skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's the link I mispasted. Thank you.

What whiteknight didn't say was he'd spent over a year volunteering to port 6model to Parrot and had been repeatedly rebuffed. (He's a much nicer person than I am.) You can find that in the weekly parrotsketch logs too.

Look at the Ohloh logs of contributor activity. You can see them drop right after Rakudo said they were going to abandon the NQP Parrot was using. That's what finally drove people away.

Any post-hoc justification you hear about Rakudo dropping support for Parrot because almost everyone left is silliness. Why work on something when you've been all but told is going to be unused, no matter what you do? Especially when you've been told not to fix the things you wanted to fix.
In Smartphone Market, It’s Luxury or Rock Bottom
I've checked the dates. Samsung recently posted their biggest loss in operating profit since 2009. Which unsurprisingly coincided with record sales and market share growth by Apple.
Yes, the quote is probably apocryphal. I think the sentiment is misguided: once it's up to civilians wielding small arms, it's not a matter of national security anymore; if it's come to that, it's likely a catastrophe already. National security is the job of the army and law enforcement/intelligence agencies.

I can see how having small arms in the hands of civilians would help mount a resistance movement against an occupying power, but that's not a matter of national security.
Strenuous jogging is called running.
</pedantic runner>
SMP is probably one of the reasons Linux is so beloved in research, Windows may have caught up there somewhat, but it wasn't too long ago when you had to pay extra for a version of Windows that would allow you to use a second processor. Windows isn't even an also-ran in supercomputers, which is a shame really. Also being able to have farms of Linux boxes without fussing about with Windows licenses.

Networking is another. Windows at least used to have a bunch of different crippleware SKUs with differing networking abilities

Filesystems, Linux supports tons of them out of the box.
In the flurry of IANALs in the comments, the readings of others seemed to match what bothered me:

nkohari put it best:
That said, if your use of React somehow violates one of Facebook's patents, you're in trouble. The original version of React would be protected by the additional patent grant, but your fork wouldn't be.

As nkohari goes on to state (which I agree with), they're probably just trying to protect their patent portfolio and participate in OSS.

I, however, don't want to both even being anywhere close to an idea of compromising F/OSS, as there are lots and lots of options out there that are well within and have no additional legalese that could be misconstrued (whether positively or negatively).
12 km/h isn't particularly unachievable. I'm middle-aged, heavily built, run to and from work a couple of times a week and otherwise do no cardio exercise. I've built up to that kind of pace over a couple of years.
Instead of arguing about what the franchise agreements must or must not say based on what you imagine must or must not happen in each case, why not read the franchise agreements? Would appear to be the simpler, more accurate approach.
Bruce Sterling put this rather well 10 years back: "I'll believe in settling Mars when I see people settling the Gobi desert". http://boingboing.net/2004/01/08/sterling-ill-believe.html
Private investment firm buys out Sony Online Entertainment
Be brave. You can do it!
Seems more likely Broadcom have been helpful than MS from what the RPi folk have said. I'd guess that they weren't originally expecting it to be feasible to get what appears to be a custom SoC made.

Note that when the B+ board was designed, they already knew the pinout of the new chip and were leaving space for it.
Yves Couder has demonstrated that you can construct a physical system that obeys the mathematics of pilot wave theory. This has zero bearing on if pilot wave theory is an accurate description of subatomic physics.
Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
Maybe it's because I have Debian stable.

At this moment I'm upgrading Debian to Jessie which according to this https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ is still "testing".

Typically I would just wait for the next stable version of Debian but for web development I want to get the latest Firebug.
Maybe such cases are easier to prosecute in the computer era?
Sure. But the point is that these will be available in the short to medium term by companies with experience in scaling out. A world of difference between someone like Volvo showing something and Google/Uber doing it.

Uber could easily approach Volvo but then again there is no competitive advantage to. The car companies are interested in volume sales not building cars to niche specifications.
That would be hard. I live in Austin, TX, which is where half the broke musicians in the world live (and a number of famous ones). So, lots of really good stuff comes onto the used market here, and used gear sells fast, if it is priced fairly. So I can buy and sell good gear as often as I want, and my standards for what I buy can be quite high.
Oh, but at least they had a sense of humor:

http://www.ralentz.com/old/mac/humor/mpw-c-errors.html
"My fear is that teachers will now choose for Windows on the RPi, since that is what they know."

Well, no. Almost none will have used Windows without the GUI.
ScriptRock's Experience Porting 30KLOC of JRuby to Go
No, "Staff" is a top-level heading, just like "Competition".

I think that mention of Apple was simply missed by whoever redacting the document. They're saying "Manufacturers like us have already started to offer assembled computers, disrupting the dominant marketshare of unassmbled kits."
Its weird no one has mentioned this: You can't actually use in the wild, its illegal to!

Straight from the Osmocombb site: "Keep in mind however that using OsmocomBB based phone on public network without proper permission is illegal"

Another reason why GSM and its offspring(I'm looking at you LTE) blows ugly chunks.
They know the start and end points of the trip and can make a decision whether it can be handled with an autonomous car or a human driver at the outset. They could serve major routes like airports to hotels via autonomous vehicle to begin with and handle everything else with people. That could still represent a massive cost saving.
It's easier if you run at that pace for 20 minutes, 3 times a week...
The same could be said for electricity, no? I should leave the lights on all the time to increase energy demand so they build more wind farms and solar plants?
Thats a seriously loaded question. The problem is the US is a really big place so in city's and their metro areas you get world class speeds ( 150Mbs is pretty common ) however in rural areas your stuck with maybe DSL and if not that then you can get satellite internet.

Thats the problem I see with classifying ISP's as a common carrier. Your not going to get 150Mbs everywhere your going to get 10 which means in the urban area's where you do have good access and some competition you will see stagnation ( forget 1Gbps in cities that are well above the average )
Too bad Google Drive is taken.
Does HN expose raw data? Or must one resort to scrapping?
The study indicates that strenuous jogging has the same benefits as no jogging, while moderate jogging improves life expectancy.
> 4. It is reasonably well-positioned for solar power.

A day on Venus is 224.65 earth days long. That is a long night so perhaps the solar power thing isn't that clear cut.
And from my experience here in Cambodia, everyone is using Facebook anyway. So it isn't a clear black and white "third world countries only use whatsapp" either.

Also, there is a severe desire of everyone to buy an iPhone -- so they just lag behind a lot. You can buy a pre-jailbroken iPhone 4G for around $100 here.
Understanding current thought in the field for me is based on skimming many academic papers. That's kind of different, though.

Getting a solid understanding of the fundamentals of the various fields is more of a coursework sort of thing. There's a bunch of quantum lectures on MIT's open courseware - anything Allen Adams will be great. If you're a book kind of person I believe I enjoyed Shankar but it's been a while.
KDFs are definitely suitable for password storage, so I'm pretty confused at how the author arrived at their conclusion. They mention that scrypt with low security params is less secure than bcrypt at an adequate security setting. This doesn't seem particularly alarming or even surprising.

I think a better take away would be: "If you use scrypt, make sure you choose adequate security parameters. If you're already using bcrypt, there's no need to switch to scrypt."

Edit: the first paragraph of the scrypt paper actually brings up the fact that the problems of password storage and key derivation are equivalent:

Password-based key derivation functions are used for two primary purposes:
First, to hash passwords so that an attacker who gains access to a password
file
does not immediately possess the passwords contained therewithin; and second, to
generate cryptographic keys to be used for encrypting and/or authenticating data.
While these two uses appear to be cryptologically quite different [...]
they turn out to be effectively equivalent

https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf
Guber. I like it!
Already mentioned it two times here :)

You can, however, use the monitor mode without transmitting anything.
Algorithms and Data Structures Implemented in Go
Some municipalities limit the structure of the entity offering the service however (eg. cannot be substantially and exclusively owned by the ratepayers, or their agent(s)), however the FCC seems to be working on getting those restrictions thrown out.
A lot of people are unsatisfied with QM and looking for something more tangible - including physicists.

While I would also prefer that quantum mechanics turns out to be quite classical at its heart - with objective reality, locality and all that - it seems a pretty bad idea to expect or even assume that nature works the way we prefer it to and that it will be easily understandable for human brains. Actually, the longer we struggle to make sense of all of that, the more likely it seems to me that everything is actually radically different from the way we have looked at it for the past century.
Or if you plug the software into major financial trading hubs... oh...
As a current Ubuntu user, I think you are just spreading old, outdated FUD.

The GUI works and it is in fact just as good as Win8 (which I dualboot). When using virtual desktops, it's far better, and makes me more productive.

The package management is amazing. Chocolatey sucks in comparison.

What I fail to see, is what these basic computer functions have to do with research.

Visual Studio has a lot to do with research, and it is a fantastic tool in its own right. The GDB debugger is a piece of ancient garbage in comparison to VS debugger.

You could have focused on the real issues instead of your uninformed outdated FUD.
Wrinkle predictions – MIT News
You should have iceweasel 31 according to https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/iceweasel

Which websites refuse to work?

You could always just add the linux mint repositories and install the real firefox that way. http://superuser.com/questions/322376/how-to-install-the-rea... is old but the instructions in the top-rated answer still work.
Andrew is simply saying (if I read him correctly) that if you use generative models you might classify sounds into something other than Phonemes on one layer, and that classification may actually be better than "Phonemes" for recognising sounds. Phonemes are a construct for us to express a concept with language, but might not be the best way to represent a sound in a machine. So why try to write the routines to map sounds to phonemes when you can train it to just learn the categories that help it understand how to recognise the sounds better.
I think the article is too verbose when knowing the context the bug is trivial: you intercepted meta+s and ctrl+s and in the way you broke alt+s.

I find the save dialog useless for web browsers as well, but I think preventing its use is a bad idea in general. Overriding the browser's shortcut is uncomfortable. For example, wordpress likes to capture cmd+<number> to change the font style, but that's how I usually change the active tab. It also disables ctrl+tab, the other way I use to escape while the text area is active.

People use their browsers and have their workflow in them. Breaking them needs to have a really good excuse. http://xkcd.com/1172/
I would argue that the Apple I was exactly an MVP (as I understand it): not crap, limited in functionality, and impossible to mass-produce.
Product/Market Fit and Lean Analytics
Maybe I could still get Aurora with Wheezy? No idea what version Aurora is...

http://mozilla.debian.net/

I have been down this road before, it's just a pain.
At what depth underground does the temperature become tolerable?
Anecdotal opinion of someone that ran 6:50ish per mile pace yesterday in the SF Kaiser Half-Marathon and thus am apparently shortening my life... Those of us trying to run faster and be competitive (whether with ourselves or others) really don't care if we lose a few years of life. Quality over quantity! These articles come up every so often and seem to just serve as reasons for sedentary people to feel smug about their life choices.
What is Uber's core competency?
Mifi + VOIP gets you something similar.
The Isaacson biography mentions that he audited and crashed engineering and physics classes at Stanford.
HC doesn't claim to use any of those documents, only one "modeled" after them.

The fact that they don't link to, or even describe (except in the most obtuse terms), the documents they refer to should be a huge red flag to anyone considering this offer.

Also, how can something that has no less than five versions [including a "primer"] of 6+ pages of dense wording which refer to federal laws from the 1930's be described as "simple"?
The only relevant part (AFAICT):

"scrypt is demonstrably weaker than bcrypt for password storage when using memory settings under 4mb"

So don't use memory setting under 4MB. (Duh!)
The mint packaging of the real Mozilla Firefox (tm) works for me, on jessie at least.
>Do you think there is any such thing as a natural monopoly?

I am not aware of any.

>Do you think the cost inherent in laying cables makes the entity that owns the cables a natural monopoly?

No, otherwise the "natural monopoly" existed before the first company ever laid cables.
The diagram on 39 kind of contradicts that. In fact it indicates they have exactly the same circuitry.
The "Project Aurora" mentioned in this article is sometimes cited as possible precursor work to Stuxnet (http://www.npr.org/2011/11/02/141908180/stuxnet-raises-blowb...). Given Stuxnet, DuQu, Flame, Qwerty (http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/regin-malware-unma...) - sometimes thought to be part of Regin, all of which are at least arguably NSA malware, the Feds are aware of infrastructure attacks. Hell, part of the NSA is arguably supposed to be figuring out and protecting us against this kind of infrastructure attack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Struct..., Directorates I and R, at least).

So we conclude that the Feds are at least leaving the flawed "critical infrastructure" in place, of not actively working to insert more vulnerabilities.

The only question is why so very few in the media are calling this suspicious behavior out.
I agree entirely. In fact, this is precisely how passwords were implemented in a project I've only just finished.

In addition to the frustrations you've outlined, consider a further case where a user's username is their email address (this was true in the project I mentioned). How is the user most likely to behave in this scenario? Are they going to take the time to generate a new password that satisfies your constraints, or are they going to keep things familiar and use the same password that they use for their email? Afterall, the usernames are the same - so why not keep things easy to remember? Well, I'm sure that's convenient, but I absolutely DO NOT want your email password, even bcrypted/&c., in my DB. No thanks.

Clearly, then, the best choice is to generate something for the user; something that they can reset using a classic 'forgot password' system, but which they never have to define themselves. Four diceware generated words, plus spaces, each no longer than two syllables, seems to do just fine.
If Whatsapp lost, sign me up for losing.
Makes a lot more sense now why they bought Waze. It wasn't just to snatch it out of the hands of Apple and Facebook to protect the Google Maps franchise. It was to play keepaway from Uber, and prepare for the enteral launch of Google (Autonomous) Car.
Self-driving cars is one of many research projects for google, and it's far from their core competency. If they have money to spend and are very focused on this. I wouldn't count Uber out.
But the article explains why they override ctrl-s. It is because the users had muscle memory to keep hitting ctrl-s to save, since they were used to not having an auto-save function built in. But more than that, is the idea of a web browser as an app delivery platform. If a web browser is running an app (such as a word processor, or spreadsheet, or anything but browsing the web) it is sometimes necessary and beneficial to turn over browser-reserved keystrokes to the app in question. The only time to expect browser shortcut keys to work normally is when browsing a web page (vs. using the browser to run an application).
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8979013
Old white men hurtin' the kids!
> The cable franchise agreements are exclusive. That's why you don't see two companies offering cable service.

You and others keep writing that when it is demonstrably false. Witnesseth:

Wide Open West - A cable overbuilder that serves Detroit, Columbus, Cleveland, and portions of Chicago right alongside the "incumbent" cable company.

Wave Broadband - Its coverage area overlaps with Comcast in some (high net worth) areas of Seattle.

RCN - An overbuilder--the first one, actually--that serves New York City, Boston, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia.

You don't see many overbuilders because building a physical plant network is VERY EXPENSIVE. Verizon's former CEO lost his job to a board that saw how expensive the FiOS buildout was--even though it will return its costs 10 times through not having to maintain the old fiber--and how it dragged on quarterly earnings reports. Instead of spending all of this money, companies retreat to where they don't have to compete so they can soak as much cash as possible out of their existing assets.
Snowden Gives Keynote at Upper Canada College
> Similarly, craigslist, AirBNB etc. are impacting the renting vs. buying scenario and reducing costs in those areas.

If anything AirBnB has caused the price of property to go up. Where I live you could easily make enough to cover rent or a mortgage from letting a property on AirBnB for one or two weekends a month. The rest of the time it is empty, which means the demand for housing in the local area is higher, which means rents go up. In my 200 unit building I think around 5% of the properties are vacation rentals.

Really AirBnB isn't much different to holiday homes / timeshares, but what they have done is bring it to the masses. It will be interesting if / when they introduce surge pricing to combat this - right now the control is still with landlords, but eventually they'll just be another pawn in the game.
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+1 to that. It didn't even have a monitor, keyboard or casing: http://andrewchen.co/apples-minimum-viable-product/
The Iron Realms MUDs have a combat system that's so complex and demanding on reaction time that you can buy (with real world money, from other players) full curing systems that track how fast you can cure things, how close you are to inflicting limb breaks on your opponent and all sorts of other stuff.
Soon on Steam: Cubicity
In the late 60's GM built a new factory west of Youngstown,OH. ~ they soon found out the young men they hired from the local rural farm areas were not happy doing the same thing all day, even though they were paid far better then their previous employment on there families farms. They were used to doing different activities through the day on the farms. Their discontent, became known as the 'Lordstown Syndrome'.
"unregulated" does not mean monopoly. In fact, in all cases, monopolies are only possible through government force (ie. regulation).
I upgraded to Wheezy yesterday, I thought everything was up to date. I had "deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports iceweasel-release" in my sources.list. My Iceweasel user agent at this moment says "Firefox/13.0"!

Nothing refused to work, just nag messages on various websites. But Firebug, the highest I could go was something like version 1.5 and the older versions starting junking up my context menu. Figured it was time to upgrade and start a Hacker News rant ;-)
Lead into gold (Part 3)
Back in 1987, Carnegie Mellon already had robotic vans [1] trying to drive around the campus. They were slow-moving, so students had ample time to cross the road as they approached. I probably have a picture in a box, somewhere. As I recall a major issue was how to stay on the road. [2]

[1] https://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub2/thorpe_charles_1988_1/...

[2] https://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub3/thorpe_charles_1988_1/...
The error bars for strenuous exercise in the publication are laughable. Out of a population of ~1000, only 36 were strenuous joggers and only 2 of them died.
Custom pragmas in Nim are supported although I'm not sure they do what you're after. You may also be talking about Nim's effect tracking.

Nim also supports async await.

(I can't give you any links as I am on mobile right now)
The state of EDA tools really does remind me of the bad old days of proprietary vendor compilers a few decades ago. It's so incredibly frustrating.
fedora always releases the newest firefox within a week of the actual firefox release.