skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your point and I disagree. I believe that only a very small fraction of people buy the iPhone as a gadget but because you must have it, because it looks sexy and it "just works".

My point? The original author I believe didn't make so much of a mistake because he took well into account what the watch thing represents but still that it failed its target market.

Or, in other words, no one is going to wear a really good looking, really expensive mechanical watch that doesn't run.
24 robotics teams are about to compete for $3.5m in a Pentagon-backed competition.

A team from Google was a favorite to win, but has quit the contest because they had concerns of the competition being linked to a military-backed event, even though it is has a "humanitarian" theme.
Mash Monsters – A pass and play drawing app for kids
Chubby Checker FTW.
Accepted? By who? I don't know any industry that 'accepts' a degree other than maybe law and medical. If you want to transfer to an American university later on, then sure you might have to do some work just like transferring from any other school.
A lot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB2jgJJG2is
Knwl.js – A JavaScript NLP
In case anyone is wondering why this isn't a WTF - See [1]..

[1]: http://www.asciitable.com/
Surviving reformats by infecting the hard disk firmware
Didn't the article say it costs the country only about $13,000 per student per year? If only a few of those students stay in Germany and pay taxes there, it's already worth it. And even if they return home, they'll be more comfortable doing business with Germany, which may still be worth it in the long run. And you get to export some of your culture and values.

It's not a bad investment at all. But ultimately, it's about making sure the next generation has access to good education, and how can you really put a price on that?
I have no idea what part of the UK you are in where people turn purple and call you a terrorist because you tell the Britain wrote the echr.

Many people don't know that fact, but they don't tend to deny it.

Most people I know don't know about trade agreements, and indeed they don't care, but not because they want "someone else" to give them an opinion, but because they feel (probably rightly) that they can have almost no impact on how business and government cosy up together. Recent history suggests they are right.

I find it easy to understand as well how people can think (in your insulting terms) "Dey took mah jurb!", because once again, I know many people where that is, at least in the small, clearly what happened to them.

Of course if the factory where they worked hadn't fired most the UK workers and replaced them with other workers on lower pay, benefits and safety the factory would have been forced to close and move overseas, but that is a more complex discussion to have.

In short, I'm disappointed but not surprised that the top-most answer here is "Look at all the lowly working class people, how stupid they all are. They clearly couldn't understand, or have any valid point of view".
If I wanted to rage and spout hatred at my fellow man I'd go read the intern's latest commit.
Interesting!

I didn't understand it at first, but the key difference is `A-z` vs. `A-Za-z`.
The newspaper campaign against human rights law based on exploiting hatred of immigrant criminals has been very effective.
I do not care if it's standard practice for negotiations to happen in secret. My government should represent me and my interests and I want to know what's going on. If not, I'll scream as loudly as I can because I want a government that's transparent. If the governments of other countries demand less transparency, well I see that as violating the sovereignty of our nation. Also claims that back and forth negotiations would be impossible need evidence. I see this claim repeated without references as if it's a given and I seek education on the matter.
That reminds me - SoX is still there.
That is a pretty arbitrary qualifier for 3D. Doom is filled with spatial obstacles that make use of the 3D geometry. For example, a missile can pass over the player. Facing a wall on top of which a monster stands, I can't necessarily pass it or see or fire at the monster. Flattening the levels would change the game and remove many of its challenges.

The format of the levels or the fact that there are no rooms over other rooms don't really factor into it.
Maybe he has some IP surrounding the original business that he is selling along with the domain?

But good question and good point, I hadn't thought about this before.
Redis Lua sandbox escape
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9131556
It's a paid product, but there is such a thing on the Rails + Stripe side: https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com/ .. can never hurt to have freely available notes as well, of course, so go for it!
> "Better trumpets are actually often more difficult to play because of extra weight and wider bore. Depends on the model of course, and in other ways they'll be easier to play, like for intonation, smoother valves, etc. A player might also choose to use a mouthpiece with a deeper cup, which gives a warmer / bigger sound but makes it more tiring to play, especially in the upper range."

That's interesting. I know next to nothing about trumpets, but the situation appears to be different than for guitars. Generalising, guitars are setup differently depending on the style of music and the technical demands, which has an impact on how easy they are to play. For example, tonally you can get a richer sound with slightly heavier than usual strings and higher than average playing action (more space for the strings to vibrate), however from a speed point of view you generally want lighter strings and lower action. These are just general rules of thumb, it's possible for heavy strings to sound 'muddy' and possible to get great tones out of lighter strings (guitarists like Page and Iommi are reported to have used light gauge banjo strings on their guitars, and I don't hear too many complaints about their tone).

> "I'm not sure how this applies to AAA game dev, though... maybe something like, every new performance venue built is larger than the last, which results in bands getting more members, longer arrangements, lighting and set design, signers, dancers, etc."

It tends to be the larger the team, the harder it is to build something with an interesting personality. Plus, to use your concert venue analogy, more creative effort is spent in overcoming how to fill the venue with sound, rather than exploring what that sound could be.
Ambitious Project “CrypTech” Seeks to Make the Internet Safer
This is a really good example of why you need a 'hacker' in your startup, in the traditional 'one who is good at building ad hoc systems' sense. Having awesome technologists who can write brilliant, well-tested and robust code is certainly useful, but a lot of the time in the early stages of a company you just don't have time. You have a problem and it needs to be solved fast. Most things can be fixed later when the initial traction turns in to cash. Until then, hack all the things.

Note: I might be biased because hacking things together is what I'm good at.
Build a user base with a great free product, abuse that user base for money until it leaves you for some competitor. Build social capital, spend it. The market, on average, doesn't just want profits from a tech company, it wants significant short-term growth in either revenues or userbase, and if the latter reaches saturation the former will occur.
I thought you were going to show a virus result - the screen you showed is very unambiguously an opt-in screen, it even has the term "Accept" (as opposed to some other word like next or install) making you look at it - if the text said something else you would be very likely to just click it. The button at the left 'skip' is also clear about your other option (if it said 'cancel' it would sound like you're aborting installation.)

I just don't see how this is a trick. There's not even a "default" option here, except for the Accept button being on the right. How can anyone possibly click the word "Accept" without even glancing at the text surrounding it - even a glance shows you the giant icon with the slogan "Mac Cleaner Clean Up Junk Files on Your Mac"? If you look at the bullet points, the first one clearly identifies what it does. So it's an opt-in screen. There's no default. The action word is "Accept" and the top bullet is about the additional software you would be installing, with a giant picture and caption showing the same thing. Or you can click "skip."

This is above-board if you're going to do this sort of thing. Hell, given how above-board it is I might just click "Accept" in this case! (knowing that the devs opted into it as well.)

It is very, very hard to read this as anything other than an opt-in screen. How can you be any less ambiguous??

EDIT: I didn't even notice, there is even grey small text that spells this out in completely unambiguous words! (Thank you for considering this offer from our advertiser...your choice does not affect installation of FileZilla.)

I honestly don't even know that I would ask FileZilla to change anything whatsoever about this screen. It's great!
that is a more complex discussion to have

Indeed. Some people have done very badly out of globalisation, who should have been treated better: compensation, transitional arrangements, possibly medium-term protectionism. There are social housing shortages and rent problems.

There has also been a determined campaign by the rightwing parties and press to put the blame for this firmly on the immigrants themselves. The left has had a disastrous response to this, which is to call anyone complaining about immigration a racist, rather than point to the misdirection and underlying problems of inequality.

(Finally, note that you can't tell someone's immigration status by looking at them, and quite a lot of the UK ethnic minority population aren't "immigrants" but were born here.)
Yes! This article is an excellent example of how everybody (including Japan) loves to portray Japanese culture as unique and different.
No mirrors?
That is specifically relating only to procurement tendering processes which specify "must be open source" as a requirement.
Even if there are no problems with github PRs in themselves, the tmux developers will certainly have an established workflow for reviewing patches and applying them. The last thing they want to do while they're migrating from one hosting site to another is to upend their entirely functional code review workflow when that's not the thing that's broken and forcing the migration...
Hackers to Blast Apple Time Capsule, Fitbit and Samsung Baby Monitors at Defcon
I hope yours isn't another of these "use Chrome" pages. I thought we got rid of that meme around 2000 but hey it's 15 years later and we're back to scratch.
/r/skillswappers – find skill-swapping partners, learn from a person, not a book
IBM is one.

Statistical models at scale, encapsulated in a self service web platform with accompanying APIs are about to become the norm for non-tech mid market and small businesses.

SPSS family just does not compare.
It's a matter of personal preference. As such I'd rather ride my bike at high speeds :)
I thought Discourse was a forum software.
I hope to see something like this also for BetaList.

btw, really interesting.

Congrats.
I had not realized how delayed this project had become, crash or no crash. It does seem odd that something so vital to the safety of the craft wasn't protected by systems to warn the pilots. It might be, but I am thinking along the lines of treating it like stall warnings or such or having an interlock that cannot be thwarted easily
Have you created a web service or app around it? Or is it on Github? A visual conversion graph would indeed help, the Twitter UX isn't really useable to follow up any longer conversation. I assume the Twitter UX has been even slightly degraded a bit over time for A) scalability reasons B) so that users stay longer on Twitter (good for advertisement statistics)
There's a reason employees refer to it as "Mouschwitz"
yes, flannel works very well in the VxLAN mode on AWS
Yes, but not for developer positions.
A woman that worked as scientist for a year in a swiss university tells me that the country is very beautiful, but people is hard to reach and you suffer a lot of micro-agressions out of the workplace. Is really hard to find decent houses for rent, and a lot of things seem to be more much expensive or harder to obtain if you are not swiss. It takes a lot of time and money to become a swiss resident also.

There are some major political parties also that actively spread xenophobia and fear against foreigners, specially before the elections.

Finally she realized that was not just earning enough money to be worthwhile.

Just an opinion, your experience can be different (specially if you 'sprechen deutsch'), but maybe american students think that is easier to work in other countries. You earn less but enjoy a better quality of life instead. And of course an english native is much more valued and find a job much easier in european countries that normally don't speak english.
Ask HN: What is Neuroplasticity and is it possible?
Is it real? or scientifically validated?

I know it's when you do something over and over the brain changes over time with respect to that habit because of how the brain is plastic Is that correct?

I want to try Meditation and compassion and Mindfulness and want to see how this applies for Neuroplasticity and if it'll actually have any long term effect
Glad to hear!

Small plug, but I suppose the only people reading these comments are interested in tmux: https://github.com/tmux-plugins
The underlying problem is the strength of intergovernmental agreements. It turns out that making an international agreement to make or not make certain laws is actually more binding than the local constitution, and less subject to local democratic veto amendment.
Platform for Unsigned Artist
Like theyeti, I worked in a company that wanted to do business in Japan - they wanted to buy some advertising there to get the Japanese audience - and advertising companies refused to work with them (to take their money that is) because they didn't have an office in Japan. That is when you want to buy something from Japanese companies, I can't imagine how hard it would be to sell to them without an office there.
Real-Time Bidding (RTB) Is Killing Ad Tech
This is a comment directed to the various replies...

What is IIA? Can't find anything relevant on Google.
> G+ is a closed and broken platform, built by an advertisement company.

So just like Twitter then?
There is a really good piece from Newsnight on Virgin Galactic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-gxmqUfQ80

I would encourage you to watch all of if you're interested in Virgin Galactic.

It is pretty clear to me that they have one last chance to get this right. If they suffer another catastrophic failure any time in their next 4-5 flights, they will need to shut down. The fact they do not seem to be addressing design flaws concerns me. If I were a customer I'd be seeking a refund.

I hope my pessimism proves to be unfounded and they usher in a new era, but right now it must be hard for all of them over there.
Null Object: Something for Nothing (2003)
Big Data Hadoop
> Why yes we have one of those in stock, but I am offline so I can't check.

Assuming the "I am offline" part is redacted, I view this as deliberate lying - deliberate in the "we already have your money" sense that you identified.

If I had made a decision to order with you because you had claimed something was in stock, but it wasn't, I will withdraw my patronage from you and I will complain loudly and vigorously.

This type of behaviour/UX has permanently harmed my relationship with several large retailers.
I am not sure people are responding to your question because it is not clear. Would you consider a servlet application server and an app that uses it JavaEE even though it is not technically that? Google app engine uses it extensively , Spring framework is built on it.Dropwizard is very popular for building REST servers and Jersey too (and it is part of JavaEE 7) but these can also be used with a JavaSE stack and a fast servlet server.
Airbnb start performing price / listing discrimination if coming from Google Ads
I do not have knowledge on what happens at the UN, but the latest Gaza conflict is from 2014, with thousands of children killed or wounded, many permanently disabled. To an outsider like me that reads about what's happening there, all I see is ethnic purging. To make matters worse, this perpetual war is basically sponsored by the US and Europe.

Therefore personally I'm glad that Israel is the subject of UN meetings, because they should be.
Emacs's magit is really amazing. Integration with Emacs, great shortcuts, 100% keyboard-friendly (of course), and many more stuff I only now discover.
I meant that the FIR might be calculated between samples, so the higher the clock the faster the calculation.
This was really interesting, but it just seems like they chose the wrong fulfilment partner for their warehousing and logistics. I work for a third party warehousing and logistics company in AU, but we specialise in receiving orders from external parties in electronic formats and providing tracking information back to the orderer. People think that warehousing/distribution companies are all the same, but there are a lot of different niches. Some are strong with bulk shipping, some with small and fiddly picking, some with large national campaigns that need simultanous delivery. You need to do your research and look for which suppliers are being used by other companies that have a similar distribution profile to you.
Where is he complaining about domain squatters?
Haha I got downvoted but in truth search as a service (perhaps call that SaaS.... :-) would be useful.
I'll take you up on that. kliment@0xfb.com or Kliment on freenode IRC
Yes, not sure if it's exactly what I want as details are scarce but I've dropped them an email, thanks for the nudge.
Does anyone know how to get around that Excel CSV issue, where Excel will "helpfully" convert a number-like value into a meaningless value in scientific notation, even if the number was quoted like "1234"?

That was a huge pain point in a previous work that I did.
I chortle as I am downvoted but I do honestly wonder who would use Brillo instead of a Linux installation? Even microcore is small enough.
Thanks for this, it cleared up some confusion in my mind. A blogpost capturing these thoughts would be great.
freelists.org is what I have been using for mailing lists.
As per the article, Airbnb are now changing the site depending on whether you've come from a Google Ad or not. This impacts guests / hosts differently:

a) As a guest, you'll only see hosts who haven't opted out (ie. listings discrimination) based on where you've been referred from. Presumably the cookie is saved, and you'll never be able to see opt-out hosts properties even if you later go direct!

b) As a host, Airbnb are passing on the cost of Google Ads (and potentially making a pure profit on them) directly to you, if the booking comes from a Google Ad.

Not sure how this benefits guests or hosts - and just seems to be a profit making exercise. Imagine most consumers won't understand, and will simply wonder why sometimes they're charged +5% on bookings, and sometimes they aren't.
> As it is published by the SoundHound Inc. company, is this a marketing technique to make it look more amateurish?

yes, if you don't scroll down it looks like it's some users demonstration of it.
Same can be said about each day though. Not sure why birthdays are special.
Yep, ruby tard brogrammers strike again.
Our company criteria for any new tool is simply: is it written in ruby? If yes, then run away from it (crap such as rails, homebrew, etc.) because it will be awful insecure code by people who have no business even pretending to be developers. Even code monkeys flinging digital feces would produce better code.
No new info there. We've known for ages that one of the pilots unlocked the feathering system at the wrong time.
News people started paying attention early because Twitter was faster than anything else - I think due to the 140-character limit and, believe it or not, dumbphone support. When e.g. an earthquake happened, Twitter was where you'd see it first.

Once the news folks were paying attention some of them started reporting tweets directly and then it snowballed - there's a real positive feedback loop between news/politicians/celebrities - politicians and celebrities use twitter because the newspapers pay attention, and the newspapers pay attention because politicians and celebrities use it.
FreeBSD has worked out a combined svn and github pull request workflow, although mayb esvn is easier to do this with than cvs.
It's not about the tray but how they are used in Japan. Completely different from how they are used in Germany.
America’s immigration data bomb
> there were a completely transparent market for bribes,

There's a disruptive startup opportunity hiding in there. Think "Uber for bribes", where politicians can sign up as 'advisors' and people can pay for 'advice'.
Currently it's a complete dog's breakfast of scripts and hacks. People seem to like it, so I might look to package it properly, unless someone else wants to do it.
It is unique and different. Germany may have trays but the actual use case and purpose are completely different.
The X11 integration is really bad. Now that they don't bundle it along with the default installation (XQuartz instead, that you must fetch yourself), how can I run xclock after installing OSX?

In truth, the lack of cmd-tabbing support to X11 apps is irritating, as is the menus on the windows being in the wrong place. I can see why they didn't fully support it though - X11 just doesn't fit in with their Quartz system. If you turn on Quartz Debugging and do things like "show tracking rectangles" X11 windows are a complete unknown to Quartz.
IMO it's pedantic to call yourself a 'software engineer'.
I also feel that people who do it are trying to elevate themselves from the rest.

If you feel you are a better developer just prove it with code and great architectures. We don't need titles.
Show HN: A study of GitHub's homepage, with some improvements
If you put an apostrophe in front of the number it will store it as text but will appear as a number.

Just to be clear - you can then save the xls/xlsx to csv and the csv won't contain the leading apostrophe, but will show the whole number.
Maxima (computer algebra system) is still using SourceForge: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

It is one of the oldest software in the world.
A quick job, but I feel I spotted some weak points and then I tried to turn them to strong ones.
It's pretty early in the "story" page.
Oh yes we do! Every time we vote.

Every society makes choices about what it values most. Values prized in Anglo-Saxon economy is freedom and individualism. Asians see it differently. Nordic and Mediterranean societies value social welfare.

Take universal health care; what some see as 'communism' is to others the perfectly obvious logic that every human being deserves health care by virtue of being a human being, and not based on the size of their wallet.
Can anyone summarize that long text?
I'd have thought the difference would be whether it's a domain that you're speculating might be valuable to anybody, versus one that you assume to have value to someone specific. E.g. buying "learn-brainfuck.com" because you think it's going to be the next big language, vs. buying "github.kr" for when they eventually open a Korean office.

Not that one's any better than the other, but I think people tend to call the former "speculation" and the latter "squatting".
Graph Engine, Private Customized: Key-Value Store with an Attitude