skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Now, in this case selfish doesn't mean evil. To the contrary, Netflix's success will mean happier people, more satisfied customers. Much in the same way auto manufacturers make safer cars for higher profits, or surgeons can make a comfortable living saving lives.

I would not call that "selfish", nor would I call it "altruistic". I would perhaps say "fair" or "just".

"Selfish" is generally a negative word. We often refer to any self-regarding behavior as selfish: both rational self-interest pursued in a manner respecting the needs of others, and the miserliness or enviousness that (often deliberately) pursues self-interest at the expense of others needs. Sometimes we state the equivocation in the form of a paradox to catch our audience's attention (the capitalist's aphorism "greed is good") and sometimes as a slur ("those greedy capitalists!"). However, I think it would be helpful if in the normal case we recognized that not all self-regarding behavior is selfish.

Note: I don't mean to nitpick, and I agree with the spirit of your post. Rather, your words were to me a catalyst for some thoughts on moral discourse.
I personally think this is ignorant. Its already been proven several times that if the government wants access to a companies data they will get it. The shutdown of Lavabit has proven this. Marissa Mayer said explicitly thats its treason to not go along with the NSA.

http://www.businessinsider.com/lavabit-founder-letter-2014-5

http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-its-treason-to-...
I also have a question. According to fast.com, my connection is 270 mbp/s (which jives with the official 500 mbps I'm getting). Yet, I've noticed that on chrome on mac, when I launch a new show, it often starts at a very low bitrate and then gradually switch to a higher bitrate. The problem is that this happen on every episodes.

One workaround is using the ctrl-option-shift S combination and manually set the bitrate to the highest settings but it's still a bit annoying.
Just 32bit apps. 64bit apps can go much higher.
They just released a new chat app TWO DAYS AGO.

Which do I use, even if I am a Google fan and love all things Google?
Cost to construct high speed rail is not insignificant. There is not sufficient demand for it given the established interstate highways and air travel industry.

Cars are more flexible for more people. Trains travel to and from fixed points on fixed schedules.

For some reason people get all romantic about the idea of train travel but in the 21st century USA it's not going to happen.
Remember back when every app used a common protocol, or when one app unified multiple protocols?

Those were the days, right?
Damn, I knew I missed something %-P
Please support 3rd party streaming audio.
I gotta say I am intrigued. I own a devshop and we're expanding globally with remote developers. Finding a good solution to standardize workflow has been a pain so far.

What would you say differs you from Amazon Workspaces? I see your graphics include W10 screens but the pricing says W7 only. Are you planning to offer Linux machines too? How do you deal with global latency (Amazon has data centers all over the place after all)?
Android Security:

What happened to Google? I remember back in the days when Apple said that they will reviewed all the apps before they appear on the App Stores. Now it looks reviewing apps before release is not cool anymore.
Perhaps they will rebrand Nest?
Sure, why bother building a scalable system when you can build a classist one?
An example of this in action: Japanese people have bacteria in their guts which aid in the breakdown of the cellulose-rich nori in their diet -- which probably at least partially explains why if you're a Westerner unacclimated to Japanese cuisine and you go to a sushi bar, you may end up with a case of the sushits. But this was only discovered recently -- like a few years ago -- it never occurring to people before then that gut microbiomes could be so diverse as to have developed local variants to handle local cuisine. But there you go.
To play the devil's advocate: What's wrong with being more selective? I don't think anything is.

What's problematic is how people go about it. Our society doesn't teach us how to be selective with grace and manners. So when people realize they have power in a situation they freak out a bit and might over react in being excessively picky or rude to others.
Also: http://beta.speedtest.net (no Flash)
SIGGRAPH videos are always a lot of fun. Two of my favorites:

Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs https://vimeo.com/28962540

Disney's Frozen A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0kyDKu8K-k
heavy doesn't mean the size of the file.

it means the feature set and complexity of using.

for example, I don't want to track all files under a folder. I just want to track few individual files I specified.

perhaps, I'm not a good user of git. I don't know how to do local history with git. and eventually I need to push my change to a remote repository when my experiments are done.
You forgot Spaces, which they announced two days ago.
We added that to https://github.com/TrueCar/gluestick. Plus it gives you a cli and much better upgrade path when you need to change things in the future
Duo -- video calling, competitor to Skype? A "knock-knock" feature -- you see a preview of the caller before picking. Uses quic protocol, built by webrtc team, claims seamless transition when connections switch from wifi to cellular. Graceful degradation if network quality goes down.

Allo -- video chat, e2e encryption and expiring messages. That looks good but unless someone else audits, I'll be suspicious.

Android N -- Vulkan for games, that looks promising. New jit compiler, 75% faster app install speed, 50% reduction in size. File-based encryption. Seamless updates -- phone downloads system image in background. Then on next boot it switches to new image. Also split screen to see multiple windows at the same time. Those are some nice new features.
Too bad no one has a real source for that quote, probably because he never actually said it (though like "Beam me up Scotty" which was never quoted in the original Star Trek, he may have come close, but it's not nearly as memetastic)
> homes that are affordable to software engineers costing between $2M and $3M

Either I'm out of touch or severely under-compensated.
What's the business model for Google Home? Will it suddenly splurt out an advertising message in the middle of the night, or will it rather include subtle product placements in otherwise harmless answers?

Remember, it's made by a company that thinks it's appropriate to put text ads on the first spots of your search results, in increasingly confusing ways.
> When I was younger, I dreamed of something like this. Voice control for my home!

You're making it sound like it doesn't already exist. This is a me-too product from Google as a response to Amazon's Echo which already does home automation, voice commands etc.
mmap is not "a lot of extra work".
>Is a netflix subscription nec. for this?

Don't think so. I can reach it from a computer that has never logged into my Netflix account. Can you reach the main netflix website?
The only defense I can see here is that the programmer who "copied" the code was the one who wrote it for Sun in the first place. He wasn't working from the API spec thrown over the wall, he was doing it from memory.

But then that also breaks the whole clean room premise. If was a former Sun employee he should have never been allowed to work directly on the code in the first place.
Newrelic: A Cool Cloud Simulation: Inside the AWS Summit GameDay
Show HN: Public places statistics in United States
Your own garden? True. Everything else you just listed actually does, at least on the ingredients (for prepared food).

The more general point is that food in the US has to be at a certain level of quality to be sold, literal barcodes aside.
Interesting, I am not familiar with this subject - do you have any links on hotwords in this context or examples when this has happened in the past?
Google seems to have a lot of internal silos. The same can be observed in (historic?) Microsoft, current IBM, and other corporations. Perhaps the split into Alphabet with Google, et al. as subsidiaries will help? But I doubt it.

Anyways, my point is: Someone has a good idea, they implement it, it reaches the point where it's not easily integrated into another product. Instead of strong corporate leadership directing that the new thing be integrated into the old thing (or vice versa), they allow both to exist. Eventually one or more products have to be boxed up. I guess the main problem will be with discovering when this will happen and which product.

It should also be noted that, like WhatsApp with Facebook, Allo doesn't strictly require you to have an account beyond your phone number. This may be useful in helping it to grow as sign-up will be trivial. And users may eventually attach the app to their Google account (if they have one).
Only if you reserve them for three years, which carries an upfront cost of ~$98K.
I get 450Mbps on centurylink gigabit fiber in Seattle. I get 900+ Mbps via speedtest.net. I am hardwired direct to modem on gigabit LAN. I am happy to have this problem, but I have noticed most speedtests (depending on endpoint) don't report gigabit connection speeds well. I am not sure if there is an upper limit to this Netflix test or if I am actually getting throttled.
Why would they put any kind of a limit on it?
I'm not sure that real estate developers are super-excited to build projects with 20% on-site affordable units, though maybe! I think it's clear that their preferred model would be to allow them to off-site their affordable housing requirements, but maybe this is a compromise they could live with.
+1 for "Do startups have an asshole problem?".

Not because I think that most engineers at startups are assholes (quite the contrary), but because I think that puts the content of the article more succinctly.

If this were me, the next morning I'd be either a.) Talking with HR, or (more likely) b.) looking for another job.

Life is too short to have to deal with assholes.
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Nope, I dont. And I agree with @cheald. It's a big shift to have a "press to query" as opposed to a vague keyword-based "always available".

I know some technophiles coworkers who have an Echo, and I couldn't for the life of me trust Amazon, Google (or even Apple) with potentially the always-on stream of audio from my house.
Hi there, I'm the lead dev for Komodo. Just wanted to point out that Komodo IDE is $147 for individuals. The individuals price is below the fold on the pricing page, so you might not see it at first glance.
Android N Beta
That's the reserved pricing. You have to pay $52,000+ plus up front to get that price. Standard on-demand is over $13.
But the person in the Pre line got to keep their shoes on!
Amazon echo is about 179 right now. I'm really hoping google can get this to be about 100 - 125. Based on their history of low cost devices with the two chromecasts, I think its possible.
I find it's about 10 Mbps slower on Cablevision.
White people don't make their race part of their identity. In fact, those that do are called "racists" or "white supremacists".
If Elsevier can find a way to provide open access and still make money, more power to them.

I think, basically, "free the science from the publishers" and "free the scientists from the publishers" are two different goals and it's totally fine if sci-hub only fixes the first one.
React Rails[1] works fine: you just get React, and it's difficult to integrate other shiny React-associated stuff like Redux, but it makes it incredibly easy to build out an app, or even just sprinkle components throughout an existing Rails app. It's dead simple to get started, and I've found it generally Just Works; the whole team I work on has been using it for the last 4-5 months without any issues. Just add to Gemfile -> it sets up a components folder + a file that imports the file tree -> then optionally set initializer options (like include React Addons, or use stage-0 stuff). All exposed globals though, which is a pain, but that's generally expected with the asset pipeline unless you're very disciplined.

There's a pretty complete tutorial, but it's a bit out of date + uses CoffeeScript rather than JSX - I made a copy of the original, with updates, for one of my colleagues, the gist is here (sorry, might be a little rough): https://gist.github.com/DanCouper/b6953544a34606617eb5

To get a bit deeper, there's React on Rails[2], which retains the same entry point, but moves all the JS to a separate folder at root, and uses Node to handle that side of things during development. The setup is batteries included, and pretty flexible, but I haven't used it a huge amount so can't give much detailed feedback.

1. https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails

2. https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails
I usually don't congratulate people on their birthday on Facebook, because there are so many birthdays and it feels more fair to neglect uniformly. But then Facebook introduced a small widget that let me leave comment directly from my news feed, making it almost effortless to comment!

So I started writing a "Cheers!" in that box, because now it was so easy. Of course, it was so easy as to feel almost completely meaningless. It was so convenient to type into the box and feel I had fulfilled some social obligation without expending any effort! Now google is offering the same service for when I'm texting with my mom? Well, I usually care a bit more about her than most of my Facebook friends, but all right...

Meanwhile I don't get that small widget on Facebook anymore, but with the UI stability of "move fast and break things" perhaps I've just disabled it by mistake?
This morning a friend of mine got his gmail hacked, which means his Play, Maps, Music and everything got hacked also.

With Google Home, add your "everyday tasks" and voice history to this! ^^
The problem I had with Android was that the Bluetooth support for the Nexus device was shit. That turned out to be a much worse problem than the library management issues I'm having with Apple. If I can't even have a satisfactory experience streaming music to my car, that's just a total non-starter. It would be like a phone that could do everything but make calls, but I actually use my device way more for music than for phone calls.
We are still working on finalizing pricing. But we won't push any test users to a paid plan automatically. You will get your first year for free and then have the option to migrate or go a different direction.
The idea that Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic (WEIRD as stated in the article) studies are biased is both obvious and not necessarily entirely problematic. The reasons it's not so bad are 2 fold:

1.) Scientists know this and are aware of the caveats (as the article points out).

2.) It's likely that for many biochemical/physiological/medical questions the variation within a reasonably large sample of such a population (male/female, fit/non-fit, manual labor/office work, vegetarian/meat+potatoes, not to mention countless biochemical processes...) swamps out the variation among larger groups.

How many studies fail even with such a homogeneous sample? Tons! My point is biology is messy enough already, that it's likely we've got bigger problems to solve than incorporating different standards of living, continents etc.

Now it's true if you want to make broad claims about microbiota, by definition you have to actually sample much more widely than the WEIRDs. But again, if you want to make narrow claims about differences between healthy WEIRDs and non-healthy WEIRDs, maybe not. I'm sure it would help, but that doesn't mean those studies are useless!

The technologies enabling this kind of work (chiefly next-gen high throughput DNA/RNA sequencing) are about 10 years old. And they haven't really been in relatively low barrier to entry use for much longer than 3 or 4. We're studying a hugely complex system here, and it's the definition of early days. Bias is important, the article is absolutely correct to point it out, but it's way too early to make any conclusions one way or the other about what is important in the microbiome, or the value of the research to date.

The best we can say right now is, "It's probably very important, we don't know how just yet."
I'm aware. This thread is about Home. I've said similar in threads about Echo. :)
If I had my druthers: Swift 2.2, Swift 3.0, ABIs, etc.
It's part of convincing people they don't need money or a life outside of work. "sure we're paying you market rate for a 40 an hour worker and sure you're here 100hrs a week but why would you go home anyway we can get drunk here in the three hours a week we don't expect you to work"
This is essentially what San Francisco does now: "fitting in with the neighborhood's character" is impossible to meet, unless you play the political game well enough.
Hmm, in which case I guess it would be more accurate to say that HFT's provide some limited ability to control liquidity, whether that's increasing it or decreasing it.

Assuming decreased liquidity is bad (I don't know if there's situations where it's seen as beneficial to the market), the question is how to we disincentivize the use of the ability to decrease liquidity that HFTs have, or do we just accept it as a consequence of their participation, and accept that it happens from regular brokers as well?
This is everything iPhone already has. Facetime works really works and iMessage has end-to-end encryption. What a disaster?
Since it has to be a food i would go with Android Noodly McNoodleFace
Android N supports Java 8's Lambda Expressions
I'm voting null I suggest we all do the same!
Fair enough. Funding is often one factor but there are obviously many reasons why suburban schools in good neighborhoods are "better" (have superior outcomes) than those in many city neighborhoods. And, yes, there's not much evidence that more money is a particularly effective fix in many poorly performing school districts.

Mostly I was just responding to a comment that seemed to not be aware that school funding was already mostly local.
I just nominated Null, I hope others do too.
I would love for it to connect my sonos and my spotify together, rather than having to run a node.js server for the purpose
Partial upfront is only $52,166, and over the life of the reservation, only costs an extra 2%.
Given just how brutal the emerging smartphone market turned out to be for would-be entrants, I find the narrative that Android "devastated" Java (for mobile) sales to be a somewhat speculative stretch. I'm curious how well this construction will hold up as the case proceeds.
I think it was Dan Abramov (the creator of Redux and quite a few other things in the React ecosystem) said to start with React only; then, when your application gets complex enough to need other things (Router, Redux, etc.), you'll know it.

And you'll know it because by starting simple, you won't get overwhelmed - and you'll build up the knowledge you need to move to the next level.

As for where to start, either here for "text" only: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html

OR

here for video: https://egghead.io/series/react-fundamentals (although I think it may require a subscription).
Google Allo and Google Duo
Why no desktop client? That is the only way they will ever be able to compete with Skype.
No, but the top level poster specifically called their decision a moral one. Even if that means "it's not right for me", it still changes the tone from a non-moral statement about drinking.
The Other Half of Design
Amazon's Echo doesn't have an owner concept. I didn't think Siri did either. My Echo can take commands from anyone, there's no authentication at all outside of initial set up with your Amazon account. My daughter and I have completely different voices and we use it without problems.
Dynamic Work Rebalancing with Google Cloud Dataflow
What about Watson?
It's not just the commitment, but the fact you have to cough up $52,000-$98,000 up front.
Not to take the magic away but I bought it from AudioJungle:

http://audiojungle.net/item/dynamic-world-background/3940097

It's quite good, I was also surprised it was "just a jingle".
I would guess the downvotes come from this:

>Perhaps, but bear in mind that Google is a PRISM partner, whereas Amazon is not.

We simply have no way of knowing, and our best guess is that the NSA/CIA/HS/FBI gets their own backdoor private APIs to any data source they want, Amazon included.
Google wants your help naming Android N
Android has been playing catch up on iPhone for years now, and they are starting to dangerously get close to them.
Saying Hi to Allo and Duo: new apps for smart messaging and video calling
"Innovation".
Extracting Real Estate DNA from the Digital Amber of Google Street View
Daydream Is Google’s Android-Powered VR Platform
A change in how Instagram works with IFTTT
It is a feature. When my kids (or parents) are watching and the stream suffers, I'd rather it step down the bitrate momentarily than cut the stream or pause to buffer.

Remember realnetworks and the constant "buffering.. buffering..". I'm glad to leave that in the past.
I doesn't have to have a business model. If voice activated devices turn out to be the future of search, and the voice device in your home is not made by Google, than Google is dead. Roughly speaking of course.
US culture's assumptions about what message a car sends -- things like how cowboys drive F-150s, rich old people drive Cadillacs, eco-snobs and neocons drive Priuses, Old Money drives BMWs (preferably 1970s BMWs that haven't been washed since the Clinton Administration), and so on.

None of these messages are self-evident; it's possible for someone outside the US culture, or who just doesn't watch much television, to accidentally buy a car that sends a message he/she didn't mean to send. Thus my disclaimers about Mercedeses -- there are doubtless good people who bought a Mercedes and didn't realize what message they were sending.
Sounds like what happened with messaging platforms in China. WeChat became the single bundled platform for mobile and thus got to play kingmaker with default service providers. I agree with your opinion, although it feels like a natural progression as the sheer number of services grows at a rapid pace and its the attempt to remove friction built up from the excessive overhead of choice.
Yeah, I took a break from the project since last August. Hadn't read any of the issues. When I got back, I bulk closed everything that did not look relevant to the functionality of Vysor (didn't even read the issue). Was just trying to get through the bug backlog effeciently. Three days later, I received a letter from the MPEG-LA.

Btw, Chrome's built in APIs (Pepper VideoDecoder) were not available until around 10 months after my first implementation of Vysor.

Your issue was opened in November. I closed it on May 11th, and received the letter on May 13th. Timing here is definitely suspect.
Show HN: Kitbot – A daily SMS or FB Bot to track your friends and keep in touch
Odds are that you already have a phone near you, with a microphone. If they want to record you, they don't need a new device to do so.
Artificial Intelligence Declaration of Rights (2015)
The best way to follow this keynote is through @pinboard twitter account [1]. It distorts the disruption.

[1] https://twitter.com/pinboard
You should go look at the shit that you used to be on Fast.com before Netflix bought it: https://web.archive.org/web/20130726075933/http://www.fast.c...
Because you and your friends don't need to own an iPhone to use it.
I Am Boaty McBoatface. We Are All Boaty McBoatface
Ah just check and yes you are right, apologies. Do people actually do this? Pretty ignorant if they do!
Nerds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerds_(candy)
Android N McNFace
I prefer http://linux.die.net/man/1/nload