skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Even though you can buy a Thinkpad directly from Lenovo, Best Buy still exists

For how long? It's a product an older generation that, for some reason or another, appreciates receiving the sales pitch. We're all tech savvy people here; go into Best Buy and start looking at computers. 4 out of 5 times you'll receive a sales pitch with, at least, a few elements of utter bullshit.

Meanwhile, the younger generation are becoming more and more comfortable with buy things online, sight unseen. The GP said it needs to see and feel options on a vehicle. I don't. I need to know what they do, and whether they work (information I can gather from reviews). In my experience, going and playing with something for a brief period of time at a dealership or store doesn't provide enough real world information, and I'm just as likely to make the wrong choice about a feature.
What if they already are? I can think of a handful of newsletters that command a three-figure annual subscription price. The people who buy them must regard them as useful and of sufficient quality. It could be that the rabble of news sites drowning in ads are mostly schlock, and that their business model is one of attempting to monetize some of your least-attentive moments.
The Plain Writing Act of 2010 [pdf]
Good job!

I like the sleek design.

Challenging brain games. IMO the app has the potential to go viral...
Elm has a "time traveling debugger", http://debug.elm-lang.org/

I'm eager to give it a try in a real project.
Is it just me or did this problem fly completely under the radar during the govt bailout?
Yeah, for sure; as I say in "Removing the rose-coloured glasses", rr is definitely not the first tool to do this, it's just the first one I've been lucky enough to use. I've not done much development on Windows, so haven't had an opportunity to use/enjoy Visual Studio.

Also, I'm sure there's a large chunk of people like me, who don't use debuggers much and have no idea what a good one is capable of.
You can suspect that, but Hoffman's research doesn't support it.
Wow that's cool! I hope you keep up the good work. SQL and Regex are great topics too for these types of websites.
>These kinds of "news releases" from universities are really annoying to read. How could the brain be set up any other way than "local network areas connected by a bigger network"?

Obviously as one big network without any local network areas?

It's pretty evident that local here doesn't mean merely topically local, but of semi-autonomous functioning (separate utility, etc).
VW cars exceed legal emissions 40 times. There is a reason for no preventing to use this cars?
Tracking hamster activity with a Raspberry Pi
Realtor.com Survey Finds Home Enthusiasts Prefer Natural, Comfortable Spaces
Agree, and to your point I have read and watched most of the latest interviews given by Holmes. In no place she claims that Theranos is using blood collected in nanotainers (non-venous blood or finger prick blood) for assay (component detection) using traditional diagnostic equipments.

Theranos uses non-venous blood for their proprietary tests (currently only 1 test) and rest 99.9% (figuratively speaking) tests uses venous blood in traditional diagnostic equipment.

Back to the same question - If almost all of their tests are done using traditional equipments, then why $9B valuation?
The Main Reason People Check Voicemail Is……
Why not? Larger evolutionary structures do seem to have a single point of failure, e.g. the heart.
What Should I Know About (Insert Container Project Here)
Didn't we already know that pretty solidly? Like the chunk at the back is for your eyes, etc [that's the only one I can remember consistently]
New bionic lens could give you perfect vision for the rest of your life
“The State has no right to _____.”

These arguments are rife in US political discourse, but as an outsider with no emotional investment in the idea of guarding against the dreaded tyranny of kings... I note that such arguments always avoid addressing the underlying problem.

In your case, there is a fence in your kitchen, and there you are tearing it down without pausing even for a moment to ask why it is there. Was there a fire while you were out, and the floor on the other side of the fence is no longer sound? Is there some kind of toxic chemical spill going on? Is this a crime scene that must be preserved while evidence is gathered?

The argument of whether the state has a right is certainly interesting, and we ought to have it, but we still ought to understand why they thought the fence should be put there, regardless of our interpretation of whether they had that right or not.
Seem overvalued. But valuations are on future value. So if they could get their test through the mill, what would they be worth? Multiply by your estimate of their chances. Probably << $9B
I'm interested to see what happens when the London Underground finally starts running all night on Friday and Saturday nights.

That should encourage many more pubs and bars to stay open later, and remove the hurry to get home before the last train leaves.
How Jack Dorsey's gifted shares will be taxed
https://cgdb.github.io/?
I don't understand the intricacies of FDA approval so I might be confusing things here, but why is Theranos' front page currently claiming "Theranos Receives FDA Clearance"?
This is a talk I gave at OpenStack Tokyo yesterday around market analysis and R&D work I've done in the container ecosystem and specifically how the various projects compare to one another including: Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, CoreOS, Flocker, Mesos, DCOS, Marathon plus more, as well as how it can relate to OpenStack.

If you're interested in the slides themselves, you can find them here: https://www.scribd.com/doc/287401286/What-Should-I-Know-Abou...
That's not exactly what's going on here. The point is to use the sensory memories to improve the interviewee's ability to recall, and then see who actually recalled better the second time around. Yes, you could probably compare the two for inconsistencies as well, but that's not what he was measuring for this—just the change in level of detail between the two versions.
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Thanks for this! Firefox runs great on my phone, and this is an older phone that is also throttled for battery life.
Yeah, the Kotlin inter-op is really well done. Having IntelliJ just work is always discounted more than I think people should.

I do wish Kotlin had more pattern matching semantics but that's just me being picky, it's a really nice language.
Aaron Sorkin defends how he handles history in Steve Jobs
> Except that the largest margin for dealerships and car manufacturers is the Aftersales parts/accessories

Isn't that always the case? Regardless, cutting out the dealership gives the car companies more margin for this stuff and possibly lower prices for consumers (possibly though probably doubtful).
I agree with what you're saying overall. But this new policy from Apple doesn't seem to be encouraging efficiency. In some ways it encourages wastefulness, because once you do the work of making your assets load on demand, and as long as your stuff fits into 20GB, you don't really have to care how large they are. They'll always fit on the user's device, you don't have to worry about crowding out other apps or causing the user to receive annoying alerts about storage being full, etc., it's all just managed for you. It will be painful for people on slow connections, and expensive for people on metered connections, but getting developers to care about that is probably challenging.
I’d be very careful about using the argument “Go the way of the Dodo.” Contemporary thought is that it was a bad thing that humans hunted the Dodo to death.

I’d use the analogy “Go the way of the dinosaurs,” it speaks to the fact that those who adapted, the avians, survived, without the baggage of debating the morality of hunting a species to death.
I'd think it depends on the amount of time you've spent imagining this experience in the novel. If you have had enough time to vividly imagine the entire experience, none of the questions should catch you by surprise and you could answer almost as if you were actually there.

Regarding con-artists, yes I suppose it comes down to whether they can be as quickly imaginative on the spot as most people who are truthfully recalling an experience. That's probably where the inaccurate 15% of results come in.
I work in the used car industry and it hurts my soul. You're absolutely right that it needs disruption, specifically the "buy here-pay here" (BHPH) model.

BHPH sales are when people with no/terrible credit get an overpriced used car financed by the dealership where it was purchased at 29% interest and $300 bi-weekly payments (for example). The dealers bank on the fact that these people will probably default in a couple of months. Then, the dealer repossesses the vehicle (easily with starter interrupt and GPS devices), and then it can be resold at the exact same price (and the dealer can sue for deficiency balances owed by the previous owner if they so choose). The people who have to resort to this way of car buying are already desperate, and the BHPH dealers are designed to profit off of them.

The FTC and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are slowly starting to catch on, but the lobbying by groups like the National Independent Auto Dealers Association is very strong -- they have A LOT of money, and they're always looking for ways around the law. The latest trend is changing a few words on the contract, calling it a "lease" and ripping off the consumers in just the same way.
Does look a bit like Ive though http://pasteboard.co/1ImkRv2u.png
Wow, you pay as well as half of these startups.
Sounds too optimistic even for an optimist like me. But I hope it happens.
But... Uber! AirBnB! These companies all win by opposing, not just one law, but a baroque edifice of law constructed clumsily over a century. With a little push, it all comes down.

So, now Tesla wants to try selling new cars a new way. By allowing actual information (over the internet) to be freely available about every facet of their car. You like it, you try it in a nearby demo center, you buy it! Like so many other things we buy (like houses)

I'm pretty sure new cars don't need any protected status as a sales issue. In fact, most of us are pretty sure we're not getting responsibly informed by the car salesman in person. Just the opposite.

Lets say it out loud - car dealers think (know) they can make more sales by manipulating us in person. They fear a world where folks make independent decisions. So they make up any excuse to put off that future.
I guess we did.

But that's a different issue than asking "How could the brain be set up any other way" as if any other structure is impossible (as opposed to merely proven not to be the case in practice).
Interesting. I have a huge angular project that I am working on and trying to create similar component blocks for pages using directives in angular. Anyone tried mixing angular with react for stuff like these ? For example, I have created blocks to embed social icons using <social-icons fb="" twitter=""> etc.
It might be their fault, but everyone who worked on that project in software were the pioneers at the time. So they didn't have the processes or knowledge to even know to document things.
In Icy Breath of Saturn’s Moon Enceladus, Cassini Starts the Hunt for Life
Don't ever take a fence down...

Conservatism is fine as mental shortcuts go, but we shouldn't take every mental shortcut available. We don't actually have to worry about shit that supposedly happened a hundred years ago, if we take the time to look at what's going on now. Right now, there are customers who want to buy, and producers who want to sell. Relaxing dealer requirements would allow those beneficial transactions to occur.

If we're so concerned that unspecified bad shit will happen because who knows it might happen, then simply put a time limit on the relaxed requirements. That is, the law could say that dealer requirements will come back in force in five years, unless subsequent legislation extends the period. In five years, legislators and lobbyists and maybe even the public can conclude "yes the world is exactly the same now as it was in 1920 so we need exactly the same laws", or not.
Give It a Rest. Abenomics Is Doing Fine
> There aren't easy answers here

I don't think the circumstances are as grim. Most of the personnel retained at a dealership do useful work. That same work will be required regardless of who runs the show. They may need to apply for a job at the new factory store, but that's really the extent of the displacement. You're not eliminating an entire industry. You're re-organizing it to reduce friction.
The wars today pale in comparison to the "cold" proxy wars that were fought between the USSR and the USA in Latin America, Asia and Africa during the space race.

The effects of those wars nearly half a century ago are still being dealt with today.
I would argue that software outsourcing works as well as it needs to. I used to be vehemently opposed to it, for all the normal reasons, but for the people (especially the CIOs) who pursue it, they get exactly what they deserve and I think a lot of them are perfectly ok with that. My experience [reporting to a semi-sociopathic CIO] has taught me that it's a lot easier to be flexible with contract labor (by using OpEx and other methods of shifting funds to increase/reduce monies for the work), and sometimes they care more about that than accurate delivery dates or supportable deliverables of high quality that do what they're supposed to.
where were the SV / SF / Oak proper journalists on either end of this story actually scrutinizing a $10b monster?

Most journalists are not capable of narrating how e.g. a Rails application works. They're equally not capable of walking an interlocutor through e.g. Phase N clinical trials. They rely on people who actually have domain expertise to tell them what the ground state of the world is like. One would hope that a good journalist goes around and checks those representations, but this is not always true.

Every interaction I have ever had with a journalist attempting to use me as a source has decreased my confidence in the profession. I'm on like six organizations' internal lists as "Speaks English and can answer any Japan question." (My qualifications for this: I speak English, have a professional background which suggests bare minimum competence in a field which was once newsworthy regarding Japan, and then was in the NYT in that capacity. "Close enough!")

They've asked me to provide my opinion of everything from e.g. Abe's economic policies to whether the man on the street thought that the Japanese women's soccer team was counteracting the national malaise after the Tokoku earthquakes. When I give them the honest answer, which is that I'm a small software entrepreneur who does not know anything useful about nation-level economics policies and is sufficiently politically apathetic that me knowing that Abe is prime minister actually means that I must be paying more attention than usual in 2015, that does not result in them stopping the interview or taking me off their list.

Journalism is a high-prestige field which, to re-use Michael Creighton's observation, we understand is virtually never right about even the simplest consequential facts about things we actually understand, but we trust it to be accurate with regards to consequential facts about other fields, and this trust endures through every report that we have about journalists being catastrophically wrong. The alternative to trusting journalism is to believe that the New York Times and BuzzFeed hire the substantially same people to do substantially the same work for substantially the same reasons, and that the NYT is prestigious and BuzzFeed is not because the NYT has been BuzzFeeding for centuries.

There is some threshold of evidence that causes us to accept the BuzzFeed hypothesis, right? Right? God help me, I know I sound crazy, but I think I'm there.
Yeah I always forget that.

Btw, dns for (aaronbrethorstphotography.com) in your profile isn't resolving.
Show HN: CodingBrain – acquire skills faster
CodingBrain is a knowledge-management, research and productivity app aimed at developers, technical bloggers and anyone who uses the internet to learn something.

The purpose of CodingBrain is to make your learning, writing and remembering of technical facts more efficient. It serves as your central app that records what you do, helps you to generate new content, enables you to search or remember and tries to automate as much as possible to increase your productivity. This applies to grabbing content from websites, creating new files, moving content around, finding similar notes etc.

CodingBrain is not yet-another-note-taking-app. In fact, it doesn't even have an editor. You point CodingBrain to the location of your plain-text markdown files and then it indexes and analyses them. It integrates with your preferred tools, most of all your editor, but also your (though not fully yet) browser and search engine (Google only at this time, more coming).

* A markdown viewer of your notes (similar to Marked)
* A markdown analyser that gives you info about: similar notes, files you linked to, websites you bookmarked or referenced, local & online searches you performed
* It has a kind of automated tagging system, by using your search query as a tag
* A searchable activity log of your file changes, browsing history and so on
* A browser component that enables you to grab content from websites and optionally pasting it into your notes in markdown syntax
* Every website you visit will be indexed and cached, and CodingBrain tries to generate a summary about the site that you can edit and annotate
* A local search engine that allows you to search for notes, websites, bookmarks.
* A large set of index fields you can search for, for example, you can specifically search for content of markdown headers or code blocks

I have basically built CodingBrain for myself because I was unhappy with existing solutions and always longed for a tool like that.
Writing Better Commit Messages with a Tmux Script
One neuron dying off is much more probable than a fatal heart condition. Heart is a multi-cellar, regenerative organ which often recovers from substantial damage.
I used a variation of this trick when I was a resident assistant in college. We had the unfortunate job of busting drinking parties in the dorms and part of our responsibility was to collect ID numbers or social security numbers if the person claimed to not have their IDs. People would quite happily rattle-off a fake SSN. But if you wait 60 seconds and come back to them and ask for the number in reverse, it's essentially impossible to repeat the same fake, especially if you've been drinking.
Clickable: http://www.codingbrain.com

P.S: Mac only at this time. As it was developed in JavaFX porting to other OSes not that difficult so expect this to happen soon.

I'd very much appreciate any input or impression you have.

Thanks in advance :)
Tooling (mix, Hex, ExUnit), macros, Protocols for polymorphism, more natural feeling APIs in the standard library.
"...they were mostly ripoffs..."

Maybe my experience is not the norm. I've heard a lot of bad things about schools like Phoenix and DeVry. But I went to DeVry (quite a few years ago) and got a 2-year tech diploma. They also offered a 4 year accredited BSEE at the school I attended (Arizona). It was failry challenging, a lot of people dropped out, but literally eveyone who graduated had a job offer waiting for them, several if you had decent grades. I had three offers from which to choose. It launched a nice career for me, including getting an employer to sponsor me to complete my BSEE.

Things must have changed, because it was pretty solid at that time.
I'm pretty sure William Hill operates legally in Nevada. They operate many of the sports books at smaller casinos there and I think offer betting shops outside of casinos there as well, like in sports bars. Nevada also allows online sports betting.
Grape + ROAR + Swagger is a good combo.
How much will it cost? I didn't see a price, but I know it will be high...
A language without higher-kinded types or type-classes cannot be the language that "Scala should be". And these aren't things that can be easily added later. And I don't think it will ever happen. And don't get me wrong, but software is about trust and I do not trust somebody like Gavin King for delivering a good language after Hibernate :)

> Shapeless implicit macros to use tuples generically

What can you do in Ceylon about this? Or are we talking about a dream?

> a retrofitted JavaScript backend

Not sure what you mean. Scala.js is reusing the Scala compiler in what happens to be the cleanest transition I've seen to such a different platform. And compared to other Javascript compilers, like ones for Ocaml or Haskell, this one actually works well and stays up to date. Care to explain?
> Now we have no more space exploration

What?

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/all-systems-go-for-nasas-...

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/dawn/

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/juno/

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory-cur...

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/cassini-huygens/

> let's give Russia millions of dollars to fly American astronauts to the space station because we can't do it ourselves

Oh, shit! Nothing is worse than nations cooperating^ to explore space! And it's not like we're working on any way to do it ourselves: http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/05/18/spacex-has-aggressive-s...

^ Yeah, this is technically unfair, because it's not so much cooperation as a literal lack of ability, coupled with Russia's occasional vague threats to block America's astronauts from getting to the ISS. It just felt good to say it.
Unless the company looking to buy you are professional drunks and/or alcohol salesmen, that's an absurd way of thinking.
The very premise of MJ is biased. They search for/create articles to support their agenda. They are in no way similar to Consumer Reports or any other independent lab, because they start with the assumption that their goals are right. Not scientific, not by a million miles, and I think 'very biased' is exactly the right name for them.
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Let's pause for a Microsecond (in Java)
It's worth noting that for journalists, analyzing data is only half the battle.

Sites like FiveThirtyEight and The Economist usually have separate graphics departments who use nonstatistical tools like Illustrator to annotate and apply custom theming. Good visualization is an huge part of a persuasive argument, and so being able to do both is important (and languages like R have good native plotting as well)

Additionally, looking at the agate code Jupyter notebook, it appears that the processing syntax is very, very similar to pandas (despite the warning against it) aside from the print_bars method, so I'm confused about the specific utility of the module.

From the post comments, after someone else noted the similarities too:

> You're right, most of my problems with pandas are not in its interfaces. My problems there are with the overhead of the numpy dependency, its confusing handling of text, nulls, etc. (inherited from numpy) and its documentation aimed at advanced users rather than beginners.
Interesting, confused as to why weather wear is where it ended up? It doesn't seem to talk much about insulation or any of the keep warm themes just general strength.
Because you control the air pressure waves (sound) well enough that there's a pressure peak (slightly more dense air) right behind the object, with lower pressure in front of it (less dense air) on average.

That would force it to move towards you if you can overcome any friction and other counteracting forces.
It doesn't have extension functions.

Since moving to Kotlin for my projects, I really enjoy the power that these provide: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/extensions.html

What does Ceylon give me over Kotlin?