skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was unaware of that, however I do know that they produce a quality good at a low price. they kept other manufacturers out of the industry for a long time simply by producing a quality good at such a low price it was not worth the capital outlay to get into the market for the small profit (per unit) available. now of course the chinese can make things for fractions of what it costs elsewhere so almost all alternative zip maufacturers are low quality chinese manufacturers.
This honestly reminds me of Sears Electronics Department, I worked there for 3 years.
lol. Assuming Google did this is illegal and unethical in every way since Google does no evil.

90% market share + hiding competitor sites to eg Google Places is punishable by EXISTING EU law.
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I'm a bit surprised at the "computational benchmarks" [1] though. Can anyone confirm these are indeed CPU-bound, and not somehow GPU-assisted? If so, how can the underlying kernel possibly make such a difference? Scheduling? (if so, what kind of load was the machine running?) Clearly there must be something more to it.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=osx10_ubu...
I'm really freaking tired of the AWS Status page using the green "info" marker for major outages.
hehe thanks! Is there anything you like about it? Anything you hate?
Well, that's exactly what most static site generators would do. I wanted to avoid exactly that. Because, then you will write your markdown and compile it to html. The moment that you do that, there are two representation of the same data. And if you want to host it on github or somewhere, you will be checking the html files too.

What if you could just do the whole site without compiling to HTML? What if you could just check in the md file, and it would just work?

That's where I was coming from when I hacked this together.

I'm certainly not saying it's a better way of doing this, I'm just saying I love the simplicity that something like this would bring in when I want to host a simple static site.
Why Fear AI? Have Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk Gone Insane?
Is it just me or is it Newton season? Aeon Magazine recently ran an article on magical thinking that mentioned Newton, and I swear I've seen him mentioned in other articles recently as well.
It's quite easy to disallow all of that.
It saddens me to read this I bought my first computer from Radio Shack a Tandy 1000EX, it's now gutted and hanging on the wall above my desk,my nephew said,look mom a computer with a typewriter built into it !. Upon discovering ,how I memorialized my first computer , my nephew went on a search for his first phone..rest in peace RS.
Trustbusting in the Internet age: Should digital monopolies be broken up?
Sorry, no. I live in Malmö, so I don't go to Stockholm that often. But if you're looking to put out a job ad where all the meetups in Malmö are, just prod Michael Tiberg @ http://www.foocafe.org/. He coordinates sponsorship and such for almost all the tech meetups here.
First of all, it's perfectly possible to waste time alone.

A lot of social interaction is, however, a waste of time indeed.

Waste in the sense that if you could take the net sum of the learning and the enjoyment you would get from it, minus the effort (in particular if you lean towards the I end of the spectrum), depending on the kind of people you have the luck or misfortune to surround yourself with, you could easily go into the red.
I'm not sure whether to laud this or be shocked at the lack of more standard provisions.

Bath houses were a feature of cities for centuries.
Agreed.

The first time I saw one device like this(outside science fiction films) was in the America's Cup sailing competition, the sailors used that as a computer's display, people there showed the thing to me and it was pretty cool and very useful.

But adding a camera that could be recording ON LINE in front of my face... wow, it its creepy and weird, and I don't want to have anything to do with the thing.

I don't want private companies like Google or Facebook bribing people into sharing my private conversations with anyone, or the gobertment of the US(or any other gobertment), by the way.

A world in which everything you do or say is recorded in a world I don't want to take part in.
https://juliareda.eu/en/ is the website of the Pirate MEP, and she's quite active in her communication.

There's some mention of Green MEPs every now and then which is because she joined their coalition.
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That claim gets throw around a lot.

The US has more assets than Europe.

US GDP is growing drastically faster than Europe's GDP. Europe's economy hasn't grown since 2007, with GDP still below those levels. In another year or two, the US will also have a larger GDP than Europe.
http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-digital-single-market-joint...

(and she voted against)
Add in 'with a practical mass budget' as well. Right now the best known way to produce power from fusion is to build a star, and put solar panels around it.
"We can look at programming languages in two possible ways. They can be a means for us to instruct the computer, and incidentally communicate with fellow programmers, or they can allow us to communicate with other programmers in specific terms that are ultimately executable."

If anyone doubted this, of course an essential purpose of programming languages is for communicating with humans. The computer only needs the binary code that triggers the microprocessor's electric signals in the right combinations.

What's a shame is that the common features of these languages have been shaped more by the needs of the machine than the needs of the developers - and not just that: by the needs of 1950's computers.

A lot of developers understanding of what a programming language is has been shaped by those early efforts, and dragged through 60+ years of PL history. More modern languages have overcome the most glaring inconveniences of early languages, but the core assumption -that a PL's purpose is ultimately and exclusively as a tool to convey instructions to the machine- remains unchallenged.

But that's not an essential property of human-machine languages, and programming doesn't need to be that way. From the fields of End-User Development and semiotics applied to Human-Computer Interaction come some alternatives that propose an understanding of programming which is closer to the second way to look at PLs, as a tool for human comunication.

An interesting possibility is using computers in a way close to the "augmenting the human intelect" vision that existed before programing languages. In this approach, you don't have the loom-like vision of programs as sequences of instructions that are number-crunched by the machine, but as sets of symbols intended to be shown to humans, who would reason about them and extract meaning.

In this view, data and code are interleaved as a single entity, and not all content in the program needs to be executable - only some bits are crunched and passed to the processor for execution as a side-effect of using the tool, but the whole thing is intended as a sort of interactive novel that the user reads and steers to create some content or the other. (This is the approach of Literate programming, and is also related to Live Programming).

This can be taken to the extreme by creating instruction sets that work as recipies and can produce different executable code, so their meaning changes depending on the context on which they're executed. Configuration files and XML domain-specific languages may work this way, and it's a very natural way to reason for the human mind, yet this approach has not been fully explored by general-purpose programming languages.
Smaller requests, right.

Also, some privacy improvements by having less data for browser fingerprinting.

Also, if we'd consider dropping User-Agent header altogether, less ways to detect an UA, so a bit harder to show "sorry, your browser in unsupported, this site is IE^H^H Chrome-only"

Obviously, just UA header isn't even remotely sufficient for any of those reasons, but would be a good start.
Well, the strongest connection is probably to the recent DOE plan to spend $30 million on the more fringe fusion researchers. That certainly would provoke people doing that sort of thing to call attention to their research. What caused the DOE to spend the money in the first place I don't know.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2014/sep/30/us-targ...
Looks pretty slick. I like that it's full width, at least on my screen.

On my computer on initial load the image is almost, but not quite, all above the fold, with the orange button cut in half, which isn't a great look.

The colour scheme seems slightly incoherent - you've got a lot of blues, some orange, and then this black/yellow section in the middle that sticks out almost like a banner ad. I'd see if you can rework that to fit in better with the rest of the page.
Thanks for the links.

The interview series were part of the relaunch of the ReactOS website (2005) and community iniatives (2006). I know it first hand, I was the interviewer. OSNews was not involved, but they were open minded amd supportive to ReactOS - often featured news articles - thanks.

The old website is still up, e.g. http://old.reactos.org/en/interview_1.html
Google Scholar as well.
I had fun and socialized a lot more in a long time ago. Don't have much to show for it now and kinda wish that I spent the time differently now.

People disappoint; my computer rarely does.

Also I would be more willing to socialize more today but finding like-minded people is kind of hard. Finding like-minded people of the opposite gender harder still (at least where I live).
- Way, way, waaaaaaaay too much text.

- Odd color and layout choices:

-- Why is "Enterprise" in scary black?

-- Why are some things vaguely centered (but not), other items right-aligned, and then back to left-aligned?

-- From the top, we go through blue, light-gray, orange, grayish-blue, black, yellow, dark-gray, blue, etc. colors.

- Bottom menu links don't work.

- "It's as easy (and awesome as pie)" should probably read "It's as easy (and awesome) as pie"

- "Hoot doesn't?" ... just... no.

- Lots and lots and lots of little things like missing decimal commas ("2000 profile matches" should be "2,000 profile matches", etc.)

- Resizing the browser window makes the hero image appear/disappear (Firefox 33, OSX 10.9.5, latest rMBP)

- The website is missing a useful title tag (currently: "Audience Owl -/")

- And again: Shorten ALL texts! Example for the top call-to-action:
"Next Level E-mail Marketing. [new line] Deep insights into your e-mail recipients"
The fact that a metal-air battery is a thing, and that aluminum is actually one of the best anodes for use in them, only confuses the matter further.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery
I think there are actually two interesting questions here since there are now many Pirate Parties in Europe. One about the general stance of pirate parties and one about the stance of the German PP specifically.

I would generally expect a pirate party to support free-of-charge publishing of snippets and linking to content on the internet as a basis for the open internet. On the other hand, I wonder whether the German Pirate Party is able to look beyond what may be construed as an interest of German publishing industry.
> not being interrupted every 20 minutes

Completely agree this is a major issue in many companies.

This said, I'd call it more a problem with how a given company works on-site (open plan offices) than an inherent advantage of remote work; in other words, it's incidental.

But then you can't easily convince anyone to abandon silly open spaces these days :)

http://www.designcurial.com/news/survey-reveals-open-plan-44...
YC censors plenty on HN, especially negative stuff linked to YC alumni or startups.

I posted something the other day about the myo and i got a error page everytime I submitted it. tried submitting something else and bang it goes straight through.

I dont care that they censor stuff but that they are underhand and sneaky about it gives me pause for thought when I see content on here from YC startups, was it pushed to the front page artificially? Probably. Best to err on the side of caution and assume that it is just YC trying to sell me on their latest startup.
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I think it's confusing that they use "Days are numbered" for both dead and alive projects. If an alive project has its days numbered, does that mean an exact shut down date has been announced? If so, why not post it? If not, how are the days numbered?
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I'm a tmux user as well. I actually turn off all of the menus and make it pretty slimmed down. I stopped using Termite originally because colors were acting funky.
Any plans to open it all up now (after badusb folks opened their code at https://github.com/adamcaudill/Psychson ) ?

At this point mechanical drives are pretty much dinosaurs, it would be only useful to tinkerers.
You are part of Google, an you are paid by them. You are invested in Google, and your interests are heavily aligned with them.

Claiming that they don't pay you for your views may be true in the sense that this is not an official assignment for you, but to pretend that you are not heavily incentivized to act in what you perceive to be Google's interests is dishonest.
From the graphs, apparently there is no future in which I'm allowed to accept a lot of nuclear power into the mix.
bottom line: always CNAME your asset domain.
“Breaking up Google” – or just bankrolling publishers at Google’s expense?
If Minix had used something else, then Linus probably/might have used that.
I think the globe visualization would be more useful if it factored out the seasonal cycle of temperature changes and just showed the smooth change in average yearly temperature instead. As it is, everything cycles between hot and cold every year and it's difficult to tell if the amplitude is changing.
I see it as if you don't have all the hardware in-office and in-house ALL the software and have the clients go to your place to do whatever it is they do, there is no 100% guarantee you will get full security. And even then you have to trust the clients aren’t a risk in themselves...

If you want to be full-blown paranoid, you have to trust
a) the client's pc manufacturer (including USB connected devices)
b) their OS manufacturer
c) their browser manufacturer
d) all apps that the client runs

Then they hook their computer to the internet...
Come on. Really? This is a ridiculous post. Seriously go back and read it. The worst part about Google is its employees insistence that they can do no wrong.
San Francisco had bath houses but they, um, weren't very clean and were shut down.
Yes, they have the same syntax, but the semantics are different:

"that macro function is called and is passed the unevaluated operand forms. The return value of the macro is then evaluated in its place.

If the operator is not a special form or macro, the call is considered a function call. Both the operator and the operands (if any) are evaluated, from left to right." - http://clojure.org/evaluation

There are many macros and special forms in clojure where you have to understand that the arguments are not evaluated first - and if you try to reason about what happens as if they were eagerly evaluated you get the wrong answer or an error
Yeah...this is my experience. I hear people say their local RS has components, but all the ones near me are exclusively cell phones, crappy knock-off RC toys and batteries.

Fortunately, my local Frys has a very good components selection.
If i were Google i would give the EU a day without Google.
But in any case the EUP can vote for what ever they wan't they do not have any legislative power, as it (and all other) power (s) within the EU lie in the hands of the European Commission, which luckily is not "democratically" elected and it's members are appointed by the Council of Europe.

The EU parliament for some time now has been a mess of fringe politics from both the extreme right and left, all the crazy parties that can't get elected in their own countries join forces and form even crazier pan European parties, and whats worse is that all the crazy (and just plain bad) politicians that can't get elected locally manage to get elected to the EUP...
Sounds like my MacBook just contributed some heat to global warming because of this visualization
Wikipedia talk page for Spoon discusses including a section about this misuse of the term "container"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spoon_(software)
Similar project for Samsung SE-506CB external Blu-Ray

https://github.com/scanlime/coastermelt/

very cool live hack video diary

http://vimeo.com/channels/coastermelt/110257380

http://vimeo.com/channels/coastermelt/111417458
In my opinion giving that much freedom (all those settings) to user is not good and ruins the gameplay. I'd prefer such game to start simple and increase difficulty by itself.
I find this one almost perfect: http://games.usvsth3m.com/maths/ although it lacks more levels.
"When Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727, he left behind no will and an enormous stack of papers. His surviving correspondences, notes, and manuscripts contain an estimated 10 million words, enough to fill up roughly 150 novel-length books."

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/newton-papers-q-and-a/

Those words are being transcribed and published. You can read what is published so far here:

http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1
No - well, not in the way your parent meant. It's abuse if you're using the fact that it's a monopoly to benefit your other areas. It's not abuse if one division of a company makes enough profit to subsidize other areas, that's just a way companies manage budgets and is unrelated to whether they have a monopoly or not.
I am in India and Rails is still hot here. I got for ruby as it makes me complete my task faster than any language I know of.
Computer systems may be complex, but they're not the most difficult to use. I'd say a lathe for example is harder to use than a smartphone or a PC.

Generally, high complexity of the implementation does not necessarily translate into high complexity of the interface.
Are you saying that HN is less influential than newspapers and journals?

Are you pretending to be unaffected by the incentives you have to defend Google?
Funding other projects within your business, using your primary source of revenue, does not automatically qualify as abuse of monopoly. That's a non-informed opinion if I've ever heard one.

1) Google has never been legally shown to have a monopoly by any of the relevant anti-trust entities, whether in the US / Europe / Asia.

2) To claim a harmful monopoly, you have to show that consumers have been harmed. That has not been done either. This alone invalidates everything you said.

3) Funding self-driving car projects, google glass, maps, etc. is a hilarious example of consumers being harmed. Google hardly makes money with maps, yet they continue to produce a free-to-use, outstanding product. I can't think of a greater win for consumers than that. There is no consumer harm occurring.

Your last claim is wrong and has zero basis in actual anti-trust law. Funding or subsidizing other businesses with a market dominant business, DOES NOT inherently constitute abuse of monopoly. If you were right, Intel would never be allowed to invest into any other business; Cisco would never be allowed to invest into any other business; Microsoft would never be allowed to invest into any other business; eBay would never be allowed to invest into another business; and so on. You are not right of course.
In my experience most positions for senior people are filled through head hunters, at least here in the 'West' of Europe (Germany, UK, Belgium, Netherlands - don't know about France), or through consultants-turned-inhouse situations.

Out of curiosity, how much are you expecting to pay for the skillset you list? Are you looking for temp or perm?
Totally. We were able to side step the CDN in less than a minute. +1
I would agree, not read my copy for a very long time but it's very enjoyable. I think I read it at around the same time as I last read "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder, also a worthwhile read for some of the younger HN'ers who missed out on that era.
Googling turned up only a really thin wikipedia article - got some links on how you're doing that? That's really quite cool.
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It's the second time in less than a week that AWS have failed to update their status page during service disruption and then filed it under 'increased error rates'.

Don't get me wrong, I love AWS and use it every day, but it's a little insulting to pretend that things haven't gone wrong when they quite obviously have.

I know Amazon aren't the most transparent company in the world but why even bother having a status page if everyone has to turn to twitter to validate the outage?

Last night while sitting around waiting for cloudfront to come back so I could get on with my work I turned to HN to give me a bit of reading material. My word, sooooo many of the articles linked to on the front page were missing their static assets because of the AWS outage. Would be really interesting to know what percentage of the internet was affected.
I love this idiom. I also use it in Javascript.
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That's okay! Google treats its actual customers with contempt, as well as treating its product with contempt.
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I'm all for "bankrolling publishers at Google's expense" too.

At least publishers are many, and less harmful.
1&1 are guilty of this too.
FWIW, this sounds like you agree with eunoia that there's more to life than supporting yourself and being validated in your creativity.

And it sounds like you're not getting everything you want from life, and if that's the case, you have my sympathies.
There should be a day every year for donating money to free apps
Mobile showers are great, but I might have missed what’s so groundbreaking about it.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Mobile_Shower_Unit__...
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2008210554_homeless28...
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100923/NEWS01/709239891
http://www.henkelna.com/press/2010-16528-henkel-and-tempe-co...
http://www.depaulfrance.org/actualites/mobildouche/?lang=en
My thoughts exactly. Wonder how much CO2 was emitted just to power the animations in the background :P
If you think about this project seriously then you should hire a designer, it's gonna be money well spent.
did google made any of the nexus devices? They are a special model of mobile companies like LG and Samsung... so I don't think it counts.
A cheap low-powered camera running Firefox OS
I think if the Germans want to play nationalistic economic war, the US should return fire at Porsche, BMW, and Daimler - claiming that they possess abusive and unfair positions in the luxury car market, and proceed to levy extreme penalties in the US market on those companies (with the US market being 1/4 of their auto sales). Or perhaps try to force those automakers to divest those brands for the US market.

If the Europeans aren't careful, all they're going to accomplish is a tit-for-tat economic war.
I suppose it's that 90% of offices around the world use Microsoft products (Windows, Office, etc...) so it's very difficult to not use them both for users (they must use it in work) and for companies (try explaining that you fucked something up because Pages displayed something different to Word)

Similarly, massive chunks of the internet rely on Google (and Facebook) for functionality like authentication. Aside from that, I'd struggle to suggest a different mail provider than gmail such is there monopoly in that space.
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