skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use GH because everyone else seems to, and while the UI is nice, I think the permissions system is utterly broken so I now have to have multiple accounts so that I can allow third party access to my repos but not every repo I have access to.
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It's not actually unreasonable to learn about things that you have not personally experienced.
Show HN: Doctant – edit and share documentation
Apparently they're attacking Uber/Uber like cars they find on their way: https://twitter.com/imnotalone/status/613961119766609920
It's not new either, it's been integrated into App Engine for a while
Angular Team Provides Roadmap, Demos Integration with React Native
Bitcoin quotes by famous people
Just checked documentation. Actually it is OpenGL ES, but based on OpenGL ES 1.0 that doesn't really have any shader support.

So it's GLES 1.0 + some 1.1 features + more additions.
Well it's definitely cheating, not going to argue that.

But it doesn't hurt anyone other than other people vying for the same spot (but they are not paying you, so fuck em).

Your candidates get to take out variance by passing interviews they can clearly pass if they "by chance" prepare for it ahead of time.

And the company will just see you as someone who refers a lot of high quality candidates in terms of interview skills. And it's not like pure deadbeats can pass even with studying all the questions ahead of time. The work being done at tech companies is nowhere near as hard/interesting as the interview questions themselves so they will do just fine on the job.

I might be just a tad jaded. :P
Your "not so dense" country, Germany, has more than 3 times the density Ireland does.
A Former Baltimore Cop Just Tweeted All the Horrible Shit He Saw on the Job
Google code was project hosting, not just source hosting. This clickbait article is talking about a Google product that just does source hosting and is a part of the overall Google public cloud product strategy.
My conspiracy theory is that he did it so that he could work with Neal Poole.
Perhaps, but sometimes a show is just that much more impressive if you understand more of what's going on. The show 'Ergo Proxy' comes to mind. It's got a mysterious plot and some throw off episodes that will really mess you up, but aside from that it's also got loads of references to history and philosophy that I would just not understand because I haven't studied either. The fansub group had small blobs of explanation pop up every once in a while to explain something, it really aided to the feeling you were watching something awesome. The text would only be up for a second, so you'd have to pause to read it. I think my Ghost in the Shell S.A.C subs had something similar.

There's one instance I remember of the fansubbers breaking the 4-th wall unexpectedly. The line the character said as a cliff hanger came from absolutely nowhere and was so staggering that the subber added something along the lines of "We assure you this is no translation mistake", if they hadn't added that I'd think it was so they were right to. (The anime in question is Elfen Lied, I don't suggest you watch it if you're not already deep into J-culture.. and maybe just not at all)
Chicago cubs manager wants nerds doing instant replay
How debacles such as micro-kernels and XServer fits into Unix Philosophy?
Nicolas Huchet: A bionic hand printed in 3D
I don't understand the reasoning here, or you would benefit from dependent types. I am /also/ absolutely sure that /everything/ will shut down in X(company) years.
>McCormick’s income over five years approached $80 million.

What an astounding story. A complete con, but man... I wish I had that kind of talent in sales...
Many police departments administer an IQ test, on which scoring too high is grounds for exclusion. Given that, I'm willing to say maybe we really should deny the police forces a personality filter. The filter they have chosen is terrible.
This is my problem with taxi drivers all over the world. They are essentially anonymous. When you get in a taxi, you're betting on someone you've never met, have no ratings for, have no assurances.

I paid by card for a taxi journey back after a night out drinking here in the UK. The next day I discovered that he'd added more than 25% on as an admin fee, but by that time, there was no way of me easily tracking him down.

I'll be happy when all shuttle services are peer reviewed.

On a side note, why are the taxi drivers allowed to block access to an airport? If members of the public did this then surely there would be action to remove the people and their vehicles? What makes taxi drivers immune to this?
I love this - and it's a rPi case too!
The secret codes of British banknotes
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Should I pursue graduate degrees in law, MBA, AND economics?
I will graduate next spring in Finance. I want to go get my MBA right after graduation and should be able to do this since I have owned my own business for three years.

Do you think it is wise for me to pursue a J.D. in law, MBA, AND masters in economics before I really set my career off?

I did take a couple semesters in Computer Engineering and am debating about perhaps doing either law, MBA, or economics and then getting a bachelors and masters in engineering as well.

Either path will take about 6 years I suspect.

Also, how are some ways I might pay for this besides student loans?

I think these degree combinations would take me a long ways in my career, but the questions seems to be, how far do I want to go with diminishing returns.
Interesting concept. I am usually left with unutilized 20GB+ at the month end. If concept picks up, hopefully I will be able to trade same when traveling.
By the time you're at $2-3M in ARR, you need a VP of Sales who's done it before
> A good translation is supposed to replicate the experience of watching something in its original language

It's my feeling that this should include what would be automatically understood by natives.

I have never found this to go too far - I have always wanted more local context.
> I might have used equipment that was inferior, or been made to perform a procedure of which I thought it will add very little, or maybe almost none value. I definitely haven't been in a position where I have been forced to use something equivalent of a dead brick, and pretend as if it would do something very technically sophisticated (bomb detection).

I've had to use a very expensive product from a big-name tech company that was, as far as I or anyone technical could tell, a JVM that took even longer to start than usual.
+1 for the onenote issue. I spent a lot of time looking for alternatives on linux and didn't find anything close either. It's one of the tipping reasons I use Windows.
Exactly the same kind of experience as you would get in Poland. Fuck the taxi drivers.
It's easier if you can change your sales patter to fit exactly what your client wants to hear.
A best-word solver I presume?
> Java is basically a subset of C++ with some sugar around.

Not sure where you got that from... the notion of a class being a "reference type", which is the foundation of Java, doesn't even exist in C++. Every class type is a value type in C++.
Video is eating the web
I'd rather see his expression if he ever found himself maliciously prosecuted and placed behind bars based on his own specious arguments.
New Kindle Paperwhite Preloaded with 20 Amazon Mysteries
Eating the wrong bagel can put a probationer in the states back in jail. Their drug tests are ridiculous, sometimes.
It's because the kind of massive training sets that are required for accurate speach/text recognition are difficult and time-consuming to amass. It's just too difficult for hobbiests at the moment.

It's kind of the same reason there is no good open source solid modelling software (like Solidworks or NX). The problem has been "solved" for years, but actually doing it is too mammoth a task for open-source software.
Teardown reveals 30% of Beats headphones is metal that makes people insufferable
I guess you didn't pay attention to this years WWDC. Apple pushed Swift harder than they have ever pushed anything else. 7 session mentioned Swift in their title , only one did Obj-C and Swift was also mentioned in that sessions title. Almost all of the examples were in Swift.

The message is clear: learn Swift or be left behind.
I'm Frank, CTO of ArangoDB. As such I'm totally biased :-)

You should also have a look at www.arangodb.com
We also make fun of them for being ideologues. Don't forget that part.
I can see how that would bother impatient kids.
This makes me want to try to find the Ghost in the Shell 1 and 2 fansubs I downloaded years ago. I think one of them included explanations of the context of quotes and cultural references. But I might have trashed the CDs or DVDs once I was able to buy legal copies.

Related to the article, is unfortunate that Netflix has lost some of it's foreign film diversity on streaming. But as they move more and more toward appealing to the masses to lower costs, it's inevitable.
It's actually simple. GitHub tests on their free users and see their reaction. If the feedback is positive, move it to paid clients. If not, keep frustrating your free clients so they move to paid accounts.
Well, it's not like running at anything above 60 FPS makes any sense due to the refresh rate on the vast majority of displays being capped at 60 hz. You can slam geometry through the graphics card above that rate, but some of those frames won't make it to the screen. 30 FPS is not great, but it can be better than having wildly variable framerates. Consistent 30 FPS is better than traditional films, which mostly ran at 24 FPS.

Now, for a fast-twitch action game, processing input at 30 FPS is unacceptable; input lag sucks giant donkey balls. But I would expect that a AAA development studio knows that running input-handling, networking, physics, AI, etc in lock-step with the rendering loop is not the smartest idea. These things should run on their own schedules, independent of the graphical framerate.
Perl is arguable much closer to the Unix philosophy than Python, for better or worse. That said, the "One obvious way" in Python is not exactly the same as "Only one true way".
the startup lifestyle seems very unappealing to me, work 60 hour days for some lottery tickets, that will probably become diluted over time. Maybe thats not the truth but thats how it appears to me on the other side of the pond.

I'm probably one of the 95% but I make a nice little living live near the beach, work from home and basically have a nice life. not sure why I'd subject myself to silicon valley, I suspect the locals overvalue how much everyone else wants to be there.
I agree that he should be charged with fraud.

However the purchasers should be charged with criminal negligence. It's up to them to check the claims of the device in question and test it before putting it in the hands of people.
None of these seem even remotely relevant to engineering. Moreover, research, discovery and innovation requires letting people having freedom to think. That includes holding unpopular, controversial or politically incorrect opinions.

We are so worried about Evil Government dictating what we can and cannot think that we haven't noticed the current organic trend to prosecute every other person for thoughtcrimes. It's not the jackboot that keeps us on the ground, it's social media, and the public outrage you get when you disagree with whatever's the most popular opinion on a topic this week.
There are a lot of very expensive weapon systems that are only slightly less of a fraud than this.
Facebook just got a security upgrade – let's hope it works out
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The board is pushing against the ground (and the load!). If you adjust that force depending on the tilt of the board, you can move it (up to a certain point) to stay under the load.

As others have pointed out, it depends a bit on how much lateral force you can achieve through tilting and reaction forces, but if you can balance a quadcopter, you can balance a hoverboard. It gets a lot easier if your load is attached to the platform.
These inline quotes in some newspapers feel so out of place and irrelevant. They are only good when they are funny, as in this case.
> A good translation is supposed to replicate the experience of watching something in its original language

That's a difficult line to walk, you can do lighter adaption but require more cultural context (which translates into notes to explain said context to those unaware of it) or heavier adaptation removing the cultural context. Depending on the show, the latter may not make any sense, or require significantly more investment to get an acceptable result, and it divorces the translation from the original to a much higher degree.
I've tried this, and it takes about 2 weeks for your body to get used to it. I tried the exact same one every 6hrs a 30m nap. It fell great I lasted about maybe 4-5 days then kept messing up. It's best to do it with a partner to keep you up. They say to do something productive to keep you going, but when I tried to be productive I was craving sleep. And the fact that I was doing it alone didn't help. That's why they say do it with someone, because you can have a convo and keep each other up. Good Luck anybody who goes for it. The only reason people stop other than how hard it is, is simply that everyone else is on a "8hr sleep cycle" I quoted that because most people don't really get that much sleep. Point is the rest of the world is on a monophasic sleeping cycle.
In Greece we have a solution for this, as old as Uber but that works with the taxi drivers instead against them.

Taxibeat is an app you can use to call taxis from your smartphone. You may choose which taxi you want from the list of nearby drivers. For every driver you see his/her name, plates number, car, reviews, whether he permits pets, speaks foreign languages, has wifi, permits smoking, can help people with disabilities etc. Also you can pay with paypal or credit card.

When you take a ride, taxibeat's driver app essentially monitors the ride.

What's interesting is that since the taxi drivers that choose to work with taxibeat know what a smartphone is, know about reviews etc, they are in general very professional and I never had any issues with them, in contrast with the rest. Of course that they are accountable to a company that takes seriously its name, also helps.

The idea went so well that now we have a competitor too, taxiplon, which also works with phone calls.
But, if I'm in an area where people are very unlikely to use my WiFi how do I accumulate 'Karma'? Do I then have to buy Karma?
right click, "Inspect Element". Add an extra CSS rule to the element{}, of display:none. This works on almost all sites with popup overlay crap.

There's probably a plugin which lets you do this with a single toolbar button...
Extreme Wealth and Absolute Squalor: Homelessness in Silicon Valley
For real lulz: print this pattern of small yellow dots on all your business correspondence with big companies, just to screw with their document management systems. Hours of endless fun for all the bureaucrats!

(There's got to be a PDF/postscript file/print filter for the pattern somewhere. Anyone? EDIT: Ah, found it here: http://wildsparx.com/eurionize/ -- download has vanished, but source is on github: https://github.com/jplona/code/blob/master/eurionize.pl )
It's unclear whether you're suggesting his views are not sufficiently objectionable, or you're suggesting he has other views that are very objectionable that weren't enumerated above.
The fact that class methods are not polymorphic is a dead giveaway that Java's heritage is more C++ than Smalltalk/Obj-C.
They'll have to lift their game in Australia then, their offerings are fairly stale and generally B-grade stuff. I've cut the cord, but the old guard are holding onto some of the content at least.

I suspect that is Uncle Rupert's doing though. For the last decade or so Foxtel have been trying to extort Australians by grabbing all the content and charging ridiculous rates, its good to see some competition.

I suspect the corrupt, wizened old greedbag's next move will be in some paragraph of the TPP, where it'll be against the treaty to do what Netflix do and he'll be able to sue the Australian government for anything that restricts his greedy ways.
The PR issue they talk about is nothing new. I met OP at a Gopher meetup in Singapore last year, along with an ex-Hiveage guy. Even there he was complaining about Hiveage and how they had asked him to leave. I don’t want to go all ad hominem here but six months is a pretty long time to put up with a pita customer. The fact that I received emails asking to comment here supporting him probably says more about what’s going on than that blog post. It’s probably the final scene of a drawn out drama.

I’m not a Hiveage user and don’t know much about them, but I am involved with a B2C startup. This is the kind of nightmare I want to stay the hell away from.

P.S. Throwaway, for obvious reasons.
Ask HN: Is there an open source alternative to Travis CI
I'm wondering if there is an Open Source system, I can install on OSX, Windows and Linux, which hooks into a Git repository, so that I can automatically build software for all those platforms easily.

It would need to support a mark up language similar to what Travis CI uses, to enable dependencies to be downloaded prior to install etc.

The reason I ask this, is I've not found a single service which can build for all those platforms, whilst also being very cost effective.
Spotify acquired SeedScientific
Hmm.. I was talking about the UI (I think that's a rather pretty client, comparable to the current WhatsApp/Telegram/whatever thing).

Again, comparing to Telegram [1] (see disclaimer in my previous post: I use that as well):

* Jabber/XMPP is a weird point. You wouldn't need Conversations if you wouldn't have a server to use. You pick up Conversations because a) some friend tells you to install it and connect it to their server or b) you have a server of your own. If you don't know what XMPP is, then yes - this client is not for you.

* Really? Can you look at the Telegram screenshots? Let me bite this time:

Hey Lucy, got a second?

As in the duration of 551557906200 periods of the radiation corresponding between the two superfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atoms? Yes, I might.

We need some data extracted from a secret chat…

* It's free. [2, GPL] I know, Joe User isn't going to build it, but again: You need a server for this to work. If you care about that, I'd say you have ways to save the 2.38 EUR if necessary.

The rest of your points are certainly valid (marketing for XMPP sucks), but again entirely different problems. I highly doubt that most people read the description of the Telegram or WhatsApp apps. Friends recommend it, people install it, use it, done. XMPP is a different case, because it requires a friendly server (and the post installation configuration step where you select one), but that's not quite relevant for the 'looks like something from the 21st century' discussion, is it?

I was trying to make the point that there are ~new~ and current clients for XMPP as well, even if Pidgin looks like shit.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.m...

2: https://github.com/siacs/Conversations
^This

I live in a mediterranean zone near a huge lake and during summer mosquitos are your every night companions (specially if you're working during late night hours). But when a summer storm brews the mosquitos disappear for two or three days. Why? This has been for me a recurrent question, and the answer has been always obvious: few of them survive being hit by raindrops.

You can make 1000 theories about how our tiny vampire friends deal with raindrops, but it's pretty clear that intensive rain (>3hours) wipe out mosquitos population for several days...
I actually liked Circa. I think there is a need for a just the facts articles.
Both exist mostly to disincentivize people from doing something immoral and/or unwanted, not to give light on the truth or false value of observations/evidence.

So the question is, should one really refuse to read/recommend ESR's book because of his opinions? Frankly, this smells to me like Index Librorum Prohibitorum all over again.
I tried circa when it first came out. I failed to find a reason to prefer it over subscribing to the pertinent subs on Reddit for the news I wanted.

The beauty of Reddit and HN is that you can glance at the comments first and usually know instantly whether the article is worth your time. Of course this only works on the smaller communities on reddit. The front page stuff is just drowned in jokes and quips.

Additionally, many experts and thought leaders are active in both communities and actively comment. This helps immensely to cut through rhetoric and falsities in the content.
The Firefox browser.
I'm pretty sure that article is wrong, according to the article Stochastic Resonance is about amplifying non-linear signals by adding noise. The added noise amplifies the signal (i.e. it the result is more than the sum of the weak signal and the added noise).

What he has done is simple dithering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither).

> Dither is an intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quantization error, preventing large-scale patterns such as color banding in images.

Dithering works on standard linear processes (like adding noise to images).
Nvidia  Starts Supplying Open-Source Hardware Reference Headers
Exactly my experience - coming from C++, I never had to "learn" Java at all, and (at least until recently) there were only a handful of Java idioms that were unique to it that you had to grok. And this is exactly what you'd expect from a sensible pragmatic language design back then - take the dominant language in a domain (C++) and simplify it.
Rob Pike doesn't know Smalltalk, Self, or Common Lisp/CLOS--why should you care what his opinions are concerning OO as a paradigm?
There was a huge controversy behind the acceptable ads feature. I think an application like "QBlock" would still stand a chance, but it would have to be transparent and enabled for all web users.
> does the python rule "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." contradict this one ?

The irony is that Python has more ways of doing things in general and often the choice is very much non-obvious, compared to a language like Ruby which is supposedly embracing TIMTOWTDI. In other words, that Python rule doesn't match reality and I've always found it funny.
The Case for the 32-hour Workweek
i would give my workers a decent lunchroom. when i worked there all i could eat was macaroni and cheese.
SFSafariViewController (the new API for presenting a Safari-like browser inside your app) already does support content blocking.
From the article:

"Time is a heavily neglected aspect of user experience. Humans don’t just experience states of a device, they experience the transition between states too. States with hard cuts between them are jarring for the the user.
If an actor in a play were to exit stage right and re-enter moments later from stage left, the audience would notice the lack of continuity. It would be jarring. It would release the immersion."

This is everything I dislike about the 'mobile experience' and exactly why I like using a CLI. I tend to believe I'm not alone.

Oh the glory days of the HP OmniGo 700LX! [1] 1996 'smartphone' (well, it had a built in Nokia 2110), UI with quicker response to user input and screen transitions than most non-flagship smartphones 20 years younger (maybe I'm exaggerating and should upgrade my 4yo smartphone).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1UtCJ84Ris