skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess perhaps the domain name wasn't the best choice. What the service offers is a an authoritative opinion of the best response in a cooking situation. If you search Google, it is really hard to filter out what the right response to an answer is.

The best value proposition of the service is to use it as you go through your cooking journey, and not necessarily as only in mayday situations.
Yahoo’s Spinoff Plan Does Not Change Its Tax Risk
Functions of global ocean microbiome key to understanding environmental changes
One problem is that the traditional print model is heavily subsidized by advertising – for both the Washington Post and New York Times, it's actually cheaper to get a print subscription which comes with free all-device digital access than it is to buy any combination of digital for more than a single device.

(If the ecological cost of all of that unread paper bothers you, you can put in long-duration vacation stops or, in the case of the NYT, have your paper copy sent to a school instead)
That's just wrong on so many levels.
New London Tube Map Shows How Long It Takes to Walk, Not Ride a Train
It is. If I have the option to use Apple Pay, I use my Apple Watch.
You can do that with EMV terminals in Europe. I've done it repeatedly in Sweden. You hit the yellow button labeled "Signature" and they'll want to see an ID before they accept the signature.

And we're Chip+PIN here in general. But all merchants provide the Chip+Signature option.
You are entirely correct. Perhaps a failure of imagination causes companies to spend so much effort on marginal "improvements" like this while ignoring the big issues. After all there are already about seven different ways to pay so even morons can imagine there being another one.
The part of the iphone which includes "you" is stored in the cloud. You only lose/damage the hardware part, so get another one and backup from the cloud. Currently more expensive than when losing a set of keys or wallet but may not be in the future.
People assume they can tell the difference but the kind of chronic inflammation you get from overuse can sneak up on you. I saw a story about a concert pianist many years ago who was having trouble with his wrists. At the time his doctor or maybe it was teacher treated it like a muscular problem and told him to keep training so his wrists would get stronger. Eventually he built up so much scar tissue on his tendons that he was no longer a concert pianist...forever. WRT the article, sure you can run a marathon every day of the week. Impressive. I'd fear what that guy would be like after 40 years
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i wouldnt really call that a take down/knock down in your terms.

-noone else claims to have seen this early release of this report to be able to refute the data.+

-yes this is US online shopping only data anyalysis, this outlined in the original article giving background on 1010data that this article references[0]

[0] http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-beats-apple-online-tab...

it is based on data provided to 1010data from consumers as well as data analysis from the "top 100" online sellers.

the biggest online seller for ipads i assume is the Apple store, which probably isnt aggregating data to 3rd parties.

i wouldnt be suprised though if Surface+Windows 10 tablets (xiaomi mi pad 2) start to dominate the market.

most people i know who own a ipad, nearly everyone owns one, isnt looking to replace their ipads with the newer versions.
if its working, no major features/changes requiring an upgrade to a newer ipad.

everyone looking to get a new device is looking at the surface/windows 10 as a new tablet and even a laptop replacement.
Tech people (in general) do not make job decisions based solely on money. They want recognition, good work, good teams, good leadership, a meaningful product, etc. If your solution to morale problems is to increase salaries, you have already missed the mark in some of these other areas.
All of those things sound like isolated incidents rather than actual trends. Just using the term "SJW" communicates that you're in a constant state of readiness to be outraged about that stuff. Just treat it like the occasional silly overreaching that it is and be done with it, otherwise it creates an environment where there's no room for "community culture" discussions, ever.

Any time a community increases in diversity, there's a chance for friction. Maybe it's from old-timers with poor social skills who don't realize they've been in a bubble. Maybe it's from new people with their own problems, trying to blame the old culture for their own difficulties fitting in. You know what it's not? A conspiracy or a trend. The only constructive, grown-up thing to do is to try to understand and have empathy for both groups, while pointedly not belonging to either one.

In my experience, any time there's a kerfluffle about someone wanting to rename man(1) or <kerfluffle of your choice>, it's a very small group or an individual getting outraged over something silly, and an equally small group getting outraged over the first group's outrage. It's pointless and meaningless to the vast majority of the group, who just want to move on with their lives and get something done.

If these things seem like they're more common now in open source than they were 10-20 years ago, (a) you'd be mistaken, and (b) if anything, that's just a sign of more people becoming involved, which is a good thing. Let 100 more people in, and chances are one of them will be a little crazy. That doesn't mean they all are, it just goes with the territory.
I said this on HN yesterday, but I'll repeat again since it's VERY relevant.

I'd like the subscription, as you mention too!

What I'd like even more (for voluntary payment) is a subscription that divvies up my monthly 'budget' according to the % of the time I spent on different sites. Say I spend 50% of my browsing time on Nytimes, 30% on HN and 20% on New Yorker, and my monthly allocated budget is $20. Then NYT gets $10, HN gets $6, NYer $4, etc.

Or perhaps, a monthly budget where the money is deducted for subscription sites, per article/time whatever. Once my budget is finished, I see 'normal' web like everyone else does.

I don't really care about ads, but maybe people who don't want to see ads could pay like, 2x as much, etc.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of innovation in this field. Perhaps it's the difficulty of integrating everything in one place?

Edit after reading the comments: Google contributor just removes ads instead of getting you 'special pass' right? Do the site owners get paid for the 'eyeballs' from the subscribers?
By giving police the power to judiciate through selective enforcement of the rules, you are guaranteeing that there will be rampant abuse.
No, the optimum strategy is to determine if compensating them to a mutually agreeable level is more or less expensive than losing their expertise and rolling someone new in.

Just because parent said optimal strategy is to lay them off doesn't mean you have to act like that's _never_ going to be the case.

For the given hypothetical, the 'ol "get them to unknowningly train their replacement by pretending like you're rewarding them with more compensation and a direct report" could be the "optimal" strategy.
Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
All the more reason iOS is a bizarre platform for this, then.
I've got to work my way up to the 5K and then to the Light; a Challenge/Tough (or Heavy) isn't on the radar right now due to some physical handicaps and limitations (google "subglottic stenosis").
Saying "it's dangerous" doesn't mean "accept being hurt or killed", just the same as saying "they'll expect 80 hours a week" or "stock options may be worthless" don't mean "accept being abused and left poor".

It means "make sure your contract guarantees hours or appropiate payment for extra hours before you sign". It means "research the markets and the startup and demand proper pay if it looks bad". It means "make sure the citizens are safe, make sure you are safe, but don't pretend that killing someone is anything but the last resort when you failed to properly address a tactical situation".
apathy does not necessarily manifest in bad morale, if anything it can be a coping mechanism. let alone in such groups the idea of not rocking the boat is similar to the Wilder effect; you be what they expect when asked because to disagree causes discomfort or the need to be seen as a team player is real
I have plenty of relevant platitudes :)

Go simple. Pick a language. Start writing code. Stay focused. Only solve the problems that you need to solve, not any problems that you might maybe, perhaps, come across. Don't go shopping for a toolkit until you have tried building something yourself. Especially if you are young - remember that writing code to solve problems that someone else has already solved is not a lost cause; you are learning!

YAGNI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it

Remember, perfect is the enemy of good.

Today I think it's way too easy to get lost in the flood of of platforms/toolkits/frameworks. When I got started 20 years ago it was a lot simpler - crappier but simpler. :) You might or might not have what it takes to be a good developer - but I seriously see the risk of potentially good developers getting stuck before they learn how to navigate these new-fangled floods of ... stuff. It's like a tax on brain cycles to keep up with it all. If you have no discipline you will end up spending all of your cycles shopping toolkits rather than solving problems and learning how to actually program.
Emulated minds and artificial intelligences will replace programmers eventually.

Even graphic design could be done by an AI running a genetic algorithm, with automated A/B testing as the fitness function.
Exactly. My main problem is that the CEO's stance is entirely hypocritical, because he would demand real equity or quit (probably even faster) if he was in the employee's position.

Once you have access to millions in funding its tough to see people who have to work for a living as human just like you. You expect them to lovingly accept terms that you would be insulted at.

Now if your talent is so great that you dwarf all your employees it might be justified. But when you are pained at losing productive workers chances are your favorable terms exist mostly because of your connections.
Suleiman the Magnificent's tomb believed to have been found in Hungary
I can add to the sample size here and have found similar results. I wrote an SEO test piece a while ago which inadvertently became quite popular[0] (and did rank well for the targeted terms).

In updating it recently (couple months ago) I found many of the links simply 404'd, not even any redirect at all. Wikipedia was pretty bad for this too as the author found.

I took to hosting all the files I linked to myself to at least be sure they'd stay around but it is a bit of a losing battle with regard to linking to normal webpages.

I might look to link to an archive.org page instead in the future if the link rot keeps happening. Perhaps that would be a more stable option.

[0] http://josharcher.uk/blog/why-margaret-thatcher-is-hated/
A paywall subscription consolidator would indeed be a nice thing to have. Not sure the newspapers would give up their subscriber contact info to a 3rd party though, without some strong guarantees of privacy and continued access for internal purposes.
Are you justifying unnecessary force and unnecessary force multipliers by invoking hypothetical situations? This is madness. When any hypothetical situation is a valid excuse for use of force, all uses of force will fall back on hypothetical situations as justification.

And most do, when it comes to the police and use of force.

Have you ever seen the South Park episode where they forbid the killing of animals unless in self defense, so hunters shout "it's coming right for us!" before lighting them up with automatic gun fire?

Yeah, this is like that.
I'm not from PlanGrid, just discovered the tool and my co-workers are running some tests with future projects. However, the answers to your questions (From my POV):

- ELI5 what "free for 50 sheets" mean : This means that you can upload 50 PDFs that contain your plans (Blue Prints). So if you are undergoing house renovations and your Architect drew up plans that are 25 pages, then half of your quota would be used.

- Is there any benefit in using it for small, private projects : That depends. If you're outsourcing your work and have a contractor, then yes. The plans are initially updated on the service and any revisions that occur throughout the project would be instantly synced.

PlanGrid, from my limited exposure, is a markup tool for the initial plans. Their goal is to keep everyone in the "know" with a project that constantly changing. If you and a buddy are working on a deck, might not be useful. If you are contracting/sub-contracting work, it will be very useful.

My 2 cents.
Instead of having mobile payments software on my smartphone, with all that security and confidentiality risk, I'd like a dedicated device. Perhaps a small, flat plastic device with a processor and memory embedded in it; I could stick a bunch of them in my wallet.

I don't understand the appeal of mobile payments at a physical location. It's not harder to pull out my wallet than my phone. Is there some benefit I'm overlooking?
Rulebreaking!?!?! They must be PuertoRicans! :-D

Disclosure: I am PuertoRican
I don't think there's any typeface that Canadians would recognize as particularly Canadian. The federal government uses Helvetica.

But then, to me, ‘Dutchness’ in a typeface brings to mind the styles of the 17th century when the Dutch were at the center of printing.
So, we know now where the Moby aliens came from.

https://joethreat.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/engstrom_inthi...

I can read: H...e...l...

http://www.oocities.org/sg/bouncingbeans/hello2.bmp
Let me start off by saying I agree with you (if you're bored, crawl through my HN history and you'll find some very strong condemnations of certain LEO practices).

However... let me also explore a different perspective on this.

Do you feel the same way about paramedics and firefighters? We choose to put ourselves in harms way for the sake of others. Heroic, right? No... not really... My first priority on any scene is to go home to my wife and daughter at the end of the day. In fact, my priorities (usually...) are me, then my crew, then you.

Firefighting is not without risk, but in reality, modern firefighting is very conservative, and growing more so every year. There are practical reasons for this though. When a cop or a firefighter is out of the fight, they're not doing anyone any good. In fact, they are now causing a division of resources in the operation as they have now become someone else we need to rescue.

I am my first priority because I can't do anyone any good if I'm injured. My crew is my second priority because they are the ones that are going to take care of me if things go sideways. Keeping those priorities straight is what maximizes our effectiveness in preserving life.

I realize this comparison is not perfect (it's generally easy enough to identify fire vs innocent civilians), and I am by no means excusing the military mindset of many modern police forces, but I hope that gives you some insight into the mindset behind some of the tactics used.
> Looking to incorporate some rigor outside the development team

Why? What's going on that you need a program to solve it?
This is great. If you are a subscription service or anywhere you need recurring payments, it's nice to provide this option to users because one of the reason lot of people stop subscriptions is because credit cards are flacky, expires or get cancelled. Also large transactions upwards few thousand dollars can benefit because many people don't have sufficient credit limit left. Are there any other scenarios?

I think Dwolla should go one step further. How about exposing APIs to get statements? Getting statements is one of the PITA with banks and many analytics application scenarios would open us with these APIs if they were easier to use than that of Yodlee.
Activists and fishermen team up to address record whale entanglement
Why does it need to be actionable? Are metrics and stats in games actionable? No, but they are interesting nevertheless.
I use my bank/credit card often, which is Chip&PIN/EMV. I have never had a problem with any of my cards in that way, ie. the reader being clunky and failing to contact the card.

I have however worn out a card that has been in use for a couple of years.

I would beg to differ that the chips are unreliable. Other solutions might be easier, don't know about that though.
X.AI: An artificial-intelligence-powered personal assistant
Where do you think LEO come from? Do you think if one dies there are 10 more people willing to stand in their place?

Reducing officer casualties is a must in order to even have law enforcement at all. To enforce the law there needs to actually be people to enforce the law. Can't do that if a number of them are dying on the job which also hurt future employment rates.
Your question is valid, assuming you trust the query planner to make the right decision. However, the query planner in most databases is not perfect and can miss.

We have tried a few different alternatives, including the join, and found that this sub-query option actually works better.

A sub query forces the database to execute the first query on routes using the index, then use the result for the second query on sites. It leave nothing for the interpretation of the optimizer which may decide to so some silly thing like full scan on the sites table before performing the join.
"You certainly do not have "full control" over when reference counting runs. You have some illusion of control at best."

If I use the factory pattern with pre-allocated object pools, and keep references to the objects in the factory, I have absolute certainty that ARC will never reclaim the objects. Used properly, ARC will contribute negligible overhead at runtime.

"You only have control in a certain well-defined circumstances, like when you have the entire lifetime of an object (or object aggregate) in the same scope, or a closely related set of scopes. In other words, in situations where you could quite probably do manual memory management (and effectively are doing that, just through the refcounting calls that you are still forced to use)."

Wrong across the board.
As long as there are enough self-checks that one doesn't get stuck behind cavemen, they are definitely superior in terms of speed and convenience. Self-checks do get confused sometimes, and I guess it's important to make sure that only adults buy spray paint, but one clerk can handle those situations for a number of check stations.
Totally off-topic, but what did you use to make the charts for your productivity-per-hour, and how did you track productivity? I use a time-tracking app (Toggl), but it's not easy to determine the difference between an hour when I'm on fire and an hour where mt brain feels like fuzz.
Of course paleo is absolute BS, so why does it matter?
> To be fair, the U.S has literally been asking Japan to change its constitution since 1968. They've been trying to get them to be actual military allies for 50 years now.

Before that, actually. As early as the late 1940s, once it became clear that the Cold War was going to be a thing, the US was leaning on Japan to beef up militarily in the hopes of countering Soviet influence in the area. Savvy politicians in the era were not necessarily pacifist, but they could say "gee, sorry guys, but the Article 9 that you put in our constitution won't let us. Guess you'll have to keep your bases here and help defend us from those darn Soviets yourselves," then throw the money they saved not having to field a military towards economic development instead.
Those police killed Eric Garner. Do you think the police would be so understanding of someone who killed another person in a bar fight because there was a chance of having a tooth knocked out? That's not a normal standard of behavior. Even if you don't think it's reasonable to hold them to higher standards of behavior, holding them to a lower standard seems really strange to me.
Point 1 is why I think Apple Pay & others will be more of a niche - until the terminals become common, you can't rely on them, but once they are common, contactless cards become just as useful.

I used to be skeptical of contactless cards because of the lack of 2-factor. I thought it would be a liability (if my wallet gets stolen, now the thief can use my cards). However, the UK banks are quite vocal about promising to repay you if this happens. I've never had to put this to the test, luckily.

Also, there is still an element of 2-factor auth. Occasionally, contactless will ask for a PIN confirmation (perhaps random, or perhaps if the bank thinks the payment seems odd). A new card of mine refused to work until I had made at least one PIN payment with it, for instance.

Finally, there are low contactless payment limits - £30 right now. But these have been steadily rising as banks become more confident with their fraud systems. So, it seems that the payment industry is happy with the system.
Real policing would ignore the so-called offence of jaywalking,unless the person is putting themselves in harm's way.
"I know the nearest crossing is 80 meters away, but have a think about where and when to cross - the drivers of cars that come around that corner can't see you until the last second:
That's a pedantic definition of shortage. Abundance does not mean you can get something if your willing to pay enough money.
Arguably the laws Uber is breaking are themselves immoral.

When it comes to emissions controls, though, even the worst lawbreakers among us need to breathe.
> Why? $130K is a respectable salary, nearly twice the median for the area.

...I know that a web developer with one year of on-the-job experience and no formal training pulls down right around $100k in SF.

$130k may be twice the median for the area, but it seems like the pay bump for mid-to-senior level people should be substantially more than 30%, no?
Eventually technology should kill pretty much all of the jobs. Human time and energy should be spent on what they find interesting, not on mundane stuff such as farming, housing, construction, database plumbing - all of which could be easily automated. No human should have to work to pay bills because there should be no bills. That should be the promise of technology. Only jobs left for humans should be things that require creativity, higher level reasoning and new ideas. Of course, there may be AI one day that does better than us on these areas as well and that's just part of evolution. It doesn't necessarily have to mean humans will go extinct. Universe has plenty of space for all of us and next generation of intellectual species.
I think you are completely underestimating (or misunderstanding) what this is.

The Open Compute designs (which is where this will end up) aren't just a list of parts. They include things like blueprints for custom chassis, circuit boards for power supplies and even designs for solid state storage devices[1][2][3]. The also include the source code for custom management software[4].

While it is true that they don't generally design their own logic boards, it is quite a long way from a list of parts.

I don't think backblaze called their case designs open source hardware.

You'd be wrong about that: This new Storage Pod performs four times faster, is simpler to assemble, and delivers our lowest cost per gigabyte of data storage yet. And, once again, it’s open source.[5]

I think "open source" is completely appropriate here, and to be honest I don't quite understand your objection.

[1] http://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Server/SpecsAndDesigns

[2] http://www.opencompute.org/projects/chassis/

[3] http://www.opencompute.org/projects/power-supply/

[4] http://www.opencompute.org/projects/hardware-management/

[5] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-4/
Soon: "Google is proud to introduce Markov chain advertorials."