skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Links are easily recognizable. They look clickable. Items that aren't links don't look clickable, for example underlining text is avoided.

I've been struggling with making things 'look clickable' on my website (or maybe everything is fine and it's in my head). To solve this I've been trying to define what exactly makes a user want to click something. The most common methods are the blue link color, underlining, or a 'more/click me' button. I don't want to do any of those - wanting someone to click content is more desirable than telling them to.

In researching other sites and monitoring my own behavior I noticed that I always want to click images. This probably has to do with being a long time image-board browser. But the content I want to be clicked doesn't have any images associated with them. I've been trying to work in glyphicons that indicate a link, but it messes with the aesthetics of the content.

Any suggestions?
Winston: The Everything Keyboard for iOS
Direct github link https://github.com/runemadsen/rune.js
> I've long since ditched my Chromecast for a Roku, which is far easier to use in a shared environment, and (IMO, of course) having a remote is infinitely preferable to having to use my phone.

I'm glad you said that because when the Chromecast first came out (and AirPlay was already popular) the narrative was that this was going to be the future way of consuming internet content. I never believed it because:

1. Phones get low on battery. Remotes rarely do. Having to navigate the TV was your phone is on a charger is a shitty experience.

2. Phones are personal devices; TVs are social. Everyone looking for a movie to watch on their individual phones is terrible compared to browsing options on a TV screen together.

I do still use my Chromecast in some scenarios; like you said when I find a random video online. But these are things I just happen to come across, not things I seek out like you do with my TV watching.
EMP/Infrastructure destruction wholesale is a pretty safe bet for any first strike.
What if patents could only be held by individuals and not corporations?
People can even be sent to prison for bad design, and it doesn't stop bad designs from being created :P It actually happened to the constructors of the radio tower in Raszyn, Poland, which was the tallest structure in the world for a while - the tower collapsed in 1991 due to a structural problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_radio_mast
Google Cloud Dataproc and the 17 minute train challenge
> Are you implying the .co.uk version did not have the same "design elements"?

Classifiers do weird things, and features you don't expect to be significant can suddenly have a much larger than intended effect. The domain name, as a feature, must've thrown it over the edge.

It's like that Google+ post where a picture of a couple of black people got tagged as "gorillas" by their auto-tagging ML system. No, Google isn't racist, their classifier just hates their PR department.

Ah, the joys of machine learning...
> I didn't like the old warning, because it looked more like a yellow up arrow to me than an orange warning triangle (I am colorblind)

Amazing. They don't seem to get basic color choices in UI design (particularly in a security warning, on a huge product such as Chrome), yet spend a million words rambling about material design and describing ripple effects on click/tap.
Probably because it's prohibitively expensive compared with just building a larger building next to the road and it's aesthetically pleasing to have space between buildings and humans like sunlight.
It's a good point. Dinosaurs were on Earth for a very very long time. We really have no idea how rare it is for life to evolve in such a way as to become highly intelligent.

Makes you wonder if Dinosaurs would have evolved to the point of becoming some sort of highly intelligent reptilian species similar to us. That is, if they hadn't been destroyed. :D

There's also species' such as Parrots and Dolphins that are both considered to be quite intelligent. So maybe intelligence is a fore-gone conclusion and that final step that "snowballs" their intelligence is just another roll of the dice occurrence.
open-source, self-hosting, non-english channels, better markdown support. No limits on searching and self-hosting I think are the biggest things.
> Nodes for data, attributes for metadata.

Its a nice soundbite, but it ends up being less than useful in practice, because all metadata is data, and almost any data can be viewed as metadata, a distinction which is both subjective and strongly influenced by the use to which a consumer is putting the data rather than being determined on the basis solely of the inherent nature of the data.
What Safe Harbor Means for American SaaS Providers in Europe
Have been riding one of the single wheel versions of this. Incredibly difficult, but fun none the less.
> floating point (with a defined precision)

If it's fixed-precision it's not floating point, it's basically an integer we interpret with a decimal point somewhere when we display it. If you didn't mean fixed-precision, then I'm not sure how actual floating points could sanely act as a hash key.
The problem is Chromecast requires the phone to have a Chromecast SDK using app on it anyway. Additionally you couldn't communicate without having a wifi connection, at least without proxying over the internet which is slow.

The closest thing to this would be to have the NFC auto open a webpage that is already paired to the app on the screen so that you can then use the custom web page's UI to send control messages to the TV via internet relaying.
Boosted boards are still the best "hoverboard" for my money:

http://boostedboards.com/

The price is prohibitive, but the market now has something like 7 or 8 brands competing, so I expect the price will come down in the next year or so.
China and India have been infringing on US patents for 4 decades now and nothing has happened yet.
Thanks!

> Those cores are going to be
sold to you largely on their
memory bandwidth benefits
for the top end of the Xeon range.

That is, (A) bandwidth,
bytes moved per second or (B)
total permitted memory size,
say, 1/2 TB?

My guess is that memory sizes
of 1/2 TB require registered
memory, that is, a register
in the memory to simplify timing
which can be challenging for such
large memories, but the use of
the register is an intermediate
stop on the way to/from the processor
and its cache(s) so, really, reduces
bytes per second that might be
achieved with, say, the
simpler, consumer 1600 MHz,
DDR3?

Of course, other issues could
include number of electronically
independent channels to/from memory,
address interleaved memory,
etc.?

> look seriously at IBM

I looked at the article;
IBM seems to be trying
to sell hardware (again!).
Okay.

So far my software is all
written for Windows, and
my guess is that Windows (7
Pro or Server)
doesn't run on IBM's Power
processors? And even if
Windows does run, lots of
other software that runs
on Windows and Intel
x86 likely won't run
on IBM Power?
> The reality is that as time goes on, the world's needs can and will be met by fewer and fewer people.

The crucial line is when basic needs for life can be met by a minority of the population, and that line was crossed decades ago thanks to the industrial revolution.

> This should be a good thing, but it won't work under most existing economic systems.

Almost the entire world operates in an economic system that assumes, as a starting condition that not every person needs to work on providing for needs. That is how innovation can happen, and new industries can develop, like the entire entertainment, sports, and computer technology industries to just name a few.

> Our entire economy has to change to accomodate the new reality that a significant percentage of the population will be unemployed.

There is no evidence that improving the productivity of existing industries leads to long-term unemployment growth. In fact the evidence shows that the nations with the highest productivity gains are also the nations that have the highest standards of living and lowest unemployment.

The secret is innovation. Nations with growing productivity can innovate and create new industries, which create new jobs to "soak up" the new population.

On top of this, global population growth is slowing and will basically stop--and maybe even reverse--within the next century. At that point, improving productivity will be the only possible way to continue growing standards of living.
Firstly, maybe you should remove the (YC W2016) from the title. It is kind of confusing and led me to assume you were already a YC backed company. It's kind of unnecessary too, IMO, but I may be 100% wrong on this.

But about the app itself —

Love the simple design! You could add the "Available on App Store" button which looks more neat. But the app, and the website looks cool.

I think there is insufficient data for most people to tell you if you have a shot at YC. This is only ONE side of the whole story, which is PRODUCT. We may need to know about user stats, and so many other things. There may be some very experienced folks here who can help, though.

Best of luck, and I hope you get in! Kudos, my friend!
You consider it a fair design. I look at it as a waste of space. All it does is replace "car" with "bike". It even says so, with "Residential bike parking should have the same space-syntax relationship to the front door and kitchen as car parking does in a contemporary house in the suburbs."

Look at how much hallway space it needs to have a cycle path, plus bike parking. It adds, what, 2-3 meters of hallway width? Plus there's space inside the apartment. Is all that space really justified? A normal apartment bike room can store a much higher density of bicycles. Even more if there are hangers, or multi-level racks.

Using that 'same space-syntax relationship', if the weather outside is horrible so the children play in the hallway, do the cyclists get priority? On a bicycle lane they do. But inside an apartment complex?

With these mega-wide hallways, what if someone wanted to put up planters rather than using the parking space? Would that be okay? Or use it to store something other than a bicycle? (Eg, kick bike, tricycle, recumbent tricycle, stroller, wheelbarrow, luggage cart.) If not, why do bicycles get priority?

In my apartment building the solution is easy - we can't keep anything in the hallway.

Consider more specifically. "The apartment entryway is designed with space for a bike."

Yeah, no. In winter my bike has slush and road gravel on it. Why would I want to bring that inside? Right now I leave it in the bike room, which has a cement floor. Expressed using the same 'space-syntax', I walk in through the front door, not the garage door.
Ps. I've thought about these experiences a lot as I built a company on it pre-chromecast era:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/02/brass-monkey-acquires-emote...

See early prototype:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8-TntjYB4
Well the majority of tuition funding is on loan from the federal government and I'm sure a big chunk of that grant money comes from DARPA, NSF, NIH, etc.

That's not necessarily to say their work should be in the public domain but it would still be nice to see them focus on more productive uses of their IP rather than just license fee extraction.
React has enough APIs to do ugly hacks too. That doesn't mean you should use them.
Exactly, so you need to add that or it won't be true most of the time.
Slide rule... we're not cavemen!
> R is certainly a unique language

I'd say R is a _terrible_ language. Its types are just really different from every major programming language, and it's horrible for an experienced programmer to use.

I totally agree that R has fantastic libraries, but I'd like to see people focus on improving libraries for Python rather than sticking with R, which as a language is less well-designed than Python.

[I use R for most of my stats, I also use Matlab and Python]
Language comparisons are equiv. to religion comparisons...you aren't going to find a universal answer or truth, it's an individual/faith sort of thing.

That being said - all the serious math/data people I know love both R and Python...R for the heavy math, Python for the simplicity, glue, and organization.
An app that will build schools in India and motivate you everyday
WARF (the designated rights holder for UW patents) gives an annual gift of ~$60M to the University, if I recall correctly.
A bike friendly building is a good idea if city really, really wanted to promote bike use. Being able to ride your bike into a grocery store, shop, then ride your bike into your kitchen and unload is kind of awesome. But this is the last step after bike only roads and decent bike public transportation.
Also known as Planck units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units
Those are some impressive mental gymnastics. Most people would consider something which amplifies bad traits to be a bad thing.

I agree that the site is probably not intended to be bad, but that's quite a different claim from yours.
Have you used Boost.Fusion? This looks very much like BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_STRUCT and seems to have similar design goals
Probably because this post was getting lots of links for a domain that is otherwise rarely seen on FB? You can read about the challenges of spam-fighting at scale (and people actually getting paid to write Haskell) here: http://www.wired.com/2015/09/facebooks-new-anti-spam-system-...
Part one sort of sounds like my neighborhood list serve in Washington, DC.
The whole point of the conceptualization is to explore what cities/buildings might be like if we built bike-first. Of course it's not "practical" versus the cheapness of first floor bike garages. It's meant to be a vision of what we might do if we rebuilt things from first principles.

Certainly you could do both: have a good lift to your floor in the evenings that you could ride your bike into and then in the mornings coast your way all the way down as a fun way to start your day. Some people would even appreciate the extra uphill climb every day as an easy way to stay fit in their own home buildings.

Another thing to note here is that the conceptualized buildings are a lot wider than they are tall. The impression being that even if you had an elevator to your floor you might still want to ride your bike to your unit as the floor itself will be long enough to warrant that sort of thing.

Again, the goal here is to question design principles and it is a fair and interesting design because it asks questions about our assumptions. We currently don't build buildings more than a quarter mile wide because once inside them we assume everyone has to walk. Thus we tend to build taller buildings instead. Shorter, wider, ramp-like buildings are an interesting idea and this concept gives us a vocabulary to discuss them.

Do I expect to see these in cities any time soon? Definitely not. But it is still a neat design worth discussing, especially if it allows us to re-question old city design assumptions.
Such a system does not solve the problem.

First, the system would be vulnerable to many of the same problems: hacking, sabotage, and electrical failure. Second, it would likely not be as robust under less than ideal conditions in which human beings with a sextant would still be able to function (e.g., partially cloudy conditions).
It would be nice to also have some notes about performance of both the languages for each of the tasks compared. I believe pandas would be faster due to its implementation in C. The last time I checked R was an interpreted language with its interpreter written in R.
I'm surprised to see lua, and to see 1.6 released so quickly. 1.5 took forever to finalize and SSL termination was heavily debated because it wasn't a fast or lightweight like the original goal of HAProxy was. While I realize I don't have to use the lua scripts, it just feels out of place.

EDIT: I guess part of my concern with Lua was the example on the linked article. It seems to be able to interface with most of the system and not just as a content source, which makes more sense.
In this vision of the future, I believe all of the bike paths will be indoors and air conditioned.
Modular HTML pages
I would argue that most of the scientific & statistical packages for most languages are driven by at most a handful of people, yes.

Another interpretation is that R is an incredibly productive language for this sort of programming, otherwise one person couldn't write so much useful code. ;)
I suppose you’d have to fix that “American corporate personhood” problem first
> I like the thrust of your argument, but from my perspective in Singapore/Asia, that's not quite what I see...The US-educated scions of well-connected families are especially responsible for techologising their behemoth family businesses and launching modern apps.

This is exactly correct. The GP's post reminded me of The Coming Transformation, a report by VC firm Formation 8: http://formation8.com/resources/the-coming-transformation/

The report draws a similar comparison between the decline of the landed aristocracy during the Second Industrial Revolution and the coming decline of the industrial aristocracy due to "software eating the world."

However, Formation 8 is taking advantage of this opportunity: one of their partners is the scion of a Korean conglomerate, and he's no doubt leveraging his family ties to obtain buy-in from many other HNW families from all over Asia:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-05/why-formati...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-25/sun-yat-se...
Regarding the Feynmann quote, I suspect that behavior itself is intrinsic to humans. Few people want to be the guy coming up with a wildly different answer from a consensus/authoritative answer. We see the same thing in election polling results exhibiting 'herding'. If a pollster has a result wildly off from the polling average (especially, near the election when the variance is expected to be lower), they'll sometimes 'put a thumb on the scale' as fivethirtyeight[0] put it. This makes some sense, from a CYA perspective even if not from a scientific one. If they publish an outlier and are wrong, they look bad. If they publish close to the average and are wrong, well, at least everyone else missed it too.

[0] - http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/heres-proof-some-pollste...
Why not just use IRC ?
I'd also say the CRAN repository is awful, it discourages collaboration, and is typically written by small groups of academics who write the worst documentation I have ever seen.
Grepbugs: use regex patterns to find security issues in code
Interesting that it will be a default feature of Gitlab.

That's a move that seems like it may push Gitlab ahead of GitHub in some ways (well, to me at least).
Well, I recently watched a small restaurant get robbed at gunpoint. It took the police ~15-20 minutes to arrive because they had to drive from downtown. Cars allow a single officer to service a much larger radius, which unfortunately in this case meant that the city simply hired fewer police officers, resulting in little net benefit.

By the time the officer arrived the thief was probably in his living room counting the money because he himself drove off with the aid of an accomplice waiting outside.

The situation you describe in Zermatt sounds like an interesting compromise, though.
If exposed to weather it is an automatic fail. Sorry, that is just how it works. From any transportation alternative that is no enclosed it always comes down to comfort. One day it is too hot, another too cold, or too wet, and on and on, until the excuse is no longer needed as the alternative mode is parked.

So any bicycle or pedestrian friendly environment needs weather protection as part of its design. It does not need be fully enclosed but that type of protection may be required depending on climate. Perhaps a convertible system where panels retract?
Thanks for the input. Yeah, I can see how product is just one side of the story; I just didn't think much about the rest. We do have some traction (15k+ users since this summer we launched the MVP). What other things do you think are relevant?
Reach vs. Revenue
Hmm, well, I guess if you want to obfuscate the term "band" and expand it to be an "organization" of course we're not going to see eye-to-eye.

"Part of the company" is completely off-track and downright wrong when talking about a Lawyer versus a Drummer. A drummer contributes to the making of what the lawyer defends. This is very clear in the sense of one is a member of the band, and the other is a member of the organization. One contributes on a creative basis, the other does not. Cut-and-dried definitions here.

No front of the house could ever save a restaurant if the kitchen decides to walk out, right? No band, no organization. No pilots, no airline.

It does kind of make me chuckle that the only times I've had this kind of discussion is with a non-musician who wants to equivocate their functional role with what comes out of the guitar amp. Other people might buy it. I sure don't.
Approximating Eigenvectors in Idris
I found these links helpful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable-stayed_bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-anchored_suspension_bridg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_bridge_types
By "fair design" I don't necessarily mean "practical", I'm implying "interesting" and "conversation starting" and "worth examining/talking about".
Our product, Elevate Web Builder, is essentially that: Delphi for web development.

http://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web
What if the chromecast was allowed to transfer wifi network details (either for a secure or unsecure) network over NFC for the phone to temporarily connect to? That's a cool feature even if you don't plan to use the chromecast.
Really, syntax "nba.head(1)" is not any more "object-oriented" than "head(nba, 1)" -- it's just syntax, and the R statement is in fact an application of R's object system (there are several of them).

IMO, R's system is actually more powerful and intuitive -- e.g. it is fairly straightforward to write a generic function dosomething(x,y) that would dispatch specific code depending on classes of both x and y.
DEA bought millions in cell phone trackers and training, payment data shows
I like the list... Just think of it less in terms of "have I done this?" and more in terms of "have I thought about this and made sure it isn't important to my project?"
Also see: Amazon Prime Video.
"R is in my opinion much better suited for that, with a better interactive interface"

Have you tried IPython/Jupyter?
What People Who Worked at Google Know That You Probably Don’t
It has already happened. As was pointed out, it is a direct result of the Bayh-Dole Act [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
No of course not. There's also Facebook, Amazon etc. etc. etc. But the article is about Apple.
You do everything you can to control raw materials prices, hedging gets you a lot of the way there, but what happened to commodities prices in the mid-2000's was completely unprecedented. After holding pretty much steady for the previous 25 years, from 2002 to 2008, the price of steel tripled on worldwide markets.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?g=...
More for personality (they know how much for you already), so just declare your top and be prepared to negotiate.
The reason for the act, I think, was to provide the incentive to commercialize the results of potentially valuable research. It's not an entirely loony idea
Autistic Boy Climbs Oven to Get Ruffle Chips
Yes but, how many light-years away is that star?