skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Strava and RunKeeper are both amazing apps. I'd suggest to try them both and see which you prefer. It's a great time to be a runner!
I'm pretty sure the commenter meant better for Spotify's bottom line.
In the USA we've had "Materva" for many years, which seems reasonably popular. Lately, I've seen more and more energy/"health" drinks listing Mate as an ingredient; the Guayaki brand seemingly the most common.

These drinks really have very little to do with the taste/experience of the traditional S. American mate though...
From what I recall, the PPL is pretty aggressive about going after small venues. e.g.:

http://www.luton-dunstable.co.uk/Dunstable-nightclub-Ivory-L...
Do these products sell in Germany? I'm pretty sure they violate some conditions on recycling and product responsibility somewhere in the EU.
I grew up in Lahore, Pakistan and knew Basit Alvi - he is a super smart guy who ran a modem-based ISP (BrainNET) long before we had high-speed Internet. He's a hacker at heart.
Similar chuckles can be sought at Erowid Recruiter: https://twitter.com/erowidrecruiter
Brazil's "chimarrão" (as they call the mate) is prepared pretty differently than we do in Argentina, and the customs are a bit different. They use way more yerba, a much bigger gourd and it's not as social (at least in Santa Catarina I very rarely saw people sharing the gourd.)
I had only ever heard the scorpion version, never the snake. I MUCH prefer the scorpion version because it focuses on the scorpion and not the frog.

The scorpion dooms himself by his own nature, where as the girl is merely trusting and punished for it.
So does this mean that an artist makes more money when I /don't/ choose Google Music, because they get paid per advertisement shown when I load their video?

... this makes me sad.
> For more, you mentioned some activities at the college level

I didn't mention any activities at the college level. It's clear you have no idea what you're taking about.
Stanford, MIT, CMU, UIUC, UC Berkely

UCLA, USC, and UC San Diego all make the list, but those are to some extent peculiar to my experiences in California. The last few are probably a different grab bag depending where in the country you want to end up.

I can't speak properly to how things are done abroad, but my understanding from other fields is that name recognition matters even more.
Yep, because there's never a downside to tax hikes.

Really, it's a fixed tax on every transaction. That alone is enough to destroy some markets, and it grows exponentially with goods transformations at the "service" sector, where companies pay those taxes.
I imagine Spotify cares more about not being sued by the majors than distributing money to smaller artists (without legal teams behind them).

Also, isn't a big chunk of Spotify owned by the major labels anyway?
If you consider two types of users - average users (10-20 plays a day?) and power users (500-1000 plays per day), both users contribute $10 to the system. Most of the money that the average users contribute ends up sent to the authors of songs that the power users play.
I feel the same way about the news, but I suspect we are both wrong to have this exact reaction. While the bullet points are correct, not wanting to know the news comes from a place of self-centeredness. This is betrayed in the statement that "it doesn't affect me." I ought to have my ears open for problems that I might be able to help solve, but instead I have buried myself deep in my own affairs.

I hope this doesn't come off as an attack. It is not directed at the author or any individual. I just feel like this is an undercurrent in society that is easily overlooked.
OS X: Shortcat[1], Karabiner[2], Moom[3] (or similar), and the Shift+Command+/ shortcut to access the help menu to search app menu items.

Other *nix: dmenu[4], xcape[5]

[1] http://shortcatapp.com/

[2] http://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

[3] http://manytricks.com/moom/

[4] http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/

[5] http://github.com/alols/xcape
"Your phone already has all the sensors you need. Wearables like Fitbit or Apple Watch make your data more accurate. ...

We integrate with all services you probably already use. Your page is automatically created without any manual entry. ...

Through the Facebook account, we automatically load your profile photo, cover photo, date of birth, email address and time zone. ... We also load your list of friends to help you easily find them on Gyroscope."

If you click "Sign up" it immediately tries to connect to your Facebook account. Don't click that button if you have Facebook applications enabled. It does this before displaying any terms of service.

The CEO is Anand Sharma. He also founded Charm Analytics, which, according to Crunchbase, has been folded into Gyroscope. He puts his own personal history on Gyroscope.[1] The company's address is 988 Fulton St #341 San Francisco, CA 94117, which is a 2 bed/2 bath condo.

This thing is for people who think Foursquare doesn't tell people enough about them.

[1] http://new.aprilzero.com/explorer/
I understand that Roslyn powers or is the C#/VB compiler. Yes, the build system will often call the compiler as part of the build.
In Germany, you should give a try to Flora Power, another mate-based soft drink :

http://flora-power.de/

It's more difficult to find than Club Mate (it's a local brew from Hamburg). Depending on your taste, it contains much less sugar than Club Mate and feels more 'herbal', I prefer this.
If anybody is interested in drinking this stuff, I HIGHLY suggest getting one of the gourds and trying it that way.

The taste is very different from what you get when you brew it in a french press.

That said, my favorite yerba drink is: brewed yerba, a small bit of milk, and some peppermint syrup.

Absolutely delicious. Many, many, many lines of code have been written because of that combination.
Funnily enough, I only got familiarized with herpes when I moved to Brazil. I only recall a couple people ever having herpes in Argentina, but in Brazil it was a pretty common occurrence. I imagine it might have to do with the 'browner' people of Argentina being more resilient and maybe just being asymptomatic.
Kids today probably don't realize, but for its purpose, VB pre dot net 2001 was really really good. Especially compared to the c plus plus alternative available at the time, atl, and so forth. I know the criticisms of basic as a language, technical snobbery, etc.. But for building stuff quickly, it worked. And for an ide, was really snappy and fast. That deteriorated when the VM was introduced, dot net.

You start a project, a form appears. You drop controls on it. You set their properties. You code their event procedures. Press the play button. Compile. Exe. Done. It was a great product in that it abstracted the messy stuff well, and presented a programming environment that was intuitive and powerful.
Why not try to carefully stick up for this non-present colleague? As long as you don't make the person who is gossiping feel attacked or belittled, this could effectively discourage the behavior. The trick is to convince the group that you are above petty complaining about others. People who are positive, smiling, and upbeat tend to be more likable than those who are negative and complain, like this gossiper seems to be. Maybe just gently smile and point out the good sides of this non-present person. If the gossiper says something negative about this person, try to downplay it by saying something like "Oh, I've had that happen to me too".

If you really want to leave the lunch, you could have "an important lunch meeting" conflict with this one (ask some other coworker to have lunch with you to ostensibly talk about work), or claim that you have an important deadline to meet and must work through lunch for several weeks. After a while, they will forget to ask you.
> He came across like a completely different person in email vs live and in person. I never once saw him lose his cool in front of someone. I saw it many, many times in public and private email.

If someone is pleasant in person, yet crass or cruel online—but 99% of our interaction with them is online—then I think their online persona is the real them, and their pleasant in-person demeanor is the fake.
I'll just assume that the answer to the question is expressed in points it earned.
Drop a copy of the ttf file into the folder you are running it from and the panic will go away. The Dark theme looks for SourceCodePro Regular.
No, NT is not far more advanced.
Here Are the Water Restrictions California Should Have Passed Today
Ah okay. Well April Zero and this project look great. Congrats to your whole team for putting this together. The Animations look great as well.
Lower speed limits will not reduce the number of deaths, unless all traffic is reduced to 40km/h or less.

Inattentive drivers, confusing road signage, insufficient separation of pedestrians and cars, drivers not following established rules and guidelines: these are the contributing factors which can be addressed to reduce road fatalities with greater reduction of fatalities than simply reducing speed limits.

Autonomous cars won't speed for thrills, they won't cut lanes or run red lights. They will be far safer, if more annoying, than most drivers: just like the more conservative human drivers we already have.
The trick to not getting into an argument with this gossiper is to always seem like you have the utmost sympathy their point of view, but you can also defend the other person by playing as if you are extremely sympathetic to them too. You will come off as just a really nice person, and most people will like you for it.
Calling what happened in 1997 "a freak ice storm" is a bit of an understatement. Most of a state without power and only one of these amazing towers still transmitting. I do wonder if there is video of the aftermath of the fall.
Is it illegal to use them? No. Does talking about how much money you lost when a known illegal drug marketplace goes down give the police probable cause to believe that you may be dealing or buying drugs? Most likely, yes.
If both the buyer and the arbitrator are anonymous, how do you know that they aren't the same person?
The best thing you can do is be more selective with culture on your next job. Hint, look for married people in their 30s and 40s.
Not all engineers are renters, and not all renters want to rent forever.

The current median price for a 3 bedroom single family home in Mountain View (just picked a random valley town) is 1.275 million. Aside from the fact that this is INSANE, this is what the average engineer might spend on a decent starter home. It's not just executives (though it's still insane).
The original article on wired magazine now returns 404, but we're starting a discussion about this on http://www.peerlyst.com/discussions/the-dark-webs-top-drug-m...

Peerlyst is a community of 17K+ security professionals, discussing 25 areas of security (content security, cryptography, identity management, privacy etc). Once joining, you get a feed relevant to your areas of interest.
I signed up for "early access" ages ago and I still haven't been granted access, while it sounds many here are signing up and getting straight in?
This is awesome. Congrats on the launch Flo :)
Isn't that illegal? Does a spotify license include broadcast rights?
The xkcd was nice.
The return of halfway houses
Within a bi-modal distribution, those are the same thing.

Affirmative action type programs are often discussed/implemented as bi-modal.
If you're the kind of person who is smart enough to use Tor properly, you're the kind of person who is unlikely to be complaining about money you lost in drug trades on a high-profile web site.
Not only that. Compilation was super fast, the debugger was pretty damn good, creating OLE objects was a breeze (every class had the full machinery to become an OLE object just by flipping a flag in the properties editor), writing networking code was super simple (VB's built in events would take care of the asynchronous nature of receiving data), installation builder... I could go on. It was light years ahead of the closest competitors (Visual C++ and Delphi.) People love to hate Visual Basic, but for its time it was revolutionary.
interesting

I didn't know there was ever a real thing named De-Mail. I named a fictional email-like service De-Mail, in my book The Dread Space Pirate Richard. it's closer to Reddit than email, however.

My take on De-Mail was that of a forum & messaging system where you can never be sure if anything you see or hear in it is true or honest or factual, in whole or in part, but at least it's entertaining or stimulating, and that's what mattered most! there's a major comedy piece written around it.
I agree and this debate has ended along time ago.

Dropbox already proved this point.
Might be due to improvements in architecture, engineering, materials science, and so on. Modern skyscrapers are a lot more sophisticated (not to mention durable) than their 1960s counterparts.
VB 6.0 was what got me into coding when I was thirteen. I am infinitely grateful to it. So many memories working with WinSockets, OCX, and pressing that play button.

On Error Resume Next anyone?
Even smart people make mistakes, especially after seeing other seemingly smart people making those mistakes.
>Karunamon said that proprietary licenses did not exist, because works are automatically copyrighted and I disagreed.

Karunamon said no such thing (at least that I could find). I believe you're disagreeing with something they never said.
The article ends on a very strange note: "As Wildsoet points out: 'We've taken a hundred years to go back to what people were intuitively thinking was the case.'"

We've done nothing of the kind. By far the most common "intuitive" notion of the cause of myopia was close work, which at least one study has found to have some effect. There were a wide scattering of other ideas, including the old standby that masturbation is to blame.

So to cherry-pick one of that scattering of ideas and say it "was what people were thinking was the case", as if it was the most widely believed idea to the extent that it could be considered the sole idea is quite wrong.

Our intuition--if we consult it deeply--typically gives us five or ten plausible ideas for the cause of any condition, with three or so being common enough for people to gather in groups and raise a flag over them.

It isn't terribly uncommon for one of those ideas to turn out to be correct, so there is nothing sufficiently notable about this circumstance to warrant ending the article with it, and furthermore, the happenstance that someone's intuitive idea was correct doesn't mean intuition is useful for finding the truth, because for every "intuitively obvious" idea that turns out to be true there are five or ten that turn out to be false. So if an idea "just makes sense" to someone it has an 80 or 90% chance of being false, which don't seem like particularly good odds.
Name matters far more than quality of education, which is hard (or currently impossible) to measure, and usually gleaned through your interviews. In fact, name is a proxy for the quality of education. This is true not just at companies, but in graduate programs. I've seen people in evaluating positions openly discriminate on the basis of school.

Also, you give Harvard and Yale as examples of the "good name" schools and UC Berkeley and CMU as examples of "quality education" schools, but it's not that simple. In my experience, schools with smaller programs tend to offer far better educational experiences than schools with very large programs. In this sense, Harvard is more likely to give you a better undergraduate education that UC Berkeley, where huge class sizes make for a very different classroom experience, and you will find it more difficult to get to know your professors than at a smaller school. If I were choosing, I would look for a school that had a good name, modest CS class sizes, high quality peers, and where undergraduates had many opportunities to work closely with faculty. The class size and faculty interaction is where schools like UC Berkeley lose out.
The main reason I would say no is because I don't trust the government to spend the money properly. Politicians have squandered any ability for people to trust them, as far as I'm concerned. There's all these promises of a better tomorrow, but there will be so much waste, so much corruption, that people would rather not tax themselves.

What this is a vague promise of better transit, but no real plan, no budget with accountability, etc. Also, unless I missed something the tax is forever. How often have we seen taxes meant for one thing to be diverted to another thing?
The awful truth is that names matter a lot, even if you want to go into academia, and even for the undergrad school you go to.
Confirming it works fine on ubuntu 14.04. Bought it on steam yesterday, been playing it since.
I think this is referring to write-back caching, where the write operation is confirmed when the cache accepts it, but a separate process is responsible for replicating the write operation from cache to the persistent storage.

Write-through is more widely accepted, since the operation is not confirmed until it's successful on both the cache and the persistent storage.
Has anyone at Microsoft put up a blog post about how they decided what license to pick? I'd be interested to read the rationale from a large company.
> Hair is a cosmetic feature

What about reconstructive surgery? That's cosmetic too. Do you think that's also silly?
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Thanks for the tip, I'll look for it next time I'm in Germany.
I would respond with, "I don't want to spend lunch talking about people behind their back. Can we talk about ____ instead?"
The steady flow of condescending articles attacking anyone who doesn't want to let the politicians raise taxes now in exchange for something none of them will be in office to deliver doesn't seem to be winning the "Yes" campaign any friends. Maybe their crack team of psychologists could conduct a study and enlighten us...
Also I agree with other commenters who point out that in CS, several schools outside the Ivy league are considered good names: MIT, Stanford, CMU, UC Berkeley, Caltech, UIUC, in that order. With the Ivy leagues I'd rank it somewhat like this:

- MIT

- Harvard, Princeton, Stanford

- CMU

- UC Berkeley, Yale, Caltech

- UIUC, rest of Ivy leagues
It'd be great to have some indication of how long the waiting list is.
These towers are usually "disqualified" from height records by using the weasel words "free-standing structure" or "self-supporting" or similar.

In the photo, you can clearly see the numerous guy wires holding it up.
Oculus' John Carmack endorses Otoy's VR light field rendering tech
VB (and developers like me) always took a fair amount of heat for a "toy" development tool. Likewise HyperCard, which I used before VB. Yet the productivity achievable with those tools, for the right kind of project of course, was game changing for those of us who otherwise found UI development to be either onerous or forbidding.

I had simply assumed that VB was Microsoft's attempt to one-up HyperCard, and it's very interesting to learn about VB's real origins.

I developed industrial process controllers using VB. A stripped down Win3 or Win95 system running VB was actually virtually crash proof. Of course this didn't prevent me from incorporating redundancy into the hardware, to take the machine into a safe state if the PC stopped working for any reason.

What the dot net version seemed to do, was to make VB the equal of the other Microsoft languages, feature by feature. The result was that they lost the reason why VB developers loved VB. I continued using version 6 (pre dot net) for several more years after that.
I think it's important to note that the transit plan won't change regardless of whether we vote yes or not. The same light rail and bridges will be built if we vote no, which will lead to the same results in happiness.

If we vote no it's just a matter of whether or not Translink can learn to manage the money that they have now. They have historically been horrible at this.
Good question.

I wonder if the patent clause in GPL comes into play at all... and what constitute a 'derivative work' from HDL code...

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html#section11
Does anyone know of a real world game or app that uses geometry shaders?

Everything I've read (including this) says they're good in theory but not so much in practice.
I'd say especially if you want to go into academia.

Source: I've witnessed graduate admissions committees at a top school at work.
The increase is 35¢ per day for the average person. Literally pennies. Literally.

Every single Metro Vancouver mayor, every newspaper (right and left of centre), every organization that matters has endorsed the plan.
http://i.imgur.com/guVFQDa.jpg

It's a good plan. It's so obviously a good plan. However, voters are polling that they will vote No. Against their own best interests.
VB did a lot of things right:

* interfaces

* delegation instead of inheritance

* binary contracts (sometimes attributed to dependency hell)

It was shunned back then because of C++ and MFC/ATL. My favorite VB books were by Dan Appleman. I started to dislike VB after VB5 though.
That is a very interesting argument never thought of this issue in terms of royalty, brand and IP rights. You are right, it makes more sense now.
I've always thought eyes work remarkably well for something hacked together out of meat and jelly. I guess part of that is probably a feedback mechanism where the growth of tissue is effected by where the image is focused. Presumably staring at books throws off the mechanism that evolved for gazing at the scenery. Guess it needs bright light to work?
Try pointing it out on the mailing list ( openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org ).

Having been on both user and the developer sides, with F/OSS projects, more developers are likely to read every post on the mailing list than every report in the bug tracker.
It's interesting that the widely derided See-Clearly method has as one of the exercises staring at a bright light bulb with the eyes closed.
Does the data ultimately live upstream on a corporate file server somewhere? Or is it pure peer-to-peer sync?
Yes, the issue is that is very rare for hospitality business need more than a website developer (still more specific than web dev).
New mattress startup is giving 1 mattress to homeless shelters for every 10 sold
It was in Wired magazine, I'm sure that he needed to write with a certain level of concision. You might want to email him at rms at gnu dot org ... I've got to imagine he would support your efforts, and FSF has a hardware certification program, so couldn't hurt to try to open a line of communication
I doubt it. Most kids don't wear sunglasses. And myopia typically presents in childhood.
If you want to make the 'next big thing' then make a VB like environment for the web. It's going to make you rich, famous and hated in pretty much equal measures.
> And I'm a big believer of luck and randomness.

Indeed. Like, for example, being born with a high IQ?
Continuous liquid interface production for 3D printing
I agree with you, but there are some interesting gotcha's in this. Windows 3 accumulated cruft and needed to be cleaned or rebooted regularly. The company I worked for in the late 90's had a public safety customer that ran our code on a Windows 3.0 box, I can't remember the time interval, but periodically one of our developers would go on site and (in NuMega SoftIce - which we habitually ran everywhere) would reset the windows tick counter, and flush crap out of various OS handles tables.

Having done low-level messing about on 16-bit windows, when I moved to Redmond and started working for MS it was hard to drive past BurgerMaster without buying something in homage.