skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does anyone buy this product then? It seems to be effective enough to get your dog on a plane according to the testimonials.
Nice one for offering her help. I was taught to ask if the person would like "a sighted guide", and if they respond positively to follow up with "would you like me on your left or right side?"
So you are taking money out of social security and medicare which currently people earned (you return is somewhat proportional to how much taxes you paid) into a general pool? In that case, we should start applying FICA taxes on investment income also then because then it is a general tax.
Green Address is really good:

greenaddress.it
I had massive issues with the others (KDE5/Plasma, Unity, Gnome 3, etc). Cinnamon is actually the best in terms of usability. The other windoow managers were straight busted in terms of UI scaling, ability to sleep, disable the touchpad while typing, screensaver, etc.
I view Rand's work as being instrumental in the development of my worldview... and I can't recommend that most people read most of it.

She was a terribly novelist, but wasn't really trying to be a great one. She was using the novel format as a scaffold to hang her ideology upon for easier access to the masses. She did that passably in "The Fountainhead", which is at least a decent story. She failed utterly in "Atlas Shrugged".

If you're interested enough in Objectivism to read AS, I suggest you read "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" and "The Virtue of Selfishness". If you're still interested, AS provides additional insight and might be worth the slog.
Inkscape is actually perfect tool for these tasks. You can also use it to add some annotations while you're at it.
I would love switching away from the royal pain that is OSX and the increasingly worse MacBooks, but alas, I work in iOS development and making a hackintosh is too much of a gray area and fragile. I hate that lock in.
How does that work? I've never experienced more than 2 riders (each 1-2 people) on a ride, and thought they wouldn't do that?

In that case I'd definitely contact Uber. Sounds like the driver didn't drive as he was supposed to.
It's possible the taxi drivers refused the pickup because of the dog, not because of the disability.

There's apparently a view that dogs are unclean by some Muslim sects. So, those drivers may be passing by because of the dog. There is certainly some history: http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/11/muslim-taxi-drivers-...
I pity his sweet little dog. Bless her.
Try "brew install valgrind", you'll understand.
Webrtc is growing and improving everyday! We are aware of the current issue. Will resolve and update this comment.

Out of interest how would you have done your idea differently?
I upgraded from a $3200 rMBP (mid-2012) to a $1700 XPS13 i7 (9343/2015). The speed and battery life of the XPS13 have seemed on-par with the rMBP to me.

If I was underwhelmed about anything, it was the rMBP feeling slightly slower than the bottom-of-the-line MBP I got in 2010 with upgraded RAM & SSD.

Granted, the hampered rMBP performance was probably mostly due to that specific model being underpowered for the new retina display.
Gimp is never going to change radically, since it has already fixed an user base from people that surprising likes that horrible usability (they are everywhere read some of the comments in this thread), the right thing to do is to leave that software with them. Therefore keeping users with bad usability habits in their own little bubble, that being said, Qt developers could join forces to create a proper open source image editing app that makes sense for MOST users.
Ha ha I actually agree with you, but it's funny how you immediately dismiss any possibilities for potential condraticting evidence.

> outside crazy conspiracy websites

You could potentially dismiss any Web source with this standard. What makes a website a crazy conspiracy web site?

> basically no actual globalist on the planet

The un is literally a globalist organization that nation states voluntarily subjugate their natonal sovereignity to.

> literally zero.

There is never literally zero of people holding various political beliefs.

Anyways, I agree with you, but maybe you should reevaluate your critical thinking skills and base political assumptions.
Typical Hacker news BullSHIT.
Start with a 'WHY', lets make a discussion about nonsense
Actually I think Facebook's real name policy is a good example of a kind of subtle privilege. Specifically, if you don't have a western or "white" naming scheme than you are literally not considered to have a "real name" according to Facebook's algorithm. This has stirred up controversy before with Native American groups, LGBTQ people(the person who helped implement the Facebook genders had their own account suspended for "fake name"!), and and other groups. Facebook still hasn't put in place a policy for these people and for access to a significant social media to be denied due to assuming you have a "fake name" for not fitting in with a very narrow, very western white ideal(wasp?) of a name, is a pretty good example of a phenomenon that almost exclusively excludes minority demographics from a majority service or culture. Sure, it isn't something that will kill someone, but it kind of sucks and kind of leaves a demographic of people out in the cold and unable to participate in a big social media medium without faking or modifying their presented identity to fit in the conventions of a majority culture.
You can't expect every avenue to be chased down on a short form article (why does it have to be short, lack of disk space?) but WRT killer, achiever, explorer, social, some of the most powerful or memorable moments in games is a mix of them.

There's a GTA series game, I think GTA:SA but maybe wrong, where there are hidden things all over the map, and you have to do crazy non-game plot urban exploring like jump your motorcycle across a river to the roof of a building where you jump a ramp to the next building and hidden up some stairs behind an AC unit there's a treasure chest or whatever. And of course there's about 100 in this game all over the entire map. So it appeals to both the achiever who's gotta get that last one and the explorer who ends up pretty much walking every sq foot of the game and every obscure corner. Pretty cool. And yes I did get addicted and eventually found all 100 and got some kind of reward. This was 10, maybe 15 years ago, and the memory of the details of even which GTA game is weak, but the memory of the experience and how much I enjoyed it is very strong. Other GTA games didn't appeal to me as much because they didn't have a reason (meaningless counters) to explore the map.

Likewise there's some achiever / explorer in games like nethack.

A game like Minecraft (modded, anyway) hits all four categories to some extent or another, and is quite popular.
That's because image formats are (usually?) constrained to be rectangular. You want to use layer->transform rather than image->transform for what you want (and then probably want to crop so you don't have nothing in the background on the edge).
OmniDB 1.6.3 released
How are the original computer opponents able to play MarioKart?
I don't consider any alternative…
Yes, but who will be on call to manage, monitor, and fix it when it breaks? Answer: you! S3 is one of those things that's so cheap and works so well I'd never think of leaving it.

If it came down to it, you can lease dx lines from AWS to your datacenter switch and get 10 Gbs to S3 for pretty cheap.
>> There is no "glorious" PC hardware anymore

> Just built a PC at home for gaming and Windows tinkering, and I have to say - it feels pretty glorious.

Oh, I was just speaking about laptops since that is what the OP was talking about. You are absolutely right, building stationary setups is still lots of fun, probably even more than a decade or two ago.
> Brooklyn and Queens have subway networks that are each larger than the next largest subway networks in the US

Mainly because NYC is the only US city with an extensive subway system.
So here's a question that I continually ask myself as I work at my remote, salaried 6-hour-a-day developer job that I've been doing for the last year:

how do I know how much work is enough?

If I gauge by productivity, that's cool... I'll just be really fast and get my stuff done and then go play banjo or whatever.

But then when folks hand me a crufty WordPress site that is misbehaving and it could be anything between "visit the route that resets the route cache" and "debug three or four broken and unfamiliar JavaScript libraries and their interaction with terrible PHP code" there is a problem, because to my boss those could be the same amount of work.

When I am doing green field work, or working with very nice, clean technology that I understand well, it's easy enough for me to have expectations about how much to do, even (or perhaps especially) when I am dealing with a large, multi-month effort where there is a lot of fluidity in hitting specific goals.

But how do I say "oh, I worked enough today" if I don't have an hourly commitment? I agreed to a certain period of my time specifically because sometimes I look up and have worked 8-10 hours.

I'm the only programmer on my team, by the way, so there aren't a lot of metrics we can pull from about performance.

This is a real question I think about a lot, and I'd be happy for an answer: how do you set a workload expectation with no reference to how much effort or time I am expending when time estimation is difficult?
I read something by nasa many years ago. They were looking at games to keep people sane in confined spaces. There was also mention of people stuck in hospital beds using games.

Google around and you should find papers on vr games reducing requests for painkillers in children's hospitals.
A big part of Android's problem is that the permissions model sucks. Until recently, all permissions requested by an app had to be granted up-front as part of installing the app. Apps tended to request anything and everything for no good reason. This trained users to just click through the permissions screen without paying any attention to it.

The iOS model (and now Android model) of prompting for permission when the app first tries to use it is much more solid. If an app requests access to your contacts for no good reason, you'll get a fairly obvious prompt and you can say no. There's still some trouble with getting users to pay attention, but it's a lot better.

I don't see how this makes a store appear necessary. Android doesn't allow sideloading by default, and iOS can now sort of sideload apps using the new free signing stuff Apple put out. The limits on the number and duration of sideloaded apps make them impractical for selling legitimate software, but are no obstacle to malware.
You can run make with one click. If by "create a project" you mean, you want a GUI that writes Makefiles for you... that might not be included.
> And I'm sure he's particularly sensitive to these problems right now.

Why do you believe that?
* you decide on a team before you start doesn't seem to be true.

Most of the compliant about Google hiring practice has been along the line of, and I paraphrase "I was promised to be with a team or a position and then I got placed in a totally and differently unrelated position/team"
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
I'm all for options in the storage service space but "FS" signals (to me) that this acts as a (POSIX) file system. Does it expose NFS rpc? If not, what does an S3-like storage service API expose that basic HTTP/1.1 with eg. range request doesn't?
Intel is HERE’s new investor and partner on autonomous cars and IoT tech
Exactly the same here. I won't go through the [maybe] lengthy process of creating a new account to get a paywall then. Same goes with the privacy policy, I don't want to use it with my own PDFs and lose their rights or with other people's and screw things legally.
> but lost the popular vote (which is probably the biggest marker of a populist)

"Populist" is about his attitudes & political views, not about his relative popularity or the lack of it. It's related to "populace", not "popular".
I was under the impression that this kind of psychology (your subconscious thoughts drive who you are and you're mostly a passenger) was on its way out, academically speaking.

I got this from Invisibilia's "The Secret History of Thoughts", their first podcast from January 8th of last year.

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia
How would you even define unemployed in a vast part of India? There is quite an bit of informal economy. I think >94% don't even file income taxes (either too low an income or don't declare.)
I know it's just anecdotes, but I've simply never had this problem with Linux networking. In the last several years, I've switched from one low-end laptop to another, and they've all just worked with the wifi and Network Manager.
Call the police.

Call the police? You don't have enough proof, and shouting death threats at people isn't "harassment" anyway, it's just "free speech", so just grow a thicker skin already, and stop encouraging the death threats to be sent to you by being out in public like that!

You have a right not to be killed and you have a right to wash your clothes but you don't have a right to wash your clothes in that specific laundromat at that specific time.

Nice how you seem to have started to realize your logical conclusion was "but you don't have a right to wash your clothes without the threat of being killed", but tried to avoid it.

I know you are going to hate this, but why is it the first person to bring up race is usually someone saying that something is offensive or privilege?

A while back I criticized the "politics" "detox" on HN by saying that there are a lot of people who don't have the luxury of just saying "I'm tired of all this, I'll take a week off from it". They don't have that luxury because they're going to be bombarded with hate, and probably harassment and threats, no matter what they do.

Meanwhile there are a lot of other people who can simply take a week off: they don't face that constant bombardment, nobody will try to follow them around and keep forcibly exposing them to it, etc. This is what's meant by "privilege"; the people who can treat this as just something tiresome which can be safely ignored for a week are fundamentally living in a different world than the people who will be followed and threatened by it no matter what (because, let's face it, there are dedicated ragemobs out there which don't care if somebody stops reading one site, or going to one laundromat -- they'll track down phone numbers and home addresses and keep coming).

Getting the people who "take a week off" to understand that this is something unique to them as a class, something that others can't just do whenever they want, something that really is a luxury compared to the way others are forced by our society to live, is often very difficult, because when you live in that protected bubble you often are completely unaware of its existence. You don't face that kind of treatment, after all, and you think of yourself as average, so on average that kind of thing must be very rare or perhaps greatly exaggerated. Dragging people out of that bubble and making them confront the fact that no, it's not rare and no, it's not exaggerated (if anything, it's often understated), and yes, there are very clear patterns, based heavily in race and gender, which consistently appear to determine who gets the luxury of the bubble and who doesn't, is very hard, but necessary.
If you're claiming that women, in general, today on the internet face worse than death threats, you're going to need to provide proof for that.

And anecdotal evidence is not going to cut it, most people with an online presence get their fair share of death threats at some point.
> Its quite easy to talk of "short-term impact" and "long-term gain" when you're not facing any of the short-term impact yourself. I doubt you or your family went to bed hungry on any day during November and December. Millions of Indian families did, while they didn't have to. This could have been executed better.

Maybe not in November or December. But definitely in the past. But I did not and still do not hold any Government's policy decision accountable for my past situations. What I always look for is disruptions to existing systems. It doesn't matter who conducts these disruptions as long as it is done. These are very much necessary. For example, my father always says how lucky I'm that I now have access to computers and internet and he did not have any such facilities during his time. However, I realize that whatever I have today would not have been possible if not for bold reforms of the 1990s. Today I understand the necessity for disruptions. The longer you delay necessary disruptions the more hardship you create for future generations because innovations don't wait for you to catch-up.
Relevant: https://here.com/en/company/newsroom/press-releases/2016-27-...
Hi! We're the builders of Nines, looking for some feedback. At a super high level, nines addresses some problems with uptime monitoring solutions (such as the basic ping service that New Relic provides) by 1) allowing you to send probes at up to 1 second intervals, and 2) allowing multiple probes in a given time frame (to exercise load-balanced applications).

Let us know if you have any thoughts!
I didn't think I would, but I seem by those archetypes to land under "Achievers", this despite me never 100%:ing a game (the rare exception being Binding of Isaac, love the item synergy sandbox/breaking of that game), and hating achievements, never looking for collectables, etc.

I do however always accumulate/optimize for maximum ammo/currency/gear/weapons/items, to the point where I believe I completed >80% of Half-Life with the crowbar, to conserve ammo.

I also like you love singleplayer games and a well-written story, but I on the other hand hate open world games (because they're never open nor "worldy" enough), and equally hate too linear games (looking at CoD past 3 and the like).

I grew up loving games like Quake (for the multiplayer/mechanics/general tech side of it), The Longest Journey for the story, Half-Life for both aspects, and a bunch of games struggling with either storytelling/mechanics or other but loveable for their attempt at trying something more than they could achieve (examples being Outcast, Citizen Kabuto, Oni, Advent Rising, Too Human).

When thinking of what the last bigger/sorta AAA games I enjoyed playing was I think it's Half-Life 2 (kind of obvious), but also FarCry (1), Crysis (1, but also Warhead), Just Cause 2.

All of them had a story, most of them were open world and allowed you to approach a problem with undesigned solutions, which is what I really love.

I've bought GTA 4, 5, Far Cry 3, 4, Just Cause 3, and many many others, played them for less than a handful hours, and given up because it just feels like I have to churn this mill just to advance a movie, at which point I may as well watch a movie, or watch someone else play the game (which I now completely understand as a concept).

"Open world" games I've played in recent years - after the original concept of open world once went linear for consoles, and then consoles catching up enough to enable open world games again - don't seem to be so much about designing a world with some rules and a number of tools, but simply providing more than 1 or 2 designed solutions to a problem, which feels completely hollow to me.

I have no doubt that this is why MineCraft (which I haven't played much for lack of story/"game", although having plenty of sandbox/open world) and that genre has sprouted up to much success.

Sorry for hijacking. I don't know how this turned into a longwinded games rant, but it raised questions since I identified with you, while still feeling characterized under "achiever".
Git commit -a -m $(curl -L http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt )
Give Teams Ownership of Delivery
"Seriously? In a populace of a billion the death of 100 people for such a huge economic move is close to nothing."

This might be a stat for you but if it was your kin maybe you won't feel the same way.
Quantum computaters can do whatever classical computers can (and no more; they're just hypothesized to be more efficient for certain problems).
This seems related to thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13315993
A person's name is one of the strongest identifying factors there is. Even for people with common names, combining their name with other easily deduced information about them could easily lead to a unique identification.

For instance, if you looked through my HN or reddit comments, you could easily figure out roughly what area I live in, my occupation, my approximate age and many other pieces of information that would link back to my real identity. That information combined with my real name would uniquely identify me even if I had an extremely common name.
Someone already has: https://github.com/eschulte/curry-compose-reader-macros
>> the impression of maverick cops with this gung-ho attitude who investigate alone or with one partner.

You also forgot the bizarre way TV/Movies compare law enforcement agencies as well:

1) Local cops are the smart ones - FBI are the idiots

2) FBI are the smart ones - Local cops are the idiots

3) CIA/Gov Agents are the smart ones - FBI/local cops are the idiots

4) Local detectives are the smart ones - CIA/FBI/Gov agents are the idiots

It's kind of funny to see how each agency is either propped up or summarily demonized - and it changes in every movie or TV show.
I am currently using minio in a side project was going to ask how LeoFS compares.
Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI’s Do Not Call List
6 Ways You Can Learn SQL
The algorithm is sound given a proper min() implementation. The reader just needs to read at most however much data is available at the moment or however much data the passed-in buffer can hold. If the available data increases during this operation, it's no problem, because the reader is allowed to read less than all of the data available.

For some concrete numbers, if the ring holds 4 bytes, the caller passes in a 6-byte buffer, and a concurrent writer adds 4 more bytes, it's OK if the reader only returns 4 bytes. It would also be OK if the reader sees the new data and returns 6 bytes. It is not OK if the reader returns 8 bytes, which the incorrect min macro could cause.

In this scenario, the incorrect min macro could return 4, 6, or 8, despite the fact that one of the parameters was a constant 6 and the result should never exceed 6. The correct min macro always returns 4 or 6.
Both the surface book and surface pro are fully made of magnesium. The keyboard cover is actually amazing. I'm using it daily, no idea what it's made of, the texture is really nice to the hand. Anyways, I really prefer this keyboard over the MBP one (this one is more clicky).

Regarding the ugliness, that's matter of taste.
That's nearly as in "most of C's features are supported by C++", not "most of C++'s features are C features".
the laffer curve and supply side economics is junk/propoganda masquerading as economics. It's about as real as the scientific studies exxon releases against global warming.
As a counterpoint, I've been a daily Mageia linux user since 2011, and Mandriva since 2009.

I've had that "just works" experience for both of them, on a variety of cheap laptops, pretty much from the start. Whatever they do to detect hardware, it works.

I wouldn't even remember how to hand-edit a config file anymore, seriously. That knowledge is gone.
Wow. The sad state of journalism... and of critique from readers at this site.

Obviously bumping salaries by 1/4 is not reasonable.

In order for costs not to outweigh benefits that clinic would need to be some kind of utopia...
I don't think a govt would have any position on this. The law enforcement agencies are actively working on tracking and finding out these people which is how this came into limelight.