skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say somenone goes back in time and kills Hittler, does it really change our timeline events? Or it just creates an alternative timeline with alternative versions of us and nothing really changes here?
It relies on some hardware sensors which are in the phone.
If there were no socialism some other form of ideology would be used. Political or religious. Look up "the resource curse" on Wikipedia, it is just too lucrative to control an oil country and steal the money...

Also, as I understand it, things like this is especially common in South/Latin America with much populist aristocratic history.
Bumping off Wilhelm I well before he became Kaiser might have diverted Germany on to a less confrontational path - would have reduced the prominence of antisemitism as well.
I've sometimes wondered about the folks with 0 connections. Same thing?

By and large I've found the website very useful.
I have an old rio mp3 player which predates the ipod by years
> 1. You don't know that.

Have they been audited? That could help.
Packages are great because they simplify automation. Once you've got a package built and uploaded to a repository, you can install it across a large fleet of machines one-line of Chef or Puppet code.

There are some pitfalls, however:

* It can be time-consuming dealing with the arcane details of Debian package metadata or RPM spec files. If you're deploying your own application code, you're likely better off using fpm to generate a package from a directory tree:

https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

* If you have a complex stack, e.g., a specific version of Ruby and a large number of gem dependencies, you should avoid trying to separate things into individual packages. Just create a single Omnibus-style package that installs everything into a directory in /opt:

https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-ruby

* Maintaining build machines and repository servers takes ongoing effort. Shameless plug: This is why I created Package Lab---a hosted service for building packages and managing repositories. Currently in private beta and would love feedback:

https://packagelab.com/
As much as I like playing with Max and PureData, I think they also highlight some of the many problems with the whole "Visual Programming" thing.

They don't play well with version control and are a nightmare to debug. The developer will also quickly hit a point where the visual nature of the tool becomes more of a hindrance than a help, when they're left drowning in a tangled mass of pipes and boxes.

I would really love to see a fresh take on this idea and an attempt to address some of the above problems.
To your last point was Simple's cost of funding just too high?
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Japanese has just the one liquid phoneme; in terms of english they don't distinguish L from R. It's traditionally romanized with an 'r', but it can be pronounced as an L.

All that seems a little beside the point, though; they have their own (terrible) writing system. I'd kind of expect any brand using roman letters to look foreign.
Not mentioned in the article but highlighted in the paper is that this actuator has no hysteresis. If you have played with shape memory alloy, you will know the non-linearities in it are extremely hard to perform control with. So this is a big advantage of this actuator over SMA wire for control.
Agree with the author it's lamentable how mobile dev is almost totally focused on native apps. Solid UX is possible now on the mobile web but unless the user adds the site to their home screen (on iOS) the top and even the bottom of the browser window takes up valuable screen real estate. App stores provide a better monetization and distribution scheme than browsers do on mobile, which makes it hard to justify spending time on a mobile web site.

The big gripe I have with mobile web support today is Safari on IOS 7 where it is now impossible to permanently fix an element at the bottom of the window.
This is deceptive at best. I've been a fan of LinkedIn as a company until now.
Came here to post the same; after seeing as "people you may know" some email contacts that may not even know what LinkedIn is (such as my mom), I strongly suspect they're doing something even more shady to grab my contacts. I have never installed the mobile app.
The difference between humans and bacteries, is that humans a higher order than bacteries. In humans, you have intelligence and self consciousness, and consciousness of the univers, and the ability (very very tiny small for now, non withstanding the proponent of human made climate heating), to act retrospectively, introspectively and consciously on the universe.

AFAIK, no other entity is able to do so, and therefore we are an essential part of the universe, giving it an entirely different ontology. You could eradicate some kind of bacteria, and the universe wouldn't change of essence. If you eradicated humanity, it would (at least, until and IF, it can evolve another sapiens sapiens specie, which is probably, but still seems to take a lot of time, even at the scale of the universe).

But even without taking into account those mechanistic considerations, as a human agent, you can choose to build around yourself (and ourselves), any kind of society you want. So the question is whether you want to build a Nietzschean or a Christian or some other kind of society. Do you want the rule of the Jungle, or do you want some kind of higher civilization? Do you want the brutal application of natural selection, (don't provide any medical care, let the strongest survive and multiply), or would you prefer to let the humanity choose its evolutive path, by applying artificial selection and having even ill-fitted members survive and prosper?

Finally, occidental civilisation, ie. greco-roman civilization, always has been about, and been developed by, citizen having a lavish life of leisure and culture, provided by hordes of slaves. Thanks to the judeo-christianism influence, we now know that slavery is bad, and thanks to the technical progress, we're about to be able to replace it entirely by robots and other computerized systems. The result is that instead of having 2000 citizens, we'll have seven billion citizens, and instead of having a million slaves, we'll have trillions of little robots and computers, to provide us the leisure and culture we want.
Those technologies would still have been developed. It would just have taken longer.
Actually, solid chocolate (but not milk chocolate) was invented in Turin at the start of 19th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Paul_Caffarel
The people who built it. The "employee" demographic trickled in later, though it now seems to dominate.

blumkvist's businessman/worker point is something worth keeping in mind when you see people behaving badly here. Back when this was a small group of entrepreneurs, it was all about building each other up and helping. Now that it's mostly people with no skin in the game, it's more about tearing ideas down.

(Note that in both cases, it's an attempt to pull people towards your own camp.)
Force of habit more than anything else. I just learned about tmux a month ago when I needed to find a way to implement that broadcast solution. For the moment, broadcasting is the only thing I use tmux for - Just as detaching from long running sessions is the only thing I use screen for. I don't have an allegiance to either as most of my tasks I do in a single terminal window.
Both companies cripple HTML5 support on their mobile OS. Developers are left with almost no choice but to write native apps for their platform (if they care about execution speed).

It fits perfectly in the picture that Apple doesn't allow alternative browser engines. Chrome for iOS just embeds UIWebView and there is no Firefox for the same reason. The JavaScript JIT is disabled for UIWebView, and only enabled for Safari.app.

In an ideal world, one could write powerful HTML5 apps that run on Android, iOS, FirefoxOS and desktop browsers. And AppsStores would allow one to add an entry to the apps web URL or at least provide an non-crippled WebView so that one can write a simple wrapper app (or use phonegap/etc).
Thanks, we were a bit worried that people will stop using the site but we hope everyone is wise like yourself! I think overall the main people who will set up there own versions are those who want to work on a private network which is an group of people we have been unable to help so far.
I'm sorry that I'm not able to solve world hunger and world peace. Not sure why that means I cannot take it upon myself to hypothetically build a mobile computer-vision-powered app? Please enlighten.
I was waiting for a nod towards the Derek Parfit paradox: The idea that even if avoiding WWII would have made for a better course of history from an abstract utilitarian point of view -- a world with less suffering and more pleasure -- it would be ethically problematic because virtually none of the people who are actually alive today would exist in the alternate no-Hitler scenario. People who actually exist are more valuable than people who only potentially exist (it is difficult otherwise to explain the vast moral difference between a couple deciding not to have a child and having a child then painlessly killing her).

Unfortunately, this seems to justify everything since (especially if coupled with chaos theory) we can prospectively say of the future that the set of people won't be the same at time X -- say, a hundred years hence -- if we don't go to war with Iran.

N.B. That this only form of justification can only work if you are not planning to annihilate everyone on the planet.
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Ask HN: do you use App.net? 
It started good, and there were interesting people in the platform. Now it doesn't seem very active. Do you use it?
Yes! All language, whether natural or programming, can have two primary structures: semantic and thematic (these are terms from Linguistics). Thematic structure (very roughly) refers to the effect of the writer, the medium, and the reader/s, which explains why one semantic structure can be represented in a variety of ways.
Yeah, and it's really, really bad form on the part of the company to ask for credentials from another service. Not sure why people have accepted this as a "standard" kind of practice when it comes to email accounts (of all things).
Unfortunately the whole states rights issue gets in the way of having sensible national regulation in the USA.

And devolving telecoms regulation down in some cases individual towns is just silly and is just asking for corruption.
I've been thinking about ways to create an offline-equivalent backup, so that it can be automated.

You can do this with Tarsnap. The tarsnap-keymgmt utility allows you to create key file which can only create new archives, not delete or overwrite existing ones.
Mark Zuckerberg has learned: You need to disrupt yourself before others do
I don't actually know my chocolate preference, but as someone who enjoys well done steaks and sweet wines, let me tell you: people are not very tolerant of alternative palettes.
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I think the discussion is about "milk chocolate", a solid chocolate used in candy, not "chocolate milk", milk flavored with chocolate. 'Tis an interesting transposition, though!
I've been using it in Cygwin for a long time. What is supposed to be broken?
Please don't link cracked.com articles. They are written in a primitive and insulting style.

Here is wiki instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz...
I'm currently house hunting (in Sweden) and most real estate agents go for full on visual overload. Everybody has at least 30+ 'artistic' photos. Most also have nice videos of the house on their site. Some even have clever 360 panorama thingies. I basically never watch them as they add nothing of value.

The single most important thing, for me, is a nice and correct 2D floor plan. Add to that 5-10 well chosen photos and you're done on the visual front as far as I'm concerned. If you haven't convinced to at least go look at the house with that, no video or interactive 3D model is going to change my mind.

The big problem is that the overlap between the information I consider important and the information the real estate agent is eager to share don't overlap all the much
That's because 99% of UK housing comes in a single standard size --- `XS`.
In my opinion, unfortunate at this moment only. Just like as it's been with web on the desktops. Hardware will get better, browsers will get better and engines will be faster which will allow for web apps to be at least as comfortable and usable as native apps.

I don't know how we'll deal with problem of discoverability and payments - after all it's way more easier to do that on iTunes/Play, but eventually there will be solution to most of the problems.

Apple certainly doesn't want to give such freedom to users and developers - they like to have a cut of the sales very much, but they can't just wait it out - Android/FirefoxOS/Any new OS won't be waiting.
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How is this different than say, walking around your house with your smart phone recording video, and then pushing a button to upload it to your real estate ad?

Advantage Tango: The user could manually navigate the virtual house.

Advantage Standard Video: Improved accuracy, no wonky 3D model and texture recreations, but actual video. Runs on low end hardware, no fancy plugins required. You can turn on lights, open drawers, show how a sliding door works, or how the fridge looks inside.

If I had my choice, I'd take video over Tango for real estate. Even so, video has been around for ages, it's dead simple to create and upload, yet never used. Therefore, if video hasn't taken off in the past decade, I can't see Tango having any noticeable impact on the market.
I (and I suspect many others here) would be very interested to know what effect this will have on your turnover. I guess you will get some increased revenue as others have indicated in this thread, but also loose some for those who just fire up their own installation.

Presumably you won't really know until your try it, but do you have any data to support that it might increase your revenue (assuming of course that is a goal here - rather than just growth of the number of users of your software - I realise that the two can go hand-in-hand!).
Good luck, i'm actually curious about a follow up on what opensourcing the app did with your business in an analystic way.

(more visitors, more income, ...)

Could be a next HN thread ;)

Edit: the thread above mine didn't exist when i read the comments :P
Is there a company for which you're not willing to be apologetic?
aarddict as offline wiki reader

gpa, the gnu privacy assistant

qgis is free GIS

gimagereader is nice OCR
Or even better: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3266
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"Synthetic teeth made from diamonds 1000 times stronger than the real thing."

"Synthetic airplane made from black box material 1000 times more heat resistant than the real thing."
How did you get a mention on TechCrunch?

Edit: I think CodingCupboard is nice idea, don't get me wrong, and in your first week you've got a mention on TechCrunch (startup dream, as you wrote).

Can you explain how it happened?
And this is why you don't interrupt a programmer in the zone, all that graphical representation has to be in your head
It was meant to be in agreement but incredibly badly written.
I've found that Unix is often taught as a part of university courses, not as a separate one entirely. For example, every CS student at Berkeley has access to a shared Unix machine that they use to turn in assignments and potentially do work.
By mobile you mean Android. In IOS, apps needs to explicitly ask the user to access the contacts after installing the app.
For what it's worth, LinkedIn has different wording on this page for people who have an account and those who don't.
For people who have an account already, the button says "Connect". For those who don't it says "Add to Network".
I agree that even "Add to Network" may mean to "my network", which is misleading.
You might like Plan 9.
Yes, but that's not the point of the article, right?
You're not! I work on a team of Screen enthusiasts. We all use it, every day.
is there any consistent way to turn LaTeX into HTML?
Why mutual exclusivity? I like Lindt chocolate as well (on occasion, I find it a little overbearing on the sweetness), but I also love just a good, plain Hershey bar.

You can love more than one thing at a time for different reasons.
I've got an account but since I mostly use Twitter for bots etc., App.net loses out. Although there was some new stuff recently (metadata? PUBSUB? I forget) which made me think it was time to have another look at it.
They had to spend $800,000 just to get approved. http://lancasteronline.com/business/new-bank-of-bird-in-hand...
Thank you for a great product. We have been using it in my university to take collective notes during winter schools, it's been incredibly helpful!

Basically, we are able to produce at the end of the conference a pdf with all the course notes, illustrations and links; it's like writing the book in real time.
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There isn't a perfect way that I'm aware of. In LaTeX, the commands end up translating to direct formatting commands that only make sense in a fixed layout document, so HTML conversion will be an approximation at best. I think Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) does a reasonable job though.
That is somewhat of an unfortunate myth. Computer security is not a matter of withstanding force (where "adding an additional wall" might help) but one of correct logic. One of the best ways to achieve the latter is to get rid of unnecessary logic altogether. AV software does the opposite: It adds tons of more logic that gets into contact with untrusted data, and thus adds exploitation risk to the system (aka "attack surface"). Also, there is a very specific reason why AV really is more an annoyance filter than a security measure: It's a blacklist.

For some practical examples for why AV is risky, see also:

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophail.pdf
https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophailv2.pdf
Corn bread is a regional thing here in the US. In the south, you will often find it to be made very sweetly. What you're used to would probably be found more in the Midwest and Plains states. (I'm in Indiana, and the corn bread here is delicious - a little dry, but very good)
In Singapore, where there are not many people using J2ME phones with a 3G data plan, this is why:

Facebook - not everyone has a Facebook account (think parents, young kids), you're not Facebook friends with everyone you know, and you don't _want_ to be Facebook friends with everyone you need to contact. I think they have been trying to change this on Facebook Messenger, but still, you need a Facebook account, and that's a line that many people refuse to cross on principle.

Hangouts - not everyone has Google account, because they use another email provider (Hotmail, Yahoo, ISP), and don't want to get "a Gmail account" just to use it. Granted, this might work great for Android users, but in practice, nobody uses this here (except maybe for multi-party video conferencing). Practically don't see iPhone users on Hangouts either; it is very much associated with Android (and hiding in the background, many people don't even know they're logged in because they don't use it, and nobody uses it to contact them).

iMessage - doesn't work on Android. Yes, there are many iPhones in the world, but you are incredibly selective about who you need to contact if they all have iMessage. But granted, this works quite transparently between iPhones.

Now, iMessage (and Viber) is probably the closest to the 0-step-to-add-contact way of WhatsApp. Because there's no process to do that, there's no contact-request 'approval' required from the other side, there's no friction. You add someone to your phone book, they show up in WhatsApp, you send a message or add them to a group. That's it.

It is a lot easier to teach folks to use WhatsApp just because of this. It's about as complicated to use as your platform's built-in SMS client. It is a huge contrast with the 101 features of WeChat, and to a lesser extent, LINE. WeChat is _huge_ with the PRC community here, but that's about it. Everyone else is on WhatsApp.

Viber is probably the next in line, but due to WhatsApp's network effects, it just didn't take off. Sure, it has internet voice calls, but it's known for being a little flakey on the call quality, and by default its notifications can be a bit annoying. WhatsApp never pops things up unless someone sent you a message.
Bosnia and Herzegovina was occupied (no need for quotation marks). It doesn't matter who recognized occupation - it was still an occupation. It wasn't welcomed by Serbs in Bosnia (they didn't start rebelion just to replace one occupying force with another one), it wasn't welcomed by Bosnian Muslims. There were no Austrians or Hungarians in Bosnia and there were no reasons why Bosnia should become part of AH Empire.
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You should make it clear that it's UK only, or add the international prefix to the number.
> no nuclear energy, no computers

I guess guys like Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace just sat on their hands.
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Pretty sure it was a statutory offence to start with, there would be no real trial and I think the Police Officer would be the witness in this case.

You can't expect to interrogate anyone who complains about you, that just exacerbates the situation.
Europeans must hate Parmesan cheese then. It is the exact same olfactory compound found in Parmesan, and is responsible for Parmesan's unique taste.

That Europeans aren't falling over themselves to condemn the revolting nature of Parmesan suggests to me their dislike of Hershey's is largely based on snobbery.
All of the "block" style visual languages are just Lisp with colored blocks instead of parentheses.

Alice, App Inventor, Blockly, Hopscotch, Intentional Technology, Lamdu, Minibloq, Scheme Bricks (obviously), Scratch.

I've built these sorts of things before to let users define logic through a web interface. I think that's about the extent of their usefulness.

The dataflow languages seem much more interesting.
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he's also dead. That's a good indication too.
That's interesting. Recently, I've been receiving endorsements that seem completely random from some connections. For instance, I got one from an old college buddy (with whom I've connected, but haven't had time to catch-up) for "product management".

Got another endorsement from someone else who also had no way of knowing my skillset in a particular area.

Was thinking maybe they accidentally clicked on that intrusive, dark pattern of a prompt that keeps appearing atop the site. Now, I'm not so sure.
Never happened to me, and I also asked my dad who was a professional driver for a while, and used to drive trucks in the old soviet union - all in all,he's got 30 years of driving experience - never happened to him, unless he ran out of fuel or the batteries failed.
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Brilliant! I used ScribTex (which I believe has now merged into ShareLaTex) a few years ago for my dissertation and it was brilliant! So much easier than maintaining a local LaTeX installation, plus being computer agnostic when working on my disseration was a huge bonus.
Surely the fact it's posted from there indicates that the whole "its a ghost town, they're just lying" meme might be obviously false?
Fine, s/no/very delayed/

happy?
... and somehow it always comes back to Minecraft.
Exactly. If Hitler had been killed, there was the possibility someone competent took over. His mismanagement was certainly a contributing factor to Germany losing.