skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wish they (or a comparable competitor) opened up shop in Europe. Ordering from the US is doable, but the hit-or-miss import tax sucks, and for warranty the distance and economic zone mismatch mean delays and high shipping costs.

That said, they make great laptops. I love my four year old Gazelle.
I would switch to Linux in a heartbeat if Adobe and Autodesk had support for it.
Personal anecdote: growing up, the only time I used the front door was to speak to visitors and guests who rang the doorbell. My family and I never came home and used it to enter the house.
Staging, unstaging, and discarding line-by-line has been extremely flaky for me in v1 and v2. Often discarding a deleted line will insert the line in a completely unrelated part of the file, so instead of a deletion, you now have a deletion and an addition. And so on.

In combination with GitUp, it's still a great tool, but it could need better QA so that even edge cases are solid.
The Limits of Friendship
Why wait all this time to figure out they want to sue? FB bought occulus, Carmack Joined ... a few years later their lawyers wake up now? Anyone know more about this, or at least has seen similar strategies before? The only thing I could guess is that they waited until the goose lay an egg, which turned out not to be gold ...?
I'll attest to old homes being built or maintained poorly. Our house is over 100 years old and we've found just mistake after mistake. Galvanized pipes ready to burst when we remodeled the bathroom last year (a $20k job we did ourselves), to studs not being 16 inches on center to poor insulation (or no insulation at all) to outdated electrical to drywall over plaster and lath to multiple layers of flooring on top of each other. We've remodeled just about 1 room a year - we'll be done this year with the last bedroom.

We've brought everything up to code and anyone walking into the house says it looks beautiful but it's been a huge expense and time consuming doing 95% of the work ourselves.
Just write an 8 page paper on antimatter [pun intended].
Thanks, I'll only have one set of hashes. My question was really is it ok to use one key per table of hashes, or does it have to be one key per hash. I think you're saying one per table is fine, but wanted to be sure I wasn't doing it wrong. I'll have another look for examples.
And I hope GitHub stays incomplete! I don't need hierarchical access control to decide who can add, remove, and list issue labels, or whatever, just because some pointy-haired enterprise boss came up with that idea five minutes ago.
Shakespeare's work has had a broad and enormous impact on art and culture through out the centuries (English and Foreign) - that you are aware of the impact of the civil war (you were taught) but not the former (Wikipedia is a reasonable starting point), is a gap in culture and education but the point stands analogously.
> relations between the startups quickly soured

I wouldn't call Zenimax a "startup"
The solution "go generate" reminds me of the class generating tools that Borland shipped with their C++ compilers, before they added support for templates, back in the MS-DOS days!
Don't kid yourself. If IBM had thrown its weight behind FreeBSD instead of Linux in 2000-2001, Linux would be the greener-grass "what if?" OS and FreeBSD would be on most of our phones. Individual users had nothing to do with it.
Generate Slack alerts out of Elasticsearch queries
In the American system, the small parties making disproportionate demands are simply embedded within the larger parties and use the discipline of the two-party system to take it over.

All you need is a majority within a party that gets half the vote: 50% of 50% is 25%. This is why the Republican party has been taken over by an extremist who's unpopular with large chunks of his own party.
I think the point of the "Joker" archetype (as opposed to the "defector" archetype) is that the Joker's actions are purely malicious, not self-interested. In other words, nobody benefits, not even the Joker. In the movie this includes actions like burning money and blowing up hospitals; in real life, it could include actions like nuclear terrorism, destroying holy sites, genetically engineering plagues for the extinction of humanity, blowing up buildings, wanton destruction of famous landmarks, etc.

The idea is that when faced with an enemy whose actions are bad for everyone, all the people who previously had been engaging in conduct that was bad for everyone else but good for themselves will be forced to cooperate, lest the world burn to the ground.
Isn't medium going to add some ads any day now? Why are people worried about sustainability. Once the ads are there people will either put up with them or move on. I'm pretty sure I've seen this movie a few times now.
Meeple Like Us: Accessibility teardowns of board games
Reference frames are local constructs, they cannot be used to (uniquely) define simultaneity over large distances. The time of any single event is just a "tag" in relativity. In fact there are infinitely many surfaces of simultaneity that contain the merger of those two stars and meet the Earth at a particular time "t" in the range ~[-2000, +5] from now, so that it is equally valid to state that the merger happened ~2000 years ago or ~20 years ago, or that it has not happened yet.

For this reason, to avoid confusion, it is much better and customary to "tag" astronomical events by the time we observe them. That is to say that they happen when we observe them.
This is why I see no sense in even bothering with Google's IM offerings.

Is there any other company that's gone through quite as many IM offerings as they have?
This has been in the pipeline for nye on 3 years.

https://www.engadget.com/2014/05/01/zenimax-claims-oculus-st...
I think it's strange that the retroviruses are only half a billon year old. I'd have guessed that they are almost as old as the first cell, but I'm not an expert in this subject.

Do invertebrates/fungus/plante/archea/bacteria have retrovirus? Are they related?
Especially Romero's "resignation". if that played out a tenth of how it was written, that's devastating.

Admittedly, Romero was getting complacent and becoming more of the end-user than developer, but man... To get booted from your own creation with a prepared resignation letter, savage.
> I miss the incredible design and ambiance of the Art Nouvea neighborhoods in St. Petersburg and Barcelona. I've never found anything with quite that feel in other cities..

If you have the chance, Budapest is full of art nouveau buildings.
The E6400 series had it, but so did the T400/T500 ThinkPad line.

This is more of a processor family issue, not laptop manufacturer problem.
this is sad tho in some fields yahoo contributions where huge even as of today just look the research they published and contributed to in the machine learning field. this is definitely premium tech firm level
Why not? The "eligible compilation process" only covers the case where you wish to distribute your binaries under terms other than GPLv3. In other words, using a non-eligible compilation process forces you to redistribute binaries under the GPLv3.

If commercial clients get a GPLv3 license from the PaX team, they are entitled (in fact forced) to distribute binaries under that same license, and whoever gets them can ask for the source and then proceeed in doing the same.

GPLv3 working as planned.

(Also, remember that the main difference in the GPLv3 vs. GPLv2 is that the former considers SaaS as a form of distribution, so SaaS users can ask providers for the source of any GPLv3 software they might be using while providing the service.)
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Yep, hence the pun
I doubt it's about patents, since Carmack himself wouldn't be involved if it was.

This seems to be a copyright issue, i.e. whether Carmack did a ctrl+c, ctrl+v on something he didn't own. Alternatively perhaps Zenimax has additional and convincing information about how the works in question was re-implemented. Was it done by Carmack himself, or did a team implement it from his specification?
Sorry, I was referring to the specific examples you provided. While those flames would indeed look different, those differences would be completely overshadowed by the differences in exposure. In one case you have flames that are _completely_ blown out (due to the dark surroundings), and in the Slow Mo Guys video the camera has been set to capture the details of the flame.

There are absolutely differences between various flames burning in various conditions. When it comes to burning hydrocarbons (propane, methane, kerosene, gasoline, etc), that difference has more to do with the fuel/air mixture than it has to do with the specifics fuel. It is a lot easier to get a good fuel/air mixture when burning a gas like Propane. When a pool of liquid is burning, it is almost impossible to get a good mixture of fuel and air (even with a bunch of fans), so it is burning fuel rich, resulting in a lot of unburned fuel intermixed with the flame.

I would suggest Periodic Videos recent video about the bunsen burner. They achieve both sorts of flames you're talking about with a single fuel source (methane).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in9BGz958jg
I was initially surprised to see a bunch of LastPass Javascript at the top of the page.
So, as usual, the public support will depend on who can dig up more headline-worthy dirt on the other party.
Agreed.

The side door, or door leading to the garage, is probably the most used exterior door in an American home. And ideally that's where a mudroom would be.
I feel like I see this headline every 2 years and nothing seems to change.
I don't think you're being downvoted by people who necessarily disagree with you. I think you're being downvoted out of fatigue. Not EVERY thread needs to pivot to discussing Trump's latest tweet, or how deplorable everyone over 30 is, etc.
Viruses like HIV have been attacking immune systems for half a BILLION years
Nowadays, that's not an issue with Windows. On all my machines, the drivers either came with Windows or Windows downloaded them from Windows Update.
Does Russia have an equivalent of ITAR? If not, that could partly explain why US aircraft are less commonly sold.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arm...
Hm, actually: https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts/issues/114/go...
Please see my other reply below. Reference frames are local constructs. There is no such a thing as a (unique) reference frame of the entire galaxy that can be used to define simultaneity. In fact there are infinitely many of them.
I've been running a full system upgrade (now in https://github.com/l0b0/tilde/blob/69f7997f77f1a380be89d36e2...) just about daily on my desktop and two different laptops for years, which even Arch people seem to consider too bleeding edge. As long as that keeps working infinitely more often than an Ubunto upgrade I'll keep doing it. Nobody was more surprised than me, but rolling distros (or at least Arch) are fantastic.
And what about when the dollar was on par not too long ago? Difficult to factor in exchange rate.
I feel your pain and sadly, the only way I could find around this issue was to use a virtual machine running Windows 7 with Office 2010.

I have used Libreoffice's Writer with some degree of success. My dissertation was written in it and some of its specific features are actually more advanced than the Word counterparts, mainly: automatically numbering pictures and tables, auto-TOCs and formatting styles. Word does all that but Writer is way more flexible in this regard.

What I couldn't adapt to, though, was the gap between MS Excel and Libreoffice's Calc. The difference in functionality and usability is huge :-( Just try to properly format a bunch of cells in Calc and you'll realize how cumbersome and painful it is.

The virtual machine approach works nicely but then you have another box to mantain. Since mine is just for Office I leave it Internet-less and that makes for another set of adaptations (ex.: how to put and remove content to the VM, need to use CIFS/Samba for that, etc).

o/
The One Thing That Will Destroy Your Startup and How to Overcome It
Really? If you were to ask me and my friends "which company made Doom 2016 a success", we'd reply id Software, not ZeniMax.

The "video game consumer audience" probably doesn't even know ZeniMax exists.
It is okay on my Mac (except ugly and slow as molasses), but my Windows coworkers have been complaining about crashes, HiDPI problems and missed notifications for ages.

The editing function is embarrassingly bad. I get it, I've been on IRC when Perl was cool, but I can't believe they're shipping that. I don't think I've seen a non-programmer use it, ever.

I've also never felt so unwelcome in a bug reporter as in HipChat's. It really reminded me that Atlassian sells to suits, not to users.
I don't think sociopathic is an accurate characterization. Carmack's behavior struck me as similar to someone with Asperger's Syndrome (based on the Masters of DOOM book.)
Would it be faster then Virtualbox? I'm emulating Ubuntu on Linux with Virtualbox but perhaps switching to VmWare, Parallels or maybe VirtualPC will result in better performance.
Multiprocessing and multithreading in Python 3
You're correct. A good bit of my karma comes from doing exactly that. Plus, they almost universally hate comments about downvotes. So, two reasons to simply write a civil counterpoint that doesn't use that word at all.
Interesting concept, but do we really need to make web sites even slower to load?

---

START OF RANT

If you block ad-blockers (like forbes.com just did to me), I will only share your articles via archive.is .

Sure, your children may starve to death, your wife may leave you but don't blame me because in the end you did all this to yourself. I was happy to use your site when it had a couple of non-intrusive text ads to pay the bills but then you went to fill 60% of the screen with flashing images, autoplaying videos and malware installing flash ads.

END OF RANT
I tinkered with the hangouts API a year or so ago, and got an e-mail from Google last week about it being discontinued. So not really 'quietly', they notified people who were using it by e-mail.

On a side note, the API was so broken, badly documented and useless that when we evaluated embedding an app into hangouts it just seemed as a half-arsed effort by Google to expose an API, and it was clear that they didn't really want people building apps inside hangouts. which is a shame, it seemed as a nice platform to extend with collab tools. I'm not at all surprised this got pulled.
Seems like it's the right time when we have made an easy importing from Trello. Many people migrate to Kanbanchi.
Can Online Delivery Increase Access to Education? (Results from Georgia Tech)
I beg to differ. Even without mentionning "exotic" manoeuvers such as what you can perform successfully in flight simulators (that may not be as easy to do in reality), the electronic war superiority demonstrated recently by Russians would let me believe that they could easily approach any US target. And let me tell you, it's very difficult to hit a close target when you only have long range missiles...
There is indeed room for improvement. I wish they would listen more the users or do ergonomic evaluations of the interface. Since the recent reduction of the team I'm afraid they are now more focused into finding money and a viable business model than enhancing the interface.

My attention to Medium was attracted by some of their high value articles that were referenced on hacker news or reddit. I though that it must be a very good journal. This is a successful result.

Now that I installed the app and browse articles on Medium I feel like I can't find the start of the long tail. I wish I could adjust the signal to noise threshold.
I'd say nature is the best example. Natural hazards with immediate and predictable effects are much like the joker. It hurts producers and freeloaders equally, and everyone sees them coming.

The dutch 'polder' politics seem like a very fine example of this. I imagine predators are another example. As are very periodic floods or droughts.
Because h1b visas are not immigration. The foreign workers have almost no leverage and have to leave the country if they were fired and unemployed for a few weeks. Even if they start with market rate salaries over time they will earn less on average than an american citizen because they can't just leave their current employer and switch to a better paying job.
Architecture in building chatbots
There is no such obligation when the question is ridiculous. We might feel that all other drivers are completely self-absorbed and unreflective over others' viewpoints and motives, but I don't think I know anyone who would take it to be literally and universally true. I am beginning to wonder whether you have a genuine difficulty figuring out other peoples' thoughts and emotions.
Objective-C vs. Swift
It worked so well that C11 now supports a kind of lite generics.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/generic
I don't think most developers, if any are mass-ignoring software patents that they are aware of... beyond this, software patents shouldn't be allowed in the first place. Anything done purely in software is mostly derivative and tasks that anyone skilled in what is being developed could come up with, without intentionally infringing.

Software patents, and in fact most patents should go away.
From the article: "The difficulty in curbing partisan gerrymandering has not been in convincing judges that the practice is unconstitutional—the Supreme Court has found that it is" where the part "the Supreme Court has found that it is" is a link that goes to this case: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1985/84-1244

That page then summarizes the Supreme Court case as follows:

Question

Did Indiana's 1981 state apportionment violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Conclusion

No. [...]

So... Am I misunderstanding something, or is the article's claim completely wrong? In which case, I'd guess that its optimism is unfounded.
Ah, that's quite nice! Although I'm not sure what use case I'd like to use it for... Although... I do have an old i486 with SB AWE32 with some sound software that only runs good enough on metal (not on dosbox). Now I can run it headless... at least if I can get an UTP cable there.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13360673
If you want to be pedant, the energy from the combustion is released in the form of heat (some of which is called radiation (some of which is called light)).
We're not privy to the discussions around her becoming CEO, but I'd imagine everyone involved in the decision was fully aware of Yahoo's predicament.
Well, there's currently an invite only preview of a totally new experience, and it's focused on enterprise users, and no one really used this API, so what's the big deal?
The necessity of having tools like MRI available to doctors can't be underestimated. Yet comparing doctors because of their use of tools such as sectioning to the complexeties of cloud distributed debugging on the blockchain can only yield unsatisfactory results.
Are you increasing traffic with web push notifications?
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> My guess is that there could be some contractual agreement to forbid sharing of the GPLv3 source?

That would negate the GPLv3 itself. What they (the PaX team) can do is provide an exception (like GCC does) to let the client use it while not having their (the client's) own code infected by the GPLv3.

The client would still be entitled to distribute the software they got from the PaX team to another party, which would receive it under the same terms.
Yes, the story here is that new Intel platforms expose such debugging functionality over regular USB ports. This is not what most people expect, so it's newsworthy.
type myInt int

func (i myInt) Foo() {}
> the UX of Github makes it worth the extra expense.

Github UX is weird. It looks nice, and there's lots of nice functionality. But it often takes lots of rummaging to find the things I need, unless I do them every week. Bitbucket and Gitlab seem to be laid out better. Github is the only site I use regularly where I need to refer to notes.
Do accountants assume liability on bad advice?
That's what I was taught in the Navy for my various firefighting courses - along with types of fires, how to handle the various types, and so on. Very useful stuff.
Show HN: A Skeletal Animation System in your browser using dual quaternions
I hate adBlockers as much as the next guy. But it's mostly a brainfart to see if I, while stoned, can make a better adBlock detector then companies that pour a lot of money into it.
The design of Chacha20
Rituals of shaming in the software industry
Aaron Swartz seemed to not know how the world actually worked. It isn't a bunch of rational actors that love tech and information. Quite the opposite. One can't save the world without first diving deep into how it works. One then realizes there's stuff they can and can't change on top of lots of biases and trends in responses. Then, one builds on those elements of human nature to focus on the things they can change.

He didn't do that. Instead, he focused on what can't be changed by committing an illegal act with hope it would be meaningful to society or courts. The result was that he killed himself after that failed catastrophically. We might learn a great deal from Aaron Swarts but not how to change the world. He's the least qualified to tell us about that because it appears he never understood it to begin with.

Instead, we can just learn from and remember the good things he did that his mind was uniquely capable of doing. He has quite a resume of that. This approach is honest and gives him due credit.
Occult entities from Haitian Voudo occupying cyberspace is a central theme of William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero & Mona Lisa Overdrive, snip:

Bobby took a deep breath. "Lucas said that Jackie's a horse for a snake. Can you run that by me in street tech?"

"Certainly. Think of Jackie as a deck, Bobby, a cyberspace deck, a very pretty one with nice ankles." Lucas grinned and Bobby blushed. "Think of Danbala, who some people call the snake, as a program. Say as an icebreaker. Danbala slots into the Jaekie's deck, Jackie cuts ice. That's all."

Okay," Bobby said, getting the hang of it, "then what's the matrix? If she's a deck, and Danbala's a program, what's cyberspace?"
Meh. Back in the early days of Medium, it was a good place to discover new writers. I remember when they had 'collections' and you could create your own collection really easily (say, for a writing group or special interests) and moderate who published what in there.

Very quietly, they removed all that. I found my posts getting less and less visibility on there until all the 'no name' authors like myself simply disappeared as we were pushed aside by the 'big names' in the Internet world.

Nowadays it seems that you need the magical "Recommended by Medium Staff" or "Recommended by Ev Williams" to be even seen by more than 20 people on that platform. I obviously don't know the secret handshake to get those monikers on the top of my posts. I have seen some inane drivel tagged with those magical words, and I have seen some though provoking articles with only 2 or 3 likes in a whole year because they missed the blessing.

Like Twitter et al, unless you know how to game the system, or you are a part of the 'in crowd', then it simply seems to be a waste of time to try and participate.

This may seem like a bitter rant, and it is, in large parts. But I wish there was another independent blogging community out there which works a little like HN. At least here, 80% of my posts go relatively unnoticed, but at least 20% will elicit some interesting discussion and interest.