skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that Google is preventing vendors/manufacturer from creating a fork of Android: all their Android-based devices have to play by Google rules, and no vendor can afford being banned from providing the Google apps, in particular Google Play (ex: only this store provides the app for my bank or for the real-time trains schedules).
I agree. Flame owner here.

I'd use that thing a lot more, if the applications were usable. I don't care about 'smooth', neither fancy. My constant complains are the keyboard, the lack of push support, the lack of a decent mail client (which .. needs push support. And server-side searches!) etc. are the real issues. Heck, even browsing is bad on a FxOS device.

I don't think it's the paradigm that is to blame here. The problem is the state of things, not the foundation as far as I'm concerned.

(Was a WebOS fan myself. That stuff was amazing for its time)
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It probably calculates the path in advance (note the "please wait" indicator appears just after you hit 'Solve') then it follows the path with an animation that gives you exactly the impression that it never falls into a trap as it goes.
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http://bigv.io/, hosted by Bytemark in the UK, is a flexible product allowing you to create and scale virtual machines via a CLI, or via a web-based panel.

FreeBSD runs very well on such systems.
We can all get rich but to make such a profound and lasting contribution is something more people should open themselves to the idea of doing. Just like anything else it takes hard work and a deep interest - but I believe any person is capable of making these contributions if they do the work, but there's this deep apprehension and notion you need to be a biological genius to do so.

Imagine what the great innovators of the early 20th century could have done if they had access to 3d printers for less than a month's worth of rent, machine learning libraries, personal computers, being able to get information on the majority of studies ever published within a span of minutes or hours, being able to collaborate on open source projects.... we have no excuse not to be doing more of this.

In the end your legacy is the knowledge you leave behind not your family name. In time the name becomes academic knowledge or commonly held trivia, or perhaps immortalized in popular media. The contribution of knowledge is a different thing entirely - for John Nash it lives on every time we use an electronic device, which is essentially 24 hours a day for the developed world.
No one on this thread seems to be aware that basic income has been tried in several trials both in the US and Canada. See, for instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
Yup, I should know since I'm french; I just thought it wasn't nice to name two very close database "accelerators" the same way…
Why Tesla’s purported liability ‘fix’ is technically and legally questionable
You can add comments to static sites via your own self-hosted disqus alternative.

e.g. Mine: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/

FWIW my blog comes from a static compiler, which has comments which are received via HTTP-posts and folded into the next time the blog is built, but there's no real live-JS.
Do you mean the round one-button mouse from the 1998 iMac?
Do you prefer to jump in at the deep end or to ramp up gently? F# is a more elegant language that will force you to go straight into functional style; Scala is a bit of a hodgepodge but you'll be able to write code that's very similar to Python, at least to start with.
It's still a copyright issue. Despite what people like yourself say, copyright doesn't do a very good job of protecting creators.
> Why would some random software be able to make my pg 8 times faster or more?

I think we've already seen plenty of evidence that for OLAP type queries, there is a TON of room available for improvement vs. off the shelf PostgreSQL.
I would like to use a gamepad, which method you recommend?
Or maybe even sell it through HN - so many people know patio11, maybe a buyer could have been found through the network?
Thanks.

I have made my own small list of emulators a while ago: https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k/wiki/Similar-emulators-writ...

It looks like you covered them all (except maybe http://schweigi.github.io/assembler-simulator/ )

But it might be, that you want to extend this list a little bit to the emulation of famous gaming virtual machines.

ScummVM: http://clb.demon.fi/html5scummvm/

Z-Machine: http://z-machine.lilawelt.de/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8225662
Many have made practical, technical recommendations about your computer issues.

But it sounds like stress/panic may be the real issue. (Your concerns and plans are all-over-the-map.)

You should seek someone local and friendly to talk to. They will be better at assessing the whole situation and providing a calm outside perspective. Ideally, this would also be someone who could provide a couch to crash on, if your current rent/residence proves financially unsustainable.

Your health and sanity are your "most urgent debts". Nothing else matters if those aren't in place. You may have to delay or step away from the kind of solo-contracting that's led you to a stressful situation. Taking simpler work, in a larger or more-traditional team/project, may help restore a more balanced outlook.

Good luck. You can survive a lot, if you take things logically, one-at-a-time.
Maybe it's time to reconsider the term "conspiracy nut", then?
The sperm operator (as it should be called) wont work if your vars are unsigned ints, floats or doubles.
Where can I read more about the claim that many of the founders believed that slavery was bad from an economic perspective because slaves are not consumers? Is this supported by modern economic thought? Was this view held by southern founders?
Lets not mince words; it's not "somebody like Tony Morris", it's just Tony Morris.

But yeah, it sucks and I wish the community would do something. We don't need a big policy / code of conduct / whatever, we need an adult recognition that one individual is a problem.
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It's not even that sales are down, sales growth is down, which is why every analyst is shouting from the rooftops about how Apple is DOOMED.
Google didn't bring the ad-based business model, it was here long before they created Adwords. Yahoo!, Altavista, all had banners and sponsored links.
Okay, three things:

1) Both Congress and the Judiciary make law. Congress passes bills that become laws. The judicial system's rulings on cases form precedent which fills in the holes of (or totally perverts, depending on the case) law passed by Congress. The judicial system's part in this is part of why it's so critically important to get good rulings on edge cases.

2) You're implying that Congressmen should pass a law that places them above the law? That's an incredibly slippery slope.

3) To arg. ad. absurd.[0] your position: Congres should just pass a law that frees all Congressmen from any and all legal obligation while acting in their official capacity as Congressmen. This would obviously permit them to act in any way that they felt would best allow them to improve the health and well being of the Republic.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
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That's very interesting.

I remember Joel Spolsky most prominently for the idea of making a workplace that programmers love, which will bring revenues later. Interestingly enough, Patrick hasn't had any employees in his businesses, and has really modeled it differently in many ways.

Then again, Joel Spolsky has written on many other topics, many of them more business oriented, e.g. the Ben & Jerry's vs. If you're reading this comment and haven't read articles by Joel Spolsky, you should really go read them now.
is paraguay doing better, economically?
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Google hasn't used PageRank exclusively for years. Nowadays it's just one factor among many.
"(I was surprised at how liquid the market for this stuff was.)"

I'm fairly surprised by this too. Why do you think that market is so liquid?

I will note that in Software, Entrepreneurship == Innovation in many people's minds (i.e. a startup inventing something new).

In non-software entrepreneurship, buying an existing business and running it is considered a very common path to becoming a business owner. As is starting a copy of other existing businesses (e.g. another restaurant), or even flat-out extending an existing business (e.g. the amazingly successful business innovation of "franchising).
Do they actually use tiny tape recorders? Is the media smaller than the old microcassettes? :-)
Investing in early stage hardware ventures is not for the faint of heart
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It's just that $57k rounded to one significant digit.

Not an accurate assessment, but at least a vaguely supportable "here's why I'm going this side project!" claim...
What I do not understand is why the US is the military for wealthy countries like Saudi Arabia.

ISIS is literally at their doorstep, Iran on the other side and their solution is to simply purchase a nuclear weapon instead of drafting an army.

And now we are somehow enslaved to re-invading Iraq for a fourth time when it falls again.

Meanwhile our entire infrastructure of roads and bridges will fail in the next generation because we dump all our money into the war machine black hole so that the contractors can extract profit from taxpayers.
That's true. Elon Musk didn't answer ALL the questions raised by Russian literature. But Bitcoins and Angular.js answered the other half.
So what does this "piloted driving" exactly entail?
It's worse when the product is for someone else. I bought a XBox game as a birthday present for my nephew. I don't own an XBox. Guess what Amazon keeps trying to sell me when I log in to their site?

And I want Amazon to advertise to me. But even they have a hard time showing me relevant ads. How much more annoying will a smaller, less scrupulous advertiser be with my spending habits? If targeted advertising actually worked I might put up with it. Instead it's nothing but industrialized spam that wastes my time and consumes my bandwidth.
I don't think anyone who was being recorded will take this seriously unless they can be directly identified.
Yeap. Here in Lisbon, just a month ago, after I told him my destination (which would come to ~5€), the taxi driver started ranting how they should raise the minimum ride to 15€. What a nice way to greet your customer /s
Unfortunately, the fix was attempted in the U.S. in the 1980's--no fault insurance--and failed. Why did it fail? Because there was too much money to be made by lawyers and insurance companies if fault were reintroduced into the system, and it crept back in. A true no-fault system, like you have with worker's comp insurance, is the only true solution for the wild American tort system.
Uber's sleazy ways continue.... This company appears to be totally amoral and without remorse. The leaders of this company are winning, by stepping on the heads of everyone else. At least, that is what the headlines of the last year describe. Is this an inaccurate portrayal? I have to say, I am not tempted to patronize Uber because of this.
I also found the examples confusing. What I got is they are all nouns (respect the grammar rule of having nouns for class names) but `PlanEvents` reads like data that is going to be processed (passive) whereas `EventPlanner` and `Scheduler` are concepts that process data (active). They have a verb: "plan" and "schedule".
In this thread: people who are jealous of patio11's consulting rates and success, so they try to be "skeptical" (i.e. gratuitously negative) and do some kind of reductio ad absurdum about how it "doesn't make any sense" (i.e. he's being fiscally irresponsibly, or lying) to sell a business when he could "just grow it" (i.e. with no mental effort, cause it's magic to them anyway, or he's lying) or "just drop it" (cause who cares about what you do or leave behind when you have $$$ right?).

Scratch all that jealousy. Grow up and be happy for his sake instead! HN is richer because of people like him. Here's my real comment on this news:

Congratulations Patrick! I'm looking forward to hearing more about Starfighter. You said a few weeks ago a couple of months ago, so you better push something soon ;)
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Ooh, I really like the look of these guys. Looks like they've got a nice CLI tool for somewhat managing VMs.

They don't have any US data centers though, which probably makes them a no-go. I like them enough that I'll consider getting a VM and doing a latency test, but I suspect it'll be higher than a couple of my customers will want to tolerate.
That's right, it does a breadth-first-search from the end-point immediately upon clicking the end-point; it then traces the path from the start-point, following the parent-pointers set during the BFS, painting the DOM in the process.
Tokens and bullae are fascinating pieces of early human economics, but the core of Schmandt-Besserat's theory -- the idea that certain tokens developed into carvings of words and concepts -- is widely discounted by archaeologists today.

For one example of why, consider the earliest depiction of the word for sheep: a circle with a cross. Sheep were one of the largest commodities in Mesopotamian trade, and yet only a handful of tokens matching that crossed-disk shape have ever been discovered. If transactions involving sheep were taking place daily, they should be among the most plentiful of tokens. These token systems are an ingenious human invention, but they should be seen as the precursors to mathematical accounting, not writing.
The NSA, the NRO, and the NGA are DoD agencies. The DNI -despite the title- has next-to-nothing to do with running those agencies.

To analogize: The US Army answers to the DoD. The DoD answers to the POTUS. This the Army and the DoD are military organizations, despite this fact.
The point is, with ever increasing information gathering, archival and analysis, anyone can be targeted in any number of ways.
This isn't a lot of data in the general scheme of things.

Why doesn't AWS or Google offer to pop it in glacier/S3 or GCS for free for the PR? They both have a huge multiple of that much unused disk - it would cost them effectively nothing beyond inbound bandwidth.
He commented on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9588901
There was a solution to this problem that was tried and failed: no fault insurance. Why did it fail? Because lawyers and insurance companies could make more money if fault were reintroduced to the system, and so fault crept back in. The only place in the American tort system where you have true no-fault is worker's comp: if you are injured at the workplace, you are entitled to compensation. Period. It wasn't always that way: workers had to prove that the employer or someone else was at fault to recover. So why not, "if you are injured while driving an automobile, you are entitled to compensation"? Insurance costs would be much, much lower and you would not need technical kludges like this one. Law and tech rarely mix coherently. You can't force me to give up the password to my phone, but you can force me to use my fingerprint to unlock the phone. The way forward is more general application of the principles used to make worker's comp universal. And by the way, other countries do not have this problem.
> We can all get rich but to make such a profound and lasting contribution is something more people should open themselves to the idea of doing.

I think both of these things -- getting rich and making a profound contribution to humanity -- are very hard, require a lot of luck, and will be achieved by precious few no matter how hard you try. That doesn't mean people shouldn't try, of course.
Here in Lisbon, after getting the courts to ban Uber, our local taxi association just started lobbying for having a minimum (not flat) fee of 20€ for any ride starting from the airport - enough to pay for a ride across the city.

Makes you feel really supportive of their plight!
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It also sounds like "the lady doth protest too much." Mobile operators are well known for pushing advertising and tracking to their customers. If they save any bandwidth by blocking Yahoo ads I expect it will be made up for by inserting their own.

Oh, that's right, AOL was just bought by Verizon. What a funny coincidence.
Why do people waste so much time at work?
"I'm grateful that Raymond Chen seems to have a lot of patience for it, because The Old New Thing is a unique gem and would be irreplaceable if shut down, so I'm glad he keeps at it. May his patience stay strong."

A couple of years ago he was much more cynical about it, mentioning giving up all together IIRC. Maybe he had a spiritual epiphany about the nature of idiocy on the internet or something, nowadays he seems to enjoy stringing the clueless-and-unwilling-to-learn along a bit.

But yeah, the things he puts up with...
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The economic context of copyright, in particular the current system of compensation based on royalties, is bad because it creates an unrealistic multiplier effect.

The classic example: for every loaf of bread a baker bakes, the variable costs (raw ingredients, fuel, labour) are approximately the same for each extra loaf baked, so his margin and profit per loaf don't magically increase by baking more.

Contrast this with someone creating a copyrighted work and receiving royalties per instance sold or performed.
Here, increased volume does increase margin and profit per instance, because the real cost of labour the creator must put in to receive royalties on every new sale or performance tends to zero. (I'm discounting the cost of marketing etc., which in most cases has only a second-order effect and doesn't change the final result.) Add to this the income which copyright brokers receive from media distributors etc. without having any part in the creative process, and things become very unbalanced real quick.

The root cause of the problem is that it is extremely hard to put a realistic monetary value on the act of creating a copyrighted work, as it would have to take into account the real effort required to create it, as well as the total (mainly intangible) benefit to all who will ever get exposed to it.

It would be much better if the artist could make dealings directly with the audience, just like the baker does with his customers.

As Syd Barrett put it: "All middle men are bad."
With that revenue, why sell it? Could you not hire someone to maintain? Just curious.
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I am one of those underdog artists. Copyright protection is literally the only leverage point I have available in any sort of business negotiation. They don't typically give out subsidies or tax breaks for films with a sub-$1 million budget. And while I don't argue for the sort of extreme copyright terms we have now such as 95 years, I do want robust copyright protection at minimal registration cost because it creates a level economic playing field for creative people who do original work.
How one startup wants to solve an 'insane' problem for a $400B industry
I am wondering how it compares to rust-peg[1].
I am currently using it and the syntax is very nice. At first look it seems to be more verbose to use Nom.. Is it much faster then rust-peg, though?

[1] https://github.com/kevinmehall/rust-peg
Project seems dead (last "news" from 2007). However if the feature list is accurate they invested a lot of time in building this. Makes you wonder why it was eventually abandoned..
Yeah, the NREC's 2013 budget was only ~$30M...

At your office, have you experienced any "lingering resentment" -- similar to that in the article?
I would like to see a code, which solves a maze by calculating the Poisson equation for pressure. As boundary condition set high pressure at the start of the maze and low pressure at the end and follow the steepest decent.
Writing something in scala feels like a waste to me. If they were to narrow the grammar of the language down, compiler time would decrease and the code rot situation would be much better.

Instead, teams that want to grow big in scala have to come up with their own agreements on which features not to use.

The deeper concern I see is the lack of introspection and defensiveness in the community when the critique is brought up. I've never seen programmers before take such offense and have to resort to banning programmers criticizing feature bloat.

It's not a personal attack or trying to kill Scala. There's a legitimate feeling the language tacked on way too much, too soon.

When it comes to a programming language, negative comments won't kill it. All languages grow their warts over time. Look at all the critique C absorbed.
How to politely and firmly ask for what you want.
how is this even a question
REad the lawsuit, or this summary is also good: http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2014/08/05/happy-birthday-to-you-c...

It's too complex to explain in a comment, plus it's late.
This year i took part in a student competition sponsored by Audi, so we were around people from Audi that work in that area for quite some time.
What they told us is basically that they use the term piloted driving since they don't believe it would be a good thing to have fully autonomous driving.
Piloted driving means for them that the car is assisting the driver if he chooses to, but doesn't take away any power of the driver.

The argument they brought up again and again is that they are very concerned about taking away the fun of the driving.
I think their marketing team told them to use the term piloted driving, to make sure no customer believes the new cars will take the steering wheel out of the customers hands and take his ability to drive in a fun way.
I guess that comes from the view they have of themselves as producers of fun to drive cars, which the customers buy for the sake of having fun driving them.

If you drive in a nice Audi it seems to be hard to imagine that for most people driving a car is not as much fun.
They also made it clear that they will rather not having an autonomous car then having one which would be not "Audi" looking ( camera on top etc.).
At least they use these arguments when they talk about the Google car being no threat to them.