skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also some mobile phones autocorrect to more "politically correct" versions, in which case this would've been replaced to "The Duck..." :P
wcaleb, this is great, thanks for both posts. It's also very inspiring to see your open notebook workflow and experiments.
budu3: Note that this is a very non-idiomatic use of "derpy". Many other words would be more suitable.
I was surprised though to see that in the data the 1-5-6-4 progression is not the most common. Maybe I'm reading it wrong?

Looks like 1-4-* is more popular.
So which of you are correct?
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Interesting way to call out CNN for basically being a tabloid... would love to see this done over a longer time period
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You only have to have headphones plugged in. At least the Windows Phone radio app has software switch for where you want the audio output to go. You can plug in headphones and play on the speaker. If other radio apps don't have this, it would be easy to add.
Its because they know that people can use FM for just about anything, and hooking an amateur FM Packet radio up isn't difficult, and you can have free ONE way transmissions.
Some use FM only, and have Packet Radios built into the phones.
Text broadcasts are just as effective.
I suspect that bike-friendliness correlates with transit-friendliness. Most cyclists are proponents of transit diversity and multi-modal transport.

And conservative states are more hostile to funding transit because it requires government subsidies (vs. "investment" in parking and roads). There are plenty of small- to medium- conservative cities that don't even have any kind of bus service.
Maybe Falmer fits as well?

[1] http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Falmer
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I built it up in my head for months before actually pulling the trigger, but it was actually much easier than I'd expected! Getting a visa, making friends, networking, starting to learn German—it all went smoothly enough to make me regret not moving here earlier. =) Finding a place to live was the hardest part, and it seems that the situation hasn't improved much unfortunately, but it's still definitely manageable.

If you'd like, I'd be happy to give you some pointers via email (and/or in person of course if you're ever in town for a visit). My contact info's in my profile. Just note that I might be a bit slow to respond!
I'm not entirely sure it's helpful to lump all of those together; there is at least some difference in kind.

I think dragonwriter's sibling comment to yours is pretty apt here. It's hard to tell the difference between something that will be submitted to standards bodies any day now and something that really will be submitted to standards bodies any day now. At a certain point (with e.g. Pepper) the statute of limitations runs out and you have to assume it's just going to be an open-source but proprietary API.

Of course, whether or not overloading "proprietary" is useful is a different discussion. Mostly it seems these conversations eventually just devolve into arguments over definitions of the word for no real insight.
On the safety: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor...

Economic feasibility:
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While that may be true, that’s a different class of vulnerabilities that doesn’t include XSS.
"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum
It only works if there are headphones attached, which confuses users.

Plus, Google or another company has to pay an engineer to write an app for it, and test it against the hardware in the phones, etc. etc.

Usually this functionality is a byproduct of some random other chip on the phone that is multifunction, usually Bluetooth. So people who don't use Bluetooth get confused/upset/paranoid/tin foil hat when their FM Radio app tells them that Bluetooth needs to be enabled to use it.

Many users who really want FM can already do it today, but it involves rooting their phone and installing something like Cyanogenmod.
While half-baked conspiracy theories are fun, a good journalist would've consulted a few more sources to get to the bottom of this story.

FM radio requires a large antenna. It will not work without one. The 5th generation iPod nano (2009) was the first iPod with an (enabled) FM radio. We used the headphone wire as the antenna. It worked well enough. While there was a tiny speaker in those iPods, headphones were the only practical way to listen to audio.

That's not the case with phones. People listen to the built-in speaker, and they listen over bluetooth and WiFi. It's becoming less and less common to plug headphones into these devices. That being the case, including an FM radio feature would just be a horrible experience for the majority of users: they'd hear nothing but static, all the time. I don't know about the other smartphone makers, but Apple will not ship something that will likely be a horrible experience for most users. Couple that with very low demand from users (as the article points out) and there's no FM radio on iPhones.
It's the type of place where they can't tell that means "has some problems, in a way similar to what the OP describes."
> 1,4,1,5

That is indeed very popular, off the top of my head, "Free Falling" by Tom Petty.

However, I am puzzled because 1,5,6,4 seems much more popular in my experience, and it doesn't seem that high in that data.
I used to work on combo bluetooth/fm/wifi chips that are used in cell phone applications. There is additional cost to make it work, both for bill of materials as well as recurring and non-recurring testing. So many customers preferred only to use the bluetooth/wifi portion of the chip. We even had a FM TX version in some chips.
I was interested in RethinkDB when I read the 2.0 release. But after looking at that mess he had to do to write a simple query. No thanks, I'll stick with Mongodb.

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Well, $15,000 + the opportunity cost of not working for a year.

Let's say you've just graduated with a bachelors in computer science, and have a job offer for $70k. By going on this road trip for a year, you've lost $85k, $70k from not working, plus the $15k it actually cost you, not to mention interest on any loans taken out for school.

$10,000 may not sound like much when you make more than 10x that per year, but remembering back to when I was 20, $10,000 was a fortune that would have taken forever to earn.
The article is not good.

It is true that games tend to be overly simplistic in this way, but it is really a design problem, not a technical problem.

Technically, we can litter the ground with stuff and have plenty of permanent-world changes. Design-wise, it is usually unclear how to make that a playable game. Using someone's middleware is not going to help this.

The premise of this article is another example of what Frank Lantz calls the Immersive Fallacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JzNt1bSk_U
You really think "America" is the only place where an injustice can occur?

Some differences between "America" and some other places:
* this story was allowed to be printed in a newspaper
* it will probably get fixed, even if it takes a long time

So, your loss.
Is "canidate" a misspelling of "candidate"?
Maybe because the quality sucks? I mean, if you had TV on your phone but could only get 3 channels and they all had static, who would the customer blame that it doesn't work?
I have a Cat B15 phone, which runs Android, and it has an enabled FM radio. If I try to use it without headphones, I get a warning that without headphones as an antenna, reception will be poor. It sometimes works in good reception locations without an antenna, but it's a marginal FM radio. There's a "record FM radio" option.
Same as Nursie, I guess coding new software in C on Windows is an antipattern.
Show HN: An Android app for meh.com written entirely in Kotlin
Don't they have huge arrangements for their devices with mobile carriers worldwide?
The hardware isn't crippled; you can root your phone and install an FM Radio app yourself.
Oh god, not again.

Wearing a helmet when biking is like wearing a bullet proof vest when walking. It may be necessary in some environments, but it's those environments that are the problem.

If you don't know how to ride a bike (which includes how to fall), don't project it on other people.

Please stop spreading the fud about cycling itself being dangerous. It's no more dangerous than walking.

The Netherlands says hi: https://bicycledutch.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/typically_d...
Pretty bad user experience was after Hurricane Sandy, when I was holed up in my office (evacuated from my home) with no electricity or Internet, but a fully charged phone that I couldn't use for anything but games, even though valuable information was being broadcast constantly on a frequency that my phone was perfectly capable of receiving.
Exactly, Cordova/PhoneGap works quite smooth on iOS too.
> Somehow I doubt that you jump on every thread about asm.js or Rust to point out how proprietary they are or how they are implemented as a giant pile of C++. Double standards.

asm.js isn't a new protocol, and so isn't proprietary according to that definition. It's a subset of JavaScript (to be specific, ES6, including such extensions such as Math.imul). You can implement asm.js by simply implementing the open, multi-vendor ES6 standard. In fact, that's exactly what some projects, like JavaScriptCore, are doing.

Rust isn't relevant, as it's not intended to be added to the Web. Adding <script type="text/rust"> to the browser would be a terrible idea for numerous reasons. Nobody has proposed it.
Politicians, corporate types, etc. who start a sentence with "What Americans really want..." are usually indicating what they want Americans to want.

It's about the same as a politician talking about proposed legislation with the phrase common sense.

The goal here is to paint people who oppose your view as out of touch with the average American or acting nonsensically.
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Let me know what you guys think!

It's a pretty simple example that uses MVP alongisde Kotlin/Anko.
Stop sending long emails and start sending screenshots to get responses faster
The funny part is when kool-aid drinking folks make dependent assertions. Then you have this whole series of partial or completely untrue assumptions. Sort of like "The Emperor's New Clothes."
Helmets are still the best way to reduce a lot of head injuries among motorists. Cars travel at a much higher speed than pedestrians/bicycles, so it takes a lot more to dampen the injuries, and auto-related head injuries are simply more common than bicycle-related ones.

It's absolutely as reasonable to exhort motorists and pedestrians to wear helmets as it is to exhort cyclists to do so.
I think it's a funny little app. I could see it being kind of useful for the author but I think I would personally have trouble using an app that I don't actually know what it's going to do 100%. I think that you could mitigate this a bit by putting the list of commands it corrects right at the top of the readme.

I think most of us have probably been at the point where we were typing something like "I hate you, you god damn computer!" into the terminal or text editor. I see this as a moderately elegant helper in those situations
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Nothing to do with Apple? Since iOS7, Apple is constantly breaking apps that are already in the store and running fine. This is because they don't provide a backwards compatible runtime. For example, your app that's compiled and working well for iOS 8.2 can have new bugs (like text fields not appearing) after the user upgrades to iOS 8.3. To re-iterate, the user has not re-installed your app. They are still using the same great app compiled for 8.2 and now it doesn't work correctly. And the bug is caused by bad code from Apple in their runtime. To use an ironic comparison, if you made a Flash game in Flash 9, it would always run exactly the same way until the end up time, even after Flash 13 is released, because Adobe/Macromedia kept the runtime for each version and did not change it after it was released. New version meant a new runtime engine.

Anyway, so Apple breaks your app. It's possible you don't notice this because you don't test every feature of every app you've created for every new iOS version on the day it comes out. So within a couple weeks, most of your clients are asking you why your app doesn't work and you have to scramble to replicate the problem and then someone how fix it, sometimes having to rewrite a core part of your app. This happens over and over and it's tiring, costs your company money, makes you look bad to your clients and is very demoralizing. This is no one's fault but Apple's.
In usage 2, QUIC is proprietary, following conventions older than me.
Ahh, yes, it is too subtle, I still don't understand it. :)
"NPR, along with the NAB, has been part of a lobbying effort to require this free radio feature to be enabled."

I don't want an FM radio on my phone because the internet is a superior system 99% of the time. If Apple doesn't want to make an FM radio then they shouldn't have to. It should be the people creating technology who decide the features, not lobbyists using threats of force through government based on clearly biased political interests.
Who other than Google currently has a vote on what constitutes the definition of QUIC? Merely being open to suggestions for changes isn't a relinquishment of control, and protocols can't be forked the way software can.
And as I said in my reply, the way she dressed seems to match the way people were dressed at the company - as reported by her.

Companies do not have the right to be idiotic in all ways. As touched in the thread I posted, I think that we're flirting with those ways. Tshirt and skirt are usually appropriate for women where tshirt and jeans are appropriate for men, in American culture. If a company says that is not so, then I think there is potential for a gender discrimination claim. We have laws which say companies are not allowed to be arbitrarily idiotic.
Funny.

Here I though I was making an argument that when people where given the freedom to choose without it having financial implications they would in fact choose differently than when they have to pay for it and a "mistake" means more.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you rename it "The Fix." Then you could type "fixit" or just "fix".
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99 times out of 100, my issue is forgetting to sudo a command, so I just have 'alias fuck="sudo !!"' in my ~/.bash_profile
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From what I can tell by a quick search, it doesn't look like Swift has persistent data structures. Copy semantics for non-persistent collections doesn't seem like the greatest idea...maybe they plan to make them persistent later?
I'm very surprised that many seem to simply accept the rhetoric of this story and its talking points.

Exactly why are these chips being included and disabled, as opposed to not including them in the first place? No one seems to be questioning this part.

Can anyone shed light on this? What is the back story here?
This isn't going to a good place so I'm disengaging, but I wanted to just say when I read "But before you rise to the occasion" I chuckled.
I like the idea, but I don't really get the whole swearing like a drunken sailor thing. It's not funny, it's just stupid. I get that its Dave McClure's gimmick or whatever, but I think we can be more original than that.
Git already has a config to do this:

help.autocorrect

Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec).

If more than one command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing will be executed. If the value of this option is negative, the corrected command will be executed immediately.

If the value is 0 - the command will be just shown but not executed. This is the default.

http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config
Amusing, but I would prefer something that would be able to automatically know what I was meaning to do and just do it without having to be vulgar.
The existence of the weird corner case semantics in JS proves my point! Compare the strange semantics of JavaScript 1.0 with modern JavaScript—ES6. ES6 follows the open, multi-vendor standardization process, and as a result its features are extremely well-designed and interoperable.
Realtime update notifications, official node.js API...sounds like it'd be perfect as a second back end for Meteor.
What mistake? She has not done anything wrong according to this report. With only hearsay by a minor in a school setting, I'd be surprised (or maybe not ugh) if the warrant stood up.
> People listen to the built-in speaker, and they listen over bluetooth and WiFi.

[citation needed]

All the smartphones I'm aware of on the market still include a headphone jack.

Hell, the new Macbook with the USB-C connector has two plugs. A USB-C connector, and an audio jack.
I unfortunately had the counter experience. I was not wearing a helmet on my "short commute" and got hurt pretty bad. A good number of stitches, a permanent scar, but worse than that - concussions are not fun. I blacked out and woke up an hour or two after the accident inside a CAT scan machine at the hospital.

My wife found out about the accident when I called her and left an identical voicemail 3 times in a row not realizing I had just done it.

Wear a helmet. I used to sell them at a ski shop and wear them religiously on the ski slope, but didn't bother to put one on for the 2 minute bike ride from my dorm to class. Huge mistake.
Transit and cycling are quite complementary.

Transit and auto traffic are more at odds.
Anyone working on a ReactNative cloud-based building service for linux/windows users? (ala build.phonegap.com?)

I totally want to use this, but I haven't enjoyed my previous encounters with Macs.
Try until you can't try any more. Then try some more. If that doesn't work, you have to do something else.
I don't question the value of Latex but I really don't understand why it should be so huge.
Things appear to have become so weird that letting your kids out to play has now gained its own label - "Free range parenting".

Which is really sad. I grew up outdoors, climbing trees, riding my bike wherever I wanted, going to the local park or woods with other kids, etc. I would really hate to see kids being denied the same opportunities due to unwarranted fear being driven into their parents or their communities.

It's not something I've encountered in Europe, where I spent most of my life, kids seem to be living pretty much the same as ever there, but reading about this stuff happening in the US is very sad.
In some jurisdictions you can sometimes root your phone, if someone has put the effort into defeating the technical obstacles put in place to enforce the crippling. Other phones include a tuner that is disabled through hardware means.
> it gets in the way more than being useful

Well, I didn't find how to make do without it yet, so I would rather stick with the word "critical" for now.

> "SPC :" or "Alt-x"

Oh, that's pretty neat. Actually, still not the same thing as command mode, because it seems there's some convention to chose the command first, and after pressing Enter passing any arguments interactively. Not that it's bad, but a bit different from how it's generally done in shells.

> I have to type something like "Ctrl+W". Really?

Really? Uhm, no, not really. Actually you have to type :map (as in "key map"), and if you don't know what to type you type in :h whatever.
True. As the title has been updated and your version is better, I'm deleting my original comment.
Seems plausible.

Fortunately, we don't need to care too much about the expectations of underinformed potential employers. There are companies around that pay enough, and drive the market price for talent.
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Nah, aside from some minor annoyances that ended up getting polished in updates I didn't have any issues with it either. When it came out I wasn't making much money so I wasn't running top of the line hardware by any means. Still, it ran OK on my PC at the time (Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, and some low-ish end nVidia GPU). Still, even my budget Newegg Special was better than the real dogs some people were buying at the time (or some of the older computers they were trying to upgrade).

Vista seemed like it was built to leverage the current hardware of the time rather than run nicely on weaker systems that companies were still selling because they could passably run WinXP (slow CPUs, 256-512MB RAM, integrated GPU). It made sense because both OSX and Linux were capable of GPU acceleration of desktop windowing, aggressive use of caching things in RAM, etc. but too many users were still purchasing the absolute cheapest thing they could find that would still boot.

Then you had all of the hardware issues caused by companies not bothering to write new drivers for old peripherals and the software issues from applications that just assumed you were running as root/admin. I didn't have any old scanners or printers or anything that needed driver updates and very few of my important applications weren't updated to work under the new UAC setup.

In many ways, I feel like most of Vista's problems came from 98SE and then XP being "good enough" for so long that a lot of companies and users weren't used to needing to choose software and hardware more carefully.
Would it not be reasonable to recommend plugging in headphones before using the FM radio? People who really want radio for whatever reason can do it.
Back in the 90s when I wanted to be a game developer I thought that the perfect game engine would be a scaled up particle emulator - making every "object" just a complex of particles. In effect emulating the way the world is built with stable elements.

Having finally come back to development 2 decades later and doing work with virtual worlds I definitely think this is the right approach. It's basically what is already being built with nuclear simulation models and the like so I think there is definitely room to work between game engines, doing it at a more abstract level and the supercomputers doing it at the particle level.
That's such a load of crap. See my other comment below, the reason why I had that accident was my bike wheel had a mechanical failure. I was on a bike lane in the middle of a college campus 500 yards from the nearest car. It was a peaceful afternoon with no one around. The environment didn't mean anything at all.

If your sneaker fails, you don't get thrown 20 feet onto concrete.