skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was one of my first exposures to a "high quality" animation and realistic representation of an environment as a kid. I actually unearthed the original Powerbook 100 it ran on during a move a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the attic wasn't stored in a climate controlled area and did not stand the test of time.

The read me files are quite enjoyable.
Move Parse to Google App Engine
Former banker here. Really impressed you guys get paid in the same form of consideration as your clients. 100% the way to go.
In addition to being bred for yield, there's shippability.

One of the biggest reasons tomatoes from the store taste so bad is that they're picked completely green. The second is that the commercial varieties are bred to have a pastier texture and be tougher to stand up to shipping. The third is that tomatoes don't stand up to refrigeration without a change in texture.

My uncle grows tomatoes commercially in southeast Tennessee. If you actually let the commercial varieties ripen all the way and don't refridgerate them, they're pretty good. They're better than the anything you can buy at a fancy grocery store. They're not as good as homegrown brandywines, but they're on par some of the popular hybrid varieties, and will beat out any store-bought heirloom (e.g. a store-bought brandywine).

However, when any tomato is picked to sell in bulk, they have to be picked completely green. Otherwise they'll be too badly bruised to sell. The "vine ripened" tomatoes you buy in the store just means that they cut off some of the vine along with the green tomatoes.

The site is down, so forgive me if I'm pointing out something that's mentioned there. At any rate, in my opinion, commercial tomatoes suffer more from being picked completely green so they'll survive shipping than anything else.
> I think as long as T-mobile isn't charging the video services actual money, the degree of concern goes way down for me.

I see T-Mo has been successful in their marketing.

Drugs aren't bad, as long as they are free :)

Of course T-Mobile wants everybody to think that it's a good thing that they are acting as anti-competitive gatekeepers. As long as they don't explicitly charge for it.
Wait I'm missing something. How does largesse in the Bay Area cause poverty elsewhere?
GitHub source stats:

TypeScript 69.2%, Rust 9.9%, C# 8.9%, CSS 5.9%, HTML 3.8%, JavaScript 1.4%, Shell 0.9%
There's also the carrot vs. stick approach for the games industry.

I'm proud to say that I appear to have kicked my Clash of Clans habit (which I realized I'd logged into at least 1-2x daily for a couple years straight). However the notion that I'd lose a ton of progress in my ranking, all my saved up resources, etc. was a huge barrier while I still had it in my mind that I'd continue playing it.

When I crossed the threshold of internalizing that worrying about making up that progress in the future was futile since I wouldn't pick it up again, things got a lot easier
thanks you saved me the trouble of reading a whole pointless article.
You can't just change the qualifications of his question and then go "I answered it!"
The game isn't producing working projects, the game is getting so embedded you're there forever and then you nickel and dime for every little thing. Need a 30 second change of color on the HTML bar to fix accessibility? That's a week of dev time. Not only that, as the Contracting Corp, you lose control over the quality of candidate being hired to work on your projects.
Interesting stat: "Meanwhile the average time to deliver an office IT project increased by more than a month from 2010 to 2015, and now stands at over 10 months from start to delivery—this particular nugget coming from a study we conducted with 2,000 project managers at more than 60 global organizations."
Why Walmart Express Failed
Net Neutrality or not, it's a shitty service. My video quality went to shit a few months back and I didn't know why. It was because I was opted into this nonsense. Which is just allowing them to throttle your speeds in exchange for unlimited data.
Thanks for sharing your experience...I teach programming and always feel a little guilty that I'd be completely unprepared for a vision-impaired student, even though everything I teach involves the command-line or text editor. But part of why I go this route because I'm unable to efficiently/patiently work with GUIs. Even as someone who can see, I am too confused by redesigns. I even get confused when there isn't a redesign, but am unaware that my browser has hit a breakpoint and various interface elements have changed/collapsed. Seeing how we haven't yet come up with universal agreeance on text interfaces (i.e. naming things is one of the hardest problems in computer science)...I'm worried it'll be some time until we've achieved some uniformity with visual interfaces and intentions.
Jason's a personality and pundit, that's sort of his job, much like objective and sourced facts is Carreyrou's job.
Limiting your bitrate for network efficiency isn't unreasonable. A user can even opt out FFS!
So if T-Mobile had an open, technically feasible process by which any service could participate in the program given technical criteria, it would be a step in the right direction.

example: If product X can provide this many CDN nodes and this much peering directly to T-Mo, then they are allowed to participate in Binge-On.
18F: CSS coding style guide
Or you can negotiate a nice bonus/severance and good references for the favor of training your replacement, provided that you are willing to quit on the spot.
SFO is a region and city that lives in a boom/bust cycle. It's just the nature of the beast.

If you're attracted to the boom, but don't have the wherewithal to get rich, by definition you're not the type of person who plans well.
>Land value tax.

Property taxes already exist. The people renting the property already pay it. If that tax goes up, then so do the rents.
Sadly, yes. And it is fast, even a $40 Windows Phone can make a lot of Android flagships look slow and bloated. They're zippy.

Most reviews I've read of Windows Phones admit they're one of the better phone experiences they've ever had, but the primary mention, is the lack of Google's apps prevents them from switching to it. (Example review: http://techaeris.com/2016/01/23/microsoft-lumia-950-review-s... )

The fact that a service monopoly like Google can also have a mobile platform monopoly in Android is terrifying. Other platforms can't grow unless Google lets them. And since Google has their own platform, they have no incentive to do so.

Unfortunately, the platform monopoly will continue until Google loses the various investigations against them for antitrust across the globe. It's a work in progress, and governments are slow at this kinda thing, but it's moving forward.
After looking through the documentation it doesn't seem like the following features exist. Would love to know if I'm missing something, or if not the thought process behind excluding these features:

1) Ability to prioritize problems on a more granular level than the priority type. This would help people prioritize which problems they want to work on next in a kanban type format

2) Story points or the ability to estimate the approximate size of the task
It's not open to interpretation to any honest person. Those who try using weasel logic around it are those who want to violate it. And they know perfectly well they are being crooked.
> Our new Android app is going into beta today, and our new iOS app should follow it out soon.

It's amazing how long Reddit existed before rolling out a mobile app. Now I'll finally have something other than Facebook to check compulsively on my phone.
Big Pharma must be behind this.
>makes you feel like a genius
Blow said having a game make you feel like a genius is a disease, looks like he completely fails to understand his audience again!
Being forced out of their neighborhoods is a housing issue. I think I agreed that housing is a problem. I totally agree we need much, much more housing in the Bay Area. Of course reasonable people can disagree about whether rent control and restrictive zoning helps or hurts the situation for the poorest neighbors. But no one was talking about housing.
My main point was that despite what the article implies, these techniques are far from new.
>If you are in anything resembling a mid-sized city, you can get 'real' greek yogurt pretty easily in the US.

As long as you stay out of Walmart and Costco. Trying to find full fat yogurt in those stores in Montana is a futile effort.
Interesting. Where did you learn this?
Live Q&A Session with Andrew Ng
Why a Marxist Social Policy Is Gaining Ground in Silicon Valley
I believe this project is filling the single largest gap that Python has for development of widely-distributed desktop applications. This is pure awesomeness.
the last thing anyone should do, especially nintendo is take advice from a writer of Vice.
It can indeed be frustrating to have a comment downvoted, but the HN guidelines specifically ask you to resist the temptation to post comments reacting in this way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Having lived in Japan more than 10 years ago, that's the first thing I commented coming back. Why fruits and vegetables were way more delicious there than here. I loved fruits in japan where here its more of a chore when I ate them because I already assumed the bland taste before even biting info it.

This makes total sense.
While I can understand the sentiment that spam and abuse threaten our communities I can't help but think - based on outside observations - that some of the biggest threat to the Reddit communities are people within Reddit communities. Though admirable and well-meaning, it's a flawed model at the core, at least this is what I've come to believe. In the most recent flare-ups, the "call is coming from inside the house!" seemed to really apply. Granted I'm not proposing some kind of methodology or overhaul to fix this conundrum, though it's certainly an interesting topic.
Replacing the lottery with a salary-based assignment seems like just common sense to me. Why should we allow over someone the employer says is worth $62k, when we could allow over someone the employer says is worth $110k?

As a bonus, it means that the minimum wages aren't relevant, since supply and demand of skilled international workers will set the lowest wage that gets admitted to the US.

This rule would unfortunately favor employers in high cost-of-living areas over low COL ones. Employees are approximately ambivalent between taking home $5k/mo and paying $2k/mo in rent, and taking home $4k/mo and paying $1k/mo in rent. But, the higher rent + higher pay scenario will get admitted well before the lower rent + lower pay.

It also incentivizes putting as much of the compensation in salary as possible, and as little as possible in other benefits.
> Actually the Apache has a reasonably effective 30mm cannon that works well in many CAS situations.

The cannon on the Apache is secondary, the Hellfire II system is the primary weapon of the Apache Longbow.

> As far as guided weapons go, the GPS guided bombs are the preferred CAS solution.

I would say that any fire and forget system is preferred, which includes smart bombs but also the Hellfire II system utilized by Apache Longbows and drones.

> The use of GPS guided bombs means that CAS aircraft can loiter at fairly high altitudes (> 5000 ft)

I'm not disagreeing with you but the Hellfire II system is fire-and-forget, has an 8km range, and is utilized heavily on drone platforms operating at high altitudes.
I'm amused when HN replies take this sort of lecturing tone and I am already well familiar with the subject matter.
TouchDown also does this, but it's by Symantec and it's expensive as heck ($29.99). But it works well, and the container it stores your data in is encrypted and follows Exchange policy.

I need to look at Nine though, the big downside of TouchDown is it only lets you have one Exchange account on it per phone, and I have two different domains I need to connect to.
Technically you're right. But a banker's role is really to provide advice on the deal and work in the best interests of the client. Sophisticated clients don't need bankers so don't pay them much (PE firms sometimes pay as little as a few hundred grand). And it's fairly justified because short of leveraging their sales force and/or balance sheet, bankers add little value in standard processes like M&A or capital raises. Definitely dropped the ball. If Goldman was a no name shop their argument that they were let off the hook in a court of law would not help them win clients.

Cash flow fraud is extremely easy to follow if you look for it; more so if you have monthly/weekly invoices and reconcile that with the cash flows. You'd have noticed the loan treatment of factored receivables quite quickly.

On the hedge (and the whole lawsuit); looks like a he said she said really. Goldman says the all-stock deal was approved without their presence; Baker says they didn't show up.
App for childcare centers – growing on Product Hunt
Another variation I've seen (in eastern Europe at least) is cheating by omission.

They make it look like a NOUN, they wrap it like a NOUN, they name it with some nicely-sounding brand name, and do not write what it is, because it looks like a NOUN, so it must be NOUN, right? In the fineprint there's the explanation: not margarine, but "hydrogenated fat product", not ice cream, but "glacial dessert product", not a chocolate, but "chocolate-like product" etc.
Thanks for letting us know!

That's a bummer. Sadly, I don't have any guesses as to why. I'm happy to help debug if you want: nick@realartists.com, but understand if you don't want to spend any more time on it.
This seems to be a modern, Western approach to thing. I've seen South American tribal folk give a 5 year old a machete to do actual work. I didn't see a lot of dismembered children.

A lot of it comes down to family training. The older kids teach the younger kids what to do and not do. This doesn't protect from every little thing, but life is not that safe.

You do need training however. I was in Montana as a child with my dad on business. The client lived way out in the middle of nowhere. He was a big man (bigger than my father who's 6' 1"). He reached into a drawer, pulled out two bear size handfuls of .22lr, showed me how to load the riffle (fortunately I'd been trained by my dad and grandfather on hunting small game around the farm) and told me the adults need to talk. What he didn't tell me is that it was a modified .22lr: full auto. I was in for a surprise when 10 rounds cracked out at supersonic speed. I was fine and had fun. It could have been bad though.
I found messages by my wife telling her friends about our sex life
Advanced Reactor Nuclear Power Resurgence in the U.S
Thanks, it's interesting that I simply asked "what are the problems?" and that offended people so much that they downvoted -- but then I got three different answers.

One person says "collective values, worship of the free market." Another person says "there are poor people in Chicago." Finally there's a third person who says "people can't afford to live in their neighborhoods because cost of living got too expensive."

So they haven't agreed on the problem, but they agree on the enemy - it's the spoiled engineers and their high salaries.
Babylonians were the first ones to discover geometry
I always wondered why tomatoes and onions tasted different in some other country. I specially remember the tiny little tomatoes and the tiny little onions. Nothing looked perfect, but it all tasted amazing and I realized when I had the very first bite of my sandwich and salad, it was all flavorful. Glad I know why.
We have twisted nature for thousands of years to have higher yields and more desirable characteristics

Undoubtedly. However, those desirable characteristics were about more than just yield. In industrial agriculture, however, you can't quantify "taste". You can, however, quantify "yield". So it becomes a case of ruthlessly optimizing for what you can measure, to the detriment of other, more subtle, characteristics.
The Great Network Forgery (Root Causes of DDoS)
Shows like Hawaii Five-0 and NCIS:LA have HUGE Microsoft product placement. Arrow now does as well. They use Surfaces, Windows Phones, etc.

One of the more painful product placement attempts was trying to get actors to use the expression "Bing it", as if that was ever going to catch on. (I use Bing, it's not bad, but seriously, I'm never going to say that.)
Linux support would be amazing!

But disregarding my preference, what is your analytics showing in terms of OS usage?
Runtime assertions (like the :pre clause) are the only way to really do this in a dynamic language, but they are merely a band-aid, and suffer these problems:

1) You have to actually write the assertion/:pre all the time, which is not a trivial step in my opinion. A basic type system just removes this chore altogether. Writing these little assertions really breaks the wonderful flow of elegance.

2) Any errors are only caught with a specific input that would violate the assertion; some inputs might pass, and others not. Therefore, you may not know there is a possible bug that will crash your app or lead to unexpected behavior, even if it runs fine for a long time.

3) You have to keep flipping the assertions switch on and off as you move from testing to deployment, or, just leave them on and suffer the runtime overhead of their checking everything all the time.

4) You will typically write more unit tests to make-up for the tests a type system does for you.
Walmart to Close 269 Stores, Loses 16,000 Workers
What if the value I create is a house that other people can live in? Am I allowed to collect payments from them, or was I supposed to gift it to them?
Google opensources SeeSaw – LVS based load balancing platform
The problem is, if the statement is word in a very open ended manner and the firing company perceives the comments as disparaging in any way, they come after you. The company could argue revealing they're completely replacing departments with outsourced staffing as detrimental to the company's reputation due to the stigma associated with outsourcing. They go to court and whip out multiple blog posts/forum comments/editorials to prove their point. Now you're stuck. You're helping perpetuate a damaging stigma against your former employer that negatively impacts their business reputation. Doesn't matter if it's "fact" or not. Is the fact disparaging?

They might also get you on NDA violations if your NDA includes not revealing corporate staffing strategies.

IAMNAL but I've been around enough to know it's possible to spin anything with an open-ended clause.
McMenamins did this in east Portland
http://www.mcmenamins.com/427-kennedy-school-home
Supermarket carrots and other vegetables are also bred to withstand rough mechanical harvesting and not bruise, at the expense of flavour. The solution is to pick tasty breeds of carrots directly at the farm, and store them in a root cellar over winter.
New Report to FCC Details How T-Mobile Violates Net Neutrality
The irony is: by the time we finally are able to address egress filtering (I'd say 5-10y), attacks will have moved almost entirely to Layer 7 (like the Great Cannon attack on GitHub last year using gfw).
Just now? There's a bunch of excellent 3rd party Reddit apps on many mobile platforms. Even BB10 and WP have solid Reddit clients. I don't think you were trying very hard :P
wow, i never realized cache invalidation was one of the ONLY two hard problems in CS
So around here, in Elbonia, it's still pretty common for people to grow their own stuff in the countryside. My grandmother still grows her own vegetables and still raises chicken.

She doesn't use fertilizer, but the conditions are quite ideal for a lot of vegetables, including -- yes -- tomatoes.

The difference is astounding. Simply slicing one or two tomatoes is enough to make my whole kitchen smell like tomatoes. My palate is so accustomed to supermarket chicken that I literally cannot eat the ones she raises. I have to drown the meat in spices -- the flavour is so strong (and pretty different from that of "mass-produced" chicken) that it makes me vomit. Fortunately, I don't have that trouble with her tomatoes.

The catch is, indeed, that the yield is fairly low. There's no such thing as more than one crop per year, either -- she has tomatoes throughout the summer, but that's it. The only exception are cherry tomatoes, which will sometimes grow another generation of fruit in early autumn, and they ripen pretty fast, but that's it. Also, the ripening process is fairly slow; by mid-autumn or so, there are still enough unripe tomatoes for her to pickle a few jars.

(What, you don't pickle tomatoes when they're green in the States? You have no idea what you're missing!)

That being said, their color is pretty uniform. I don't have a picture right now, since they're out of season, but they really look OK, most of them are no different, in terms of look, from what you can see in supermarkets. Sometimes they grow in a somewhat weird shape (e.g. some of them get rather bulgy, but maybe that's a distinct cultivar, I don't know; others look perfectly round) but, if you allow them to ripen, they're pretty uniformly red. However, at that stage they're basically impossible to sell in supermarkets or even at farmers' markets, they'll go bad within days of being picked, even if you refrigerate them. People basically pick them right before a meal (worst case scenario, they'll pick a bunch in the morning so that they can chill in the fridge for an hour or two -- summers are pretty hot here, so if you pick them before lunch, you'll be eating really warm tomatoes).

Edit: I've seen someone here claiming that plain yogurt is supposed to be plain.

Fuck no. Plain yogurt is so thick, soury and flavourful that, unless you've grown up with it, it's an acquired taste. My grandmother never raised cattle -- I first tasted plain, home-made yogurt at one of her relatives in a remote-ish village when I was 14 or so. I hated it, despite having eaten plain yogurt from the supermarket before, and it took me a whole summer to get accustomed to the taste. It's also incredibly filling, you can't eat more than a bowl.
Well, if exception logger was going off nonstop due to the outage, yet not providing any new information, it would make sense if they disabled it until things had returned to normal.
Back endless – freemium Parse alternative
Your dad could have stacked logs in the truck and cut them to length and split them near the permanent stack location. Otherwise, you're stacking once in the truck bed and then again at the woodpile. Perhaps he was building your character instead of seeking efficiency.

A little bit of gratuitous labor helps the lesson sink in. So maybe you set up a little contest with your victi-er, kid. You each take half the logs and whoever finishes first wins. You even let the kid get a head start. They're concentrating hard because they want to win. But behind their back, you're using a log splitter instead of a maul. When you yell out "done!" they look around, and see that you "cheated". Hopefully, they learn the value of appropriate technology over brow sweat.

That guy shouldn't be swinging that maul so close to his kids, not for safety reasons, because he should be using at least a lever-operated log splitter instead.
>> At what point can a companies growth slow down without it being a concern?

That depends on how reliant the company is on perpetual growth. Many tech companies are not profitable. If growth slows for them, and the rate of slowdown points to a bad place, they may never make a profit and so backers will flee. But others with established businesses don't need growth. They can go on steadily with a mildly increasing market value or pay slow dividends to shareholders. Unless they are over-valued and have leveraged whatever stock they have retained. Such companies may be doomed even if profitable. So there is no definitive answer.