skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone should watch this documentary by Adam Curtis about the history of extremism and the rise of the banks...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Lake_%28film%29
Lamenting the increased number of hours worked is a popular notion among those on the left. The author suggests that the downfall of Radio Shack was based on societal changes rather than more traditional market forces (competition, changing consumer demands, etc).
The Soundcloud links are giving me a 502/504 which means that I don't hear anything.
I've used Swift to make a basic keyboard framework[1] and I've found it to be extremely crashy and unstable, even in the latest versions. Also, certain Xcode features don't work in it (such as refactoring). Incredibly frustrating. With that said, I love the language, so it's almost worth the pain.

[1]: https://github.com/archagon/tasty-imitation-keyboard
If you want to be even more pissed off, read the Nuance wikipedia page and see how they essentially bought-out every single potential competitor.
People don't know the definition of the word Internet. But then again, the Internet has become more and more AOL'ified ever since that long, long September ..

What I find frustrating is that people in my circle are less and less inclined to send me an email and would rather just post a message on my wall. Its getting to be pretty infuriating, to be honest. Trouble is, I don't see any way around it - until some other competing service comes along to replace Facebook, just like happened with AOL and Compuserve. But I think we're a long way from that.
"Americans are too busy to tinker" is not a very plausible premise for Radio Shack's demise. Others in this tread have pointed out Radio Shack's longstanding problems and failure to find a niche in the modern retail world. I'll just add that if it's really the lack of leisure time that's driving the decline, other leisure-based businesses (travel, entertainment, etc.) would be failing as well, and they're not.

According to the Economist [0], "American men toil for pay nearly 12 hours less per week, on average, than they did 40 years ago—a fall that includes all work-related activities, such as commuting and water-cooler breaks". The big caveat to that is that people with more education are working more, and those with less education are working less. That may have some part in it, but the truth is that if Radio Shack was selling products that enough people wanted, they would find the time for them. Lack of time didn't kill them.

[0] http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-ti...

[edit: s/nice/niche]
http://www.theodinproject.com/ helped me when I was first starting out: it organizes a huge amount of free online courses and learning materials into a syllabus to take you from complete beginner to junior web developer.
What kind of developer? I'm going to be mighty displeased if I get a book about using Oracle products, but many other people would be dismayed to receive a book about writing parser combinators in Haskell.

This seems far too general to make anyone happy. You may need to specialize a bit more. Is this a box with stuff for web developers, academic types, low-level programmers, etc?
I am no fan of wordpress, and I agree that it is a textbook example of bad programming... but it is also a textbook example of good community management and success at empowering non-programmers to have their own web presence. And I believe that the amount of exploits has as much to do (if not moreso) with its sheer popularity as it does with the code.
4) definition of "work" is different than everyone else's
There are still some up and running electronics stores out there like Fry's where I can build a PC from parts. If Radio Shack had stayed the same maybe they would still be in business. Instead every year I walked in they were less and less like that and more and more just prepackaged goods like cell phones and toy cars. Half the time I went in the past couple years they didn't even have whatever adapter or cable or solder or whatever I needed due to them putting all their floor space toward competing with cell phone carriers and Toys R Us.
> Yeah, no. They contribute the same to LLVM -- and even more than they did with GCC--, while still nobody "compells" them.

This does not negate OP's statement, "The fact that we can see and examine the source [of the Objective-C compiler] is because of the GNU GPL." We have very well-documented and undisputed evidence that NeXT wanted to make the Objective-C compiler proprietary, and that they only backed down after the FSF lawyers determined that that would be a violation of the license.

As far as Apple's open source contributions, according to Saurik, they often fall short even when legally compelled, let alone their voluntary contributions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2083877
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WRT your first point: yeah, I know what they mean, but that is very poorly worded
Probably a landing page for gauging interest. If enough sign up they'll probably make a plan (survey: what do you want in the box??) and add details.
So it doesn't fit his use case. There is no silver bullet. Everything is a moneky's paw in software engineering. I look forward to the day when someone discovers a language trade-off and doesn't dramatize the entire experience.
I'd guess that these permissions actually only pertain to files that the app itself creates.
The volume controls on my touchscreen device.
The iOS app ($1.99) should more prevalent here too (it's buried in comments below):

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noisli/id862773459?mt=8
Android too. It was one of the first things I bought when I moved from iOS to Android. Helps me sleep.
Bull. Shit.

RadioShack hasn't catered to the hobbyist market in the better part of 20 years. I worked for RadioShack around 2001, and they'd already jettisoned almost all the parts by then. The focus was on pushing cell phones, overpriced TVs and PCs, and extended warranties for everything.
Looks like http://asoftmurmur.com/
Take responsibility for what you wrote. Here are some of your words, and the obvious implications:

> performance needs a very careful eye

Clearly implying that performance doesn't require a careful eye on MySQL. Which is utterly idiotic and wrong.

Though you've proven yourself sufficiently dishonest that I'm sure you'll pretend that you never implied any such thing.

You also wrote:

> makes it easy to do silly things, like turn off referential integrity in a slow query to boost performance.

Which is really misleading, because it ships with most of that stuff off. It's not possible to turn it off, it's HARD TO TURN IT ON.

Seriously. Try making MySQL treat your data the way you'd expect (always throwing errors in situations where something that's invalid by the SQL standard has happened). It's hard. And if you said 'just turn on strict mode', then you've clearly never tried to catch ALL of the edge cases.

MySQL is a horrible tool.

The only good thing about MySQL is that it's such a piece of shit that a whole generation of devs decided to try to experiment with NoSQL tools because they didn't understand the difference between 'things that suck about MySQL' and 'things that suck about SQL'. That ignorance has spawned some interesting projects.

I didn't put a single damned word in your mouth. You're just another pathetic little jerk who communicates stupid and wrong shit and then tries to use pedantry to pretend that you didn't do that.

Sorry bro, but you suck at logic, communication, and life. Peace.
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>For things I don't care, I just use a simple password.

Maybe you don't care, but others might.
It's pretty reasonable to ask you to re-submit for review and extremely rare that someone wouldn't be able to do so. I see that you don't actually have the app, but Apple doesn't think this is common enough to have a process for it.

Do you have the source? Do you have the certificates and private key that are needed to sign the app -- if not, you should be getting those under your control.
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This is a really badly written article. I didn't really understand what was happening until I read the Foundations article:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/xenon-death-flash-a-free-physics-...

Essentially, the component that regulates power to the CPU is a die-on-board package and due to the photoelectric effect certain types of high intensity ultraviolet are causing a voltage drop which crashes the board. Duct tape, as always, is a solution.
Make it optional then. Permissions are really scary.
Different use case (SMS stats), but you can see an example of querying the local iMessage DB here: https://github.com/mroth/grayratio
In addition to sspiff's good info, take a look at the I/O options:

https://www.96boards.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/HiKey_Us...

This will likely limit how useful the board can be, because the I/O choices will prevent a good ecosystem from growing up around it.
At the moment it's only available as a cloud service but we're considering a self-hosted version later on.

Sha1 support sounds like an interesting idea. Care to open an issue for that?:)
And it probably wasn't even his idea, some poor underling might've given him the idea. Happens all the time, everywhere.
If you aren't being physically restrained, it's rather straightforward to resist an unwelcome touch. Autism is not associated with extreme weakness or passivity.
All authors should be required to view

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1984/

before making conclusions.

I arbitrarily selected 1984 because my dad was occasionally working part time at RS between programming contracts and it was before the arrival of Best Buy and Walmart decimated consumer electronics sales. True, there were maybe one quarter of the pages of the catalog devoted to parts. However, consider the difference in commission between a 59 cent small signal NPN transistor, vs the commission on a $349.95 police scanner or a $279.99 dual cassette deck or even a $47.95 alarm clock radio. All that stuff came from Radio Shack before Best Buy or Walmart. I think we bought a TV from Sears once when I was a kid. I grew up with a Model 3 and Coco 1, 2, and 3 with microware OS-9 and the weird pre ansi early K+R C language compiler and all that. Radio shack scanners, even some ham radio gear.

The highest profit margin in the store was parts. The problem is nobody buys parts. So you make more money off one clock radio per week than 5 transistors per month. Youngsters in the HN readership don't understand that Radio Shack used to sell consumer electronics, so they think RS never did and it always lived entirely off 59 cent transistor sales. Not so. (edited to add business advice that when you have a main line and a side line and the main line goes away, that doesn't automatically mean you've always been a leader in the side line, and comically younger people are accusing RS of trying to become a best buy, when RS WAS the best buy before BB existed...)

Basically RS lost consumer electronics in the 80s to 90s with the arrival of the big box stores and then it was all down hill till this year. It just took them longer to die than the typical victim of the big box stores.
> failure to find a nice in the modern retail world

I believe you meant "niche", not "nice", and I agree with that, though I don't think it's entirely their fault. The tinkering community has become much more technical, and has also moved online, all while consumer electronics became less user-serviceable.
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Sure! Will definitely look into it. We don't want to ask permission for something we do not need.
yeh I just brought some bits for my arduio thought I was buying 10 of somthing turns out I was buying 100 switches and it cost less than 2 quid shipped from china.
Depends on Skillsets but it's not horrible. It's actually pretty consistent in Charleston, SC. as well. I know many devs over 100k in each field, It's not SF pay, but the cost of living is also not SF prices.
> The author suggests that the downfall of Radio Shack was based on societal changes rather than more traditional market forces (competition, changing consumer demands, etc).

Societal changes producing changes in supply and demand, and that causing both the fall of old firms and the rise of new firms are traditional market forces. Its what proponents of capitalism point to as the manner in which capitalism, via the free-market, aligns the work done in society with its current needs and desires.
noisli is one of product I love to use. and it seems server is on fire! I hope lots of people can get some productivity boost by using it.
The problem is that those same wonderful properties make them completely unsuitable for the task at hand. They have a weight threshold that severely limits their uses and they are unsafe for carrying anything important that cannot take a drop from max height at max velocity given the failure modes.

Making better/smarter autopilots for a small helicopter or VTOL aircraft that can actually fly point to point would be more useful and might actually work, unlike this quadcopter idea.
Wow, this is a crazy article.

>World Jewry responded by declaring a global boycott against Germany.

So we're using "World Jewry" in casual conversation now? Like that's a thing and it gave out declarations? Wow.

>All these were paid for with money that no longer came from the private international bankers.

How many billions were generated by the nationalization of wealth from Jews and minorities? Killing people and taking their wealth shouldn't be applauded.

>Germany even managed to restore foreign trade, despite the international bankers’ denial of foreign credit to Germany, and despite the global boycott by Jewish-owned industries.

Uh, it wasn't just Jews boycotting Hitler, it was a good chunk of the world. Turns out not everyone loves a sociopathic mass murderer who declares war on his neighbors.

>Canadian researcher Dr. Henry Makow (who is Jewish himself)

Is this how we write now? We mention who and who isn't a Jew? Wow.

Please keep this pro-Hitler bullshit crap off HN, thanks pal. I find it amusing and unsurprising that the "OMG THE FED IS THE WORST THING EVER" crowd obsessed with Rand/Ron Paul also turn out to be historical revisionists and straight-up racists.
Goodbye Discovering A Language Trade-Off and Not Dramatizing the Entire Experience, and good luck.
Surely, if PwC is wrong, and Patreon is responsible (which seems this way) and HMRC decides to investigate, they will go after Patreon, and not individual users?
Why would this be limited to only TV's and not every Samsung product if they company is employing something as stupid as this.
Problem: of the types of items listed that could be in the box, only books would boost my career or make me happy.

A never ending supply of desk mites that I will have to cycle through or throw away just adds stress, not happiness.
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You are quick with calling everybody a 'Nazi', aren't you?
He says no: https://twitter.com/mims/status/306453610961702913
I agree with all you've said, but my independent charade started in 2009 - IAP was not yet a function of Apple libraries. Once better tools became available for us to monetize as originally planned, my team was already well dispersed.

The entire story of my independent career would take much longer to describe than is profitable for either of us.

Evolve or die, as it were, and since I'm not yet gone I am in yet another stage. One where I've whittled own the number of people, and disciplines, I need complete my endeavor.

That's not to say it's easy. Talent of a measurable worth is not always ready to go when you are.
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What does your site offer that http://mynoise.net/ does not?
That site just adds more to the argument that we should get rid of the penny. The coins are materially pretty expensive compared to their worth as a currency.
I imagine Patreon did the calculation of implementing complicated (and in flux) rules for for a portion of their market versus the lost income to Patreon from losing their European customers...

I can understand that it's likely that the equation comes down on the side of the European creators costing them less over the long run.
> Dividends don't magically appear out of nowhere; they're paid out of profits, just like a salary. (Some companies pay out the majority of their profits as dividends, others pay none at all.) They'd either get taxed at the business because they're not paid out, or taxed at the shareholders because they are, not both.

This is not how it works. Salaries are not paid from profits. After the salaries and all the other costs of the business are paid, the company gives the state its share of what is left and keeps the rest (profits). Dividends are paid with this money that is left after taxes. And then (in general) are taxed again when the shareholder receives them.
Three UK hospitals become custodians of open source openMAXIMS code
Great job, I'll be trying this out during my next sprint. So far Soundrown is my favourite.
Both seem very similar in functionality but I prefer the visual style of Soundrown more.
http://soundrown.com/
>Huh, wow. I hadn't realized template strings can be used that way in ES6.

That feature ("tagged" template strings) is designed primarily for "escape text for X" usage. Usually X is HTML, but it can also be SQL of course.
About the modus operandi: Greece in years of financial crisis

http://uk.businessinsider.com/greece-spends-90-years-in-defa...
I have very limited experience with this, but when I signed our corporate formation documents, the lockout was written in the restricted stock agreement.

It is likely agreed on before employees every start their first day of work.
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If they can provide decent internet I'm in.
The real purpose of RadioShack wasn't to satisfy the electronics hobbyist.

It was to make a ready, local supply of necessary parts for electronics that were unreliable and burned out frequently, in the days when end-to-end service or "just hire a professional" weren't the way people addressed technology failures.

My grandfather made regular trips to RadioShack because the bloody vacuum tubes on his TV burned out all the time. This wasn't 'hobby,' nor was it really a chore he enjoyed.
Netflix is launching in Cuba today
Might I suggest looking at Rust? It started out with the policy that

"This means that a thread cannot touch the memory of another thread."

but has grown a host of smart pointer-based thingys that do exactly that.
It's a mixed blessing. More complexity = more billable hours for accountants, but also = more liability if they screw up.
Shock & Awe!

You'd think the fact that a smartphone stays in your pocket would be more alarming. The things have multiple cameras, microphones, GPS tracking devices, and a whole myriad of personal information stored on them.

They're even rectangular screens!

Someone needs to write an article that refers to smartphones in the context of "telescreens" and describe what they do matter-of-factly so we can snap out of it...
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/SmokeSecret/smoke_...

Not a direct descendant, anyway. Forrest is a parental role model for my own parenting, at least WRT science and hobbies. Cool dude.
I love the look of the annotated code. I think it would be particularly useful for documentation.

Are there any tools that can generate this from comments, or perhaps an Eclipse or Visual Studio plugin that shows this type of documentation along with the code?
Please give Noisli a try and let us know ;)
Except Patreon is not in their jurisdiction, but their victims are.
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A price point, and an expectation list would be cool to have. Otherwise, this looks like just another way to get my email for spam purposes.
Interesting Project
Question: How can you make sure, that every Nomad has a place to stay in each destination? If you limit the time one can spend at a destination, the living costs would be exponentially higher as the flight costs technically affect the flat rate.
Its well known that the Tu-144's design was stolen from the west and the Soviet plane was a rush job.

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/spy-sold-Concordski-Soviets/sto...

There are better sources, go look them up.

>If you'd analyze carefully you'll see that those were mostly perfect rational decisions

This was Soviet thuggery at best. There is no rational reason to put guns in space. Their attempts to militarize space against treaties they signed shouldn't be applauded by apologists like yourself. It doesn't make sense, it was a provocation and "fuck you" to manned spaceflight because Soviets wanted to take the cold war to space. Thankfully their corruption and incomptence made it a non-issue when they failed with Polyus and were too broke to try again.

Its incredible the revisionism here. The USSR has gone from a proper evil empire to a wonderful utopia thanks to space nerds who think the US is the worst government in history. I just hope this USSR fetishism is a temporary fad for attention, like all fads. I think the bullshit has gotten thicker as HN Russophiles try to pretend Putin is a legitimate leader and his war crimes in Ukraine are, per usual, "the west's fault."

Lets call a spade here a spade. The USSR's space program became a pig with lipstick on it towards the seventies and never recovered. All the excuses about how wonderful the Buran was (which put as many men into space as my own personal space program) is ridiculous. Lets give kudos to real achievements. Lets give real NASA projects which were successful half the credit HN space nerds give failed soviet copies. Thanks.

>Not true - even in 90's when designing ISS Russian experience with space stations was one of the reasons to invite them to the project.

This was, at best, diplomatic welfare to bring the ex-soviets into the modern world. We didn't need them to launch another armed platform, so we invited them to a peacetime collaboration. We've been trying to turn Russia into a civilized country since 1991. Unfortunately, they keep falling into an annexation obsessed dictatorship. At least we tried. Now the ISS is a political football for them to kick around to provide political cover for their various annexations. If you don't think the early Russian retirement of it isn't a political move, then I've got a bridge to sell you.

Meanwhile, NASA continues to lead the world in space exploration and science both in manned and unmanned missions. I wish it got 1/10th the credit HN'ers give failed Soviet projects.
I've noticed on the propeller and nighttime sounds that there's a gap in their playback as the loop starts again that's honestly quite jarring. Especially when the propeller is the primary background sound.

Even the fire has a noticeable pause.
I seem to recall someone proposing a few years back that a significant fraction (though not all) of the uptick in Autisim could be explained by increased assortive mating.
Well, one of the features is to be able to mix your own sound, by playing multiple sounds at different volume levels. So, what we're really doing is adjusting the volume of the app, relative to the system sound.

I hope that helps explain what I'm looking for feedback on, and why using the device's volume controls isn't a solution.
We simple wanted a safer solution. Nothing to do with obscure plans :)