skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My phone (Samsung Galaxy S3) has an FM radio. Unfortunately it's really difficult to use because it uses the headphones as the antenna, which means you have to literally stand in a certain way with your arms in a certain position to hear anything. But anyway, it has an FM radio ...
"The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible."
This is true. A few clarifications:

· the “lime” we’re talking about here is not the fruit, but the strong alkali slaked lime, i.e. whitewash or mortar, made by roasting limestone. You can apparently also use lye (Drano), and I wouldn’t be surprised if fermented urine (lant) also worked, but I really recommend that you know what the fuck you’re doing before you start trying to cook with Drano or construction materials. This may help understand the Europeans’ reluctance.

· nixtamalization is done on the whole corn, not on the corn meal. Nixtamalized corn is also known as “hominy”, and if you’re from the US you’ve probably heard of it under that name. It’s been common in the US since colonial times.

· When you nixtamalize corn, you don’t leave the lime in your food. You have to rinse it out after the long, slow nixtamalization process. Otherwise, the result is really bitter.

· Nixtamalization is indeed a traditional practice with a broad pre-Columbian distribution, but it is almost unknown in South America, even though the native cultures here in South America are much more intact and in many ways less assimilated than in North America; this suggests to me that it may not be true that “Native people always treated corn [...] with lime”. I mean, maybe Tawantinsuyu universally nixtamalized its corn, and then the Spanish stamped out the practice so thoroughly that you can’t find nixtamalized corn in the grocery stores there today, even as a special holiday product like chuño; but it seems much more likely to me that nixtamalization just was not universal or even common there in pre-Columbian times.

The pellagra epidemic is one of my favorite examples of how ignorance kills people.
Wikipedia says the San Diego median income is $63,857 but I don't fucking believe it.
Antennas, broadly, need to be some fraction of the wavelength of the wavelength you're trying to capture. Think resonance as to why this is the case.

Since FM operates around 100 MHz, cellular around 1GHz, and Wifi from 2-5GHz, you'd need a pretty "flexible" antenna to talk them all at once. To say nothing of the capacitive footwork you'd need to undertake to adjust the electrical length properly to tune the sucker.

Couple this with how FM Radio is seen as niche for smartphones and it makes sense to have an external antenna requirement.

There is no requirement for the radio app to output to the headphones that are being plugged in for antenna reasons. The built-in app for my BlackBerry Z30 has no problems reassigning output to a speaker.
Vim is shit so you installed a vim emulator?
While I agree with what I take to be your overall point, what would have been lost had you replaced your comment with the following, which does not assume anything about the poster's motivation?

The utility is actually called "The Fuck", with no asterisk. Please respect creators by not bowdlerizing the names they have chosen.
Global house prices: Location, location, location
Good point. Stuff like this never happens outside of America!
"If I could talk to my 14 year old self, I wouldn't
recommend any particular books.

I would say, "Don't stress and worry so much about school
or your grades, because absolutely none of that is going
to matter in 10 years. Learn how to make things. Start
now, and never stop. Learn how to use technology to the
fullest, both software and hardware. Learn how to write,
speak and communicate ideas as effectively as possible.
Learn how to hack people and understand how social
structures work. Take that seriously. Most importantly,
don't let anyone change who you are. Choose a path and
follow it doggedly."

Ironically, some of the best advice I've seen came from a
book: "Who you will be in five years is determined by who
you meet today and what you read today" [0]. But a 14
year old doesn't need to read a whole book to gain that
particular pearl of wisdom, or many of the others. I read
a lot now, several of the books mentioned on this thread
and many others. But that's because I'm old, and it's too
late
for me. If I could talk to my 14 year old self, or any
14
year old, I would tell them that there is significantly
more to life than what can be learned in a book.

[0] The Creative Habit, by Twyla Tharp "

[via] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9268981
Virtualbox keeps freezing
Looks like an interesting talk. Wish the audio was better.
Wikipedia has a bot and I love it … a bots perspective
As he should be.
<onion>
bloomberg network unable to report crash of major financial information service
</onion>
I've had my kid brought home by the cops twice. Both times he was playing on the sidewalk less than 50 feet from our front door. What do you even say to a cop that thinks allowing your child to play in their own front yard unsupervised is dangerous? It's insane. You risk getting a visit from CPS if your child goes unsupervised at any point in time. In practice, it's rare, but not so rare that parent's like me and my wife don't worry about every time our kids run outside to play.
I'm not sure this is the reason at all. Talk of FM on iPhones goes back many years - even leading to rumours of iOS updates brining FM support, but they obviously never materialised. Nowadays I think the FM part is basically down to the chips themselves and the low-cost solution to have a generic chip that does all, instead of having a limited subset of functions based on each deal.
> Not being 100% sure which command this will correct to is dangerous.

And yet the concept of the invocation `fuck --dry-run` is surely unappealing. :-)
Show HN: Gothefoutside
This is a corporation v corporation dispute: broadcasters against carriers and streaming providers.
Throwaway, so doesn't matter. Salary is 90k, though recently realized how little it matters. I'd be fine with 50 or so. Have some background in neural networks, and all the math goodies needed for ML. Between ML and robotics somewhere would be my dream job.
That's a great explanation, thank you.
OCTOBOT! So cool to see another bot doing great things! Keep up the great work. @DaterBot
LOX looks really interesting to me. Might consider using those when I redo my deck this summer.
Don't let the media scare you, the US is still a fine place to visit.
> However, `SPC b s` also doesn't what I was looking for. It opens a buffer, not a tab

If you are looking for workspaces i.e. organizing buffers into logical group, use Perspective: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/master/contrib/pe....

> And it doesn't even look for them in the cwd, but does I-haven't-figured-out-what-yet instead.

As another commenter suggested, you can use :cd. However, you can use a better interactive interface and use "SPC f f" or "SPC f h". Spacemacs is, after all, Vim + Emacs.

Emacs has that kind of visual tabs but Spacemacs does not integrate it since it gets in the way more than being useful.

> If you are wondering why that SPC stuff isn't the equivalent to command-mode with ":" bound to SPC: commands are easy to define even in vim, they can have descriptive names due to their nature and I don't have to remember them, as I can use auto-complete! For example, I have :Rename and :Remove. Actually, I don't even remember if it's :Remove or :Delete, I just use autocompletion every time I need it and find out.

That kind of auto-complete is really bare. If you want something like that, try pressing "SPC :" or "Alt-x" in Spacemacs. You can search in any order you like, not prefix, i.e. if you look for command "list-package", either "list pa" or "pa list" gives you the command.

I mean, in Vim, to get help for a key binding, I have to type something like "Ctrl+W". Really? In Emacs, you get it by pressing "C-h k" then press the key binding you don't know which command is bound to it. You even get a cheatsheet like style in Emacs. For example, if you don't know what the commands in "SPC f" does, simply press "SPC f ?" and you get an interactive cheatsheet that you can easily narrow donw. Press "C-z" to open its description.
I agree with the overall article, but I thought it tendoned toward the sensational.
Earthlings, Into the Wild, City of God, Fight Club, Whiplash
Nothing currently...trying to find some time for maintenance on https://github.com/jdc0589/JsFormat, and maybe finishing up the last couple big bugs/features on https://github.com/jdc0589/mite-node
Xi Jinping’s Problems Are ‘Monumental’
Of course, that covers a huge percentage of bicycle usage. I wear no helmet when commuting, but I'll wear a helmet in unusual conditions. Most cycling is done in fine weather in ordinary situations.
I'm talking about map(), and you're talking about filter().

Here's the code in question:

.map(function(album){
return {artist : album("vendor")("name")}
})

If this is simply adding a node to an AST, it could be expressed without a function:

.map({artist : ['album','vendor','name']})

Using a function for this would be quite superfluous.
NAT traversal is easier with UDP than with TCP. Here's a good article on the topic: https://www.zerotier.com/blog/?p=226
If you want the cadillac of drivers, check out PB Swiss. They even have their own individual serial numbers.
Yeah, I was confused about how he equated "plain text" with "not Word", and was wondering when he would talk about LaTeX.

Really, the idea of writing journal articles in Word brings shivers down my spine!
I find that editing text in a WYSIWYG word processor distracts me from the content and makes me tinker with the formatting.

I still end up doing this in LaTeX, only now there's a time lag.
That is the only reason I would use it. I attend Georgia Southern Football games and like to listen to the Radio Broadcast during the game. Streaming is normally well behind the game when it works. Most of the time there are to many people in the stadium and you can not get a reliable data connection.
We're happy to announce the AngularJS slack community is going public
What do you mean with the first suggestion? We have a Bitbucket importer already, I'm not sure if it works with Gh repo's though.
He said that the Vim UI is good (aka the modal editing) but everything else is crap. So, Evil gives that interface and better platform.
Oh, I see, thank you. As I understand buffer name isn't the same thing as file path/name. So I can't really open file by pasting (Ctrl-r +) it path anyway, can I? Also, I only understood how to switch between buffers using that separate screen, not like "next/previous tab", and there isn't any panel that would show which tabs are opened now. But I think that's solvable, at least.
Circuit: A Minimal Distributed Programmatic OS written in Go
Symbol resolution in Fexl is now highly simplified and accelerated
Yeah I agree...the appeal of CLI is to tersely do a variety of powerful commands...and the tradeoff is that you have to be exact in your syntax. The seconds saved in not having to retype something is a relatively irrelevant optimization, which isn't bad in itself except that it also introduces a significant amount of ambiguity, which can be deadly in CLI work.
The foreskin: Why is it such a secret in North America?
There's also markdown if you want plain text but just a bit of extra formatting. You can even embed LaTeX snippets in markdown that get interpreted when you run it through Pandoc. Then you can use LaTeX without dealing with LaTeX typesetting.
No, let the scared Europeans stay scared, that way only the bold ones will brave the "danger".
Create, prototype and manufacture cloud-connected products in days
Everyone understands the limitations of FM radio, it is absolutely not a user experience issue for phones to enable this.
Running any circuits within the constrained space of a cellphone risks (i.e., definitely does) cause RF interference with the antenna(s) listening to cell towers , which is a huge engineering challenge.
Wearing a helmet would also improve the safety of people driving or walking around. But strangely we don't hear all the nagging lectures for people to wear a helmet when they are driving or walking to a corner store, whether or not it's on a quiet street in fine weather.
Summaries are great, and extremely useful. But, to me, “TL;DR” just inspires a feeling of contempt: “You think a 1700-word article is too long for you to read? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you have the attention span of a goldfish? Have you ever seen a book?” (using, as my example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9359426.)
I don't understand your position. TPP/TTIP create new major litigation risks, so without rejecting these treaties it may not even be possible to achieve the goal of risk-free Fair Use at schools in the first place.
I generally agree with you that FM radio is not a very good user experience (except during emergencies, when it suddenly becomes incredibly useful). But that doesn't mean I get to tell other people whether they want it or not. Enabling the FM radio tuner chip doesn't have to affect the user experience at all for users who don't want to use it. The carrier doesn't have to include an FM radio app pre-installed. Users who want FM radio can install an app for it.
Yes, but I was comparing to molten salt reactors. Stirling engines are still much simpler than reactors, even if they are slightly more complicated than RTGs.
AIUI they already have research models that are capable of running for decades without maintenance.
A. Two ounces of cannabis oil is... not cheap. B. She may believe she has the moral high-ground (I do) and that attempting to destroy 'the evidence' would negate that.
> All of the ReQL examples are completely unreadable relative to SQL.

I don't actually agree with this, but one solution to this would be -- as Google has done with several of its not-traditional-db storage products -- to build a library that takes strings in an SQL-like language (SQL with additions/deletions to align with RethinkDB's features and capabilities) and builds ReQL objects from them. But, while it might have utility, its probably not as high a priority for the RethinkDB team as getting the core features right.

My be an interesting third-party add-on, though.
What does derpy mean in this context? I tried googling it but all I saw were some My Little Pony references.
You can express it both ways in RethinkDB, and they'd both do the same thing -- add a node to the AST. The function is just a convenience syntax.
I would counter-argue that if there's an FM receiver in your phone, there's no reason you should be listening to analog FM radio. I can't imagine they wouldn't also support modern digital FM signals.
Huh? There have been multiple successful kickstarted iOS games. The most high-profile is probably Republique (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/486250632/republique-by...). And I have no idea what you mean by "due to apple censorship".
I've visited the US many times. You've little to fear as a visitor. There are a great many reasons to visit the USA.

With that being said, I haven't been back since the Snowden news broke and everything else that has followed. I'm not American, I can't vote there, I can't effect influence there, so my only way to protest the national and international actions of the USA is to not bring my tourist dollars there anymore.

Which is a shame because I've spent a lot of money on personal trips there, have enjoyed my times there, have met some really great people there, etc. but as it's my only form of protest that I can engage in, it's what I feel I have to do.
Not GP, but LibreOffice is much more actively developed than OpenOffice.org currently. Any more it looks like OO.org is just getting maintenance from a few IBMers [1]. It's rather a shame, with all of the brand recognition that was built up in OpenOffice before being acquired by Oracle.

[1] - https://lwn.net/Articles/637735/
Negligible for walking. Its different to be hurtling along at 20mph on a contraption of pipes, gears and chains and hit a storm drain, launching headfirst into the back of a parked car, than to trip and skin your knee. One requires a helmet to survive.

And driving - there's airbags and the steel cage and belts and padding. Another storey altogether.
Drunk men stab each other over iPhone versus Android debate
Socially clumsy or awkward, sometimes painfully so. Non-empathetic. Unable (or unwilling) to put itself in other peoples' shoes.
I'd not use this.

It's basically a negative, aggressive emotional response, exactly a thing I'd rather not experience while working.

A failure due to not enough privileges might be a signal to rethink what you are doing; a mindless prepending of `sudo` is dangerous. Why not `su root` then?

Also, there was that screnshot of `sudo wget` as a response to a 403 error. This is exactly why you should re-examine a failed command instead of swearing around.
I wonder if this is why I've been having weird stalls and intermittent failures using GMail the last few weeks. Every time, I try it in Firefox or Safari and it works perfectly.
This West Virginia Town Has Gone Radio Silent
Obviously everyone's past and background is different, so how the industry impacts them will also be different, and their views on tech culture will also be different, but many things that the author said resonated with me as well.

I've been a programming for 10 years (three fourths of a masters degree in software engineering -- will be graduating from a part-time program next year, bachelors in engineering, multiple publications, 5 years industry), and, a couple weeks ago, asked a straightforward question about a particularly complicated implementation of a Java callable pattern, to a co-worker who had done some work with the code I was expanding on. He took it as an opportunity to tell me that I'd be dealing with this stuff all the time when I started doing "real programming" and should get used to it. He then talked about the difference between "real programming" and what I'd apparently been doing my whole career for a couple minutes, and sent me links to a github repo with code he said I should look at and learn.

He wasn't more senior than I was, I had always considered us to be equals at work, he never actually answered my question, but the entire exchange unsettled me for a couple days -- I felt like what I'd been working for my entire career was just dismissed as "not real" by him, and potentially others around me (this was after a couple of other similar incidents -- class I had to drop, failed interview for a freelance job -- that had happened recently, which made it especially unnerving)

That's the worst thing about this industry. It's almost habit for some people to dismiss others if they haven't heard of a particular style of in-memory caching that you use, or haven't used some language, or even use a language that you loathe. It's obnoxious. I've been thinking quite a bit about leaving, myself.
Here's the problem:

Most people - anyone clueless about computers, and only vaguely informed on the state of our intelligence community - they do not "know" what you imply. Because, we do not "know", and therefore we cannot prove it to them.

We are given bits, here and there. Who knows what bits are suppressed by which interpretations of this Patriot Act or that?

Such a laizze-faire attitude about such potential for warrantless, unbounded, infinitely intelligent surveillance (and control, which it implies) is inconsiderate of most people, to say the least. To say the most, it could be fatally reckless for too many of us.

"Come on": if a random link was crawled by a "threat intelligence agency" in an otherwise innocuous chat? That is outrageous, if true.

To be clear, I recognize "hints" that have been posted (as opposed to proof) suggesting that, in fact, something like Pastebin.com was crawled. And, for some reason, the link that was allegedly private allegedly ended up on Pastebin.

In any case, the authors of this thread were clearly not aware of such "sniffing" on their computers... to say the least.

Maybe completely innocuous, and maybe not.

But since we're on this Snowden/Citizenfour topic, let me at least be clear: I refuse to let the walls keep crumbling, if that's what we're really talking about. You can bet your ass that Benjamin Franklin was right: “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

I refuse to consciously and explicitly grant free reign to "Big Brother" - and reduce this to a "catch me if you can" survival of the "most evasive" - just because, you know, "national security" knows whats best for us.

Who's security exactly? Who helped lobby to put whom in what directorship of what agency that deems it fit to keep this (slightly sensitive topic to Corporation X, Y, Z) confidential?

The more you let the surveillance state grow - whatever respectable, admirable, necessary ideals it may have - the fewer and weaker your "million secure alternatives" will become.

We must not reduce control of the future of our country to a cat and mouse game. We must be tigers ready to fight for what's right for everyone. And yes, everyone should decide this together - not just a few "intelligence analysts" (or worse, their bots) in a pretty little lab somewhere...

Cheers!
So I thought, maybe we could beam energy to satellites?

Using:
http://www.pseudonomen.com/lasers/calculators/index.html

If I beam 1 GigaWatt to Jupiter from Earth at closest approach, with the same beam divergence as current moon-shooting laser technology, they could gather at 0.10655 W/m^2.. so terrible. Truly RTG FTW.
We changed the title to the last sentence of the article, which seems to make its point more neutrally. If anyone suggests a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
Ben and Jerry's spoof Apple's “1984” ad in new BRRR-ito commercial
Its been a wild ride since we started Angular Buddies and I think we have created the warm community we set out for. Today we are opening it up to the public.

Hope to see you there! :)
As I said: "One may think it's stupid but this company has a dress code and wants its employees to look put together period."

I don't disagree that it's idiotic, but this seems to be the company's policy, they have the right to be idiotic.

Many comments pointed out that it is customary for an applicant to ask if there is a dress code prior to showing up for the interview. This person didn't know that, that's ok, she's inexperienced, still going to school. Maybe it was her first interview, I don't know.

The thing is, a grown-up would learn from this experience and say "next time I'll ask my HR contact if there is a strong policy regarding clothing", but no, not this very special snowflake. The world has to bend over to accomodate her uniqueness.
How to spoof the mac address programmatically
That explains why Apple disables it, but why would Samsung and LG care? To my knowledge they neither sell data traffic nor streaming services?
Please dont believe the hype you hear on the internet. The reality for 90% of people here is not what you read on HN, Reddit, or whatever news site.

May I ask what crime and problem free country you hail from?
This article is a golden classic
And selling hardware that's been crippled in some way always makes people uncomfortable. Whether it's an FM tuner being turned off, tethering being blocked, CPU features turned off, or whatever, manufacturing a working product and then selling it in a less-working state is worrisome and shouldn't be automatically considered acceptable. It's a strong indicator of a possible market failure and a sure sign that the consumer's ownership rights have been compromised.
Thank you for being vulnerable and passionate, Tim. This is really helpful to me right now.
For about the same reasons my blog doesn't show up in "check out this new internet trend!" articles.