skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this comment for reminding me of what I often forget. I actually watched the Ebola Frontline last night and was fairly upset by it. The hopelessness of the ill, the lack of resources for the staff (they were out of ambulances, so they were using a hearse to transport patients to the MSF clinic), just a terrible situation. It felt especially terrible to waste brain cycles on Apple Watches while this is going on.

I briefly dreamed of dropping what I'm doing and flying to Africa to help, as if that would do anybody any good. For the price of a flight to West Africa, lodging, incidentals etc., I could easily spend $5K 'helping'. Liberia's GNI per Capita is only $800.

Donating $5K to MSF or another quality NGO could pay 15 Liberians' wages in full for 6 months. MSF would clearly be better off employing 15 Liberians to help with their outbreak than for me to give that money to an airline and a hotel and 'help' for a few weeks. The Liberians would be better off earning income that will be recycled through their communities, learning about public health, and taking collective agency over their country.

Needless to say, I dropped my pipedreams of flying anywhere and loaded up http://www.msf.org/donate.
Is there any interest in "this is how I got fucked" at a startup type article, or is it so common that it doesn't matter?

I have an experience...
Shift+drag. :) https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/device-mode
Most of the people I contact are way less reactive on hangouts (if they ever look at it) than they can be through SMS. I've been a few times in the situation where I realized that I was contacting them through hangouts involuntarily, and that's why they weren't answering. I've never had a Windows phone or IOS, so I don't know how they do, I just hope that it's easier to use
"Demographers say that a far better investment would be to support women juggling motherhood and careers by expanding day care and after-school programs."

In college I had a professor from East Germany that talked about this. The communists did a lot of things wrong, but one thing they got right was an impressive support system for working parents. The preschools and child care programs were excellent, and women were encouraged to work instead of staying home. After the wall fell, these support systems stopped, and his wife had to quit her job and stay home to take care of their kids. He thought it was such a waste of talent because his wife had a PHD and was also a college professor, but there were few other options at the time.
This is just dumb. How about we show side by sides of Samsung's pre-lawsuit UI and compare it to Apple's. This anti Apple meme is getting tired. There's room on the road for both BMW and Mercedes. Both cars have steering wheels, both have gas gauges, both have available nab systems.. Yet you don't see an almost religious anti-BMW fervor that you do with the Android crowd when talking about Apple. It reeks of insecurity. I love Apple but I don't feel the need to create info graphics about it.
And then enable 2FA, if you haven't already.
Microsoft Authenticator works just fine with GMail :)
Yes, but I am yet to meet pure open source advocates that pay for more than just hardware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E

I had to wait TWENTY MINUTES...
I am not getting a "smart watch". Its called Apple Watch.
Situation: someone accidentally copy-pastes personal data into a comment. Someone else replies, "you probably should remove that". The first person can no longer remove it.

I find it annoying when people delete posts as well, but there are valuable reasons to do it.
The best that Reddit could (typically) do is claim ignorance, but in this case it's obvious (through what they've said in their blog post, as well as the assumption that they would notice such a fast-growing traffic source) that they knew full well what was going on and chose to do nothing.

I honestly hope that Reddit gets sued for this, and loses, badly. I love the site for the communities I'm a part of, but as long as they have this attitude of 'I didn't do it, so it's not my problem', things are only going to get worse.
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Introducing the simple rebranding/reworking of Google Voice into Hangouts.

(the same 'free calls' have been on Google Voice for years)
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> Apple and WinPhone do this fine and it's an excellent idea in a world where SMS is overpriced that the app should automatically look for free ways to get the message to the target seamlessly.

Smartphone plans with unlimited text and limited data with a high surchage for overages are easier to find than ones with limited SMS and unlimited data, so its not really clear that "SMS is overpriced" anymore, especially when compared with data.
German here. The initiative to provide a kindergarden for every child is quite a failure. It was decreed by the federal govt that every city (i.e. local govt) has to provide enough resources, but there simply aren't enough kindergarden workers for that (and not enough money to get more people to do that badly paid job).

As I see it, it was just an easy way to gain votes. It's easy to pass laws that your own government doesn't have to apply, but _someone else_.
That's what I thought. The article does not make that clear at all. So the hypothetical payment model suggested is directly against the guidelines of what currently exists. A model that explicitly requires in-app digital content and subscriptions to be paid through IAP. While you can use external payment in app for other types of payment e.g. Hailo. There is no reason at all for Apple to deviate from this model because of Apple Pay. What are the assumptions in this article based on? I really don't know why the author is suggesting the above - and that's without going into the financial implications.
More like half a generation (if that). And by the time it ships, the lead in tech will be all but gone.
More than half a billion dollars worth of Destiny shipped by day one
Its more of an integration than a "rebranding". Hangouts has a lot of things that were never part of Voice.
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The one time I was in London, I did this, and the fellow dumped me out after I told him the nearby destination.
I agree with this point, in that reddit is a community of communities. The problem is that some of those communities are dedicated towards causing active harm to people, and Reddit (the corporation) has an attitude of 'it's not our problem, so we don't care what they do'. Unfortunately, if that draws legal teams to bear on Reddit, that could be bad for everyone. And as much as I love the few communities I'm a member of, I honestly hope it does.

I would rather have reddit shut down than have it become a haven for this sort of depraved, childish, entitled, antisocial bullshit.
Right. Not just maternity leave, but general parental leave: Don't focus entirely on one gender, with the assumption that either gender is necessarily more focused on raising children. Allow single fathers to raise kids as well, without stigma or handicap, by making everything more available to all.

This dovetails nicely into marriage equality, which I don't know if Germany has yet, but I know it will if it temporarily does not.
Except you are forgetting C++11 is supported in all mobile SDKs, with C++14 appearing in upcoming versions.

Personally I consider C++14 quite modern.
Maybe you can explain why implementing RFC6725 in pacemakers and other artificial organs doesn't make sense?
I feel your pain. I expect the badly-documented bug-and-vulnerability-ridden unmantainable mess aka systemd to collapse as abandonware in the future. That's what happened with similar projects before.

I used systemd last year to see if it was any good, and it's terrible. Specially journald, well it uses a binary format, I see this file, about 250KB, I wanted to decompress it as a text file to use my tools. OK, I had a brand-new very powerful computer. After 1 HOUR, I see a 5GB file, the decompression still running!

Another bug, I needed to power off with (unix sysadmins will laugh at this):

sync; sync; shutdown -h now

otherwise systemd (systemctl poweroff) would randomly delete files in my home dir!

So yes systemd is also technically bad. That's why *BSD, GNU Guix and other alternatives are gaining momentum.
So you're imagining a totally different situation and then saying that, in that situation, it might be reasonable to call me "not a programmer." I really fail to see your point.
It sounds like you're trying to do this to argue against gender bias being real. This is what's called "straw man fallacy."

If I were arguing that every single time that I'm called something other than programmer that there is gender bias, then your point would be valid. But I'm not arguing that.
Sort of related to your comment: IMO the common thread in all (recent-ish?) Apple products is that the first iteration is usually rough around the edges and met with the most amount of criticism, then what always seems to happen is that Apple takes the feedback to heart and massively improves on subsequent iterations. Some examples I can think of:

* While the first MacBook Air was crazy expensive and nearly universally panned for lack of a DVD-ROM drive, the MBA was repositioned in 2011 as the ultraportable replacement for the MacBook and is now the best-selling Mac.

* The first iPhone was blasted for its absurd price (due in part to lack of carrier subsidization), lack of 3G, lack of copy and paste (remember how upset people got about this? lol) and no third party apps. By the time the 3G rolled around, most of the software concerns were addressed and the price drop made sales jump $10m from 2007 to 2008.

* The first iPad (also known as the iTampon if you were following Twitter on the day it was announced) was criticized as being a giant iPhone, having a low pixel density (merely 1024x768), and lacking any ability to get "real work" done on it. Each iteration of the iPad has gotten more and more positive reviews due to the incremental changes (mostly in processor and pixel density) made over the years.

It more or less goes without saying, then, that I'm not really surprised that people expected more from the Apple Watch. Apple's really fortunate to have such a great community of rabid early adopters who are more than happy to put its products through the ringer and hold Apple to a higher standard.
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Hi, I work for Air-Control. We've read your comments and would like to clarify how it works with the App Store.

http://blog.air-control.com/air-control-and-the-app-store/

Ask me anything.

Cheers

Peter
You have to admit it's kind of ridiculous that a "design driven methodology" is even a thing. Consider the alternative.
And that's Bild's perspective.
Why Apple Watch Pricing Is Brilliant
Russia had the same support system (though lesser quality), but it endured to some degree even today. Unfortunately, it's so underfunded that there are waiting lists and rampant corruption that one has to endure in order to get a spot for the child. Moscow (as usual) is better off than the rest of the country, but even there it's a problem.

Living in US, that's a huge contrast for me and I'm not entirely sure what options are out there aside from paying private.
I'm curious what your defense is to their success with the non-Apple faithful

Defense? Why do I have to defend or explain anything? Are we waving flags? Why do I have to defend the things other people say?

I was specifically replying to the defensive notion that criticisms of Apple have been proven wrong (though they weren't wrong, and this is zero revisionism: The first iPod was a general market failure, and took off two years later), thus they will always be wrong, which is a bit of logical nonsense. The other bit was the "Apple is doing what no one else is doing", but other people are doing it and have been doing it. Here in Canada we've enjoyed extremely prolific NFC use without Apple's involvement.

Apple makes a lot of great products. They yield a lot of success. That does not mean that they are not prone to making mistakes, for proclaiming truths that are self-serving nonsense, and for getting the market wrong. It's worth noting that at the height of Microsoft's success the same "can do no wrong" arguments appeared everywhere.

Outside of that, some people seem to identify their personality with Apple, and they truly seem to project a persecution complex (yes, this is seen on /r/technology. I marvel that you hold it as an example, as it is one place where any criticism of Apple, however deserved and accurate, brings out droves and droves of defenders. It is a cesspool of a sub for that reason). Apple is an enormous company, and is enormously successful, so this "woe are us" bit just grows tiring.
The 910 is capable of displaying the time of day, but it should be glaringly obvious to anyone that owns one that telling you the time is a peripheral feature that comes for free because of the nature of GPS devices. Combine that with a 20 hour battery life (probably far less if you're in an office and the GPS receiver is cranked all day), huge size, and questionable aesthetics, and it's obvious that Garmin did not intend for you to wear it to work. Not that it keeps people from trying if the Garmin forums are indicative of anything.

And Captain Pedantic has swooped in to inform us that the ridiculously accurate clocks live on the GPS satellites not on the device.
The taps guiding someone down the street struck me as being useful to blind people. Imagine if white canes became museum pieces in our lifetime because the blind become equipped with GPS enabled wearables.
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I don't understand the 'I was hoping for it to become a product with a functioning business model, but i was struggling to come up with one.'

On the site it says:

> there is no fee and it’s completely free.

So why not change that? Set up a 3 tier 'buy' page and charge $0.15 per merge if you buy 10 merges, $0.12 if you buy 50 and $0.10 if you buy a 100 pack.

That way you can figure out if people are actually willing to pay for this service.

Open sourcing it is great but that still requires someone to run it.

Just try making it a paid service first, if that does not work you can always re-consider and make it open source after all.
To be fair it wasn't even available with Safari for most of it. Brought back memories from keynotes a decade ago where the stream barely worked.
Steve Jobs was not heavily involved with Pixar like Elon was with his other companies.

Pixar Myth No. 5: Steve Jobs Ran Pixar

http://alvyray.com/pixar/PixarMyth5.htm
I think this is the biggest gap in western governments currently, and huge productivity boosts could be had if they solve this problem. Especially in the US.

It's incomprehensible that a parent should have to pay thousands per month just to be able to have a child and work at the same time.

Paid maternal leave is not the big issue! After six months of leave, the problem remains that a child needs to be looked after and cared for while the mother returns to work.
The sheer number of broken links and failed page loads while trying to pay a credit card statement is enough to make me enormously skeptical of Citi's ability to secure my information. I'd gladly close my account if the credit agencies wouldn't place so much emphasis on "Longest Available Revolving Credit" or whatever they call your oldest credit card.
> Imagine if you did that today. "Press any key to ignore this kernel panic."

Linux still does this today. Not for kernel panics, but for kernel oops, which is the error you will usually get when doing something bad (say a null pointer dereference in a kernel module).
The thread that causes a kernel oops is killed and a stack trace is written to dmesg but the rest of the system attempts to continue chugging on.
Usually, immigration is good for the economy and for everyone who lives there. Germany is pretty cheap country to live in (food is probably the best and cheapest in Europe to come by, but salaries also are rather low, esp. compared to the US), IMHO probably due to the many immigrants.

We also need more qualified workers, as everyday I see German dumbos who are seriously unqualified for their job ;-)

But yes, if the day should come that German dumbos should be replaced with skilled people from Spain, Turkey, or Greece, many people might end up very pissed.

Edit: if you vote me down, maybe you'd like to elaborate on where our opinions or observations differ?
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These sync variants will be handy for very small scripts or during app startup, but I think the fact that they are fundamentally incompatible with Node's streams concept will bite people eventually.
Google provides damned good email services in the "current paradigm" while operating essentially as the vanguard of the centralized Internet.
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iPad? First gen was awesome, and they kept the price the same even to this day.

Price generally doesn't go down with Apple devices, but they'll gladly sell you an older gen device for a discount.
I'd call Common Lisp functional between quotes.
I can install the dialer, but can't seem to find the 2.3 upgrade from 2.1.2. You'd think this would work on a Nexus 4.
EDIT "To get started on Android, just grab the new version of Hangouts (v2.3, rolling out over the next few days),"

Why release the dialer in the play store if it requires a yet to be released updated hangouts version?
"These people don't want families with non-Germans and they don't want Germany to be non-German"

So they stop having children with other Germans. Makes sense.
It's probably safe to stop actively boycotting them assuming no future regressions. You have to give points for correcting past mistakes. But if you switched to one of the registrars that had it right to begin with it's not like you need to be in any hurry to switch back. Having been right all along is still more commendable than having to be shamed into doing the right thing.
Beware Flat Hierarchy: A Personal Story
there's much talk these days about software start-ups and mature companies who adopt flat hierarchy, which means - no managers - no stress - do whatever you want. this article offers some food for thought on where, when and why this setup is failing.
"Yet, with hundreds of thousands of skilled jobs unfilled, some executives believe"

I wonder if this is actually true or if its like the typical American sob story of we can't get PHD's to work for minimum wage so we need to outsource.
Is it recommended that you learn Erlang before you learn Elixir, or can you jump straight into Elixir without Erlang knowledge?
You are wrong.

iTunes was such a monumental hit that it carried iPods with it - there's even a business case on the matter:

http://hbr.org/product/apple-inc-ipods-and-itunes/an/905M46-...
I miss BSoDs telling you which kernel driver it was. It was super useful, even without research, to tell just from the name that the e.g. Nvidia driver had done it. It was removed in Windows NT 5.1-2/XP/Server 2003 (2000/NT 5.0 told you, as did Windows ME).

Now, assuming a crash dump was successful (they can and do fail), you have to download the "Debugging Tools for Windows" package and then run WinDbg. Load up the crash dump and only then will it give you the same basic information that 2000 and prior gave you at the BSoD.

If the crash dump didn't save (e.g. it was an issue in a storage subsystem, not enough space on the drive, etc) then you're just shit out of luck. No useful information for you, bonus points if it couldn't even store anything in the event log (that happens too, funzies!).

Even for less serious issues, having that driver name was amazingly useful for doing phone support:

User: A blue screen has come up!
Tech: At the end of the second line do you see something ending in .sys?
User: Yes! It says scanner.sys
Tech: Ah! Can you restart and install your scanner's latest software? That will solve it!
... etc etc...

Seriously was a step backwards when they removed that.
AFAI have heard, East Germany still has much better child support infrastructure than West Germany. They also have a different culture. Women in or from the East tend to marry younger and get children earlier in their lives than Western women. I think that's a good thing, and also implies fewer medical complications related to birth, healthier kids, etc.
Barring all other problems, there's no cognitive overhead when it's clearly labeled. You simply read what it says.
Books that have stayed with us
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Mission Bit doesn't have permanent classrooms. All of the equipment needs to be portable and standalone, so laptops are a requirement. Small HDMI computers such as Raspberry Pi are no longer cheap once you start looking at adding a keyboard, mouse and display.

We standardize on Mac to keep the experience as uniform as possible. A huge issue that few people consider is that if you have a fleet of mismatched laptops you're going to spend a lot of time and/or storage space sorting out which power supply goes to what and it's going to take a lot longer to build a single image that's going to work well for all of them (regardless of OS).

We're doing a pilot class with Chromebooks this semester, but we have to buy most of those ourselves. We've found that it's often easier to get a donation of an old Mac laptop than ~$220.
I was hoping to learn why blue was chosen as the background color for that screen. This article doesn't mention that. Does anyone know why blue was used?
Erlang and Elixir play very well together. I imagine Erlang shops "moving to Elixir" will be in the form of Erlang shops hiring people with Ruby experience and letting them use Elixir so they can get up to speed faster.
Click the "Test-Drive The Live Demo" button at http://staging.chartbliss.com/ -- it gives you access to a demo account and pre-registers you for a private beta account.
Ask HN: Graduating from Information Systems Program, Not Sure What to Do Next
Very soon I will be graduating with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems. To be honest, I was pretty disappointed with my undergrad program. It ended up being a business degree with a few programming classes mixed in. Luckily, I have a good job(that I intend to stick with) and a couple years' worth of my GI bill benefits left. I would really like to get a formal education in Computer Science or at least the applied aspects of it, and so I am looking for advice on the best way to proceed. Because I have a family and a full-time job, I am only willing to attend online schools.

My coursework in CIS included two introductory programming classes that didn't go beyond simple command line programs, an introductory discrete mathematics class, and a pretty decent web application course where I made a simple application on a LAMP stack.

My problem is that I haven't done any of the following:

Algorithms/Data Structures

Calculus

Linear Algebra

Operating Systems

Intermediate programming

So, with this information in mind, what's the best way to proceed? I'm not sure if I would be prepared for a MS because I lack some of the more important classes, like algorithms. Oregon State has a BS designed for people with a Bachelor's degree in an unrelated program. Harvard has a graduate certificate in software engineering that looks good, and there might be other good options.

Can anyone recommend a good online program. Does anyone have an opinion on what the best course of action might be? Also what undergrad courses, if any, would you consider essential before starting a Master's program? Thanks.

http://www.extension.harvard.edu/professional-certificates/software-engineering-certificatesoftware-engineering-certificate

http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate/computer-science/curriculum.htm