skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for b) I would say the contrary. Have you tried entering in a common website from a mobile browser without an adblocker? You get like so many ads, SO MANY, one over the other, some full-screen some that just let you see the 10% of the real site, some with a pseudo-pop-up, all with those little "x" almost unclickable to close them that force you to click on the ad in the end.

And in the "free apps with ads" of the mobile store the situation is even worse... they'll often try all possible tricks to force you to click on the ads.
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Moto 360 (gen1) here. I find that a lot of it depends on the cost. This watch launched at $250 and while I really liked the look and idea of it, it was still a bit more than I wanted to pay for a cool gadget that I didn't really need.

A few months after launch I snagged one on sale for $175 and I quite enjoy it (although not necessarily for the reasons I originally expected to).

My experience: it's nothing groundbreaking like your first (or latest) smartphone because it's largely just an extension of that smartphone. I don't really run too many watch-specific applications and mostly use it for quick notifications/replies and the occasional case where having a control on my wrist is nicer than messing with my phone.

One example of that would be navigation while riding my motorcycle. I don't have a phone charger/mount but I can fire up nav before leaving and glance down at my watch to see upcoming turns. It can also be nice as a remote for my phone's camera or to pause something I'm casting to the TV like a Netflix show.

Honestly my main, favorite thing about this watch is the ability to change the face to look like just about anything I want. I never would've guessed this at first but this is my stupidly obvious killer app (or at least the most enjoyable). There are several great watch faces for free or cheap on the Play Store and thousands of them available for download and application through apps like Watchmaker.

The fact that this is just a programmable screen means you can make it look like a subtle, classy "traditional" watch or you can do things not possible on traditional jewelry. If I felt like it I could swap between a long list of favorites to match whatever I'm doing or even what I'm wearing. Granted I'm not quite that obsessed with fashion or anything but it's a surprisingly cool thing to have.

And since I enjoy playing around in Photoshop and Illustrator, I can create my own interactive watch faces with no programming skill required. Watchmaker and other apps allow you to create each element from the background to the hands or dials or readouts or buttons and tie them to variables like time, date, battery, location, or even the orientation of the watch in space.

It's totally a geeky bit of tinkering that not everyone would enjoy but again, there are thousands of great ones out there made and shared by people who are into that sort of thing. Granted there are plenty of shitty "brand" watch knockoff faces and ugly amateurish stuff but that's the nature of user-generated designs.

So yeah, for $150-250, if you're a gadget fan and have the dough to spend on something that's mostly just pretty neat but not necessary, I think these sorts of watches are great. If the idea of putting it on a cradle on the nightstand every night turns you off or you would never spend that much on any watch, maybe it's not a great idea.

I doubt that I would spend the $400-500+ I've seen other smart watches going for because there's only so much I'd pay for a smartphone extender with custom display but in the $150-250 range it's pretty sweet.
I disagree, there is a lot of functionality aimed to keep users safe, if "non-technical end-users" can't understand and go through them; they may be better leaving them alone.
On the other hand also prevents those users from changing something and find non expected behavior.
thanks.

The project was crated summer last year. As an idea to put Who is hiring thread on a map.

The codebase is not opensource, although it might at some point, haven't made that decision yet.
The concept seems nice and even like something that would be useful for me, but given my past experience with Ruby-based web apps, I have serious doubts my old Athlon XP server box could do a particularly good job of running it... is there any similar project written in a more performant language?
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In the case where depression is caused by life events, I think a better solution is to make changes to fix the problems in your life rather than just engage in wishful thinking.
The likelihood of 1/2^80 is on the same order as me picking out a thousand grains of sand from the Sahara desert, spreading them randomly out through the desert and having you pick out those exact thousand grains of sand.

It's a practical impossibility, a philosophical exercise.
See, people. This is how Slack should be used. For family daily use, not as the only communication tool for opensource projects.
> And the lower range cremation prices are likely to attract additional business. They are loss leaders. "If it's under $1000, they're probably losing money. You really don't make much profit on the direct cremation alone," Jung says. "They're just trying to get you into the door."

How on earth can incinerating a human body require $1000 worth of consumables, even factoring in the pay for the operator and other employees?
...or Google is just getting better at serving the right advertisement at the right time?
So, for the sake of argument:

- I'm an author of some FOSS software

- I use Slack as the communication platform for said project for XYZ reasons

How do you suggest I word the README for my project? Do I tell/advise people to try other, less functional software if that software is subjectively more "open" than mine? Would my project somehow be "better" if I run all of my own infrastructure for it -- chat, bug tracking, etc -- using only FOSS software on FOSS hardware in my basement?

I mean, the logical conclusion here is that no FOSS project is really a FOSS project unless Richard Stallman could look at it and say "sure, morally, I have no problem using that project", right?

(This is off the path of the blog post in question, but I'm really interested in this sub-conversation.)
I think the wikipedia page for Jekyll gives a pretty big hint:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekyll_(software)
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I like to apply this to pretty much everything that involves a lot of people making a product. Such as tripple a games, movies, toys, whatever. If too many people is involved and the outcome is bad it's easy for the consumer to blame the group/business/developers as a single entity thinking it made it bad on purpose somehow. Or it often seems to be implied that way because I guess we need to be able to blame someone for it.
People use slack because they use it at work and don't want to have two different message clients and want to consolidate. Free software is not meeting the needs of corporate users and has failed them, so they are using Slack or HipChat instead. Your dogmatic stance on "I am completely opposed to editing messages after they are sent (chat is append only!)" is a good example of how open source is failing corporate user. I typo things all the time and want to be able to edit them, and don't care about your philosophical objections.

You can try to bludgeon and guilt people into using open source tools, but the problem is fundamentally that the tools that are Open Source are /failing/ a set of users. If you fixed the tools and ran HipChat and Slack out of business with Open Source competition, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. Lecturing people about Freedom(tm) and "Devsplaining" to users why they don't want the features they tell you they want isn't going to work.

If you want people to get off of Slack write an Open Source alternative that Slack users will freely choose to use instead. Compete in the market and win -- or else you're just pissing into the wind.
Python has itertools.product to iterate over the cartesian product of two lists.
Some of the most elegant code I ever wrote is due to this abstraction.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html#itertools.p...
There's native mobile clients :)
This looks amazing.
2^-80 (~10^24) is is about as likely as being hit by a meteorite (~10^-16)[1] at exactly the same moment you are learning that you won the Powerball (~10^-8). Alternatively, it is as likely as winning Powerball in three consecutive drawings.

[1] - https://what-if.xkcd.com/19/
It depends a lot on your definition of 'conspiracy theory'. If you only consider crazy babblings about martians, sure, but...

Do you remember that before Snowden, the whole NSA thing was a tinfoil-hat worthy idea? And what the NSA does goes beyond what moderately tinfoily people thought.

"Conspiracy theory" is often a good way to get rid of the pursuit of truth.
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I'm seeing AAPL at 540 and GOOG at 517, which leaves Apple on top for now. That said its a good report for them.

Interesting note from the Register[1] that according to Oracle's attorneys they earned $31B from Android over 5 years (so call it $6B/year) which is much better than I expected.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/21/oracle_java_google_s...
Coincidentally I released an experimental graph animation video using graph-tool for rendering and ffmpeg for conversion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywrMtBcgeI

The technique works well for engaging data visualization, although the code is somewhat tedious.

Are the ImageMagick commands included in your Python module? I took a look and didn't see a way to create the GIF. (EDIT: found it; it is the gif() function in render.py. I am dumb)
Your site _requires_ javascript to view the pricing plans, even though the plan data is already present in the HTML (turning off css styling makes all the pricing visible).

This is a bad design. You already have the data in the HTML, the basic HTML and CSS styling should display it onscreen in the absence of any javascript running.
There are countless other possible causes that are much more probable than M-R returning a false positive. What should we do about all of them? Start ruling them out, one by one, sure, but in which order? Common sense says we should do it in the order of decreasing prior probability. The hypothesis "M-R returned a false positive" is there somewhere, in the space of all possible hypotheses, and we'll surely encounter it after all other more likely alternatives are exhausted. I bet we don't have to go that far.
"Please don't take my comment the wrong way. I actually fully agree with everything you are saying."

Oh that's cool. To be clear, I wasn't taking it as anything: just an opportunity to explain what my reasoning was. Especially here, I figured there would be people on both sides I mentioned. Hence presenting it that way and being clear about my own bias.

"I just don't think that was even possible at this stage of the game for Yahoo what with their shareholders calling for blood, their weird relationship with Alibaba such that Yahoo's corporate structure is essentially their product, management issues, lack of vision, etc."

Oh yeah. I totally agree. It appeared to be beyond salvage. It's why I thought the results she got were impressive as I didn't expect it to even go that far. I might be wrong about whether it was a good move to make the attempt. It could've been foolish given how bad the situation was. I'm open to that.

I was just glad she gave a damn enough to try something rather than soak up money and gut it. It's all I see with so many tech and other companies that had a lot of untapped potential. I wasn't sure what was left for Yahoo but they had plenty of tech, smart people, & ad connections. So, I like that an effort was made which actually should've been made years ago by other management.

Meanwhile, the process of getting rid of it begins. And I still have to dig back through Yahoo email in case I missed anything important. Before they delete it...
And their total revenue is just a bit over over Apple's profits (21B vs 18B (granted, that's Apple's big quarter of the year)), at a roughly similar margin.
So I ordered myself a two-way mirror, a display panel and controller board, plus a bunch of components and arts & crafts supplies.

My bathroom mirror is way smarter than his, because it doesn't contain any components that will inevitably break (or need upgrading in a few years), besides the mirror glass itself; it isn't connected to anything (and hence, is perfectly firewalled against the barrage of attacks that will inevitably befall this product once it is deployed at scale); and best of all: it doesn't assault me with streams of utterly pointless crap (like what Donald Trump said most recently) first thing in the morning when I'm hungover and am trying decide whether to shave, brush my teeth, or hit the can first.

If this is the way Google product engineers think generally about people's pressing needs are, and what our "promised" future looks like -- that company is definitely doomed.
Maybe, maybe not. I doubt there's much upside, but generally mega caps don't have much volatility either...
I've used Quassel ( http://www.quassel-irc.org ) for a similar purpose.

An Android client, QuasselDroid ( http://quasseldroid.iskrembilen.com/ ), has been my best IRC experience on Android.
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> As more realize that the problem is a problem at Redhat, eventually Redhat management will be forced to intervene.

I think you're missing the point. It's not about who you tell. It's about who you're criticizing. Red Hat is not the one making these comments. If you condone a company summarily removing a project leader you don't like, then you also condone a company summarily removing a project leader you do like. That doesn't end well. In fact, I could name projects on which I feel Red Hat has forced their will on upstream entirely too much, to the detriment of both. It's not the way a meritocratic community is supposed to work. I think in general it's better to let technical communities deal with their own issues, and in general Red Hat is wise enough to recognize that.

Believe me, I know where you're coming from. I almost didn't join Red Hat myself because of people like Ulrich Drepper (who was still there) and Al Viro (who would even have been in my group). I understand the sentiment. Criticize Poettering if you want, make sure Red Hat knows the effect that his behavior has on your purchasing decisions, but don't blame them for trying to do the right thing by adhering to a policy with a solid philosophical and practical foundation behind it. Do you want corporate overlords to be meddling in every project's internals?
He lists the stuff that Slack does better than IRC, but then ignores it. Kinda like he's just waving it off as not being important. So what's the solution for getting the benefits that Slack has, without using Slack?
Can that really go on forever? I don't know anyone that deliberately clicks on ads. Ads usually act as a "don't buy" signal to me - I assume the product is of low quality or a scam because of the skeeziness of how they tried to reach me as a customer.

Like higher education, the online ads business seems poised to collapse.
That's.. not the same.
Not at all true. Most obvious reason being control premium (which applies to all buyers, but lot of other reasons why price paid by a buyer would be different, for example expected synergies)

Really just share price x shares outstanding - by one valuation method, share price in theory is driven by expected present value of future dividend stream, but even this is also very different from what you said (company's actual cash flow)
A stroke well put by. But what if you are in elephant country, and you have both repellent and a tasty elephant snack - yet no elephants showed up. Perhaps it works? Or perhaps they are down the valley having a party. Hard to say more without fundamental knowledge. :-)
Yes most people believing in all sorts of weird conspiracies are not very smart. And most conspiracies are completely idiotic. What i try to point out is that the "wholesale dismissal" of conspiracies are naive. Especially after the revelations of the last 10 years.

Your strawman "small amount people in controlling the world" argument is just annoying. Conspiracies comes in many forms. The illuminati type conspiracies are not interesting. What is interesting is the global industrial complexes, their web of PR companies and the political cover ups it entails. And countless examples of this exists already. Lets forget about aliens.
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Graphics, lists, headings, short paragraphs, code tags -- e.g. <code></code> -- anything that breaks up text and makes your post scannable. Everyone's so time-stressed, the easier you can make your post to quickly scan, the more value you'll provide. Depending on your content, of course. :)
> Sure I'm a technical guy, I could spend time figuring out how to make an IRC chat robot that would maybe offer a third the features Slack ships with out of the box. But why should I have to? I certainly don't enjoy it.

You shouldn't have to; but Open Source projects tend to be (with good reason) wary of using closed-source products like Slack. You can't foresee what the needs of an open source project will be in 10 years, or whether Slack will still be around then. Should something happen to Slack (they go under / get purchased / decide to terminate non-paid accounts / whatever), you'll be relying on their APIs and service to recover your data and maybe migrate it to a new platform. They can make all the promises they want today, but who knows what their business looks like in a decade.

Anyone remember SourceForge? GitHub is at least just a set of management tools / interfaces on top of a relatively vanilla Git repository (and Git is open source). Ideally, someone would build a web-based IRC client with all this functionality integrated and call it a day - though I suspect that's how Slack got started, and the restrictions they have are just so they can make some money from selling their product.

I mean, you need 4 pieces of information to connect to an IRC server: Server name, port, a username, and the #channel name you want to join (most IRC networks provide user and channel registration services via "admin" bots).
I co-founded a startup and sold it ~3 years ago. There's no secret in turning something into profit. Just put your thing out there and ask for feedback.

At the end, users won’t care about the underlying technologies used in your startup.

They don’t care about what programming language you used. They don’t care if your website is a Single Page Application or you used Turbolinks. They don’t care if you have a micro-services oriented architecture or if you created a monolith.

They only care if you solve their pain or not. And they will pay you if you do a good job. That’s all.

If you build the wrong product, it won’t matter how many sound technical decisions you made along the road. Technical decisions are important to keep the team morale high, and to maintain momentum and speed, but your users don’t care about that. That's all there is. Really.

If your users don't like your product, get feedback and go back to the drawing board. Iterate.

Read a book or two about marketing, experiment and learn. Bad products win all the time, not because they are better, but because they are better marketed.
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I am not familiar with all the ways the GRH can be disproven, but Miller-Rabin doesn't strike me as the most efficient, with its running time of O((log n)^4) for each attempt. I am not sufficiently competent to say whether a GRH counterexample also directly results in a MR counterexample.
Most valuable = highest valuation.
The core, at least to me, of his comment was:

"To many that equates to revenue generated, to others profitability"

He happened to add that he would read the article which is why I am guessing as of when I viewed the comment it was heavily downvoted.

The heavy handed downvoting is what I don't like about HN so quick to jump and assume there is no value in the comment. There was. Although I know the definition for sure there are "many" people who would read "most valuable" and not know the true definition. [1]

[1] My point being there is value in the observation of people who aren't clued in to that fact.
All this time I was trying to figure out how to run it but then spotted the "Wallpaper Maker" in the title. Sad layfe :(
On the other hand, that product stance helps them avoid Google Reader-type situations.