skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the big push to kill DST just because it requires you to go to bed an hour early, once a year, or be tired? When I think on the fact that I often sleep in 3 hours later on weekends, it's hard to see the big deal.

I love DST. I get to be outside in the sun more often, and for more time. I get to go for runs without being blinded by headlights.

Edit: The only issue I picture would be the confusion of going to sleep too soon after sunset. Admittedly I'm in a lower latitude where this isn't such an issue. In a place like Toronto, it might be pretty bad in June.
While its target release isn't till 2019, this looks promising (speaking from my visually-abled perspective, admittedly): https://dotincorp.com/about/entertainment/
That headline would probably fare a lot better here, though.
I do actually: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/60/9/950/ (men advantage on various logic tasks)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080303120346.h... (girl advantage on language processing)

So it appears gender doesn't define an absolute of interests, but it provides amplification to certain interest. So of course you can gather hundreds of women who love math, logic puzzles and D&D; which is great, but is not relevant when talking about predisposition (but about conclusion)
Is XDR in wide use? Don't think I've ever seen it in the wild.

Edit: Apparently used by NFS and ZFS.
Like Altman, I am amazed that this is not inflaming the community again. In order to pass an unpopular law, you just need to try to pass it several times, until the public gets tired of protesting?
You'd need two editions of the translation, the training one and the unaltered, which seems like wasted effort when having one translation with Yoda-style English would be adequate for both groups of readers. It's easy enough for a native English speaker to read a jumbled sentence when it has enough punctuation.

Your sentence above, for example, could be "The easier ordering of words, more naturale; master them so after, graduate, the idea is, you would to Greek, unaltered and full -- (just as) learn-ride a bicycle with wheels-training, then graduate to no-wheels, is the point" if that's the word order of the original language. It would also cause the reader to think in the word order of the translated language, to discern its thematic structure as well as its semantic structure.
> If you can think of a better example, I'm fine with using that.

Comparisons between regulation of telephone service and internet service seem like the closest analog, and there are certainly examples of the former. Early telephone network providers were forced to peer by government regulation, for instance. An even more closely related example is the regulation that cell network providers may not charge extra fees for tethering; that's actually quite close to the net neutrality argument, where the cell network provider is being forced to act as a "dumb pipe" and accept traffic at the same cost regardless of the source (though admittedly they have metered usage billing, which I would be totally fine with from my ISP if that solves the problem). That we as a society accepted regulation in both of these cases is not a sufficient argument for why net neutrality is necessary, but it defeats the argument that such regulation is unprecedented.

I think we're in agreement about what we want, and the argument that net neutrality will fail to produce this is reasonable since we aren't currently in the goal state. My fear of anti net-neutrality legislation is based on the fact that what we have now, though not ideal, is acceptable, and it's quite plausible that things could become much worse rather than better unless this is addressed very, very thoughtfully. I'm open to the idea that net neutrality as it currently stands is unsustainable, but that needs to be paired with a clear explanation of how revoking it won't lead us to the nightmare scenario I've described above in which a small monopoly of providers serve as unelected gatekeepers. As I mentioned earlier, if the answer is metered billing where the high costs of the long tail are amortized by the low costs of popular content, then that seems perfectly appropriate. You also gave an example in a sibling comment about net neutrality only being waived when consumers had access to a certain number of providers.
Even if it didn't, for all the work they put into the community version one can't begrudge them trying to make a living on the enterprise side.
All out WW1 Mass Murdering with drafted civilians like the iran-iraq war?
Some interlinear books for modern languages can be bought at http://interlinearbooks.com/
Portal and Portal 2
By that same logic, there should be no laws governing radio broadcasting, since the equipment that emits the photons is located in a private building, not in the public airspace through which the photons travel. Yet the FCC still exists.
> I have trouble understanding how we can want something, but some other part of us can seem to not want that thing

Humans typically associate themselves (ie 'you'), as a distinct thing in reality, rather than a group of competing agents.
> I've started reading their translation of The Master and Margarita and I'm enjoying it a lot.

I'll have to check that out - I enjoyed their War & Peace. I found Ginsburg's translation of The Master and Margarita to be unreadably bad. There was just no joy in it whatsoever, to the point where I was wondering why it was such a famous book. It's been a while, but I recall the adjective use being terribly wooden. So many sentences with the basic structure "X walked down the long broad beautiful street. He spoke with the tall bespectacled bearded man" etc. It was quite tiresome.
This is the second time Bencode's been mentioned in the context of Son. I didn't know about it before, it definitely looks interesting! However if you're sending data to a service that only accepts JSON then it's obviously not an option.
I got hooked on one of the newer Civilization games recently. Get nuked by Gandhi!
This video is an excellent demonstration of creative ways to play with the engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EvbqxBUG_c

It has some swearing and some very minor spoilers if you are just starting the game.
It allows you to store extra swords, shields, and bows AFAIK. Also has a couple of tools (hammer, others) conveniently available nearby.
People seem to be missing that he was complaining more about the tooling around React then issues with actually coding in React. Or at least that's what I read when I read this:

> However the tooling is maddening. ... After I was setup (I chose the “stable” technologies) it wasn’t good enough. As soon as I started trying to bring in libraries to do what I needed, I found my chain wasn’t up to the task. Of course I couldn’t just follow the instructions on the CLI when there were errors… because there was a few levels of indirection in the tools. I’m losing time battling my stack. It should be helping me.

So this isn't "I hate React" it's more "I hate webpack/browserfy/babel/..." or whatever the hell he was trying to run with. And there's some truth to this, because the installation page of React is basically "try to get it going with your toolchain". And then a bunch of examples of working with different toolchains.

Basically, he probably felt the `create-react-app` approach wasn't stable, and did a bunch of google searches to figure things out, and jumped down a rabbit hole from a variety of blogs, etc that contradicted each other, etc. I've experienced this frequently with anything non-trivial in jS-land.

It's interesting, but in general, I suspect the React documentation would be better served with presenting fewer options in the early stages. "Installation" really should be "Getting Started" and that should only reference one thing, like `create-react-app`, and working with other toolchains should probably be more clearly separated out into other topics, like "Creating a production toolchain with webpack and babel".
Splatoon, a sequel to which should be coming out for the switch, is a different kind of game, but may inspire some of the same feelings.
Haha yeah; native speakers must have been confused after visualizing me receiving lots of flags.
In the article itself, it later tells you just where to go to see the remains. That should be a start.
Or,
https://www.google.ca/search?q=london+roman+basilica
Reid Hoffman was the reason Microsoft bought LinkedIn
I wonder about what my toddler thinks of my/my wife's smartphone habits, and the extent that we can permanently shape her attitudes toward technology before she reaches school age.

Children learn some things from peers, no matter what their parents do. For example, kids whose peers speak Standard American English will do the same, and will generally not have an accent — even if their parents do. In this case, it is probably a 'good' thing that kids are picking up skills from friends instead of parents.

But consider smartphone usage. Even if I could, by words and actions, impart to my toddler that technology is a tool and not a master to be heeded, does this attitude stand a chance of sticking once she starts school and sees older/richer kids with smartphones? What are effective strategies for inoculating against influences that you know will be coming?
The issues occur when the demographic gets down to tiny sizes (or, it merged with other datasets to uniquely identify an individual).
I came here to post the same link. Dunkey is by far my favourite YouTuber.

https://www.youtube.com/user/videogamedunkey
I'll grant that Wikipedia has certainly gotten better. (And continues to do so!)

But it still tends to have large blind spots where the source is (a) pre-digital or (b) of interest to a relatively small total number of people.

Try heading to your local library or a used book store (Goodwill works in the US), find a technical or history book older than ~1980, then attempt to find the content in Wikipedia. Especially in history, the hit rate isn't good.
There is a fantastic book on Shaiva Tantra written by Christopher D. Wallis, named Tantra Illuminated. The book covers the View (philosophy), history, and some practices. The View can get very involved. I've been mining that for a while, applying it to living in our modern world.

On Quora, there is a guy named Les Matheson who also wrote this fantastic essay on "authentic self". I think it is Les Matheson -- Quora is down right now, so I can't check my memory. It is a chapter he wrote for his book. He had dropped it in on his Quora blog and then removed it, said he was revising it. When I read it, it was a very clear discourse on what the authentic self, and how there are various stages in understanding that authentic self. Unlike Shaiva Tantra, which will have religious views woven into it, Matheson's essay does not (though I don't feel it mutually excludes the Tantric view). His essay starts with this idea of a single-piece puzzle. We usually think of puzzles as multiple pieces that you fit together to form something. But what about a single-piece puzzle? Where does that fit? Is our self puzzle of many pieces ... or a single puzzle piece? If it is the latter, what does that mean? This discourse goes from there -- is the self a box or light? Is it something you try to contain all the things you think of as "you"... or is it light, that radiates and shines?

To answer the questions you brought up from the perspective of my shamanic experiences -- yeah, I have found multiple fragments of personalities that are within. I've found that pieces of ourselves are scattered all over. They might come into greater or lesser influence depending on situations, circumstances, who you are with. Some of these are the rejected shadows (part of Jungian psychology). There are shamanic methods to deliberately get in touch with these, perhaps by bringing temporarily individuating them (similar to gestalt therapy). These can be facilitated by dream work, by drumming, or other means. Reintegration is not really straightforward as, hey, put these things together and somehow they will fit. But no single piece are really Self.
I have never used EnterpriseDB and I am only aware of it from a distance but it has always struck me as the ideal open source arrangement. Sure, EnterpriseDB is never going to have the revenue numbers of Oracle but their management and business teams should have a much easier time sleeping at night. I think it is great that EnterpriseDB has identified that it is better for their company to exist as part of a healthy ecosystem instead of trying to pave paradise so to speak.
I wonder whether now that they have a functioning engine and tools for large open worlds it might take less effort to create another open world like this — and then allow them to spend that time on also having the more traditional big dungeons in there. That'd be neat at least.

I think getting some longer more traditional dungeons as DLC would be amazing.
Sopranos fan?
There's also an awesome blog about distributed systems correctness by Kyle Kingsbury at https://aphyr.com/
Mental Health in Outer Space
Fair enough. Backwards compatibility is useful in some contexts.
Does this JavaScript framework make my website look fat :-)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13869807
Dynamically Generated Module Maps for Swift in Xcode
Why intriguing? That's the only way I see it going, as well.

The Internet is already an extended memory. Other people's minds are an extended processing power, as well.

It can only get closer and more tightly integrated to our brains, unless society as a whole chooses to get away from that.

This is why privacy concerns are real - what we do today about them will impact the future massively. Will there be a central database of people's private thoughts and memories or will they remain private?
Angular 1: I'll just put all my dependencies in a libs folder so that I don't have to track the node modules folder in my repo.

Angular 2 + tyepescript: Nope. All must be compiled on the fly from the node modules directory. So sayeth the Google.

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Angular 1: Oh look, stable production ready versions of all the external libraries I need.

Angular 2: Coming soon...

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Hacker News Comments: Oh somebody prefers Angular 1 to Angular 2? Must be because they're stupid and hate learning new things.
Support for the Smallest Screen: Catering to Cord-Cutters (and Cord-Nevers)
Why Microsoft Bought LinkedIn
The future has a very low Bus Factor
0.3 was quite some time ago – string performance was certainly a problem back then (an acknowledged one). String performance on 0.6-alpha, released last week, is very good. It should now be at least as good as scripting languages that have traditionally focused on strings (Python, Ruby, Perl). There are a few more tricks we could do in the future that could make this even faster, but they involve a fair amount of GC trickery, so we'll have to see.
This particular set of options doesn't reflect the immunity in §230 of the CDA, which both immunizes intermediaries and authorizes them to remove content they find objectionable. (While that doesn't mean that intermediaries can't be required to be neutral by other legislation or regulations, the particular either/or principle you describe hasn't been the law in the U.S. for a couple of decades.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...

47 USC §230(c)(1) provides that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" and then (c)(2) immediately says that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of [...] any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected [...]".

Edit: to be precise, the content immunity in §230 isn't a generic common-carrier immunity; if you read the introductory text, it's a very Internet-specific immunity for "interactive computer services" such as Internet services!
It might be worth pointing out that if you're having trouble finding a console to play this on, refurbished Wii-Us are still an option for $200.

https://store.nintendo.com/

I bought one since I wanted some party games and didn't have any Nintendo console anymore. It was more than worth it. Mind you this was before end of life so the calculus might be a bit different now.
Multiple new unpatched AsusWRT vulnerabilities (including RCE)
Creepy facial recognition app lets users find strangers on Facebook
Getting started with Kubernetes on AWS
Surprised no one else has mentioned nix, because this seems very much inspired by it. As someone who uses nix extensively this is interesting but doesn't seem as powerful or general.
This is a fair point that the board is really the one who set her objectives, and it seems she met them.

Many people don't realize that you can increase share price by "killing" a company if you can either let shareholders come out ahead as a result, or even just minimize their downside from what could have been a much larger loss.

For every CEO out there who makes hugely unpopular decisions that don't appear to be doing what the masses consider to be "the right thing" to get the company back on track...ask yourself if the board might have given direction that led down this path. Ultimately they are the ones the CEO reports to.
These look like good reasons not to resort to lawsuits, but he does say he doesn't oppose GPL enforcement. It looks like he agrees with Bradley Kuhn that the best way to do enforcement is to educate companies and convince them to comply, while they disagree on how often that fails and what to do if it does.
It's super interesting that Nintendo seems to have down the elements of game design really well that actually make a game fun.

Compare that to other games such as Pokemon Go or No Man's Sky, which feel like the designers might have forgotten to add the core game itself. It's also interesting to compare to Witcher 3, which is another great game (but via different means IMHO).

I'm surprised by how much Nintendo nailed this (what features to invest time into to make a game fun). Seems like they might be ahead of others there. And that makes me wish that that part of game design was better understood.
I think lots of people are considering that option, but they're going further - why stop at an apartment block? Here in Seattle, we already have three citywide fleets of pay-as-you-go car services: Zipcar, Car2Go, and ReachNow. We've already left the extreme individualistic model behind - you no longer have to own a vehicle personally, you can simply use a shared car whenever you need to drive somewhere. With Car2Go and ReachNow, you're not even using a specific shared car - you just look on the map, walk over to whichever car happens to be parked nearest, hop in and go, then leave it parked at your destination. Maybe you'll drive the same car home, or maybe there'll be a different one; it doesn't really matter.

By the time self-driving car technology works well enough for general use, I expect this model will have become so common that most people will never buy - or even consider buying - their own personal self-driving car. Instead, we'll sign up for services that combine the "fleet of shared vehicles" model with the "ride-sharing app" model. You won't have to purchase the vehicle, pay for parking space, or worry about maintenance; you'll merely download an app and use it to summon a car when you want to take a ride somewhere.
Does anybody subscribe to this magazine (1843)? I subscribe to the parent magazine The Economist, and this sounds appealing, but $50 for 6 issues seems steep (and no online subscription).
Youtube-dl is another option:

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Because the interface influences the way your brain processes the information.

Reading a book != reading Wikipedia != watching an educational film

Judging by most of the comments on this article I'd say that people feel like we've lost something in the latter two.
Ask HN: If you're funded by the military, how do you tell people?
I am a graduate student funded on a DoD grant. Not weapon's development, or anything classified, but I often find in conversation that once "I work at the base" comes up, I have to scramble and explain that I don't work on anything weapons dev related. Obviously, I bear some responsibility by choosing this field, but I often get to the point where I start to feel guilty funded by uncle sam. I'm curious if anyone else in similar places ever deals with this.
Holy crap, fair play. That would drive me insane.
I've been waiting for this for 9 years :-)

A nice feature of APNG (and GIF) versus the more modern CSS/SVG animations is the CPU efficiency. It's really easy to accidentally waste a ton of battery life by adding a tiny spinning gear to a page.

It varies depending on the browser and whether the GPU is used for compositing, but it's much easier to optimize blitting a rectangle each frame versus blitting a rotation of some complex vector shape on top of the page.
When programming languages evolve, "can a human being understand this code?" is part of the fitness function, and more succinct and powerful languages aren't always best for that.
It's not like these games are the same. Super Mario 3D World is completely different than Super Mario Galaxy which is completely different than New Super Mario Bros, even though all of them are in the "Mario" franchise.

Zelda is a bit more similar game-to-game, but even then there's massive changes, and Breath of the Wild is pretty unlike any other Zelda game before it.

So if only the characters and some of the core mechanics (like hearts in Zelda) are the same, then is it really milking the franchise to release different games?

As another commenter pointed out, it's not like FIFA/NBA/NHL or CoD where each release is a minor change over the previous.
Palo Alto Housing vs. Everywhere Else
Author's comment regarding disclosure to ASUS: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/5yftr2/multiple_vul...
271 Little-Known Places to Promote Your Blog or Website
Anyone know what he's building ?
So Firefox, Safari and now Chrome. Provided image hosting sites start accepting APNG this may finally mean the end of GIF. Why now though?
Numerous Bugs, Faults and Issues with the DJI Mavic Pro
Very cool! If you don't want to worry about crawling HN you can use the API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
I'm really curious. What's the real difference between this (pub-in-a-box) and any pub in Ireland that was built in the last 50 years?

We do pretty much the same thing here. Most new-build pubs try to ape the traditional. The only thing this company is adding is a middle-man so you can import it all in one shot, rather than dealing with a myriad of vendors.

I realise it plays to the plastic-paddy stereotypes perfectly. But the nerd in me sees it as a simple solution to a logistical problem.
> People got angry over something that happened about 150 years back in time, several generations before even the oldest family members involved were born.

This can vary. My grand-grand-grand-father (Romanian) married a Transylvania Saxon girl who had traveled across the Carpathians in order to run away from her brothers (I think this was around 1880-1890). She was the village's only homeless person, so to speak, had her head shaved (possibly because of lice), nobody was looking at her, apart from my grand-grand-grand-father who chose to marry her. Even though it doesn't paint that great of a picture when it comes to our family's ascendency (as my grand-grand-grand-mother was no aristocrat or anything, quite the contrary) the story got told for every generation since then.
Perhaps if comcast were deliberately strangling youtube, sonic's speeds would be competitive with comcast's.