skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice idea, but we can't afford to join the race without an ideological incentive. If China were an ideological Marxist state, that might help, but they aren't any more, an apt commentary on the intelligence of the Chinese people and their leadership.

Pretty soon now, the Chinese will be looking down on us in a literal as well as figurative sense.
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I don't have a dog in this fight, but some context might be useful to those who didn't instantly recognize this as I did:

This is a from-scratch operating system by LoseThOS, an absolutely brilliant but (allegedly) schizophrenic programmer who posts on HN but has been hellbanned countless times for the unintelligle religious rants and insults he posts.

This version looks like a rebranding of LoseThOS, the previous iteration of the operating system. It's worth Googling if you'd like more history.
>But many have chosen it, often in part due to (alcohol) addiction.

It's a crime that a person with a disease can be literally left in the gutter by society and then be told they chose to be there.

>I've given a bag of food to homeless panhandlers who gave me a dark look because they wanted actual money. Why?

There are many necessities a person will need that aren't just food and require money.

If you talk with people who work with the homeless the first thing they'll tell you is that there is, surprise surprise, not enough personal supplies (toiletries, clothing) nor food nor shelter to adequately address those who need their care. If no one is being turned down, it is because they are at maximum capacity.
I don't even... is this some kind of joke? The website reads like a Christian version of the timecube website.
While I think its wonderful news that it has become a priority, I remain pessimistic. The geography of the valley cannot be changed and combined with the common high-pressure weather patterns the air is trapped for weeks at a time.

Even with massive cut-backs in emissions our industrial economy and expanding population ensures this will remain a problem long into the future.
What's amusing is that if you do a hard refresh of the page it shows the old bridge routing for a fraction of a second and then reloads new tiles with the truncated new bridge.

Maybe this just says I'm easily amused...
For context: When has the project started? When did most of your team come together? When did you enter the team? How many working experience do you have?

Most of your ideas are right, but in real world sometimes you need to make exceptions. For example sometimes you must add a special case. It makes the code worst, but sometimes something has to get fixed now and cleaned after.

I recommend you to read: "Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt":
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000332.html (don't forget strategy 6)
Good grief, I'm on HN this much and miss it when someone posts about my own startup?

Skysheet is alive. It's taking so long because it's hard, yet mysteriously doable, so (assuming sufficient stubbornness) there is reason to keep going.

There's little information because we don't want to let the 'talk' part get ahead of the 'show' part--not out of stealth, really, it just feels like the right way to be. But if anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer.
I often highlight his comments and read them for whatever reason. It's a little fascinating.
Yes I know about that. I was asking how "penguin" could ever be considered a swearword...
It's not a universal American taboo. It's a progressive taboo, and California is a progressive region of the country.
tell me I don't have a passport
Reason : My dad refused to pay bribe .
I am fine with it, I will wait for one more year and apply again but without paying bribe
Depends. I've been in interviews where they let me damn well know I was losing points for giving an algorithmically sub-optimal answer.
SparrowOS is another name for the project. I find the author's hellbanned posts fascinating, at least when they aren't racist!! The project is quite an undertaking for a single human.

Edit: After watching this video, I understand the SparrowOS name (audio required): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuXweEJNFI
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I don't really know the significance of this, it just looks like an error to me and it's certainly not news that errors exist.

A quick Google search and apparently there's a new section of the bridge opening or something? I still don't quite see why this is significant?
Bay Bridge is undergoing repair works till Sept 3rd, 5am.

http://baybridgeinfo.org
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"The workers work and live in the factory dormitories – allowing flexible time and really quick manufacturing, something which would never happen in US or the Western Europe."

Its not like thats ever happened in the US.
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>Can we bring food and shelter to those who don't have it? Can we bring counseling to the those who need it? Can we support and create real face to face local community? In other words can we take our gifts and the tremendous leverage that software and technology provides and actually help people? Can we fly in the face the current economic incentives and actually help people?

While these are great pursuits, unfortunately most of these things aren't the best for profit generation.

Many startups are in fact non-profits, but a lot of the biggest innovation you see is in the for-profits (for obvious reasons).

>We might as well be playing the stock market.

I disagree. Intel and AMD were startups at some point; Google was for a while. Amazon, ebay, etc. While these don't give value in the sense of providing food or homes, they add a lot of value to the current kind of world we live in.
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Daniel just can't be bothered to deal with LinkedIn. If there's a headline, it ought to say "Programmer at Skysheet".
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It's a bad apology. There's no real admission that they messed up (they implicitly blame a third party, and "process") and no mention whatsoever of doing anything to avoid future mistakes like this.
Out of curiosity, what did the person have to say once you showed up?

This is effectively kidnapping and should be prosecuted as a felony, really.
Probably because it is under construction.

http://baybridgeinfo.org/
Mind if we ask you to rearrange your own comment, or at least clarify any differences, if any, you may happen to see between....oh...innate sexual orientation... and the historic and recent practice of polygamy in Utah. Maybe you'd comment on anything you know about the leaders of recent polygamist "churches" and their treatment of women and their attitude toward and/or behavior around sex with children.

You know. Since, yeah, you not-so-disingenuously went ahead and grouped polygamy with homosexuality as both somehow innate "sexual orientations", as you groped toward analogy.
Do you not have an hour of "administrative" or "meeting" work to get you to at least 8 hours? I find that my non-coding overhead is easily an hour a day.
He is missing the point, it's not even his apology to accept, it's Zach's. He's appeared to do since he considers the apology 'genuine'.

The thing to note in all this is:

"Our legal department very recently started using a third party vendor to assist us in pursuing trademark infringers and, due to an error in our new process, your domain was mistakenly caught in the cross-fire."

If tumblr has switched to yahoo! legal, that is not a nice side effect of the acquisition.
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It is not worth staying at the current company. You better ask your old friend what you feel your worth. Sell your self and you will get what you want.
Perhaps it's how expedient Google Maps is being updated. If you're unfamiliar with what has been going on with the Bay Bridge for the past ~10 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_span_replacement_of_the...

The new span opens on Tuesday.

It'll be interesting to see how long it takes other map platforms to make the change(s).
> By programmers, I mean real programmers. You can hire decent programmers for $150-$200 a month.

This shows you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. A decent programmer will cost you close to $1000/month; a good one with experience will cost you upwards of $2000 per month.

As always, you get what you pay for.
In the account I read, he was on the roof because he wanted to steal a light fixture which was on the roof. Previously that evening they had tried, and failed, to steal a floodlight from the school’s tennis courts. There was nothing about the man trying specifically to avoid detection any more than any other criminal would not want to be caught. Certainly the police were not at the school.

This leads me to believe we are not talking about the same incident. I quickly found several cases where someone fell through a skylight. For recent examples:

- "A 17-year-old teenager “clowning around” on the roof of Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School fell through a skylight Sunday night, police said." http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2013/07/teen_hospitaliz...

- "A teenage boy suffered heavy bleeding injuries Friday night after falling 15 feet through a glass skylight on the roof of a Mill Valley funeral facility, a fire official said." http://www.marinij.com/ci_23653365/boy-injured-fall-through-...

- "A teen was seriously hurt Monday after falling through a skylight at Taylor Middle School" http://www.koat.com/news/new-mexico/albuquerque/Teen-falls-t...

- "Police identified 15-year-old Kimberley Ferris as the teen who died Tuesday after falling through a Dakota Middle School skylight" http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/police-identify-teen-who-di...

These reasons for being on a roof seem to be even more pointless than stealing a floodlight, and yet they were on the roof, and were not trying to escape or evade the police.

I tentatively conclude that you really don't know the details and have been passing along stories you heard. As with any friend-of-a-friend stories, these are liable to be very different than what actually happened. I similarly conclude that you believe in the truthiness of your account, even if the truth is somewhere else. However, the laws have changed since Bodine v. Enterprise High School was filed, while beliefs based on echos of that case are stuck in the Reagen era.

I don't understand your cancer reference. The answer is "yes" for some people, "no" for others, and "irrelevant" for still others. Some people actively pursue cigarette smoking, with its increased chance of cancer. Others choose diets which they think will help prevent cancer. Still others know nothing about cancer, or let it be in God's or Fate's hands.
No joke. It's this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos
The rewrite started a year ago. It's the _fifth_ version of the same product that is only four years old. I joined this project about a month ago, but have been working on a related project and interacting with them for about three years.

I agree that sometimes things have to be fixed now and cleaned later, but it should make you feel a little bit queasy when you do it, and you should be aware that you are adding future work to the project.

I skimmed that link and it looks great, I'll be diving in fully. Since I've seen the posts from others and was leaning that way already, it's likely I won't send it, but I really want to push this project to be better. Since you suggested strategy 6, I read that first, and it's awesome and difficult. Part of being new means that more than a usual amount of my development time is spent understanding the project. I've felt rather unproductive because of this.

Thank you.
Would you recommend a "Show HN:" post that would take people to a landing page only...as though you had a fully built product?
If you read the judge's words carefully you'll realize that he isn't pleased with handing over the police everything so that they don't go on a witch hunt. He also suggests that there be "an independent vendor" instead of the police pulling out the information because if you think of it, all evidence in a case may be held indefinitely and in this case it might be irrelevant and private information.

So although technically data mining is rummaging, it is not on the record and accessible to another person if it is irrelevant.

I like this judge.
The apology fits the patterns of those big scary companies. It's better than not giving an apology, sure, but in just my personal, humble opinion it does not exonerate them.
I disagree: "We deeply apologize for our mistake". I interpret the mention of a third party as an attempt to say "this was a mistake, not just us deliberately being dicks", not "this was not our fault".
I haven't read the linked article, but this doesn't sound right. Assembly is mostly a manual process, workers salary must be the biggest cost. Salaries in US are way more that 50% higher than in China.
But the OS is real. The author is indeed strange. Some say he is schizophrenic.
PGP gathers entropy for keys using user interactions with the computer (mouse movements, keyboard input, normal usage) as well as disk and memory activity, making for more true random number generation than the PRNG that uses the pool in many modern processors, which could be 'fixed' by the NSA following recent revelations.
I really want to have a spare laptop on which I can install all kinds of weirdo OSes just to see what they're like, not for "real" use. I'm perfectly happy running Win7 and OSX but that's like being happy with vanilla and chocolate at Baskin Robbins! I need some kind of heavy-duty bootloader and partitioning agent, though. Any recommendations for a starting place?
That “women make 77 cents to every man’s dollar” line isn't true
And this is hackernews, where all the readers must be from North America? I doubt the poster is even in San Francisco, where there are lots of decent ramen restaraunts to be found. On that same wiki page, there is nary a pic to be found of instant noodles.
It's actually the opposite: it's gradually appearing. At least it looks to me like its displaying the new unfinished span and will connect it when the transition is done.
"during an era when war profiteering was still considered an unethical thing"

In a time imagined by Plutarch and Livy, but never recorded by the clearer-eyed historians?
Blogspam and misleading title. $4 is the difference. Original article http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/28/technology/mobile/moto-x-uni...
The Bay Bridge is currently closed until Tues at 5am. It's actually two bridges that meet at Treasure Island. The Eastern half is being rerouted this weekend onto a newly completed bridge. (A pretty amazing project, by the way.) This includes a slight change in the connectors at Treasure Island and in Oakland. And since it's an entirely new bridge, the map probably treats it as a new road.

So, quite possibly, the new tiles for the map are in transition or not yet propagated?

Edit: A correction - they meet on Yerba Buena Island technically, not Treasure Island.
It's still happening, in places like Alaska.
An important step would be to limit the time frame of emails covered by the warrant. I dissected the article hoping this would be mentioned but it wasn't.
It's true that no one will sue you for rounded corners in India. No, why go through the expense and publicity of a lawsuit, when you can simply bribe the local government and telecom monopoly to deny all your requests?

Electricity went out? Sorry, sir, but all our technicians are busy and we won't be able to come fix the lines for another two or three days. Need a faster internet connection? Sorry sir, we're not handling those requests right now. Need to move into a larger building? All of a sudden the building inspectors are looking very closely at the interior plans of the new office.
In a country where you need to pay 40% of your profits in taxes after minting small money after putting 5 years of efforts.

If you think hiring programmers at cheap price is maximizing profit , its exploitation my friend , it's called making profit on misery of unemployment situation in the country.
The author has some mental issues of some kind.

He is a great programmer, though, and his work shouldn't be discounted just because he's a bit off.
What happens? They get fired.

I'm all for workplace policies that give a greater amount of discretion to employees as to how, when, and where to work. But "set your own salary" is a bit like "set your own hours". Your decision ends up being highly constrained by existing norms, and by the fear of being terminated if you fail to choose the answer intended by management.
More frustrating is that the "New" google maps doesn't support this link, and it rolls back to "classic maps". The new maps significantly lack parity with the "old" maps. I guess we should be grateful that we can roll back at all.
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Or moisture vaporators in Star Wars, which Luke's uncle and aunt owned.
It's not an error. If it were, it would be a very big error, as their directions would be completely broken for everyone going to or from San Francisco and Oakland, dis-servicing hundreds of thousands of people.

But the bay bridge is closed this weekend:

http://www.sfmta.com/baybridgelaborday

The reason why this is interesting is that it shows that google is very responsive about updating their maps in real time based on recent events. It's impressive. It is also interesting because the Bay Bridge is a major thoroughfare in the area, and it's odd and unique to see a portion of it cut off in the map.
> He is missing the point, it's not even his apology to accept, it's Zach's.

Of course it's not for me to accept or not accept that apology and no one should care about my opinion on the matter. But I think not appreciating the apology is a defensible position to take and I'm trying to articulate why I feel so. Feel free to dismiss me. :)
Released into the public domain, very cool!
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Why not use VirtualBox, VMWare Player, or qemu?
This is more or less exactly how foreign engineers trying to get permanent residency or in the States feel.

Both of these systems are horrible, and need exact documentation regarding number of applications processed, along with specific targets. They also need to be staffed with people eager to do their job and welcome people in unless there are specific, real concerns, not actively try to keep them out by any means possible, including infinitely long "processing" delays.

[edit: not exactly sure why I'm being downvoted here, but downvoters, please do try and leave a comment if possible. thanks!]
Fog harvesting's a lot older than that. The Bimbache people used a communal fog-harvesting tree to provide water on an otherwise uninhabitable island in what's now the Canary Islands. They led the drip lines to gravity-fed channels, which directed water straight to their dwellings. Clever systems like this demonstrate what we already knew — that indigenous people were (and are) no dummies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garo%C3%A9

http://archive.org/stream/mobot31753002257217#page/152/mode/...
The obvious choice of boot manager would be GRUB 2 [1] but Plop Boot Manager [2] is entirely sufficient in many cases and easier to install and configure.

You can partition the hard drive, real or virtual, with Parted Magic [3].

If the reason you want to go with real hardware is that something like VirtualBox doesn't feel transparent enough to you (i.e., there's a lot of magic that happens in the background when you configure it through the GUI) I'd suggest trying out QEMU first. It requires more manual configuration (you'll have to read the man page and find the right set of command line options to make it do what you want) but the end result is that you have a better understanding of the virtual hardware your guest OS is running on. Plus, the Cirrus graphics card it emulates by default is well supported by old software.

[1] One good option is to use http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/.

[2] http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/

[3] http://partedmagic.com/doku.php
A "muflax" created a distribution on GitHub: https://github.com/muflax/templeos

One minor version/2 months or so behind.
Probably to PETA which then euthanizes them and throws the dead animals in other people's dumpsters. PETA was found guilty of littering because of this. They were not found guilty of animal cruelty because there was no law against euthanizing healthy animals which is what PETA was doing.

Dr. Proctor later added in The Virginian-Pilot: "These were just kittens we were trying to find homes for. PETA said they would do that, but these cats never made it out of the county." [0]

[0] http://www.petakillsanimals.com/trial

Also: http://www.thisistrue.com/peta.html
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So assembly is $4. The cost of the parts is $100 I assume? Most of which is manufactured outside the USA?
> After trying lots of things and learning tons, I've got a better idea of what I want.
^ that.
You might like my intro to ASIC/HDL course that I took as a junior at Purdue University. My team won an "AMD Design Award" for our VHDL implementation of a timing-attack-proof AES encryptor that sits on a PCIe bus. [0] Other, wanted, features were omitted (like decryption) for die space concerns. This animation was popular among my team. =)

One of the features that helped it win the award is that it used file IO for "language bridging". Most of the other projects were pure VHDL. Our project used Python to verify the VHDL and Python AES implementations against each other. Fairly simple (OK, VHDL file IO isn't great) in practice but very powerful in effect.

We also had an interactive demo where you would enter a block and key. The Python implementation would encrypt the block and print the output. We would also run the key and block through ModelSim running our VHDL implementation (making sure to go through the PCIe bridge). The output was displayed to the user, allowing them to "see with their own eyes" that the implementation was correct. It was a powerful demonstration. The other team that also won implemented a Java simulator for their 3D "GPU", at least as much as a GPU you can do in 2 mm x 2 mm with ~35 um feature size standard gates.

0: https://github.com/jevinskie/aes-over-pcie
Why not simply use virtualization? Whether QEMU, Bochs, or VirtualBox?
Virtualisation is the best option rather than booting, for most operating systems. Xen is a good option, most OSs will run well under it (though probably not this one). You can boot other stuff from USB instead of bootloader.
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If you don't care about what a judge says in a privacy related situation, considering the privacy violations from the government, then what would you care about?
I assume its an intentional modification so that Google Maps doesn't give driving directions that use the bridge.
I don't think so. I noticed a slight removal this morning, and the now missing area has grown.
This is a bridge in Bay Area next to the center of their world. I'm pretty sure african bridges are not updated for road work or even for a long time after completion.
and most of the people who have had long-term welfare dependencies, have not shown any initiative or drive to seize opportunities.

Shouldn't that be a mental issue? If you need housing, you go looking for a job. If someone is looking for housing, and doesn't look for a job: 1. Either he's physically incapable of doing it or 2. He's mentally ill (drug addict or any other thing related really).

Laziness is fine until you don't have shelter/food/healthcare. Otherwise, I'll put it as a mental issue, unless the person is happy about his situation.
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