skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I "suppose" it's a separate page that is not directed to by any of the footnote indicators or visible from the page with the footnote indicators.
In the old days, researchers measure the charge of electron with oil drop, and figure out what is gravity with pen and paper. I guess nowadays researchers have to spend million dollar on a electron microscope to look at anything and have to depend on HDF5 to deal with any data.
NYTimes is doing well and their signup flow is terribly unoptimized nor pseudonymous.
"30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns"

To put it in perspective (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm):

Heart disease: 611,105
Cancer: 584,881
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 149,205
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 130,557
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,978
Alzheimer's disease: 84,767
Diabetes: 75,578
Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,979
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 47,112
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 41,149

Note that Accidents or Unintentional Injuries include (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm)

Unintentional fall deaths: 30,208
Motor vehicle traffic deaths: 33,804
Unintentional poisoning deaths: 38,851

Overall, I think we need to have Executive Order to cure Heart diseases and Cancer before we go after the guns.
Ask HN: Feedback on my startup
The landing page is here: http://productmap.co

Is the landing page too simple? The concept is to consolidate the way different companies share their product updates (release notes, emails, changelog, etc.)
Confused. The stability control system depends utterly on the number and arrangement of wheels. Such a change obviously constitutes a new invention.
One Step Closer to Killer Roombas
There's always fdroid!

https://f-droid.org/
Art, Sex, Vitality: Shunga
If I had to guess, he probably billed by the hour at a certain rate and estimated timeframe but got the work done orders of magnitude faster so his effective per hour rate is orders of magnitude higher.

E.g I tell you I am $50 an hour and the task will reasonably take 10 hours. However what you don't know is that I am extremely skilled at the task and have done it many times before so I can get it done faster than anyone else. I have frameworks already set up, and a lot of boiler plate infra from previous projects. So I get it done in 1hr. I am now effectively making $500 an hour.
This seems more appropriate on Product Hunt.
I mean, I guess, but they tend to all be built out of packages assembled by a traditional package manager. Corralling and testing a bunch of things from a bunch of different sources and making sure they work together is hard. Plus, C library wrangling is becoming a bit of a lost art.
My reason for liking Snapchat is a little bit different.

I'm a user of Facebook, but I really don't like Facebook's newsfeed. I find it to be a time sink that has a lot of advertisements and some amount of cultivation is required if you don't want to be bogged down with every little thing your friends do. So basically I only use Facebook for messaging people whose phone number I don't have, and for event tracking, as a lot of people in my social group use Facebook to make events, which I think is great.

But that leaves a small hole in my social media. I enjoy cyber stalking my friends because I like being aware of what people are doing with their lives. Snapchat (but specifically Snapchat stories) fills that need fairly perfectly. Just once or twice a day I can skim through my stories for a few minutes just to see what people have been up to that day.

I like it better than Twitter because there is too much promotion and general posting of stuff I'm not interested in (like the Facebook newsfeed) and I like it better than Instagram (for this purpose) because most users of Instagram seem to want to only put their best / most interesting / etc. photos on there, which isn't exactly what I'm looking for.
Many of the suggestions on the site are sound. But yes, their front end and design make a poor first impression.
T-mobile automatically opts their customers into a plan that throttles bandwidth for specific usage, then claims they are not throttling anything and publicly bashes the EFF for exposing them. You don't see any problem with that?

I'm glad we have consumer advocates such as the EFF that pay attention to this. I appreciate all of the other things that T-mobile has done to move the US Carrier industry forward, but they got this one wrong.

There isn't anything wrong with trying to innovate, but T-mobile should have not opted customers in by default, especially without being upfront about the throttling.
My first reaction: Is this something that companies actually want/need? Have you validated the market? That's ultimately more important than the v0 landing page design.
Vayyar is using radio waves to give everyone X-ray vision
Saying fuck'em and ignore'em is overly simplistic. Some people can do it. Most can't. Even athletes who earn millions of dollars and have hundreds of thousands of fans can get riled up by words from a single hater.

At a Social Anxiety meetup, I remember one person who could in great detail recall a racist incident years back when a random person called the person a racially derogative word. Sure, he could've just shrugged it off as it was just a stranger and all. Yet it had a profound effect.

Just as much as words from strangers can inspire us to commit profound change, so can words do great damage.
Tech Giants Headed to White House for Anti-Terror Talks Tomorrow
In my non-technical circle of friends most of us have recently given up and uninstalled the Facebook app because of resource usage and undesired notifications rather than crashes. I don't care if the app crashes every now and then when I use it. I hate when it sends me notifications of people I've met once and runs constantly in the background to do so.
Thankfully, yes. This was in an industry that had evolved from a market, where customers kinda expected occasional problems. It was like 1970s cars. Or, maybe like racing cars, where the customer accepts a risk of failure in order to receive the highest possible performance.

The business was interested in modernizing, and gradually weaned itself away from practices such as I described. We had to find a way to make it happen, that would also make the higher-ups happy about the effect on the bottom line. I don't want to name names, but today, it is a much different place.

To get over this issue requires something analogous to unit testing in software: You have to understand how the correct functioning of the full system builds on the properties of the units.
Rumors seem like One King's Lane is going to follow suit:

http://recode.net/2016/01/06/one-kings-lane-once-valued-at-9...

Lots of unicorn blood to be spilled.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10716102
The thing is, it would be very surprising if we are first. Certainly wouldn't fit the Drake equation.
You're right. I have talked to a handful (<10) of potential customers already. They're willing to try it out and going to share with them over the course of the next week.
How do you propose companies detect and investigate malware infections that communicate with peers or a command & control server over TLS?
Luckily I need to accept payments mostly from government customers, which means mostly ACH and debit card. I think PayPal would be seen as pretty mickey mouse actually.
There didn't seem to be a lot in there but I don't know Scala. I wish it was scripted in Lua or something with the Scala doing execution and analysis. Make it easier for others to follow.

Doesn't seem nearly as thorough as what I've read in ASIC papers on verification. They did (co-simulation?), equivalence, gate-level testing, all kinds of stuff. Plus, you did it for a living so I take your word there. I do hope they have some other stuff somewhere if they're doing tapeouts at 28nm. Hard to imagine unless they just really trust the synthesis and formal verification tools.

The flow is here:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~yunsup/papers/riscv-esscirc2014....

Are those tools and techniques good enough to get first pass if the Chisel output was good enough to start with? Would it work in normal cases until it hits corner cases or has physical failures?
China's experiences on governance heralds new way of peaceful development
I think HN has grown large enough that there appears to be several competing hiveminds. I remember once commenting about people using their free time to contribute to open source and a ton of people sarcastically asked where they could find it. Then on another thread the next day, I saw ton of people extolling the benefits of contributing to open source in your free time. HN's all grown up to have multiple personalities.
> I would argue for the opposite: One problem with linux is that you can't run untrusted software without it getting the same access as the user. That's exactly what the appification is.
> I see package managers as a source of some problems of linux: Package maintainers are a unneeded middleman between the writers of the software and you, package managers interact with the whole system, scattering files around the whole filesystem and running scripts as root when installing/uninstalling packages.

High-standards imposed by distros (see for example: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/) and tedious work of packagers has been a very important part of the free software ecosystem, and kept GNU/Linux snoopware-, malware- and virus-free and trustable [1]. They are far from "unneeded middleman".

Here's a very recent example of this system at work: Chromium sneaks a binary blob which secretly listens to your microphone and sends data to Google: https://lwn.net/Articles/648392/

This is just one instance, there has been many many examples of this.

There are just so many, let me say, shady, "apps" out there, so I don't install anything from Google Play Store on my smartphone. On my desktop/laptop however, I feel safe installing whatever I need from the official repositories.
I personally don't want to use a distro to which "app" developers from Android ecosystem can freely push their programs (and updates to them).

> Applications being files/folders that can be installed/uninstalled with cp/rm seems way more unixy to me.

But that's essentially what a package manager does for you, although it takes away your freedom to screw up in the process. In GNU/Linux, it essentially 1) protects you from screwing up your system accidentally 2) allows you trust system-wide binaries (assuming that your distro is trustable).

App Stores are also package managers, so I'm not sure what you're trying to point out here.

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[1] I'm excluding Ubuntu here. Ubuntu comes with spyware, spies on you by default and monetizes the privacy and trust of its users [2]. I don't trust it, I don't use it, and I recommend against it.

[2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html
'The coming collapse of China' has been predicted for a couple of decades now.

Don't forget, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent
As non-Googler I've been to the country HQ's in Dublin, London, Oslo and Sydney.

I think Dublin is the best. Oslo is the most basic but is understandably small.
> I have a choice in my mobile provider

Among an oligopoly of four, one of which is complete trash, two are way overpriced and have no real competition.

> T-Mobile has a limited amount of spectrum on each tower

The spectrum is fundamentally a public resource and therefore should benefit the public, not just their customers.

> and a limited amount of backhaul to each tower.

Now, how's this different from Comcast?
I think your questioning if that's the type of direction you want to take in your career. Anything can be learnt in time but ask yourself this before you do. Will you be happy working on a 20 year old codebase likely using old tech and processes? If you commit years of time like this and choose to leave, will your experience gained be of benefit? If not consider walking away.
Slightly off topic, but Tsukiji is also home to my favorite Kaiseki restaurant. It's not in the market itself, but it's an amazing experience. It's a typical 3 hour or so experience, the chef is conversational, interesting, and fluent in English. The presentation is on par with other Kaiseki restaurants I've been to, but the consistency of amazing food across every course was unmatched.

[0] http://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1313/A131301/13119576/
Battlefront just won a ton of awards due to tech they created for that game that makes the terrain look amazingly realistic. It seems like people still notice.
Their hardware actually combines hardware rasterization and raytracing.

Depending on the implementation, raytracing can have many benefits over rasterization, such as:
- ability to produce pixel-perfect shadows
- sub-linear complexity on the amount of primitives (vs. linear for rasterization)
- rays need not be coherent, i.e one can render non-linear projections or lots of small views

Path Tracing also is just another form of Raytracing. They demonstrated that their hardware can be used for it (just read the link).
I used to work with the guy who made this hoverboard (the US company, not the Chinese one). He's an incredibly talented engineer, I'm glad he's able to fight crappy competitors that are hurting the hoverboard industry.
Love the yahoo stock portfolio view. If you know a better one please let me know, just for my interest.
Wow. I hadn't read that one. Very interesting. I was giving them the benefit of the doubt, but this does seem very damning.
The law suites would be a bit tricker and therefore there would be more of them.
David Icke Exposes Secret of the Migrant Wave
P-Strings (Pascal) do exactly this. The original ones limited it to 255 (instead of using the pointer size), but others used more. One of the nice things about using Pascal for programming back In The Day.

The article says it doesn't know where ZTSs came into Unix, but I thought I read somewhere, many moons ago, that it was a pretty simple choice: prefixed strings used one more byte of memory than a prefixed string for a string longer than 255 characters, and on the systems at the time, that mattered a lot.
I deal with binary data all the time and I just use fwrite in C and pack in Perl, and a text readme in vim explaining the (simple) format. I don't use Matlab but often need exchange the data with Matlab user; I simply search help page and send the one or two lines of matlab code to them along with the data. I'll do the same thing if my fellow colleague switch to numpy tomorrow (it is surprising that they would read HDF5 tutorial but won't read my readme).

Research data are almost always specific. The idea of a general format serving all research just sounds silly to me.
Using CFFI for Embedding
Android and iOS are both smartphones, despite completely different software. The invention is the hardware.
I think they mean start lobbying.
> I really was looking for a stable job, just to get more experience, save some money and eventually become an entrepreneur and create my own company.

I agree what others have written so I'll just add this. In my experience, you'll be happier following your own path rather than waking up one day and realising you've been following someone else's path. If that's what you're really looking for, then that should be a strong indication of what to do.
That's what trademark and trade dress is for.
Heald crawled through more than 2,000 books on Amazon.com, and found that there were more books available from the late 1800s than there were from the 1990s. His conclusion: “Copyright protections had squashed the market for books from the middle of the 20th century, keeping those titles off shelves and out of the hands of the reading public.”

THAT is his conclusion? What about radio, TV, increased film production, and finally the internet and other sources of distraction for people?
Most people do not understand how cheap it is to buy laws.

It is much more expensive to compete in an open and free market than it is to buy a barrier to entry etc.

Just another example of the corrupt state of American governance.
Nope! Only time-wasting and mind-engaging software like solitaire.
Find me if you can
SON Moranbong Seoul Japanese Rumina turesarareru Junma Brazil Wonsan Pyongyang Buc Wanda Kinjye

http://notepad.cc/xodoore98
Why? It's a network of Web sites with fairly generic functionality, like a content publishing system (frontpage, news, sports, tech, health), a search engine querying Bing API, Web-based email and a few other projects.

If you were building such a project from scratch, would you just not get anything off the ground without hiring 12,500 full-timers first? Most likely you would.

There are several structural inefficiencies to Yahoo!, most of them rely on 1990 processes in areas such as ad sales (which are still strongly salespeople-driven, try to buy a premium ad with your credit card, for example), low investment in automation and tooling, low amount of shared code across the Web properties (no common UI element library, for example, just guidelines), and structure that lends itself to hiring as many product managers as possible to coordinate all those inefficiencies across various products.
I'm not upset about it. I'm just not going to use it.
people who have no access to wifi or 3G internet would be the most likely users of free basics. And infrastructure in form of pathetic internet connectivity in form of 2g or edge or even gprs would be the given. Heartening thing I would look up to is if this would compel telcos to improve infra
Another person that is a counter-example and outlier: Franklin Story Musgrave.

A modern-day polymath, he was a NASA astronaut, Disney Imagineer, and physician among other things. He holds six academic degrees.

He, too, had an extremely troubled upbringing.[1]

In his own words, "I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide."

[1] http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/mus0int-1]
The simplest thing might be to treat intellectual property like other property and tax it for ever year you own it.
Why? There are many great photography hosting services. Flickr is only special because Yahoo makes it free as a marketing gesture
Unproductive is not the same as unprofitable.
> Airplanes are easily "copyable".

You're kidding, right?
In my case, I have three servers (each with ECC 32GB, Xenon quad core, 2x3TB disks and unlimited bandwidth), a 5 port internal switch, two public IPv4 addresses per server, a public failover IP, 300GB of network backup space and two additional rack slots reserved in the same rack for future expansion.

The total monthly cost for this (exc. VAT) is €180. I haven't been able to find any co-location or cloud providers that can come anywhere close to that price for a similar resource setup.
Well his username is "hellbanner". Seems somewhat self-aware.
I love that people say the will cancel their contract, and they all get Verizon's reply offering them to switch!

crisis = opportunity

:)
MA doesn't really have a high income tax. It's half of CA's and less than a lot of red states (AR, MO, TN). It's going to drop to 5.1% or 5.0% or something soon as well (I think?).

http://taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfoundation.org/files/docs/...
> 1. The Dev environment is basically superior to everyone else's now.

I've done "Windows" development for about half of my 20-year career, and PHP/Rails for the other half. (It's all mixed together; I'm talking about overall effort.) My job, for the past 2 years, has been 100% Visual Basic .NET. (Personal projects continue in Rails.) I'm sick to death with it, and eagerly await a side gig in Rails and OS X, which should lead to a massive side project in Java. I can't wait. I'll take development on OS X and Linux every day of the week and twice on Sunday over Windows and Visual Studio. Some days, like today, I don't know what I was thinking taking this job.

I guess it all comes down to personal preference, but today was a perfect example. I spent half the day fighting updating packages with NuGet, from one machine to another, and a sudden incompatibility with Azure database exports with my local version. Sure, there are problems with every dev environment, but it just seems so much MORE of a hassle with Visual Studio on Windows, since, for all their money and effort and marketing and the fact that they own the whole stack, the pain ought to be much LESS than the alternatives.

And I mostly HATE IntelliSense, always popping up and covering what I'm trying to type, and Visual Studio's stubborn way of screwing up my code with its auto-completion of IF statements. Yet I leave it on, for the 5% of the time I want to actually use it.

It also doesn't help that my Fortune 150 IT department has my development machine so locked down that the Azure worker simulator literally cannot get the permissions it needs to run. (So I do that work on my home PC.) And they run their own DNS system, which doesn't know that about half the internet exists. Oh, and the proxy has recently started killing my application for one user at random. No, these aren't Windows or Visual Studio's problems, but these SORTS of problems are frequently part of a "Windows development ecosystem" found in large companies that pay a lot of money to rubbish consultancies.

I know, I know. Horses for courses.
Yes, obviously.
Pushed back for another six months yet again. So much for the idea somebody here put forth that it always gets cancelled in the middle of the previous month if it's going to get cancelled. This time it's four days before it would have started.
Lessig tried: Mayday PAC
How to Make Money Online in 2016: An Unexpected Approach
My company is regulated by the EPA, so I was surprised by this statement and sent it to my lawyer to ask why the EPA often asks for tests for my products which are also regulated by TSCA but for which they have no evidence of harm. Turns out it's highly misleading as this statement only applies to chemicals in use before the EPA was setup in the 1970's. Those and naturally occurring chemicals were automatically added to the TSCA inventory (about 70,000 on the list). New chemicals do have to get approved for use. Clearly duponts cover up is egregious, but another way to read the fact that only five have been restricted is that many of the others are safe for their intended use. I can testify that EPA testing is pretty thorough, at least for small companies like mine.
Maybe it's the difference between admiring your dick in the mirror and hanging it out the window.
5 predictions for 2016 on data, analytics and machine learning
Once they get the patent, that is no longer the issue. If you think the Chinese company had the product and was selling it in the US before Future Motion even applied for their patent, then that is the fault of the US Patent Office for granting the patent in the first place, not the fault of Future Motion.

If there is an issue, it is with the USPTO, not with the actions of the federal marshals as tipped off by Future Motion.

And if you look at the website posted by soheil, is is obvious that ripping off other people's inventions is this company's bread and butter.

I have yet to see a Chinese company that isn't on the wrong side of patent/copyright infringement. They don't seem to understand patents at all.
No, Facebook Messenger is like talking to someone with a tape recorder sitting between you.
The Chinese government couldn't cut off Apple at this point. The middle class are too bought in as users/owners, the rich make too much money from being suppliers, too many poor people have jobs depending on being Apple suppliers.

They would have massive civil unrest.
I am in a similar situation in another acquisition and would love to receive your feedback, mainly if we (the common stockholders) should make a "sanity check" with a lawyer or completely forget about the issue.

The company was acquired recently and has some debt, so they returned money to the preferred stockholders, our common stock "was cancelled and extinguished" and one of the directors received 1 million.