skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Louis CK, to the best of my knowledge, is not considered a racist. I would not be the best judge of that as a white person, and when I am, I look to my black friends to tell me. I don't make them "explain" it to me. I just accept it. The know better than I do what makes something racist. And usually it's something I had never considered because of my white privilege.

The fault, is not in my logic, but your dogged insistence on reductionist thinking to the absurd. Most of the men around me know how not to be a creep, so I an assure it is possible to tell funny jokes, have beers with coworkers without harassment, and other such things. They will ask if they aren't certain, and they listen if I ask them to stop doing something.

That's what it's all about. Not reducing people to stereotypes. Giving respect immediately and willingly. At least until the other person demonstrates they aren't worth it.

So all this handwaving about not knowing how to behave in the world because the girls send mixed signals? Horseshit. my tribe of male friends, coworkers, mentors, advisors, and family is living proof that men do know how to behave honorably and respectfully in Silicon Valley, even Stanford trained engineers.

So instead of putting your questions at me, put them at yourself, why have you not yet learned what so many other successful men have learned?
This was one of the easiest things they could have gotten right. A phone you buy from the manufacturer instead of the carrier? That was revolutionary ... Verizon sold gimped versions of the RAZR and then charged you a monthly fee to ungimp them!
Aren't a lot of people who used to work at Microsoft during the 90s/early 2000s working at Google now? I'd be surprised if the people who implemented Embrace/Extend/Extinguish in the first place aren't one step ahead.

The best parts of Android are already closed sourced and patented: gapps, all the stuff Samsung, Motorola, HTC etc. add on, the baseband etc.
We're in the money... we're in the money... da da da da da da da da da da da daa.
I maintain a website about options for cross-platform mobile development, and the page about the C# options (where Xamarin is a leader) is one of the most-viewed.

[1] http://www.mobilechameleon.com/
Hire Me! I'm the best full stack developer from Lampedusa :)
While Microsoft didn't kill Virtual PC after they bought it, they did kill its support for OS X and Linux.
Not literally, no. But that's the impression I got from your post. Sorry if I misconstrued it.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not? Lol.
Warren Buffett says he wants to pay more tax
I worked (contracted) in the Nokia world at this time. The big game changer the iPhone bought and I think was missed by Nokia and others was the inclusive and easy to use data. In the uk data on phones was very expensive and in some cases you had to configure the apn yourself. iPhone changed all that virtually overnight
You don't really know/ understand Satya. That would sort of be the opposite of what he'd do with this.
And I bet Charles Golvin now has an iPhone, probably two of them.
Hm. Forget I mentioned the term "global variable" since it is a religious term.

I am not trying to argue against proper encapsulation and coupling/decoupling. Those things are great. Classes and modules and great. Not sure how you see me as attacking those things.

Say I am working on a web application and I want to use AJAX. I should not have to keep saying in every place that I want to use it "oh by the way I am using AJAX".

If you agree with this then exactly what sort of encapsulation and coupling would you recommend for the overall application to achieve not having to keep saying that it wants to use AJAX?
> Psst... hey, you! Yeah, you, the one using Zulip.
We have some news for you, but you gotta keep it secret. Can you do that? Alright, sweet.

Is the default behaviour when receiving something like this to immediately leak it?
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Well, look at it from the historical point of view: Jobs and Woz made their early money doing exactly that, building and selling blue boxes.

If you want to encourage people to learn, they have to be able to explore. To explore, they have to be able to conduct some minor mischief from time to time, if for no other reason than mischief is often what evolves into innovation.

I don't understand why you are so conservative and, well, stuffy about this.
There is no such thing as an "exciting" computer language.

But there's also no shortage of big, slow, verbose languages designed for dummies.

Worse, these actually form the majority of the world's most popular computer languages.

When juxtaposed against that state of affairs, the small, terse, fast, flexible languages which do not insult one's intelligence could seem "exciting".

FORTH has that effect on me.

Check IOCC. And let me know if you do get it to compile.
Give me a break; there are billions of door handles in the world. They most certainly aren't going away.

As for the "death of paper books," guess what? Ebook market share has stopped growing. It will never get anywhere near 100%. Paper books have many advantages over ebooks. Just try flipping quickly through an ebook, or passing it on to your children as an heirloom.

What replaces cups, pray tell?
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I read similar articles when the Z10 by Blackberry was being release a year or so ago. You had opinions of flops/world domination swinging both ways.
A large side-effect of overdesigning your website with fancy JavaScript is that the website is completely unusable on mobile.
Distant third to what?
Why couldn't an actual, physical door handle be used in places where a virtual world calls for a door handle? Just move it into position at the appropriate time...
Obligatory link to youtube video of a 1950s training video on the mechanical fire control computers (which I stole from HN last time this sort of topic came up):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4

edit: This video is the same footage featured throughout the article, in fact.
I don't get it. What is the product/service here? I search for songs, but I only find crude YouTube videos. In the demos there's a song with a guitar tab, but no sheet. Apart from the landing page demo I couldn't find any sheet music. I don't know who transcribes the sheets, who select the songs, I don't know anything.
So is mechanical failure still in play?
Even if Google is a step ahead, it wouldn't be too bad for devs to have a top tier common Mobile app Dev environment. I for one love .Net and if MS can pull off Extend and Embrace successfully (less extinguish) we (or at least .Net fans) will be better off.

The market will be better off with MS, Google, and Apple as strong rivals.
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War in an artificial world by evolved (not designed) artificial life
a secret is information that travels one person at a time
It seems that something intentional brought the flight off of the original flight plan.
This is the only one that I know of, not sure if it's the one pcwalton was referring to:

https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rust-redex
Maybe there's something wrong with your MBP, because it works fine on mine.
Suppose I'm maneuvering around a 3D virtual world, viewed with a 3D headset. Suppose I come up to an old wooden door with a doorknob. What's the most natural, intuitive way for me to open that door? Reaching down, turning the doorknob, and pulling sounds fairly intuitive. Forget about UI and context menus and all that other crap. A toddler could figure it out.
Without improving tolerances, the only way out is to go bigger.
I was a big iPhone hater at the time. Still kind of am.

1. It was really, really expensive when it first came out - there was a several hundred dollar price drop before it really took off, IIRC.

2. I had a windows mobile (HTC TyTN II) which was actually sweet.

2a. The slideout keyboard was way more accurate than the software keyboard on the iPhone, and Apple hadn't entirely figured out autocomplete (I think their keyboard is still poor compared to swipe etc, tbh).

2b. It was durable - it never died after being thrown off stairs, slammed on the ground, crushed in backpacks, stepped on, getting dropped in a river, etc etc. Towards the end of its lifepan, when I wanted to get an Android phone, I found that I couldn't easily kill it even if I tried. On the other hand, my friend shattered their iPhone by bumping their pocket into the corner of a table.

2c. 3g, and ATT only. 2g is basically unusable for browsing the desktop web, and ATT sucks.

2d. Anybody could, and many people did, publish whatever apps you wanted. I was able to download a full offline database of German public transit schedules and navigate flawlessly in cities I had never been to (which was a big deal), SSH into servers in emergencies (using the aforementioned full-size keyboard), full offline GPS of the continental US (something that's difficult to come by even today!) and so on and so on. The iPhone on launch was basically an expensive consumer toy, had no allowances for third-party developers, and Steve was telling everyone that they were better off without them.

In an expansion of my last point, myself (and a lot of other people) didn't so much think that the iPhone was going to fail as dread its success. The iPhone, and really Apple, represent and drive the trend of consumerization and broader locking down of computing.

And I think that we were right to do so - the broader population largely thinks of their handheld general-purpose computers as texting and passive content consumption devices, because that's all they're allowed to be. And that's sad.
Non-paywall link https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Map of package dependencies in the Ubuntu Software Center
They funny thing is that I'm only in my 20's :) It's not that I necessarily remember how times were before the Internet (I was but a child then), but I study a lot of history in my spare time.

So maybe everyone needs to sit down and read a few books and think about how different life was when you couldn't just look up whatever you wanted to know in a matter of minutes.
Dont judge syntax when you are new to a language. Few syntaxes have the tendency to never grow on you, but it is surprising how most do, even when your first impressions were pretty bad. Remarkable abilities of the human brain !
Update to iOS App 'Secret' Warns Users About Potentially Defamatory Posts
Tech events aren't strictly non-work situations...

As a single man I have to say it's a tough balance between women being offended by getting hit on (it's a numbers game, if there is one woman for every ten men in a work place, guess who gets hit on the most) and not doing any dating. I know that on occasion woman have felt offended by my "approach/hitting on" or whatever and I wasn't even aware I was hitting on them. Good/honest intentions just don't cut it in these situations.

I do believe we as men should be more sensitive about this, but it's probably not going to happen. Regulating social behavior and skills is difficult.
This doesn't disqualify a primarily mechanical reason.
Intentional =/= terrorist hijacking/pilot suicide/random heist theory. A pilot trying to save an aircraft does things intentionally.
Reporter: Tell me, are you the inventor of Bitcoin?
Dorian: I don't want any trouble, please leave me alone.
Reporter: As an engineer working for defense projects,
you clearly had the skill to build this type
of technology.
Dorian: I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it,...

All the reporter had to do was click "voice memo" on her iPhone, and there would have no doubt as to what had actually transpired...
If you're looking for an open-source sheet music renderer, I'd point you to http://www.vexflow.com/, which can render to Canvas or SVG (using Raphael for the latter). It's a barebones visual rendering library, so audio and things like MIDI interpretation/beautification are out of scope, but there have been various experiments making editors and different cool applications with it. It's MIT licensed and decently documented, too!

Also of note (haha) is http://www.noteflight.com/ which has a fully functional Flash editor and is slowly but surely reaching feature parity on a beta HTML5 version. I'm excited that there's competition in the space - it can only lead to great things!
> 3/4 was just a number I pulled out of my ass, but the point is if you're bringing hella value to the company you get treated like you're someone they can't afford to lose no matter what your gender. For example if you have impressive github open source contributions, experience scaling distributed systems, strong web-dev skills, infosec skills, and you've been a core member at a venture backed startup or two then you can get a job as a lead developer. There is no gender discrimination at that level of experience.

[citation needed]

You don't need to name names, just get those people to post their success stories, then point to those stories.

10 of 15 years ago is when I was watching the number of women in IT related degrees in Uni dropping significantly, mostly because of the harassment they were receiving and the attractiveness of other careers such as sewer maintenance over IT (aka "working with gynophobes"). They weren't buying any stereotype, they just didn't like being seen as sex objects that can write software. It was the men buying the stereotype.
no I think this is about how silly it is to try to equalize something artificially. If you try to equalize tech why not equalize military involvement. It's all ridiculous.
WCF is part of the .NET Framework and there's no .NET Framework Student Edition ... .NET Framework Home Edition ... .NET Framework Ultimate Edition.
Very impressive. The only other javascript renderer I know of is vexflow (http://www.vexflow.com/). I think the output of yours is superior (the vexflow slurs and ties are way too heavy among other issues).

Any reason you didn't go with lilypond or some other existing solution? (Reading a bit more on your site it sounds like licensing the rendering is part of your business model. I may have answered my own question.) Also, I'm glad you using Behind Bars. It's a great reference.

One comment: I think your tuplets can use some work. They seem too large to my eye and sometimes they are too far from the beam or notes (see about 8 measures from the end in the auld lang sine). Tuplet numbers are allowed to collide with the staff lines. However Gould recommends that they not be wholly within the staff.
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That wasn't the only factor; all my Nokia phones I purchased from Nokia directly.
GNU Guile 2.0.10 released.
David Lynch talks about watching film on a cell phone.
I have one of the axes from the leftovers in Miami and I can tell you that it's a really nice axe this year. I'm glad they dulled them down right away though so I don't slice my head again like I did last year.
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>If founders from elsewhere want to pay taxes and create jobs in the US, we should let them.

Spot on.

>This is just a start. We are also in need of broad-based immigration reform, and I believe more immigrants will help our country.

This is really what needs to happen. Shameless plug, I'm on the code squad at http://fwd.us and this is what we're trying to do.

I think Sam is doing great work advocating to bring more founders here to the U.S.
How do we estimate a fair market price on what the average person is willing to be paid to be hit? Let's not forget to price in what people would accept for you taking away a loved one through reckless behaviour. I'd hazard in a lot of cases the cost they would settle for given a choice would be your blood. Maybe a fair market value considering this fact is your time in jail.
Stay tuned on Mexico City - we may or may not have something to announce a little bit later.
On the one hand, most men aren't exactly "smooth operators" when it comes to this, on the other hand rejecting someone is usually not pleasant to the one doing the rejecting.
really, I eat downvotes for breakfast. so thanks!
I think you'd use all the mass in the observable universe long before the GNU Multi-Precision library started sweating :)
I expect all founders to work hard. My 5p comment was a joke. I'd be very wary of a founder of an early stage startup that bolted that early.

If you want to compare two sides of a founding partnership, the facts is the technical cofounder, early on, is more valuable member of the founding team.

Two non-technical co-founders, vs two technical co-founders. Which will have a higher outcome of success?

"I've built a prototype, I need help getting customers."
"I've got customers, I need help building a product."

Even in just market terms--how many people will try to recruit the non-technical founder vs the technical founder for a position?

As a techincal co-founder, I could do the non-technical portion: get customers, do market validation, read termsheets, talk with investors, recruit, manage payroll AND do my job: build awesome product. There isn't a hard science to being the non-technical founder--Y Combinator is what, a 3-month bootcamp to teach founders what they need to know about running a startup. Try learning everything you need to know to be a technical cofounder in 3-months.

You can learn a lot about being the non-technical founder by trying your hand at starting a company. The same is not true about writing product.

Again, the founder relationship is important, and you need both halves to succeed, but if you want to pick who is more valuable to the organization, and who has the harder job, it is the technical co-founder.

This rant assumes the non-technical person has little to no coding abilities, and these are "first time" founders with no prior successful exits.
A little bit of caution from here: http://profmattstrassler.com/2014/03/17/bicep2-new-evidence-...

Very interesting result, potentially game-changing, but it also could be nothing too. Wait for more experiments before we can say for sure.
Yet he did ditch the fully open source approach they had going before with Mono... Xamarin Studio isn't exactly cheap. He certainly prefers making money to running a charity.
Ah, but a useful host for anyone in the cloud.

https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
Imagine my pleasant surprise, when, after becoming a huge Gonzalo Bergara and Adrien Moignard fan, I see a video of a guy who's name I vaguely recognize playing with them. Then I realize thats the guy who invented the web framework I use for most paying jobs. Small, interconnected world! You are a good player Adrian! and how amazing are those two guys I mentioned?
Wow. What an inappropriate analogy. Way to go.
This is one of the fascinating things I think folks born in the 90's are really going to regret. So much of what they say and opine about has become embalmed in the amber that is the Internet that as time passes and looking back reveals how little they knew in spite of their ardor to the contrary is going to start haunting them and become a modern albatross[1]. When I think about the some of the really silly things I believed when I was in college to be absolute truths, only to find in the passage of time they were simply projections of my dreams and fears on to the events of my day. It seems to me there is a particularly vulnerable group there in the middle somewhere, too early to recognize what things like Google would do to data retention, but late enough that their thoughts and views made it into those archives. Ouch.

According to his LinkedIn page[2] Matthew Lynn has continued to be fairly successful as a strategist so perhaps for him it is a non-issue.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross_(metaphor)

[2] http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3770629&authType=NAM...
Hey ifrins. Your previous work looks cool. If you're looking for summer internships in San Francisco, send me a note!
Australia makes, in some of its data retention programs, a case for a distinction between "storing" and "temporarily retaining" information. This is certainly the case with the EU/Australian agreement over here: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/information_on_pnr_agreem...

The problem is that when one wing of government 'temporarily retains' something, local intelligence agencies will tap the cables and keep it forever.
Show HN: gauged, a storage layer for numeric data that changes over time
Big companies are on both ends of patent protection. Have we forgotten the Oracle+MS+Apple v/s Android sagas already?
But a pilot trying to save an aircraft does not turn off the transponders.
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how are the notes represented pre-render? time, pitch, duration? or like midi on off events. Would you ever consider open sourcing your engine?
...Are you actually under the impression that you can take a hash of some code and retrieve the code from it?
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From what I've read it's much simpler than that. Steve would argue passionately for both sides of an issue before reaching a conclusion.
This was what I was thinking, there were the folks who hacked the place and dumped out the data and scribbled on Carpeles log, what better way to get the passwords to peoples wallets then to put up a phish on MtGox's own servers and have anxious users provide it. People log in, give their password, check their wallet and then poof all the coin gets moved out somewhere else. Seems pretty doable if you already have control of their infrastructure.
waiting on N-d
MH370: Australia to lead new search 3,000 km south-west of Perth
Oh yeah, Blood and Ice. Talk about a stress test of a sheet music engine.
GNU Guile 2.0.10
Infrared Contacts Possible
The injector is all crazy pants: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/auto/i...

When I realized angular actually parses views and module definitions and rewrites them, I lost interest in trying to figure out what was going on under the hood, and decided to stick with backbone. While the angular devs are obviously brilliant, the complexity is horrifying, and I don't want to debug my application code when I can't reason about the framework's internals.
A pilot trying to save an aircraft does not leave the plane on autopilot, does not turn off transponders, does not avoid landing at the closest possible airport, does not maintain radio silence.

It would take an even more bizarre set of circumstances than hijacking to explain the behavior of the plane as we know it so far.
And what would we not have if it wasn't for militaries ... and even war. Where to begin ?

the Internet - hacker news, and of course your own comment

Rockets - and of course space travel

Nuclear power

GPS

Night vision

Duct tape

Jet engines - international aviation

Radar

Microwaves

Walkie talkies (and the follow ups to this technology, including cell phones)

Medical advances by Soviets and Nazis

I would argue that the military is negative sum only in theory.
There's no such thing as unlimited residential internet in Australia.

Not for $59.99 anyway - and from what I found, it is $79.99 with TPG, as you have to bundle your home phone with them. Also note the ~Limited coverage availability at selected ADSL2+ with Home Phone enabled exchange areas. Which would relate to the fact that they have to be exchanges that TPG owns, which you'll find is predominantly exclusive to Sydney (http://www.tpg.com.au/maps/).

Even with all of this, TPG is notorious for having poor service and high contention.
What if that was a part of the failure?
Or incognito.
> I specify versions of dependencies (wherever possible) so I know I can still build the thing later.

The only way to ensure this is to vendor the code or clone it into your own repo. Either way you control the dependency versions explicitly.
Awesome! Will have to delve into this later... a formal proof is going to be super important for Rust.
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