skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have an actual example page anywhere that uses this? I'm curious to see what it's like beyond the gifs you have.
I continue to be amazed at people buying into the ESR-authored consensual hallucination about his role and importance. His primary creative contribution to the community has been a fictional mythology starring himself.
I think the product may not be without merit (edit: entirely), even though the marketing reminds me of free-energy pseudoscience. Within a region with many islands, where technology is expensive because it has to be transported by sea (with weight and space limitations increasing the cost), it may be much more cost effective if you have batteries without needing to ship an electrolyte. You can just cram more replacement anodes in a cargo hold than fully-fledged throw-away batteries.

On the other hand - solar panels might be a better investment.
I think this is still an extremely common phenomena these days. Speaking from personal experience, someone making the mistake isn't that jarring, it's the insistence of the other individual that you are mistaken that is always jarring/shocking to witness.
This would be a great idea for emergencies where one loses power for an extended time. I researched emergency equipment and ended up buying several hand crank flashlights.

Solar lamps tend to be too bulky and cumbersome. This would be a good application for a whole room solution. I think there is a bigger market for these than they think.
I imagine paid services offering this functionality are about to come up and rise and make news with their profits. Perhaps Tinder will have its own built-in. The potential is certainly there.

Automatic messaging would be especially neat. Bots can take the time-wasting initial conversations all to themselves, after exchanging with each other more or less predefined templates they’d employ a crude ML-enhanced algorithm to estimate whether their respective human masters would like to take it from there or let it slip. Less awkwardness, less uncertainty, more efficiency.
I think this will lead to a more interesting world.

I secretly believe this will ALSO lead to realizing that you can't "automate all the things," and that some small subset of things will persistently, stubbornly, refuse to be "algorithm'd out".

For the record, if you are a materialist/determinist (Dan Dennettist), then you're basically also agreeing to the postulate that eventually ALL the things (including ourselves) will be "algorithm'd out".
RMS regrets not accepting LLVM into GCC during 2005
I recommend downloading their ISO and trying it as a Live CD.
I think that by using the "powered by water and salt" phrase they are trying to present the product in layman's terms. For most of the people it's sufficent description to understand the product and using the "galvanic" term wouldn't help to understand it better.

However it would be nice if they had a "how does it work?" subpage with scientific explanation - for the credibility.
OmniSharp will help http://omnisharp.net
The only open problem here is the one i stated "serious loop transforms". Parallelization is not even "hard", it's just hard for languages like C++. Fortran compilers have been parallelization for 20+years

The rest (effective cache/register/op usage) is all subsumed by cost models for polyhedral loop transforms.
See PLUTO (http://www.ece.lsu.edu/jxr/pluto/) and PLUTO+ (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2688512)
I don't really think that native English speakers have a problem in knowing how a certain sequence of characters should be pronounced. This kind of problem is usually typical of people (of any native language) with high levels of literacy - it happens when a substantial part of their vocabulary comes from reading books rather than oral communication (be it person to person or tv/ cinema).
To me, the problem of native English speakers seems to be that they are often unable to write their native language well enough not to come across as uneducated people.

I am an Italian living in an English speaking country. I never had any problem in remembering the correct spelling of English words, and I believe it's because I can read them with the Italian pronunciation (in which spelling and sound are perfectly matching). It's probably much easier for the brain to remember a sequence of sounds rather than a sequence of symbols. So I wonder if anybody has ever tried, as a teaching tool, to teach children to read English with an "alphabetic" pronunciation that associates exactly one sound to each letter. Assigning to every word a "written" sound on top of the "spoken" sound could help in remembering the correct spelling.
As others have pointed out, this is a battery-powered lamp which needs salt water as its electrolyte, but gets its power from a separate consumable. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but the way they work so hard to distract attention away from the battery is pretty scummy. Flagged, and I encourage others to do the same.
Back in the days of Windows 3.11, in frustration, I coined one that so far has not gained any traction:

"that which can be configured must be configured"

Just like there are few people with IQ exactly 100, there are few users for whom all the default settings are appropriate. One has to review all config panels to be sure, and I have never done so without finding one critical default or another that was just plain problematic.

Lesson: make defaults clear, as few as possible, and all found in one place.
My wife's company uses Anthem, and they've been notified by their HR department that they are part of the breach, but that is all they know for now.
Any chance those two MacBooks are connected to a different wifi basestation than your other devices? I have an issue right now where the base station in my living room regularly drops connections (to any devices) but all the other base stations work just fine.
For any interesting type of vectorization we want to do, the problem is not "can we figure out what to vectorize" it's "how long do we want to spend vectorizing code" :)
There is a viable 3rd ecosystem out there and it is Microsoft Windows Phone.

However, the existence of Windows Phone has proven that developers do not want to support more than 2 mobile platforms. It creates a barrier for entry and support updates if you want to keep all of your platforms at parity.

As a result, the fate of any 3rd ecosystem is a slow non-growth existence in the froth of the industry platform churn.
> Update 9:05 a.m. PT: Google has informed VentureBeat that the issue experienced by Firefox users on Android is a bug, and a fix will be issued “very soon.”

i.e. "whoops, we got caught"
Tomorrow I might post our 3D printer operating system, which includes calibrated temperature readings and SMS alerts among many other things (webcam, motor control, and printing objects remotely)
With all due respect, I think this smacks of elitism.

The bigger problem IMHO is that spending too much time on those things (and perhaps here, or the Internet in general) leads to dopamine tolerance, aka "ADD". Which cannot be good for lasting relationships.
It's all dependent on what you're trying to do. Sqllite is surprisingly robust for simple things. Are you experiencing any issues yet, and what kind?

What's the transactional activity with that time series you're storing? (i.e. are you writing these individually each millisecond or are you writing in batches every hour)
show me the schematics
I created Improvely to meet that need. Might be what you're looking for? Some sample reports:

https://www.improvely.com/demo

http://demo.improvely.com/reports/mywebshop/organic

http://demo.improvely.com/reports/mywebshop/person?id=nflbfl...

Hope you don't mind the self-promotion.
I'd go one step further and say it has to do with engagement.

If you find the book/movie pointless the first time, no amount of reruns will change that. On the other hand, if you loved it and made you think about the issues it raised, it might be worth going through it again, but a big part of the extra deepness you find in the rerun will be placed in there by your subconscious mind.
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I have so many uses for this.
Thanks.
Seems cool. I think it's safe to assume that the #1 concern of those unwilling to store their data in "the cloud" is the (valid) fear that service-provider-X has the ability to look at your files.

I think it's worth noting that this seems very similar to Spider Oak's zero-knowledge feature (https://spideroak.com/zero-knowledge/), which they implemented a long time ago.
Does jitpack currently support repositories in Github Enterprise?
I would like to have seen a human jump out in front of the robot and the robot dynamically reacting.
Logs, logs, logs
AFAIK WPF is managed by the Windows team. All this open sourcing has been happening form the Azure and developer teams. Chances of Windows open sourcing some of their code? Less likely.

As someone who worked on WPF though, I will comment that the code may not actually be too useful. It is heavily tied to Windows and its graphics infrastructure.

I'm more interested in seeing something like Moonlight ported to modern platforms.
Surprising that you're the first to mention the most obvious answer which is that with the search deal ended, there is less affordance to "play nice" with competitive browsers. This is not at all unusual and perhaps before there was more consideration given to have their mobile offering work on one of their largest commercial search partners.

Also, lot's of people are lamenting the seeming betrayal of "don't be evil" but I think it really hasn't been about that for a while. Google has bigger ambitions to change the world now as their investment in driverless cars, medical devices, VR, etc. has shown. Those ideas require large capital investment and anything they can do to generate more revenue to fund those truly game-changing ideas are probably seen as fair (regardless of whether they adhere to an open internet/standards based approach). One day, we'll all see that the "ends justify the means" or so we hope.
Thanks, nice summary of something I intuitively pondered but never expressed about this. I've had arguments with other engineers about this topic but could never garner more than "but the models don't match the biology!"
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> It takes precedent over any law, legal theory, precedent, tradition, etc.

The framers were (mostly) lawyers, and wrote the document against the background of English common law: http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/why-you-cant-und....

Exceptions to the "freedom of speech" are part of the Constitution, despite not being written in so many words, for the same reason "due process" requires a presumption of innocence, even though the latter phrase appears nowhere in the document.
I wasn't aware the C++ bashing season had ever stopped. Did I miss something?
Their email stated that they would contact those who have been breached. It appears that everyone was breached. I think that means that they will try and hide the care package (1 year of free credit monitoring) in snail mail so they don't have to pay out.

I already locked my credit and now I'm thinking it's time to freeze my credit so no one can take out new lines without me unfreezing it or increased authentication.

I am learning how this is all working, but if you think about it, it's silly to wait for a breach to have your data locked down.
I agree, and I think the focus here on the battery is misplaced. What is enabling this to work is the availability of low cost LEDs, which require very little current to operate. These open the door of all kinds of lighting with low power sources, like galvanic batteries, or as you suggest solar panels (though I am guessing the cost for solar is higher). Whether this is the optimal power source is TBD, but the core idea that lighting can be brought to developing countries at very low cost by looking at non-traditional power sources is an important one.
SourceForge Error, None of its links are Working
Doesn't appear to be related to Firefox. I tried it from Chrome on my desktop (with dev-tools emulating a Nexus 5). See screenshot. Looks like if you're on a mobile device at all they want you to use the app instead of your browser.

http://snag.gy/Dl0ay.jpg
> Adderall ... misses the mark due to its adverse health effects and its potential to exacerbate an inequality.

Translation: the product we're competing against is only available to people with health insurance and a prescription. So we're playing the class warfare card to sell our product.
There's a lot more racial admixture in the American population than most realize, especially among populations who have been in the country for long periods of time. At least 4% of self-identified "white" Americans have recent (within the last 200 years) African ancestry, pointing to a historical level of permeability in the racial barrier.

This is not overly surprising because "race" is a social construction, not a biological category, and individuals of ambiguous racial admixture are not uncommon today. Take for example Congressman G.K. Butterfield, who is constantly subject to questions about his membership in the Congressional Black Caucus among other topics, despite having two parents of visible African ancestry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Butterfield

The real point is that racial categories are silly. Humans are remarkably genetically similar across the globe. There is greater genetic variation in two chimpanzees from the same troupe than there is between humans from the tip of Patagonia and the Khoisan in Africa.
This sort of offends me - if they offer the option to remove your house entirely, they should offer it to all.
Are you sure that intermittent failure to name-resolve can solely be attributed to the handling of .local domains? It seems that if that was the case, the failures would be more deterministic
have you seen firebox for android? it's years ahead of chrome.

you can have extensions to begin with. from ad blockers to stylish, which let people with poor vision actually use the browser.

also it allows you to disable all sort of asinine tracking that is forced in chrome.

expect Google to play a Microsoft on Mozilla harder and harder now.
Doubtful. WPF isn't even the recommended GUI toolkit on windows anymore.
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In terms of maturity and feature-completeness, GTK# is the answer. Unfortunately, it's no beauty either.

Especially on Mac it does its own control rendering and, while it tries to match the OS, has problems.

XWT was meant to replace GTK# and has some good underpinnings but it doesn't seem super active right now.
>To be clear, 80% of kernel-time in that 1KB write is spent in fsync(), _not_ in the network stack

Are you sure?

Of the total 3.36 μs (see Table 1) spent processing each
packet in Linux, nearly 70% is spent in the network stack
Where could I, a total beginner in crypto-stuff, learn more about this kind of thing? What would be the list of things I'd need to know how to do in order to "break in", and where could I learn how to do them?
When “Teaching Yourself Statistics” Is No Match for Being a Doctor
OP has a 100% success rate getting a bunch of upvotes which can be a sign of foul play:
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=martin_tipgain

And at least one account helping out with comments exclusively on his submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Kaibert123
It is. HIPAA should destroy these jerks. The problem is that they are stating that no health data was actually lost... just the part of the health data that identifies you and can be used to ruin your credit.

Since that part of the data should be the most locked down, it seems like a complete lie to me. I think the health info was compromised completely.
I had a kid who insisted on playing Three Billy Goats with her dolls with me over and over again. I got bored enough with it that I started doing variations, like giving the troll underneath the bridge two heads and arguing with myself. She was displeased at first (because, you know, going off script) and then asked me to do it again.

Spontaneity was really hard to re-run. =/
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The author says this is progress. Maybe it is, in a way. But to me it still means we're very primitive, still very tribal, that we still care about any of this crap.

On forms, I never answer any question about my supposed ethnicity. How would I even really know? And why would I care? If there is some word with a capital letter that is the name of my supposed tribe, and all my heritage is attached to that, I hereby throw it in the garbage. It isn't worth it, if it's a wall between me and other humans. The special dance of my ancestors, the special holiday tradition, blah blah blah, on and on, whatever, I reject it, and choose to be a generic mutt in the one real tribe there is, called the human race. To me, that is progress.
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OP here, the motivation for Feedhero is to allow users to view many different sources of content in one tab. I was tired of opening several tabs every morning to check out Hacker News, Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook, Instagram, and other sites.

Originally scheduled to be completed in 3 month, Feedhero took over a year to develop as a side project. Most of the time was spent integrating OAuth and repeatedly overhauling the UI. It is powered by Backbone, Rivets, Node, Memcache, and Mongo. All social media and email accounts are connected via OAuth.

I learned quite a bit during this process. If I were to do it over again, I would probably use a JS framework with native framework data binding and inline event handler declaration. Also, looking forward to Mongo 3.0 to be released for row level locking.

Mobile apps are coming soon using the same user accounts. I'm looking forward to writing in Swift. Feedhero would not have been possible if not for all the wonderful open source packages out there. Thanks for reading and any feedback is welcome.
Relevant letter section:

In the event that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension receives a
request pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (5 USC 552) or an equivalent
state or local law, the civil or criminal discovery process, or other judicial,
legislative, or administrative process, to disclose information concerning the
Harris Corporation [REDACTED] the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension will
immediately notify the FBI of any such request telephonically and in writing in
order to allow sufficient time for the FBI to seek to prevent disclosure through
appropriate channels.

This is a written policy that FOIA requests should by default be resisted. This combined with the change from a mission of "law enforcement" to "national security"[1] signifies a huge shift in the FBI away from a rule-of-law culture to a rule-of-man culture.

[1]: http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/fbis-main-mission-now-not...
This should help you

io.js contributors: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/graphs/contributors?from=2014-...

node.js contributors: https://github.com/joyent/node/graphs/contributors?from=2014...
Brain dump of notes and lessons learned for those that have little experience working with email.
I was reading the X509 certificate verification code, rather than the TLS code:

https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-x509/blob/master/lib/certif...
RRDTool?
This is brilliant! Another vote for SBT!
Ask HN: best GitHub iOS app?
Do you use any iOS app, especially for issues/PRs?
I've been using my Zyxel travel router to access the internet with my iMac until the wifi issues are resolved.
GCC 5 in Fedora
Only 1/3 of iOS users have installed Google Maps
Keyboard shortcut hacking in OS X
That's kinda true, but I did use non-rolling-release distros, particularly ubuntu for a while, and they're generally more buggy (and I expect Fedora is even buggier than that).
i disagree. i think what we all must do is tell everyone exactly that.

"don't use Google play store, it's like ie6. use fdroid and be happy". and then we all drop support to it, just like we dropped support to ie6 and it's bullying tactics, even though we own ajax to it, there's so much abuse one can take.

do your part for free software. but yeah, i know that building your startup on top of a free software stack means nothing when you can give in to a walked garden and sell your closed source app for 99c
For the record, one of the mods changed the headline from what I originally submitted. My original headline was "Water + salt = 8 hours of light". The actual title of the page is "SALt - It's a Social Movement."
"What Are The Civilian Applications?"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/565181590431485952
Mono has a lot of GPL code. Xamarin has a license to impart commercial licenses to their customers. So Xamarin customers are fine. Mono users will have to abide by the GPL'd bits.

Microsoft's CoreCLR is MIT licensed. Nice. :-)
I'm intrigued. I collect real-time machine performance data using a UDP multicast daemon (written in C). It's fallible on some network topologies, etc., but it's extremely light and efficient.

I wonder if that could be plugged in to Prometheus without the overhead of HTTP collection...
I know a few people who have to deal with these sorts of issues. They identify as black, but by appearance people assume they are White, or Greek, or Hispanic, or Asian, or something besides black.

Occasionally, people ask them why they have so many black friends or tell racist jokes in front of them. Other times, people who believe that they share a common heritage will speak to them in languages and become angry when they don't understand.

Human beings are all to apt to judge a person's ethnicity by their appearance, but in many instances one's appearance is not an accurate gauge of their ethnic heritage.
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> Whereas racial categories like these are socially constructed, and do not correspond all that well with genetic population groupings.

If you look at genetic population groupings, the gap between populations that the layman would identify as "black" and "white" is as wide as the Sahara Desert. Literally so, if you put these population groupings on a map.

It's true that, if you look at New World, non-indigenous populations, things get more complicated. But genetic populations still correlate very highly with geography and ethnicity. The layman'a notion of "blackness" or "whiteness" may be flawed, but it's not completely incoherent.
Hater apparently doesn't want a HoloLens
We're working on it! http://indiewebcamp.com
time to switch to f-droid, as an open-source app store.

http://f-droid.org/
I've read Lord Of Light a similar number of times. Try to guess why ;-)
In fact it runs quite well on .NET. My favorite demo is seeing how much faster Eclipse loads on the .NET runtime than the Java.
Firefox for Android also has nicer default fonts and MathJax works! (MathJax on Chrome for Android renders with parts of formulas overlapping other parts and overlapping surrounding text.)
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The whole TCP/IP stack came from BSD. It was already pretty much the standard one. So back to August 1994 per Wikipedia and my rough memory.
> µTorrent is written in C++, and you could never, ever, make it so fast and small using any other language.

That is not a reasonable claim.

The article mentions C, but there are a number of languages that could ostensibly produce a binary of a similar size and efficiency. Rust comes to mind.
For me, Chrome uses half the memory of Firefox for the same number of tabs. If you're having memory issues with a browser, your problem is almost certainly extensions - the #1 culprit being AdBlock [Plus]. Give µBlock a try. (The reason why my Firefox uses more memory per tab is in fact almost certainly extensions.)