skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, it is unbelievable that 100% of the people you asked had even heard of the Amazon Echo(it's hardly a household name), let alone that every single one of them had the same opinion on the product. Accusing people of engaging in group-think or tribalism over being downvoted for making a very dubious claim speaks volumes about the brand of pseudo-rationality you are engaging in, regardless of how truthful you are or aren't being with your claim.

It's one to thing to earnestly ask "what data is there help me understand why Echo is still so hyped". I don't think anyone downvoting you takes issue with you asking for information.

But when you're asking this question immediately after claiming to have surveyed a large group of people in your personal network - supposedly taking into account age, tech literacy, physical location, etc. - and received not only negative responses across the board, but a specific, unanimous emotional response that the device in question is "obnoxious", you should expect that people will receive such an absurd claim with extreme skepticism.

If you didn't want to divert from getting genuine responses to your earnest question, then you should have asked yourself if including information about this survey you supposedly conducted really added anything to the discussion, rather than blame the community for letting it serve as a distraction.
And they would have impounded all your computers. That's your choice to make, but I don't think it's obvious it's the correct choice. There's a lot of variables that go into that decision.
Looks like they feel threatened by Telegram growth, which means Telegram is doing quite well.
They probably used a root kit and a firmware
There's no cure or anything, just a handful of treatments for the symptoms and to keep things under control. For the heart rate issues I take Xanax periodically as needed - it keeps anxiety from building up and setting off my heart rate (which then feeds the anxiety in a vicious circle).

The autonomic problems also cause periodic drops in blood pressure so I take a medication for that, but also have weird treatments for it like a high-salt diet and compression stockings I wear very day. I also take an ADD med for the cognitive impairment that comes along with drops in blood pressure.

I also have major on-going fatigue and gastrointestinal issues related to the autonomic problems (turns out your autonomic nervous system runs EVERYthing), and I'm about to be tested for food sensitivities to see if changing my diet might help those.
> I wish we saw this more often in the US, but these days it seems like between a giant government and giant corporations, the people at the heads of them answer to almost no one.

The biggest reason why I want privacy and security for all is I don't want my future heads of government and policy makers to be beholden to anyone who might have dirt on them. If someone was able to get to those documents and leak them, who's to say someone else was not able to get to them before the leak?

What if someone were to get a hold of all the private conversations between future POTUS X and their boyfriends/girlfriends? I am more concerned that my elected representatives might have to reply "how high" when some clandestine operator says "jump". Yes, I am aware about campaign financing as well (saw the John Oliver video) and there's something we need to do about that as well.
Or just:

vim -d file1 file2.
A good writeup, and exactly what I was saying by "trusted set-up." I think it's important that this trusted set-up (and your writeup ofc) are known by anyone who is going to store value in the currency, rather than just merely assuming it's "same as bitcoin with more privacy."
>essentially creates an environment where any decent developer / founder tries to gtfo to Vancouver or SF as fast as possible.

And then the environment and expense of Vancouver makes most gtfo to Toronto or SF (like they wanted to in the first place).
If you're messing around with CP, why would you want to use your own exit node though? Why not just use someone else's? I suppose it might help mitigate the risk of de-anon attacks on the Tor network, but it still sounds pretty sketchy.
>Save the outrage for people who are actually discriminated against

How about white people at Github?
No they don't.

When you get to Amazon, and order a i3 $generation, you know exactly how many cores it will have, and what performance each core has. Every single one of those chips with the same tag have the same performance.
Well granted, they are making an impact.

It might not be the impact they wanted.

It reminds me of how ardent fans of <anything> (programing language, framework, brand, etc) are usually its worst enemies. But doing what they are doing, they are working for the opposition in fact.
This is the answer. Deregulate housing/small businesse spaces/offices and let the market do its work. It's crazy the amount of regulation there is that pretty much dictates single family detached homes for large swaths of the country. Here in Bend, for instance, you must have a driveway with not one, but two parking spots. Land of the free indeed...

http://marketurbanism.com/

Also, this book, although it's pretty high level: http://amzn.to/1qsn2RD

I think this is one of the most important issues in this day and age. It's happening everywhere, and things need to change.

Edit: downvoters, care to actually state your opinions? I'm hardly a libertarian, and neither is Matt Yglesias, author of the aforementioned book. I don't think 'free markets' are the answer to all the world's problems. But I do think a more liberalized market would help housing a lot. These areas need more supply, and if you don't want LA style sprawl, the best way to do that is via density. And the best way to accomplish that is probably by letting the market work, within reason: I don't suppose I'd be in favor of allowing an outdoor thrash metal venue in the midst of an otherwise quiet neighborhood, but there are a lot of things you could add to make places more livable and walkable without cars.
absolutely no proof it is e2e encrypted without the source.
Ask HN: Thoughts on life coaches in general and Tony Robbins in specific
The whole idea of life coaches seems like snake oil at first glance. And what people like Tony Robbins have done is get rich off of telling people how to achieve goals in their life. Most of the advice has very little scientific basis and seems to delivered very eloquently to unsuspecting minds and this trend seems to have a religious flavor in the sense that people immersed in it cannot accept discussion apart from praise.

There has been very little discussion on this topic on HN and the hacker community generally.
Without turning HN into Quora, what are your thoughts on this topic?
Has he actually done anything illegal? Avoidance is legal. Evasion is not.
But a no knock swat raid killing people's dog is more fun
It's 2016, and people still think that if someone moves into your neighborhood, someone else has to move out.

Rising demand is great. It means people want to enjoy your neighborhood.
You can either meet that demand by increasing supply, or you can restrict the demand, and let certain people be outpriced by the market.

Locals aren't victims of gentrification. They're victims of zoning laws and nimbyism.
Same experience here. I use Gitlab for my personal projects and Github for my open-source projects. Hopefully the speed improves soon.
Not likely to work well in place like Tucson, AZ... due to the consistently low relative humidity or am I reading this wrong?

Right now, for example in Tucson, AZ: humidity at 14% with a temperature of 76F and dew point of 24F. High will be 90F :( with Humidity around 6% mid-afternoon.
>Women are overlooked:

Plus you can get them for $0.70 on the dollar!
For me, I hope the someone who is supposed to resign is smart enough to already see the writing on the wall and one of the closer advisors or aides quietly says "it is time".
FoundationDB was a drop-in replacement for spanner as well. Can't wait to see more docs.
It's also going to be the centerpiece for a water-conscious art installation addressing the global water crisis at Burning Man, pulling water out of some of the driest air on the planet :)
BattleHand v1.0.7 Sınırsız Para Hileli Apk İndir – Ferhat Özal – Hile Apk İndir
I feel like there are a lot of security issues with QR code representations, namely that the information are even less transparent than hexadecimal fingerprints, and therefore are not really a fail-safe to MITM attacks.
Our times are special, but not because of the Internet
It's complicated.

The precise chain of events is:

1) 2006 Father of wife sells Toyota dealership at a very favourable price to a consortium of business men who use a bank loan to pay for it.

2) Wife inherits/is given money by father.

3) Wife uses some of the money to invest in Icelandic Banks using an offshore company Wintris. Note, Icelandic Banks are desperately raising capital during this period ... in order to allow them to make more loans. At the same time, Banks are also borrowing heavily from abroad, and re-lending that money to a small circle of businessmen (see 1).

4) Banks go under because during 2008 they are unable to rollover the loans that they have borrowed on the international credit market (see 3), and also are starting to experience massive defaults on the loans they have made to a small circle of Icelandic businessmen (see 1 & 3).

5) Wintris is listed as one of many creditors to the Icelandic Banks, and and consequently stands to benefit (or not) from the resolution talks that are ongoing to this day.
Yes, I do, I try to treat each commit like something that can be read in isolation. But nevertheless, the merge commit will have (if using GitHub) a reference to the pull request where you can see the discussion, which is valuable imo.
Do you somehow think those places are significantly cheaper than San Francisco? They're not.
This is the trouble for me using Gitlab.com. Feels like there is a lot of 'n+1' going on in the background. I'm sure there aren't, but it feels like a Rails app that is suffering from that.

Other than that it's great. I've moved nearly everything over from GitHub
Hi HN,

I’ve spent the last 3 months completely overhauling Site Builder Report. My goal was to make it an over-the-top helpful resource for choosing a website builder— so I even did things like pay for almost every website builder with my own credit card to test billing practices.

This is a classic "lifestyle" business (I hate that term...). I started it three years ago and reviewing website builders is now my full time job. My work is supported by earning an affiliate commission when readers choose a website builder based on my reviews.

I’d be curious to know what Hacker News thinks.
>but why are people moving to Phoenix? Isn't living in the less sexy areas of South Bay (Sunnyvale, Milpitas, South San Jose) pretty much on par with urban life in Phoenix?

No way. Phoenix is a wonderful place to live! The weather is beautiful! Forget that stuff you read about the heat; you'll get used to it. It's a dry heat!

Seriously, if you live in the Bay Area or Portland or Seattle, move to Phoenix! It's great! There's plenty of room for everyone there! They even have excellent public transit with the Light Rail!
Marco did an interview with Computerphile today: http://youtu.be/yVRtJbXQsL8
And they would have likely taken all your shit as a punitive measure had you not complied. (I, too, run FDE on everything I own at home.)

All things considered, this dude dodged a bullet. I don't know if he was acting under the advice of counsel, but he came out relatively unscathed. This time.

This might be a shot across the bow designed to frighten those without the deep pockets of Apple. Just a reminder that The Man still has teeth when it comes to the 99%.
But they let him keep his life
Because its not just any form of expression that people want.

The artists shouldn't have balked at taking a class in economics.
From experience, I find this to never be the case, whether in government or the private sector.
Why would you ever build a tank if you can already kill a human with a handgun?
At least he still has intact ear drums and door frame. Sounds fairly reasonable at least by contemporary standards.
A primary qualification of being an 10x politician is to be able to look citizen voters in the eye and sincerely lie right to their faces without any compunction.
From Encrypted Drives to Amazons Cloud – The Amazing Flight of the Panama Papers
I'm pretty sure he's quoted as saying "my gray hair is overrated", or something like that.
DreamHost’s OpenStack-powered EC2 rival comes out of beta
GitHub Flavored Markdown is itself a rip of the markdown standard. Is it giving enough credit to markdown for GitHub to include the word "markdown" in the name? If so, then by extension it should be sufficient for GitLab to include "flavored markdown" in the name. ;)
I will be super interested in Red Hat. They threatened to leave for Atlanta in the past five years. This could not be further from their corporate values, and they have a highly distributed workforce and a big base of operations in Massachusetts and a fair number of people in the Bay Area.

McCrory is a real idiot. The money in NC comes from the cities. They may have won a Pyrrhic victory in the gerrymandering, but now that the rural districts have this power to drive legislation, they are going to drive companies/money right out of Asheville (brewing, tourism), Charlotte (finance/finance tech), and Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill (software R&D and biotech).

PayPal isn't the first news. NC lost a startup incubator that was going to start a local presence already. There is more to this, and it's going to end the governors' national political ambitions as well has harm the economy of NC for decades.

edit: if it doesn't get overturned (in its entirety) immediately when the legislation gets back in session or through the courts, which is already in progress.
>Part of that is also that women, in general, are much more sensitive to how other people perceive them; what their social "status" is. This can possibly be explained by their (prehistorical) roles as primary caretakers and being the "social glue" of small tribes. It could very well be deeply rooted in their biology.

eh, I think that explaining behavior through cultural conditioning makes more sense than resorting to evolutionary psychology. Sure, the latter may or may not be the cause of the former, but we can at least directly observe cultural conditioning; it's quite difficult to verify anything about the social structures of prehistoric tribes. You could say the same thing, in a more verifiable way, talking about modern dating norms and expectations.

>With that said, I don't think it's relevant in this case. There are many other lines of work where women are in the majority where it's also easy to repeatedly fall on your face.

Note, i wasn't arguing that there aren't many women in computer science because it is easy to fall on your face, [1] i was observing that many of the women I personally have observed in the field aren't as active when it comes to publicly writing, I believe, because the consequences of that fall would be greater than those consequences are for me. Writing about the technology you use is rather different from directly working with said technology.

Most people write for social reasons; technical writing, generally speaking, returns practically homeopathic amounts of money. I guess I'm different there, too, in a non-gendered way; Being as I've got no education and only the skill that I have wrung from the miserly neck of experience, I need all the credentials I can get, and so writing well probably has a higher return for me than it does for someone who is educated, because I get the social juice, and I enjoy that social juice, but when I do manage to write something worth reading, it also serves to function as a kind of credential, and oh my, do I flog it. But for people who already have credentials? I would think that writing is mostly about the social rewards, and if those rewards are more negative for women than for men, as is my otherwise unsupported observation, that could certainly tip that balance to "I'm just going to do the work, let someone else talk about it."

[1]My own theory is that it's the trickle down from "cultural fit" discrimination at hiring. Why would you spend all the time and effort training if getting a job at the end was going to be really difficult? I'm in industry, in part because every time I've asked for a computer industry job, it has been a fairly easy process. Hell, I do nothing and people try to push or pull me in that direction. Every time I've asked for a job outside of this industry, it seemed like huge walls went up. If you don't want me here, I'm going to leave. But that's just me projecting my own feelings on to other people who have very different experiences.
Yup, that's the most incredible part about the whole thing to me, bootstrapping a market that didn't existing in such a high capital industry.
It seems like there could be a lowest-common-denominator set of phonemes that such a system could be built on, with translations into symbol groups for different languages. As long as those symbol groups are relatable by two people who speak the same language, that might be sufficient?
I wonder if the tech sprawl will force people to live further and further south. Coyote Valley, Morgan Hill, Gilroy?
Here: http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/how-to-use-npm-as-a-build-tool...

I don't hate grunt, I used to love it and used it for all my projects. And then I started using gulp.

But after reading this article I just use npm script 99% of the time. I don't know if it is better over all, I just prefer it over grunt/gulp.
We're in a weird place as a society when the police not shooting you dead is regarded as a "nice" thing for them to do.
Someone tell Apple that they can purchase a lot of privacy street cred if they hosted or funded a major TOR hosting initiative.
The US’s benefactor-driven museum boom
http://d.pr/i/x0JD+ vs http://d.pr/i/16wJh+

Not sure what the rules are, but I thought it might help.
About time the greedy corporations pay their fair share. #FeelTheBern
New iOS 9.3.1 exploit lets anyone access photos and contacts without a passcode
can Signal be used to contact people on Whatsapp?
John Carmack on Functional Programming
Doing Data Science Right
When planning an operation like this you need to plan for a time when the suspect is likely to be home. I imagine the most likely time someone is to be home is right at their regular waking time (people often get home at different times). Additionally, 6:00 AM is not excessively early for a large swath of the population. It's not a convenient time, but when is?
That's really interesting - I havent heard of those kinds of problems outside of autonomic issues. You actually got diagnosed with something else related to cardio that causes that?

And yeah if it's low blood pressure-related that's hard to show them, since it changes so much and will be different in the doc's office than normal, and because there's no real way to do continuous BP monitoring the way you can with heart rate. Luckily in my case there's a simple test you can do at home or in a doctor's office to see the BP drop quickly.
I'm sorry, but that's not how computer software works. Anyone who knows what a basic block is can straightforwardly verify the claims WhatsApp is making.
California's discovering that pretty late compared to much of the rest of the world.
People shouldn't upgrade to beta/pre-release software unless they are able and willing to fix it themselves. Too many devs don't know squat about installing operating systems or hardware.
This is the first thing that came to mind when I read this, having clarification from them would be reassuring.
Locals are also (usually anyway) the source of those. At least in Stockholm. Avoid building apartments for those less off because of "greenery". http://www.dn.se/sthlm/hyresgaster-stoppar-nya-grannar/
It's pretty clear the OP is a troll, but at least we got your enlightening response from it. The law is even more distasteful than I knew.
I'm not sure if a lot of the hip tech transplants want art. They just want the aesthetics.
Effective Code Reviews
>You'd need to increase profits, not revenue.

I wonder if we're starting to talk past one another. I'm just a layperson here, but I believe I got the meaning of revenue (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revenue.asp) and net income (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/netincome.asp) right. So, revenue is all the money coming in, and revenue per employee really is all money coming in divided by the number of employees. If more money is needed to cover a wage increase, one needs an increase in revenue. Apparently, profit is sometimes synonymous with net income, and sometimes it means what's left of net income after taxes and dividends are paid. In any case, it is not impossible for profit to stay about the same while revenue is increased; that all is dependent on where you're at on your supply-and-demand curve on whether sales are terribly affected by a price increase. E.g., remember when gasoline approached $3.50/gal (http://www.statista.com/statistics/204740/retail-price-of-ga... didn't effect sales by much (http://www.statista.com/statistics/189424/us-alternative-and...). I'm willing to bet that burgers and white socks will move about the same.

>As I understand it deficits have been shrinking

I get where you're coming from, in the past few years deficits have decreased, and considering the mess that revealed itself months before President Obama's inauguration, one would certainly hope dramatic decreases would come and soon. However, I've been around long enough (ok, alive in the 1970's) to remember when deficits began to be so on the minds of people generally and be a general concern. Check out https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals, and http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/10/19/new-data-debunks.... Aside from several good years in the Clinton administration, it's been mostly deficits at substantial or significant levels. Pick a reasonable window of time between now and 10 years or 20 years or 30 years ago, and fit a trend line. You'll find the trend is still highly suggestive of increasing deficits (no matter if Obamacare makes these future increases smaller, https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50252 and https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49892 and https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/51118-2016-03-Budget...).

>Regarding your "break even" idea

Yep, it's just my conjecture. But your counterpoint conveniently side steps on just how the government produces the $7500 in your example. Raising taxes? Issuing more Treasury bonds? Perhaps you could elaborate on this?
Let's not kid ourselves. This is not about energy, creativity, flexibility and all that shit. It's about two things, young people are a) cheap and b) gullible and easy to manipulate.

The latter is probably the most important. I'm in a situation that is a typical example of how that gets abused: company needs to downsize (funding dried up), and wants most of the team to sign a piece of paper and go away. The salespitch is that it's for mutual benefit, but in reality it's 100% for the company's benefit. The employees would sign away their rights, including at least 2 months pay and in some cases get screwed on their visa. Also, be complicit in forgery, since the dates on the paperwork are false. The younger employees would probably have been railroaded and screwed hard if it wasn't for the more experienced members of the team.

Tech companies want young people as cheap guinea pigs, to try out all kinds of "entrepreneurial" ideas without having to pay the price. Pure and simple.
Like at an hour when kids are up and running around maybe just on their way to school?