skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it's nice to see that they put some thought into it but it still seems, well... over-engineered. If you are trying to be the monolith that your customers buy EVERYTHING from then you should be a little more realistic... nobody wants to shell out an extra $25 for a fancier chip with a little shielding.

It bugs me that Apple customers seem to get ripped off by their brand for simple things & then they thank them for it. I'm glad a 3rd party market for Apple stuff finally emerged. I remember the dark ages when you couldn't even tell your friend "check ebay I'm sure theres one of those..."

Part of the reason I am still in the PC world vs Mac (I build my own powerhouse desktops for research data-mining & gaming, buy cheap laptops for practical use) is that the multitude of companies making parts means they find the proper price/quality balance much more often.

I'm glad this author gives credit to the off-brand. I'm very impressed with the quality of cheap Chinese electronics, and if it breaks you have 8 or so more tries to get it right before you reach the same amount spent. & plus, let's face it the main problem with this stuff is that you lose it, not that it breaks so I have a tendency to sway way toward the cheaper end with non-essential cabling & components for that reason.

Inside my research PCs is a different story... no expense spared on CPU/GPU/drives/mobo/etc. :D
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I think the question is why have state sales taxes instead of a national sales tax.
I don't know the data there either but considering just three people who led rather exceptional lives among millions of others isn't a great way to draw a conclusion
Read the first chapter. If you're enthralled, keep reading.
Though I agree with your sentiment, I would point out as a side note that a rational "selfish" person would certainly not want to get rid of barriers that protect their position :)

I do think the point I was trying to make needs making .. there are a lot of smart kids currently trapped in bad high school situations. Their plight deserves attention as well. Actually, I think these problems are far more related than it may seem at first glance. The correct answer to pg's question "how to get 13 year old girls interested in hacking" likely kills two birds with one stone.
Wow, good spot!

Does that mean the RD9700 devices on taobao (22RMB) are likely to work on OSX without additional drivers, as they pretend to be an Asix chipset?

The speeds OP got are higher than 12Mbps, so I guess it's not an RD9700 in disguise.

Just guessing. I'm about to order the 25RMB asix-type one.
> For those who do not lose their jobs, the fact that they didn't lose their jobs is indicative of more major problems...they either don't understand the value of their labor, or they don't know how to negotiate with their employers

You left out a more likely option - that they effectively didn't WANT a higher wage and are being made worse off by the change - their job is now crappier and less desirable than it was before DESPITE paying more than it did before. Changing any single term of a contract by fiat usually makes both parties worse off - the fact that they could have negotiated for that outcome but chose not to suggests it's part of a suboptimal equilibrium.

What makes a job good isn't just the wage. If you force employers to pay more in MONEY per hour worked they will pay less in other ways to compensate. Less benefits. Less flexibility. Less training. Less "slack"/tolerance. Less willingness to take a chance on less qualified applicants. And so on.
Thanks for the reply mate,

I actually have a degree in computer science so I am very familiar with Python and Java hence why I initially went down that path - would this change your recommendations?

I have done some small things (landing pages) using HTML and CSS and written some scripts for software like Q (Market Research) and LimeSurvey in Javascript so I am not a 'complete novice'
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When looking back at letters like this, its important to be at least aware of the context. I don't think ignoring the context of the letter is helpful at all in understanding why it was written by Bill Gates.

Taken outside the context, one can surely have a discussion about how much software would be made if developers can't use government help as basis for their business model.
It looks like he eventually got paid ;-)
Hi Jeff. I thought I should weigh in on this one, as you originally corrected my spelling. I am not offended, on a whole, but having notice your little back and forth with Michael, I decided to look through your comments. You have a tendency to correct other people's grammar and spelling. In most cases this does very little to contribute to the overall nature of discussion. Further, I am sure this is not something you would say to people in a face to face conversation.

Please keep in mind that there are a lot of people on HN who are NOT native English speakers, me being one of them. I am well aware of the fact that on occasion I have a tendency to misspell great as grate, and vice versa. The other 2 languages I speak fluently have much more reasonable spelling rules, but I am not complaining.

However, I am guessing that your superior spelling and grammar skills in your native language are a great source of pride for you, as you like to show them off so much. I would not want to take that away from you. So, you have a nice day.
Er, what? I didn't say anything about dysfunction and I didn't pat anyone on the back. I did say things about the inherent difficulties of competing in the space though.
Perfect pitch is impressive and handy in some cases, but it's a lot more useful as a musician to spend your time perfecting skills based on relative pitch perception.
So what the hell happened to 8080 and 6800 APL? That would have truly changed the landscape. It wasn't quite the low hanging fruit Basic was though.
What shocks me is that the quote is from 2012:
http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...

You have to be brave to criticize the web founders nowadays (personally, I like Berners-Lee and company).
> "The HTML/CSS guru should not exist anyway since the designer is supposed to decide how the page should look like,"

It's this idea that leads to a whole host of trouble. It's the implicit statement that HTML and CSS is just about a visual presentation. A designer (in the typical "I'm a web designer" mould) is singularly unqualified to deliver an accessible experience. Because they cannot let go of the visual aspects, and focus on the non-visual elements. And a lot of that is because Photoshop doesn't support concepts like text-equivalents to images, and tests for whether the page reads correctly in a non visual way.

And then there's interaction design. It's rare to see a web designer have a solid grasp of interaction. Again, because Photoshop doesn't support these concepts.

A static visual representation isn't enough. And so the output from designers with some HTML experience is not enough.

But you're right. The HTML/CSS guru should not exist. But designers are not amenable enough to take up those reins at a high enough quality. And programmers and engineers also seem incapable of generating high quality markup and CSS.

HTML/CSS is where the technical meets design, and neither specialists seems to comfortably handle this intersection. So integration is a pain point.
Really? Slow compilation or slow at runtime? Compilation, sure. Scala still has a slow compilation process but they're working to fix it. For a rapid prototype I don't think compilation time would be very material assuming rapid prototyping means 'something that exhibits the concept'
When my mother had a bone marrow transplant, the hospital used triclosan to disinfect anyone entering her room. A quick Google search shows this to still be a common approach.
Costco now only sells triclosan-free bulk soap now.
> Why don't you read the links to answer for yourself, what happens if the water goes above that temperature?

Because I have already told you how water temperatures are safe from a heat transfer perspective.

I should hope I don't have to remind you not to immerse yourself in water that is too hot, but the fuel itself will be fine if it can be cooled, and it can be cooled by nothing more than water immersion.

This is, after all, how the fuel rods at Unit 4 were being cooled for a short time during the Fukushima meltdown.
Google keeps track of what sources you're more frequently clicking on and weights results subtly but noticeably. If you look up things on Wikipedia a lot, Wikipedia pages will be ranked higher. If you're more likely to click over to the BBC than to Fox when you read a news source, the BBC will be higher and Fox will be lower.
A negative income tax is a strictly progressive income tax systems which has a range at the low end of the income scale where the marginal rate of is negative.

The EITC is not itself, and does not make the US federal income tax system, a strictly progressive system, since the EITC creates both progressive and regressive ranges.
A few letters in, the guy was still being a jerk about it:

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Part%2015%20Letters/04-09-29-...
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I agree. I'm not quite as much a generalist as that guy, as I'm primarily a coder, but I code anything. Recruiters prefer more specialized coders (they just want front-enders, back-enders, Java specialists, Ruby specialists), but I'm all of those things. But my skillset works very well for more technically inclined companies; I've been despite not knowing the main language I was supposed to program in, and have learned at least one new language at every job, and one new framework at every freelance gig.

Lately I've noticed I'm getting better at taking on non-coding responsibilities, and I'm not seeing that hurting my hireability at all.
I thought I was using regular toothpaste. I didn't know Colgate had triclosan until I read it in another article about antibacterial soaps and their risks. The box does not say "antibacterial". Unless you know what triclosan is (I didn't), there's no reason to believe you are buying antibacterial toothpaste.

It does say "Antigingivitis" on the box, but that does not necessarily imply an antibacterial toothpaste. Crest also says "Antigingivitis", but they accomplish that with stannous fluoride rather than something like triclosan.
"executive action that would allow limited use of the drug by those with serious illnesses"

Because this substance is so dangerous that it may only be used if you're on the verge of dying. "limited use" of course :)
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Unless you're a black teenager living in the inner city and you rub the police the wrong way, in that case you're proper fucked.
That was licensed from Xerox.
I was on a medication that did something similar (I believe it may have been depakote or gabapentin). Thing is, I have absurdly good relative pitch, and combined with an 'internalized' sound of 60Hz (I've worked around a large number of generators and high voltage equipment over the years), I have the same net effect as perfect pitch (60Hz is roughly a quarter step above B-flat, a quarter step below B).

What bugged me was the intervals were off. It's hard to describe, but, for those not familiar with how the notes are laid out, 60Hz is quarter step below B, 120 is quarter step below B, 240 is quarter step below B, and so on. However, as you get higher, the frequency difference gets larger (B is actually 61.75ish Hz and B flat is 58.25ish Hz, next higher is 123.5ish Hz and 116.5ish Hz, and so on). Things were translated ~1/4 octave higher, which completely threw everything off because the 60Hz sound no longer fell evenly between two notes or even directly on a note, it was an 1/8th step away. This meant that as the notes got further away from 60Hz (higher or lower), the distance to the note got larger. So while everything was still evenly in tune, my guidepost began to really suck.

Long story short: I have no idea why it did what it did, but it was freaky. However, it was probably the most amenable side-effect I had from the medication.
For web applications, I think rapid prototyping requires a framework that performs a lot of magic, like Rails and Django. I don't think it depends on the language of the framework since you won't have to think of concurrency or anything like it. Rapid prototypes of web applications are concerned with request, response, and database interactions. The easier the framework makes it the better. It's not about Ruby or Python or Java.
Browsers are full of quirks, but today those quirks go beyond layout/rendering.
You're right, I entered '307' instead.
Well sure, I wouldn't go with #2 either, but the GIL blocks you from doing fast processing in your C thread while the rest of the program continues because it's locked the entire process. So whether you write native code or not, you're stuck to one processor.
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The way the question was asked by Sanders, the answer would be necessarily YES. Of course, the NSA can not answer YES, because [insert mention of 9/11 and national security argument here, wave a flag, if possible, while doing so], so they did the next best thing, made a lengthy statement that states absolutely nothing.
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I wonder, how much would have been charged for the chopper emergency service an alien on US soil?

Hopefully mr. Bezos donated some of his wealth to the preservation of the Galapagos natural sanctuary.
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Imagine a world where the public as a whole had convivial relations with the police, because they weren't so many people worried about getting arrested for drug violations. Imagine a world where the massive resources dedicated to drug enforcement could be directed toward solving, preventing, and obtaining convictions for murders, rapes, and so on. Imagine a world where violent criminals could not so easily turn to drug dealing and drug cartels to take in easy money to support themselves and gain power. Imagine a world where police corruption is much less common due to diminished presence and wealth of drug cartels.

I, for one, would like the opportunity to live in that world.
Fascinating write-up which puts the economics of proprietary vs open source in full view. Gates was unhappy in the letter because it was hard to make money charging license fees in arrears. In my business, I charge for a lot of development up front.

The lesson I take away from this is that conventional software licensing, while it addresses a legitimate need in some areas of software (the need to diffuse development costs), means effectively not only shifting risk onto the developer but increasing it by orders of magnitude. The sort of risk that one has from investing in a feature for an open source project is far less than the risk that a software house takes in building the next version, because they take on all risk, centralize it, and then hope to make it back through control. This doesn't reduce risk for the end user though by very much.
Usefulness is certainly a large factor but when you are being constantly told to take it off when you walk into certain businesses then the "look" of the device certainly matters. If it just looked like a pair of glasses there would be no problems.
me too, the first time... Such a sad state of the world....
OwnCloud has pretty regular discoveries of SQL injection and RCE vulnerabilities.

http://owncloud.org/about/security/advisories/

I'll say to their credit that at least they're serious enough to publish security advisories.

Some of these errors just shouldn't be possible in a well written code base, though. I would never run OwnCloud on my own servers, or use it to store anything remotely sensitive.
> "none of these things can be learned quickly, and they seem to require many months of experience to actually get right consistently in practice."

That's the same for any language. Especially those that don't just clone the language you already know.

CSS just happens to be the one that takes a structured document and styles it for presentation. Like Latex, like XSL-FO, troff, PostScript. Relatively, CSS is easier to pick up and run with.
This needs more upvotes. You're exactly right.
I first encountered it in high school. In the back of the class my friend Rich would read it during second year Algebra lectures - he'd sit under the light on the emergency circuit while the rest of the class was darkened so that the teacher could write on the overhead projector while monotonically lecturing for fifty minutes after lunch.

Before the images of Escher and fractals and recursion had a couple of decades to work their way into the background noise of common culture, GEB was mind blowing. Now, with high speed internet, cleverly written essays interconnecting ideas are much more common, and Escher's black and white drawings feel less visually rich in a world saturated with computer graphics. The Bach still stands on its own, but the fact that the book can only talk about it and the reader is still on their own in so far as experiencing the music goes, and an appreciation for Bach is both the part of the book that took the longest to develop and the part which has stuck with me the longest...well maybe a skepticism of systems and general pessimism derived from the possibility that Godel might be right has stuck with me longer.

Though Hofstadter might have become pretentious in the thirty-five odd years since he wrote the book, in its time, it certainly wasn't pretentious - it was a risky literary exercise by an unknown author. It's essentially Hofstadter splattering his young and brilliant mind onto the printed page - drawing connections between the principles and intermingling Pythonesque dialogs and treating the whole thing seriously is absurd. And wonderfully entertaining for the right readers.

That said, the most dated aspect of the book is the mindshare it has obtained. The idea that a book offering such deep technical engagement could achieve popular exposure in today's world, borders on the unthinkable.

It's not for everyone, and it certainly isn't fundamental to computing and the world being more jaded and less stoned and more informed than the world of the Carter administration, calling GEB dated is a fair criticism.

Anyway, my recommendation is to pick up a copy from the library and see if you enjoy it. Life is to short to should one's self.
Those are not "normal limits" in the United States, and I do not believe they should be "normal limits" anywhere.

If it undermines a country's judiciary for information about crimes to be published, that country's judiciary needs to be undermined. Once information has leaked beyond law enforcement officials, there is not and should not be anything anyone can do to prevent its spread.

I don't care what mission Google is on. Rights are not dependent on motive.

Newspaper ownership limits exist only in relation to broadcast station ownership. There are no separate limits on newspaper ownership.
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Minix 3 seems like a really good route for this purpose. Supposedly a kernel in less than 10k lines of C.
Yes, I mean prototype which exhibit concept. I mean proof of concept implementations.
A friend told me they did this recently, and I argued to her that it was a bad idea. It's going to sit around for however long with all the baddies in it multiplying, and then you're going to smear it all over your hands to "clean" them. This was my feeling mostly because she had made it with just tap water and dish soap, but I imagine even boiling the water first wouldn't stop this happening as it's going to sit around as still water for weeks/months or even longer.

Maybe I was over reacting a bit, I'm admittedly not sure how store-bought foam soap is produced. I just search around quickly and see that the prime ingredient in most foam soaps is (unsurprisingly) water, but they're also pumped full of other stuff.
Just put it in the garbage. As is, bottle closed.

Or save it for special occasions (which is what it was designed for). For example people are sick in the house, or you just cleaned out something really disgusting.
I’m sorry, but you cannot use “TFA” without implying “The fucking article” at least to some degree. That’s just how it is, never mind the intent. If you want to be polite you do not use “TFA”, it’s as simple as that.
No, but again, sociopathy is currently more an insult than a clearly defined "disorder".
Are you trolling or just trying to live up to your username?
Did tempos sound faster too, or did just the pitches change?
Interesting how the first link doesn't define "gender queer" or "gender fluid". How do you verify the feelings of a person about their gender? I reject gender as a system entirely, does that make me "gender fluid"? Doesn't OPW stand for "Outreach Program for Women?"
Ask HN: Simplified C?
Can you please recommend a 'simplified' C, if it exists? By 'simplified' I mean a 'cleaned up' subset of C which would (ideally) compile on a standard C compiler but avoids some of its syntactic/semantic darker corners.
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I'm genuinely curious about what they mean by 'gender queer': OPW stands for Outreach Program for Woman, which makes me suspect they're including that phrase to try to prevent drawing any lines re 'what is a woman', so I'm a tad curious about their stance on accepting a non-effeminate gay male in the OPW program.

If not, according to the article I'm out of luck because I don't qualify for GSoC either. Sad face. Genuinely interested in alternatives to GSoC and/or other avenues for jumping in to the Linux Kernel.
I think bootstrap (and similar frameworks) are the closest thing we have. It makes simple tasks like "put these things in a nice grid" or "center this thing" so much easier than if you were using raw CSS.

Bootstrap gets a lot of flak for its styles, but I think its real value is in making layout somewhat sane.
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If you're calling an object living in STA, you should do it from the same thread or marshall the pointer before using it from a different thread. In the latter case the STA's thread needs to run message loop to process calls to the object. If the thread is showing a modal dialog or blocked doing a lengthy operation it doesn't happen.
As you can see there is nothing wrong with the object model itself, it just allows to call an object that was designed to be single-threaded from the threads other than its "home" thread.
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There are much better alternatives for that, I'd recommend an antiseptic wash (there's a good one put out under the bandaid brand). Besides which you'll need to use an antibacterial cream for the wound regardless.
I agree... even more recently, about a year ago I ran into a minor glitch in the OpenBSD kernel while porting an application. The kernel was so simply and sensibly laid out that I was able to quickly identify and submit a patch for the problem, even though I'd never looked at the OpenBSD kernel prior to that. (Meanwhile I'm still trying to wrap my head around Linux...)
It would likely have a negligible benefit for composition, even if notating unassisted by any pitch aid.

Since the intervals (not frequencies though) between scales are consistent regardless of the pitch of the tonic, one could compose a piece using relative pitch that they believe to be in the key of C, when actually they are "hearing" it in Bb. Precise relative pitch ability has much more utility in composition, absolute pitch would have more advantage for performance (choral starting note, woodwind tuning, on-the-fly assessment of string fingering).

It would only be useful if for some reason you needed to compose and then perform a piece without a reference pitch.
It's news to me that people with degrees are struggling more than people without. Of course few people gives a shit about my PhD diploma. What they care about is the skills, knowledge and analytic abilities I perfected while training for it.