skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kickstarter: SyncStop aka USB Condom
The problem with games like this is that players can share code. Decent scripts will be available for everything which takes some of the fun out of the game and makes it less fair to people who do it by themselves.
You prefer yourself an Oracle cage?
I can't think of reasons for not accelerating it for development purposes.
Well, it's the different form factor. Soft and brick-sized bread doesn't belong to the Italian tradition. Slicing what we have it's not that difficult and in most cases there is no need to slice anything. We just break it with bare hands and have it.

North Americans can check these pictures to get an idea https://www.google.com/search?q=pane&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=i...
Even the form factors that require slicing are quite small and not particularly soft. Slicing them is quick and easy.
The following was taught to me by my dear friend, Reginia. If it worked
on someone as stubborn as I am, it will work on anyone.

Just tell them this:

When you say, "I'm bored," you're actually saying, "I'm boring."

Essentially, bored people are boring, and boring people are bored.

Surprisingly, it's entirely true. It also works in reverse; interesting
people are interested, and interested people are interesting.
Fascinating people are fascinated, and fascinated people are
fascinating.
In 4.x, the decryption password is the same as the unlock PIN. I'm hoping it's possible in 5.x to separate the two, so that the password can be stronger than the PIN.
It is not decided, if Muenchen switches back or not. Afaik they just want to evaluate the IT systems.
Just like on TopCoder :)
Haven't heard that one until now that you mention it, nice.
> FP languages in general seem to be picking up steam in terms of adoption

I have been looking forward to this since I learned Caml Light at the university back in 1996. Same applies to LP.

It was been a long way.
A tenuous path to a comet: the Rosetta mission in photos
Rosetta: Comet probe Philae now stable
Thanks for your feedback. The thing about permissions being an install time decision is also what makes me weary about Android - I imagine it would happen quite often that I have to make a decision between using an App that would be really useful or even required right now and giving it my addresses, which I really don't want. That's something iOS does much better and I wonder how much of a downside it would be in real life usage.
I know this won't convince many hardcore Unix people who are used to the command line, but Visual Studio is still an absolutely incredible piece of software, and I really, really wish I could run it under Linux.

Even if you are a command line ninja, amazing autocompletion, magical debugging with inspection are pretty wonderful.
> There is literally none of the above on Unix platforms from experience.

Have you worked in commercial UNIXes?

I have some HP-UX, Aix and Solaris war stories.
The fact that we even have a discussion about this is amusing. Outside the tech bubble what business even questions if they should be charging customers or not [1].

1. I am not saying that tech businesses are wrong to not charge (it is the most rational thing to do in many cases), but just pointing out how unusual tech is.
French here, sliced bread is like "the worst thing ever".And dont get me started on industrial bread.If your bread isnt like less than 30 min fresh,hot from the oven, you shouldnt eat it.And by the way,we call sliced bread "english bread".
I don't think anyone dreams of a 2 party system like the US. There's probably more factions within the Communist party...
> People take care of the things they own.

Agreed.

As for most of the rest, I don't want to fish for meaning in a pond of analogies.

I found something that's actually addressable though:

> It seems perfectly obvious that states of some kind are a naturally occuring phenomenon.

Yes, in the sense that psychopaths have existed for ages, have always wanted power over other people, and have always been exceptionally good at manipulating people to get it.

> It also seems obvious that they are easier to get wrong than right.

Oh they're functioning perfectly well. In other words, they've been "gotten right". It's just that their purpose is not what we imagine. It's not to "maintain order" or to "protect our rights" or other brainwashospeak people spout.

Nation-states are a vehicle for a small elite to exploit everyone else.

> If only the criminals are allowed to set up states, all the states will be run by criminals.

If most people are evil, then they clearly can't be allowed to rule over others.

If only a small percentage of people are evil, then states are a bad idea because they'll be run by the power-hungry evil minority. Strangely enough, our governments are run by psychopaths.

> And as for the car: you and I may be happy, but Joe down the street has to breathe the same air. Was our exchange beneficial for him?

I haven't claimed anything about Joe. Do you want to make a claim about voluntary exchanges, based on what happens to Joe?

On a related note, if you've ever bought a pair of sneakers, you've motivated China (etc) to cause externalities. Was it immoral for you to buy sneakers?
In fairness there is some good context for wanting to get the 'magic', Lisps are talked about in such a context, as beautiful life-changing experiences, so it's understandable to be curious. I'd agree, the right tool for the job, and focus on the job, but the context is there to ask. Lisps as I've used them seem like powerful tools.
Telling people they have been shadow-banned defeats the purpose of it.
Issues a permission confirmation the moment the app tries to access contacts (once).
Not parent, but: it asks for every permission separately at runtime (on first time usage). That might seem a hassle, but IMO it's much better this way. Apps tend to be much more conservative in order to not disturb their users too much with permission questions, and they also have fallback modes for every permission that's not critical - a Maps app will still work without location data for example.
It has GPS and knows when it is getting into restricted airspace. In addition to Lat and Long, GPS also gives altitude above sea level. You couldn't launch a Phantom from the top of a highrise and think you are cheating the system.
This is an aspect of multi-core programming. As the programmer, you must be painfully aware of the cache lines you're touching and which cores touch them. Having two or more cores touch a cache line will cause expensive core-to-core synchronization taking place. The case is easier in a message passing system like yours, where the other core is clearly the sender and can flush the caches. In kernel space, you can disable caches or use write-combine or write-through caches for memory regions as needed but this isn't really available in userspace.

This can happen in very unintuitive places. For example, in Java, array.size() reads from the same cache line as the beginning of the array. If you're partitioning an array processing routine for many cores, you should not call array.size() to avoid very expensive synchronization.
Estonia forges ahead with its plan to let anyone become an Estonian digitally
This is where Screeps will be different. You will need to think hard how to adapt someone other's script for your landscape, game environment, creeps setup, etc.
Yes, SunOS4, Solaris and HP-UX. Never had any problems but then again we pretty much kept the hardware alive after vendors had deployed everything. Also Oracle on a VMS cluster which was a joy.

To be honest windows (NT series) operating systems were pretty trouble free in the NT4 era. The masses of fragmentation and numerous paradigm shifts were what broke it all for me.
Just in time pop-up to authorize when the app ask for it.
Hm, that's not bad but at it's current it doesn't give really anything else than a cleaner look for the not-so-technical user to see your repos and everything.

Maybe if you add additional info from the users profile and some sort of user related stats (languages, lines of code, etc.), combined with a CV-like structure might turn into something useful.

I liked the visuals btw.
You only really have the choice of doing this if you are running a bootstrapped lifestyle company. You are not going to be a VC "outlier" if you do things like charging people for your product.
Distibuted Automated Testing
idk what a feat of science, engineering and maths has to do with vague allusions to lights of reasons and the other high-and-mighty semi-religious language being used in reference to this event.
XP was made for much weaker machines, older hardware. When you earn 100 USD per week you don't upgrade hardware as long as you can. Just as an example from another part of the world, I live in Europe and I've used a Sony notebook from 2002 until the last year, when the hardware started to fail. I guarantee you that Windows 7 can't be installed on it. Even the newer Ubuntu versions weren't installable from one point on.
As long as you're willing to let them store your fingerprint in a centralized database that's likely to be hacked by the NSA within a week of operation.
Yes, lisp dialects are powerful but there is no magic. The road to enlightenment is long and arduous and can not be put in an HN comment box. It's like I said in my original comment, the only way to get there is to just continue to write code and explore different paradigms and languages.
It reminds me a lot of a project I am working on, modul.io [1].

- Everything is programmable, including the UI and the appearance of your modul

- A modul can send and receive messages with the moduls around it

- You start with a predefined and ready to use modul

- Offline support: your modul continues to live on the server when you are not connected

There is no game mechanics at all though, our goal is to create everything using moduls (games, entities composed of multiple moduls, tools…).

Planned features:

- A REST API to do everything remotely

- Code sharing using library packs

I can't wait to see how Screeps work!

[1] https://github.com/lisezmoi/modul.io
Just out of curiosity. When did Microsoft bribe anyone in Germany? I have never heard about that.
> C# as a language is better than Java, but not as good as Scala.

However Scala is not a first class citzen in the JVM, but C# is the systems language of the CLR, already a huge difference.
Kangaroos have no problem swimming a couple of miles. Not sure about wallabies though.

Marsupials are generally good breeders so eventually there will need to be a cull, but because they aren't hooved herbivores some of the normal destructions doesn't happen, like with goats or pigs.
Majority of Finnish children learns English from TV and knows it quote well before starting school. They learns all from TV, because in Finland they do not voice-over dub[0] TV shows (except children shows), only add subtitles.

When I was child we had re-transmitted children German tv shows, I could speak German a bit without actually learning it for other sources.

Disclaimer: I'm not from Finland, but had discussion with one of the teacher in there.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_(filmmaking)#Finland
I think this is what people overlook most of the time. I did not use the calendar app because it was overloaded with things that were completely unnecessary for ME. Now, it is much simpler, might start using it.

Majority of their users probably are better off with the new calendar app, so they readjusted it for a better fit. If it turns out this is not the case, they will change it further, maybe bring some old functionalities back.

They focus on what will please majority of their users, as any other company would and should, not their power users.
You have 20 seconds to comply:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzlt7IbTp6M
Nope. Yoga is a discipline of practice - a way to develop a new set of habits of self-awareness and self-control via breathing techniques.

As a side-effect it calms the mind due to proper physiological balance (better saturation of hemoglobin, less tension in muscles, which in turn influences other sub-systems. such as digestive, etc.)

Yoga is the same kind of a necessary training routine as when children learn how to read before they could read "serious" books. But this is so-called non-verbal skill.

More accurately, it is acquisition of set of skills of remaining in a proper balance, very similar to bicycle riding. Once the body learns (new habits of keeping balance has been developed) you could ride any kind of bicycle and will never forget how to do it.

The bicycle you're leaning to ride (by doing) with yoga is your own mind whose states you lean to control "non-verbally" via states of your body.
I think your latter point (about the value of asteroids) will have a much larger impact on the world and spacefaring in general than, say, observations about the temperature of an asteroid. If it turns out there's trillions worth of materials in asteroids, then I can guarantee the world's budget for spacefaring will go up a hundredfold within a few years.

Going to space for science (or beating the Russians) is one thing, going there for profit is a completely different matter and will attract heavy investors.
I think the assumption is that you sort once and search several times (enough to amortize the cost of the sort). The linear search algorithm also had an early exit, so the array has to be sorted for that too. That makes this a fair comparison, but I agree that seeing a linear unsorted search would have been interesting too.
Which (as a document store) has plenty of use cases... and even when you read the article it's mostly about how they didn't understand what they were doing going into things... It's not a compelling argument.

"But this stuff wasn’t obvious at all. The MongoDB docs tell you what it’s good at, without emphasizing what it’s not good at. That’s natural. All projects do that. But as a result, it took us about six months, a lot of user complaints, and a lot of investigation to figure out that we were using MongoDB the wrong way."

The film/actor/career example they wanted to do could have been solved pretty easily with a document that had an _id for an actors collection and a name... that's just the document paradigm... I'm a huge fan of both postgres and mongodb and I know that's not a popular opinion around HN. I just get tired of seeing clickbait headlines being cited as the criticism within is correct.
I really don't think that this is a 1:1 comparison by any stretch. The Amazon offering, by being MySQL compatible gives you a migration strategy.

By comparison, look at Azure's DocumentDB or Search services both of which obscure the interfaces to the underlying ElasticSearch ensuring lock-in.

Honest,y both have value, but this really isn't the same by any stretch.
5 Superfoods to Ward Off Depression and Enhance Your Mood
Curious: Did you look at other solutions like Xamarin?
Really good idea.
However, the "Your success depends on your intelligence rather than your wasted time" bothers me. That is how the average strategy game works.
IMO they should take some cues from IOS and allow users to allow/disallow such things when apps make the requests, not dump all permissions as allow all or none when users install the apps.
Nah, sharing code will be awesome. Does sharing code in real life ruin the fun of programming? No, everyone uses code written by other people. It is taking that code, combining it in interesting ways, and adding your own bit of code on top of it that creates really amazing programs (or armies, in this case)
How is this a case of creating vendor lock-in at all? The service itself is API compatible with MySQL... you can migrate to... MySQL, MariaDB, or a host of other services that are exposed in a MySQL compatible interface.
If someone tells you they're bored they're usually looking for help making a decision about something or permission to do something.

Bored is a state of indecisiveness - no one wants to do something they might feel isn't enjoyable or useful, so being in a state of boredom is a function of not being able decide on something to do, or not being able to think of something to do (although that's much more unusual). The simplest solution is to incentivize a particular action and change the situation to make something more worthwhile than all the other things. To do that you need some knowledge of what motivates the person though, and some power to make the change.

It's worth noting that sometimes being bored is a perfectly correct state to be in. Occasionally I'm 'bored' in the middle of a large project. That's a sign that there are things I've yet to form a cohesive strategy for. 'Bored' in that case is actually shorthand for 'need some downtime to think'.
Interesting video but the dodgy scale on his graph to make the difference between the happiness in the Mind Wondering and Focused states seem larger than it is.

The difference is about 10%, it might be a very solid 10% more happy, but god, scratching my back can make me 10% more happy :-D
The real question is if it can debug itself.
Yea, an article reviewing the book might be appropriate but this isn't, especially since it is £66. And no prelude to prerequisite skills is discussed.

edit Google helped me find the front matter: http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/45662/frontmatter/97805...
You sound like someone who really wants to like a band because their friends do.
I believe your main issue with understanding these things is that you're conflating (absence of) workload and boredom. Boredom stems from not having anything that engages a person in a positive way. For example, I can be drowning in work and still be bored out of my mind, even while working. The work being done is perceived as being tedious, rote and without positive emotional impact.

That being said, finding something "fun" to do for a bored person is no easy task. And sometimes nothing seems appealing to the bored person. You can try dragging them along, so that they'll get engaged in the process of doing something, but there's no guarantee that this will work. Sometimes people just need to be bored, I guess.
This, all of this. My impressions of it are that arbitrary notability wars basically killed Wikipedia's chance at any kind of completeness - and that has killed any desire I have to become involved in it, if it'll just throw my efforts in the bin. It's as good as it'll get on what it has because it's camped by editors who don't allow changes, even for the better; and it just doesn't want any contributions on anything it doesn't already have.

I don't buy the argument that there isn't enough space on the internet. Wikis are at their worst on high-profile, contested topics, and at their best in minutiæ Wikipedia's entrenched cabal passionately hates.

Curious, as a social experiment. It's interesting it became as good as it did, but it's firmly in maintenance mode now and that won't keep the cobwebs off forever. I wonder how much it's being gamed by PR companies and governments now.
there's a Starcraft analogy in there somewhere
Thanks. We changed the title to be less misleading.
Actually, the azure SDK bits are pretty much all on Github as well.. Azure's CLI interfaces are either via node.js modules (npm install -g azure) or, iirc powershell extensions.

I will agree on a lot of the tech.. I think, by comparison DocumentDB is horribly locked-in without an API-compatible version you can self-host (even if it doesn't use the same tech, or perform as well) is a big warning flag imo.

In this case, being MySQL compatible is anything but a lock-in.
Same situation. Those are all examples of vertically integrated businesses (or alternatively, different components of a single output).

A university sells education. Classrooms, dorms, teachers, etc. are all part of the same 'supply chain' for education.

A trial lawyers sells legal services. Research, evidence, appearing in court, and so forth are just incident to the basic legal service provided.

A restaurant sells a 'dining experience'. The food, wait service, and so forth are all part of that same experience.

What OP means by a company that has both horizontal and vertical businesses is a company offering something as a standalone revenue-generating output (the "horizontal" business) and something else that incorporates that standalone output as part of another output (the "vertical" business).

This would apply, for instance, to a fast food company that not only sold hamburgers via its chain of fast food restaurants (vertical) but also supplied those same hamburgers to other, possibly competing competing fast food restaurants as a separate business (horizontal).
So, let me pay close attention to you, to see if I can understand the message you're trying to communicate here, as I think there are a number of elements at play.

First, I think your example of dilution and it's impact on returns is a good one.

Dilution - a nice neutral definition can be found here:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dilution.asp

A reduction in the ownership percentage of a share of stock caused by the issuance of new stock. Dilution can also occur when holders of stock options (such as company employees) or holders of other optionable securities exercise their options. When the number of shares outstanding increases, each existing stockholder will own a smaller, or diluted, percentage of the company, making each share less valuable. Dilution also reduces the value of existing shares by reducing the stock's earnings per share.

I sense we were overly focussed on the impact to the balance sheet, and ignoring the impact on share of earnings, so I will grant you that Dilution's impact on EPS (and, eventually share of dividends), is a reason that shareholders might resist Dilution.)

But, I think it's important to recognize a couple things. First, issuing shares does not always create downward share price pressure. It's quite often the case (particularly in startups), that an infusion of cash has a significant upwards impact, as the liquidity may now make the company much more valuable.

Another good example might be Apple, back in 1997. Microsoft's $150 million got 150,000 shares of stock. That liquidity injection (at a pre-split price of $2.50) gave Apple an important boost at an important time - that I would argue created upward share price pressure.

On the flip side - http://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/11/dangers-of-st... has a nice writeup on how to deal with issues surrounding dilution.
I don't think it's necessarily education, and it's definitely not limited to Americans.

It's all about convenience. People in general will take the most easy / convenient choice over all others.

You may want privacy, but being able to watch cute cat videos, even if you're tracked, it so much nicer.

People care about lots of things, but they always tend towards whatever is easiest.
Scala has hardly the user base of C# developers.
This is just crap, for example:

- The quality of their claims is directly related to the quality of their input. There is no discussion on the quality of their input.

- They by no means justify their causal relation assumption

- They make weird claims, for example they call their method a "gold standard", but there does not exist a gold standard for this kind of pseudo-science at all. And their method has the same flaws they mention other methods have.
and reddit !
The Internet at the Speed of Light [pdf]
I can only second this. Webstorm hands down.
The Termite and the Architect
Me is scientist. Me has produce papers. Me turns questionable data into sausage article and slaps catchy title onto it. Success. Repeat.
Do we know what kind of data was accessed in these attacks? I wonder what kind of weather data can be so important to be kept secret that they must disrupt the service and seal off everything. Were they storing other data on these servers?
It was a totally different world for development 15 years ago though.

Yeah, now Microsoft are dead.
Adobe France is looking for C++ Developers for its new R&D Center
Hmm, yes I can. Gcc, gecko, cups predates apple, spidermonkey...