skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am kind of hoping that it was something insane, like to be transformed into a living giant green Android, a sort-of reverse "bincentennial man" kind of story.

I suspect my hopes will be dashed.
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Apple has borrowed at least as much from Android. Pretty much all the banner features in the last several releases of iOS are just catch-up with stuff Android has been doing for years.
It seems like a strange match to use LwIP (which is optimzed for small size to run on embedded systems) with a kernel optimized for speed. I'm guessing that a different IP stack would perform better, given the different constraints on a x64 system. Maybe there aren't many to choose from though, that aren't tied to a specific kernel?
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Is there a way to share pins on Instagram? Our company has an active Pinterest account and wants to share those pins to our Instagram account. I can't seem to find anything that does this. The ones I found would share Instagram posts to Pinterest but we want it the other way around.
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Obligatory Godwin: Hitler probably thought he was doing The Right Thing, too.

Mother Theresa believed that suffering brings you closer to god. Sure, she were courageous and tried their best to help people, but that was probably more inspired by actively seeking suffering (and helping other people suffer) than altruism.

But it's absolutely on par for Catholicism (or guilt-based Christianity in general). Declaring her a saint was perfectly reasonable.
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Do they send sound from your phone to their servers non stop? If so, I'm switching from iPhone straight away.
To me this is not as appealing as OSv [1], is BareMetal OS even made for the cloud or more for embedded systems?

[1]: http://osv.io/
I agree. Something like mTCP [1] would make more sense, if this is for cloud-based systems...

[1]: https://github.com/eunyoung14/mtcp
Tried to create a new account via Twitter and got a "Internal server error [500]". The concept sounds useful though.
You don't think it's mostly objective whether people are being helped? I don't care about the joy of helping nearly as much as actual help. Fuck moral credit. Actually help people. Force everyone to give instead of relying on charity from the few.

Yes, it is bullying. That's the only complaint in that quote that makes any sense.
What about the underlying architecture of the OS though? Linux with a Java runtime and a new windowing layer that stops "normal" Linux apps running? Running each dalvik process in its own confined user process? What about the design for background services and foreground activities that can be switched to/from (multitasking) right from the beginning, with AIDL for implementing service definitions? What about Intents and the ability to pass messages between processes? What about access to the filesystem in a "normal" way?

What about the "desktop" on Android? Where did they copy that from?

iOS didn't have multitasking until a lot later, and the concept of background services is more aggressively policed (that is, processes killed often) on iOS, as far as I know?

Sure, the superficial layer on top (look! icons! rows of icons!) that children in a sweet shop would notice may look familiar, but underneath it is not anything alike is it?

Or are you saying it is?
Good spot. The in memory table also runs 3 times quicker.
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Excellent Victor pun, if I may say so.
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The only time Chrome's over-zealous security has even shown up for me is when it doesn't let me login to WiFi that requires a login page. Which happens a lot. Oh, and maybe once the site in question had an expired certificate and I had to use another browser to access it. Wonderful.
The build-up of hatred directed to Jews lasted for 2000 years, since Christian religion was formed and had seen Jewish religion as the original competition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_and_the_New_Testam...

Some inconvenient examples: Between 1290 and 1753 it was illegal for Jews to exist in England. Then until 1846 they had to wear special clothes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_England

And when you say "Semitic" you're probably not aware that the Arabs are actually Semitic too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people

And the Muslim religon is very problematic because its founder was a warrior, and the religion texts actually promote the "war for religion" and also that other religions aren't "true."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad

Finaly, Judaism is problematic too, as their belief is that they are "chosen people" by the God who assisted them in wars against all others.

Welcome to the world we live in.
That's hardly an argument to shit on your customers privacy.
Yeah, I saw that. Not exactly consumer prices are they?

Reading the forums there are some dual LAN Atom based mini PCs that seem OK.

Edit: Also http://store.netgate.com/Desktop-Systems-C83.aspx has some preconfigured options at under $300.
If they'd improve the software and stop dishing out underpowered processors in TVs, that'd help. I have an LG that's a few years old and there's nothing "smart" about it. It should have been sold as "slowTV" instead of "smartTV".

I am saddened that the data needs to fly off to the other side of the world, particularly when dictation and speaking to a device can be done offline: see Dragon Naturally Speaking, Apple offline dictation on OSX, and a Nokia from 15 years ago that would respond to simple voice commands like BLUETOOOOOOTH (yes, you had to shout it), plus the dumb Bluetooth interface in my car that I have to stop and speak to in order to pair devices with it etc.
Those photos are massively overexposed or have some strange HDR processing on them, but it's lovely to see material textures and facial hair in such detail.

The one photo to sell "checking your stocks" is a funny one. "I'm on a yacht looking to the horizon and I NEED to know whether I should BUY BUY BUY or SELL SELL SELL". What a witty photo.
For those interested, a great github repo with the OSX Libc is here:

https://github.com/aosm/Libc

Very easy to switch between OSX releases with the tags.
Rubin was asked to step away from running Android because he was not collaborating well with other teams within Google and with external Android partners. He is tremendously smart, accomplished, and successful, but he can be difficult to work with and was antagonizing external partners like Samsung (which badly want to build their own OS but don't have the expertise to do so successfully). The robotics group was a consolation prize given to him after taking Android away from him. As to his departure from the robotics group, my guess is that he and Page don't see eye to eye on how to run it, and he was asked to step away.
Not really, I still can't seem to find the SSE assembly versions of many functions that have been missing since OSX 10.9:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25505371/where-did-osxs-x...
No one is saying to code a whole site manually, but have the CMS spit out Static HTML. If the design changes, you refresh the HTML code.
This is a very gross misrepresentation of India. The article 377 is a British law which is continued like 1000 other laws. One law for example is that each lodging facility should keep its toilets open for public. Which basically means all the 5 star hotels need to keep their toilets open for public use.

India might have archaic and North Korea like laws but it also has a non-functional government and police force which is mostly busy with other trivialities so even though article 377 exists, I am not aware of any people being harassed for being gay by government or authorities. Gay parties are common and have known several gay couples who have lived safely together.

Even though 200 people are prosecuted under this it is less because for they being gay and more because of other reasons. For example it is very common of Indian politicians to put you in jail for any random reason. In most cases, 377 is applied along with rape, domestic violence or divorce cases as the opponent seem fit.

Of course, India is not SF either. I think Indian liberal in their zeal to simply prove themselves "liberal" they are beating up the homosexuality drum needlessly in India. I think this is going to be counter productive and various political factions especially the Islam leaning parties might see an advantage in making life of Gays a bit more difficult.
Yes, the screen didn't look great in the Gizmodo review. He summed it up nicely with : "it just becomes a >£200 way of reminding you that yes, you own a smartphone."

The use-cases of "dictating a message whilst walking down the street" is a bit odd too - do you want people talking to their wrists all the time? It'll like being in a never-ending episode of Knight Rider.
Yup, G perks are cool, but also G salary was the lowest I was offered outside of France...
Yes. If even a single dollar is taxed, that means personal property ceases to exist. Thank you for explaining it to us.
Hahaha that made me laugh out loud. I noticed that too - what a way to sell a product by showing trimmed messages.

I also notice that some of the notifications use a pale grey text on a white background; unreadable inside, massively unreadable in daylight
The moon is a harsh mistress. So it the amount of G the human and most cargo can withstand.
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Is it just me, or isn't "BareMetal OS" an oxymoron? I guess it sounds cool, but taking an established term and use it as a name for the exactly opposite seems confusing to me. Please be responsible when choosing names for your projects :)
I also enjoyed them getting notifications for the weather whilst on a boat with the sky above them, looking into sunshine.

Surely they can SEE the weather? Why look at the notification for it?
Well, arguments of the form 'if we allow X then we must also allow Y' is a fallacy in the strict sense that it does not follow with logical necessity when X and Y are different things. While if you accept the premises that say X leads to Y and Y leads to Z, then it does follow logically that X leads to Z.

The word 'fallacy' is often used as synonym for 'wrong' but that is misleading.
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Why not assemble some rockets in space?

Get the pieces up there as efficiently as possible, and then assemble a more efficient rocket that's not designed to leave the gravity well.
Can you detect the buzz over the vibration of the road?
India is a complex country. I can confirm that Gay parties are pretty common where I live.

Just the way white people saw native Indians as Savages it is easy for western eyes to perceive India as a very bad land but that is not the case, despite its flaws it is an extremely tolerant society with ability cope with very diverse way of living. Before the savages of west discovered that the idea of gender is not binary and can have multiple hues, that is how ancient Hindu thought described gender [1]. One of our major God is half man half women and entire mythology is replete with all sort of possible genders.

[1] http://swarajyamag.com/featured/hinduism-and-homosexuality/
So future releases will only accumulate new features?

Because that approach worked so well in ... C++? PHP? JavaScript? Java? C#?
Before launching "Inbox"?
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A bunch of the OS X Server stuff, including calendars, feeds, etc.
It probably stops incessant questions of "so does it have a camera"? Better to be specific than ambiguous.
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There is a YC company (Wit.ai) building systems to enable this for 'internet of things' devices.

Voice makes a good interface for these devices, but I do agree that privacy is a concern.
Perhaps the fact that he wants such a thing is a joke? Or a comment on the person himself?

The irony.
and then someone in the family says "Listen to me!" to another family member and TV is all ears again :)
You can use the NetBSD stack[1] on baremetal/in userspace/wherever.

[1] http://rumpkernel.org/
The rocket equation applies to all momentum machines which carry its own "fuel", that is, the mass to eject.

Orion gets its momentum transfer from the plasma debris of the nuclear explosion, and the plasma speed comes from the explosion itself. Orion carries the source of the plasma, hence it is limited by the rocket equation.
Why not flip it and offer them your "standard NDA" with more reasonable terms? If they don't want to sign it due to having to incur legal expenses to check its all above board then they can't expect you to have to do the same with their NDA.
Hey, that's mine! Thanks for the mention!
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degrees are overrated. does john carmack have a degree?
Hope it has a very wide viewing angle, or I will have to get creative when watching porn.
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Not sure they're releasing any OS code publicly though :-) internals still have to be somewhat guessed/reverse engineered at.
The State of Open Source E-commerce 2014
Lately I've been working on a lot of E-commerce projects and have been experimenting with different open source solutions that will allow me to build a quick E-commerce platform for my clients without investing lots of time. I have to say that I have been largely disappointed by the lack of quality that is available out there. Things like Magneto are just too big and clunky which appear to be over engineered and complicated. Other solutions such as Open Cart don't seem to be much easier either. Surely in 2014 there has to be a better, more modern platform than these?

The only option I've found that I really like is Shopify as its really user friendly and allows me to build templates quickly. The only problem with Shopify is that you have to pay and its not open source to host on my clients servers etc.

I wanted to reach out to the Hacker News community and see what your thoughts on the subject are and if you know of any solutions that work well for you?
I am not sure on your conclusions. I do not use Twitter (I have an account, only scammers and spammers follow me, I say nothing interesting on it) but if there could be much better products, they'd take the position of Twitter, wouldn't they?

Twitter's primary purpose is to allow shouting in the street, not to hold back innovation. How is Twitter's existence stopping you from innovating?
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The Soviet Union wasn't and China isn't really communist or socialist by most sane definitions of those terms, but good luck disassociating yourself from them if you label yourself a communist today.

Feminism was about seeking equal rights and equal opportunities for women. In the West it largely achieved that goal (we're not there yet, but consider where we started). Thanks to tumblr, twitter and the blogosphere echo-chamber, the feminism most people become aware of online is very different from that.

Worse yet, there is no such thing as "the feminist movement" (anymore) by a long shot. It's become a broad term that encompasses everything from egalitarians to misandrists. And any criticism of the later group is always portrayed as a criticism of the former (which is why we end up with this entirely pointless MRA/SJW shitstorm-on-demand situation we have now).

Nobody is forcing egalitarians to call themselves feminists. But clinging to that label and pretending it hasn't changed its meaning is no different from trying to distance your communism from Stalin or your nationalist socialism from the Nazi party.
I shall quote one of my other comments from this thread...

"The lies and bigotry aimed at gay people thrived for so long precisely because nobody knew any gay people. That's exactly why coming out was (and still is) necessary. One of the reasons the gay rights movement has been so spectacularly successful over the last 40+ years is because the lives of actual gay people is a living testament to the falseness of the vicious stereotypes spread by homophobic pricks."
Is it possible to run it on private VPS?
Sure, but good luck replacing React/Angular/Ember in your Rails/Django/Node/What-have-you app with Meteor.

It's not really a relevant option unless you are at liberty to swap out the entire stack. It makes more sense to compare Meteor with MEAN rather than simply AngularJS itself.
Agreed; I expect date parsers to give me earliest-available value for a field if it's not specified, with the exception being the current year rather than 0 AD or whatever.

Javascript:

new Date("Feb 2006")
> Wed Feb 01 2006 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Ruby:

require 'time'
Time.parse "Feb 2006"
=> 2006-02-01 00:00:00 -0700
I don't think you should look for arguments. Just try it. Write something in every one of the environments you are considering and you'll learn more than you ever could from reading online discussions.

As a data point, I moved from Common Lisp to Clojure and never regretted it. But the reason I switched was not because I read something online, but because of Clojure's concurrency support, which means I can create concurrent software that is robust.
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> ... accelerate upward then turn 90 degrees and accelerate horizontally

I am not for such a scenario at all. The point of the upward (upward only and not considering the atmosphere) acceleration to the desired location is to give the lower bound of the energy requirements. This is the baseline (baseline-1) and the rocket equation is as simple as possible.

In reality with an atmosphere and to put the object in orbit, the aerodynamics change and the energy requirement increases beyond the above baseline-1.

If you "accelerate upward then turn 90 degrees and accelerate horizontally", you can calculate an energy requirement for that and it is easy. Only two vectors involved. That should give some limit (call it baseline-2). We should expect to do better than baseline-2, how better? A calculation using the diagonal of the vectors involved in baseline-2 should give us baseline-3.

We shouldn't do better than baseline-3. Our launch designs and ingenuity should have an energy requirement between baseline-2 (this is bad, we are not thinking) and baseline-3 (this is maybe closer to ideal).

The rockets and shuttles do "pitch-over manoeuvres" to turn the straight upward acceleration into an elliptical acceleration.

* Note, I have not addressed the complications of the variations in atmospheric drag, but if it varies close to linearly along the vertical cross-sectional then how I think about it above does not change unless there is some other oversight.
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I would love for SEGA to really push on their tradition of delivering pure arcade experiences and build out-of-this-world adrenaline pumping VR spectacles now that we have the right technology for it.
this is true, but if opera, firefox, chrome, and internet explorer all agreed to deprecate TLS 1.1 and below together (or at least implement scary warnings), i wonder if sites might respond differently.

it's an ecosystem problem, but also a collective action problem.
Why limit it to web pages? You could be the Google of local search.
We're still very early in the development of spaceflight. If you compare with the car industry, we're at the early industrialized phase, where large companies carefully start to develop the necessary technology. Now, 100 years later, a lot is standardized and the knowledge is so common that everybody has the basics, and people can build cars in their back yards. It's the same development that happened with airplanes.

At its core, a rocket isn't more complicated than a car. The challenges are just different. My dearest hope is that eventually rocket components will be as commoditized as car parts, so people can build and maintain their own spacecraft. I want to see rockets held together with duck tape and spit, because that's the point where spaceflight is available to everybody and gravity stops becoming a hurdle.

A quick disclaimer: I have the greatest respect for rocket engineers. They are taking the first steps, the most difficult ones, and I don't believe for a second that they their work is easy. I just believe that eventually, they'll become obsolete to the majority of spacetravel :)
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Yeah, but in that context this watch makes no sense. Its materials are cheap and it just is this obviously cheap device, build of a mobile phone, not an expensive watch. Just look at the back of this thing!

This is so obviously a tech gadget, not a fashion anything.
Smart phones are self-limiting though, because they mostly can't afford to be recording literally everything that is being said and then sending it off somewhere, because of battery concerns, and also the fact that majority of people are on limited data plans, so if the phone was constantly sending something it would have been noticed. Not so much with a TV - it's connected to mains power, and usually a broadband connection where sending some data is not going to be much of a problem.
I would say 'dysphemism' rather than synonym. (Edit, forgot a word).
I would agree with this. work less. spend time more on yourself. in my case I look for something new to learn. go to gym more often. and also take it easy and look for a new job.
It's already available in the UK and has been for a couple of weeks now.
The materials and build quality look like total crap, to be honest. That’s phone level care, not watch level. There doesn’t seem to have been put any care at all into the details of this watch. On a micro level this watch is about a billion miles behind what it looks like the Apple Watch seems it will be like.

On a macro level tastes differ. That said, I do think this watch looks like a cheap tech gadget while the Apple Watch clearly doesn’t. You might not like how the Apple Watch looks overall, but at least it doesn’t look like a cheap toy like this watch does. (I mean, look at the back of this thing! That’s unacceptable for a watch.)

(That said, I do agree that, while on a micro level the details of the Apple Watch look to be astonishing, on a macro level the overall impression doesn’t do those micro level details justice. It’s certainly possible to do better – but not by completely ignoring that micro level like this watch does.)
I can make a similar argument in the other direction. Vacation days are roughly equivalent to money, and many companies let you convert them. If you get sick on a normal day it doesn't cost you any money/vacation. Why should it cost you money/vacation to get sick on an attempted vacation day?

If anything you're already doing the company a favor to use sick days on vacation rather than any other time because everyone has already planned for you to not be there.
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Reminds me of KA9Q.. I wonder how many old systems from the '80s could find new life in all these quests for IOT on small MCU's?
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It makes the model simpler, but I found this pretty cumbersome. I wanted to write a method returning two values (Boolean), so I had to return an array of Booleans. Out parameter seem easier for me (and more concise)