skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Authoritive? Would it feel different if Linus was just one of the contributors to the kernel instead of the one in charge?

Because I'm quite certain everybody is treated equally and there is no pecking order just a chain of trust.

Plus he is cooperative how do you think the bad code / design made in the kernel in the first place.

It's a chain of trust and he trust the people involved to vet most of the code for him however he has the right to complain if someone messed up.

Now how he does it is uniquely his way and everybody should know that by now but ignoring that i don't see a problem.
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I use WebStorm for projects and SublimeText for one-off scripts and tiny prototypes.

WebStorm is great if you need to manage a project as it grows, but if you just want to bang out 200 lines in a few hours, SublimeText is much more lightweight.
>while it's true that most of the worlds news probably doesn't affect you directly, it will almost certainly affect you indirectly, since you live in the world.

That's a useless conclusion in itself. There is an unlimited amount of news if you just include the whole world since "you live in it". Do you follow individual county elections for Nebraska? Why or why not? How do you determine what news is important enough for you to follow? Now you are back to square one.
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I love, love, love the excel integration. Fantastic.

I urge you to make a Chocolatey package to make updating easy.

There's also a lot of low-hanging fruit in terms of usability. e.g. the objects browser should automatically refresh when you "transfer data". Also I'd love to be able to make "transfer data" use a data.table instead of data.frame.

Killing the R process then hitting refresh on the object browser results in a crash.
A bus for people who think public transportation is great aside from all those poor black people.
It's not clear to me that profitability is a useful metric in thinking about how to fix public transportation, unless one is running a transportation startup.
If YouTube compensates for this (lowers the volume of tracks that have been mastered loud), then it removes the original motivation for doing so.

This is why the 'Happy' YouTube mix is less loud than the CD version linked to - the author asserts that the studio has done this because the incentive to apply dynamic compression on YT is now gone...
>May not scale, but it is winning for development even as a newbie

Sounds like Python.

Works great at the start, and then one day you wake up and realize you are running 50K ppl online at the same time MMO (Eve Online), your code cant take advantage of multi core CPUs = every game region (star system) starts to lag above ~500 people and there is nothing you can do about it.
People who drop an extra 4 dollars so their morning commute is reliable and moderately pleasant are now white privileged elite. I'd hate to hear what you think of people who drive cars.

Wanting to be at work on time without allotting an extra 30 minutes for public transit shenanigans is hardly the epitome of privilege.
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The team did a few games focused on traffic before, so there's hope they have enough experience to make it work in Skylines.
Yes, that will be how it works in the future, but we haven't had time to build out the non-logged-in states of everything. So it's a hacky solution, but we just threw up a wall for now.
Stuff like this is going to be more and more common as govt doesn't want 25+ % of their population to be unemployed due to nerds churning out code.
Did it actually have much of a "realistic simulation" though? One of the main reasons I didn't buy the game is because people tore it to shreds for utilizing the same exact algorithm for determining traffic as they did water and other utilities. Also people pointed out that like people themselves weren't actually simulated in anyway they just woke up in the morning found the first open commercial job to work at and at night left and found the first house to live in.
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The main point is that it wound up on a screen and that screen is just fine. I didn't use mine for too long and didn't much research into it because it was merely a quitting aid :)
Minor bug: When I sign up, it immediately reports a failure (Username not available) for a split second before going forward with the registration without a hitch.
Or at least "enough to play it straight"
Insights from the largest car purchase intent study in US
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.

...

http://www.katsandogz.com/onchildren.html
Can someone please explain the benefit of having Wifi on a bus? I know for some the bus ride may be long, especially if you're going from the SoMA to the Outer Sunset or Richmond. But in most cases I've used MUNI there it's 10 minute bus ride, even going from the Haight to Soma. There is an argument to be made for getting work done, but how much work care you possibly going to get done on a 10-15 minute bus ride?
By default, 36 km^2 in 9 interconnected 2x2km squares, so you don't have to make a 6x6km city if you don't want. With modding you can build up 100 km^2 (25 2x2km squares).
Ah, I didn't even think that far, I stopped at any REPL being a violation since it's running code which was not packaged with the app.
The LCOE can also be regarded as the cost at which electricity must be generated in order to break-even over the lifetime of the project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

Note, wind has gotten much better over time so 2013 numbers look much better than 2006 numbers.

Germany levelized cost of electricity generation in 2013 (EUR/MWh)

Onshore wind farms 45–107
Coal-fired power plants (brown coal) 38–53
Coal-fired power plant (hard coal) 63–80

Though I may have undersold things for new generation:

Regional Variation in Levelized Costs of New Generation Resources
Conventional Coal Minimum 87.0, Average 95.6, Maximum 114.4
Wind Minimum 71.3, Average 80.3, Maximum 90.3

IMO one of the more interesting numbers was Wind, onshore Operating Cost (USD/kW) Min 10.95 Max 60.00. That's a wide gap.

PS: Granted, these don't seem to account for time value of money but that's often overstated in terms of economic impact. Basically, if you turn 1oz of gold into 2oz of gold for free it's a net gain even if it takes 50 years, time value really just means there might be better uses of your personal money not that something is a net loss.
I think you missed the part where `i` is not incremented in the for statement, but inside the loop using `Character.charCount`, which returns the number of `char` necessary to represent the code point. If there's something wrong with this, my unit tests have never brought it up, and I am always sure to test with multi-`char` codepoints.
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>I see how you subtly equated boring packaging with being shoddy or bad.

I saw it, too, but it was his opinion to make. Nothing wrong with it, subtle or otherwise.

Also, standard foam is terrible for the environment, something the article doesn't bother to mention, while implying the standard packaging with foam is fine (while mentioning environmental friendliness should be a goal).
The example they use is hilarious and makes me think about one of my ideas for a dog crap cleaning backyard quadruped. It's not quite as good as that spray in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326856/ though lol. terrible movie.
Public transportation in SF is not perfect but it's far from being broken. I lived in 10 different cities on 3 different continents. Got to ride the best public transportation(London, Tokyo, Singapore, ...) and worst(LA, Manila, ...). SF isn't bad at all.

The only issue is a non issue: Richer people can afford private drivers(Uber/Lyft/Whatever). It's nothing new, it just became more affordable in the past years.
And public transportation isn't suppose to be profitable. It's about letting everyone move around a city for a very affordable price.
It seems there may also be an additional (and potentially larger) cultural element here that goes beyond language, though it would be less pronounced at such an elementary age. Further, it would be interesting to explore how this family's experience maps to first-generation American families in the US.
So it will be free for everybody in summer right ?
Several things are currently wrong with the news. From the overuse of the word “BREAKING” (does that even mean anything anymore?) to the lack of verified information (the rush to get the scoop), the news industry is a bit of a mess right now.

It’s overwhelming, and there’s no end to “Oh, you haven’t heard about this? You’re out of the loop!” I always think of this Friends segment where Joey buys a volume of an encyclopedia to try to impress everyone else (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3eD0imnhQ).

I agree it’s hard to see how the effects of what goes on in the world propagate down to how each of us lives our life today -- but that doesn’t mean that we aren’t ever affected by them. I still think we have a basic responsibility to try to understand those things, and the primary goal of news outlets should be to make that information as accessible as possible (while still being accurate).

Full disclosure: I work for a news app (http://www.getbriefme.com).
Only if linux would work out of the box, no driver issues, no need to change files with root... more user friendly.. They decided to make linux for the tech people
Isn't this what Tufte refers to as "chartjunk"?
Fellow bass player here too, though I'm still learning!

Just out of curiosity, did you ever listen to the Vapor Trails remaster that came out last year or so? What were your thoughts on that?
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Whenever I see something like "a physician who focuses on alternative medicine" used as a source, I'm ready to dismiss the article as rubbish. What "alternative medicine"?

There is no alternative medicine. Medicine is a science. What people call "alternative medicine" is something that is specifically not a science; it means that whatever is practiced or claimed, is not founded on evidence gathered using the scientific method.

"Alternative medicine" suggests there would be some other, alternative way to make science than systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses [0].

The minute something in "alternative medicine" can be substantiated with repeatable findings that stand the trial of other, competent people looking at what was done, it is just "medicine". Nothing alternative about that.

This does not mean that science wouldn't err. But please, speak of witch-doctors or dissidents or whatever, but not "alternative medicine".

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
Leap buses are not also currently accessible to wheelchair-using or disabled passengers, but Kirchhoff plans to add that in future buses.

They redesigned the entire bus interior from the ground up and didn't include this? Surely if you are going to rebuild your fleet before you start, it is insane not to do the work then. Doing it in the future will be far more expensive and is a difficult decision to make, given you will have to pull a presumably profitable bus from a route for each revamp.

(edited for spelling)
Typed Racket operates on a per-module basis -- only some of your program has to be typed. But it's entirely static -- errors are caught at compile time.
I will say sometimes it's very much the snesible option--living close to where you work is sometimes really expensive, or otherwise unpleasant.

But it is important to realize this is a choice and acknowledge that you're choosing a trade-off, not simply a "I have to drive; I have no choice." Simply recognizing that you have agency in the decision is of value. It allows you to _consciously_ weigh the pros and cons, to become aware of potentially-unnoticed alternatives, and to recognize the costs (and benefits), both to yourself and the broader community.
DeMarco does tend to burn his pizzas sometimes, but they're really amazing and worth the wait, I think.
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I'm wondering whether the ban also applies to uber taxi, they had a big marketing campaign just last week in Berlin where you were able to take a ride for free for a couple of days [1]

[1] http://blog.uber.com/freeubertaxi_berlin_en
Any evidence that Uber leads to more unemployment rather than less unemployment?
An out of body experience occurs when the mind is concentrated and the body goes to sleep. It's a skill that can be learned. It takes some people months of practice, while others do it on their first try.
>We haven't seen Carmack when someone tries to contribute naff code to one of his game engines.

Romero
It also doesn't make sense to criticize the Unicode Consortium for an inaccurate quote from a playwright who wrote a play a century ago.
That all makes sense. In terms of a frontend I was thinking of a read only type system. At lunch time I come to HN to entertain myself. Occasionally I jump over to bbc news (which is pretty dire) or aljazeera. It would be great to have a page I could drop into to get the digest.
Curated channels on Twitter?
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Actually, it's already illegal in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudne...
What aspect of a fancy bus that drives in normal traffic like any other bus (or car, assuming there are not bus-only lanes) makes it any more capable of getting a person to their destination sooner?

Addendum: this is a private company that technically speaking does not have to adhere to any schedule and isn't liable for various things (according to the TOS posted in this tree), so if anything you're more likely to be on the wrong end of things compared to an organized public transit system.
In real life you tend to have the exact opposite problem. People changing lanes the second the lane they are in starts slowing down without any forward planning about where they might have to go next.
Uber have stated that they are developing self driving cars

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/03/technology/innovationnation/...
Why would you think it would just make more traffic and not take cars off the road?

A bus takes up the space of 3-4 cars. If there are more than 4 people on the bus, it is increasing the capacity of the road. Surely there are some negative effects because busses stop & take longer to turn, but I also don't think their business plan involves driving busses with only 4 people on them.
The guy's only 44! With luck, he's only at the midpoint of his career.
I've had pretty great repair service from Lenovo in January of this year, and with Acer in 2013. Both are for devices I purchased as a private consumer, not as a big contract corporate client.

I've had some terrible experience with Lenovo around 2010, so this may be hit or miss, but Apple is certainly not the only company that can provide decent service.
Sorry for the dumb question but I think I'm having a hard time parsing and understanding the quote.

> And if you don’t have the first (integrity), the other two (intelligence and energy) will kill you. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

I don't follow the logic there at all. I think I get the gist of what he is saying (without integrity, intelligence and energy don't matter) but I don't follow how he got to that conclusion. Can you explain it better?
> Microsoft made money by selling their OS

I think Microsoft cash cow is their Office Suite. To run that suite you still need a Microsoft OS and recently their Office 365 cloud version is also showing strong growth.
>It does depend on your use case.

Yes, and the first line's use case depends on the language built-in operator precedence rules to reduce the number of parens.

If you are using math formulas as an example of minimal paren usage, go with APL and have even fewer since all operators are equal precedence and associate to the right.

If you really wanted to write the quadratic formula (or math formulas in general) you could use APL and use even fewer.
This makes me happy. My daughter watches a lot of youtube and it's a pain to constantly jump up to turn up the volume or turn down the volume after every video change. Especially if you go to sleep to a video and the next video in the playlist blows you out of your slumber because it's mix is hot compared to the previous one.

This is a good move. Sorry music guys, but on the whole, this is a win.
This sounds a bit of a Luddite approach to me. Yeah, all those spinning Jennies make weavers unemployed.
More detail here: http://fortune.com/2015/03/18/german-court-ban-uber/
Skylines looks promising, but I'm still reserving judgement. It's a shame that EA completely botched the new Sim City.

I wish EA would port Sim City 4 to Windows 7/8/10. I would pay good money for that. As it is, I can't get Sim City 4 to work on Windows 7 without frequent freezes and crashes.
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I actually mean a format where (1) the number of frames is quite small and (2) the pauses between frames are there by default and transitions have to be triggered by a user action.
From a technical perspective, it is gathering data and training models that eventually would make it more affordable and efficient.

Also, The "white privileged elite" seema to act as early adopters, willing to pay for the extra bucks. Eventually, the technology gets cheaper and accessible to more users.
There is a steam version that at least for me works flawlessly.
Wouldn't it then be more sensible to ban Google from doing business? If it is bad to develop new technology that utilizes resources (people, material, energy) more efficiently.
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So, what other laptop manufacturers have better customer service? Even with all the issues, I've never seen one that even comes close to Apple.
Are we considering 8.1 actually distinct from 8, or merely the equivalent of the old service packs? Because even on MS's "good" releases, it wasn't until Windows 98 SE that '98 got good. And it took Windows XP until Service Pack 2 before it was good enough to upgrade from '98.
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It's worth noting that 2600 is still going strong after 30 years.
You make it sound like they completely forgot about disabled passengers, when the reality is almost certainly that they intentionally excluded them because they are a pain to deal with (slow getting on and off, take up more space than an able bodied passenger etc.)
My favorite is to have a decent artist do illustrations - the abstraction of food, the idea of food - is always more appetizing in my opinion. Do not show the actual food. Actual food usually doesn't look that great without manipulating the environment.
Isn't that called Marxism?
I'm curious to know if any particular models are affected. For those of you with the issue, what model do you own? (Aside: It would be really nice if they'd open up their data.)
...* after reading some of the comments here *...

I think we would be better off caring a little bit less about what language to use and a little bit more about what programs to write.
Current version of software show you info about licensing options (if you have it without license ID).

399 is for both editions of software for next two years. There are multiple reasons not only two... Mainly the GUI, but this is not in current 0.4.1 version available in the form as I imagine. I only follow the advice: Release something before you are satisfied.
Living in Austin, this seems like a fairly realistic problem.
Just uberpop it looks like.
More details in this article: http://www.ft.com/intl/fastft/293403/uber-ride-sharing-banne...
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But the jewelry doesn't even have to be used. It loses value /when you buy it/, wherein lies the scam. If you buy a car and don't start up the engine and try to sell it a week after you bought it it will be worth approximately the same as when you bought it.
Interesting point. I simply relied o this post of Mike Bostock http://bost.ocks.org/mike/chart/.
actually a universal 'menu language' via some sort of emoji-like icon would be awesome
I'm interested to see the next evolutionary step in transit.

I would have gone with the "dollar van" model would be a better entry. Cargo vans are less expensive to own/maintain than busses, more nimble, and use less fuel.

Either way, more options is great for the consumer.
You are assuming that there is no better way to define the schedules, no better way to communicate bus location, and no better way to start buses on time than what currently exists.

There are two sides to on schedule performance - what the bus does, and what the schedule says. You are probably right that the bus can't move any faster just because it is private. On the other hand, I bet a tech savvy company can do vastly better at predicting what the actual bus schedule will be as well as communicating any deviations from the schedule in real time.
Not sure about SF, but in Toronto, the only problem is scheduling and management. Also, I won't vouch for Leap or make any assumptions about SF's transit, but if it's anything like Toronto, the only thing you need to change is scheduling. Traffic is not a problem. ONLY SCHEDULING.

The problems in Toronto result in 30-60 minute waits for a bus or a streetcar in the wintertime (during -20°C weather too). Then you will get about 5-10 in a row, all within a few seconds or minutes of each other.

This happens because Toronto does not schedule its transit very well (or at all). So everything is late and miserable.

If Leap schedules things correctly, in part because they are a private company and have incentive to do so, they may be able to beat public transit solutions - in terms of reliability of service - without breaking a sweat.

Again, I don't know how much this info is relevant here or for SF. But there are multiple ways that a private company can improve on the timing and scheduling of existing public transit.