skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and white light is the worst for reading in bed. It’s proven to keep you awake.

This is not a great argument. First, because the Kindle allows you to dim the screen, and in fact, does so automatically in dark rooms. Pulling my Voyage out and comparing it to my screen with Flux, anecdotally, it looks to be producing less light than my laptop does.

And what are the alternatives? Not lighting the kindle display, and having you use an external light source? You have the same problem if you use LED lights - white light is generated in much the same way in LED bulbs, so you need to dim them as well, leaving you in the same position.

>You can tap both margins to advance the page. (Unlike Amazon who thinks readers always hold their books in the same hand. Have they ever seen people read books?)

The pressure sensitive buttons previously mentioned by the author are on both sides of the Voyage. You can use either hand to move forward or backward.
Code generators like RATFOR, lex, yacc, and the C preprocessor? I think it’s fair to say that those are well understood. Generics like Ada Generics, C++ templates, and Java Generics? I think it’s fair to say that we are only beginning to understand the benefits and drawbacks of that approach to code generation, which is why every time I recompile the Java application I’m currently working on, I get erroneous warnings telling my that my varargs are causing heap pollution in my generic static methods. (Which I can suppress, but instead I’m planning to delete those methods.)

Even OCaml, whose approach to parametric polymorphism is worlds simpler than any of the monstrosities mentioned above, just changed its approach by adding GADTs, which I still don’t understand fully despite the best efforts of generous HN commenters.

So I think that, given that Golang/Issue9 decided not to include inheritance, linear types, exceptions, or overloading (even of operators!), in large part because they aren’t well-understood, it’s entirely unsurprising that it decided not to include generics, either.
Having friends at both school and going myself to Waterloo, I can confidently say that this is not true.

UofT has very strong research programs but that's about everything. they don't give a shit about their undergrads, instructors, TAs or anyone who isn't in grad school or tenured.

I was complaining that some of my CS courses atP Waterloo were over crowded (+60 people) but it was before I learned about Toronto's +1,500 people lectures. I don't know a single person at UofT who is happy or having a blast.

So no, I don't think so.
Look at what RHEL acquires
Even some who seem to have made it have the same problem. I am reminded of the suicide of Stanford grad student May Zhou [0]. I read some of the statements her father made after her death and was struck by how he was convinced that he knew exactly how she was feeling about her life -- but never said anything about having asked her. My take is that he never gave her any space to be her own person with her own feelings, her own desires, her own dreams -- and though she was outwardly as successful as anyone could want, it wasn't what she wanted to be doing, and she saw no way out of the life her father had designed for her other than killing herself.

[0] http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Stanford-student-com...
standing ovation

However, it's not actually that fair enough. Some of the most generous spirited people I know are "poor".
"While we’ve made decent progress on understanding the workings of the system of Holacracy and capturing work/accountabilities in Glass Frog..."

Sometimes I like to imagine how my grandparents would react to phrases like this.
As you mentioned, phonetic algorithm like Double Metaphone (stored e.g. in an SQL database) gives you probably better results (if you order the results by its score).
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Bear in mind that the Moonshot chassis also contains one or two, potentially 10GbE, switches.
Aren't 501(c)(6) organisations called "trade associations"?
JBoss by Redhat, $400m.

SpringSource by VMWare, $382m.

SuSE Linux AG by Novell, $210m.

Trolltech (Qt) by Nokia, $153m.
reddit that fickle mistress.
Looks good. Methinks you should change the 3-char minimum password length to 8 minimum for typical security reasons.
How does this work when reddit is down? I probably don't know a more unreliable site than reddit is, so this must have happened plenty of times since April 1st.
JBoss; acquired by RedHat for $420M in 2006 (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBoss_%28company%29)
I agree. How sad that some people have to invent these idiotic memes to fill up their time.
Easier way to get around that: use a version of internet explorer that doesn't support getters!
It's not all robotic. It's mostly robotic. It will be interesting to see how this works out. Except for handling linens, most hotel jobs could be automated in a hotel designed for that.

It's time for someone to build an effective institutional bathroom cleaning robot. Even if you have to design a robot-compatible bathroom.
Well, I've been trying to see how this works and I can't find anything

Network monitoring on the browser shows nothing (maybe an anti-debugging technique)

tcpdump shows an SSL connection to EC2

You really can't synchronise so many people (especially with connection latencies), I think there's some amount of faking in it.
>but I really wish Amazon would first fix a bit more low-hanging fruit for its most beloved hardware product, instead of sinking time and money into unrelated crap

It'd be very surprising to me if the resources put into the Echo had any impact whatsoever on the amount of resources put into the Kindle team.

I hear this argument a lot - "Why does company X work on feature Y when feature Z isn't complete", when features Y and Z are handled by completely different teams with their own dedicated resources.
You need something that is "scarce":

http://journal.dedasys.com/2007/02/03/in-thrall-to-scarcity/
I am working on a Free Software startup. What I think makes it unique is it caters to an underserved market, and customers in that market usually don't have the resources to implement our solutions themselves.

Of course, respecting our (potential) customers' freedom and not withholding knowledge means we have to be innovative in areas other than technology such as marketing, sales, and support. And if we cannot keep customers happy, another company can eventually come in and compete with us by offering better service and/or lower prices.

Edit: fixed a typo.
Holocracy, as I've seen it defined, is supposed to be a non-hierarchical way of organizing a company. That is, teams are supposed to self-organize and independently do what is best for the business as a whole. Another prominent software company that practices holocracy is Valve Software, and their employee handbook [1] is one that I've seen mentioned by multiple people as a good implementation of holocracy.

The problem that holocracy is supposed to solve is that in a modern business environment, market conditions shift too quickly to allow management to have the sole responsibility for making decisions. Having self-organizing teams that take responsibility for advancing business goals, and allowing employees to shift between teams without getting permission from management first ("open allocation") allows the company to develop an internal "marketplace of ideas" which ensures that good ideas win out and bad ideas are killed before they consume too many resources.

Now does it work in practice? I would say that it's too soon to tell. Very few organizations have wholly embraced holocracy. Arguably the only one that's truly embraced the practice is Valve. While the idea of a non-hierarchical organization sounds great in theory, we must also remember that status hierarchies are one of the few things that are common to every human civilization. As a PM colleague of mine put it succinctly, "Middle school lunch rooms are holocracies too." I would say that a holocracy can work, so long as the corporate culture supports it... just like every other management strategy.
I have seen a competition in Japan where the robot can recognize successfully what kind of drink is requested and bring it to guest . I feel optimistic about this concept.
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For someone with only limited HTTP/Javascript knowledge:

"The more dedicated cheaters will hit the button API outside of the browser, which is pretty hard to stop"

How this would be accomplished, I guess from the command line ?

EDIT: found what Monkeypatch means.
Cannot speak to the $$, but CUPS was purchased by Apple[1]

[1] http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/07/07/12/apple_acqui...
Not sure I see the point... My IDE already lets me keep notes, contextualised to source file, project, project directory,... whatever. Why would I want to keep random notes in my browser? (Honest question; not trolling. After a couple of minutes playing with the site I just failed to see a value proposition. Perhaps I'm just too old/dumb/curmudgeonly.)
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We're about 10-15 years (at least) from the point at which room cleaning can be done robotically. It's actually an incredibly complex task, which requires a lot more in terms of executive skills/dexterity that just aren't on the near-term roadmap for robotics or their control systems.

Even doing something simple, and highly constrained like changing the linens on the bed, is still 5 years out (at least).

Now, what they might have done, is constrain the environment, such that the tasks can all be automated. I.E. designing the bed/linens, restricting what/where things can be left in the room, or alternatively, restricting what types of cleanup work will be done.

That would be an interesting approach, but far from the much more challenging task of creating a generalized robotic solution to hotel automation.
Every year something operated mainly by robots opens in Japan. After initial news there is no more follow up about it.
This sounds more like a marketing trick than real thing.
The reception desk robot reaching to get keys is bizarre, surely all door locks would be keyless (access via an app for example) and any other information could be provided digitally.
Whatever your interval duration is you'll get a "reflex speed" of average double that: Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem. So if you want to play at a 100ms reaction speed sample every 50ms or less.

4ms caps your max reflex time at, say, 10ms. Or about 16x faster than your average human [https://www.biology.usu.edu/files/uploads/Courses/Biology%20...]

I'm no expert in sampling. Any bona fide experts want to weigh in? That works ! :)
Hey thanks for your input. My main aim was to make a platform for developers to create formatted notes easily and be able to access them from anywhere. It sounds like your IDE already does this which may mean it isn't right for you - however, some features I am working on is the ability to share notes and view/vote on other users notes and then save them to your own notes collection. Again, thanks for the message!
Hey thanks for the feedback! Yes at this stage I plan for it to be free. Hope you enjoy it! If you want to see some upcoming features check out: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/32bjsx/a_...
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> "No need to tip the staff at this hotel."

In Japan it is rude to tip, so this opening sentence is completely invalid.
That's because it's bullshit. Reddit goes down all the time.
I found that poll :)

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/TvigQqA9m3w
This kind of thing gets me very angry. His windfall should not exist. He protects it with a lobby. Terrible terrible terrible. Makes me cheer for Uber all that much more, and happy to see articles like this -> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-07/uber-is-wi...
> in the infosec space those with closed source products (e.g. WAF's) laugh at those with open source products

I would imagine open source has more reported zero days because, well, the source is open and auditable.

I do see a lot more closed source in the info/app sec space, but I suppose if you know that space well enough, the source code is just a bonus to seeing how the program works, not a requirement.
Impetus (social button experiment) (2013)
You can debug the Websockets connection fine in Chromium. I think Firefox doesn't show websockets frames though.
XML Schema is not the right tool to validate user input.
Also, removing the "l" from cluck would leave you with a word that still sounds obscene, making the whole process pointless.
My question is what assurance do I have that I'll be able to pull my notes out if/when StackNotes goes under or gets acquired? I've been burned a few times by services provided by startups (or not even startups, like Google Reader) going under, and I've learned to be careful of what I trust to a third party service.

More specifically, my question is why I should use StackNotes instead of an emacs org-mode file stored in a git repository?
The Indian won't also be paying taxes in India. America is the only country that taxes its citizens on their worldwide income -- something my (American) business partner here in Thailand is not happy about.
Funny how you can inflate an issue. I have a paperwhite and love it. I guess I am lucky that I don't know so much about typography.
What was there earlier?
What was there earlier? What's happening around? Where can a person find happiness tomorrow? Tell your friends about your favorite places and crucial events. Let your story be vivid and true. Photo in Instagramm? Awesome! Video in YouTube? Use it! Do your comments in Facebook suit most of all? Why not? The world that surrounds you is looking forward to your impressions and emotions!
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I'm sorry, but if you mean Makoto Matsumoto who seems to be the name mentioned in the SFMT library, that library is bogus. It generates numbers in [1,2) and then maps that to [0,1) by subtracting 1. This can be trivially shown to lose information, in fact I added a little hack to my github repo two days ago showing why it's bogus when that specific library was mentioned to me (again). Unless you want to lose one bit of entropy in the first conversion every number gets. And it still doesn't get us anywhere close to arbitrary ranges (which is the hard problem).

I also just looked at stuff that Agner Fog has published, thank you for mentioning him. Same thing. Maybe my understanding of floating point is bad, but his is worse. One generator uses the classic rng()/((double)range_of_rng) approach which is the whole reason why the C++ standard generators aren't uniform (because it will only work you use a non-standard rounding mode for floating points and still doesn't get us anywhere close to arbitrary ranges which are a completely different problem). Another uses [1,2) - 1.0 which loses information. And the third one is "combines two different random number generators for improved randomness", which I guess sounds good, how does he do it? He generates two [0,1) numbers, adds them together then subtracts 1.0 when the result is bigger than 1.0 which both loses precision and compounds the rounding problems.

Literally the first thing I did when trying to figure this out months ago was to randomize the bits in the mantissa with a 0 exponent to get a [1,2) number then subtracted 1.0 from it, then it took me 10 minutes to test that this doesn't actually work.

So, maybe my understanding of floating point numbers is bad, but the authorities you cite are worse.
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For those who doubt this statement or find it odd, I can offer an explanation.

First of all, tipping someone implicitly puts them in a servile position and says you're off better than them. Secondly, and this is probably the killer, it says that you don't think they would manage without your help.

Which just goes to show that everywhere you go, you learn something new which can be different ;)
Oh, those seething bureaucracies with faceless collectives and blurred responsibilities...

Also that's sort of interesting to see how a company which is supposed to take over the world is unable to deliver even the ordinary products. I hope, this will prove in the long run that to be successful you need to have a good product or service.
Depends on the jurisdiction of course, but generally salaries would be first in line.
I hope you do understand that it would not damaging compatibility with 95-98, but with windows 8. The class of programs that this is for runs fine on Windows 8, because they are not executing legacy code for 95-98. But the check for 95-98 would return true for windows 9. So the legacy code will be executed, probably breaking stuff because the API has changed a lot.

And as for some evidence this is the case:
https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22win...
”And I mean angel money on terms like the YC deferred-valuation deal that replaces convertible notes. (can't remember the name at the moment.)”

Do you mean safes? (Simple Agreement for Future Equity)
Sentinents: How does the world feel about X?
Meanwhile you're wasting time on Hacker News.
This + peerflix would be great. Like popcorn time but I can enter my own torrent URLs.
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On a side note, if I'm not wrong I guess you meant either that:

1. His lack of [...] is really high. ( Does this make sense?)

2. His understanding of[...] is really low/poor.

Cheers :p
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Thank you for calling this out. This is not only a profound failure of the imagination, but it's the terrible source of the problem that we find ourselves in. In many ways it is the box itself, just take another pull at the slot machines of casino capitalism, and remember nothing was every promised to you, not through your education, nor through the debt that you accumulated - it's all on you, and your inability to scale fro 10 to 1000, see where I'm going?
A particular server goes down (well, gives you a busy message), the whole of reddit doesn't "go down".

Also this uses websockets to different servers outside of the normal content servers.
> in the infosec space those with closed source products (e.g. WAF's) laugh at those with open source products when it comes to the numbers of embarrassing and business-damaging zero-days reported.

Because no one reports theirs? It's not a good reason to laugh if you think of it.
The button presses are communicated over a websocket. You could make your own websocket client and communicate however you want to, such as listening to time updates and sending a click when it reaches a certain treshold.
There was Cygnus Solutions, which I believe maintained GNU software (debugger, binutils) and contributed large parts of gcc. Cygnus was bought by Red Hat for $674M in 1999.

HN folks may recognize EFF board member John Gilmore as the founder.
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Are there some sort of plugins that link the source with the notes? If there's no direct link between these, how do you remember you made some notes on a particular snippet?
Sure, just like food is a kind of obesity of the body! Aren't there good things about reading information you want to read on the internet? With food it's quite obvious: you don't eat, you die!

It's been my experience that distractibility and overeating, especially when feeling bad about it afterwards, is a sign you need to make a change and something is very wrong with how you are living at a level deeper than what internet websites you read or food you eat.

Sometimes all I do pretty much all day is internet browsing and I can't even summon the focus to play a video game or watch a movie (two activities demanding much more focus than internet browsing).

Other times I'm super immersed in a project I'm doing and can't stop thinking about how cool it would be to, say, compile <Foo> to run on the GPU and won't stop till it's done.

The difference between me and the people who accept the unstated biases and values of the article is that I trust and believe in myself enough to give myself a mental gold star for BOTH activities. Thus enhancing whatever value I get out of them.

The thing I keep in mind is that: sometimes aimless internet browsing, like eating, is just that: enjoyable river of information and enjoyable food. Not very hard to understand.
However, sometimes it's a cover up for deeper problems in my life at large. But what is guaranteed to fuck it all up and make it worse is if I suddenly frame the issue as fixing distraction or overeating and not the underlying problems.

This is really a psychological issue at heart, relating to self-concept and implicit negative self-biases and those kinds of attention and eating issues are a great example of how your mental health is a domain where where correcting symptoms only is nearly always vastly worse than attempting to correct the real problem.

Of course, none of this nuance is appreciated by The Guardian or anyone who writes for it, because they have a vested interest in putting out articles that keep people stressed out and resentful so they can slave away in conflict against each other to keep a few rich :)
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Only that you can track the timer reaching record low values and then the rapid appearance of people with that flair. Multiple people can get the flair from one reset if they're all close enough together so the first yellow button press had about 30 people. It is possible that they're adding false clicks while still allowing it to reach lower values over time, but I guess, why, when watching people do this themselves is so interesting?
Good and very fair question. Firstly, I don't understand why a company would not allow you to pull your data out before closing/be acquired but rest assured if that ever happens to stacknotes (i don't plan on it), I will provide a way to pull your notes out. If enough users wanted it, I might even provide a way to 'backup' or download your notes collection at will. Secondly, i can't answer that question as I haven't really used emacs org-mode (didn't know about it until then) but my main reason would be because of the features which we plan to implement (note sharing, voting etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/32bjsx/a_...) which I feel will be make us a great alternative.

Again thanks for your message! If you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask!
I never understood the “genomania” approach, it's pretty clear that in science and technology we don't limit ourselves to the information contained in our genes, I don't see why they should have any weight either in morals or social organization.

I understand the value as descriptive tools, but even in social behaviors that may be very influenced by genes, once you are aware of those patterns they are very easy to detect and choose whether you decide to follow them or not, so even if we were 100% determined by our genes, once we learn the way in which we are determined we would be in the position to move in a different direction. Genes can't help us decide what to do, we will have to make the choice by ourselves.
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