skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the product is so odd and rushed

Google (Alphabet?) mostly does "fail fast", where they are funding a plethora of products in a myriad of different fields. So it's not surprising that some products appear to be half-baked. So they threw this one out there. If it gets traction, then fine. If it doesn't, it will be terminated quite quickly.

This is a strategy adopted by many other companies. It's the antithesis of the oft quoted Steve Jobs philosophy:

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
We Germans are not perfect at all. Yes, we are good at engineering and yes, we take our rules a bit more serious than other people, but all in all you will find the same problems here as anywhere else. The rulebreaking is just toned down a bit but it still exists.
No thanks, I'd sooner ditch the FBI director.
Perhaps the question was "Why not?" After all they had the hardware in a state where it could be shipped, so maybe pushing OS updates to make it better was a way forward out of a deadlocked product marketing group.

In a completely unrelated company the Lenovo Intel tablets were a lot like this. They came out too early, Lenvo discounted the hell out of them (with Intel's help) to get them into people's hands, and then it took a year of Android on x86 updates to get them into something resembling a usable product.

I don't think it was very confidence building in the Lenovo tablet brand but I also don't think Google is very invested in the Pixel branding either. Its more a "yeah we have something like that too."

Had you told me that Surface would be driving feature / design decisions at Apple and Google a year ago I would have considered you ill informed :-) but here we are, Apple inventing using a pen type cover with your tablet and Google building "2 in 1" hardware.

It just reinforces my experience with how dynamic technology trends can be.
One more thing, when I first read about something like Grunt or Backbone, I didn't really get it. After several months of reading blog posts, articles, books and hacker news I started to get it.
I only get 5. I'm happy. And they are probably people who 'liked' the page much before he announced candidacy.
Mozilla has an even larger database.

https://location.services.mozilla.com/downloads

If you want to contribute, there's an opt-in toggle in Firefox for Android.
Approximately normal. See stuff like : http://onlinestatbook.com/2/sampling_distributions/samp_dist...
Optimizations, GPUs and even parallelization are not always much use in simulations because the computational complexity is usually very high - like O(n^3) or so. That's not even counting the cubing of the problem size in going from 1D to 3D. If you can get 10x the performance out of some optimization, that can allow you to solve a slightly bigger problem - but isn't likely to be dramatic enough to go from 2D to 3D.
This would be awesome! There are a lot of interesting takes on the typing training game out there, but they often miss the symbols and numbers. Does anyone know of a good symbol-trainer? I jumble my '^'s and '%'s much too often..
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This is epic! And the keyboard on mobile is actually shockingly good. Sounds a re great. Phenomenal!
On a per mass, or per nucleon basis, fusion wins hands-down: one gram of deuterium results in 10^12 J of energy, or 275 million kcal. Fission gives a comparatively small 20 million kcal per gram of 235U. So fusion is over ten times as potent. Keep in mind that chemical energy like that in fossil fuels is capped around 10 kcal/g. - See more at: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/#...
My ex-girlfriend's uncle is an honest man, has a stable job, is in a stable marriage with a wonderful woman, and has two kids. At the time of this story, his kids were in High school and on the junior varsity and varsity football teams, and were getting good grades. He and his family are devoutly religious. In his family, young men are expected to be celibate until they get married. He lives in a small river town in Louisiana.

The police officers of his town are almost all white, and this is how they treat him: If they see him and his sons conversing in a parking lot, it is assumed that they are planning to break the law, and they are always told summarily to leave. They could talk to him and be civil. They could even ask him for useful information. However, they only see young black men who might be perpetrators.

I've also seen the police of this town herd crowds of black people on 4x4 vehicles like cattle on the 4th of July. They were clearly afraid of the crowd, which mostly consisted of high school students. Kids, really!

There are American police who are afraid of their citizens, and only see them in terms of their ethnicity and potential danger. Something is very wrong here!
I still find private companies taking generic TLDs like this (that's probably a bad term, I'm trying to say I have a problem with .bot but not say, .aws) a pretty awful idea. What is the point? Why should Amazon get to buy a chunk of the DNS system like this?
> criticism of liberals is that they are unpatroitic and 'don't love America'

Being patriotic has nothing to do with being nationalistic. It's one thing to love your country, support it, etc... but it's another thing entirely to believe your country is so great, all others fail in comparison, everyone's out to get you (because you're so great), your nation must always be "top dog" and set all global policies, etc...

Being ultra-nationalistic could be paralleled with a phobia of sorts.

> lack of response by liberals and moderates in authority positions - why are they silent?

They aren't silent. The US Executive Branch is currently liberal (as is the State Department, and Secretary of Defense... all foreign policy makers), and certainly has aided the growing sense of extreme nationalism with all the anti-non-european-countries rhetoric. The general message often conveyed is, if you aren't part of North America or Europe, then you're out to get us.

This instead of saying "We may have our differences, but we have worked together in the past and achieved great things, and we can work together now to achieve great things."

> The more nationalistic parties, pushing nationalistic and nativistic (e.g., anti-immigrant) plicies, are always conservative: The Republicans in the U.S., the Tories and the right-wing extremists in the UK

This is extreme partyism, and just as wrong as extreme nationalism.

All parties are guilty. As are all ideologies. They just have different ways of showing it.
What does this mean? Please elaborate, I have a nagging sensation regarding the open digital airwaves.
Can someone please explain what would be the reasons for Atlassian to IPO? Is it to return money to investors? fund new things (such as?)?
I think that that's the root of the problem, or at least a much bigger part of it than either political side is interested in letting on. Not everything is shaped by money, but when there's money involved, it's worthwhile to know what incentives it sets up...
The difference is that the market for different kinds of software products grew massively in the timeframe you're referencing, as did the complexity of software we were capable of creating. I don't expect these trends to continue. There will always be new technology to program for, but if automation takes over the gruntwork of development, which is the vast majority of it, market or complexity growth will not save it.
Both of these apps are available on F-Droid for those that prefer that distribution method.
To track car mileage I get out the manual and look up the size of my tank. Every time I fill up I reset the trip odometer in the car. At fill up I calculate the mileage. It's so easy, why is an app needed for this? May be the calculator app but that's all that should be required unless it's doing something else.
AFIAK 3g and 4g has this. the issue is that there are still legacy 2g and gprs networks so those protocols can't be disabled yet.
I think the crucial difference is that when you talk about "open source X" it means that any aspect of X can be modified as you please. Obviously when you're talking about an open source iOS app it's understood that the underlying OS isn't open source.

Since there is hardware that is actually open in that sense it's worthwhile to distinguish whether you're talking about open hardware or merely open plans for assembly of closed hardware.
These are all good points. Google clearly wants to build and maintain an internal hardware development team, and it might be easier to ship this not-ideal device rather than risk a mass exodus of the hardware team they've been building for years.

The dichotomy between (Android phones/tablets->Nexus->outside OEMs) and (CrOS laptops/tablet->Pixel->internal) is very odd though, and I wonder how confident the Pixel team is in their place at Google. Chrome OS is finding success, but the future still looks like it'll be Android.

As for the Pixel C specifically, the problems are all in the software--maybe rather than making another Nexus tablet for Android N, they'll build it for the Pixel C.
OK, this seems to be all GSM towers.

I wonder how one would select the fake ones.

Edit: Not just GSM.
It also has an unfortunate signalling effect to people (Native Americans, for example) who don't belong to either the traditionally or the newly favored group.
Alright, so I missed the "half of". But you missed that there are 9 8-hour blocks of leisure in a week, not 7. So it's half of 5/9, or simply 5/18. Which doesn't sound that bad compared to 2.5/18 which is what a 1-hour commute gets you.

Let's face it, we're both being kind of sloppy.
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John Basil Barnhill said, "Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty."

The cops should fear us to some reasonable degree, they just shouldn't be able to act out of it.
is the angle of the grid significant at all?
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The Development of the Personal Genetic Kit
If you're counting the employee's salaries, be sure to count the founders' as well.
Personal preference. The reason I am a Quaker is the lack of dogma - no "thou shalt do this one weird thing every alternate Thursday because the priest/book/tablet says so". Put another way, you have the responsibility for working out your own values, and this leads to a delightful (and healthy, I think) diversity. There are Quakers who don't drink alcohol and those that do (usually only in moderation, but even there you get exceptions!), carnivores, vegetarians and vegans; and they all get along!

This acceptance of personal witness extends to our concept of god. So you often get Quakers discussing what each understands by "god". Some are very biblically influenced and imagine some kind of omnipotent "person", but the concept of a shared spirit that comes from ourselves makes more sense to me. For me "god" is not a person's name, and is not an entity that will be hurt if I don't dignify it with a capital letter.

But I'm very happy for you to do otherwise.
For definitions of "real" that include April Fools jokes.
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I am asking how to calculate the expected distribution of sample variances, not sample means.
You're right, of course. My only defense is that it's been a long time since I last watched the movies.
> It's better described as separatist.

Nationalism is not part of the political spectrum. You can easily have right and leftist Nationalists.

They're separatists because of the belief of a strong Scottish identity. That is basically the definition of Nationalism.
Oh you bet! And I'll probably will need to read that book, as well. Sounds intriguing.
Let's consider just music for now. Go to Soundcloud, Bandcamp, etc. and see how much music is already freely available. What percentage of those artists are able to make a living as full-time musicians? (especially when the trend is now to pay $X/mo to consume all you want)

And if income inequality increase, there will be less consumers able to consume that increased supply, further lowering the value of the supply of music. The "winners" of the situation who end up with more income do not have additional time to consume ever more greater quantities of music, while the losers have less money and potentially also less time (if they need to work more to make ends meet).

Edit: Also, given your wording of the question it seems like you aren't a producer of creative content yourself, so perhaps you aren't as directly aware of the trend I'm describing above, which has already had a serious effect upon an already difficult-to-pursue profession.
Technically speaking UKIP lost half their seats in May :)
I remember when the Abu Ghraib and similar revelations came out, I was relatively unsurprised. Military training is to prepare people to fight a war, against a defined enemy, where the general gist of the available tactics all come down to "kill the other guy first". And if you put someone with that kind of training in a situation that calls for police, you're going to get bad results.

I had naively assumed at the time that police were still trained to a different outlook and set of priorities.
I agree, that's definitely part of the problem. "Closing ranks" to protect each other is, I think, an inherently loyal and noble response, but it has to be tempered by humanity and reason, and that does not seem to be happening.

There is probably also a strong element of fear- as mentioned in the article, many of these police really are trained in aggressive response, and that becomes both muscle memory and instinct, it genuinely does.

I think many great officers imagine the "what would I have done" and in their doubt and worry over that hypothetical, provide a unified front against the repercussions of justice for their fellow officers, in case the same should ever happen to them.
my point was we're working now to try to figure out the right mechanism — whether it is pro subscriptions or selling hardware, etc. — so we don't end up in a position where we'll need to sell data later.
They would just get the keys from the cellular providers-- or rather, the cellular providers would just give them the keys.
people might like him for different reasons, I see no problem with this
I don't particularly mind when people exercise their right of collective self-defense (and for the sake of the argument, I'll grant that this is what the Quakers were doing); but I do mind when they deny that anyone has a right of collective self-defense, and then they turn around and exercise their own anyways. That's their hypocrisy: they preached pacifism, and used violence.
This isn't a new style of policing. It's Sir Robert Peel's principles of law enforcement, from 1822.[1] The UK still tries to follow those.

The militarization of American police is a reaction to the rise in gun ownership, especially guns with higher firepower. US police have to assume when they approach someone that they may be armed. UK police don't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles
It's also pretty much the best of the worst, when it comes to something big enough to deal with > 50 employees and software development. Trello is cute, but fails after about 10 contributors, and locks you into it's rather simplistic mode. Basecamp has crickets on it's servers these days. Rally is enjoying it's fat stacks of CA cash, and still sucking :)

None of it's good. Project management can't be put into a box easily, but it isn't Jira that made them rich, it's Jira + confluence + hipchat + integration for your org. When dumping jira means decoupling all that documentation and it's fancy links.. you keep paying the jira bill, and keep adding subscribers. They've essentially mastered vendor lock in for companies making software.
Quite true. I suspect that Native Americans were unintentionally overlooked; I'm pretty sure that as an ethnic group they are significantly underrepresented in the world of startups.
Consul 0.6 Released
Making is a stance toward learning
This is awesome. I like his no-nonsense approach.
The bit exists in a packet. Its usage does not exist. At least, not commonly used for its "intended purpose".
Yep. For everyone interested, this is the old version:

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html
You can still do that with HTTPS. Squid supports HTTPS proxying. Basically, you create your own root CA, distribute it to all endpoints on your network, and use squid to MITM all connections. That's (essentially) how most corporate proxies work.
Apple has chosen Whink as one of the Best Apps of 2015
Our short story on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9757243

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9889057
The headline is misleading. Comey wants providers to control the keys, not the end users. Providers can be compelled if needed. In many cases, end users have 5th amendment protection.

EDIT: The headline on the Wired website is more accurate, the HN headline is sensationalized.
> Sometimes very early companies haven't figured out revenue, but they also haven't figured out product.

Then they shouldn't be considered a business.
maybe this sounds simple to you, but it probably goes over the heads of 99.99% of people (and i'd venture to say 90% of technical people).
But fermentation (like in sourdough) can fix this right?
> Why aren't CS people coming in and showing everyone how it should be done?

Because CS students don't learn differential equations or real and functional analysis.
My 3% came from this article (which I linked, but which is fine to have ignored):

http://www.japan-guide.com/topic/0011.html

The LGBT stat came from Wikipedia. For controversial stuff like that in the US, WP is pretty good. I used to think it was 10-15%, 1 in 7 was the number I learned growing up, I guess it's 1 in 25.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_Unite...

For me, "abnormal" generally means "what is wrong with you" (the response given here), whereas "normal" can even include eye-rolling and "oh so you're one of those". The difference between 1 in 33 (3%) and 1 in 666 (0.015%, from the tail end past +3 sigma which accounts for 50% - 99.7% / 2) is really quite palpable.

But again, let's face it: it's not as common as I thought, and it's not as uncommon as you thought.
well done! some suggestions:

* +1 for symbols & numbers
* maybe use spacebar for abort word(?)
* would be cool to include phrases (boss mode ?)
I, for one, welcome our new larvæ/homosexual/jumping/boat/wineskin/bagpipe/blunt/impolite/bone/offering/bidding/occuring/stick/container/tail/phallic/fine/help/repair/compensation/improvement/toad/strike overlords.

(Okay, 'bot' will probably be used exclusively to mean robot, but it has many other meanings: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bot)
I believe the point they're going for is that if end-to-end encryption were off by default the majority of people would not turn it on, so to speak.

So the goal is to be able to passively collect more data, rather than actively track down criminals who would presumably take precautions to ensure their activity is suitably encrypted.
You think it was because of the question? Really?
The universities in UK narrowed down to skills reqred by of the labour market
New Erdős Paper Solves Egyptian Fraction Problem
I need a bit of clarification here. In the list of length 100, each entry in that list is a binomial random variable X~Binom(10, .5). The variance of each of these binomials is Var(X) = 10(.5)(.5) = 2.5.

But I don't think that's the variance you're talking about. Do you mean the sample variance of the list of length 100? I'm sure that we can figure that out too (or at least what it should look like) but I want to confirm that's the variance you are interested in. Off the top of my head, I think this sample variance should have a roughly Chi-Square distribution, since Binom(10, .5) is close to normal (sort of). In the Wikipedia article, it explains how Chi-Square can be expressed a sum of normals squared (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-squared_distribution). I could maybe figure out the actual distribution if you really need it.

Then you ask what should the distribution look like? Is this answered by the answer above, or did you mean something related to the 50 samples in particular?
You can abort the current word with the Escape key.
I like that right here is the essence of surveillance being slyly dropped to do exactly what we know surveillance does.
Well, with oauth, you are not telling dwolla your password. You are telling the 3rd party, that dwolla (or whoever) can have an access token to your account, verified via popup to facebook, or a redirect to facebook.

Imagine if "login with facebook" meant "tell my startup your facebook password".

How is this considered OK?
Except that physicists do come in and show biologists how it's done for all sorts of mathematical problems in biology! People call it "biophysics" but very often it's things where there is really no physics per se, like statistical analysis of genomics.
> Anti-immigrant policies, are always conservative.

I'm less familiar with this in the US, but in many other countries unions, which have traditionally been leftist-leaning organizations, are a major force against liberal immigration policies.
Thanks for replying. I remember having to use those sort of tricks to get more performance out of mysql queries in the past.

I use postgres these days and my system characteristics are such that I don't have to worry about query performance so much. Though I have found that I've needed similar tactics sometimes with postgres too.
November Pre Series A Deal Data May Show Early Evidence of VC “Slowdown”
In level flight every actual force vector above the wing is lowering the magnatude of lift.

If you owe 2000$ and have 2200$ your net worth is positive 200$. But, people don't talk about debt as adding to your net worth even if it's part of the equation debt is reducing the result not increasing it.

PS: I agree you don't need to model the 2.1 tons per square foot of force in most situations. But, just because you ignore something does not mean it goes away.
This is why I don't bookmark things anymore, I save them directly to Evernote.
As opposed to your friends who like Bernie Sanders who you already know about because they won't stop sharing and liking Bernie quotes.
Exactly?!
Your characterization of the protections users have is misleading. There has been no definitive nationwide court case which has settled the issue.

In one case, a citizen was protected from giving over the password to their phone, but was compelled under penalty of contempt of court to unlock the phone for investigators to analyze. In other cases, courts have compelled defendants to hand over the passwords.

Providers can be compelled, but that is because companies have no strong desire to protect the civil liberties of their customers (or in the case of social media -- their products), but _do_ have a strong desire to prevent financial punitive damages or legal defense fees from being incurred.

The FBI wants providers to be able to unlock data because that can be done without the notification to users that there is an investigation about them (which serves multiple purposes).
With Mint you give them your username and password.