skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this. any different?

Every time "this." is mentioned without quotes I'm going to automatically read it in Shatner's voice.

I'm really sick of names with punctuation in them, or that use everyday words. It's not that hard to come up with an original name.
There's already an FAQ entry [1] on "Where is the Firefox Hello button?", and the answer is not an intuitive one. It would have been OK to display the button by default.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/where-firefox-hello-but...
Coming from Spain, I had the same feeling when I got to that part :s
Does someone now where the stunning photo of a library was taken?
> If it turns out that such prediction is not possible then signals intelligence will simply be defunded in most of the world.

I don't think that's how government works. If it turns out that such prediction is not possible, then they'll receive more funding to do more surveillance and manipulation, and continue the cycle "until it works."
Never use first differencing, that's crazy. It magnifies measurement error. Pass the signal through a high pass filter to remove trend
I'm fairly ignorant with the workings of the drug markets but is there any scenario in which a cartel controls distribution and not supply? It seems like by increasing the demand for drugs, the cartels who actually produce the drugs will actually be better off with Silk Road operating.
Wow, what a terribly misleading written FAQ:

Does WhatSim work on all phones?

Yes, it works on all unlocked phones.

That question should be answered with a NO then. It doesn't work on all phones.
Getting downvoted. The lack of humor in Hacker News is astonishing.
That's definitely a requirement for me to switch from Hangouts …
Notably, Mikolev is now at Facebook.

My hunch (as a total outsider) is that anything Google publishes is about 2 years behind their current best practices.
He is just talking about layer model. Being iOS engineer for 4 years and Web developer for 5 years, These frameworks only works for certain use cases and at the end you wish that you did the right thing from beginning.
Who exactly is "Comcast Bill" and why is he changing someone's name?
Sorry, EU. Hopefully this happens though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulati...
If they're not on your network, yes (as they should be). If someone plugs a wireless router into your office ethernet, go ahead.
I think it's safe to say that those agencies are their own orthogonal state by now.
Reliability, FSM's... Erlang might be a good fit for people working with Twilio - I wonder if there's any kind of API though.

Sounds like fun though - there's something cool about doing stuff in the "real world" beyond the screen that is somehow satisfying.
We have a <View> and <Image> that works on iOS and Android. We also had web implementations working as a proof of concept but I'm curious if the community would be more interested in helping us implement/maintain the web implementations since we want to focus more on the integrations with each native platform for now.

You're probably aware, but it's always good to keep in mind that we don't have a goal to allow people to "write your app once, run anywhere". You should be able to share as much code as you want to share, but the truth is that great mobile experiences design not only for the platform, but even for the device. We should build apps that take advantage of the extra screen real estate on an iPhone6+, for example. So even within a single platform, you'll want to design specific experiences, and the same goes for implementations across different platforms.
Flagging this on account of lack of clarity. Seems suspicious to me.
It doesn't seem so. I've tried with 3 windows (FF Dev, FF and Chrome) and it says "There are already two people in this conversation."
BitTorrent tests P2P Web hosting
How a Blind Person Programs
How resin.io pushes Docker containers to small Linux devices
Please, could anyone write a tl;dw (too long; didn't watch)?
I have been running a couple of tech businesses in Myanmar for 2 years. Hit me up if you are visiting or want to know more about the country.
Microsoft Launches Outlook for iOS and Android
Stuttgart City Library
Why I decided to build 12 startups in 12 months
I absolutely despise the weasel words that this site uses. It is full of outright lies and contradictions. Most misleadingly:

All Sims make you chat. But this one for free and without limits.

It's not free, it costs €10 for a year. Why then do they also claim 'it never expires' ? Why do they say that it has no limits, when the Rates page is full of limits?

I despise such deliberately misleading text. These people are behaving appallingly. Put up a simple page explaining the costs please (even the Rates page talks in terms of 'credits' and can't bring itself to talk about actual money except in the small print).

The website leaves me with the impression that this company is out to con me.
If you can ensure that the rouge device is within your network, then you probably know what port on the switch it's connected to, and you can block it from your network without sending any de-auth packets.

I guess if someone is impersonating your SSID then this feature could be useful.
We're hearing the same narrative in this piece that we do in the US. I graduated last year (in Australia) with a degree in software engineering with first class honors and a year of employment already under my belt thanks to a nifty government opportunity that I mixed into my honors. I thought I was a scoop.

It has taken me 12 months to find a job, and that job is not in Australia.

Of the 7 friends I went through uni with (including myself) that completed, three found local jobs in their field, three founds jobs overseas and one took a PhD to duck and cover from the economy.

When it's as difficult to find jobs in the country as it is to get them overseas, you can hardly froth over how it's a problem that Australian IT demand isn't being met because students aren't interested.

Not our fault arseholes, maybe if you hired someone occasionally, people would consider it more of a career option.

The reality is that the Australian IT industry is dead, dead, dead. There is no startup culture anywhere, almost every games company abandoned ship during the GFC, and big companies like Microsoft ship Australian graduates to the US rather then employing them here. The jobs that stay in Australia are two-faced. One of the guys I mentioned got a local job with HP, and a few months later he was handing out fliers at the job faire for the next years graduates.

HP sure must value his technical expertise, and they aren't the only ones. Cisco was advertising for engineers (electrical, software, computer) for their graduate program. Upon further inspection, the first 6 months of their graduate program involved coursework in sales.

COME ON. I did not do 4 years of university to hawk routers.

Why is this shit happening? I don't know for sure, but it's clear something about the Australian environment is very hostile to IT business.
Samsung Reports Lowest Profit in Three Years Due to Lagging Smartphone Sales
The modules are great in OCaml.

The short variable names in Haskell follow the convention that the more polymorphic your variable is, the shorter its name should be. Eg in

map f (x:xs) = f x : xs; map _ [] = []

f, x and xs are very polymorphic, so there's really no better longer name there.
You don't pay for an email address, because thanks to email interoperability (not openness, which is a separate albeit related thing) a free email address is a decent substitute for a non-free email address.
Viber is not the same kind of substitute for WhatsApp when all your friends/family are on WhatsApp.
(I live in a market where everybody is on Viber btw, so the WhatsApp card is worthless even if they paid me $0.01 for each WhatsApp message sent)
Is This WebRTC’s Year?
Interesting wording in the document

"networks, or hot spots, are an important way that consumers connect to the Internet"

So people who use WiFi are consumers only in their eyes. Must protect the rights of the consumers, big money involved!

Still, censorship and blocking internet content is fine, just don't block the wifi, we might loose some customers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtbibliothek_Stuttgart

Another view of it: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_civica_di_Stoccarda#... - it looks positively Kubrickian.
> Duch’s heroin shipments from a Monroe, New York post office ... disguised with a fake return address.

That bulk mail envelope scanning program sure must've came handy for tracking the origin of his shipments.
Tl;dr – Email
Yeah, is it really native or is it just marketing speech about same ol' crappy JS?
Based on what metric? A Facebook team talking about a Facebook framework and a HN thread filled with React enthusiasts? I am not bashing any of it, but to suggest critical mass is a bit immature.
Why you think like that ?
We looking for developers to join our new service
Not really at all.

They're going to have to add a whole load of features and new UI elements which will increase the cost of updating and progressing the browser.

Either it's going to be a half assed Skype tacked in behind a menu somewhere, or a browser cluttered with all the visual UI of a chat program.

To say they had to do most of it anyway is compete nonsense. The protocol is like 1/10th of a decent chat program.
We just demoed something similar at the GWTCreate conference, an Angular-like library called Singular (http://daniel-kurka.de/talks/gwtcreate15/singular.pdf)

It differs in that it uses the same techniques as Google Inbox to run native code. We cross compile to Objective-C with j2objc, and cross-compile to JS via GWT, the data binding, controllers, are shared code on all platforms that run full speed native, while the UI templating language on each platform is platform native (e.g. angular directives directly in Android XML files)

It produces completely platform-impedance matched apps on each platform (e.g. native on mobile, JS on Web) while allowing the continued use of the regular UI design toolchains people are used to (Android Studio/Xcode Interface Builder)
Life with Dynamic Typing
That's interesting. I guess I can't really understand it until I see it finally released. A set of basic widgets like Lists,Sliders and Switches should definitely cover most use cases.

How are react native apps architected ?
Is it something like a model that is written in pure JS that is common for all platforms ?

So after I've created the model in JS , would I have to tailor the render() method for each platform ?
Shareholders are not "far ahead" of employees, because there is no one behind shareholders. Employees get what they are owed before shareholders see a cent. Why should they get more than that? Maybe you think customers should get a piece of the pie, too? Or competitors?

Dividends are the distribution of a part of the profit (or maybe retained earnings, if the current earnings are not enough) to shareholders. Profit is what is left from revenue after costs. Unless you want to redefine the basic accounting terms, dividends cannot be a cost.
Don't underestimate the users. They might use different words, but their comments and ratings will tell the story of web/hybrid suffering. Unfortunately web is not meant for apps, but for interactive documents.
Canada in zone 3? That seems a little bit too much different.
As in every market the real value is in distribution

I would assume Drug production is a commodity market (also within US borders)
one can wonder what happens when the Strong AI discovers the "advanced" interrogation techniques...
I have a success story with that.

I moved abroad and I have a chat with my parents using Skype from time to time. After the Microsoft acquisition Skype had to be upgraded and the old version stopped working. My parents aren't tech-savvy really and I failed to diagnose their problem remotely, so I tried https://talky.io/ (just because I watched Sam Dutton talk about WebRTC and he used that web for a demo).

It worked (to be completely fair, slightly worse than an average Skype session), and it kind of blew my mind. My parents weren't impressed though, when I explained them how amazing was that we were video conferencing using a website and open standards.

EDIT: typos
Honest question: you don't mind switching from a modern well-designed static language to legacy hastily-designed dynamic language?
Where is all this pent up demand? I mean I get what you're saying. Most academics know Haskell and Standard Chartered hires academics but there is a bit of circular thing going on there.
That's two different points through from a company perspective. The first is whether you're compliant with well-defined local regulations for the jurisdictions you are within, as well as any industry specific regulations you're under (think Finance). For example, the specific regulations for employee email are substantially different in the UK, Germany and USA.

The point you're making is whether 'state actors' can get into your documents or email. It's a different order of magnitude issue. First, as a company you're going to comply with whatever the law is in the jurisdiction. Second, if you're being attacked by a state actor then you've got major issues. And for many businesses even considering protecting against that wouldn't make sense from a cost vs risk perspective.
Hmmm, Let's see... Because French is a mother tongue for me. I was raised with de Balzac, Hugo, Dumas, Molière, Verne, Voltaire, etc. (My Petit Larousse 89 saved me).

I read Pascal's "Pensées" and Descartes "Discours de la Méthode" as a teenager. (blows the mind)

Reading in high-school ranged from Freud and Adler, to Nietzsche, Hume, Socrates and Marcus Aurelius. To Dostoïevsky and Ostrovski. To Bandler/Grinder/Dilts/Erickson...

I speak 5 languages fluently (on a daily basis), read a book or two, and I'm never sick at sea.

How many 'occidental philosophers' have you read? Don't take that patronizing route. I may seem to have a great sense of drama, but the art of disguising a slap as an advice is being lost.

If there was someone who loves French culture and art, it'd be me.. And this has nothing to do with France specifically.

This is about Governments (any, including ours) giving lame, unconvincing justifications. In other words: "You can try to screw me, but when you say it's for my own good, at least make it convincing"..

>I think you should read occidental philosophers a bit more, starting with socrate and aristotle, as well as history books written by objective historians, because many of your points either reduct to logical fallacies or gross exagerations...

>You seem to have a personnality attracted by absolute / binary things and a great sense of drama, so reading a bit of greek discussions will probably help you see that things aren't black and white and cool down a bit. As for french culture specifically, a bit of Voltaire and Rousseau will be a good start, because what you look as "prextexts and hypocrisies" are probably the kind of subtle reasoning that would let your country be in not such a miserable state.
What are some of the highlights of the Phoenix tech scene going on now?
I haven't desk-checked your program for correctness but I appreciate your effort!

Conclusion: If pressed for time, you may want to cut down on source bloat by programming in... COBOL!
>Someone could be logging in to their dashboard and the web service basically is like, “Well sure, I’ll serve up your dashboard HTML at the moment, but I got to send these phone calls out right now so you’re going to wait.”

Why not just use a push queue like iron.io so that it doesn't block http at all?
Probably not many. But, the point is that they can't use violence to corner the market for distribution anymore, with something like Silk Road around. Provided dealers remain anonymous, there is no "turf". This simultaneously cuts down on drug-related violence, and takes money out of the pocket of cartels by making the drug market more competitive.

It's not perfect, because if they still control supply they can still exert pressure on distribution. And, while Silk Road may be anonymous, obviously buying drugs in bulk from the cartels is not. But it's a step in the right direction, however small.
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The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama
Why should cartels be involved at all? Unorganized suppliers and distributors could have run the whole market. I don't see any mention of cartels or gangs in the article.
[Tutorial][C#] Creating a scaffolder control from scratch, comments?
First, removing the cabin will cause a large shift in the plane's center of gravity; without adjustment of the flight controls, it is likely to stall, dive, tilt to the side, enter a spin, or some combination of the above, and is unlikely to hit anywhere near where it was aimed.

More importantly, though, the parachute is also meant to provide an escape mechanism for unrecoverable spins and stalls, not just engine failures or fuel exhaustion. In a spin or stall 'aiming for an empty patch' is, essentially, not possible, as the control surfaces of the plane are not usable due to reduced airflow. Additionally, in IMC (Instrument Meterological Conditions), it's not possible to see a safe landing spot. This is an ideal use case for a parachute, but if the plane breaks away as you say, the remainder of the plane will land in an unpredictable location.

There's also the increased complexity involved with ensuring all flight control and avionics connectors between the cabin and body of the plane break away reliably and quickly when the parachute is deployed, and never break away otherwise.

In short, adding a breakaway cabin might make the pilot safer (but might not, given the additional complexity for breakaway avionics and flight controls), but it puts more risk on the public at large when deployed, so it's understandable why such a system was never developed (with the possible notable exception of military ejection seats).
You don't see any problems at all with taking my sentence, "It will cost you significantly more than a lifetime supply of quartz watches", truncating off "of quartz watches", and responding as if I had said "of smartwatches"?

A quartz watch will do everything a Rolex will do, and more, while keeping more accurate time. A smartwatch will do significantly more than a quartz watch will.
Ross would have to win, otherwise IBM's product looks like a dud.
Personally I think you can understand algorithms knowing only algebra and finite math. However, I should clarify the BA programs I'm aware of still required a semester or so of calculus versus others which require a few semesters.

At my college, almost every CS major ended up being 1 credit short of a minor in Math. I don't think that much math is necessary.
Avoiding CSS reflows in modern browsers should be pretty well documented, and I imagine it only makes sense to discuss reflows in a particular browser.
@vjeux will cover more about the style/layout API in React Native tomorrow, but the main point I wanted to get across is that React Native's style rules are a limited subset that are generally cheaper to compute. More importantly - the result of these computations aren't given to the JS environment in a synchronous manner. You can't read/write/read/write style properties/computations and inadvertently trigger more reflows than necessary. I've seen that pattern make web experiences unusable. In React Native, reads must be done asynchronously, and they are batched together for efficiency. Not only is this one major footgun that React Native takes away, but the asynchronous nature also means that style computation (layout primarily) can be done in a different "pipeline" stage, which opens up future opportunity to parallelize that work with JS execution.
That's weird, all the janitors I know have said its true that women's bathrooms are better kept than men's, and my own experience and friends anecdotes also reflects that. Perhaps there's a demographic aspect to it.
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Religion holds the power to make people horrible. Yes, killings are horrible, but I also behold that hating people is similarly horrible, and not being tolerant is also similarly horrible. I'm an irreligious atheist, for I think that transcendent dogmas of faith make people horrible. And these dogmas made people horrible before the Charlie Hebdo incident and these dogmas will continue to make people horrible also after it. In the grandparent comment I sought to explain the phenomenon, not to justify it.
Why you think like that ? We looking for developers to join our new service
ICYMI this is a product developed by an Italian guy who created a sort of smartwatch years ago (I'm Watch was called) which turned out to be quite a failure. This idea seems to be as good as the other one!
How Intercom builds software
Does anyone know if they are planning on including an IM client with it. (I know it doesn't have one yet). Without that it is pretty useless to me.
Kind of sounds like the beginning of Cinco e-Trial.

The best part is, e-Trial never gets it wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL2RLTmqG4w
Can it get even more retarded?

Will I have to switch between a dozen SIM cards in a few years when I want to send an iMessage, a Facebook message, upload an Instagram photo, conduct a Google Hangout session. Oh hell no.

Just give me a 4G enabled SIM card, a reasonable data limit (ie. 5GB) for an affordable price. I'll figure out by myself what I will use this mobile broad band connection for, thanks.
You really don't need to use JSX; I can't stand the look of it but love using React (I use it with CoffeeScript, but don't mind it with raw JS either).
> But in terms of harm reduction Silk Road was pretty awesome (fwiw, I never used the service). Not only did it derisk buying and selling drugs...

I don't see how it follows that derisking drug sales necessarily didn't increase harm. Yes, if you were selling drugs on Silk Road you were less likely to get into a violent confrontation with a client. Yes, if you were buying drugs on Silk Road you were less likely to get into a violent confrontation with the dealer. But the claim here is that Silk Road also dramatically reduced barriers to entry for both buyers and sellers for very serious drugs.

Heroin is no joke and no amount of pseudo-libertarian drug legalization arguments make it any safer. If Silk Road made it available to a dramatically broader audience that otherwise wouldn't have been able to get it, the harm to society, on balance, must have been enormous.

> The whole ordeal here just drives the point home, that the drug war is not at all about harm reduction for anybody, not users, certainly not dealers, and not even society at large.

Heroin isn't weed. It destroys lives of its users and certainly harms the society at large. To say otherwise is preposterous, at best.
Why not, if the extinction mechanism is disruption of the ozone layer?