skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically 50% use of my Apple Watch - which I'm more than satisfied with.

Apple Watch serves as a HUD with haptic feedback when vibration isn't good enough or it's too cold outside to pick your phone out of your pockets.

Preferably I'd love a HUD. I've always wanted a HUD ever since I played Doom. Count my ammo and check my reminders.

The other 50% is fitness/code related. I like the idea of putting my own stuff on the device which I wouldn't be able to do with a eg Fitbit.

From what I understand Glass had an SDK. It would/have such potential!
It is obvious to me: American cities are designed around cars and only cars.

Old cities in Europe and Japan were designed around people walking around, basically because there was not anything else when those cities were created.

They had small streets, only some of them were demolished and started anew, like Lineal in Barcelona or Castellana in Madrid. Public transportation like subways improved the situation, but it was a problem at first. Now it is something that people are starting to value, walking(or public transport) for shopping, for work and to see friends.

Cities like Boston, Detroit, those were cities designed for cars. As a student I lived a year in Boston and was shocked on how much the city depended on cars. Let's not talk about L.A, even more.
The beginning of negative campaigning
Ah. The product I worked at at Amazon had a similar landing page to it's original landing page a year prior so that's why I was thinking it might be a soft relaunch. Amazon might have email blasted a ton of current customers with an offer which is why it resurfaced. I didn't know Amazon already offered this service; I'm only familiar with Amazon Cloud Drive.
A 4th Era of Capitalism
I think there's a bit more to it than that. Women's clothes probably represent more risk. Women buy a lot more clothes anyway and care more about fashion, which changes a lot. Men's clothes, on the other hand, barely change at all and are usually extremely boring. Men's formal clothes haven't changed substantially in well over a century, and men's casual clothes basically amount to "jeans and a t-shirt".

Because of this, women's clothes have higher risk: they may or may not sell before they're "old" and "out of style". So they have a higher price tag to get enough profit on the things that do sell. Then all the stuff that doesn't sell gets its priced slashed in a "closeout" sale to 50-90% off, or it gets shipped off to another store (like Nordstrom Rack, TJ Maxx, Ross, etc.) where it's sold for a fraction of its original price. You just don't see too much of that with men's clothing. (If you go to one of the above stores and look at the men's section, you'll mostly just find a bunch of crappy t-shirts.)
For those who are curious like I was, the flagged words/phrases are:

just

actually

sorry

apologize

I think

I'm no expert

does that make sense

reasons are in the source here: https://github.com/cyrusinnovation/just-not-sorry/blob/maste...
Does it? If you're asked "does this code belong to this programmer?" and flip a coin, you'll approximate 50% regardless of distribution of programmers.

Of course, "const No" might do quite a bit better than 50%, depending on the distribution of the original sample (for that matter, so might "const Yes", but those distributions seem less likely).
Twitter updates policy on abusive behavior
I wholeheartedly disagree with your assessment of the value of music (I think it might be the most valuable contribution our species makes to the universe), but I do agree with your solution.
This is one of my own ASK HN threads but I was really happy with the discussion in there.

Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007

It gave me so much food for thought and ended up with a fairly popular essay http://000fff.org/the-problem-with-problems/
Fair warning - this page autoplays audio, at least on Safari in OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).
Disney is working on a gravity-defying robot that can scale walls
Anyone use this service as a backup of photos? I have several terabytes of photos (in RAW format), which is not a huge expense to throw onto Glacier...but if I could just toss them up in an album as a last-resort-yet-free backup...then I'd feel even better about still subscribing to Amazon Prime despite infrequently ordering physical products.
Indeed - my mother is entering the advanced stages of the disease, and it started to be quite noticeable in her late 60s. I don't even plan on having retired by then! Both of her parents had the disease, so I figure I have at least a 50% chance, likely greater. The video mentioned that you would need to start treating the amyloid plaques at least a decade before symptoms start. When the kids are a little older, I plan on entering a longer-term study or drug trial well before I have any signs of the disease, there are several currently going on. Regardless of whether I ultimately would acquire it without any treatment, I have a very keen interest in helping further research on the disease. It is not a pretty thing for the individual or their family to go through, in my mom's case it's been nearly a decade of gradual but steady decline, with my dad in his mid-70s as her primary caretaker. In another 10 years, there will be a huge upsurge of baby boomers in a similar situation.
I used to be a heavy Flickr user and I remember clicking around one day and thinking, "I can visualize the sql calls being made to generate these pages". That didn't feel too great.
Twitter Recruits New VP of Diversity and Inclusion from Apple
Planet has summer but not winter, and fall but but not spring, right?
It doesn't talk about it much but...Apartment noise from neighbors. Oh. My. Gosh.

I live in an area where many expensive, luxury apartments have been built in the last few years and every single one of them have complaints from "hearing the person above me set the toilet seat down" for example.

I now base what apartment I live in by the thickness and sound isolation of the walls and ceilings/floors.

I lived in a complex built in the 80's. It's dead silent. I can jump up and down on my floor and the neighbor below me will never hear. Now in a newer complex, I can't walk across my hardwood floored kitchen without knowing my neighbor will hear every footstep. I have to take the people above me a bottle of wine and ask them kindly to try and not make as much noise as it sounds like they are moving furniture ALL THE TIME. Even though it's not their fault...and they really aren't moving furniture every evening...They are just walking around...

Architects, engineers, whoever...please, please, please, stop skimping out on noise insulation in new construction. You are creating a whole generation of buildings that are awful to live in. My next apartment, I have no idea what I'm going to do...the tour ends right away for me when I hear thumps from above the second I walk into the room.

I seriously shouldn't and don't want to know every time the couple next to me has sex or the guys on the other side of me are watching a loud action movie.

I would pay so much more in rent per month for a place that had more sound insulation. Take note building developers. I WILL PAY MORE.
If we were writing a group paper, this may apply. But you would choose to use c_unix_form on your own projects, no?
Gavin lets one rip during ring exchange
The architects of the Hong Kong airport paid a lot of attention to sound I think. The ceiling is very high but there are panels that are at various angles that help reduce reflections. The first time I visited I noticed it right away. As a result I've found the airport to be a very peaceful space. It's calming and relaxing.
Derp, maybe if the police stop behaving badly, we will have more positive things to say about them.
Rockwool (as a substitution for fiberglass or cellulose insulation) by itself shouldn't do all that much. Are the internal walls 2x4 or 2x6 construction? Do you know the thickness of the drywall panels?
That's a pretty absurd framing of the situation.
The Backblaze iOS client is for access/retrieval, not for backing up files from the iOS device.
Streaming is making the music industry more unequal
True, but there's a difference between "don't bother keeping your voice down when talking in the next room" and "my baby wakes up when the neighbor three apartments down the hall slams his door". I don't necessarily want noise insulation within a dwelling, but I sure want it insulated from my neighbors.
We did a "team building" exercise once. The scenario was that our plane crashed 10 miles from a town in the Canadian winter. We had to prioritize 10 items from about 25 that we had on hand. Of course some groups decided to camp and wait for help, and others decided to set out on foot. People decided the usefulness of the items and made list. When it was all done, the answers were compared to those of a survival expert - who incidentally said we'd freeze if we tried to make the journey to town.

I made the point that the "correct" list of items was strongly dependent on which top level strategy was chosen, and that this was a reason for solid planning from the top. If your product is holding off on big decisions because the leaders can't make them, you'll be working toward multiple possible outcomes at the same time and burning a lot of extra effort.
Why shouldn't a musical artist be compensated for continuing enjoyment of their work? If their song continues to be listened to by people, and someone is profiting off of that enjoyment, why shouldn't the artist get at the very least a percentage of the money?
Anxiety acts like a 'sixth sense' which could save your life
>> or that guy at Best Buy could by default get all the data off your drive without any effort whatsoever.

You are correct:

http://www.cnet.com/news/best-buy-employee-accused-of-copyin...

http://consumerist.com/2007/07/05/video-consumerist-catches-...

http://consumerist.com/2007/05/02/the-10-page-geek-squad-con...
A native Python IDE built for data science
The bitcoin client would be the training set.
Having it open source is undoubtedly better, however one can simply ask for the source as often people do. Snark just leads to people not bothering at all.
Hey golergka, thanks for trying it out and thank you for the feedback. (To answer your question, right now I only have 4 candidates with info inputted into the dataset). Of those 4 candidates, 3 of them favor increased taxes on the wealthy.

I'm still populating the dataset with candidate stances to give you better data.

I'm also going to provide the reference material used so that you can see right away why a candidate was eliminated.

Thank you again for trying it out.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803680
> Uber and Lyft made legality gambles that paid off (they weren't shut down)

Has the IRS ruled yet on whether Uber and Lyft are going to owe hundreds of millions in back taxes and penalties due to misclassifying drivers as independent contractors? No? Still plenty of time to be shut down.
Instead of watching TV, playing video games, surfing Facebook, and solving Sudoku puzzles I read. There's really nothing else to it.

I'm the same way. Friends and students are endlessly amazed that I'm reading a new book every couple days. I'm endlessly amazed at how much time they spend on their phones.

A while ago I wrote "Why fiction? Why reading?" http://jakeseliger.com/2014/03/03/why-fiction-why-reading/ :

Every great book is the result of years or decades of studying and experience, distilled into a volume you can read in a few hours. How could you not want that?
Wow, what a Torch puff piece. It's good, but who uses lua..
I'm experimenting with https://eggerapps.at/postico/ currently and it's pretty nice. Fairly similar to Sequel Pro in a lot of ways (which I miss too when in Postgres-world).
> It's normally used as the backdrop to a party, or exercising, or some other such thing

This is way off. Music changes peoples lives. It defines generations. To many, it is one of the most important things in the world.

> The entire system of copyright and recorded art needs to be abolished, and any music that is recorded instantly becomes the public domain.

No way, artists deserve to be paid for their works.
It can be an energy win if the background threads allow work to be completed much faster. That's because finishing earlier will allow CPUs to throttle down as soon as the work is done, thus cutting power usage.
Thanks for the clarification.
I fumbled my terms, but I'm still wondering who thought it was a good idea to sell something without the owner's permission or knowledge.
I'd love (well... hate) a Chrome plugin that maintains a personal leaderboard for longest-lived tabs.
To what end does generating a new Android/ChromeOS key matter?

Most users just beam all their data up to Google. LEO and whoever really wants to can get them to hand it over.

That key then is really only useful for keeping opportunistic snatchers in Starbucks out. For which it will work just fine.

Windows is a different story. You can keep your data from being beamed up. Wanting to keep anyone else out then is a matter of changing the key.

A bit of an apples-oranges scenario.
W^X JIT-code enabled in Firefox
Interesting questions you've asked, conflating a couple different issues, but worth flexing some thought to respond to, I think.

1. The $150,000 per song is a punishment amount, directly attributable to "willful infringement" which is, from my understanding, a pretty obvious bar to clear. Sharing a file on a mix CD and giving it to somebody for their birthday? Willful, but not really the intent of the law. Setting up a CD duplication shop and bootletting new releases to sell on street corners? That's the point of the very high dollar amount punishment. Society has basically determined that punishing infringement is supposed to cost a lot of money, so that would be a deterrent.

2. This is a completely fabricated problem, as not "every random artist" thinks their art is worth $150,000 per song until it's willfully used in an infringement format. Artists are pretty well aware that society thinks songs should basically be $0.99 to keep or very cheap to listen to through a retail/customer facing streaming service. However, if we substitute "every jackass record label" then you've got a much more valid point about the copyright system, because of how the record industry works.

3. Let's make a deal - we can abolish copyright on recorded music if you agree to abolish copyright on written computer code. After all, if you believe that the only time a musician should make money should come from performance, then I submit the only time a programmer or company should be paid for their software is during the hours it was created.

I'm all for copyright reform - limiting the ability to sign away rights to "no value" middlemen / hucksters like record industry conglomorates & putting very short protections on the created works (lifetime of artist only, impossible to transfer to outside corporation for renewal beyond artist's lifetime), but going that extreme is not preferable. I think my phrasing about music vs. software is really rough, but it's a tempting argument to hash out - if you want to throw out my baby with the bathwater, then I'm going to make sure yours is going along for the ride as well.
Amazon considers Canon, Nikon, and Sony RAW formats, as well as Adobe Digital Negatives, as "photos" in terms of unlimited storage. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...)
Glocks were designed as military weapons, not target shooting pistols, and are used in the militaries of many nations. Similar pistols (like the XDs) are used in other nations' militaries. I would imagine that combat is about as bad an environment as you can get for adrenaline stress.

It sounds like the big problem is shitty training for cops.

The problem in NYC has been well-documented by gun experts, it's not the number of people they're trying to shoot. There have been many cases of them shooting at legitimate targets (not black guys running away, not small black children with toys, but real suspects wielding weapons on the street) at hitting bystanders because their shot accuracy is so pathetically bad. A 12-lb trigger pull (specifically designed into Glocks that were never meant to have them, at the insistence of the NYPD because they were used to crappy old revolvers) is a big part of that.

If a cop shoots a suspect on the ground, that's just plain murder, I don't care what their excuse is. Bad trigger discipline should be prosecuted as murder: you never put your finger on the trigger unless you've decided to kill the target.
Record labels was useful historically, because they handled distribution (physical stores, CDs, different countries).

Nowadays, record labels are a PR-agency at best and should be compensated as such. Artists getting a 10-20% slice[1], the typical revenue-split, sounds like a rip-off to me.

A good artist, using Instagram/YouTube/FB/website + Spotify/Rdio for distribution doesn't need much help from a label. Sure, a producer, studio, PR manager and other staff is useful, but that doesn't motivate a 90% cut of profits (in my view).

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/artists-press-for-their-share-14...
In my 20 years of experience with apartments and noise, "most" people do not care about disturbing others. This is at best "some" people, but likely "a few".
Perhaps if you've drank the imaginary property kool aid. How does what they actually did differ from what I said? I see nothing about them stealing the original copies or forcing people to download from them.
They haven't actually shut down the account, they only sent a threatening email (see below). This was for around ~$100 worth of merchandise when I easily spend (or used to) $10-20k a year and had a paid Prime membership ($100 / yr). When I replied asking WTF they're talking about because what they refer to is clearly not in their "About Our Returns Policies" or anywhere on their site, their reply was confusing and did not assure me that this was a mistake or apologize. I've been boycotting them ever since because I fear another return will actually shut down my account and I have unfortunately purchased Kindle books.

If this is how they treat they $10-20k per year customers, I'm sure no one will think twice about threatening and shutting down others' accounts (there are plenty of stories all over the Internet about this if you'd like to search). I'm almost sure this is an automated email, of course, but that doesn't change things one bit, as their human representative who responded to my email wasn't much more helpful and tried to downplay the original email without assuring me that this was a mistake and that they would not shut down my account for extremely normal activity. There's absolutely nothing abnormal about any of the returns I had then or at any other time in the past. A lot of their merchandise is just pure shite.

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We have noticed that you have returned a large number of your orders. While we expect occasional problems with orders, such large numbers of returns can suggest that customers are unaware of our return policies.

We want to call your attention to our returns policies because repeated misuse can result in the closure of your Amazon account. To learn more about our policies, search “About Our Returns Policies” in the Help section of Amazon.com.

If there is something we can do to help solve any recurring problems you are having with your orders, please reply to this email to reach an Account Specialist.

Sincerely,

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That's how it always works. Early American industrialists weren't exactly diligent at paying royalties to British and continental European patent holders... and now it's China's turn to prosper by doing the same thing to us. More power to them.

Patents are a racket that governments run against their own people, exclusively for the benefit of a very few inventors and a whole lot of lawyers.
I think this idea came from RISD. If you have ever sat in college level classes in both the hard sciences and visual arts, the difference in the capabilities of the students (and of the teachers) is very marked. It's not that one set of abilities is better than the other, just a case of two self-selected groups. Even in a mixed field like architecture the focus is on formal (aesthetic) issues rather than rigorous conceptual/deductive thinking. In fact "critical" reasoning is just barely on the agenda and is learned and applied in an ad hoc way.

Maybe a figure like Gaudi came close to being the ideal STEAM all-rounder. Whether we need more of his type I don't know!
If you talk to ICANN, IANA, and friends, they're very clear (and careful to reiterate, even in minor threads) that all they do is run databases that contain interesting information. All of their policy revolves around admission to and management of said databases. It's comforting to think of authorities that govern the Internet, particularly when one of those organizations even has "Authority" in the name, but the truth is that the Internet is a miracle of decentralization as you say; we as network operators on the Internet give the databases meaning and force, not ICANN or any of its subordinates. ICANN has power because we have chosen their databases as the root of said power.

Even the fact that 'news.ycombinator.com' leads here is a de facto consensus since the Internet could, theoretically, switch roots tomorrow and completely invalidate every domain name. It won't happen, much to the chagrin of alt-root operators from the 90s and 2000s and contemporary attempts like NameCoin[0], but it can, and there is absolutely nothing ICANN could do about it. They charge admission to a well-maintained database that underpins this whole show, and that's pretty much the entirety of what they do.

It's on all of us to tend to the best interests of the Internet, and way too many people with access forget that. However, with responsibility like that also comes opportunity: once you realize that it's basically all of our good faith and de facto consensus holding this thing together, the barrier to entry for you to get involved with the Internet is suddenly far lower.

[0]: Oh yes, it's been tried, a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
This assumes that music is a strictly performance medium. Some artists make great music but are either uninterested in or unable to put on worthwhile performances. Music belongs lots of places and not all of that music is the type that belongs in performances. This belittles game and film composers writing anything on spec, artists who do sell beats and samples to more artists who then perform them. I think the conventional what for musicians to make money is certainly performance but music and music artistry are a far broader field.
You might enjoy this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/realestate/soundproofing-f...
Navicat Essentials for Postgres on OSX costs $40 and is a robust if somewhat stripped down alternative.
If a musician chooses not to perform publicly, are you arguing that they have by default created nothing worthy of compensation?

Damages per copyright infraction are certainly excessive, but your proposal seems to swing too far in the opposite direction.
Employee Turnover Is Good for the Maintainability of Your Code Base
Grunt and gulp are fine as long as you don't use them for everything, ie. fine for asset management but not for copying files/folders or in cronjobs etc. Bash is much better for that.
There's nothing illegal about returning defective products. In fact, there's nothing in the TOS about returning too many products or anything like that.
Alex! Welcome back!
Indeed. Never ever contaminate. If you do, it's a matter of when - not if - the link will be made. Always rotate your identities as you would your keys and credentials.