skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to stutter for your point to be logically inconsistent to the point of incomprehensibility. Lorem ipsum is nonsensical faux-Latin regardless of any speech impediments.

If ChromeOS or Android don't count as "real" Linux desktops because (aside from Android not usually being used for desktops) they abstract away the "Linux" part, then by your exact same logic, any Linux distro that ships with a full-fledged desktop environment is not a "real" Linux desktop, either, since they by design abstract away the Linux part. In fact, literally no actual operating system could possibly be a Linux desktop unless we want to go ahead and turn all user software into kernel modules, since literally anything in userspace is by definition an abstraction on top of Linux.

Linux is one component in a fully-featured operating system. Exactly which userland happens to be running on top of it does not change one's status as a Linux user.

Meanwhile, pretty much every desktop environment for Linux (except maybe recent versions of GNOME) is not exclusive to Linux, so by the logic you've presented, there's literally no such thing as a "real" Linux desktop.
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Just because the hardware would improve doesn't mean the UI would improve.

Digital cameras have killer hardware, but they still have the same crappy menu systems they had when they were first introduced in the 90's.

You absolutely need extremely rare talent to produce original & creative ideas like what was used in the iPhone, and the digital camera makers have absolutely none of that talent.

Yes, the world would continue to use clunky desktop-oriented WindowsCE/Blackberry/Treo phones today without Apple. They really were original and unique to the industry in how they completely changed its course.

Also, never take advice from Phil Schiller.
Well, if there is one, you will only know for sure after they reply. It's a conformation after observation too.
> But imo the biggest thing missing from the ableton ui these days is touch support

Or a full featured iPad app. TouchAble seems to be rather successful but it's a remote control surface rather than a stand-alone audio solution. Plus, there's only so much you can do as third party developer.
No, as opposed to adhering to decent workplace safety standards.

Your reasoning implies that any resistance to outsourcing is mindless nationalism and therefore the choice is some kind of trolley problem between lowering standards here or elsewhere.

That's not true. You could very well introduce some restrictions with better reasons than political power-play. In the EU, there are restrictions to ship waste off-country because it would pollute the environment. You coukd just as well restrict outsourcing jobs if the workplace environments are known to be unsafe.
This is just stupid. US basically sent out a signal to its competitor to demand them to invest more heavily on their own R&D capabilities- what Chinese universities, research institutions and companies are going to do with such news? They take it to the Chinese central government to ask for more R&D funding.

Think about it - what China can possibly lose in such a race? When Americans are trying to maintain its No.1 ranking in the field, Chinese are just trying to further modernize its industry which stands at less than $10k GDP per capita, you can probably beat the next generation Chinese supercomputer, but hey, you are pushing for the creation/improvement of the Chinese supercomputing community!

Think about it again - what China can possibly lose in such a race? America won't lose its overall dominance just because some other countries have faster supercomputers, America is losing its influence around the global when it stupidly using its borrowed resources to force its main competitor (also No.1/2 debt owner) for more R&D spending.
haha so true
That was lovely. I created an account just to tell you to please keep writing. I'd love to hear more about your work in the woods.
Here in Hawaii the Hokulea is a big deal (http://www.hokulea.com) because they have taken modern day people, and using the Hawaiian methods of navigation they can still get around without modern technology and figure out where to go. Showing it wasn't just Polynesians sending out random boats hoping they would hit an island.
Er, they may be left with a warm and fuzzy feeling that they have some "understanding", but let get them to do some multidimensional analysis and see how they do. The meaning of "explaining" seems just as elusive as the "simple explanations" themselves - once you've heard such a "simple explanation" and have a feeling that you now understand more than you do, what is the objective difference between you-before and you-now? It's my experience, and several professors have confided the same, that the "simple explanations" give students a nice feeling that they "get it", up to the point where they actually try to apply the knowledge and fail miserably. Maybe the explanation then wasn't really "simple", but now we're just shifting the goalposts further into epistemology.

I would tentatively agree that there is a skill which allows you to break down complex subjects into digestible chunks, but that usually depends a lot on the student as well as the teacher(e.g. some people are good at following metaphors, others learn very well from repeated examples, etc), but the outright statement in the topic suggests that there is no such thing as irreducible complexity, which seems ludicrous.
With non-solitary confinement.

They can't kill anybody if they're in a normal cell by themselves next to the other cells -- and with stuff like tv, radio, books, internet, etc still available.
Wouldn't non-linear mem-resistors make pretty ideal neural nets? Most activation functions are modeled as non-linear functions anyway.

Edit: Appears some HP associated labs had success with just such a chip! Surprised it hasn't been more success in that field.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/537211/a-better-way-to-bu...
Envato open sourced its event sourced library
It's very probable that the firm simply didn't have the management bandwidth to do proper property management, which is a business all on its own and unless you really care about it, you're not going to be able to do it as well or as cheaply as someone who does.

I can easily see how a company would prefer paying another company to provide a nice, delineated set of deliverables as opposed to managing workers to provide them themselves.
Switching to the Mutt Email Client
The Osimi Tower project is located on Le Duc Tho street, in the residential area of ​​Ward 15, Go Vap District http://osimi-tower.com.vn/
It's about as likely as reading a byte from an initialized /dev/urandom and measuring its entropy to see if someone removed a hardware RNG.
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That's what Slashdot did. Didn't help very much in the general case.
How about the intel fdiv bug?

My understanding is that BIOS updates have improved the speed, stability, and clock speeds available.

This is far from unusual, read newegg for any new intel socket/chip and the reviews are full of dimms XYZ didn't work with motherboard ABC.

Every motherboard manufacturer posts a list of compatible DIMMS they test with, unfortunately they are rarely the dimms available to consumers to buy in quantity 2-4.

Thus the market opportunity for crucial that does their own testing and has a generous replacement policy.
There are CS Engineering schools in France that have a large part of their teaching in "hard" science.

For example, in my school (ENSIIE). I've studied Operational Research, Graph Theory, Logic, Probability, Statistic, Formal Program Proof, and other subjects I don't remember (oups...).

No Quantum Computing in my school however.

But it might be present in better schools like ENSIMAG or Supelec.

The side effect is that these schools tend to be old school in their purely technical teachings. No learning of <fancy JS framework released a weak ago> or how to configure <enterprise stuff> or <fancy cloud provider>, only basic programming skills in C, Java or CPP, SQL, a little assembly, OCaml and some Unix administration skills. By themselves, these schools will not produce code monkeys.
Technologies may become obsolete with the advent of other technologies or social changes. I think Bruno Latour makes an important point here in stressing that human and non-human (technologies) should be thought of as one. So, a technological change might go hand in hand with a social one. I don't think it has to be a disaster though.

This isn't really an undo but rather the result of some pruning when an obsolete tech isn't economically viable any more.
"Polynesian people used binary numbers 600 years ago"

Disgrace to Nature for click bait. The number system might be clever but as described is not binary numbers.

Especially the claim in the introduction

"Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented at the start of the eighteenth century by the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz."

implying Leibnitz didn't invent binary and equate the existence of 4 numbers (10,20,40,80) which lack the simplicity of 2 states by representing it with KTPV with the invention of the binary number system is sensationalist.

Interesting the quote

“It’s puzzling that anybody would come up with such a solution, especially on a tiny island with a small population,” Bender and Beller say.

It's only puzzling to scientists from "Department of Psychosocial Science" but would not be puzzling to scientists from the "Department of Mathematics".
In many countries voters would vote in governments that promised to achieve 1 star prison ratings from prisoners.

While prisoners would be unlikely to rate their prison highly, perhaps reformed prisoners are slightly more likely to do so?
why is there no effort to make artificial tree mass? this could be done by creating genetically engineered trees that use as little resources as possible to grow as much wood as possible in lab environments. one could even go as far as powering the cells electrically -- it is theoretically possible and has been done in the lab before. or, why is there no effort to synthesize wood itself chemically, industrially?
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I have also thought in the past that this would be an excellent policy to be added to the WTO treaty. It seems like a basic, necessary clause that signatories would be happy about since it protects against product dumping by ultra-polluting countries.

There is probably some aspect of it that makes it too hard, such as enforcement. But most of the WTO isn't enforced anyway. Typically companies sue their national government to force them to take action under the WTO; at least this is what happens with manufacturers in the U.S.
I am currently a catfish programmer and not enjoying it. I now feel like a garbageman because I see lots of garbage and rarely given new code to write. I now spend more time reading garbage code and trying to figure out how it works in a matter of hours. It all started last year October when I took a contracting job.
Son, you're not making too much sense. Of all things to be mad about, tech investments isn't one of them.
Uber is blowing the door wide open for its toughest competition
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My $400 Sennheiser Momentum 2s are metal and feel decidedly "not crap". They also look much more tasteful than the welcome-our-robot-future Beats.
Elasticsearch is schemaless as well, however it can guarantee that a field is a number once used.
Would be awesome if it does go beyond just decoupling it internally (which I hope they more or less do already), but open the UI part up to the users.

If you look how much time gets invested into modding some game's UI, how much neat things could be done, if the whole UI of a DAW is easily moddable.
>The obstacle isn't law, it's the resources required to bring a successful case.

I think this is understated in this thread.

In order to have effective governance on any level, you need people to "buy" into it willingly. It will only become easier for those who want to opt out of such despite the assumed risks of doing so.

The resources [human, capital] are only getting more expensive for governance systems to use to effectively go after such on any meaningful level.
I think that book has been largely discredited.

The U.S. in the Gilded Age was very predatory & imperialistic in Latin America.
Shipping boxes? <sarcasm> - I'm not really sure.
I don't think you answered my question.
What if quantum communication is a backdoor? Wireless, undetectable bugs!
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Heh, except for the most important part of having twice the performance, twice the cores, and twice the ram inside a single node with a single kernel.

Not all tasks can be split across nodes. If you need 4TB in ram you have to get the more expensive quad socket CPU.
If reflection is being monitored closely etc then it must have some impact. Probably tiny
On the opposite end of the spectrum, you have the likes of Perl where you get all sorts of specialized operators to avoid such ambiguities, at the expense of having to learn a whole bunch of operators.
The difference here being that the next step can easily be to impose requirements on merchants to do checks, and require them to refuse to honour transactions where payments comes from known tumblers etc.

In the UK, if you apply for a mortgage now, for example, your solicitor and mortgage provider will ask questions about where your deposit is coming from, and require documentation if it looks like it's not from regular savings or the like. Today that is manual and paper based, and so only viable for large purchases like a house, and additional documentation is only requested if there are indications of fairly large payments in your last 6 months of bank statements. My ex was bitten by this when buying a house recently, as she received part of her dads estate via bank transfer from abroad, and had to chase down documentation from the executor to demonstrate that it was a legitimate source.

With crypto coins they could require execution of automated analysis of far more transactions going far further back in time.

Won't stop it from being used for crime, and won't prevent people from finding ways of making transactions anonymous, but the point is they don't need to "ban math" because that maths intersects with physical actions taken by humans on a regular basis.
I think that's the part of the blog post that resonated most with me. There seems to be this perverse belief that shortening code is always a positive, no matter how much black magic it requires.

Traceability seems to always be the first thing burnt at the stake to appease the god's desire to save 3 characters; which I find strange, because it's the most fundamental requirement of good code. If you can't work back through the code to find the source of a bug, your code is an unmaintainable pile of shit. No amount of proper whitespace use will save you.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
The CouchDB one is actually a fully persisted database, not just an in-memory cache. Both are useful, but it's not quite the same thing.
This is obviously just a proof of skills. He isn't trying to get on top of everything and everyone, but he's simply showing that he has the skills needed to do a full redesign. By asking users for feedback, he shows that he cares what users want and isn't just here to implement whatever ideas come to his mind.

So if he gets an offer, it would most likely be as a designer. Of course the HR department will have to make sure that his skills also work in the given team.
Are you suggesting that if he had claimed that he generally appreciates elks but not the ones he kills, would make more sense?
Be ready to find out how much does Netflix cost and create similar app
The Memorandum as a Management Genre (1989) [pdf]
It wasn't until 2007 that HTML5 features began trickling in anywhere...
Hi,
I'm one of those people that got bored with simple printf. Always enjoyed making programmes with graphics and Sound. These days a lot of my work is "the simple pleasure of my manipulating data with code", it's OK but I would prefer to be doing graphics.
After taking a screenshot and putting into this really cool website that will let you get {x,y} data from plot images[1] (and it's free software).

The cheapest headphones they tested were ~$3.95 USD.

As an aside, I get really pissed off when researchers don't publish the data they used. It's very frustrating especially when you want to show that you can reproduce earlier results (I've had to use tools like this to include data in plots for my own papers).

[1]: http://arohatgi.info/WebPlotDigitizer/
2 Things i wish to say here :

- I came across this beautiful quote and it had quite an impact on me : "The best way to complain is to make things happen" If its bothering you, you should probably create a theme and sell it on wordpress.

- I have found some themes which are minimal and "blob-free" on wordpress but they cost money : search for single / two column themes & minimal themes - you should be able to find them.
I've added the most notable acquisitions for now, will add the rest for each company
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People know a lot of things they don't necessarily know how to explain. A lot of people don't know how to teach.
I think I hear more negative anecdotes about unions than positive ones. I can think of three reasons why this may be the case.

One is that there's a great deal at stake and most companies are going to resist unions any way that can, and we can reasonably expect that to include negative propaganda.

A second is that unions really are terrible because corporate interests have succeeded in subverting the unions they couldn't destroy and have influenced them in ways that render them dysfunctional in hopes that that will discourage employees from joining.

A third is that unions have an inherent tendency to become terrible due to internal dynamics.

I suspect all three of these are true to some degree. It seems like a good way to defend against the second and third is to have multiple competing unions and allow employees to move freely from one to the other, or start up a new union if none of the ones that exist are any good.

Like most HN readers, I don't have any experience working in a unionized industry or know much about how rules governing unions vary from state to state or which unions are better than others or what kind of checks and balances exist internally to prevent unions from become corrupt or ineffectual.

I do expect that if the tech industry were to become unionized, we would need a different kind of union. It makes sense for unions to force people to work slowly in industries where employees are at risk of ruining their joints and then being discarded by the company when they can no longer shovel their daily quota of coal. In software development, anything that slows you down is frustrating and I think most of us would rather work in an environment where under-performing employees can be fired than one where they can't. We could borrow plenty of ideas from existing successful unions, though.
Imagine being able to explore distant planets with robots and VR googles in real time!
A bit off-topic, but I am currently trying to recover ~$70000 worth of ether[1] from my presale wallet and the encryption used is indeed SHA-3.

I'm currently trying 21970881 passwords against the hash using fairly basic python code (ETA: 2-3 days), and can definitely use tips for speeding up the work, as Id likely need to try an order of magnitude or 2 more generated password in order to crack it.

1. https://etherchain.org/account/0x35f5860149e4bbc04b8ac5b272b...
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Right, because boys never get mocked at school...
The article is taking about average salary, which is a society topic, i.e. social.
Is the Blockchain just another dot-com bubble?
There used to be a company called EarthShell which made biodegradable food packaging and other containers out of limestone and other stuff. It went public in 1998[0], filed for bankruptcy protection a decade ago[1], and their twitter account was last updated in 2010[2].

I wish TBM better luck.

[0] https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/earthshell-begins-to-cr...

[1] "After losing more than $331 million during its 14 years of operations, EarthShell Corp. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection." -
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2007/01/29/stor... (paywalled)

[2] https://twitter.com/EarthShell

Interesting trivia: the founder and chairman, Essam Khashoggi, is the brother of Adnan Khashoggi - a central figure in the Iran-Contra affair.
I am gonna be a bit off-course and say, whichever laptop you have could be the best if you play to its strengths.

I used Asus x205ta laptop and it still is one of my best investments. Elsewhere on HN, i have mentioned that i setup vagrant and used the machine to its best. All i cared was to have a browser and a terminal. :)

EDIT : Asus x205ta is a $199-ish netbook.. with an atom processor and 2gb ram, 11-inch screen.

Currently i use an MBA (2015) model.
But still, nobody really claims to appreciate the pork the schnitzel he enjoys in the cafeteria used to be. It is much easier to get emotionally engaged with a living being when you see it and interact with it in its natural environment and you are the one who kills it and watches it die, than getting emotionally engaged with the beef where the frozen meatloaf you bought from the supermarket comes from.
You can't communicate (FTL) with entangled particles unless fundamental assumptions in quantum mechanics are wrong.
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I lost a friend through contract programming. I didn't even want to be involved, as I was having a baby around that time, but he was really keen on his startup idea, and knew a sum total of zero programmers. So I passed him on to another friend while keeping an eye on the Slack/GitHub.

It started off as a copycat site, so my ex friend basically just asked for that site, with slight modifications. That was easy, so we costed it appropriately. Then of course as the idea ballooned, he wanted all sorts of bells and whistles. On top of it all, he thought he'd manage the coder himself. I told him to read a book about agile, so he could get used to the Trello card approach to managing it. He decided not to. Also there were a million other little pieces of advice that he had his own opinions on. For instance we told him copycatting a design is easy, but we can't do a new design without a designer, and that would cost both onboarding time and money. He went and got a designer anyway. And the guy quit after a week, so a new guy had to be found.

In the end we delivered what he'd asked for, but he wasn't satisfied. I told him I was giving him honest advice as a friend, and that he could easily spend another year and another salary on some yesman who would take him for a ride. So he got a yesman who told him we'd really messed it up, it wasn't professional, and so forth. And then he threatened not to pay us, so I had to threaten him with debt collectors.

Haven't talked to him since. Site came up eventually, a year and a half after we'd actually built it.
oh shit you're right 0_0
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Again: union in the company you left of your own will (did you RTFA?) won't help you. Union in the company that won't hire you due to informal pressure won't help you either, because you aren't a member or working at the company.