skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use an LG Tone headset (I'm a consultant, on the phone almost all day). I usually charge mine once a week or maybe slightly more often. Maybe two or three hours of usage per day. The battery is really good, the quality is pretty good, but like you said, pairing can be a nightmare sometimes. I actually had to reboot my computer yesterday to get the Bluetooth driver to work properly. It's early days for Bluetooth headphones yet, but they're making really good progress.
I never knew this, thanks for the insight and history behind this approach.
One of the main feature is that it is free for developers and end users which we hope will attract developers. Also we plan to cold call small-medium sized businesses to get to our first 100 customers. Along with that we will invest time and resource to be active in blogs and forums and programmers circle so that more hobbyists and casual programmers are attracted to our platform.
Even quicker - right click->block element in Ad block Plus. Done. I too found them extremely distracting to a point where I couldn't read the text.
Have you read the article? There's regulations, what he was doing was illegal and as the article say, can be punished with up to 5 years in prison.

You can add as much regulation as you want, it won't change that it can be done the same way it already been done.
My bad... You still have some issue.
> It even is much faster compared to PL/pgSQL (at least in a project I've been working on lately)

That's good to hear. At the time I had read somewhere that PL/V8 can be slow because it needs to cast/convert data back and forth between javascript and native Postgres representations. It's possible that that assessment is wrong, however.
Whether the technology works as advertised can be verified by a layman. For Theranos you'd need a biologist/chemist/doctor.
Re-architecting Pinterest's iOS app
The cost of the German reunification was enormous. And that was for a country that was probably one of the best economies of the communist states. I can't imagine what the cost and effort would be to keep North Korea from collapsing.
If you have an existing project that uses MongoDB, MongoDB has a lot of unusual behaviors that are difficult to reproduce (and not very well specified). Sorting on array values is tricky, for example.

For new projects, I agree with you!
Scripting vs. Programming: PHP and OOP
It's not a matter of right and wrong, but of values and preferences.
It would be nice if a GUI toolkit just targeted ncurses and you could further skin it to run in the browser, gtk or kde separately. a bit like react-native.
Yes, it makes sense to write it in whatever was most performant
> "shot from Magic Leap technology"

That's my main concern. Microsoft could have reasonably made the same claim about the HoloLens-on-a-Camera setup that they were using during their announcement videos that ultimately didn't show the actual view. The graphics and fidelity were really similar from what I've heard but the experience as a whole wasn't close.

My biggest concern with the video's we've seen is a) how closely this FOV matches the real thing b) what kind of processing power this will require (AR gets much less interesting if it requires a highend PC attached to do the rendering and tracking) and c) what that room actually looks like, ie every Magic Leap video that's been shown as shot through the actual technology looks like it's REALLY DIM.
The author's thesis is that we shouldn't allow uncontrolled development of asteroid minerals, because it would lead to conflicts on Earth. He proposes an international body to regulate space development.

I would disagree with the author's thesis for one simple reason: space is dangerous. Those nations and groups of nations that establish footholds in space are sacrificing much blood and treasure to get there. The U.S. alone has lost 24 people to accidents in space and space-related test flights and catastrophes like Apollo 1 and the USSR lost several cosmonauts as well. The grim likelihood is that there will be more deaths, an inherent risk of such dangerous exploration.

In addition, the US, USSR, EU, Japan, China, and India have collectively invested trillions of dollars in space exploration and development since the 1950s. It's hardly likely that these great nations will submit to the authority of an international regulatory body and curtail their exploration; there's simply too much at stake. At most, they'll agree to some standards and shared values, based on the Law of the Sea, e.g. agreed-upon mayday signals, standardized airlock connectors, etc.

I believe that those nations and groups of nations that establish footholds in space and exploit the vast potential mineral wealth in the Belt, on the Moon and on Mars, will be the superpowers of the late 21st Century and the 22nd Century. Far from a cause of conflict, this vast new wealth will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity and technology far advanced beyond even what we can imagine.
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It's time to just face the fact that people are just getting completely sick of posting. It's turned into basically a never ending homework assignment to keep up with it all. Closing my Facebook account last year was cathartic.
Strange 404 (bloomberg.com)
Perhaps instructions on use might provide a better user experience than a popup requesting the user allow push notifications. After visiting the site, I had no idea what it does or is supposed to do.

Good luck.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10893016
Bloomberg's 404 is...

http://www.bloomberg.com/404.html
In different words, you recorded and broadcast your performance of the production company's game.

Which, for other forms (Music, stage plays/musicals, etc.) usually requires royalties paid to the creator of the thing being performed if you perform it for profit.

I think it wouldn't be difficult to argue that the different mediums -- character on a screen vs. character on a stage -- don't really change that aspect significantly. The legal evolution around the birth and maturation of machinima is kinda interesting to dig into.
"Mixed Reality
In technologies like Magic Leap’s, virtual objects are integrated into—and responsive to—the natural world. A virtual ball under your desk, for example, would be blocked from view unless you bent down to look at it. In theory, MR could become VR in a dark room."
How is that an advantage? Then you wouldn't be able to USE these javascript-heavy apps.
Wouldn't it be easier to start mining Earth's core?
Just in Time Errors – Handling and Preventing Runtime Errors in JavaScript
Pillpack user here, and (unfortunately) an express scripts user.

I take 18 pills a day to manage some kidney issues I have, and Express Scripts doesn't have a good track record with getting your meds to you on time. If I don't have some of my medications, I could die. Not to mention, it's going to be a big pain in the ass to count out all those pills, AND take up a ridiculous amount of space with all the pill bottles, and pill trays.

Incredibly pissed off about all this...

Edit: forgot to mention my amazing feelings towards Pillpack. TJ (the CEO) has contacted me directly multiple times to make sure everything has been great, and every interaction I've had with them is phenomenal. If your insurance supports it, I highly recommend it.
Does the user need to wear some kind of glasses to experience this? If so, how big are they? If not, how is it achieved?
If you like that gif, checkout Bloomberg's 404 gif...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11527578
Given that Facebook makes "mistakes" in removing posts, like the one that happened to my friend John Dickson [1], is it any wonder folks aren't really using the platform as much as they used to?

1. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/facebook-un...
This was in its blog comments:

http://dsw.users.sonic.net/oink/

Wilkerson claimed the CQual++ tool found hundreds of bugs in Debian with a 50% positive rate. Said it also spotted Heartbleed. Worth independent testing on some known-buggy code or projects with little attention to see what it can do.

Liquid Types is another interesting one more people need to try out on various types of code to assess effectiveness & ease of use:

http://goto.ucsd.edu/csolve/
It's easy to dismiss little hacks like this because "you can always change it back". But what I've found is the simple little disruption of a lazy habit is enough. If I need to open the hosts file with sudo, that's enough of a block
Sounds like an example of the Kuleshov Effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_Effect
> Carbon source from seawater appears somewhat promising, though my concern is that there's been 50 years of research without a large-scale demonstration project, making me suspect deeper issues.

I haven't seen anything about it recently, but the Navy was/is funding a demonstration plant in Hawaii. I really hope it works out as I'm skeptical that the developing world will shift to electric vehicles anytime soon.
The story is that Amazon sacrifices engineers and others after every big project, success or failure. They have developed a weird human sacrifice culture. Fire phone? It was a failure implementing Bezos's wacky ideas. Engineers had to be purged to atone for it. Fire TV? Huge success but we don't want engineers getting any credit for it. Result: purge some engineers. Echo? Another success that now had to float all those managers from both echo and phone project. Better kick some more engineers off the life raft.

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hardware-division-layo...

They have a real 'slaughter the goose that layed the golden egg because holy shit! there is a huge expensive golden egg and it's mine all mine, die, die, die..." culture. Bezos probably has an employee purge button built into his desk.
That sounds like a pretty good reason to migrate away from it!
Apple updates its 12-inch MacBook with faster chip, but no extra USB
1) Go to library
2) Check out a stack of books
3) Go home
4) Make copies of them
5) Return books to library
6) Repeat many times

You'll be just fine.
The biggest issue preventing that is that to do better than your dual 4k monitors the VR goggles will have to have many more pixels on the much smaller screens, which is hard to do reliably from a manufacturing standpoint and would require an enormous amount of processing power to render at the 90FPS that VR requires to be comfortable.
This is likely the best answer for those who wish to code within the map/reduce paradigm by hand and would prefer to use python.
Removewat 2.2.9 Windows 7, 8, 8.1 Activator Full Download
> These are all valid points, if you're running a laptop machine.

Well, yeah. This thread is centered around laptops, after all.
what sold me on retina was the Terminal :). I mean yeah websites and stuff look nice too but the terminal.app is where I live.
The three weeks Grand Tours have nearly as many stages each as a full formula one season has race days. Asking to do a grande boucle without spares would be like asking formula one to go a whole season on a single set of tires - both would be perfectly possible with some adoption of hardware and tactics, but both would completely change the nature of the events.

While promoting equipment durability is a reasonable goal (and has been a cornerstone of competitive cycling during the early years), adding equipment damage DNF to the already rampant injury DNF would bring grand tours close enough last-man-standing events and make them so unpredictable that the semi-random "survivors" would be faceless nobodies to the audience. This is not how business is done in spectator sports.

Besides, any restrictions of technical support just add more rules to break. Cycling has already been through all of that. In that famous event, Eugène Christophe was penalized because someone operated the bellows while he fixed his fork at a roadside blacksmith's shop. Much drama happened over questions like wether a rider drank water from a hose coming from a pump not operated by himself or did some teammates maybe secretly switch spare parts. Is that really a line that is easier to draw and monitor than a dead simple "only human powered propulsion" rule? Finding secret motors is a much simpler problem.
This works on Pinterest, too, for their obnoxious sign up black screen.
Almost every article and demo I've read and watched about AR in the last couple of years mentions huge virtual screens everywhere. It's in all the Hololens demos, for example.
I get the same results... Wow! I would stop using Bing Canada.
Skylight Leak Repairs: Finding the Source – LGC Roofing Blog
> I know this isn't an Apples to Apples comparison, but imagine where tech would be today if you were paid a royalty every time something you produced was used in any form. Every time that header bar you wrote for Google back in 2006 is reused, adapted, extended, whatever, you got a >1% royalty on.

Actually, if it was anything like today's movie/music publishing business, you wouldn't get a dime in royalties for that header bar. The benefits of copyright go to rights holders, not necessarily content creators. Maybe Google would have given you a $1000 "advance" for you to sign away your header bar. Meanwhile, they'd license the crap out of it to everyone and keep all the royalties for themselves.
Open Source Helpdesk, Helpcenter and Support Software
We did a flag pledge in Mexico too. I wonder if we copied that from the gringos.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juramento_a_la_Bandera_%28M%C3...

Hm, looking around looks like Argentina and Panama also have similar pledges:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera_de_Panam%C3%A1#Juramen...

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera_de_la_Argentina#Jurame...

I wonder if it's just a generalised American thing to be this defensive of our flags, perhaps as a result of some post-colonial concerns.
Type parametric functions in Go (how to do .Map() without writing tons of code)
It's not TLS.
Imagine someone said, "please go out and toil this field in exchange for some scraps". You'd certainly say no, but when Facebook makes the offer, its seems alright to many people.
You think we've hit Peak Facebook?
I don’t even mind it living in the backend

You lost me there.
The worst part of JavaScript is that the relevant committee is simply failing to acknowledge that there are lots of bright computer language designers out there who'd love to have a chance to bring their creations to the web.
You used the word "sent" earlier and the phrase "on my device" now. But it seems the app isn't transferring the message to you, only presenting it -- like a website. (Does the message exist outside the app?)

Not being pedantic for the sake of it, just pointing out the language you are using is from a position of ownership -- you receiving and owning a message sent to you, and it is then being deleted -- while the app seems to be retaining all rights with the sender, who merely uses the app to present a message to you, and can revoke viewing privileges at any time.
MaskGun v1.031 Hile Mod Apk İndir – Ferhat Özal – Hile Apk İndir
I can't speak for Cortana, but I have personal experience with Siri, Now, and Alexa. In terms of the actions that I do day-to-day (I would never ask for a dirty joke, for example, but I ask for the weather daily), I would rank them Now, Alexa, and distant third, Siri.

There are two axes that I care about - how many useful commands are available, and how well they can understand me.

Google Now has a pretty wide range of behaviors, but it's the spooky-accurate voice recognition that sets it clearly ahead. In the last year, Google Now has only misunderstood me ONCE.

Alexa also has a very wide range of behaviors (especially with the Skills), but I do occasionally run into things I feel like it should do that it doesn't (yet). To be fair, I also use her the most, so it could be that I push her further than the others. The voice recognition is quite good; I would say it misunderstands me less than 5 times in 100.

Siri is by far the worst. Her abilities are limited, but worse, she has a tendency to funnel commands that she can't do into things she can. For example, asking for the hours of a restaurant will instead show you a Bing search (!) for the restaurant's name, sans hours. This is not useful. It would be better to just inform me that she can't do that yet, file that in a log at Apple, and then add that behavior some time down the road.

She also mishears me 25-45% of the time, AND she seems to be getting worse over time. I assume this is because they are trying to widen her audience beyond a standard California accent, but it's incredibly frustrating for a product to get worse, not better, over time. I now use her only for voice dictation of texts on my iPhone, and use Google Now in app form exclusively for more advanced queries.
Getting a $250k investment actually made it harder to get to market
Is the encryption/decryption code in WhatsApp open-source? I haven't been able to find it. My assumption was that they conform to the Signal encryption protocol, which is openly specified, but that the code they use to do so is not open-source.
Judging by the fact that justinkan said nothing besides "we rented a house for interviews" on Snapchat, I don't think you'll hear a peep.
A better web for everyone
Not that I number myself among them, but I'm sure the hackintosh people will be happy if this refresh adds support for things found in skylake NUCs like bluetooth and networking.
I use a sandboxed browser for Linkedin...and Facebook...and Hacker News. Chromium [is not Chrome] identities cover a lot of this. Firefox also has user profiles but they are not as well integrated.

Anyway, Linkedin is probably tracking on any site with a Linkedin icon [and often on sites without].
A while ago I wrote a similar system, called BlitzDB:

https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb

It provides a uniform, mongo-like interface over various storage backends, most notably SQL (Postgres, SQLite) via SQLAlchemy, MongoDB itself (well, naturally) and a flat-file based backend that doesn't have any external dependencies.

Feel free to check it out, feedback is welcome.
I have the remote as an early adopter. It's fun to hide in another room and say into the remote "Simon says, hey kids, Kraft no longer makes Mac and cheese and now just makes carrots and ranch dressing."

A moment passes.

"Dad, Alexa just told us...!"

My geek dad game is strong.
Whenever someone complains to me that the standard library is slow or "bloated" (whatever that means), I ask if they've ever profiled their code vs. the standard library version. 9 times out of 10 they have not, and are operating out of mythology rather than measurement.
Anything can go awry, but looking at the headlines I don't think we have a surplus of justice in the world. And this:

> I have lately wondered if justice is really something we should not try to pursue.

That strikes me as the perspective of somebody who leads a very comfortable life.
So will EFF now endorse Viber as strongly as they endorsed Whatsapp?
Feature Flags for Mobile Apps
Off topic: I really like the minimalistic approach to your blog. In Minion (my default serif font) it looks better and more readable than the majority of webpages out there.
The disparity is still significant in countries with state-funded healthcare.

http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/files/kf/field/field_publi...
The same thing has played out in mobile telecom vs wired. The 3rd world has leap frogged those who had to move from wired to wireless. For residential, micro grids are a totally viable solution where bulk storage happens at what would have been the substation. Generation happens at the edges and point of use, storage happens on a block or neighborhood level. Absolutely required load at night can be pretty low.
Oh! Well don't then ;-)
>Apart from the US and its PTC structure, most of the huge capacity additions happening in wind and solar in Europe, Asia, Africa, China and India are happening from pure private unsubsidized auctions for power.

I don't want to enter into debates about the rest of the comment, but this is demonstratebly false in Europe from my experience as a EU citizen keeping an eye on funding programs and public discourse.

A quick google search says that the 2012 EC report on energy subsidies concluded close to 15 billion euros in subsidies for solar alone. The report DOES NOT include tax credits and DOES NOT include preferential lending support.

In addition, German citizen's bills have skyrocketed to the 2nd place (behind Denmark) because of solar power. German business refuses to eat up the solar power as part of a package because it will make them uncompetitive. This sentiment echoes around Europe, so I suggest you check your facts.

I don't even want to START on Chinese equipment manufacturers, many of whom face bankruptcy after the government dialed back on subsidies.

In all honesty, your opinion seems completely false based on the evidence I've seen.
> No one is going to be making 3D storefronts.

This is right there with visionary phrases such as "640KB is enough". Probably not going to happen next year though.
I'm not really finding any primary sources, but there is a lot of unsourced blogs talking about it. Allegedly it was Hippolyte Aucouturier in the 1904 Tour de France, which apparently was so rife with cheating that it almost got canceled.

http://www.bikeroar.com/articles/the-4-greatest-bicycle-chea...
Doesn't ToroDB do this as a drop-in replacement though?
Looked fun... right up until the side-effects kicked in and he started hallucinating jellyfish.
We may be coming back to the "old internet" mentality where we don't write anything we wouldn't want on a poster stuck up in a public place.

I'm still astonished by those who use their full names and face pictures on Twitter, etc. Those opinions you've shared online are stuck to you forever now.
Rust bindings might solve rust's lack of a prominent GUI toolkit...

Or a straight port to Rust (either imgui or nuklear)
> "no one is really thinking usability, interfaces, social exceptions, and realistic applications"

How true is that? It seems to me that the usability and interface concerns are actually trivial.

I'm pretty sure the bottleneck has always been a technical one, not a creative one.
pay wall
I like this. You can use traditional SQL along side it. It proves NoSql is a special case of SQL. I'd like to see Postgres eventually offer an official NoSql api.
I don't know how things work in India, but it seems to me that big government backed projects in India don't quite work out.

The great thing about solar is NOT depending on government. If government puts the right regulation in place, that allows people to locally build solar cells on their houses, farms etc then that it where the great potential for solar power is. Not being dependent on central authorities doing their job.

Solar scales down so much better than coal and that is its real advantage for developing countries with weak governments and lots of red tape.
what was on craigslist, is now quite often taking place in facebook groups

have you ever looked up groups for your local neighborhood: garage sales and all kinds of random things i previously would have seen on craigslist