skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On top of that most of the software you list is all on the web (Netflix, Facebook), so the internet could be said to be all about entertainment. But again that's an oversimplification.

I'm not taking issue with anything you've said, but to wander off topic slightly... The Windows 8.1 app for Netflix is one of the best ways of watching Netflix. It supports the higher bitrate non-4k Hd streams, 5.1 audio, profiles etc.

It works great on the low-end Windows 8.1 tablets (like the Linx 7), whereas the Silverlight and HTML5 browser-based options can struggle to do HD smoothly.

Also there is now Microsoft Office Online. While not as good as the native versions, they are usable.
If you have a backend routing your image request, it's as simple as counting the request and save the count somewhere, along with meta info for that specific image.
>Arguably the isometric rendering looked the best of all the methods

I disagree just based on the few screenshots here. The isometric looks so generic. The latest version almost looks like a 3DS game (especially with the draw distance), but at least it has some character. The isometric screenshot looks like an iPhone RPG that I would see in ads but never actually play.
Well, it's an MS project. It was early, I didn't really think through my typing well.
Zero Hedge compiles a bunch of evidence, too.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-30/did-planned-parenth...
If by literally saying no I am basically saying yes, then I guess I have a lot to work on in terms of writing clarity.
Wow, that would be quite fun! How does one sim water in 3d effectively in this sort of case? Is it basically a 2d grid with a third "depth" variable and some simple rules like "where neighbor depth > mine: +1 to neighbor depth on tick" or something?
Things like this are good for a basis of understanding. But if you need help figuring how to tie stuff all together, the suckless[0] guys are masters of brevity.

[0] http://git.suckless.org/dwm/tree/Makefile
Typescript looks pretty cool
In fact there is a lot of convention typically installed by default:

$ make -pf /dev/null | wc -l
359

Those suffix rules are enough for many projects, and a great example to follow if you need something different.
this held my interest until I clicked play on one of the featured games and it wanted me to install silverlight.
Here is The Economist map and reference to that designated Chinese flight zone. It's definitely displays grandiose ambition:

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21590930-chinas-new-ai...
The linked articles in this LWN article (and the article itself) give some pointers.
https://lwn.net/Articles/607591/
New research unmasks which websites Tor users visit
Honestly, Wittgenstein's philosophical critiques of set theory in relation to the foundations of mathematics still hold true today. Shame he doesn't get more recognition for his great work in logic.
I signed-up for a Transferwise account for that purpose but as noted they also decline to facilitate anything to do with Bitcoin.

They talk the talk about disrupting Big Banking but for many operations they're merely a veneer over the very banks they lambast.
The evidence spans multiple sites' templates as well as the advertising code. Zero Hedge compiles quite a bit of evidence.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-30/did-planned-parenth...
"We don't skip teaching the English language to toddlers in favor of a simpler one."

Well, they used to for a bit in the UK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet

as a result of which I still (5 decades later) sometimes have to stop and think about the spelling of quite routine words. So I agree - toddlers get a subset with a restricted vocabulary and simple grammar but one that is actually a subset of English.

Now - if I wanted to learn enough Javascript/CSS/Canvas stuff to make a series of 'drag-gable diagrams' for use on an interactive whiteboard (e.g. area of trapezium or pythagoras' result) where shall I start? I have the head first book and I sort of like their approach.
Thanks for taking the time to write that out, it's appreciated. That was one of the best answers I've had to any question I've ever asked online.
Show HN: DonateYourStreams – Fund Watsi and Charity: Water with music royalties
I think the difference here is that Vietnam isn't extending it's claim to thousands of miles off shore.

The article clearly shows Vietnam is building islands too. It also shows them being pretty close to mainland Vietnam.
Except I'm on no side in this fight: we use both, have friends in both side, and we host FFmpeg's git. I may be not 100% objective, but I'm more objective than a developer from one of the side.

The fork is hurting us a lot. It means a lot of work.
Ask HN: Who's looking for a cofounder?
Last month this tread was resurrected as a complement to the monthly who's hiring threads. Let's keep it going!

You should mention what you are working on, where you are located, what stage you are in, who you are looking for, what you can bring to the table and a way to contact you.

See last month's thread for examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9795503
I'm pretty sure I can dig up comments like this from both sides from 4 years ago, especially from IRC logs.
New Yorker's really do have a heart
Obama rolls out plan to boost U.S. supercomputer prowess
How did you prepare the kale?

The graph says "Time (s)", but those can't be seconds. What's up?

So you did a dozen pinpricks to measure glucose? Does that start to get bothersome?
I'm not quite that strict with my main work machine, but I am very careful about what I install on it, and typically my browsing is all work related or the occasional site likely to be very safe (BBC News at lunchtime, say).

I do want to point out that the OpenType issue you mentioned is really an OS bug rather than a browser one, though. It's a good demonstration that ultimately any OS facility that is used by browsers is a potential vulnerability, and crucially it's a cross-browser vulnerability and therefore more attractive to attackers.

What I'd really like is for all my platform software -- OS, browsers, language runtimes and the like -- to focus on stability and quality, with new features taking a secondary role. But I guess that doesn't sell new and shiny to customers^Wconsumers with an Internet-era attention span. :-(
Some tasteful flaming is healthy in situations like this. Many people consider systemd to be a hijacking of the projects that they base their careers and livelihoods on, and many people see hundreds or thousands of hours of work they've invested being steered in an unsavory direction by a corporation or three.
We were all good since last few hours (post the outage session in the morning) but just 10 mins back our ELB again automatically deregistered all the EC2 instances. Is the issue still happening?
It was indeed amazing in the end. Still the best phone Nokia ever made. Which of course made it all the more tragic when it was killed for the disaster that was Windows Phone.
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Game's are hacks through and through, generally speaking. No technique works well in all aspects there are always tradeoffs. Even if something only works well for isometric views doesn't mean it's not good. Just sayin'.
>calling them ISIS

I think you can fairly reliably tell the quality of news source based on what they call this organization.

You should just ignore anyone calling them ISIS. At least listen to anyone who calls them ISIL. Anyone who still calls them IS, or the Islamic State, needs to get with the times. Finally, you can probably trust that anyone referring to them as Daesh knows what they are talking about.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/10/09/words-matter-...
Fun game.. got to a little over 7k then accidentally hit refresh instead of taking another screenshot http://puu.sh/jkiEJ/fb05f05d1e.png
Building a dataflow graph with Python
Heart patient: Apple Watch got me in and out of hospital
Wow, the concept of citizens' panels sounds awesome. I wish we had something similar in the US. It's the perfect solution for dealing with police shootings, where prosecutors are reluctant to indict an officer (since they need to work closely with police in their everyday work).
> Is the info about the attempted coup d'état wrong then?

It's partially untrue, yes. There was an actual vote from all the active developers to remove Michael from leadership, and that included the infrastructure developers.

But yes, the fork was very badly done.
Facebook Taking Open Source Software Ethos to Drones
Firstly, congrats to the author on launching a nice polished game!

I think what's missing from the experience (compared to Agar.io) is the suspense. In this game, I find myself kinda drifting all over the place (and moving quickly). I'm terrible at other drifty games like Mario Kart, etc, so it could just not be as fun because I'm not as good :) But the speed difference definitely contributes to the lack of suspense, which makes it a much less compelling experience for me personally.
As a systemd committer, I certainly can. I don't have time for all of them, so I'll pull the first couple and a few other egregious ones.

> Systemd was introduced to decrease the boot up time. Now that they do not understand all implications and dependencies, let us add some artifical time we found out might work for the developers laptops. More on this small world hypothesis of the systemd devleopers below.

systemd was not introduced to decrease boot time; it was introduced to properly manage dependencies and parallelism. Such an approach happens to massively improve boot times in many cases, but that's a side-effect. The delay introduced is specifically to account for the slow/unreliable initialization of certain docking station hardware that has no other known reliable method for detection. (This is what happens in Linux with certain reverse-engineered hardware.) Importantly, this delay doesn't impact boot time, only introduces a delay before allowing the system to sleep, so even the (made up) point about systemd being about boot times isn't affected here.

> Screen brightness is something that should crash your boot up when it is not working.

The TODO item is about avoiding restoration of screen brightness at boot to such a low level that some laptops consider it to be a "backlight off" state. Someone may have shut a laptop down (even automatically) with the backlight off, but we think it should probably turn back on on the next boot. Absolutely nothing to do with "crashing" bootup.

> Systemd made kdbus non-optional in its release.

Totally made up. systemd's DBus library provides equivalent support for usermode DBus and kdbus.

> This one is a setback. Why is there no default editor in systemd in case of factory reset?

I'm not sure what this is even claiming. Is this some sort of trolling about complexity the author thinks systemd will eventually add and is some sort of advance critique?

In general, the piece shows disingenuous portrayal of actual issues to the level of clickbait and fails to understand that not everything in systemd's git repository runs as part of PID 1 (like the network management tools, for example, are a totally separate and optional daemon).
I dunno. From the viewpoint of "ease of use" AWS definitely can use a layer to improve things.
Fair enough - though I'm not sure if I will just take your word for it that the potential for new releases of new cesium 137 is not an ongoing threat from Fukushima Daiichi. The only way we can know for sure I suppose, is through the efforts of independent researchers brave enough to get close to the facility.

In the spirit of HN, it would be neat to see an open technology solution for the purposes of monitoring. Ie:

if(waterSample.cesium137 > 0.001) return ALARM(waterSample)
I'm sure it would cost a shipload...
Ask HN: Need help deciding our Dev tool chain
We are a 3 member team working on an Android, iOS, Windows Phone App, with a Python (Major) / PHP (Minor) backend and with PostgreSQL DB(Major) + Mongo DB (Minor) Components.

We are currently using GitLab as our Repo, and Digital Ocean as our hosting provider

What should we do about the following: 1.) Whats the best Bug tracking + idea board + task assignment platform? We are debating between Asana and Phabricator

2.) We will likely need a CI as well, We have no clue about what to use, everything seems really expensive.

3.) Should we change our hosting and repository provider?

Anyway, we are trying to get something that will balance cost and ease of setup & use. Thanks for the help
Working on a couple of side projects. I'm 25 yr old a software developer and can program in multiple languages (both fe and be). Also have experience with arduino and rPi. Looking for someone to work with on any cool project just hate doing stuff on my own. Living in the Bay area. Hit me up by email ziyad.parekh@gmail.com
In my apartment complex, a front-locked door blocks the entry foyer area. Packages are just dropped off in a pile in this area, so I'm guessing usps/ups/fedex have a key somehow.

That isn't perfect (your immediate neighbors still have access), but I'm actually happy with this compromise.
would be nice if you could play with only a mouse. that was a huge plus for agar.io
Which would you prefer, knowing what you know?
It's not a resource grab... those are major shipping routes. It's an economic control grab.
I little bit ago I wrote an article on that topic, here are my two words (would love to reignite the discussion)
[...]

The definition of Engineering as Wikipedia defines it:

Engineering is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials, and processes.

So based on these words the case is quite clear. Software development is engineering. We apply practical knowledge to invent, build, maintain, research, improve structures, machines, devices systems and processes. Our software applications.

The definition of Art as Wikipedia defines it:

Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, usually involving imaginative or technical skill. In their most general form, these activities include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art. [..] Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however, like the decorative arts, it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential

So again, we could say Software development is a product of an activity involving imaginative AND technical skills where the practical considerations of use are essential.
Is software development part of the decorative/visual arts?

In terms of art and by drawing the parallel to Architecture we could assume that a software developer has enough freedom to choose from a variety of foundations, building blocks. Developers influence the "Gestalt" of the final product and no two systems will look the same. Software development can be considered a unique form of art with intricate nuances that follow simple concepts we find in engineering.
[...]

The full article is at: http://www.artofsoftwaredevelopment.com/art-or-engineering/i...
(I'm not sure if posting the link is appropriate, please let me know and I'll take it out.)
Would you mind telling me where it is biased?
> why doesn't someone (like VLC) take the best features from both projects and create their own library?

Because that in itself would be a huge project, with moving targets as the source projects develop over time. If it were that easy the VLC people would just implement everything themselves and not need either library.

> I never understood the OSS communities. It just seems simple to me. If you don't like it, fork it and do your own.

The problem is, of course, the humans.

People sometimes take things very personally even when not meant that way. A significant fork for no good reason can distract from the work of the core project and dilute the user-base, and people will not always agree on what a good reason is/n't. Sometimes the problem is stated as poor code and/or procedure quality, and this can be taken as a rather direct insult.

Sometimes massive forks happen because of differing priorities between different groups of people and everything is perfectly amicable - you don't hear about these cases much (unless it inconveniences the userbase) because there is no drama to make a noise about. Sometimes these forks later re-merge, sometimes one becomes clearly superior and the other fades out, sometimes they go on to be completely separate projects.

It sounds like three are personal issues involved in this particular mess that we don't exactly know about so can#t hope to fully understand because the discussions started in private and have not been published and as we all know any argument, especially one that has gone on for some time, people can lose track of the true chronology of the issue and that can make reconciliation near impossible.
Thanks - its actually world space :)
Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to send other people updates
I have a growing interest in statistics, partially coming from a lifelong love of basketball. I am comfortable with Python and have done a few small projects in it. How can I use my Python skill with statistics for more projects like this? Can anyone point me the right way? Does not have to be basketball related at all.
>2.1 x 10^10%

I guess you mean 2.1 x 10^-10%?
1/2/3/4 is much more common in acquisitions than it is anywhere else, so maybe the dystopia that is these kind of deals will become the norm for regular hiring.
I just ate the kale raw from a box. The brand was Taylor Farms, i.e.

http://www.taylorfarms.com/products/organic-salads/baby-kale...

This is an unreasonable amount of kale :-). I'm going to need to figure out a better meal:kale ratio or use a different vegetable side.

Actually, you're right. They're minutes. I started sampling my blood glucose when I started eating. Let me go ahead and add annotations to some of those data points, especially the data points that correspond to the end of the meal.
> coming online near Vegas that's going to be selling solar at around 4 cents/kwh

The big problem there is that they'll sell you that energy when they have it, not when you need it. Production is really becoming cheap with renewables; storage is the real problem (and a very big one).
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Mostly GPU - the logistics of the fluid simulation are the only expensive thing that runs on the CPU really
That's not what Brendan or Mozilla said. Why don't you ask him? Has Brendan Eich or anyone else ever contradicted this:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...

Q: Was Brendan Eich asked to resign by the Board?

A: No. It was Brendan’s idea to resign, and in fact, once he submitted his resignation, Board members tried to get Brendan to stay at Mozilla in another C-level role.
By the way, I forgot to ask do you object to my post about "killing" the Russel set because you don't accept the existence of universal set or because you don't understand how {x in S| x not x} helps here? If it's the former, can you assume that U exists and explain how {x in S| x not x} solves the problem? So that I know you're not simply "saying things".
Only if you're biased towards a realist philosophical view. Though admittedly it makes many feel warm and fuzzy, there's really no evidence for it over positions like intuitionism.
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Constituents and sources of funding differ from a university to a city.

Most universities and gated communities are, in effect, private cities within larger municipalities. A "Private" city generally has a private police force paid for by the inhabitants, and a public city should have a public police force paid for by the public.

This guy is taking private policing to his surrounding public neighborhood.
Switching measurement systems is tough, but switching number systems would be about a million times harder. (Or about 12^5.5 times harder, if you prefer.) I have trouble imagining where you'd even start....
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/re...
Is he that unpopular? Me and most of my friends like him, and we're disappointed that he got left out of the movies.
There's a pretty big difference in China sending a couple of warships to the gulf and USSR setting up a nuclear missile base with missiles pointed at the US on Cuba.
Exactly the kinds of subliminal charges that are making people cut the cord. Netflix and other streaming services are better bang for your buck anyways.
If it's covered by law and you qualify, you most certainly can use similar loopholes. That's the thing, many times what people call "loopholes" are actually badly written tax laws. Sometimes it is by mistake, sometimes it is intentional for potentially nefarious reasons. But if you qualify, you can do it.

Otherwise, there are similar "loopholes" in complex tax codes. You just need to find them.
The TV show Archer also had that problem.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/13/showbiz/tv/archer-isis-fx/
Taxes are tax deductible? True, but pointless.

I think the "fundamental difference" is key. I don't ultimately see any real difference between taking 12.4% of my pay (under $118,500) for Social Security, and taking a variable percentage of my pay for government operations in general. It's money, based on a percentage of what I earn, that goes to the government, i.e. an income tax.
People don't deliver stuff to their places of work?

That's what I do. Never seems to be an issue for anyone.
Your robot package cabinets are more or less exactly what Amazon has deployed as "Amazon Lockers" [1] at least in the Seattle area. It works remarkably well for normal-sized packages. They are popular enough in "walkable" parts of the city that some of them are routinely full.

Shortsighted placement has occasionally put them in shopping mall interiors that are not 24/7, despite having a 24/7 grocery store in the complex... Hopefully these issues will be ironed out in time.

[1] http://goo.gl/fZNqmH <-- Links to Amazon.com
Mike Pall is an international treasure whose work on LuaJIT has been without parallel in the embedded/gaming world. I hope this move is born of desire and moving on to great new things rather than any type of necessity.
You're completely right. I started reading this on my commute and am thoroughly enjoying it. Thanks for sharing!
Wilted kale and spinach both lose a crazy amount of volume. I wonder how that would affect the experiment. It would be much easier to eat a large volume. Just fry in a pan with a bit of salt and oil.

Also, does caffeine in soda (so often paired with this meal) speed digestion enough to make blood sugar spike? I always assumed that caffeine increases your metabolism, but I didn't consider that speeding digestion is worse for blood sugar.
Nationalism is how they sell it to voters (not a big issue in China). It's always about money.
Loads of great social tech ideas including this one on Social Tech Guide (http://socialtech.org.uk/), nominations are open for new ones at the moment if you come across any more..