skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As has been said, road paving is a commodity business, so the reason why this particular road might be that expensive is probably that it's a remote road on difficult terrain.

Which raises the question: should this very expensive road, which is primarily used by members of this specific and admittedly wealthy community, be subsidized by the rest of (relatively) poor taxpayers of that state?
What a horrible keynote. There was literally nothing new, just the same products, only smaller.
Bad comparison IMO. The tablet market is distinct from the productivity tablet market. What percentage of those ipad are replacing laptops?
Conservatives believe in fiscal freedom and social control. Liberals, inversely, are for fiscal control and social freedom. Both, in theory, could argue they are for "smaller government".

Libertarianism wants both fiscal and social freedom. Small government compared to the "left" and "right", big government compared to the AnCap folks.

It is all perspective.
It's good for a stylus, but it's still drawing on glowing glass with a piece of plastic.
Augh, I see.

I don't understand why a 4 mb image would be likely cached. The problem is mostly custom sites with massive assets, not your copy of jquery that's probably heavily redundant.
Is this the new "it's not my job to educate you" SJW cliche?
I do generally agree with you, but I'm not really talking about engineering or physics, I'm talking about social acceptance.

If - via engineering, physics, magic or whatever - sonic booms can be minimized to the point of being indistinguishable from general background noise (or even only as intrusive as current subsonic airliners), I could be convinced that an SST project has a bright future. Until then, I don't think that they will - your first post mentioned that "the whole house shaking" didn't really seem to be hardship when it happened during the day; I'm merely commenting that there are some studies that indicate society as a whole isn't so accepting.
Note that the price in Denmark includes VAT, whereas the price in the US is before any taxes.

Though which comparable device would you suggest at a similar price point?
I was literally planning to order one as soon as it became available on apple.com, but oh well...
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Feedback request: Wearable for Makers
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"Passion" comes from the Latin word for "suffering"; the etymology comes through "the passion of the Christ" (ie, the suffering of Jesus during the crucifixion).

A modern definition that encapsulates the old definition might be, "your passion is the thing you are willing to suffer for."

Something to think about when companies seize on "passion" as a buzzword.
I wish I could share your hope.

Good luck to you - this is a really exciting idea and one that I think we need!
Archived: http://archive.is/Fr9kP
Aren't there more dimensions to user experience then one handed operation?
with the `go generate` version as well ?
> No 3D touch is a very odd fragmentation.

Indeed.

I see this as a sign that 3D touch is not getting much traction.
Would the Wifi power/signal strength be stronger or weaker than that of the similarly sized iPhone4?
Thanks for this answer! Do you think there are opportunities to get this kind of experience outside of a consultancy?
I could, but these projects go to people who haven't numbed their minds on ten years of enterprise bullshit.
Yes. In reviews of the original iPad Pro most people say that it is a tool best used for laying flat and using the pen. You can't do that with a bulge without a case (Back+Front=$118?!)
Doug is a great guy and super helpful. He has personally responded to many issues on Express as well as the ecosystem of Express middleware. He is truly a treasure. Doug - if you ever read this I personally really appreciate you.
> you fucking cosplaying idiots

You can't comment like this here. Please be civil from now on.
Yeah, we're mostly in agreement on that. I don't believe in locking down data that is provided free of charge to the public in one manner from other methods of access (i.e. eyeballs vs scraping) in any way beyond normal usage rate limiting that applies equally to all.

As it pertains to this specific story, I think Twitter was well within their rights and norms to try to move a special cased user to some more traditional offering of their, or to at least make them justify their usage. I also think it's well within Emojitracker's rights and is acceptable to try to make a public stink if they think they are getting a raw deal. The only thing that I think leaves a bad taste in my mouth is that he did so prior to attempting a good faith negotiation with Twitter.
For people like me who have no video, no games, and minimal music on their phones it's perfectly fine. I mostly just use a few messaging apps, instagram, snapchat, facebook, etc. The audience on HackerNews probably utilizes the space on their phones much more than the average consumer.
Just in case there are any posts about the complexity of using any pdf library, you need to understand that the PDF spec itself is an almost unimaginable monster of complexity and frustration.
3D Touch is confusing enough as-is for new users...

Now you don't even know which devices support it. Very frustrating from the UX standpoint.
Buy a high performing Razer Blade Pro http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-pro
Concorde was almost coach level cramped. There is no way this will be as comfortable as top end subsonic lie flat business or first class. For 3h vs 6h that doesn't matter. For 7h vs 13h I assert it does.
So your response to me basically writing "it sucks that I can't even write programs on this, despite being sold as a powerful computer" is "You wouldn't expect to write programs on a toaster, would you?"
...too stupid to invent new insults.
A standard car weighs 4000 lbs, that's a lot of weight to crush you if it falls on you while you're working on it.

People shouldn't be allowed to go under vehicles to repair them. In fact changing a tire with a jack is very dangerous too.
Couldn't this be work towards getting functionality ready that may not be enabled on phones (or even tablets) but would allow the Chromebooks to go Android?
Just... run several processes of the same app?
Says who? 3D touch is a horrible addition. It has lots of discoverability problems and is inconsistent across applications. We avoid cluttering the interface by adding easter eggs to the interface for features that everyone would like to use.
The Air is still there, and actually got cheaper. It seems a bit of a stretch to call this a price increase.
Huge cost delta for transatlantic vs transpacific flights on a commercial aircraft vs a plane which can deadhead.
As far as I'm aware, Apple has never removed hardware functionality on a future generation of that iOS device. I would expect the iPhone 7, 7S, 8, etc to all have 3D Touch. Now, whether they continue to integrate it into more places in the OS will remain to be seen.
Mail-in-a-Box is a wonderfully easy to setup (self-hosted) email server that I've been using for the past year.
If an expensive feature has discoverability problems, it probably doesn't sound awesome from Apple's perspective.

The current CEO of Apple is the former COO, someone well regarded for his prowess in managing Apple's supply chain and determining optimal cost per unit for Apple's products.

If only a small percentage of customers use 3D Touch and 3D Touch adds a substantial cost per unit, I can see why Mr. Cook would disagree with 3D Touch being an awesome addition.

I personally use 3D Touch to open links in new tabs in Safari, but that's only because 3D Touch interferes with the long press gesture.
Natural (systems of) units
Hollywood did that too, you know? It wasn't strange back then.

Ask Singing in the Rain and West Side Story :)
It's all the same. I hate that people think there is this "left/right" gap when there isn't.

Sanders and Hillary both back Obamas official lines including increased wars, creating/arming ISIL/ISIS (yes, that was created by the US, directly. Don't kid yourself. In 30 years it will come out of a declassified document, just like Cointelpro, Bay of Pigs and the 1973 cope in Chile).

In regards to legalization, I don't think the US federal government will take a stance either way, unless Canada gets full legalization passed first. The biggest reason that it simply can't be legal at a federal level involves international treaties (which is why it's not even technically legal in The Netherlands, even though there are laws governing growing, sale and taxation .. even though it's still not legal to sell.. it's just 'tolerated' and taxed ...and regulated).
I need a banana for comparison.
At the very least, hard drive platters exhibit no discernible macroscopic magnetic force, i.e. put a piece of metal on one and it won't even twitch.
There's tons of videos on YouTube by a lot of amazing artists using the iPad Pro + Pencil. My girlfriend wasn't sure whether to get one or a Cintiq; comparison reviews [1] convinced her to go for the iPad and she loves it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMA25CqKcn8
It's not a bad comparison.

The question is why is Apple not diving into a "productivity machine" like the Surface. The answer is that the iPad Pro is selling better than the Surface. That is: Apple isn't building the Surface because they built something that sells better.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11303489
That's a pretty shitty stereotype to apply.
I was curious about fuel costs and found that the fuel cost per seat per mile for Delta and Southwest was around $.04 per mile in 2Q 2014. At that rate, even if this new aircraft uses 4x as much fuel per person it would amount to around 20% of the ticket price.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/southwest-fuel-hedging-overvie...
Liam, Apple's super-secret, 29-armed robot that tears down your iPhone
This is very interesting, but the real question is: how do you test which approach is better?

For example, in the text detection case there are almost unlimited combinations of transforms that you can put together. Usually you use some hybrid of gut feeling and results to decide, but I bet Netflix has enough data to make that call in a more principled way.

Would be awesome to hear about that. How do you create a labeled dataset? How exactly do you measure which approach is better? Is there a perceptual element to it, or is it all quantitative?

Edit: here's the related money quote from the retargeting paper linked in the other comment:

"In terms of objective measures for retargeting, our results show that we are still a long way from imitating human perception. There is a relatively large discrepancy between such measures and the subjective data we collected, and in fact, the most preferred algorithm by human viewers, SV, received low ranking by almost all automatic distance measures."
don't think it actually talks much about how it does it at ' scale'. how expensive is it to perform these operations? are images cropped dynamically as they are requested or do they pre-process the images and cache it somewhere.

did they do anything clever to parallelize the process? what underlying technologies do they use...
Do you have any counterexamples? Haggling is very common in countries like India and various Middle Eastern countries. To say any of these countries have world-leading economies would be quite simply false. India's getting better, but it's basically adopting western culture.
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According to IDC:

> We believe Apple sold just over two million iPad Pros while Microsoft sold around 1.6 million Surface devices

So 2m Vs. 1.6m, the remaining 14.1m devices are an entirely different class at an entirely different price-point.

The iPad Pro did outsell the Surface line in one quarter, but it is worth noting that the Surface Pro 4 was a minor upgrade, whereas the iPad Pro was a brand new class of device for Apple.

Where Microsoft has been making in-roads with the Surface Pro line in particular is corporate/enterprise ultrabooks. The iPad, even the "Pro" doesn't have an answer to that.
The authors may want to consider how much of this work could be done easily and effectively with deep learning. For content-based search and image similarity, even simple, pre-trained convnets will likely crush the histogram-based approaches you have here.

Just run your images through Google Cloud vision to do the face detection and text detection. With 2M images, it will be cheaper than the amount of dev time you spent here, and you'll get excellent quality.
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Is there no self-hosted version of any alternative?
Who's talking about laptops? OP brought up that the iPad Pro is a reaction to the Surface, then the reply said that the Pro destroyed the Surface in sales. This has nothing to do with laptops, even if the sales on productivity tablets are pathetic, the Pro still seems to be winning those pathetic sales.
Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
>Though which comparable device would you suggest at a similar price point?

I wouldn't know, I won't pay above $30 to $40 for a phone or above $10 per month for my cellular plan. While a phone/smartphone is insanely useful, I just don't think the price is justified.
Many stores run a 50/50 setup these days, if they're large enough. That is, half the registers are card only, the other half accept both. I've seen it in Willys, Coop, and ICA.
> Can we now, please, get that behind us and move on?

What, and disrupt the massively profitable prison industry?
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> What percentage of those ipad are replacing laptops?

Think about what you're saying, why would replacing laptops be a priority for Apple if they can outsell hybrids 10 to 1 by focusing on making a great consumption device?

Apple and Google are focused on the mobile computing platform of the future which already outsells pcs with the gap widening every year.

Instead Apple uses their OSX product lines to compete in the pc market.
For the price you quoted, what will the seating situation be? Comparable to existing international coach, or somewhere between coach and business class? Do you have approximate seating charts and spacing?

Will that vary by airline, or do you plan to standardize it?
I keep it like an unopened fifth on the mantle of a recovering alcoholic: a symbol of the triumph of rational resource allocation over obsession. But maybe someday I'll relapse, and you'll find me red-eyed and half-delirious at 3 AM--tweaking CSS, typing `cap staging deploy`, and hitting Cmd+R.
Edit: As I posted below, my reasoning for this comment is perhaps better summarized by Zach Holman's discussion on the topic of github "streaks" and how he found himself burned out after a long series of streaks. Worth reading if you haven't already:

https://zachholman.com/posts/streaks/

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Honest feedback--and this is a bit out of left field--but I think that the author of this project needs to SLOW DOWN.

Here is his Github contribution chart:

http://i.imgur.com/d1IA1if.png

This... does not look like a sustainable level of work. 100 straight days of coding since last December? Yikes.

This sounds like an interesting project, founded on good ideas, but sustaining this level of work will do no good if you burn out before there are other contributors to pick up the slack. I know that a lot of people can keep working this hard for much longer, but quality will inevitably start to suffer, well before you actually burn out. And, at the very least, you need to take the time to step back and validate your ideas. This is something you'll never do if you're always heads-down coding.

I'm not saying that taking more breaks (weekends off, etc) works for everyone, but I just thought something needed to be said. I've seen friends and former colleagues fall into the trap of working on a project so deeply that it becomes a crazy obsession that they cannot escape. It's all they talk about and it can kind of scare people away. Not saying that this is such an extreme case, but it's something that can happen if you're not careful.
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but did you see this story?

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/03/comcast-failed-to-in...
Could I use the free tiers of these services as a personal email service as an alternative to, say, Gmail? I'm using my own mail client (like SeaMonkey or Thunderbird) and I have my own domain name.

Would they mind that I used the free tier in this way? Are there any downsides?

The reason is privacy. I don't want Gmail (or other free email services) scanning, analyzing, and saving away my email. I think the "transactional email services" in the featured article would be more private since their motivations and they way they make money are different than Gmail.
VAT is included in the list price, the sales tax is not. Excluding the VAT, the UK price is ~300 GBP, which is roughly 430 USD. All we have is ~30 USD difference.
Tests in TDD are focused on behaviours required by the problem being solved. One rule in TDD, as Kent Beck lays it out, is if you can't design and complete a test (of behaviour) in under 10 minutes, you haven't broken down the original behaviour enough yet. He uses the simple reminder "start small or not at all". TDD is the very method of evaluating a design. However, keep in mind that this refers to the mechanics and details of a more global overarching design. You still start off with a plan and "bigger design".

TDD in this manner breaks down problems into small manageable chunks of unique behaviour very specific to the problem they are solving. Combine this with the refactoring step, and the code becomes simple to understand and readable. It's very important to note though, that a complex problem will always be complex. TDD does not remove the complexity of the problem domain.
That's abusive, and you can't post like this on HN, regardless of whether someone else made a mistake.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11329246 and marked it off-topic.
Well as for some prominent examples haggling is considered bad form for small transactions in the nordic countries and they do kind of well. All the places I go to that have a culture of haggling seems to be way worse off.

I guess others can provide more data points that points in this direction but I'd also appreciate counterexamples.
From the code samples, it looks like OpenCV... which is pretty hard to beat for well-understood image processing algos like thresholdling etc.

I guess at this point you can do it "at scale" by throwing enough servers and caching at the problem :)
A fiddly add-on keyboard is never going to make for a good productivity experience. I'd rather use a proper laptop with mittens than try and get anything done on a Surface that isn't the Surface Book. What's the point of making an OS X machine in tablet form factor when a MacBook is almost as thin and light and has a real keyboard and touchpad?
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I think focusing on Nixon on at this point is actively problematic.

Literally every administration since then has been complicit in this, and made it worse.
Too bad Lester Freamon got shut out of real police work.
Why do you think that other established players haven't entered this space (i.e. Boeing, etc)?
How many people did SpaceX start with? Certainly not the thousands of workers it has today. Everything you said about requiring a "national scale corp" was said about launching rockets to orbit as well. Looking at Boom's roster they have some seriously experienced industry vets working for them or advising them. This isn't just fresh grads. They've been through FAA/EASA cert trials of new aircraft, testing and understand it a fair bit more than you do I suspect. I'd give them a bit more credit and assume they know that they're in for the long haul with this airliner.
Sure, you can install Postfix or sendmail and run your own mail server. That's a tremendous administrative hassle, though, which is why these services sprang up in the first place.
This is the most delusional response I've ever seen. The Surface is not a success by any measure.
I (and others in the office) have. You are right that a bluetooth keyboard does pretty much solve the typing issue, and using the actual Magic Keyboard over the floppy iPad-specific keyboards gets it significantly closer to the feeling people are accustomed to. Definitely necessary if you are going to be working on a document (or replying to an e-mail with more than a sentence), but for myself there was still a huge productivity barrier by having to go from the keyboard to screen for mouse actions (scrolling, selecting text, hitting a button). The keyboard/trackpad combination allows both typing and mouse actions with minimal movement on the same plane. It sounds a bit lazy or silly, but I found having to pick one's hand up and poke something on the screen was pretty disruptive.
What is going on with Apple's HealthKit UI. Right now they are showing two different UI's:

NEW?: http://www.apple.com/researchkit/

NEW in 9.3: http://www.apple.com/ios/updates/

The NEW in 9.3 is a big step back IMO from all previous versions' widgets that had line graphs; the NEW in the researchkit page looks like a reasonable improvement...
That I don't know — probably not. Never used it, since my performance issues have always been with raw map[string]interface{} data.
They used to ask ridiculous non-math / non-CS questions like "how many golf balls can be stuffed inside a bus" just to see how you respond. Taking these questions out only leaves the esoteric math, stats, CS questions a la "Cracking The Coding Interview". So for guys like us trying to get in, unfortunately it doesn't make much of a difference :/
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What I find is that arguments in the comments are held to a lower standard. There's no way an original article can get away with the kind of hand-waviness we in the peanut gallery can. If someone writes an article whose primary assertion was unsupported by evidence or credible source, it's probably going to get flagged.

Do it in the comments, and the hive-mind takes over. Which, now that I think about it, could be a good thing in a sense. As article authors, we write to a larger audience, indicating what they're probably going read is researched and edited. As comment readers and writers, we put down the quill-and-ink and offer insights and opinions more directly from our own experience and intuition.

Quick, unadulterated thinking yields different results than the more grueling, task-oriented process of essay writing. And there's little reason to believe that these styles should be appraised one-dimensionally. Are some techniques not better suited to different circumstances?

Gladwell comes to mind, as well as Kahneman in support of less calculated approaches, however I am unfamiliar with the literature (beyond the layman-acclaimed NYT bestsellers). Is there a way to test the success of on-the-fly human heuristics against their slower and more deliberate procedures? Maybe one-size-does not fit all, but surely a skilled problem-solver would choose the right instrument for the gig.
On the developer preview of Android N you can double tap the recents key to switch to the previous window