skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the wireless charging on my Nexus 5 as well. Going back to the cable would be fine with me but I would prefer something that takes a little less effort to insert and I'm always concerned about breaking the connector. I just found a really interesting MagSafe-like connector for the classic micro USB [1], maybe they will make something soon for the new USB3 that the 5X uses.

And before some of you say that MagSafe has patents on this, remember that the magnetic catch for a power cord was used on deep fat fryers YEARS before MagSafe [2].

[1] http://www.dxsoul.com/product/wsken-micro-usb-metal-magnetic...

[2] http://www.cpsc.gov/PageFiles/102855/Fryers-DeepFat.pdf
To be fair, you didn't say how much or how I would get it. I imagine if I were to show up at your doorstep with cap in hand, I might get a penny off of you.

If the optimizer is enabled, and the upper bound hard-coded, then the compiler pre-computes the loop. This is the entire code from llvmgcc:

_main:
0000000100000f10	pushq	%rax
0000000100000f11	leaq	72(%rip), %rdi ## literal pool for: sum: %lu

0000000100000f18	movabsq	$49999995000000, %rsi
0000000100000f22	xorb	%al, %al
0000000100000f24	callq	0x100000f34 ## symbol stub for: _printf
0000000100000f29	xorl	%eax, %eax
0000000100000f2b	popq	%rdx
0000000100000f2c	ret

Which means you are right - it's hard to beat a pre-computed constant.

I think I owe you a penny.
No, SS is similar to an annuity, at least in terms of how the distributions are structured. SS payments don't vary much (or at all?), whereas payments from a tontine would vary over time.
Oh dear. Nothing that I said was meant to express any policy about downvoting and certainly not any change in policy about downvoting. It's just a separate topic.
The first thing I would is change the rules to ban all discussions not having to do with technology. I've been more than guilty of stretching a number of non-tech discussions. Every time I do so I feel horrible for wasting my time (and other HN'ers time) on non-tech threads.

Second --and this could be quite complex-- let me, the reader, decide who and what I want to read. In other words, let automatic moderation have a light touch and let me, as a reasonably intelligent adult, decide what I want to see.

For example, an obligatory "tech"/"non-tech" tag could allow readers to choose not to see anything that isn't tech related.

I know, tag hell could be horrible. Yet, there probably exists a reasonable set of tags that could allow users to moderate their own feeds rather than having to worry about central moderation.

I could see new posts being tagged "non-tech" by default unless the poster chooses another tag. Tags could include "art", "politics", "religion", "economics", etc.

I'd keep them to a very short set, perhaps five or ten. No more. Too many tags and HN becomes something it isn't.

Within the concept of allowing the reader to shape their own feed there's the idea of "private hell banning" if you will. In other words, if I don't want to see posts from specific people that should be my prerogative, perhaps others are OK with the posts while I am not. Let me mute someone personally rather than centrally muting them as if the entire community thought exactly alike.

I know running communities is extremely hard work. I have in the past and have zero interest in doing it again. HN has really high S/N and that's why I like to read it every day. I've been guilty of adding to the noise here and there. I'm only human. I have tried to self correct when that's happened, mostly by tying to stay away from non-tech threads.
I like the idea. It's funky. It could do to retirements what HSAs have done for health insurance. It also seems unnecessary that they are still illegal.
I'm not ready to consider the wireless charging just a marginal convenience. Once I started using it I could not tolerate not having it. The only place I use the cable is in the car, where I'm not supposed to be holding the phone anyway.
Cowboy Coding
Game engines can just as easily be "iterated towards the domain" with "your wits about you." This post hints at several ways of achieving that.

Artistic direction is normally accommodated at a higher level in data and scripting anyway.
Its interesting reading about their decision making process with regards to their business model.

Then we tried a subscription model. It was super easy to understand, which enabled us to sign up 10,000 paying pros—great! But in the long run, it meant the cost to the pro stayed the same each month no matter how much new business we brought them—not so great. We needed our revenue to grow in lockstep with the value we create.

Cue the pay-per-introduction model we have today. What matters to pros is flexibility and a profitable return. So we made sure that’s what they got. It was simple. Plus, it let us guarantee our customers high-quality quotes from pros who were serious about providing a great service.

Based on my other comment [1], I wonder what would have happened if they stuck with a subscription model and then augmented it with value added services to their larger customers, something akin to LinkedIn. That seems more fair to how their system currently works.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10294811
The problem is smartphones are stagnating. Let's see:

* CPU: Processor evolution is stagnating, and processors are so powerful that they can handle most typical workloads with ease. Efficiency is now the order of the day, not raw power.

* Screen: Densities are so high it that not only does it become difficult to manufacture higher density panels, but it actually hurts the device by draining more energy and killing performance and battery life to display pixels you aren't going to see.

* RAM: 2Gb, the standard in mid-range phones and up, is sufficient for moderate use. 3Gb is comfy and 4Gb is gigantic. Again no substantial improvements in the horizon.

* Storage: The more storage the better, but phones seem to have stabilized in the 16/32/64/128Gb, and anyway with cloud storage this is less and less of a concern.

* Battery: A major pain in modern devices, with no imminent breakthrough in sight.

* Camera: Incremental upgrades are looking promising, but there's only so much you can do with optics in a small form factor.

In short, no major improvements or evolutions in the smartphone field are in the horizon, but they aren't really necessary for the short-term anyway.
>Also sounds like they're going to be locked to carriers?

Nope.

"Phone is carrier-unlocked with wide-range band support for service providers worldwide. Check with your service provider for more information."
Asked and answered already here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298058
Google's new Android laptop
I wish they would ditch the business focus and return to plain old "remember everything".

Who on earth needs features like "work chat"?
http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/05/14/increased-liquidity-on-bit...
I have a cheap Qi charger (aren't they all cheap these days?) and this only happened to me once or twice in the two years with the N5.
If I understand correctly they combine a standard X86 processor with two FPGAs. One FPGA runs a custom CPU called MAP and the other manages the communication between the two CPUs, memory and other boards/peripherals. The develoment system accepts standard C/C++ code and emits two programs: one for the X86 processor, one for the MAP processor and a hardware description to adapt the MAP processor to the specific requirements of the source program. For some programs this can be a big win (and for others not so much).
"it probably would be a good idea for him to mention there that he is the moderator of the site"

I have mentioned that also in the past as I am sure others have.

Likewise for sama, for pg, for that matter anyone else that is involved in HN or YC. (Some do of course but for the life of me I don't know why sama and pg do not). All not listing info like this does is simply enforce some secret society of HN. Which is funny given how many comments seem to rally against things like that. It's like "let's shun the newbies and put them at a disadvantage vs. established people who know the ropes and the players..". "Isn't it funny when a newbie doesn't know they are speaking to Sam Altman in their reply haha.
Your car insurance would cost more if you were a woman? Citation needed.

My impression is that most car insurance costs more for a man, because men tend to be more aggressive behind the wheel, and that translates into a higher incidence of accidents. At least, that's certainly the case for young drivers.

I attempted to prove it with a quick quote from Progressive, but they want a real name so they can check credit history, and I wasn't willing to give it to them. So I can't (easily and quickly) prove that you're wrong, but I'd like to hear why you think you're right.
What happens if the tontine has a hitman as part of the group ;)

Reminds me a bit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market
Lingoland: Becoming Friends with Your Users
What if the phone is on your desk or holder in the car?

You can always unlock it the normal way with pin or pattern, but it's not as convenient as the fingerprint reader.
Same here - actually the Nexus 4 still is a great solid phone. But besides the battery life, storage space for apps is a problem for me. Since the latest Android updates, apps got a lot bigger and I regularly need to delete stuff to be able to get all the app updates.
Maybe it's time for a new phone now.
Sorry for harshness, but:

Don't show me machine translated text in what you guess is my language, it hurts to read it. Especially if you seem to do text analysis on posts as a mayor feature, which I'm going to assume will fail spectacularly in non-english posts as well.

Also, I'm not going to log in with a social media account just to test it. Allow users to register username/password and preferably give a preview without registering.
The quote in the GP seems to imply otherwise. In case you missed it, "Right now, Musk says Tesla could make their cars with a 500 mile range—they don’t do it because it would increase the cost of the car."
I have the same problem and apparently the laws of physics changed when Yosemite was released. Before it was fine.
> The one annoyance I've encountered is that the installer will move everything in /usr/local out of the way before doing the upgrade and moving it back.

This can be a significant point. I thought my computer was bricked when I did one of the previous upgrades (maybe Mavericks?) and the upgrade took something like 14 hours (with no change in the progress bar).
I'd guess the other half is going towards things like localizing text and dealing with getting the device certified for the market, etc. You could say the same about the initial English version and USA certifications - but those are generally bundled into the core product while the German part would be extras. Yeah that does mean you're paying for both the English version and USA certifications when you buy the device in Germany even though you aren't using those, but that's life.
Title is rather clickbaity, and the article itself has little to do with encryption so much as going around encryption.

In short, it can be summarized with the following XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/538/
It was on a single core of an Opteron K10 6174 at 2.2GHz. I'm not sure what you mean by KS on the input. Nemo doesn't use KS on that benchmark (except possibly in Flint for the lowest level). This is comparable to what the other systems are doing, except Pari which uses a recursive sparse representation.

The code is in the Benchmarks test in test/Benchmark-test.jl.

It's not surprising the first benchmark is faster in Maple, since Maple can make use of a true sparse representation, possibly quite a bit of vectorisation on the processor you have and possibly multiple cores. The benchmark here uses only a dense representation, a single core and there is no explicit vectorisation (possibly none at all).

Pihanha for example will do both of those first examples in a fraction of the time that Nemo will. But again, it uses sparse representation and again can use multiple cores.

We'll do a sparse representation in Nemo later on, perhaps even wrap Pirhana.

The main purpose of the benchmark is actually to show off what the really fast Julia generics do for us, not to actually do this particular benchmark as fast as is humanly possible. In order to do that as fairly as possible, we deliberately use univariate polynomials over other univariate polynomials in all systems (except Pari, as noted), rather than dedicated multivariate polynomial rings.
More interestingly - is this a useful strategy for start-ups to use and does it spread over other IP protection?
I think why news of layoffs is so disconcerting is that it can be really, really hard to differentiate between what's fat and what's muscle in the business. A lot of "cost centers" like development end up meaning a lot to brand perceptions, which isn't valued correctly in the traditional P&L hierarchy and can have a significant time lag.
Professional hoax-busters on Planned Parenthood and anti-vaxxers
The RingMeMaybe app is giving away US phone numbers (incl. 415 – San Francisco)
The same region/ownership discipline that Rust provides to handle memory turns out to be useful in other contexts. One is resource usage: you have to close a file handle after opening it, etc. Patterns for cleaning up after yourself are common in many languages. What Rust provides is a way to describe how long something should live and a way to enforce correct usage through compile time type checks. This can be used to ensure people using the library are unable to do the wrong thing. As a simple example, using a mutex incorrectly in safe Rust will not compile. More complex examples:

https://medium.com/@tomaka/the-glium-library-5be149d87dc1

https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/08/26/javascript-serv...
I'd say yes, it's a lot harder to tap into than a cell phone call.
The Rare Replay collection is somewhere else that a lot of work has been put into the CRT emulation for older games.
businessinsider had a great article on evernote here, "Evernote, the first dead unicorn", which really foreshadowed this: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/evernote-the-first-dead-un...
Sorry for the late reply. I suspected my description might have been on the cryptic side. I was referring to the fact that zooming in one direction, followed by the exact same amount in the other, should return you to exactly the same state; these maps don't quite (i.e. they'll sometimes put you in a different location).
Is that because the slow speed is efficient, or because it's cheaper to avoid improving the track to support higher speeds?

Freight trains in Europe are much faster[1] -- but that could be because they often need to fit in with the schedule of passenger trains using the same lines (which themselves require the track to be maintained to a high standard).

[1] Citation needed, I only have observations of them going at a decent pace through stations I'm waiting at.
Agreed. I have a 64 GB iPhone 6 and over 1k songs synced to mobile on rdio. Rdio only takes up 8.4 GB, but total I have 31.1 GB used. I would have to go back to the radio if I didn't have that space, as I would probably be out of my 4 GB data plan half way through the month.
Tesla has a battery swapping station that you can pay to use...
Yes but by using mkSegment in the implementation of intersect, you have to treat its Nothing result, even though it can never happen and so you either end up with this reflected in the signature of intersect itself, or you cheat in the implementation of intersect by assuming that Nothing will never happen, which would defeat the purpose of mkSegment.
Yes. Both flagging and vouching are undoable.
An episode of the show "Archer" covered this fairly hilariously.
Just pay an uber to take you around the block a few times, nap in the back seat.
I hope they remember the world exists outside of the US and UK - Australia seriously needs some delivery competition between AusPost, StarTrack (owned by AusPost) and Toll. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, but Australians buy a lot of stuff online [1].

AusPost won't accept anything but their own parcels / other national carriers (i.e. USPS but not UPS) into their parcel locker system, so it's a complete crapshoot whether your Amazon parcel is going to go around the world again.

Toll have tried to emulate this with their ParcelPoint system but there just aren't as many locations.

Amazon could seriously shake things up by launching Flex plus Lockers at the same time here. Flex would cover the rural areas quite well where the nearest courier depot is 1+ hours away (or more in WA, I'm sure)

1: http://auspost.com.au/annualreport2014/parcel-services.html but declining because our economy relies heavily on digging stuff up and selling it to China.
You know what _really_ sucks about this? They're closing off the API & got rid of their evangelists.
Well, hopefully you have an audio receiver. You don't really expect to run speakers just by themselves.
Wow that's rough. Taiwan is in the middle of a Typhoon lashing. Hope the people in their Taiwan office is doing ok through this traumatic event - at a time when most would be relying on their business life to carry them through the physical disasters.
> Evernote’s strength is in its core: notes, sync, and search. That’s where we’re going to focus.

Well, like many others, I've been wishing Evernote would drop all the auxiliary stuff and focus on their core product. Hopefully that's exactly what will now happen. Evernote has become an absolutely critical part of my life. Even though I use it for business (along with everything else) though, I have no use for the majority of the new features they've added over the past few years. Of course, not every feature will be useful to everyone, and just because I don't use something doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. However, when you see significant bugs languish for years while niche features get priority, it suggests a problem. I really hope this signifies a change in direction (as opposed to a milestone in the current, downward, one).
To be fair, as a human I don't feel particularly adept at driving in bad weather, so an autonomous vehicle that simply slows down to where it "feels confident" and uses some kind of radar to avoid collisions won't be doing too badly.
If you live in SF, Seattle, or New York you can probably find a 'package locker' service like Amazon Locker or BufferBox to solve that problem for you. It's a bit pricy though -- you may as well just live in a luxury apartment and have the doorman/reception drop the package off inside your apartment for you.
I bought a 2013 TV early this year that only has two HDMI ports, neither of which has MHL.
> my car insurance costs more than if I were a woman.

You missed a very important word.
I suspect that the average speed of a moving train is higher than that, though. (In the same way that you can't take distance to the office divided by time to get there and conclude anything about average driving speed, due to time at stop lights, time in stop-and-go traffic, etc. When you're actually moving, you're moving faster than that statistic indicates.)
Couldn't agree more. I remember when I first started using Evernote, the FAQs specifically said "you can't share your notes, that's not the point". Now it's all social and businessy, but I just want an easy and private way to organise my stuff!
Perfectly reasonable responses.

This is also an opportunity waiting to happen.
No. Those aren't intellectually interesting stories. They're job ads. If there's an interesting story about a startup, post that and we can all discuss the startup there.
To be honest I didn't spend a lot of shopping around on batteries. I bought the one I found on Amazon that seemed to be made for Nexus 5, and it works: http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00NCJMQXK
Napping in public? SKETCHY.
I know that it is the common vernacular, but you didn't let them go, you fired them. Surely they would prefer to not go and continue to pay their mortgage.

I'm sure it wasn't easy to fire them, but don't try and make the situation rosey. The folks who decided on the direction of the company decided wrong and now they have to fire the people who executed those decision.

Edit: Would you all prefer the word "Terminated"?
I'm not aware of anyone laughing at technologies to make oil. They're just not economically viable at current prices.
This type of question gets asked a lot on the net and as someone with experience I can say it rarely matters what language you know its what you have built, can build and your architectural skills that matter. The language is just a tool for the task and will vary depending on the task. So ask yourself what you want to build then choose the language, the other way around makes no sense. Its like saying I want to be a carpenter should I learn how to use a hammer or a chainsaw? Only when you know youll be chopping down a tree for wood first can you make a reasonable choice to use a chainsaw.

Recruiters might not get this and just ask for knowledge of X or Y but at some point in your interview process theres most likely going to be a lead engineer sitting across from as an influencer on whether to hire you or not, and if hes worth anything hes only going to care about your "building" skills not language X or Y.
Do you have a source for that? Closing the API seems crazy, since if done right it should provide far more value at far less cost to the Evernote team than many other features. Will this mean that all the 'Share to Evernote' integrations from email clients and other apps will cease to function?
Please keep this up. This is a great service.
Stagnating or just the market approaching maturity?
I personally don't miss the old PC days of having to upgrade my GPU every 12 months. Although I'm sure there are still some people that do, hopefully this means that most of us can keep our older phones without a significant performance deficit
Provided the roads are also very well-mapped.

Google (as well as some auto manufacturers) have made impressive progress. I'm actually encouraged that full autonomy (as in I can legally read a book) on a subset of limited access highways in appropriate weather conditions is something we might see within 10 years on a mainstream luxury car.

I am sadly far more skeptical about the general case.
Well, I didn't want to just contradict you and say that you are proposing that we do something that we don't in fact have the capacity to do. I wanted to give you the opportunity to explain how we do in fact have the capacity to do it, despite the appearance that we don't.

Best wishes.
My whole life I have been napping for free like a sucker.
s/towing/being towed by/
Any word on whether it will have support for wifi behind captive portal? I've got a Chromecast v1 that I was excited to bring it on trips with me to watch Netflix from the hotel room, but I could never get it to connect to hotel networks which always have the stupid captive portal authentication scheme.
Tesla expect batteries (and hence real-world range) to improve by about 5% a year. This 620mile thing he's talking about is the record distance for driving slowly on a single charge, which is of academic interest only.
Forget Apps, Now the Bots Take Over
Copyright already de facto works that way; you get copyright the moment it is fixed in the relevant medium, there is no publication or public release requirement. Patents have their own complicated things, but part of the definition of a patent is that it is for public release, so "secret patent" is theoretically a contradiction. (As my phrasing suggests I have little long-term confidence in our systems maintaining that truth, but I believe it is true right now.)
Hahahaha. I tried to use MyChoice while on holiday in Canada. I was in an AirBNB, so wasn't listed on the building directory. This resulted in [1], repeating until I sat at home and waited for the UPS guy to arrive.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/r6yB77e.png