skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experiences as an ex-pumper and builder of class-I/II medical devices, while this is important and needs to be done eventually, I don't think this is going to help - just obfuscate things and bring more issues into play.

It's incredibly difficult to get devices to test unless you have the medical condition - that needs to change.

Want to fix all of the garbage I see? Just update the HIPAA laws to allow some percentage of fines to be collected by security researchers, and forget adding more "self-policing" style of FDA regulation out of it. If a bluetooth implementation of a handshake leaks data, it's no problem, just a $25,000 per incident fine.
Drones have got to get back in addition to getting to the target, and you only get 30 minutes if most/all of your payload is dedicated to battery. The drone has a fairly short range while fully loaded, and a lot longer range while empty.
> Great ideas are super common. What is exceptional is great execution of those ideas.

I'd like to see this unpacked. What is it about an idea that makes it great? What's the difference between those and the bad ideas? How do you figure out whether your idea is great or whether it sucks?

Is it really that the idea just doesn't matter? That's where I'm leaning. The idea itself as something that's iterated on until you get to some intermediate state between problem-solution fit and finding traction.
I said "What the Chinese think about pinyin is not relevant" in response to thaumasiotes's comment that "The chinese don't worry too much about pinyin." Clearly thaumasiotes is talking about your average Chinese-speaking man-on-the-street, and I think it's pretty clear that I meant that such a person's opinion is not relevant. Of course the Hanyu Pinyin standard is relevant.
I thought this was going to be about the Acer A200s that 1saleaday sold, which Acer disabled from OTA updates. It can't even run Play store, so you can't update any curated apps either.

I spent a good 10+ hours trying to root and flash mine, and it's the only thing I've ever bricked.
The CD32-specific custom chip is Akiko (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_custom_chips#Akiko), which did chunky-to-planar conversion in hardware.
The persistence of this myth is truly remarkable. Consider that Veblen published "The Theory of the Leisure Class" in 1899. What we consider today the middle class was very much alive and booming by the end of the 19th century.
I work for company based out of Spain. Our US office is pretty small with only about 30 people, while there are about 300 in the entire company.

In our us office there is only 1 girl and only about 6 native English speakers. I think its pretty cool as I get to talk and get a peek into the culture in Spain.
The author seemingly understands neither neoclassical economics nor libertarianism. He resorts to the same old tired criticism of how the so-called homo economicus models are unrealistic, but as with most such armchair critics, ignores that a model's predictive power and applicability can be wide even in the case of simplifying axioms and agent motives.

He makes a false dichotomy between "maximization" and "competition" as if they are mutually exclusive and that neoclassical economics doesn't study the latter. Never mind it's an integral part of price theory.

Finally, nowhere is a case against libertarianism ever presented. The author assumes neoclassical = libertarian, which is patently false. The school most associated with libertarianism (Austrian) is, in fact, strongly critical of many neoclassical assumptions, including equilibrium. The only "argument" against libertarianism presented is "lol Somalia and Afghanistan".
Obviously, the supply of new housing is not enough to meet the demand, or prices would have fallen to affordable levels.
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Yes. The barometric sensors in the iPhone 6 and most high-end Android phones of past 2 years are sensitive enough to determine +/-1 floor of building movement, among a whole lot of other things. Very useful if you're writing a hiking app, want to determine if the user is in an airplane or not, trying to do vertical geolocation in a vertical city like New York or Hong Kong (subtract user's barometric reading from the weather station and you'll have it accurate to +/-a few floors), and a whole lot of other endless possibilities.
Australian women are having fewer children, later in life
Related, here's Walter Bright on the difficulties of compiling to C: http://forum.dlang.org/post/n1vbos$11ov$1@digitalmars.com
Any ideas on how to generate startup names with a neural network?
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Thus, all content is readable and styled properly without requiring an arbitrary code execution environment. That is what the web was meant to be.

In other words, it was supposed to be a worldwide hyperlinked document library --- and we have mostly achieved that goal, although it is a library wherein you are constantly tracked and bombarded by books flying off the shelves at you, screaming at you to read them, and most of the books consist solely of ads with very little useful informational content.

In my experience, it's the people who don't talk about web development who are the best web developers; these are the people who don't wince when they write a HTML document without a single `<script>`.

Agreed completely. The ones who write information-dense HTML pages, often by hand, would not be considered "web developers" nor would they consider themselves to be; but they are what the web needs most. I've done that, and I don't consider myself a "web developer" either.

it really irks me when web developers pretend like they're actually doing something good or useful, or that the web is actually in a healthy state

I wouldn't doubt that they genuinely feel like what they're doing is good or useful; I've noticed the appeal of "new and shiny" is especially prevalent in the web development community, with the dozens of frameworks and whatnot coming out almost daily, proposals of new browser features, etc. Very little thought seems put into the important question of whether we actually need all this stuff. It's all under the umbrella of "moving the web forward", whatever that means. But I think we should stop and look back on the monstrosities this rapid growth has created.
These same issues are what drove me to use Linux for my Desktops and Laptops. I don't use it on my MacBooks because the hardware is not supported well, but on a Thinkpad or a Dell it's a first class experience. I definitely prefer Linux on a Dell XPS 13/15 over OS X on a MacBook. (The Apple hardware is still better, grumbles....)
I believe your scenarios (especially the "truck dispenser") address the market Amazon has in mind: the suburbia.

If you notice, both video examples show the drone delivering at a house. It seems obvious that an urban setting is difficult to address. And actually delivery costs are higher in the suburbs, due to population spread, than in the cities.

The interesting thing is how do UPS/FedEx/USPS feel about this, considering that Amazon is aiming to "evolve" their business model? We should soon hear about FedEx/UPS trying to do drone delivery. But this is not only logistics but also a lot of other software and I think Amazon might be better suited for it.
Only if your model has weak cohesion. Furthermore, some features are not just things you can wait to evolve yourself into. You do not evolve yourself a better event and I/O multiplexing model, you design it. Otherwise, evolution leaves too many vestiges.
You guys should more prominently make note of that on your website. I already crossed it off as another proprietary unreal/unity and moved on until I luckily read this comment.
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Me too! I have never used it for my own backups, but at least 6-7 times a family member (for whom I am de facto emergency tech support) has called me with a borked Mac and a Time Machine backup. In every single instance the restore operation has failed.

(Most common failure mode is to like appear to be working for hours/overnight, then say something helpful like "Unable to restore Time Machine backup").

Backup is the very last thing I would trust Apple to do.
Yes, he brings up some excellent points I hadn't considered. Sequence points and integral promotions are bugs waiting to happen.
Yeah, Akiko, that's the one.
Scrubbing my eyes with my toothbrush ... please don't down vote me ... the sting from close-up is painful enough.
Replacing duplicated ESLint config with a single npm package
Completely agree with this point of view. If you don't have an idea, sitting around trying really hard to come up with one sounds like a waste of time (and potentially VC money, but that's probably a lot less important).

Doing your own thing will demand you to be resolute, for most likely longer than you'd like. Struggling to come up with a problem to work on in the first place is not a good sign.
> often makes it more difficult for a human to understand.
Does it though? I guess it depends on the type system.

For example, when I find it hard to understand Haskell code, it's not because of the type system, it's usually that the compiler is doing too much magic for me (with type classes, and automatically lifting things into monads).

I find that having the types actually makes the code itself easier to understand, because I can ask the compiler (usually through the REPL) to tell me what kind of thing can go where. It makes that kind of information more local.
That, and the fact that you can't tell the compiler that it needs to be aware of pointers that can move across function calls.

In fact, there isn't any dialect of C, standard or not, that I'm aware of that allows you to do this in a fashion that works with precise, moving GC. (Mostly-copying doesn't count.) Maybe C++/CLI, but the object model you're opting into with that brings you so far from C as to barely be considered "compiling to C".
Also .avi, which is probably far more common than .rmi.
Prices don't have to fall immediately for the principle to hold, and they're also not immune from the effects of rich people looking to bid up arbitrary assets with shorter-term bubble investment.

Prices in Beijing are actively propelling development of all the smallest properties, to the point that historical hutongs are now endangered historical relics. https://psuchina.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/endangered-places-... That releases pressure on prices, one way or another. Prices would be much higher if Beijing banned new development.

"demand being met" is not a boolean condition with commodities, much less something as complex as housing, with its constantly repriced financial assets, varying quality of good, and varying amounts of fluidity & cycles of construction.

In San Francisco, they're just rising and rising without driving any new development. The government funds single-family-homeownership to an extraordinary degree with the mortgage system we've set up, and this distortion has created an odd body politic where nobody favors permitting property rights to be exercised, where the population has a veto on the proper functioning of the real estate market. So new development is functionally banned. Broken city, too much democracy. Why would one want to move there from one's small hometown in Kansas?

In a functioning economy, one tends to move to where one's talents have the highest price, and everyone, in the end, benefits.
I spent a while with higher level Apple support talking to developers over a weeks time. What happened was photos in message threads that had been deleted, and photos that had been deleted, reappeared during the iOS8 update. Supposedly it was a bug in iOS6 that was fixed by iOS7 so that was the explanation of why these zombie photos appeared again when iOS8 had the view message history photos feature.

That is the best I can remember at least it was a good while back now.
Photo stream is meant to let you sync photos between devices - that's why photos get removed automatically.

What you want is regular shared albums.

The upload limits are to do with the number of images you can upload per hour/day/month - they're about the amount of uploaded items not stored items.
Yeah I came here to ask how you did the faux-3d cat. It's very subtle, but effective as hell. I thought you were using some kind of fancy parallax shader, but I can see how a displacement map can approximate the same thing. Awesome!
That wasn't from buying houses. That was investments into starting businesses.
I might describe myself as an Apple fan boy, but I wholeheartedly agree with this. As one of the few technical people in my family, I get asked about problems with Photo Stream, iCloud, iTunes storage, etc. far more than anything else these days.

It also seems that increasingly, I don't have good answers to those questions because so much of the complexity is hidden (not even accessible by power users or documented online). After months of frustration, I've pretty much decided not to use any of the cloud services on Apple products. I really want to like Apple's cloud services, but I'm not sure any sane person can put up with them on a regular basis.
Usage policy is not necessarily metered vs free. It's a mixed bag of user expectations, developer needs and technical properties of the connection. Connections are by no means only unmetered broadband and metered LTE. I have recently experienced several connection "quirks" that require different approach:

* punishingly high RTT
* packet-per-timeframe ratelimit
* throttling by queueing packets
* unstability (some requests get served in tens of ms, others get lost in void)
* connection jumping from one provider to another (e.g. mobile/wifi while next to home)

For example, jaggy GPRS in the middle of nowhere can mean two things: I working in a field and need to check something as quick as possible without ads and other unnecessary cruft hindering with that, or I am resting in a cabin and am willing to wait for a "proper" app to load.

I may also have two connections: fast metered, slow unmetered and would like applications to load important stuff fast over metered network and cosmetics over unmetered one. Too bad I have to pull whole javascript framework first in order to see anything, because web components, and it's uncacheable because it's webpacked with application code.
Well from memory Intel sold off the general purpose ARM CPU division to Marvell back in 2006 or so. Though it kept the ARM chips that were specialised for storage or networking IIRC. So technically Intel has always made ARM chips in one form or another, just not any that slot into a mobile phone.
Apple's entire iCloud setup and iPhone synchronization has been a hot mess since day one. Early on my wife lost all of her valuable address book contacts and all of her calendar entries for the mere act of taking one of our iPads off the iCloud service. None of the entries had been made on the iPad, in fact, all of them were made on her iPhone, which was never removed from iCloud. Apple's shitty software somehow decided the iPad "owned" the data and, once disconnected, it yanked all of it from iCloud, her iPhone and ever device she had synced. Pure crap.

The same is true of this business where Apple will erase your phone if you dare connect to an iTunes installation that's not "blessed" even if all you want to use it for is to backup.

What has always bothered me intensely about Apple is how arrogant they are with MY data and MY access to MY data. Who owns it?
This is the more common meme, and I think it is healthy to keep 'idea folks' away. Even great ideas, without execution, are worthless.

But as you say, a great idea combined with a great execution is where things get really special. Still, I do think great ideas are rare. It depends a bit on how you define what an idea is: is it a social network? is it a social network within a college campus? is it requiring real world identity?
Let's just take a few examples:

AltaVista -> Google

Idea: search engine. Execution: AltaVista soso, Google: excellent

Geocities -> MySpace -> FaceBook

Idea: A place where people anchor themselves on the web

Execution: geocities: hobbled by the tech available at that point in time, MySpace: a bit better but still missed the boat, FaceBook: excellent execution, more limited in presentation than the previous two and that became their strength.

And so on. For every one of these the names I've listed there were already relatively successful companies validating the idea. But then a party came along that was excellent in their execution of the idea and they wiped the established competition off the map.

If you go back further you'll find that the search engine was already a concept pioneered by many other companies, ditto the 'social network' or 'personal homepage'.

An example from the physical world:

Car companies, when the car was invented there were 100's of car companies all trying their hardest to get a share of the cake. But the majority of them absolutely sucked at execution. Take the UK brands, super nice to look at, occasionally brilliant ideas but absolutely horrible in quality in spite of having a head start post WW II they still had to have a bunch of guys with hammers at the end the production line to make the doors fit the chassis. In the end they simply could not compete. All the exact same idea: personal transportation.

That's what competition is all about, excellence in execution, if you mess that one up in the long run you will not survive. This is one of the reasons why in spite of the network effects I see Ebay and LinkedIn eventually being replaced.
Thanks for the explanations, that explains your GPLv2 post well.

As far as I know there is no phrase that describes software whose source code has been intentionally publicly released under a license that doesn't meet the OSD/etc. I definitely wouldn't take the lower-case "open source" as meaning that. Perhaps "proprietary public source code"?
The idea was 'a place that people will call their home online', and in the initial phase of FB my guess is that it was a place where you could find potential mates and a way to get introduced to them.
I'm betting that by the time this is real (and assuming the shown implementation is what actually goes live), everyone will have their own personal QR code so there will be no mistakes.
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I am sorry, I wish she had made better choices and had a better outcome.
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Maybe not as graphic, but it's for Emacs (and works on Macs):

https://github.com/rbanffy/selectric-mode
I think you are oversimplifying "the idea". Google's idea wasn't that "people will want to search online." Google's insightful, interesting idea that was then well-executed was the PageRank algorithm.

Geocities, Myspace and Facebook were all very different ideas. If the first two had executed better, all 3 would probably still co-exist.
My 11 year old likes it, so I think you have succeeded in creating the next meme :-)
Can't wait to see and hear hundreds of drones in the sky.
I'm not clord, but I have a similar setup. I store my 1TB+ library on a 10TB thunderbolt RAID box directly attached to my main workstation (a Mac Pro).

It's backed up to the cloud with Arq (which is great) and also Backblaze (which I am less sure about, never had to use it).

This is more flexible and monoculture-avoiding than any of the cloud services; using the stock OS file sharing, the Mac Mini that runs my TV mounts a subset of the library (the "2015" folder) read-only, and uses that to run the screensaver so that when the TV is idle (hopefully most of the time) we see a nice recent photos montage.

It's also great when you somehow really need those photos from last July for some reason; just SFTP in from any kind of computer and download the "2014-07" folder.

I would like to have a web UI for it, but not a shitty one, which is all I have been able to find. Building one sounds fun, but nope, I have kids, maybe when I am in my sixties... it's not really a thing that I actually need. But I do like having it.

I keep 500GB or so in Google Photos, and also in iCloud photo library to try those out.

Google Photos is pretty good for a web app, and very fast for a web app, which means it is way to slow and way to shitty for me to use as a main tool of managing my photos.

Photos.app is OK when it works, but it's Apple, so as many people here and the guy whose blog post spawned this whole thread have noted, it has far too many bugs and weird failure modes (many of which would be catastrophic without good backups). Even though I have good backups of the photo files themselves, I am not going to invest time in arranging things in Photos albums when the preponderance of historical experience indicates there is zero chance those albums will be readable/usable in ten (EDIT: okay, maybe 20) years without resorting to e.g. maintaining a VM of ancient OS X...
> it turns out being relied upon for mission critical software for multi million dollar companies has it’s own pressure

I thought that was really very funny "revelation" this fellow had.

Welcome to the real world.
Were any of those cultures successful because of democracy? We don't have controlled experiments on human governance, no ideas have been proven.
I wished the article spent some time on how the game was marketed. For example, its appearance in House of Cards surely raised awareness for some consumers. Yes, the design is well thought out and fun to play but there are so many apps in each store that the more interesting challenge is rising above the crowd. Was it all organic? Did they pay for downloads? Do they know someone at Apple who put them on a featured list? Does the game factor into Frank Underwood's grand ambitions in the next season?
Hi. I own Arris TG862G, TWC pushed their firmware on it, it seems much older than discussed here.

Firmware Name:	TS070563C_032913_MODEL_862_GW_TW_SIP_PC20
Firmware Build Time: Fri Mar 29 2013

I got a permanent password to advanced page/technician. But I don't have URL http://192.168.100.1/cgi-bin/tech_support_cgi, it's 404 and as a result I don't know how to enable SSH. Can anyone help with this old firmware?
Eh ad hominum. She can have valid ideas, celebrity or no. I generally don't live her but she is a good start for a lot of people.
I think Snow Leopard was a good spot, as the system was really starting to improve from both the user's and developer's sides. It had the system-wide UI consistency of Leopard but the stability improvements from 10.6.

And it's not that OS X hasn't gained some good features since. Once they got the bugs out a lot of the iOS integrations like Messages and even Notes aren't too bad anymore. The problem is, they keep adding half-baked things that don't change, and re-re-re-iterating on things that were perfectly fine to begin with (like Exposé from 10.3).
Icarus, or the Future of Science (1924)
You can mitigate this a lot with more props of shorter diameter moving slower, and grilles to serve as prop cages, at the expense of somewhat lower flight efficiency.
It looks like he picks it up and examines it for a while, then puts it down. The timed solving starts only when he picks it up again -- is this correct? Is there a time limit to the examination stage?
One could argue that the addicted drinker gets no real value from even small amounts of alcohol consumption,

whereas the desire to seek distraction is born from the brain's need of new stimuli, and information[1].
In which case a few minutes of browsing the fresh posts of the day could be a healthy stimulation. The diminishing returns set in when most posts are already seen.

at least, that's what I like to tell myself.

[1]: see 'why do we get bored' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwd25JV-jnU