skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By any platform I meant "a platform of your choice." Like I mentioned in my first reply, I'm not aware of any OS's file browser with a plugin system to do something like what I described in any scope. I'm curious the tools someone who had their choice would gravitate to.

There are a lot of things I like with a terminal; history, tab completion, man pages (all OS help pages are generally useless. The only aspect I've ever liked is OSX's searchable help menu that will hightlight menu options). On the gui end you can't beat the discoverability, window management, but a big win is an undo stack. I feel like touchscreens are a step back in discoverability (but they have their own merits).

I think terminal people really latch on to the composibility of Unix apps that are provided via pipes. I've seen people try to come up with a gui equivalent (copy/paste is the closest), each gui feels like a walled garden (almost as bad as iOS apps). Something like AppleScript or D-Bus tries to address this, but I feel like if you're writing a script its basically a less-interactive shell. Automator seems like a decent take on this, but not too many apps expose an api for that and I've struggled trying to get it do what I wanted.
I would like to know too..

I have long ago stopped applying for awards rort.. took away so much of my time..
Was this filmed from a drone? I couldn't find any info.
I would have used it back in the day when I used Fiverr alot.

Your idea is probably good for low-skill tasks where anyone could do it. For something specialised, for arguments sake I need an XSLT expert, I would probably still go for a traditional freelance site.

Another advantage of your idea is any problem that needs close interaction. Tutoring and coaching spring to mind but I am sure there are other scenarios.
Unless your magical statically-typed pet language can read your mind and throw compilation error when you mistakenly write "x + y" when you should have "x - y", I'm not sure what your point is.
I'm not really interested in tech that can't be transferred out of the event, so it always bothers me that these events throw the baby out with the bath-water when they demand either pure traditionalism or alternately allow insanely impractical things like fairings.

I'd love to see some kind of event that accomodates the challenges of real-life like wind and traffic, but still allows experimentation with bleeding-edge tech.
You can be available, or you can be consistent. The higher guarantee of consistency you demand, lowers your availability.

Imagine a small database with a million copies on a million machines. when I write something, i'm going to have to wait a bit while all million machines acknowledge the write is complete. If i have a lower threshold, say 1, the write completes real fast but the million machines aren't consistent.

Real systems balance consistency and availability.
Some people would argue that for the most part you make your own luck.
In the middle of the ocean It seems doubtful... I'm also intrigued by the angle - maybe a helicopter?
I down voted because of the strong statements that didn't seem fact checked before posting. Also posting an exact percentage of 4% when you didn't look. I don't care much for Apple but they are owning "Consumer" OS metrics right now.

Tech Crunch states that OS X has a 13.6% market share of consumers purchases. http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/07/mac-achieves-highest-u-s-pc...

I myself use Linux and Windows machines. I prefer my own hackery terminals and tiled window manager for my desktop so I am in that tiny minority. I do not support most of RMS (Richard Stallman) says but Absolutly GNU has been a technology changer and all Open Source which effects all operating systems today owe a debt to GNU and that license.

So please don't just post bah humbug without backing up why you would say such harsh things about anything. The more you disagree the more that is needed to be communicated on the your part to start a conversation.
This Rocket Man has launched 55 space flights for NASA without single failure
> insofar that Germany can be deemed as "more" responsible for the outbreak of the first world war

Russia started it. They mobilized on the German border and refused to demobilize. The tsar and friends never got to share the blame because by the end of the war they were all dead.
They are also not the most rational crowd.
Ask HN: Selling app IP?
I'll make this short.

I have an iOS app side project that's making ~$2-$4k a month, it has been reasonably consistent in revenue for the past year.

It requires a little bit of maintenance and support, and could probably make more if there was a stronger focus of improving it and listening to customer requests.

I don't have that time. Whereas the money is a nice bonus, I feel like someone else could benefit more from it than I have time and interest for. But I have no idea where to even start thinking about selling an App codebase/IP. An Android port would be fairly easy as well, but again.. time and general interest in the project has diminished on my behalf.

I was hoping someone could give me a bit of insight from their point of view. Anything is appreciated.
While I think open access to the Internet probably should probably be considered a human right, it's not on the same tier in Maslow's pyramid as the right to not starve.

As for opposing GMOs -- one needs to consider why certain countries "can't feed themselves", and if maybe food cartels might have something to do with it.

For the record, I'm deeply sceptical to GMOs for two reasons: 1) I don't think allowing patent on life/genes to be a good idea -- and find the idea that you're not allowed to plant crops you buy (eg: not being legally allowed to plant a potato, because you didn't buy it "with intent to plant", but paid the "lower" price for "intent to consume") -- or not being able to because of second generation being sterile -- 2) I worry about the pesticides, the interplay between evolution (super bugs), monoculture etc.

[ed: To add: I think the choice between starve like now, and be forever beholden to foreign corporations and their patents is a false choice. Similarly, I think no Internet like now, and be beholden to Facebook is a false choice too.

Setting up local (eg: village-size) mesh-nets, allowing intranets to form, and then slowly connecting those to the bigger Internet, should be entirely viable. Allow for free text (xmpp), voice (sip etc) as well as browsing (maybe initially favouring usenet groups, as that is resilient and works well on low bandwidth links) -- and allow it to grow organically. No need to try and bootstrap straight to the first-world, balkanized Internet of lobotomized, centralized, content-silo-oriented services...]
> Imagine, for example, trying out different sorting algorithms by using twenty different strips of paper of all different lengths on a table.

Or by folk dancing![0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWBy6J5gz8
Much bugfree
And internet and computers whenever they want! (I'm being sarcastic here; not sure 'bout parent err4nt)
True enough.. I just mean it seems to me their target market is self-destroying based on how the stuff is made. That said, I think it's hard enough to get cheese that is simply cheese, let alone crafted/aged cheeses that I'll keep with cow/goat based cheeses for the foreseeable future.
Inositol but it was a huge amount: more than 20mg/day, which is most definitely a pharmacological quantity. The amount you get from food or even a normal vitamin is not going to hurt you.

I was also self-medicating for Open Plan Syndrome (often a precursor to full-blown Panic Disorder, as it was for me, and not uncommon in tech) so the reason why I was using it (in such absurdly high doses) may be a contributor to the fucked-up-ness.
The thing about passive aggressive pricks is that they're not typically violent.

That's WHY they're passive aggressive pricks.
With the repair-ability of 1 out of 10, it might as well welded. But the internals are fascinating and beautiful to look at. I'm surprised at how large the new track pad component is.
http://www.wtfpl.net/
4 female Muslim superheroes countering stereotypes
That shouldn't be very surprising. I tend to licence small projects under MIT style licences because of the relatively small investment of effort. But if I was starting a much bigger project I would seriously consider something like GPL. It would be interesting to see how the use of licences scales with project size and longevity, rather than pure project count.
Google News shows a snippet + link to original page, just like search. The difference is that it groups articles about the same thing together. I don't understand your argument.
In Dash.app (on Mac), there's actually a nifty file that you can download that shows you how all the different formatting options work.

Its good, but I think this is even better.
That's a fair criticism of my post. However, do you believe the mindset just four years later was any different? The second amendment very explicitly mentions militias, which implies the same fear of government.
Plausible it could be launched from the landing platform prior to the attempt. Although, you'd think a drone could have a closer viewpoint. Anyway, very cool to see.
It would be nice if you stopped spamming.
Ah, that is why Kawa Scheme starts up faster then.
A control system is a feedback loop that connects measurements (orientation, speed, acceleration) and steering (grid fins orientation, engine power and gimbaling, RCS/other means of attitude control) in order to steer the entire system into a desired state (in this case, upright orientation and 0m/s velocity exactly at the point of touchdown). The control system measures the state of the rocket and directly adjusts the control inputs - i.e. it's not a series of if-else instructions, but more like "engine_gimbal_x = P * yaw + I * integral(yaw) + D * dyaw/dt"[0] - the inputs and outputs are wired together through a set of mathematical transformations.

The "lag" is a delay between your steering signal and the state of the system changing in response. In this case, because of static friction, valves controlling fuel flow reacted with delay (I'm not sure if they're talking about Merlin's valves or attitude control engines though) - so the rocket did not react immediately after being told to do so.

There's a whole math field around that topic, known as "control theory". There are ways to determine the limits of inputs and outputs that will allow your control system to keep everything in the desired state. In this case however, the input lag wasn't accounted for and it pushed the system out of the space of stable states, beyond the ranges where the control unit could keep up with the changes, so it ended up oversteering. Fortunately, in this case it's mostly a software problem, i.e. they could tweak the controller to deal with the lag.

The best way to imagine it is to recall your first experiences with a bike or ice skates - trying to balance yourself on them is exactly the kind of thing the rocket was doing, probably with similar results.

My control theory is a bit rusty nowadays, but I hope this clears up some things.

[0] - if you ever hear about "PID controller", this is exactly where the name comes from - proportional, integral, derivative.
Here Are the Secrets to a Long and Healthy Life
A well-run study should control for weight and smoking. But the undiagnosed cardiovascular disease can't be controlled for. Exercise is much harder for me than for others, for example, and I don't know why.
New Android App Lets You Unlock Your Phone with Your Voice
Three Paths to Better Open Wireless Routers
Funny thing is, people could probably use Wikipedia to fulfil all the functions that Facebook fulfils for users (not the function it fulfils for Facebook/advertisers).

I could see pages used as public group walls, profile pages as personal walls, "discuss"-pages as discussion. Only thing missing is "private" chat/pages -- but a browser-plugin with support for OTR/GPG (encrypt to many recipients...) could fix that, and be way more secure/private than Facebook...
Autistic Traits Aren’t Linked to Brain Anatomy?
Ask ocdtrekkie for further information or verification if you want, but Google's involvement in US politics is pretty well established at some level and stating such is nowhere near the level of paranoia of chemtrail nonsense.

It's pretty poor form to mock the paranoid this way, especially post-Snowden.

I don't know if declan has a point that 'HN deserves better' than to have to deal with suspicion of Google's political activity, but HN definitely deserves more than this shitty one-liner.
To give an intuitive definition, consider the volume near the n-D manifold, up to a distance d. As you get nearer the volume goes down it starts looking like ~A*2d -- in fact we define A as the limit as d goes to 0 of the volume divided by 2d. You can extend this to k-D manifolds on n-D spaces by normalizing this volume with a n-k dimensional ball.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_content

Now you can partition this set in any way you want and apply the rule I mentioned for each partition (p=measure(Partition)/measure(Manifold)). Simply because that is precisely how one might define "equal probabilities", there exists an algorithm which partitions the manifold into simply connected compact sets of decreasing measure which converges to giving "equal probabilities": the definition implies an algorithm.

Edit: panic above clarified the requirement. I missed that that measure(Manifold) must of course exist, but I'm confident all else is self-evident.
Correlation, sure. But even as a non-vegetarian, I can understand the argument for not raising animals directly or indirectly for food, due to inefficiency. Vegans who believe that but don't really care about food being "natural" would still want this stuff; not all vegans are motivated to be vegan by the same things.
The Great Math Mystery at 9 Pm on PBS
2x looks the most correct to me, based on the speed of debris falling at the end.
I noticed the bench.co link in the article, without even realizing the article was hosted on bench.co. Very clever content rich way to do marketing.

"For example, Bench handles all of Patrick’s bookkeeping. He’s grateful for the freedom to “never think about it again.”"
Amazon is an incredibly powerful band, and brands can do that. But there's also no reason a distributed system can't also have a brand which evokes the same level of trust. In many ways, distributed trust can be stronger and more resilient than centralized trust.
Hmm, how sure are they that the cut marks are anthropic in origin? I'm reminded of Peking Man's "cannibalism": http://www.uiowa.edu/~bioanth/courses/Peking1.htm
Hmm. If you have to fill in lots of scary-looking prescription forms, would that also enhance the experience?
This is what your co-worker does now:

'result: {long_var_name}'.format(long_var_name=long_var_name)

A similar option is possible with '%'-style formatting:

'result: %(long_var_name)s'%{"long_var_name":long_var_name}
-or-
'result: %(long_var_name)s'%dict(long_var_name=long_var_name)

The first of these alternatives is indeed shorter, so long as there's only a single parameter. If there are multiple parameters then the .format() solution will be shorter.

My experience with '%(name)s' % dict formatting is that I would often forget the terminal 's', and write it as '%(name)'. For template-like strings, where I want named substitutions, I am very much in favor of {}-style formatting.

So if your co-worker insists on named substitutions, then s.format() is less verbose than s % dict.

Regarding logging, there's a section of how to use format templates in the logging system, at https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging-cookbook.html#format... . In addition to using a LogRecord factory, you could reduce the overhead in old-style logging to only an extra constructor calls:

log.info(M('result: {} {}', one, two))

where M.__str__ forwards to str.format.

Personally, I would like a way to pre-compile the format string:

fmt = format_compile("result: {} {} {}")
for result in results:
print(fmt(*result))

because currently (in Python 3.3) "%d %d %d" is about 40% faster than "{} {} {}".

EDIT: Never mind: It can be faster to interpolate the string each time than to call a constructor:

% python3.3 -mtimeit 's="%s %s %s"' 's % (1, 3, 9)'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.36 usec per loop
% python3.3 -mtimeit 'class Spam:pass' 'Spam()'
10000 loops, best of 3: 23.6 usec per loop

I did not expect a factor of 65!
I would expect there's a stronger-than-average correlation there — mainly because they have the common prerequisite of caring about what you eat — but my hunch is that most vegans wouldn't object to this. I can personally say I'd buy it.
Slavery is discussed in political philosophy all the time, even in "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" by Nozik (with which I happen to disagree, but that's nor here nor there). I did not read the first message as an hyperbole, but simply as a consequence of the fact that "enjoying freedoms while preventing others from enjoying them" brings slavery to mind quite often. It's an unfortunate, possibly unnecessary metaphor, but not necessarily a piece of rhetoric (although, like everything under the sun, it surely has been used to that effect as well).
If you can find it, the BBC's Fall of Eagles[1] documentary series is one of the best I've seen on depicting the Kaiser and the other 19th Century Monarchs of Central Europe and their downfall. It also has a very young Patrick Steward portraying Vladimir Lenin and his rise to power.

Fall of Eagles depicts the Kaiser as being rather childish, whimsical and always having something to prove. The later being at least partially attributed his self-conscienceness about one of his arms being noticeable shorter than the other (birth defect) as well as envy of British Naval/Colonial power (his mother was also one of Queen Victoria's Children). However, that's pretty much how the actual Kaiser Wilhelm II was during much of his reign. He had his positives though, instilled in him from his English Mother and progressive father, such as supporting worker's rights and funding for science and the arts. However, WWI pretty much overshadows anything else from his legacy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Eagles
This is a bit like keeping speed limits down at 65 mph (a standard set when car technology was 50 years less mature).

It's another way that the state can selectively punish most any citizen at will, within the bounds of law.
What part of the article gave you the impression that an exercise related reduced chance of death in a given year would cause a person to be in worse shape or less mobile/healthy/pain free? Your conclusion is counterintuitive, so I can only assume you have an interesting basis for your position.

I ask because a naive reader might assume that you're just making a dismissive middlebrow comment. Which would fall into the category of gratuitous negatively, and I can't imagine you'd be doing that.
Unix-like microkernel. In the same category as QNX and the like.

Regarding the second question, a mix of not a lot of resources, stubbornness and in a lot of cases, petty bickering.
Shipping thingimibobs? Shipping Thingamajikis?

WTF is oilpan, and why should I care?
Which makes me sad. Makes it just as easy for dedicated crackers, makes it harder on busy, overworked sysadmins to check.

All the script-kids need to do is find someone to help them, so I don't really think this helps anyone.
There are plenty of anti-GMO vegans. But I'm sure there are plenty of vegans who'd be fine with it. After all, there is a scientific case for veganism too.
I don't use PHP, so sadly I can't use it, but after reading the description, it seems very similar to Jinja (http://jinja.pocoo.org). Were you aware of that templating engine? I use it and like it a lot, and if I have to use PHP in the future I will certainly try yours.
Canadians are the largest bunch of back-biting snakes you will ever see. They'll hug you close and call you friend, whilst doing everything they can to stab you in the back.

If you ever get a chance, watch a bunch of them together. The closer they are, the more mean and vicious they will be. Politeness is saved for strangers.

Keep this in mind whenever you deal with a Canadian. They aren't your friends, despite all appearances.
Personal attacks are out of line on HN. You've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. Please read and follow them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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Better Qmail on Ubuntu
Ask HN: Where to look for housing in London?
My fiance and I may be moving to London shortly - what is the best website for searching for rental properties in London?
MS actually moved the GUI stack into the kernel around NT 4. Used to be (so legend has it) if the video driver crashed on earlier versions of NT, you could restart it, and the system didn't go down. But, you know, PERFORMANCE!!1. Win.
How does this work if you are around town, lets say eating lunch?
There's a lot of open source software for governments in the US but darn few avail themselves of it.

http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Civic_Software

http://opencityapps.org/
Agreed:
1) SQL is not solved in an ORM sense. Yes you will have to write sql statements. I'm not so sure this is a bad thing.

Beg-to-differ:
1) Templating works very well for me. You can pass variables to embedded template "partials" within a template. You can define your own functions for the templating engine to use etc.
2) net/http + gorilla (or something similar) and you have all of net/http exposed with some sugar on top.
3) csrf tokens are just a simple library. Yes you do have to be sure to put them into your templates.

If you are having difficulty with a middle-ware concept in terms of golang there are plenty of resources online.

So I would say that I have a different feeling about making websites in golang :) I enjoy it.
I suppose this is true, but also mostly irrelevant. If I am faced with two doors, behind one a car and the other a goat, I am technically making my own luck when I pick a door, but there's still nothing I can do to improve my chances of getting the car past 50%.
There is nothing more costly about providing open internet than closed internet. If you only look at certain domains, those domains will subsidize the price. It's pushing two things unnecarily into one. It's like, if you can pay for internet if you sell your kidney, then saying internet access with kidneys is too expensive.
For me, any record will need Fabian Cancellara's participation to be legit.
But that is not a result of the licensing, it is a result of a design decision. While it may very well be that such a design decision was made to avoid GCC being used with proprietary front-ends (along with the fact that GCC is simply an older project), it does not provide an argument against GPL, at best against some choices made by the FSF. And after all, the LLVM license is the reason why people have to hope that Apple will open Swift, as opposed to that being a fait accompli. And the LLVM license is the reason why hardware vendors will be able to build proprietary back-ends. In my book neither of these facts increases freedom.
My comparison to Tylenol is apt. If you bought pills thinking they were ~100mg, but they were 10x that, you would soon find yourself with a broken liver. To be clear Tylenol will kill you in sufficient quantities, amounts you're likely to easily by from a store.

Opiates do not have a "fundamentally different" effect if you're in pain. I think people like saying that about opiates and stimulants so as to excuse people that "need" it.

And yes, personal freedom is worth people choosing to rip apart families.
You can only control for weight and smoking if you have good data, which is to say that at least a significant portion of the weight and smoking behaviours are not causally linked to the exercise behaviour. If the data is not sufficiently diverse, no amount of statistical power will overcome the garbage-in garbage-out nature of regression.