skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the bottom half of the article talks about the misconception of China as just full of assembly-line factories.

We visited the smaller studios too and they are actually the ones supplying oil paintings for Instapainting.com.
AND a list of 100 mistakes I won't make.
Handy is a horrid, racist company. Don't feel sorry for them.

http://thebillfold.com/2014/10/my-day-interviewing-for-the-s...
First, I want to apologise if my tone has been a bit off on a few of my replies.

Stripe is very unlikely to transfer credit card data to an entirely different organisation. They also require evidence of PCI compliance before they will do business with you.

As for knowing when your business is being dissolved: I have to refer you to their terms of service, found at https://stripe.com/us/terms

You agree to give us at least 30 days prior notification of your intent to change your current product or services types, your trade name, or the manner or types of payments you accept. You agree to provide us with prompt notification if you are the subject of any voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy or insolvency petition or proceeding. You also agree to promptly notify us of any adverse change in your financial condition, any planned or anticipated liquidation or substantial change in the basic nature of your business, any transfer or sale of 25% or more of your total assets or any change in the control or ownership of you or your parent entity. You will also notify us of any judgment, writ or warrant of attachment or execution, or levy against 25% or more of your total assets not later than 3 days after you obtain knowledge of it.

You are guessing, however, that they are using Stripe or another credit card provider to store that data. But given Stripe need to handle charge backs and other things, I can't see them not knowing about HomeJoy, given how public the windup was.
I'm also interested in this question. Can someone with this expertise answer?

Is there a reason why we haven't seen a thermometer in a phone so far?
>"Or does it mean that it has to be repeated by different people as well ?"

Yes. The purpose is to 1) demonstrate the experimental conditions have been mastered to the point they can be communicated effectively, and 2) demonstrate the phenomenon is stable in the face of any unknown factors specific to a place and time.
>I was a Homejoy customer too and don't think this is that big a deal all things considered.

It is a big deal. He copied a competitors site word for word. He has 3 other cleaning companies and it appears people who signed up with homejoy have their info. moved to these companies. Customers need to know when their data is going to be used and they have to give consent. Perhaps this fresh article will show the severity of the matter-
http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-cheung-brings-homejoy-c...
Nit picking is fine. I think I was a little bit unfair in my tone towards you in a few of my comments, for which I apologise!
That's a fair point, my cars are old enough to come under the older UK road tax rules so are not taxed based on emissions, but their emissions are better than the requirements for their age.

Still it would be nice if there were inexpensive ways to check emissions for your self while tinkering.

However, I think fuel maps vs. catalyst removal are largely similar, it'll either be picked up on the next inspection or VOSA can do spot checks if they think something is up. I don't think DRM / technical measures for locking the ECU are appropriate much like I wouldn't be happy if the catalyst and exhaust system were installed such that only the manufacturer could replace them.

Perhaps one would only use a performance map when using the car on a race track, it'd be a shame to replace all the electronics just for that.

I'm also not a fan of things like geo-fenced speed limiters, and replacement components that have to be coded to the car by the dealer.
> The barometer in your smartphone can help provide your physical location to within 1 meter, if used for location tracking instead of weather forecasting.

How can this possibly be true? Wouldn't the pressure around a couple of square meters simply equalize instantly? You're not saying "within a mile" you're saying "to within 1 meter", and I don't get it.
Using an extremely expensive ultra-thin high-resolution touch-sensitive easily-scratched display as a scale is a pretty terrible idea. If Apple allows the app and someone weighs tiny diamonds on the screen, whose fault is it that the display is scratched? Ordinary people may not understand how the Mohs hardness scale works. Ordinary people may not be accurate judges of whether or not something is too heavy to place on a phone without damaging it. Cute hack, but too many unintended consequences in the real world.
The quality has little to do with the complaint, which concerns how the funding system is set up to prefer charter schools over public schools.

> they can simply stop the funding.

How? The school board doesn't have the authority. In many cases the state has removed local democratic control over the process. The only solution is to replace a significant portion of the state legislature, and that is no simple task.

> fundamentally a wrong premise for why public school system is failing

My premise is there's too much state and federal dabbling in what was a working system, and not enough spent on long-term social support systems. As I haven't mentioned it, I'm much more certain that you are projecting views onto me.

After, what, 15 years of testing, charter, education reforms, there's precious little success to come out of a lot of new spending. We saw that most recently in the NEAP scores, at http://edexcellence.net/articles/heartbreak-on-naep .

Out-of-school experiences, like poverty, have a more significant impact than teacher quality. The reform movement calls that an "excuse" for bad teaching. So where is the evidence that this new world of teaching is any more successful ... sorry, less of a failure ... than what we had before?

And before you say that charters have nothing to do with testing, in principle you're right. Except for all those schools with low test scores that were labeled "failing" and were shut down or converted into a privately run charter school. That difference in standards is one of Exelius's valid criticisms.
I do not think anyone is born with a pre-assigned passion. I just still doubt you can be "passionate" about a "space". That the word "space" is used in this entrepeneurial jargon is not a coincidence. The word "space" is a lack of things, not a thing itself, a vacuum, an absence, an opportunity. An opportunity to make money, specifically. I don't think the firm belief that there's a lot of money to be made in a certain "space" is actually a "passion". Not that there's anything wrong with that, not everything needs to be a "passion". Except in the silicon valley entrepeneurial mythos, where nothing is just a business, everything is a "passion" and will change the world (presumably for the better).
This $5,900 workstation lets you work lying down
AMD gave Zen engineers a free hand
I block all ads. Full stop. I also whitelist a trimmed set of websites to allow logins. I disallow HTTP/S referrer, DOM storage, WEBRTC, and whole host of other things. I have not seen an ad in years, I have not suffered malware in years, my bandwidth is my own, not to be used for ad servers to serve up their dreck.

The morality surrounding ad blocking is up for debate, but I do not feel guilty because there is no OBLIGATION for me to view ads. Just because you serve them up does not mean I need to view them. I don't view ads on TV, live or DVR'd. I don't look at roadside billboards or look at magazines because they contain too many ads.

I don't like being tracked, seen as a means of income by fly-by-night operations, a target for malware because the ad server operators are too lazy to secure their servers because there is no ROI in server security. In short, I have a right to protect my precious bandwidth and my computers whilst on the Web.
Tan(pi/2)
I'm also concerned about the privacy implications, but think it would be neat to hack this thing into a personal Robot9000 machine - though I don't know how it would punish you.

http://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-at...
How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult
I don't know what Flipboard is, but I can't remove it from my phone, and therefore I want it to die.
Doesn't look like it is stored (only) with Stripe. The profile section of the site (per the blog post screenshot) displays some of the credit card info.
If this is your argument it also requires the assumption that the trade-offs with Convergence are identical in both scale and type to the current system; at least in reference to this specific problem.
Let Larry Speak
According to Stripe, they require evidence you comply with PCI-DSS. I'm interested, did they ask you for this?
I think the real problem is that they are absolutely not calibrated for any weight. I don't know what the programming interface exposes, but I'd imagine it's something like a percentage out of 100, or something like that.

So people are going to think "My iPhone isn't weighing this accurately! It must be defective!" because Apple never intended for the technology to be translated into a scale.
I don't think that that principle applies here. Betteridge's Law implies that the OP knows the answer to be "No". In this situation, the OP doesn't know the answer -- and so appropriately mentions that the headline is a question that researchers are actually asking and hoping to answer at some point.
For $99/yr. Edit: + the price of a Mac of some kind.
If all you have is $5k sitting in a checking account, keep it in there because you're going to need it for a rainy day.
for dentists as for outsourcing, it is often an unnecessary effort to try to find the best available one. "he's okay" is a perfectly fine metric - i.e. "will do the job i need done, at a price and quality that are acceptable to me". small-scale yes/no-based reputation is fine for that.

more specifically, you don't need your neighbour to have seen lots of dentists so much as you need lots of your neighbours to have seen joe on maple street and deemed him okay.
Those are bad comparisons (at least the dam and the bridge) because projects of that scale would be nowhere near that fast in the US because of environmental impact studies, NIMBYism, and just improved safety conditions of the labor itself (tons of people died in the construction of the dam).
the only thing I can imagine cracking the screen is trying to weigh a person.

is that really something Apple would have to pay for? seems like something like that would fall well in "your fault" territory from my perspective.

my first thought was drugs, might be handy to have a scale in my pocket sometimes.
The projects they list seem to all be in-house projects that they own/control, not a list of third-party projects they use.
Refugees are an example of a community with no cellular service who need to share information ad-hoc. Think: Finding missing relatives in camp situations, reporting the viability of migration routes, weather or road conditions, the location of immigration checkpoints, etc. This is a perfect application of ad-hoc wireless / mesh networking, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945047 and https://bug945047.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=840...
Wait.. are you using the IP of the ELB instead of the A or AAA record and then using Route 53's round robin DNS? You should absolutely not be doing that if so but if you must you should enable health check on Route 53.

Edit: Here is the mention from the ELB panel.

> Because the set of IP addresses associated with a LoadBalancer can change over time, you should never create an "A" record with any specific IP address.
> Companies should not be in the business of trying to enforce (clearly unenforceable) laws by removing features that do perfectly legal things.

Dragon-dick dildos are legal, but that hardly means Wal-Mart is under any obligation to stock them for sale if that's not something they want their brand associated with.

If Apple doesn't want their brand to be associated with racist apps, or pornography, or pony apps, or whatever they choose, why would it not be their right to do the same as Wal-Mart?

As consumers, we can choose where to shop based on what stores do and do not stock. If you don't like what Apple stocks, don't shop in its store, and don't buy their devices.
It happens in practice all the time. Not only between countries, but also between states in the various federal systems around the world. (And that's one of the arguments in favour of federal systems.)
There are studies which can look at this, if you can do long-term longitudinal studies.

Taking two otherwise identical populations, particularly identical twin populations, and looking at how they respond to a regime of exercise vs. one without might work. The duration of such studies (years to decades) makes them exceptionally difficult and expensive to carry out. And, of course, you don't get results for ages.

One of the more famous of these is the Framhingham Heart Study, begun in 1948, and now on its third generation of participants. The original study included over 5,200 participants:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framingham_Heart_Study
Workaround:

Change your omnibox search engine query to https://www.google.com/#q=%s
(chrome terminology)
I would ponder https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10350016 , especially Takeaway 1.

A quick calculation of the annual rate of return you would need to achieve in order to grow $5000 to say $1M in 30 years should be enough to rule out a plain vanilla investment strategy.
From their website:

"...Starling doesn’t record anything you say – it simply counts words as they pass by."

For privacy concerned among us it would be nice to see them elaborate a bit more on privacy. That being said, this device looks amazing.
I used the word conception because the view of a past ecosystem is always going to be missing details. Predator prey interactions are chaotic in simplified systems. If there's an insect that affected a plant then herbivorous prey of a mammalian predator can be impacted in ways that can alter the entire system causing an imbalance that has not been allowed for. It is a conception because it is not the previous state you're returning to. For example human occupation levels of some regions are reduced by malaria and bilharzia.

Attempts to introduce species that we thought we understood well have turned decidedly sour in the past, introducing species we know relatively nothing about is unlikely to go well.
Teaching Programming with Shoe Laces and Coffee Cups
The graphic says that the microphone picks up words without recording: http://www.versame.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/exploded-s...

So I'm guessing they have some algorithm that can identify breaks between words and count based on that.
Just because it's the user's fault, doesn't mean the user won't waste apple's time trying to fight for a new phone.
> I keep reading this as "there's this field of cotton you need to pick; if you get done early, have some time off."

You shouldn't. It's more like, "Here's a field of cotton you could pick, if you want to, we'll give you these pieces of paper with which you can buy whatever you want. Don't want to pick cotton but still want money? Here's a cotton-picking machine you could learn how to use, we'll pay you twice as much if you can figure it out.

Your moral argument seems to boil down to "give me what I want for free or I'm going to call you an enslaving bastard."
I'm going to get accused of talking my book here, but since it's the right answer: you should achieve a salary bump for yourself and invest substantially all of it net of taxes. Switching jobs is likely to be the most straightforward way to achieve this salary bump.

We're mutually financially savvy with regards to investment returns, right? $5k invested today increases your safe withdraw rate in retirement by approximately $5k per year. You need a lot more. There is no investment available for purchase on the open market such that $5k transformatively changes your retirement scenario, even 30+ years out.

You need about ~$200k++ to contemplate buying most franchises, and hiring a manager for them eats most of the revenue if you're only doing it for one. (Someone who owns one Subway pays a lot of money for the privilege of cutting a lot of bread. Someone who owns ten Subways does pretty decently for themselves.)

Side projects are an option, and a few thousand bucks is (more than) enough to launch many of them. (Say, writing an e-book on a technical subject.) Getting the salary upgrade strikes me as an easier bet to make, though. If you want to go the side-project route, there exists a wealth of information on previous HN threads/etc about the mechanics of selling e-books.

Short version: start collecting emails immediately, write about the eventual topic of the book for public consumption, continue collecting email addresses, begin writing book, continue writing public content and updates to mailing list, finish writing book, launch with three price tiers at $50/$99/$249, promote to email list, make $X0k with fairly high degree of certainty, invest in retirement, rest a bit, continue growing list and watering it with regular emails, write another book on related subject, repeat.

There's a related SaaS-y method, the mechanics of which are quite similar to ebooks but the execution cycle is much, much longer in the typical case when doing it as a side project.

Modest success story: I'd be behind the curve on retirement savings but for bingo and burritos. I made an app which made bingo cards, made a very modest amount of money with it, and put a few thousand dollars into a little company which makes burritos: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:CMG (Scroll back to 2006~2008, when I was still at the day job and hence able to sock away most of my bingo earnings.)

That's very not reproducible, but was a happy accident. (I got approximately market returns from the 75% of my investments which I made in index ETFs and have generally been shellacked on every one of my for-fun investments other than Chipotle, but the Chipotle one dominates my investment performance.)
That was a bug that was fixed. I would say someone like Linus Torvalds has a very unusual pattern of mail, getting a huge volume of mail from a single source that happens to be a mailing list.
But what's to stop vote tampering between the webpage and the blockchain? Couldn't you easily make up false votes or record votes wrongly?
This is how Amazon rolls, screw the workers to please the customers, and fatten the wallets for Her Jeff.
BUG: After voting there's no response. I can vote over and over again and I just keep getting '200' responses.
Sometime they do, sometimes they don't :P so I make someone happy in my friends circle.
Apple now allows you to sideload apps from source without paying the developer fee, so it can still be distributed in source format for anyone to install.
This is true. My point was more about how publishers should value print as opposed to ebooks. The value of a print sale is diminished to some extent by it's fueling of the used market. So whatever a publisher values a print sale should be discounted to some degree. The same is not true for ebooks. An additional sale of an ebook does not discount the general price of ebooks.
Otherwise known as the stuff in puncture resistant bicycle tires.
Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets
Rich access control lists
I hear a lot of people using "passionate about" to mean "committed to" because it prevents others from trying to convince you that you're making a mistake.
Google Play Music Podcasts
While I personally can't recall a time when a scale-in-my-pocket would have measurably improved my life, I will concede that often capability leads utility. Maybe a future where everyone's phones are also reliable scales will fulfill needs we didn't know we had.
Tesla Autopilot prevents a head-on collision [video]
"But if a firm has accounting profits, that means it's possible for another firm in the industry to price cut them. And in a perfectly competitive market they will."

It's possible, but - again presuming there is positive opportunity cost - as soon as the economic profit falls below zero it is a better idea for them to leave the industry than to lower their profit further.

I don't undercut your prices because I think I'll be taking home less money. I undercut your prices because I think I'll capture your business and make more money overall. If that leaves you (or some other participant) without the ability to make sufficient profit to stick around, you won't.
As others have mentioned scientists tend to be pretty humble.

Even when a previous paper was completely wrong (say a chemical structure was incorrect) very rarely do follow-up papers make a negative comment. They usually say "our results differ and this is why we think we're correct".

I think a part of it too is that it's not hard to be fooled by your own results. Even a relatively innocuous error or failure to notice something in the date is really easy to do. I think follow-up papers are less critical since scientists can understand why the original paper was wrong.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has both a thermometer and a hygrometer (as well as a barometer). Samsung removed both of those sensors for the S5 in order to waterproof the phone - they were able to keep the barometer while still waterproofing, which is neat. Someone else might have to answer how that part of it works (something about watertight and airtight having different physical requirements..?)

In fact, every phone does have a thermometer, but that is not usually accessible by developers and it does not measure the actual air temperature - it's used by the phone to make sure it doesn't get too hot from the battery or CPU. We might not see many app-level thermometers get added to phones because the data is extremely difficult to use. For example, most of the time it will measure the temperature in your pocket or in the room where the phone is - and even then, the reading will be radically affected by what the phone is doing (browsing the web is going to cause a different temperature reading compared to watching a video, compared to stand-by mode).

I do expect that we'll see more hygrometers and thermometers and other sensors make their way into phones as time goes on, but I think the primary reason for the slow take-off is because the data is really really hard to use. That's the thing with the barometer - it's very resilient to noise and even when the data has problems, they are fixable.
nah there is certainly a cheapening of the language when such bullshit is thrown around so freely.
If you're in ASIC industry, look at my reply and I'd appreciate your thoughts on my cost-reduction tactics:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468534
As long as you're using their JS solutions so credit card data never ever goes through your servers (even temporarily), PCI-DSS compliance on Stripe just means serving the payment page over SSL.

https://support.stripe.com/questions/do-i-need-to-be-pci-com...
That plus the fact that the sensor is probably not reliably calibrated between phones and may degrade with age. Apple doesn't want to deal with complaints about how their phone is doing a crummy job at weighing things.
Doh - thanks. Looks like the geoip library I was using has moved. Fixed now for all your critical precision weather needs ;)
Hi, it's a joke. :)
Very nice.

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