skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I specifically checked to see that these are not Fiat's (at least the headlights are distinctively different)
increasing the lower limit on minimum money you can have

.. yes? That's the point. Along with increasing the lower limit on the amount of food you can have and the amount of housing you can have, up from "starvation" and "cardboard box".
The makani team is serious business. They keep building larger and larger prototypes and are nailing their predicted power curve every time. They have internal expertise to build (almost) everything in house, and have already demonstrated autonomous operation. They recently unveiled the wing from their under-construction 600 kW model, which should fly sometime this summer.
nit: this is the new Macbook, not a Macbook Pro.
I recently worked on my first React project, after working with Angular code for a while. I'm willing to accept that as an app gets more complex, React/Flux really pays off. But there's something to be said for having a single template file for a single page in Angular, versus having JSX scattered among 20+ components for that same single page in React. When you want to get a 10,000-foot-view of how it all comes together, you can (generally) do that in the code in Angular, but you're better off doing it in the browser with React. Which may not be bad, but it's a difference worth mentioning.
Me too, except I only get the dark section.
I was on a Youtube binge last night watching Windows 10 videos. It looks really impressive. Automatically switching between tablet and desktop mode when you dock appears to actually work - perhaps it is possible to make a UI that works for both use cases!

The Cortana feature is slick and I'm tempted to cancel my Amazon Echo order and get a Surface (which has a free Windows 10 upgrade).

I was never a fan of the OSX Dock. When switching between apps, I always misclick and startup a new program accidentally. I prefer the traditional windows dock. Two features I would surely miss if I switch back to Windows would be in-app window switching (cmd ~) and the placement of of the cmd key on the Mac keyboard versus the awkward stretching of my pinky finger to reach the control key on Windows.
Most of the time I don't have such big files. But if you have one and cannot open it, it is disturbing.
When you open a freshly installed Firefox on Ubuntu or Windows (that is where I checked) you will have a google cookie set right before the first usage, without any chance of opting out or being asked before.

Yes, anybody can change the startpage, delete all cookies and restart the browser. How many users will do this? And does forcing every user into google surveillance comply with this privacy marketing of mozilla, or is it just a zynical fake campaign?

There should be a startpage explaining what cookies are, describing the difference between temporary and permanent cookies and how these help to track your web usage, and provide one single, visible button to delete all cookies.

After this I should be asked if I would like to help mozilla funding by redirecting me to a google web search which will set a permanent cookie.
I'm using Windows 8 on both a rMBP (~220 PPI) and a 4K 28" monitor in the office (~150 PPI). It has worked fine for awhile, the only problem are some legacy apps (e.g. font forge, the font installer, and oddly enough, BootCamp!).
Singapore: a fascinating alternative to the welfare state
I assume "Jewish" means self-identifying as Jewish. Practicing or not or the "degree" to which one can be considered Jewish seems irrelevant.
At first I balked at a computer language being so "big" instead of being, say, a functional language that can import yont of functions in a standard library.

But then I realized, this bridges the gap between computer languages and human languages, which we all use to communicate. Although "keeping things organized" in a regular computer language might be done more neatly in some "computer oriented" way, when it comes to actually USING IT to EXPRESS YOURSELF you'd need a professional to write he program for you.

Well, there still has to be clear, unambiguous documentation.
Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-American === Harvard Accused of Favoritism towards African-Americans/Latinos/etc.

The former just has a sexy title. The latter we've known all along because these schools openly state that they embrace affirmative action.

The matter of fact is that the school is incredibly strategic in how it makes its admissions decision, taking into account not only race, but geography, and a whole host of other factors. The complaint is utterly silly, because it fails to realize that nowhere is the claim made that the admissions process seeks to select the best students according to the SAT -- it seeks to select the students who best add something novel to that year's entering class.

A VERY STRONG argument could be made that race ought to be something which can't enter into that calculus. And I agree with that. But, from the moment a school adopts Affirmative Action (and the US supreme court upholds it), then this is just the sort of thing we can expect to see.
Ask HN: What Hardware/Software Apple use in their own datacenters?
They do make great hardware/software for consumers but do they same HW/SW for their own datacenters?
You should mention which platform/browser/version you're running so they can fix it.
:-)

It all goes back to what the point of the hackathon is really.

For hackathons that are about people actually starting a project and continuing it afterwards (and certainly the Startup Weekend organisers I've talked to locally say this) I think this is the massive blind spot of hackathons - in reality very few projects will continue afterwards. I've seen many things tried to help improve this, and I don't know what the answer is - but I haven't seen anything about the judging helping.

(Edit: congrats on winning tho ... um, after what I've just said!)
Check out RequestPolicy sometime if you're concerned about GA and other tracking and went through the trouble to bit bucket it in hosts; it's really nice to be able to set which other sites any given site can contact, and I trust it more than the other curated options like Ghostery etc. since I can see for myself where each site is allowed to go.
Median is an average. There are typically three averages in common use; mode, median and (arithmetic) mean. That people generally use "average" as short for "(arithmetic) mean average" is a colloquial shorthand.
Why not just an Asus Zenbook then? Really good hardware, and comes with Windows and a keyboard that has a Windows button.
No, you are missing the point, as I did before. This is really a LANGUAGE - in the sense that the symbols themselves can rely on account the vast knowledge base to determine their meaning.

When you and I speak in the English language, many times our terms come together to make sense in a certain way that relies not just on the context in the text but also background knowledge. Those who don't have this background knowledge won't understand what the sentence MEANS.

Yes, you can think of the semantics of the typed expressions as "the language" and the rest as a standard library. But that will still leave you in the mindset of programming computers using long programs of esoteric text when you need something done - and that is over 30 years old.

Consider this - calling this a language encourages regular people to learn it, much like English, with its vocabulary, and use it.
If Google improves their customer service, I would give them a shot. Their domain name register seems to function well.

Personally, I don't have any loyality to Amazon. It's just another big company who slowly raised their prices, along with spotty customer service.

I don't know why companies get to a certain level of success and change--thinking customers won't notice? I saw this happen to Costco. They changed their "complete customer satisfaction policy" and they did me a favor; I only buy what I need from the store.

Not just electronics, but every product is affected. They still sell grey market luxury watches--that you can't return, and if they break--Costco Horologists repair them. The manufacturer wants nothing to do with watches bought at Costco. Products bought at Costco are scrutinized by a low level employee when you return an item. If you are a dramatic person the store manager might overrule the counter person. It's just not worth the effort anymore. I will take Costco to court when my Omega stops working--just on principle. "It's a great deal sir. If it stops, just return it. It's a no brainer. That's what's great about our store!"

So bring on the competition! I don't buy like I used to. My purchases right now are for survival.
Driving's just the fun part of being a trucker. Securing and balancing loads, verifying manifests, preventative maintenance and safety inspections...

Still, plenty of opportunities for job loss.
Facebook and the media – united, they attack the web
> It turns out the interview as we do it is actually one of the WORST ways to hire people, because it rewards all the wrong behaviors over the real needed skills.

Everything about the interview process incentivises both sides to LIE, LIE, LIE. The skill being tested for is acting.

Your cites below will be useful. Thanks :-)
Yes, but Win10 will also bring display-dependent scaling, i.e. you will able to manually set a different scaling level per display.
I make a point of reading thesis' on topics relevant to me (Masters and Doctoral) and I'm a college drop out.
Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.
Next time you go to a movie theatre and there's someone standing there keeping count of how many people are going in - because it's there job or something - make sure to complain they're infringing on your right to privacy.
Pretty much everything runs on Java which each team having a different stack.

Full WebObjects/Project Wonder is used for iTunes Store. Just the web part of WebObjects used for the Apple Store. JBoss for Apple ID/ADC. Cassandra and Teradata used extensively. SAP for billing. Hadoop stack for analytics. The architecture generally is SOA/Microservices. Hardware is typical - nothing unusual.

The interesting parts are really Siri which uses Mesos and Apple's recent acquisition of FoundationDB.
Porn magazines? How quaint. Speaking of moving the goalposts again, the porn control in the article is a mandated smartphone app.

And no, my country does not require minors to install state-mandated applications on their smartphones. For any reason, porn or otherwise.

Also, pornography isn't degenerate. It's just sex. Exploitative pornagraphy is bad, but there's nothing inherently wrong with it. But we generally prevent minors from accessing it because they're not emotionally equipped to deal with sex stuff - same reason we have age of consent laws. Or do you also think that sex itself is degenerate, and that's why there are laws around teenagers and who they can have sex with?
A private school can use whatever criteria it wants if it believes it enhances the experience. But why should Asian American tax dollars go to a university that clearly discriminates against them? Harvard shouldn't be able to get public funds and engage in systemic racism.
> given federation is going the way off the dodo

I'm not sure what you mean. Sure facebook and to a lesser extent google are wilfully screwing their users for no good reason (well no good reason for the users). But mailbox.org, fastmail and duckduckgo all federate just fine with each other.

It's not like I'm expecting whatsapp to suddenly enable xmpp and server federation over ssl (does anyone know why google doesn't just turn on ssl for server federation? I could understand killing xmpp, but why keep federation, but refuse to use ssl, on this one service?).

Suprisingly, I can't seem to find anyone that both provides on-line registration, federation and a web client...

In my case, I assume the more pragmatic route would be to set up a gateway to gtalk and fb, leaving me to use whatever client(s) I enjoy. I suppose I might host a public web client as well... but I don't see who would use that, rather than just send me an email, sms or call.
Nice work. Hopefully you can write another one about Flux? :)
These people have a Del tha Funkee Homosapien reference right on their landing page. I therefore can't muster any hate onto them.
The main mistake in this article is the assumption that b := a makes 'b' an "alias" of 'a'. It doesn't. It creates a new slice that starts off pointing to the same array as 'a'. Also slices are immutable so you can't change 'a'. If you create a new slice by manipulating 'a' then the copy 'b' won't see anything outside of its bounds.
Try electron
http://electron.atom.io/
https://github.com/atom/electron
One Month (YC S13) Is Hiring a Senior Rails Developer
Bicycle lanes, at least in my experience in the UK, are almost universally pointless (lanes and tracks through parks are generally OK.)

Riding on the road is always safer, because the highway code actually applies there. You just become a slow car, you have right of way at roundabouts etc. Be considerate and pull to the left when you can. Sorted.

On roads that are too narrow to cycle without completely blocking traffic I generally use the footpath at slow speeds (e.g. 6-8mph, just rolling along).

On super fast roads (limit 50 and above) generally unless it's late at night and quiet I would just try to find an alternative route.

I don't think anything needs to happen other than more drivers cycling and more cyclists driving, to enable empathy. Everything else is just fluff.
>I see no privacy policy on the shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org site though you are correct that they do post that privacy policy on the completely different website www.mozilla.org.

It's on the same subdomain, and it includes link to mozilla.org which has link to privacy policy which also applies to shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org:

>This privacy notice applies to Mozilla operated websites, which include the domains mozillians.org, mozilla.org, firefox.com, openbadges.org and webmaker.org. This includes, for example, bugzilla.mozilla.org, reps.mozilla.org, careers.mozilla.org, developers.mozilla.org, support.mozilla.org, addons.mozilla.org, and wiki.mozilla.org.
> However, all template languages are inherently crippled: they can never achieve the same expressiveness and power as code. Quite simply, {{# each}}, ng-repeat and databind="foreach" are all poor replacements for something that is native and trivial in JavaScript: a for loop.

On the other hand, when using a template language I can put `foreach` loops and `if` conditions right into the template itself. And when using JSX I need to calculate the result of a `for` loop before the actual template and it looks much more complex and cumbersome.
I often pass by without handing him or her my ticket. Fight the power!
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If we posted stipulations on all the grant money we give universities, every elite university would quickly follow through with it. It's too much money to throw away, even for Harvard.
Well, consider your answer to this question:

Why should childless adults pay taxes that go toward a school system that educates children, despite the fact that they don't have children?

Whatever your answer to that is, it is probably closely related to the answer to the question you posed. My own interpretation is that the whole point of paying taxes and building services is to cover the larger society's needs, not simply my own needs.
They state otherwise - "verification takes place a few days from now". And filtering against 20k results should be instant anyway.
Interesting how power is being consolidated all the time, creating stronger monopolies: Facebook taking control over publishers by integrating their content. Now Google taking control over suppliers by creating the sales lead/conversion. Power consolidation just like what happened with the banks.

The end result means less competition, higher prices, less democracy, more mass surveillance and population control/manipulation.

The Internet is becoming the opposite from what it was in its early days.
At the expense of other individuals. I personally don't believe affirmative action continues to serve its original purpose, although I've always been against it and gender discrimination as well.

I only have one life. Being told it's ok that I was denied an opportunity because I'm white and I'll be ok is easier to abstract into a broad formula, but harder to take when, on merit alone, I'd be given that opportunity and my life as a human being would be better for it.

Affirmative action was arguably a way to accelerate towards true unbiased judgement, but any purpose it served has run its course and now it's rather harmful, IMHO.
Not physically linked; they're talking about platooning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_%28automobile%29
This is a great project idea. Riding in Berlin I experience close calls on almost a daily basis. Networking with other riders could be a very empowering tool in an environment that many times makes you feel helpless and without proper means of recourse.

@eezis, there is no means of contacting you on your site! Wouldn't it make sense to supply email/twitter info so people can get in touch?
Also, I held off signing up, since it was unclear to me what I can expect once I signed up to your site. I.e. what would a database entry look like? Clicking on an incident on the map only gives me the date of the incident and no further info.
With those definitions pure and lazy languages can certainly do mutation and have effects, viz. the IO and ST monads.
>>Unless, of course, you think friendly human-serving general-purpose AI will be available within the next two or three decades (I don't).

/sigh.

A decade ago I started my bachelors. When I was in college, I expected that general-purpose AI will be readily available by this point. How naive I was! Currently, I doubt it will be available by that point in time.

/sigh

I do not know how much progress will be achieved within the next two or three decades. In the circumstances of passenger flights, keeping current solutions is likely a conservative and more pragmatic approach.

With regards to my comment, I do not expect autopilots to substitute pilots. Instead, I expect that they should be able to handle additional tasks assigned from the pilots.

For example, it was not a passenger flight, but a helicopter crashed in Nepal during the rescue from the earthquake. I wonder if its pilot had fore-warning from sensory information prior to the crash; and if they had not, how to design its warning system and if an autopilot could take control of the helicopter to land it safely.

The sources I have read on passenger pilots use of autopilots is:
http://flyingforeveryone.blogspot.com/2012/01/autopilot-myth...

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/1802/why-do-we-s...
It's ridiculous of them to downvote you instead of providing an honest answer. This is a good question that I think a lot of Python fans might wonder about.

One of the many great things about Python (and other "dynamic" languages) is how flexible it is in so many ways. Instead of forcing you to be more explicit, make more decisions, and lock more things down in advance, it lets you get away with telling it to figure out a lot of things for itself while the program is running.

This kind of flexibility isn't free. It does a lot of things indirectly, it makes decisions for you and, if they turn out to need changing, it makes those changes as, and so on, while it is running, which requires a lot of computation.

You actually could compile Python, but keeping the "exact syntax" presumably means keeping all of Python's capabilities to be flexible at runtime, so compiling would require essentially building a lot of the Python interpreter right into your compiled app. This, in itself, would just change the packaging and wouldn't buy you much in terms of performance. A lot of clever people are looking for ways to speed up Python without removing features, but it will probably never be possible to make Python as fast as Rust will eventually be, nor to make Rust as convenient as Python.
I'm not advocating against reforms. I'm advocating against people tripping over ideas who sound too good. The majority of people I've talk to, who believe in basic income, have put very little thought about the ramifications of it. They have very little understanding of politics and social sciences. They read a bunch of articles, like this one, and thought "Hey, that's great, gimme free monies, I read an article that says people are more productive when they are not motivated by money". Next thing you know, they are advocating for it, convincing their friends how great it is. Politicians are always ready to ride the wave, chasing their grandiosity.

The conservative way has proved to be a very stable path towards improvement. Slow, but stable. Stability and balance, are in my opinion, the most important characteristics of meaningful improvement.
That same person is also standing at the entrance of almost every other building. To make his job easier he's also given you a unique identifier, so that he can notice when you enter a building he watches. I'm sure you've never noticed him, most people don't.
True, but whether someone self-identifies as Jewish depends on exactly how you ask him. To compare the Jewish representation in the US population, college X, and college Y, it's important that the same definition was used.

Feynman (mentioned in Unz's article) famously objected to being labeled as a Jew or Jewish scientist, since he was unreligious and didn't like the speculations about race and ability.
The solution is (or something like) https://ethereum.org
PGSQL just keeps getting better! Even gives Oracle a run for its money in a lot of areas.
What are you working on? Pitch me :)
> But there's something to be said for having a single template file for a single page in Angular, versus having JSX scattered among 20+ components for that same single page in React.

Good point; How does one view the resulting react-page anyway? CTRL+U shows <body><script.../></body> no matter what state the SPA is in..
Mozilla have a Google Analytics Premium account and they try to minimize the information they share [1].

Our Google Analytics premium account is set to opt-out on all of 3rd party
uses of the data and the only people who have access to the anonymous
aggregated data is Mozilla Employees. This is not the normal Google
Analytics setup that most people use on other websites.

Also, to increase privacy we flipped the anonymize flag in the Google
Analytics request...

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1122305#c8
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If you are an aspiring actor, you will probably never become a star, but why is that to keep you from trying?

Getting a PhD...you should only do that if you want to try and make that big discovery (even if you'll more than likely fail), or are happy with standard academic work.
Would those routers support 6 in the first place?
do you really think that's all google analytics provides, a hit counter?

you should really use it sometime, or at least familiarise yourself with its capabilites.
App window switching only really works in OSX because the window manager is different. Whilst it would transfer to Windows, I don't think it'd make as much sense.
And at the end of the day, he goes over hist list of what buildings you went into, to analyze what sort of things you like so he can show up at your door as a door salesman to sell you some product he believes you will be interested in.