skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of US companies aren't used to the consumer protection laws in other countries, Valve recently got in trouble for their steam refund policies.

Here in NZ stated warranties mean nothing the actual warranty is what is a reasonable expectation, I'd expect a laptop to work for at least five years and so my expectation is Apple or an Apple authorised repairer would service or replace it for the entirety of those five years.
I don't think either screenshot looks particularly nice. However, this is mostly due the ugly default background and color scheme (its an ubuntu insider joke and its the first thing people change).

I personally care only about function but even if you are form-above-function guy Unity gives you many tools to make it look good:

http://imgur.com/gallery/sQFw7

(courtesy of r/unixporn )
A framed piece of paper? I can make you a graduate of Harvard if that's all it takes.
Android (without Google Services) is FOSS. Check out http://lineageos.org/ (successor of CyanogenMod).

As a replacement for the Play Store, check out https://f-droid.org/
Good design, but with one disk it isn't going to be a particularly useful NAS; neither a cheap one, considering the cost of a UPS unit.
KDE's Plasma shell uses Qt QML to make flexible layout apps that work with touch and keyboard+mouse, just like Ubuntu Phone/Unity 8. Plasma Mobile is KDE's attempt to leverage that into an open source phone OS. Canonical didn't seem interested in working with KDE despite the common tech base. I wonder if Canonical will continue development of any of its Ubuntu Phone/Unity 8 apps, the whole point of convergence was they would work on desktop as well.
Trying to live without ReSharper in Visual Studio 2017
Similar in Finland. Employer isn't allowed to manually track any identifying data (such as IP addresses or e-mail recipients) in their own corporate networks, let alone the actual contents. In case of suspected wrongdoing, automatically collected logs can be handed over to the police for investigation.

Coming from this background the extremely lax privacy protections guaranteed for US based services are always somewhat creepy.
Is there no one from the US?

Thanks for the only one mail from Australia!
Likely, there is a dataset on data.gov published by CFPB which consolidates consumer complaints in a federal database.

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/consumer-complaint-database...

BofA ranks first by the total number of cases which is to be expected given their footprint. What's notable is that BofA has actually improved over time.

https://github.com/axibase/atsd-use-cases/blob/master/Consum...
Not necessarily on Mars. Earth orbit would be a good start, so would be Luna if you absolutely need to have a solid rock bed under you.

It definitely won't be cheaper initially, especially if you want that manufacturing to serve the needs of people down on Earth; but it will make more space development cheaper (you don't have to move mass upwell, and as we know, Low Earth Orbit is halfway to anywhere in the Solar System). So space industry will most likely initially work on developing itself and reducing its own costs.
>6. The Hard Problem of Largeness

Take that, Dave Chalmers!
Someone linked to two daily wtf on hn the other day and that to me shows tizen under the current management is not simply useless but actively harmful.
Quadratic Roots Calculation in LabVIEW
Ask HN: Built a generic monitoring service – which niche to target?
So I've built a generic monitoring service with Grafana, InfluxDB, Riemann etc. and modified the Grafana UI to support payments.

My problem now is what niche should I target for monitoring so I don't compete with the big guys like Datadog. I saw products like cronitor who target cron monitoring. Any ideas on a specific niche that is underserved with monitoring?
That's pretty interesting, care to elaborate on how well that works? Know of any other editors that have that same capability?
Roku has hired a team of lobbyists as it gears up for a net neutrality fight
you are mistaking the meaning of expressiveness
I'll provide a short example in assembler vs haskell expressive power.
I'll use hello world as an example.
This is considers an amd64 compatible processor, because I have to know the names of the registers.

```asm
section .data
str: db 'Hello world!', 0Ah
str_len: equ $ - str

section .text
global _start

_start:
mov	eax, 4
mov	ebx, 1
mov	ecx, str
mov	edx, str_len
int	80h
mov	eax, 1
mov	ebx, 0
int	80h
```

In Haskell I don't have to consider any processor.

```hs
main = putStr "Hello World"
```

expressiveness is about how much code you need for a certain behavior.
It's not about how many (possible fucked up) source files my compiler accepts.
Very curious to know, what kind of figures do you pull up?
20-30 million extra for insurance would take an ~85% success rate and SpaceX is well past that. Industry average being 95% and SpaceX is around 93%.

Note: at ~95% you would expect very long stings of successes not just 19 then one failure repeat. But, it's reasonable for those long strings to represent an increasing probability of success over time.
Ubnutu Phone just works fine on a FairPhone2
I agree that it sucks there is so little competition in the mobile OS space, but I don't think government involvement is enough to explain this situation.

Take Microsoft - it became a handset manufacturer and is still struggling to make Windows Phone a winner.
I am having nightmare scenarios where you get stuck in a remote place because some small issue with a sensor for a door/light that will not let you start the engine.
As the OP is looking for an alternative to Ubuntu Phone, one has to bear in mind that Ubuntu Phone wasn't 100% free-software either (it used the same proprietary drivers and blobs as Android).
Was there an official announcement on the killing of Ubuntu Phone? There was an official pause announcement, and it might as well be dead - is there an official status update?
Open Source JQuery Gantt Editor. New Version Released
My guess is that Google's intentions are to get rid of the GPL.
Sure, the SSN wildcarding was totally inappropriate.
There isn't (and never was) one worth using, so move on with your life
Sorry, I added React Native by mistake and was not able to edit my comment later.
Indeed it is :D
Why would you even bother with that when `say` can take a string or read from stdin?

Just use

$ say $(fortune)

or

$ fortune | say -f-

For bonus coolness, add "-i" (it prints the lines and highlights the current word during reading).
thank you! it's more like "rectangle" voxel than point voxel :D
Portions of it, lots of it is not.
It's the technical mindset: the court order from Southern California is wrong, let's fix it!
Me too, though I have them setup on shell rather than .gitconfig. Saves that one space after 'g' :)

The ones I find myself using most are 'gru' for git remote update, and 'gka' for "gitk --all -500 &". (The -500 is there to prevent my laptop dying when I run gitk with --all on the Linux kernel repo without second thought...)
This is a known issue and is slated to land in our 1.1 very shortly

You can watch this ticket for updates https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-38523
Some people are willing to pay you thousands of dollars for that!
Is the satellite that expensive? I would have thought that the cost to develop it (R&D) would be very high, but the cost to produce one actual satellite unit (given the R&D money are already spent) wouldn't be a quarter billion dollars.
Because it's fun spawning a new process and watching the otherwise idle cores of your box reach 0.1% usage for a millisecond.
I used the dictionary definition of "has high worth". The cutoff is indeed not defined.

However, the logic should be consistent for any bounded cutoff.

You could construct a system where everyone with lower than given value is subjected to some action.
Given your (or societal) bounded knowledge you then cannot generalise because you are not omniscient. This means you get to evaluate everyone on their terms.
This view is incompatible with stereotypes.

Alternatively you just assign values by axiom, which will likely end up with a big and likely inconsistent philosophy, unreliable guide.

Indeed egoism like this is a valid strategy but not an optimal one in absolute terms. (Tit for tat is stable instead over time.) A philosophy or strategy should be viable in the presence of a mixture of them.
To me the best alternative is https://neo900.org. However, expensive it is.

They truly care about the privacy and redesign the hardware according to this goal.
This feels like a joke compared with Sublevel which consumes only 4KB per request (GZIP compressed) and the JS is under 1KB.

Safari 10.1 tab loaded with https://mobile.twitter.com/home ~ 140MB RAM

Safari 10.1 tab loaded with https://sublevel.net ~ 40MB RAM (same as HN)
I didn't know about the innaccuracies in sin/cos, good to know, I'll remember that, but I usually wouldn't use those in a physics engine (and now I certainly won't).

The other stuff, different compiling levels, changing the floating point rounding mode, does indeed change results, but that wouldn't effect a single compile of a program running on different machines.
And if you don't have a driver's licence?
BoA gave everybody's money-substitute-government-credit away, but few have realised it (Even thou BoA says so themselves in their financial statements). So the guy is lucky in a way; he now doesn't trust the thieves. Even fewer realise that the banknotes they are so proudly holding have long ago been defaulted on. It's all running on illusions now. Sell your paper.
Razer blade 2016 with Fedora 25
You can view a list of new Ubuntu packages from its website [0]. You might also want to check out the packages in the games [1], misc [2] and text [3] sections, which are full of fun utilities. You might also want to view the man pages from the games section [4].

[0] http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/newpkg?mode=byage

[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/games/

[2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/misc/

[3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/text/

[4] https://linux.die.net/man/6/
Dear Samsung [video]
That's exactly what Unity 8 in Ubuntu release N.NN was going to do. The converged apps, the latest version of Unity, the new Mir display server, all running on the desktop as well as the Ubuntu Phone builds. The problem was, N.NN kept shifting from 14.04 to 16.04 to 17.04, and now never.00

With each Ubuntu release Canonical made fewer changes to Unity 7 on the desktop (the one I remember is moving from a global menu to a menu in a program's title bar), because the new awesome was around the corner...
> difference between blue origin and F9

It's literally bottom-up vs. top-down respectively. If you consider how far ahead SpaceX is up-top, having even interacted with the ISS, Blue Origin is that much further ahead near the ground. Overall SpaceX does seem to have chosen an approach that provides more traction. However, the BE-4 (orbital engine from Blue Origin) is slated for testing this year. It's going to be interesting to compare apples-apples once Blue Origin reach orbit.
If this ever happens in the US it really​ won't matter where​ your savings are.
The http://puri.sm people are trying to make an open source phone running their distro PureOS (based on debian). They even said on a podcast that they have removed or mitigated the binary blob issues. Apparently they are already working with Gnome developers to make Gnome work on a small screen and build the specialized phone software like a dialer.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/10/purism-wants-make-truly-o...
Agree, I also heard about the issue where you remove the battery then the computer restarts and you can't start your car, I am not sure what mechanics do to have it start again.
Probably some major incident needs to happen so safety laws are passed so the main function of a car does not depend on the fancy features like navigation,sensor reading for doors, things like that
I find it hard to buy this argument today. Obama and Trump have proved getting support by pandering doesn't take us anywhere closer to solutions.
But the current architecture of our socialnetworks and media keep promoting this notion. All I see happening is more pandering until the underlying architecture that reinforces this behaviour changes.
Maybe you try to target one of the databases? I could see a PostgreSQL or Solr monitoring SaaS focused just on those?
F-Droid is cool but will lack lots of applications, even open source ones. I recently checked what it would require to publish my app there -- alas, can't do that since my app includes an API key that can't be published (according to the rules of the service in question), and F-Droid would need that[1].

[1] https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/what-to-do-with-private-api...
Yeah and only one of the options allows you to do a right-click and "save image as".

Quite frustrating because I take photos mainly with the Twitter app and later at home download them and repost them on Facebook... oh and you have to take care WHERE exactly you right-click because sometimes it will give you a compressed version and not the ".jpg-large" version you want... and then you have to rename the image so that other sites accept it for upload.
> Are we forever going to be stuck with dumbed down, crippled hyper-consumerized phone OS's?

As long as Google remains a monopoly and continues to own the Internet, yes.
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The alternative is Android. Unfortunately the "alternative android" ecosystem isn't very good.

My dream would be an android "distribution", that doesn't rely on some murky "update by getting a new image somewhere if you're lucky enough that someone built one for your device". WOuld work more like a linux distribution (packages and updating) and is generic over a variety of phones. Challenge is probably how to handle drivers.
CrossCode[1] is written in Impact[2] and its a realy awesome game.

So this seem to be possible.

[1] http://www.cross-code.com/
[2] http://impactjs.com/
Simplest I can think of:

$ echo 'cat > "$@"' >editor
$ chmod +x editor
$ GIT_EDITOR=./editor git commit -a
stuff
[master b2d3915] stuff
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

You'll need to hit enter before ^D.

You can add simple Emacs-like keybindings by changing that into

$ echo 'rlwrap cat > "$@"' >editor

Or just learn ed:

$ GIT_EDITOR=ed git commit --amend -a
256
1c
stuff and more stuff
.
w
271
[master c5092a6] stuff and more stuff
Date: Thu Apr 6 12:58:18 2017 +0200
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(the numbers are ed telling me how much was read and written; `1c` means change the first line; `.` means I'm done inserting (go back to command mode) and `w` means write/save; exit with ^D)
Refreshing the Google Accounts login page
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl...
See, this is where the intention of the law sort of falls apart - because in that case, you are only given a fine. So the punishment is disproportional towards people who have a driving licence. People who don't have one are punished a lot less for the exact same offence.
That actually makes sense. Doesn't always go well though.
You can manage plugins by dropping jar files in the plugins folder. It sounds like you have 50 teams with their own Jenkins which they have administrative control over, leading to chaos. This doesn't surprise me. Have you considered letting your team also manage the plugins and locking them all to a specific version?
Sure, this stalwart who works on putting Ubuntu Phone on other devices wants to keep Unity 8 alive: https://plus.google.com/110699558853693437587/posts/7RHujp9u...
I've used Zabbix before for monitoring a server environment of moderate size. The flexibility led to certain things not being very simple to configure. So your idea of targeting a niche is certainly a good one, you can make your product easier to use. The 2 areas that would be most useful for me are cron and database monitoring.
Zappa – Serverless Django on AWS Lambda
Code quality seems to be a large issue for Samsung in general (no sources, but some first-hand experience). My gut feeling is that it's caused by the extremely bureaucratic Korean corporate culture. Though I'm sure someone who has actually worked there could shed some light to this phenomenon.
Hi Walter. I like D. D is awesome.
I bookmarked this. I have been revisiting my own programming history. I used Prolog a lot in the 1980s, partially because I was influenced by the ill-fated Japanese 5th generation project. A few weeks ago I pulled my old Prolog code experiments from an old repo. Prolog is a great language for some applications, and Swi-Prolog has some great libraries and sample programs.

I also have used Common Lisp a lot since the 1980s and I am in the process of working through a few of the classic text books, and I have it on my schedule to update my own CL book with a second edition.
Most likely, they already decided to follow Apple footsteps and kick gcc out of the NDK.

Now it is deprecated, but according to the roadmap it will be gone from the SDK with release 16.
Linus Torvalds also has his own version of MicroEmacs:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git
It's impressive how much faster it is on even a recent laptop on broadband (admittedly I'm "only" on DSL broadband, not fiber). You now click on a username, for example, and you get their page almost instantly. While on normal Twitter, there's a noticeable half-second or so lag for the transition to load and render.
It hides hidden files by default. It would be bizarre if it didn't do that.
I act as an advisor for DronesBench from Italy, http://www.dronesbench.com , we are currently at the pre-commercialisation stage and in the Drone Community contest from Commercial UAV Expo, Brussels, 20-22 June. We would be very happy to have your vote! Video here (the one with the "Light Training" screenshot) http://www.dronecommunity.eu/vote.html . Thanks in advance.
Can a Jenkinsfile completely obsolete the config.xml that each job has?

Clicking through the gui to create jobs is error-prone, so I'm using jenkins job builder at the moment to create those, but it would be great to just use the one file in tree.
How is LGPLv3 different from the usual binary only libraries the corporate buy??

Also, there is a paid Qt license if you don't like *GPL.
High Power Sources Industry Market Research Report 2016
Go for Profit Not for Press Release
But it's kinda telling that they are _not_ doing that, isn't it? Just shows how badly Uber screwed up and how Waymo's evidence of theft cannot be so easily dismissed.
> 3. That human intelligence is in some way "universal". I don't understand this argument enough to explain the parody. Can someone else chime in?

This is a reference to the principle of computational equivalence. All Turing-complete systems are capable of emulating each other. A human can execute any program a machine can (only slower), and derive benefit from the results even if he doesn't fully understand the process.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrincipleofComputationalEquival...
This comment is getting downvoted but if it's true, it's absolutely a good point. They are optimizing for what is inherently slower: loading JS in the client before anything can be seen or interacted with, rather than rendering HTML and forms so one doesn't have to wait for JS to compile and execute (and all the tracking bloat that comes with it).
No, it's not that hard. It's more about getting the priorities right.

The developer and production environments should be separated at a deep network level making it very very difficult for anything (rogue script, rogue admin, etc) to access production environment accidentally.
There is one exception: If your account is exactly one year old, and a little cake icon appears next to your name, then are you allowed to submit exactly one comment saying that HN is turning into Reddit.
> You don't know the pain we suffer from this plugin ecosystem. Installing a bunch of plugins which depends on a bunch of other stuff, there's no real dependency management for this and it's thoroughly painful when one of the teams decide to upgrade one of their plugins and break their whole setup because of it.

That problem is called Java package management, Maven just plainly sucks compared to composer and npm.

At my company we solved the problem relatively easy though: a Docker image that compiles in all the plugin jars (it downloads them via mvn). Upgrading is usually easy (you just write the new version numbers from the "Available updates" screen into the pom.xml), but sometimes does takes one or two hours of wrestling when you have plugins that introduce new dependencies (which mvn cannot detect).
Tizen is no more "open" than Android. Samsung keeps all the extra services just as closed as Google.
Do you emails align with your sales funnel?
This is a fork of canonical's unity 8 repository as of April 5, 2017. Following Mark Shuttleworth's announcement to abandon unity 8 development, we are planning to continue working with the project.

https://github.com/unity8org/unity8org
You don't need to go to self-driving cars with LIDAR to find safety-critical parts. There's plenty of steering, suspension, braking and restraint systems that are safety-critical already.

This issue is already solved for cars. If you make major modifications to a car, or even small modifications to some parts, it's already not considered roadworthy unless you get a qualified engineer to sign it off. Note that the qualified engineer does not need to be associated with the original vendor.
Thanks for the rejection. I realized I didn't need this after all.
I love this kind of games with retro design but slightly new capabilities (instead of completely new engine/rendering).
Broken on FF android, http://i.imgur.com/p3jWX87.png
Nobody else has mentioned anything along these lines so I'll do so.

If you haven't talked to the blind community about this sort of thing already I would strongly recommend doing so as they'll be able to rapidly point you at the bleeding edge of what currently exists - they routinely use text to speech cranked up to illegible speeds.

(I also heard of one guy who would listen to TTS from his computer with one ear, while using his other ear to hold a phone conversation. I believe I read this in Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust (978-1400204724 / 1400204720).)

The second reason I suggest this is that the blind community is a dense populus of users who use systems like this as part of their everyday lives, so if you aimed such a system at them the feedback quality would be extremely high and allow for ridiculously fast iteration times and a great product. High-speed speech (TTS in particular) is a genuine technology hole/need.
If the key is published as part of the APK, it is already public. Not committing it on github doesn't really reduce exposure.
Pianoteq is without a doubt the best sounding piano synth on the market today. Uses all sorts of interesting physical modeling algorithms (including string-to-string resonances, with a more-than-first order model...), unfortunately, unpublished. ;)

If you're interested in chatting about sound generating software and algorithms, feel free to shoot me a line. "Also, do I remember you from ec-discuss?"
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Many credentials expire at which point they earn rather difficult or expencive to get back. Consider an application with a MSCE from 2002 or something.
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