skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is picking one browser to get their product tested and working on first (that they happen to own) such a big deal?

These comments really are just FUD and hating (jealousy?) on Google for ignorant reasons.
The iOS socketIO client written in Swift
I can't say if this cause is better solved some other way, but I believe that avoiding Github (not exactly boycotting it) and other big monocultures is the right action for me to take. When I use a service, I give it a piece of my economic power. I don't want to give that to Github.

I do believe a capitalist-based ecosystem can only be healthy with an appropriate level of competition and alternatives for consumers. Github's progress in the market is worrying in the sense that it seems to be driving towards a monopoly.

Github can never be everything to everyone - if there is no meaningful competition, it's guaranteed that some people will be excluded.
I use hetzner, I don't have a lot of necessities right now (I use it as git repo and as firefox sync server), but I'm very happy with it.
Thanks, I'll try in the weekend!
Release early, release often, iterate fast. Google's doing these things.

Just because you have the resources to do something doesn't make it a wise use of resources.
Of the top three purported oil subsidies in the link:

1) Foreign tax credit: everyone gets that to avoid double taxation.

3) Deduction of exploration costs: deduction of expenses is typical and again something everyone does when you're being taxed on profits. This is better understood as "the tax code explicitly recognizes this as an expense, just as it does for hiring workers or warehousing unsold inventory".

Would you mind articulating what you think the oil subsidies are? The alternative fuels subsidy (2) seems like a legit case but only gets you 14 of the 370 billion claimed.

(I get that there are environmental costs but that's not what people have in mind with the vague "oil subsidies" I keep hearing about.)
Apple is doing the same thing for icloud.com on mobile browsers. Only works on mobile Safari AFAIK.
Just out of curiosity, what do people typically slam google for? I feel like I have a lot of trust in their services -- a hell of a lot more than facebook, and somewhere around on par with apple. Sure, they collect a bunch of your data, but it's for the purpose of them being able to serve more relevant ads to you if I'm not mistaken, since that's where most of their money is made, and their ads are fairly clean and not questionable as far as I've seen.

Overall, they have really solid products that have been incredibly useful to me, and you can see how they are working hard on so many important things: surpassing apple on the mobile design front with material design, cranking out bleeding edge and experimental innovations like self-driving cars and glass, and even working on a lot of projects that help to bring technology to those who don't have it, like project loon, the lower cost and open source android stuff, etc -- and these projects have actually been making a really big difference in third world countries (with no strings attached unlike facebook's total bullshit "charity" initiatives).

I'm not a google fanboy by any means. I more or less just use gmail and calendar, and just got an android phone after having an iphone 4 for like four years just to try it out. Just pointing out things I have passively observed about how they run. I would really love to hear the other side of the story though to perhaps balance my perspective a bit more!
To quote from the guidelines:
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

Politically, a direct evidence of a foreign sub entering the waters of sweden in the baltic sea is _not_ everyday news. The last time this happened was 30 years ago and it raised a hell of a shitstorm in the neighbouring countries. This will have consequences, if only in the public perception of things, for quite some time.
DJI Introduces the $2,800 Inspire 1 Transforming Drone
Adding innovative features is now considered vendor lock-in? Interesting.
"Support cost" doesn't apply only to customer support.
Support cost doesn't mean customer support.
well, the point wasn't "an interpreter is always faster than a jit", but "a good interpreter can get a large portion of the gains you'd get from a compiler".

If you prefer apples to apples, quoting Mike Pall again[0]

"the LJ1 JIT compiler is not much faster than the LJ2 interpreter, sometimes it's worse".

[0]: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57646
Here's a horizontal bar chart that could complete your examples.
https://github.com/laem/react-horizontal-bar-chart

It's the same building principles : chart is a React component, svg written as JSX, using d3's scales (no axis in mine, but bar info as tooltips instead).
I use Tweetbot on both platforms, but I don't think its implementation is good. Good to me would be a merged feed with tweets and mentions from all accounts, analogous to what I can do with email, IRC, instant messaging, etc.; maybe not the best for opsec, but more convenient for casual purposes than having to constantly switch between accounts.
Hacking hard. Hacking fun.
It does, the photo looks a lot like a person in a kayak to me. Presumably they've analysed the image and can give the scale of the object though?

The other evidence may well be a submarine, I wouldn't know.
"Sure, they collect a bunch of your data, but it's for the purpose of them being able to serve more relevant ads to you if I'm not mistaken, since that's where most of their money is made." You gloss over this as if its not a big deal.
Yes there's chocolatey which seems to be the most popular at the moment.

Latest version there is 2.1.3 at the time of comment:

http://chocolatey.org/packages/ruby
To be honest, I don't think many people doubted that Russian submarines were in its water. China would have been a surprise. The USA, unsurprising except that its reported
Thank you for asking. No, there is no such gene cluster. This fictional story submitted for our discussion here on Hacker News (I don't like that it was submitted, really) is much more optimistic about the results of gene association studies than the actual study results warrant. So far, genome-wide association studies (GWASes) have proved only that almost any human behavioral trait of interest is influenced by dozens or even hundreds of genes of small effect, with unknown interactions among the genes, and most genes still not detectable with very large sample sizes, because statistical power of GWAS is weak when gene effect sizes are small, as they always are.
Can someone tell me use-case wise how this differs from PhantomJS and CEF?
What does 'non-compounded' even mean? You can't just stop compounding from happening. Worst case you take your money out and put it back in.

Do they mean that you can't compound daily, that the 1% per day applies to compounding monthly or annually?

Any interest rate will eventually reach 1% of the original principal per day. Even a rate like 1% per year will average that much after a solid 800 years.
I implemented something similar with Dygraphs. The "killer feature" with that was instantly zooming to any detail (e.g. from 1 year to a time window of 10 milliseconds). The client would instantly show the level of detail possible with the current dataset, and fetch the detailed datapoints in around 100-200 ms.

Anyway, I believe zooming to be a very typical feature for time-series (e.g. Google Finance supports that), so I hope this library has good support for it too.
> I have been in plenty of situations where I can not access the internet so having offline copies is incredibly helpful.

Other advantages for me are:

The search function. It's incredibly well implemented. Some online docs just flat out suck at searching.

A more consistent look and feel across different docs, especially when searching or browsing classes.

Easy management of docset versions and automatic updates.
Hmmm, I don't think I saw any other languages besides Spanish and English, is this really a universal effect across languages?

I am especially curious because I am inclined to believe that certain sounds are not distributed the same in all languages. This could mean that either this theory is untested on a broader set of languages, or that the typical vernacular in a language tends to avoid a certain type of word more than other languages.
What People Share on Social Networks
Because it's a work of fiction. Read it again, then re-read the final sentence.
Tech Trends in Dublin at Web Summit 2014
Looks like they've fixed my biggest gripe about the game, that it showed you exactly what you had to click to win.
They annexed this place called Crimea a little while back, you may have read about it in the papers. And a little while before that they went an invaded a country called Georgia. I honestly can't think of what more you could ask in terms of proof.
Show HN: The Global Sports Network, the Next BIG Thing
No, not "incidentally." They found it economically viable to wholesale on a very small scale at a time when their biggest threat wasn't from competitors but from regulators noting that there was no competition. The value of muddy waters is at a premium right now. Context is important.
Yes it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and_extingui...
LaForge Optical (Google Glass competitor) raises $1.1M in seed funding
Most Nobel prizes in physics are awarded for extremely technical work as well, but people frequently find ways to distill some of it into something understandable enough to make for good popular articles whenever the prizes are announced.
On the scatterplot examples, when it automatically highlights the closest point to your mouse pointer (maybe using some kind of underlying voronoi field) I nerdgasmed.
+ Researchobject.org: Supporting Reproducible Research +
Wal-Mart told all store managers to match online prices with Amazon
> I'd always succeeded before; that was why after two decades at the university I was department chair and Beth was still a research assistant.

Maybe it's because she is a woman.
I'm also interested in the unreasonable effectiveness of data in both reenforcing an illusion of control and rationalizing our preexisting prejudices - a commonality between quants in finance, data science in business, and mainstream science (as Ioannidis is teaching us.)

Anything that improves and grounds statistics in some sort of concrete, more falsifiable context is a good thing. Maybe new people attacking from a different perspective can help.
Here's one

In the United States, the federal government has paid US$74 billion for energy subsidies to support R&D for nuclear power ($50 billion) and fossil fuels ($24 billion) from 1973 to 2003. During this same timeframe, renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency received a total of US$26 billion.
It might be interesting to create an index from this data and compare it to other benchmarks like the S&P 500. I'd call it the HoR 500 and it would be the top 500 publicly traded companies owned by house members. I have a feeling like exploiting non-public information would be irresistible to many of them so maybe this index would outperform the market.
Here's a reply from our very own Joseph, which details a bit more the differences: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2m30j6/counterpart...
Yes, but Apple never talked about how interoperability was important for them. Apple has always been a walled garden, like it or leave it.

Google, on the other hand, has done a lot for open standards and interoperability.

Is it unreasonable for people to flip out on Inbox while it's still very much in beta? Sure. If it's a real beta. Gmail was in beta for what, 5 years?

Does Google have any obligation -- moral or otherwise -- to make Inbox work cross-browser? None whatsoever.

But them not doing so would constitute a break from past policy which is something that people are worried about.
Yes, the first link is actually in the CNN article and the second one is about China. What's your point? Also please note that NATO and the US are != Sweden.

The article doesn't mention that the incidents have increased, you're right. It's a lot of incidents in a short time frame though. For some Swedish sources on the increased rate of Russian activity:

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/okad-rysk-militar-aktivitet...

http://wisemanswisdoms.blogspot.se/2011/11/okad-aktivitet-ov...

According to http://wisemanswisdoms.blogspot.se/2014/07/lattande-av-incid... the QRF has taken off 50% more times this year than the previous. Which was the most intense year since the Cold War.

Other than that you won't find much statistics on the activity of the Swedish Quick Reaction Force as it's not released to the public.
And in addition to the externalities that are not borne by the producers, how bout factoring in the portion of the US military budget that is devoted to ensuring access to oil around the world?
My Way into Clojure: Building a Card Game with Om – Part 1
In order to gain hands-on experiences with functional programming, I wrote an HTML5 card game with Om, a “JavaScript MVC” written in ClojureScript. This first post starts our journey travelling down the Clojure rabbit hole. I'll share my experiences getting started with Clojure, introduce the language's features and explain why its LISP syntax is a logical consequence of its deep infatuation with simplicity.
These are wonderful! They recently had a micro-short-story competition (200 chars or less). This was one of the runners up:

"off that switch, Professor! Your time machine can't travel back in time past the moment of its own creation and instead will trap the Universe in an endlessly recursive time-like loop! Take your hands"

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v508/n7494/full/508144a...
Does Twitter have a secret weapon for silencing trolls?
Good luck. I look forward to your updates
Great Day for Harvard
rootbsd is the classic choice http://www.rootbsd.net/

there are also some freebsd images for AWS out there.

I also have freebsd vm's with crowncloud http://crowncloud.net/ and orangewebsite https://www.orangewebsite.com/vps.php

I've had a good experience with the last two. I chose them because they accept bitcoin (and orangewebsite is owned and operated in Iceland). If you go for some of the lesser known hosts, they will be flexible with what OS you want to use, especially if their platform is KVM based.
Sounds like a candidate for Sunlight Foundation API.
http://sunlightfoundation.com/api/
This is a good exploration of how the blocking is being done.

As far as why, it seems self-explanatory. They're not ready to support other browsers yet. Why does this need to be a thing?
But analog typewriters can't even handle UTF-8, let alone all the other unicode nonsense.

Their carriage return implementation is pretty cool though.
>actively probing their opponents' defenses //

In what way are they opponents?
Not a problem that most people will have. If for some reason you do then hopefully you'll be able to monetize that popularity and hire someone who's actually really good it. ORM's are not optimal but they do let you make something quickly if you're not well versed in writing optimized queries, stored procedures, etc. For people like me dropping ORM's seem like a premature optimization.
I'm stick to Ruby 1.9.3 on Windows, Ruby 2.1.4 can be installed, but some important Gems won't work, so I cannot install Sinatra for example.

So, I cannot stay like this, I like Ruby, but I cannot be at the mercy of their lack of attention for Windows, so, as soon Asp.Net MVC 6 is released I'm going to migrate my Sinatra web App to Asp MVC 6.
I'm supplying a node-webkit app to thousand of clients and I feel you.

We thought "Hey, it runs on everything!" would be nice for our future roadmap...but didn't we say the same about Java?
The man who can hear Wi-Fi wherever he walks, using hearing aids
Sustainable resource harvest is a good thing, but isn't truly sustainable if the same resource is being harvested unsustainably by others.
I have a couple of things I don't understand about the Neaderthal interbreeding and the Denisovan stuff:

(1) If we interbred, doesn't that mean we're the same species. IE, These were two subspecies like dogs and wolves. (2) How does the idea of distinct human populations without Neanderthal DNA work with the genetic bottleneck theory? Wasn't there a bottleneck after this interbreeding took place>
Beautiful code, beautiful layout. Great, xan
> Real-time breakings news

Nope, they fucked up that too recently.

tptacek: Yeah, it still kind of works but not the way it used to. I've noticed that in the past year or so they started to heavily filter their "public firehose"; before I was used to see 100s of new tweets per second around a major event (which was fantastic), while now I only get a few of them. The thing is that when the event it's not that big (i.e. a local event in your neighborhood) that filter makes you lose some pretty valuable info.
Yes we tried to fix most of the things that people didn't like. What do you think of it now?
Is this myth busted?
I designed the docs for my product team, which are extensive, to be mobile-first. There is no such thing as a mobile context or "use case".

http://kevinsuttle.com/posts/the-right-questions-to-ask-mobi...
Global Disease Monitoring and Forecasting with Wikipedia
Show HN: For HTLM5, JavaScript, WEBGL or Game Enthusiasts
Twitter is an elegant and open platform. It is what you make it. And over the course of Twitter’s relatively short existence, millions of users have creatively found ways to extract utility from it. Businesses use Twitter to grow – without paying the service anything. Businesses have also been built directly on top of the service.

So why can't Twitter take these and go directly to their users with them as use case options?

My thoughts, continued: http://erikaugust.com/thoughts/twitter/
I would love to use this -- I just wish it had a stripped down version without the dependencies: especially no bootstrap....
Could've fooled me. I'm still getting crime-beat photojournalism from Chicago reporters that's 10x faster than the Trib, and world-wide coverage that's both faster and much better than CNN, in a format that I can actually keep up with.
1) He gets better about it; first he manages to talk to women, then gets a girlfriend.

2) It's not like the non-indian guys are really that much better.
How Men Feel About Relationships
I think that the amateur engineer would have explained by now that it was his sub...
It's not necessarily a bad description of Isomap, but it does seem to sit in an odd space (without looking at other articles in the series). The terminology seems too advanced for a reader without much background in the area and yet it explains with full source code kNN and Floyd Warshall.
I really love FreeBSD but having 3 different PRODUCTION branches is getting insane (10.3, 9.3, 8.4).

I only run RELEASE.

When I run into production issues, the developers say they have fixed my issue in CURRENT but never release a point update to RELEASE ... means forces me to have to wait until the next MAJOR release for it to be fixed.

Feels like FreeBSD, even though I love all it does, is becoming more and more just for developers.

We need more minor point releases and less major releases.

The following link from 2 years ago is still very applicable today.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-Janu...
Here’s my introductory tutorial for creating a map with D3 & TopoJSON using geometry from Natural Earth:

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/

And here’s a subsequent tutorial for visualizing geographic data:

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/bubble-map/
I don't understand how well it'll work on an iDevice. I love Dash. I recommend it to people as it makes going to the official docs easier (for me, ymmv). I just hit a shortcut to pop up alfred and I type what I'm looking for and I'm good to go. I don't really read docs on the go.
In addition to ease of use -- the more conspicuous or large the camera, the greater the likelihood that people won't want to be photographed.
Please cite examples in which Google has demonstrated that they could not be trusted with information that they use to deliver targeted ads to you.

Did they ever pull a Facebook-esque social experiment by trying to limit what you saw in order to manipulate your feelings over the course of a day?

Do they sell personal information about you for other companies to use however they please?

Think about this a little bit before you respond with a generic, mouth frothing "BUT GOOGLES SELLS YER INFO" when they actually don't. They sell access to you when you are exposed to ads. Not access to your info.
Yup, I'd like to know it too. Everything I saw or read confirms that they're one of the most benevolent big companies ever, and yet for some vauge reasons they are called evil.
NET Core – Going Wild and Open Source. What Took You So Long?
If you set the interface to SYNCDHCP instead of DHCP it seems to work fine.
Thanks for sharing this! I have been using the brightbox packages, but they are no longer updating 1.9 or 2.0 [1].

https://github.com/brightbox/deb-ruby2.0/pull/3#issuecomment...
> Go is very, very similar to Java 1.4

Except for multiple return values, easy concurrency, implicit interfaces, real value types, pointers, functions as first class types, closures, no inheritance, no exceptions.... but yeah, other than that, they're totally similar languages.
Liu Cixin's “The Three-Body Problem” Is Published in the US
I'm curious about this. How are native modules compiled if I want to deploy from my architecture X to windows, os x and linux?
You might have an argument if Chrome wasn't open source.

Being that is not the case...
I'm not sure about counting that. My guess is that even if we were fully energy independent somehow, we'd still have an equally large military budget and probably find some other excuse for having various "adventures" in remote parts of the world.
I read just this weekend about a huge number of unmarked NATO tanks just rolling in to a neighboring sovereign country seemingly oblivious of borders and international law.

No, wait...
>danish F16's had to act on it //

Because?

Some jets flew over that caused no harm to anyone, wasn't probably even seen by any civilians. Is that a reason to retaliate with a show of force - or had they already used diplomatic channels to tell them that this was not allowed?

This sounds like you want to start WW III because someone stepped on your toes at the bar. Sweden perhaps don't think that some other country swinging their dick is a reason to get in to armed aggression.
Like the atmosphere, groundwater is heating up
Introduction to entity component system
I just finished watching the documentary "3 Stars" which describes the process behind getting Michelin stars. It's really interesting to see how this works.

One of the older Michelin chefs said he was retiring now because chefs are becoming scientists. He said that cooking is now called molecular cuisine.
This probably has more to do with undermining WP (which is competing with android in the low end phone market) than anything to do with browser support. They would block iOS too if they could, but they can't so that's why safari is 'supported'.
With that reasoning, you could still fill up the front page and exclude the actual hacker news entirely.
> At the early fast-iteration stage of a limit-seeking webapp like Inbox, it makes sense to focus on the app itself and limit yourself to just one browser. For Google, obviously they will choose Chrome. Once the app reaches some stability, and major changes are coming far more slowly, then it makes sense to start working in cross-browser compatibility.

Would you also agree that it would be OK for Microsoft to create products that only work in IE, then, and to advertise IE whenever you try to use those products?