skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an interesting paper about actually implementing this (sorry for paywall).

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumb...
Rails has bigger community and they are pioneers for alot of things that each new framework takes inspiration from. Practically i think ruby wasn't going to be this famous without rails. So its cool that Sinatra had it early on, but now we have it in rails.
No, but people don't like change.
If you're able to use a 64 bit Windows, ArangoDB can do this. You can shard and replicate it. Documents can be simple k-v stores.
As an aside, this is not the first round of this particular fight, and it has been won by consumers before. See the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act[1], for example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...
John Oliver Discusses Patents on Last Week Tonight
Music from very short programs [video]
I see you are a fellow Project Euler-er! How far have you gotten?
They're missing a 4th lesson, true in my experience:

Backup your hard drive before you give it to the corporate IT guys.
Not really: https://twitter.com/maccaw/status/576437511729221632

If you want true stability you probably have to switch to a language with a stronger type system. That Sinatra bug proves that even small codebases can suffer from basic type errors.
According to your first link, there is no reason to disable zoom. This gives you the best of both worlds:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">

It retains zoom and gets rid of the 300ms delay. At least in chrome, so the site says.

FF says this issue is "RESOLVED FIXED", so maybe they implemented it too:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=941995

I have that meta tag on all my sites and I just tested on Android and iOS: Clicking on links and other controls seem instant. And zoom works. Hurray!
Hacker Jailbreak iOS 8.4 beta
No legal or moral principle mandates we treat all software identically under the law without respect to use case, though. Tractor firmware, Adobe Photoshop and that digital copy of the U2 album you didn't want are all software, but they're expressions of very different things with distinguishing characteristics. In the case of the tractor firmware, an obvious distinguishing characteristic is that the firmware is just as critical to the function of the tractor as any mechanical part. I don't see any reason why the law couldn't mandate that you own your copy of that firmware. (Actually, I don't see any reason why the law couldn't mandate that in all the cases I mentioned; I think people on both sides of the IP debate are making a categorical error by assuming that the zero marginal cost of software reproduction changes everything. It doesn't. It just changes, well, the marginal cost.)

In another comment, I think you said that you thought describing this as "challenging the notion of ownership" as pandering to the (presumably anti-IP) audience. Maybe, but there's very little difference in practice between "you do not actually own your tractor" and "okay, you own your tractor, but don't own this critical thing without which the tractor cannot run, and you're not allowed to modify that thing in any way or even replace that thing with something you can modify." The second clause doesn't give whoever owns that critical thing possession of your tractor, but it gives them at least some level of control of your tractor. Maybe you're comfortable with that, maybe you're not -- objectively the same case can be made for my iPhone, after all, and I'm generally okay with that. But if my iPhone is put out of commission for a week by a firmware cockup I'm just going to be inconvenienced, whereas a farmer might lose a lot of potential income if that comes at the wrong time. I don't think it's irrational to argue that the law should recognize that difference.
That's a misuse of the word, I'd say. "Anarchy" was usurped to somehow describe some sort of "violent" lack of rule/order. I.e. Riots, mobs, looting, Molotov cocktails, you name it. Very unfortunate indeed.

Even now, the official definition is "a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority." Though, the origin is: "...from anarkhos, from an- ‘without’ + arkhos ‘chief, ruler.’"

At least, when used properly as a qualifier to a system of government (or lack thereof), it has much much better connotations associated with it. Though, again, that depends on who you ask and which type of "anarchy" you're describing. You get ridiculously odd ones such as "anarcho-communism".
Everything...Fixed is an App that facilitates the resolution of parking tickets fought by in-house staff (I think non-attorneys). Our software is for a driver who gets a traffic ticket and our software connects drivers with law firms licensed to fight the ticket and offer transparent pricing. The transparent/automated pricing is the basis for our pending patent and what differentiates our software.

On the business side Fixed's 25k waiting list...none of them are paying customers, of those who are not on the waiting list and using the app, Fixed gets nothing when they challenge a ticket and lose (which appears to be 80% [1]), but when Fixed wins I think they get 25% of the original fine. I think more generally Fixed wants to offer "Justice as a Service" and start challenging all kinds of quasi-legal problems that do not require a licensed lawyer, which is a tremendous space and I look forward to seeing them grow. Of our 400 in the last 90 days, they are paying clients of our partner law firm, and the relationship is between the client and law firm, not us and the client.

[1] http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/fixed-parking-ticket-ap...
Ask HN: What 5 memories are you most fond of from your childhood?
I'm trying to make a meaningful connection with my son and build memories he will never forget. Thanks.
Interesting! Great link, thank you.
What's driving Scala's rise in popularity?
I've never had to stop for a freight train on the northeast (between DC and NYC anyway), because Amtrak owns those tracks. You do sometimes have to stop for local commuter trains that share the tracks, or (more commonly) an acela overtaking a regional. By far the most common reason for delay, though, is the aging equipment.
Let Them Commute
Really in-depth and nicely written piece about the current workforce and on-demand economy!
Perfect Recipe for Building Mobile Apps with Ionic and Backand
>"As you already guessed, I propose them to adopt Bitcoin as a national currency ;)"

It already is, from what I can tell. As "official" as you can get at this point.
That may be true in Iowa, but in Utah, there are still quite a few family farms. Even if we are a shrinking minority, it still seems worthwhile to fight to own our own small pieces of equipment.
not that far. ~ 75 solved problems. At some point my maths skills are simply insufficient.
It's pretty clear to me what a reasonable solution to this would be. If you buy a laptop you don't "own" the OS you have a license to it and you can install another OS on it you just won't be able to get tech support for the non-standard OS. If you buy a tractor you should be able to do the same and the manufacturer should be required to provide enough information about the hardware systems and their functions that if someone wants to write a open source tractor OS they could. (Think DDWRT, for Tractors)
Very neat and tidy app.
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This One Strategy Can Generate Sustainable Traction for Mobile Apps
Yep, totally agree but Soylent is just getting started. In the next 10 - 15 years they may nail this.
Trains have automatic systems that engage the emergency brake if they ignore stops or go faster than allowed. They are not completely foolproof, but it's pretty hard to crash trains.
Saya – The New Robotic Receptionist in Town
While I agree with you completely the truth is they don't care if you are their customer (individually or as a group).

They deal with such large numbers that you in particular are less than a rounding error. While they could provide streaming to you as a group that opens a whole case of worm cans regarding potential taxes, law suits, contract disputes, etc.

While we often think of how simple it is to do because we approach it from the tech side and we sometimes think of it from the business side we (self included) rarely think of it from the HUGE CORPORATE side, which is, they have better things to do.

Sadly, things are setup in a way that is not beneficial to us, the consumer.
Let us not forget https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says -- pooling the "wisdom" of Hacker News comments.
"Can anyone explain why they're allowed to (seemingly) abuse this act?"

Simple. It's not being abused. It's working as intended.
Jeremy really knows his stuff - if you work in this space, you need to figure out how to get some of his time!
I think this is missing the point. It's not really important whether it's the same 1% that's getting richer. The fact that the income distribution between the top 1% of earners and the remaining 99% is as high as it is is still a huge problem. It's just not an efficient way for society to allocate resources.
Your accusations of dishonesty are completely unfounded, and merely serve to demonstrate that you haven’t bothered to read the links I provided, and therefore have a very limited grasp of the situation. Please retract them.

You are framing the problem in terms that make the situation sound almost reasonable: given that this code is invalid, what should the compiler do? In fact, the question I asked is whether particular code should be invalid.

The choices made by the standards committees so far on this question — the one you are trying to divert attention from — have proven catastrophic. This is far from being a “misrepresentation”; it is patently obvious. We have reached a situation where every non-trivial execution of GCC (which is written in C, remember) executes undefined behavior; and where even zlib, which has gone nine years without a security hole, is full of undefined behavior.
Wow Spartan (IE replacement) is really kicking some major ass with its ECMAScript 6 support:

https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
Come for that stats, stay for the comedy

> The project returns with significant restructuring of the toolset and Travis CI integration. Fierce battles raged between the Compiled Empire and the Dynamic Rebellion and many requests died to bring us this data. Yes, there is some comic relief, but do not fear—the only jar-jars here are Java

Brilliant!
He does not get paid by the FSF, nor does he accept speaking fees (insofar as I am aware; I'm not sure if there are certain sponsors, but he insists that those be donated to the FSF, not himself); his time is donated. He received a MacArthur grant a while back, while he is able to live off of.
> But I've noted a very distressing tendency toward comments accumulating significant downvotes not for being wrong, but for being different.

I've noted a very distressing tendency for people on HN to assume that no one could possibly disagree with their subjective interpretation of the relevance and degree of substantive contribution of a post, and to therefore assume that downvotes of posts that the complaining poster agrees finds to be insightful must be based on differentness, not on differing subjective interpretations on relevance and degree of substantive contribution. And, further, to state the conclusion of this stack of assumptions as a simple fact.
The planet is 5 billion years old. We may change the ecology by doubling air travel, but we are unlikely to ruin it.
That one has me confused, too. Back in the early '90s, I remember hearing a considerable amount of argument from various economists about why computerization wasn't improving productivity. It was the late '90s before I stopped hearing that and the apparent benefits of computers became apparent.
We had a similar experience at my last company, and we tried a few ways to get around it, eventually landing on a workable solution.

We started to allow devs to do story cards on their own, for easy stuff (like you said - colors, alignment fixes, CRUD, etc.)

This worked for a while, but we found the number of dev/bug/fix/bug/etc cycles on those stories was waaaay higher than cards done "properly" with pair programming (even big architecture cards).

So then we made the rule that a dev could do a card on their own, but just before committing they would sit down with another dev and show and explain it to them, thus helping to catch any little "gotchas".

This works really well. i.e. the whole point of Agile is there are no rules, you're supposed to come up with your own based on what works best for you and your org.
> Certainly not all farming is being done at a loss?

A big corp can calculate differently from your small farmers. It's OK to them if the field turns profitable finally in 20 or 30 years because they have enough other sources of income to pay for the mortgage (or buy the field out of pocket).

The small farmer on the other hand would be bankrupt by then.
Actually I experimented with something like this. I tried blocking parts of the view but it didn't work. Honestly not sure why though. The hood did move a little with inertial responses and perhaps my brain perceived that as an intermediary.
Spying on the U.S. Submarine That Spies for the NSA and CIA
Shouldn't the act's terribleness, or if it actually qualifies as abuse, be related to how long the ride was? Some people put their dogs in cages at night, for instance.
Wow and cool!
Quip Chat Rooms
I think it is interesting to frame this debate in terms of the near future of self driving cars. The true benefit of those cars will only be realized when they dominate the road and can freely communicate with each other. That could lead to crazy things like stop lights and stop signs disappearing and cars flying through intersections at nearly full speed. But what happens when individual owners start altering the software of these machines? Let's say they "overclock" their speed to travel at 105% of "normal". That would put not only themselves, but everyone on the road at risk. It would threaten to prevent the whole system from realizing its potential. Should that person still have the right to alter the car they own? I simply don't know.
uh, it appears that a chance to Rack's API caused that bug, no?
Just curious. Where/who is the proposed domain hoster? Any technical data could also be useful. I see the point in doing the creation as simple as possible, i would like at least to know, bevore i register anything, who i am going to pay and what i pay for. Maby i just overlook it..
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In general, it's a good idea to do a full image backup before you do any messing about with a drive. This is something the corporate IT guys certainly should have done, since often it's not reasonable to assume that some random employee (who might not be something with a huge amount of techie skills) should be expected to backup a hard drive before handing it to their internal help desk.
Here is one from 1972 about the year 2000 (in German, but funny pictures nevertheless):
https://youtu.be/kaGnBNhE2xI
Thank you for sharing this! I really liked your explanation of why you made it. I'm a little lost at how one might go about installing and running it -- I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. I've starred in hope of re-finding this later.
And yet Israel has less hospitable climate and it's doing just fine, due to resources invested in water reclamation/desalination and high(er) tech agriculture[1].

I think you really overestimate how harsh the climate in Ethiopia is - it's not like trying to colonize Mars or Arrakis. It's hardly the Sahara either. The climate is in fact less harsh than fairly extensive parts of the US (particularly the West).

[1] Israel was also doing quite well even when it was a fairly poor country in the 50s/60s (although it was never as dirt poor as Ethiopia).
Chromium Blog: Reaching and re-engaging users on the mobile web
>Because motion sickness is a well understood phenomena

Sure, one that ballpark-range around half of people get. Neither side is more standard. Is this different, does it affect 98% of people or something? I'm not suggesting negativity, I'm suggesting that perhaps Kiro is not at all an anomaly.
Will there ever be a desktop version of Ubuntu with snappy ? Snappy seems to have some very interesting advantages..
"Dutch's"? I assume you mean the Netherlands since Dutch is the language, not a country or anything. This would be the same as saying "English's largest Magento ...". Alternatively you could say "The largest Dutch Magento ..."
Wow, that's quite a prominent list...
Uber launches webhooks and new endpoints
Out of curiosity, what happens to the bottom quintile in those three cases?
Ok, but I see the adjective applied to the argument, not to the person who wrote it.

If he said "You are lying" it still wouldn't be an ad-hominem in my book.

From wikipedia[0]:

> An ad hominem [...], means responding to arguments by attacking a person's character, rather than to the content of their arguments

By saying his points are disingenuous he's not attacking the person's character.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
In a word: Lack of education
The numbers don’t lie: Jay-Z’s Tidal music service is already a spectacular flop
But what makes it intangible? The really cheap (but still non-zero) cost to copy? In which case, why would this not apply to any physical machine that has a really cheap cost to copy?

It seems the answer is 'Because it doesn't.' at which point I see copyright law needing to be overhauled.

For example, why can my painting be protected by copyright but my engine design not? And if they are both protected by copyright, then why can't I just give a license to use the engine design while selling them the actual physical material (N kilos of iron, M kilos of carbon, etc.)?
This is a persistent and incorrect story. The proprietary esx kernel takes over from the initial linux boot. The esx kernel schedules running VMs, not the linux kernel.
They also assumed the computer would be monolithic and expensive (automatically contacting a repairperson, for example) when they have ended up cheap and disposable.
The social aspect makes coding more fun. And getting away from your keyboard is great. What you're describing to me sounds like informal code review, a high level walkthroughs of what your code does and what choices you made and why. It's a taste of pair programming. Talking through your code is great. Implied pair programming sounds about right. Try the full thing sometime!
Could someone kindly explain that for the uninitiated?
"Imagine if from those 160.000 signups they could get 5.000 people to pay $1000 in taxes per year"

Wasn't the point of founding this country to get away from taxes? How ironic
This problem would disappear if browsers would just include a click-to-play option for videos. If Google didn't own YouTube, it would have included this option a long time ago.
"The article gives some ways that the John Deere idea is bad."

"Bad", is relative. "Bad" for whom? Deere or the farmer? Follow the money / power.
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Fall of the Designer Part III: Conformist Responsive Design
Still no Elixir/Phoenix inclusion? I'd really love to see how it stacked up.
I don't understand why people forget they have the DVD business.

Presumably because it is becoming a smaller and smaller part of their business. That's the reason they wanted to spin it off as Quikster. DVD rental also isn't available on the subscription package that most users have.
The announcement should have been made quietly and incrementally over time. Many small businesses do not like being dictated to by large ones (even if it may be in their interest).
Study of 95K children finds no link between MMR vaccines and autism
What do you possibly gain by introducing VT-* features into your container product?
Music streaming impact: number of artists I listened to
> you can totally show up 20 minutes before a flight

I'm assuming you're talking about the scheduled boarding time, not departure time? Most airlines' contracts of carriage say that if you're not at the gate 15 minutes before departure, you'll be denied boarding.

EDIT: I guess it's not clear whether you meant "show up [at the airport]" or "show up [at the gate]".
The real problem here isnt that we're leasing things (we have leases for cars, houses, and many other physical goods). The problem is that the manufacturers mix leasing and owning. I.e. you own the device, but lease the software. I think that everyone would be radically happier if you either leased everything or owned everything. This is partly because when we buy something at a store, we expect to own it, not own part of it and lease the rest. This leads to the price of the object being higher than what you would actually pay if you were going to only lease it. In a world where nobody owns tractors and just leases them, we would still be fine because nobody would pay full price for a tractor every month, but rather only what would make sense economically.
DONE!

https://statusgator.io/blinkenlights/registry.json

That's the top 5 most popular services on StatusGator. Users can see up/down/warn status for GitHub, DigitalOcean, Heroku, AWS, and Slack.

Edit: Fixed typoe
Ubuntu's splash page reads as though LXD is the Qubes/Bromium to LXC's Sandboxie, using some aspects of hardware virtualization for additional security.
I don't know what languages Curie spoke, but there would have been a strong incentive for European scientists in the 19th and 20th centuries to learn to read German. That would have opened up access to a huge amount of technical literature that was being published in German.

My father said that when he was a kid in the 1960s, there was still a sense in the U.S. that it would be useful to learn some German if you planned to go into fields like math or physics.

But I wonder how European scientists at the time of this letter chose what language to use in their personal correspondence.
The only reasonable way to stop that is do not buy shit from them.

I had an HP printer that wouldn't run if the ink cartridge wasn't original HP, which are expensive as hell, so I dumped it and never bought HP again.

Now Epson is selling printers with refillable cartridges. Guess who's gonna get my money if I ever need a printer again?

Free market in action.
The 1956 movie Forbidden Planet had a computer system with no instrumentality. That means no buttons, levers, not even a voice command - it was telepathic!
Rolling out the mobile-friendly update
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