skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is heading in the wrong direction – I decided not to follow
I was quite surprised at how many people were surprised I bought my N5 outright last year, but I now pay nearly a third for a SIM only plan than others are paying for their smartphone plans.

Have converted a few people to that mindset - but (let's ignore the point about if you don't have much cash, locking yourself into a long term phone contract isn't smart, people will do it anyway), it is easier for people who live month to month to have it bundled like that, it's a bit like buying a sofa from DFS on credit...
Your argument is that law should be treated like a clean-room implementation with zero original context. The original interpretation is apparently meaningless. But interpretations by random judges are fine? And it's appropriate for these random decisions to become precedent?

I've never understood this mindset. It's treating the English language like machine code, as if it could be written with a degree of deterministic certainty. Our human language is littered with reasonable unwritten assumptions, words that slowly evolve, words that completely change meaning.

If we happen to know what the original authors of the bill meant with their words, why should we substitute their known interpretation with that of some random judge?

Is the American system really suffering from too much Jeffersonian-ism? I'd argue the opposite.
> allowed by the public

Well, democracy is largely bullshit so your phrase endears the democratic process with more credit than it is due.

We suppose that our quality of life and our pace of change are side effects of our current leadership process. I personally suppose that is is but a partial input to a more complex contrivance of systems which have led us to where we are.
I'd love to try and get to the bottom of the Safari performance issues you're seeing. My email address is in my profile, please drop me a line if you wouldn't mind.
It's more about the organizational problems than the software.

QNX has the "minimal system" thing down. QNX is a POSIX microkernel for embedded applications. There's a standard distro for development purposes, but you can easily build your own, and that's what's normally done for embedded devices.

A boot image for QNX contains the QNX kernel, its associated user process "proc", and any other user space programs you'd like to have around at boot-up, such as drivers. (All QNX device drivers are user space programs.) File systems and networking are also optional programs. You can put user programs into the boot image as well. If you have a system with a disk, "diskboot" is usually included to bring up a system with more programs and daemons, but that's optional. If you're doing a car stereo or an industrial controller, you'd probably just put the application program in the boot image and avoid any elaborate startup process.

(While QNX is a neat technology, the company is totally screwed up now. In the last 12 years, they went open source, closed source, open source, and back to closed source again. They were acquired twice, once by Harmon (mostly a car stereo company) and then by RIM (the Blackberry people). The end result is that the old point of sale and industrial control customers became fed up and abandoned the system. Nevertheless, QNX is worth understanding to see what a usable microkernel system looks like.)
Anti competitive, interest driven legislative behavior happens everywhere, as does the mixture of money and politics. See the Amazon law in France as an example.

If anything, in the USA citizens seems more aware and active in such cases. The fact there's a constitution as a moral compass doesn't hurt, either.
It looks like its going to take all night stuck at "3 minutes remaining" because my MacTeX install of TeXlive has over 135,000 files and is somewhere close to 4GB. It would have been much faster to blow away all of my homebrew installs, emacs, qt, and especially TeX and reinstall after the upgrade.

I does eventually finish. I'm typing this on my desktop running Yosemite, which took a long long time because of /usr/local, but my laptop is still working on the install. I believe it's been eight hours! (And both have SSD's)
Ask HN: Best internal wiki/snippets share for a team of 5-10?
As title says, I would appreciate any suggestions.
Purpose is save company time having a ready material made of knowledge base, company work patterns, snippets, scripts storing, templates, etc..
Are there any comfortable ambient / software / service which provides a small team such functions?
Thank you all in advance!
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Duplication is a form of forward error correction.
Change jobs.:-)
But seriously, look for this sort of behavior in the job interview. Interviews are a 2 way street.
The problem is that politicians are not accountable to the voting public. They're supposed to be, but it's basically a big joke.

This comment from another one of today's discussions seems particularly fitting here [1]:

> > We want to make sure that the incentives of the people in power are aligned with the people who are not in power.

> This is really a tough ask. Unless decision makers, i.e., those in power, are accountable, every single day, to those not in power, decision makers will soon align themselves with private, capitalist corporations. You have a multi billion dollar arms manufacturer, oil corporations funding millions to election campaigns of US presidents. And then you have US citizens who get to vote once in five years; we also know that the voting itself can be rigged, public opinion can be swayed and etc., Now, whom do you think would the president side with? Oil corporation or US citizens? The answer is obvious!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8466080
Indeed, the two are very different. Later on the author says this:

>The point of Peter Baldwin’s fascinating and learned (and also repetitive and disorganized) “The Copyright Wars” (Princeton) is that the dispute between analog-era and digital-era notions of copyright is simply the latest installment of an argument that goes all the way back to the Statute of Anne.

This is merely a way of linking to the book. At no point has anybody ever thought of this as 'theft' of the book, it is merely citing it as a reference. That the hyperlink makes this more convenient should please the original author. If the article had linked to the book maybe more would have been sold as the reader wouldn't need to go and work out to buy it for themselves.
I'm thinking the baseball spinning counterclockwise when viewed from above will curve to the pitcher's right (the same direction shown by Trefil).

Basically friction will cause the ball to push air molecules near its surface in its direction of spin. So air molecules in front will fly off to the left. By conservation of momentum, the ball will be pushed to the right.

The same effect at the back of the ball will push the ball to the left. But there would be fewer air molecules behind the ball, because that's the space which has just been vacated by the ball. Air molecules haven't yet had time to rush in to fill the space behind the ball at the same density as they fill the space in front of the ball.

This makes the rightward push at the front stronger than the leftward push at the back, causing the ball to move to the right.

Now I'm going to finish reading the article and see if my hypothesis is correct.
The costs of this legislation are distributed across all consumers, while the benefits are concentrated in the hands of a small group of automobile dealers. This gives the dealers a large incentive to lobby politicians, and little incentive for consumers to pay attention and vote accordingly. This is the same reason Uber is facing a lot of flak right now from governments around the world.

On the bright side, in the long run new technologies tend to win out, even though the delays caused by concentrated interests can be quite significant.

One way to fix this problem would be to restrict the scope of government so that politicians simply aren't able to do things like this, no matter how much the automobile industry lobbies them. If there are other solutions I'd be very interested to hear them.
RUDP isn't really the same thing as RakNet. Both are actually distinct and different protocols.

Most game networking libraries will let the developer choose, when sending a datagram, whether it's reliable, ordered, both or neither. The reason is that you rarely actually need both, but in the rare cases you do (e.g. if the user issues a "fire" command) you can upgrade datagrams to that state.

RUDP is simply a message-based connection that is both reliable and ordered. You might be able to get away with using it for games, but, why would you - RakNet is open source and is mostly the industry standard.

Also don't forget the one final advantage of UDP is that STUN/TURN work great. NAT punching with TCP is walking on thin ice.
Did Apple Do Enough?
...?

You understand that your router came with the username 'admin' and the password 'password' when you bought it right?

(don't get me wrong, there's some weird stuff going on with that kickstarter, but the password/username thing is such a strawman it hurts me to see people talking about it)
More like: "What the fuck is wrong with this guy. He poses a complex ethical dilemma. It makes me think and thinking hurts my brain. I will better pretend he is some sort of creep."
do you have any idea what 8K even means or are you just trolling?
Does the US criminal justice system make any allowance for the high functioning hipster? If that person gets stopped for a traffic offence and happens to have a small amount of cannabis on them what happens?
Twitter introduces Audio Cards
Cool result. But:

"Was this worth it?" - looking at the last step of optimisation, it looks like that would be the hardest to do correctly without bugs, hardest to maintain, document and so on, but it produced a gain of only 12 hours of compute time (so cheap it's almost free).

On an 8-5 schedule, 12 hours is 24. Was it really worth, or just fun?
The Dutch boy mopping up a sea of plastic
Crud. I assumed the left and right side were symmetric and would cancel, but they're not -- the air's moving at different relative velocity on each side.
Well it's like buying a 0km car VS buying generic parts and building it yourself. It's not that easy.
Whether it's a loss or win is dependent on the consumer's preferences, not your opinion. Consumer votes so far say that you're wrong, very wrong in fact. Consumers on average are having no problems with Amazon DRM.

It's a huge win for me. I will trade the DRM from Amazon in exchange for the hyper convenience, built-in lighting, and numerous other features of a kindle reader that holds hundreds of books, so that when I fly I don't have to lug around physical books. Not to mention I can only carry a few books with me when I travel, whereas with the kindle I can carry practically unlimited. Last but not least, kindle books are cheaper and should always be.

Consumers are overwhelmingly agreeing with me, the kindle is vastly superior to traditional books. They agree so emphatically, within another decade it's likely that over 3/4 of all book sales will be digital. Consumers didn't have to be dragged into that world, they went willingly: they chose the kindle + Amazon while traditional books were still very widely available and easy to purchase.
I find the fork http://www.vdiplomacy.com/ much better, mostly because there much more variants. The classic map has various weaknesses (e.g. army instead of fleet in Rome).

vDip also has a click-on-the-map interface, although I prefer the drop-down variant.
I think a big part of the backlash was that the hardware is not open source. Sticking existing things together is fine but he can't guarantee the safety which is unfair to those wo purchase one an trusting it.

Btw you can achieve the same thing with open hardware: http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm + pfSense + tor
The issue is lying about it, and making other false claims. Such as claiming its "open hardware" when they are relying on closed off the shelf devices.

It also doesn't help that it appears that their default setup is hideously insecure.
No

Most mutations wouldn't be obvious. They might affect metabolism or some enzymatic pathway. (Isn't it curious that Junior likes cow's milk?) These seem unlikely to be discriminated against. Even mutations affecting visible features might be gradual and require the accumulation of many mutations over generations and generations to become pronounced. (Height, skull size, dentition)

Some features might be due to a single mutation and could be pronounced and obvious in new members of a group. Red hair might be one of these mutations, and perhaps some red headed children were spurned or killed or discriminated against by their group. But this wouldn't easily eliminate red hair. It is caused by a recessive gene so carriers of a single gene won't be redheads themselves. If two non-redheaded carriers of the gene have 4 children on average three will carry the red hair gene but only one will have red hair because they carry two of the genes. I find red hair attractive, and apparently so did our ancestors: red hair was not eliminated from the gene pool.

Curiously, humans have evolved to retain juvenile features. This neoteny, as it is called, has resulted in smaller jaws, flatter faces, hairless bodies, larger eyes, and other features. Selection for these traits may be due to our instinctive desire to care for infants.

Likewise mutations in the other direction, smaller head to body ratio, etc., could very well have suffered from negative selection pressures as you have raised in your question.

I think these speculations are interesting and the answers are not obvious. Why, for example, has a trait such as mental illness, clearly having a negative impact on survival, not been eliminated? Is it just so tricky to get a brain assembled into a mind that there are inevitable difficulties? Or is it caused by interactions with viruses during development that are evolving in competition with us? What about nearsightedness? I wouldn't have been a very good hunter of distant game. Why hasn't myopia been eliminated as a trait? Is it because as I age I can still read without reading glasses? Were there elderly nearsighted arrowhead makers, able to do close work despite age related presbyopia, trading their skillfully made arrowheads for food?

One additional observation. Your question mentions non-whiteness, suggesting that more pigmented skin is a mutation. It appears that it is just the reverse. Human evolution started in Africa where pigmentation would have been important because of the more intense sunlight. Lack of pigmentation would be a disadvantageous mutation. So the more accurate question is why would anyone even have light skin? The answer I've heard is that for humans groups that had migrated out of Africa to latitudes that had weaker sunshine, lighter skin allowed for better absorption of the weaker sunlight for the production of vitamin D.
Tesla's rivals are big employers in Michigan. That is also a factor, their employee's have only experienced the positive side of protectionism.
At least my router did not. It came with a sticker with a random password. My other routers all have ethernet ports and came with wifi disabled.
Forgetting the fact that it very well may be a crappy product, I am not sure I see the issue that has caused the pitchforks to come out on this one. The controversy seems to be over this statement:

"Little did we know, it would take over four years, and a lot more tacos and beer, to create a device with the security, speed, functionality and easy-of-use that is the anonabox."

It certainly could have taken them four years, even if that only means they were tinkering with it for four years before they stumbled across a $20 board from China that finally made it feasible given their apparent lack of skills necessary to create a custom device. While I certainly won't be buying one of these, the description on the site seems fairly accurate. It's an OpenWRT-based router that they pre-configure to work with TOR. It seems like it probably does what it says.

I just don't see pitchfork-worthy issues here.
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Yes, if the original meaning is readily available to the reader.
Some people do sell rack mounts for the new Mac Pro: http://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacpro.html Two in 4U.
How to minimize project failure?
There is HTTPS-Finder that auto creates the rules for HTTPS-Everywhere

https://github.com/kevinjacobs/HTTPS-Finder/tree/master/dist
If the price was the only issue, $50 wouldn't be unreasonable at all. People underestimate the cost of distribution, offering support and warranties, vat/sales taxes etc.. $50 just for reselling the unmodified Chinese devices would be reasonable many places.

So I agree that making a fuss over the price is silly. Especially since their initial goal was low. A $7500 kickstarter to fund a bit of developer time to put together something nice is not unreasonable. Everything beyond that should pretty much be considered pre-orders.

But the lies and deception, false claims and apparent total lack of understanding of how to make the device secure on the other hand, goes far beyond stupid.
We HAD something useful and coherent.
Magnetic mirrors enable new technologies by reflecting light in uncanny ways
Suricatta is a high level sql toolkit for clojure
To reiterate my point, 5k is simply a doubling of the commonly used 1440p resolution allowing for retina scaling.

Regarding "proprietary Apple nonsense", I direct you to the recently announced Dell 5k display… http://www.anandtech.com/show/8496/dell-previews-27inch-5k-u...
Of course, but common users don't have technical knowledge to know the difference, so they depend purely on marketing and trust (I guess "the safest place on internet" here did it's trick). It's good that mainstream media finally starts paying attention to the privacy, maybe it will make non-technical user to think twice before trusting such bullshit apps/services.
> I did not suggest that cannabis is harm free. I stated we cannot explicitly identified marijuana as the cause of illness.

Yes you did - using phrases like "there are no known health risks" you dismiss all the evidence we have that cannabis can cause harm.

Here's just one link, but there are many other reputable sources. This one discusses lung health.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/06june/Pages/cannabis-lung-healt...

> The report says that the constituents of cannabis smoke are similar to those of tobacco smoke apart from the presence of THC (which is only in cannabis) or nicotine (which is only in tobacco). This means that cannabis smoke has the same carcinogens (substances that cause cancer) as tobacco smoke, although concentrations of these may be up to 50% higher. Like tobacco, cannabis also contains toxic carbon monoxide

Saying that this is equivalent to "no known health risks" is intellectually dishonest.
Or, you can architect your module/service to run the things it depends on in a self-contained manner and avoid creating a hard dependency on virtualization of Linux.
A complete graph (by some definition of "complete") documents the knowledge of who both parents are, and there are many situations where you cannot get such knowledge for practical or legal reasons.
Wow, these things would be great! I have been working with database connections, and they feel pretty awkward right now because there are so many opportunities for errors.

Either or both of these would be very appealing.

I remember asking on IRC a few times to see if I could get some interest. One of the things I proposed was a postfix operator in place of try, so I'm pleased to see something like that appear.

For some reason it just really bothered me to see all of my statements begin with "try!" rather than what they are actually intended to do. The "?" could be a great help.
Given:

* patio11 is, afaik, a practicing Catholic.

* patio11 contributes a great deal to this site.

* He probably has a thick skin about it, but comments like that are probably not something he likes or will encourage him to use a site.

My conclusion is that anything that takes us that far off topic should be flagged because it may have a negative impact on the value I get from the site. I came here to talk about startups and hacking, not religion or politics.
> Are they able to handle cyclical family trees

Heh, this reminds me of an assignment in a Finnish university. A second-year programming course requires to build a family tree parser with the appropriate data structure design.

The tests are automated: students upload their sources through a web form, the backend builds the code and feeds it a number of test cases. The trick is that the inputs are not provided ahead of time. Once a test set fails, the student is provided with the input(s) that broke their submission. A student can submit their code at most four times, and a failure to pass the tests also means a failed course.

One of the inputs is the family tree of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
.. from the manufacturer? No it didn't. Your ISP set a random password when they configured it for you.
What router is it?

I've literally never encountered a router that didn't have a default password on it.

Some times service providers will set a random (or user) password before shipping the device, but they all reset to the default one when you factory reset it.

I thought it was just universal.

I'm actually quite interested to know which manufacturers ship a custom rom per device with a unique password.
"How would apprenticeship explain why a 40 year old German machinist is more likely to be employed than a 40 year old American machinist?"

Having apprenticeships means moving 'school' closer to the 40-year olds. Maybe that 40 year old is forced to stay up-to-date by his 20-year old apprentice?

And your Germany/Southern Europe argument made me think of the China/USA relation. How good that analogy is? I wouldn't dare take a guess at.
> if it quit trading with the world tomorrow American employment would go up.

You trade with the world because it makes stuff cheaper. Without trading you would produce that stuff less efficiently, so prices would go up relative to salaries, so people would need to reduce consumption, not only of the stuf that was imported, but of everything.

Whether the end result would be increase or decrease in employement isn't obvious, but I think decrease in employement is more probable.
I like how they changed the name from autonomous zone to zone of employment and economic development and then it got passed.

I sense it'll end up being a sweatshop farm and the "employees" will be paid so little that they won't be able to leave.

The us used to allow small towns like this. Employees would get paid in company minted currency. Then they'd only be able to shop at stores and restaurants owned by the company. This sort of thing is of course illegal now.
Super Sprint Karts
On http://www.vdiplomacy.com/ you can play 2-player variants. This turns it into a pure tactics chess-like game.

Also, gunboat style (no communication possible) is quite popular online.
I recently found this:
# snow leopard theme for 10.9 Mavericks
http://rhubarb-leaf.deviantart.com/art/SnowLeopard-theme-v2-...

I hope something like this is possible on Yosemite at some point in the future.
> only 20% of drivers get traffic infractions, meaning the average driver has never had one.

The median driver has never had one, but the mean (which is what most people mean by average) has had >=0.2
ha, I think the real take away from this is that there's a great opportunity for someone who knows what they're doing to create a very similar product without any of controversial baggage, and make a killing.
"You need more waterfall in your agile."
According to a review[0] I read the new Dell 5k display has 2xDP1.2, so there is hope :)

[0]: http://www.maximumpc.com/dells_5k_monitor_pre_reviewed_2014
Hmm, I can see the pink ears, the blue eyes not so much. I may need to calibrate my monitor.