skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this really the semantics "backup plan" has for many people? For me it's something that's very inferior to the, well, plan.
There are two different meanings of "operating system" depending on context. One is the old computer sciency definition which basically just encompasses the kernel and essentials, the colloquial and more common one is the definition that means the de facto application platform.

In your CS interpretation, OS X is also an open source OS since it's proprietary bits on top of the open source Darwin OS.
Some variant of that is actually not especially unusual. In my experience, there's a sizable group of people who work remotely (or at least remotely from the HQ office) but they fly in on a regular basis.
The Fear Of Missing Out

Fear of missing out or FoMO is "a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent".[2] This social angst[3] is characterized by "a desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing".

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

Slack has this to it, a team gets using Slack for their own purposes, the initiative started by someone that wonders why the company/team use Skype still.

Then other teams in the company want to be in on it, there is a party on Slack and they want to know all the gossip that goes down. Plus the Giphy memes.

The next thing is that you then find that it is no longer a private chat room, the guys in HR are reading this too so no longer can some things be said in the banter. So then you move your important chats off Slack and onto WhatsApp or somewhere where whomever the bad guys are, e.g. HR, will not be reading. Obviously Slack then becomes something that your manager uses to tell you what to do and no longer becomes a channel for convo for things peripheral to the tasks in hand. This is how I see Slack shaping up in the long term, it might as well be a MS product and you might as well get the MS product since it is better integrated to Office things.
Let's implement AES
I think the answer you are looking for is "No."
Friends complaining is a big smell. Unknown people may not even try it. Invest some time in a UI lib, like material ui or bootstrap.
Even with all the niceties, I feel like it'll be years before apple recovers from all this "no old-school USB ports" BS.
Jon Stewart, Donald Trump Twitter Battle Video
Except this was a prediction that was done formally for the Boston Globe, at their request. You can see their article about it here:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2016/10/04/group-g...

That's pretty different than sending out thousands of random predictions. This was ONE prediction about MLB.
You choose your profession, but race largely corresponds with personal qualities not of your choosing. I'd imagine this is particularly true when it comes to Facebook's inference of a person's race, since I'm pretty sure it's not user-supplied.

> Satterfield added that the “Ethnic Affinity” is not the same as race — which Facebook does not ask its members about. Facebook assigns members an “Ethnic Affinity” based on pages and posts they have liked or engaged with on Facebook.

You're right that discrimination, taken broadly, is a morally neutral concept. But the law establishes protected classes to attempt to prevent people from be disadvantaged or disenfranchised due to qualities society feels are unacceptable to discriminate by.

And there's something especially galling about the fact that this functionality excludes people of ethnic categories for targeting, rather than targeting products of particular interest. Both are pretty bad though.
My team uses it for group calls mostly, and I cannot remember the last time we had a call where someone suddenly couldnt talk but could hear, or vice versa. Weve had to default to just writing up anything important at the end and emailing it to people as we could not get through a meeting without restarting the call over and over
True, but I think Kotlin has an edge here.

JetBrains, as Kotlin steward, takes an effort to have Kotlin work painlessly within Android Studio.

The Scala support for Android apparently only works properly within InteliJ, which means a few versions behind what Android Studio actually supports. It also requires much more configuration steps.
No, they still took the cut directly from your pay. Sorry, but you were scammed.
What Is Docker and Business Automation?
Same excuse Firefox used to always make for its slowness; it's extensions fault. In the case of Atom, it's slower without any extensions installed, in my experience.
I'd bet it's somewhere in between. I think the determining factor is nuisance. People will put up with certain long commutes and high prices for a given reward. If tech makes it so we can accommodate more people going further at the same nuisance level, we'll probably do that instead of the same number of people at a lower stress level. People will keep moving in until it gets shitty enough to overcome their desire to be here, right? If so, then the level of shittiness is constant over time and tech.
Not even close. Picture a rock that could cover all of Virginia, DC, and Maryland at the same time and tall enough the ISS would hit it.
But Apple entered the smart watch market by making an iPhone accessory. Whereas when they entered the smart phone market they made a phone for everyone, not just Mac users. On the other hand IIRC the original iPod required a Mac and they opened that up later.
Seems the Microkorgs have gone up in price over the years. I paid about $250 for it when I got it a few years ago. I noticed you can still get them for $200 second hand.

The aliasing can be a bit annoying indeed. You can really hear it when slowly bending a high lead. I don't think it uses band-limited waveforms. But for bass lines it is absolutely fantastic!
I don't think anyone disagrees that the more palatable option would be to keep Earth in good shape in perpetuity. However:

1. Cosmic-size bad stuff could happen, at a scale where we are powerless. "Think of the dinosaurs", etc.

2. "Thanks" to the continuous progress of science and technology, we are putting more and more power into the hands of the everyman. Wherein the sanity and the moral trustworthiness of the aforementioned everyman is on a bell curve just like everything else - meaning most people are fine, but it's guaranteed there are a few spectacularly bad apples somewhere in that pile. Think of Jim Jones with nukes, or tabletop biotech.

So, making Mars livable is important for the same reason why you have backups for your data - only even more so. You do have backups, don't you?

We should absolutely do both - protect the Earth, and settle Mars.
> you have no right to change that anyway.

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> zur Herstellung der Interoperabilität des unabhängig geschaffenen Programms

"For purposes of interoperation with an independently created software", decompiling and modifying software is legal.

So, yes, under German (and in general also EU law), you have the right to do exactly that.
> Are Google's development environments better than what Apple offers?

They're really not that great. Android Studio is a hacked-up version of IntelliJ that doesn't feel like a unified experience. Error highlighting often gets out of sync until I rebuild the whole project. Design preview sometimes stops updating, displays an error overlay with a stack trace, and requires manual refreshing and rebuilding to fix. Updating various Google components can be a series of manual clicks and restarts. Gradle sometimes goes out of sync and requires manual rejiggering to get working again. And so on.

> Microsoft certainly has good dev tools

If any one of the Big Three really gets developer tooling, it's Microsoft. Visual Studio is an absolute joy to use, and it has the best Vim integration of any non-Vim editor I've tried. C# is getting better and better with every release; I wish I could use it everywhere.
0) Ask said company for a whooping $8B in cash.
The article also fails to mention the existing defense relationship between Pakistan and the United States, and the United States' imperative to make sure that India and Pakistan both fear the other enough to not do anything rash.
I've been treated unethically by four relatively senior employees of Slack myself. It never occurred to me to complain until they started acting so holier than thou.
MS has already added enough value for us to switch over. I work in life sciences and the fact that they are HIPAA compliant makes this a no trainer for us.

I don't think people are hating on slack here, it's just that what they do isn't nearly as hard to u.plement as they seem to think it is, so a letter like this just comes off as pompous.
Unfortunately, the truth is not somewhere in between.

"The drop in homeownership is largely due to a delay in homebuying by the millennials, who have the lowest ownership rate of their age group in history. Millennials are not only burdened by student loan debt, but they have also delayed life choices like marriage and parenthood, which are the primary drivers of homeownership. "

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/28/millennials-cause-homeownersh...

Can Millennials Afford The American Dream?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerrizane/2016/01/24/will-millen...
Still doesn't make sense in the context of a network card. There must be an interrupt to pre-empt the system or there's gonna be packet loss.
A developer who isn't responsible for justifying project budgets you mean.
Derren Brown did the same thing with horse racing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX94fV4TWbc
Except this was a prediction that was done formally for the Boston Globe, at their request. You can see their article about it here:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2016/10/04/group-g...
Yes, it's becoming unrelenting. On the one hand you have pieces like this lamenting the "high" pay of engineers. Nevermind how much value they add or CEOs that make orders of magnitude more money. On the other we have articles like the one yesterday saying how _so many_ qualified women are being passed up on engineering positions due to the patriarchy (technical interviews) -- directly contradicting this article stating talent is being aggressively hoarded.

There's a push by the media and investors in every direction to lower engineering salaries (through shame or increasing the supply of engineers). Some is profit motivated, some is probably motivated by jealousy but together there's a theme that engineers are in some way privileged and undeserving of what they earn. Given how incredibly difficult and time consuming it is to become a good engineer I suspect all this whining will not accomplish much.
oh Verilog is so pretty, I missed coding it so badly, compare to VHDL it is very easy and has less bug, try nested without else in VHDL !
i enjoy the built in gifs and emojis but thats about it
On what sort of timescale?
I doubt it would be a viable option in our lifetime, yet someone has to take first steps.

Few hundred years from now people may appreciate the foresight.
Neural Style Transfer for Chinese Fonts
What's the draw of an ebike vs. a low-end motorcycle?

Also, one very simple answer is that the Bay Bridge isn't passable on anything short of a 250cc motorcycle and won't be until 2018.
> ...nor will they cooperate in making an efficient system.

You mean like the rest of the world has already proven to be doable? What makes this area unique?
> threaded conversations

How does an instant messaging app not have threaded conversations?
But we don't know how many other predictions were also formally done, by other entities. We're only hearing about this one because it was right.
The Importance of Time Management
I don't think YC's brand has been criticized much more than it has in the past. I think the Thiel drama is the worst they've had to deal with in the past year or two.

Where have you seen more YC promotion?
I like Chromebooks for the OS, not for the hardware, so I use Secure Shell with tmux & vim.
Korg essentially disrupted an industry doing exactly the rules outlined in the innovator's dilemma.

Starting with the monotron, then the monotribe, the volca series, now the minilogues. They're the only big 3 (roland, korg, yamaha) who has a competent analog synth division. The other two are stuck continuing to double down on their digital recreations of classic analogs (roland ACB)
How to build your Snapchat audience
Most vape stores sell unflavored e-juice + nicotine. I buy the high strength stuff (24mg) and dilute it to 6mg.
And they pay the taxes for you with cash? Interesting. Seems like a bad use of capital when there are other options available. Unless of course they have a source of secondary funding that employees can take advantage of.
Think of the leading commas as being the same as leading AND/OR in a where clause or a leading JOIN in a join clause. I used to prefer the commas after the column names as well, but I've since been converted to the wisdom of placing them to the front. It does take a little while to get used to it, but now I visually prefer it and find that I can read my SQL and find any potential issues much faster. Plus its much better for dynamic SQL and refactoring SQL statements.
Ask HN: What is a “boring” web stack?
There have been threads recently lamenting how many in the web community often chase new and shiny. Many advocate choosing "boring," tried-and-true technologies for the web. What are the "boring" stacks that you see successfully used for the web? If you were starting a new web project today, what would your "boring" stack look like?
If you want to go GApps free, I recently wrote about this. It's very short but points to where to find more.
https://blog.adilparvez.com/post/2016/10/31/1/cyanogenmustar...
A 1.2 MB blog post complaining about bloat.
This is a really cool project. It is scary that there isn't a really open mobile platform a la desktop Linux as usable as Android as iOS when it looks like more and more computing will be done on mobile devices. This looks like a really smart way to let Android be what it claimed to be -- an open phone operating system.
Note that this question is not the same thing as "what programming language should be taught to children?". It's aimed instead at adults who want to learn something about computer programming but didn't have the opportunity or inclination to pursue programming as children.
That's not what they're doing at all though... they're looking to use entanglement to explain space time, not use space time to explain entanglement.
In response to such skepticism, reporters come up with their own questions and ask UNU to make predictions. And the reporters monitor the process. That's what this set of picks is - it was done for the BOSTON GLOBE, at their request, with their own participants:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2016/10/04/group-g...
Drawing a timing diagram is the same as thinking about how a CPU will execute instructions that you write or your compiler spits out.

Optimization is important in hardware due to cost, speed, and power implications of hardware design. These tradeoffs are there for software design as well, but to a much less extent.
CoreOS introduces Operators to streamline Kubernetes container managemen
I really need the D-sub game controller ports. Like I'm supposed to buy $50 of dongles just to hook my controllers up to a new computer? Ridiculous. I'm switching to C64 instead.
You can still do that by sending raw midi data. Just a note immediately followed by a pitch bend.

Something I still wonder though is how serious this microtonality thing is. Is it more of a gimmick or it there a serious demand for it?
I'm still waiting for the Chrome extension which loops gifs only when I hover on them.
The reason why we started using Slack is simple. Its simpler than IRC and accessible to non techies and it's free (compared to HipChat and others from that time).

Not marketing, or features or UX - price was key for us.

I still hope Slack wins, but MS is a very serious threat. In the end its best for us, users - prices will drop, new features will be added, support will be awesome all thanks to competition.
Emojis Are Becoming Hyper-Realistic and That Is a Bad Thing
> Then do so.

Sorry, I should have been clear: I do believe that my explanation (women quit more because they have a stronger prior of tech not being for them) is much stronger and more likely than yours. At the very least, its assumptions are backed by basic evidence (that there are fewer women in tech to look up to as role models).
The Perfect Presidential Stump Speech
How does Indian government financing ISRO have anything to do with the cost of the rocket? ISRO is wholly owned by the Government. Would the cost of building the rocket be substantially higher if it was a private company? Nope!

SpaceX is developing technology that makes "space travel cheaper" not "deploying small satellites cheaper". Both fall into different categories altogether.
A link to the blog post would be more descriptive and insightful.
>just rewrite flash for WebAssembly

FTFY.
I run Cyanogen Mod on my phone without any Google services. I would like to see local bus times on my phone, but the app for that won't run without the Google map API. It's the same with many other day-to-day things I would like to do with my phone, but can't. Android without Google is a hobbled and limited experience.
Flatiron, Foundation Medicine Link Records of 20,000 Cancer Patients
Surviving Electmageddon: Protecting against a wave of DNS outages
Does Slack even allow on-premise installs yet? That instantly disqualified them from the last 3 jobs I've had. (All of which had data protection issues that prevented them from using off-premises IM systems, mostly HIPAA regulations.) Microsoft's got that market already sewn-up, right out of the gate.
> Searching history can be a bit of a pain

Doesn't really give an edge to Slack since their search is awful as well.
Note that I also added some information about a very specific side effect of global warming, which is less often discussed.
According to the article:

"A group of Boston Globe readers accurately predicted nine of baseball’s 10 playoff teams after participating in a 30-minute online experiment using Unanimous A.I.’s Swarm Intelligence on Aug. 3."

So they don't credit the AI as much as the readers. I agree it is all fishy. Someone trying to pump up the value of their company.
After instinctively reading the headline in a Rob Ritchie voice I am realizing I may have watched the West Wing too many times.
Well, The Boston Globe only made the one set of predictions.
Edward Snowden's Lecture at McGill University – Nov 2nd, 2016 – Start ±1:16:20
Here's a direct link to the GIF search engine: http://deepgif.tarzain.com/

It's really incredible how it finds phrases like "clapping man" and "laughing dog".
This comes up from time to time and I still don't see it. The idea of packaged web apps and web sites is as old as the smartphone (and older on some platforms). Even today, I can tell what experience on my devices are packaged web apps and I don't enjoy them. UI elements don't look right, navigation elements don't behave properly, keyboard shortcuts are wrong. Web apps can be sufficient for some scenarios, but they don't lack the magical feeling of native apps.
Which is not correct. If F-Droid’s reproducible build system can get the same result as your own build, you can distribute your own, self-signed version through F-Droid.

In other words, moxie is wrong. Again.
>you shouldn't call Mars a backup plan unless you're ok with people thinking they don't need to worry about Earth anymore, because Mars will be there if we ever need it.

That would make it plan A. Backup plans are for when the primary plan ends in failure. Obviously a tiny city scraping by on Mars by itself while billions die in WW3 is not the goal.
Hospitals of the National Health Service NHS network were paralyzed by a malware
Inside Intel’s race to build a new reality
You retrospectively picked the winner (Facebook) of a bunch of companies in the same race. How would you have picked Facebook in 2007?
e.g.

MySpace vs. Lehman Brothers

Bebo vs. Lehman Brothers

Friendster vs. Lehman Brothers
etc
Well, exercise your privilege and correct them.
Or, in my case in that school exercise: "I cheated." And so did the other finalist. But he was a known scoundrel, and I was the 'nice kid.' The last coin flip was the only one that was monitored. I won, and it was hailed and a just result. So, it's not all luck.
Weirdly, I had an opposite experience as an intern in DRDO. I found the employees wasting enormous amount of time on tea/lunch breaks and waiting at the swipe gate 15 min in advance in the evenings to bug out. The low level cadre are the worst in this. Scientists (regardless of their level) seem to be passionate about their work but the support personnel assigned to them hinder a lot. A lot of manufacturing (and design) seem to be outsourced to third parties and the highest cadre is busy minting money from these contracts. I felt sad about state of things during my internship - considering that it was known to be in great condition when APJ was around.
Ten years of KVM
How about a web spec for creating sandboxed native UI? Would go nicely with WASM.
This is tautological.
Still, this is not "AI" in the traditional sense of the phrase. Asking a bunch of humans and then deciding an outcome is not AI.
18F is/was most definitely contributing to vets.gov.

https://www.vets.gov/playbook/platform/

I'll give vets.gov credit for mobilizing content with responsive design.

But as expected, "uber-portal" strategies that re-purpose content from other sites quickly suffer from entropy and information rot. The portal just becomes a cut-n-paste curation exercise.
We're actually investigating switching over to an XMPP server and completely ditching slack. No-one in the company uses it, no-one likes using it and XMPP just seems to work.
IBM: Mind reading is less than five years away. For real. (2011)
Apple's add was rebellious in the sense that they weren't trying to intimidate or smear a competitor, they wrote a genuine welcome. Slack's ad, by comparison, is a passive aggressive roommate leaving weird, indecipherable post it notes on the fridge.
As I said it actually costs less money to own where I live. With FHA loans very little capital is required up front. You just don't get to live within the city proper and instead have about a 15 - 20 minute commute. I've spoken to dozens of young professionals (most of whom make much more than I) about this, they'd like to own in center city but that isn't happening so they rent.

I'm a highschool dropout who has no familial support. If I can do it so can someone with a college degree and better access to opportunities as long as they are willing to make the same sacrifices.
I agree it would be great to show where the code is being called from, but often we have queries that are called from dozens of different places and it would be unwieldy to add all of those. Plus, if one time a developer starts using a query somewhere in the code and forgets to add that place to the query, all of the sudden all places where the query is called from becomes suspect. I think it is better to give your query block a unique name or namespace that allows you to quickly search all of your code for where that name is used.
Apollo Client 0.5
Then the microG developer just has to move to the EU, where APIs aren’t copyrightable, even if closed, and you have the right to reverse engineer existing software for interoperability with your own software, or for third-party reimplementations.
Awesome! Thanks for the recommendation.