skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Summarize service on OS X does a decent job at summarizing content, and it integrates will any app that uses Text Services. On the article about Apple's recycling[1], the summary it produced was similar to the one you produced.[2] One advantage with the OS X Summary is if something looks interesting, the slider can be moved to reduce the aggressivity of the summary, thus yielding more details.

From WiseGuy:

Various media sites claimed apple recycled $40 million worth of gold from iphones, they were dead wrong.
What actually happened is that Apple is under statutury obligation to recycle a certain weight of e-waste depending on it market share or weight of electronics sold (depending on state laws). The e-waste doesn't have to be of the manufacturers own products.

Apple paid third party recyclers to recycle mostly CRT's and PC's (iphone have hardly any gold and are much more valuable refurbished, In fact, phones and tablets often don’t count toward the overall recycling requirements in many state laws.) and probably incured a loss rather than a 40 million windfall as claimed in news articles.

From OS X Summary:

The most egregious and inaccurate storyline goes something like this: Apple, out of the goodness of its heart or perhaps fueled by monetary incentives, took old iPhones and iPads that were brought back into its stores, took them apart, melted down the roughly 30 milligrams of gold in each phone, and ended up with 2,204 total pounds of gold.

...More commonly, however, it was reported that Apple recycled “90 million pounds of e-waste through its recycling programs,” with much of this e-waste being iPhones and other old Apple products.

...Linnell told me that, generally, Apple is considered to be a good faith participant in many states’ recycling programs, and said that the company has also set up recycling programs and contracted with e-waste recyclers in states where there are no e-waste laws.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11536543

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11537017

Edit: I should add that anything that helps people get more out of their day is somthing that can be inserted in the time vs. money equation, so your idea is definitely on the right track.
Is Netflix, Hulu, etc. still behind the Live Gold paywall?
Existing competitors (Bing, Yandex and so on) jumping in.

Massive lawsuits as Google actually sells services that would stop working, or that other vendors depend on.

Retaliation from the EU on alledged past violations.

Loss of revenue around 30-40% (just a guess) from losing EU customers (500M people market of first world countries) == lawsuits from its own US shareholders.

A wave of investments into EU newly found search market from all over the world.

Unsustainable political pressure from the US establishment to go back to EU ("we need that data and you're handing it to China or even worst, national states of Europe)

Tremendous loss of soft power and influence of the US on the old continent.

Financial default of tens of thousands of EU businesses, subsequent EU bailout, subsequent new protectionist measures over Internet businesses-

No more stupid comments on Youtube.

Who's that guy with a beard asking for money? It's Larry Page.

Websites all over EU begin to have a links section again.

Android gets banned, Nokia resurrects, with a big advertising campaign praising the long battery life and low radiation.

People cannot reach facebook anymore. They cannot look it up on Google and don't know what a domain name is. So they get on the road to ask other people how to reach facebook again. Then they become friend with them. And mate. Twenty years later Europe has now 10 competing search engines, the population had tripled as the result of mating and the average age has halved. They have far more less money than before, and they blame the greeks for that.
Don't fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing evolution. It doesn't "require" anything, it certainly isn't sending epidemics to help us "get stronger", and it really doesn't "care" whether anything lives or dies.

People thought the bubonic plague and cholera were God's will up until the germ theory of disease was discovered, happy to pray and cast spells while wallowing in their own feces in flea-bitten squalor, and that's not much different (or much more rational) than arguing that epidemics should be accepted because they're "evolution's will." Believing that nature has a plan only causes unnecessary suffering. Nature no more has a plan than does the dust in a dust storm.
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Market forces will prevail, absolutely, but in my opinion the biggest factor in criticizing comedy should be one question: is it funny? One problem is, or so I hear, that people aren't even listening long enough to make that determination. Some people will hear "trigger words" and then it doesn't matter if the joke is funny or not because they've already passed judgement.

Take for instance the account of comedian Kurt Metzger beginning one of his bits with "Are you guys for gay marriage? Well I'm not," (I believe it was this joke told in a club [0]) at which point a woman sitting in the front row grabbed a drink, not even her own, and threw it at him because he said he was "against gay marriage". In what world is that okay to do?

And of course my analysis of it being a growing trend is purely anecdotal from the shows and festivals I've been to and the podcasts I listen to.

[0] http://www.cc.com/video-clips/h6f2uv/stand-up-kurt-metzger--...
If the sentence still makes sense when ", dammit!" is appended to it, it's in the imperative mood and you are the subject.
But what if I put a block where you are about to jump?
I think we'll look back on maybe the 10 years previous to this and the 10 years after this as the years where we didn't really know how to handle all the information and connectivity we were barraged with because our brains simply didn't evolve for such a thing (and it's about to get a lot more interesting with VR/AR) -- the dopamine hit of MORE INFO MORE INFO MORE INFO makes sense in an information-scarce world. No longer. I suspect our brains will adapt rather quickly, for those of us born into it. For those of us over age 25 or so, I suspect we'll always have twitches of addiction and nostalgia for being off grid.
We've truly legitimized, if not quite yet legalized, when we're applying biz jargon like "supply chain" to dope.

I'll just send My Man an application to the INSEAD MBA programme....
And to some it's still more than is needed in an actual games console. Still many titles to enjoy as an infrequent older gamer.
Since Microsoft's official container service was just posted on HN [1], I thought this article would be a good read for re-introducing Containers which talks about its origins in the shipping industry and how it directly relates to the software industry.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11527668
I'm going to read that as short for "lab assistant" :-D
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I've never understood how that Rain stand could cost so much and still be so popular (I have one myself). At first I thought it was an official Apple stand but no.
This isn't the only time s/he's done it, and it reads as unnecessary ad spam—which is frequently looked down upon here. The same thing was downvoted in another thread. And if this user is going to continue doing it, it's going to become very annoying very quickly.
got a camera stand. averageish quality at discount price, and I think that's a very good formula, perfect fit for an online seller. not to shoddy to get a bad name, good enough for what it does and priced among the cheapo option of which is the better.
Is there really no way to get closer to normal performance for networking in Virtual Box?

Also, why not use Linux VPS? Also, take a look at Docker as an alternative to Vagrant/Chef. Also, take a look at pnpm.
Ask HN: Have you gotten an O-1 work visa? What was the experience like?
Hi, I'm interested in hearing stories of how people got their O-1 "extraordinary ability" work visas. (1) Did you find the O-1 option yourself, by researching it, or was it suggested to you by an immigration lawyer or a friend? (2) Did you rely on past accomplishments, or did you seek media coverage, enter contests, etc., to build your evidence portfolio? (3) What was the process like for you - easy, difficult, frustrating, confusing, scary, exciting?

I'm a (former) immigration lawyer working on doing a brain dump of all my knowledge about O-1 visas. The idea is to demystify the process, and create a public resource for individuals to build their own O-1 evidence packages.

Would love to know what has worked and not worked, for folks who have been through the O-1 process, so I can build better tools. Thanks!
AFAIK, because most new cars today are pretty close to drive-by-wire anyway, there's little if anything that exists today that precludes such a perfect storm scenario from occurring with the ECUs in human driven vehicles today other than whatever internal processes manufacturers happen to have in place to avoid ECU bugs.

So in that respect, the introduction of self-driving-cars won't necessarily make such events more likely.
The market for people who take more than a sitting or two to finish a bottle of wine is probably very, very small.

The barrier here is, "bad idea."
I'm honestly not sure that anyone can turn Yahoo into something that the shareholders don't know what they want.
I was interested in finding the paper from which you got this quote: "some non-reproducible preclinical papers had spawned an entire field".

Seems to be from:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a...
Presumably they don't have to (at first)... they just buy retail or wholesale and re-bottle it, either under CO2 and/or using a flexible inner pouch and leaving no gases inside.
The real estate above the fold is your most important one - use it responsibly. :)
SET LOCAL ROLE will automatically roll back once the transaction is done.
Curious - I would have flipped the Post and the Times in your sentence.
If you object to inflicting more suffering than you have to, how do you justify not being a vegetarian? In the end this is a trade of a bit of pleasure for you and quite a bit of suffering for the animal. Fox hunting, it seems to me, is precisely the same sort of trade. You could argue that the pleasure you get from eating meat is worth the suffering, but the pleasure the hunters get from fox hunting is not worth the suffering, but it is not clear to me how you would justify such a claim. Firstly, it seems to me not impossible that a hunter derives more pleasure from a hunting trip than from eating a piece of chicken. Secondly, it seems to me not impossible that the total amount of suffering inflicted on a chicken during its farm lifetime including slaughter is greater than the total amount of suffering inflicted on a fox during the hunt, particularly since free range isn't all it's made out to be. Thirdly, even if it were the case that fox hunting is a worse trade than meat eating, it's still unclear why it couldn't be the case that both are still worth it, or neither is worth it.
No. Lets say we're playing with a 2-angel. Lets place an angel, and without loss of generality assume the angel is moving left:

_ _ _ _ _ A _ _ _ _ _

Then, perhaps the Devil goes here:

_ D _ _ _ A _ _ _ _ _

Angel moves:

_ D _ A _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Devil places:

_ D D A _ _ _ _ _ _ _

The angel must now change direction. For any given direction and any given angel power, as long as the devil starts placing pieces far enough away he can force the angel to change direction.
All of those numbers seem wrong. My effective tax rate in CA was around 38% for 2015. 30-35% is too low for $500k.
It's true - I think the general issue is that the forces produced are tiny, so it's hard to rule out some other effect coming into play and for the EM drive to work would mean overturning a decent amount of 'settled' physics understanding so the evidence needs to be pretty incontrovertible.
Yeah, I was expecting some aerospace or semiconductor tools, which typically require hundreds of millions in investment before launching anything. That's a real barrier.
I wrote this article, I gave Apple 18 hours to respond. The article has now been out for four hours or so, and it's been close to 24 hours since I originally asked them.

Apple RARELY responds to press inquiries and the only time it has reliably spoken to the press was during the recent encryption battle and that's because it desperately needed the public to understand its argument.

I understand what you're getting at, but Apple loses nothing by having the original story misreported—it ends up looking really good. Apple just straight up ignores reporters, all the time.
Are you being sarcastic or do you really think GCP could overtake AWS in 2-3 years?

That kind of growth would make the growth of AWS look like a local corner-store.
> Why should I develop a new product when amazon can make a ripoff and use their scale to undercut me?

This is what patents are supposed to be used for. You create a truly innovative idea and receive a patent for it. Then some large manufacturer, that has the scale to produce your product far more efficiently than you ever could individually, contacts you asking to license your idea. Together you work out a fair price for the rights, you get money for your invention, they get profit, you both leave happy, and the customer gets the best of both worlds.
Ok, so in the year 11950 we can have a debate about whether or not a species has been around long enough to be considered native. Right now, they're still invasive.
This is probably incredibly naive... but couldn't this all be put to bed by someone putting such a drive on a cubesat, lifting it into orbit, and seeing if it works under practical conditions?

Maybe Hawking and Milner should be considering this for Starshot?
> Yes. In fact, under Linux oftentimes spawning a thread and then running a system call can be faster than just running a system call.

Interesting, do you have any further info (references, cites) on this?
Everyone thinks it is for R&D ?

What if it is to try to find patents they can sue over?
Thank you all for your responses.

Sorry for not mentioning what areas I had in mind. I was talking about friends in Dallas, Atlanta, New York and Raleigh among others.

We are talking 5-8 years of experience.

I have seen and tried to follow the advice in this thread and it has not worked out.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or I'm just not good enough yet. I get a lot of interview calls, but the salaries offered are nowhere in the ballpark of $150k.

Also, every friend of mine, that I have spoken to, is doing either Java or C#, none that I know mention Python. When they offer me referrals I politely turn them down due to lack of experience in the Java and C# stacks.

I'm not a ninja or a rockstar but I get work done. My current role is one that requires me to learn all sorts of new things and thus my resume is a splattering of all kinds of skills.

I just want to stop worrying about my future and focus on enjoying family, hobbies and hobby projects instead. (But then who doesn't?)

It would also help me greatly if people could mention if the advice being given has worked out for them also.

I don't want to sound mean/ungrateful/rude, I really do appreciate all the help.
Information wants to be free, so it isn't worth paying journalists for the time to do this.
Thanks I updated my upper example. ;)
Right - if you are already having a product made in China, you are the middle man. If you are actually making the product yourself, then Amazon might come to you and create an off-brand version with some trivial differences. But, in any case the designs of simple products are not nearly as sacred as the actual manufacture of them.

Unfortunately, it does have a depressing effect on new design and innovation. And it certainly seems that the low-cost Chinese manufacturers haven't got the knack for originality yet.
It should be divided by user.
Let say the service costs 10 usd per month. So lets say you are going to pay 5 usd to authors. You should divide each user 5 dollars between the percentage the user read of each autor, so if a user only read one author, then the author gets 5 usd. And if he reads 80% of one and 20% of other authors, then the same percentage should be applied from the 5 usd.
I do not know how hard would be this to implement.
It should be legalized, but with one condition: any and all advertising should be banned. In fact, it should apply to all drugs (as it is in other countries).
I think you are underestimating the amount of work that goes into producing a high quality mobile O/S.

Someone has to fund that effort.
Taking this opportunity to promote gitlint, a git commit message linter (and hook) I wrote in Python: https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint
That's fair enough, it's very impressive and it seems like a great addition to PG.

> Your application should be enforcing this and be written in a way that SQL injections are impossible.

I wholeheartedly agree, but it's wishful thinking. It's still the OWASP #1 critical vulnerability and it's still everywhere.
That sounds reasonable to me.

foo: Add utf8 support

If the component name is conventionally written in lower case, because it's a technical term, then I think a comment written in this way counts as good style. I might choose to capitalize Foo myself, but I think foo is defensible in that context.
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It's an amusing article, almost sounded like we are not the most destructive species to most other species on the planet.
Go show someone how to calculate a gradient vector (assuming they can calculate basic derivatives) and multiply two matrices, and then try to teach them how gradient descent works or the SVM derivation. That's not going to end even slightly well for your average person. There really is no silver bullet for this stuff. You either need some mathematical maturity, or you need to put in an exorbitant amount of time to understand things.
Unfortunately it is very difficult to know which blogs have good journalism. Social media aggregators tried to collect the best from around the internet, but ended up even more sensationalist and biased than traditional media.
Fascinating! and mind-blowing to think about operations on that kind of scale.

Thanks for taking the time to share that.
Testing HN's Unicode support here (and your browser's)...

Edit: And it failed. I tried the emoji for the record: http://emojipedia.org/clapping-hands-sign/
Portugal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal

Since July 2001, all drugs are legal subject to personal consumption limits.
There are actually 303 versions of node (including iojs, according to the Node Version Manager):

$ nvm ls-remote | wc -l
303

Most of those are patch releases. There are 47 minor releases and 6 major releases:

$ nvm ls-remote | grep -oE 'v\d+\.\d+' | uniq | wc -l
47
$ nvm ls-remote | grep -oE 'v\d+' | uniq | wc -l
6

Most language implementations probably have similar number of releases.
The Washington Post was the paper that investigated and then wrote an article explaining that Bernie Sander's average campaign contribution is not actually the famous "Twenty-seven dollars", but in fact $27.88.
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The Verizon Strikers’ Shrinking World: Wireless Is Growing and Wired Shrinking
> It's a fine console, but I was worried about the prospects of Microsoft shutting down Xbox Live at some point.

Well, as long as they still need to run Xbox Live for the Xbox One, it's probably in their interest to provide the (relatively) small amount of work to keep it functioning with the Xbox 360. Plus, they charge for the service, so as long as Live makes them money (it does![1]), they are likely to keep it going.

1: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-10-22-xbox-live-r...
Sure, the tricky part is finding funding
You're doing this too much. Downvoted.
The article seems to be about what he imagines a young person of today would do if they wanted to affect a counter cultural lifestyle. Sticking it to the man (advertisers, your boss, parents, etc.) and throwing common mediums and traditions out the window to freak out the normies. He's not saying the old way was better, he goes to lengths to point that out when he says:

>This is just maudlin, nostalgic mush. You can’t go back. But all my imagination can do when picturing a life off the grid is summon up the life I had before the grid existed, so I cannot help being retrospective.

He's using the past way of life as a framework to build his vision on, not as the desired outcome. The imagined exchange with a teacher is equally fanciful but serves the point of illustrating a conflict between a young person and an establishment figure. A failed grade would be of no consequence here since it is certainly an expected response from someone in a position of power attempting to force you into conformity... missing this point is telling of your misunderstanding of the article so I think I'll leave it at that.
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Microsoft can thank Peter Moore for doing the right thing

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-02-peter-moore-rec...

He made XBox customers happy with the added extended warranty but it cost MS over $1 billion, so he was ousted. From another perspective, one can also blame him for rushing out the 360 too early, but then that's how MS was able to gain market share at the expense of both Sony (temporarily) and Nintendo.
This is great for systems like ours that have thousands of 'users' and setting up Roles is a pain.

I do see an issue in that if an sql injection is found, then it's trivial for the attacker to use set_foo or set session themselves.

Do you know if it is possible to run to get the system to a point where the initial connection role doesn't have permission to 'set session' itself, but does have permission to run set_foo. Where set_foo can set the session, then set a role that does not have access to execute set_foo again.

Said differently, could this be adapted so that:

1.) at the beginning of a connection, the session is unset

2.) the only way to set the session is via function

3.) once the function has been called once, it cannot be called again on the same connection
Not sure why this is down voted.

It's an important point that this whole problem with media is the old axiom 'any publicity is good publicity.' If that wasn't true, I think the media would be hella more accurate.
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A free market is denoted by the absence of intervention by government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority. Under what circumstances are these $500 aspirin being purchased? I have a strong suspicion that some sort of cartel is involved. If not, I'd be happy to supply the market for far less.
Sorry? Gee we're sorry for trying to scrub an embarrassing incident of the internet. We're sorry for trying to get rid of the evidence. Gee were sorry. This lady should resign in disgrace. $175,000 buys a lot of books.
Yuri Milner of Breakthrough Starshot should be a contender?
I don't think those two statements invalidate each other.
> Victims' families have been pushing Congress for the right to sue Saudi Arabia over the death of their loved ones

God bless America. The default response to everything is to sue.
I bought it used with 80,000 miles on it. Second owner.

I'm a big do-it-yourselfer and generally avoid dealerships.

BTW If you haven't changed your serpentine belt lately, do it! Mine broke at 90,000 miles, wrapped itself around the timing sprocket, cause the engine to jump timing and broke 7 valves. Cost me about $3500 for a new head. Apparently it's fairly common.
+1 for GCP. Managed/scalable Postgres would be amazing there.