skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest teaching "click once at first and wait a moment; if nothing desired happens, then double-click." It's what I do when I explore the UIs of unfamiliar apps, and seems to work well enough.
When I got married I annoyed many photographers by balking at their rates and then negotiating for copyright ownership. If I'm paying someone $3500 per day, I expect that to be a work-for-hire. If they want to show up for $100 then fine I'll pay per picture.

Anyhow the SaaS model, per-cpu, or per-seat models are pretty much equivalent to how photographers work. The clients own no IP and it's all usage based. Independent contractors can just set up a SaaS that has a one-time fee for customizations, in addition to the normal monthly price (this is usually the last option in the menu, "Call us for pricing").
The Shoe that Grows
Exactly.

What if the smart cultures have realized the best way is to live quietly, sustainably in balance with nature on their planets. This might well mean not expending the vast energy needed to go to space. Perhaps also they are comfortable with themselves and do not need to seek out everyone else.
Sure, that's why I say it's in part psychological. It feels like that change was made just to spite users. "It's my language and I can do what I want." Of course, that's nonsense. Still, I believe that adding back a print statement would make the transition easier for some people.

For the people that are stuck with Python 2 legacy code, we'd need something else.

Python-future [1] seems to be able to import some Python 2 modules, but I'm not sure how far it goes.

[1] http://python-future.org/translation.html#translation
No desktop app for Linux…
I never saw the appeal of watercooled PCs with windows and lights, but found myself with a huge amount of time of my hands due to a serious injury that took me out of work. I decided to indulge myself one time before the idea of building such a thing is obsolete.

Here are some pics, it's a work in progress - https://imgur.com/a/WWsna#0

The case is a Case Labs Mercury S8 with a custom powder coat. It allows the motherboard to sit horizontally. The graphics cards are Nvidia GTX 980s with custom made waterblocks. There are large radiators concealed in the top and the bottom of the case. The two round, red things you see in the pictures are Laing D5 water pumps. The 'Midnight Express' theme is inspired by the film and the music of Giorgio Moroder. A number of parts have been laser engraved with the artwork. Everything is controlled and monitored by an independent microcontroller (Aqua Computers Aquaero 6, you'll see it in the pictures.)

Ongoing build log is here - http://www.overclock.net/t/1529623/build-log-midnight-expres...
> That doesn't imply the non-existence of objective reality. A fact is a fact regardless of the identity of the speaker.

Sure. And facts are extremely hard things to find. With all the money we spend on science, we have a relatively small number of them. What individuals have is mainly opinions about facts.

That's why discussions seeking truth are such hard and subtle work. It's also why facts are frequently irrelevant to people's behaviors in this realm. See, for example, this graph:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/149390/record-high-approve-black-...

It isn't a graph of people coming to reasoned understanding on a topic. It's a graph of people with old opinions dying off.

> It is possible for a PhD to learn something from an undergrad. Moreover, it isn't strictly less understanding anyway, it's a different perspective. Which is all the more reason why people should try to hear each other.

I strongly believe it is less understanding. As a member of various dominant groups, my understanding of things like race and gender was very coarse. That's because I didn't have to pay any attention to those things; they almost always worked in my favor. When that's not the case, people are forced to pay more attention.

If you want to argue that generally attention does not lead to better understanding, you're really arguing that discussion is futile, because a major function of discussion is to turn people's attention to a topic.

> Not listening to someone (i.e. ignoring them) is not the same thing as attacking them because they said something you don't want to hear.

I agree with that, but don't see its relevance to the discussion. Could you say more?
I think that this product might have a great potential. Keep going guys, i like it even tough i don't test it all.
Every time somebody proposes a visual programming environment it seems good until you look at the details.
Does it make sense that if such energy hungry super civilizations exist, they would also covet Dyson Spheres created by other civilizations. The Dyson Sphere then have a dual purpose: capture all energy, as well as cloak the existence of the super civilization from other preditor super civilizations.
Fixed! Thank you! :)
On the War on General Purpose Computing
How Israel Hid Its Secret Nuclear Weapons Program
When there are two good explanations for something, the default choice is the simplier one...
I hate it when people do this. I'd say >30% of my HTTP requests fail on my phone (I have to go into airplane mode and go out of airplane mode about 10 times a day to keep my connection up), so it's really, really annoying when people disable submission because often I do have to try 2-3 times.
Many DVDs still have ads, unskippable "look, here is this super loud 20 second fade in of the distributor logo" sections and very loud menus. They also have mandatory unskippable "warnings" about how evil you are and how you are forbidden from watching the film on an oil platform. The only effective way around those is ripping and re-recording if you want to play it on anything but a computer with non-crippled software.
Periscope – Explore the world through someone else's eyes
Thanks a lot! I hope you'll like it!
Just reminds me that in Helsinki University of Technology (hut.fi) we of course had to have a host called "pizza": pizza.hut.fi

(Nowadays HUT is renamed Aalto University).
Since you essentially can't store energy for long times [1], you still have to dissipate it as heat after use.

For example, you can use energy in computer calculation. Other use is transport operations (like car and naval ships) they move but the energy is transformed into air or water movement and later into heat. Another use is steel blending, you change the shape of the metal, that makes the metal slightly hot. ... Anything you do, you get a lot of heat to dispose.

Also, to dispose that heat fast enough, the dissipater has to be hot or big, because the black body radiation is the faster you can emit. A big dissipater require a lot of material, a hot dissipater waste energy, it's a tradeoff.

[1] You can store energy for a looong time making coal and burying it, the plants we have done that unintentionally . An alternative is to make a lot of aluminum and try to avoid the oxidation. But they don't look like a sensible use of energy for a civilization.
On the remote team I'm on, we all vote on the location each time.
DOM is your friend :)

document.lastModified;
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How Star Wars Borrowed from Akira Kurosawa’s Great Samurai Films
With your comments and feedbacks we can create a really good platform. Your feedback is the most valuable point for us!
Whenever I read something like this, I hope that we really are alone in the universe, and just hopelessly deluded. The loneliest species inventing fantastic friends for itself.
"The Net" (1995) movie thriller with Sandra Bullock about the early internet and cyberterror featured it (named pizza.net) too: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(1995_film)

Photos of all websites featured in the movie: http://gizmodo.com/every-webpage-from-the-1995-movie-the-net...
Who made you BDFL?
You don't see many of the RFC2142 addresses at all.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt
What is the USB Type-C and why is it important?
You are mixing up proving the theory of evolution and using the theory to make speculations about the past. The speculations are only taken as seriously as the evidence they are based on. The last time you made a blog post you complained about the evolutionary psychology behind a loud female orgasm. I had to look it up for you that it is seen in other apes TODAY and since other things prove (with statistical accuracy) that we have a common descent with other apes, these speculations are viable.
Of course he didn't have to deal with recruiters who only match on keywords and HR people whose eyes are easily glazed over. Or respond to job ads or emails filled with buzzwords that are required. I too wish I could just write a positive note to the CEO.
This is astonishingly stupid. It's also time to retire the word "troll", it has become so bastardized that its use shouldn't be taken at all seriously anymore.
A Drone Has Never Linked Up with a Tanker Until Now
Atom can be brutal on RAM and CPU usage, so keep an eye on it. See http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2015/02/17/for-an-editor-atom-uses...
You know what doesn't have loud ads? Good, old-fashioned print books.

I've been meaning to go back to them over a lot of other entertainment media consumption.
I am looking forward to the day when we outsource prosecution to a for-profit entity so that we can plea bargain against IBM Watson.

Watsecutor: I am charging you with 12 crimes. Using a probabilistic model of the judge and the locality there is a 87% chance that at least 2 of those will stick with a combined minimum sentence of 4.5 years. Based on your public profile, our parallel construction bot will add 4.3 new crimes to your case. Automated Justice Corp recommends taking the installment plan for $410k as prison costs will be need be repaid at $175/day. Freedom is yours for only 75 dollars a day. Thank you for using Automated Justice.
Yessssss! Didn't you guys have a mirror of the Amiga demoscene on that host?
Client could buy a license for 1-5 developers to modify the source.
http://www.selflanguage.org

You should watch the videos on the introduction page and play a bit with the system, it's interesting to see how much interactivity and liveliness was already achieved in the 80s/90s,
A 1969 New Wave Sci-Fi Novel That Made Correct Predictions
BlackBerry Oslo rumoured to sport square design, OS 10.3.2 and 13MP camera
Seems to be the same thinking that lead many people to believe that vice can be purged from the internet with a real name policy. If you look at facebook you can see it clearly does not work. For your idea, this sounds very similar to "something awful", and it does not work there either.
...or just Page Info in Firefox.
> the Templeton Foundation, a private organization with a history of supporting controversial and speculative research

... yeah, no. Their history is of attempting to get scientific support for religion. Their aim in practice appears to be to corrupt the public discourse concerning science in the interests of religion, by swaying academics with much more money than they'd get any other way. Anything or anyone funded by Templeton should be viewed in this light.

Of late, they have expanded beyond religion to funding climate change denial. https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/templeto...
I agree. Dyson sphere is the right idea (higher energy requirements) but wrong implementation. One idea I've heard that I really like is that some black holes and very dense objects are actually alien civilizations that have uploaded their brains to computers and miniaturized. So basically, some black holes == dyson spheres. It's not as crazy as it sounds!

http://accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.html
It's not just "trolling". the text describes it as antisocial behaviour (defined as "undesired behavior, which includes
trolling, flaming, bullying, and harassment").

To me it seems like detecting "trolling" could be as difficult as detecting sarcasm. It requires information about the context and complicated logic. "flaming", "bullying" and "harassment" usually follow much simpler patterns (language, targeting specific users).
Many cable set-top boxes have "Dolby Volume" as a feature in a hidden sub menu. It's off by default, as is the feature that prevents your TV from stretching 4:3 channels across your 16:9 screen.

So this 2008 post is timely for me; just last night I spotted that menu item, and wondered what it was.
The Disease That Turned Us into Genetic-Information Junkies
Why is this so high on HN? While the premise of the post sounds interesting, the whole story says nothing new and provides no real solution.
I work in tech support and I have literally never come across a user using single click mode in windows, nor does anyone I know use it.
http://www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphi...

(i have not tried this)
I've only just subscribed to Netflix (just arrived in Australia), and I'm finding the dynamic range on movies to be a far bigger problem. On commercial TV here the sound range is compressed/normalized enough during the shows & ads that I never have to tweak the volume. But Netflix movies seem to have 4x the dynamic range - I have to turn the volume up twice as loud to hear whispered dialog, and turn it down to 1/4 the volume for a car crash / fight scene. I've had to resort to using headphones when watching at night instead.
Probably not. See the wayback links from 1996 that others have posted.
Does anyone know how the delivery system worked? I assume that there were people who received an email once the form was figured out and passed your info to the local pizza hut
Show HN: A directory of hypergrid worlds
Interesting. Some context about the matter:
http://www.iflscience.com/physics/albert-einstein-told-marie...
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You will not be able to efficiently automate finding trolls with an algorithm. You may accidentally catch some trolls with it, but this is not really the same as the algorithm working - with a large enough userbase you could randomly ban accounts and probably catch a few trolls as well, given a flexible enough definition of "troll."

What you will accomplish with an automated filter is a way for trolls to game the system (that is what actual trolls do), and an excuse for human mods, if you have them, not to care (or worse, to game it themselves in order to censor legitimate posters.) "Future banned user?" How wonderfully fascistic. If you can read that term and feel it's a good way to describe new users to your whatever community, do everyone else a favor and, please, give someone else the banhammer.
This, like so many other articles in the technical world, actually assumes you know what docker is. For example, it says:

What Is Docker?

Good, I thought, finally an explanation. Then it says:

So then what is Docker good at?

Oh. That doesn't help. Then:

* Docker is great at building and sharing disk images ...
* Docker is a manager for infrastructure ...
* Docker is a great image distribution model ...
* Docker uses btrfs ...
* Docker has a central repository of disk images ...

None of this tells me what docker actually is.

It goes on:

Docker is a basic tool ... that you
should start incorporating into your
daily development and ops practices.

Why? What is it?

* Use Docker as version control system

Why not just use git?

* Use Docker when you want to distribute/collaborate
on your app's operating system with a team

Why not just use git?

* Use Docker to run your code on your
laptop in the same environment as
you have on your server ...

I already do that - why should I use docker?

* Use Docker whenever your app needs to go
through multiple phases of development

Why?

* Use Docker with your Chef Cookbooks and
Puppet Manifests

Why?

* Docker doesn't do configuration management

What?

At this point I give up - I have no idea what the author is talking about, and cannot deduce who the expected audience might be.
Something I'm having trouble with in Atom, having recently switched too, is undo. Unlike in Sublime, where undo is very granular and predictable, I can never really predict how much text it will undo. It often removes entire lines of code.
I'm sure you don't want to support those things. I don't either. But I expect we both accidentally do. Let's look at the previous example to gay marriage, interracial marriage:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/149390/record-high-approve-black-...

For a long time, it was the near-universal opinion that it was wrong. Now it's the near-universal opinion that it is fine.

When opposition was the dominant opinion, nobody thought that was supporting bigotry and inequality. Then there was a long period where one side believed it was bigotry and one side didn't. Now everybody sees it as bigotry.

For a long time, opponents of interracial marriage were comfortable sharing their views. Supporters were afraid of speaking up. Eventually supporters started speaking up energetically. Opponents did the same:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Little_Rock_integrati...

Eventually, the tide turned. Opponents generally didn't lose their opinions, but they became afraid to speak up because of possible social consequences. And eventually a generation grew up that doesn't even question the topic.

Why does this matter? Well, either A) all racism, sexism, etc, have now been eliminated from society in this manner, or B) most of us harbor some bigoted, erroneous views that we haven't collectively recognized as wrong.

I believe it's the latter. That's certainly been my personal experience as I've come to learn about these topics.
You can try and I'm sure you'll find someone that accepts it but I won't be your customer. As a customer I want ownership of the code, to be able to fix bugs and add functionality without having to go back to you. In a few years you might have changed field of business or be too busy or too expensive to work for me again. It's a risk I cannot accept.

That said, for small trow away projects I could accept that you keep the IP but I'll want a discount (to remark that I don't think this is the normal way to do this business: photos != software).
How does a law firm manage rights to use and modify master service agreements (which may be drawn from to negotiate specific contracts by in-house counsel)?
> A carpenter (I don't speak from experience, merely from analogy) is probably more proud to show off something he's made than the tools he used to make it.

Grandfather was a shipwright then a cabinet maker, he absolutely loved showing of his workshop.

He was the one who taught me "If you use something for more than an hour a day buy the best you can afford".
I remember this site from CBoard days! :) Good to see it's still around. Hi Prelude, if you're reading this.
Just how many times are you going to submit this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9363321

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9363938

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9364069

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9364378

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369221

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9370196

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378957

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9397126

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9399460
Yes you're right its like MS CALs. Pay x amount for the server then also the CALs for each user/device.

It really makes it apparent that work that produces IP is a special category of work.

I keep imagining if other non-IP producing professionals tried to do charge in a similar manner how it would appear ridiculous (In some cases)
I always read `sudo !!` as `suddoooooooooooooooooo... aaargghhh!!!`
Unless things have changed recently, MacTex also provided a minimal distribution which was only a couple hundred MB. I used it for my thesis when I was using a space-constrained SSD. You can use tlmgr (texlive manager) to install packages as needed.
Airtel in official statement says it does not violate Net Neutrality
It seems possible to apply Paul Graham's "blub language" principle to the Kardashev civilization categories. It may boggle the mind of a type N civilization to imagine use for the kinds of energies that a type N+1 civilization may consume, but would be obvious to the type N+1 civilization.

If you do need an energy amount that a star produces, would it be possible to get a source that's more compact than a star itself? The fusion in a star is a runaway process. Does physics let us do it better than a runaway process?

edit: It is interesting to examine this from an artistic and play perspective too. If I had the means, I imagine it would be fun to have "planet sculpting" as a hobby. We ought to be able to detect such civilizations by looking for non-spheroid planets? As a kid I've burnt leaves and written on paper by focusing sunlight using a lens. Imagine a type II kid being told "go to the other solar system and play with your megalens there, dear".

Would type II civilizations have "kids"?

"Look mommy, I made a tetrahedron by welding four planets."

"Wow, this circus rocks! How they juggle 5 intersecting solar systems without the planets crashing into each other!"
They cultivate respectability. They have to cultivate it out of something.
Yeah, this seems more faithful to the original. For one, it has a submit button that actually submits the form. In wbm's version, clicking the hat also actually brings up a contact form as the text says it should.

I love how they aligned input elements by using monospace and matching number of characters. A paradigm predating even tables!
This comment is being downvoted for no good reason? It is a pessimistic but valid slant on this discussion I'd say.
It will be funny when websites stop working left and right because essential remotely hosted JS files disappear from various free CDN URLs. Perhaps we'll add more cruft to browsers to compensate (i.e. recognize dead CDN URLs and use a list of replacement hosts).

Of course, the really old web pages will still work because of fewer/no external dependencies.
Business At The Speed of Thought
As I've done elsewhere, let me use the example of interracial marriage, an idea whose evaluation has changed over time:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-wh...

Note that the content of the idea hasn't changed, but the evaluation has. Look in particular at the second graph, where black people came to the now-correct answer long before white people. Black people on average had it right 25 years before white people.

So it would seem to me that on topics of race, identity of speaker can be helpful in evaluating views.
Ahh, thanks for pointing that out; I didn't notice it was an old post. Usually those have the date (2008) at the end of the title.
It is a bit different. If SaaS was charging an upfront build cost is one. The other is with SaaS there are on going costs, e.g. data centre costs, usually further development, etc. With the photographer they have had zero costs to produce it originally and zero ongoing costs to license it further.
Its a fairly well known story. The engineers ignored him and built in capability for 512k anyway.

http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-devices/steve-j...

He also hated fans and expansion slots.
It was what I was taught when I worked at a top level Rnd company based on campus at CIT.

And we also used it at BT where Fortran 77 was used in one of the Billing systems.

It might be a more UK thing
Check out Everything Is A Remix for a powerful exploration of these ideas and more, in 40 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ryPC8bxqE

Everybody borrows from everybody!