skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run romanhaze.com - we sell eliquid for vaporizers.

Support and questions are handed through email. We have a contact form and various internal bits will direct a customer there with preselected subjects (e.g. "Question for Order #n" ).

I would never outsource it from the company, and want to have me and my co-founder primarily do it. It's the closest contact you have with users who are experiencing problems. If you're big enough, you're going to need dedicated support people, but I think founders should still have a grasp of what customers are asking you about.
It seems they're closer than the "breakthroughs" you usually hear about. My impression is that the prototype is a product prototype, i.e. something they're actually testing and trying to design products around, rather than just a lab prototype.
In terms of mass energy storage from intermittent renewable sources, this seems like a winner - less cost means increased competitiveness for renewable energy.

However, it seems like energy density will be the winning factor in consumer battery tech which, as far as I can tell, appears to be a significant chunk of the EXISTING market. This is something that Na ion doesn't yet seem competitive at - which is not to say that it won't get better with time/investment/research.

Unless lithium gets crazy expensive, I don't see the battery being a big enough expense in a laptop or mobile phone for people to be willing to put up with more weight for an incremental price saving.

This is definitely great news for renewable energy though.
Maybe 'a job' is something that fitted a particular phase of our civilisation development and it just will fade away? A hunter gatherer (I bring this as my example - because as a species we spent most of our time in that phase) would do many things - but we would not call them jobs.
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That's why I can't watch most youtube videos. I get bored before they cut to the chase.
My rough guess is that, if the units were hours, and if concorde still flew, then the map would look much the same?
In general the mbed has the better options for low power , but if you prefer the arduino, this would be a good starting point:

http://jeelabs.org/tag/lowpower/

And if you want a long-range, low-power wireless connection - use LoRa , There's a driver here:

http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/arduino/RadioHead/classRH__RF...
So what if you watch the film shortly after download and remove it immediately after viewing? Transitory -> not instrumental in enabling piracy?
To be honest it's just a hack, something I thought would be interesting to implement. It's like some weird combination of lego pieces (Telegram API, aiotg, MongoDB) that fit together. Telegram is amazing platform and I'm looking forward for their next moves.

> Is the idea that it could be the primary place that a person stores and shares music with people?

That's the main idea, right. A global searchable catalog. Other use cases are harder because, as you mentioned, text is a pure UI for managing playlists. I'm thinking about turning it into a radio with recommendations based on likes. But for now, I just want people to fill the catalog with independent music.

I must admit, that the current generation of bots is quite dumb and we need to move towards natural languages and learning. I also don't think that bots are viable "app platforms". Bots should either be interfaces to bigger services or stand alone smart assistants.
Until a "95% efficiency" heuristic/approximation can be applied to a primality test, in that case (e.g. if someone finds a geometric heuristic for primality).
Base income does not come out of nothing though. You need state income, which depends on taxation, which depends on people working and consuming.
It is the same in Russia. But does it implicate that, according to No-double-pay-for-one-service principle we can legally pirate stuff and store it on our storage drives?
Another example of banking API: http://docs.fidor.de
> For the moment, its creators have not disclosed the composition of the materials wrapped around the two electrodes of their sodium-ion battery—a trade secret.

I wonder if it might make sense for Gates and the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to just outright buy certain proprietary technologies and put them in the public domain. If so, I wonder how they should best evaluate if this might be one such technology.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein
Ask HN: Business Class Internet Providers in France
I've been diligently searching, but I'm having a tough time finding business class internet providers/plans/costs for France. Does anyone have any sources to find out more information about getting higher-grade internet connections in France? Essentially, this would be for a small hotel-type property, but I can only seem to find information for consumer-level plans. Thanks!
The concept did not work in San Francisco, therefore shut it down? How entrepreneurial is that? Answer: none. Is there an assumption that if it cannot work in SFO, it won't work anywhere? I completely disagree. Take your MVP to a more friendly town and try again.
An almost exhaustive list of slack bots and integrations
Interesting article. However, at the end there is this idea that the government should fund news reporting. I grew up in Norway where the government did exactly that (the only TV channel when I was a kid was run by the government). Thing is, that government funded news outlet almost never said anything really critical about the government.
UK here - are prosecutors really the only people who run for governor? If not, then is there a bias in the voting populace that means they are more likely to become governors?
7 Reasons Why You Should Simulate a DDoS Attack on Your Site
Indeed. The scarcity issue is hardly intractable though. Currently Lithium is extracted by evaporation of high concentration brine and salts. There are efforts to extract it directly from seawater[1] though. There's plenty of Lithium in seawater, it's just a matter of extracting it efficiently as we do with magnesium.

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/538036/quest-to-mine-se...
Roy Osherove 's TDD master class changed the way we worked at Aol.
Yep. The examples on Github use `l` throughout. Just a minor error.
"Monument Valley disrupts the traditional game design paradigm in a number of ways"

Seems like a statement by someone who doesn't really play computer games (or only plays triple-A FPS console titles). Although cool and well-designed, Monument Valley is hardly unique among video games for being calm and contemplative. Cf. Journey (2012), The Endless Forest (2005), Ico (2001), Shadow of the Colossus (2005), etc.

If you want to go down the rabbit hole of the really disruptive (to the point of almost outright hostile) approach to making video games, I have always loved the work of increpare[0], who is sort of the John Waters of indie video games.

[0]: http://www.increpare.com/
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1. Not using container_of/struct_of, but rather peppering code with "(void* )l-sizeof(size_t)"

2. my_list_type.my_array is not properly aligned

3. list_append() doesn't handle realloc() failures

4. Doesn't properly () macro argument and lots of macros also reuse their arguments. That sure is going to be fun to debug, e.g. list_len(l++);

In short, if this works for the author - great, but the re-usability of this code is next to zero. The beauty of C is that it's very explicit and verbose. Once you start concealing things behind abstract APIs, you start trading verbosity for implicit invariants leading to obscure bugs and intense head scratching. Not a worthy trade off in hell of a lot of cases.
Google result for 'web' returns whatsapp
Yes that is the elephant in the corner of the so-called "sharing" economy - who is paying their taxes, who is paying for the basic infrastructure that all these services piggyback on? You can't have Uber without well-maintained roads for example. You can't even have AirBnB without refuse collectors.
here we go again with another amazing battery breakthrough! remember fuel cells and how they were going to power your cellphone _real_ soon now. exactly.

I can tell you now why there will never be a battery with a significantly greater energy density than we have now. It's because such a thing is also known as a "bomb".

There are solutions, of course, nature solves this problem with, for example, sugar. But what you need is a metabolic process for the release of energy.

Anything that's a solid lump of something won't work. don't invest in this.
The main point is that lithium is hard to get for European companies. Sodium is abundant in saltwater, which is good for European companies and good for a more massive use of batteries (electric cars and home storage).
Bacteria on the Brain
I suspect a modern version would have more discontinuities.

Areas near airports would be fast to reach, but onward travel from the airports wouldn't be so much faster than 100 years ago.

And the oceans would look different - it still takes a long time to reach the mid-atlantic!
this is a book that has a lot of interesting information about this topic, written in human understandable language (backed with science)

https://sites.google.com/site/liberateyourbrain/home/buy-bra...
You said that you wrote a scoring function based on your subjective response to outputs. Supposedly if English is your native language (it seems to be) then you would have influenced the algorithm to home in on English phonology.

Surely?

I looked at about 20 words and they all seemed like decent English candidate words, including one actual English word, "molest".
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (Evolution)
The Red Queen - Matt Ridley (Sex and evolution)
Sperm Wars - Robin Baker (Sex as the driving force in society)

The books, if red in that order, provide a total picture of evolution in our society and the driving forces.
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Getting a white page on Chrome 46, Fedora box.
2009, though.
Malaysia's TableApp Raises Series A from Sea Unicorn, 500 Startups
Sodium atoms have a much higher molecular weight (22.99 u) than Lithium atoms (6.94 u). This alone makes Lithium more competitive by weight in the long run.

The ideal battery consists of two electrodes where one consists purely of the alkali metal in the charged state and the other one is weightless at the charged state but then collects the metal oxide when discharging. The oxygen is ideally taken from the air.

Currently we are far from that ideal since the electrodes contain additional matrix materials, between the electrodes an electrolyte is present, the oxidizing agent is stored inside the battery requiring yet other chemicals to keep it stable. Then the battery needs a casing which adds more weight.
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Would be neat to see these outlets offer individuals non-commercial licenses at heavily reduced prices. I wonder if some parts of the geek population would enjoy access to good(better?) information.
It's research grants.
In the US there's something like that, though with a narrower set of devices/media covered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act
Did you even take time to read the article? Using sodium instead of lithium isn't about making higher density batteries; it's about making cheaper batteries since sodium is much more abundant than lithium.
What are the differences between your customer support desired outcome and your customers' desired outcome of CS?
quickly switching from topic to topic is a lot more exhausting
How to Store Light and Understand the Laser Principle
Looking at a lot of job ads they want 5 developers for one job: sys admin, dba, software dev, ui, design...
Of course, but if those working are efficient enough this can be supported. Once upon a time 99% of people were peasants and now we have the majority of the population providing non- essential services.
I see the point that it is smarter to use Sodium instead of Lithium. But where is the revolution, as the capacity is comparable? Lets see, if the number of recharging cycles will really be twice as large (2000 instead of 1000). That would eat into the revenue, unless the new batteries were sold for a higher price (which in turn would give them trouble to compete against Lithium).

The main revolution is not a technical one, it is the fact that a big market may move from Asia to Europe.

If a capacity increase or a weight decrease could be realised, I'd accept the term 'revolution'.
I build so I can learn new skills. So until now outsourcing wasn't a part of the master plan.
But you are correct, delegating the right way is also an option to boost development.
If anyone's particularly interested in unusual maps I'd recommend following @frankjacobs on Twitter. He's a collector of strange maps and tweets links to new posts on his blog. Enjoy

https://twitter.com/frankjacobs

http://bigthink.com/articles?blog=strange-maps
Ideas are super common. Great ideas are not (pretty much by the definition of "great"). Most businesses are built with pretty ordinary ideas.
I find it especially annoying how Netflix changes in each country. So I can start watching a show but can't continue it once I get to another country.

We need to abolish the insane notion of national boundaries for informational goods.
Nice humblebrag
Fascinating idea. It's basically like writing a cheque to somebody in exchange for some cash, which used to be a thing.

I guess there's nothing to stop me doing this at the moment with PayPal or some other peer-to-peer mobile payment service, though.
Orange offering is called business service :

http://www.orange-business.com/fr/produits/business-internet

I have no idea what it is worth though, probably over expensive if you know what your doing.
FYI I got a black eye cuz of you, I was reading this thread around 4.30am and for some reason that comment made me laugh out loud which resulted in me being elbowed by my GF.
My lawyers will be in touch...
Awesome. But that's a low res scan. You can see a very high res scan here:

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~24...

Also, a scan of Galton's original isochronic map from 1881 is on Wikipedia; see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone_map
How much does it cost to own a two letter domain name...?
Not only that but some online services add DRM to their media downloads, which can range from minor annoyance to being unable to play the legally obtained file.

I've had the issue with a special edition movies set on iTunes, which prevented the playback on an external monitor (vga connector). There was no info about this limitation on their store page and only after contacting support did they mention that the problem was the DRM imposed by the publisher.

Another sector where I've noticed this quite a lot is in international media releases (music & videos). I've experienced your mentioned "not available in your country" many times with Japanese music videos. It makes (kind of) sense if we're talking excerpts from a TV show, which is usually licensed out to the individual countries, so you'll most likely not be able to watch clips on their official site unless you're accessing it from within the origin country. However, I don't understand how this applies to music videos. One would assume that those are being used to generate hype & revenue for music/ticket sales, so why do they get access restricted?
Unless the state owns the means of production.

What if the future is red?
I thought I read somewhere that in terms of the percentage cost of a battery the raw materials are fairly insignificant. Don't remember off the top of my head, I'll have a hunt for some sources and edit this comment. Maybe we'll get a multi-material battery market, that'd be cool.
Seems like these Sodium batteries would be well-suited to grid load-shifting, rather than anything mobile. They're likely to be cheaper than lithium batteries and cope with more charge cycles, but heavier. Pretty much exactly what you'd want for load-shifting for solar/wind power, but not ideal for vehicles (weight matters) or anything portable unless they were a lot cheaper, or cope with many more charge cycles.
This might work if they offered this some time later - say a delay of a week might be ok.
Bring it on, sucka!
You have an interesting thought and I was wondering the same thing.

OP says that the probability of winning in the 3 cases are:

(1) 50% win, (2) 50% win, (3) always win

If I understand correctly, you're saying that the probabilities might perhaps be:

(1) 50% win minus some probability of case 3 happening, (2) 50% win minus some probability of case 3 happening, (3) always win

Then the three cases even out to 50% and there is no winning strategy.

But wouldn't your argument break down where you write, "But the interval less than X is finite, while the interval above X is infinite."? Since we're dealing with reals, then both (+∞, X) and (X, R) have an equally large and infinite set of numbers (i.e., the latter is not a finite set)[1]. So, Y is as likely to be found in (+∞, X) as in (X, R).

I'm still wondering if there's a way to make your argument work.

[1] https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Closed_Interval_in_Reals_is_Uncou...
Perhaps manyer could work, it has an old air of legitimacy to it.
Peter Norvig's "Design of Computer Programs" on udacity.com
IR changes are not that significant. I followed LLVM from nearly the very beginning, and very rarely I was forced to amend something to keep up with the change. The biggest thing in the few past releases was the change in metadata (which got its own class hierarchy, separate from the values).

The very amount of tests in the LLVM source tree ensures that nobody will be motivated to do any significant change unless it is really, really needed, otherwise you'd be forced to do a lot of painful work to update all the tests.

Also, compiling to C pretty much rules out having a REPL for free and all the other fun, while with LLVM it's trivial.
React's New JSX Syntax. (Parody)
So travel time doesn't count using a private jet and a parachute?
Probably quite close if you want to recreate it I mix a thick stout like Guinness with something like semolina or wheat middlings or maybe groat and boil it, won't taste good but it sure will fill a man.
Beer has very low caloric value a pint has on average 150 kcal or so, so you need something much more nutritious than that (500-800 kcal per serving) to make it worth your while, especially when you were living in a time where your daily caloric expenditure could be easily twice what is today.
I took the "Developing your Musicianship" and "Jazz Improvisation" courses, which I believe are in the same specialisation. The first one was at a very basic level and the improv was one was more advanced, but both were excellent. Highly recommended for aspiring musicians.

Good to hear a recommendation for the Songwriting course, thanks, I'll check it out.
First Raspberry Pi Zero Hack: Piggy-Back WiFi
It is far, far easier to design a good DSL than to design a usable API.
> the music is really sweet

Have an album :) https://lazerhawk.bandcamp.com/album/redline
This is great news (and from a trusted source, CNRS is one of the most prestigious research institute in France, state-owned).

As the article says, it's not about having the most performing batteries (they announce 90 Wh/kg which is below Li-ion batteries) but cheaper batteries, made of salt instead of Lithium. And it matters for many use cases.
Teensy is awesome, cheaper than Arduino and many times more powerful

http://pjrc.com/teensy/index.html
I think this will go the way of Kazaa, messed up by poor quality uploaded file, possibly even with virusses and/or weird noises. Or is there an auditing/rating system?
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Its about the diamond market in general, not about the value of individual diamonds.

I was hoping for the latter. Because I know someone with a blog about jewelry and once she received a $500 commission on a $6000 diamond sale (we assumed as part of a ring) through an ad on her website. So the seller must have made a good profit as well. Seems to me that diamonds are not good for investments other then a relationship.
Some (most notably, gcc) are deliberately not providing any external access to the compiler entrails, out of some deranged ideological motives.
A Range of Caffe-Compatible Deep Neural Net Models for Image Classification
They didn't note energy density as a benefit of these batteries. They noted cost, availability, and recharge cycles as principal advantages.
End-users want business intelligence inside the applications they use every day
Splice your power supply directly across to the USB cable of the thing you're driving. For the Pi Zero, use an OTG+power cable. I think you can get cables with two A connectors (one for power, one with data+ground but no VCC) and 1 B connector.
Kissing an Italian Greyhound: A 19th Century Attorney Cites the Law
Automate All the Things: Distributing Xamarin iOS Apps Without Pain
The smallest unit listed - within 5 days journey - gives an interesting perspective on the world of travel at that time.

What would we choose nowadays for an equivalent unit of "not worth listing anything below this?" Within an hour?
Do you really believe this?
The Home Selling Process
I'm not sure how to interpret this post. Is this basically: "we believe in network neutrality, but here's reality for today: your ISP won't expand capacity, so you can pay us to add special uplink"? It looks like testing the ground for idea of "pay per peering" that becomes a separate line on your invoice. (and I mean for any peering, you rent server and connectivity separately)
Frequently it seems as though statements by neutrality advocates mention "providers" without naming any. Who are the providers that misbehave, and what are they doing? Can we see a graph of their traffic and a depiction of the misbehavior? (Saturated links, offers to peer and expand the links that are refused, etc.) I'd love it if the evidence were laid out. Unfortunately at the moment, it seems like there's a lot of ambiguous finger-pointing.

What do (presumably) Comcast and these other companies say when you communicate with them about peering, and you ask them why they won't? Anyone with insight into these issues care to share the DLS/cable provider perspective? (Is there some kind of reasonable argument there we're not hearing - "Infrastructure costs are rising, you see, and we built the infrastructure we have now with a government subsidy that's no longer available. So when we expand, it's going to cost 10x as much ... " just to make something up. Is there another side to the story, or is it really just supply/demand where the providers exploit their market power? "Our customers are not likely to drop our Internet service for a competitor just because Netflix is slow. In fact, our data show that they start watching cable TV more, which is good for us - we want cable TV to be sticky. So we'll charge a fee since we're nearly a monopoly and the market will sustain it. Further, since Netflix is where all the traffic is going, we'll just charge them directly rather than expand pipes all around".) [edits]

> For this reason, interfaces are being operated at their highest capacity -- to make paid access to the DSL and cable providers' networks attractive for content providers. The end consumer is then forced to pay double for unlimited access to the Internet.

I don't entirely follow this part. Could someone clarify? Is "operating at their highest capacity" a bad thing? Is the implication "operating at their highest capacity [without expanding capacity when they should]"?
The title is wrong: Hugo is not a static site editor; it is a static site generator.
yeah but still happening in 2015 if you scroll down all the way to the bottom of comments