skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the plus side, it'll run Linux, which has a pretty darn good selection of "apps" and "app ecosystem" (package managers).

I know that's not quite the same thing, but it's not like they're inventing a new OS platform from scratch: apps developed for Linux will run on the phone, and apps developed for the phone will hopefully repay their developers' time by being compatible across many Linux devices, especially when/if other full-Linux phones become available.

(A caveat - I don't know how much of this is hardware-dependent, e.g. the CPU.)
there's also a Chinese space station but it's not currently occupied.

The last mission past low earth orbit was Apollo 17.

As far as I know, SpaceX are the only ones planning on taking crews further out, first with a mission around the moon, and then possibly Mars
Are there any reliable devices that can measure rem phases during sleep reliably and wake you up after 6-8 hours when the rem phase ends? And I'm not talking about sleep apps for phones which work with mics and accelerometers.
As I understand, Nexus phones too are not manufactured by Google. Pixel XL is manufactured by LG, Pixel by HTC.
Researchers who change country produce more influential work
What's the highest low earth orbit manned mission? The Hubble repair?
I've noticed a formula many seem to follow in drawing attention to ones self as a public intellectual:

1. Find some topic or idea that's interesting and fairly well-accepted but not receiving a lot of attention.
2. Claim ownership over the topic or idea as if the prior literature doesn't exist. Invent new terminology ideally; abandon existing terms to eliminate a trail to prior authors and ideas.
3. Present the idea or topic in a sensationalistic way.
4. When furor inevitably develops about lack of acknowledgement of previous writers and researchers and issues identified by them, frame argument as being about ad hominem critics versus solidity of your own arguments. Sidestep actual criticisms.
There seems to be at least one Chinese spacecraft in orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_large_modular_space_st...
In FaunaDB all transaction resolution is deterministic. Once global log order is determined, partitions will wait for the transaction inputs at the correct version and will each independently come up with an identical result.
In other words decentralized identity?

There is no reason to have Bank A release your credit history with them to Equifax just so Equifax can release it to Bank B. Cut out the middle man and just ask Bank A release the information to Bank B.
If I were somehow transported back to 1983 in front of my TI/99-4a... I'd run outside to smell the grass, then head up the hill with some friends in tow to sit among the oak trees and talk about dragons and fairy lands, and only after the sun was solidly beyond the horizon and we'd eaten our ice cream and I'd let my father beat me in chess, would I lay out the list of companies he needed to invest in. I'd watch him prosper from afar until I was able to wedge my foot in solidly at IBM/MS and tell old Mr. Gates to open his eyes (and wallet) to make those dinosaurs at IBM look into what they were doing with the Amiga and Atari ST. I would drive broadband-over-cable while people were still using it to watch soft core skin flicks on Showtime, I'd show people how to implement Deflate and kick the mouse out of petek's hand before he added macros to word documents. I'd...
Weak straw-man assimilation fallacy. Chicago has plenty of restrictions on guns but still has an extremely high violence rate, guns and otherwise.
I also used to feel this way. What worked for me is to not to do some of these things. For example, I got a robot vacuum cleaner and a robot mop. For any additional cleaning, I have a cleaning lady that comes every once in a while. This saves me a couple of hours of cleaning each month. If the car breaks, or something needs to be done around the house, I hire someone to do it. Groceries are delivered according to a schedule. Saves me a couple of hours of running around the supermakt.

I am not saying this works for everyone. It works for me. Labour cost are so low here, and salaries in IT are so high that it is totally worth paying someone to do some things.

As for commuting, I picked a job that is not too far away and is extremely flexible when it comes to when I am at the office. This allows me to only travel to the office at hours at which traffic is decent. At the worst hours, it can take 45min to get to my office. If I avoid those hours, I can be there in 15 min.
Surprised to see that unexpected amount of news generate over there 6% is a huge number specially these years
I will check that link out, but I'm willing to bet CT actually captures the entirety of design patterns plus any subset that you might make out of them. CT is the most abstract math and is really good for studying structures and patterns of computation itself.
Some taxes are made difficult by the lack, but land taxes, wheel taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, VAT taxes, GET taxes, service taxes, recycling taxes, employment taxes, gas taxes, hotel taxes, ticket taxes, vice taxes, excise taxes, fishing/hunting/sport license taxes, food and beverage taxes, marriage license taxes, luxury taxes, parking taxes, stadium taxes, vehicle taxes, watercraft registration taxes, zoning permit taxes and tolls are all capable of being effected without a centralized identity.
The opening story talks about how much of a disaster it is when a contracted pilot quits on a gig because he got a better offer that paid so much it covered his breach-of-contract amount... if this is something that terrifies you, you need to negotiate a higher breach-of-contract value next time.
I'm not sure about bandwidth; however, Starlink sats will be much lower than current internet sats. This equates to less lightmilliseconds. The fact that the light us travelling along a larger sphere than the ground (presumably resulting in larger international latencies) is less of a problem than you would think: there are fewer switching devices between devices - how that actually pans out is a big question.

I really think that it's simply a gamble beyond the enormous costs that you confirmed.
Mechanical Turk doesn’t seem to have shortage of workers and Amazon does nothing to market it.
Nice, this is perfect timing for me to see this actually. I've been slowly building out a little cli tool that I use to track .env files (and other files that you don't want to check into source) in a git repository that is parallel to your project's git repository.

The way it works is you identify a file that you don't want to check into source. The cli moves it to a parallel repo, commits the file to the parallel repo, and symlinks the file back to the original location.

From then on, you get all of the normal source control features like local changes, revision history, etc... that you get with every other file in your project. I basically got fed up with "crap what was that value I was using before? Let me dig through my credentials store" or resorting to commenting out old lines just in case I needed to revert.

So far, I've just been keeping those parallel repositories local for lack of an encrypted remote to push to. Definitely checking this out.
I don’t think it is possible. The effective tax rate for billionaires under a scheme such as you propose would still be pretty much zero. The only way to make that a progressive tax scheme is to have zero or negative tax revenue.
Get off HN and take my money already. Seriously. I'd gladly pay you money for nothing, a "supporter" badge would only be a nice bonus
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They kind of do, because you need to know who to bill.
As I understand it, the media you capture until 2020 is unlimited and will stay that way, and only what you capture afterwards will eat your quota.
Aside from the other comments, you're missing a huge part of what vim is about if you think that it's vim vs. every other IDE. I use IDE's but I use a vim plugin in every single one to enable the vim key binding so I can enjoy all the IDE has to offer AND vim at the same time. It's not just about the editor itself (which I will talk more about), it's about the editing paradigm it introduces. A paradigm that emphasizes programming efficiency over familiarity. I understand that trade off isn't for everyone though.

In contrast to what I just wrote, the ubiquitous nature of vim is a huge factor for anyone who does a lot of work on a number of remote servers where it's not feasible to use a GUI-based IDE. You can use nano if you really don't want to learn vim but I'd love to hear someone make a case for using nano over vim. You may only need to deal with this for 'basic server side administration tasks' but a lot of people have to do a significant amount of work on multiple servers due to data access and resource availability issues.

In addition, there is also the fact that a number of command line tools use vim key bindings for navigation (eg. man, less, more)

*Edit: grammar
They’ve already written a blog about why they’re not going to do an ICO unless and until they are fully functional. If I remember correctly they were planning an ICO, but their lawyers advised that it would be a bad idea under the current circumstances and they rethought it. Honestly it’s says a lot of good about them in my opinion, most of all that they care more about the health of the project than getting rich quick. Even if long term riches are their goal, at least they’re going about it the sensible way and not playing cowboy.
Probably Spanish. It's a horrible layout for developers, curly braces involve alt-gr for instance...
The pilot probably can't afford it. What they need is insurance.
Better to use discovered languages as they say, but also better to learn the actual abstractions of computation itself, which CT does a great job at, instead of arbitrary patterns that are based on human intuition.
What about propaganda?
That's very interesting. AWS WorkSpaces does have a per-hourly billing, but OVH might be simpler and a better price for some cases.
Total dodge of the ssn as authentication issue
Oh my goodness, are you telling me that the party was more behind the decades-long member who had spent her time building alliances and relationships over the guy who joined the party a few months before?
Well, with 6 kids or more in each family taking care of small children was a full-time job of its own. Not to mention not having things such as a washing machine...
And a better truck number.
I mentioned this in another comment but it's worth reiterating: IDE's and vim are not mutually exclusive. Every IDE offers a vim mode or vim plugin that gives you the best of both worlds.
Probably from http://open-notify.org/ , it provides free space data.
> While it can signal poor self control

It’s not always useful to be seen as stable or a worthy adversary. Being unpredictable or flying under the radar are legitimate strategies.
https://blog.colony.io/the-colony-token-sale-7ac14c845bc0

A protocol token is part of the Colony roadmap, but they won't do a token sale until the product is ready, to minimize the risk that their token will be considered an unlicensed security by the SEC.

Protocol tokens or "app tokens" in general are really exciting, and a lot of the smart VC people are talking about them. The latest episode of the A16Z podcast is all about protocol tokens, for example.
One of the key misconceptions about Mozilla is that Firefox is their "core business." It is not. Mozilla is not a company; their "core business" is not defined by their most successful software product. It's defined by their mission statement: "to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all."

They've used their $100-160 million (it has grown over time) budget for a lot of things in the last several years. Off the top of my head:

* Legal battles
* Advocacy for open standards like HTML5
* Web literacy projects like webmaker and MDN
* LetsEncrypt
* Bugzilla
* Thunderbird
* NSS
* Spidermonkey
* Rust
* PDF.js
* Firefox OS
* Development and support for open VR web standards
* Supporting other, non-Mozilla open source projects like Tor and NTP

Remember that the goal isn't the success of any particular software product. It's pushing the debate and forcing other vendors to adopt and stick with OSS and open standards.

In short: yes, Firefox has lagged behind chrome in the last few years in terms of speed. But remember when IOS didn't support HTML5, or any competing apps? Remember when no one was serving the global south with mobile web capable devices? Remember when HTTPS adoption was at 3% and going nowhere? Remember when CSS meant days of per-browser testing and tweaks? You're welcome.
Not the numbers I mentioned. I was referring to the salaries in the physics department (my department). And I wasn't limiting my search to full professors. There are plenty of assistant and associate professors making well over 100k.
Says not sooner than 6.5 years in most cases or 5 years for some legacy. That's a decent I guess.
Those are not full professors, they're assistant and associates as well. Adjunct professors are a different story b/c that is not meant to be a full time job. Adjunct professors typically teach a single course and do not do any research or participate in any administrative tasks for the department/university.
BSDTW 2017
> it’s such a massive part of making the Xcode experience suck.

This.

Whenever my fans start spinning up, I head on over to Activity Monitor and sure enough SourceKitService is sitting at 120% CPU draining battery like nothing else.

I probably kill the service between 5-10 times a day when using Xcode.

I've found that disabling 'live issues' in preferences helps somewhat, at the expense of not getting live updates to errors as I'm typing, but SourceKitService will still go off the deepend - usually while adding stuff that will not yet compile because I haven't included the appropriate headers yet or am still refactoring/moving about code.
You could easily bill an anonymous owner or property-holding LLC. The land isn't going anywhere so it's easy to confiscate if no one pays.
Everyone knew it would happen and nothing can really be done (see Tibet). No one will start a trade or real war with China . They have veto power in UN ad that makes them powerful. So reality sets in.

Treaties and agreements can be enforced only with smaller nations.
I agree "unlistenable" is a personal judgement, but there are very rare cases when buying an audiobook, even with a terrible reader, is not a better value/cost ratio than the original Kindle TTS, it was convenient, but not great.
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This is really interesting. I've lately become more curious about theories of transaction costs - how traditional firms might have an advantage because they don't have to bargain over every decision and have understood lines of decision-making. I'm wondering if decentralized organizations might have a transaction cost problem.
If you seriously believe that it took minimal engineering effort to integrate those parts into a low latency real time system I don't know what to tell you. These kinds of dismissive comments on HN never cease to amaze me.
You can't compare an adjunct professor to a full-time (assistant/associate/full) professor. I would not consider adjunct professors to be 'academics' as they do not typically do any research. They're basically lecturers, not professors.
I am an Android user but it seems to me that it gets more and more invasive. Everytime I go somewhere it wants me to take photos and just now it advertised some Play Store movie. Search asks for location access on almost every search. To get rid of the search bar I need to install third party software.

When I buy a premium phone I want the phone to work for me and not the other way around. The notification bar should only be used for stuff that I want to be notified about - not ads or cheap tries to get me working for free.

In the future I sometimes imagine two classes of devices: one controls the lives of their owners and one helps their owners to control their lives. What does Android want?
I'd say there's one non-violent way to fight back that could significantly hurt China. Host an open source repo on GitHub that highlights China's suppressed history, and use QQ/WeChat/Weibo/etc to spread it to Chinese locals. Do the same for Reddit, and every other western service that isn't blocked in China. (It would likely also help to leave 1-2 star app/play store reviews of WeChat and mention the fact that all private messages/pictures are accessible to the government, and they use the service to limit free speech.)

Imagine how much western companies would suffer if GitHub disappeared overnight. It would quickly become known to the Chinese that a freaking repo containing nothing besides accurate Chinese history was responsible.

If you already obtained a decent reach within Chinese social media apps, then you should consider this: China can easily "shadow-block" certain phrases like tiananmen, hong kong + protest in same message, etc. and you can be certain most of these imagines you find online will also be "shadow-blocked". However, all it takes to beat their current system is to modify a single pixel.
Bought an HTC Hero. Used it two years with no issues, besides lack of storage. With apps getting larger and storage issues cleared up with newer hardware, I needed an upgrade.

Bought a Galaxy Nexus. Used it for two years without issues. Would've continued with it for longer, but I was leaving Sprint.

Bought a Nexus 5. Used it for two years, with minor issues concerning wifi signal strength and wireless charging. The phone still works, and I keep it as a spare, but the wifi issues were especially annoying.

I've had an HTC One A9 for a year so far. No issues, aside from it being larger than I'd really like. I don't plan to replace it until I have a very good reason. Also have an iPhone 6 from work. It's nice, but harder to tinker with, which I think has always been Apple devices' shortcoming.
Most likely.

"Any civilization advanced enough to leave its own plant will be advanced enough to track accurately those leaving"

-- Civilized Tracking Corollary (2017)
i think this aspect of dl4j gets lost in the overall message. For me, this is much more powerful - "use dl4j if you want to have a seamless experience running tensorflow/keras/mxnet on spark".

Because right now, it looks like it is tensorflow vs dl4j.
That's a lot of hoops for them to jump through, and I wish they succeed. At what point do you say "this is at least a step forward and I'll buy their stuff even though it might not be perfect"?
The mythical 10x programmer - antirez
http://antirez.com/news/112
Google CEO Sets ‘AI-First’ Device Blueprint to Catch Apple
Wow, you verbalised something I thought for a long time
Let's Encrypt uptime has been 99.9% for some – analysis of letsencrypt.status.io
We'll, there's the obvious argument that any open source software is better for your privacy and security than any closed source software, just because you know what it's doing. Then there's chrome's history of repeatedly discovering "whoops, we weren't supposed to be collecting that"... For me, it was when a researcher noticed that chrome kept his microphone activated all the time, because it was passively recording and sending all your audio to google. That one even made it into chromium! Then there's the abuse of their products to force people into their browser and OS - like Hangouts only working on chrome, or chrome not enabling hardware acceleration for any device but Chromebooks, despite a years old (trivial) patch to do so, and years of testing reports. Arch Linux maintains its own version of chromium just to have that patch included.

But for me, it's the conflict of interest that makes the real difference. Fundamentally, Google as a company makes it's money by selling information about me and my behavior on the internet. That's it's objective. Firefox exists to promote open standards, OSS, and privacy on the Internet. If chrome at the moment doesn't seem to be contributing towards Google's objective, that's by definition only a temporary state of affairs. And I know which objective I would rather support.
There are plenty of other programs with "planned" missions to the moon and mars. You can question whether or not they'll happen, but you can do that about SpaceX too.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars#Current_...
Secrets Tim Berners-Lee (Father if the internet) shared with his Barber
Category Theory is also a set of arbitrary patterns based on human intuition. Just with the added property of being formalised and consistent :)
This looks very promising. As a healthcare professional I am interested to know if it can be used to monitor various healthcare related devices such as medical devices or hospital hardwares. Would love to know more on this.
Haskell have let-in expressions, I think it is the inspiration for swift in this case.
What's wrong with writing in plain english? Reading that link, I can't help but get the feeling that either a lot of copy-paste from marketing pages has happened, or the author thinks marketing-speak is an acceptable way to explain things.
The headphone cables tether you to your phone. There are times when you want to be able to put down your phone and be able to use headphones but not be physically connected to it. Eg lying in bed listening to music, but then getting up to go to get something from the kitchen (and not having to pick up your phone, or carry it with you, or unplug the headphones) before lying back down again. And being able to do that while continuing to listen to the music.

Routers need to be plugged into a wall socket. Batteries don't require that constant use of a cable or socket.
A humorous take on Nassim Taleb that is actually spot on
http://www.karlremarks.com/2014/11/its-true-if-i-say-it-is-w...
Thank you! I've never seen that page. It doesn't show up when searching for "clang warnings" in DuckDuckGo or Bing, but I see now that it is Google's result #2.

I just found a GitHub repo that lists which warning flags are supported by different versions of clang and gcc:

https://github.com/Barro/compiler-warnings
> Mozilla is not a company

Mozilla Corp. is taxable and had revenues of $329.5 million in 2014 per Wikipedia. Most of that money came from Google in exchange for making Google the default search engine in Firefox. Open internet and goodwill aside, Firefox is very much their core business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
I'm not sure where the 100 million estimate comes from, either, but on the other hand, I have no idea what your reports have stated.

I'm not clear on how religious motivation should exaggerate their data. Does it help to intentionally overreport and claim that religious people are underrepresented? Is it better to intentionally underreport and go for the angle of persecuted minority group, so that the greater international community, and perhaps even the general populace would have sympathy? Maybe both, depending on the situation.

Are there studies on the difference in accounting of the number of self-professing religious believers in a population as reported by religious and nonreligious sources?
It has nothing to do with programming but I find myself rereading Smedley Butler's essay, "War is a Racket", quite often:

https://archive.org/stream/WarIsARacket/WarIsARacket_djvu.tx...
As a complete noob - Is there a place I can find data on panel prices? I was just reading this article:
http://www.livemint.com/Industry/sMC62YoWv4LybaPZnKivMM/Indi...

and the prices seem very very low.
This article accelerated me quitting my well-paid coding job and starting my own little tech recruiting agency.
I guess it depends on how much they lose in each good year, ie it's subjective. This kind of investing is not for someone like myself, who doesn't like spending too much time managing money in the first place but I can see how it might work for someone more involved in the process.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15405033