skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also some occasional javascript related gems here: https://twitter.com/realDonaldJS
Yeah, after reading that I was really wondering about the use case for those extensions at the time they were added. I honestly can't think of any now.
Real world exponentials are not necessarily smooth.
I'm not sure we're moving that far out quite yet. For starters, most of the very big sites that do stuff (PayPal, Ebay, Airbnb, etc) are still mostly request/response, which works pretty well.

And even the newer stuff isn't so much Websockets as it is serving JSON to single-page apps.

I've wanted to like Django (because Python is my preferred language) but it still feels so crufty from its origins as a newspaper server.
that's a BS number everyone uses but no one knows for sure because it's too hard to calculate. What's a startup? What's a success? Stay open for 5 years. technically their's isn't a failure then because they possibly stay open as a side project for another couple years.
Huh, I keep getting redirected to the mobile version on a desktop. Guess it must have something to do with uBlock Orign or something.
Argentinian here. The problem is a bit more complex than "populism", because of course if non-populist governments were handling the country perfectly, there would be no risk of "populist" options.

The causes for the problems in Latin America are complex, there is no single root cause that can be easily explained in an Internet forum, and keep in mind many of these countries -- well, I can at least speak for Argentina -- were historically owned and managed by decidedly non populist landowners which influenced the following generations of leaders (and some of these families still own portions of the country). So if populism was a reaction to conservatism and prior authoritarian governments, it cannot (alone) be the root cause of our problems.

Sure, corruption is a problem as well, but I think that alone it doesn't explain our problems either.

I think corruption and populism are more symptoms than causes.
Excel is ubiquitous because, as noted, it is an incredibly powerful tool. Facebook is ubiquitous because of network effects.

It's not a straight analogy. Specialized use cases can coexist with Facebook, otherwise half the Social-Network-for-X or Facebook-but-not-Facebook startups wouldn't exist. Productivity applications in contrast have an uphill battle and tend to stray away from anything even remotely resembling a spreadsheet UI.
You should try the reading-mode button in safari/firefox. Pretty much the very first thing I do on any article before I start reading.
Alternatively, you are always hitting the hockey-stick of 5-10 years ago.
They should have built nuclear plants when oil was expensive.
Automats from the 60's had a full kitchen behind the glass wall. Not to-go food. But a limited menu.
Venezuela is not a very rich nation. It would be like claiming that Afghanistan is very rich because they have massive deposits of metals.

In just three years, their inflation (the bolivar has lost 97% of its value) and economic contraction has taken their GDP per capita from ~$14,000 to ~$4,000. They've lost at least 70% of their economy, and it's not over yet.

Saudi Arabia's economic output is nearly five times greater per capita. Their median income and median household net wealth are both vastly higher than Venezuela. Saudi Arabia still has substantial capital reserves, while Venezuela has almost none.

Venezuela now has a $20 monthly minimum wage. [1] Most of the nation is struggling to afford food.

Saudi and Venezuela couldn't be any more different outside of being petro states.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-06/monthly-sa...
Of course, Microsoft itself bought into many markets once upon a time. While Excel isn't one where that was the case, its sister app PowerPoint started as Microsoft's first major acquisition.

The point is, you can have that vision for a while, but eventually the market changes such that the threat (or opportunity) to your business isn't so direct to be obvious like Instagram was to Facebook.
This is completely anecdotal. I could just as easily argue that the vast majority of businesses across cultures, demographics, socioeconomic factors use a variety of tools to promote themselves. In Canada, we have plazas, traditional websites, and more to get the word out. B2B, B2C, whatever you want to call it.

For the other cases you mentioned: Groups to collaborate, Events to organize - these are all completely underwhelming alternatives to other market products. The biggest tragedy of Facebook is that it has enormous scale but it can't write comprehensive products that satisfy all of that scale uniformly. You get the lowest common denominator, which is why customers go for niche alternatives.

Excel is not Facebook. Yes, Facebook is big. Excel is big in its industry. However, Excel has just enough of a balance between niche and scale. Excel is about computation and reporting. It solves a very specific need that is fortunately applicable in all types of applications. As soon as you try to go outside the bounds of what Excel can do (large data analytics, more customized reporting, interactive applications) you stop trying to rationalize Excel and start using other tools. People do the same with Facebook. More people do it with Facebook because Facebook doesn't effectively solve as many core needs.
Was he unmasked, or did he just voluntarily disclose his identity? Seems like he went to Bloomberg and offered them a scoop.
There were some:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_games#Video_games

All of them failed.
I really don't know why MGM didn't gave it to a AAA studio, such shame...
Welcome to the people who want to participate in serious discussions. You still have threads, and whole subreddits for that matter, with jokes. But before this tag, people who wanted a joke-free discussion were unable to do so on Reddit, and had to dig through piles of puns and jokes to get some thoughtful comments. Now we have space for both groups.
How to generate and host your API documentation for free with open-source tools
That article is a bit odd.

It has a graph of fare prices which shows the LU as being absurdly expensive.

It is expensive, but not that much (about half). I've seen single digit numbers of people using paper tickets, and most of those were probably travelcards.

No-one pays the cash fare, we use Oyster (smart card). The cash fare has been artificially inflated in price to force people onto the smart cards.
It's a good thing because it expands our ability to automate things. It rewards innovation rather than manipulating the immigration process.

And you know why people don't want Mexicans to flood America. I've seen you link to Putnam's study which shows that diversity destroys trust and communities. There are real externalities here.
Zuckerberg Education Ventures invests in $2.3M seed for Volley.com
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11302538 and marked it off-topic.
Yep. In an absolute sense, Google's search engine is nothing but the honey that attracts what Google is actually selling. More or less a tourist attraction (albeit useful in its own right). This is supported by the fact that Google has started to diminish the integrity of the results to "sell" more to advertisers (by adding more sponsored results over time).
It is cool that I can use 3 different engines to talk to sql db's, but maybe don't tell me that right away. I think it is more interesting that your architecture is so flexible and maybe show me how simple it is to get started.
Yes, I always teach novices with area scoring, because all of the "if I played it out, I'd kill you, but I don't have to actually play it out" stuff is incredibly confusing to someone learning the rules for the first time. It's much nicer to have no penalty (other than opportunity cost) for playing these sequences out.

The AGA system of pass stones, bringing area and territory scoring into alignment, is very nice, but I think it's still a bit abstract for someone who's just starting out.
Happened to lawyers already. Back in the floppy-disk days when Home Lawyer got big. Happened to tax accountants with TurboTax. So, finance is next. Makes sense.
So, technically speaking, they're going to turn it off and on again.
a large majority of the Carls Jr locations are franchise - the pay of the CEO of McDonalds or Carls Jr is not really connected.

A far larger problem is the market focus on short term performance and a changing regulatory environment (post enron) that criminalizes mistakes - for the last 30 years (since the corporate raider era in the 80's) CEO tenure has been shrinking, and overall risk has (to the CEO) been rising - because of that rising risk (of being sued, fired (for not meeting unrealistic market performance), or even going to jail) - their pay has gone up considerably.

I'm not saying any of this is good or right - it just is.
The idea that partially-structured or unstructured Facebook could be a _serious_ competitor for a website that enforces some structure and provides services that can only work with that structure sounds a little stretch to me. It seems to me that the direction we are moving is towards more structured, purpose oriented websites that provide better services.
Lessons from the Crypto Wars of the 1990s [pdf]
> You can guarantee that Facebook has already signed up 99% of your potential userbase.

That's only true if your userbase is relatively young. Facebook is far from ubiquitous among middle-aged people who still have smartphones, etc.
these have been my complaints of this offering of digital stereoscopy

> I touched on some nausea issues, mostly in terms of particular examples of comfort and discomfort alike

> I felt stuck in a dizziness spell

i felt this prologned discomfort, even one time, my last time, having my eyes cross for nearly an hour after removing the dk2 following a maybe 30 minute dev session

> The answer is hard to pinpoint because it didn't have anything to do with the crisp screens or otherwise solid hardware.

> It took a developer fixing the issue on one demo for me to figure out one possible reason: the headset may have occasionally lost webcam tracking.
Certainly, some tracking disconnect occurred

though tracking may have contributed i think the source lies in two key issues:

0,the headset cuts off circulation to your eyes
1,the stereoscopic divide, and lenses are one size fits all

> which, as an aside, left a "raccoon eyes" imprint on my face

yeah, but what that means, and what i wanted to express, was that you are cutting off circulation to your eyes, an organ that requires good blood flow for its health let alone function

that second point is based on the fact that all faces are different but the headset and software lacks any ability for compensating for this

the headset fails to account for interpupillary distance(o) and as such you brain is working overtime to compensate for the slight derivation in inputs

if you wear glasses, bend one lens slightly out of alignment and see how long it takes for your eyes to adjust both to the new orientation of your glasses, and then back again after you take them off

.. (o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpupillary_distance
Yes I agree Crawford's JD, professorship, and experience as an internet activist lend a lot of credence to her stance.

Generally I like to think if you understand encryption and where it is used in technology, then you should be able to understand why back doors are bad for public safety and the economy. But there is still 42% of the population who thinks the DOJ is in the right. That's too many.

The facts need to be brought to the attention of the public so they can make up their own minds. And it is happening. Several public figures have already changed their positions to support Apple after learning more about the issue. Lindsey Graham and Sam Harris are two examples. Crawford's post is one more voice of reason in this debate.

About Megan Smith, I assume if the President did not feel she was qualified to advise him, then he would not have named her. We can only guess as to the conversations that are happening. We haven't had much transparency with the CTO on this issue.
Does it allow the credit issuers just to shift the blame to the end-users and deny 75% of fraud claims where the user could not adequately prove they were not present at the time and place of the fraud?
When realized, the robots that will make the (self-driving or not) entire car industry seem like a quaint little side business, will not look human.
Link is wrong.
I think a lot of the successful Social-Network-for-X apps hit a critical mass before FB groups became popular. It's going to be much harder to do that now because now Facebook for X is the X group on Facebook.
Please keep programming language flamewars off HN.
You can build your own bowl (completely customized) at Eatsa using their app. They also win on design and UX. I definitely recommend checking one out, it's really fun.
System 76 Oryx Pro (Clevo P650RE3) / Core i7 6700HQ / GeForce 970M 3GB/ 16GB RAM / 500 GB SSD / 15.6" 1920x1080 matte display / Ubuntu 15.10

A very nice desktop replacement for me. So far I am loving this laptop. It is very fast and great as a development machine. I usually have MySQL, Tomcat, Eclipse IDE, Emacs, several Bash terminals and Chrome with many tabs open. Everything feels fast and fluid.

Weighs around 5.5 lbs and the power brick probably an extra lb. Not bad for a workstation class 15" machine.

The matte screen is good, but not amazing. The 1920x1080 resolution is perfectly adequate for a 15" screen. There is a higher end option with an IPS panel and G-Sync, but I didn't purchase that.

If I have one complaint, it is the battery life. I get 2 or 2.5 hours max on this laptop with light to medium use. I don't know if it is poor power management under Linux, but I think on Windows it uses Optimus switching for the dedicated graphics card. Since I use it mainly as a desktop replacement, this is not a deal breaker for me.

Speakers are loud and clear.

I have Steam installed and can run AAA games like "Shadow of Mordor" at Ultra settings with high frame rates. It is great for getting some game time when I travel.

If you are looking for a powerful Linux workstation which can also handle gaming this is a very nice choice.
Interesting and realistic story. It reminds me Amazon directly delivering in (moving) car.
It's not crystal clear that she violated any laws. Agency heads determine policy for their department's classified information, and she was the most senior of the agency heads. She had explicit authority to classify and declassify information, and to say how it can be disseminated.

There isn't that much statutory groundwork to support charges and what there is says an agency head "is assumed to be acting under executive authority", i.e. as the arm of the President.

The Congressional Research Service wrote a rather helpful summary[1] of the myriad aspects of classification and law.

[1] https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/secrecy/RS21900.pdf

But yeah, if you or I were to do what she did, big difference - just not all because of politics.
You might do better with problems that ask you to determine the status (alive/dead/seki/killable/ko/etc) of a group of stones.
This is one of the reasons why BDFLs while being very effective, are also very dangerous. As when there is no equivalent replacement, the entire structure collapses.
What books should entrepreneurs read?
I totally forgot that they even asked that, even more I forgot what my educated guess was.... Shame on me.
Actually, I think it was the German Von Bismark who could be attributed to the quote...

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
Harsh? Seems pretty true to me.
What are the different types and risks of malware?
What was I missing? The part where you sign away your life to be anything but a spokesman for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza?
This is the link you want: http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/189498-top-10-myths-abou...
Great post - thanks for sharing!

There's also tons of good D3 tutorials on https://www.dashingd3js.com/, if you're looking for more of this kind of stuff...
Knew those were imminent; a recruiter contacted me a year and a half ago for a job working on those systems for McDonalds, so I knew it was only a matter of time before they started showing up.

You in the Chicago area, by any chance? That's where their R&D building is located. Although I believe she said they were going to do some testing on the west coast, also.
"One user sends an image and the other cannot display it" deals with features between two clients... I fail to see how this would be a more general issue with allowing different UIs. Especially since most chat clients do support the same features.

That argument is like saying we should only have one HTML browser because text-based browsers like w3m could exist.

And "one user sends an emoji, another client only displays a box, because he has no glyph in his font" is an issue between different operating systems. Even in a non-federated system like Slack I used to get emojis from people using iOS8 that don't display properly.
fyi, they're owned by fb
That's slated for the third 2 hour movie.
Yup totally agreed. I think "network-enabled mechanisms" much better describes the future. Internet-of-Things is a wider scope, the Internet-of-Machines are any device with the ability to perform work (i.e. apply a physical force through a distance)
Yes, it's too bad. But this is how business functions, this person sounds either naive or maybe just fed up. We all know it but don't want to think about it, or for those who are on the gravy train, don't want it discussed.
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, and ideological rants aren't ok either. Please don't do these things here.
Rituals and guilt: can these save environmentalism?
"Normal Joe" maybe, but senior executive? Nope. Or am I misremembering Petraeus' long prison term? Or does he get a bye because he was using a pc instead of a phone?
Very good...thank you.
300-year-old math question solved, professor wins $700k
It doesn't increase compile times. The type information is already there for type checking.
There are a lot of situations in life that end up having come down to "do you want to be right or do you want solve the problem?"

If you're a security professional who doesn't spend a fair amount of your energy making your users happy, you're failing at your main job of ensuring security, for exactly the reasons on display here. Security doesn't end when you've sent out the memo outlining your policy.
No personal attacks on HN, please. Nor political attacks.
This was originally posted on Facebook SpaceX public group.

Was surprised the executive would be this candid and never imagined it would spread this fast!
That heat map should be entirely doable with just the Google Maps API, right? That would be pretty interesting to see.
He called one business partner a "rich girl", he called another one a "poor girl" and seemed exasperated that his company has to keep buying gifts for its "brides". He continued with ridiculous and derisive statements that insult nearly everyone in the industry, especially key customers. This is not about "honesty" - it's about not being the most mean-spirited, bitter, vapid, hateful VP you could imagine.
That ship sailed almost 10 years ago, the complaints now are getting bit tired. Words occasionally take on new meanings, live with it.
A quick skim of the article shows more than just honesty.

He's telling folks outside the company that a) ULA is courting Aerojet Rocketdyne with little intention of actually going with them, b) a prominent Senator is biased against them and and c) the Pentagon skewed a competition in their favor.

As the article says:

> This is not something Air Force procurement officers want to see quoted in the next SpaceX lawsuit. Nor is it something that McCain was happy to hear. At a hearing this morning, he called for an investigation into the contract.
> we can control it ourselves by unfriending/unfollowing/unliking things we don't like... But we can't apply this assumption to the whole active userbase of Facebook/Instagram.

Perhaps that is the UX challenge companies like these should be pursuing? One of the unfortunate side effects of the valley's growth fetish is that features like "make it easier to break connections" get sharply deprioritized.

I naively dream of a world where products teach the masses "it's easy to settle only for quality, and it's okay to stiffarm the other noise that clamors for your attention"
I can't really say as to whether this is due to load, or some underlying problem, but it seems that - currently - if you just wait around for the system to get to your requested (free) screenshot, it ticks down to 4 Screenshots ahead of yours, and... Nothing.

Not a single one of the boxes seem to update anymore. They all just say 4 screenshots ahead of yours. It seems, I spoke a bit too soon. Something is happening now. I guess my cynicism got the better of me when they all hit 4 and just... Stopped :)
Dengue fever vaccine proves 100% effective in human trials
>Robotics, particularly without the gov't pig trough, needs a visionary and a long game point.

There's a massive opportunity for a startup to move towards the personal/home robot market and make a killing, without any government help nor without some fabled visionary type person.

Google sought what were essentially military robots from BD. Those machines, if ever turned into a product, would have been tens of millions of dollar each. They make no sense and google cannot solve the problem of loud servos/actuators and the relatively low power density of battery technology. Heck, some BD demos I've seen run on gas engines. When the DoD is your customer, the last thing you want to sell them is a tool that'll give away their soldiers' positions.

I've seen ROS projects on commodity hardware that's 75% of the way to a decent home robot. I think this is doable within the next 10 years. Having a home robot will be like having a smartphone today. We'll wonder how we got along without them. Hell, I'm half-tempted to get into this field myself.

Everything about robots from these big companies has been "big picture" bullshit; big spending, big PR releases, big promises, untried tech, and sadly lots of questionable patent filing sprees. None of these big companies are interested in making a real affordable product it seems, or believe it to be too difficult or unprofitable. Its like they're trying to sell mainframes in 1980 and the PC Jr, Commodore64, Apple //, etc are soon going to eat their lunch. The big iron approach failed in computing the same way its failing in robotics.
Because turnover is expensive and you want people to be satisfied enough with their jobs not to leave.
Relevant poster: http://www.businessinsider.com/craigslist-versus-startups-ch...
Reddit is likewise another competitor.

I've always looked at many of the subreddits as a potential for different products or a channel to access customers of that interest.

For example:

* r/RedditGetsDrawn -- Marketplace for artists and users
* r/SomebodyMakeThis -- Request for product
* r/DataIsBeautiful -- Collection of people passionate about data visualization
* r/IAMA -- Ask Me Anything -- many other community sites have copied this concept.
The seed ships (SGU) had stargates though - I don't think those came out of the Milky Way, and I'm very sure they predate the Milky Way stargate system
Does Nginx support ASGI? What's the recommended production ASGI web server?
Is the hardware really that much of a problem ? It seems like the Boston Dynamics robots are already very far along on the mechanical aspects. I've also seen videos of industrial robots which appear to work with greater speed and agility than humans. My impression is that solving the control problem robustly and rapidly is a bigger obstacle than mechanical limitations.

I do see the power source as being an issue. Many of the most impressive robots are tethered, but even a tethered humanoid robot could be extremely useful.