skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest that instead of evaluating things like the iPad or the Watch in terms of whether they’re the next iPhone, we evaluate them in terms of whether they defend the iPhone against being disrupted.

Go back to when the they gave the green light to the iPad. iPhones were small. Tablets were a thing, but not big. e-readers were a thing. Phablets were growing in markets like Asia.

What if everyone started buying tablets, and used bluetooth headsets to make calls? It seems unlikely that they would completely replace phones, but it could be that people start buying phones that are compatible with their tablets, and Apple would be frozen out.

So they brought out the iPad, and no, tablets didn’t replace phones, but Apple made some money and Tim Cook sleeps well at night.

Now I think it’s the same thing with watches. It seems unlikely, but one day we might find that all watches can make calls, and Amazon has one that uses voice to buy toilet paper or whatever, and what if people start buying phones that are compatible with their watch instead of watches compatible with their phones?

Apple doesn’t want to be frozen out of that game, so here’s a watch, and Apple is making some money, and if watches evolve to become huge, nobody is going to think of Apple has having “missed the boat.”

For the market leader, this is their primary imperative: Don't miss the boat. They don’t have to win in tablets or watches, they just have to make sure they are strong enough that if the phone business gets disrupted, they can compete. Or if the phones aren’t disrupted, at least make sure that nobody buys a Samsung because “Apple doesn’t make a tablet or watch that works well with an iPhone."
The Scariest, Most Boring Armageddon
Haven't read the article yet. But the same goes for most fields these days
Just speculating: Flagging might have been automatic based on factors other than actual content.
30-hour work week
Substeps-framework, r1.0.1 released
I dunno how you define "without any of the work" but I see plenty of young people graduating college with poor opportunities. Unemployment for 20-24 year olds is over 9%. The average student graduating with a 4-year degree from a public non-profit school has about $30k in debt. $100k is high, but they do need to cover that debt. They need to make more (adjusted for inflation) than their parents did at that age because their parents weren't saddled with all that debt. Instead they're sitting at 9% unemployment. Some degree programs are more rigorous than others but it seems like the current generation put in 4 years of strong work. Their parents generation didn't do that. And it wasn't the recipe for success they were told it would be.
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I lived in Zürich for a year and remember seeing an ad on the train for work at a grocery store that paid 4k CHF ($3910) per month. The college I was attending paid 35CHF ($34) an hour to students who did work for their department. Just to put it in some perspective. The cost of living is also ridiculously high.
So many questions.

What's a sugar baby? What's a trophy wife?

Are these terms sexist?

If I date someone with student loans then am I a sugar daddy?

Some of my friends have wives who stay at home but don't have children. How do you define those relationships?

Do all cultures fetishize the young? SeekingArrangements is in UK and Singapore too.
In Switzerland money that you're not paying in rent/mortgage because you own the property, is considered income and taxed accordingly.
Oh yeah. And then someone enables HSTS and a subdomain doesn't support HTTPS, so now you have to keep a browser around that never ever is allowed to contact the parent site...
It's not magic -- it's some form of crude error.

So first off what this does is, it expands to the expression:

'-o /dev/null' '-o /dev/null '

Even if we remove the latter space by just using `{,}` instead of `{,\ }` curl still returns for me an error code 23 -- CURLE_WRITE_ERROR.

curl seems to interpret `'-o /wtf'` as a command to write to the file ` /wtf`, so this only makes sense if you have a directory called ` ` in the folder you're running from.

You can therefore do this correctly with:

-o/dev/null{,}

and that correctly writes the contents to /dev/null without issuing a curl write error.
Metcalf's law, if it is a law, would be a strong force in that direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
Trigon was in fact already dead well before she was picked up. Peterson was not a subject of the KGB and had the misfortune of servicing the dead drop of an exposed asset.

There is a good recounting of this entire event in Spycraft by Wallace and Melton (a very intersting book with lots of tech material).
As a medical laboratory professional I can shed some light:
The Immediate Hazard Hematology citation comes from an expired reagent being used on a Hematology analyzer (clearly a standard Siemens analyzer, not the mysterious new technology they won't disclose). This is easily fixable, but reveals a great deal about what is ACTUALLY going on in that lab

The Laboratory Director and Technical Consultant citations are standard when you have an Immediate Hazard citation. But they also reveal how poorly organized this lab is and how whomever is responsible for the laboratory leadership at a directorship level knows NOTHING about CMS laboratory regulations, or tried to pull a fast one on CMS/CLIA by hiring a patently unqualified Dermatologist to be a part-time director of a CLIA high-complexity lab. This is a MASSIVE glaring error in leadership and quality assurance at the very highest level. The executive leadership of this company appears to know nothing about the business they seek to upend. I am sure the Cleveland Clinic is wondering WTH they got themselves involved with. Also very telling that Holmes was at Cleveland Clinic the day after this letter was released.

They are clearly operating as a bog-standard lab doing conventional testing to be able to report patient results and be a traditional CLIA-certified lab (except may be one test they have - the HSV) This significant fact seems to have escaped everyone. They can't report any tests performed by their top-secret technology because it ain't FDA approved.

For a conventional refererence lab like Quest or Labcore, their inspection faults would be embarrasing but fixable. For Theranos, it's likely fixable but the PR fiasco may be ultimately fatal.

Someone shoukd really have studied the industry they seek to upturn and worked with real professionals rather than pusing global dominance and glossy PR. The cart is miles ahead of the horse at Theranos
I instantly uninstall the apps don't work.
It was that way back in the 80s - there were other networks. BITNET connected some universities but not all of them. ARPANET connected some government contractors and researchers but not all of them. There were others but my memory gets fuzzy after that.

The Internet is an internet (note the capitalization difference) connecting some of these older networks and became the surviving entity of all of them.
Beyond things like ACTION, CTCP is not widely or consistently supported. This is partly because no one is advancing the specification, and partly because it isn't well specified in the first place. Not to mention the syntactic issues with hacking the payload into IRC's 512 byte limit using invisible meta characters. Metadata and message tags (which support an extra 512 bytes of data) are much more suited to this sort of feature, are better specified, and have more backing from client developers.
They obviously don't like Microsoft here. Meanwhile they change the titles for Apple stories to reflect better on Apple.

Meh. Whadyagonnado? If people want to live in an unrealistic bubble and lie to themselves there isn't much you can do about it.
Yes, there's support for UDP, and for UDP-based protocols such as DNS.

https://github.com/google/seesaw/blob/master/common/seesaw/s...
> It would have made it looked like they actually cared about the citizens of Flint, once.

How would that have looked to the people who actually voted for them tho.
Seeking Arrangement is brought to you by the fine folks behind Ashley Madison. So I would take any of their data with a boulder-sized grain of salt. I'm surprised that The Atlantic would base an entire article on their data without doing better homework.
I sold cameras from 90-91 and we were selling the first DSLR during that period. Unfortunately, I don't remember the details, just that we referred to it as "The Brick" because it weighed 2-3 times as much as the next comparable SLR, cost even more, and the pictures weren't nearly as good.
It's amazing anyone would want to move to a place that offers such a steep step up in quality of life. I'd want to move there and I live rather comfortably in the US. Why? 1) I believe in and advocate for basic income and would love to be able to put my money where my mouth is and 2) the security into retirement is huge, and the security offered to my kids when I'm gone is even bigger.

I know people envision flocks of moochers, but how many countries suffer mass-unemployment? So many. How many parents would sacrifice everything for their children to live a better life?

Every one.
Show HN: Skadi – self-hosted Trello alternative with a 10 second installation
> Objective -- yay or nay?

The objective is obvious, the job you're applying for. So, nay.
Hello,

I'd like to get your opinion on this project. It's still in beta and under heavy development. Some of the basic features like voting and checklists are missing, but they will be implemented by the end of February.

There are so many Kanban boards out there. Why create another?

They key advantage of Skadi is easy installation on your own server. You can literally do it in 10 seconds. It's a binary file with zero dependencies. It uses a built in web server and a LevelDB database. Even the static files are embedded in the binary, which allows easier updates.

So the primary audience is companies who would like to use Trello but can't store sensitive data on outside servers or simply prefer a self-hosted solution.

It also does some things better than Trello. For example, it is extremely light and fast and can handle a lot more cards without freezing. Search is always instant, unlike in Trello.

Of course, it supports JSON imports from Trello.

Thanks for your time.
To help with documentation, install VVDocumenter: https://github.com/onevcat/VVDocumenter-Xcode

I've changed my trigger from "///" to "////" so that I can write "///" comments manually if I want to.

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Some things I might add:

- If possible, use a protocol as the base for all functionality. Generally, this is named "FooType".

- If you provide a "FooType", provide a type-erased "AnyFoo" as well.
Surf the Waves on a Data-Soaking 'Sponge'
There's a bit of optimism about technology adoption here; I'm guessing Ferenc is part of a bleeding edge research community from how he talks about the ease of uptake and adoption for new technologies.

The reality is there are still companies looking for their first 'big data' data scientist years after this was a 'hot area'. While aggressive researchers, then aggressive companies, then fast follower researches / companies, then ... all do eventually adopt useful technology, it can take decades in some cases.

So, do learn deep learning. But from my own experience, he's right in that you'll think "that's it?" once you've constructed a few networks and read through some basic 2014+ literature on tuning and tips. But, that will put you ahead of the VAST majority of technologists inre: deep learning. Seriously.

I think he's 100% right that the search for usefulness / novel applications is where the game is going to be for deep networks, but it's seems silly to tell people not to learn how to work with them.
Mostly from their peers, it seems, whether or not you try to mold them at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nurture_Assumption
As someone who worked for the college paper and spent a large amount of time in journalism classes, I absolutely agree with you. Sure you learn how to write (which is incredibly important), but I think most papers and magazines prefer bloggers or people with established audiences compared to a student with a degree in journalism.

Many of my classmates have either joined public relations firms or completely switched careers.
"<...> but I don’t understand why I need to write code for both cases, error and success, when I only need value from successful case and I can completely ignore Err or None results."

Have you considered `if let`? Seems like the exact thing you need here.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/if-let.html
Let’s Kill All the Mosquitoes
Then you too do not understand love.
Am I the only one who doesn't understand why every single piece of code needs to be installed through npm?

Even css? Come on!
I wonder if this could be solved temporarily by simply placing the 3D printer in a clear plastic trash bag -- or would that lead to overheating?
There is an effort[1] to unify these changes alongside a revised IRC spec that reflects real world implementations and improves upon the existing RFCs, but it's a longer term plan and still a work in progress.

[1] https://github.com/kaniini/ircv3-harmony
A 10% boost for an hour, or a series of short breaks without having to stop, could turn an almost-champion into a champion.
When the cost of living is high but the income of blue collar jobs are adjusted accordingly, isn't everything relative?
coldtea is a known pro-Apple, anti-Microsoft shill who has no problem lying in an attempt to make Apple look good and make Microsoft look bad.

Anyone who acted like this person in an anti-Apple way would have been kicked off of this forum already.
Actually, its a differentiation that most journalist and editors fail to make primarily because their publications sell better using the term "spy" instead of "(case) officer" for the intelligence agency employee and "agent" or "asset" for the actual spy that is being run.

Unfortunately, that disservice has existed for decades and is probably difficult if not impossible to break.
Note that this comparison is really old, from mid-2014, while the tested dietlibc is from 2009 (although not much changed since).
Actually, lots of 3D printers have a box in which the process takes place, so the temperature stays relatively constant, both in time and through the piece being made.
I didn't post the original screenshot, you're probably confusing me for the poster of the parent comment.

I am using Windows and I'm writing this from a desktop, from a Linux VM. I don't find window management to be much better when using a mouse. I maximize all my non-instant messenger windows.

Maybe one day I'll use a different window management paradigm, but I doubt it. I already have a special keyboard layout and every time I use a standard keyboard layout I feel/look like a newbie since I need to adapt to the new circumstances. Switching to a different window management paradigm would mean that I would have an even harder time adapting to using another PC.
I was expecting such a discussion to come up at some point since 3D printers become more widely available. This being said, while the exposure is likely lower, one should also be careful of all the dust that's emitted by your PC/Monitor (including TVs) since it's composed of heavy metals, plastics, solvents and other not so friendly organic compounds - breathing them over a long time is unlikely to be completely harmless.
Isn't it in most countries? In the US the interest paid is at least a write off. But principal payments have already been taxed as income...
Pebble Time is within $200-250. Battery life is almost a week (I don't take a charging cable when going on small trips). It is basically a notification display + fun aesthetics.

Though if you're talking about wearing a $1000 watch, the pebble watches as a whole might not be your vibe. The Pebble Time (especially the red one) can look like a McDonald's toy from afar

But if you remember that you're wearing things like a smartwatch to _get your shit together_ (or whatever), after powering through the initial self-conciousness of wearing a Game Boy Color on your wrist goes away. Well, did for me at least. But the first couple of weeks were almost embarassing.
Of course it makes no sense - it's a paradox !
But that argument is always a nice touch (and a down vote magnet) - it pisses people off because it makes them feel guilty for reasons that are beyond their control.

But you can think deeper than "earn" and "afford".
You don't have to, but it won't hurt if you started looking beyond the linguistic abstractions so conveniently given to us by the media and corporations.

Look up the documentary "Darwin's nightmare", watch it and then look up the Apple iWatch launch event with Christy Turlington and a video of her wearing the iWatch in Tanzania.
This is something I've been wondering about for a while in regards to Apple. Like you said, the iPhone was truly revolutionary. It was the best phone on the market by a very large margin. The iPad was also significantly better than the competition when it first came out (mostly due to Apple's iron fist approach to app developers).

These days the only product Apples makes that is significantly better than the competition is the MBP, and even that gap is slowly disappearing. The iPhone is not significantly better than the top Android phones. Microsoft has leapfrogged Apple in the tablet space. The Apple Watch was anything but revolutionary. Their desktops have never been better than the competition. Apple TV doesn't offer much compared to the competition. Their recent service offerings (e.g. Apple Music) haven't been better than the competition.

I can't remember the last time Apple released something that was clearly better than anything else on the market. That used to be routine for Apple. I don't know if it's due to Apple getting worse or everyone else getting better, but it's interesting to note.
I'd like to jump in and endorse CMake, too, after spending some frustrated nights some years ago trying to add autogoo to a project.

It was so mindblowingly easy to get CMake to work--to detect/find paths for libraries, work on Linux and Windows, the whole nine yards--on a project I had, I had the basic cross-platform functionality up in a matter of hours on my very first attempt.

And the makefiles it produces generate pretty colored output. :-)

Autogoo knowledge seems like it's about on par with a deep knowledge of Xlib--good for anyone maintaining a legacy project, I'm sure.
In this particular case it's because Bulma is using node-sass as a precompiler. I'd wager a guess this is true of most CSS packages that you're finding on NPM. Additionally, it's more pleasant to use than Bower (in my humble opinion).
> a couple instances of artillery shelling

You know it's much more than that right? Read that wikipedia page.

Just based on 10 seconds of skimming through that page: BSF shot and killed a couple of kids, in one instance BSF fire killed a 60 year-old man while he was farming.

Are you seriously giving the BSF a total free pass?
ES2016 Features and ECMAScript as a Living Standard
Perhaps you were wearing it too tightly?
Contrary to what Topolsky and Malik say, Twitter’s model is sustainable
There's nothing forcing you. The code is right there in the repo. You're welcome to download it via Github's download button, cloning via git, or NPM. NPM is a very helpful option because it's the fastest and easiest way to get it into my project and not have to copy and paste stuff around either from my OS UI or command line. Just `npm install` then possibly writing a line in a gulpfile to copy the css where I need it if using unaltered.
It took a bit long to get to a spandrel explanation, but once it did, it was thorough.

As an observation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chin quotes:

> Enlow, Donald H. (1982). Handbook of facial growth. Philadelphia: Saunders. p. 283. ISBN 0721633862. "In the human mandible, a prominent chin marks this region, a distinctive feature that characterizes the face of modern man (and also, for reasons yet to be studied, the elephant)."

and further qualifies "although this leads to debate over the use of the term."

The Atlantic author does a followup on this topic, at http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/no-really-other-ani... , saying:

> “For these reasons, it is generally agreed that whatever the biological situation occurring on the front of the elephant lower jaw, it is fundamentally different from the condition in humans,” says James Pampush, who recently reviewed the various possible origin stories for the human chin. “It may provide some insights into the situation in humans, but to call it a 'chin' stretches the definition.”

However, that addresses a different topic. In common speech we use "hair" to refer to refer to hair on a mammal, made primarily of keratin, and to a chitinous seta on an insect. Thus, "hair" does not depend on a shared evolutionary history, though I think Pampush would prefer that to be the case.

If that were the case then "chin" would, by definition, only apply to humans.
Bootstrap is so simple you don't need WYSIWYG.
Great. What a lovely waste of money. It's the "solar freaking roadways" bullshit again. No, making roads solar panels is not a good idea. At all. End of story. It's always a better idea to spend the money on a solar farm.

1. Road surfaces need to be resilient to grit and large trucks driving over them in rain and other shitty conditions. Glass is much softer than rocks, and it will undoubtedly crack eventually in the constant heating and cooling, not to mention tree roots and all the other issues that fuck up asphalt. Not to mention you'd need to clean (or replace) the panels so often you might as well make the roads out of gold.

2. In order to actually get the power from the solar panels, you need an energy grid that is as big as the road network (this isn't a big deal for small rollouts, but it is an important note to make). In almost all countries, this is simply impractical (the electricity network is several times smaller than the road network) and would be an enormous waste of money for very little gain.

3. Solar panels are already about 30% efficient at best. However, that metric only applies for solar panels being hit with direct sunlight. If you lay your panels flat on the ground (and not on rotating sunflower-like angled panels) you lose yet another third of the amount of energy you could've gained. Why? What was the fucking point of that?

TL;DR: Please just build solar farms and stop trying to reuse the road system for something it wasn't designed for. You're just wasting taxpayer's money.
Switzerland is brutally expensive. If you go to a restaurant for a steak you'll pay like 100 USD just for the steak. If you aren't rich you'll probably become almost vegetarian just from the prices of meat. People often go to France to buy groceries if they live close enough to the border.
Haven't tried the Round, but the battery life is hard to deal with...

Honestly, I think if you get a black Time (or one of the Time Steels), you can make it work even in relatively formal situations. Because the main unit is relatively thin, you can even get it under your shirt color easily.

I have a red Time, and even then people just assume it's a sports watch or something before they see it light up with a message on it.
> Huh? Does this mean that he normally sleeps with a watch on?

I always have. Had no idea that some did not, why bother taking it off, especially if it's waterproof? If it's impinging on your wrist or otherwise uncomfortable, you're wearing it too tightly.

I guess this is one of those things nobody really talks about, which leads to some weird differences, such as the guy who never realized until adulthood that putting the toilet seat down was something that wasn't just for women (like, he never did it AT ALL): https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2jgfhw/tifu_by_using_...

Years later I discovered I had sleep apnea, so "sleep tracking" (currently via Fitbit Charge HR) became important.
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