skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was probably in response to the onion crisis a few years back when onions were more expensive than gasoline

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Petrol-cheaper-t...
The way marketing goes is something else, all right. Back in the '70s my mother fed us standard Oscar Meyer bacon, which I still think is the best (albeit perhaps under-cooked by most people's standards). Back then it was advertised as being "Sugar cured", that's evidently part of its unique taste.

I just started adding ~100 calories explicitly including some fat to my normal 200 calorie bagel breakfast, and that includes a couple of slices of said bacon every few days. Which is no longer advertised as "Sugar cured", (instead it's "Hardwood smoked" or the like), it still has sugar in the label ... and it needs only a bit of salt to be every bit as good as it was in the '70s.
I wouldn't necessarily agree with the part about "why product management exists".

Product management exists because customers need a clearly and concisely communicated path to their benefits today and in the future. Product developers need a clearly and concisely communicated path on what to build to create value for customers.

Successfully marrying those two is not an easy endeavor, and the way at which you do it isn't a one size fits all orchestration. Hence, why product management is seen as something of a dark art.

Here's what I do know. Companies without strong product management risks themselves to higher customer churn and longer development-to-value timelines.
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You know what will really change the IoT? Energy-harvesting. (As soon as the powers that be stop interfering with it at the foundry level, that is..)
That link seems to be broken, as well as most of the product links that Amazon surfaces on the error page. Searching for the title seems to work fine.
I know to what you allude, massed rebellion, but I really think that is not the answer. Look at the Tea Party for an example of how voting still works and really well. Eric Cantor, the former House Majority Leader, was 'sniped' in a primary vote: To quote from wikipedia: "In the June 10, 2014, Republican primary, despite internal campaign polls placing him 30 points ahead of his opponent[59] and his spending advantage (Cantor outspent his opponent 40 to 1),[60] Cantor lost to Tea Party candidate Dave Brat in a major upset, 44.5%–55.5%. This made him the first sitting House majority leader to lose a primary since the position was created in 1899.[61][62][63][64] His loss in the primary was described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the greatest political upsets of modern times." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Cantor#2014_Republican_pr...).

What more can be said? YOUR VOTE COUNTS!

EDIT: Sorry to derail the comment thread on the article.
Yea, the one you can't be denied is a public defender who sucks and only wants to plea you out. Don't lie is bad advice, good advice is don't speak at all; they are not your friends, and speaking at all allows them to lie about what you said and they don't have to prove anything to completely fuck your life up.

Don't assume they're the good guys looking to solve a crime, they aren't; they're thugs looking to close cases by whatever means possible and they don't care if you're actually innocent, they don't care about you at all nor do they care about the truth.
They have made claims about what it conveys. Bottom line is that it's just a button that notifies the other person that you pushed it.
This was the dumbest part of the post, I thought. They just changed its name... how does this make it easier to connect with people?
> You cannot be denied one.

1) You still have to pay for one.

2) If you are not a suspect, you don't get the right to an attorney in the way you imply which leaves you with no reliable, neutral witness to call upon.

> Also: how does the advice "Don't lie" to the FBI get downmodded?

Because its an open secret that the FBI isn't above twisting arms and bending rules to win their cases.

One way to do that is to force you to defend yourself in court against a lie accusation which costs you 5 figures or rely on an overworked public defense attorney which is unlikely to have more than a couple hours on your case.

Yeah. I don't think you have any practical experience in the way the system works. You don't want a public defender unless you have 100% incontrovertible proof you are innocent. At which point, the FBI wouldn't pull this shit anyway.
France is an absolutely perfect example of a country ridiculously behind-the-times when it comes to technology.
The passage you quoted was intended to allow the government to make its case as why the question is not moot, while protecting the privacy of any defendants currently undergoing grand jury indictments. That is why grand jury seals exist.

Do you want the government making your indictment proceedings public? What if the grand jury declines to bring charges?
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Your statement is a controversial one. Many hold the view that the judiciary's power to "say what the law is" does not imply that every violation of the law must have a judicial remedy. The reason is simple: coordinate branches of government have an independent obligation to follow the law. The system cannot work if they systematically ignore that obligation, and if that is the case, a few Bivens lawsuits won't do jack shit to stop them.
I had a Pajero Jr. for a while in Uganda, great small SUV. Had no idea I was driving a little wanker.
I am also a bit perplexed at "only talk with police after you talk to a lawyer". I understand the idea and support it in theory. But it is still surprising that people would have lawyers on speed dial so-to-speak?

I don't have one. Should I find a lawyer? Does everyone have one and I am just weird?
You were downvoted, but I'm upvoting you because yours is a common argument, and people should see the replies here.

Watch this video explaining how you can still be put in a difficult position, even when telling the truth:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2013/05/08/why-you-shoul...
Does the responses generated from one user response leaks to another one ? Because this could be a major privacy flaw.
Interesting coming from a job hunting site, sort of a "hey look over there, MUCH greener grass!" :-) But they do a good job I think. There are lots of reasons you might start to wonder if your startup is more dead than alive. That said, it is always solid advice that if you hate going to work you should look for a new job. When ever someone who works for me asks "Should I be looking for a new job?" my answer is always "Of course you should be." Not because I want that person to leave, but because what we want out of job changes and by looking around you can understand what you like and don't like about your job. And if you talk to me about what you don't like, we can maybe fix that.
It's an interesting idea, and I see the appeal if the site is fairly basic, but I think there's one thing people are forgetting here.

You're outsourcing half your site to third parties, and basically letting them do whatever the hell they like with it. Disqus comments? Better hope the people behind that system don't decide to outlaw comments about the thing your website is about. Javascript embedded shop system? Good, so long as you don't need to modify the look very much and don't mind all your data being hosted in a different part of the world (like, the US for people in other regions).

And if they decide that all your data needs to be shared with the NSA or some other government organisation, then tough luck. If they hacked... well, tough luck again.

Without hosting such systems yourself, you're relying on a lot of third parties to be transparent, honest and respectful of your privacy (and that of your visitors). It's basically like a return to the days of free hosting and services like Bravenet.
He's not wrong and you are. You are not "the product", and saying such is so divorced from the truth to be nothing more than a lie at this point. "You" are not being sold, access to you is.

Look at some ads, get some great web services. Seems a fair tradeoff.
just debunking the bogus "you are a nerd that has a pet peeve against google services". this affect lots of users overseas or in poorer markets than san francisco.

amazon phones don't ship with google service. cheap samsung models (most dual sim ones) sold overseas don't ship with it either. the cheap chinese phones don't have any google service. ...and those are only the ones i saw. i'm sure india/africa/europe have even more cases.
This is actually pretty close to Palm Springs. I grew up out there.
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Hmm. I didn't say "tell the truth". I said "Don't lie". You may construe that however you want, I guess.

I don't see how all of what you described couldn't also happen if you just didn't say anything. The difference would be that you now have no contradictory statements or evidence.
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Hi,

I sometimes feel overwhelmed by the amount of new things I need to learn. Today it happened again when I tried to understand what happens here (https://github.com/levskaya/jslinux-deobfuscated/blob/master/cpux86-ta.js): http://bellard.org/jslinux/.

I sometimes feel that so much knowledge is something that I will never be able to grasp no matter how much I study.
I think I'm a good developer... but this is certainly not something I can do and it makes me feel minuscule.

How do I stay on track ?
Here in Poland many people call it an "ice-skate". Nike doesn't seem to be much excited about it. People always have some associations and are eager to make some jokes to impress others with their wit. It's inevitable.
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> Look at the Tea Party for an example of how voting still works and really well. Eric Cantor, the former House Majority Leader, was 'sniped' in a primary vote

> What more can be said? YOUR VOTE COUNTS!

Except... the Tea Party has failed rather miserably on most of their core objectives, particularly their single biggest one: repealing Obamacare.

Over the last five years, we've had some legislation passed that the Tea Party was happy about, but most of it is right in line with the preexisting core Republican platform. The Tea Party candidates haven't done a great job of preserving their own careers - Sarah Palin is a no-name outside Republican circles at this point, Michelle Bachmann left Congress, and Rand Paul's best successes have been when he strays from the Tea Party line.

They've done a good job of making noise so that people know their existence, and they've done a good job of making themselves a force within the Republican party, but arguably, they've worked against their own interests more than they've advanced their agenda by helping to decrease the relevance and/or power of the Republican party[0]. Much as I don't like Boehner, the fact that he had to step down is a symptom of the deepening problems that the Republican party has, not a symbol of the success of the Tea Party.

The Tea Party makes for a great foil to the Democrats, which makes it easy for the Democrats to capitalize on a fear of the tea party in their own campaigns. The Tea Party cost the Republicans the Senate in 2010, and while they didn't cost the Republicans the House, I maintain that the Republicans succeeded despite the efforts of the Tea Party, not because of it[1].

[0] Look at how they cost the Republicans the senate race in Delaware and nearly lost Alaska as well, both of which were previously sure wins for the GOP.

[1] Oh, let's not forget about Olympia Snowe, whose decision not to run for re-election was influenced by the threats of a primary challenge from the right. Snowe ended up being replaced by King, who caucuses with the Democrats.
Cool. Mine's in Racket:

https://github.com/greghendershott/frog#frog

> (because there are so few of them and everyone needs their own)

A million monkeys.... :)
Our teams would be all over this if they had real linux support.
Grounds for an immediate approval of a mistrial motion.
Does it actually use Google Play Services during normal operation or does it just depend on the Play Store for installation?
It's not abusing a service when you're using it exactly as advertised. If you have a service that says "we'll store as much data as you can throw at us" you'd be foolish to not use it as much as possible to backup every last thing. There's nothing wrong with that to constitute using the term "abuse." Microsoft could've just as easily sold Office 365 with 1 or 2 TB of space, but they wanted to put that Unlimited text on the box.

Frankly I think they should be made to honor it.
http://www.bitcoinway.com/ - free wordpress plugin allowing anyone to build online store to sell anything and can accept payment in bitcoins without middleman and without risk of being hacked.

I.e. ZERO risk of losing bitcoins while having fully automated online store.
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> In light of these factors, I would give the iPhone 6s line the Editors’ Choice Gold award. I believe that the criteria for this award is such that a product is not only one of the best in its category and an extremely good product in a vacuum, but pushes the smartphone user experience forward in significant ways.

That's quite an endorsement, that is quite rare from Anandtech, if I've been following correctly.

I'm not always a huge fan of the iPhone, but I have to say that, after testing the 6S, it's really tempting.
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> * Stop with this "you're the product" nonsense. Please. *

what would you call it?
That is, after all, how cosmic background radiation was discovered.

Scientists at Bell Labs were trying to get rid of that last little bit of static interference from their radio antenna, but couldn't figure out where it was coming from.
any "dumber" email service suggestion?
If anything, having it convey more stuff is a bad thing, because it increases ambiguity.
Holy shit! Even the concept of how it's produced is nuts. The extra links are even better, including the better-than-oxygen oxidizer that burns sand. The whole collection of anything involving flourine is like "let's see just how many people we can kill and things we can destroy without actually doing it." Whole blog is great along with high quality comments.

Thanks for the link and thanks to others for updated links! I'm in process of spamming all kinds of people with them haha. Hmm: need to get a hold of some FOOF that will go poof next 4th of July. :)
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If you're theory is that when individuals move from one industry to another it causes unemployment as they retrain? If that's true then we should have seen unemployment as people shifted from other industries into construction.
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Another way to think if it is that money is a measure of the ability to overcome barriers to cooperation. (That is, you don't need money at all if everyone were already cooperating with each other.)

This would imply that our economic measurements are inaccurate if they don't account for the situations where people cooperate without exchanging money (for instance, raising a child.) Thus maximizing money flows in the current economy only maximizes cooperation where otherwise it would not happen, not cooperation in general, and you run the risk of optimizing for behaviors that people are actively against (and don't want to cooperate), while penalizing behaviors that people like (where they would cooperate for very little.)

You can end up paying people to fight each other, while failing to pay them to help each other.
In another comment[0] I also mentioned using Shadow DOM for modularizing CSS. However I got a comment "Shadow DOM is not the solution for CSS isolation for components." and the commenter referred me to css-modules.

I'm wondering what's the merit/advantages of using css-modules over using Shadow DOM to limit the scope of CSS rules.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10453076
This is really cool, I'm hoping to see more small companies experimenting with Phoenix. It seems like a great tool.
"One of the best indications of a well-engineered product is the rigor of the engineering specification document."

We have come full circle.
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> If you saw someone get murdered by another person, who you don't know, then you really have nothing to fear.

Not at all true; they could very well try and make a case against you. You always have something to fear when dealing with cops/fbi, they don't care about the truth, they care about closing cases.
If you "saw someone get murdered" you are going to be considered a suspect to some degree. Moreso than someone who knows nothing about the crime, anyway.
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What in the culture anywhere prevents installation of a chimney? And if it does how is the ONLY reasonable response "your culture sucks, build it anyway so you stop inhaling actual bull shit"?
I had a problem where one of my contracts uninstalled Textsecure, and went back to the vanilla SMS app. Now all the messages he received from me are garbled. Somehow they need a way to disassociate phones AFTER the app has been uninstalled.
Assuming that by "GAPPS" you mean the Google Play Store etc., my strategy has been as follows:

- copy all data to a computer

- wipe the phone

- set up a google account with bogus information

- install all the apps i might ever want to use

- delete the account info and remove google stuff

- copy personal data back onto the phone

This is a big hassle, so I only do it once a year or so, but it seems to work ok.

Of course I have no way of verifying that the phone actually deletes my data when I tell it to, or that it actually deletes the Google stuff when I tell it to, or really much of anything about what it is doing or who it is talking to, so I still don't trust it - but I mistrust it slightly less, I suppose, than I would if the google apps were running.
Scripture has been used as a book of law in certain contexts for Millenia. All your /r/atheism cynicism aside, it can be (and has been) quite an effective moral compass.

Downvotes without any debate, I guess HN finally devolved into reddit territory.
I really wanted to say "Small Wonder", but that ended in 1989.
I totally support this - they admit that they made a mistake offering an unlimited plan, announce the changes, give a one year warning, and offer a pro-rated refund if you don't want to use the service anymore.

My family belongs to the Office 365 family plan and I think that we get a good deal for $100/year: 1 terrabyte OndeDrive per user, web versions of office apps, and installable apps if anyone wants those.

Except for content on the web that people and organizations want to share for free (fortunately most of the web!), I believe in a pay for what you use plan. Pay Microsoft and Google for cloud services, pay Netflix/Hulu/HBO-Go for entertainment content, etc.
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> That's quite an endorsement, that is quite rare from Anandtech, if I've been following correctly.

The last smartphone to get a similar endorsement was HTC One M7.
As a dev, a big thing for me is being able to see the source code for the full callstack in the debugger, and possibly making derivatives of that code in my app. As long as they provide that in some form, then closing the source isn't as big of a deal.
I bet the 418 million pissed away on these stupid stoves would go a long way there.

Maybe instead of trying to give them bits of civilization in the wilderness, we ought to just bring them out of the fucking wilderness entirely and be done with it.
These are the client (GPLv3) and server (AGPLv3) repositories:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Server
On his blog, Raymond Chen mentions how Windows' random choice of user pic offended some people. Apparently some Asian user got the karate pic, and decided it was picked on purpose for him, instead of at random.

The best way to handle this is say "No, it's at random." and let people un-offend themselves.
Wasn't alcohol (also accidentally) integral to making water potable? If I remember correctly it took quite a long time to realize that heating the water was what was actually sterilizing it.
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Ostriches don't either :p
Are you also willing to stop emailing others that use Gmail?
In what ways is this different from the gazillion task list managers already out there? I'm sure it's beautifully designed, and superbly implemented, but what is there that differentiates it?

Who will say: That's exactly what I need? And why?

Why should I spend time even to evaluate it?

Note that I'm not criticising it, because I haven't even looked at it, because I see no reason to do so.

Convince me.
In Industry people generally don't care that much about the details of what your thesis was, as long as you can give an interesting elevator pitch overview and go into depth for ~5-10m if asked.
How would you summarize the work that went into making Edison's discoveries possible? Can it be summarized in the same breath while praising his own achievement? Is it possible that some people use the word "luck" here, not as a mechanism to dilute his achievements, but just as a way to simplify what had been done before he started tinkering? Could you be misinterpreting peoples' speech here? Is it reasonable to ask you to attempt to find more than one meaning to peoples' words even if the alternate meanings do not match the exact definition of their words? Would "fortunate" be an acceptable substitute? Could it be that his success was a combination of his own ingenuity and perseverance alongside the work of others?
Lot of people used it as "shit user said"
a quick database for cacheing data temporarily from a web app's client-side code, maybe? I wouldn't make a whole platform depend on it, but seems useful enough at least for prototyping.
The size of a country has nothing to do with this. A larger country has more people to support, sure, but it also has a larger economy.
This situation is pretty much exactly how I can see cryptocurrencies continuing to exist, at least as a niche money movement option to dodge currency controls.
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Canada's advantage in terms of getting work visas v. the US seems like it should contribute to this as well.
Translation: Our users don't understand our service, and we don't either, so we'll just try and mimic a successful one.
Difficult, yes. There was an attempt by Google at a capability-secure JavaScript called Caja <http://www.links.org/?p=271>. I think it failed mainly because taming the standard library and DOM was too hard - there were too many leaks of ambient authority.
Admiral Yamamoto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto) who was educated in the US, was against Japan declaring war with the USA for similar reasons. He had seen enough of our industrial production to realize we could build ships and planes faster than the Japanese could. His statement, "I can run wild for six months but after that I have no expectation of success." was predicated on this.