skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the point may be getting lost here. If you're poring over a paper line-by-line, you're engaging with that specific material and are in a position to point out specific things about it. That's not a problem. The problem is generic dismissals—the ones that don't take work or thought. Those dilute discussion, especially when they're an internet reflex as this one is becoming.

Most published studies may well be false, but that's no basis for substantively discussing a specific one, any more than "most movies are bad" is a movie review.
> Things like carbon brakes existed in aerospace before F1, so nix on that, too.

I know absolutely nothing of the history involved here, but the argument seems wrong to me. Even if the technology exists in an entirely different kind of vehicle, if it works its way through expensive luxury cars before ending up in consumer-grade ones then I think it's fair to give the luxury cars some credit for progress in car engineering. Adapting an existing technology to a completely new environment doesn't just happen, it takes effort.
This is a very simplistic view. It is also, strictly speaking, incorrect. You can't possibly argue that poor people consume more in absolute terms thus you must mean as a percent of wealth. But this is not a good measure. A person in a given society will feel the need for some base level of consumption and for a poor person this necessarily will be a higher percent of their wealth than for a rich person.

Upper middle class to low end rich invest money in stocks, bonds, real estate. They aren't investing in startups or the next big thing. Taxing the "hell out of some rich guy" allows society through its elected representatives to make such investments and to invest in things that society deems useful (at least in theory). It's through this mechanism that one gets the space program in the 1960s. The Hoover dam, the highway system, clean water, etc. Private investments could not possibly have produced the moon landings, etc.
FYI, you have two "it's"/"its" errors on that page.
I am sure they don't release numbers on how many "clever users" they have too.

The way I think about it is - can utilization rate grow at the same rate or higher than machine count at their data centers and for how long?

With all the levels of virtualization available and their market leadership today that curve can look quite magical I accept. But for how long? Seems quite a shaky curve to be betting 5 million machines on.
Well, in the first place, planets aren't alive, so they can't be kept alive. But stipulating some meaningful interpretation of "keeping the planet alive", why would that be a reason for or cause of human existence?
I have it on 2012 and 2013 N7 along with N4. Really pleased with it. My dad uses the 2012 N7 and he was wondering whether i got him a new device!
And i really like the new keyboard. I think my mistakes have been reduced.
On my Mac this doesn't work on Safari but does work on Chrome. Interesting!
Can you give some examples of TOML-based Rust package configurations that you think are good? My experience using TOML for config files has been very different.

IMO, using YAML for the config format is still the best option for most use-cases at this point. (Easy to support both json and YAML.) But I do think that it would be great to have a YAML successor that standardizes some of the cool things people are doing with custom YAML parses, and also removes outdated and unnecessarily complex parts of the original standard.
Lawyers and other people interested in rational argument will look at cases where a policies stated justification does not match up to it's actual implementation, and use that (correctly) as evidence of malfeasance.

What's your point?
First step I would checkout what jobs are available in your area or where you would like to relocate. Since you're familiar with web application development I would consider learning Rails (Ruby) or Laravel (PHP) . . . look at the opportunities at weworkremotely.com and larajobs.com to get an idea of the requirements. Maybe touch base with local agencies and see if they are have any openings. The best way to expand your skills it to take on paying projects maybe from family, friends or associates initially and start building your network.

Some other sources of inspiration are StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com, Patio11, Nathan Barry and Brennan Dunn for opportunities to start your own SaaS/Product business if that's interesting to you.

Enjoy your time off. Good luck with your career change.
In other words, an absence of 'oh god help me' ought to be well-regarded if it isn't already. :)
You don't need to be a carpenter to tell if a house is built poorly.
>and just in general I favor the BSD/MIT/ISC licenses to the GPL.

Curious then as to your choice of licensing your Higan/BSnes emulators under GPLv3.
Would be good to adjust locations when you move the map.
Yes but if others are not because we are...how does one do the hand-off without leaving a gap in worldwide military operations?
As I have tried to point out before, this exact same problem is also present in efforts to bolster minority participation in tech. Asian men are often completely ignored in minority programs, because "Uh, there are a lot of Asian guys in tech", completely ignoring the strongly inferior position that they hold in American society as a whole (in my opinion, definitely one below that of white women; though this is only an opinion.)

The response I usually get when I point out this problem on HN is a glib "Hey, it's a free country. Nobody prevented you from starting up your own minority program for Asians." [1] Unfortunately, so far I haven't been able to find a proper response to this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524665
Back when Harvard didn't admit (many) blacks and women, they also had an anti-Jewish quota. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerus_clausus#Numerus_clausus...

Edit: Now that I eventually figured out how to get around the paywall (hint: Chrome makes it easier than Firefox, I wonder why), the article mentions this: "The suit compares its current racial admissions to Harvard’s quotas limiting Jewish students in an earlier era. In both cases, Harvard kept out minorities who would have been admitted based on academic merit."
You can't possibly argue that poor people consume more in absolute terms thus you must mean as a percent of wealth.

The relevant measure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_propensity_to_consume

...allows society through its elected representatives to make such investments and to invest...

Which is irrelevant to this conversation since we are discussing taxing people to pay for consumption.
OK. Good point. (We have not worked on the code since over a year).

Database? Some lists are public available and for the rest we paid a dude on the Philippines. Also, some locations contact us now since they want to be in the database.
I read an article once that phrased it well regarding Asians: "we have a problem, and we are a problem, at the same time".

We're "represented" in tech, but not at the upper echelons where we're substantially under represented, and at the same time our presence is used as justification that other races aren't being discriminated against.

Asians are tremendously more privileged than Blacks or Hispanics in tech, but still suffer from tremendous problems ourselves. Many seem unable to comprehend this in a world view where privilege is binary.
It likely depends on the location and what you define as being "near." I've almost never had severe problems parking in Wicker Park, even during Wicker Park Fest. Same goes for other neighborhoods I frequent, like Bridgeport, Lake View, UIC. I'm also fine with walking a few blocks.

I don't have much experience with going to the zoo on Saturdays, but I have been to Lincoln Park during Chipotle Cultivate, and again, parking was a few blocks away on Clark.

Call it bullcrap if you like, that's been my experience.
> This suggests to me that running distributed databases in multiple AZ's has almost no latency penalty (e.g. you won't even paying eventual consistency / replication lag taxes that you might think are a danger).

Yes, Hamilton points that out in his talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQETrFC_SQ
No, you can't. I opened up Google News and did a search for the article title in an incognito window and still couldn't view the article. Maybe it worked for you, but it's a lot higher paywall than the ones at NYT. HN can't continue to publish stories that people can't read.

Edit: That was using Firefox's incognito mode; in Chrome incognito it worked. I can't imagine how that could possibly be true. Maybe it's because the first time I clicked on the wsj link in FF I wasn't incognito and the WSJ recorded my IP/UA? In any case, no, it's not an easily solved paywall.
Why Canada should de-activate Uber
> It's a shame FreeBSD doesn't maintain an integrated or official graphical interface.

Coming from an OpenBSD background (hey - it's the only OS in the world allowing you run Xorg as an unprivileged user [1]) -- what I'd like to see is an intra-BSD desktop environment based on Google's Material Design guidelines:

http://google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.h...

And for ol' times sake, the IRIX® Interactive Desktop User Interface Guidelines:

http://menehune.opt.wfu.edu/Kokua/Irix_6.5.21_doc_cd/usr/sha...

Similar to Quantum OS (Linux):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8645504

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[1] http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140223112426
Search the title of the article in google, then click the link. They'll let you through if the referrer is a search engine
I think even then the weird mix of pro-windowing and anti-graphics app orientations were doomed to sink it. The fact that it was difficult to see how even a modern web browser would work (there were attempts, but half-hearted at best) really made breaking out of its limited niche very hard.
Android 5.0 breaks the Nook app and Twidere outright, and damages F-Droid. It's also crazy-slow.

Avoid, for now.
What Do We Mean by “Scientific?” (1987) [pdf]
Granted, Andrew Wyatt was acting immature as well, but his last response was decently reasonable and seemed like a fair point. I could have understood ignoring him, but the fact that Lennart was clearly provoking him isn't what I'd want to see from a project leader. That's simply not a way to treat people who seem to have legitimate gripes. I could understanding calling him out for his 'Sigh' comment, but I don't understand claiming he has no idea what he's talking about and is just spreading FUD and 'making wild claims up out of thin air' after he explains his point. That comment was simply completely unnecessary and just Lennart being angry.

If Andrew did keep acting like he was at the beginning and Lennart answered all his questions/complaints, then I could understand either blocking him or discontinuing the conversation. But the fact that Lennart either never responded or removed all the responses after that is disconcerting, and honestly just annoying. If he had just answered it and left the responses up then most complaints would be gone and this article wouldn't even exist.
Good question. Thanks for putting it so precisely.

HN wants the most substantive article for a story, and also prefers non-paywalled links. From that we can deduce one bit of etiquette, which is that if you post a paywalled article you're implicitly promising that it's the best one, i.e. that you searched and there's nothing else as good on this story. In such a case, as long as it falls in the workaround-able category (which most paywalls do), it's ok.

That's on the submitter side. On the reader side, the etiquette might be that you should point out a non-paywalled URL if you can find one that's as good (in which case we'll be happy to switch to it), and also that you probably shouldn't post generic complaints about paywalls to the thread, which are guaranteed to be off-topic.

It's not a status quo anyone's happy with, and we'd be happy to hear suggestions of a better way, but please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634076 before you do.
Maybe the poor don't feel guilt, but the argument is deceptive. For the rich BI works just like a small tax deduction. Lets say a rich person pays taxes for $1000 and receives $10 as basic income. It just amounts to paying $990 in taxes. And the poor receive $10 BI and pays no taxes. As others mentioned it's just a redistribution of wealth. Make it look otherwise to not feel guilty is to deceive oneself.
> My dream laptop has evolved (BSD instead of Windows) (15th slide)

But, wait, isn't it Mac?
Part of the problem is that we get inconsistent reports from readers about what articles do and don't have workarounds. I just did what you described (from SF) and it worked.
Plaedio: Internet Television
That argument's pretty weak. A bug in chrome v36 on iOS, and a limitation on the forms of webp you can serve if you want them to work in Opera, are not really good enough for me to dismiss the value of Accept headers. Why are you bothered whether the browser might or might not accept animated WebP? You're trying to send a static picture of a kitten. And likewise, Opera's lack of support for lossless? Not relevant to your use case.
I have this idea in my mind for a while now and it seems great subject to share it with you.

Imagine an elevator going kilometers into the oceans dept. A huge tank is mounted on the top of it. It gets filled in with pressurized air. Because its heavy it sinks to the bottom. Then an air is released. Air travels into the surface but on its way it is actually captured into a little traps. When enough air is trapped, the entire structure built from hundreds of traps is lifted into the surface, together with the tank. of course during this trip, it triggers friction and the dynamo mounted on the surface translates this movement into electricity.

Once on the surface, the tank is filled in with air, and the process starts all over.

With long enough elevator in deep enough ocean, the electricity produced thanks to the travelling elevator would be greater than electricity used to put air into the tank.

If you ignore the rules of gravity and that trapped air travels to the surface of a water, this could be a perpetuate mobile.

What's wrong with my idea?
I think it's unfair to use as a comparison an image which is outside of the design scope for JPEG. Quoting from http://info.eps.surrey.ac.uk/FAQ/standards.html :

"JPEG is designed for compressing either full-colour (24 bit) or grey-scale digital images of "natural" (real-world) scenes.

It works well on photographs, naturalistic artwork, and similar material; not so well on lettering, simple cartoons, or black-and-white line drawings (files come out very large)."
Which is why, being an RC aircraft hobbyist myself, I can't stand when other RC hobbyists make the ludicrous revisionist argument that "drone" only refers to either autonomous vehicles or weaponized military vehicles. It's an extremely common argument in the RC community, and it's patently ridiculous.
This is usually my goto move, but it failed me here.
Apparently SpaceX has a solution for that, too - launching hundreds of micro-satellites to bring low-cost Internet access (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/531994668608024576)
I agree regarding the negativity. They come to "hacker news" but don't think like hackers.
Share your experience in a rental questionnaire (for landlords only)
qmv and qcp
Isn't this what
Accept: image/webp
is for?
Indeed. This thread should really be titled OpenBSD vs. Linux.

I'm sure most people here don't even know it's the only OS in the world allowing you run Xorg as an unprivileged user.

Just like Linux taught me to appreciate FreeBSD, FreeBSD taught me to appreciate OpenBSD. OpenBSD -- the world's simplest and most secure Unix-like OS. Creator of the world's most used SSH implementation OpenSSH, the world's most elegant firewall PF, the world's most elegant mail server OpenSMTPD, and the OpenSSL rewrite LibreSSL. OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest configuration syntax.

FreeBSD -- growing overly complex [1], lagging on security [2], packing itself with unnecessary, experimental technologies, and representing itself with a satanic mascot and a shiny, dildo-looking logo.

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[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-Janu...

[2] http://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62641-crypto-...
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It's a stock photo: https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZivX9JS-QLEbVyc-hN...
There's the old "FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows 2000" document which caused quite the stir:

http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html
While you are correct that the PDF rendering code originally came from Foxit, Google purchased it and open-sourced it a while ago. So, it's included in Chromium and the project is hosted here:
https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/
I'm not exactly fanboying him here; every player uses their general intelligence. In Starcraft 2, Flash is actually famous for trying to use the same builds and responses too often, and he loses a lot of games because of it. For example, he lost one game because he uses the same reaper scout pattern and someone predicted how to dodge it. He lost another because his timing for stim finishing is predictable.

I think you might be right about Broodwar, and my experience with the games is the opposite of yours, so I had forgotten that such builds could work in that game.

I am glad that you have had that experience you mention, because it's not one everyone has had and I think it's quite valuable. I can definitely understand why so many martial arts have practiced sets of movements; when you repeat the same sets, the body records them into muscle memory and you can initiate the series of movements without having to incur any further conscious thought. The feeling of peace you can obtain from doing so is quite astonishing.
Applying the paradigms of core.async in ClojureScript (presentation)
> Fast forward to 2014. Blogs are old news now, but they're still a great tool.

Yep. This year I noticed & appreciated the way Tesla used their blog to defuse ugly PR situations. I saw various startups and Fortune 500s use their blogs in various ways to talk up a pivot or to open lines of communication to a new audience. We see blog posts here on HN all the time. And a client of mine who was pretty much blogs-are-dead for the last couple of years decided last week to start a blog and commit to it. (Later they decided that they didn't want to show the actual blog post dates anywhere because they weren't sure they could keep their enthusiasm going...heh)
Related: David Mellis (one of the Arduino founders) has an Arduino-based phone project as part of his Phd research: http://web.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/index.html
Nice, but if I were the interviewer I would expect the candidate to also implement foldr for Tree, since that's the core of the problem.
Within my small social exposure, I've seen a shift from craigslist to local "swap shop" groups on Facebook. The lack of anonymity (lowers likelihood of creeps) plus locality improves two aspects of the CL experience.

The margin of this comment is too small (and I'm too tired) for the proof of how to monetize that, so I'll leave the exercise to the readers. It may simply be an efficiency and disruption inadvertently enabled by the Facebook platform...
I'm not citing Qt software I use, I'm citing GTK software that is now switching toolkits. How many apps are going from Qt to GTK? I could write a list of KDE equivalents to all the GTK programs you are citing - nobody is arguing that there isn't pretty much a program for every use case written against either toolkit. The question is what is software people are using, and what toolkit are people looking to write new software using? Conclusively it seems to be Qt nowadays.
If you can access it, just save it via the internet archive.
I first moved out of California as a kid when I was six. Work had just begun on the new Benicia bridge over the Carquinez.

Work completed a year after I moved out of Benicia the second time when I was 16. Originally estimated to cost $286 million, the final tally was $1.3 billion.
Interesting. How do you plan to keep coverage unbiased? A lot of bias manages to sneak into Wikipedia articles on current events in spite of their community guidelines and moderation.
You don't need to be a carpenter to tell if the doors are hung straight.

You DO need to be one to actually assess the overall build and structure.
Former Rising Star Fab May Sell to PCH at a Steep Discount
Non-paywalled link:

https://archive.today/0a9a6
Why are you considering SaaS? The reason I ask is you might be prematuraly optimising your thinking of the best way to go with a lifestyle business.

This is an off topic rant, but can we please come up with a less pejorative term than "lifestyle business" to describe non-"shoot for the moon or crash" type start-ups?
Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (2003)
Here's the PDF version: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/ITA-software-travel-complexity.pdf
This sounded so much more interesting before I knew what it was.
Left Brain vs. Right: It's a Myth, Research Finds
ProTip: "Orientation" means grid orientation, not sexual orientation.
A Tech Company Once Valued at $1B Is About to Sell for $15M
It's pretty amazing to me that there are pretty regular sales of of crappy no-contract Android 4.X phones for under $10. Here's a current one:

http://www.target.com/p/brightspot-zte-zinger-prepaid-cell-p...
My apple dump phone replaces many stacks of flashcards for me (yes, using Anki on the go was one of the primary reasons for the purchase). Sure, though, if I suddenly turn millionaire I may lose the remains of my passion for learning languages and memory training.

PS. The posting should probably have (2013) appended to its HN title—it’s an old story.