skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I should have done that.
But right now I can't edit the title anymore (?). So if a mod reads this please go ahead and change it.
Oh come on, if you look at the major apps and games, Android gets the same things at like a six to eight month delay, if not better than that. And if you look at apps and games available on both platforms, the correlation between downloads is probably pretty good. It is nothing like apples to oranges. It's like Macintoshes to Granny Smiths.
Show HN: Delightful UIColor-Swift Extension
I don't understand. Why doesn't the amount of work required to perform all the due diligence activities not scale with the size of the company?
Have you had to deal with accessibility for disabled students (e.g. blind, low-vision, or mobility impaired) yet? As I understand it, assistive technologies on desktop Linux are much less mature than on Windows or Mac. And AFAIK, the only desktop environments that are accessible to blind users in particular are GNOME and Unity.
Yes, this. I would like to change it but the edit button is disabled (?)
Side project to fund 3 months of rent for people in need of assistance
why does everything need to be black or white?
development is nice, has creative heureka parts that few other jobs have, but it's just a freaking job, nothing more!

life has so many more interesting things to offer (travelling, adventures, family, friend, you name it), that it would be shame to miss on them (and later regret, like so many work-wise successful people do when old).
I don't see how one could prevent information asymmetry. With current technology, there is no way for a 10 year old to know all that a 30 year old knows.

To me it is like asking should we allow animals to kill each other. Not only can we not really stop it, even if we could it would kill any carnivores.
Etsy IPOs today
A few things.

One, the early price for the fire phone was insanely high. It was not a good enough phone to command "flagship phone" prices, but everybody and his brother would like to make "flagship phone" profits so they gave it a shot.

AMZN seems to be the one company that Wall Street doesn't pressure into making a quick buck. They don't feel a lot of pressure to make their overall operations profitable because investors are still buying the idea they can spend money to grow.

Also AMZN can make the claim that the Fire Phone is going to pay off through "synergies"; if these people become prime members, buy a lot of Kindle books, get a Dash Button, consume AWS, etc.
sorry, i already edited my response to address just this (so to readers your response might not seem as relevant as it was).

the technicalities of your argument imply that it is false for any company to say "we have X employees" and it is offensive for them to say "we have the best talent in the valley". the only truth would be "our company has no employees".

if you feel that way, at least you're logically consistent. it just feels disingenuous to me.
Do they still blow them up?
I think the OP you respond to is right. It is a common mistake for french persons.
Quines are possible in compression algorithms too: http://research.swtch.com/zip

Combining that with a self-referential formula could conceivably lead to something like a formula that generates a compressed zipfile, whose contents are a bitmap image of the formula...
Should it really though? As developers/testers/whatever position we occupy in the tech space, most of us are pretty good at picking up new languages/technologies/frameworks/tools etc. in a pretty short amount of time.

Yes, it should exist. You've argued against whatever image of formalized training you seem to have a problem with, but provided a decent argument training (in general) should be provided. If developers are expected of to continually learn new things, and it can be done in a short amount of time, it is all the more reasonable for the business to treat that as training and budget time and money for it as such.

The types of gaining knowledge that you acknowledge in your post are "a few formalized training courses every year" and "good communication skills and enjoy sharing knowledge". You seem to be ignoring the large band of training that exist between those two. Which is also the where most ongoing learning happens.

Good communication skills and "collaborative time" allocated with percentages pulled from your rear is a fine (if slow) way to get people up to speed with the tech used at the office. But only serves to poorly normalize knowledge across the office.
You can now print or write in cursive with Google's new Handwriting app
Neil Patel on building businesses, learning from mistakes
Their goal is to produce and "easily digestible overview", which necessarily means removing a lot of the detail that a hardcore performance measurement person would find interesting. They were right to stick with milliseconds throughout.
No states require an ID card. Some states require you to provide ID information, and may detain you as long as necessary to determine your identidy. Thus detainment is often used as an unofficial punishment for not providing an ID card.
Looks great! Does this have something to do with the official SQL support that Mateor has in the pipeline?
As long as the number of current slaves does not increase (anymore than it would have anyways), it would lead to more freedom.
Maybe it has interpreted love as some place.
Also CoreAudio drivers (HAL) calls back every 11ms to empty/fill a buffer. So it starts with lower latency?
I'm too lazy to go turn on showdead for GP, but...

> I don't know pixie_ but non-native English speakers hear "could of" and "would of" when we use the contractions "could've" and "would've".

You actually hear "could ov" and "would ov", but since the latter aren't actually words, there's an automatic shunt to the nearest known word. Sometimes this occurs in the speaker; sometimes this occurs in the listener. It occurs in the speaker because of loopback: you say "could ov"; you hear "could of"; you say "could of".
There's civil liability in either case.

Whether there's criminal liability would be a question of US state law (as opposed to federal), so it could vary depending on the state. As one example, New York law seems to say (based on quick Googling) that there would be criminal liability if it could be shown that the defendant intended to run away with the money instead of using it to fulfill the contract.

http://www.nycrimblog.com/nycrim/2009/11/when-does-a-breach-...
There is something I don't understand; maybe someone here can explain:

Sound travels at about 340 m/s (in a typical room). That means it travels about 3.4 metres in 10 milliseconds. Therefore another way to get a 10 millisecond problem is to stand 3.4 metres from the orchestra.

Most people sit farther than 3.4 metres from the orchestra, yet they don't complain about a lag between when the violin bow moves and the sound is heard. Why not?

(The speed of light is so fast that we can assume it's effectively infinite for the purposes of this argument.)
180k$ USD, if I plan well, will last me ten years. By third-world standards, I live like a rich noble from Siliconvalleystan. If I didn't have a SO and knew where I could get a fake replacement identity quickly enough? Yep, the 180k sounds pretty good. Especially since going to "prison" for two years where I live is the worst punishment I'd get, and that's basically synonymous with "Big Continuous Frat Party with Free Room & Board, sports fields and exterior barbecue (with weekly beer party) included!".

I'd bet the missing creator just moved to Canada.
I will give you a perspective of someone who has used Linux on my main desktop since 1997, but I do keep up to date with other platforms:

VS + C# + Azure integration is excellent, and there is nothing which prohibits turning up a 2nd instance any more so than using AWS, Docker, Chef or whatever your choice may be.

I am also not convinced Visual Studio is a bad habit, as it has many features and tools which are often superior to open source alternatives (debugging, integration, intellisense). I currently use Vim + Golang and Emacs + Clojure; comparatively those environments do not make me biased enough to say VS does not have some incredible upsides.

My assumption is that most people may not have spent enough time with the Windows tools to judge them fairly as we have all been tremendously productive on Linux and there are ideological issues spawned out of the decades of Windows dominance which slant these discussions.
Canonical's Endgame: A Single Linux Distro Running on Desktop and Mobile Devices
VLC 2.2.1 “Terry Pratchett” is out
Sure there are many problems in moore's law, and it's definetly slowing(not sure yet about stopping, because maybe euv lithography will work, or maybe monolithic 3d will - quallcomm is said to sells such chips in 2016, or maybe something else). Also there are interesting innovations in the higher levels - how to build much smaller SRAM cells, the use of memristors, etc - which could still support a declining cost for electronics.

But i don't agree that the market base is declining.Two major factors in the market base($$) are - the value of uses of computing, and how much of that value chip manufacturers extract.And there are some really killer apps with plenty of value in the future(virtual reality, AI in all it's forms, new large data sets to work with, emerging markets, etc). Also chip makers in many markets get a small share of the created value, and might get more.

As for the problem of small/large players and design costs - the solution is platforms, whether GPU/FPGA/CPU or more exotic programmable platform like specialized computer vision chips, or whether it's using chip where some of the layers are already created(and standard) and just creating the rest(like easic is selling) ,which can lead to great design cost reduction and relatively good efficiency.

So in general i tend to agree with some guy from darpa who said that we're near the end of moore's law, but we might still be able to get a total of 50x improvement from a combination of things.
Who is the guy posting this and what's his involvement? Where can I get some background?

Also, why did this just jump from like #2 to second page in just one page reload? Did someone flag it or how does it work? I see it happening a lot on HN; I remember some article on the front page and when I go back a couple of minutes later to read it it's gone.
Offtopic, but is XKCD's SLL Cert broken? Just noticed a big angry red 'X' in chrome through the icon.
> Should it really though? As developers/testers/whatever position we occupy in the tech space, most of us are pretty good at picking up new languages/technologies/frameworks/tools etc. in a pretty short amount of time.

Given the amount of loyalty companies expect workers to have and the possessiveness when they're hired away by better offers--to the point of calling it poaching, a word whose historical connotations are those of stealing animals from someone else's land!--yes, I think a modicum of giving a shit about your employees and deigning to train them is certainly in order. If you're going to treat people like chattel, at least treat them well.
The greatest trick Jar'Edo Wens ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
IIRC it's a similar latency figure for VR headtracking (15ms), and also for touch screens (10ms).
Wow. That article took 8 paragraphs or so before it explained the issue that was irritating astronomers. Terrible writing.
Node.js: Put a Helmet On
SurveyMonkey Swings into Australia for More Growth
My read on the deletion is that they didn't want bad press going into the next attempted landing, which is going to be on land.
How to Prevent a Google Penalty Catastrophe – Survivor Guide
Funny, I've done plenty of gzip compressed tar streams:

nc -l 7000 | tar -xf -
tar -czf - * | nc 1.2.3.4 7000

Files appear one by one on the remote end.
- What state do you live in?
- I'm Canadian, we have provinces.
- You don't seem canadian we have provinces. Are you from the United States?

I had almost this exact same conversation in Wisconsin!! :)

This is a seriously cool project. When I was 14, I was involved in a great Shadowrun campaign...this man will do some amazing things.
The 3 Layers of Customer Service No One Talks About: The Good
Google apologises to newspapers over 'nonsense' traffic stats in EU response
I'm curious why it needs beacons when we have things like self-driving cars and machine learning? Is it just a matter of cost?
Given this is the fourth time I have seen this on the front page I think it must be worth it for the free advertising alone.
I have pal who did sysadmin work for a radio telescope; they went to amazing lengths to avoid interference. The details escape me now (hopefully some of those folks will chime in with their stories), but I remember being impressed about how thoughtful and serious they were. So between the radio astronomers and corporate lawyers, I'm inclined to believe the astronomers.
I feel this is a problem with not letting submitters choose descriptive titles. "Peteris Krumins interviewed by Fog Creek" would be more informative...
> So why not just say that on the main page?

Because most people would not be intrigued by a site that said:

Pharo
Basically a modern smalltalk implementation

Personally I think the site is really nice and explanatory. But I agree that a "Learn More" button at the way bottom which brings you to a tour-style page would be a useful addition to their homepage.
Because they're not evaluating the things that scale. They're evaluating the founders, which is constant, and also the legal paperwork, which grows only linearly. The cost of valuating the company, negotiating, getting board consent, etc., are all basically constant.
Just to clarify, I wasn't trying to imply that anyone was lying.
Indeed. Easier on customer service, too: "and are you SURE that you have your beacons positioned correctly?"
Probably because they're not directly interacting with it, they're just watching it, which makes the delay a lot less noticeable. The 10ms delay is more of a problem for interactive apps where you eg. touch the screen and expect it to instantly make a sound. In this kind of feedback loop, even small delays are distracting and it becomes difficult to keep a beat because the lag is perceptible. If you tried to remotely play an instrument from 3.4 meters away, you would probably notice it too.
The fact that Apple totally controls both sides of the symbiotic audio hardware & SDK running on a tiny set of products

You can use CoreAudio with third party audio hardware
“Know yourself”
Yep, completely contrary to everything I learned in journalism school.

TL;DR (from the seventh and last paragraph) — "The frequency band proposed for the lawnbot (6240-6740 MHz) is the very same one several enormous radio telescopes operate on."
Lag is not an issue for the listener, it's an issue for the performer. An extra 10ms of lag when wearing headphones and playing a keyboard can make you feel completely disconnected from your instrument.
> Whether there's criminal liability would be a question of US state law (as opposed to federal), so it could vary depending on the state.

Federal law could apply, as well, depending on the circumstances or means. I'm pretty sure I've seen cases where schemes where running away with the money was intended in -- that is, before particular parties were convinced to spend money that went to the company -- prosecuted under federal mail and/or wire fraud statutes
That i7 has 6 cores. So all things being equal 13,638/6 = 2,273 PassMark score per core. Considering the FX-57 is single core, we're really comparing 731 to 2,273, which is about 3x the performance per core in TEN YEARS!

Power usage is more impressive and the ability to create and sell multi-core CPU's certainly is, but shoving more and more cores into chip is cheating. Its clear we've hit some wall here and the only way to keep up with performance demand is keep making chips with lots of mediocre cores.

Moore's law is dead. No biggie. It happened and no one noticed and those who did, didn't seem to care.
HitchBOT: a robot that's hitchhiking across Canada
Cool stuff! And nice last name!
The Game by Neil Strauss. I've not turned into a PUA after reading it (it was not the goal) but just after reading the first chapter, I just stood up from my desk and went straight to speak to a girl I was attracted to (but to which I was afraid to speak). I guess that can count as "altering my character".

I also second A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine. Applying some of the stoic principles (negative visualization, dichotomy/trichotomy of control, fatalism, ...) helped me a lot to be peaceful with myself.
Have you ever seen Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack for OS X?

It proves the system supports a ton of flexibility.

https://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/
This looks very interesting! It also looks like there is a lot of support from may volunteers so far.

No one at my 3-person company besides me uses Emacs, so it would be great to share workflows and ideas with others.

Also, what a great way to advertise Emacs: use a public org-mode document stored on Github that is exported to HTML to plan the conference.
Are your timings based off of a single run each for Firefox and Chrome? The web is a very noisy place; to get good timing data you need to run many tests. WebPageTest (www.webpagetest.org) can be a good way to do this.

(I work on PageSpeed, and we need to run tests like this often.)
Pen and paper and dry-erase boards.
Probably because in this orchestra example the feedback is purely passive (you didn't take any action), whereas with Android the delays are after an action you took, so it's psychologically jarring (seeing the response to your action immediately, and hearing the response roughly 10ms later). Just my guess.
Save the internet’ campaign for European net neutrality relaunched
This is the perfect situation to sue. You will win.

Business is messy and sometimes when people act like dicks and take money but don't deliver, you need to sue. If you don't sue, you will get taken advantage of.

Asking for Kickstarter to fix a situation is fine, but really you need to sue your former business partner and ask for them to cover court fees and even go for damages to your reputation.
Most criminals are caught because their groups are targeted and OPSEC (operational security) is really, really hard. They catch the people who didn't maintain strict discipline and get them to flip on the rest. This is an age-old recipe which is resistant to technological change because, again, OPSEC is really, really hard.
BetterBack – Perfect Posture Effortlessly
Portal Bikes: Life-changing petal-powered machines
What about options? Does the CEO get options that raise his wage to a height that is still unfair?
I'm a fan of http://regex101.com/
Why can't we just manually "walk" the mower around the border so it knows where it's boundries are?
The one about Iceland, Costa Rica and Mauritius? Certainly those countries have allies who would come to their aid if their land was being invaded by foreigners. I'm not claiming that every nation has their own military, just that they must be prepared to defend their interests in one way or another.

The question of "legally" invading someone's house is odd anyway, because legality implies some authority having deemed it appropriate. In the case of a neighbor's house, it is the government of the country containing the house. I can't think of an entity that establishes the "legal" way of creating/invading a country.
no, I'll look into it.
"You're asking what I can do? I can't put my finger on it, but I'm pretty sure it's ¥1596.00 ($13.38) (2698 TSE."

Kind of a weird answer, but I've be coding since I was your age and I don't even know if I could get that far. Great work.
This is both funny and extremely frightening.
Between this and some links from other HN users, I feel like wikipedia is rapidly losing credibility.
Does anyone have recommendations for any alternatives ?

Personal Anecdote:
I also remember the time, one of my friends in college told me that she purposely added misinformation to Wikipedia the night before a big test to lower the curve.

That was also the moment I was glad I'm didn't do premed in college, those kids were hyper-competitive and unethical.
North Texas, too.
Ten bucks says gravity payments will be for sale within a year. This is an obvious PR ploy and I'm surprised HN is vulnerable to it.
Question: "Where have all the flowers gone?"

Wolfram Answer: "Girls have picked them every one. (according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson)

Acuman Answer: "I'm not really good with locations, so I don't know exactly where have all the flowers gone, but it seems to be Girls have picked them every one. (according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson)."

Hmm...so closed source, yeah?
How we build alliances with our developers
UMass Amherst Launches New Center for Data Science
What's wrong with 2-3sec? That's plenty of time to start walking if you are paying attention in traffic.
I am (still) quite surprised how many otherwise grown up and fully mature people have internal fears that drive their lives so much. Issues from childhood (pushy parents, school bullies, etc) or from growing up can leave strong scars.
Heck, even I am not 100% scratch-free, albeit apparently much better than many peers.

Many people are chasing careers although extra cash doesn't really makes any impact in their lives, and they lose a lot by earning them (fun at work, extra pressure/time from more senior positions). By all means, if that's something that you enjoy doing, go for it! But money is probably the last thing to consider
Yeah it should. Feedback is good for learning and hopefully training has some of that. I don't think learning to code in a bubble where you can just get everything working is good long term. Code reviews alone are enough training for some people though.
The "internet of things" is just going to make this worse and there's really no fighting it. My question is considering how many billions are pissed away tossing men and women into the ISS for reasons not apparent to me, why don't we have a radio telescope on the far side of the moon yet? I keep hearing about all these manned missions, COTS money handed to SpaceX, etc but the one thing that would be a gamechanger for radio astronony is not even on anyone's radar.

I'd love to see the next POTUS make this a priority. Yeah, Orion and the SLS are impressive, but they're mostly fighting yesterday's battles - pretty much a souped up Apollo for similar big feel-good missions where men and women go into LEO/moon/asteroids/maybe-mars for a very short time and fly right back. Why can't we also fund a farside telescope that could work for decades 24/7 providing space science advantages we simply cannot get any other way?
In general, this kind of details would not be part of the "law" but would be published in a "decree" cooked up by the executive branch when they decide to "apply" the law.

In this case, it's going to be kept secret and covered by some kind of "security clearance". That would make it a criminal offense to divulge these details. The law explicitly limit this to the "meta data" of the communication, and not the content.

And finally, publishing these details would defeat the whole purpose of the enterprise. The NSA does not publish details about the meta-data they collect in the PRISM database, and they charged the Snowden for the little that he revealed about the program.

The French are essentially doing the same thing. The NSA has some limitations about when US citizens meta data can be collected domestically. The French law has no such provision.
Technologists Overestimate Their Ability to Drive Social Progress
They're using Github and Google Groups to plan EmacsConf? Neither of these systems are free software. RMS will be unhappy.