skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the first and last statements contradicting, I mean that when my family uses the network in the ways I have anticipated and built around, it works consistently and without interruption. This is different than saying it just works for everyone and anything they want to do. I think "just works for everyone doing anything" is what people want, and expect when they spend hundreds of dollars on a product, but I don't believe that's possible when you're dealing with the current state of the art in computer wireless networks. You need to take into account the environment and the requirements.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13207268

No idea it would get that big
Heart attack risk doubled for people with less education
Are any real numbers available? Has the game actually lost money? Maybe investors have been riding a bit of a bubble, assuming that Pokemon Go would be the norm rather than the exception for mobile games based on venerable Nintendo franchises.

Criticizing the payment model seems fair, though. However cynical and toxic you might think the typical mobile game's monetization scheme is, when in Rome...
My email is in my profile. :) tapan (AT) karecha (DOT) com
> Can we stop the "sellout" business? Having a clearly stated and one-click reversible whitelist is neither dishonest nor bad for the user.

It is dishonest and bad for the general public. Users expect their adblocker to block adds; not block 'some' adds because of Mafia practices, or corruption (ie. advertising companies paying large, inappropriate sums of money to the company behind ABP in order to be whitelisted by default).

> I like having the option to support sites I enjoy without massively inconveniencing myself.

You can still do this on a case-by-case scenario with uBlock Origin.

> You prefer maximum adblocking, and that's fine, but there's nothing at all wrong with giving us both the choice.

This is false dichotomy. You have the same very choice with uBlock Origin. And uMatrix for that matter. I'm also not taking away your choice; nothing prevents you from installing and using ABP. What I will not do is stopping calling what ABP does sellout. Because as I argued above it is corruption.

On top of that, uBlock Origin is performance-wise better than ABP [1].

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#performance
They deliberately neglected to mention how often the top comment pointed out factual inaccuracies in their stories though.
Then you don't know too many wealthy people. :) There are plenty that manage to achieve very, very low total tax rates. (i.e. <5%)
Basically Pauli can't get his dear theory to work so has to invent magic dark matter to get the theory to match the experiments. This 'quantum' atom looks more and more like ptolemaic epicycles.

Clearly we need to throw the theory away and start from scratch.

[this being the internet: /s ]
There is no reason to ever build another coal plant in the United States
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According to Reuters[0] about 8% of all downloads converted to sales for the full game. That's not that bad technically, but I guess expectations were high after Pokemon GO.

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nintendo-supermario-idUSKB...
This strategy plays constant small wins against the occasional big loss. If you start your runs with one dollar, you can only win one dollar in any given run, but you can lose your entire budget on any run.
It doesn't have webhooks, but it has a full API. You could use CircleCI or another build tool to publish your site when you push to GitHub. This way you also get more control over the build process and can use tools other than Jekyll.

https://neocities.org/api

You could also create a webhook using their API and AWS API Gateway + Lambda.
Not really - opposing this is natural for the liberal democrats who have consistently been the biggest party consistently pushing for the right to personal privacy.

Everyone trashes them for supposedly just bandwagoning on student loans and not backing it up, but they were the junior partner in a coalition - right now we are seeing the proof that their involvement held the conservative government back from a huge range of terrible policy, which they are now pushing through given their full government.

It's a travesty the Lib Dems got slaughtered, right after proving their value.
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Or rather it gives grounds to UK courts to rule against the Snoopers' Charter over and over. It's very unlikely the ECJ will ever get back to this topic; like the US Supreme Court they carefully choose what to accept for review, and they don't like to repeat themselves.
Once you understand how it all works, I'll grant that that can take years, it doesn't take much time at all to debug upstream code. Just last night I was playing around with the jsonapi-resources gem, and found an issue that was keeping me from being able to dynamically generate resources. After realizing I couldn't work around the issue through more metaprogramming, I set about monkey-patching the code.

It got too late so I couldn't finish the job, but once I do, I'll get it working for my project, then package it up and make a pull request so I don't have to support it myself.

Ruby is definitely wizardry but it's accessible wizardry.
I'm quite sure Ireland didn't give the tax break to Apple without asking. If they asked they should have known that even asking for it is illegal in EU (and has been for a long time now). Or they are just plain stupid for having incompetent people deciding how their money flows.
Yeah that was a great thread. I was sad I didn't get my questions answered though :(
FWIW, I switched from an Apple router to a Google OnHub one, and it also works absolutely seamlessly. Tried a cheaper Netgear one inbetween and it was a nightmare. Sometimes it's better to just pay a little bit more money.
The point of my comment is that it's an ideal rather than a principle. If you concede that it is appropriate to control the lecture space, you concede that it isn't a principle.

At that point we are discussing the rules about when it is appropriate to have private controls on speech rather than our outrage at someone having a private control on speech.
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This only works for isolated features. As soon as it's some kind of refactoring or a feature that affects a lot of existing code, it's not viable anymore.
Ireland DOES grant that tax law to all companies within their borders, as the article clearly outlines.

From TFA, among other relevant paragraphs:

> It is important to note that the words “any aid” covers not only one-off deals between Ireland and Apple, but also any general provision of the Irish Tax Code that would encourage favorable treatment.
Thank you, I too was confused by this
I see "Next stop: Intel."

I sincerely hope that you test our Linux drivers (I work for Intel on them). We'd be excited to learn about anything you find. Please feel free to file bugs here (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mesa&comp...) and ping us on #intel-gfx on Freenode.
Agreed- it's just a hobby thing though.
I came here to snark this exact snark.
> it has always seemed like a platform most useful if you have something to promote

Twitter is most used for 2 things:

- to promote your own brand (which includes companies like CNN & Google, as well as authors, writers and celebrities)

- to gossip about what you ate for lunch, or how everything is falling apart and the world has never been so bad, or whine about Mondays

The users that do #1 tend to do very little of #2, and vice versa. Listening to #2 will add very little value to your life except extra anxiety and distraction, but #2 is needed because they're the people to whom brands are promoting themselves.

The problem is people keep coming back to Facebook to keep up with friends, and people keep coming back to Twitter to watch and participate in drama. The former will inevitably be more engaged with the advertising than the latter, and Twitter can't change that.
using java.util.Date O.O
Did you change your comment? I can't respond to your point if you respond to mine and then edit your comment to make it look more innocuous.

Also, just making the statement that capitalism is the best economic model doesn't make it true. Democratic control of the means of production absolutely makes more sense ethically and socially. I think it is quite possible we will see another big socialist revolution in our lifetime.
I have a Intel Atom 1.6 GHz/2GB of RAM netbook afrom 2009 with Linux on it, and Firefox/Chrome is the only unusable app on it; other Linux applications seem to be fairly responsive on the hardware.

I really feel the slowness on that one. Tab switching takes seconds, other interactions take seconds (especially on sites with javascript), Facebook.com is unreadable (script takes too long).

It is just an anecdote, but at least on Linux the browser is what makes older computers obsolete.

PS: Interestingly, some minimalist WebKit-based web browsers seem to work fine on there (like uzbl), of course that comes with a huge downside of no sync, practically no addons, and so forth.
They are not that good, rising mainly due to timing and the political climate.
Do the "requests" mean page views or http requests? A single page view almost always has multiple http requests.

Github really needs to add https support for custom domains. It's 2016, https should be the default.

[Reposting my comment]
What if I told you all product design is trapped in a box?
I don't think there is a useful distinction between PAGES and WEBSITES.

https://pages.github.com/ advertises Websites for you and your projects., and I imagine most of the examples they show at the top get more than 100k requests, since that's not all that much for e.g. documentation or demos for a reasonably popular project. (Although it is possible that the corporate-backed projects in there actually pay for Github, just not specifically for Pages).

Just to make it clear, I'm not criticising GitHub here: It seems like they uses this a guideline/reasoning help for when someone doesn't play nice, not as strict rules to enforce, which seems totally fair. They should absolutely do something against sites misusing this service. Demanding money for commercial use would also be possible option. (they of course are also free to make strict rules for all pages, but that would have a large impact for quite a few projects I imagine)
In some cases it's because .005% on billions of dollars is a better deal than 12% on zeros of dollars. These countries are competing with other countries on who offers the better deal to get a piece of the Apple/Google/whoever pie.
Also, yes, replacing wireless links with cat6 where possible is certainly the more reliable solution. Fixed location high bandwidth devices shouldn't be using wireless if it can be avoided at all.
> And how can I believe you? this is just too late.

Huh?

> You were spreading confusion by using a dialect of Lisp known only by you, that looked exactly like CL, without giving proper warnings.

It's a hypothetical example meant to illustrate an aspect of macro hygiene. Again, it's not a criticism of CL. Also, it's not "a dialect of Lisp known only by me". It happens to be EuLisp, which is what I've been working with lately, and I chose it because it was designed as a mix between CL and Scheme (and Le-Lisp, RIP) and I figured that, as such, it would be accessible to both Lispers and Schemers. Apparently, I was wrong.

> Fine, but this would have been the same if you used a nebulous "Scheme" without saying it so.

The specific language was irrelevant to my point. Only the semantics of defmacro and gensym were relevant.

EDIT - fixed a quote and some formatting
Firefox is going for at most N+1 cores worth of processes, as I understand it (one per core for websites and one extra for compositing and the UI) and is doing to use cooperative threading (Quantum DOM) to improve responsiveness within those processes without the overhead of running a process per website.
I keep seeing papers with the lede paragraph and sometimes the conclusions written in a different voice that the rest of the paper. I suspect "men of good faith but limited understanding" are contributing to the editing (;-))
> Are you saying you never have any wifi issues? Even every other month?

Correct. It just works. The base station I have is also really old at this point. It is the larger flat one without simultaneous 5g bought ~2008. I bought it after I went through some of the other cheaper options that would cause my VPN to drop randomly throughout the day.

I want to upgrade to something with the newer standards and more speed, but I'm worried about going back to an unstable connection. I've been thinking about either the Netgear R6400 or the Google wifi 3 pack.
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I believe "the last few years" is the wrong context. These tax deals began in the late 70ies, at a time where Potato and Fish were the dominant industries of Ireland. It's easy to forget that they've experienced massive economic improvements since joining the European Union.
do y'all really think Cinnamon is unpolished? I use a Mac at work and definitely prefer Cinnamon over the Mac interface
I like Perforce. It may not be perfect. But it's idiot proof.

"Days since gitastrophe" is a common phrase. There is no Perforce equivalent. You can't blow your leg off. There aren't thousands of "Perforce made easy" blog posts because it's actually easy. There are no "fixing my p4 repo" tales because it never breaks.

Thanks Perforce.
Yes, sorry for the cliffhanger, it turned out to be allergy to cow's milk protein (most probably as it's difficult to confirm). She was 5 month's old, and the treatment was the withdrawal of cow's milk for a year, then she was able to consume it normally.
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They actually did collect the information in question before it became a law.
Admittedly I did not read the whole post, but I agree that this sounds like the right answer. He made a mistake on master by merging a partial topic branch. The answer is to revert the mistake (git revert abc123) and then either rebase+merge or just merge the whole topic branch. I also don't agree with his conclusion that his way left the history in a better state - reverting the commit actually represents the mistake that was made.
The "defacto two party system" results from the first-past-the-post voting system, not the number of voters who cast their ballot for other parties.

Other parties got around 30% of the vote at the last General Election, but won only 13% of seats.

(It is also worth noting that the Liberal Democrats did not gain a "significant increase in votes" in 2010 (23%) vs. 2005 (22%), and that they won fewer seats in 2010 than in 2005.).
Just curious. How do you manage switching b/w the accounts. Just plain logout and login ?
If I'm voluntarily giving money away, I can think of many ways to better serve the common good than to give it to the government.
I love Prince. Prince was maddeningly talented, shockingly prolific, and produced an amazing and wildly underrated (still!) opus over his career. Prince will be remembered as one of the most important pop musicians in history.

Yet there is no 5 year stretch in Prince's career that compares to what Stevie Wonder did from 1972-1976.
RedHat
After the LHC, which will be crowned King Collider?
This exchange is pretty interesting. Cybiote – do you think it's possible for a person to do interesting work without formal graduate-level education?
Where is the line? Would templates files and view-models be in the front-end repo?
> most commands or command flags simply help the user do something in an automated fashion that you could do by typing each specific command out (i.e., git pull --rebase)

A tangent perhaps, but would you mind expanding on this? I use `git pull --rebase` frequently, and I'm not sure how this fits into what you described. Is it the specific command, or the automated shortcut? And what's the counterpart?

Just trying to check my mental model.
I believe from iPhone 6S and above, there's an option to just say "Hey, Siri" to activate Siri without having to touch the phone, so you can basically do the same thing with iPhones.
Really? I seem to remember that they paid VAT to Luxembourg, but had made a pretty good deal with the authorities that reduced their effective VAT rate to below 1%.
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True, you can, though I've never seen anyone actually do it. Not that I've read all the code out there or anything, far from it.
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The answer depends on whether this is "play money" or "my entire life's savings"....
Cool. For me it is this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYP56QJpDr4

I notice they are from the same publisher.
> So programming OpenGL, happens to be like trying to write web applications, while trying to make the code portable and bug free (with workarounds) across all graphic cards out there.

And it's much harder to test because you have to find the outdated graphic card, with the outdated driver, and have a machine where you can plug the offending card.
I'm not sure. Guess only a few thousand people attended? As it's on the front page of Amazon for a while, they probably sold a few million of those now. I know quite a few people here (UK) who got one, it seems very popular at the lower price.
Did those laptops start out as expensive as a Mac, or were they low end machines?
What about getting rid of a parasitic rent-seeking monopolistic offender that is currently holding your organisation ransom to the amount of almost one beeeeeelion dollars ? $927M buys you a lot of OpenStack, and no chains.
I think it is about as flawed as negotiated salaries by well qualified software engineers. I do not see clamoring for standard salary rate for $73K or some such in silicon valley because it is much more accessible to everyone. Instead we will negotiate and settle for 2-5x of that amount. Companies or people negotiate to get much better deal for themselves.
thanks for sharing!
I wish cloudflare had better tooling for a/b tests. I'd love to enable this option on our site, but without a/b test evidence that it won't affect conversions I'll never get buy in from management for a feature that likely won't affect our infrastructure. It might improve conversions through faster load times but I can't prove that.
DISA is a big group. They have mountains of RedHat instances already as well. I would bet they've probably got a billion dollars or so invested in the RedHat infrastructure.

If I had to hazard a guess without seeing the SOW/PWS, I would bet that most of this MS contract would cover desktop support services.

DISA supports IT services for a huge portion of the DoD. This is basically a Fortune 100 company in terms of employees and scale.
The former Googler who started that spreadsheet faced retaliation from management for that spreadsheet, actually.

"Former Google employee Erica Baker revealed in a flurry of messages on Twitter Friday that she faced retaliation from management after compiling a spreadsheet of employee salaries."

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/21/ex-google-employee-ex...
My Firefox goes higher than 100 tabs, I've actually installed an add-on called Max Tabs to limit it to 100 tabs.
Many organizations spend far more resources on empire building and ego stroking than implementing stuff that they actually need. FTFY
Governments fund their spending with more sensible tax methods? The incentives of a corporate income tax are wacky. It basically disincentives economic development. Also it's possible for multinationals to push income around and largely evade income taxes anyway, making them very unfair to non-multinationals.
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Let's meet in the middle and do it like Apple?

Also, as a consumer the "experience" seems to matter a lot more to me than ... whatever the other side of this argument is ... the hardship for programmers?

And since you're bringing up security: if there are security holes in GPU driver installations, I'd bet eliminating all the crapware would do a lot more for security than any number of updates could ever do.
wowser I just took a look at that. totally confusing, can not understanf why anyone in UX would find that acceptable.

I honestly think this Material thing is just a huge troll of the design community.
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He lost the meta-bet, which was that he could win big and win in court. Unless he was just doing it for publicity, he could have used his scheme to take small winnings for years.
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Who's not in the lazy club nowadays?
I agree. I think it's better to tax dividends higher, but say, not tax corporate profits. That would allow you reinvest most of those profits back into the business without taking a hit.
The Mac is not dead, maybe. Right?
no problem. hope it was an okay read :)
Thanks for the downvotes everyone. I was actually curious if that was the biz model here.
From the "git-pull" man page:

> Incorporates changes from a remote repository into the current branch. In its default mode, git pull is shorthand for git fetch followed by git merge FETCH_HEAD.

> More precisely, git pull runs git fetch with the given parameters and calls git merge to merge the retrieved branch heads into the current branch. With --rebase, it runs git rebase instead of git merge.
Mercurial bookmarks are equivalent to git branches, but Mercurial branches have no equivalent in git. In Mercurial, branches give you a way to track the branches a commit is a part of which is good for long-running branches (I think of things like master, maybe a long running refactor or major feature branch) while bookmarks are great for the more normal workflow of small, focused, feature branching. Neither of those are designed to cover a gap in the core design, they are a _feature_ of the core design that git doesn't even have.
+-1.5M DISA email users(Navy/MC unclass contracted separately) at 185M a year is quite a bargain.

Not to mention desktop/laptop OS, collaboration tools, web servers, forest/domain management at 800 sites in 70 countries.
The beginning "Dear Radioactives" is a classic, we even learnt it at school
Exactly. Some people never imagined Apple being more successful than MS.
Of course I agree with that. It is kind of cognitive dissonance in people that I should be able to negotiate a sweet deals for my 'humble needs' but companies must take most expensive deals for themselves.
Could you provide a translation?
Exactly. Who is going to want to live underground in a freezing wasteland for the rest of their lives after the initial novelty of 'being on Mars' wears off? Nobody even does that here on Earth, so why would they want to do it on Mars?

Floating around in aerostats on the cloud tops of Venus where it's roughly room temperature at 1 atm on the other hand... or living on the Moon where you can at least communicate with Earth in roughly real-time and are only 3 days away...