skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Interstate analogy was used to encourage the adoption of the Internet.

Al Gore Senior "was instrumental in sponsoring and enacting the legislation creating the Interstate Highway System".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gore,_Sr.

Al Gore Junior, the former US vice president, "promoted legislation that funded an expansion of the ARPANET, allowing greater public access, and helping to develop the Internet".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_techno...

Al Gore certainly saw the parallels with what his father had done, and the "information superhighway" phrase was a direct reference.
Why does a stylus need bluetooth? I thought it interacted with the display much like a finger (just more precise). Unless they are using thermal touch sensors?
> If the two clocks are stationary with respect to each other, that isn't a problem. Most of Google's servers are on the Earth's surface, so...

...you can't generally guarantee that they are (even approximately) stationary with respect to each other, because points on the earth's surface (in general) are not stationary with respect to each other in an inertial frame of reference.
Thanks for the feedback. I was actually just using twitter to simplify the process of signing up and maintaining real user accounts (not bulletproof, I know). But I can see how the "Sign up with Twitter" might turn some folks off. I'll see if I can change those permissions. The app doesn't actually post or read anything, so that can be modified.
I can say with absolute certainty that (at least in America) reinstalling Windows does NOT void your warranty (despite what any rep may tell you), and selling you a device with a problem they assured you didn't exist is fraud.

I would return the laptop for a refund (regardless of how long you've had it), and if they refuse to take it back (which they likely will), file a small claims case in NC (I know, not necessarily an option depending on where you are). They may try to argue that you 'agreed' to arbitration, but because they misrepresented the quality of the device, you can argue that agreement was 'signed' under false pretenses, and isn't legally binding.

I'd also post recordings of your support calls online if you have them, or call back and record new ones if you don't. Posting those online does not run afoul of the broadcast laws which apply to phone recordings, and recording calls with only one party aware is legal in all but 11 states, and everywhere once they tell you they're recording the call.

I'm doing the same damn thing with the tech companies that screwed me over, so I made sure to do my homework.
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Then their message won't be heard, and their research will be for naught if they cannot defend themselves in forums where it counts.

A related principle: a company with amazing products (Hlaska and countless others) fails if no one knows about it.
This isn't a final decision. And it seems partly related to the unique situation where the NLRB doesn't have full jurisdiction over all parties.

If I'm reading it right, the NLRB doesn't want to introduce an unfair scenario where players at some universities have some rights and players at other universities don't have these rights. But of course that could just be redirection.
I wonder if it would be useful to run emacs within a browser based editor like Atom. It even seems plausible to be able to seamlessly switch editors "containers" for particular operations without even leaving a file (using the editors API to replace the pointer in the same place).
It would be nice if Comcast delivered the speeds they promised. Currently paying for the 250mbps down package and on average i'm lucky to get 80mbps
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This article is to promote the author's new book.
This sounds very similar to http://google.github.io/incremental-dom/#about (esp skipping the virtual part).

Can anyone point out any notable differences?
> Why does a stylus need bluetooth? I thought it interacted with the display much like a finger (just more precise).

Styluses often have interaction mechanisms other than the pointer (e.g., the button on Samsung's "S-Pen".)
If you have a crawl space or basement, you can install electrical under-floor heating at fairly affordable costs. Basically the heating element comes in a roll which you then tack the the underside of your floor.

I have lived with such a system before for a year and it was both easy to use and did a good job of heating the space. I don't remember the electricity costs so I can't comment on the economic efficiency, but AFAIK it's moderately good. I wish I had it in this house instead of the noisy, draughty, and inefficient gas-powered duct heating which I avoid switching on whenever possible.
One might object that forgetting to add <whatever> to the list is really not a terribly large problem, and you would be right- but $5 is also not a terribly large sum.
If you haven't heard of DabbleDB, this video is a good introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZmYMWKLkY. It shared some goals with Eve, like letting people easily enter and manipulate data, though as far as I know it never tried to support general-purpose programming.
They're two, really: One is when I want to collaborate with a friend on a project (we both use vim, so we work on the terminal), and I don't want to set up a new account and transfer all the files, set up the environment and give him free rein on it, and the other is to quickly debug some issue on a remote friend's computer while he can see what I'm doing and learn from it.
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That was definitely where they screwed up: universities. They have recent program pushing mainframes to universities more. However, they would've been better off (a) giving them to Universities at physical cost, (b) donating time to their students from a pool IBM themselves use, or (c) supporting the Hercules emulator for use in educational institutions that acquire licenses. This would've gotten more exposure. Each are still good moves today.

Not sure what they're actually doing but closing it off too much holds them back. It can still be proprietary. However, people need to be able to hack on it or a VM of it for best results. Preferably, a way for people to learn it in pieces so they don't have to know all mainframe stuff at once. Think the pre-configured, appliance VM's for various services. Have those for z/OS admins, CICS users, etc.
> since to run HN that way would be stupid and the whole thing would have fallen apart years ago.

That's just not true though. Huge governments have survived through propaganda, brainwashing, etc. (not necessarily accusing YC of doing that, just making a point). Forums can persist in any direction you want if they're carefully and meticulously managed, one can partake in rampant banning, censoring, etc. and it'll all still be fine, it happens everywhere all the time.
What are the use cases for this?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
In other news: grass still green.
Out of curiosity, which bucket does your case fall into?

1. You've had numerous bad experiences with HR across multiple companies, leading you to label "99%" of HR as rotten.

2. You've had one or two bad experiences with HR, and you're extrapolating from that and just assuming that 99% of HR is rotten.

3. Some other option I don't see.
fun story - cto of my old job had a mug with a picture of babage on it that he was given as a gift or an award or something.

he was very proud of it, so naturally we (tech team) stole it, hid it for a month or two, created the same image that was on the mug in photoshop and ordered a replica online.

We then created a fake email account and started sending him ransom emails ending with a video of the replica mug getting smashed. good times.
If you like this stuff, I really, really recommend The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. It's a great half-comic-book half-historical scholarship. The second half is contained in footnotes and primary sources, which are about half the book, and it's delightfully fun.
Does the spec explicitly tells about how to time tasks vs microtasks? I was under the impression that it was up to the implementation and not relevant.

To add something more, I would really like to see an example where this actually ruins a program execution.

Edit: And this is wrong because... ?
I just skimmed through decorators. I don't use python too much and decorators always seemed a little bit black magic for me. Thanks for proving this wrong.
Thanks for that, great info. I've opened an issue https://github.com/Netflix/falcor/issues/430 as it really should be included on the website.
Er, that's the swimming spaghetti monster. Not the same...
Well, over a decade late to this party, but seems like they're being dragged forward.
I think you should change it to reduce confusion. "Intermediate Python Programming" should be good enough.
Does Face Time with Investors Make a Startup More Successful?
Call them and complain. Demand a refund, and if they don't provide it, report them to the FTC. That's the advice I got from a charter cable technician after he replaced all the cable wiring in my house and my Internet speeds were slower when he finished. The cable company was oversubscribed at the node and by the time the rewire was done the evening Netflix crunch had started.
I totally agree it's too painful to set up. That's why I didn't despite the excellent work done on Hercules. I really wanted to have a mainframe running on my PC to screw with. However, the list of steps and background knowledge to even get started were ridiculous.

That's why I broached in another comment an application, VM model like we saw for VMware, etc. They have a pre-configured VM for about everything. Could do the same for various aspects of mainframes so people could selectively use or learn each piece while slowly building up understanding. Pre-configured Hercules with some good tutorials on usage might be a start if not the other model.
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There are definitely some symmetries there, but also differences. These users don't think so abstractly. They get their computation working on one set of numbers and then, if they need to reuse it, copy-paste and modify.
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There are plenty of other companies that also have tech that Google doesn't have or use too. Google has all these amazing tech, but I can assure you working at Google doesn't mean you will ever get to use it directly.
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>I'm okay with apps becoming non-profitable commodities,

You're delusional if you think you will have free AND excellent apps at the same time. It's usually "pick one" situation.

To have great apps you need incentive for developers to make them (which is 99% of the time MONEY). Take the money out of the equation and you have mostly junk.
It's popular to observe that cell phones are more powerful than the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Well, this button further highlights just how far along we've come.

The Apollo 11 AGC was 16-bit, 2MHz.

The Dash Button is 32-bit, 120MHz, and at $5 is practically disposable.
Text is a rather small part of web traffic. Most bandwidth nowadays is used to deliver multimedia content (music and movies), much of it in real time.

Several people have written articles about how the Internet has been and is being changed to work as a more efficient video distribution network, which is a long way from the original idea.....

Some of that is paid for by subscriptions (eg Netflix, Spotify) though I assume the vast majority is -- like most radio and television -- paid for by advertising.
Not to be snarky, but what's wrong with Alt+Tab (Or platform-specific equivalent)? You still have to use multiple windows -- that both happen to be in the browser doesn't seem particularly important.
Am I attracting Pluto?
First, figure out how to solve problems.
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Toptal arguably does this, but it's not an open freelance platform by any means.

I think that vetting both sides would be one way, albeit a bit difficult to really do once you're trying to scale.
Likewise with the "predictions" of the authors likes/dislikes. Testing how the model will perform on an independent data-set (or at least cross validation [1]) would be much more interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation_(statistics)
Is that a single-system image, I/O offloaded, and five 9's? What's the x86 equivalent for that?
"Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true." —Steinbeck (East of Eden)
The article makes some valid points, though it's mixed in with a bit much anarchist/nihilist philosophy.
It wouldn't be a window manager then though...
Google unveils the final name for Android M: Marshmallow
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I would never work for a company like this, for any reason. I'd change careers (i.e., flip frozen cow parts for a living) before submitting to something like this. What a horrible product, and a horrible CxO for implementing/allowing it.
Sweet. I've been doing this in Rails helpers, and it's a pain.

Now, how would I add this to my Rails asset pipeline? I'm thinking either:

* Port to Ruby, or

* Use this as a microservice.

??
On this note it seems incredibly important to make sure the medium has something analogous to refactoring in code: ways to tranform the system into a better form in discrete, safe steps that do not change the behavior.
Lawyers an bring law suits against the
police. My understanding is that there
are a lot of such suits and that they
cost taxpayers a bundle.

If the guy in the OP got a lawyer and won
a big judgment, say, $500,000, then
voters and, then, politicians would start
to take notice. If the SF police keep
attacking
old guys, then too soon one of them will
die, and the law suit could cost SF
millions. Then the politicians will
start to take positions and the voters
to vote.

Sure, one of the reasons the police get
away with stop and frisk, etc. is the
war on drugs. And if drugs are found
often enough, then that in effect justifies
the illegal stop and frisk.

But drugs do not have to have any direct
relevance: I doubt that the OP was really
about drugs. Instead, the cops just got
their jollies beating up on a poor, old,
handicapped, black guy on the sidewalk
in a high end business district -- jollies.
I'm not here to talk about drugs. How does this connect back to ivory and whether or not we should produce large quantities of fake ivory?
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How Apple is teaching the world about app connections
Everytime I use a terminal in the browser for a live demo I end up running into horrible keybinding conflicts between the two (hitting C-w to delete backwards word and instead closing the tab).
Build something small, anything, from scratch and launch it.
Apache licensed code can be included in a GPL project, not the other way around. If the project includes any GPL code, the whole thing is GPL.
> I have to wonder though, does anyone actually "recharge" when they're with a group of people or do they just have a higher tolerance for spending time with others before they need to be alone?

In American and Australian societies, extraverts outnumber introverts 10 to 1. Growing up a fairly severe introvert as an American had me labeled as that weird loner outcast from a young age. Always spending time with other people is the norm. Spending a lot of time alone is seen as weird and antisocial. I've known kids whose parents have sent them to shrinks and medicated them because of such "antisocial behavior" as sitting in their room for days on end reading books.

In cities, most people literally don't have 10 minutes of alone time. I certainly didn't and it drove me to the brink of insanity after a number of years. Outside of cities, most people have families and also have little time alone.

That said, introvert/extrovert isn't an on/off switch. It's a spectrum. A sliding scale.
F# has very slick interop. It has first class support for .Net objects, so nearly all C# libs work fine from F#. There are a few exceptions, where library writers take really moronic shortcuts to make up for C# lack of basic features, like tuples and list literals. But that just makes them sightly silly to use, that's all. That's probably less than 5-10% of libraries. F# contains some sugar to gloss over a lot of ugly C# idioms so things generally work surprisingly smoothly.

What I find more confusing is C#'s love of mutation. For instance, "fluent" interfaces, where you call an object's method and it returns the same object. I find it confusing in C#, and it seems even more out of place in F#.

F# feels less complex than C# - less "axioms". I've not evaluated this even remotely formally, but it's the feeling I have, being familiar with both. F# really is faster and easier to work with. While yes, F# can't eliminate null references (even inside the language, you can force null) it is far less of an issue.

F# has some of its own libraries, and then also you'll find wrapper libraries to F#-ise other libs. The F# community seems very helpful and excellent. Even the F# team is far more engaged than C#'s ever was. I'm so impressed that once I emailed them with an issue, and Don Syme offered to get me a custom build to tide me over until my problem was officially fixed. This was well after F# has started gaining stream. They are very nice people, and amazingly competent.
Because zoning codes mandate it: see The Rent is Too Damn High (http://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp/B0...) and The Triumph of the City (http://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Health...) for more.

The short version is this: Property owners now have shocking amounts of control over what their neighbors do with property. Owners, especially of single-family houses, elect officials who restrict development through zoning and similar means. Height limits and parking requirements effectively mandate single, detached housing in most of the U.S.

This only really got started in the 70s (see http://jakeseliger.com/2013/07/03/jane-jacobs-is-everywhere-...), and it didn't get really bad until the 2000s, when the shift back to cities ran into insane urban zoning rules to produce huge affordability crises. By now, most developers who dare to build condos or apartments have to build luxury apartments: http://www.wsj.com/articles/rents-rise-faster-for-midtier-ap... because that's the only way to make the economics work.

In the meantime, much of the population growth has shifted to Sun Belt cities in Texas, Arizona, Georgia, and Florida where development is easier and/or simply sprawls more.
Both those formats feel very unfriendly to me. Lots of odd standards that I have never seen on any other popular API.

JSON Graph seems to just need one: { $type: "ref" }
Sorry to hear about your situation.

A. Starting with questions relating to business viability:

A1. Are the customers paying enough to
provide a reasonable income?

A2. Are the backlog of paying work
and revenue growing?

A3. Are you exclusively spending your time completing
paying work and directly finding paying work?

If the business isn't viable or your time is being spent on playing house or both, it's time to pull the plug.

B: Relationship questions:

B1. Do you value your marriage more than your dream?

B2. Are their children involved?

These all come into play even if the business is viable because it is orthogonal to family stability.

Pulling the plug on a non-working business now is better than slow heat death. A bootstrapped business is different from a investment fuelled startup. Just surviving is good for a startup because it allows the possibility of exponential growth. A just surviving small business takes nearly as much energy, but only offers an upside of "a little better than surviving". Figure out if you're treading water to protect sunk cost.

Good luck.
For me personally, there's usually a gap in time between when I notice <whatever> needs to be replenished and when I actually do it. Hence, the possibility to forget. Having the button co-located with the item in question essentially eliminates that problem. And $5 is worth it for me not to have to make a special trip to the store when I really DO need <whatever>.
The team and what cool things they've built before. No idea applications are allowed now.
I asked for "What exactly were you looking for? Which libraries did you find that were alpha or abandoned?"

You only said "Web development."

Now you're addressing completely different problem domains, so if you don't like my answer, than that is because your initial answer to my question wasn't very clear. Were my questions unclear?
Version control, refactoring, code reuse, etc. are big items on the roadmap for the next release. We have some interesting ideas, including the realization that refactoring in this sort of system can take the form of graph rewrites.

Here's a post on our dev diary about version control: http://incidentalcomplexity.com/2015/04/22/version-control/
This idea has been around for a while and is really better solved by the concept of community paramedicine [1], which several areas in the US are currently piloting. Like other commenters have mentioned, the economics of having a physician perform these basic tasks severely limits the profitability.

1. http://www.naemt.org/Files/MobileIntegratedHC/UC%20Davis%20C...
@sklogic, I have been looking for something like MBase. Is there something like a beginner's tutorial anywhere?
this sounds terribly cruel.
Shit, what I need is "How to publish a package to PyPi in 3 easy steps."

I go around and round with the Python Packaging Authority's documentation.
Hypervisor is built-in. Single-core up to 2x faster clock than x86 per core. Double the cache. Decimal support built-in is great for financial calculations. Security advantage in that about every malware and attack tool is written for x86 with some attention shifting to ARM.
Are you sure overlay doesn't support subtitles? IIRC, they had a special color value that the graphics card replaced with the decoded video, and they just didn't use that color wherever they wanted to display subtitles. This is just from memory and from what I deduced, so take it with a grain of salt.
Paraphrasing Felix Dennis: Barely passable ideas with good marketing and timing can work if the execution is solid.

This also holds up to other research concluding timing is the biggest factor.

I've seen a number of solid startup teams cash in on recycling good ideas from the past (m&a shutdown) and execute well to satiate similar, modern needs. Novelty can be risky (Pebble / Apple Watch) because the latest entrant can learn and improve on what came before.
Yeah, I'd really like to see that number. I bet it's so big that it's highly negotiable and still highly profitable. ;)
Or OEMs could just put decent batteries in the phones? Huawei has the Mate 2 with a 4000mAh battery. I easily get over a full 24-hour day. I never worry about charging it.

Other OEMs could do this if they wanted. But they choose to slice another mm off thickness, and everyone's happy if they can get through 12 hours without charging.

If Apple has chose to ship a battery capable of lasting 24 hours, everyone would just take it for granted that this is obviously how devices should work.
Hmm, so in a tech filed where you have the IP or some legal rigmarole to protect a complicated process-invention-proceedure-etc, it is statistically easier to see that it's a winning bet.

I mean, duh. But this is important because it doesn't hold for companies trying to be another FB or Zynga, those are gambles.

If the company has good stuff and the wherewithal to protect it, good people will know it when they see it.
Maybe I am overlooking something but why don't you subscribe her to Amazon's "Subscribe & Save" program? This way she will consistently get her deliveries and might even save 5% to 15%.