skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it is golden age as long as you disregard percentages and trend.

"Some 805 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about one in nine people on earth."
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

Economy seems like a boiler ready to explode, rich-poor chasm is widening like hell.

Global peace doesn't look very rosy either.

Not to mention what's happening on the environmental front.

All in all, sorry but I cannot feel the joy of "us humans doing well". We don't. Some technical sectors are doing well - that's all. Socially, ethically, politically we're still at middle ages and speeding backwards.

My 2 cents (which is most than millions of people can spare ;-) )
Some API calls, and load balancer horizontal scaling multi user magic.
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I firmly believe that Valve is in a great position to be a hardware company. All they have to do is realize that hardware is the only thing that matters, and get their properties on as much hardware as possible.

Imagine, if indeed Valve brought Steam to nothing but the OpenPandora/Pyra game consoles:

http://openpandora.org/

In fact it could be a momentous thing for Valve to get behind this effort and add Steam to the open repo. It'd blow open the doors on Android and iOS and move Linux - as an embedded operating system platform - into the stratosphere.

Valve+Pyra (or something similar) = new masters to follow.

Just my opinion. Before all the 'hardware nay-sayers' get started, think about this: the Pandora happened, without Valve. Irrespective of commercial success (yet), the Pandora/Pyra community is positively thriving as an emergent platform. Linux, and a very open atmosphere, is at the core of why this works, at small scales; and also why it can scale, too.

What would the Pyra be like if gaben gave, like, a million bucks to people like EvilDragon and notaz and the rest of the Pyra team, and said: "kids, gimme 100,000 Pyra devices, and we'll put Steam on them for our customers" ..

Frankly, it could happen. I wish it would! Frankly it'd be the kind of bold move that would make sense to me, were I in a position to direct a few bucks. The thing is, whether Valve arrives on Steam or not, things like the culture which produced http://repo.openpandora.org/ are going to happen, regardless. May as well be a player, homie ..
Moon, Mars, Venus, Titan, and now comet 67p.

Absolutely amazing.
Perfectly functional? Not for me [1]. I had to open the document on a laptop because all I got on mobile was pixelated half-rendered gibberish. Attn: dang, HN should pop a dialog recommending against a submission to scribd.

There's also weighing that against getting the content onto HN if scribd is the only place it is found.

[1] Android 4.2.2, Firefox Android 33.1, Opera Mini 7.6.1
805 million means the number is down more than 100 million over the last decade, and 209 million lower than in 1990–92. In the same period, the prevalence of undernourishment has fallen from 18.7 to 11.3 percent globally and from 23.4 to 13.5 percent for developing countries.

Source: http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/en/
Given that the primary issue with .NET/CLR ecosystem adoption was not lack of implementations but unclear situation with software patents, I don't think MIT is a wise option. It's certainly up to Microsoft, but anything with an explicit patent grant would be a much better idea.
Because OMG APPS!

Seriously, apps are great but 90% of the apps out there would be just fine as mobile websites.
It's written at the bottom of every page "Confidential". Sorry, didn't get your point.
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If you want the sound of a typewriter, just buy Model M for everyone. THE OFFICE SHOULD SOUND LIKE MACHINE-GUN FIRE.
You need to pay 12,000€ up front for 15 years of heating.
Unless they go bankrupt of course...
I have not followed the course because a lack of available free time but I am sure it is really interesting, a relevant to the Amazon case : Unethical Decision Making in Organizations [0]

[0] https://www.coursera.org/course/unethicaldecision
> For example the Apollo program didn't bring back DeathCrystals from the moon, that allowed us to crush the Soviets in a glorious patriot war (obviously sarcasm).

Sarcasm aside, this is more due to Geneva Conventions rather than actual lack of Death Crystals on the moon.
I think what you can enlightenment is what others are calling magic.
"The Spark (Core) on the other hand is much like an Arduino in that you have it in your presence to code its behavior, and then release it to the wild. Slightly different target apps, hugely different user experience."

The Core default firmware gives you an instant cloud API to access GPIO pins (r/w). You write code if you need more complex stuff (local control logic, exposing a function as a REST service, publish or subscribe of events...)
And you usually flash it remotely. At work [1] we use it to build prototypes for anything that needs network connectivity (we also use Yuns, but it's a completly different paradigm as I see it). I hope the Photon is still open source as the core (hw and firmware)

[1]http://www.globant.com/studios/wearables-internet-things
So would that let Steam compete against Game Center only or the whole App Store? Not that we couldn't use competition there, but Apple won't let that happen voluntarily.
I'm confused about people carping about brightness. I found the OLED on my Galaxy SII was great and needed much less brightness than an LED.

The thing that's got me irritated is the sub-par camera _again_. I'm really frustrated with the camera on my N5, and I'm now worried that the only place I can go is an iphone 6+. Do not want. :(
Do you have a ballpark figure on how much a 200 person study will cost?
GitHub Enterprise 2.0.0 on Linode
Remember kids.

Anyone who will steal for your company,
will steal from your company.
I get your point but this whole story is very interesting for anyone that has not been desensitized by widespread corrupt and unethical behavior. We should never unlearn how to feel outraged at bad things.
> A prerequisite for the use of Cloud&Heat is [...] an Internet connection of at least 50 Mbit/s

https://www.cloudandheat.com/en/index.html#heat-three
I wrote a png writer[1] a few years ago with no dependencies that adds about 3k to the resulting binary.

It doesn't deflate, but it's useful if you need to take a screenshot where space is at a premium.

[1]: http://geocar.sdf1.org/pngw.tgz
Gardening leave means you still have a fully paid job, you just don't need to do any work. So you could for example do an MSc while getting paid a salary. Assuming you have the tiniest modicum of self discipline needed to do something productive in that time, it's the best thing ever.
How would 64bit help?

These devices still don't have more than 4 GB of memory, let alone single applications pushing that limit, and it's not x86; the biggest win in moving to amd64 was the increased number of registers.

Which is not to say that there aren't others, but I don't think it's a clear-cut as for x86.

All of which is to say that I don't know. How would it help? Please explain, as I'm not that familiar with ARM hardware.
Only the people who use the internet can read it.
If Munira has never attended Stanford, then why is her alumni card exist on Stanford website? : http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/mfp/cgi-bin/mfpalumni/may_view...
I agree. If well played, she could probably unleash a social justice hell on Amazon, and with current media climate it wouldn't even matter if it was fabricated or not.
I'm not well versed enough in world hunger problems to talk about it, but on the Global Peace side, we are currently in the least violent period in the last 2000 years.
It also covers Windows and Mac OS X shortcuts for all 3 IDEs.
No one is claiming that she never attended Standford, they're claiming she never earned a degree from Stanford.
I'm so onboard with what you're saying. I've been using mono for the last couple years, so much so that I call myself a "mono developer" and not a ".NET developer".

I worked at Microsoft for a couple years and I could already smell this brewing. The devs I respected the most were also the most unhappy with the platform tie-in. This is a desperately needed political shift for the organization, and I think it will actually boost morale as well.
Absolutely agreed on the great knife bit. As for the bread... I think ditching the expectation of perfectly even slices is a good start. Cut a piece and cut it in half; there, half a sandwich (assuming your bread maker spits out loaves with a square cross section). Want another half? It may not be the same thickness as the first one, but as long as you're a little bit careful, your pieces should at least be consistent with themselves, so there you go.
They only had a small market share some ten or fifteen years ago. Most people were on Palm and Psion (and Sidekick in the US). They still only have a small share, it's mainly the competition who has changed.
> Should have gone with the neutral screencap - OS X...

or.. you know.. a few screenshots on different platforms.
Do you think that if another company's OS became the "New Windows" that that wouldn't have loads of viruses? Computer security is hard, Windows gets targeted by virus creators because that way they get the most chance to infect machines, not because Windows is less secure. If Windows and any other OS swapped market share today, there'd be just as many viruses for that new OS in 6 months time.
Ask HN: Why does't Google inbox use polymer?
It seems that google inbox fully applies material design. Why doesn't google use polymer as its render engine?
Doesn't rx fill that role?
After having used Notepad++ for years I've switched to Sublime as its cross platform and has linting. I agree with you on the shortcuts though.
The new solution is called "Locker" and was released at a Microsoft event--guess who is the first major backer? ;-)
Introducing the Symfony Marketplace
> Munira is a liar/cheater,

> Why is this person still employed, let alone have any responsibility?

It should be remembered that this is an accusation, and potentially fabricated or editorialised. It's probably ruined this woman's career by now and doesn't justify a witchunt or personal abuse.

The author, having been fired, has a very good reason to seek revenge, and we shouldn't take his word as gospel.
Good, hopefully this pushes Oracle to refocus, reinvest in Java.

I just hope they simply let it die at last. Of course, that's a subjective opinion, but Java is so ugly, that it's enough to keep me away from getting more into Android development.
I think you should look at these things in perspective, by no means is our society perfect, in relation to literally any point in history before maybe the fall of the Soviet Union, this world was objectively worse. Global conflicts are operating on much smaller scales, the environmental front has a hell of a lot of people fighting to improve current conditions, the economy isn't a boiler ready to explode. We are NOT in the middle ages in ANY of those sectors, to even suggest that tells me you've actually got 0 idea of what this world or what historically we looked like. We aren't burning witches or beheading people, we aren't accusing mentally ill people of being possessed by the devil. We have medicine, we have food, we can communicate with people around the world instantaneous. People are moving away from separated communities and becoming a global entity.

Look buddy, in the end our perspective on the world is what you decide it is and while we aren't living in the Garden of Eden our world is pretty top notch presently and in relation to any point in human history the world is great and only getting better.

So remove your pessimist spectacles and try and enjoy life and think optimistically, you only get one whip around and would you rather spend it disappointed and grumpy at the world or hopeful and excited?

>My 2 cents (which is most than millions of people can spare ;-) )

Also that was probably the snarkiest smug comment and it makes me think you like the smell of your own farts
Dont mock msbuild.

i never slept as much or as well than when i tried to work through the documentation.
Obiously, the letter mentions that she had "not yet" a degree.
So, i think it's likely she dropped out or sort of paused her studies, whatever...
Ludos – Programming Game for Kids
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It looks like it's resting on one of the antennae. You can see its shadow underneath it.
Pay-to-win is also usually an artifact of gameplay that isn't fun, but requires long stretches of time (ie 'the grind') to complete. Considering the video and the fact that your minions carry on their instructions even when you are logged out, I'm not sure there is a traditional grind component in play here?

Also, people are assuming a black market of scripts will develop just as it does for gear, etc. gear is different because the frequency table is fixed -- therefore the competitive landscape is fixed. When everyone can have 'nukes' the winning strategy is no longer 'nukes', it's who can sneak through defenses and disable the nukes, or confuse them.

Kauffman calls this constant evolution into the 'adjacent possible' -- and if Screeps even half delivers that kind of depth, there won't be a stable end state to the game where everyone has one master script. Changing environments necessitate changing response. You are part of the environment. Feedback and permutation!! Yes!!!
What a fun idea. Well executed. "Lerping Triangle" is really interesting.
The wealth gap can be misleading too, since the quality of life for those at the 'bottom' is often better than it ever has been on just about every metric you care to consider.
Yes, I wonder if there was ever a lawsuit from them, or they managed to resolve it with Amazon, or what.
Atom.io is a nice one that's similar to Sublime Text - again comes with linting. Has a slight issue of 2MB being the largest file that it can handle, but otherwise very nice.

I just use Netbeans though as its my main overall IDE
... Have you seen their prices?

Correct me of I'm wrong, but aren't they the same or lower? http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-chops-azure-prices-to-match-a...
Thanks, will create an account. Always good to know that there are open source alternatives!
Probably performance - even a couple of months ago Polymer was not ready for prime time.
The upcoming Dragonbox Pyra could be a great Linux portable machine running Steam (provided they provide ARM runtimes + ARM recompiled versions of games).
When my dad's laptop broke, he picked up my spare Ubuntu laptop and has been using it for the last two years. I know it's just one anecdote, but when it saves me a crap-ton of money and time, it seems very real to me. He could have asked me to buy Windows and Office for him... too bad for Microsoft he hasn't needed either. Game over.
It's a late-2013 retina 15" Macbook Pro with a 2.3GHz i7 and integrated Nvidia graphics. Currently playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Prime Trilogy (Prime 2) with barely any issues, minus a few very minor ones for the latter: occasional shader generation stuttering and having to set "EFB to Ram" to fix the visor.
> Ubuntu's Unity it will soon

Is there any device that will be released anytime soon ?
That single image is quite impactful if you know the background to the project. It's like something out of a movie.
What an awkward thing to say in this space but Steam is for curating quality products whereas mobile gaming on google play/app store is mostly about selling absolute garbage to punters. When Steam eventually does mobile their own way they'll blow them charlatans out of the water.
Haha, why would anyone ever agree to an unfunded non-compete clause? If you're required not to work for 18 months, you need to be paid for 18 months.

Any of you who accept an unfunded non-compete clause are suckers and any of you who try to trick your employees into agreeing to them are ass pirates.
Wow, great answer, many thanks for that!
Microsoft bug fixed after 19 years
That's why devices like the Open Pandora are good ideas in the first place, since they integrate physical controls and keyboards. Very unlikely that such devices will ever take off on the market, however.
Systemd 217
Hans Zimmers brilliant composition for the universe in Interstellar
Was it definitely a patent issue? The change [0] was originally claimed to be the result of performance issues.

[0] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Quic...
Could happen, but I don't see it. They have cold feet when it comes to making their own Steambox hardware (they retracted on their initial intentions to do so) and in that sense I don't see them actually moving towards making their own hardware anytime soon. Even if I agree it would be a great idea.
That is my major concern. I live in a fairly new average sized house in Germany with a modern heating system (heating pump) and pay about 1200€/year for heating. If I knew for sure that they exist in 15 years I would really consider it.
It's made by the guys behind http://ionicframework.com/
Google+ not being actively maintained by someone? I'm shocked I tell you...
Lock your Mac computer when a bluetooth beacon moves out of range
The latest Moto G has dual-sim versions. I've never used it, but it's what I'd buy if my Nexus 4 got lost or broken.
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I love UI that don't skin themselves. I can't wait until that particular bug is fixed though :).

https://lut.im/r0wp5Fps/K2DypveC

(every label of the interface has the `text` text instead of the expected word (`play`, `file`, etc.)
Localisation Is Hard – Nokia Here and Roundabouts
Couldn't agree more wrt the poor camera. My (limited -- from helping friends with their devices which were just doing plain weird/awkward things) experience with early Android devices was that the platform took awhile to catch up. I jumped ship with the Nexus 4 and I couldn't be happier with it. With this one exception. The photos my friends take with their iPhones are fantastic and I'm tired of feeling jealous about it.
Excerpts from the contract:

"We install The Device in your house, free of charge. You receive heat. Do not ask about the function of The Device."

"You may hear a human voice coming from inside The Device. Ignore it."

"Some customers report having recurring dreams about The Device, this is normal."

"The Device comes in one colour: Impenetrable Blackness."

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it."
https://www.facebook.com/munirar

'Graduated in 1998'
Hybrid of HTTP accelerator and firewall for DDoS mitigation and WAF
Systemd... a very large mass of c code being written in a short amount of time with huge functionality creep. Yeah, this is going to end/begin really well. I swear all of the people commenting about it being a good thing are not seasoned developers.
Very interesting. I bet that will be a big selling point for people considering this hosting service. Seems that it will be harder to put pressure on hundreds of individual residents, than it is to do so to a big centralized datacenter provider company.
ZenPayroll is hiring a Product Manager
I agree with this. All of the comments about a potential claim OP has against the company assume that he was actually an employee. Perhaps OP can elaborate as to whether he was an employee or not? If he was an independent contractor, then it's a completely different story. Also, by publicly shaming the company, OP also opens himself up for a defamation lawsuit.
I definitely think they can compete against Game Center with this. I know I'd pick Steam over Game Center any day given that I game on my PC a lot. However, the App Store is a tricky one on iOS because of the restrictions Apple imposes. It's possible on Android. But on iOS maybe you'd have offers like get the promo code for the mobile version of the game via Humble Bundle or something? Not so sure.
It's literally called "PC Decrapifier": http://pcdecrapifier.com/ :)

It's basically a multi-uninstall tool, with a sort of crowd-sourced knowledge-base to classify installed programs into two categories "stuff you probably want to remove/don't need" and "everything else".

I like how it's very straightforward and pretty much "does one thing and does it well" (as opposed to being also a registry-cleaner, resident whatnot-shield, defragmentizer, antivirus RAM scrubber, etc etc).
Why? Why not just let this be an educational and fun game? Why ruin the spirit of it by turning it into an opportunity for something to exploit (yes, I know, that word has very negative connotations) for profit?
Do they need to use OLED to do the 'active notifications' thing where it shows notifications by only activating required pixels? That's a pretty big Lollipop feature so maybe the decision was based around that.
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A Response to President Xi Jinping
What is interesting is one of his other projects: dance analyzer, a plugin for Stoffi

https://github.com/simplare/dance_analyzer

It uses Kinect for Windows to quantify dance movements
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Not anymore by the looks of it.
[Not] Bluffing your way to a syndicate
So true.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23238531

That's old news. Gov. party treasurer is jailed for stealing from. The party believed he was stealing for.
I bought https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/getting-sta... recently. It seems like a fairly good book. I haven't finished it yet.
Don't forget asteroid Itokawa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
How about BlockingCollection<T>?
If I understand it correctly you can even have select like sementics with BlockingCollection.TakeFromAny(...)

Edit: Sorry, messed it up a little bit. BlockingCollection will block your current thread for any other computation and does not allow to await on it.

But there seem to be alternatives:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21225361/is-there-anythin...
http://blog.stephencleary.com/2012/12/async-producer-consume...
I can't remember someone doing that. Usually it's just screencaps from OS X.
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Entrepreneurs may be rockstars but their partners are saints
And there you go again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpbbuaIA3Ds
The further I read the more it reminds me The Gervais Principle. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
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I assume the Humble Bundle app didn't leave Google Play on it's own yesterday:

http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/102477658774/a-notice-rega...
Music Runner
This reflects very poorly on Amazon.

They should promote those that speak out about fraud that they witness and not fire them.

If people like Munira Rahemtulla and Paul Kotas are still employed, it suggests to me that advertisers should be very wary about the nature of their advertising relationships with Amazon and whether they're getting good value for their money.
Hmmm ... the true last resort is living on the street and dying of hunger and exposure. But it occurs to me that this is the modern version of Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath". Truly desperate people will try a lot more than just applying to the container store.
Thanks I'll update the README :)
> Security is a concern with these setups, because anyone’s data could be in anyone else’s house at a given time, but Cloud&Heat claims that since all of its data is encrypted and only its employees can open the cabinets that everyone’s information is safe.

Ladies and Gentlemen, i present: Bullshit. I wish companies with no clue about encryption would stop making these insane claims.