skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me feel genuinely sad.

Say what you like about the first dot-com bubble, but those founders were at worst naive. In today's SV, we seem to have actively embraced malevolent business models. Make something slightly more convenient, then use subtle psychological tricks to exploit your customers.

A $700 juicer with DRM? Individual plastic pouches for a few ounces of vegetables? You can dress that up with new-age buzzwords, but it's an awful way to make a living. A mountain of waste and expense just to avoid the inconvenience of chewing your food.

There's a vulgarity to all of this. A naked, grasping search for recurring revenue at any cost. I recently saw a book entitled Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products with a front-cover endorsement by Eric Ries. Those are the ethics of Philip Morris, without a hint of embarrassment.

Maybe we've picked all the low-hanging fruit. Maybe there are no more good businesses left. Maybe you can't make a profit by selling a useful product at a fair price. Maybe the future of business is just wringing money out of people with dark patterns. I hope not.
How many times more powerful than CO2 is methane as greenhouse gas?
You're forgetting about chi and lifeforce, those alone are worth the extra $300.

Throwing away a plastic container after every serving is what chi is all about, those other products simply don't have it!
tl;dr: Start off with personal info

Most of these I'd still trash anyway, but I would at least take a second since they differentiated themselves from spam
Will capitalism survive the robot revolution?
I really liked the Rolls Royce CEO's comment on their self-driving tech: "Oh, we invented that 111 years ago. We call it a chauffeur."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-01-06/rolls-royce-...
GPL prevents someone from using/enhancing your software in a closed fashion.. MIT does not...

In the end, it depends on the goals, and usefulness of your project, and how it's used and distributed.
From the article: “Climate change is not a real thing for most of these people,” Stern said. “But you change your mind quick when your kids are puking.”
Thanks for notifying, but I don't have editing option on those comment. I would be glad to edit them but I don't have option to do (I don't know why).
I hate this almost as much as I hate the Keurig machines. Not only because the coffee is terrible and it's incredibly wasteful, but also what it was about American culture.
Xamarin have some very smart people on the case.
Uhh...many HUMAN drivers are confused by U.S. roadways...I've been in many places where the lane is more about following the car in front of me as there are no well visible markers.
Kind of like when it snows, the lane is the two tire tracks, who cares where the actual lane is haha.
I think the Hangouts Dialer does use my Google Voice number. Google Voice voicemails also show up in Hangouts now, instead of the Google Voice app. Also, doesn't Project Fi use Google Voice numbers? And the recent Google Fiber home phone service?

The dedicated Google Voice app has withered, but Google seems to be integrating the service into their other projects.
> you can declare your dependencies in the Gradle syntax

It's actually the Apache Groovy syntax, not Gradle syntax. There seems to be an ongoing practise in these stories never to mention Groovy's special place as the DSL in Gradle. Is someone there ashamed of Groovy?
>Just out of curiosity, what does a Linux desktop offer that's not also natively offered in Mac and also highly polished?

I use Mac OS X and this is what I miss about Linux:

- Clean package/software management and updates.

- Basic customizability without having to install 3rd party binaries from untrusted sources

- Multiple filesystem support (NTFS write not supported out of the box... needing 3rd party software... ext support has to be compiled, breaks with updates... generally PITA)

- Easy installation of software/libraries from source (generally PITA to set up toolchain to compile general cross platform open source software)

- Proper desktop environment (the one that OS X has is shit compared to Gnome)

- Proper file manager (the one that OS X has is shit compared to Nautilus)

- Up to date and standard command-line tools (The ones in OS X are old... for example check the version of unzip... they can't unpack zip files created by new zip tool)

- Better command line system wide file search (I love mlocate, the one in OS X is shit)

- Ability to run docker natively
> It's a bank startup which doesn't have physical locations

There's got to be more to it than that, right? There are lots of internet-only banks. I use Ally.

http://www.gobankingrates.com/banking/10-online-banks-2015/
This appears to be the Napster of journal articles. And if that is the case, it will soon rightfully be sued into the ground but not before doing damage to the oligopoly of journal publishers. And then hopefully we will use the technology, lessons learned and newfound humility among journal publishers to make the Netflix/Spotify of journal articles. A service to which I would gladly subscribe.
And I started by saying that in lieu of an overhaul, it would be better for society as a whole that civil forfeiture be outlawed entirely.

It's an abomination.
There are about 75,000 dams and 6,000 electric utilities in the U.S., and potentially millions of Internet-connected devices that could be used to penetrate crucial computer networks, said Chris Blask, executive director of the Cyberspace Research Institute at Webster University based in St Louis.

I give up - so what, exactly, was the thinking behind the decision to writable interfaces to all of these sensitive facilities on the internet, again?
Apple/Google Pay don't have anything to do with that.

The cashback, rewards and consumer protection are done through the card issuer and backing bank. You're still paying through the same account, but with a different interface (your phone instead of plastic).
> I think there's a phone interface feature associated with Google Hangouts. But it probably requires that everyone you talk to have a Google account.

Er, it's a phone interface. It makes phone calls. Everyone you talk to is only required to have a phone number.
With regards to Microsoft's business model when it comes to Windows, you could be right about the advertising angle, but I believe some people would pay a premium to not have the advertising in their OS. If Microsoft offered the enterprise version of Windows 10 to the general public at a premium price then at least individuals who cared about privacy would have a valid upgrade option.
Are you referring to https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/30tudk/psa_... ? That was a normal subpoena (without a gag order), not a NSL.
Could I suggest you take a look at my project, Perspex?https://github.com/Perspex/Perspex - it sounds like it ticks your boxes and we're always in need of contributors!
Here's the link that was added to the article in an update, with photos and summaries of some of her projects:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/01/arts/design/za...
It's the surface street side of the ramp there in the photo. Here's the approx location:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=37.51639&mlon=-122.25424#...

The photo is taken looking towards the freeway, showing the offramp.

A typical bike lane in the US is made out of paint, the lack of protection isn't noteworthy.
>If you are subsidizing your unit economics and your competition drops prices they are forcing you to lose more money. We prefer seek efficiencies and pass those savings on instead of just spending more money.

Unless by subsidizing, this company takes more market share and causes the non-subsidizer to dip into their own margin, and the race to the bottom continues.
> Australia just outlawed warrant canaries. Scary times.

Assuming you accept the need for the non-disclosure requirements in some court orders and administrative subpoenas, wouldn't the decision to allow canaries be a legal mistake in the first place? (Albeit AFAIK one also made by the US Department of Justice)

The argument for the legality of canaries would have to rely on the distinction between the affirmative and negative disclosure. But it is very easy to imagine a service that scrapes sites with canaries and publishes an affirmative list of those which took theirs down recently (or in a given time interval). This completely subverts the argument.

Is it perhaps yet another case where the legal minds failed to account for the current (actually... two decades old) state of technology? Am I missing something?
I cant wait for company to provide opencl/cuda mflops as a service instead of giving you vms as a whole, so one could just attach remote engine to any smallish controller vm
Such tricks could fool a significant percentage of humans, too.
The only product really guaranteed to stick around is Search. Things closely wedded to Search (GMail, Android, Maps) are fairly safe bets.
If they are confused by US roadways, they'll melt when they come to India and see this - http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/00397/20080331593...
Should billions be invested for smarter US cities?
Because the ones you don't hear about don't have the profit margins to sustain a massive advertising/marketing budget.

It's the mechanism by which advertising becomes a tremendously negative signal to me: if you can afford to spend that much money pushing your product, you're extracting a large price premium over your costs and my value.

It's only occasionally wrong.
Same here, one would think the first ad network on the internet would know how to market its products ... it turns out it doesn't.
Awesome news!
Here's what most people don't understand about these magnets: Once you play with them for a bit, you realize there's only a very limited number of things you can do with them. Pretty quickly, you discover one of the limited number of things is stuff like making fake ear rings or nose rings etc. If you count the number of thin skin folds on the human body, there's only a couple (ear lobes, nostril, cheek, tongue, maybe eyelid and various parts of the genitalia). A significant portion of those are an orifice into the digestive tract.

What you find happens is that kids start off making ear rings and then graduate onto making tongue rings and the tongue is just thick enough that the attachment is weak and it presents a high risk of swallowing.

Here's the second thing that most people fail to appreciate: The CSPS's main concern was not the absolute level of danger, it was the how non-obvious the threat model is. There are plenty of things that are far more dangerous on an absolute level but are allowed because most people understand the risk model and can take appropriate steps to mitigate.

If you asked a thousand people who previously knew nothing about the magnets, what they thought the main danger was, people would talk about the potential choking hazard or the chemicals in the lining maybe being toxic but I bet virtually nobody would ever think about intestinal pinching. You could have your child swallow one of these magnets every week and see them come out fine and be completely blase and then the one week they swallow two, they're suddenly in need of life threatening surgery.

I don't have any strong opinions on whether these things should be banned or not but I think the CSPSs case is a lot stronger that what's commonly presented.
How about shelling out to native C/C++? I have Haskell running on AWS Lambda would be nice for Azure Functions, https://github.com/chadbrewbaker/introToAWSLambda
Also that gpu have little bandwith toward main memory and most cuda patterns involve loading, computing and retrieving which works as well remotely as locally, as opposed to programs accessing memory at random time all over their memory space the gpu memory is neatly organized in texture areas and the programming paradigm already entails moving them in and out the device as few times as possible
Directly from the article...

> Over a 20-year period, methane is estimated to have a warming effect on earth’s atmosphere 84 times that of carbon dioxide.
Where is the data from? It's a great overview of CO2 emissions, etc.
I'm the target audience for Charlie - long running small business in the UK willing to spend money on a service that saves time and effort. However I wouldn't risk something as important as my HR on a company that has no visible form of financial sustainability. When the VC bubble bursts, my data is gone and it would be irresponsible of me to take that risk on behalf of my staff, suppliers and customers.

Edit People seem to be comparing it positively to Zenefits. From what I can tell, Zenefits raised >$500mm and has $60mm annual recurring revenue (ARR)[1]. They also recently fired 250 people, which is 17% of their workforce. This means that they have around 1500 people working there. If each person conservatively costs $100k/year, their staff costs are $150mm/year so they have a way to go before they're profitable. Then of course there's the ethical issues[2].

I don't mean to imply that there's anything wrong with CharlieHR and I wish them all the success in the world. I hope the product works and that in a few years, I'll be able to use the service of a business that is likely to continue operating.

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/zenefits-missed-sales-projecti...
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/technology/zenefits-scanda...
It's a dead man's switch. If it's gone, they've been served with an NSL and the site has been compromised. There's no room for interpretation and no other scenario can be considered plausible.
I've never heard of google code search, but based on what it sounds like it is, http://symbolhound.com might be an alternative.
Isn't an NSL by definition a non-noisy, targeted method? I'm going off of the widely known methodology for getting data from a U.S. company, FAA 702, popularly known as "PRISM".

Do you have any links describing NSLs being part of a noisy, dragnet operation?
Which is why it's being shut down
Approximately 21x.
The backtick is also used for for jumping to marks. I wouldn't recommend overriding that one. `. will put your cursor back to the last insertion point. '. will put you back on the last insertion line. They're quite handy. A common key that is used is <space>. There' is also using CAPSLOCK as a leader key, but it's not very portable since it requires configuring the OS. I think ? is fine for a leader key as long as you know that you're not going to use reverse search ever.

Looks like HN is slowing down the post speeds here. If you want to talk about Vim more, send me a message @cloudsiphon on Twitter.
Your comments suggest that you feel this is personal. It isn't. You just need to follow the rules like
everyone else.

Inconsistencies in HN moderation are random
side-effects of the impossibility of reading all the threads. You're
welcome to bring them to our attention, but please don't take them
personally.
Not that exact example but there's plenty of things spiritually similar in Lisp, starting from naming them car and cdr and going all the way down.
Discover has seasonal 5% categories that change every 3 months but they're pretty broad like "Gas and Groceries" or "Restaurants and Entertainment".

I have the old American Express Blue Cash card which has some crazy 5% cashback on gas and groceries once you hit a minimum spend during the year. That thing paid out like a slot machine when gas prices were hovering around $3.50 a gallon and I was doing a 100 mile commute daily.
Every project I've touched has withered and has been cancelled (except for one, but it has only been out for a year). I'm convinced that it's my super power.
Why do you not include C# or .NET? Both have been going for quite some time and there's a tonne of code in the world depending on both. What strategy changes do you think could affect them?
Google Wave was still useful after it was open sourced because people could set up their own servers.

But what would you take from Google Wallet? The physical debit card? The payment service? Unless you're opening a bank, I'm not sure how useful any of that would be.
I desperately hope you know how the Windows memory manager works before you say it "uses half your RAM". Windows is very aggressive about caching and (especially) precaching-- if you're not using a memory readout tool that's been updated since Windows Vista changed things around, it's probably misleading you into thinking Windows' precache is actual "in-use" memory. It's not.

(If you're looking at Microsoft's Task Manager, make sure you're seeing the amount of memory in "available", that's what counts. "Free" is kind of a useless measure in Vista+.)
H-1B Lottery Lawsuit
Last time I installed a trial version of VS, it had these weird all-caps menu bars and some kind of metro-ish, flat UI. Compared to that, Swing looked more native…

(What is it with MS changing the UI with every OS/Office release? Worse than even OS X, and barely better than the plethora of Linux look-and-feels. And yes, I did object to flat tool bar buttons back in the day, too.)
You're right, I just looked for reject and picked the first I saw.

As for the defaults, you have much more faith in other people's correct implementation of them than I do. Why not just be explicit?
Whoa, I missed that. I was thinking of the prior case where it "accidentally" became recommended, but this casts that prior episode in new light. I can't imagine what they are thinking.

Unless... There's some fundamental core security problem in earlier Windows versions that isn't in Windows 10 and they don't want to tip off anyone to what it is, because it's so large and egregious it opens them up to a lot of liability and lawsuits. Okay, I'll take my tinfoil hat off now...
Ha! I was waiting for this! I was on a multi-lane road recently and I couldn't see the lane delimiters. They had faded to the point they were no longer visible. It required a lot of concentration to avoid hitting cars near me and it was quite disconcerting.
Good job Dan! This blog post not only touch upon the mobile UI, but also pretty much sums up the recent trends in mobile app product development and mobile payment trends too.

For readers who don't know Dan already, he's currently a product manager at Tencent's WeChat division [1].

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangrover
This is simply false. PostgreSQL + cstore_ftw, Presto, Impala, etc. all support "array oriented ability" via window functions.
But it is very easy to imagine a service that scrapes sites with canaries and publishes an affirmative list of those which took theirs down recently (or in a given time interval).

https://canarywatch.org/
And road construction crews love to play those tricks. There's a spot on the FDR highway around NYC where for years the road was redirected to swerve, but the lane markings remained straight. If you were not paying full attention and just followed the lines, you'd drive straight into the wall.
It is even crowded than that on the commercial offering [0]. But having such a tool as Open Source benefits us all. Especially when trying to connect to obscure or non standard data sources.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_analytical_processing#M...
I think you need a cdn to scale s3. So probably s3 is not enough. The equivalent if your api is mostly for reading is to put varnish in front of it.
They're a social democratic group with very extreme differences with Syriza.
This is crap, scare tatics. If the earth was in that much trouble it would shake rattle and roll every human to death to save itself. In the 90''s they said Miami would be under water by 2010, and was there last month and the same beach hotels are there just like before. Seems like if you use this Web site you would not be so easy to fool, but guess not.
We need another Teddy Roosevelt.

Or for the general population to start giving a shit.

About anything, really.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11398100
Ok, so set the gas plumes on fire, should be better for greenhouse effect.
I would add that we need tip think we're a democracy
Having been a customer of Charles Schwab for several years at this point, I've never seen the appeal of Simple. I get better interest rates, fantastic customer service, unlimited ATM rebates and a host of brokerage services, all for free.
Not directly related, but another interesting potential catastrophe in St. Louis.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-st...
So it's an email with a 2 day delay?
Shutterstock's Perl Search Function Circa 2005
I thought this was taken for granted but I'm glad it's been confirmed and we understand the neural process behind it.

It's a good motivation for working out. I often think: "I'm squatting 180lbs now, so that I can sit down onto and stand up from a toilet when I'm 80."
ChromeOS is open sourced and will still be available for some time, but yeah, they're merging the two. Ubiquity between Android and desktop/laptops would be great.
Unfortunately this is still a step back because the whole upside to Google Wallet was that you could "carry" the Wallet balance and use it as no-fee settlement between acquaintances, or turn around and pay for Google services with small amounts not worth withdrawing.

I mean if you can do ACH (i.e debit cards) with both parties and avoid fees then that's convenient in that you don't have to exchange checking account numbers or something outrageous (just email addresses), but that still could take an indeterminate amount of time to settle. Next day? A week?

But with the wallet balance you could hold transfers I got from other people or put money in ahead of time from my bank and then when I need it, the other party knows they got it on their phone.
Unfortunately it appears to do this by sending all the content back to a server which does the work. Privacy? Not even a privacy statement.
We indeed have no plans to acquire Jetbrains. I think they are doing awesome and we probably couldn't afford them. But also we would like to have a development environment that runs online while allowing for browser based and client based editors. Currently we're looking at Koding https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12759
"Liquid democracy" is very cool, and it seems strictly superior to our current system. However, it will still be captured by capitalism. The most popular representatives will attract the most funding, and their actions will be as biased toward their funders as they can be without losing too much support. The big threat there is regulatory capture: promoting laws to clamp down on profitable industries, but in ways that give incumbents huge advantages because the laws are hard to comply with.

The only way to get money out of politics is to make sure the people can control money.
Sweet! So excited to see this went GA!
Neural network ‘hallucinates’ colors into black and white pictures
Also, how can you explain the steady linear growth of forfeiture assets in the face of declining crime rates?

You've been talking out of the side of your mouth up and down this thread.
That is roughly equivalent of the farts of 6 mill cows, just standing there.

Just saying for comparison, not for some "don't eat cows" agenda.

Cow fart source: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3054212/collecting-cow-farts-the-...

(208l of methane farts = 135g/day. 120 days = 16.2kg. 97 x 10^6/16.2 = roughly 6 x 10^6.)

Just smell that dairy air...
"Where's the lane?"

I've often asked that myself dear robot. Welcome, you're now truly a fellow driver
I think the consensus on the definition of _system_ languages is currently very shaky. For a long time you would expect languages with the ability to develop operating systems (in the classic sense, providing a hardware abstraction layer, etc.), but more and more I get the feeling that people just mean "not JavaScript".

If this is a good or bad development will (or already is, as we have seen in discussions concerning Go) be the topic of many flame wars.
Ally's interest rates are tempting, but the fact that it's just GMAC with some new makeup is very off putting.