skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using copy.com for a while and I'm quite happy with it. The main reason I chose it (at the time) was 20GB for free accounts, fair storage in shared folders and pricing (I have the 250GB account).

(Disclaimer: this is a referral link that will give us 5gb https://copy.com?r=b2yUAQ ;-))
Why the surprise? This is a logical next step to the Chinese Eugenics program that has been going on for decades.

https://edge.org/response-detail/23838

Welcome to the brave new world, whether you like it or not, it is here and it will only expand.
Not really, even the Wikipedia article you sourced doesn't see it that way.

> Lock-in costs which create barriers to market entry may result in antitrust action against a monopoly.

It's anticompetitive behaviour that suddenly becomes relevant if you're a monopoly.
I don't think anyone knows what every single script and command does on a system.
Has anyone read and audited all the init scripts for example? Never.
And where would one find the time to do this? Certainly not on the job.
The c developer should use the same c/fortran library that the python implementation is based on. A good C developer would use that library. In my experience, mediocre C developers will not use that library and will implement their own, naive version.
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While I technically agree with this, it is absolute nonsense from a user point of view. As the provider of an important host system, you might want to consider allowing people to list supported platforms in order to make it possible for the user to see which apps he can use with the equipment he has.

It might be right from an objective point of view but it's a plain out dick-ish behaviour towards user friendly app management aka the user itself.
I do have myself a Pebble and honestly I find my Pebble apps in the Pebble store... Not looking in the Apple App Store
fair enough, I have seen it attributed to the Dali Lama many times
This comment from Higinio is both telling of his mindset and maddening:

"They're not going to give a [...] 13-year-old kid access to a multi-million
dollar Unix server because he wants to learn to program. They will use shitty
passwords and let me break into it. But that's on them."
> But what's the alternative?

Sounds like an opportunity.
http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=72243225&caseType=SERIAL_N...
Monopolistic behaviour != has a monopoly.
Sure, Erlang has an issue with gaining forward momentum, but I feel like people are really overstating the momentum Elixer has.

It is easy to gain huge percentages of momentum (if you could ever measure that) when you have little to start with. That's the case with Elixir. That's the same situation languages like Factor and even Haskell saw seven years ago. The former is more or less dead and and the latter still never "broke out".

When Elixir is competing library-wise and ecosystem-wise with the likes of existing languages like Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, and then some of its major selling points are in competitors like Go (though not 100%) or Clojure/Scala (which can leverage the JVM), it really, really has to distance itself.

As great as Elixir is, it is hard to make a bet on it ever crossing the threshold of "this is really cool" to something you can goto because library x y and z are available.
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Glad to hear it. I think once you've used one of the monads the whole concept starts to make a lot more practical sense.
I'd gladly look at this research. The research I saw is missing the fact that time is endogenous and simple scheduling won't work.
You are going to end up in the cheap old age home with bad food.
Ask the EU - and compare that hilarious case to the apple store problem we have here.... http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-4781_en.htm
Yeah, the fact that they would make such an argument is a big red flag to stay away from their service.

There are currently zero known cases of intelligence agencies forcing CAs to sign bogus certs. If SIGAINT is the first victim of this approach then they will have done the whole security community a service by catching it and the CA that was coerced will be revoked.

But if they never use SSL at all then it's wide open to anyone at all, not even just governments. And it's hardly like governments are the only threats against people who use such services.
It's not just they're the gatekeeper, it's that as gatekeeper they're acting against users' interest in this case.
Thank you.

Indeed the data is incomplete yet. Bear in mind that the data comes from a specific use on https://www.capitainetrain.com That is why many countries are poorly covered (yet! we plan to eventually cover whole Europe).

There is no magic to find the UIC code, sorry… Sometimes it is in OpenStreetMap, sometimes we get it from a rail operator… But it is not a required value, so you can add it with out the station.

`is_suggestable` means that the user can input the station on capitainetrain.com. Leave it false for now ;)

The idea behind the name vs. info is that name is the station as it is locally known.
Info adds any information extra information to help to find which station it is (that includes translations, “Central Station” for people not understanding „Hbf“, disambiguation between similar names…)
They have a total monopoly on the software market for iDevices. Even if the way they got that monopoly wasn't abusive, they are abusing it now.
I always wondered, why do small companies use Dropbox at all?

A 1 TB NAS in RAID-1 by Synology or QNAP will cost you about 400 EUR (including VAT). That's about 9% of what the author of the article paid for some 700 GB in Dropbox. It will do everything that Dropbox does, except you can use standard protocols (SMB, AFS, WebDAV, whatever) and the data will not leave your company.
My guess is that in Europe they could get an anti trust lawsuit. Comparing it with internet explorer on windows anti trust lawsuit from EU, Microsoft was forced to acknowledge and provide choice of competitor platforms that where compatible with the system (Firefox, Chrome, Opera,...).

Under the same logic, pebble is just an laternative platform compatible with the system (IOS + SeaNav).

But either way that is a behavior that is characteristic of Apple and doesn't surprise me at all.
The implication here being that the Ruby folks mostly care about surface convenience, with not even using parser transforms to provide parameterized modules (remember, one of the reasons people laud Elixir so much is its metaprogramming support) to overload the language a bit and provide ActiveRecord-like patterns being enough.

It's not really an indictment on Erlang, though. The situation you present is unwinnable.
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A nifty idea, but I can see thievery being a pretty big downside to this. You're putting goods into an unattended box with easily-broken windows.
Very nice representation! I hope that this data will allow more innovative representations to exist!
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I have a firm suspicion that most geo-politics are a farce; that the same money that runs the West, runs the East.

That's because - if you always want to win, you play both sides.
What do you mean his own things? Avengers is an example of his own thing, yet with established characters. Avengers is a classic example of Whedon's strengths as a creator. He's always been good with ensemble casts.

If you're meaning his own characters, there is that. But from now on he can likely do whatever he feels like. I hope he decides to tell a new story with new characters in the Buffy universe.
I am incredibly psyched for Tuples, Pattern matching, Algebraic data types and Nullability Tracking (four of the most-likely list)!

I mean, to be fair, these are all things that Haskell offers me, but more languages getting these can't hurt! Good steps forward! Now, all I have to hope for is that the nix support for .NET becomes more robust so I can actually code in C# on platforms that I care about supporting ^_^ (Note: this is not meant as a slight towards Windows, I just prefer working with / coding for nix).
Yeah, exactly, visa status has nothing to do with it. It's all credit history, and it shouldn't be very hard to start credit history. My first card was from my CU, preapproved up to $5k since I was a new resident. If that's not an option, there's secured cards all over the marketplace that can jumpstart credit histories.
Like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

"How are stories ranked?

On the front page, by points divided by a power of the time since they were submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way.

Stories on the new page and comments on the comments page are listed chronologically."

Now, try to find a similar answer for the websites like Facebook or Quora.
Moore's law continued, all of Earth 2015's data could fit on the head of a pin. However, operating systems continued to get "smarter" with built-in features and AI that always require more storage and processing power than is available, causing everything to be slow and buggy, and everything gets more buggy the longer you use it.

No software is allowed release on the mass market unless it fits Apple's TOS (Apple is now the world government as well). All apps will be politically correct and use no porn, swear words, violence, or mention anything hinting at a competitor to Apple.

AI that can fix bugs and manage its own size will be a mere 10 years away.
Erlang needs a killer framework.

For what it's worth, it already does: OTP.
The Department of Defense is setting up shop in Silicon Valley
Not using GPS data (which I believe is a flawed idea, too much battery used for the community) but using the API given by the providers, raildar (http://raildar.fr/#lat=46.810&lng=6.880&zoom=6) is already displaying trains in real time with their delay.
I see very few cries of monopoly, and many cries of antitrust. These are not the same thing, at all. This particular instance could be approaching a tying arrangement. It is certainly against the consumer's best interest.

Also, under the Sherman act, conspiracy to monopoly is just as illegal as actual monopoly.
OP was talking specifically about 16-bit 6502 variant
Worth citing: https://medium.com/@AreDangerousMen/a-dod-embassy-in-silicon...
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But there are apps in the App Store that their only purpose is as a companion for a Pebble app, not to mention the main Pebble app itself. It will be impossible for such apps to change their metadata to avoid mentioning Pebble. Therefore it appears that in the future Apple will be de-facto rejecting such apps.
That's great if you come from a place like that that you can return to. Not everyone is so lucky.

Those of us who grew up in big cities and moved away often have nothing to return to, nor would staying have helped. I'm an only child, and my parents are still together, but no longer live where I grew up. Everyone I knew from my childhood is scattered throughout the country. The neighborhood I grew up in was bulldozed and is now luxury condos. This is a common story among millennials.

People ultimately want a sense of belonging to SOMETHING. We're jaded about many of the traditional societal support structures like religion, marriage, work, or politics. As a result, many millennials identify with brands instead. Branding is enormous among millennials, even when looking at cohorts from previous generations at the same age. It's how millennials express their personality -- not by being creative, but by mashing up things that are already widely popular into our own identities. There are even counter-culture brands that let you identify with hating everything about consumer culture.

What do you do if you're not from anywhere? You don't know how to belong to a tight-knit social group because your friends have been disposable your whole life (and vice-versa). So you drift along in a consumer-oriented delirium, and if you're lucky you can join your life with some other lost soul so you're not so lonely. You are ambitious because let's face it, what else do you have going on?

So is it any surprise that people eat up what the media sells them? For many people, there's not a more attractive alternative.
This is a clear violation of Anti-trust laws.
A good reminder of what it would be like if we lived in a world where there is no Android and iOS is a monopoly.

Apple's anti competitive behavior puts Microsoft of the 90s to shame.
I think you might be overestimating the security provided by easily-broken windows and a wooden front door in a house.

They're probably both about the same?
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"In the west, we have debates about whether we should intervene to prevent disease or use stem cells, while the Chinese just do it on a massive scale. When I was in China, some researchers showed me a document from their Academy of Sciences which says openly that the goal of their biogenetic research is to enable large-scale medical procedures which will "rectify" the physical and physiological weaknesses of the Chinese people."

--Slavoj Zizek
China can be the lead in this crazy sh*t
> Apple doesn't want you using their app store in a way that could be promoting their competition.

That just seems really messed up. Considering it may not seem so bad since Apple isn't really that diverse but imagine if Google did the same thing at the Play Store. No mention of any other search engines, ad networks, email providers, phones, internet providers, home automation, etc. Pretty sure people would find that unacceptable.
Complaint #1 - They aren't releasing new features, and are spending too much time on bug fixing and performance.

Complaint #2 - It's buggy.

Oooooooooooooooook.
Their actual reason is probably related to the arguments presented at http://www.drop-dropbox.com/

Unsure why "they" would not come out and say that.
For those interested, here are the results for the query I ran.

http://pastebin.com/wV0eQgq0

And for science, the query:

select avg(points), std(points), weekday(created), hour(created) from stories group by weekday(created), hour(created) order by weekday(created), hour(created);
To make it more complicated, there are people who run bargain hunter strategies - people who deliberately place orders way outside the NBBO in the hope of getting fills at really good prices. E.g., I'll buy TWC at $140 but not it's current $148.

This is functionally identical to spoofing except that these people are explicitly hoping to get a fill. (Hence it's legal.)
The title of the article was "4 reasons why we are leaving Dropbox" and not "10 alternatives to Dropbox", which would be an interesting, but totally different article on it's own. It is good to read about these issues, as these days many people think about moving from A to B in cloud storage.

Personally i moved all my storage, contacts and calendars over to a self-hosted owncloud instance, which i did not regret so far. But i'm not going to write an article about it ...
Tidal is such a bomb that Kanye has already deleted any tweets mentioning it
We'll be writing software for the new Apple Watch
It's worse discussing though because mentioning Pebble has not been enforced for years, it only started to be enforced when Apple created a competitive product.
Goodness sakes. I used to be 'anti-Apple' because I thought it was a bunch of people following a trend. Then I entered high school and realized that I was acting like a child and people have different preferences.

I shudder to think what my middle school self would think of me as I type this from my MBP. I use a Mac as my laptop. So what? I run Linux on my desktop and have an Android phone. This all seems unnecessarily petty.
I don't think you understand anti-trust laws.
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> Think of a married husband with children who often has thoughts of driving alone into the sunset and never turning back.

Oh, I've been there, a few times. The thing that stopped me ultimately wasn't "societal norms", it was that in all reality, the sun was shining, the road was empty, there was peace in the moment. The quiet and tranquility of being alone a stark contrast to the chaos and turmoil of home [you can only live in a state of chaos for so long before your brain can't cope with it any more]. Running off into the sunset alone serves no purpose though. Perhaps you settled down too soon, perhaps you've not yet learned to find the joy in being "settled down." I'm not saying you're wrong for feeling that way, I'm not saying don't drive off alone into the sunset and never turn back. What I am saying is that the grass is only greener on the side of the fence that you nurture it. Of course, your life may be amazing, you may love your job and you may love your family, friends and community - but everyone needs a vacation occasionally.
Want your job to be finding data hiding on the web?
> AI would rather use Android phones and takes over the world.

Seriously though, I'd rather speculate on the risk of the super AI a company has developed until then turning against the company itself. Not from a 'destroy the world' type of scenario but from a 'marketing desaster' scenario.
That's what I don't understand. Let's all agree here, rules have been there, but they are used at Apple's discretion (read 'whim'). The only rule so far seems to be "I don't like it".
WRT more subways — I'm all for this, but it's sort of expensive and takes a lot of time. MTA is not exactly the fastest builder (see 2nd avenue line, PATH).

Tourists driving onto Manhattan are probably a minor traffic problem. I'd rather have them pick some "tourist pass" at designated locations on roads in NJ than have them leave their car and hop onto a PATH train with all their tourist gear (possibly not very light) or take a taxi to avoid a high bridge toll.

Having lived in Jersey City for some time, I can sympathize with people who'd rather take a car when they need a guarantee to get to NYC, because PATH can be canceled "due to a signal problem" unpredictably at any moment.
>Also, I'm not going to be dishonest for the sake of narrow economic interest, which is what you are asking me to do.

Actually, I was being ironic. I don't believe that "decadent" is really a genuine moral condemnation at all, instead merely meaning, "A society that doesn't suit my survivalist tastes because it is too civilized." Or at least, that's what I observe about common applications of the word "decadent".
This headline is not accurate. Waste water disposal wells are not "driving" the hydraulic fracturing boom. Disposal of waste water comes at the end of the process--it does not drive the process.

The boom in oil and natural gas production in places like North Dakota, Texas, and Pennsylvania did not take off because suddenly there were waste water injection wells but because of hydraulic fracturing, directional drilling and advanced underground imaging (high oil prices also really helped).

In Oklahoma, as the article states, these waste water injection wells have been very helpful for finding a place to dispose of produced water. But it isn't accurate to say that disposal wells are "driving" the boom.
> Apple is a vile antitrust monstrosity. These jerks needed to be slammed with a lawsuit long before this one single example of their flamboyant and abundant anti-competitive behavior.

While Apple are being increasingly huge dicks with their ecosystem I think you'd be hard-pressed with an antitrust case because Apple does not have a monopoly (or even a majority marketshare) on mobile devices.
Cars usually have alarms.
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What about laws against abuse of vertical integration? What they're doing seems like anti-competitive use of vertical integration to me.

Whether it's actually illegal is a question for a lawyer though.
One part of that, and Nitrogen, that I really disagree with is "writing HTML via Erlang": the number of people who can hack on a template that is HTML with some processing instructions exceeds, by orders of magnitude, the number of people who can write Erlang.
The problem appears to be that Apple has reclassified smart watches as a "mobile platform" whereas they did not before. So suddenly having an app so much as mention a smart watch brand is tantamount to mentioning, say, Android.

The guidelines state "3.1 - Apps or metadata that mentions [sic] the name of any other mobile platform will be rejected."

The poster states the app was approved previously just fine: "SeaNav US has previously been approved by Apple with no problem, we have had Pebble support in SeaNav for nearly 2 years" The poster gives no reason to believe the metadata has changed recently to mention Pebble.

Granted this is based on one example, but it seems unfair to say this was already the policy.

Here's a second example, the official Fitbit app, which does repeatedly mention the Fitbit device in the metadata. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitbit/id462638897?mt=8
Ask HN: What is the current stable help generation system for Windows?
I have a fairly technical question for the HN community, hoping some Windows devs would have the answer.

I'm currently writing documentation for a module I developed on Windows, and the question of migrating our large help base was raised. We are currently still using WinHelp, which exists since the beginning of Microsoft, to generate our offline help and it has became increasingly painful to build the help file (restrictions on txt formats, size, lack of native support in Windows 7).

-WinHelp (1990-2006)
Our current help engine. Deprecated for almost ten years, yet still functionnal.
However it needs more and more hacks in order to make it work. On win7 you also
need certains specials KB patches to view the help files.
files : hpj, cnt, hlp

-Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (1997-2003)
Successor to Microsoft WinHelp and still supported in Windows 7. It look like to me it's the
current standard help system, however it's been also deprecated for 10 years.
files: chm

-Microsoft Help 2(2001-2009)
Help engine used in Microsoft Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005/2008 and Office 2007. Also deprecated.
files: .hxs, .hxc, .hxk

-Microsoft Help System(2008-)
Latest evolution of offline help system (used in VS 2010). May or may not be a standard. There is little documentation on it anyway.
files: I don't even managed to find the input file extension needed.

As I see it, compiled HTML help files seemed to be the way to go, but I'm not sure migrate our help to a deprecated system is the right move. I've skimmed the Windows SDK looking for help files, but it's not coherent (some uses hlp+cnt, others chm, etc.). We are a pure Microsoft-only software team, so I'm not looking for a third-party help generator (like Sphinx or APIDoc).

Is there anyone which could give me some pointers as what would be the current native help system on Windows ?
>> "...unfairly misuse their position as gatekeepers of the Apple ecosystem..."

The point of building the Apple ecosystem was to exploit their position as its gatekeeper. This is the expected result. I would never expect anything else from a walled garden.
> I'd criticise Google or Microsoft for exactly the same thing.

Microsoft was litigated for less. Imagine the uproar arising from "you can't install a browser on Windows if it mentions another OS."

I think it would be fair if they could require that you mention Apple's products alongside competing products ("Supports Pebble and iWatch"). That way I could browse the store for apps supporting my device, without Apple losing business to their own store. I think that's far too much to expect from this anti-competitive behemoth.
I don't think you understand anti-trust laws nor the meaning of "abusing a monopoly".
Hmm, that actually is a bit more accurate, considering it links to a blogpost.
Thank you for the suggestion.

@mods: could you change the title on hn as well?
> because it can be cast away so easily

By this logic, none of the static type checks in C++ is of any use, since they can be cast away easily as well.