skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal theory from watching Nook shoppers, ebook readers are for book readers. I'm not being glib, they are for people who read paperback books. That is the market.

I've seldom seen a person go from Nook to the magazine displays. The same is true from Nook to larger format book sections like bookmaker or tech books.

The remaining market probably, and this is just my opinion from watching tech conversations, is to small to support with existing margins the cost of a larger form factor with the larger resolution screens. I haven't even seen a Kickstarter for such a device. The screens exist. The ability to get the other parts exist. The market for such a product does not, apparently.
I have never heard of Quakerism before and found it to be very inspirational too!
I also see similarity between Stallman and Kuipers and I think it's because they both are very coherent to their beliefs. They strongly hold personal values and apply them in day-to-day living, they are able to professionally reproduce their core, personal beliefs.
My 5.5 year old Kindle 3 is still going strong. I could definitely see a strong case for a backlit display, but the device I have right now is not worse than a dead tree book in this regard.

My attitude might seem reactionary, however, I feel that in the case of a device that is used for an intimate and intellectual activity, more does not always equal better.
This seems to be more of a blog post than something people can try out or play with in the spirit of the "Show HN" guidelines.

Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Yes it suspends the process, but doesn't visually indicate this by fading/sorting the tabs for you. At least, not the version I used a year ago. (edit: it does now!)
How to Protect Your Windshield in the Springtime
From my point of view, if the articles are consistently always going to have the same sort of political bias, then a subset of those articles are going to have taken an unreasonable position - and it's those unreasonable articles that will troll people all the more. Unless, that is, the specific political bias chosen results in many more objectively reasonable and correct articles, but I don't think we're anywhere near that point yet with modern small-L liberalism.

At least some of the "fixing of discourse" has to come from the media outlets themselves. They can't continue to pit political camps against each other by outputting biased content, and then just point the finger at whichever political side they're unaligned with.
The Gig Economy Breaks Social Security
> Atom is a great example of an editor that is aware of the internet existing. Vim, while my daily driver, is not.

I don't know how I'd securely and easily have a powerful editor configuration follow me around.

A powerful editor can do damaging things: it interacts with its host system; it can run commands; it can read and edit any files on disk; it can access the network. That means that I — not some web site run by attention-deficit VCs and subject to any number of hostile governments — must have ultimate control over what it can do.

So it has to be secure. But security means that the configuration may not be visible to others (because it may contain information I choose not to release) and it means that the configuration I fetch today must verifiably be the configuration I pushed yesterday. That means hashes, and signing, and identities.

None of that is easy, and building that infrastructure just for trading editor-configs seems like a waste. Wouldn't it be nice to have a general infrastructure for that?

So maybe it makes sense to sync editor configs around after all.
Ask HN: Early exercise and employee option pools
Lets say you're the CEO on the way to raising VC for your startup, is there anyway to structure these two scenarios:

1. You want to offer more equity to employees than normal. Instead of making the employee option pool bigger, you just give away some of your own equity. If those employees leave the company before vesting or do not exercise their options, can you as the CEO recoup the equity you personally gave away or does it all go back into the employee pool?

b. Early exercise for employees. Is it illegal for the company to loan out money to pay for a new employee to early exercise their options? Will the IRS remove the longterm capital gains benefits should those options at some point be involved in liquidity event?
It may seem that way from the outside, but once you're actually involved with a leadership team at the top of such an organization, you realize it is 100% a human endeavor.
6 Steps to Avoid Developer Procrastination and Set Yourself Up to Succeed
I was under the impression that online shops didn't get Sales tax (not sure where I heard that, thanks for clarifiying)
Just recently bought a Kindle Voyager (to replace my Kindle 2, which ended up having its screen crack after a fall), and I have to say the physical buttons on this are appealing-- definitely something I miss about the Kindle 2, though the Voyager's pressure-sensitive sides aren't terrible. Not sure it's $90 appealing, though.
<input type="editor" supports="images;links;headings" spans="italic;bold;blinky" extras="carousel" oncarousel="function (event) {return document.createElement('div') /* TODO: implement carousel */; }">

With "supports" being common things with extra markup (especially images and links), spans deferring your problems to css classes, and extras deferring your problems to javascript. The element returned by an extra would always be treated as a single black box by the editor.
I understand but really the problem is how I can integrate this webapp with my android app for example in :
Google app engine and android=> I can use google endpoints to get data.
> Is there something I am fundamentally missing, if I jump ship?

Basic People/Company/Industry research capabilities, it's the most under-utilized tool on Linkedin.

If you need a quick contact name in a particular organization or space-- there is no better way to find individuals-- (who you may or may not know).

And these are people who you may be able to help-- and potentially assist you.

On the burden of Linkedin update spam, you can control your notifications.
You definitely can get an Alexa skill off the ground without using Lambda, but there are a lot of little details with their authentication to work out. I'd highly recommend one of the libraries that are out there:

Go - https://github.com/mikeflynn/go-alexa/tree/master/skillserve... (full disclosure: I created this one)

Offical Java SDK - https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-sk...

Node - https://www.npmjs.com/package/alexa-app

...to name a few.
It's just a matter of interpretation. Yes, heads and tails are opposites, but it's still one coin. :) The idiom implies a similarity or close relationship between the two.

Functionally, in terms of how you go about your life, what is the difference between these "opposite" philosophies? I'll check out the videos but my guess is I have already incorporated the ideas.
Your argument falls apart precisely because of the violent and boneheaded nature of American governments. America unleashes its military without thinking of the consequences and there is no excuse for it.
I'd actually prefer something smaller - I still use my ancient Sony PRS-350 just because it fits conveniently in a pocket. I suppose that size has too much competition from smartphones to be viable any more.

6" does seem an odd compromise, though. Too big to be convenient, too small to be nice.
The Perks of Data Sharing
Please provide some examples of this behaviour.
damn, this changes a lot. I was scared of Amazon Echo (or any other retailer's product) listening to me 24/7, but I guess it can't be avoided
I owned a Kindle 1, 2, Keyboard, and then a Paperwhite.

The first-gen PW was EXTREMELY disappointing - their much-hyped backlighting was uneven and splotchy, and I hated being forced to use a touchscreen instead of having page-turn buttons.

So, when the Nexus 7 FHD came out, I switched to using that (despite having to use a touchscreen) and the PW has gathered dust. If I ever dig it back out, I'll have to do a manual firmware update for the SSL cert issue, but I need to do that for the K1 I have in storage as well.

It was surprising when I dug the K1 out of a box last year and the built-in 3G still worked fine.
I normally breathe a sigh of relief as sieving through the crap to find the few insightful comments can be more effort than it's worth.
Show me.
This does however suggest something. The problem here seems similar to the problem of piracy in general, in that people choose content delivery format that sucks the least, and then delivery platform that they understand.

Consider the case of movie piracy (and for simplification let's exclude people pirating because they don't have money): people often torrent movies because they want to get a decent-quality mp4 file instead of a half-assed player and a third of an operating system that together deliver half an hour of unskippable ads and piracy warnings. Consider the case of videogames - when Steam showed up, piracy went from something everyone does to something shameful among gamers.

Or just today at work we're talking about a streaming site that serves soccer league games. One of my cow-orkers pointed out that this is about the only reasonable way to watch soccer games, because otherwise you'd have to buy subscription to half a dozen cable services - as different leagues have deals with different companies.

Now imgur is a no-bullshit source of images. People know and understand it. It's no surprise people prefer it, and for non-imgur sources you can often find requests to reupload the image to that site.

As for solutions - I don't have one. I don't believe reuploads themselves are a problem. Lack of culture that would encourage attribution is though. But the expectation that you can make money by posting content on the Internet is a bigger problem, IMO. Smart content creators know their work will be copied, reuploaded, shared without attribution, etc. and so they don't base their livelihood on posting stuff on the Internet. Those less smart end up complaining about unfairness, but that IMO makes as much sense as complaining that gravity is unfair. Digital works are inherently copyable, it is in their nature.
This is so unfortunate. I've been wanting to do a security system for awhile now, but it looks like I will have to do it via USB webcam + raspberry pi instead of an integrated IP camera. I really wish there was was cheap IP camera hardware standard where the firmware could be easily flashed with something open source.
>This demo secretly makes requests to STUN servers that can log your request. These requests do not show up in developer consoles and cannot be blocked by browser plugins (AdBlock, Ghostery, etc.).

That's a bit of an overstatement. Running NoScript. No scripts, no WebRTC.
Self-driving cars reducing people-death.

Pharmacies not giving out the wrong medicine.

Doctors diagnosing the right disease in the first place.
Very true. I hand-compiled and memorized my own vi cheat sheet decades ago, and it has paid off very well. It's systematic, as many tutorials point out, which helps a lot.
Yes finally an ereader designed for Africa the land of wild animals and no electricity !
When someone posts a GIF on Reddig, if I am remotely interested in the content, I look for the source, which is usually posted in the comments.
I get it as well. The error is "(index):53 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'get' of undefined". Here's what's on line 53 - linkerParam = trackers[0].get('linkerParam');
> But at least that bike is theoretically possible if it was built rigidly enough that it didn't flex too bad.

True, but a construction would stand a good chance of being too brittle and subject to catastrophic failure during riding involving changing loads (or bumpy roads).
Of all things to try to make a brand new AI describe, you give it an indescribable god/priest of R'lyeh???

:)
Just keeping the star trek metaphor going (nerd alert!); I remember there's this episode where counselor troi asks the computer to "cross-reference" entries on darmok, or something like that (1980s version of google basically). The computer comes back with like 47 entries the computer reads back one by one and she gives up in disgust after like three! On the other hand, if that was on a screen that she could quickly just scan, 47 entries is nothing, and when you google stuff you're probably adding or removing search terms randomly to narrow down on exactly what you want.

I don't think there's anything wrong with having a voice interface, I just never see it being anything more than a secondary convenience.
Wow... That's a lot of dependencies. Why not release a docker container that builds the final product?
It's weird how a college professor refusing to take military funding is super controversial, but if a programmer decides to work at, say, Apple instead of a defense contractor, nobody bats an eye.

The comments here are full of people criticizing this guy's position and saying that helping your country's military is better. How many of you are helping the military? Does this principle apply to everybody, or just college professors? Or is it simply that he's public about the reasons for his choice, so people feel a need to argue with it?
Nobody said capitalism is without faults. It's just the only realistic option.
The unstable releases have their own problems though. The big one being that the old repos disappear almost the instant they version bump, meaning you have to be willing to drop everything and upgrade when they do to not be left behind. Plus LTS is the default.

Ubuntu doesn't really have a good middle ground distribution. Something like the old -STABLE release track on BSD where you get fixes and reasonable support but no ABI changes or major OS changes.
Yeah, it was half QA process.
WTF. What ever happened to if your able, then you can work. Wow.
>rugby or cricket

Wonder if it was the ball logo on the player's shirt, the greater popularity of football , or something else that helped it distinguish.
There will not be a huge problem with building a Linux/OSX version. It's built on top of Atom Electron which enables to create apps for Win/OSX/Linux. Just need to fine-tune os-specific things, docs, setup a certificate and app-signing for osx. Will try to release on May.
Shows how far MS has come since the 90s!
Utterly foul (and pointless) language is completely acceptable in 'Comment is Free' but if you make a non-abusive factual point couched in moderate language which the moderators don't like, you won't see it. It's all one with the hypocrisy involved in this newspaper's funding.
Which is why the interesting part of the comparison would focus on where they differ.
The moment that photograph becomes digital, it's worthless. Equipment, travel, time, none of that matters when the end result is an arbitrary configuration of bits which can be copied perfectly, ad infinitum. This truth applies to anything in a digital format. All of the books, movies, games, documents, video clips, photographs - all of it is worthless, and no one deserves compensation for any of it, regardless of the effort that went into making it.

The photographer would need to be be compensated for their time and effort beforehand, if at all, but the age when one can expect to be paid for content or knowledge seems to be rapidly coming to an end. "Freebooting" is only a problem because we've tried to make ownership and copyright work in a medium that renders them irrelevant, but really it's just the web working as intended.

Like a lot of people here, I benefit personally from being able to assert ownership over digital content, but I can also see the writing on the wall.
You get to monetize fb videos?
> No, really, why would my bank want to call or text me?

My bank texts me when they suspect a credit card purchase might be fraudulent.
Doesn't stop CEO's or beter known Actors does it and they earn a lot more than $200k.

You may earn $200k but your still a worker and most do a lot of unpaid OT
Danny Willett’s extra club: how new golf analytics company aided Masters winner
It appears the error is only shown when I have my ad blocker enabled. I use uBlock origin. Hope that helps :)
Shipped several apps with flexbox layouts. If you use autoprefixer and dont touch advanced features it works like a charm on modern browsers.
C-level managers aren't retiring on their pensions.
10 Sandbox Building Games Like Minecraft
And pretty expensive. A public liberal arts college in PDX is needed.
I'm kind of surprised people haven't built more dorm-like apartment buildings with more shared spaces, especially in NYC where people spend a lot of time out of their apartments.
This is specifically for people who are completely disabled, can't work, and are _already_ eligible to have their loans dismissed. All it does is reduce the amount of paperwork required.
I don't know that it would, I have more faith in humanity than that. If the ideas the Guardian championed were blind to overt politicisation and consistently based on objective merit, rather than ideology I think the strength of those ideas would be plain for people to see.
Pro: We see things like chess and go. We see more areas that we thought computers could never tackle being solved. So we seem to be getting closer.

Con: We don't actually understand what intelligence is, except by human example. We don't actually have any idea of how far we have to go to create something similar.
The way the paper is describing the current situation is that they only print virtuously correct articles, and then get mobbed by angry trolls.

This is unfortunately exactly their thought process though -- if you are not "progressive" like they are in their values, you are a caveman and need to be enlightened. Such values are deemed the correct ones to have ("because it's CURRENT_YEAR") so of course anyone with a differing opinion is not just wrong, but morally bankrupt.

This is also the general thought process of the New Radical Left, personified by the college students and sniffy intellectuals that do populate most of mainstream journalism and educational institutions. Reporting is no longer enough, one has to be an "agent of change".

The Guardian staff are just butt-hurt that people have woken up to their proselytizing and won't let them get away with being an authority when they are desperately biased in their articles.
It's only a matter of time before a repeat of Microsoft's last AI experiment (Tay), when the Internet teaches CaptionBot all of the positions in the Kama Sutra.
Does it somehow resolve spoofed caller id data?
Small Local team needed
I have taken a concept from POC to Alpha testing and ready to build the a final product based on feedback from firms like Pepsi Co, Walmart, WPP etc..
The interest is real and I am looking for 5 local individuals which will commit to a 2-3month build cycle. Full stack database, Mobile...iOS and Andriod, UI, and a Social Media hacker.

This will be based on a 2% equity position each over a 4 year period with a 2 month cliff and debt equalling $1000/mo until profitable or fully funded.

We should be able to turn revenue in 6 months post launch.
Some would argue that we're finally at the place where most of the pieces necessary for strong AI are known, it's just a massive engineering challenge to put them all together. Like going to the moon in 1958, or nuclear energy in 1938.

We can draw smooth exponential lines like Kurzweil does and see when the level of complexity of our AI servants reaches the same level as the human brain (~30 years), or we can hope for a concerted human effort as was seen in both the 40's and the 60's. Either way it looks to be in our near future.
Glad to see our government reaching out to folks eligible for help that may not realize it. If anything, this doesn't go far enough. Student loan debt should be able to be discharged in bankruptcies!
It was spot on for 30% of the images, but wildly inaccurate on the rest.

In fact, I assume this is a crowd sourced training for the tech..

Kind of disappointing, but at the same time I understand that this task is not trivial at all.
http://www.cloudsightapi.com/api is crazy accurate, it gives "galleon above sea monster painting".
Qi is that standard. Built in to lots of Androids now.

Only real issue with it is slow rate of charging. Not a problem for overnight recharges - but my phone still discharges when I'm using GPS + Bluetooth in my car's Qi holder.
> Until that day arrives, one might ask why I have not tried another distribution. I doubt my experience will be much better. Many of the bugs are related to code shared across distributions. I know that a few bugs I listed in this article also exist in Fedora. Most bugs are upstream.
Facebook's New Master Plan: Kill Other Apps
Please try that one: https://freeter.io/user-guide There are some screencasts showing the app.
Isn't burnout just a "because-of-work" depression?

And is it possible to "burnout" of something else than work?
I know it was tucked way down in the second sentence, but hey:

> The Department of Education will send letters to 387,000 people they’ve identified as being eligible for a total and permanent disability discharge, a designation that allows federal student loan borrowers who can’t work because of a disability to have their loans forgiven.
That would have undesirable side effects - e.g. it would mean the results of the sort are not necessarily specified. If the array contains NaN, for example, calling a sort like that would have different results depending on the order in which the elements are compared, which would likely vary by JS engine.
Author here. Cafe Set presents two random thoughts from two random thinkers. Philosophers, writers, artists, radicals and so on.

Doesn't tell you who said what until you choose which thought you prefer.

It's an absurd exercise, but the context of comparison forces you to think more critically about each statement.

Hopefully you'll discover some interesting thinkers.

Comment here if you'd like to see someone added. See Cafe Set's About section for criteria.

Cheers.
I converted to Ubuntu 9 years ago and it has been my Home desktop ever since. I cannot be more satisfied. Yes, I have tried the filth that is Win XP, Vista, 7 and what not, during these years only to go back to Ubuntu. I am currently in 14.04. I wonder how much better it can get in 16.04?!
P. Thiel 2009: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”
I really wish the Kindle team had more imagination. It's a tablet designed for reading enthusiasts-- what about making one for writing enthusiasts?

Imagine a very affordable, portable laptop with week-long battery life, completely free of distractions like youtube.

It writes. It reads. It sends emails. That's it. Maybe as a stretch, they could quietly make it attractive to the tech community with a Unix-compatible shell and SSH ability. Call it the Kindle TypeLighter.

You're welcome, Amazon. I'll accept my royalty payments in personal check.

EDIT: Before anyone says anything about refresh rates, there's plenty of electronic ink technologies that are more than capable of supporting the rates needed to rapidly add characters to the screen. This thing, for example: http://www.dasung.com.cn/
This same argument supports your favorite NSA surveillance program.

In fact, the assumption you are making is that the use of violence is a constant, but the effect of smart cruise missiles, etc., is to make it more palatable and attractive.
You need to split it between the blue collar side ie Line men and the M&P (managerial and professional) grades.