wrote CryptoLocker?

Essentially I am saying that.
In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states) (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided).

Support for a national popular vote is strong among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group in every state surveyed recently. In the 41 red, blue, and purple states surveyed, overall support has been in the 67-81% range - in rural states, in small states, in Southern and border states, in big states, and in other states polled.

Most Americans don't ultimately care whether their presidential candidate wins or loses in their state or district . . . they care whether he/she wins the White House. Voters want to know, that no matter where they live, even if they were on the losing side, their vote actually was equally counted and mattered to their candidate. Most Americans think it is wrong that the candidate with the most popular votes can lose. We don't allow this in any other election in our representative republic.

The National Popular Vote bill was approved this year by a unanimous bipartisan House committee vote in both Georgia (16 electoral votes) and Missouri (10).
The bill has passed 34 state legislative chambers in 23 rural, small, medium, large, Democratic, Republican and purple states with 261 electoral votes, including one house in Arizona (11), Arkansas (6), Maine (4), Michigan (16), Nevada (6), New Mexico (5), North Carolina (15), and Oklahoma (7), and both houses in Colorado (9).
The bill has been enacted by 11 small, medium, and large jurisdictions with 165 electoral votes – 61% of the way to guaranteeing the presidency to the candidate with the most national popular votes.

NationalPopularVote
I just had a quick look at the repo and I'm not particularly familiar with the project but what's the issue with just doing a hard fork if there are enough people who want this to keep going?