skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. Seeing my thought put into words by another person, some thousand miles away really is a gift.

Our privileged perspectives so often cloud our ability to relate to people not that fortunate.
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Thanks for taking a look!

Double-clicking to add events and more consistent branding are definitely on my to do list. Mornings is a suite that will include more productivity apps (in the works!)
Isn't that kinda... obvious?
US weapon manufacturers go for a lithuanian startup
>Youth is a really great thing. Don’t waste it. In fact, in your 20s, I think it’s ok to take a “Give me financial discipline, but not just yet” attitude. All the money in the world will never get back time that passed you by.

This is kind of conflicting with the 'keep your personal burn rate low', and I don't really agree with it. Here's why: most young people who burn a ton of money do it on something stupid, like buying a new car they can't afford, or going on a series of expensive holidays they will barely remember, or wasting money on expensive clothing labels.

When you're in your twenties, keeping your personal burn rate low is imperative, and the excess needs to go into investment. The wonders of compounding really start to kick in right when you need it the most down the track.

I was pushed towards making investments early on and hands down they were the best decisions I ever made. It meant forgoing party holidays with friends I don't talk to anymore, and having old cars and having to stay in sometimes.

So developing financial discipline early is paramount, because the investment habit gets harder and harder as you go on, as life's luxuries and personal expectations go up and up.

For the record, eating ramen while working on startups falls into the investment category, as long as you're serious about making it work.

I don't know how rich sama is, and maybe wasting a bit of cash was fine because the cash rolled in, but for the majority of people in their early twenties, starting saving and investing 10-20% of your income now. And definitely stay away from expensive iTems bought on credit. The worst thing you can do is develop a credit habit - you'll spend the majority of life setting up someone else's retirement.
That will last as long as the no increase in student tuition fees did.

For non UK types the Lib Dems (junior partner in the coalition) tend to try and play both sides of the fence ie pitch progressive ideas to Labour supporters and conservative (traditional 18th century Liberal ideas to tory's)
Yup.

The problem with synthetic cannabinoids in particular is that (because of their relative popularity compared to other "Research Chemicals" or "Legal Highs") they get banned quickly so the makers have to find a new way to skirt around the law.

This has resulted in lots of molecules being picked up from research literature that have never been tried in a living creature, let alone studied in humans. And some of the newest ones are totally off-piste, tweaks and modifications made to these already untested molecules such that cannabinoids are produced which can't even be found in the literature.

There's also the drive to make stronger and stronger synthetic 'weed' and that causes problems too. It's not really possible to properly OD on the real thing. It's easy with synthetics.
there is an agda shell for interactice proving in emacs, with some automations.

convenience offered by agda-mode: automatic generation of case analysis, refinement of holes, autocompletion of code based on types to name a few. http://lambda.jstolarek.com/2013/12/idris-first-impressionsi...
Ask HN: Lowest salary for a programmer?
How much should an entry level programmer/web developer charge for work?

I'm thinking either for a company or maybe freelancing at home.

What's the lowest salary ($/hr) you would lower yourself too?
Can somebody explain how this could possibly work in a world where strong encryption is already commonplace?
I attended the talk. Wait for the video, I personally found the Dave's arguments and reasoning convincing.
This reminds me so much of cyberpunk fantasy and of the Panther Moderns sporting microsofts. Backstreet chip implants for enhancing hacking skills.
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It's a consulting shop. They want to give their clients the impression that they're always working, always available, and to bill the maximal hours possible. So it may be rational for the firm (at least in the short term) to encourage this cheater culture -- it's the clients they are cheating, not the firm.
It'd be nice if we could somehow use semver. I'd like to get patches automatically...

edit; if you downvoted, maybe comment and explain why?
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...or why not make it usable in all modes?

I think the calculator in Windows 7 and above took a seriously backwards step in functionality - they seem to have thought that programmers don't need exponentiation nor square roots nor floating-point(!), so there is no such function in "programmer mode" and you cannot change the number base in "scientific mode". That would only be a minor annoyance, if not for the fact that switching between modes clears the accumulator!

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-w...

It is a classic case of too much modality in UI design. The first time I discovered this "feature" after losing the result of a long calculation, I thought it was a bug or I'd accidentally hit the wrong key. When I found out this was by design, it elicited a loud enough "WTF!?" that caught my co-workers attentions and caused them to exclaim the same thing after showing it to them. Fortunately the calc.exe from XP runs fine on 7 and 8.

There's another "feature" which I hadn't personally run into, but would be just as incensed if I did:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4e...
Age is not an excuse for being ineffective at your job.
To be fair, the comparison isn't completely off.

The GIL was an implementation detail that was initially considered not a particularly big deal, but turned out to be a Really Big Deal later because no one thought about the problem from the beginning.

The lack of a package ecosystem for go and 'go get is good enough' is exactly the same; it was for quite some time simply considered to not really be a big problem. ...but it turns out, when you're doing complicated things, not having repeatable builds really is a Big Problem.

...but yes, they're in different leagues. Solving this one won't be anywhere near as troublesome.
"no man controls the weather"

Men in power control the resource allocation and the extent at which actions in their political program would consume the known resources. Famine was not only the result of the weather alone.
Perhaps the immortality part was an exaggeration, but I was thinking about the way the Kremlin avoids admitting any health problems of the leaders. That happened in case of Yeltsin and allegedly in case of Putin's absence in March this year. Recently there was an interesting article about this "health PR" dating the tradition back to the USSR era, but I can't find it right now.
Most of the pollution comes from inside the city, so encasing the city would be rather disastrous. And you can't really protect against the global warming, aka greenhouse effect, by building a greenhouse - because that's effecticely what encasing a city is. A very large greenhouse which gets very hot inside.

(The impact of encasements to pollution is observable e.g. at public transit: subway/metro stations have significant concentrations of small particles in the air. You know, the kind that people complain automobiles create. The fact is, also trains create them, and in closed spaces, like underground stations, the concentrations of particles grow big.)
All registered dogs already need a NFC implant. Hopefully this requirement will never ever carry on to human beings - it's like 1984.

[edit: Technically the dog implants use RFID. NFC standards cover communications protocols and data exchange formats, and are based on existing radio-frequency identification (RFID) standards including ISO/IEC 14443 and FeliCa. There are several RFID frequency bands like 13.56 MHz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification#... ]
I've done enough of it that I hate it routinely, rather than occasionally.
This is the best analogy of systemd project I've seen so far.
Totally agreed, but you have to put everything you read from this kind of people into perspective otherwise you miss the point.

What troubles though is the following: Most people (if not all people) know already that, eating well, sleeping well, being organised, etc. is paramount to live a good life, have a good work and so on. All of these things are more personal than anything. Why, do we still don't do these things? What is about human nature that makes us weak enough NOT to do the right thing?
I like the irony/sarcasm of the last paragraph:

We hope we provide value for money, but it’s flattering to be read at Mr.
Bromwich’s hourly rate of $1,100, $1,025 for Mr. Nigro, and a 15%
“administrative fee” for his consulting firm.
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Don't forget about the savings for American Airlines. No more paper maintenance manuals, saving lots of weight, on every flight. The ipad powering down will probably result in a claim to the supplier of the ipads. Of course it is embarrassing, but think of the environmental benefits of saving all that weight.
Auto converting is an anti pattern. Explicit is better than implicit. Auto conversion is how mistakes get made. This is why modern languages don't let you implicitly convert from a string to an int, for example.
Elinea* (also in the Netherlands) offers a Spotify subscription style model for readers (next to a pay-per-article model) but they seem to be more focused on magazines than newspapers. I figure this has to do with the reasoning mentioned by alexandernl.

* http://www.elinea.nl/
Its not only customer convenience and service price which is at stake. Regulations exist as well for:
- protecting the workers providing the service
- protecting customers against information asymmetries (like lacking appropriate insurance on side of the provider).

At least for the latter there are regulations in place in the taxi market here in Europe.

Finally citizens can decide. Vote for politicians which going to make change injust law (or what we see as injust). This works at least sometimes. Homosexuality was a criminal offense in most countries forty years ago.
I still vendor all the gems, only I use Bundler to do it.

It's pretty much crazy not to, in my opinion. Stuff gets removed, and networks are unreliable, so locking/resolving dependencies to specific versions is insufficient.
I understood it was illegal to depend on electronic equipment in the air?
I poked around on Google, can't find where I first saw the term.

Many people prefer fixed prices to pay-by-use. Taxis are paid-by-use, but in some cities you can pay a fixed fee to be taken to the airport. Even if people are told and shown that the fixed fee costs more, many will pick it over a regular fare structure because it is fixed.

For the same reason many people pay for phone data they don't need and so on. The value comes from not needing to consider the price once it has been paid.

Some micropayment schemes always had the sense that one was potentially running up a huge bill; Tipjoy had this problem.
Or an actual NFC ring (probably disguised a bit) http://nfcring.com/
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>Seriously, children growing up is a onetime thing.

Sure, but it's a onetime thing that takes 15+ years.
I can well imagine it started that way, but the density of tape over disk makes it seem likely to me that by now they're on custom versions of Spectra tape libraries, which pretty much fits into the "Try selling it, if it sells, make something cheap to run it" philosophy.
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This is hardly unique to Russia - after all, FDR avoided being photographed from the waist down and wore special braces when standing and Kennedy had many secret health problems. I think this is more a fact of projecting an image of power in any society.
Also, in terms of this register machine the percent key performs the operation I = R * I /100, and modifying I causes the display to show the new value of I just like the article mentions:

When the user enters a value, an operator, a second value, and then the percent key, the first two values are multiplied and the product divided by 100, and that result replaces the second value in the ongoing computation.

If you watch the display as you go through this exercise, you will even see the number 3.6 appear in the display once you press the % key. The percentage is calculated and replaces the original value in the ongoing computation.
Apple Watch doesn't work properly on people with wrist tattoos
Sorry, no student discounts in our plans right now. But this is a very interesting idea.

You can however couple your existing newspaper subscriptions with Blendle, giving you access to all of their articles in our kiosk.
This depends on how widely you define NFC. In the US, dogs are implanted with transponders that use ~134kHz, while NFC is technically 13.56MHz.
> Why don't we let citizens decide?

Because people are terrible at assessing risk and would chose cheaper cabs rather than insured cabs.
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In Germany they just seem to replace "owned" cars by "rented" cars in the bigger cities.

I'd love to see what would happen if cars were prohibited in bigger cities and what big money would do to public transport and bikes.

But since Germany is a car country, this will probably never happen.
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The first question and already a fail. Which side of the bus the doors are would require an information which country the bus is from, otherwise we don't know if the bus should have doors from the left or from the right side.
"Was" being the correct word; airlines have become more and more lenient with that, and I'm sure airplane manufacturers do better shielding and error correction.
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>I have three boys (5, 4, 1) and another baby on the way. I'll tell you: some of the crap these kids do is freaking boring. Seriously. The older two are in T-ball now, and the practices and games are just mind bogglingly uninteresting.

We always cringe in Europe about this thing in American movies/series, where its "so" important for the kid to have the parents be there for their school performance or game, especially when said kid is 12 or 15 or so.

In real life (at least here) most kids at that age would be enbarassed to be seen with their parents.

Sure, they like for parents to be there for some of the important stuff, but not most BS school functions or game practice.
Kick the cat off the printer – your coding country needs you
You are thinking of Caves of Steel and its follow-up novels. The "spacer" worlds were extremely sparsely populated, just a few thousand people per planet, and the people did not want to meet physically for fear of infections and dirt (much of which was mental).

But in these novels, the Earth was living in huge underground cities; big, noisy and somewhat dirty. The funny thing is that in Asimov's future Earth, population density was very extreme, people did have very little privacy (their apartments didn't even have own bathrooms, regular citizens used only public bathrooms and toilets). This was for 8 billion people, which in early 1950's looked like a huge population. This was supposedly achieved by megacities covering entire continents.

But today, the world has 7 billion people, and will have 8 billion people in a couple of decades - and life will not be that much different from what it is right now.
Or a web engine made in Python.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava
Middle Europe sounds like non Western europe?

I live there-ish too, and it depends on the country.
Pretty sure they use a couple transistors and integrated circuits in planes now.

There may be a few requirements for testing and approval of electronics however.
Unmanned Russian spacecraft plunging to Earth
> At the time of writing, it is only really feasible to edit Agda code using Emacs.

Why?
In this case, they should tell their consultants how to… "communicate" with the client. They want cheaters? Then cheating the client should be part of the contract.

Except, well… that might be illegal.
As unreasonable as that sounds, do you think it is that unlikely? Consider that developers and systems administrators make up only a tiny fraction of all computer users. At the same time, we are the ones most likely to use tools like ssh. Very few run-of-the-mill computer users would have a call to do so.

Also consider that developers and systems administrators (and in general the sorts of people who use ssh) are far more likely to have the technical know-how to launch a sophisticated attack.

Putting all that together, it would not surprise me if the use of ssh were used as an identifying marker by the United States government to single individuals out for increased surveillance. Grant you, if this happens I think it is absolute bullshit, but I think there is some paranoid bureaucratic logic that leads to this conclusion.
What country? Certainly not the US.
That's actually a pretty cool idea. Once there's infrastructure in place, it's easy to enforce, too. Turn in a paper and upon acceptance you are billed for the citations.
Money = reputation also kind of works and is a nice incentive to write good papers that get cited often.

[downside is obviously that it kind of also creates an incentive to cite less]
Actually this seems extraordinarily unlikely. Your proposition is that a no-iOS zone was maliciously created in multiple highly secure and surveilled areas across the country (ie airports) but despite the fact that the hack should affect all iOS devices in range, there were no reports whatsoever of any passenger devices (nor the pilots iPhones for that matter) being disabled.
Why we work?
The bootloader normally hands over the OS once it starts however, it doesn't continue running and acting as an interface to the hardware.
Or in a simple wristband (powerbalance, etc..)
Interesting. I would not have thought there would be so many nostalgics of the UK's colonial empire. In France, the "nostalgic" faction are the royalists, and they are an extremely small minority that nobody takes seriously.
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The premise that 80 hour work weeks are somehow more productive than 40 hour work weeks is known to be false in the typical case. It's not the hours which determine your productivity, it's the engagement and motivation. Most people who do 80 hour work weeks slack off during a majority of that time and probably realize lower productivity than if they had stuck to a 40 hour work week.

Making your workforce do 80 hours instead of 40 does not make them more productive. Motivating workers and putting them in control of their own work is what gets stuff done.
Forgive me for coming off as a jerk but I think you might be getting phased out of the comments as your site - at least the one pulled from your comment - is not amazingly designed for a UX/UI person.

You're using #666 text on a black background on an almost too-minimal design, which is really hard to read even as someone that doesn't have much trouble in the vision department. Do you have any other sources of work to sell yourself a bit better on the design credibility side? You're also using a heck of a lot of hashtags on the page that aren't even links, what's behind that?
That's why one of my personal focus right now is to slowly reduce the amount of hours I spend at work, in order to have more time for various projects outside of it. This may change if I ever hit something interesting at work, but so far, all of the things I ever done for money felt like utter bullshit. Funnily, I entered the workforce strongly believing the "work in what you love" mantra, but through years of being unable to find it in the space of available jobs I got completely cured of that belief.
Writing Agda is a very interactive experience. The only IDE that provides this interactivity at present is Emacs. If you take a look at some Youtube clips of people editing Agda you'll see why you would want an IDE. Not that this can't be done elsewhere, just that it hasn't been done yet.
I have heard that one of the most common death bed saying is actually "I wish I had worked less".
Thanks for the better title on HN. If you look at most reports on the issue, the title mentions "An iPad glitch" making it sound the iPads are at fault rather than a software issue.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/29/apple-ipad...
http://qz.com/393909/american-airlines-planes-are-grounded-b...
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/29/technology/american-airlines...
yetanotheracc's comment does not say whether his or her employers behaved like children. If they did you'd expect it to be mentioned.
Why does it seem likely?

I've observed in the wild a few issues where updates to MDM software or bugs in applications crash iPads. MDM/MAM control layers usually have problems right after iOS releases.

AppStore apps can cause issues too. Chrome had an issue last year that crashed some of our iPad2s.
> And yet at the same time even many of us without nationalist inclinations in the UK are extremely proud of outspoken arch-colonialist Churchill for his role in defeating Hitler, to the point where his less fashionable opinions and military blunders are largely glossed over.

That's a bit different, isn't it? I don't know how it is in the UK, but outside of it, it's not his pro-colonial views which are admired, but his charisma and obstination.
The regime that exposed his excesses and carried out a program of "de-Stalinisation" is long gone and perhaps not entirely trusted because of its own flaws, his victims are long dead, and the last thing the Putin administration want to discourage is nostalgic admiration for leaders' strength in standing up to Europe.

That's a fair point. I would be curious to read the parts of the current Russian curriculum dealing with him.

> I'm a bit more perplexed when I see his face alongside Marx and Lenin on some of the more hard-left trade unionists' May Day placards over here...

Yeah, it's not like the USSR was exactly a big promoter of trade unions on its own soil...
I think this is (at least part of) why:

"Another thing that sets Agda apart from other languages is its extensive use of unicode to make mathematical constructs more natural."
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In the case of Tapit NFC does not communicate with the OS or the apps of the phone. NFCcommunicates directly with the SIM card and the applets installed on there. You can actually have your phone turned off and Tapit will still work. (Source: I support the Tapit team)
Interesting - Wikipedia tells me that, "In the United Kingdom the ton is defined as 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg)" - so an imperial "ton" is almost 1000 kg there.
There's regulations that mandate unit price information:

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

...but even that information is usually printed in a smaller font and can be misleading:

http://talkingcents.consumercredit.com/2011/02/23/unit-prici...

It gives a whole deeper meaning to that classic Barbie utterance: "Maths is hard. Let's go shopping!"
FWIW, I met my wife when she was living in that area. Little Traverse Bay on whe whole is a pretty affluent area. (There is some mix here, and definitely a drop in money if you move inland.) There are few manicured lawns near the bay though. Unlike Grand Traverse Bay, Little Traverse is mostly surrounded by quickly rising hills and bluffs. So while there are houses they tend to not have much in the way of yards.
Now we need some kind of study to see if telomere length causes changes in palm line patterns... ;)