skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment is fair. I definitely acknowledge you didn't deserve my trigger reaction, and yes it is a bit of a non-sequitur. Like I said, it's not about you, but just a pattern that I've seen in my years on HN and generally with many startup-types with unhealthy lifestyles.

To be clear I am not dismissing scientific research, I'm saying that often times the people who cite the strongest belief in science are completely subverting the science by selectively using it to justify eating what they want to eat.
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Around 2009 I talked to some people who offer that exact mix and were still at least open.
I think he's trying to get historical data of actual weather, not forecasts.
i thought about it a bit : by putting the random number generator into /dev/urandom they can claim plausible deniability if the random numbers can be guessed (and you end up with a compromised session key). However that might also be unintended, not on purpose.
Why Is Rackspace Supporting Amazon Web Services?
I've tried several flight hacks to get there, but they actually live in Charlotte so I'd have to bail on the second leg, which means booking two legs separately and still taking a chance on getting the return one-way cancelled on me for skirting the rules. It's maybe $100 cheaper, not big enough a difference to really make it worth it.
>SEC. 6. JUDICIAL REVIEW AND ENFORCEABILITY.

>(a) JUDICIAL REVIEW.—There shall be no judicial review of compliance or noncompliance with any provision of this Act.

>(b) ENFORCEABILITY.—No provision of this Act shall be construed to create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any administrative or judicial action.

I'm not particularly familiar with the intricacies of self-regulation in the US government; if judges can't review whether an agency is following the rule, and individuals don't have grounds to force the matter because it's not a "right or benefit", does this mean that there's no enforceability at all, or is there some other mechanism not mentioned here that kicks in by default?
Great question. Segment is not entirely focused just on data. If you look at their integrations, they have over 130 possible integrations of an array of options.

I think the other big difference is the dashboard. Brightwork will be a great tool to save time when trying to combine and collect data.
Are Mobile Messaging Apps Overtaking Text Messaging? Not Exactly
How-To Create an LVM Volume on AWS
It makes me feel better, in a perverse way, to know that the hyper-rich are buying into the world's most obvious bubble. Say what you will about tulip bulbs, but at least they grow into things that are pleasant to have around.

("If I were a rich man", I'd be looking for genuinely good art that's priced low due to most of the money being diverted away.)
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Notably, a URL for the website is missing from the news article, as well as pretty much every single news article on Convoy.

But I found it, after furious Google sleuthing.

Their website:

https://convoy.com/

And their Android app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.convoy.dri...

The iOS app is Coming Soon(TM), and apparently they received $2.5M in seed funding yesterday.
Much smarter to optimize for every day use than the 0 or 1 time you replace the battery.
> Judging by the increase in sales year over year for the Macbooks...

...you get a number that tracks the economy in general and the consumption of luxury electronics in particular, is affected by the relative strength of Apple's ecosystem against Microsoft and Google, how badly Superfish has affected Lenovo's reputation, etc. etc.

And in any event the numbers aren't particularly optimistic:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/10/08/apple-mac-sales-slow-...

> How many sales has Apple gained by making the laptop thinner and lighter and giving it a longer battery life compared to sales lost from not making a few parts user-replaceable?

We don't even have all the data yet. Customers don't realize they want a user-serviceable battery until they've had to replace one that isn't. Apple started selling glued batteries three years ago, which means they're only starting to have to be replaced now and the largest effect will be seen going forward when the people affected are buying new laptops.

But you're asking the wrong question anyway. The interesting question is: What would their sales look like if they had both ultra lightweight models and slightly heavier models with user-serviceable parts?
Just to be pedantic, "Modern Art" is not synonymous with Abstract Expressionism. Modern Art began with Goya in the early 19th century. It refers to any of the schools of art that departed from the long traditions of commissioned portraiture and religious art.
I could be wrong but I don't think "cycles" implies complete charge and discharge every time. If I alternated between desk work and meetings all day long, I think the laptop would record several cycles as I went on and off of wall power.
There is no reason to still use Firebug in 2015 besides laziness.
Coming from Soviet Union yes it's very destructive that Socialist Realism was the officially state-sponsored art movement.

But how is that different from what the CIA is doing here. If they really wanted to be a patron of the arts and freedom of expression then why this focus on a single art movement.
"but for the people (especially the CIOs) who pursue it, they get exactly what they deserve"

Do they? Or do they still get the bonus for cutting costs, despite not actually doing so?
Untrue. To "bear arms" had a particular well-known meaning at the time of writing. So had "militia". The defense of Americans to keep arms is not a mysterious or strained interpretation.

And since people haven't changed in 200 years, I'm not sure why the time passing has any meaning. Examples abound. Look to "The Battle of Athens" in 1946 for an early one.

But I'm afraid I'm just feeding the troll. I detect no honest attempt to understand or discuss this topic.
Those algorithms are called lawyers.
Me too. Got my display replaced for free within an hour. A Premium Reseller/Service changed my logic board at no cost within 12 hours.
No, you bought up the irrelevant point that you don't like it and it should be formally amended out of the Constitution. I brought it up as another contemporary example of crystal clear highest law language that our betters insultingly ignore.
The Doxing Trend
Moneyball: How Spotify’s Data Upends Music Labels and Advertisers
My hunch here is that the statistical tidbit the article mentions is a result of an abundance of negativity held behind closed doors, prior to publication.

Scientists typically present their findings to other scientists pre-and-post literature publication, building relationships among and within research groups. Aside from building connections between researchers, these type of presentations are one of the pillars of the scientific community. The question and answer sessions during and after these presentations frequently quite brutal (though eminently professional, as science is a formal and polite affair), with projects and hypotheses being verbally torn apart with the author on stage to gibber whatever defense they can rally while in the headlights. This happens to everyone, from the greenest grad student to the gnarled director of multiple programs.

These kinds of routine tearing-down have a negative impact on people's psyches (you will find many scientists to be humble and self-effacing) but drastically increase the quality of science handed off for publication. Instead of researcher A giving researcher B a negative citation when his results are contradictory, A may have told B in person or via email that the results B recently presented don't click with their research. This won't stop publication of contradictory results per se, but it will probably force someone to do clarifying experiments-- a good thing that advances the body of knowledge.

A negative citation is probably reserved for people who aren't connected to each other, or who have found a new spin on historical results-- in my guess, probably from the rear frame of what's considered "current" (up to 3 years prior for immunology).
you're funny. Probably half of the tech you use every day has an IBM enabling technology behind it, thankfully paid for, directly or indirectly, by this "financial services" company.

let's not forget that x86 itself could have been a Motorola 68000 if this company had not decided in Intel's favour. That's the extent to which this company defined the computer era.

The notebook you're using right now will boot DOS, commissioned by IBM. And I'm not even starting on the fact that almost all programming language roots go back to languages for the IBM 360 mainframes.

I'll gloss over the extent to which the architecture of your modern computer is essentially a scaled down version of what was invented by IBM in its mainframe business. Disk? Check. Processor cache? Check. Asynchronous bus? Check. GPU (IBM 8514) check.

It's not unfair to say that this company invented modern computing's engineering, and even if it has (very sadly) lost its way, one can hope that some of the culture of well-financed innovation remains, and this Watson business might be one of those.
"The polygraph, for example, which measures physiological changes such as blood pressure, respiration and skin conductivity, only achieves an accuracy level of around 50%..."

Where does that statistic come from? I've definitely read that polygraphs have over 90% success as long as you account for obvious "counter measures". Basically, the person administering the test can clearly see if you are pulling tricks to defeat it.
Your "cheap plastic" is my "case that just gets a little dent when it falls", which in the case of an MB deforms the entire case and probably breaks something in the process.
looks like a copy of http://fnd.io
Better data, better knowledge of their users, better service. It's like Moneyball all over again, Spotify says.
I still can't seem to view websocket frames with DevTools. It's the only thing I switch to Chrome dev tools for. Am I alone?
Debuggable JavaScript in Production with Source Maps
"simple functioning laptop that works with a plain Linux kernel."

Pick up an old Thinkpad, like an X220 or X230. The key is "old". For something old, even the conservative distros like Debian will have a kernel and Xorg that support your hardware. Thinkpads are built well.

For years I used old Thinkpads. The hardware and kernels worked fine. But the desktop environments became a disaster area with KDE 4 and GNOME 3. I hand-rolled setups with FVWM and then i3, but after getting tired of futzing with that and the lack of decent compositing window managers I switched to the Mac and haven't looked back.
Pick a model - say, Chevrolet. Is there anywhere within the LA basin that isn't already within 10 miles of a Chevy dealership? Does this rule leave the manufacturer any place to be in a place like LA?
They do now.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20150929/OEM04/150929814/gms...
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In that particular case my manager would not have done anything different than I would do or get any different results, it would just be somebody else doing it.

Effectively I was doing the project management and the only thing he was doing was cashing and cutting checks.
Alcohol is too cheap; especially at UK universities where it is not even taxed! In addition all GSA events are organized around booze. The again you have Scandinavia with high alcohol taxes that don't do much to limit consumption apparently.
> A language without higher-kinded types or type-classes cannot be the language that "Scala should be"

You don't really get to say what other people think Scala should be. You like higher kinds, so do I, I'm glad they are in Scala but most people have never even heard the term and to them, they would much rather have a language with fewer features than one with more.

That's the goal that Ceylon and Kotlin are trying to achieve.
Or they will require such detailed functional specs that by the end you're almost literally just paying for ten fingers to do the typing. An example that I wish weren't true: one specification had detail to the level of specifying that a particular form required a button to submit the form. The returned product had a button titled "Submit the Form." It did nothing, because the specification did not explicitly say to submit the form when the button was clicked.
"Would Abstract Expressionism have been the dominant art movement of the post-war years without this patronage? The answer is probably yes. Equally, it would be wrong to suggest that when you look at an Abstract Expressionist painting you are being duped by the CIA."
I've wondered: does that mean that anything that comes after is under the umbrella of "Modern Art"? It seems like it should.
4 days of battery downtime for replacement is inexcusable. There is no way I can take that time off from being productive. Whereas I can carry a machine that's literally 3 millimiters thicker.
66% of VPNs are not in fact broken
Which OP is that? You responded to comments from two accounts, which said:

galby: "there are some truly awful charters out there"

exelius: "To be fair, not all charter schools are for-profit, and there are good charter schools and bad ones. But the entire system stinks; it cuts funding to struggling districts, leaving them in a perpetual budget crisis."

Neither say charter schools are categorically bad. Exelius's point is that the funding system to support charter schools is what stinks.

Your illustration has no historical basis. You are viewing history through rose-colored glasses.

I'll demonstrate with a classic, the 1955 book "Why Johnny Can't Read: And What You Can Do about It". This placed the blame on teachers and the school pedagogy for poor childhood literacy rates, not the students. Parents reacted to that by pushing for policy changes. That book reverberated for decades. At https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qtZQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ORME... you can see:

> Since then, other arguments [besides teachers 'simply using the wrong techniques'] have cropped up. Those who sympathize with teachers blame overly-defensive administrations and boards of education. Still others say parents are responsible for having abdicated social duties to the schools, transforming them from educational institutions into huge day care centers.

Sound like a familiar discussion?

Here's an example of a letter to the editor from 1976, https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VdYeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nVYE... , where a teacher places the blame on school boards for not letting the teachers apply real discipline to the "hoodlums" who get to pass because of "social promotions." This teacher doesn't think the students are getting any discipline from their parents over poor grades.

This Ann Landers humor piece from 1984 reflects the idea that the students are doing poorly because the parents don't care; both parent and child veg in front of the TV: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zbUfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=htcE...

My comment here is surely no strong proof, only suggestive that you may need to research the history which brought us movies like "Blackboard Jungle".
The difference is that you can buy an X250 that does exactly what I want. What's the Apple equivalent of an X250?
Another approach: http://nullcandy.com/php-image-upload-security-how-not-to-do...
Well, there is one thing he brought up that also has a parallel to the topic of hand. Weapons of mass destruction and trivial to make perfect digital copies do qualitatively change the facts on the ground in ways we suspect our Founders did not anticipate. And while there's no great interest let alone lobby for citizen possession of WMDs, in the digital media realm....
I worked at VMware for a couple years and this was a contributing factor to why I left. I know a number of people that felt it was a GPL-violation and refused to work on that product because of it, myself included.

The lawyers in that company have a somewhat different interpretation of the GPL/LGPL than I've seen elsewhere in my career.
This was 7 years back my friend. We built software prototype for measuring dimensions, classifying grain type and measuring color / brokenness. For hardware we had some initial designs where the objectives were - to easily put grains on a platform so they are separated from each other, easy cleaning and lighting uniformity. We had conceived some rotating or vibrating disks for grain separation. But the mechanical part of the hardware wasn't actually built. I have moved on. There is nostalgia around that was triggered by this thread, but nothing more at this point. Sorry to disappoint.
Batty GD, Kivimäki M, Smith GD, Marmot MG, Shipley MJ. Post-challenge blood glucose concentration and stroke mortality rates in non-diabetic men in London: 38-year follow-up of the original Whitehall prospective cohort study. Diabetologia. 2008 July;51(7):1123-6.

Polhill TS, Saad S, Poronnik S, Fulcher GR, Pollock CR. Short-term peaks in glucose promote renal fibrogenesis independently of total glucose exposure. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2004 Aug;287(2):F268-73.

http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/52/1/102.full
But a library is the textbook definition of an API. I presume you mean to say that there's no IPC being used, such as a socket.
User feedback: A cautionary tale
fnd.io talks directly to Apple's search API (which is one of our sources). What fnd.io does not let you do is filter results by all the criteria we provide (we consider that our main USP). e.g you can't find pay once games on fnd.io like this: https://appapp.io/us/genre=Games;has_iap=false;price=%3E=0.9...
C'mon, you brought up an anti-gun-control argument on the Internet and didn't expect it to start an argument? We're both smarter than that :)
Not a framework but we're working on something called APIPlug (http://apiplug.com) that will enable you to get source code in your desired language. We support versioning and working on oAuth and rate limiting right now.
Drop us a message if we can add some feature that will make your life easier.
I remember having to work with a Croatian outsourcing company once, it was pretty much the same as the worst-case people talk about for India. You had to nail down the specs exactly, most of what you nailed down wouldn't get implemented anyway (despite being paid for it) and a lot of what we thought was nailed down was implemented incorrectly due to poor understanding of English. Conversely I've heard a lot of good things about the better Indian and Chinese outsourcing companies. It feels like one of the biggest problems with outsourcing is that when a company decides to outsource, they're already price-sensitive, so many of them go for the lowest bidder instead of paying the extra for a good outsourced team -- which would still usually come out cheaper than a good local team.
Playing Poker with Elixir (pt. 1)
Well, if I was your boss, that would be all I needed. I have no interest in letting you judge anything for yourself that impacts your performance. The effects of alcohol and other drugs are notorious for compromising that judgment.

And by the time I can see effects in person, its way over the line for effective job performance. As others mention, some people have high tolerances for alcohol before showing any obvious symptoms. I maintain that critical job-related judgment skills are compromised long before that happens. So their 'tolerance' is a problem for me, the boss, not some excuse for them. My response: ban alcohol at lunch.
Thanks for the detailed response.
Im a rails guy but Im still scoping out Drupal atm. It looks excellent for rapid app dev. I need it for essentially a clone of ratemyprofessor.com.

Would it be good for that use case? If so I think the time invested would be very worthwhile.
A lab-in-a-box that lets you create cells that glow, eat plastic or create fuels
The advice in the NullCandy article is entirely Apache dependent, while the advice in the Paragon article works regardless of your chosen webserver.
Friday the 13th game is now on Kickstarter
ugh why vmware, I really like their products

hope they make this right
>I did this with Apple when my logic board failed just under two years after buying a Macbook Pro 2009 model.

If it was under two years, then it was covered by the warranty. [1]

[1] http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/shopping/shopping-abroa...
I share similar feelings for the scrolling image viewer on the App page (screenshots). I'd rather scroll down over all images... you mirrored the apple page here, I don't like how they do it either
I wonder why they don't use Lisp anymore, if they claim to stand by Graham's advocacy.
I tried to login with Twitter, but got a bad gateway error.
Yes, I think the accreditation process probably should be central to any revisions/extensions of the current college system. That may have been the achilles heel of for-profit schools -- the lack of accreditation and their disinterest in delivering a product that must live up to recognized academic standards.

Any entity or means that delivers a high quality education, and especially does so affordably, works for me. Ideally such accreditation would work to improve (or expand) the reputation of community college themselves. Too many provide a second rate experience, (probably due to their often demanding less from the student than the better four year schools do).

If CCs were to offer some sort of degree beyond the Associate's by augmenting the existing CC workload (perhaps with courses and material arising from groups like Western Governors or even Kahn or Udacity) that met the standard of a good accredited university, that would be useful to many and a good start toward customizing their offerings while assuring academic repute and respectability.
> Its inappropriate to do any drinking at lunch, if you have work to return to.

Blimey.

I used to work for a UK branch of a US Fortune 100 company. On release nights we were provided with beer and pizza..

Most developers and testers were on a rota for releases but because of my role I had to attend them all. Free beer and ( bad ) pizza every second Friday for several years.

I seem to have survived OK, I wasn't sacked...
Show HN: Wia – Rock Solid Cloud Infrastructure for IoT
Link to the job posting: https://jobs.lever.co/ycombinator/8703c1d9-af67-4826-90e4-74...

Their stack is RoR, JS, React, AWS, and PostgreSQL. The HN system is handled by a separate team, and the job is based in downtown SF. It is onsite only.
http://joshua.schachter.org/2007/01/autoincrement
Passive+Income+Zero+Investment+To+Start
RevisitingSony BMG Rootkit Scandal 10 Years Later
> Note: Hacker News is written in Lisp, but Hacker News is run by a separate team. While we don't use Lisp anymore in our internal software, we retain the original motivation for it, and welcome Lisp hackers to join us.

Source: https://jobs.lever.co/ycombinator/8703c1d9-af67-4826-90e4-74...
The new approach to networking that actually gets clients
Dig deeper and you will find that while this is the law, it is not necessarily reality. Hence why I structured the question the way I did rather than focusing on the legal requirement.

A new government report shows that charter schools are not enrolling as high a portion of special-education students as traditional public schools, despite federal laws mandating that publicly financed schools run by private entities take almost every disabled student seeking to enroll.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023033792045774770...
Is Apple losing its dominance of the tablet market?
And the cost of AppleCare is $200-$349. So in other words, you're basically required to have AppleCare.
Zuckerberg's list of 20 must-read books