skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't work in a system like in the United States where we directly vote for a candidate who needs 50.1% of the vote. In most (all?) if the European countries where the pirate party has experienced success, 15% of the vote equals ~15% of the representation. In the US 15% gets you 0% representation.
man, this would be great. my dad is a huge car guy (type of guy that parks way in the back of the parkinglot) I wanted to get him a new key fob for his bday next week, $300 bucks.

now I am trying to mod an old key fob to work with the new one and have no idea how. it would be nice to encourage this sort of thing so there is more info out there. i am not even sure if it is possible to use an mk4 or mk5 key with my mk6 style one. why? no info.

I found a youtube video with the taredown which only exists because a modder sacrificed his $300 key to figure out how to do it properly.

i wish there was more info on how the software worked both for security and modification.
> The tech world badly needs the equivalent of the NRA.

The NRA -- as a lobbying organization -- is a single-issue lobbying organization with an incredibly straightforward mission.

"The tech world" isn't an issue like "gun rights", and can't support an NRA-like organization. A more specific privacy-oriented viewpoint with the kind of simplicity and clarity that the NRA's mission has might -- but it would have only limited correlation to the "tech world" in its support.
“Homejoy would not be where it is today without YC”
It seems insane to me that we could allow private corporations to buy and sell data that our government would require a warrant or court order to obtain.

If cell phone service were free that would be one thing, but for these companies to be "double dipping" like this is pretty disgusting.
As far as dealing with adversity, I would argue that the impossible amounts of homework give that element of hard ship to students.
Medication errors found in 1 out of 2 surgeries
I can't help but wonder if they solved the underlying problem, or just passed it off to the carriers. If they banned carriers from imposing roaming charges on each other to carry each others' traffic, then that could potentially work; if they didn't, and only banned charging the consumer, then that creates a massive market advantage for the larger European carriers, who can charge the smaller carriers with no way for those smaller carriers to recoup the charges from their customers.

The article mentions that that "will require reform of the roaming wholesale market on which national phone operators across Europe trade services between each other.". I'm starting to think that the old joke about XML applies to regulation as well: _____ is like violence, if it's not working, use more until it does.
Apple is leveraging its established ground to pursue more profit. This requires operation excellence. However, to win in the future, it needs products like what Jobs delivered. Based on the products Apple offered in the post-Jobs era so far, Apple has not shown any sign to provide a product that really shines as a whole. Even though I am a big fan of Apple, this makes me wonder its future.

edit: typo
That data, sadly, is not available anywhere – they don’t seem to disclose this. I only get results about SAMSUNG falling back in profits internationally, because in the US the premium market is focusing more on Apple. But no information about what the profits look like in Germany.
Everything old is new again. The Web never required you to manage local storage and streamed content, cross platform, on demand. Java Applets and Flash did so as well.

In another 2 or 3 years, we'll be back to where we were in 1996, only with native code.
as history shows one have to be either a Harvard dropout or a Stanford graduate. Not understanding the difference here is like not understanding a difference between finger-prick and venous blood samples :)
Oh, I'm definitely not saying that different races are distinct; mostly all human genetic characteristics are blurry and overlapping, even sex!

Edit: But that doesn't mean that the concept itself isn't useful.
I didn't mean it negatively. It's a brilliant idea and worth copying.
> A world with less management could be a world with less politics.

Wow, are you an optimist. Sure, it could be, but it probably won't be.

You seem to think that engineers are wonderful human beings and managers are horrible. It's not that simple. If you're finding 10% good managers and 90% bad ones, you'd likely find 10% engineers good at interacting with others while self-managing, and 90% who will get into petty vindictive garbage and make your office a miserable place.
My "recurring donation" is to buy every humblebundle and give everything to the EFF.
Really a beautiful game, especially to have bundled into an encyclopedia. I'm a little surprised there isn't a version built for Wikipedia... There's this (http://www.wikimaze.me/) but it's not quite the same
They have one test which is FDA approved, for herpes simplex.
This is fair. I apologize for this point.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/01/cuzyolo/
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Watch out for carriers in low tax EU environments poaching subscribers and then allowing them to roam. Particularly if there is any sort of discrepancy between what the carrier pays to terminate a call elsewhere in Europe and what they pay to receive a call.
"Nice guy" just means "person the audience can relate to". Phil isn't nice, but he's definitely relatable (if that's a word).

This struck me in particular with Gilliam's The Zero Theorem which I saw recently. I generally really like Gilliam films, but I struggled with Zero Theorem precisely because the main character was so unrelatable.
Previous submission & discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10419686
Very cool! Wondering if there are any performance implications?

Too bad there's no IE support, but defaulting to a regular image isn't a big deal.
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A cursory look shows that this is not an implication but a statement of fact:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/151027_FV_1ATV/1/details/

I didn't get the idea that grk was pitching consulting services but just to be clear that I have no interest in that market, here are the most obvious things:

1. Enable gzip transfer compression for static assets like Bootstrap

2. Compress the large images more aggressively and perhaps turn on progressive JPEG, although that latter step might be CPU-costly on mobile devices

3. Set cache headers on all static resources so regular users and anyone behind a caching proxy will avoid the full server RTT

4. If you use www.hike.in, optimize the redirect to go directly to get.hike.in instead of having a full RTT to get the intermediate hike.in redirect.

Beyond that, I'd look into a front-end diet – do you need so many images, can you lazy-load images or that 350KB of youtube, etc?
I second GraphicsMagick over ImageMagick. In PHP found it performed especially well when executing through exec() rather than the extension.

See Gifsicle [1] for easy animated GIF resizing, which I found buggy in both IM and GM.

[1] https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/
Nice! Meanwhile Instagram added new filters: Clarendon, ludwig, moon etc. Would love to have a guide on how to recreate filters with CSS if we want to have those new filters as well
The actual title of the article is "How to Safely Implement Cryptography Features in Any Application".
Gravity Payments is doing great since raising everyone's salary
> It's 2015 and the best I can get from my 802.11n network is still ≈ 50mbps, even in the same room.

That's a pity. I have a two-antenna 802.11n client that gets between 160 and 200 mbps transfer rate one room away from the AP and between 100mbps and 160mbps two rooms away in the pipe-obstructed, tile covered bathroom.

Are you -by chance- trying to do 802.11n in the 2.4Ghz band? [0] If you are, and have any other networks around you in that band, that's a recipe for sadness:

* If you don't use 40Mhz channels with 802.11n, you'll -at best- only see slightly better than 802.11 a/g transfer rates.

* AIUI, if you try to use 40Mhz channels in the 2.4 Ghz band, you have to either use channel 1 or channel 11 as your base channel. You'll also be stomping on every other channel in the band. What's more, some APs will detect interference from other users in the band and automatically drop back to 20Mhz channels. (This is a long-winded way of saying that 40Mhz channels in the 2.4 Ghz band are often impossible for any urban or semi-urban site.) [1]

[0] If you're advertising the same SSID on both bands, and don't have band steering that you know works, you really can't rely on your client's software to be smart enough to prefer the 5Ghz band. WiFi client software is almost always oh so dumb and chooses signal strength over throughput.

[1] Adjust channel numbers and interference advice appropriately if you're not in the US.
room for an insurance contract on the alarm clock call. Libertarians love contracts ;)
Are there any libraries in particular that you're interested in?
We did, but on a much smaller scale:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/erotic-fan-fiction-value...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/syrian-refugees-technolo...

Useful to tell better stories and retain readers, these widgets are also a great engagement boost. :-)
> Does the final version produced by the conference committee require revotes in the House and Senate again before heading to the President for signature?

Yes. The House and Senate must actually pass the same bill, not merely similar bills.
>A. Google is being sued for 2.6 billion dollars over 9 lines of range check code

If I were a Google exec I'd strongly consider dumping a few million in sponsoring some developers to make postgres's clustering options feature competitive with RAC. You'd never unseat it in some places but a long term commitment to support development from a heavy hitter like Google might go a long way.
The final bill passed with a resounding 74-21 (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/s291). Here's the list of people who voted for it:

D	Bennet, Michael	CO

D	Blumenthal, Richard	CT

D	Boxer, Barbara	CA

D	Cantwell, Maria	WA

D	Carper, Thomas	DE

D	Casey, Bob	PA

D	Donnelly, Joe	IN

D	Durbin, Richard	IL

D	Feinstein, Dianne	CA

D	Gillibrand, Kirsten	NY

D	Heinrich, Martin	NM

D	Heitkamp, Heidi	ND

D	Hirono, Mazie	HI

D	Kaine, Timothy	VA

D	Klobuchar, Amy	MN

D	Manchin, Joe	WV

D	McCaskill, Claire	MO

D	Mikulski, Barbara	MD

D	Murphy, Christopher	CT

D	Murray, Patty	WA

D	Nelson, Bill	FL

D	Peters, Gary	MI

D	Reed, John	RI

D	Reid, Harry	NV

D	Schatz, Brian	HI

D	Schumer, Chuck	NY

D	Shaheen, Jeanne	NH

D	Stabenow, Debbie	MI

D	Warner, Mark	VA

D	Whitehouse, Sheldon	RI

I	King, Angus	ME

R	Alexander, Lamar	TN

R	Ayotte, Kelly	NH

R	Barrasso, John	WY

R	Blunt, Roy	MO

R	Boozman, John	AR

R	Burr, Richard	NC

R	Capito, Shelley	WV

R	Cassidy, Bill	LA

R	Coats, Daniel	IN

R	Cochran, Thad	MS

R	Collins, Susan	ME

R	Corker, Bob	TN

R	Cornyn, John	TX

R	Cotton, Tom	AR

R	Enzi, Michael	WY

R	Ernst, Joni	IA

R	Fischer, Deb	NE

R	Flake, Jeff	AZ

R	Gardner, Cory	CO

R	Grassley, Chuck	IA

R	Hatch, Orrin	UT

R	Hoeven, John	ND

R	Inhofe, Jim	OK

R	Isakson, John	GA

R	Johnson, Ron	WI

R	Kirk, Mark	IL

R	Lankford, James	OK

R	McCain, John	AZ

R	McConnell, Mitch	KY

R	Moran, Jerry	KS

R	Murkowski, Lisa	AK

R	Perdue, David	GA

R	Portman, Rob	OH

R	Roberts, Pat	KS

R	Rounds, Mike	SD

R	Sasse, Benjamin	NE

R	Scott, Tim	SC

R	Sessions, Jeff	AL

R	Shelby, Richard	AL

R	Thune, John	SD

R	Tillis, Thom	NC

R	Toomey, Pat	PA

R	Wicker, Roger	MS
They should really be in data-attributes instead of classes imo.
And not having issues on Github is quite a weird, especially when the first rule for contributing is:
> Create an issue
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Ok then what are some of the inaccuracies? I am just curious so I know I will get my monies' worth when I take those biochemistry courses.
It's because the alarm program relies upon someone calling it at the right time. The code itself does not 'sleep' until the right time.
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> Or if you have a list of 1,000,000 words, then you can use Sift to pare that down to the top 100 closest, then use Levenshtein to get the exact one.

You cannot do that, because, other than performance, Sift gives no guarantees regarding accuracy. The exact one, or rather the closest match, need not be among the 100 closest sift candidates.
Terms like substantial portion are for lawyers to decide. If you're not a contract lawyer your best bet is to always play it safe and assume the worst possible outcome for yourself. Huge lawsuits driven by huge corporations have used less as ammunition.
I'm really not sure if abandoning homework is a good idea. I went to school in the Soviet Union/Russia, we had ca. 5 hours school a day and around 2-3 hours of homework, 6 days a week. I surely can't provide solid scientific evidence linking homework to results in learning, but I don't think it was unreasanable.

I have to admit, I mostly remember math homework, I loved math and loved math homework, it was always great fun to hack those problems and then problems with * and and * (stars for the higher difficulty). We learned concepts in the class, but we also needed to train mechanics with pure repetition. Some commenters wrote about scaling - I think repetition is exactly something which scales well in the homework, you don't really need to do this in the class with a teacher.

The same for foreign language, for instance. You don't really need a teacher a classroom to memorize new words, that's perfect for the homework.

So I don't think homework is unreasonable, I think it's a valid approach to "outsource" mechanical/repetitive tasks which don't require classroom or supervision.

Having said that, 7 hours of school PLUS 2-3 hours of homework is definitely too much.
there is no discussion on that link, and amusingly it's submitted by the same person, who is apparently in it for the karma. even more amusingly it's submitted by the same person who earlier submitted a giant essay complaining about not getting credit for things
I don't know how well that works. Your apps will be ready faster, but if they're streaming content on the fly then you'll need a relatively fast connection to avoid lots of delays while using it. With a more traditional system where you download everything up front, it will take longer but once you have it your speeds don't matter.
> Oh, I'm definitely not saying that different races are distinct

Then its very odd to suggest that those who disagree with the claim that "there is a clearly obvious biological fact that there are distinct races" are "painfully stupid"; that the concept and perception of race has a loose correlation to real genetic variation, and that descriptors of race may occasionally have use (even in a biological context), is a very different thing than a "clearly obvious biological fact that there are distinct races".
People differ. I tried to watch the Sopranos on the strength of many glowing reviews along the lines of "the apex of television".

That failed. I can't stand the show because it has no sympathetic characters. Everyone is horrible to everyone else and in general.

I agree about Phil though.
Good luck in your work, but unfortunately it wasn't the tech stack that prevented NYT from publishing the warrantless wiretapping story in due time.
And for completeness, Linux has tc [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tc_(Linux)
Using the botanical definition in a culinary context doesn't make any sense.
You are equating MRI with Ruby. Most would probably agree, still I wonder if that should be the case. If someone came along and fixed some ruby weak points (concurrency, performance, subtle bugs) I would be happy to call it ruby just like we call java java regardless of whether we use openjdk or oracle. At some point that might lead to an actual spec...
Not in CS, but there is a strong tradition of hosting copies on personal websites. The ACM is generally pretty lax on that, but technically they own the copyright.
I think about this a lot, but I can't come up with a single product that has an average selling price of over $600, that pretty much EVERYONE (at least adults) in the world would need, that they would also want to upgrade every two years.

The Watch would be this device as long as its gets more independent of the phone. Maybe a car in the future!

But in the near term, I would imagine their growth would taper off as more and more of the developing world get an iPhone (China still has few more years of growth) & Moore's law means features aren't added as often.
But be careful if you find yourself in Switzerland or Norway. It's easy to forget that those two are not in the EU and that can easily end up costing you a lot.
I had a layover at the Zurich airport yesterday and I almost enabled data roaming which I disabled as soon as I left for the US... it was a good thing I checked the carrier text message letting me know that every MB of transferred data will cost me almost 9 EUR!!!
1) Reposts are allowed on Hacker News provided there hasn't been significant discussion. Even more so if there has been a week since submission.

2) I was asked to repost this by the moderation team.
Amazon has always positioned itself for the long term, so it intentionally plows money back into staying ahead of competitors. As a result their competitors for their core business (cloud properties and technology) are far behind.

By stacking up the dollars, Apple is positioning itself to be defined by its profitability. The have an innovative edge right now, but with increasingly less differentiation technology-wise, this positioning will be hard to turn against when they need to invest in reinventing themselves. If they don't plan to reinvent themselves, they face becoming another HP down the line.
Parents weeping about their kids' "hours of homework" is the educational part here. I'm really shocked about the article and truly enjoying the comments.
New Zealand is similar, one carrier is 3G/4G only, one of them is 2G/3G/4G, and the newest one only operates their own network in major cities on 2G/3G/4G and roams onto the second largest outside of it. I frequently get 3G in very rural areas and I haven't been in a 2G only area for months.
It's really bad for satnav apps. If you try to plan a route in Waze with a 2G connection, the app will give a timeout error and become unusable.
Why on earth would someone want to apply CSS via data attributes instead of classes? That's the kind of statement you need to justify.
I'm the author of the service.

This is a fundamental limitation of the network as opposed to a shortcoming of the service. When you submit a transaction, it is up to the miners as to whether it gets included in the next block. There are lots of factors that go into this decision, and in normal situations, transactions are going to get included in a block very quickly.

If you accept the assumption that there are enough people executing calls (in exchange for $$) and that the network is not so flooded with transactions that miners are having to exclude them due to volume, then the likelihood that your function won't be called drops near zero.

If the network is congested with too many transactions, then it doesn't matter if the call was triggered by the alarm service or somewhere else, it will still have to compete to be included in a block just like any other transaction.

Now if you want to talk about selective censorship of function calls, then that is an interesting attack vector that I'd love to chat about.
(Didn't see this earlier.) No, I'm sorry to say that what I meant is that we banned your account because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10439668 was completely unacceptable, you've done this before, and you've ignored our requests to stop.

If you want us to unban your account, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com. We're happy to unban people if (but only if) they give us reason to believe they'll follow the rules in the future.
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Both of my Senators had been previously flagged as being against this bill yet they voted for it. So they lied to someone.

How... expected.
Are you doing satire as well?
What're the sources that aspartame consumption in regular amounts is more harmful than fructose sources in regular amounts? Fructose is just a chemical, too, isn't it?
People like to paint a picture of last minute changes made in panic, but it could also just be the leadership exercising the optionality they had built into the project.

Marathon has my favourite video game storyline ever. Told mostly through text in 'terminals', they had all sort of literary tools at their disposal. From journal entries to concrete poetry.

Halo had a wonderful story and universe. But it also had incredibly cheesy cut-scenes. The real quality in Halo's story was to be found in the plot and the hidden terminals, plus much of fiction and accompanying material they published.

Destiny has incredible textual and visual story-telling. All very mysterious like Marathon - it's still unfolding, and many things are unclear. But between things like the grimoire cards and the item descriptions, and the appearances of the ruins in which the game is set, your imagination can run wild.

There were some rough edges, sure, but I'm glad about the way it's turning out.
Well they progressively stopped being provocative and became politically correct. The kind of show you dont mind your kids watching. On top of unfunny episodes this is where it went down.
Equally odd as suggesting that there are obviously distinct sexes and that sex is a biological fact... i.e. not odd at all. Just because not all people are either men or women, doesn't mean that the categories are nonsensical or useless. Same goes for race.
It's also laughable that he thinks the volume of blood drawn for a standard test is what makes him pass out. Nope, that's a purely psychological reaction. If we're talking about donating blood, I'd believe it could be a physical effect, but that's equal to 50 vials in a blood test...
> OTOH, if there is no reality and thus no logic, it doesn't matter if I'm using logic to refute logic; whatever contradiction it's thought to be doesn't actually exist.

True. Your position logically refutes itself, but if logic is meaningless, that doesn't matter. But your argument sure doesn't give me any reason to believe it. You've created something that cannot be refuted, but that doesn't make it useful, sane, or convincing.

If you accept this idea, then all logical discourse (or even all logical thought) is worthless, and is no different than illogic. Do you really think that's the world we live in? Do you really want it to be?
I puke a little inside my mouth whenever I see photographs ever decreasing in quality on the internet. Every time a picture gets uploaded, to for example Facebook, the quality decreases with roughly 40% in trade for a smaller file size. As those pictures often get reuploaded, you will quickly see exponential quality decrease. People write this off as "you can't see it!" but with ever increasing resolutions on smartphones, tablets and even monitors the decrease in quality of online photographs is getting painfully more evident. This is odd, given it's exactly the opposite with video. On YouTube you will hear outcries when a video isn't available in 1080p, yet with pictures people don't care if 70% of the detail is replaced with static noise.
Why was this downvoted? Seems like a perfectly reasonable, helpful, and certainly non-inflammatory post.
Battery-electric is not practical for long-haul trucking, ships (which contribute a huge amount of pollution attributable to transportation), and heavy equipment. Hydrogen is a versatile, completely clean fuel, and it can be produced and stored in a distributed system without regional transmission monopolies.