skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems pitch alters the place you're shooting towards.

Unfortunately, I can't whistle loud -and- low pitch, so I can't really shoot southeast. :P

Fun game though!
She used to practice civil defense. Can I shoot you an email? She would definitely be interested in paralegal level work.
Collada is not a runtime format. (And neither is FBX.)
That probably wasn't deliberate on their part. My own experience with running ads is that the networks sell slots to each other in some sort of human centipede-esque manner. And some of the lower levels of this selling centipede get shady and will run abusive ads. You just have to watch out for them and block them / report them to your own network when you can.
Using Varadic Templates for a Signals and Slots Implementation in C++
When you click on the tweet button after you've finished a game, it might be worthwhile for the tweet text to contain the score a player just received.
I work from the principle that I know that I am wrong and so is everybody else.

From that I then try and get a grip on how wrong everybody is and then react according to what seems to make the most sense at the time.

Then later I reflect on my actions and curse myself for being wrong.
It strikes me that with "surprise eggs" in particular, the "feeling of unboxing" is actually the entire traditional value proposition of the product. Seeing the contents of all the eggs removed and displayed entirely short-circuits the need to actually pay $1.99 to do that yourself.
https://github.com/facebook/codemod has been very helpful in the few times I needed it.

Of course, a tool that really "understood" code (and multi-language projects) would be much better, but that is only happening next year (like Linux on the desktop).
I worry sometimes about Uber, TaskRabbit, AirBnB and the like. Sometimes it seems like too much of their success rests on their Walmartesque avoidance of benefits, the kinds of benefits which blue-collar folks have relied on for years. If too many people get caught out in the cold, the government might start pushing back against those companies to protect the workers.
Great work, seems promising. Will give it a run through now.
You're making an assumption that you don't know is true. That's the problem :)
She's tried to go this route but had some trouble. Maybe some of these lawyers need help? She'd even be happy doing research or paralegal type work. Do you mind if she shoots you an email?
This is most likely an extremely unpopular opinion here, but mandatory FDA approval is another one of those government regulations that I think the world would probably be better without.

If I'm desperate for medicine and am willing to take a risk by taking a non government-tested drug, then shouldn't that be my right? Also, it's not even entirely clear whether on the whole, the FDA saves more lives than it harms. Sure, it's prevented many bad drugs from going to market, but the astronomical costs (both time/money/energy) associated with getting drugs approved by the FDA 1) slows down good pharma companies and 2) discourages many people from starting good pharma businesses at all.

A free market solution to this would be to have FDA and/or commercial enterprises vet the drugs with open, transparent standards, and the pharma companies can choose at will whether or not they want to be certified by these companies (and list whatever certifications they received on their products). The consumers can then choose at will whether they want to buy products with only these certification(s), or they can take a gamble and buy completely uncertified products.

Entrusting a government agency to retain totalitarian, opaque control over what drugs can make it to the market is just a bad idea.
Radar rat race. That's all.
Wow, that is seriously addictive! Love it.
Ask HN: What is your experience with nootropics?
Do they actually work? What side effects have you experienced? Are the costs worth it?
There's also this [0] write up, if you're looking for a more straight-forward read.

[0] http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/94565729529/defcon-...
Agreed. It's someone extrapolating out 1 45 minute dog walk @ $X/hr x Y dogs, saying "they work 6 hours per day".

Yeah... perhaps of actual 'walking'. This says nothing about the time required to actually market your business, sign people up, deal with angry customers, not to mention deal with sick dogs, cleaning up crap for multiple dogs daily, and dealing with year-round weather.

If you're in an area where there's enough business to support $100k/year in dog walking, you still can't afford to live well, because that $100k will buy you relatively little.
Yeah it's a mystery, the big banks made off like bandits in 08, and no one went to jail for any of it. The Feds printing money to keep up with China, and maybe the EU. Corporations have more cash than they can use, which is why we see these absurd acquisitions. The valuations are meaningless.

Welcome to the new normal.
Tldr: watching a video of taking a product out of its packaging gives people the vicarious feeling of newness and ownership without actually buying the product. This is popular it seems, and largest effect is in toddlers.

It's just another trigger the modern world has uncovered in our ape brains. The thrill of unwrapping a banana or mango writ large. It probably won't hurt your kids but if they are watching videos unsupervised and you "come across" them watching that's probably a bigger flag to you.
I'm tracking everything I read online
I had blogged about Antifragility from an engineering perspective last year. Glad to see this is getting attention.

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com.tr/2013/06/antifragility-fr...
Phenomena like this make me increasingly unsure that I understand anything about the existence or desires of the average American.
> Whenever there are ambitious plans for a poor country ...

... outsiders impose their ideas on the locals, deciding what is good for them. This project should be entirely up to the people of Nicaragua, especially those who will lose land or livelihood.
Please, find a language where such behavior is a matter of library.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck
I suspect some of the popularity of unboxing videos can be attributed to the ASMR[0] community.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_res...
'socialism' is a word with a specific meaning -- collective ownership of the means of production. dichotomizing ideologies between 'collectivist' and 'individualist' is nonsense baby political theory that accounts for nearly nothing meaningful
"But if there were ever a disease for which this is not a big deal, it is Ebola. It seems extraordinarily unlikely that the drug could make matters any worse for an Ebola patient than they are already."

It can increase the mortality from 50%-60% to 100%. It can protract death, make it more painful, instill false hope.
this article is a bit better at considering the economic impacts than the one i commented about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8187487

my concern is that the value "created" by startups like uber and taskrabbit come not from displacing large and slow incumbents (e.g., taxi dispatchers & courier services) but from shifting economic risk onto disempowered individuals.

the people who pay (largely the top 20%) see value in at least two ways: (1) greater certainty of commodity products & services and (2) lower prices.

the startups themselves are shielded from market risk, particularly on the supply side (labor), because they have disproportionate power over labor, which then smooths out profit by automatically matching costs to revenues.

taskers bear all the market risk while also giving up traditional employment benefits. the value of this shift is passed on to the consumer and to the startups themselves (capital), leaving taskers in even more volatile economic circumstances.

by the way, i'm distinctly not condemning the startups here, because they're only part of larger economic trends that they have little control over. now that the structure is in place, they can't do much individually (e.g., if one tried to raise prices to raise wages, they would be competed out of the market).
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Near the bottom of page 1:

> A fiber line that carries POTS traffic is still subject to utility regulations.

A person at Public Knowledge told me that VZ is supposed to offer a POTS (well, TDMA) fully-tariffed-and-regulated voice service over FIOS.

That doesn't appear on their web pages, so I called to see if I could order it. Nobody in their call centers knows of such a product. Then I used a web-chat, and, surprise, the existence of such a thing was flatly denied.

I'm in VZ FIOS territory, but I'm not interested in being their customer.
Fantastic comment overall. This surprises me, though:

> Done wrong [unschooling] can set your children up for a fantastic career barely making ends meet.

In a world where many people change careers several times as adults, this seems unnecessarily pessimistic. Okay, maybe their first career won't be that lucrative. Most people don't make that much in their twenties anyway. But that doesn't mean they won't find something better eventually.

In the economy of the 21st century, I think pursuing one's own passions is a likelier route to success than trying to follow the well-worn paths. No, there's no guarantee of success that way, but the well-worn paths offer no guarantees either. What I think is important in childhood and adolescence is to spend enough time and effort on something to come away with a sense of mastery, so that you feel that you can master anything else that you care to, and you have some idea of what's required to do that. But it doesn't matter what the "something" is. It's the experience that counts, not the information; information is free now.

Still and all, I agree partially with what you're saying. If I had kids, there would be things I would want them to know. (Many of these are not taught in any school, like how to deconstruct advertising -- an essential skill in modern life -- but that's another discussion.) I would certainly try to interest them in many topics. But I would try to do it at the right moment -- if they have no interest, it's not the right moment -- and I would also very much try to support them in developing their own interests.

I guess the unschooling idea could go too far if parents took it as devaluing their own potential contributions to their children's learning opportunities. Maybe some of that tends to happen. I don't think John Holt meant it that way.
Not long ago, the free market solution was snake oil. Literally.
I tried Sublime and Atom and stopped using them because they didn't understand code.

Netbeans has been my go-to editor for a long time now, and the reason is because it understands code better than any other editor I've used. It's actually uncanny a lot of the time.

I'm going to try WebStorm soon, but at the moment, Netbeans (with some reconfiguration) helps me work the fastest.

Edit: to elaborate a little bit, Netbeans does a great job of guessing types and arguments by itself. When it has javadoc-style comments (for any language), then it uses those. The autocomplete is really fantastic.
Ask HN: Choosing between Microsoft and everything else
I'm a software engineering student in his twenties. My work experience has mostly been with Windows technologies (.NET, SQL Server, Windows Server, etc.) and Java for Jenkins plugins. At home, I have a Windows PC and a Macbook, but mostly develop on the latter with frameworks like Django and Rails, in Vim.

I know a guy at work in his fifties who long ago decided to use Microsoft technologies exclusively, and I've never seen someone so happy to code, because he only has one ecosystem to work with and it works well. I've also been bit by the Microsoft bug, but I can't bring myself to use their tools outside of work. Visual Studio's a great IDE (especially as of late), and C# is a really fun language, but the license costs are enormous, MSDNAA licenses are for personal use only, and Azure generally costs a lot more than a VM on Linode or Digital Ocean. BizSpark also isn't an option unless you're seriously starting a business.

I feel like I'm at a crossroads of sorts, like my coworker once has been. I prefer my experience with Microsoft, but its costs and vendor lock-in are hard to ignore. I've tried Mono, and it's slowly getting there, but until vNext is production-ready and I can give it a serious try, I won't consider it a viable option.

I'd just like to know if anyone else has had this experience, and if so, what led them to choose one path over another. Any advice is also welcome.

EDIT: I'd just like to clarify that I'm not trying to choose one platform for the rest of my life, in every aspect of it. I don't mind learning one tool over another in a work context, but I have an interest for the startup/entrepreneurial world, and that's when choosing Microsoft isn't as easy as choosing anything else.
> where client and server code can be written in the same language

While I think Autowire will be a very useful tool, I'm not seeing how it's "a first step" ... I have successfully written and deployed Scala on both client and server without any issues since some time already.

I think the issue with GWT was that it

a) tried to be a framework (not sure why Java people love to build frameworks instead of libraries ... libraries compose, frameworks don't)

b) and required Java which just isn't flexible enough (syntactically and semantically) to interact with JavaScript in a meaningful way.
Well, Go has (limited) randomization of hashmap iteration order.
That is very creative
This.

Money is no longer a means of transmitting value: all people care about now is making bigger numbers regardless of whether or not value is created. In the end it's self-defeating and may lead to a breakdown of the economy over the next 10-20 years.
It depends what you mean by "we". Russians seems pretty ok with accepting it's strong man in Putin with propaganda and media control. And they're a large nation with immense resources and a huge nuclear arsenal, not very comforting in my book.
Not only are they shifting risk onto workers, but they are replacing small, local, owner-operated businesses with Wall Street funded national corporations. They're seeking to put people like my cleaning lady (who runs a small business with a couple of employees) or the local Chinese laundromat out of business. I'm not saying that's a bad thing (frankly, big Wall Street funded corporations are much more efficient than small local businesses), but I do detect some cognitive dissonance in people who rail against big corporations but also support companies like Uber.
And it should be my right to buy snake oil, just as it is my right to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for Scientology courses.
This might be better suited for one of the monthly jobs thread. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120070 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120079
In 10 years how much will employers care about what you learned in college compared with your expectation for higher wages, increased healthcare cost and decreased willingness to give them unpaid overtime relative to a fresh graduate?

Automating a delivery driver is actually a harder problem than it appears unless you can convince people to accept packages dropped on the curb. I would not lay odds on that being the next job to be automated out of existence.
This is a problem I'd love to have.

It makes me sad that the FCC may put the brakes on fiber rollout because a few people are upset that their phones won't work during long blackouts. It must be a small population; I can't even name a single person under 50 that has a landline.

At some point telcos stopped supporting the telegraph too.
On the contrary, freedom is defined as the ability to do what you want, which implies a very great deal of certainty - the certainty that you won't be attacked, run out of money, run out of food, that you'll have shelter tonight, and so on.

The uncertainty of not having enough money for food, shelter, medical care, education, raising children, and so on is a huge limitation on freedom.

We see this very explicitly in concepts such as tenure: certainty = freedom.
SICP Video Lectures
famine isn't the same thing as genocide
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Welltris[0]. I was pretty hooked on it at one point in my childhood. Fun implementation!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welltris
Drone picture sharing community
Uber's Ratings Terrorize Drivers And Trick Riders. Why Not Fix Them?
Ask HN: What is the single most competitive advantage in any field?
I love this idea, it's quite interesting. On the flip side, I made a change in some software at my work the other day to replace the use of a random in a unit test. The use of random was being used to populate some data. This language would make matters incredibly difficult to recreate bugs and even test software
A really good point.

Of course I think it's still possible for a small owner operator to use one of these services to gain a consistent customer base (and even get referrals from that customer base) and then cut out the big corporation that gave them the contacts in the first place. And operate on their own.

Work like this is done on relationships. I'm still using the same painter for projects that was referred to me by a realtor that sold me a property. Although there are tons of other painters I can get bids from (cheaper) I'd rather go with someone that I've used that I know can get the job done with little aggravation.
Yeah I tried it on my PowerBook G4 and it was like molasses
What is interesting about this is how it forces one to deal with a lack of precision. Computers are inherently imprecise in many situations, leading to non-commutative multiplication. I wonder if a language like this would be helpful for programming with approximate processors. They are supposed to be much faster at a cost of precision.
About cereal boxes containing more nutrition than the cereal inside http://mythbustersresults.com/episode55
"the Soviet challenge continues" cool game!
try! is good enough for 1.0.
Reminds me of Netflix's "Chaos Monkey". Both Entropy and the Chaos Monkey force you to deal with failure as an eventual certainty, not something to ignore and hope it doesn't happen.
Thanks, I couldn't think of a way to find the address of that site.
"to have skills that are both enjoyable and in demand."

Well that's now, in this slice of time, and if you have the skills that are hot at the given moment. If not, assumes that a programmer can easily pick up the new thing and get a job (with age bias) which I don't think is necessarily the case.

Is there a hot job market for perl programmers? That was the big thing in the 90's when I first went online. Can a 50's perl programmer learn the next new thing and be in high demand?

(Edit: More of a statement than a question as I think "probably not an easy task")
Before getting into an argument of MS vs. the world let's take a step back.

What are you goals? Do you want to get a corporate job? Do you want to start or work in a startup? Also, where do you live?

There was a related thread a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8159427

To make a long story short, my personal opinion is that you can have a very fulfilling corporate life focusing completely on MS technologies. In some countries/regions more so than in others. For example, you won't find a lot of MS-based companies in Silicon Valley, but I've been to a couple of European and Asian countries where the majority of businesses seem to heavily favor the MS stack. An MS stack is almost always the wrong choice for a startup though (and you've mentioned some of the reasons).
This phenomenon is similar to how people enjoy watching others play video games.

Your brain can't entirely distinguish between watching a video game on a screen and actually controlling the action.
Vote for this Gitlab feature request if you like it
That headline sounds the output of a Markov generator raised on hand-wringing clickbait newsfeeds.
It's really not that complicated.
I'm under the impression that the extra redundancy that Bell and co have to maintain power on phone lines during an outage is precisely what makes it so expensive relative to VoIP products.

Would it not make more sense to demand the utilities provide more reliable power in the face of an emergency (even at increased cost)?
In Los Gatos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_codes_408_and_669#Los_Gato..., the copper network is all there is. I can get DSL with up to 3Mbps. I have a cell phone and cable modem.
Why You Don't Need A Co-Founder
I really want to use G+, but every time I try to load up the site, it turns me off to a point where I feel I have other things to do than wait for the site to load.
I see an evil DRM for games, you buy a game and textures will decay over time until you buy the game again to reset the decay.
Weird. I got to 80k in Firefox, and stopped because it was pretty slow and not getting faster--not really challenging at all.

I tried again in Chrome and its a lot faster, and does get faster throughout the game as well. More fun and challenging, but yeah--it does get too fast too quickly.
I didn't realize this made to Hacker News...

As for the current comments:

* Using hosts file is a local, per machine solution. Similarly, AdBlock is a per user per browser solution. None of which may be available on your phone. And AdHole is not meant to be a replacement for anything - it's another tool.

* I have a very restrictive list, including some CDNs known to host tracking software. Surprisingly it breaks none of the websites I use regularly. For the odd cases I implemented the /debug/toggle method. At this low-level there will always be a trade-off between blocking and breaking.

I also use AdBlock on all the 'big computers', but my block list is still more restrictive. And the biggest value is that I get ad and tracking blocking on all my Android gear without doing any additional work.
"I actively seek out opportunities to feel smug and superior."
My favorite variant was Frac.

3d version: http://theodor.lauppert.ws/games/frac.htm

4d version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzyws5ZkSYg
What Coca-Cola Commercial Would Be Like If They Are Honest
Awesome idea.

https://www.gifyoutube.com/gif/qrh
Russia and China Building Floating Nuclear Plants
Hubot by GitHub
I can't say I know much about the range of subgenres that exist withing the unboxing universe, but at least in tech unboxing videos, I've always assumed that the primary appeal was the first-impressions review that comes with the unboxing. After a user takes their new thinkpad out of the box, they might remark about how great the travel is on the keyboard, or about its weigh or build-sturdiness. They're the next best thing to trying a product in person (and real reviews are harder to come by than dime-a-dozen unboxings).

Maybe I'm totally misjudging and the primary attraction that they instill the same reaction as getting a shiny new gadget does.
I can't find where you said:

'We can't say "10k wouldn't cover costs for the 5% of people that will incur huge medical bills" because those huge medical bills only happen today, in a time where the government has the health system set up in such a way as to make all their proceedings exceedingly expensive.'

But now that I know what you are talking about it seems reasonable that removing government subsidies might reduce the total cost of health care. I am however, not as optimistic as you are. We have a free, but regulated market and in that market things are extremely expensive even when government money is not involved. It seems unrealistic that prices would drop by a factor of 2 simply by removing government payments and even a factor of 2 would not fix the problem that we are talking about.
I wrote my own compiler. Yeah, I know you are a planet of the apes nigger-monkey, never seen a white man.
> of the average American.

of the average Toddler.

I'm sure some adults watch it to, but it's aimed at very young kids.