skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems there is more backstory here that is missing from the article. Maybe a better question is, why don't all the auto companies, which already cooperate and "collude" on a lot of things, have similar licenses? There are little niche markets for modifying the software in cars, they even make movies about it. If there is some sort of financial protection to the manufacturer, I'd think they'd do similar things for certain cars, perhaps the ones that don't have performance enthusiasts, like minivans or something. I can think of some very real reasons where a company like Ford or Toyota would like to make sure you only use "sanctioned parts" for repairs and DRM could help them to verify that other parts aren't usable; they don't seem to be doing that though.

I'm just guessing here, but I know Deere produces some fairly sophisticated software that takes over head photos of crops and they have various services that offer advice on how to best farm different parts of a farmer's land. Some of that software interacts with their farm equipment (like it can signal the onboard software to maybe work more slowly in particularly dense parts of a crop and stuff like that.) I could see them trying to somehow protect that software investment and treat it as a lock-in where the device owners may want to use that service with other brands of equipment or something. From what I gather, it's a non-trivial amount of software that they've built that has some significant value.
Coming in Round 11 [1]! We'll aim to have Round 11 out much quicker than 10.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pull/1510
Sure! Your site is hosted by ClaimYourName, which is hosted on Heroku. The domain is purchased through Namecheap, and we use its API to configure the domain's zone file to point to your site hosted on ClaimYourName.

The $10.99/year charge is pretty much exactly the cost Namecheap charges us for the 1 year domain registration. We just pass this cost directly on to you. The $6.99/month is "our" charge for a subscription and hosting your site.
The chart says Play Framework didn't complete but looking at the output, the logs say it did.

https://github.com/TechEmpower/TFB-Round-10/blob/master/peak...

What am I missing?
Now all we need is a company called "Eyebrows" to use this. Then you'll have Eyebrows on Fleet :)
>In January 2015, the Swiss police confiscated the robot and its illegal purchases.

Ha. Put it on github and you can just re-download it as needed.
Epic NHL goal celebration hack with hue light show and realtime machine learning
> It’s left to the operating system to determine the working set and to transfer pages between main memory and secondary storage

Sigh. Good ol' mmap. They should ask MongoDB how they went for them. Then they should read Stonebraker's 1981 paper:

http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/cs286/papers/os-cacm1981.pdf

People never learn.
I'm not grandparent but usually people have a hidden nav that shows on smaller screens using media queries
JavaScript is Not Java
So do you think disagreement alone is grounds for downvoting? Maybe I'm weird, but I'll often upvote comments I disagree with, if I think they're interesting.

Downvotes as cultural reinforcement is a real problem. And it's a bad idea, imho. I've seen it in the technical community since the idea of comment voting was introduced back in the glory days of Slashdot, 17 years or so ago. It distresses me to see HN doing the same thing.
The Dharma of Vi
That's a very unusual experience in Europe. Most large European airports are really no different than the US.
100 days of fonts
Context: https://rubygems.org/gems/rails-api

This gem was created because this feature was going to be in Rails a few years back, but was pulled out by DHH before release. But, as you can see, he's cool with it now.
I'm not sure that is different. The perception part is still filling in what fits based on context. It takes your consciousness to tell the perception 'read again while suppressing spellcheck'.

Have you ever read the paragraph where every word is misspelled but people tend to be able to read with very little reduction in speed?
"Disingenous" refers to the motive rather than the substance or content of the argument. If it is used as a reason (explicitly or implicitly) for dismissing an argument, it is an ad hominem (or, at a minimum, a closely related form of genetic fallacy.)
Yes, however some features in TypeScript are only supported when targeting ES6 (such as "const"), so there's still some value in double-transpiling from TypeScript -> ES6 -> ES5 (I'm doing that on a couple of projects).

That may have changed somewhat in the TS 1.5 alpha - they're supporting more features on the ES5 target than they did in 1.4.

But yes, you still can't use ES6 features that TS doesn't know about.
Munchery was rejected by YC after the interview[1], and they have since become arguably the most successful and fastest-growing[2] "prepared food" startup in Silicon Valley and the US.

(More than Sprig, despite Sprig receiving significantly more tech press coverage.)

[1] https://medium.com/@munchery/pitch-your-life-2f170eab933b

[2] They raised a $28 million Series B round this time last year.
sweet!! slight typo in json - tite should be title :) when that's fixed I'll add it to the community list! also consider adding ledLabel to each blinkenlight so it's easy to know which light means what on the dashboard :)
Pretty sure it's verifying SSL certificates of the proxied (backend) servers in a reverse proxy configuration-- so that you know you're talking to the backend server that you think you're talking to (in case your internal network gets MITM'd, I guess, or if you're talking to backend servers across a public network).

At least, that's what I gather from the new config options they linked to (the relevant options are the proxy_ssl_* directives).
Same problem, though. Ruby's dynamic typing comes with some wonderful advantages (yay metaprogramming!) but some pretty bad disadvantages as well.
This is great. Simple but solves a common need.
Came here to recommend Brothers Karamazov and also add David Copperfield. I've read Dickens was a favorite of Dostoevsky, and David Copperfield has characters you'll remember all your life. It is especially good to read as you're setting out on life, e.g. halfway through college.

One story I've heard about David Copperfield: in Russian monasteries, there are abbots who forbid novices from reading any spiritual literature until they've first read David Copperfield, because while the goal of the monastic life is to become more like God, first you have to become human.

For the Russians, especially Dostoevsky, if there is a translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, that's the one to pick. It makes a huge difference.

As a college senior, after devouring pretty much all of Dostoevsky, I read Anna Karenina largely because in On Moral Fiction it is John Gardner's favorite example of a great novel---and it was so boring. Now that I'm 38 I think often of re-reading it, if I can work up the gumption. I'm glad to hear you found it not so heavy.

A favorite English professor in his 60s told me he was still re-reading Crime and Punishment, but Brothers Karamazov didn't speak to him anymore, and he felt it was a young man's book. I've been trying for 15+ years to decide if I agree.
The artist bringing Ada Lovelace back to life
> I see the adjective applied to the argument

Its a descriptor of character/attitude/motive, which is a feature of the person providing the argument in relation to the act of providing the argument, not a feature of the content of the argument.
"Metabolic control. Enhanced sensory perception. Improved reflexes and muscle capacity. Vastly increased data processing speed and capacity.

All improvements thanks to our cyber-brains and cyborg bodies. So what if we can't live without high-level maintenance? We have nothing to complain about. It doesn't mean we've sold our souls to Section 9.

We do have the right to resign if we choose. Provided we give the government back our cyborg shells and the memories they hold. "

- Ghost In The Shell (1995) Script
30% of IT spend now goes on clouds
Ahh, you're nuts. If it's HTTPS, it must be secure -- that's what the "S" stands for!
The World's Largest USB Thumb Drive
I guess you're right. I have, yep, it was pretty surprising!
GridCraft is a relatively full featured spreadsheet app built with Angular. The source is proprietary though.

http://gridcraft.com
Actually a good testing suite fixes that issue.
It's probably the most bogus "issue" strong type addicts bring up.
Hire a Goat Grazer: Amazon Home Services
A brutally short intro to Theano word embeddings
>(Someone who works for nothing is the definition of a slave.)

I could go and lick the grass on my porch. I won't get paid for that. No matter how much I would like it.

Many things are just not profitable.

Unless you find other models, like patronizing
"What you describe, basically is monopolism. It is well known, that monopolies are killing a free market."

Sure, but the problem is that unconstrained free markets lead to monopolies.

The big fish eats the smaller fish. The big fish becomes bigger and more difficult to attack. (New competition.) And so on, and so on, until there can be only one, or an oligopoly.
Node Needs an Abstraction Layer for JavaScript Engines
Partly the difference is one of time. Someone living in your he could make you suffer for many months, even years. A car ride is at most a day.

The other is analogous to common carrier or net neutrality. Earning money from passengers is a privilege that society grants some drivers, and one of the things society demnds in return is that the drivers do not discriminate based on protected characteristics.

On one hand I see some drivers with medical condition that makes it harder for them to have dogs in their cars. On the other hand I see a group that faces continuing discrimination and ignorance from wide sections of society. I find it hard to have much sympathy for drivers. Especially in the cases listed in the article where it's not clear whether any of the drivers have dog allergies or not.
Let's not forget Grape either: https://github.com/intridea/grape

You could see this move towards JSON APIs way back in 2012 as I suggested here: http://paulbjensen.co.uk/posts/2012/07/11/thoughts-on-rails-....

Some poo-pooed the notion, but you can clearly see that the popularity of realtime frameworks and the way that apps are built client-side heavy is pulling Rails in this direction.

Performance is still the key factor here, and I suspect that's half the reason why you've got some people who espoused Ruby in the past now playing with other languages beginning with Ru, but that have a much less friendly syntax compared to Ruby.

Some welcome changes though nonetheless, especially on the WebSockets front.
It could be a FOV (field of view) problem, try upping it to 80-90 degrees. Many games designed for console assume you are 10 ft from a tv, not 2ft from a monitor, so the default to as low as 60 degrees. I know if I don't up it to at least 75 I can't play for long without feeling disoriented, and I know some get headaches.
Also, for instance in my case, The new code organisation styles didn't come out until after the whole project was set up and grew fast. Migrating them can be a PITA.
I've recently switched from Sinatra to Grape for pure REST microservice development. Grape does a lot of things that turn into wasteful boilerplate in Sinatra. Haven't gotten far enough with it to find the downsides yet.

I've down API dev in Rails too, but it really feels like killing a fly with a hammer sometimes. And as I shift strongly to microservices (thanks Docker!), I want my API code to be as minimalist as possible. Grape/Sequel feels simple, which is good.
Nothing really, I just think it won't impress. None of the stuff Ubuntu has ended up "me-tooing" their own special version of has enjoyed wide adoption.

Edit: Since I get rate limited regularly [for some reason] I'm editing:

> It could mean that nothing copied by Ubuntu gets popular,

That is partially what I mean, Ubuntu's "special replacements" for existing systems rarely get adopted outside of Ubuntu/Ubuntu forks.

> it could mean that Ubuntu's copy never gets popular.

I think this is primarily what will happen because it offers nothing truly unique that won't be easily/rapidly copied.

> LXD is using OpenStack, which is the 800 lb. gorilla of orchestration solutions - almost literally (3M lines of Python!).

Yeah. And I can use that already.
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Here is a simple solution. Licence of software gives you the right to reverse engineer and modify it for your use, but not distribute copies of it.

You sell software in US - you are mandated to give your customer that rights.
I meant use Linux (or Windows or whatever) in a VM on top of OS X - Containers won't help you here.
Theoretical work by Fisher, Medawar, and Hamilton during the last century pretty much explained why we see super-exponential decay in mortality distributions. Their theories center around using the "Euler-Lotka Equation", which estimates the number of descendants from an individual considering that each member ages. You can then show that the effect of aging on fitness is marginal, and hence not selected against.

This might be one of the more accessible papers: http://www.genetics.org/content/156/3/927.short#ref-10
This provides some more context: http://wyeworks.com/blog/2015/4/20/rails-api-is-going-to-be-...
Plus, you can force-enable zoom for all sites in the accessibility settings.
How do those stats turn into "awful" in your mind? Maybe "not as good".
as hundreds of other articles have said already; comparing the Apple Watch to a traditional watch is the same as comparing an iPhone to a rotary phone. They're similar in that they can tell the time / make phone calls. They're vastly different in that the former is basically a mini computer on your wrist / in your pocket and the latter is just a watch / phone.

If all your going to do with your Apple Watch is tell the time, then yes, you'd be happier with a Tag Heuer. I have a few watches - Tag, Movado, Tissot, etc... They're all vastly different in they're appearance and I wear them on various occasions (though my Tag is my favorite, until Friday). I can't imagine I will stop wearing an analog watch; formal events, meetings with clients, etc... a nice watch is a great accessory.

And a watch recording my heart beat and sending it god knows where, for, you know, research, is vastly different then a camera staring at me, day and night, recording my every move and sending it somewhere for research.
Aeroponics sounds interesting, but the fact is we have almost a billion acres of farmland. Maybe some distant day we'll convert that to 200 million acres of aeroponics facilities, but that seems unlikely.
Agreed. I also hated the newest season of Orange is the new black.

Maybe they are too focused on their new exclusive shows to stay on top and make sure the new old ones are also good?
I contracted out the website, and although it isn't to my liking (doesn't look at all good on mobile), it just needed to exist to facilitate user signups. Our actual work was done in person at the show, so the website wasn't going to turn off anyone that was interested since they already knew what it was before going to it.

The eventual website will be more of a web application akin to twitter, instead of a signup landing page. We've just prioritized releasing the actual extension ahead of getting the website done, since the probability of an organic signup was next to nothing.
I'd like to see the memory benchmarks as well.It's fine to have something fast but the more memory the more expensive the boxes are.
When I was scanning the headlines quickly on the front page I thought it was "noise" at first too - then I noticed the definite particle "a", felt that phrase seemed unusual ("a virtual noise"?) and saw "nose" when I focused.

I wonder if it's partly due to the proportional font... nose and noise look pretty distinct in a monospaced font because of the length difference.
> . . . in particular as fuel costs continue to rise.

The long term trend is for a megaWatt (in any form) to get cheaper (in real terms) and less carbon intensive. There is every reason to believe that energy will be cheaper 5, 10, 50, 100 years from now.

http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/realprices/

(check out residential electricity)
Not really. Compared to, say, Firefox' future versions, it's barely ahead, with Firefox putting some features counted multiple times behind a flag (let's remember that `let' has been available in Firefox for ages, regardless of user settings, assuming the script tag has suitable type attribute).

Further than that, it's silly to compare browsers that aren't stable yet.
Sorry, the links to logs were going to logs from a preview run. I've just changed the links to direct to the final logs. In the final run, play2-scala did not respond:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/TFB-Round-10/blob/master/peak...
This already exists here: https://github.com/OpenMage/magento-mirror
> (By the way, who refers to a minor child as "it" anyway?)

People from the 19th century. I reread E. Nesbit's 5 Children and It a few years ago, and was quite surprised to notice that the 5th child, a baby known to be male, is invariably referred to by the other characters and the narrator with the pronoun "it" (no relation to the It of the title, which is a magical creature).

When I read that book for the first time, either it had been modernized or (more likely) I was in more of a young-child grammar-absorbing mode than a grammar-checking mode.
The FBI Keeps Demanding Impossible Solutions to Its Encryption Problem
The Modern Workforce
ReactPhp VS Node
Mostly fairly mundane things, and especially fairly mundane things that were done over and over. For example, going regularly to the nearby dimestore for a toy and candy. Going to the grocery store. Going to the diner for soup and a sandwich. Going to the library.

The "really special" "unique" activities that I'm sure my parents did with me? I usually hardly remember them, because we just did them once. It was the stuff we did every week or every month that seems to have stuck with me. But probably not so much things done every day, as that was evidently "too mundane".
Maybe tractor hacking will become a thing, too. I know lots of guys who circumvent the computers in their cars with pirated software, to make them racier. Might be a career in it for some of them.
> So do you think disagreement alone is grounds for downvoting? Maybe I'm weird, but I'll often upvote comments I disagree with, if I think they're interesting.

Disagreement is fairly explicitly -- i.e., per pg -- an acceptable reason for downvoting, though I don't prefer to use it that way and will often upvote posts I disagree with that I feel add value to the discussion.

But that's irrelevant to my point in GP -- my point is that people to tend to present self-serving assumptions about the motivation behind downvotes of particular posts as if they were established facts.

> Downvotes as cultural reinforcement is a real problem.

Downvotes as cultural reinforcement is a central element of community moderation -- "cultural reinforcement" is how the particular character of a community is maintained, and "community moderation" is expressly the decision to give that reinforcement to the community. And that's just as true for downvotes-for-lack-of-substance as for downvotes-for-disagreement.

Having seen both unmoderated and primarily centrally moderated communities, I think community moderation is a fairly good approach (not without its tradeoffs), and HN's form of community moderation is, IMO, one of the better ones.
Identifier based XSSI attacks [pdf]
"It is a fact, that while monopolies are good for the monopolists, it is bad for societies at large."

And you are correct. But something different was being said: Unconstrained capitalism, leads to monopolies (or oligopolies). And that's true too. Read your own words. "monopolies are good for the monopolists". Isn't that another way to say "shareholders' profit"? There you have motive. And in a pond of fish, doesn't the bigger, eat the smaller, becoming even more big in the process? That's the process.
Google didn't create the switch to mobile, they are years late to the party. Apple initiated the mobile smartphone revolution. Now billions of people are coming online, many of whom never ever had a desktop with internet, especially in developing companies.

This is a disruptive change, and it is undeniable reality. Even if Google didn't change the mobile search ranking, eventually non-mobile ready sites would lose traffic from frustrated users picking alternatives that are mobile optimized. What would happen is, mobile users would say "man, Google Search sucks, every time I search for a site, it gives these horrible, slow to load, hard to use sites on my phone" At some point, a competitor, possibly even Apple, would release a mobile-ranked search engine.

Maybe they'll be a button to get the desktop results even on mobile, or maybe "Request Desktop Site" in the mobile browser will give you Google Desktop search. But to blame Google because you're going to eventually be forced to update your site is just laziness.

It's not Google who brought this on, it's your customers. They've changed their access patterns, and if you want your business to thrive, to you need to follow your customers. Sometimes that even means native apps in app stores.

I'd say this is a good wakeup call and really, Google took way too long to seriously target the mobile Web. Chrome only recently got Add to Home Screen and Push Notifications, two of the biggest things missing. We're now 8 years post iPhone (2007). The fact that Search ranking is just now, almost a decade later, targeting mobile friendly means Google was seriously lagging the usage patterns of most of the world.
Eh, that's not necessarily true. I've tried reading books outside and spent all my time squinting because the glare of the sun on the paper was so bright.

It's why I love the grey screen of the original Kindle so much. Want to read it outside? You can do that without going blind!

For my phone, though, I can barely see the image on screen if I'm holding it in sunlight. When I've used laptops outside they've had the same problem. LCD screens kind of need to be used in the dark.
New York court issues habeas corpus writ for chimpanzees
Foreboding music that plays as she scratches out the year: 1999.
Sure. But I'm very privacy conscious and am very sure that I did not give google permission to harvest my queries. Not that I have any illusion that changing that setting does anything concrete but I'm kind of surprised to see that the setting did not stay in its 'do not log' position. There are accidental clicks on ads and then there are accidental clicks on privacy violating features like these and since it's down a few menu options clicking it by accident is just about impossible.
‘Finding Zero’: A Long Journey for Naught
P.S. And yes, Mother Nature did not build us to last. Natural selection seems to have little regard for longevity.
I didn't say anything about "esoteric academic nonsense." Just because the subject matter is a part of something that is very commonly used does not mean it is outside the reach of many very competent people.