skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone can buy the product as a pay once download and they are easy to find and buy from, I would think you would have a hard time selling an Saas competitor.
Now he has been fired. The included Daily Show blurb consisted of him saying he'd probably be fired.
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Jeez, you aren't kidding. It's as though, if we bitch enough about the technical deficiencies, the economic and social circumstances that cause them will, I dunno, vanish into thin air I guess. This topic is pretty much just red meat here
Its not fanboyism at all. How many Model S vehicles are in the wild? They can charge almost anywhere, have range above 250 miles per charge, and have a Supercharger network that's fully operational. (And that's only the Model S, I neglect the Leaf for the moment even though there are for more in the wild, regardless of their range)

How many fuel cell vehicles are in consumer hands? Can they charge at home? Do they have a nationwide refueling network?
I have learned to code. Just not very well.

That's sorta what happens when you don't follow things to completion. I have a "working knowledge" of C/C++/Java/Python/HTML/CSS/Javascript/jQuery/Bash/Powershell. The problem is I use very few of them daily within my job, and hence the only thing I'd consider myself truly "fluent" in is Bash, with C being a distant second on the level of "I can read it pretty well but I don't actually have to write it".

Hence, whatever else I scrape together in my free time is usually just examples taken from books or e-learning courses, but very few practical examples or projects to reinforce what I've learned.
I only ever watch youtube videos via youtube-dl, but I still use a browser to navigate the site to find videos to download.
I was thinking about yoga studios as a proxy for this type of analysis the other day.
I just mentioned them in another comment, but I'm not a redditor and so it took me a long time to figure out this is possibly the best solution. Are the manufacturers of all these solutions present in that subreddit as well?
Your cousin is a coke head, and likely has an eating disorder. This is not the norm outside of her group of friends.
Hydrogen is stored in pressurised tanks which are heavy. And pressurised tanks are tube-shaped, so you can't really use the wings as fuel tanks.
http://antennaweb.org/
Isn't this what Sarah Palin did for her daughter... they setup a non-profit "foundation" for teen pregnancy awareness or some such and then paid Bristol Palin some absurd salary as the head of the NP.
I too was pleasantly surprise, especially since it actually works well on mobile Chrome with nice big text that is actually readable. As far as I can tell all of the graphics are responsive and there weren't any annoying ads that bumped the scroll position.

Only concern is that pinch to zoom is disabled but the typography makes up for that for probably >95% of readers.
When I get blood tests done at my GP's office, they sit around until the next morning when the guy from the lab picks them up. Then they go to the lab, where they might wait in a queue until the next day. Then the tests are run, then they send the results electronically to my GP's office. It takes about three days from the time blood is drawn from me, until the time my GP makes a recommendation based on the test results, and a big part of that is because of the the remote lab testing.
Those drone strikes are, mostly, done with the authorization and approval of the target country. They don't like their militants either. This issue is a lot more complex than "GUISE GUISE OBAMA KILLIN KIDS FOR FUN." The US cooperates with local intelligence, foreign governments, etc to find and eliminate these targets.

From a practical point of view, the alternative would be boots on the ground fighting that would guarantee vastly more innocents killed.
Thanks! We've actually built our own probabilistic information extractor, so we don't use the POS tagging, so NLTK is sorta redundant for the approach we took (and also less accurate)
And 0 trackers that Ghostery has to block. Though I guess it would be pretty ironic if there were any.
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Under the original definition, it is not irony. Under the modern definition, it is rain on your wedding day.
With the assumption that hydrogen is indeed "Fool cells", some possibilities for why Toyota may still be pursuing it (not necessarily in any order. Largely listing for discussion and for thinking about later in more depth).
1) Japanese govt. incentives are sufficient to push Toyota and other Japanese companies to try and make Hydrogen work.
2) It's a conspiracy between car companies and oil companies (I don't see how this can work because I don't see how car companies benefit.)
3) Car companies don't like the fact that EVs have lower maintenance, because a large chunk of their profits comes from maintenance and repairs.
4) Car companies are basically behaving like Blackberry after the iPhone. Their current model works, and being incumbents, they find it hard to imagine a world that does not work like the current one.
5) EVs would be too much of a revolution and they would essentially lose all their incumbent advantages. FCV basically follow the same model and so they allow incumbent car companies to better fend off new entrants than if EVs became popular (I find it interesting that all the new entrants are EV manufacturers or rumored to be making EVs (Apple)).

Any other ideas?

Personally, I think #s 4 and 5 (both of which are basically blindness caused by incumbency) are the biggest factors. This is bolstered by this Toyota quote in the article:

“You may think 35 years is a long time,” Senior Managing Officer Kiyotaka Ise told reporters. “But for an automaker to envision all combustion engines as gone is pretty extraordinary.”

The way Japanese manufacturers seem to be the only ones who are so uniquely focused on hydrogen, however, seems to indicate that Japanese policy is also playing a large role.
Source of Battery Graph: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/12...

Naughty Mux - link your sources!
The policies enforced by particular offices (often based on an excess of caution, and often based on mythology of law rather than actual legal advice) are a different thing than the law. It absolutely is not illegal to provide answers to that question more directly when selling real estate (and, in fact, most agents I've dealt with or encountered will, though rather than providing their opinion they will rather directly provide statistical data which answers that question -- and others -- with comparative information; the package I got from the agent for the last house I considered buying included not only school performance information for the neighborhood compared to other areas in the region, but also income information, family size information, and other demographics.)

Providing a bare and unsupported simple subjective "good" or "bad" answer is probably more legally dangerous than providing factual information, not because "good schools" is dog whistle for "white neighborhood" (in fact, its neither illegal nor uncommon to provide factual information which fairly directly gives information about ethnic/racial demographics), but because someone else might convince a court that your description was slanted because you were trying to steer the buyer based on your perception of their racial fit, rather than trying to provide them factual information about the existing character of the neighborhood which might be relevant to their decision.
This is ridiculous...

I have a Magic Mouse that uses AA batteries, and I use the Sanyo Eneloop AA batteries in it. They literally last for a month or longer of daily active use at work.

Why Apple couldn't have made a mouse with something like that and a little wireless charging pad is beyond me.
Four years and how many person-hours. Is an accurate count really that important? Couldn't 300 with some statistical bounds be used?

Don't get me wrong. I think every life is sacred and a single loss is an incredible tradgedy. But I tend to think spending effort on the living is more useful.
Can’t have it both ways. That’s the issue here.
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Wow. The verge was the poster child for most bloated site even three years ago, long before the recent ruckus.
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http://examine.com/faq/will-eating-eggs-increase-my-choleste...
Original and very interesting WSJ article at:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-has-struggled-with-bloo...
The Xbox One allows pausing and rewinding of live TV, but not recording.
Hard to monitor programmatically - there's probably a ton of subtle indicators (ownership of espresso machines, holiday destinations, etc) but monitoring opening and closing of businesses in specific categories can be done quite easily on a large scale.

Would be fascinating to map this in NYC or London and compare past patterns to see if it holds true.
I got nailed in a lower comment for suggesting that Betteridge's law applies here (I know I know.. Betteridge's law isn't hard and fast and it's SO over/passe), but we live in an age where bullshit reigns and I'm willing to double down...

This is from the Telegraph, a paper who at this point basically reprints press releases on science and history with sensational titles (Not that they're the only guilty ones). Other major sources of this specific spin on the article are the Daily Mail and the New York Post (SfGate takes a slightly less sensational approach to the new evidence).

Clearly your crap detector should be tingling when you see these sources as the main sources and then bang! you find it: There's a new History Channel show premiering soon about this very escape - Alcatraz: Search for the Truth.

Gee I wonder why this is making the rounds? Will it end just like any other search for history show in the annals of television: "inconclusive evidence: the mystery is still out there and we'll keep searching we promise"

This is a different form of PG's Submarine PR hit http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html and frankly it makes me mad/sad that its so high up on a site like HN.

Feel free to continue downvoting me into oblivion and I'll continue shouting into the void.
Well, I know that there are children starving in Africa, and can say this is sad and I am "very concerned", but otherwise it has close to zero emotional impact on me. It's an abstract issue. I actually feel about drone strike victim stronger, because I've seen the pictures, read the stories, seen the math.

The point is, this issue is totally disconnected from the lives of most people. You need to get them invested emotionally. Make a blockbuster movie. Harry Potter and The HellFires of Voldemort. Or something. Invite the Pakistani that lost his arm, leg and half of the family to US drone strike. And then keep pounding at people with the topic.

If we can't get people to care about this more than they care about "slut shaming" or Ferguson or Comcast, we truly have failed as a civilization.
In addition to the official figure, which is measured over the EPA test, any Tesla owner can tell you what their actual average is. Mine's 305 over 27k miles.
Great question. I think this is why organ systems with (arguably) relatively fewer interconnecting parts and more accessible parts than the brain, for example blood, are easier to research. Not all of the parts will be able to be controlled, and the closest approximations are probably animal models with a few cloned or inducible genetic changes where significant results are not easily generalizable to people. Biology will probably not be like physics or chemistry, where underlying principles are often generalizable to matter under specified conditions, because we can't defineand control the initial context within and around a human, and ethical guidelines ensure that studies are limited to a morally acceptable degree. So we often have to see what works/fails in practice and explain it in terms of what we know, try to fill in the gaps with more research, and see where it takes us in terms of new treatment possibilities. It's a very iterative ordeal.
It is insane. One of my favourites is the "about.me" site, which is meant to be a simple online business card. Picking a random page from https://about.me/people/featured, you get a page weighing over 3MB!

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/F4VDN/https://about.me/penta...
It taught me what i dont want, and often times thats more than half the battle.
> It's worth noting that my cousin also moved to SoCal. She's now in her 40's and snorts cocaine 2 or 3 times a week in the evening to skip eating to keep herself slim. Apparently it's a very common practise amongst her and her friends.

This seems insane, if you want to stay thin, just eat at or below your TDEE and... that will happen (or increase your TDEE).
Ha, thanks! Like my multiplication tables, I have only memorized the codes for the top 12 metro areas.
Is Paper significantly different to Hackpad or simply a rebranding?
They might perhaps feel that their role is more like a combination of the Ministries of Love and Peace, and thus loyal to what they see as the government. In fact, one might even say that they are loyal to their government, rather than to their nation.
I think you meant to post in this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10393477
Try "what makes a site merely inconvenient for some can render it completely unusable for others, and so one should not overlook minor issues because they don't seem worth fixing."
I'll also chime in to say that we have a similar deal. Not as cheap but still less than a lot of people pay. I usually get 100-120mbps down and 10-ish mbps up, cable with a bunch of channels that I never watch (but my gf seems to want), some of the channels are in HD, many are just stretched SD, again, I don't really care since I don't watch much. The "main" channels are in HD at least. Also HBO (main channel in HD, others in scaled SD) but I only really use it for access to HBO Go.

As far as hardware, I only get the tuner/DVR from Comcast. Own my own modem and router. No phone service because it would be redundant.

Total cost is around $99/mo. I'd just as soon knock it down to internet only but that's around $70/mo and I'd spend the extra $30/mo subscribing to the various services that carry programming I currently access with our cable account login.

Not saying it's all sunshine and lollipops. We've had the usual billing and service tech issues that come with these sorts of companies that cut every corner imaginable. But when it works for most of the year, it does the job I guess.

On the subject of OTA antennas, I do have one hooked up to my PC's tuner card (since they did away with any unencrypted QAM over the cable lines....bastards) and when I watch one of the 5-10 channels I can pick up, the local HD broadcasts look so much nicer than the compressed stuff on cable. I actually prefer to throw a football game on my secondary monitor while I'm messing around on the computer rather than watch it over cable upstairs.
Many of the studies referenced on that site are funded or carried out by egg lobbying groups. One study literally compares eggs' effects on cholesterol levels compared to a diet of sausage and cheese. It's important to be critical of biased research! This is not good science.
> Lastly, in order to help monitor the behavior of the hundreds of partner APIs that IFTTT connects to, we collect information about the API requests that our workers make when running Recipes. This includes metrics such as response time and HTTP status codes, and it all gets funneled into our Kafka cluster.

> This way if you query Elasticsearch to find all API errors in the last hour, it can find the answer by looking at a single index, increasing efficiency.

This is a really good way to know if third party APIs are having problems. Staying up to date with all those APIs they support must take up significant amount of engineering effort. Many APIs are just second-class citizens for their product owners. Bugs are introduced, changes are made without announcements, and even if there are announcements when you're dealing with so many different APIs it's hard work keeping track of them all and making changes in your app to keep it running especially when APIs are turned off, or schema changes are happening. This seems to be the hard problem IFTTT is solving, integrating into APIs.

I'd shy away from starting a project that involves so many other companies APIs just because of how hard of a problem that is to manage, but IFTTT is doing a great job here.
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You can store an arbitrary size of data up to the block limit. However your transaction fee scales with the size of data you want to add to the block chain.
None of those are anonymous in the face of internet surveillance by entities like the GCHQ or NSA. They are superficially anonymous (or pseudonymous, which isn't the same thing) from the perspective of other users interacting through the intended public interface.
Because past behavior is not indicative of future behavior.
Not to be confused with facebooks paper.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id794163692
My apologies for bring this up again, as I'm sure the developers worked hard on this feature, but since Rice joined Dropbox's board (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/) I'd have severe concerns using anything released by Dropbox.

With a board member who advocates warrentless surveillance it seems unlikely that we share similar views on the security of my data, and I wont be using their service.

I think all users should carefully consider if they are happy with using Dropbox in light of the views of their board members.
Nice read: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/3hkv2f/eli5_stora...
> Voting is a social convention, not a coin.

notto take away from your main point, but money is a social convention, too....
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Bitcoin is an interesting technology because it showed up after the web and mobile consumer technologies had already spread to most of the planet.

These days it takes literally hours to put up a web application that would have taken many months to build in the early nineties, if not more!

There still isn't an existing technology stack to build these kinds of consumer friendly applications that take advantage of the properties of a decentralized, single-source of truth, public access database like the Bitcoin blockchain.

That means that everyone is having to first figure out what the technology stack is, where the interfaces are for the various systems and modules that comprise it, and the best practices for shipping working products.

We've been trying our best to publish what we've been learning and trying to find nice interfaces for our systems and modules, and in the process we've come up with Common Blockchain, an API interface for querying the blockchain and propagating transactions, and Common Wallet, an API interface for signing messages, signing transactions, and signing authentication tokens.

https://github.com/blockai/abstract-common-blockchain https://github.com/blockai/abstract-common-wallet

We've got a really simple implementation of a Common Wallet based on bitcoinjs-lib that does all the basics that we use mainly for automated test suites, but it is a fully functional Bitcoin wallet.

https://github.com/blockai/test-common-wallet

We've also got a Common Wallet interface that talks to the Bitcoin-QT or bitcoind JSON-RPC, meaning you can use the standard core wallet with all of our supporting protocols. There's also a Common Blockchain implementation for the JSON-RPC.

https://github.com/blockai/rpc-common-blockchain https://github.com/blockai/rpc-common-wallet

And there's a number of unofficial Common Blockchain wrapper for third-party blockchain APIs like Blockcypher, Chain, and Blockchain.info. We now use a Common Blockchain interface based on Blockcypher in production.

The main motivation for Common Blockchain was that we were tired of having to change our interface after a series of blockchain APIs we were using either went out of business or pivoted.
Yeah, this definitely only holds up to a certain income level. Then small local chains hold sway once again.
This case bums me out so much, so much mystery! From my perspective only one who has dehumanized the family could have done this. I am not sure how effective training is for dehumanizing little girls. But what certainly is effective is hate (racism, religious judgement). A semi-pro murder of a wealthy Iranian family with a WW2 era german pistol (it might be Swiss issued, but I bet it looks just like the one the Nazis used) just reeks of hate crime.

I really love all the intriguing stories around it, but they just stem from the fact that beautiful/successful/rich people have interesting things happen to them. It's like red herrings in a British detective show.

If I had to be a rational serious detective on this case I'd certainly be looking for a Nazi gun nut with a good shot and social issues either locally or one that could've met the family somewhere along their trip.
> So, actually, it was almost for sure one of Putin's soldiers to pull the trigger.

Surely you mean the retired and very much ex-Russian Army civilians who voluntarily felt it was their civic duty to travel to a neighboring country and voluntarily engage in civil war... right, comrade?
I buy 'crisis' but, 'security crisis'?
I don't think there's a meaningful difference between the two, they're both essentially instant.

Bitcoin doesnt make the data queryable in any way. You need to know the transactions where the data is stored ahead of time.

With Ethereum, you can create a "contract" that emits "events" which automatically get added to a queryable database.
The problem of unknown unknowns.
The debate around sexual assaults on university campuses today seems to be a frontier for identity politics/gender warfare, and I am worried that this will have a dangerous, harmful kind of fall out.
And Paper by 53

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-notes-photo-annotation...
is "one person hour" an actual half hour?
If there is I'd love to see it. But I'm fairly certain there's no way to do what he's doing with templates.
Some people just gamble because it's fun. Odds in blackjack are about 1% in favor of the house, which means you're (probabilisticly) paying 10c/hand at a $10 table. If you enjoy it, like meeting people, and take advantage of the complimentary drinks it's pretty inexpensive entertainment.
Coming from a low bandwidth, high latency part of the world, I can't confirm this enough.

Today, I have 2 mbit and can use Netflix or Youtube just fine, but mere 4 years ago, I had 600k and, boy, that was hard. Hard as in loading youtube URL and go for a coffee.

UPDATE:

In case Duolingo developers are listening, please test your site on high latency and very low bandwidth scenarios. I just love your site, but lessons behave too strangely when internet is bad here.
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