skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point here is that in no reasonable definition of the words we are using does capitalism optimize (or even attempt at) giving people what they want. The only way to claim that is to redefine "what people want" as "what capitalism gives them" tautologically, which is I think the point the poster you're responding to was getting at which I think you've completely missed.

And telling people they are thinking emotionally and not rationally is unbelievably condescending and unnecessarily insulting and has no place in a discussion forum like this. Please try to be respectful.

I think the point to take away is that capitalism is a machine which mindlessly maximizes SOMETHING, disregarding all other things, and that thing isn't necessarily good. I think you're very right to point out that the 'something' is actually dynamic in some sense, though that doesn't save capitalism from the argument here. Dynamic can be bad: I suspect it's dynamic based on the material desires of the particular tiny group of human beings who happen to currently posses a great deal of capital, which is not a particularly good thing.
The best example is the Ogallala Aquifer. "At places, the water table was measured to drop more than five feet (1.5 m) per year at the time of maximum extraction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer So it's a huge resource of fresh water that's being drained much faster than it's replacement rate. But, building deeper wells is cheap and there is little value in untapped water so it's reasonable for now.

However, long term it's a finite resource. At the same time a lot of fresh water ends up in the ocean so desalination needs to compete with simply moving water around.

Locally when transport is more expensive than desalination it may be useful, but long term it's a balancing act between moving water a thousand miles+, desalinating locally, or increasing efficiency.

PS: In theory these Aquifers could be used as a cheap form of transport, but when any well get's to tap the water for 'free' who pays for it becomes a major issue.
I assume you're using a very big TV. I'm currently looking at a ~38" TV from about 10 feet away, and can't see the pixels on the 720p content from my 2010 AppleTV.

>60" TVs are a thing, but they're a serious niche, especially outside the U.S., where homes tend to be smaller. Apple would simply be adding cost to work for the tiny amount of the market who both want a really huge TV, and happen to have gotten a 4k one, and they'd probably have to release a hardware revision or so anyway in a year or so she the connectivity issues around 4k resolve themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech
I didn't either, but interestingly on this image and the ones on the OP, if I tilt my laptop screen (Macbook Air) such that I'm looking at it very obliquely I can see the other image..
Apple implemented our concept of ‘Live Photos’ and did a much better job
Leave it to economists to claim a correlation, and simply forget to say that the best models (supported by lots of empirical evidence) predict it's a causation.
Sorry, I messed up on formatting and I am unable to edit my post. Is it good form to delete and repost my submission?
At what viewing distance, though? I have a 65 inch 1080p set that I sit 12 feet from. Without my glasses, I can't tell the difference between 1080p and 480p at that distance.
Show HN: Weather Search – find places by weather
All you need to do is require 5 years of warranty that is not crippled beyond reason. It would fix most of the problems within a year.

Anything non-consumable broke? Fix it.

It is getting unbearable: washing mashines, fridges, phones, laptops dying within few years.
Engineering MeetUp – Sept. 18th – Minted
Hi!

This is Stephanie from Minted, and we are hosting our 3rd Engineering Meet Up on Friday, September 18th! Light bites and drinks will be served at 6:00pm with presentation starting at 6:30pm.

Tim Worsley, our Distinguish Engineer, will present an overview of what website scaling means, what some of the common bottlenecks are, and how to address them with Amazon Web Services. He will also give an overview of the Amazon Web Services being talked about, and how to use them well. The talk will focus mostly on eCommerce and social media startups, Q&A following the presentation.

About Tim: Tim spent the last five of his thirty years hacking at Amazon, including rolling out ap-northeast-1 for AWS. Preferring breadth over depth, he has worked in networking, security, e-commerce and even spent time developing thick client applications.

Please join us and RSVP at:http://www.meetup.com/Minted-Engineering-Meetup/events/225209027/
What are you eating instead of Soylent that is packaging free?
Hell they're barely putting SD slots on laptops anymore.
Everyone seems to think Soylent frees up time for work. That's certainly true for some people, but for me it frees up time to rest. Instead of driving to Chipotle/KFC/In-n-Out I drink Soylent at my desk before lunch break. Then at lunch, I either take a nap at my desk or walk outside. As for morale, I'm sorry but cycling through the same 5 nearby chain restaurants lost all pleasurable appeal years ago for me.
> the ability to use this for [programming]

Install Parallels Access on your iPad Pro and your desktop compile engine (iMac? Mac Pro? Mac Mini? MacBook?).
Your Kawa URL is broken; should be https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/
Funny to see the comments on the Tweet stating it is a transparent png ;)
I'm waiting to see the ability to use iPhone/iPad keyboards as inputs for the Apple TV. I think Google TV does this.
1650:1? What's Microsoft's ratio?

MS claims "1.5 billion people use Windows every day."

1500000000 / 1650 = 909091

Does MS have 900,000 call center people? I'm betting not. It may an apples and oranges comparison (app v. OS) but 1650:1 remains nothing special in the world of customer support. I would much rather then brag about how quickly customer concerns are dealt with or how few are routed to voicemail.
What’s holding artificial life back from open-ended evolution?
It's one thing to have a persistent object store instead of a file system (as the Newton did). It's wholly another to have a file system at the core of your OS but just pretend it doesn't exist. That's a regressive obfuscation, not encapsulation.

(Yes, I understand who the target audience is.)
you want the Incipio case for it. Best I've found, works great.
I use the charging dock @ work, which requires taking the case on/off a couple times a day. I can attest to it not falling apart from use.
Goodbye Syntax Coloring (2014)
Here is a 30 minute plan to feeding yourself for a long time without any real effort:

0. Have transportation (or a nearby store), the ability to boil water, and a large vessel to put water and food into. You may also want a sheltered place to cook/consume the food, though this is not required.

1. Go to the nearest food store. Anything larger than a kiosk will do.

2. Buy bags of rice. Any kind will do.

3. Buy bags of beans. Any kind will do.

3a. Buy lentils or chicken if you want more variety. Any kinds will do.

3b. Buy salt or spices if you like the flavor of salt or spices. Any kind will do.

4. Go home, making sure to take the items you have purchased with you.

4a. Rice and beans are stable at room temperature for a very long time. Do not let them be consumed by pests, however.

5. Throw a few days of consumption worth of those items you purchased into a pot of boiling water. Don't try to boil the bags themselves unless you are really desperate.

6. Boil for a while. 25 minutes will probably do. You can do other stuff during this 25 minutes. You can remove the water afterward if you desire.

6a. This meal is stable at room temperature (23C) for a couple of days time. You will need to find a way of cooling the food to 4C if you wish to keep it longer-- up to 7 days maximum.

7. Now you have a flavorless though quite filling and nutritious meal. It's probably cheaper, more nutritious, and more flavorful than Soylent. You can survive on this for a long, long time.

7a. Don't forget to actually eat the food you have prepared. A utensil such as a fork or spoon may be useful, though not required. Additionally, a smaller secondary vessel such as a bowl may be useful, though not required.

8. Repeat as hungry; return to step 0 if supplies run out.

Bam, now nobody has a single excuse to eat Soylent.
3rd Party game controller

http://www.apple.com/tv/games-and-more/
I'm not sure you understand. theme() appears to just be a pretty simple observable ("hookable") delegator... I mean the extreme flexibility (and great potential for large amounts of slow synchronous processing from abuse) of using nested trees of elements with '#theme' function set as passed to drupal_render().
don't you ever suggest that manufacturers make things thinner.

They already have an inexplicable obsession with it. I'd rather have a slightly thicker phone and more battery
I'm at a loss for what you're trying to say here. So you don't watch TV? Like, in any of the possible ways that a TV could be utilized? No Cable, No DVD/BluRay, No YouTube/Netflix hookup, no XBMC/Kodi/Plex style streaming, no console gaming?

Sure its possible that all those options and others are not of your interests, but then what were you expecting to change? You're obviously not the target demographic.
Someone in the twitter thread said that the image looks different on a black background. When I click the image it shows with a white background, so maybe it looks different on mobile? I put the image on a black background manually and here is what it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/91qsoKy.jpg
OP here. I've always wondered what it would be like to take the typical weather-site experience (pick a place, see the weather) and flip it on its head - pick the weather, find the place.

So, I grabbed a year worth of data at 4000 airport sites from Weather Underground, loaded it all into MySQL, and wrote a query to aggregate it.

There are a couple of problems:

1. A lot of weather data is of questionable quality. You see things like a daily high of 700 degrees. I took a little time to cleanse some obvious problems, but there is probably more.

2. I never put in a loading spinner when you click the button :) So, click and wait, please.

3. Google's Geochart doesn't have a good region for North America. Other continents (if you select only them) will zoom in, but North America specifically won't.

4. I didn't invest a lot of time into preventing bad user behavior. If you send in an impossible search, you'll probably get no results, or maybe even a server 500.

I hope you have fun playing with it!
Boost equity prices. Putting money in mattress gets -(inflation) return, so how about stocks?

Very theoretically it sets a "you must be this tall to play" floor on stock financed capital projects. So if inflation is 4% and you think new railroad locomotives will pay off at 5% average, then you do it, or if new locos only pay off at 3% then you don't because you'd get a sub-inflation rate of return on stocks or bonds.

Another argument is its essentially a long term debt jubilee, given the extremely optimistic assumption that wages rise with inflation (LOL, not so much since the 80s or so). So at both personal and corporate level, debts as a problem kind of go away with time. A decade of 70s style wage inflation would certainly help with the student loan crisis and the real estate price crisis.
An iPad Pro that runs both OSX and iOS, or at least iOS apps inside OSX would be more interesting
What is the context behind this data? Who submitted responses to this survey?
I dunno - Apple kind of killed NFC adoption by waiting so long to finally include it. They should have had it back in 2012.
I've changed my battery twice already on 4S. There isn't shit ton of glue, but two strips that remove fairly easily.

I would keep the device and wait for iPhone 7, but lack of RAM makes the use beyond basic a pain. Even some basic stuff lags ridiculously (opening Music and navigating to your playlists now takes up to a minute). Forget multitasking beyond 3 apps. With two are always gaming whether app will come back from memory or storage.

Apple is really evil in this sense. The sub par amounts of RAM are forcing us to upgrade quicker than it should be. And so many people (even tech) are rejecting the idea that RAM is needed on iOS.
TED talks turns to open innovation
I ate two months' worth of Joylent (a Dutch version of soylent) this year, three weeks consecutively at the longest. I had an amazing time with it:

- It was cheaper than what I normally spend on food each day.

- The fact that I had no groceries to do, no dishes, and no cooking made my lazy self amazingly happy.

- I had a way more balanced diet than I would normally have done and this clearly showed both in my general mood, and also how energetic I was. I haven't been able to wake up in the morning as easily as then ever since.

- I also loved the taste! I think it took me no more than 3 servings to just build up a craving for the drinks.
Julia v0.4.0-rc1 Released
You can do that with the remote app.
I used Soylent to lose weight. It helped me gain very precise control over caloric intake.

You know what? I didn't care that it was a bland nutrient slurry. I cared about the "dehumanizing" control it gave me. I cared about the options it brought to my life. Discovering significant extra time in my day by not cooking 8x a week was a nice bonus.

What I'm really seeing in your comments is that you're struggling to understand how someone could think so utterly differently from you.
Stopped Giving a FKUC T-shirt = 20$
Yes, JavaScript Is Assembly for the Web. Here’s Its OS
probably not, this is a good dry run for car financing though
Of course, the Fed doesn't make that kind of targeting decisions because monetary policy -- the only lever the Fed has -- doesn't work that way. Targeted effects are the domain of fiscal policy (where government choose to tax and spend), not monetary policy, and are the domain of Congress, not the Federal Reserve.
But it doesn't have a stylus. You can get one if you want (for the low, low price of $99) but you don't need it.
You say this like Apple is somehow precluded from upgrading the hardware when 4K TVs hit a market penetration that matters.
http://rhetorica.net/bias.htm
Go support is on the roadmap and is being tracked by this GitHub issue: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/79
National Geographic sold to Fox
CloudFlare is also complicit with DDoS for sale websites. People have asked them to remove them or reveal their ips to report but they have refused. Here are a few of them.

http://cyberstresser.com/

https://spboot.net/

https://alphastress.com

https://vdos-s.com/
Good on you! Squats are awesome. But don't forget to do prehab work or neglect your hamstrings! Tendon/muscle tightness or muscle imbalance can lead to some knee pain when squatting frequently. Stretching/foam rolling should keep you loose, and deadlifts (or glute ham raise or whatever else) will keep your hammies strong.
> You are confusing types and representations

Hm... not sure if I am. Or, at least, `null or T` is not a valid representation for type `Option<T>`. It's all very confusing.

> and your function is not well typed.

How so?
Yeah, the pulltab is less than useful. It took a worryingly large amount of force to get the battery unstuck and pulling the tab folded it into a neat U shape. Having seen plenty of exploding battery videos I was expecting the thing to go up at any second.
Cruise (YC W14) is hiring a dev ops engineer to keep self-driving cars connected
The fact that the VM's are that large are a testimate to lack of modular code in
Yahoo's Alibaba Spinoff Is in Tax Limbo
A lot of people use their phone that way. If no-one was buying the 16 gig version Apple would stop making it.
"I had a way more balanced diet than I would normally have done"

That's kinda sad
I do recommend learning the Y Combinator; it's the answer to the problem "How do I have a recursive anonymous function?"
FYI, detecting deadlocks in the general case is in-computable, whether at run time or compile time.
To make people feel good. Inflation means raises (even if productivity hasn't changed) and higher prices (shop keepers always love when prices go up, manufacturers increase revenue, etc.). Deflation means pay cuts (even if you didn't do anything wrong) and lower prices (shop keepers freak out when they keep the prices the same ... but fewer people buy. same with manufacturers). Things just work much better with inflation, rather than deflation.
I haven't tried it but it appears that you'll now always be able to touch "too much" or too little, which sounds scary, as I'm afraid you would know that you overdid it only after the fact. I doubt the motion feedback can prevent that, but I don't exclude the possibility that they solved it to be "acceptable" enough.

My impression based on demos, without trying is, the unintutivity increased.
> If you google "clouflare bypass", you get to websites that can tell you the origin IP address of a cloudflare customer's domain name.

Those rely on a known DNS history from before CloudFlare was added to a domain. If bypass is a concern, changing the server's IP and making sure it never shows up in a public DNS record again solves things.
I draw, I like the ipad pro and will get one.

I own surface 3 pro also for the same reason. But I don't like it and it can be bigger.
This isn't meant to be hostile snark FUD. Hopefully you know the answer or have a link that addresses my question. As far as your first point... I am asking because I know someone that sometimes has trouble keeping food down and their doctor recommended them to use Ensure, but they didn't like it. I was thinking about telling them about Soylent, of course I would have them ask their doctor first. Anyways, What makes it functionally different than Ensure?
It may be worth pointing out that the `Option<T>` type in Rust doesn't inherently involve any pointers at all, assuming `T` is not a pointer type itself.

For example, `Option<i32>` is probably (the compiler gets to choose) going to be represented as two four-byte values: the discriminant, which distinguishes the `Some` and `None` cases, and then a space for the value `v`, for when the discriminant says we have `Some(v)`. Since zero is a perfectly fine value for an `i32`, we have to store the discriminant separately.

But note that this is just a flat eight-byte value. There's no heap allocation involved. It's just as if you'd written in C:

struct O { enum { Some, None } discriminant; int32_t value };

I compiled a program that uses `Option<Option<i32>>`, and looked at the DWARF debugging info to see what the compiler did with it. It seems to represent this as a twelve-byte value: four bytes for the discriminant for the outer `Option`, followed an eight-byte `Option<i32>` value laid out as before. Since you can get the address of a value held by an enum, I guess this makes sense; the compiler can't combine the discriminants or do anything clever like that.
Wonder why humans are so good at making a mess. Everywhere on earth, atmosphere, seas, rivers, lakes, orbit - we just can't help ourselves.
Nope. Surface Pro 1 (and 2?) used Wacom tech, had 10-point multitouch, and the stylus didn't need batteries or recharging. The induction stuff that Wacom does is pretty cool.
2015: Android Malware Report
I found that I used the TV a little more often if I could talk to it via Xbox One. If it worked as well as Amazon's Echo for voice recognition, I'd probably use it a little more. This said, I'm not excited about having to press a button for Apple TV to hear me, nor am I likely to use it if I end up losing that small remote. It would be nicer if you could either have it always on or have an option for it to continuously listen for an hour or two.
Until the manufacturer stops supporting them, and the service provider changes out from under them (YouTube killed off various old clients a while back by retiring an old api, say). People keep TVs for a LONG time; you're probably looking at an expected lifespan of 10 to 15 years. I suspect that smarttvs may ultimately be a fad; a little box makes more sense given the replacement cycle.

This is especially true if the gaming aspect takes off; a 150$ box that is refreshed every year or so looks more attractive than something built into your 600$ TV that is supposed to be replaced every 15 years.
This is pretty awesome! Plus I see from the pictures of the co-founders that it comes with beard.
> The biggest lie is to still call that "advertising", this has nothing to do with old school advertising.

We (the people who realize that) should therefore coin and promote a new term, which will make this more obvious. I propose "advertracking". Everyone, start using it when referring to the internet advertising/tracking business and make your readers/listeneres aware.
Fantastic documentary and great story! It starts off slow and teases you a bit, but it culminates nicely.

I'd love to see documentaries of this quality tell the stories of computer science's rich history in the early 20th century. I've often wondered what if someone like Ken Burns would weave it into a series that most people actually find interesting.
Yeah, the Mac book is really huge within certain tech/creative circles and not in a million years would they get a windows machine (well,a few do albeit very reluctantly).

Every mac illustrator worth his salt is going to throw money at the screen to get this and I'm sure many many apps for the pen aren't far behind. Smart move by Apple

The enterprise market is more tricky... I can see some fancy plastic surgery office having iPad Pro's but when it comes to "less sexy" enterprise uses I still think Surface and Windows might be ahead
Er, this is literally correlation implying causation. I can guarantee that no one looks at the TLD when voting on HN.
I have a non-critical website with them for free and it randomly becomes unreachable with an error 522 in certain locations. Which seems to indicate it is a problem on their end.

When I talked to support about it, they keep telling me I needed to whitelist their IPs when I didn't have any firewall rules in place. All I had was iptables and it had no rules.
The project is on Github, judge for yourself:

https://github.com/JapaMala/armok-vision
As in another thread, it seems like the word "Tactical" is key here. The new weapon that was recently released to the US is particularly objectionable to many because it allows its' yield to be 'dialed down'.

There are also air-to-air nuclear weapons designed for planes to shoot at each other, which might not have a yield much larger than a Hellburner.

I share your concern about an interpretation of history that lends arguments to dangerous attitudes in present-day politics, just having recently read a great deal about nuclear yields, the humongous detonations we imagine are not the only type possible, they're just the only type of weapons which have ever been deployed, with many weapons simply not even having been ever tested.
Apple's primary focus is on UX simplicity and Customers couldn't care less how it's implemented behind the scenes, they just want to get stuff done, find the Word document they were working on or see the Photo or Video they just took.

The less Customers have to know about how technology works the happier they are, and the more successful Apple is.
"Tactical nukes are used in tactical situations"

What a pretty circle.
Apps like vlc and mxplayer for iOS play Matroska, Ogg, and most of the codecs that lurk within avi files, and will presumably be ported to this new AppleTV pretty quickly.
Snabbswitch like packet processing with the DPDK
https://github.com/outscale/butterfly
https://github.com/outscale/packetgraph