skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a huge proponent of the web architecture, I just think HTML is dying from the politicization of the standards process and resulting slow pace of innovation.

"If instead hide my content behind an app, I can't deep link to it. "

This is not true. I enter a URL into my iPhone's Safari, it deep links into the App associated with the domain. We just watched a WWDC keynote that showed plenty of deep linking between apps, from Siri, etc.

"The likelihood of you installing the app to see the content is way lower..."

This is also contrary to the data - people love apps, download and use apps like mad. Over $100 billion in revenue is expected to be from mobile apps this year. That's bigger than Hollywood box office 3x, bigger than book publishing 10x, bigger than PC software. The only thing it doesn't eclipse is packaged/server software yet.

Installing and using apps is demonstrating to be less effort than using the web on a mobile device: I have to do it once, vs. have to deal with a slow web browser every time I use the website.

This isn't to say people don't use the web on their phones, it's that if an app is available, people will pick the app.

"Potentially a password entered to install it... You need to approve my permissions"

Same on any website I have to sign up with via form or OAuth2.

And if an app has in-app purchases, I do none of that (just sign in on the store or use my thumbprint).

"The content of my app isn't searched in any search engine. You can't bookmark where you were."

That's interesting, most of the apps I use are searchable in the app, or on the Web. That doesn't mean I'm using a web browser to do most of the interactions.

Again, I don't think the Web is going away, just that HTML is becoming the new command prompt. That might change if something awesome comes out via open hypermedia. Doesn't look like it though... given how rich experiences are getting and how political the HTML standards process is.

"And sheer numerical demand? Again, I'm not so sure. Actually, I'm quite sure you're wrong."

By what measure? I mean, I don't claim infallibility here, I'm just saying that (a) mobile smartphones are quickly becoming the most common device on the planet, more common than a toothbrush, car, or toilet, (b) all of these support apps, (c) almost every company with a service or content has an app, (d) almost every user will prefer an app over over an website, and (e) thus almost all the money spent on consumer software is moving to native mobile. I'm following the money and the usage figures..
posted earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679769
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I agree completely. Not trying to be negative about the whole thing, but it's very weird to expect "morality" from a machine. And even more so to think we could impose a morality on a machine and not have it resent that if it actually reaches that point.
Nantero comes out of stealth mode: Carbon nanotube based non-volatile RAM
Using Gradle for Testing Mobile Apps on Real Devices
Show HN: Rails Model Visualizer
I absolutely understand why developers don't like it - I wish Apple worked so they did so more stuff would be there. For me it's the sandboxing on small utility apps, and I admit I'll look in the store first. It's just peace of mind really, if an app doesn't need out the sandbox (I acknowledge many many apps do) then I'd rather have it contained.

See flashlight apps with absurd permissions and spyware on Android to see what assholes occasionally do with too many permissions.
That's the best way to describe it. The concurrency model and metaprogramming bits mean that effortless to make cool stuff with it. And it turns out that's way more fun that wrestling with the jvm or other high friction tools.

There's a lot of neat stuff in Elixir, and the community is great too. I honestly it may be the first functional language that becomes widely used. Hopefully.
Simple wrapper class for Json in PHP
There's no way Xcode is the worst you've ever used unless your opinion is just based on personal preference (which is fair enough but not really relevant to the rest of us)

I don't think I'd say it's better than VS if that's all you're comparing it to, but it's pretty much on par. When I last used VS heavily it seemed marginally more robust than Xcode but the only real feature I liked vs. Xcode was the ability to use C# rather than Obj-C (which is less relevant now that Swift exists)

Other than that, every single IDE I can think of is relatively unpolished and if you're developing specifically for OS X then the alternatives are practically useless.

I'm really glad Xcode finally has automated GUI testing
Why the Future of Virtual Reality Is Not the Oculus
Sorry, but you are too deep in your illusion. Your TL;DR is funny.
How will you then explain dozens of JS frameworks coming out every day? The web holding to it's dear life?
Please, stop talking about the things you know nothing about. Or at least give native development a honest try and see for your self, that web is not winning anything, and web apps are just a huge pile of mess.
Or for a start just try to make the app with ReactJS which looks the same on every device. Good luck.
No, the burden of proof is on those who claim not-(a), because it is evident at a glance that there are at least some genetic difference between groups. (Detailed genetic analysis, of course, confirms this. Noted anti-racist Henry Louis Gates Jr. has a whole show about it. [1]) There's no law of biology that says evolution only works on physical traits; quite the opposite. Therefore, the burden of proof is on the claim that any particular cognitive or behavioral characteristics have no genetic component.

Answering Yali's question requires at least one of (a) or (b). If (b) were false, then that would imply (a). Providing evidence for (b) rules out the argument based on elimination.

It is impossible to use the process of elimination when the alternatives are not mutually exclusive. I.e., this reasoning is specious: Why are men generally stronger than women? Well, men lift weights more often than women. Therefore, strength differences have no genetic basis. So it goes with Yali's question. You, and Jared Diamond, are obviously smart enough to understand this completely. But the conclusions are heretical, which is the only reason I can think of for why you fail to do so.

[1]: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/
They teach 'SMEAC' to remember this, the military is full of these kinds of mnemonics:

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

Though it's generally a bit lame to act all military outside of the military, especially if you've never served, and especially in front of serving or ex-serving members.

Seb would last about 10 seconds at USMC officer school before he learned he needs to stop being so mouthy.
I work for myself specifically to be able to isolate the kind of developers that will make my organization successful. It's wonderful that we all have the opportunity to choose what kind of environment we want to work in.
The link to the whitepaper is wrong. It links to:

https://www.blockstream.com/2014/10/23/why-we-are-co-founder...

but should link to:

https://www.blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf
What's the state of the/a standard library for Swift? When used on linux I hope I won't have to use types prefixed "NS..."?
Wraps Bcrypt-SHA256 in Authenticated Encryption (PHP)
You can't see the edge of the event horizon either - time is stopped at such a place. And slightly farther away events happen so slowly they are invisible at human time scales.

Even far from a black hole it would be almost impossible see anything. All the light would be red shifted to invisibility (because of the intense gravitational field), and the brightness would be very low because it's happening so slowly.

I suspect that some of the very red, very dim, galaxies that are assumed to be very distant because they are hubble-red-shifted so much, are actually super-massive objects.
And you don't consider showing clients to be "needing it"? If I were a client, I'd be questioning how serious you were.
It might be that the tab order is messed up. You can configure a password's input sequence to include extra tabs or other characters. It's under the "Auto Type" tab.
Why would I prefer to type a URL? I can just as easily get an URL for the app in ap store and have it right there.
Having app stored on my device is an advantage, unless you like your web apps download in full even on crappy mobile connection. And you really want the content of your app indexed by external search engine?
I like being able to control the permissions my app has. Or does your web app not ask for the permission to use your location, camera, microphone?
I don't need to bookmark where I were in the app: I open it and I am there at once.
http://www.typingstudy.com is better :)
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yup. more hate (bad press / pressure), better behavior from huge companies
One thing I have always pondered concerning western buddhist practice is the context which it is taught and the idea that a monastic tradition/practice can successfully be integrated into modern western culture.

"McMahan suggests that we approach the subject by considering a monk in ancient India. “He has left his family behind; he is celibate; he doesn’t eat after noon; he studies texts that give him a skeptical view of the phenomenal world and its value. Is his practice really exactly the same,” McMahan asks, “as that of a contemporary secular mindfulness practitioner who is meditating to excel at work or to be more compassionate to her children?”
Uhm.. Sometimes there is a need to go to a hospital ;)
So is this just LLVM IR?
Raising money for the storm
When (not why) “Agile” and especially Scrum are terrible
It certainly helps people to find and patch vulnerabilities yes.
After that I need to use Couchbase also on the server. I already have my API and my DB. Thanks.
What makes this so much worse is that no doctor or hospital will tell you upfront what something will cost.

So the uninsured go into one of these hospitals... can't compare prices, or even find out what something will cost before they agree to it... and later get hit with a ridiculously marked up bill.
What the report actually says is that the typical teen sends and receives 30 texts per day.
How to get 50,000 free YouTube views
Neat! Can people in the know share their experience with TeXmacs which is supposed to do very similar stuff ?
That's for the app drawer only isn't it?
There is a regulation like this in Germany. It leads to a behaviour where hospitals try to have as many well-paid treatments as possible. 'Surgery 1' does not pay well by list so they add 'Unnecessary Treatment 2'.

My point: such a list would have failures and they would be exploited.
One quibble: this interaction is for the All Apps drawer/card, not the home screen(s) a.k.a. "widget panels".
Is it possible to set up something like this for Vim? I am devoting this summer to learning one editor in depth, and I was thinking of going with Vim because it is on servers everywhere. But I've also chosen to deep dive into python and I love the ipython notebooks, so this could be handy
Another useful concept is the 1/3 rule. If something has to be done, a level of command can use only 1/3 of the time available - 2/3 of the time belongs to the lower levels. This repeats downward.

That doesn't leave much lead time at the bottom, but the military also uses warning orders - "We're going to move out tomorrow, details to follow" - to get units ready.
Microsoft's products :)
Big Data Without the Big Expense
Couldn't agree with you more. I find that I learn a great deal from reading through the discussions. I think most members in HN prefer to be pseudo-anonymous which explains the lack of features like following each other, chat, and other social features.
The federated model is a temporary solution, as a workaround due to the lack of native support in Bitcoin Testnet. Once the Bitcoin network itself can validate the SPV proofs from the sidechain, this model will be replaced with a completely decentralized one.
Hey why not? The system is, in a word, fucked. Something huge is needed to shake it up, and a massive wave of irresponsible defaults would certainly focus efforts.
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Yep. I hope they leave this optional for iOS, as we use some proprietary libraries which we don't think the vendor will ship a new version of :(
The fact is, there are a set of universities and employers that open doors. Did you go to Harvard or MIT? Grad school at cmu? You get an interview. You're not necessarily hired, but you get an interview. Google is one of the employers that open doors in the same way; Zenefits isn't and probably never will be. There's nothing wrong with employees acknowledging reality and mapping out a career path.
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I'm having trouble finding the anecdote itself where the customer was angry about the change in Googles. Maybe it was in a podcast rather than on HN -- hard to remember, it was several years ago. Here's a later post where he was discussing what he'd learned from incidents like that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808001
As a user of a ~$800 Android flagship phone I can't wait for the day that I can leave this to rot to use my Flame (or install FxOS on this device, but .. yeah. Exynos, the worst of the worst thing you can buy today. Don't do it. Never do it).

No use derailing the thread, this project is cool!
iOS 9 and the iPad
"The standard Cocoa convention is that exceptions signal programmer error and are not intended to be recovered from. Making code exceptions-safe by default would impose severe runtime and code size penalties on code that typically does not actually care about exceptions safety. Therefore, ARC-generated code leaks by default on exceptions, which is just fine if the process is going to be immediately terminated anyway. Programs which do care about recovering from exceptions should enable the option."

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html#e...
You should get a computer to read it for you. /ducks

Seriously, the writer is addressing his peers, and as such is well justified in assuming a high degree of prior knowledge and a willingness to look up additional references as necessary. It doesn't seem particularly complex or challenging to me.
Different perspective: I'd prefer to hire the astronomy PhD who knows the basics of the craft over one who doesn't. Reflecting vs refracting is pretty simple - astronomy doesn't really interest me and I'm aware of the differences. It's fundamental to the optics, and understanding the differences helps understanding why real data looks different depending on method of acquisition. Why not penalise the person that doesn't know the basics? You wouldn't forgive a carpenter for not knowing the difference between a hand saw and a table saw, yet they both cut wood and the difference takes all of a few seconds to learn.

For example: I'm a midrange DevOps/Sysadmin/Whatever-it-is-these-days. I will likely never be a senior. The (real) seniors are the folks who go home and mess with hardware and pull new toys apart to see what chips they were made with and so forth. I like to go home and play games. I do my job competently, but I don't have the underlying knowledge that those guys do. If I was up against one of those in a job application, then you'd be crazy to hire me at the same salary as a senior - there'd have to be a pretty big black mark against the senior, like being completely unpersonable or abusive or somesuch. Or the role used some of the other things I'm decent at. Perhaps a colloquial way to put it is that I live these things, but the seniors live and breathe them :)
> That's the last payroll I ran with ADP.

Nicely done. Which service did you start using instead of ADP?
I understand he has an interesting technique for putting together those code reviews, too: he uses a random number generator to randomly pick a piece of the code, then starts walking through whatever it chooses.
Apple WWDC 2015 Highlights
GitHub Repo featuring Elements so far (Bitcoin fork):
https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements

GitHub Page with a write-up of the actual Sidechain Elements:
http://elementsproject.org/
The distinction is that random access to the files need not be provided.

If I give your phone access to /usr/private_key.txt then the OS has total control. If I instead give you a way to sign messages then the OS has much weaker ability to control (obviously some amount if the device is connected and capable of signing).
Why does it matter whether the exchange format is a regular or a context-free language? It is a textual representation of binary data either way.

Sure, it is harder to pattern-match context-free, and we have a convenient syntax for textual regular languages, but we create tools such as jq so that we can pipe JSON and extract data.
If to put Swift on Linux and Bitcode together, I'd take a wild guess that an apple powered PaaS is on its way.
Extra points if you can automate stock trades based on physiological cues.
You see, I think this is exactly the kind of entitled attitude that pushes away people from Linux.
People don't give a damn about the intricacies and history of their tools, they care about getting a good work done in the less stressful way.
Why would you not use your employer email?
No, not in the sense of not using copyrighted material published in other channels -- it's based on several books. I don't think the screenplay could have been legally used without agreements with at least some of the authors there.
This is the second time R.A. Lafferty has come up in comments today. Amazon.com shows 69 different texts, do you have any recommendation on where to begin?

http://www.amazon.com/R.-A.-Lafferty/e/B001HCU6PE
Peter Todd commented on Twitter that Greg Maxwell's job is impressive.

https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt
You may get by with a decompiler as laid out in http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-04/bougacha-slides.pdf

And since you'll certainly not be the only one with that problem, Apple making it mandatory for iOS would probably spur development in that area.
First Vehicle2Grid Energy Storage Network in Europe
How to test your app or product with a real people?
Sorry for the google translate link.

But the interesting part is that this is using electric cars for meeting load peaks on a (local) electric grid. Using real peoples cars and homes.
A nice and intelligent community, above all else. I don't care too much about the lack of features; I like the sheer minimalism of it so that it loads very quickly instead of the text being dwarfed by the volume of markup/js/css/whatnot.
Xcode. I'm working towards building my iOS App with a Makefile.

I've always disliked Xcode but it gets worse and worse with each release.

There is also the problem that when I search Google for how do something with "Xcode 6", despite the quote Google ignores the "6", matches for example "Xcode 4" where I find instructions that don't work anymore.

From time to time I take a stab at Android development only to encounter Eclipse. I am similarly going to use Makefiles instead.

I'm actually a big fan of IDEs - LightspeedC, ThinkC, SymantecC and CodeWarrior were all the greatest.
“Synergy”
> How many keep operating on tourist lines as the number of people remember them remains to be seen. Even in the United States, while ridership remains high of tourist lines, fewer and fewer people have the skills to maintain a steam engine

Puffing Billy [1] in Victoria, Australia, gets parts custom machined from a number of machine shops around the country, and even gets time 'donated' from Navy personnel who are trained and licensed to operate and maintain steam engines to supplement the full-time and volunteer staff it has. The entire line is now purely a tourist attraction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffing_Billy_Railway
I am not so confident : they now require that you ship a 64 bits version of your apps, which can be also be a problem if you use 32 bits only proprietary libraries.
Here in Europe we call "Humanities" what you may address as "Liberal Arts". Therefore yes, "humanist" is fine, but uncommon, especially in the US.
I'd say it's the kind of word a... Humanist would use, since it's the more philologically correct.
Interesting to note that here in Italy the thing is reversed. While "umanismo" and "umanista" are broadly used, "arti liberali" is less common, while still correct.
That's a good point. I think the interesting thing is that Android drivers do exist for all these device features, so any ODM that has an Android device could respin it as a Firefox OS device.
Did not work on Nexus 5 with M-Preview build.
Please make it an official Mozilla (sub) project and keep us updated with reoccurring news. Great work, it works really smooth on a highend smartphone, comparable to Android UI and iOS.
Cloudflare allows similar protections against speech certain parties dislike. Should it be broken up too?
Well, I was talking about OS X, which was released around 2000, probably much later than your Mac Plus days. OS X included a whole Unixy environment and shipped the Developer Tools (GCC + the precursor to Xcode) on a second CD. I had already done some programming before that, though, in Mac game-making software (World Builder and Adventure Simulator), and with JavaScript on the Web, but the ability to really program my computer with Objective-C and Cocoa was amazing.

There was also a free development environment by Apple for OS 8 (maybe earlier, I don't know) called MPW. I think it was originally a paid product, but Apple ended up just giving MPW away because everybody used CodeWarrior. But I found it difficult to use and didn't get much further than some basic C lessons I found somewhere on the Internet. All the more advanced stuff I found wouldn't work (I think it was probably targeted at Windows or Unix, but all I knew at the time was that MPW couldn't compile it).
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It's the only place on the internet I've been to which you're able to have an intelligent discussion.

I also am not fond of the lack of a mobile layout.
What? Why shouldn't people be able to walk away from any debt, and accept the consequences for that (like not being able to take out another student loan, bad credit for 7 years, harassing phone calls, etc)?
It feels much too pragmatic for my taste.

C was unprincipled and pragmatic too, it was created with the goal of making UNIX portable. Still, C became one of the most popular and influential languages.

While I prefer ADTs/generics too, let's not forget that many people are less principled and pragmatic factors influence language choice as much (toolchain, ecosystem, popularity, familiarity).
Hmm. Thanks for the recommendation.

I have to admit that the excerpt/intro doesn't seem appealing (Army trash, 'Hooya' boxes??) but hopefully that's pure presentation and irrelevant for the content. Browsing the samples on Amazon, this (bodyweight) might be a good idea - and I'll check out related books as well.

Edit: That book at least is not for me. Ignoring the military nonsense the few/uninspiring pages I can read at Amazon contain a 'No, women should not train different than men' section - and Amazon helpfully points me to "Body by You: The You Are Your Own Gym Guide to Total Women's Fitness" which seems to be the same book, by the same author, for .. women. Erm..

Looking into bodyweight excercises in general though - that still seems appealing.
>It seems to me a reasonable fix would be to legislate hospitals have to set open and fixed pricing for procedures/services for all. So no group/insurance company discounts. Make them compete openly and without discrimination.

Legislation created the current environment, I do not believe more legislation will fix it.
3D view of Space Shuttle Discovery's flight deck
This Is What It Would Look Like If American Pharoah Raced Secretariat