skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idle social chit chat is not easy for a lot of people. So don't waste time with that. Instead, think about how you can use your gifts to help other people.

Don't volunteer to hand out trays at a soup kitchen. That doesn't leverage your skills. Instead, volunteer to analyze their inventory system to look for more efficient patterns.

Since you're an engineer, you're probably good at math. You could probably teach a GED-preparation class to high school dropouts. You could teach a community college class or tutor a group of students. You'll get practice with talking to people and you'll probably really help out others.

There are a TON of nonprofits that need technical help. Volunteer to run a website (for example). If you don't know how to do that, learn in all that weekend free time!

You have a lot of power to make the world a much better place. Do that selflessly and friendships will follow.

Friendships among dudes are best thought of as alliances formed to help reach a goal.

Find a meaningful goal.
Firefox OS apps, baked and served hot
Hey thanks! Re number of columns and left/right sidebar, a lot of themes are customisable in this respect (particularly the sidebar bit). I'll look into it though - it's a good point.

Re result loading... yeah :( I have tried to improve this by 'buffering' the next theme in a hidden div, but it doesn't always work.

Actually, the loading screens are really just set on timers, so sometimes 5 seconds is too long, other times it's not long enough... I initially didn't have a loading screen on there at all, but it kind of ruined the user experience a bit if someone clicked the next button and the theme hadn't even started loading - they were basically just staring at an ugly grey screen with nothing happening.

Ultimately the problem with the current approach used on both my and the OP's site is that we're really at the mercy of the servers we're loading the demo themes off. Some are super quick, others are insanely slow. I think that I may have to do as you suggested and move to some kind of a screenshot / thumbnail first system.
Dead reckoning of phone trajectory using inertial sensor (of the phone) + gps corrections ?

I don't see a dedicated camera on the drone (using gopro for machine vision is not ideal), nor a beefy cpu to handle person tracking onboard, but I could be mistaken.
Many reasons, but let me quote few people who actually declined the "honor":
"I get angry when I hear the word 'empire'; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds me of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised."

"An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_declin...
Join your university ultimate frisbee team.
oh, so you're one of those people
At the beginning of the article, the point seems, in line with the title, to be that the core problem is the journalism. By the end of the article, he seems to have come around to the conclusion that the problem really is the marketing and/or delivery, with the supermarket analogy, and especially with the example of ostensibly interesting things like the Takei video from the WP.

There were a lot of interesting points in this post, but they don't seem to add up to a coherent argument.
Well coming up with the strategy (and actually implementing it, edge cases abound) is the hard part. However the mechanism by which it works isn't a bug.
I don't think anybody is disputing that. But there was a time upper class meant rich, no? That's considered proto-capitalism by many.
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Hey Udo. Thanks for that. Quoting Gruber at the end though seemed like the final nail in the coffin to me. Jim appears to be in the same category as the original comment above. He's just too overly sensitive. I found the empty shirt comment up front particularly strange. It seems more than fair to state that Jobs is to Apple what only a handful of other iconic business leaders were to their company. That's just contextualizing the challenge Cook has vs saying he's an empty shirt. You could even argue that's the author trying to give Tim some breathing room by pointing out what he's following. But then that would be personal interpretation to the positive which makes me the same as the other folks (who are heading to the negative)
Dolby Family Launches Institutional Venture Fund
to get the complete, pixel-perfect control over the layout and font rendering that you'd need for PDFs.

I suspect this is part of the problem too - the desire to render every pixel of fonts the same as the native application. But honestly, 99.9% of the time I'm reading a PDF, I don't care if each pixel is in exactly the same place as it would be in some other reader application so long as I can read the content, and would be willing to sacrifice that if it meant a drastic decrease in memory consumption (and possibly better performance.) That doesn't mean a "precise mode" is a bad idea, so maybe make this an option - you can either have pixel-perfect rendering but use more memory and CPU, or have a "close enough" rendering that doesn't.
Some great advice! Getting into a routine of going to the same place seems like a real winner to me.

Mastering small talk in England is incredibly easy. If the weather is inclement, talk about the weather. If the weather is clement, talk about the weather. If you get bored talking about the weather, talk about football (particularly apt right now). If you know nothing about football, either watch enough that you can pontificate about the off-side rule, or go back to talking about the weather.

If you're in London, you can often substitute complaining about public transport for the weather or football.
Are you from china or india?
10 consecutive successful investments does not just happen. Yes, this may work in attracting „investors” given the weakness in the human nature, but anyone with half-brain will be put in guard by such investment history. To pass their guard admit two or three wrong moves.
Android on TV may be d-pad/select style, but many Android apps aren't. For example, the Australian public broadcaster ABC produces an Android app called iView, but it is almost unusable on an Android set-top box without a mouse.
Apple iOS 8 Exploits
You have such a dark view on online gaming. May ask you why? I'm sure you have an experience to share, and I can't wait to hear it!
Modernist aeroplane food trays save Virgin Atlantic millions
TMUX – terminal multiplexer
1. Volunteer. You are highly qualified to tutor in a number of subjects.

2. Look for athletic teams. I'm a boomer, so I'd never have dreamed of playing kickball after 6th grade, but I see millenial twenty-somethings out there in their kickball tee shirts all summer. Or, if you can hit and field, there's softball too. And there are running groups and bicycling groups.
How to choose a good mobile ad network
It seems that this https://twitter.com/chrisdymond/status/477458249122586624/ph... would be the success they were shooting for, and it seems the idea of getting the Raspberries in the hands of kids was a main goal for the RPi team.

If we're a little more generous with our definition, a Raspberry-powered cat food dispenser, or even just the idea of having a general-purpose personal computer is educational in itself, no?
Some people just like the free dopamine hit from clicking on stuff.
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go ahead... great (y)
If you are running out of memory with composer, do not use composer update, use composer install. You are using lock files, right? :)
'Coin Pocket' Becomes First Bitcoin Wallet App on iOS After Policy Change
Depends how competent the coders were. The HD remake of Zone of Enders 2 ran horribly. Until an update by a more talented team managed to push it up to 60fps and 1080p constant
Don't worry, we will collide with Andromeda before our Sun will die. So at least one other Galaxy can be "explored".
People don't see becoming a "fan" as a declaration of love for Gatorade. They see it as a way to win tickets or something similar.
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To answer the title directly: buy a new shirt, wear clean jeans and get out. It's that simple.

Alternatives includes getting a dog and walking her out, meeting new people in the process (who do the same).
Well, you can get there much faster by using the search bar at the top of their homepage.
I have felt the same in last 2-3 years working in UK. I am a female software engineer working in London and although I am happily married, I have no friends or social circle. It is difficult to hold a conversation (past the first few niceties) with someone who does not belong to your culture/share your background. To add to my woes, I am the only female in my department and am not comfortable to sit with all male colleagues during lunchtime and strike conversation. And I don't drink!
I think i was a bit too optimistic. I would load 5 iframes at once with 2 either side of the currently selected one. It was much quicker but I couldn't find a nice way to reduce resource usage; I think the browser still attempts to compute all those animations even when offscreen. Setting the dimensions to 1x1px for offscreen frames didn't do the trick; I tried going down to 3 and that still ended up in lots of CPU/RAM usage. I think it's probably do-able but would require some more tinkering.

BTW: I like your mobile/tablet previews. I was actually going to do the same but left it out for the moment :P
go go go! \o/
> If anything I walk less because it is too hot around Dec-Feb. Indeed I'd be pretty worried about letting kids out for long periods in such unrelenting sunshine.

Oh, so then the weather matters after all. Apparently it matters so much that it has affected the whole work-hour traditions of Spain. Huh.

"Weather" can be pointless wringing, and it can also be complaints from people who live in a climate that necessitates both air conditioning in the summer to avoid heat strokes on the worst days, and heating in the winter to avoid freezing (both themselves and their plumbing). It involves people who have to worry about changing tires on their car when the winter comes. It involves people who sometimes wake up and have to shovel 1 meter height of snow to be able to get out of the house. It involves urban inhabitants that have to worry about the level of pollution in the air which varies based on how cold the weather is and how much it is raining.

Where I live, the weather is probably mostly a slight inconvenience. For you, who lives in the British Isles? I'm guessing an oceanic climate, which even if it is pretty cold in the winter it is probably not frigid, no? And in turn, perhaps overall cool summers. So overall a pretty even distribution of temperatures over the year; seldom cold, mostly cool to slightly warm. Yeah, you're probably not inconvenienced by the weather, compared to a lot of people elsewhere.
There is a lot to dislike about him. A man who becomes the preeminent patent troll after already having a enough money to do anything he wants-- worst kind of person, if you ask me.
> every other vendor except Sony that tried switching to CD-ROMs basically went out of business

Look at the games on those systems, it wasn't CD-Rom that killed them.

Carts were a mistake.
Have you seen https://keybase.io/ that's an ideal place for your GPG keys (and more) :-)
awesome..!
@dimillian I can't give details. I'm too afraid to associate the enormous number of hours I wasted with online gaming even with this relatively anonymous nickname.
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> If everything above sounds like a description of city made for the rich, this is not the case.

...

>There’s one thing that all districts of London have in common though: they are all expensive to live in.

Make up your mind.
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There seems to be a singular lack of sound.
I open-source my snippet tool for Mac OS X
The titles given are taken from the aristocratic system that's still alive and kicking in the GB. And while OBE does not give the recipient anything special besides titles, heraldic supports and order of precedence, one could argue that it's supporting the aristocratic system.
If you accept a title, be it sir or knight, or whatever else there is, you indirectly accept that the person with a higher title is above you, even if they did not earn that title with the hard work like you did, but simply by being born into a right family. You accept being a royal subject, , and you accept that the king or queen, are not your equals but your rulers.

In any modern society we have titles, and honors but they have to be earned.

President, general, senator is your equal, selected for their office based on the skills (I know that a staggering oversimplification, and a very naive point of view) not based on the birth right.
At 1.1 GB SQL Express Advanced Version is the download you want. Because you can't easily add full text search etc after you've installed the basic version. I learnt that. That hard way.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4229...
Shouldn't this still be under copyright?
The Universal Shapes of Stories, According to Kurt Vonnegut
> The fact that you invented a new definition of austerity used only by you changes nothing.

The fact that Economists invented a new definition to pass fake deficit cuts for real careful spending changes nothing.

The actual definition of the word, man:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/austerity

"a situation in which there is not much money and it is spent only on things that are necessary"

Yeah, Japan spends ONLY on things that are necessary. Building dams, renovating administration buildings from scratch right after the 3.11 Earthquake is damn necessary.

Seriously, buy a dictionary. They are cheap.
Sorry, but this is definitely a case where code speaks louder than words. PDF.js was a miracle for its time, and the guys behind it definitely aren't amateurs.

The PDF standard is far richer than the SVG object model, and not to mention SVG performance in just about every browser except for Chrome has always sucked balls.

Using canvas seems a solid trade off - pay upfront with RAM in order to consistently render and cache a page once, or try to jerry-rig some nasty translation to SVG that's painfully slow to zoom or scroll, and no longer renders consistently across browsers.
I think Rust really has a chance replacing C++. To me it's in the sweet spot between C and C++: it fixes all the tedious little things in C, but still feels like a "small" language (everything is a combination of struct/enum/function) and still is very low-level.

It has no GC and zero overhead like C++. You control stack vs heap allocations and memory layout. With `unsafe` blocks it allows all kinds of crazy optimisations when you need them.

When you compile with link-time optimizations most of Rust stdlib is discarded so you can have reasonably small executables.

Rust doesn't rely on a big runtime and has first-class C interoperability, so you can use it for plugins/libraries with C API too.

And since Rust is pretty similar to Swift (except without reference counting and with saner array references ;) I expect LLVM will soon be optimized for that kind of language, so Rust's performance will be >= C++.
How the US is Arming Both Sides of the Iraqi Conflict
Great :-D
Just recently experienced similar process for trying to download and install Microsoft Office for one of my relatives. First hit on Google was Microsoft Office web page which promised 30-day free trial, after that $10 monthly fee. I said "cool, let's try that".

The process was basically the same as OP explains for SQL Server, with the additional step to input credit card/paypal information. At that step, I simply canceled and after some more googling found another microsoft.com site that had MS Office download of 60-day trial without all the registration and payment information. However, Akamai installer was still needed (have no clue why Microsoft forces this, as it's instant spam/virus alert in many users' minds).
You can do that partially. Because of the sub-classing and covariant return-types, I think you cannot prevent a CustomCollection from returning a CustomList. The definition would be:

public interface Mappable<T extends Mappable<T>> {
T map();
}
This is very good. Thanks for sharing and documenting them.

I have also built a drag and drop UI which can be used to configure a web cluster setup on any cloud.
www.xervmon.com.
The videos are available on the youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5s7L2LwaKY
When BizSparks first came out, Microsoft was pumping it as a great way for startups to get free software to use.

I went over to the site and found what seemed like an endless stream of forms and questionnaires. It was completely kafkaesque. I gave up.

A year or two later they fixed it up, but Microsoft seems to default to creating complex, byzantine, and head-scratching layers of gunk between the people they're trying to help and the help they're providing. From what I can see it's not just SQL Server downloads. It's a corporate culture thing.
To be fair about the weather: the M25 - one of the most important motorways in England (goes around London) was closed for over 24 hours by less than an inch of snow.

Public transport in London is often thrown into chaos by 2 or 3 inches of snow.
I think the one thing you can do that will have a good impact on every area of your life is going to the gym. If you work out regularly and keep healthy, you'll look much better and you'll be much more confident, and it acts as a personal goal that you work towards every day. Go to the gym and work on yourself (pursue personal projects, improve your mindset etc) and you'll find that everything else improves.
Is free Spotify with ads too expensive? (or even premium at $10 per month)

What's the price point you're looking for? "thousand song library that rotates about a quarter of the songs per year" means 1k at start, then 250 per year. Taking spotify as an example, that's $0.01 per song the first month, then $0.48 per new song at your rate of cycling through the library.
For what it's worth, I work in retail, and the average iPhone/iPad-using customer/staff member believes their devices run better when they manually kill apps. I also see quite a few iPhone customers who literally kill every app they use as soon as they finish using it.
Football (Soccer) Data Sources/APIs?
I was also incredibly shy (and still am a bit when meeting new people) and had to work hard at overcoming this in order to make friends. To be honest, I'm not even sure if I'm doing better but I do know that my circle of friends is much, much, bigger now.

It helps a lot to find a niche, or a group of people with similar interests. I find it very hard to relate to people who I do not share interests with and thus it makes it incredibly difficult to continue onwards with a friendship. I managed to meet a lot of my friends in the industry (design/development/tech world) but there are a handful that I've picked up along the way through hobbies I've kept.

Here's what helped me:

- I went out to places I wouldn't normally go to and learned how to keep conversation with a stranger by myself. This is important. I cannot stress how important this is. It not only taught me how to have 'small talk' but it also taught me how to get over the initial hump of starting a conversation. I am not overly aggressive about this, so you don't have to feel like this is an overwhelming task. I practice on cab drivers as well, as the quieter environment makes it easier for me to pay attention to what they're saying.

- I learned how to talk about the other person more than I talked about myself. When they ask about me, I typically lightly defer the conversation and try to bring it back around to them. This generally keeps the conversation going, and helps them feel good about themselves as well.

- I proactively found meet-ups with people who I shared interests with. (At the time, I was heavy into photography and I maintained those friendships from that time.)

- I put a lot of effort into getting to know my current friends better or maintaining the friendships that I do have. This is also important. I put my friends above all else.

- I tried new things, and are still trying new things. Typically if there's an activity I haven't tried, but always thought I wanted to, I just went out to do it! I have an eclectic circle of friends because of this.

- Try to relax in social situations. If they don't like you immediately, there are tons of people in the world that will warm up to you quicker. Don't think of every person as the 'end goal.'

- Don't worry about the girl(s). I know it's lonely, but seriously–don't! Work on yourself, and you'll be surprised how many opportunities arise from that.

That's all I got, I'm working on it. Everything takes time, including this.
If you don't care you should feel free to replace pdf.js with a degraded version, but I'd expect something which claims to render PDFs to actually do that.
This ^

The most complete and accurate statement on the entire thread.
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I pay for music, I don't pay for copies of music. Copying music is effortless and doesn't merit reward.
> Well, it's certainly that, too.

This is a version of a quotation, ""Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." It is usually attributed to George Orwell, but it may be older: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:George_Orwell#Attribution....
Great idea, but if it is takes off you will get a C&D from facebook unfortunately.
American Degrees are meant to more general than a specific subject. You should do a certain amount credit in other subjects, before they let you pass.
I strongly agree with the roommate comment and will take it even further.

I've lived in a 4-bedroom for years and the social opportunities never end. OP should get some roommates. Then, throw some parties or host interest-themed get-togethers (e.g. game nights).
@leaveyou hey, I'm really interested by this subject, I can see why you don't want to speak about it here, you can drop me a mail at ricouard77[at]gmail[dot]com
I would love to speak with you.
Yeah, I'm almost positive you're right about the animations, etc. still loading off-screen. I'm not sure how much of this is due just to javascript stuff going on vs. loading a bunch of things at once simply being really CPU intensive.

EDIT: Might be worth investigating the (dis)allow-scripts variable of the sandbox tag? Take a look at http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/sandboxed-if...