skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
uh... so? That just means it is even more the owner's responsibility to bring out someone to cut down the dead tree.
Deep family and community support system.
Ironically, though, the original Google Maps didn't actually use XMLHTTPRequest, at least not for the trackable maps— that was all just moving <img> tags around and changing the src attributes on them.

XHR may have been used to fetch search results, although it later switched to a JSONP interface with generated script tags so that the various APIs (geocoding, directions, etc) could be used by third party sites on other domains.
Rationally predicting that N people will try to do terrible things is definitely not the same as condoning the people who have done terrible things [aside: this emotive conflation may partly explain why western media are serially unable to analyze or reflect on the root causes of terrible events].

Predicting that the civil wars in Iraq and Syria would give a fertile ground for extremism to develop is no leap, and certainly doesn't condone it, and focusing on the guilt of specific extremists in each case won't teach us anything either.
> on iOS, and less so Android, but still, there are NO POWER USERS. everyone gets the same treatment.

This is not true. Those of us that can write programs are power users in that we can write programs using our general purpose computers that run on our devices.
Fun Fact:

Microsoft had Instant IMAGE Search over 10 years ago when they launched the live.com product (if anyone remembers). Much much before google had instant web search. Start typing and images would instantly fill the screen. This was at a time when AJAX was getting popular. Like a lot of cool Microsoft tech, they didn't invest in it for the long run and just killed it along with EXPO, the craigslist competitor.
Goomer
Don't feed the trolls, they'll only come back for more.
I believe bullet-time effects as in The Matrix movies are made with an array of cameras. The shots are interpolated from a discrete series of synchronized images.

Mr. Davidhazy taught a class on many techniques related to the article that I was fortunate to attend at RIT way back in the eighties. He's quite an interesting and inventive guy. It's good to see that he's still active.
7 year?
Do you understand geopolitical consequences has time interval
? you invade a country , okay? you should expect whole generation of terrorist who want you dead not tomorrow , 20 year later . 7 year I would say is so small time in things like these.
BTW: MICROSOFT invented Ajax. Really! See Garret Smith on this topic.

http://garrettsmith.net/blog/archives/2006/01/microsoft_inve...

They didn't know what they had...
On being a perfectionist
Review: Why 'Sense8' Season 1 Is Netflix's Most Baffling Series Yet
Book and Bed
Home cleaning services and food delivery are quite dissimilar. There is much more trust required of the former, and as a result, once you find someone who you like, you'd rather just keep using them.

On this same spectrum, an Uber-for-babysitters would fail even more spectacularly than HomeJoy.
Microsoft invented Ajax: Let's give credit where it's due (2006)
You don't start participation in project from major architectural changes. It's always take time to learn code base and find out about design advantages/flaws/etc.

Problem with art is that unlike with bugs nobody even know what needed and what isn't. As result there is really low guarantee that art you can make actually going to be used.
Thanks for the search, sorry I should have been more clear. I was talking about this specific claim which is new for me:

> The US Department of Defense had placed the final documents on Bush's desk (ready for him to sign) 48 hours prior to the fall of the first tower.
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Not sure what gestures and what metaphors you are talking about.

Touch something on the screen is not a metaphor it's the closest to what you would do in real life.

This is why kids and people less experienced with computers have such an easy time picking them up and start using them.
"Anything that fits in the refrigerator and will remain contained within it."
Covers all uses for refrigerators and prevents anyone from putting bulk liquids, penguins, coyotes, live hand grenades, radioactive material, nuclear weapons or Indiana Jones inside.
We've added that info to the title. Thanks!
Condolence for the lost ones' families and Paris people. Such a tragedy for all humanity.
The strangest thing for me is that my 17 month old seem to pick the interaction with an iPad or Apple TV way more naturally than I could. She's not afraid of experimenting, and she's not overthinking what's happening or not — and since other children (same age or older) seem to "get it" as fast, I would say they're on something.
I'm more weary of the ergonomics of their products : what's good for a toddler (the Apple TV remote for example) may not be the perfect solution for a grown up hand. Likewise, their pen for the iPad Pro seem to be designed for look over function, or their mouse, or... But we'll see.
I wonder if this was found by fuzzing or inspection, because the former seems a quite popular method recently.
I shared this because the issue is affecting my area as well as SV, and I'm sure many other areas as well. I live in southeast Alaska, and our housing costs are some of the highest in the country as well. Here it's a mix of factors; we live right on the edge of the mountains, next to the ocean, so there's a shortage of land that's suitable for building. The problem is exacerbated by well-off people buying up large homes that sit vacant in the winter and developing lodges that are only used by tourists during the summer.

Just a few days ago there was a heated conversation on our community's facebook "chatters" group about how online shopping is hurting our community. Another local business is closing up shop, and people were encouraging others to shop locally whenever possible. "Encouraging" is a kind word; many were chastising anyone who talked about shopping through amazon. One person commented that he had grown up here, and lives on his fishing boat because he can't afford to buy a home. He says he buys as much as he can through amazon because it's the only way he can make ends meet. This is a guy who catches the "wild caught Alaska salmon" that many people ask for in nicer restaurants, or buy in fish markets like Pike Place in Seattle.

Our community is responding in some interesting ways, like helping people figure out how to build small homes that are easier to heat efficiently in the winter. We're looking at more efficient ways to use the land that's available for building. But all of this might be for nothing in the face of economic disparity; I wonder if we'll continue to sort things out, or if it will take a large-scale economic collapse to force the issue. I hope for the former, but I won't be surprised by the latter.
Zipcar Co-Founder Robin Chase Loves Tech but Fears Millions Will Be Jobless
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A suprisingly good and nuanced look at the French situation. Very high quality writing this one!
Sounds like Intel's acquisition is working out nicely. Perhaps part of the plan?
I would very much like to see what people here think of the arguments presented here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2iBZkODgxA
Wladimir Palant, Adblock Plus, and the profitable war against unacceptable ads
> I'd be in agreement with you if the OP started and stopped with that first sentence, but he didn't

No, it's exactly the other way around: if the comment had omitted the first sentence, it would have been fine. That bit could be taken out without any loss of information, and should have been.

Despite how much you've posted about this, there's no serious argument here. A slur followed by a factual statement is obviously still a slur.

As for "shutting down the discussion", that's a bit of a stretch with 650 comments in one thread and 500 in the other.
Didn't read the whole article yet, but being close to such places since birth, I'm often thinking about it. From immigration, post-war building efforts, architectural and urban paradigms[1], the new technologies that make these projects possible.

From a distance it can look as governments just wanted to park immigration, and that was part of it, but they also believed, if you look at the ads of the 60s, they were opening the gates of heaven. Which was partly and honestly true since at that time many populations lived in ghettos. The idea of having a place to sleep with a modern electric kitchen even (the average family still had countryside way of life), with parks and services under your window ... isn't far from a dream.

Unfortunately nothing went as planned. Failed integration, failed approach to urban planning[1], ... hard to say what was the real problem.

[1] Often blame has been put onto people like LeCorbusier, but his ideas have also been stretched too thin for socio-political purposes.
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Time for Europe to really take care of its backyard in the MENA.

Its policy of supporting despots and tyrants, the latest of which was Sisi of Egypt ,to contain the radicals and terrorists, that they engender with their oppressive policies on an industrial scale, has to change course soon.

Time for the European leaders to have some faith in the people of the region that they would make a better future for themselves (Tunisia as an example) and not fall victim to perpetual and vicious cycle of violence as they fear or have led to believe.

I know that Europeans are in a very precarious situation between a rock and a hard place where they know that tyrants are using them and holding the security of their southern border as hostage and that they have to turn a blind eye to their sytemic repression and prosecution of opposition in exchange of not having to worry about taking considerable and resource draining measures to secure the borders but on the other hand these very tyrants have set domestic policies and failing economic programs that are breeding more and more of these terrorists and desperate people by the day that they are no longer can contain and put on leash i.e. increase in aggregate numbers and the hit ratio for terrorists, not to mention that this plays in the tyrants' hands increasing the leverage they have worsening the awful even more.

Like with the movement to decriminalize/legalize marijuana in the west, it's time for Europeans to exert more influence to legalize the aspirations and legitimate demands of people in the MENA region for living in a true democracy and free society and not be intimidated by the threats of tyrants and despots.

Time to operate on this ever-swelling cyst in the region before it explodes in everyone's face and infect everything that it touches. I know that it will be very messy and painful esp in the beginning but as we say here and I paraphrase "Going through pain for an hour is better than having it every hour"

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We use elastic search in a very similar manner as described in the article to store high-frequency data for our instance and multi-cloud profiling / benchmarking tool:

https://profiler.bitfusionlabs.com

Since we are collecting data at sub-second granularity and did not want to introduce noise on the profiled instances themselves, whether it be for cpu, mem, or disk, we had a play a few tricks about how to collect data and when to precisely send the data to elastic search, but in general it has been working out very well for us.
The point being that it assuredly is trivial, but also potentially a gaping hole left open across a wide array of software.

In these sorts of situations, as with the Y2K bug, the problem is more often the product of social circumstances than technical circumstances.

Nonetheless, this doesn't prevent technical adversaries from preying upon the flaw, and taking advantage of social patterns of behavior, such as the casual tendency to presume barcodes are intrinsically safe.
ISIS members and supporters would certainly not be against stoning, as a small example. Both stonings and beheadings are the things done by Mohammad, and Sharia's principle is, in simplest, "do what Mohammad have done." I agree, not everybody actually wants to do everything he did, but some do try.

There are countries, luckily, with Muslim majority which don't employ Sharia officially. Even some of the countries that do today, didn't only a few decades ago, like Pakistan:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_of_sharia_law_by...

I also agree that we should not mix the logical relations: => and <=> aren't the same. Of course we can't conclude that everybody who supports Sharia in his country directly supports ISIS. But there was never a claim like that here.
It lost me somewhere around paragraph 12.
Much of this may be a reaction to the technology market maturing, with many more people being intimately familiar with how to use technology and new features spreading faster by word of mouth.

When the Mac came out, you had to teach people how to use a computer through the interface. Few people had prior experience with them, and it was unlikely that they'd be able to sit down with you and explain it.

Now, it is a fairly good bet that somebody you know has the product you're about to buy, and will happily tell you what you can do with it. Apple has sold more Apple Watches in the past 6 months than they did Apple IIs in its entire production run from 1977-1993. If you don't have a friend who will show off the latest features, you can easily Google for them, or read about them on any one of a number of online blogs dedicated to surfacing cool features.

It's a different social environment, not just a different technical one. Design is as much about understanding the environment you operate in than it is about the product itself, and the principles change as the environment does.
Internet Explorer was a good browser for a long time. I switched over to IE4 after something caused Netscape to immediately crash every time I started it.

I'd avoided IE previously on purely idealogical grounds, but I was impressed by how much faster it was compared to Netscape.

The rot set in after Microsoft effectively won the Browser war (of the time at least), and updates and adherence to standards became all too rare.
Google quantum computing announcement Dec 8
Ironically, neither Google Maps nor Google Mail (GMail) used AJAX/XMLHTTPRequest in their first version. The first Google product that used AJAX came later, it was Google Instant Search (search box improvement). Google Maps and GMAIL used hidden iframes to load data in the background. Around 2004/5 only Internet Explorer 5+ and very recent Mozilla builds supported XMLHTTPRequest (without bugs). As far as I remember Maps and GMail switched to AJAX approach around 2006.
I've been wanting to replace my iPod Nanos for a few years now (they're 10 years old already, and the batteries are starting to go), but everything nowadays is touch-screen, and so completely unusable for me. Why? With that tactile single click-wheel, it was very easy for me to put the iPod in my pocket and not look at it for the entire flight, even when I wanted to skip the next song or replay or pause.
Second line in README on the Github page...

"If you are currently using CouchDB and struggle with view build times then AvanceDB should be a seamless replacement for your view workload."
Side-note: a lot of fresh chicken will smell bad for about 5 minutes when you remove it from a vacuum-sealed package, but the smell quickly dissipates and the chicken is good to eat. In the UK there's a label on some brands of fresh chicken to that effect. I must have thrown away a fair bit of good chicken before first realising this...
The Hacker News guidelines say:

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

I really don't.
Sure, touching is the easy part, but there are now quite a few gestures available:

* Four finger swipes on the iPad to go to the task manager or switch between apps.

* Swipe from the left to go back in a navigation controller.

* Swipe from the top to activate the notification center.

* Swipe from the bottom to activate the control center.

* Swipe list elements right or left (but not from the edge) to delete or perform other actions.

* Swipe notifications from the left to perform the default action for that notification.

And then there's 3D touch.
I'm skeptical of this post's appropriateness for HN. It's a canned press release, has 17 points and only 1 comment.

Can someone explain the significance (if any)?
Remember pixelfonts?
> Nobody is productive on day 1

"Day 1" doesn't literally mean the first hour of employment. I guess you didn't pick up the subtle exaggeration.

> You must be seeing something on that page I am not.

There are exactly 11 images of people on that page. 9 of which are light skinned, male, and dressed almost identical to what you would see in a typical SV tech startup. There is exactly 1, yes 1, woman.

> How many of them have you interviewed?

Lots, in fact, most of them are not Stanford grads. Care to elaborate why that's relevant?
I never really understood why Jails never really took off, but everyone now is going crazy about virtualization.
Jury convicts brothers in H-1B fraud case, jail possible
This has nothing to do with multiculturalism. Radical Islam is the issue here, not multiculturalism.
Note that figuring out individual "shares" is more difficult in the US than many countries, what with tax and tip not being included in the menu prices.
Keynesian economics optimizes for production and growth over efficiency and sustainability.

If you want loads of shiny new gadgets every year, and want it so most people spend their entire lives working just to pay rent and only a lucky few escape with "fuck you" money, then it's the system for you.

If you want the average person to have the economic freedom to work less, and actually get time to enjoy their discretionary purchases, then debt-based slavedriving is not what you want.

It's a deliberate policy choice, but gets obscured as authoritative "science" by centralization-supporting economists who are compensated with money and stature.

Deflation isn't scary, only the transition to it is (like any change). Deflation is actually the natural tendency, as doing things cheaper is precisely what market competition is based on (see: the entire technology sector).
As an intense fan of electronic music with big, scattered collections across Spotify, soundcloud, iTunes, YouTube links, and Facebook groups.... If YouTube Music would just give me a soundcloud interface with youtubes music, I'm not sure I would ever need another service. But I can't even make playlists with this?
Not all people carry the same degree of influence over a market.

Not all people act according to or within the rules of a market.

Not all human behavior can be scoped to a form of market activity.

What would the bald destruction of a market, or set of markets, represent to the context of such narrow minded economics?
It doesn't matter if it's a canned press release or not. What matters if there's something new on the market that's relevant to startups. I'm not an EE so I don't follow it completely, I think their introducing a new line of FPGAs that have on board DRAM. That could be very good news if they're priced right, though I don't see in the article how much ram exactly..
> defend from what?

From any assailant, be it a mugger, rapist, breaking and entering, "terrorism" (whatever that actually means), an oppressive state, etc.

Would you rather just do nothing and accept whatever comes your way as fate?
"And often, paradoxically, despite their privileged backgrounds, they have much less appetite for risk".

Here's my co-founder litmus test: Work this phrase into a conversation, "We're going to be working on our start-up for the next 4 to 6 years..." and if you get cut-off with a response like "No way! We'll get bought-out way before then", then you should either leave the team altogether or bill the team as a consultant. To be clear bill for money not equity.
they did, if you were a FreeBSD user. it never got (many) more FreeBSD users on it's own, however.
How do you know options skews aren't already pricing this factor in? Usually this effect is counterbalanced by the vol smile. Edit: vol smile is how options very far away from the strike tend to be priced at a premium versus what black scholes would suggest. The sellers of these options demand a higher premium than "normal" to account for the fact that the data isn't actually normally distributed.
I'm not blaming the refugees. If anything I feel sympathetic for them because the refugees are trying to escape entire countries that are effectively ruled by these people. But it's worth asking how ISIS managed to get these people into Paris.
Some people in the London Startups groups were talking about GPS collars and more biometric cameras in the streets.

It makes me sad to read such things, especially from the tech-crowd.
I agree that this seems likely. What if said "unauthorized crypto" will be illegal?

E.g. you can use SSL for commmerce, but it's got to "approved", in other words either technically, or organizationally backdoored.
> Whatever happened to days when toddlers could figure out iPads?

Nothing happened to those days; they're still here.
full pdf:

http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/staff/christianb/downloads/me...
Get Ready for Your Digital Model
I specifically remember it coming from a cnn article. Despite my efforts, I couldn't find that particular article. The closest I could come up with is

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2002/05/bush-m18.html

> From this standpoint, the most important of the week’s revelations was the report by NBC News that Bush had on his desk September 9—two days before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon—a National Security Presidential Directive outlining in detail a worldwide campaign of military, diplomatic and intelligence action targeting Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda organization, including the delivery of an ultimatum to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, backed by the threat of war.

UPDATE: Incidentally, my search led me to a Guardian article which claims that a plan to "escalate pressure on the Taliban to surrender Bin Laden to he US" had existed as far back as the Clinton administration. This is new to me.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/24/september11.usa...
I hate this attitude that the "pretty people" are going to ruin the "party" for the people who were already there. What a gross over generalization not based on any sturdy foundation of reason. The author just feels like companies are worth too much without any experience or justification to make that claim. He hasn't seen the term sheets for these companies, he hasn't been there for investor meetings and board meetings to discuss long term strategy. But people from the upper middle class make a nice target, so he just blames an entire vague socioeconomic group for a problem he can't connect them to. I'm sorry but articles like this are why I sometimes can't take the tech media as seriously as I'd like to.