skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one of the things that annoys me about Mozilla. When you complain about something that changes, they tell you you should have spoken up before it got changed. When you speak up about something that is changing, you're always the "vocal minority" and it's never going to happen. I still wake up sweaty in the middle of the night after dreams about "vocal minority" and "WONTFIX".

Also annoying is that a huge percentage of 'power users' have disabled telemetry, which screws us over when it comes time for Mozilla to pick the feature of the week to remove.

Anecdotally, I switched to Vivaldi shortly after Mozilla started removing useful features (like tab grouping) and replacing them with Pocket and Hello. I couldn't be happier and I kind of wish I had joined the Chromium bandwagon sooner.
They are dead. It would be basically store-within-store, except that it cannot grant permissions to run, because only the primary one can do that. Primary store will do that only for their cut, making the secondary useless.

This is exactly what Valve saw when they started their Linux push.
Hey mysterypie. Yes we just launch and want to collect as much feedback as possible.

Thanks for that note, we are checking that. The good thing is that we were able to found a single frame from the original video :)
Hi all,

This online tool takes PDF document (from url or from file) and creates a virtual reality room with up to 12 pages from the document flying around. It should work on Gear VR and Oculus as well as in Chrome and other modern browsers.

It uses React VR for virtual reality plus a custom backend for pdf rendering.

Here is the short video showing how it looks like: http://imgur.com/qKMXJ8d

Any comments or suggestions are welcome!
Are the FB Messenger, WhatsApp, and Telegram integrations official (i.e. known by, approved by, and/or supported by their respective companies)?

Asking because I can't find a reverse-shoutout to Opera on either Facebook's, WhatsApp's, or Telegram's blog. This is not altogether unusual (especially given the recency of the Opera announcement) but it still makes me curious.
Anyone know where to get clean git builds for Windows without any extra crap like the "git for Windows" builds have?

- Windows comes with bash

- Microsoft have an excellent openssh implementation on their github

- I don't want some dude's cool $PS1 and shortcuts and icons.

I just want git.
I write on the internet. I'm sorry
Sharing the password to a Facebook account against their TOS anyway. https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms Section 4, bullet 8.
Another perspective from Stack Overflow Trends:
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=vue.js%2Creac...
A framework that makes responsive email easy
I really strongly had the impression that it was a combination of flags, some sort of metric of polarity (lots of upvotes/downvotes among the comments, and then moderator actions. I don't recall why I have that recollection, but apologies for any mistaken impression. It's probably better that it's not entirely transparent, either.
Ok, so Windows S is a Windows Chromebook.

I imagine we'll just continue to ignore that UWP and the Windows Store exist. Wake me up when full versions of Office and Visual Studio are built as UWP apps.
s/villains/customers/

Windows 10 S is "only" 50 bucks away from running all those unapproved apps.
I'm very much among the (small) camp of people who thinks that standard portfolio theory isn't worth a whole lot even when the assets are stocks. It just fails to describe important features of the data. To me, this ruins the value of work that uses it as a base.
John Oliver’s Net Neutrality Campaign Filled with Bots, Racist Attacks
I've only ever done web. What's the difference in your opinion?
Is this article not literally about doing 3D scans of interior spaces using cheap components? The stuff listed in the article costs $549 (plus a laptop/arduino/tripod etc).
I also use Notepad++. Was starting to feel left out reading the comments. I roll up my sleeves and work with the junk behind the scenes manually. I think it somehow improves my understanding of how everything work.
Reverse Polish Notation is AWESOME!
I'd still be using my HP 48G on a fairly regular basis if it hadn't suffered catastrophic damage (moron with a cup of coffee, paired with a drop onto a concrete floor). I used to have a lot of calculations programmed into it. I realize, of course, that I can do that on my computer, and I do. But it was handy when I was running around between different systems (main desktop, lab stations, etc.). I could just grab one device and have it with me all the time. Especially since I shifted OSes as well (Windows, various flavors; Linux, various flavors) and not all had network access (or accessed the same network). Keeping those programs synced up would've been tedious. And then there were meetings where dragging out my laptop for something that was quick (but hard to do by hand) was way overkill. My phone could work, but often I've been unable to have it in the labs (various reasons over the years).

I'll add, a lot of those calculators were pretty damned hardy. It really did take an unfortunate sequence of events to kill my HP. Any one of which it probably could have survived, but the combination was just too much for it. In a lab or field environment, I like them better than a phone or computer for many operations (though definitely downsides since they haven't really kept up with generally computing power).
My HP-28s is still on my desk. Doesn't get the use that it used to, but it's still the one that works for me.
Did not MS get dinged for promoting IE , banning competitors completely is even worse
Because every few months, something takes over web developement.
Week 18 in Information Security, 2017
I've never been able to figure out what direction UWP apps were supposed to go. At one point it was C++, then it was .NET, then it was some dialect of JavaScript. The political tides ebb and flow, but Win32 abides.
Well here's a couple of articles quoting scientists. I mean the idea doesn't pass a smell test. If plastics are bad in the oceans how can you remove them in something so big without wiping out ecosystems at the same time?

One of the quotes (theoceancleanup) here is a idea from a 17 year old teenager (now 22) who was kickstarted. This also fails a pretty big smell test.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/26/ocean-cl...

https://www.kcet.org/redefine/6-reasons-that-floating-ocean-...

Compared to something simple like collecting it before it hit the oceans and you can dump it into something cheap like a truck and process it which it's easy to see how it does work?
Is it possible for a sleep tracking app to work in a useful way? It could tell you that your sleep is interrupted a lot, restless, rarely goes in to deep sleep - but is that actually useful information? How could you use what it's telling you? It's not enough to only know what's happening. You need to know why it's happening in order to affect changes that might improve things, else you could make things worse, or just waste any time/money you're spending trying to improve, or miss an underlying cause that indicates something is seriously wrong..
>Edge is not a Native UWP application - whatever that means

My assumption is that it is compiled with .NET Native[0]. That would explain why it is only available on Windows 10, as only Windows 10 supports .NET Native.

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn584397%28v=vs.110...
On the newer Casio scientific calculators, there's a button you can press to switch between fractional and decimal output. IIRC the button looks like S>D.
That's a fair point. ng1's docs were somewhat lacking, too, which I reckon drove a ton of traffic to sites like Stack Overflow and Google in general.
What has J2EE/Java EE been replaced with?
Money! He is a former Verizon attorney and despised net neutrality originally. He's bound to get kickbacks in some form or another.
The jargon grinds on me, but it does look interesting. I added to my interesting decentralized/federated protocols collection.
UWP is worse than Win32API, right. It's still half finished (many things aren't possible) and it sits on top of Win32 subsystem.

Another API and framework the good 16 year old DotNet never replaced Win32 either. All process that ship with and runs by default in Windows XP/Vista/7 or Office 2003/2007/2010 are Win32 and non is DotNet based. (you can verify with ProcessExplorer)

5 days ago MS declared DotNet a legacy thing. ASP.net 2 will only be compatible with Dotnet.core 2 (which is incompatible to DotNet and Dotnet.core 1). You can read about the outcry there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14297974

The only thing that keeps people in general as well as enterprise companies on Windows is Win32 compatibility and Office. MS is now just milking their products with little QA and hostile to end users privacy "the user and his data is the product".

MS really missed the chance in 1999 to refresh Win32API with an improved Win64API. Like they did before - remember Win16API. Win16API got refactored and improved overall while keeping almost code compatibility - only a few tweaks and a re-compile were necessary back in 1994/95, and Win32s layer got backported to Win3.11. But MS went full in with their failed DotNet vision in 1999 and abdomened Win32API ever since. And never upgraded the Win32API, in fact the 64bit Windows still have the same Win32API and MS completely missed the opportunity window that was open for them. So much stupid management decision, it hurts.
If you could have the tail inside of the drop like a jellyfish.
I once thought the same thing, but after months of studying our music system and our way of notating it, I came to understand why it's so difficult to improve upon staff notation.

First of all, Western music has complex structure both horizontally and vertically. This makes it rather difficult to encode and visualize, right at the outset. You need some sort of matrix visualization, like a staff or piano roll, to capture all of the nuance.

What makes the staff so useful is that it also captures the tonal aspects of music in compact way -- those that relate to the key the music is written in. Every triad in the same inversion looks the same in every key. A triad is three consecutive lines or spaces. And then deviations from the standard triad for that tonal function are marked with accidentals.

This turns out to be extremely useful for performers, because you learn to play an instrument by learning to play in all the keys, rather than learning what the 12 notes are and playing note by note. I realized this when taking piano class and doing exercises where we'd transpose to another key while sightreading in the original key.

There are other notation systems that have been as successful as the staff, but they tend to be specific to particular instruments or styles. For example, most guitarists find tablature much easier to play than standard notation, especially if the tablature is augmented with note durations and rests.

Also, although I've become a true believer when it comes to the staff, I have less rationale for why the traditional clef system has stuck around. It seems like something that is more regular as you go up and down the scale would be more helpful. There are systems that use things like note shapes or colors to help mark the note name. I guess we just haven't found a standard.
Search for UI Developer job with a distributed / remote team; and React jobs are significantly easier to come by.

Granted, by limiting to distributed / remote teams may not be indicative of the whole market.
I have a new-ish series 2 watch, I've never gotten it down to below 60%, even when I track a two hour bike ride. I just charge it for a few minutes before bed and in the morning and that's usually enough to get it back up to 100%.

If you don't use it very much, I think a series 2 watch could easily last 2 or 3 days.
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FileMaker 16 released
I still have my HP42s, wouldn't sell it for the world. Although I keep it safe in a drawer at home and use Free42 on iOS. It's incredibly handy.
Exactly its why London is popular UK Engineers are cheap speak English natively and are used to being treated like second class profesionals.
Unfortunately the quick commands window is very slow. It definitely doesn't live up to its name.

I love it, though, and I truly hope performance is something they tackle soon.
Do you all hear that? What is it? It's the fond-memory train coming to this thread.

A friend and I were programming a text-and-map based RPG on the Ti-85. It was really awesome, you could walk around on the map from town to town and enemies would find you kinda like Final Fantasy, then you fight them. Anyway we were pretty far into the game. I started programming a "Quadra Pong" game at the same time. This Quadra Pong was networked with two Ti-85s so each player would be on their own calc, connected using the connection cable (sold separately). Anyway, got pretty far in the game, but had to borrow my friends calc to test it. Something you should know about the connection cable and bugginess, is it sometimes caused both connected calculators to crash and reset. And I mean FULL reset with no memory.

We lost both Quadra Pong and our RPG in one tiny scary second... still crying over that one.
They would argue 10S is only one skew but it does seem absurd
Some of them can, have and do (e.g. Point72, Renaissance, Soros, et cetera). This extends to many more funds [1]. Furthermore, some institutions (e.g. Yale) are consistently good at picking those funds [2].

The average hedge fund seems to eat all its excess returns in fees. But around a third of all hedge funds, mostly upstarts, die in the first few years [3].

By analogy, if you can understand that Kleiner and Google create excess returns while most VC funds do not, you can understand why a similar exponential dynamic is at play with hedge funds.

[1] http://www.investmentreview.com/files/2009/12/18-241.pdf

[2] http://m.pionline.com/article/20141222/PRINT/312229982/big-p...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.for...
In fact, having the carbon stored in the garbage patch is better for the environment (and the organisms that depend on a stable environment) than burning it and releasing it into the atmosphere.
Thanks for asking aaaawweeeee. Answers below:

Do you track what people search?
- No, we just get the video and search the web based on the keywords.

What do you do with that data?
- We don't keep the videos. We use our own fingerprints.

Who do you share it with?
- With the uploader of the video

What's the business model
- Trying to figure it out... Have any suggestion? :)
That line really bothers me. I'm writing a new application in WPF (thus using Win32) and am avoiding UWP because of the fact that I want (actually need to) support older platforms. As I'm writing this software to make money and it is B2B, I can't afford to ignore Windows 7 as many businesses are still running it and many more still target it.

I'm currently learning UWP as well but why would I bet my product on a technology that limits me to a single operating system version?
The point is that UWP is basically built on COM and can be used by all 3.

C/C++ is good for people who have existing C++ codebases or skills, which they want to bring into the UWP world.

C#/F# for new app development.

JavaScript to bring in electron/web guys on board.
See: why I went to the backend.

Things are more static, and more easily automated-testable.
Calculators without RPN feel like a joke after an HP 48. The keys are a sheer tactile delight, too!
How we do distributed team collaboration
Electron apps can be packaged up as UWP and submitted to the Windows Store (with the restriction that you can't currently target Xbox, HoloLens, or Windows Mobile via Electron)[0]

[0] https://www.onmsft.com/news/electron-apps-can-now-converted-...
wrong submission, ignore.
Hi mholmes680! That's important for us to know. Can you share some details? What page were you in or what were you doing?
Idiomatic Redux: The Tao of Redux, Part 2 – Practice and Philosophy
In NJ a state supreme court ruling created something called the Mount Laurel doctrine, which according to Wikipedia: requires that municipalities use their zoning powers in an affirmative manner to provide a realistic opportunity for the production of housing affordable to low and moderate income households.

How hard would this be in CA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Laurel_doctrine
The comments below point out that the numbers or the math may be right or wrong but one lesson for people choosing a career:

1. Industry matters big time!

2. Reputation of the teams your on matters big time!

3. College (High School..) you go to/went to matters big time!

4. Moving industries can be done ... but in the more mature industries (like finance), it's hard to break in 2 years after college.

5. College really freaking matters (even if you drop out of Harvard).

6. Your humanity must always be top of mind and any of the prior points are swamped by the importance of 'to thine oneself be true'.
Yes, I used and still have the HP48SX. It got me through college as a math major and then graduate school as well. And the fact that people can't understand RPN doesn't speak well to the caliber of the students in higher education.
There's a huge difference between "let students run wild and install any shit" and "publish a whitelist of allowed non-UWP apps via group policy".
I really hope this will change. I am testing elm now and I think this kind of approach is the future. But it saddens me that we had "proper functional languages" for nearly 60 years and it took all this time to realize their benefit.
Build more housing.
They have ways to do that. You would have to check with the store.

Also, this doesn't mean that if your friends are using Windows 10 home or pro that they won't be able to install Appx packages. They can. Seriously, it's just a zip file with a manifest. On home/pro and up, users can install Appx packages by double clicking them.

Only Windows 10 S has the restriction that all software installs have to use the store. The thing to watch will be the way that Windows 10 S actually maintains performance and security in ways that the other versions of Win10 can't. As long as users can install services or device drivers as part of an install it's always going to have the same problems.

For something to change it actually has to change. We all know that Windows installers do dumb sh1t. Appx packages run with the same performance and have the same power as normal win32 apps. The only thing they can't do is modify the system in dangerous ways.

Also, there is an Appx for Servers that is being used for Nano server. It does allow service installation and more serious modification of the system...because it has to. It's still a great packaging technology even if you don't use the store or other elements of their plan.
If you're using apt.dockerproject.org as your docker-engine source, please understand that docker 17.05 (edge version) was pushed in lieu of the stable (17.03), make sure you don't accidentally update, and move your apt sources to download.docker.com (new repos).
The original purchases were from Amazon, the first monitor being from a highly rated merchant for the open box deal, and the U2715H was directly from Amazon, new.

The replacements were dispatched from Dell Support directly under their warranty service, not from Amazon. What they sent as replacements were refurbished and in horrible condition, however it appears Dell uses third parties for repairing and shipping of replacements due to the packing slip / comment sheet having a separate supplier on them.
> I don't know the English terms here, but that kind of situation where individuals are earning massive profits because everybody else built city around them, is just wrong. That unearned rise in the property value should be taxed away.

Prop 13 prevents this, and in fact makes it so that only redevelopment or change of ownership allows increases in property value to be taxed, which is one reason owners might prefer not to redevelop.

Full value assessment (even retaining the Prop 13 limit on tax rates) would encourage redevelopment because underdeveloped properties would still be paying taxes based on value increases from potential uses.
Before long we're going to campaign protecting the unique ecosystem that arose on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The Patch is shrinking, we will say, due to ongoing cleaning/mining operations, and its endemic creatures are struggling without their home.
I would advise lots of you who have answered here to watch the TV show "Billions", lots of your answers made me immediately think of this show !
The issue was discussed previously on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156251
> How is replacing a offline device with a connected app better?

For one, the web app is free. They also have free iOS and Android apps that presumably work offline.
> A city like Fremont was master-planned with enough space for both, but is being forced by the state to build houses instead for people who will work in Sunnyvale which has too many jobs and not enough houses.

The legislation discussed in the article is largely about making Sunnyvale (and the rest of the job-heavy housing-light peninsula cities) build more housing.
To get attention. Politics is not an exception, its used everywhere.
Many exams are conducted via computer nowadays. Presumably they would be on a local intranet, and not have access to the public internet.
Sounds like the permits are still cheaper than they should be, though. Presumably if people value the parking such that it's the best use of land an enterprising person could set up a parking garage and make a profit?
Thanks for starting a good discussion smnscu. That's exactly what we are here for: we are solving that problem!
I'm using my Echo as part of my smart house. And using it every day for the following things:

"Alexa turn on/off the lights"
"Alexa turn my home temperature to 20 degrees"
"Alexa play Sublime FM Radio"
"Alexa turn on work mode" -> scene activates for working
"Alexa turn on sleep mode" -> scene activates for going to bed
"Alexa turn off my tv"

Its mainly OpenHab on a raspberry pi that enables all this.
However some things (like my thermostat) are directly connected to the Echo.

Also things like the Chromecast dont work well with the Echo. So i'm lost there.

Otherwise its great.
Recommendation? (for Windows)
> What I meant was that standard notation isn't better than every other system according to every metric we could use to compare such things.

This is totally true; tablature is better for beginning guitar players to learn to play specific songs on the guitar.

The only reason tablature doesn't supplant standard notation is that the metric under which it's superior is much narrower -- it's only for guitars, and only better than standard notation for beginners.

I don't think standard notation is necessarily the best overall, by I do think it happens to be the best overall, the best we've got today. And I'm not convinced it will ever become a choice, as opposed to standard notation evolving like it has in the past to incorporate new ideas.

Thanks for the explanation of the lattic layouts; I hadn't noticed the triangle orientation part, I only got as far as seeing that horizontal lines formed the circle of fifths. I can't tell what the plus and minus symbols mean, do you know? Usually those are used for diminished and augmented chords and not single notes, so is Bb- another name for A that is useful under the lattice system?
Same here. After the mess with WPF, WinRT, Silverlight, HTML5/JS and now UWP I am done with windows desktop. We just ported one big WPF app to web and will continue to do so.
Absolutely. The line before 2014 represents the tiny baseline of people using "React" in other contexts. The entirety of the growth since then is the Javascript library.