skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds so crazy, the guy has more to lose by printing it (and having people think he's a loon).
Unbelievable Microsoft Commercial
I would argue the age of discovery can not be compared to another shockwave of death that came before, namely Genghis Khan.
He did.

> Because when there are fewer jobs than candidates, artificial distinctions are used to judge them
I'm sure there are a number of technological bubbles in our field of profession. The Microsoft bubble is a pretty good one.
'"I respect Gilbert Hyatt's work — the process of engineering is difficult," Bassett said in a telephone interview. "But innovations are more than ideas. The broader context matters. If Gilbert Hyatt had never existed, I believe the microprocessor would have developed in the same way that it did."'

This pretty much goes for every innovation..
See their new technical FAQ:

http://www.remobjects.com/elements/hydrogene/faq/cocoa.aspx

Basically, there's no .NET runtime, at all.
Hah. I love it.
This is a perfect example of an ad hominem argument. No attempt to refute the evidence, just a reference to writer's (alleged) political beliefs.

This approach is common on Reddit, but I'm sad to see this type of argument on HN. Can we please do better than "this argument is wrong because of the writer's politics"? I'd hate to see that kind of argument become commonplace here.
>Send an email to thisisanewfund@gmail.com to introduce yourself.

Really? Are you so stealth that you're using gmail and a weird-looking email name?

I'd buy you a domain if need one that badly...
If you are interested in history you might be interested in

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

He's got some very good audio episodes on ww1, ww2, the mongols. He gives a very good telling of the horrors of the conflicts and the passions that drove the wave of murders.
I think you may be missing the point...

there would be no Chipotle if the housing prices kept going up.

Or if there was, it would be a tourist stop and would certainly make its money on volume. Basically, it would be like that god awful McDonald's on the Champs Elysee.

In any case, the price for it's burritos would, in all likelihood, not rise to an unaffordable number. At the same time, local residents would not make up the bulk of its customers.
Yet another reason to prefer Firefox.
use vanilla.js
The article is ok, and unsurprisingly did well on hn, but it's still the easy first level technical analysis. I learned nothing here.

I'd love to see a deeper analysis, but it probably can't come from a computer scientist.
Ask HN: Do any of you know of an international flora database?
Or a selection/list of local databases? With an API preferably.<p>It's for a pet project of mine using d3 for, well, geographic flora visualization.
You're missing chc's point. The point is not that the older state of things was necessarily preferable, it's that the rate of women in CS fields is not steady state, which means that the status quo isn't by its mere existence evidence of the "natural" state of things (which would be the actual "conservative" argument).
I'm pretty sure the government is watching your computer (internet traffic, and maybe your webcam). They probably don't have you targeted for surveillance by an agent, which is what I think you meant.
Had to roll my eyes at the "Trail of Tears" reference. It's pretty obvious that nothing of history is important if it can't be weaponized against the enemy of the moment.

Right now there is brewing conflict all around Russia that was (partly) a result of Soviet population transfer policies. Who cares?
For some reason, the #content element is hidden with a `display: none`. Disable that and the content shows.
| "These operations are well recorded"

I'm curious about these, can you provide any links?
Because it fits the narrative. Tim Cook is being cast as the operations guy that may be a good manager but isn't a transformative leader that Steve Jobs was.

The title of her book is Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs. This is a book that could only be written 5-10 years from now, but who knows where Apple could be then. She's striking while the iron is hot; if Apple is irrelevant and no one is interested in the company in 10 years, she wouldn't sell nearly as many books.
Dismantling Fukushima: The World's Toughest Demolition Project
Oh great. I have the TetriNET theme song midi stuck in my head now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j02bbkyuYw#t=6
> Android constantly asks how to complete simple actions. "oh, you want to view a website? what app should I use". Over. and. Over. and. Over. nonstop. all the time.

Wrong

> I can control every aspect of that, as a user, on my iphone. I can say "hey, you can't read my contacts, but you can access network, just don't use push".

Wrong, you just can control what Apple let's you control

> Android lost to iOS. it's not user friendly.

Wrong

Funny, you're just the mirror of the one that posted the link
Geopieces
> ARM dudes came up with Thumb-2

I guess I'm nitpicking, but Cortex-M0+ and Cortex-M0 are basically Thumb only. The only Thumb-2 instructions implemented by these cores are the ones for barriers and transferring data between general purpose registers and special registers. These are:

1) Without an equivalent Thumb instruction

2) Required on the ARM architecture

3) A tiny, tiny percentage of instructions executed or just not used by typical application code.

Regarding the linked test, the toolchain and optimisation flags are going to make a significant difference. I wonder how GCC (which is free and probably the most popular) and armcc (which generally produces significantly better output) would fit in there.
Just FYI - what you're talking about in rivalrousness not scarcity.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110709/10490515032/cultu...
Theres a good reason the PORTAL is a separate hardware device: security [1]. There is also a reason it isn't on Debian -- huge attack surface as there [were?] are no minimal Debian images. If you want something similar, the transparent Tor proxy, then possibly OnionPi [2] is for you.

The setup that you describe is actually implemented in Whonix [3], and personally I don't like it that much. I don't believe that VMs are very secure. I prefer the TAILS [4] system for a hardened Linux as a baseline, but it doesn't even use a VM to segregate the Tor daemon from the main OS. A superior hardened system (from a security POV) is Liberte Linux [5], however development is stalled and it is more complex to setup and use than TAILS. (Worth noting that TAILS is sponsored and has development resources, everything else is just a side project for various people).

If you want to setup a PORTAL that runs in a vm, it is really simple to do. QEMU will run the OpenWRT based PORTAL image, although someone would have to figure out how to configure the network settings appropriately. You'll probably want to use a VM for the "workstation" environment, as well as a VM for the Tor daemon. This will give you maximum control over the networking (this is what Whonix does).

At any rate, I suspect that JITSI is a better client than pidgin, but it gets no love (and unfortunately, it is Java). pidgin is basically technical debt which can never be repaid. Parsing network protocols in ad hoc parsers written in C is just not rational in this day and age. A client should use a managed language to minimise memory corruption bugs. I don't think using xulrunner is a good idea either, given how terrible Firefox is at security.

Ideally, there would be work put into making Pond [6] a viable instant message application.

I'd also be happy if the OTR spec was updated to bring it inline with the new TextSecure v2 protocol.

[1]: http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/10/05/thru-a-portal-darkly/

[2]: http://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overview

[3]: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Main_Page

[4]: https://tails.boum.org/

[5]: http://dee.su/liberte

[6]: https://pond.imperialviolet.org/
Just a point of fact: Gallipoli is far from the Caucasus (indeed, Greece is just as close to the Caucasus).

And I'm not sure I understand how the unfortunate slaughter of the ANZAC corps in WWI plays any role in the bloody ethnic conflicts that flare up regularly in the Caucasus, fueled by Russia's imperial ambitions.
because Excel and Powerpoint are unusably slow on RT.

I guess if you're using pivot tables or vlookups on massive datasets you might have a point. But I use Excel every day on my Surface RT and it performs very well.
I just meant JavaScript is more secure than C, not that everything should be re-written on it.

As for OpenSSL, better ask advice to Apple developers. They know all about how C helps security experts keep their jobs.
> The only clearly valuable thing Bitcoin accomplishes now is the facilitation of illegal trade online.

Shiller argued that Bitcoin doesn't solve a "sensible economic problem". His argument had nothing to do with legality or legitimacy, which are much more slippery concepts.

Goverments have tried various ways to make information illegal, require licenses for printing presses[0], ban the dissemination of books and pamphlets, etc.

It's hard to argue today that the freedom to publish and consume information is a valuable thing, regardless of its legal status.

We see a very similar pattern with money, as governments try various ways to control who can send and receive value, to require licenses[1] for transmitting money, to ban broad classes of transactions, etc.

Cryptocurrencies liberate and democratize money in a very similar way that the internet liberated and democratized information.

Just as publishing laws have been liberalized to reflect the technological reality, financial regulation should also liberalize as it becomes clear that the cryptocurrency genie cannot be stuffed back in its bottle.

Contrary to Shiller's argument, that seems like a valuable thing, a solution to a "sensible economic problem".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensing_of_the_Press_Act_166...

[1] http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001....
Because tabs are a pain in the arse when you open them in a different editor and neat code suddenly becomes unreadable as the indentation gets messed up.

Most editors have a "tab button prints spaces" option that isn't too difficult to find. (Plenty of them have a format code option as well, so it isn't such a big deal, but overall I find it easier just to switch everything to spaces.)
What about using OTR with XMPP ?

Tor provides Anonimity first. Security is a by-product.
People shout "bubble" every time they hear about a price increase these days. Education getting more expensive? Education bubble! Actual "bubbles" are ALWAYS driven by speculation - people buying assets they have no intention of using but instead quickly flipping to a bigger fool / another speculator. The mid-2000's housing bubble, the 1980 gold bubble, the dot-com stocks, the dutch tulip craze all had this in common. Misuses of the term "bubble" do not. I could be mistaken but I have not seen evidence that the SF housing market is driven up by speculators.

The mid-2000's housing bubble was characterized by rising prices and rising supply. The SF area housing supply is artificially and stupidly constrained by highly restrictive popular regulations in the bay area. There is no reason to believe that it will suddenly collapse, because people actually need these homes and not because they're making trying to flip it to a bigger fool. Nor can they build new ones (which would undermine the price floor).

Even if all those regulations were to suddenly go away all at once (wouldn't that be nice?) what you would probably see is gradual price normalizing over many years and you would probably still ultimately end up with a price level above normal.

In a bubble the price collapses all at once from speculators all trying to dump the asset that they didn't even have any use for otherwise, but the people who had been buying the asset before were other speculators who are now also trying to sell, so you see a sudden market collapse. Speculators know this so even the expectation of a market downturn can trigger the collapse. If people actually need the homes they aren't going to try to sell them the moment they see or expect the market to soften, precluding a such a momentary collapse.
Also, if he really wants to use a shell, he can easily install cygwin or just learn powershell.
I use both ms-tecnology than linux for work, and I like and hate some parts of both.

I think OP biggest problem is the fact that he used only the "main" (as "more common") tools of his os, ignoring that you can easily run almost any tecnology stack over it without the need of change the os itself
'Android constantly asks how to complete simple actions. "oh, you want to view a website? what app should I use". Over. and. Over. and. Over. nonstop. all the time.'

Every single one of those dialogs has a "remember this selection" checkbox.

Source: I have an Android, and through using that checkbox I am now only ever prompted for those things where I want to decide on the fly.
If everybody follows the "state your argument and leave" rule then you don't have a discussion forum at all...
OS matters way way less than it used to (Think of the bad old days, where Macs couldn't read Windows floppies), but it can still be a pain. For example, Google Music integrates best with Android. Microsoft OneDrive is most slick on Windows. iTunes runs like crap on anything other than OSX.

You can get away with any hodgepodge mix these days if you want, but it's still more convenient to match.
That's fairly obvious I think.

I'd expect that as Pentium M's were mobile class CPUs, they weren't expected to handle significant quantities of RAM and therefore didn't need PAE. I can't think of a single Pentium M machine I had that ever saw more than 2GB of RAM.
No thanks. Just learn to Storyboards already. It is it that hard and Xcode can help anyone who maintains this app. If it all in code it takes a lot of the and effort to understand what is controlling the layout.
Sure. Does the same apply to single-sentence "This is great!" comments?

Snide remarks can be valuable. If everyone you pitch says "your idea sucks!", then you know you're 'probably' not sitting on a billion dollar idea. That value (from snide remarks) starts to drop rapidly once you start to get a few positive responses. Why? Of course some people will hate your idea, that's fine. The key question is: can you gain enough users/customers to build a profitable company?

A "This is great, I would totally use this!" comment is much more valuable than a "Yet another chat app, count me out." comment.
I attempted suicide at age 17 and although I am not prone to depression, I live with a lot of stress and a serious medical condition. Those two facts often leave me suicidal in spite of not being prone to depression.

Encouraging people to "talk to their lonely friend" is encouraging them to act out of pity. That is not the antidote. Think of the phrase "pity fuck" or even "charity case." The antidote is to help people become valued members of society and help them learn to get their emotional and other needs met. This is best done from a position of strength, not a plea for "please pay attention to me so I don't kill myself" or similar.

I have value. I know things of value. One of the reasons I struggle with being suicidal is that I have been marginalized and cannot get most people to take me seriously. I am working on that -- on my credibility and on how to get people to understand that, no, I am not a charity case (in spite of being homeless and deeply in debt). I am someone who has something of value to offer.

I wrote some piece of crap yesterday and then redacted it in part because I felt it came across beggarly, which is not my intent. I have something of value to say. But I am struggling with the how to effectively communicate it. I need help with how bridge the communication gap. I don't need pity. I have gotten charity. Charity helps you survive from one day to the next. It does not help you become established as a professional. It does not improve your reputation and improve your positioning so you can better take care of yourself.

I tend to care deeply about everyone I meet (an Achilles heel, which annoys me to no end). I don't do "pity fuck" emotional stuff. People who realize I am unusually accepting and nonjudgmental often are drawn to me because they think I will "love" them when they feel unlovable. But they are essentially asking me to love them because they are unlovable. That is a doomed proposition. People who will love you because you are broken are sick. They need to be needed. Those so-called friendships don't last. When you stop being pathetic, they end because you no longer need a crutch and the other person can't relate to you as a better person than the hurt little puppy who followed them home.

I hope that makes some sense. We do this by building a better world, where we generally treat people better. We don't do it by promoting pity. We do it by promoting compassion, patience and tolerance for everyone, in all walks of life.

Though I have been crapped on enough I am currently running rather short on those things myself at the moment. So perhaps my theory is wrong. Perhaps it really is a dog eat dog world and perhaps that is as good as it can get.

Peace. And ((HUGS)) if you want them.
Speaking as someone who is anti-Karpeles and unilingual: I think speaking three languages, regardless of context, is incredibly impressive.
Thanks for the link. I have used an RSS based feed by a gent in the UK and he was charging about 20euros/month for the feed. It has been two years and I cannot get the link. Will keep looking for it.
"You do not have any iOS device but claim that iOS have advantages over Android? This sounds a bit weird but ok[.]"

It sounds like a conclusion that would be reached by someone who looked at two options and selected one.
I've never understood why the WSJ has inline prices like that. It detracts from the story while only giving a semblance of quantification. For it to be useful, the price window should be at least one month.
Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of "apolitical" money
In C99 there are three levels of not fully specified behaviour:

1. Undefined: anything is permitted, the standard imposes no requirement whatsoever. A typical example is what happens when a null pointer is dereferenced.

2. Unspecified: anything from a constrained set is permitted. Examples include the order of evaluation of function arguments (all must be evaluated once though any order is allowed).

3. Implementation-defined: the implementation is free to choose the behaviour (possibly from a given set), but must document its choice. An example is the representation of signed integers.
Atheism is not the belief that there is nothing supernatural, it's simply the absence of any belief that there is.

> "To me, hardcore atheists are almost as bad as religious fundamentalists in their own way"

This is ridiculous, religious fundamentalists kill people in the name of their religion. What atheist has ever done that?

> "capitalism has done just as much evil as religion"

You're comparing apples with oranges. This is just as much of a non-sequitor as bringing up atheism in a discussion about sexism (like you mentioned below).

> "Atheists often claim rationality on their side, but how rational is it to invoke religious beliefs in a thread about sexist asshole talk? It's an utter non-sequitur and what it demonstrates is an irrational axe to grind."

Agreed, not sure what peterforde was trying to accomplish here.
Napster? IIRC, Plaxo. FB. Zivity had at least 2 #w00w00. Some various FF-affiliated stuff.
I doubt he'll come back to answer you on this...
Why can't most jets safely use reverse thrust while airborne?
Looks like someone deleted number 3.
Shell fanatic here, I try cygwin every now and again, I still hate it.
#interestingly deep
GCC can produce all of those warnings.
Lol at GE being a dead company. How's the weather in lalaland?
If no one is willing to define what "blind adherence" means then it's hard to determine if there's a correlation, as you suggest.

Based on the conversation so far, I interpret it to mean "someone who believes something other than what I believe, and for reasons I don't agree with."

Perhaps the best solution might be to invert things, but I have been unable to find a list of out-of-the-box thinkers. Mostly I find people claiming to be so, without providing any external evidence.
Works if you grab the Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%...
Top Execs Bates and Reller to Depart, As Musical Chairs Begins at Microsoft
"PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER".

- Groucho Marx
The job cuts were largely in STG and GTS and these are the divisions with the most dead weight, so while it's possible IBM cut non-dead weight jobs these cuts do not seem to be random across the board cuts.
Is this going to be another one of those products that are cheap in small quantities, but are simply not available in large quantities?

The reason we keep going back to silicon is the planet (the crust) is basically made out of it. It's available in any quantity.
Can you link to evidence they auto-retried? Last I'd seen it required contacting their customer service for a manual re-send.
I'm on IRC, but most of the idling-intensive IRC channel content is not something I'd want in a purely professional setting. Per-project IRC seems mainly on freenode. EFnet is mainly for hate and trolling and lulz.
If you can find the address at http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ then you might give https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/12150/missing-house... a look.
I mainly hate that to install all the utilities I need, each time, I have to wait something between 30 and 50 minutes.
About how it works, since now, I had not any problem.
For an IRC-related crime?
You could download the Stylizr Extension. I just did and it works, puts a nice Wizard Wand on your Chrome Bar or whatever it's called:

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/samples
The Apple Tesla Connection: Fun and Reason With Numbers
Well, that's my point (although you could say Xbox was an exception). Tim Cook is very well known quantity when it comes to execution, just like Jony Ive is when it comes to product design, but for innovation, we don't know how the team stacks up.
This is a great idea that I've been think about myself.

Regarding your friend, he can still create 2 free host domains and runs DynDNS updater [1] to change the IP address as it changes on his server.

[1]: http://dyn.com/support/clients/
It's extremely circumstance based. I have countless relatives that are tri- or quadri-lingual (or more), merely because they have different cultures in their background and/or were forced to immigrate. Those that are uni- or bilingual simply were lucky enough (or stuck enough) that they didn't move much. And I don't think there's any particular astonishing knack for languages needed to explain this.

Additionally, if you're exposed to a new language early in life, it becomes much easier to learn new languages in the future. And being immersed in it forces you to learn, as your survival depends on it.

So, incredibly impressive? Nah. Mind you, if someone is legitimately a fast language learner, given that I am not at all, it does impress me, especially if they truly master it and can think in that language.
Are you opposed to all legislation on pricing? We have quite a lot in the country I live in and I've never before considered it to be a negative thing. For example, if someone advertises something as "£1 per month" but then actually charges my credit card £10 per month, they could get in trouble. Are you opposed to that legislation and think that I should avoid such charges... well, I'm interested in knowing what you think I should do in absence of legislation.
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Maybe Opera can maintain some relevance by keeping the chrome features that google has removed.