skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CPU architecture shouldn't be a problem, as it's the primary target for iOS apps.

I haven't gotten it to build yet, maybe I should read the manual, but I'm a man, damnit, so I'll do that once I've tried absolutely everything else.
You don't; taxes serve as that acknowledgement... assuming relatively few loopholes.
Somewhat related trivia.. A retweet, however, has been shown to be able to be libellous as it's considered to be "republication" of the material, at least in this awful court case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlpine_v_Bercow
I made it that far into the article and waded straight into the HN comments, running an in-browser-search on "IBM".

I despair that the tech world is being run by no-nothing teenagers credentialed solely by their family's bank accounts.

Thanks for calling out this cringe-worthy assertion.
It does have a significant impact on performance. Especially for real time operating systems, micro controlles, and other embedded systems.

There for sure exists more then zero problems where garbage collection would be a worse solution then manual memory management. Even if you leave kernel development out of the equation.
The metadata on this site says this was published in 2012, but the actual ruling it is reporting on was in 2000. http://www.aele.org/apa/jordan-newlondon.html
What do you mean busywork? Many Android watches have been doing great with a round dial, vast majority of regular watches have round dial!
why it can't be vacuumed?
3 Ways Web Harvesting Delivers Actionable Insights
Anecdotal evidence, but I've hardly paid for a Lyft ride (aside from driver tips) for the last few months. This thanks to a long-running 50% off promotion in my area (Austin, TX, USA) and a pile of promotional credit added to my account. I wonder how much of this loss is due to these marketing efforts.

Now that the promotion is over and credit depleted, my default ride app is back to Uber.
Is this an example of Poe's Law? GIF's palette size is 256, there are 256 shades of gray, so no GIF artifacts should be present. GIF doesn't have artifacts anyway; those would come from the dithering/palletization step before compression.
ILLUMINATO+CARDS+SAY+PUTE+WILL+NUKE+TURKS+-+YouTube
I would imagine most of the money goes towards:

- Development of the official client[1] and boulder[2], the CA server software behind Let's Encrypt. Both are relatively big projects with lots of things to add/improve on.

- Hosting CA servers in two separate data centers. HSMs for key storage are usually rather expensive as well. CRLs and OCSP are quite bandwidth-intensive[3], that's probably where Akamai's sponsorship comes in. Ops teams have to be available 24/7 in case of outages.

- I'd guess the auditing costs are quite substantial as well. I'm not sure what's necessary to get added to the various root programs out there (Microsoft, Mozilla etc.), but I doubt it's free (unless that's part of some sponsorship).

(I'm not affiliated with Let's Encrypt, just my perspective)

[1]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt
[2]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder
[3]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-hard-costs-of-heartbleed/
I had an iPhone 5, and loved the form factor, but not the battery life. The 6+ can handle a couple of days of use as a smartphone and mobile internet access point. The larger screen is irrelevant to me, but the larger battery matters.

Do you think the purchase of a Watch could have a bearing on iPhone purchase decisions based on the phone's battery life (if we do not see untethering in the near future)?
Is this in reference to the type classes as seen in Haskell or something else?
I want to reach enlightenment but I'm stuck in Java for the time being.
Uber is now too big to fail. Possibly the most important company this decade. I never cease to be amazed by their phenomenal execution across the world.

I was in Mexico City last week where I truly came to understand the enormous impact Uber as a company has had in these past few years. The service was highly prevalent, popular, and the experience was completely seamless — just like in the US. It barely skipped a beat. Their execution is likely a prime business case study in that no other company has built a technology business that has a huge, real-life logistical component this fast — and in dozens of cities around the world, spanning an equal number of ways of doing business and cultural barriers.
> From where does the business get the college-educated workforce so that it can be viable in the first place?

That's insanity. Businesses pay more for college educated employees exactly because they are worth more, and in doing so they are "paying their fair share". It's not like these college educated employees are donating the extra money they should be making to the companies they work for. They demand higher salaries and companies often pay them. Again, everybody is square in the deal.

It would be just as insane for me to suggest that no individual is entitled to the money they earn because without all the private companies out there they wouldn't have all the tools and services required to achieve that success. Therefore, businesses are entitled to their labor for discounted rates or even for free.
https://bugs.swift.org/ <-- public jira instance
Presumably the deal terms include a liquidation preference and thus the implied valuation is essentially horseshit.
Is this written in VBA?
transparent proxy?
Well the car analogy itself was unsatisfactory because you can replace an entire car but you certainly can't just replace whatever tech makes up your competitive advantage. I was just going with the analogy.

Anyway, replace "brakes" with "fizzschlider" since the point of the analogy is that the person making the decision isn't an expert in the problem domain.
Gonna have to check this out later and see how the viewing part works on the Rift. I'm guessing it'll come down to viewing the images with the proper alignment on the desktop/browser-based photo viewing app. If you can pull them up fullscreen with a side-by-side layout it ought to work fine.
I don't think at all that "value semantics" without any mention of complexity is an end in and of itself. Any sensible programmer will either (a) intentionally decide that performance is minimally important at the moment (and hopefully later benchmark) or (b) concern themselves also with a semantic model which admits a cost model.

Or, to unpack that last statement, simulate the machine instructions.

I'm never one to argue that a single semantic model should rule them all. Things are wonderful then multiple semantic models can be used in tandem.

But while I'd like to argue for the value of cost models, at this point I'd like to also fight for the value-based ones.

Totality is important not because it has a practical effect. I vehemently agree with how you are arguing here to that end.

It's instead important because in formal systems which ignore it you completely lose the notion of time. Inclusion of non-termination and handling for it admits that there is at least one way which we are absolutely unjustified in ignoring the passage of time: if we accidentally write something that literally will never finish.

It is absolutely a shallow way of viewing things. You're absolutely right to say that practical termination is more important that black-and-white non-termination.

But that's why it's brought up. It's a criticism of certain value-based models: you guys can't even talk about termination!

And then it's also brought up because the naive way of adding it to a theorem prover makes your logic degenerate.
In what way does Go scale badly from an engineering point of view?
I can only speak for myself here but I feel like I am part of a new market that Uber and Lyft have created. I live in Austin TX and have had bad cab experiences here and so I frequently use Uber. I am from New York, however, and when I'm back there I almost never use Uber because I have no problems with getting a cab.

I would be surprised if the market for cab companies in Austin is as large as the market Uber serves. I really cant recall the last time someone here told me they got in a cab. I think those people just drove themselves places before Uber instead of taking a cab. I certainly did.
> The calories burned while exercising are minuscule compared to food intake.

Not at all true; since I've started tracking my burn rate, my high-exercise days are about 50% higher than my low-exercise days (at not even at the extreme ends of either; high extreme is about 100% higher than the low extreme.)

> Being overweight is primarily an eating issue, not an exercise issue.

Being overweight (at least, insofar as its a particular health concern, which is mostly about body fat rather than weight) is a complicated issue that varies between individuals and can involve lifestyle -- particularly both eating and exercise -- and other health conditions. The most valuable intervention -- whether its dietary changes, exercise changes, medication, surgical intervention, or otherwise -- may be different for different people.

> Daily recommended calorie intake averages ~2000 calories.

That's the standard used for the bases for percentages of daily recommended intake of various nutrients in FDA-mandated labels, for a variety of reasons [0], but its not actually the average recommendation for maintenance intake. [1]

> I was going over that by ~1000 per day before adjusting my habits, and I don't think I was unusual.

So, you were eating about maintenance level for a young adult male, but probably living a sedentary lifestyle. Either increasing activity to an active lifestyle or reducing eating could correct that.

> You cannot outrun the fork.

Repeating that multiple times doesn't make it true.

> I've lost over 60 pounds in the last year by changing my eating habits.

And after stabilizing my weight by altering my eating habits, I lost over 60 pounds in a year by altering my exercise habits (a combination of twice-weekly 1-hour gym workouts and something like 15 hours a week of dance class/parties/practice.)

> I started doing regular Freeletics (like CrossFit) 8 weeks ago, and actually stopped losing weight.

If you didn't ramp up your eating, the most likely reason is because you've been gaining lean body mass at the expense of body fat. That's at least as good as just losing body fat (and better than losing weight if it isn't body fat that is being lost.)

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/08/why-does-t...

[1] http://www.webmd.com/diet/estimated-calorie-requirement
Bit depth is not a measure of quantity, but of dynamic range. In other words, what matters is not only how many quantization steps you have, but how large of a space you are trying to map them over.

The examples in the article point to this obvious conclusion, but don't quite state it explicitly. The relationship between space and quantization effects is demonstrated for a physical dimension interpretation of space by the horizontal greyscale bar that stretches and contracts.

But what if you stretch and contract the dynamic range of your monitor itself? Each bit in the encoding space (naively) offers a doubling of dynamic range in the natural space, so even your 30 bit encoding can be stretched if you display it on a monitor that intends to output a contrast ratio many times greater than what we are used to.

For instance, imagine a monitor that could output light perceptually as bright as the afternoon sun, next to effectively infinite blackness. Will 30 bits be enough when 'stretched' across these new posts of dynamic range, or will banding (quantization) still be visually evident when examining a narrow slice of the space?
If you need a hosted service, I would use Google Sheets and write a custom Google Apps Script to transform data. Supports up to 2 million cells [1].

You could also use an Excel Web App and leverage the JS API or REST API via Excel Web Services [2].

For native Excel, I would look at DataNitro's Excel Add-in [3] for Python bindings. Similar to DataNitro, I wrote a JavaScript equivalent Excel Add-in that may be handy (contact me if interested).

Other helpful tools:

- Google Refine

- Google Fusion Tables [4]

- Tableau (doesn't render tabular/grid views)

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[1] https://support.google.com/drive/answer/37603?hl=en

[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms582023.aspx

[3] https://datanitro.com/quickstart

[4] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fusion-tables-announ...
Factory assembled furniture often makes use of highly specialized and expensive equipment that most people don't even have access to.

For instance, a wood steamer, to bend the back of a chair into a curve, followed by a few days of immobilizing and drying the piece. This sort of step is only cost effective when you are building hundreds of chairs.

Or there might be staples from a staple gun, or springs that can only be installed with the help of a power tool.

And, as already mentioned by parent, most factory-assembled wood furniture nowadays uses dowels or wafers and wood glue. The resulting join is much stronger than twistlock connectors in particle board.

But you can fit more flat-pack chairs in one cargo container, which is about the only reason they even exist. If you are confident in your assembly abilities, a bottle of wood glue, clamps, and a framing square will produce better results on particle-board furniture than following the instructions as written. If not, you'll make a mess and ruin your furniture. And honestly, sometimes you just need something that's good enough to do the job, for $20, that you can just discard the next time you move.
If you think keeping time accurately is a notable feature in a $300+ digital watch, you seriously need to re-think how you evaluate usefulness of a product.
Yes, as long as you're able to host content at subdomain.example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/{random_token}, you're good to go!
Wikipedia is a fundraising project that happens to make an encyclopedia. Having written a couple of articles on this topic, my main concern is that none of the donation money goes to the contributors, and instead goes to an ineffective tech and executive team, whose goal is more fundraising. All while Google makes millions by scraping and presenting Wikipedia's content. http://newslines.org/blog/google-and-wikipedia-best-friends-...
Yes this is possible. The only verification is that you are able to react to certain HTTP requests sent to port 80 on your domain.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/possible-to-issue-certif...
Glad to read this. So much so-called A/B testing done is of the naive variety he outlines.

Much more here: http://www.exp-platform.com/Pages/default.aspx

disclosure: I worked with ExP a while ago.
This comment doesn't make a lot of sense. The "corporate IP lawyers" being referred to would be Apple's own counsel, not those of "potential contributors".
I also think he could be a winner on Dancing with the Stars contest. I mean he is a heck of a dancer.
Isn't helium guaranteed to leak out over time because of the tiny atom size, giving these drives a most certain scheduled death?
Awesome! I really like how it is "git push to deploy". This is pretty perfect for a couple ideas are company is planning.
I have seen this argument expressed several times on HN and I find it quite puzzling.

To paraphrase the argument goes something like:
"Society giveth and society taketh away"

Implied in the argument is that the state is synonymous with society. Even in a democratic society you have the issue that a) a limited percentage of the population actually vote and b) of those who vote a minority did not get what they wanted.

Regardless of what extent the government does reflect the will of society, you still have the issue that we currently do have a system of personal property rights. If you believe those rights exist only because society willed them be for whatever reason, then arguing that no one really owns anything is quite the circular argument.
The most important company this decade? I'm not saying you're wrong but I have to ask... what makes Uber so important?
In a vacuum, the head would crash into the platter. The gas provides a cushion. Flying height these days is something like 3nm (yes, you read that right), so the tiniest vibration could cause a head crash in a vacuum.
They need to get the battery life above "1 day". I think that's what's stopping MANY people. In my case, I almost need sleep tracking (diagnosed with a sleep disorder).
Param Tampering Attack on Twitter Web Intents
Yep, check back tomorrow. Meanwhile here's a 28-second teaser video of it working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk4EWHvvZtI
Wolbachia's sexual differentiation in hosts
I'm in Austin and basically did the exact same thing.
No, it is not the same thing. A private foundation can continue to be a part of the solution without it being the focus. Krämer's (I checked the name!) point is that the focus in the US is private donations which means that the billionaires have a much higher level of influence on where the money goes. It's not that, say, the Make A Wish Foundation is inherently bad or that donating to them is a bad thing, rather the possibility that Zuckerberg could decide to give them 95% of his wealth while more critical social services receive none of it that is concerning.
that someone else in our current system are judges. I'm not sure i know of a justice system that doesnt eventually place the burden on a small number of people.

AFAIK systems hoping to discern truth eventually require a cannon.
What appears to work best on the scale of a clinical study may not work so well for some subsets of the population. I've yet to find any sort of plant-based meal that makes me nearly as energetic and satisfied as one that includes animal protein of some kind.
This was my first thought too. It's not hard to imagine him pushing the idea of sponsoring a project like Let's Encrypt to other higher-ups in the company.
Wow, we need a new monetary unit. I dub it the Lucasart, and it's worth an even $4B USD.

Uber is now valued at 15.6 Lucasarts!!! Hooray and congrats to all involved in this grounded and logical valuation!
Swift Programming Language Evolution
Exactly!

Unless you sell machine learning algorithms of course :)
> Imagine you are — or be — the tallest person in the room. (Create situations where you’re standing and they’re sitting?)
> this reminds me of the NLP craze back in the day, i.e. micro behaviors that are subconsciously making you more attractive / easy to relate to / superior etc. Dubious at best.

I'm short. Like 5ft 2 (160cm) short. People have literally given me comments to the line of "You're short, but you have a tall personality. I, like, can't think of you as a short person."

This shit works. To an extent at least. It doesn't help me reach things in cupboards.
Fixing Heroku's Pricing
What do you mean by "valuation growth isn't necessarily necessary"?
I think they will only take off when they get good enough to be the only phone... which I think will not happen or until it happens, some other, better thingammabob will be the dominant tech.
I'm not saying that a round face is a bad idea, just that the OP suggested making it round specifically so that the designers can explore a round watch face. That's busywork.

(and I suspect Apple did it at some point in the development of the watch anyway)
On my Android phone, in Google Chrome, there is no date visible in the first paragraph.

Checking my desktop browser, it is visible there.

So poor site design then; on mobile the side panel showing the date and issue isn't visible. And on my desktop, the panel shows on the right, not the left.
It's notable if its main competitor in the market (allegedly) doesn't.
Does anyone know if their server supports DNS validation yet?
If you're using FreeBSD and NGINX you may like the guide I wrote the other day. :) http://savagedlight.me/2015/11/24/lets-encrypt-on-a-freebsd-...

PS: I also made a cron-callable script which checks the expirity time of the cert before telling letsencrypt to renew. It checks if the cert was renewed afterwards, and echos to stderr if renewal didn't take.
The heads need a gas of some sort to float on.
> Not to politicize these findings, but the travesty of socialized healthcare is the moral hazard implicit in universally treating lifestyle diseases such as type II diabetes

In socialized medicine, its more likely that the treatment for those will be early and effective behavior interventions treating the lifestyle problem.

> We're enabling destructive and expensive health pandemics to spare people their precious feelings.

That would be more credible of an argument if the places with socialized medicine and universal treatment had more of these problems than the place in the OECD with the least degree of socialized medicine and universal access to healthcare.

The problem isn't so much that you've politicized the findings as that in your drive to do so, you've completely ignored the facts on the ground.
Perhaps so, but how substantial is that compared to the market of people who are just using Uber as a more convenient and reliable cab? Surely the latter is the vast bulk of their business.
A propos of nothing, I love my Watch (a self-gift 2 weeks ago) but I can't see a thing on it except the time unless I have my glasses on. And I really only have my glasses on when I'm working on my laptop (which is a lot) in which case I can see the time on the screen, no need to move my arm.

But I still love it.
Because most people Uber...?

It became a "verb" and well, here we know what that means: "xerox that paper", "google this term"... Nobody is Lyft-ing and everyone is Uber-ing. Once it's verbified, it's hard for competitors to overcome it.

I, for one, have used neither. But I have friends and family who travel a lot. Some are in their 20s, 30s, and some in the 60s and they all say they Uber places vs taking a taxi. They don't know about Lyft-ing.

Now what is the underlying reason for that. Maybe luck, maybe time to market, maybe pricing, I can't tell you.
Diabetes isn't about sugar specifically, it's about carbohydrates. I'm sure you didn't have a "no carb" month -- which means your point is kinda meaningless. You may have avoided the 38 grams of sugar in that can of coke, but did you compensate by eating 4 handfuls of grapes?

To a diabetic, all carbs are bad, not just the ones that rot your teeth.
Might be useful to turn it around and consider how the phone ecosystem has changed. I got my phone, I play podcasts, audiobooks, email, web browser, maps, music, kindle app, and nothing has changed in several years on my phone.

The article was very unclear about what rapidly changed in the phone market for all but the earliest adopters. And given that its basically a phone 2nd display, its not new at all.
"does that license apply retroactively to a checkout of the first N-1 commits"

No, unless you explicitly state it somewhere (and even then, I'm not certain).

If they add a license to the older commits via rewriting history then yes, those older commits will now be licensed. If they don't do so, then copyright will be default i.e. you can't do anything with it.

Now, if they had a large history and didn't retroactively license files, but just pushed the repository out all at once, I have no idea if the license on the latest commit would apply to the older commits. In the end, the question is all about whether or not Apple has the legal ability to sue you for copyright infringement.
That hasn't really helped the 3TB seagate constellation drives...