skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you're making my argument for me: you don't believe in Slack's longevity because they're satisfying a permanent need. You believe in it because it executed well.

Nothing prevents anyone else from executing better. The permanence of the need doesn't point, in any way, to the permanence of this particular supply.
FM antenna != cellular antenna
The Wrights didn't "tweak engines", they hired a machinist to build their own engine from scratch, being unable to find an existing one with the requisite power to weight ratio.

The Wrights also had a propeller design that was 90% efficient, compared with the flat design (used on the Langley machine) that was 50% efficient. This was also crucial, because it had the effect of nearly halving the required power.

Power, weight, and efficiency are all critical. There's no way to tell if Whitehead's design would have flown from a replica based on a photo, because those 3 factors cannot be derived from a photo.
It's human nature to want to label things. IIRC a while ago I was watching one of those "house hunter" type shows and a husband on there was really annoying. I found a discussion online and people were calling him a "hipster douche". So, perhaps hipster by itself isn't so bad. :)

Back a long time ago the applicable pejorative was "yuppie". I haven't heard that one recently. I suspect that many people reading here would have to look it up in Wikipedia.

Edit: BTW at the time I was partial to calling people "yuppie scum". Sigh. It's so hard to keep up with the changing putdowns! :)
Do you really listen to the chords that closely? For a lot of music, the chords are either largely hinted at (bass notes, the lead guitar or rhythm guitar lick, and how the melody move) and if there is an instrument banging out the exact chord progression, it's usually buried under the stuff or at least the vocal.

If I'm writing a song, I'm spending almost all of my time doing things tangential to the chord progressions, but rarely any time on the chord progressions themselves. So usually I'll start with a guitar lick or vocal melody, put a chord progression behind it, and then figure out the rest of the arrangement.

If there's a song that's memorable to me, it's almost always because of the main melody or guitar, not the underlying chords.

I'm only talking about pop-based music here, so rock, pop, country, etc.
I don't believe the Guardian equates to WikiLeaks either, but the difference between the two seems to be somewhere else than just releasing everything vs. selective publishing.
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There's a difference between including an FM radio and simply turning on a pre-existing one via a software update, which apparently is possible on at least some phone models.

And regardless of NPR's motives, their "it's needed for emergencies" argument is a pretty good one.
Do that many people really have work phones that are mobile devices? I've had a desk phone at several jobs, which I pretty much never use, but I was only issued a mobile device as work phone once. I never really used it either. Yet people talk about this as though it is a common thing. Is there some specific industry or type of job that routinely gives people mobile devices for work use?
ReQL is declarative. The queries are compiled into an AST in the client drivers, the AST is shipped to the database, and is then analyzed and executed on the cluster. There is no information loss, and nothing runs on the client. The query language looks operational (as is, just run these commands in order), but is also declarative in the same way as SQL is.

This blog post explains how this works: http://rethinkdb.com/blog/lambda-functions/
I have one remark about live sports, I like the idea of listening live events that have no data costs associated.
While you could technically use JSON to have a more efficient storage I think it safe to assume they use Key/Value.

http://rethinkdb.com/docs/comparison-tables/

I can't believe new databases are still using this model. Some of my data storage would be 90% keys and 10% data as JSON.
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> Google really gets how standardization works. They innovate and once the innovation has proven its value they offer the technology for standardization.

I wouldn't necessarily say "innovate" or "offer," but they do understand the process. You can make pretty much anything a "standard" with a bit of money and time (isn't Microsoft Office's XML format a "standard"?), but adoption is always an issue. However, Google controls a popular web server (Google search) and client (Google Chrome), so for web-things, they can create "widespread adoption" for whatever they standardize.
What's the downside of turning this on? From the article it just seems like it would mean more capabilities, more consumer choice. Is the only "downside" that it allows you to bypass cell networks when getting content?
Suggestions?

Been interested in ML lately. I'm a good half way through Andrew Ng's CS 229 (the actual course, not the watered down coursera course). I find it much more intellectual stimulating than writing apps, lol, sigh.
The companies involved have researched the market and the needs of the market and come out with what we have now, trying to argue the end result is wrong would need data to show otherwise.

No, technology companies are researching how to make more money. That frequently means making changes that are not in consumers' interests, in particular when it comes to either closed ecosystems and lock-in or when it comes to built-in obsolescence.

See also: "Smart" TVs, the history of pricing in the printer industry, Anything-as-a-Service, multi-year contracts in the mobile phone industry that obscure the true cost of these devices, DRM, and countless other trends in technology.

From an engineering stand point, integrated/monolithic hardware fails less

In some cases, yes. But when it does fail, you lose the entire device. It is far from clear that any benefit in reliability is a net win relative to any loss from making all failures catastrophic when they do happen.

Hardware has reached the point where it's on the same level with every-day things people throw away and buy new versions of without even thinking, like kettles or toasters

Not even close. That's just what people who make a lot of money selling new devices that don't actually offer much benefit over "old" devices want to convince everyone to believe with their marketing.

The current wasteful attitude is not sustainable, either economically or environmentally. We've only had this "two years and you throw away your $500 iThing and get a new one" kind of mentality quite recently, and most people have been through these kinds of change no more than once or perhaps twice so far.

Just like no-one doing corporate IT assumes you'll throw away a PC every three years any more, the market will learn, and probably very quickly. I already know plenty of people who have had exactly one generation of Apple gear and then become frustrated with the short lifecycle. I know almost no-one going the other way. That's just anecdotal of course, but looking at market share trends and general commentary over time, it looks like the experience and sentiment within my network is not unusual.
I'm surprised the women didn't use the three hours she had before the warrant was issued to dispose of the cannabis oil. It should have been clear that she was in a ver high-stakes situation. In modern America and throughout all of human history, it is shown time and time again that the state (little 's') can be a real motherfucker. Never let your guard down.
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I think the hanging thing can be solved by invoking emacsclient in the following way: `emacsclient -n`.
How many f-bombs does it take to hire an engineer? A lot apparently
":" runs Emacs functions. Some commands from Vim have been added, but not all of them. If a function with the same name as a Vim command already exists in Emacs, it's not replaced. I'd imagine replacing the default Emacs functions could break things in weird ways.

:cd runs the Emacs cd function which behaves differently than Vim's :cd.

To get the equivalent of :tabnew, you'd have to use :buffer [name] and give the new buffer (Emacs's equivalent of tabs) a name.
Am I going crazy? One day I woke up and could not find the Android app "FM Radio" (even had a shortcut on my home screen.) Looked and looked and looked and could not find it anywhere. Eventually I verified the apk was included in the original install.

Did my provider (Sprint?) or my manufacturer remove this during an update? Did Gooole remove this during an update?

Side note: anyone know of a good FM radio app on Android?
He's probably been downvoted because his entire chain of comments boils down to "Hurr durr, people R sheep!"
Land of the free.

Seriously, America scares me and I would never visit it. It's a shame, really, the place looks amazing. I hope it will get fixed up in my lifetime...
The thing about interfaces and Go that is kind of unique is that unlike with Java you don't need to declare up front that a struct implements a particular interface. And you can easily have a sort of interface composition like if you have a io.ReadWriter interface which is just a 'virtual' interface that implemements both io.Reader and io.Writer interfaces. Not a breakthrough in CS but still a very convenient and not so common thing.
Gotcha. I was looking at the spec sheets of the various instances, and could only find that they are GK104s. I didn't think to look to see if there was a dual GK104 board, because video card makers tend to do that only for their high end boards. Definitely makes sense, though, for the density Amazon would want to run in.
Other fuels are possible, however Plutonium 238 is preferred for these purposes for a number of reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
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I know you speak at least one more language than I do.
I work at a telco that constantly makes ridiculous patronizing arguments.

The people making those statements are drinking so much kool-aid they honestly don't even know they're talking nonsense. They actually believe it to their core.
Another aspect of this that the article fails to mention is that NASA has tried to come up with more efficient thermo-acoustic energy converters than the existing seebeck-effect RTG's for radioactive sources [1], but the projects went terribly over budget and got cancelled.

[1] http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/van-kane/20131208...
There isn't much question that helmets reduce injury. The larger question of "should they be mandatory" is still open (with a strong lean towards "no.")

From the first article.

"Even most opponents of mandatory helmet laws advocate helmet use, but they say that the negative consequences of helmet laws outweigh the benefits."

From the third.

"If you consider the entire body of research rather than just one study, and look at both head and neck injuries, helmets only reduce the risk of injury by about 15% to 45% ."
The radio coupled with internet access is the fastest way to obtain/disseminate information. Contrary to some of the comments already made, the radio is absolutely essentially for emergency situations given the ubiquity of emitters and receivers as well as the fragile nature of cell technology. It is sad that posters' dislike for NPR as an organization leads them to dislike the concept of connectivity.
Yeah, that is a darn shame. Let's hope she manages to win this despite her mistake. :-)
Protocols would be judged proprietary on the second axis, not software.

(Some software implements a proprietary protocol.)
Yeah I don't think most phones have an FM antenna. All of the phones I've seen that expose FM radio end up using the headphones that are plugged in as the antenna. This means you have to use headphones, which is a bit of an annoyance when you want to stream music to a bluetooth speaker or even just use the phone's internal speaker.
I think why there's interest is because the way they're implemented in Go is a nice intersection between duck typing and type safety.
In most type safe languages (eg. java), you explicitly have to say that you want your goose to pretend to be a duck.
In most type unsafe languages (eg. python), you don't have a way (or, at least without type annotations) to say what features you need to pretend to be a duck.

You're not wrong. That's what Go is about: Well tried techniques, implemented with well practiced knowledge.
That's certainly a downgrade on the standard. Durability is a must not an option. The statement may not be friendly, but it is not down-vote-justifiable.
I've tried writing with a pencil and paper. I finally had to give up, because whenever I'd make a mistake I'd be reaching for the non-existent Esc key to get back into normal mode. Man, talk about a distraction.
Oh, so worlds will no longer cater to the magic teenage suburban fantasy that everything magically fixes itself in the background after they mess it up and leave the room?
SpiritF in the F-Droid repo, although it says you'll need root.
Bitbucket is ending their CNAME feature
Not being 100% sure which command this will correct to is dangerous. Also the need for this is largely negated by a shell with autosuggestions.
Ask.com Toolbar Can Hijack Your Computer Through Java Updates
Possibly silly question: I was under the impression that only TCP allowed for NAT traversal; if I send a UDP packet to Google, how can Google respond without me configuring my router?
suggestions:

1. Put free price / comunity product on price plan

2. Provide simple guide and script to convert existing bitbucket hg to git (because people are lazy)
I could only find 5 cases where a space craft carrying an RTG suffered a mishap. of those only 2 resulted in the release of radiation. Both of those were in the 60s.

from Wikipedia:
To minimize the risk of the radioactive material being released, the fuel is stored in individual modular units with their own heat shielding. They are surrounded by a layer of iridium metal and encased in high-strength graphite blocks. These two materials are corrosion- and heat-resistant. Surrounding the graphite blocks is an aeroshell, designed to protect the entire assembly against the heat of reentering the Earth's atmosphere. The plutonium fuel is also stored in a ceramic form that is heat-resistant, minimising the risk of vaporization and aerosolization. The ceramic is also highly insoluble.

it also notes that the LEM on Apollo 13 carried a RTG, and there was no sign of contamination after it re-entered and landed in the Tonga Trench. And that was a extreme outlier due to the high velocity it re-entered at being it was following a trans lunar trajectory.
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True, and while it bit her in the butt, I suspect she was trying to stand for the principles that she believed in, and those that her son had just defended. For her to dispose of the cannabis oil would have been to admit it was wrong to have, and thus render her child's argument invalid. In effect, it would have been an act of betrayal.
Me from 4.5 years ago agrees: http://mattshaw.org/news/apples-dumbing-down-of-computers-a-...
> One of the most important is that open-source-but-proprietary protocols, if they catch on, end up devolving into bug-for-bug compatibility with a giant pile of C++.

I love Mozilla, but this seems like an apt description of "JavaScript." (sure, they're not so much bugs as misfeatures, but..)
There are plenty of vendors that provide good UDP-based solutions, for example TIBCO. In my opinion multicast is not used widely enough, partially because everybody thinks that tcpip pub sub is good enough.

Financial incentives made HFT's and alike go farther than the average software companies - just look at the microwave networks.
I would argue that analog FM radio has a pretty bad user experience, and I completely understand a manufacturer not including it because of that. The audio quality is usually poor, it's location and environment sensitive, and the system for distributing and the RDS text is slow to update, and often incomplete.
Yeah, I'm skimming through docs right now. Yet what I find so far feels pretty unintuitive, because, as I said, vim was more about command mode to me, rather than default key bindings. That space key thing is quite unfortunate to me as well, because I'm used to binding spacebar to @q (works really well!).

However, `SPC b s` also doesn't what I was looking for. It opens a buffer, not a tab (which I'm not sure are supported in Spacemacs at all, which would be a critical hit). And it doesn't even look for them in the cwd, but does I-haven't-figured-out-what-yet instead.

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.
The studies mentioned are cited in the FTND article, linked from the original:

http://fightthenewdrug.org/porn-ruins-your-sex-life/

Scroll to the bottom and "click for citations".
I ride mountain bikes and sometimes use knee and elbow pads. In a potentially life threatening crash they are not going to save your life. But in the normal day to day bumps and scrapes they turn an inconvenient injury in to a non-event. I wear helmets on the road because I don't want an otherwise avoidable injury to ruin my day and cause inconvenience. Helmets have few downsides, and might help in a crash.
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That's in the list:

> Overflow and implicitly assign byte, short, char and boolean values
Haven't visited America since the Patriot Act. A shame, really.
I was so irritated that I sent a polite but snippy email to his lobbying agency, before deciding it would be more effective to repost it here (it was posted earlier today but largely ignored).

No, I don't think they feel embarrassed at all. This the human-level equivalent of promulgating botnets, and involves a similar principle - that if people are too passive to harden their systems against such obviously lame exploits, then they deserve whatever they get. I find this an obnoxious argument, which is why I have so little sympathy for the 'black hat hackers help people improve security' argument sometimes floated here on HN.

I actually think it's true that most people are ignorant or possibly even stupid, and that they won't adopt good security (or critical thinking) practices until they've learned the hard way - by being exploited for someone else's gain. But going from observing this fact to actively leveraging it is precisely the point at which one is making the world a worse place.

/GRAR
I would fucking apply if it wasn't in fucking San Diego.
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I had a similar experience. Slipped off my bike and broke an arm, leg, and various facial bones. My helmet was split in two and the ER doctor was quite blunt about the state I would have been in without a helmet. Wear a helmet.
> This whole articles seems to presuppose that the only alternative to plain text is Microsoft Word.

The article addresses a particular area in which Microsoft Word is the dominant status quo choice, and lays out why the author thinks that "plain text" is a desirable alternative.

It does not, either explicitly or implicitly, suggest that Microsoft Word is the only alternative to plain text, or vice versa.

> Also by his definition 'plain text' seems to include other markup, including LaTeX.

I think its reasonable to describe a format where what you see if you load the file in a text editor is the same as the text you actually work with as an author as a "plain text" format.

> Many academic books and articles are written this way.

The author doesn't claim that it is unique, though he does suggest that there is resistance, particularly in his field.

> Am I missing something?

I would say it seems like two things:

1. The explicitly stated point of the article ("I want to focus on the specific, idiosyncratic reasons why I wanted (and still want) to write this way, using nothing more than a text editor and Pandoc."), and

2. the implicit target audience of the article (academics in history and similar fields).
And this is one reason why I don't like C++. I only hear about executables getting too big in C++ projects.
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If you can get FM radio on your phone, you'll buy fewer iTunes.
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This is one of the things that makes a city bike-friendly, making it easy to start riding.

San Francisco: My company has a bike parking room on our floor, and some train stations have five-cent-an-hour bike lockers. (All stations have bike racks, but that's gambling with your bike.)
You really do have to be careful what you educate your child about in the US it seems. If they know too much about sex ed' or drugs, you might get social services call on you (or worse they might make baseless accusations of sexual abuse or drug use).

But then again this is a country where letting your kids walk to the local park is grounds for social services and children being removed from their household. So the bar is obviously set extremely low and common sense plays little to no part.

PS - I wonder how long until letting your children play outside (rather than them watching TV/playing video games) is grounds for social services? A lot of people cite "kidnapping" as a justification for the park thing, so by that logic letting them outside out of sight is equally as dangerous...
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It will be interesting to see how this works out with NAT being as difficult to work with UDP as it often can be.

It's a shame that SCTP is not more widely adopted, as I suspect it may be just as good (if not better) as a transport layer for building a new web protocol on.
Apples to oranges. Feminism is not a species. If a weak lion says,"I am a strong lion." then one might be able to say that Mr. lion is deluding itself, but it may also be beginning the path towards becoming the strong lion it wishes to be.
Asciidoc might be an interesting thing to consider, as well, in this vein.
As I expected. So Apple and other hardware makers are likely not wanting to ship a feature that will feel flawed to many people.

I guess, they could have the FM app tell people that they need to plug in the correct type of headphone for this feature.
As always, no mention of Blackberry, who do have FM radios on several of their current models including Passport, Leap, Classic and Z30.
You'll pay less for data traffic; this directly affects your mobile bill.

You'll listen to the radio ads instead of the streaming services' ads; mobile carriers may have special ad-revenue arrangements with such services.
Exactly. Looks like Google was among the companies with legal complaints: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9271331. I wonder if the new version of the grant was enough to get them to reconsider? It'd be really interesting to see more of Google in the React community.
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This is how every OSX/iOS developer feels when they update Xcode or an iOS SDK. And Apple forces you to update in most cases, so you can't avoid it. They are breaking stuff left and right.
This is the single best argument I've ever seen for not wearing clip pedals.

I always commute with flat pedals because it's easier and more convenient, but the safety issue has got to be huge.
I just checked after seeing this and I do have the FM Radio app. I'm not from the states so, it wasn't google?