skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, if I'm not mistaken Firefox for Android threw out most of the "webbiness" in the UI and uses native UI heavily. That's why it's not portable to let's say Sailfish / Nemo and other mobile Linuxes, unlike the old XUL Fennec.

Not sure why it doesn't use IPC embedlite though when it's already went the native UI route. It's used successfully for the Sailfish browser (which uses Gecko embedding):
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Embedding/IPCLiteAPI
Now that's a critical bug.
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"The whimsy of Vonnegut betrays the truth that too many of us suffer from too little time in the day to create genuine, shareable moments with one another." - Is this an absolute truth? Maybe the point is that we should work towards having more of this whimsical time, instead of submitting to the unnatural bustle of modern life and pressing buttons for more fucking laundry detergent.
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The best data structure to use depends a lot on what you're actually doing with your neighbours.

If what you actually want to do is to have each boid be affected by each boid in a fixed-size neighbourhood, the best acceleration structure is actually just fixed-size bins.
Ask HN: Do devs on your team all use the same OS for development?
Follow up question for bonus points -- how much time does your team spend resolving issues related to differing development environments?
A bit more expensive

http://www.costco.com/ASUS-T100TAR-Transformer-Book-2-in-1-T...

detachable Touchscreen tablet, quad core, 2GB RAM, 32GB Storage
That is a pretty astonishing straw man. I have said it is a nonsense to talk of teaching what was referred to as 'modesty and self effacement' as being a violence and trauma, and your conclusion is that I am a cultural relativist who believes that Saudi Arabian attitudes shouldn't be criticized and that it's fine to beat children for punishment. Congratulations on that deduction!
Safeway or another chain probably delivers if you're in a major metro. Some smaller cities have local stores with online ordering, too. And, of course, with some more trouble, you can get groceries delivered in just about any populated area if you have access to a phone.
Is there any good introductory info on K lambda? I did some quick Googling and Wikipedia searching, I did not find a singular article about this, not general lamdba calculus or something useful to a complete novice like me.
I'm not the parent, but in noncritical applications an accommodating compiler/interpreter will speed up development. Few advocate such an attitude for critical applications, but whether all compile-time checking should be done in terms of types or not is an open question.
Awesome - thanks for giving it a swing.
10 hour battery life ? maybe on idle, I bet this thing doesn't last 10 hours with 50 tabs opened or when playing youtube videos ...

You are right - it's probably more like 8 hours. The older Acer c720 got between 6 and 7 hours streaming Netflix[1]. The Chromebook 13 got 10 hours[2].

[1] http://www.trustedreviews.com/acer-c720-chromebook-review-ba...

[2] http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/23/acer-chromebook-13-review...
Why don't we have more free time?

It is precisely the post-industrialized culture of consumption, and economy of progress that is robbing individuals of our free time.

When did laundry and cooking and doing work at home cease to be a social function and instead move into the sphere of "work"?

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
Chute app vibrates your phone to break falls
Or welfare. Don't forget about welfare.
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Do you really think that getting a few bruised apples once or twice a year, if that, and keeping them for free when this happens until the replacement comes, is so unacceptable that you need to be going to the grocery store each and every time to handpick and carry carefully your apples back home?

Or are you just being hyperbolic?
> Out-of-date and improperly configured software being at-risk to canned exploits is nothing new

Yeah, but this is not the case here. The software isn't out of date or improperly configured, the software works as intended,it's just full of exploits that will never be patched. To be fair wordpress itself is secure. His blog was hacked because he used a third party plugin that had an known but unpatched exploit.
What are your thoughts on Play framework in comparison to Grails?
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If they support it like my Nexus 7 (2012), thanks, but no thanks. Cheap != Good. I think we've still got a few more years to go before the price/quality ratio is right.
Yeah, lots of people do claim that. But we still let them do it. High risk, low reward investments are totally cool for everyone. We don't have a problem with the risk portion. It's only when the reward becomes huge that we have a problem.

I don't think most people realize how true the adages are, "the rich keep getting richer," or, "it takes money to make money," really are. People say it, and other people feel it's true, but then they can't point to anything tangible. But there it is. Current SEC regulation basically institutionalizes this.

Here is a financial opportunity that's actually not that complicated, which is no more risky than other available opporutinies, but we have actually made it the law such that, "Only the 1% may do this."
A Short and Painless Introduction to the Lambda Calculus [pdf]
Types speed up my development: they obviate a certain kind of unit tests. If you weren't going to write those unit tests without the types, anyway, then it helps because you now catch type mismatches at compile time instead of runtime.
It could end up being better in terms of battery life and portability if OP had bought a C720.
When I think I'm finished with an article,
I set the print speed to Slow. This runs the
printer at about 100 words per minute, or roughly
the pace of reading aloud. I stuff my ears with
earplugs and then lean over the platen as the
printing begins. Watching the article printed
at this speed is like hearing it read; infelicities
are more difficult to ignore than when you are
scooting your eye over words on a page.

The author forces himself to read slowly to make his mind reevaluate his words. Does any one else do this or perhaps pass their compositions through a text 2 speech software? It seems like it could potentially be a useful writing aid.
You are kind of conflating a few different issues here.

iDevices are locked down for the purposes of Apple maintaining iron-fisted control over the platform at the expense of both developers and end-users. Chromebooks are locked down for end-user security and ease-of-administration.

Chromebooks allow the end-user to unlock the bootloader and/or run them in developer mode if they really want to do that (and this is all well documented by Google, not akin to jailbreaking), and pretty much the only reason a lot of developers even consider Chromebooks as full laptop replacements is for this reason.

Want to run Firefox on a Chromebook? Install crouton (a project developed by a Google employee) and just go ahead and run Firefox, works fine, just like any other Linux app. Google does nothing to stop this (in fact, they go out of their way to make tools to enable it), they just put enough friction into it to let you know that when you do this all bets are off as to the security of the chroot you are running native Linux apps in.
"As for Mirza, she is still determined to head to her dream school this fall."

So to answer the title's clickbait question, the answer to what happens is that they go to the school and pay the tuition and go into debt. Because it's a "dream school."
Never mind the time saving, what's the real time cost? How long does the battery last? How do you know when it fails? How exploitable is it? How do I do security updates?
Love Dark Sky and can't wait to have it on my watch.
I'm based out of Santa Monica and Los Angeles. Sightglass is the only large cafe I've been to in San Francisco. I'm glad to hear this is the norm up there!

Here in Southern California, West Hollywood recently passed a similar ordinance that prohibits gendered single-user restrooms in public spaces and businesses.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-weho-gender-neut...
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Wow it's kind of like, the network is the computer...
Yeah, they do die. My old IBM PC, put in storage in working condition, came out and when I turned it on there was a snapping noise and the machine died.

This fate has befallen all my machines older than 15 years or so. They won't turn on, or turn on and fail the POST, won't boot, whatever. Sometimes there's that fine smell of smoke being released accompanying the failure.

On the other hand, my Carver amp I bought 30+ years ago still works fine and I run it 16 hours a day, every day. It's the best, by far, piece of electronics I've ever bought when considering bang for the buck. The same goes for the Dahlquist speakers it drives.
Here is something from my todo list, build lisp in C:
http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
I think that is a compelling narrative. I truly hope this takes off. I know several attorneys and other small shops that would value such a time saving service. The only major barrier is still getting them to design and publish the content. Solving that in the manner previous hosting companies made WordPress a one click install will be a major win.
Hmmm, how about costlywise & friendlywise?
It's interesting that Yammer and Slack both exhibited many of the same "enterprise messaging rocketship" attributes. What's ironic is they are in similar spaces. While correlation/causation issues aside, it seems to me that at any point in time, there needs to be a hot, "innovative" enterprise startup that captures the minds of people and wallets. The same thing will happen when Slack exits. I think this logic also applies to consumer messaging startups too. Communication and collaboration are massive needs that will always be around and need addressing.

Edit: it's like a vacuum (as in, power vacuum) that needs to be filled by some entity to restore equilibrium to the world.
self-serve machine learning and analytics is a really cool use case.
I don't understand what is so good about this, I've been working with this technology in Australia for years. I can get the carrier and details of any number in the world with MNP Lookups.
It was, the thermal recoil force! It is either that, or back to the drawing board for a 3rd attempt at calculating gravity.

Humans have sent a few satellites in deep space now, in a vacuum, away from matter. Thinking of the chameleon effect, I would believe scientist should see the presence of a force accelerating these craft that can not be explained easily by gravity?

The anomaly should be acceleration, not deceleration.
To clarify, I want the iPad to only allow the khan app until a certain amount of progress has been made. No YouTube until you earn x khan academy points
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On the other hand, the .com bubble was driven in large part by the ability of VCs to flip junk onto naive retail investors.

The fact that venture investors now need to wait many years for an exit (and the startups can really only access institutional capital during that time) helps keep things a lot more grounded in my opinion (though I'm sure many will disagree).
The internationalization of the United States was vastly accelerated by the PC market. It just became too much trouble to be parochial. And in a way, strong IP law was a big cause of the PC market being so international.
How does it screw them? Is the gov't requiring people to use it?

As far as I can tell you can decide if you think the price/convenience tradeoff works for you.

As it stands right now, when I go to get replacement razor blades from Amazon, I don't price compare anyways. I know what the ballpark price is, and if its in that ballpark I order. I could spend 2 hours on SlickDeals and other various sites finding the best price, and doing auctions on EBay, but I decided that saving a buck or two isn't worth it (especially since half the time I'd end up saving no money).
I loved my old Diablo 630 daisywheel printer. The sound it made was great - it sounded like a machine gun when hammering out your document. Watching it furiously type was quite a sight. It was bulletproof, too. I couldn't find a computer museum to take it. So sad.

My laserjet is so much better, but still.
What is 'sufficient'? How long a view are you taking on this?

With small percentages of natural gas containing helium (0-7%), much of what's currently coming up isn't being captured or is only now starting to be in Qatar and Russia. The rest is just let go, and once helium get's into the air it's over.

Luckily, as you suggested, prices going up means people are starting to build helium recycling systems. However congress made them artificially low and thus speed up unnecessary wastage of this precious resource.

If you're only concerned about the next 200 years, can you imagine if that was the same attitude in the 1600's? What would we have now?

Now imagine if we really are all flying around in giant helium aircraft because oil has run out or is too expensive... how much helium is getting used up for that purpose alone? There's far more natural gas/oil than helium.
You were rather limited in what you could do with them relative to now. These are the good old days.
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I believe it came from a discussion where to draft a new license would require the original developer to pay a lawyer. Someone suggested raising money to pay the developer the money to transition to BSD, a known license, instead of to a lawyer for yet another unknown license.
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Eh, second page now, being pedantic is fine.

I didn't say it was uncommon. I said that I didn't see it before. Especially not in connection with the other clauses. I canceled my order before I even reached Section XIV.

I do have a mild case of Internet-rage at Pebble, but it's not unstated. I said it at the beginning of my first post in this thread: They cultivated an image of being hacker-friendly, but they're as restrictive as Apple and Google. It felt like a betrayal of principles.
Only Scotland has free higher education, higher Education in England and Wales is freaking expensive compared to continental Europe, and thanks to "free" student loans only goes higher every year.
I'm trying to understand how you could possibly think I've been talking about "Bad!Idea" at all.

I really can't find in anything I've written where I talked about writing a "bad" piece of crypto software. In fact, I've been talking about a potentially "good" piece of crypto software that isn't getting written because no software is perfect, but that's what crypto experts are demanding out of the gate.

Can you more succinctly sum up what you're trying to say? Do you think software shouldn't be written in the crypto space unless it's perfect from v0.0.0? I can't imagine you think that, so I'm wondering what exactly it is you're arguing here.
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but don't those who would have a significant need be those who wouldn't necessarily have the $40/month for the subscription
So where's this proper machine of yours that sells for $150?
Commit: less offensive message in index.html (14 days ago)

https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html/commit/b45df0941e2dd...

Too bad about the line right above, though.
Have you never observed this discussion before?

> "I'm not the parent, but in noncritical applications an accommodating compiler/interpreter will speed up development."

What does "speed up development" mean? Does it mean "as fast as you can push it to your users"? Does it mean "as soon as it passed QA"? Does it mean "as soon as we receive no further bug reports on it for at least 6 months"?
Too early for April fools?
While it seems to me that Slack and HipChat are similar (and they are), I now know more than 10 people at organizations that switched from HipChat to Slack, and they are all absolutely adamant that Slack is better, and a substantially different experience. I'd really like to work somewhere that uses Slack, as I don't really have a good way to try it out within my workflow.
Right...I wonder how the public would react to those "protections" if they were dropped a bit, but still out of reach for the average person. Let's say $100k in assets, not including your home and property. Now, about 15% of Americans have access to this pool. Do you think the other 85% is going to be happy about this? Right now, the way the regulations are set up, it seems like such a small minority of people have access, that it isn't worth worrying about. But $1M is really just an arbitrary number.
China has weaponized the Great Firewall, says a free-speech group
Shen stands above other languages (apart from Idris and Coq) in the area of dependent types.
Wow, that's even weirder than I imagined. Regardless, I'm glad it's been freed due to the generosity of some individuals :)
I've never taken a polygraph or even heard about this. Care to elaborate?

How is a polygraph test stressful? I mean, obviously it's probably stressful just for the fact that some random stranger is going to ask questions, some of them probably pretty personal, but other than that which I think applies to any random stranger (with or without a poly in hand), why exactly did you make that remark? Is there anything out of the obvious that would make it even more stressful?

The only similar thing I Can think about, was this TV show I saw once (pretty shady if you ask me), where a guy and a girl (best friends testing their best-friendship supposedly) where put on a "polygraph" test (as far as they explained, it was just a heart rate detector), and the tv host would then proceed to make personal questions, getting more "intense" and earning more money as the show progressed, losing money everytime the "poly" detected a lie, or winning if it was the "truth".

At the end they asked questions like, "are you in love with her?" and of course, being that a lot of best-friendships were probably just friendzoned-friends, almost always the answer was "yes".

And so the amount of stress of publicly expressing that hidden love, at the risk of (that almost always happened) having the girl answer the same question with a big "no", for a chance to win money, was pretty tacky and stressful.

Is this related to what you were talking (minus the money,k the tv show, the girl... the fun basically)?
I know a few people who switched because of HipChat unreliability. But all seem to be adamant that Slack is actually a substantially better product too.
Ah, Boids! One of my favorite examples of systems that can be "embarassingly parallel". I managed to write (with very little optimisation - not even using quadtrees to optimise neighbour lookup) a GPU accelerated version about a year ago that managed to stay above 30fps even up to about 5000 individual agents.

It also hammered home the problem of device/host memory reigions which you've got to deal with when doing GPU programming. I found that other, simpler, systems didn't manage to get as much speedup as Boids did, as transferring data, not computation, was where they bottlenecked. With Boids, by contrast, I could keep everything (computation, and rendering) on the GPU, and never even have to touch the CPU, aside from calling various CUDA and OpenCL functions.
> To be clear, it is not going to cost Mirza $71,000 to go to NYU. That figure is just a really detailed sticker price that doesn’t include financial aid discounts, like the $24,000 scholarship she received from the school. Mirza said her family had already prepared to take out a $10,000 loan to cover some of the difference, but whether she can pay the bill is not the point she says.

This was buried in the 5th paragraph. When reporters quote statistics about the rising cost of tuition they usually refer to sticker price rather than prices that students actually pay. Makes for better headlines I suppose.

Not sure if the source is biased but:

On average, net tuition and fees for private nonprofit four-year institutions are lower in inflation-adjusted dollars in 2013-14 than they were a decade earlier — $12,460 versus $13,600. However, average net price has increased from $11,550 in 2011-12 to an estimated $12,460 in 2013-14.[0]

[0] https://trends.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/college-...
This has been around for a while; it was previously called Firefox.html and was discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8730903
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This boots a CentOS 6 box running Meteor 1.1. It's also running on Terminal so you can snapshot your progress anytime you want (or resize to a bigger machine without rebooting too).
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I applaud Whatsapp for even considering this, but I would not trust it for now, and not just because it's closed source. But they need to allow users to authenticate each other somehow, and they also need to change their privacy policy to match the technical change in encryption. Right now Whatsapp's privacy policy still says Whatsapp can intercept your messages. That's completely incompatible with the idea of end-to-end encryption also found in Signal. So unless they also change that, then they can't be trusted when they say the encryption is just as good as Signal's.

Another alarming thing is that Whatsapp has in fact not posted anything about this. So as far as they're concerned they've never officially stated that Whatsapp uses end-to-end encryption. It was only Moxie the one who claimed that. Not that I don't believe Moxie, but at some point if Whatapp is discovered to have given the data to some evil dictator (or the FBI) they can just say "hey, I don't know where you got this idea that we can't see your messages ourselves, but we can." And they'd be legally covered by the unchanged privacy policy, too.

So if Whatsapp wants the benefit of everyone saying how secure it is for using Axolotl, then they should first commit to that.
It's arguably been going on ( with interruptions ) since 1992. There are only like two years with CPI greater than 5% in the U.S. since then.

Of course, it's unevenly distributed - medical care, education and housing have all gone up.

I don't think we want nor should we celebrate deflation. It makes a culture hidebound, makes (some) things harder on the poor and can destabilize governments.

Income inequality and political polarization both have a basis in deflation, in my view.

There are nations - like Australia - that do not have deflation. It's not inevitable.
He said in another comment that it's not how he did it.
Maybe it's dried out/leaky capacitors? With older computers, often replacing the capacitors is the only thing that it takes to get them working again.