skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to get rid of that Vertex 2 as soon as reasonably possible. It has an issue where at some point when switched on or resumed from sleep it will corrupt all your data and refuse to boot. Some have a different bug where it will silently corrupt some of your data and the only way to find out is by the HDD light being on for longer than usual. Back up your data and get rid of it. I had it happen to me twice (warranty replacement after the first one, but then second one did it too). OCZ died as a result of this. Save yourself before it's too late.
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Looks superficially similar to the WebGL terrain 3-parter at http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JasmineKent/20130904/199521/ - are there differences?
There are some pitfalls, but generally I like it. The only reason I don't use it as my main editor - it is not terminal based.

I mean, for example I want to run the editor remotely connecting to remote server through SSH. And the editor should work with the remote file system natively. I can't do it with Sublime Text(or not?).
It was an issue for Tcl and OO systems:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/03/30/where-tcl-and-tk-went-...

> Somewhat related to the large Tcl vs small Tcl issue was one particular extension, or extensions to the language that was noticeably absent: a system for writing “object oriented” code. Tcl, at heart, will never be an OO language through and through, like Ruby or Smalltalk, but that doesn’t mean that an OO system for it is not a useful way of organizing larger Tcl systems. Indeed, Tcl’s syntax is flexible enough that it’s possible to write an OO system in Tcl itself, or, optimizing for speed, utilizing the extensive C API in order to create new commands. Over the years, a number of such systems have arisen, the most well-known being “Incr Tcl” (a play on the incr command, which is akin to += 1 in languages like C). However, none of these extensions was ever included with the standard Tcl distribution or somehow “blessed” as the official OO system for Tcl. This meant that a newcomer to Tcl wishing to organize their code according to OO principles had to pick a system to use from several competing options. And of course, newcomers are the least able to judge a complex feature like that in a language, making it a doubly stressful choice. Furthermore, even experienced Tcl programmers who wanted to share their code could not utilize an OO system if they wanted their code to work with just standard Tcl. Also, if their code had a dependancy on some OO system, it would require the user to download not only the extension in question, but the OO system it was built on, which, naturally, might conflict with whatever OO system the user had already selected! As of Tcl 8.6, thanks to the work of Donal Fellows, Tcl is finally integrating the building blocks of an OO system in the core itself, but this effort is probably something like 10 years too late.
And the tl;dr version of this is?
An interesting conundrum: f you don't feel like learning, can we suggest anything actually useful?
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If any of you guys have any questions about the game, feel free to ask. I'm PR for the team, so I'm more than happy for you to ask as many Qs as you want!
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Uh, he pointed out the average. For some of us first world countries where the average is even less it's even harder. That also fails to consider places that have quota limits as well as low-bandwidth connections, for example whereby I get 150GB/month combined down & up.
It's even worse on BlackBerry - I don't have personal benchmark numbers (I use my phone a lot anyway, so it usually is pretty dead by the end of a day), but if I have Skype running my battery drops to literally a few hours. I've moved to a third party app (IM+) instead now.
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The dozens of hours of programming involved in replicating what Nest does to address his desires would not be "trivial and cheap". Your suggested substitute does not learn the heating/cooling efficiency curves of your HVAC system, does not automatically change the temperature when you go to sleep and before you wake on an adaptive schedule just by (re-)training it a few times, and does not turn on the heat when it detects motion. Even manual scheduling doesn't replicate what Nest does for you there; since Nest learns the efficiency of your system, it can calculate the number of minutes it must run to produce the desired temperature change, and turn on the system at the exact right time before you wake up to reach that temperature on time.

Nest can do all that out of the box, and it doesn't cost $250 for a new one on eBay, where you're quoting the rest of your prices from. They're $185-200 there BIN, and regularly on Amazon from the Amazon Warehouse Deals seller, which makes your z-wave stuff the "ouch" purchase. Whatever your opinion on having the API hosted externally, the product itself has some smart stuff built in. Looks pretty snazzy too.

For the record, I have a VeraLite and some z-wave stuff too. I'm not a huge fan. I don't care that Google hosts the API for my thermostat. I do care that if I'm standing outside my front door and want to open the deadbolt over z-wave, it takes 15-30 seconds, with a 50% success rate of the command getting through at all.
> I agree, but look at the grief Microsoft got when they tried it with Vista's UAC prompts... more permission popups is clearly not what the majority of users want.

Counterpoint, iOS appears to have a very successful permissions model in doing exactly this.

* Permissions are asked for one at a time

* Apps are expected to handle rejected permissions, but they're sent dummy data anyway (address book has no contacts, GPS coords is 0,0 etc)

* Permissions can be revoked in Settings.app
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Yah, everyone assumed that the clear side was the fragile side and protected it, but actually the label side is much more fragile - and unlike the clear side, unfixable if it gets damaged.

But what happened to the promised sapphire (alumina) coating on disks that makes them scratch proof?
This is not the same thing. You are talking about language extensions, I am talking about libraries. Features which require language modification/extension in other languages can usually be implemented as ordinary libraries in Haskell.
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Even if they are not meant to last, say, more than 10 years, you could back them up with fresh disks in 8-9 years timeframe and be good to go for another decade, What's important after is that the disk can still be read by newer drives later on.
Foremost conclusion: Fast load times depends on you serving everything yourself, ideally in as few files as possible. Google and wikipedia do this.

Sounds obvious, but funny how often we forget this -- most sites download scripts and resources from multiple domains.
That's not exactly true.

1. you can for example disable the google account synchronization happening, either for Hangouts specifically, or for the whole google account and notice the difference. If you don't trust doing that, you can always install CyanogenMod on your phone, without any of Google's services, at which point you'll have no capability of synchronizing your Google account at all. And then notice the difference between that and simply not synchronizing your Google account. I did that btw, because as I've said, I'm a fanatic in regards to battery life.

2. I use and have used other messenger services regularly, like Facebook's Messenger. None of them have been so bad as Skype is.
I tell you what, I'd be fine too sitting for 8h in this[1], the standard Shinkansen interior. They even have wall outlets as well as onboard LTE between Tokyo and Osaka. I'm usually more productive in those than in my office. There's only one issue: If you're not a tourist carrying a weekly rail pass, it costs around 140$ one way for a 3h trip. Sounds like a lot, however considering the distance they travel in that time it starts to look reasonable again.

[1]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/JR_Centra...
This is off topic, but I should clarify: The Cosmos episode hardly mentioned Galileo. It focused on Giordano Bruno[1], who was imprisoned, tortured, and burned at the stake by the Catholic church. There's debate whether he was killed because of his scientific ideas or his religious ones, but it's not as if either makes it OK.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno
The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
The economics maybe, but the political will is another story. The business that I work for will not even contemplate cloud based anything.

We use expensive 500gb tapes to take weekly backups of our entire site which are kept for 1 year. I'm not sure how many times the tapes can be overwritten but there would be a price-point for these archive disks that would make the tapes obsolete. It would also save a lot of space and therefore money as we are charged to store the bulky tapes off site.
I'm almost certain that 1TB isn't large enough for 2014, let alone the next 3-5 years.
I love Scott's hair. It looks like an exciting blend of a 1970s progressive rock band and one of Robin Hood's merry men. It's cool.
Even when they become nonobservable, their former presence can still be detected.
Actually, I quit Magic: the Gathering exactly because of its pay-to-play and pay-to-win aspects. The deck-building is absolutely fun, but I didn't want to keep sinking money into it. But I still love a friendly game with others.

I don't think Clash of Clans is pay-to-play or pay-to-win. I don't pay a dime and am perfectly able to play it quite effectively.

The real problem with many of these free "social" games, however, is that they've turned micromanagement into the actual game. Quite often, there's very little strategic choice to be made, you just need to check in regularly to give new orders because you can't queue your orders.

Back in the '90s, people used to complain about the micromanagement involved in many big games. Designing your empire in Civilization is fun, choosing spots for new cities it, selecting new research is, but managing every individual city and unit gets really tedious after a while.
And for some reason, this modern genre of games has removed all interesting decisions from their games and turned the tedium itself into what the game is about. You can't queue stuff, or at least not a lot, and you have to earn the privilege to avoid a small part of the tedium of micromanagement. Less micromanagement has become the reward for playing. And yet without it, there's practically no game.

Clash of Clans is not remotely the worst in this; designing your defense and organizing your attacks are still interesting parts of the game. But without those, you'd get a game like Hay Day which has practically no recognizable game underneath all the tedium.

But all of these games, including Clash of Clans, eventually have to make money for their developers, and they do so by making the game less fun than it needs to be, and you can pay to skip the unfun parts. And some people are suspectible to that, and end up paying. And the real evil of it is that they prey on addictive tendencies to get a few people to pay a lot.

But in the end, the games are intentionally designed to be less fun than they could have been.
The fact that it's a counterexample actually proves his point. :)
The sneakier way of violating net neutrality
Watching TV kind of removes the psychological advantage of training.
See, there's a simple solution to that as the Japanese show: Build more rails. Their bullet train system has a separate rail covering the whole main island of Honshu.
Yes. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...
I've given up on skype for a while already

LG L9 Sleep of death(with battery drained) when I had skype. Warranted the device, final solution was not to use skype.

On one laptop, skype is using one cpu core to the max. Solution is to use IE as deafult browser(or not use skype)

On second laptop, just yesterday lost all its history.
People pay $2400 for an introduction to Linux???
As far as I can see this doesn't answer the question.
I just simply can't believe that. Everybody has an extra 2.5 hours a week, if you don't, then there's some _very_ serious issue with your schedule.
C and C++ need this.
Tencent takes a 15% stake in Chinese online retailer JD.com to take on Alibaba
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Thanks for the feedback. I concur and we'll get those pages built and populated.
The Heptapods in the story, they're 'right-brain' thinkers! Brilliant story.
But yet we find 3-5 hours a day for watching TV?
is there any information about the lifespan the disc? how long cant he data be read before the discs start to lose data because of age? 5 years?
Yes, and then you get several different and incompatible ways of handling errors, at least three different lens libraries... The resulting fragmentation is an issue. It is the same issue as Tcl.
Seems to be missing a few, e.g. Apache 1.1.
How does this work? Is the idea that there's a loose chip, and you're reflowing the solder to re-attach it?

Relatedly, one of my friends successfully revived a bricked playstation by heating up the motherboard with a heat gun.
-fno-exceptions
I don’t like C++ exceptions. And we don’t use them where I work

And none of your code uses the STL nor third party libraries that might throw exceptions either, right [1]

[1] "Doing without" http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_excepti...
This makes perfect sense.

Sony and Panasonic need to do something with their lead in optical disk technology, but there's no demand for a Blu-ray successor. Heck, there isn't even much demand for Blu-ray. So archiving is the way to go.

I just hope they make those things to last.
Interesting, considering that you actually DESIGN their products. :)
Sounds very cool. Willing to share that?
TL;DR squats, dead lifts and bench presses are the fundamental exercises to build strength. But if that's really news to you then I don't know what kind of "gym" you've been going to.
What are your sources of income? (March 2014)
As developers / designers we find our selves getting a range of incomes. Whether it is from a FT job, side project, book etc.

What are your sources of income for March 2014?
CAP theorem and its implications
Not gcc but clang:

-Weverything -Werror

That's how I roll.
I guess heavy obfuscation is more to blame.
Tape is less reliable than optical disks.
I have to say, you doing it wrong: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/fashion/18FITNESS.html

I used to do the same thing, now I don't use music or anything else to help me relieve the stress of exercise.
I discovered what this author is saying with this site:

http://stronglifts.com/

And I've been doing the Reg Park 5x5 routine ever since, and for the first time in my life I love working out. Short, powerful and intense.

As Mehdi would say: Stop wasting your time with all that bullshit! Get strong!
> that beacon of First Amendment freedoms, the Russia of Vladimir Putin.

This seems like a weird way to say freedom of speech, when talking about a foreign country. The first (and so far only) amendment to the Russian constitution is about term lengths for the president and Duma.
After reading that is when I really considered uninstalling Skype. Creepy indeed. Is there any mod which remedies the issue with something like a "fake camera access"?
As far as I know, 170C is not quite hot enough to melt solder. It would need to be around 200C.
I've been doing Stronglifts for about a year and I can say that my own experience backs up the "lift heavy weights and do compound exercises using free weights" that the original article suggests. I'd messed around with routines from Men's Health and other magazines at various times over the years and got nowhere at all. I'm now doing far less exercise than I did with those routines and am seeing real progress.

Stronglifts is a routine for beginners and the 5x5 three times a week soon gets too much as you start squatting heavier amounts - I had to drop to squatting once or twice a weeks once I started squatting about 1x my own body weight (about 250 lb).

Based on personal experience alone I thoroughly recommend Stronglifts and Starting Strength as a good way to obtain good general fitness and to lose weight. Squatting and dead-lifting are whole body exercises that really do work the whole of you - it's surprising how much your abs and glutes hurt after some squats.

A word of warning: you must start with light weights and work on doing each exercise properly - and I mean stupidly light to start with, start with just the bar if you are completely out of shape. If you try and start with impressive-looking heavy weights then you'll be resting up with a bad back before you know it.
Or you can use a hot air gun if you have one. Reflowing does work wonders.
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Judging from the reactions in the press, and even in Mathematica user communities, there's a lot of confusion about what's coming. For some people, a bit of plain speaking, rather than marketing hyperbole and premature teasing, would be welcome. However, I'll admit that the WolframBuzzWord tactics are generating a lot of attention, which is probably the point.
Do NOT try this with a microwave oven.

If you do, there will be a bad smell, and lots of sounds and lights, and you will not read Hacker News today.
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Yes this is exactly that: solder reflow (on which chip is the real question).

Note that on some chips (CPUs in particular) reflow soldering is the only way to solder them.
Reminds me of my first Raspberry Pi. It was from the first batch, and only worked if I gave it a blast with a hairdryer. Once it warmed up it booted fine, but if I turned off the hairdryer it would turn off after about 30 seconds.

At the time it was about a month wait for a new one to arrive, so I did a lot of initial Pi discovery with a hairdryer.
How does the Reg Park 5x5 compare with Stronglifts? I've been doing SL for a while but I possibly need to move on as I can no longer sustain 5x5 squats tree times a week - it totally wipes me out (I'm squatting about 1.2 x BW and DLing 1.6 x BW).

Interested to know your thoughts on Reg Park 5x5.
I guess something like that may work better in a more limited mobile environment where you don't have to do it 20 times an hour, and it's also easier to do it with touch.
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I'm sure they would sell you more than one ;)
I'm an engineer, so my life is all about logic. Logic suggests that healthy body would make me more productive, so I spend 7 days a week in a gym (1 hour each morning, 4 days of free weights and 3 days of cardio) and I always research and tune my diet. The result is that it does make me considerably more productive, improves energy levels, mood, etc. On top of that I have wider shoulders and visible abs. Bottom line is - you don't have to like working out and dieting, especially if you do it right, but you're gonna love the result.
Some day, people will wake up and realize that all aggregation of data on citizens and consumers–including implicit aggregation, where information is only transiently collected–by governments, data brokers, retailers, or anyone else only makes the inevitable compromise that much more damaging.

Today’s highly connected world has ushered in an era with new hidden risks along with the obvious new opportunities. We’re woefully unprepared for these risks when policymakers don’t even know what an ISP is. Time and time again we see appalling breaches of massive repositories of private information, and time and time again we see our politicians and corporate leaders stick their heads in the sand and ignore the root cause.

What’s needed is a new paradigm, where data aggregation is outlawed, and where decentralization and previously-fantastic cypherpunk ideas for cryptographic identity verification, blinded signatures, provably-anonymous digital cash systems, and the like become standard.

PCI or HIPAA compliance will simply never be enough. Where cryptography can be used to protect individual privacy while providing strong authentication, it must. Where it (yet) cannot, information decentralization is the only way to mitigate the inherent privacy risks. Unfortunately, I worry that a combination of policymakers’ lack of insight, corporate leaders’ pursuit of cost reduction, and “Big Data’s” (or, more aptly, “digital anal rapists’”) penchant for massive warehouses of private information will prevail and ensure the fundamental reforms we need will never see the light of day.
I used to read a lot of fitness articles without doing much. Since then I changed my attitude — I became a doer.

A fitness trainer once said that you can have access to the best training program in the world but if you don't actually do the exercises you'll get you nowhere. On the other hand, you can be given a crappy program and if you manage to do the exercises regularly, you'll still get results.

Fitness is simple. Sure there are lots of programs out there, but the basics always stay the same. Once you got the basics down it all comes down to doing.
Ask HN: Use own name or form a company for development freelancing/consultancy?
Would you favor using your own name if you're offering software development as a consultant or on a freelance basis, or form a company under a different name?

I'm torn between using my own name:

- Feels more 'personal'.

- Gets my real name 'out there'.

- People may be put off using a single person and rather deal with the company with xx employees that can answer the phone 24/7... and have some redundancy if one of their employees were hit by a bus.

And forming a company:

- Feels like people would assume I'm more than a single developer.

- May (or may not - IANAL) be beneficial for liability concerns.

- More paperwork.

Or option C, form a company with my real name.

Which route did others take that are in the same situation? What are your experiences/how did it work out for you? I'm in the UK.
Used to work well, but I've increasingly found that hotspots no longer provide DNS for free. :/
For anyone interested in the nerdy details of why this works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflow_soldering

Anyway, this isn't new - I remember seeing this on Slashdot, HN and a lot ofter other places over the years:

http://voices.yahoo.com/how-reflow-laptop-motherboard-oven-6...

http://mr-mediocre.hubpages.com/hub/How-Baking-A-Motherboard...

etc...
Be careful not to use vigorous airspeed. It's possible to blow balls of solder away from the pads. These then cause shorts and are annoying to fault find and repair.
Maybe he got paid per word?
+1 for "Fitness is simple" and "it all comes down to doing"
I didn't meant they would waste money, I implied that cost-of-living is minimally about $10 000 a year, so after one year, they're poor again.
Where is this bold assertion? I find it hard to see how one could feel so strongly one way or another about the quoted sentences. For real.
... causing my phone to refuse to let me use the camera!

I was getting helpful error messages something like: "Camera Error: Camera Error". After much searching, I found the solution... Uninstall Skype!
The Moths are insanely fast once they get onto the foils. This video from the annual Bloody Mary race at my sailing club captures the difference nicely. It's a two hour midwinter handicap race with over 300 boats entered. The Moths start 1.5 hours after the first boats, and in 2013 they won. This year though, it wasn't quite windy enough for them to stay on the foil through all their tacks so they didn't quite catch the leaders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIpzd5m0xhg