skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The industrial economy exists for the sole purpose of providing us with goods and services we enjoy and reducing the supply side is basically identical to reducing the demand side.

Well, there's also the part of systematically of them using everything, from 24/7 advertising, to the latest psychological/cognitive tricks, to downright purposefully adding addictive substances in foods etc -- all designed to make people "want" goods and services.

It's not like people are left alone to decide for themselves what they want to buy -- we constantly live in a baragge of suggestions and nagging, 10 times as much as it was 5-6 decades ago.

Wanting something after logical thinking and perhaps admiring it's quality/beauty etc, and wanting something because you're conditioned to constantly is a distinction that's worth making.

(And of course, Dunning/Kruger style, everybody thinks that ads and such have no or minimal impact on them).
> Linux on the desktop on the other hand

As most android devices are handheld, "the desktop on the hand" is now a thing in my mind. It makes sense - so much communication and scheduling happens on the handheld device.
Can you expand on what the esoteric topic is and its application?
Awww why... This looks incredibly cluttered. Infinite scrolling is a terrible idea in an _archive_. If you use the list view instead, you get a very hard to scan "3 narrow lines for 1" design.

The site is very broken if you don't have Javascript enabled. I am scared how CPU intense it would be on my mobile or cheap netbook. The details of collections don't even display any items.

Where is the list of files inside an item? Previously there was a nice table. Now everything seems to focus on images instead. IA hosts a lot of things that are not visual. Music, texts, data. Those seem like second row citizens now. The cover of an album tells me .. nothing about the music itself.

For an archive, I think this is a rather bad interface. The technical implementation seems very un-archivey and more suited to a "dumb user" discovery interface built upon an existing well-presented archive. :(

PS: The categories and tags on the side are a nice addition.

If someone from IA reads this, I think at least https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php is not using output buffering which might make user's performance much better.

Overall the site is very very slow.

edit: Some comparison images.

Old: http://i.imgur.com/gJXgJhI.png

New default: http://i.imgur.com/JOEoAiu.png

New list: http://i.imgur.com/m2d1Gf4.png

Old: http://i.imgur.com/X7e2s5T.png

New: http://i.imgur.com/9HsrQO1.png
its limit or did you mean it is limit?
Linux productivity tools for me
I think it was a beautiful "what if." What happens when we limit a message to 140 chars? The character of conversation changes - so do people's use patterns. The most wonderful thing about twitter is that you can't get lost down the rabbit hole of a three paragraph email. And there's pressure to reply quickly to stay part of the conversation.

It's a genius example of design thinking.
Well, Google's problem was that they chose an easily implemented solution - capture everything that looks even remotely like wifi and then physically ship the HDDs to Mt.View for analysis. It just so happens that the easy solution is sometimes blatantly illegal for incredibly obvious reasons.

Stumbler seems to anonymize the data on your device before sending it, which is the way it should be done. There is no reason to transmit any sort of wifi data except the AP's MAC address.
Microsoft now definitely supporting ORTC / WebRTC
I perused the site a bit and saw at least 2 articles that were blatant advertisements for consumer products.
I think the mistake they make is to suggest that Ello aims to be a competitor to Facebook. The space they're competing in is the one occupied by Livejournal and Tumblr.
Just a note: Reddit now (officially) supports encryption, i.e. https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/
It's great as a feed for links and for light entertainment. Commenting along to live TV (national or even global events) is good fun.
Elon Musk called the Antares rocket a 'joke' 2 years before it exploded
This a very good (and fun) analogy !
Not Giving Up Yet.
Building a website that uses the WebMidi API to interact with the lessons and trainers. I thought it was quite a unique idea.

http://musicians-u.com

Decided to run an indiegogo
Is the wifi AP database downloadable somewhere (OSM/Wikipedia style) or is it "cloudlocked" (we can only query it through the API) ?
paul b.??
So, a couple of questions:

a. Does the HHVM JIT do anything that LuaJIT doesn't? I assume you are familiar with LuaJIT, as it is mentioned in the paper - and from a quick scan, the only two things I didn't recognize from LuaJIT were the refcount optimizations (not required by Lua GC) and guard relaxation.

b. Is HHIR tied to Php, or is it usable as a general purpose JIT backend? LuaJIT's IR is, (unfortunately for other languages) tied very strongly to Lua semantics.

Thanks for an interesting read!
How exactly? In the time it takes you to register an account on twitter.com you could as well register an account on wordpress.com and publish via RSS. The main difference is that longer content is possible, that you could find even easier/faster/whatever alternatives because its federated and that your communications are not dependent on the policies of a single private company - which for non-us-citizens like me is operating under foreign law, a law I don't know as well as the local one.
While e-mail may not be perfect, it still seems to be the best medium there is for people who collaborate best via asynchronous communication. The antipattern of using more synchronous media -- the telephone, in particular -- to force quick decisions is obnoxious and I think ultimately counterproductive.
Hehe, not yet supports 1.0 :)
Mobile is how I know I am old.

After 5 minutes on a iphone or android phone I am like f* this give me a damn desktop.
Who Studies What?
There is no rust language without the unsafe keyword. It doesnt exist. The unwinding is unsafe. see the recent thread on /r/rust about mysterious segfaults.

Thats the point.

You cannot assert your rust program cannot crash.

Even if your code is perfect, there may be bugs in either the std library or some dependency you use that does crash.

Im not saying everyone uses unsafe code (or should) in their own code. Far from it.

Im saying that every rust program invokes unsafe code at some point.

So this myth of the 'pure rust' that is 'completely safe' is just that. A myth.

I dont understand why this is difficult idea for people to accept. Just use the good bits of rust. rust doesnt need to be 100% safe; its not, and thats completely ok.
Yes, this seems to be necessary for using Imagesnap with more recent Apple devices.
This seems strange. Any areas your application changed? What did you think you did better this time?
My first impression: wow, looks minimal. This is a nice change. I like it! Then I read the comment here and realized the page hasn't fully loaded yet. The fact that above the fold part loads almost instantly (including top menu which worked right away) is very nice, but I'm not quite sure about the rest. It's slow, heavy and really hogs up CPU when it's loaded.
Taking back privacy in the post-Snowden cloud
I'd say it's exactly the opposite: Early on is exactly when comments about "the new direction" can most reasonably be expected to have an effect, assuming anyone is listening/reading.
How to prepare for iOS 8 update?
I am quite skeptical about twitter myself but I never understood this argument: What stops you from explaining your new or controversial argument in (n * 140) chars, or multiple tweets?
>How about a fourth option, which includes: massive geo and atmospheric engineering, nuclear/fusion research/dissemination, desalination and water pipelines, and large-scale laboratory meat production from real animal tissue.

Without stoping the industrial economy (actually just slowing it down) this is a non starter.

This only covers the food production/water, and perhaps energy needs. What about pollution from production? What about plastics, etc? Even with all that, the US/Western consumption levels don't scale to 7 billion people.

(Plus, what about people not actually really needing 90% of all the crap that's produced in the first place? The main reason behind all that stuff's production is not human need, either to create or to consume those products, but as a way to make money. That's why they have to be marketed that hard, or why other items have to be brittle to "expire" artificially and drive a new purchase cycle).

>and one that may even let us maintain our standard of living

I'd think the whole idea for me is to NOT maintain our catastrophic standard of living (I'm a European, the US one is even worse by most metrics), but to go into a sustainable (and humane) standard of living, and expand that to the third world.
Personal experience - I buy ads for my videos. The ads link to nothing but the video I'm advertising.

Why? To build up brand recognition using the cream of the crop videos we produce (and in our case subscribers). It's a slow process but it'd be a lot slower without putting up ads.

In a purely money sense though I guess I'd rather no adblock using users see the ads I put up, there's no way they'll ever see any future ads as subscribers anyway and I'd lose out in the long run
Non-techies understand it.
App marketing tactics every developer can pull off
you make mistakes and we will remember.

btw, it just might be sour grapes, but i get the feeling yc app process is highly gamed right now and being rejected by it is not useful enough information to act on for the founders - which is the hallmark of a good investor.
I don't think this is due to the limit of 140 characters (even if it doesn't help) but much more due to the audience of fanboys and crow cheered during a fight.

There is the same problem on Google+ where there is not 140 characters limit. Any discussions with Linus or any other "celebrity" in it and the comments thread will be full of : "+1", "M. Linus you are so smart, you are my hero", "Well said, ripe him a new one" etc... Which drown any constructed argument and render any constructed debate impossible.
The fact that people won't take time to piece together the separate parts, and will take each out of context. This is the whole point of the original submission.
The average thing I publish on the Internet is thousands of words long. There was never a shortage of people taking some of those words out of their context, and arguing against what those words supposedly say. And I'm likely to have done it myself to someone else's writing. Certainly I pay attention to some things more than others when I read, especially if I come with some prior knowledge and opinions. I can easily fail to notice important things when scanning something quickly.

And the longer it is, the more likely I am to be scanning quickly, actually. On the other hand, shorter messages and less context result in things simply being omitted, even if you do read carefully.

Maybe Twitter is worse than average, but it's pretty bad with any medium.
Edit: Reflecting the gist of deleted comment.

I think the guy was trying to say that this was a war and that the informationin the article shouldn't have been shared, not just that but there was no real substance to what was shared and that the whole article was basically bragging.

Didn't really comment on the substance of what he was saying, other than to say that he was free to say what ever he liked.
There were plenty of "non-techies" who used Google Reader before it shut down. And at least in my circles there are plenty of non-techies who say that they don't get the concept of twitter.

EDIT: Both, Twitter and RSS, have their own terms and concepts which need some kind of introduction for most, especially non-tech people. For Twitter its hashtag, TL, DM, etc for RSS its stuff like Feed, Reader, etc
Chocolatey is great... although I wish it had a different "more professional"-sounding name.

When I was using it in anger a while ago I also found the quality of some of the packages to be a bit random, many of them just seemed to be random developer X's favourite aggregation of other packages. In which case I'm happy to see that they are adopting package moderation;

http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2014/10/27/chocolatey...
If you want to decide what OS to use, you need criteria by which to make that decision.
Why would that be a bad idea? Unless you are relying on security through obscurity, which you are hopefully not, that shouldn't create any threats?
For a second there I was like "Woah! $112M?". Damn friendly-URL's.
I can't find a source for LightSail having been rejected from YC, the linked reference is just a crunchbase entry that doesn't mention YC as investors.

I'd be super interested to know more about this, since LightSail seems like exactly the type of company (and founder) that YC says it wants to fund: Working in a RFS domain (energy), massive potential upside, and founder with considerable domain expertise.
Most IT Security Pros Still Rely on Perimeter Security to Protect Against APTs
Heroku goes mobile
Got in this batch on our second time applying. First time we applied with an idea: now we have a product and customers. In retrospect I think the initial rejection was reasonable.
Yeah you have the ad domains in your hosts file which causes the ad load to fail. Pretty caveman technique but if it works it works
I'm also red-green colourblind. I've seen a few of these simulators before. As you've noticed, the simulation doesn't modify the examples in such a way that they are indistinguishable by our perception. I've always wondered whether that is a valid test though; is it necessary for the images to appear identical to us for it to recreate the perception of a colourblind person in someone with normal colour perception. It's not obvious to me that these are the same thing.
Thank you! I've worked with some pretty weird hardware in the past so I think I'll be just fine but pointers are very much appreciated.
Then it cost millions to a lot of people.
I was caught cheating on an exam, how can I minimize the damage?
but... what is your project about? regards
What is it with Postgres fans that "have to" prove they're better?

I don't want to use Postgres. I want to use Redis. Postgres IS NOT the solution for a lot of things. Yeah, feel free to call me stupid for not knowing every nook and cranny of PGSQL. I don't care

"I love to argue, but this is just a futile exercise."

Very wise words
You can provide feedback/comments directly to them by clicking "exit beta" in the top right.
Photo report from Budapest (Hungary) 100.000+ demonstration against Internet tax
I can't speak to Redis, because I don't use it, and mostly see it as being fairly distinct from Postgres, but with Mysql it's always frustrating to know that you could be using a tool that's generally better, but can't, because initially someone chose Mysql because they "heard it was fast" or "that's what the hosting company provided", and now they're stuck with it.
What happens when you set a message limit of 140 characters is you end up with a database that is perfect for training computers about semantics.

It is a genius example of design thinking, I'll grant you, but twitter's priority as a business was to build a database for analysis and that was the design constraint which resulted in a 140 character limit to messages.

It is a communication platform, but only in as much as it fulfills its main purpose of generating datasets.
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Unlike every other window, where you can change the horizontal size by dragging.

It's a relic and I'm glad they're fixing it, but as with the browser they're only delivering changes because third-party software innovated them and it's making them look bad.
>Having a package manager is one thing, having a good curated repo of packages is another.

So? Most open source distros have nothing but that -- all kinds of crap.
Excellent example: e = lim_{n -> ∞} (1 + 1/n)^n

The concept of infinity (∞) is perhaps the most important new idea in calculus. Specifically, calculus is about procedures with infinite number of steps, or infinitely small steps.

The derivative is a slope calculation (rise/run) with an infinitely short run. The integral is a rectangles-approximation-to-an-area using infinitely thin rectangles, and series are summation procedures with infinite number of steps.

High school math deals with procedures with finite number of steps, whereas in calculus we learn to use infinity as part of our calculations. The reason why limits are important is because they allow us to make certain statements that would otherwise not be true:

1/n ≠ 0 even if n is huge
but lim_{n -> ∞} 1/n = 0

sum([1/2^n for n in range(0,N)]) = 1.999999... ≠ 2
but sum([1/2^n for n in range(0,∞)]) = 2

The equality in both of the above examples depends on (mentally) carrying out a procedure with infinite number of steps.

(examples taken from my math book)
Have you used any of the graphical bindings?

maybe once a fortnight for me?

I'm certainly not trying to bash rust, and I do apologise if it comes across that way.

I just think a bit of realism makes everything look much more sincere and plausible.

As you say 'Rust cannot crash' is false. 'Rust has never crashed for me' could well be a completely true thing to say. Also, 'Its so much easier to write rust code (than say c) that doesnt crash!'

I completely ok with all of those.

..but 'you can do anything in rust and its always perfectly safe!' or 'rust programs dont have to worry about security issues' or 'It is effectively impossible to have an unsafe memory access error in Rust'?

Those are people being enthusiastic (good) but unfortunately spreading misinformation (bad) and making the rust community look bad (very bad).

I just wish people could be excited about the the things that are actually exciting about rust. I feel like this whole safety thing is a massive distraction.

fast, low level, concurrent and managed memory with no cost is both accurate and exciting about rust.

'helps avoid bugs and race conditions' isn't very exciting to me, but I acknowledge its important.

I guess 'completely provably safe!' is exciting to some people; but since its not true, Id prefer not to get people excited about rust that way.
can I obtain user responses trough sms? in which countries?
> For an archive, I think this is a rather bad interface. The technical implementation seems very un-archivey and more suited to a "dumb user" discovery interface built upon an existing well-presented archive. :(

I think this hits the nail on the head. I don't think the new interface is bad per se, it's just optimized for a different goal than the one of most current visitors of archive.org. It would probably work best as a page dedicated to "dumb user discovery" - which might very well be an user-base worth pursuing.

This is one of those cases where creating user personas and trying to come up with different interfaces optimised for each of them would probably be the best approach.
No that is not a solution.
If they swapped the public key they can read the message being sent back (it is encrypted with their public key), then encrypt it again with the real public key.

The only solution is to use another channel to authenticate the other's key, be it GPG's web of trust, or any other imperfect way (phone call, physically meeting, ...)
Microsoft Security Essentials is actively trying to put them out of business. I had the impression that it was the OEMs who liked bundling terrible software.

I was looking at tablet PCs and they have some marketing term for "verified by Microsoft not to contain preinstalled crapware". Android doesn't have that.
Yes, I agree with you, but comparing Redis to PGSQL is an Apples to Oranges comparison.

Too bad 99% of Redis users use it as a glorified cache, because it's more than that.
I can't even read a phone screen without reading glasses on, I absolutely loathe reading more than a paragraph of text on one and I really couldn't imagine getting any significant amount of work done on a mobile platform.

If we count tablets as mobile too (they're wireless after all and plenty of them come with SIM slots) then the consumption part gets a bit better, in landscape mode you can read PDFs on them but the part of work that requires significant input would - for me - not be an option.
I agree that this is not a problem that only affects Twitter.

Most of the current discussion platforms are way behind what was standard in Usenet or in your average Usenet client.

No threaded discussions, no filtering (not for the one who comments and doesn't want to read those +1 post and most often also not for the OP), not even blocking of people you don't want to read.
One problem with putting every subdirectory of Program Files in the path is that most of them contain 'setup.exe' and 'uninstall.exe'. Type "uninstall" at the command line to uninstall a random program!
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The idea of Samsung supporting any software, including their bundled junk, is laughable.
>Desktop computing doesn't really matter that much anymore.

For whom? Companies might make more money selling mobile devices compared to desktop/laptop PCs but that doesn't equate to the inane statement oft repeated that "desktop computing doesn't really matter that much anymore".

Desktop (including laptops of course) is where 99% of the world's actual office, accounting, design, writing, programming, editing etc, computing based work is happening.
I'm not talking about linux distributions. Arch can only boot whatever kernel happens to be available for a particular SoC just like all the other distros.

Here are some TI chips, they're still pushing kernel 2.6 for some processor families: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Sitara_Linux_SDK_Sup...
I'm using HHVM in production for a few weeks now and all I can say is I'm very happy with the results.
It's running stable (compiled under CentOS7) and I was able to cut the response times in half (~145ms with php-fpm, ~70ms HHVM).
Actually, at least for the global warming issues, the poor countries are going to be the ones that generally get the worst effects and also have the least ability to mitigate those effects with limited human casualties. And the countries that are likely to get some positive agricultural benefit are the northern countries which are among the most developed countries in the world.

Netherlands has cities multiple meters below sea level. The western major coastal cities can be shielded from a few meters of sea level increase - it would cost immense (but still realistic) amounts of money, but the heavily inhabited coastal regions of poor countries will simply drown and cause many millions of displaced poor people.

The effects matter to the poor countries more than everybody else. I'd say there are two reasons why they're not doing anything to stop it - first is the tragedy of commons, as it makes no sense for, say, Bangladesh (probably risking the worst effects from global warming) to stop emissions if China isn't doing the same; and second is simply that they can't afford to pay today for a larger benefit tomorrow; in the same manner as poor people often simply can't pay $10 now to prevent a certain $50 loss in a month.
What is the version of your PHP?
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