skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I developed a business case for a Telco for this three years ago, and there is a market. We hit a technical problem and could not sell it worldwide; but it worked for some countries.

The mini projector didn't worked. Expensive. Hard to carry from one place to another and it needed lots of time to setup.

When we demoed the desktop-in-your-pocket and the user reception was great. Women loved it (they already carry a lot of stuff in their bags, plus a laptop).

Remember: If do something that improves people lives, there's a market. If you improve women lives, be sure there's a market.
Especially when most stripe using sites embed the payment request in their page and there's no way for end users to tell that it's using stripe without looking in the source of the page. If that got re-directed by an attacker 99+% of users wouldn't notice I reckon.
Thanks for digging up those studies.

I hope those weren't the only tests that were conducted. Two groups of 12, 65 years plus, daytime and night time. Word recognition test+legibility test (2 studies with the same setup/subjects etc.). Tested words: Purcel, Dorset, Conyer, Bergen, Ordway, Gurley. Parked car (1993 Ford) at varying distances. Repeat-measures design. ANOVA for material and ANOVA + t-tests for fonts.
They used the same sign with bolt-on names for all different cases so the issue linked in the OP doesn't apply to this test.

So we have no weather conditions, a very selective population (also notable that gender isn't mentioned at all which is normally standard practice in the subjects section), a questionable list of words (no mention what word/letter distributions look like and why this specific group was picked...they do explain why they built the word group the way they did however). Only one vehicle type.
No discussion of sample size, power etc. in the linked studies.

It's a decent set of constraints for a single test but we're talking about highway signs for the general population I'd expect more extensive tests than that.
Yep. Scala and Clojure brought life back to the JVM, being JVM-friendly dialects of Haskell and Lisp respectively. If it weren't for them, the JVM would already be sinking under the oppressive weight of Java and Groovy.
Oh yes, those were amazing. This and then later on Nehe's opengpl tutorial introduced me to graphic programing.
Google’s AI will battle Go world champion live on YouTube
we've got consul set up in a way that points names to a known 503 service if its containers are not up.
Dissolve into thin air? That's what clouds do, right? (One woulda thunk the word "cloud" in itself would be warning aplenty ;))
The Bentayga is expected to become Bentley’s top seller
Most of the notifications are not necessary. It just gives you bad habits and distract you. The addiction you describe is partly created by getting used of all these small notifications sounds that excite you and give you the habit of checking all your accounts in a terrific infinite loop.

When you think about it, it is not human, you have far more things to do than being distract by these little sounds. Most of the applications makes possible to set precisely when you want to be notified or not. Don't worry, even with notifications, you will still be distracted by your kids, cat, neighbors, flying birds and dust.

I don't think the browser extensions are a solution to this. You have to learn to control it by yourself.
There are also some problems with the battery.
If you run enough apps on an android phone, it won't be able to charge the battery.
Also people doesn't like their mobile phone to be hot.
Pepsi Design Strategy (2008)
In general, most roads shouldn’t have a price for most drivers, and rewards for maintaining a particular speed sounds stupid.

However, we’d get big improvements to our urban/suburban city planning if we had (a) much less street parking, most of it metered; (b) looser or no parking requirements for houses and businesses written into the zoning laws, with mixed-use zoning allowing both smaller parking-free residential units and for-profit parking structures to pick up the slack from the reduction in free and required parking; (c) lower speed limits on urban streets encouraged by better street designs and enforced more strictly by traffic cops; (d) tolls on most highways; (e) much higher gas taxes to offset health and environmental costs of driving, and a removal of various automobile subsidies; (f) tolls for large vehicles like trucks which cause most road damage and cost the most in road maintenance, proportional to the amount of road wear they cause, which increases something like mass per wheel to the fourth power (a semi-trailer truck causes something like 1000x the road wear of a passenger car).
> The cognitive overhead of jumping into Go is so small compared to many other languages.

I'm not using Go now, though I have tried it out years ago. Your point is exactly why it stays on my radar for possible future use. Especially if you consider any sort of business aspect, ramping up the help. I would strongly consider using it for any serious backend project in a business environment due to the performance, ease of learning and compatibility promise.
You need to compare the US president by the similarly positioned person in each country. E.g. in France it's the president, in the UK and Germany the chancellor, in Slovenia the prime minister (in Germany and Slovenia the president is powerless).
Mm, that's a good point. Still, I think there's value showing the magnitude of tweets about a candidate
It might have been aimed at OP :)
On the way! Though probably just Cruz and Rubio...
Getting Google (gstatic.com) to Re-Index an Image (2012)
Who is the English-speaking child beheading hostage and threatening America?
I'd love to see a link on this. Preferably one thats not from, say, Breitbart.
The death of open source
Fruits have been cultivated and bred towards greater sweetness. They are much sweeter than their natural ancestor.
Additionally a fully featured Phoenix Tutorial would be very welcome as well - however that's probably a silly thing to suggest if you have to learn Elixir first.
Here they are: https://npmaddict.com/#/feeds
It would have been perfectly fine solutions if they wanted to phase out internet use.
I am so excited for this project. I have been waiting for an invite for close to a year. Can anyone send me one? EDIT: email: jsrjenkins @ [google's email service].com
Nevermind, we put the second one up live.
Julian Assange’s 3.5 Year Detainment in Embassy Ruled Unlawful
But it *is" a product, just not s commercial one (so far)
You sound like a good person to ask. I use numpy and I haven't looked into the BLAS/LAPACK details but I understand there are different ways of setting up numpy for optimal performance. Any advice on the best way to approach this?

At the moment I more or less:

apt-get install liblapack-dev libopenblas-dev
pip install numpy
From idea to market – documenting the whole journey
The New Dirty War for Africa's Uranium and Mineral Rights
Just Eat Pays Rocket $140M for Food Startups in Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico
The --tmpfs flag is a huge win for applications that use containers as unit of work processors.

In these use cases, I want to start a container, have it process a unit of work, clear any state, and start over again. Previously, you could orchestrate this by (as an example, there are other ways) mounting a tmpfs file system into any runtime necessary directories, starting the container, stopping it once the work is done, clean up the tmpfs, and then start the container again.

Now, you can create everything once with the --tmpfs flag and simply use "restart" to clear any state. Super simple. Awesome!
Which is also a biased article!
What Really Happens When You Get Shot (2015)
This is an awesome announcement and got me totally fired up.

Unfortunately, I wasn't even able to log in to my keybase account on a new computer. Judging from the 1,000 outstanding issues on their Github, it seems like Keybase should first be focusing on fixing the bugs in existing software before rolling out new products. [0]

As for the substance of the filesystem, it would be nice to have some concept of named/shared groups. So I could create a "company" folder and then add people to it over time instead of having to create a whole new shared folder each time we add someone new. (And having to manually copy over all relevant files.)

[0] https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues
I used softcover for writing http://books.aidanf.net/learn-swift

The software is awesome for the purposes of writing the book. The reason I didn't go with softcover as a selling platform is that the new EU VAT rules came in and as a result I had to use someone that supported those new VAT collection rules.

So I ended up using softcover to generate the ebooks and html, but using gumroad (and leanpub) to sell them. So it's totally feasible to use softcover for writing your book but self-host the resulting html and keep control of your sales data etc.
I'm curious how accurate the sentiment analysis is when dealing with sarcasm, which I suspect is especially popular in tweets about politicians.
Show HN: Convertible Note Equity Calculator
How to get feedback from teachers for EdTech products
Stripe does not bypass PCI. Stripe does not transmit any credit card information to your servers and if there are no CC info on your server then you don't have to deal with PCI compliance.

If your server gets hacked you don't have any customer info stored on it. All you have is a stripe token.
Visa does not provide credit. The banks with which they contract do.
Great work with the tutorial! Thanks for jamming with Sonic Pi and sharing the live coding love <3 <3
Prediction: Amazon's 400 new bookstores intended to be bases for drone delivery
Microbot push – Wirelessly push buttons
Ask HN: Userspace networking parallels to Keybase's use of FUSE
Keybase's recently-announced KB file system is an innovative use of FUSE (userspace file system).

What are some possible innovative uses of userspace networking (Netmap, DPDK, Snabb Switch, NUSE, etc.)? Is performance the primary gain, or are there other advantages or innovations that could parallel's Keybase's creative use of FUSE?
Hi all, we just released this easy scenario calculator for convertible notes. We wanted to put the data to use for the community. So it also has average discounts and cap/target valuation analysis! Let me know what you think!
As the recent Schrems case in the CJEU said, any data held in the USA is no secure.
Shkreli Was Right: Everyone's Hiking Drug Prices
Awesome articles, thanks for writing them. I used to fool around with FL and Reason about 10 years ago but wasn't very good at all. I think I could have a lot of fun with this.

I especially liked how the author visualized sounds to be able to replicate them. I always assumed you just had to have a good ear.

Really impressive stuff, thanks.
Self-Deception – How to Fight Your Brain’s Inborn Flaws and Biases [S. Novella]
We have two different theories here. We're smart people, right? We should be able to figure out if we just percieve software quality to be worse or if it really is.

So how do we measure this in some valid manner?
I worked at Visa. You don't know the half of it...
It seems to me like the article has it backwards: a single driver can mess up traffic for many people. I see nothing here to support the premise in the title.
Oh yeah, these were great times! I found the ASPHYXIA tutorials on some of the CD-ROMs we were sharing (pre-internet age for me, and burning CDs was expensive). I always wanted to thank Denthor for this great tutorials, but all I had was his email address in those tutorials:

smith9@batis.bis.und.ac.za

This address doesn't exist anymore. It didn't even work at the time I worked through those tutorials. So I never got a chance to thank him and all those other people who were writing all those great tutorials.

BTW, it is too bad that the contained ANSI art is displayed in the wrong character set on all those websites who are mirroring those old tutorials. It should be the old DOS character set, but the browsers show that as LATIN-1 or similar.
Some of us had keybase.io accounts for a while now ;). I think we have to wait until the client packages are updated with kbfs support.
Did not understand that line ... Implies NeXT had to pay Apple 400M?? In what sense?
If the word "product" is used in the context of "Business Model" (as in right under the "Business Model" subtitle), then it is fair to assume the definition of Business product https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_(business) and not the by-product of a process or anything drug related.
Apple paid 400M to acquire NeXT, but NeXT's management ended up taking over the company. So really, NeXT paid -$400M to acquire Apple. It's like how Pixar acquired Disney for -$7.4B.
Yeah, but I needed this for scenarios where I managed the Docker bridge directly - i.e., running a set of streaming servers that are an insane hassle to set up and required frequent upgrades. Docker was perfect for building, upgrading and deploying them.

Weave would just get in the way in this scenario (and has a tendency to over-complicate simple stuff like running an ElasticSearch cluster with auto discovery)
I would be skeptical about agile on something like OS development which is on a different scale from your average software project.

Not saying it won't work, but I would like to see some comparisons of OS level projects that have gone agile and compare it to the waterfall approach.
Yeah, but these are books for Django, not general python.
Shorter Feedback Is Not Always Bett
This company was recently determined to be one of the best tech companies in South Africa to work for:

http://www.derivco.com/

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/business/145115-what-its-like-...
SPRING MENSWEAR FASHION AND COLOUR TRENDS FOR 2016
This is why the CJEU doesn't view the USA as a safe habour anymore.

US laws have broken the internet.
More specifically, if there is no CC info transmitted via your servers.
I agree on everything else but (a).

Street parking actually makes streets better. It slows down traffic by reducing the available width (everybody keeps a safe margin to parked cars) and by causing disruptions (motorists entering or exiting a parking spot). Street parking also makes pedestrians feel safer as the barrier of parked cars insulate them from the moving traffic. A street with lots of parked cars generally also feels safer because human activity can be expected from time to time, unlike on a completely cleared street where there is only traffic.
I deleted my sarcastic response to you upthread, but it could probably be interpreted that their testing methodology might not be accurately summed up as a "you failed science 101" level of embarrassment mistake as you so aptly put it, and that they in fact did a reasonable job creating typefaces that represented the fonts used on highways which were objectively compared in their control environments.

Also, they ran 2 tests and they somehow used, or read research by someone who had run, a computer simulation of font degradation to anticipate how it would age.

So, I am not sure this is nobel prize worthy, but a bit disingenuous to claim they they are complete morons.

edit: while I don't laud the amazing efficiency of our peer reviewed science system, you might also find these included works helpful, these ones seem relavent. I must admit, not being even remotely interested in traffic fonts or the testing of them, I have not read them.

Peer reviewed research papers by Donald Meeker as author or co-author have been published by:

Transportation Research Record, National Academy of Sciences (2 author, 3 co-author)

Ergonomics in Design, the Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (co-author)

Transportation Engineering, the Journal of American Society of Civil Engineers (author)
I think many people (myself included) spent ages recreating Nehe's rotating cubes and then calling it a day. It was fun, but looking back I wish there were more sources for learning actual game design.

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure there were. I probably just wasn't looking in the right places.
For Daft Punk buffs like me, this is gold. Awesome stuff, kudos!
It's funny you mention that, because I'm on a team of 7 who are really struggling with GitHub now. There are so many things that we know don't work, or could be better (which I have reported).

That said, still worth the money.
I think you should google the python.org bug tracker with the function names that seems to exhibit a performance regression according to your profiling session. If don't find any existing issue, please open a new one with a minimalist reproduction script that demonstrates the performance regression.
Gitlab as mentioned in the original article is actually a fairly decent alternative for github. The biggest advantage as I see it is that you can self-host the open source version so you don't have to host the crown jewels of your company (the source code) under care of github's servers.
Wasn't keybase started due to a problem snowden had? He couldn't easily verify the GPG key of a journalist? They even resorted to tweeting the public key fingerprint to verify: https://twitter.com/micahflee/status/296119710485979136
Just saw that the WHO reduced the recommended amount to 25g: http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/guidelines/sugars_...

This is for "free sugars" though, so whole apples should not count if I got it right. Fruit juice "frees" the sugar though, so sugar in apple juice should count.
If you don't want your employer to see it, do it on your phone. Everyone should realise that by now.
> Even Norway who is most similar to AK and is an oil producer has much smaller towns that individually are less spread out and are more easily served by public transit as a whole,

Wouldn't having lower number of larger towns be easier to service with mass transit (trains, planes) than larger number of smaller towns?

I don't think distances make public transport vs cars hard. It's non-clustering as in US suburbs opposed to European cities and towns.

> I understand if you don't empathize with us or care what happens to our economy but this kind of tax is not going to do alaska texas oklahoma idaho or north dakota any favors.

Does it get windy in Alaska? How about seeding wind power industry there with the money taken from people that make holes in your ground and suck the oil? Or do you want it to remain your top industry forever? Norway doesn't want that for itself.
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iPhone 6 bricked by independent repairs, damage to home button
The BIN/IIN is pretty useful for various reasons. For example, identifying that your customer has a Mondo (https://getmondo.co.uk) card and automatically pushing rich transaction data to their statement.
To be honest, lying on that level advertisers do requires quite a lot of creativity sometimes. So does placating conscience.
You would think, but 9/10 people making comments about Steve Jobs on the internet describe him as only a savvy marketeer and business man. Steve didn't invent anything, doesn't know how to program bla bla, is how it goes. While Steve Jobs was an asshole in many ways this is a gross injustice to his legacy. He clearly had a lot of input and influence on Apple products and was important in making them good.

But I find people, especially those who only consider the engineering parts of products to take this view.
> If you want a reasonably fast statically compiled language, what would you use?

Anything that is C ABI compatible. I'm sympathetic to Go's philosphy, but Go is not that.

In general, I'd be on the lookout for Swift on the server in the next few years. It has the backing of Apple, is compiled, and the possibility of removing yet-another-language from your stack. Since many shops want or need an iOS frontend, running Swift on the server makes sense.
Yeah thanks, all these points are valid.

Re Landlord (and house) refs: references have lots of pitfuls. Ideally even in a boom town, being able to ref you landlord could warn you off the repeatedly terrible ones. The real problem is authenticity, it may get abused heavily by everyone.(imagine a hydrid anarchical version of all the rating problems inherent in eBay and TripAdvisor).

It seems a fair idea but difficult to implement. Would a simple message board based system be enough for a discerning reader? Any solutions for a system like this?
Ugh, that article is so sad. I really wanted to believe the hype about Hampton Creek.

It seemed like they were doing something truly revolutionary with the potential to drastically reduce human consumption of eggs. (This can only be a good thing for anyone with a concern for animal welfare.)

The article suggests their core product is just mayonnaise made with an already-commonplace vegan food additive. They outsourced the development of it, and don't even understand the science of how it works.

Is there a new generation of entrepreneurs who have realised their path to riches is to found a PR machine masquerading as a tech company?
WikiLeaks founder 'arbitrarily detained' in London, United Nations rules
Why wouldn't something like BitTorrent be faster?
This is absolutely a higher level of nonsense, but I've seen quite a lot of bullshit people are getting away with in web / social marketing. Basically, nobody in a "creative" agency has any fucking clue how statistics work, so they fudge some numbers and invent interpretations. Customers don't have a clue either, but they're compelled to believe because they spent money on it, and since actual sales data are hard to correlate with particular actions, the agency can extract money from their client as long as the client isn't doing too badly.

It reminds me of an article posted here a month ago[0]. Some juicy quotes: [1].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872359

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10873226
indeed, not something I like. now apple doesn't feel healthy at all, more like a giant candy (i know it's still probably healthier to eat it rather than not, but I really wish there would be types which would be less sweet)
"with some residents affluent enough to have time to spare to sit around asking existential questions"

Since when does it require affluence? People did this a lot during the collapse of USSR and at that time the usual monthly wage was $20.
Derivco uses extremely underhand tactics to promote their image as a tech and game dev company that is pushing boundaries and building exciting things. Actually all they do is build small variants of the same online gambling games using a Microsoft stack. My broadband is not that much better with their "affiliate" articles which various companies pay them to publish and are just advertising.
Thanks a lot for Sonic Pi and Overtone!
The Ingredients of great startup culture
> the surveillance targeting Poitras had transformed her into a nervous wreck. [...] she describes feeling constantly watched, entirely robbed of privacy. “I haven’t written in over a year for fear these words are not private,” [...] She sleeps badly, plagued with nightmares

Poitras and others being surveilled by people in the US and other governments represent an extreme point on a spectrum. Lower down the spectrum are many more people who each have one or more busybodies from government, academia, the media, business, entertainment/sports, or religion, etc after them for some reason/s. Those busybodies often discover and collude with each other. The resulting surveillance and interference against us is probably quite tame compared to what the US govt has done against Poitras, but intense enough that we can extrapolate to more easily appreciate what she's gone through.
Flexbox and the keyboard navigation disconnect
Nice try, but no, that's a broken old trick. window.status is gone for exactly this reason, but things like onclick="this.href=http://evilsite.example/" (or even onclick="window.location=http://somewhereelse.evil.example/;return false") still work (link shows a benign location, but it's changed to a malicious one when you click).