skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks interesting. There's just a little contradictory in the website. In the header it says "[...] much simplier alternative to XSLT [...]". And in the footer "[...] not intended to be a replacement of XSL [...]"...
If the nonprofit is, as I imagined, targeted at diversity in tech or women in tech, then I am not seeing any moral issues.

If some other non-profit would like to provide these hypothetical services to other groups or to everybody in general, that is also awesome. I would encourage that.

But as somebody who already donates to various groups like the Ada Initiative and Black Girls Code, I am saying I would give further money to an organization like that for providing an anti-doxxing service to their target audience.

The point of my (very short) comment was "take my money!" So that if some maker here was inspired, they'd know to contact me. That's all.
I think your list should include, if not XML, at least XHTML, the "infamous bastard child" - joking, of course...
Going to repost this talk they held at UoE about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRG9iXZbuAc (2014-04-23)
There's great piece from Ben Thompson on the inevitable trend of apps' price going to zero, worth a read: http://stratechery.com/2013/open-source-apps/
> Systemd is offering a more compelling solution than anyone else, and if you don't like it, well, you should submit a patch, write some code, or implement it yourself.

Or go back to using windows for general use and software development which is in fact what I've done. It's amazingly sad after many years of being a strong linux supported but this has killed linux for me. I see no point in continuing to use it.
Yea it's called a fetish
Wow! That is great. Exactly what i was missing. Design is also really nice. Are you planning on building it as a responsive site?

Edit: Definitely found it's way to my bookmarks bar.
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Additionally,I would argue that distros are switching because of gnome, not because they like systemd so much.
I installed CentOS 7, with no prior systemd experience, had no problems and found .service files way neater than sysvinit bash scripts and liked having meaningful names in the log/ journal rather than 'local3'.
I don't know anything more than that he was involved with writing the insults in MI1 and had some involvement in several other LucasArts games including the Dig, which I never played.
Thanks. You can read more about my motivation in /about/ section.

Yes that maybe true about too bright colors, this is on todo list - i will be adding overlay effects, depending on the background so that screen look more natural in the current environment.
Forgiving HTML parsing is one of the great strengths of the web.

http://quandyfactory.com/blog/39/the_virtue_of_forgiving_htm...
It's an interesting take, but that's not really how software works. Look at Plan9. It isn't POSIX compliant, but it does a lot of things much better than traditional Unix (or nowadays Linux, for that matter). Traditional Unix is not the philosopher's stone. There are plenty of good things about it, but it also comes with a number of dubious design decisions or what is now irrelevant cruft (why are we leaving with code replicating the behaviour of obsolete hardware in our terminal emulators?). It's not so much the actual implementation that is important, it is the "good parts" of its philosophy that we need to keep.
Like everyone else here says, entanglement doesn't give rise to FTL communication. So can someone explain to me how this paper even exists / has anything to explain via wormholes?
What's missing?
I haven't used uClinux before but I consider it on a cortex m4 - what should I be wary of?
Whats wrong with MIME encoding and SMTP? They are simple and they work.
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The best part of the game, bookmarked for future nostalgia too!
The secret language of Brazilian transwomen
I know we don't have access to the OSX code in its entirety, but could one argue that they actually did change how init works in FreeBSD? And perhaps that is one of the reasons the OS is stable? It's not far to assume that the Linux folks are going for more control over init for specifically this reason.
Where are all the Internet domain names registered and maintained?
This bugzilla query against RHEL 7.0 systemd says otherwise:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_s...

A lot of the bug descriptions are quite scarily bad when you consider them in context such as "various loginctl commands not working" etc.
I caution you to not apply the word "engineering" to software, especially in the apparent manner you've been applying it to this thread. You seem to have an idea that there are universal software development practices that are so well understood we can make regulation around them. But that isn't how software works. There are some practices that are known and some that are unknown. For working software "engineers", we are all, daily, put into a position for having to figure out for ourselves even what tools and materials to use to make anything.

Imagine you were an architect of buildings. Your day to day job is to design mundane strip malls and gas stations. You have building code on your side for much of the process. As long as you don't violate the regulation, you at worst can only make an inconvenient building, but not a dangerous one.

But imagine instead that you're building a large office building every six months, your clients demand you don't reuse any design principles on your future clients, and you not only lacked the building code, but also 1/4th of the heavy machine equipment, 1/2ths of the tools, and 3/4ths of the raw materials. I don't just mean you don't have them in stock, I mean nobody has invented them yet. And of the ones that have been invented, we don't even know all of their material properties, say nothing about what material properties we should be looking for. Will this particular bolt we are using with these particular cross beams hold up to the stresses placed on them? The answer is unknown, and I'm some cases unknowable.

It's really easy as a user to say, "they should have tested this more". While strictly true that more testing may have found your issues ahead of time (presuming the right tests were done), it is inefficient engineering to exhaustively test things. Even mechanical engineering bases a lot on statistical modeling, which will always, always have corner cases that don't match reality.

In the real world, people had to learn the hard way about things like lightning rods and sacrificial electrodes. They didn't come about from "testing during development". They came about from testing live, and seeing which buildings and boats did or did not burn down or sink. That's not bad engineering. That's just the nature of unknown problems.
The google ngram viewer[1] is often useful for this type of search.

[1]: https://books.google.com/ngrams
> The thing is, scarcity in the economic sense is defined in terms of peoples' wants, which seem to be able to expand indefinitely.

It's unclear to me whether this is true. For most of history, "infinitely expanding people wants" was not a thing, at least in terms of material wants. Maybe because it was not believed to be possible? But there are plenty of examples of autocratic rulers in pre-industrial times who extracted less resources from their subjects than it's believed they could. So, did they balance that against some risk or the effort required? Or were they simply uninterested in maximizing their personal wealth beyond a point? I feel even in modern capitalist society, above a certain threshold (which varies from person to person and according to circumstances) people are more motivated by status and recognition than material wants...

> If the robots that do all our work for us need to be as smart as us to do so, then they probably wouldn't be willing to work for free.

Does being as smart as us require being as self-aware as us? Does it require free will? Does it beget human needs and values? If 000, my scenario holds. If 100, we might be faced with a serious moral dilemma. If 110, who knows what our relationship with such beings would be. If 111, I've re-invented slavery and it should be abolished again at once, but I sort of doubt the answer to all three questions will be true. All other configurations are hard to imagine.
I'd really love to know the library used to get these lovely pixelated graphics - did this gentleman write his own, or are there mature options out there?
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This would be great if the primary demographic for Minecraft didn't become almost entirely children.
It's regulation that has given cable companies local monopolies. It's regulation that's trying to forbid municipalities from building open access networks.
You do have a minimum state tax regardless of revenue or profit, but corporate income tax is only on profit. Therefore double taxation does not matter until you are profitable. In addition, you can "carryover" losses from previous years to profitable years in order to reduce your tax burden. In other words, if you lose $10K in year one and have a profit of $10K in year two then you have $0 taxes in year two. The paperwork is complicated for "carryover" so please consult an accountant.
"At this time, funeral processions and other public gatherings were also suspended in a futile attempt to stop the spread of plague"

Futile? Well, perhaps unsuccessful to stop the spread, but I can see how it could help.
I was surprised to see that they used methods to contain the plague that, although harsh, look somewhat effective to me, I thought they had no idea of what was going on.
‘×’ is used to signify a crossover product in Japan too.
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Surely this is just the existing Adobe Shapes app rebranded?

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/adobe-shape-cc-capture-creat...
Presumably, given the modifications they've made, they can mod it so that villagers won't trade emeralds.

Mind you I've found a few previous attempts at integrating minecraft and bitcoin but they all appear to have closed down, eg https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BitVegas where a bug was exploited to take all the server owners bitcoin and leave them unable to run the server.
Office for Android updated with Dropbox support
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I don't know about clojure, but Scala ships with openjdk. It's possible to use the oracle JVM, but that's not default. They rely on oracle for bytecode/behaviour spec and not much more. Personally I'd like to see more bytecode effort being directed towards supporting non-java languages on the JVM, so I'm not saying the status quo is ideal, but it's not that bad.
I want to know how this even became an argument in the first place.

It's not that I don't like systemd, it's that [insert affiliated party] is way too cocky

It blows my mind to see people regress so far back into arguments that this because an issue of emotions in a technical debate.
First, I would assume services like Netflix are the largest consumers of bandwidth these days, and I know my wife generally watches more overall than I do. Unless you are specifically running some kind of server from home, or torrenting, I doubt most 'geeks' compete with video streaming on a usage basis.

Secondly, the problem isn't with 'usage-based billing' in general. The problem is that this isn't 'usage-based', because the only thing that has changed from the previous billing is a over-priced fee tacked on for people who go over the cap. True usage-based billing would allow for people to actually save money when they used little bandwidth a month, but this doesn't allow for that.
33 EUR for a notebook with a few dots printed on its pages?

http://store.moleskine.com/aut/de-de/catalog/detail/smart-no...
It's not even company dependent.

Where I work, the entire culture changed from "let's work together to make everything better" to "you drop everything RIGHT NOW if the boss decides that they have a personal project" when a new one took over.

...and so I will be starting my new job in a couple of weeks.
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This is really getting re-posted quite a lot.

Here's the previous one's comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8532224.
I think it is worth the money, if you can afford it, to just do it right from the beginning (Delaware C Corp). Significantly reduces stress. If you need to raise money, you can do it and there wont be any issue with your incorporation documents during due diligence. And sometimes fixing things later is more costly than just paying the ~$5K upfront.

Please do not use RocketLawyer or something similar. They are super cheap, but they only create a shell C Corp. I made that mistake which luckily wasn't costly to fix.
They're not simple and they work only because we've collectively spent thousands of man-hours making them work.

_Anything_ with in-band metadata is disgusting. This includes crap like "Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?...?=", multipart messages with in-band boundaries, having to do dot-stuffing in SMTP conversations, etc.
How do they do that map?
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From that link:

"The reduce function is the base transformation; any other transformation can be expressed in terms of it (map, filter, etc)."

This seems so obvious in retrospect -- I can't believe I had never made that connection before.
It surprises me that we can get crispy clear photos of Mars, or an asteroid, many millions of miles away, but we can't show a distinct photo of each of these artifacts where they rest.

Anyway, it seems we are very good at polluting.
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Oh, I had a hard time playing through this part. My english was just basics and with the all the colloquial speech and puns, I just couldn't understand, or even make sense of the sentences.

Took me some time to realize I was just supposed to fight through different enemies to gather the right answers and use them on the later battles. And even so I was just trying to match keywords between sentences to realize what was answer to what.

Oh, how much fun one miss playing adventure games not speaking english.*

*(TWPFWP - Third World People, First World Problems).
Livescribe has been doing this with handwriting for awhile: http://www.livescribe.com/
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EdgeNet, the mobile asynchronous mesh
That sounds like an excuse which I don't accept. I have a formal engineering background and whilst you're fundamentally right, engineering is based upon cumulative experience gained. We have a hell of a lot of experience as a society of writing software that works and is of merchantable quality.

What the general state of affairs shows is the following traits:

1) There is no thought and research going into the design of a piece of software. Ergo, we do not learn from past mistakes.

2) There are isolated individuals writing vast swathes of software which are trusted unconditionally. Ergo, we do not learn the benefit of multiple eyes on a problem, review and discussion.

3) We assume that software is correct from one person's viewpoint and opinion. Ergo, we do not test software properly nor cover those tests with objectives.

4) We work to deadlines, not quality objectives. Ergo, we trade quality for tolerance from others.

In this case someone came along and didn't think about the problem, didn't work with others, assumed they were unconditionally correct and chose tolerance over quality.

To use your analogy, they're now selling stainless steel lightning rods (poor conductivity), are the only vendor of them, are a vocal marketing front and houses are catching fire everywhere.

Or more specifically, in one example, the entire process was above and from the author to the distributor, no one even noticed that loginctl doesn't work properly.
I thought this article was going to be about the district line at rush hour.
TL;DR
Could somebody resume it please?
Two separate observations there, buddy.
As a person who was also once a teenager with testosterone, puberty, loneliness, etc, I disagree on a few points.

First, I disagree that the loneliness, etc, doesn't have a lot to do with our culture's construction of masculinity. There's a lot of stuff that boys are "supposed" to be that plays into that. We're supposed to be tough, macho, and unfeeling, so we don't get much support for expressing or managing those emotions. We're supposed to "win", to be dominant, to be high status, with no help if we don't. We're not supposed to talk about the details of social interaction the way that girls do, so it's always more mysterious. We are discouraged from building social and emotional support networks. And there's a whole host more. It has taken me literally decades to start seeing how poisonous so much of that early gender programming was for me.

Second, I disagree that having been through it once makes you such an authority that you get to tell everybody else to shut up. Fishes undeniably understand water. But so do chemistry professors and hydrodynamicists. There are different ways to understand something.

Third, I disagree Anita and David Futurelle and I "don't start to understand". I think I understand my past as well as you understand yours. I'm sure David feels the same way about his past. Both Futurelle and I have also spent years examining the mechanisms of gender culture. And for us, Anita's point is accurate. Which is unsurprising to me, because she literally has a degree in this stuff. Her Master's thesis was on gender representations in SF&F TV.

Now that doesn't mean she (or anybody) is automatically right. But she does have standing to talk.
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I haven't been able to comment on a HN submission from a mobile device in god knows how long. I've tried so many apps. not having an orange look just feels odd, but more to the point I constantly find either the apps are great for consumption but not commenting, or the other way aroubd. This app seems to be no exception. The news:yc app was my favourite client until commenting broke. Haven't had a response from the developer since. I'm now using Hakka News but "no orange" is very strange.
This is really useful, and very nicely presented (having a secondary service is a faff, but unless GH integrates something similar, this looks the best solution I've seen). Just a few things I found as I tried to make a dent on my starred repos, apologies if I've just completely missed some functionality:

- The 'Edit Tags' form stay open when you switch repo.

- Switching to the next repo doesn't scroll the frame back to the top, which is a little annoying.

- Some minimal form of initial organisation (eg just automatically adding the language) would be good.

- It would be helpful if the 'tags' textbox autofocussed when 'edit tags' is clicked, so that typing could begin immediately.

- Following on from that, binding some keyboard shortcuts, allowing something [tab?] to save the tags and move onto the next one, would reduce the tedium of mass adding/updating.

- Some method of ordering the tags (ie alphabetically) would be nice, rather than just the order they were added - I don't find search to be that useful compared to simply scanning the list.

- Some method of keying to the next repo would be nice
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Likewise - I learned a lot of my English from classic adventure games.

For me there was also the additional challenge of growing up in an ex-Eastern Bloc country where you could find dodgy pirated copies of games more easily than the real thing.

So you'd end up in a situation where you're trying to beat a bootleg Legend of Kyrandia translated to Russian by looking up walkthroughs in English and somehow trying to match up both without knowing either language very well.

Those were the days.
You can change the language in the upper right corner.
Here's the link for PT http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/index.html?lng=pt

And yes, as you've never played Monkey Island: You indeed have to learn the right answers by fighting multiple battles until you're 'trained' enough.
The solution is going to more interviews until you nail it, practice makes perfect. Next time ask if they want a high level architecture or oo design,etc. the thing about interviews is that every interviewer asks the same questions, use the same tricks etc that they read on linkedin.

By going to more interviews you will get much better at it. Try to go to the next one as soon as possible. Remember that for each person hired there where maybe 3 othercandidates that didnt make it so its normal.

Remember that there are many factors completely out of your control, but if you insist and lesrn from mistakes you will go through in the end.
I have solar panels in Southern England[1] - where it rains all the time :-)

My domestic panels completely offset my domestic needs. Over the course of the year, I'm a net positive contributor to the energy mix of the UK.

But, here's the rub, that's averaged out over the year. Obviously, solar doesn't work at night time. During fog and cloud cover, the output is fairly low. There are only so many appliances I can set to turn on at mid-day.

What's now needed is better energy stores. I turn some of my surplus solar energy into hot water - that saves me burning gas to heat it up. I also try to charge my laptop and phone during the day - but that's only a tiny fraction.

Tesla reckon they're approaching US$200/kWh on their battery tech[2]. That's still hideously expensive if you want to save enough energy to power your house through the lean winter months.

Sure, in the USA you can probably import power from the sunnier areas to the North - but it's much more efficient if it can be charged and stored locally.

[1] https://twitter.com/edent_solar & https://twitter.com/OxfordSolarLive
[2] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1094442_tesla-battery-co...
Here you go: http://www.gamefront.com/gaming-todays-exclusive-interview-w...

(found through Wikipedia)
Because the article mentions that Chromium doesnt have HighDPI support right now: You can actually compile it with the -Denable_hidpi=1 flag which at least displays most web sites in the right way though the menu/navigation is broken (which is probably the main reason it isnt enabled by default).
I feel Nintendo have to be very careful.

I know several people (I realise one has to be careful with anicdotes) who have bought their children 2DS/3DSes rather than expose them to the trash pile which is the Apple and Android app stores.

I personally bought a 3DS for myself after a couple of years of just playing mobile games -- there is just too much trash and discovery of any quality games is just too hard. There is far too many mobile "games" designed to provide just enough fun to pursade users to put more money in.
It looks like it's been generated by http://overviewer.org/, I guess they've got a cronjob or something that runs that as a script and generates the html and then it looks like they use an <iframe> to load the map on the page. Really cool, makes me want to start running a minecraft server again.
On-line modplayer with nice selection, playback visualizers
> nothing beats japanese brands when it comes to fine paper

Any recommendations?
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