skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm not impressed by snark about being "stuck in STL for some odd reason." You shouldn't be either. It's not particularly clever.

It wasn't meant to be "clever". Maybe you think it's a great place, but if you're offended that not everyone thinks STL is some great place to live, that's your problem. STL does not have a reputation as a nice place to live. Proof: Ferguson. And Midwest weather is generally very bad (temperature extremes, tornados, etc.). And the crime rate there is known to be very high. If I was forced to live in some Midwest city, STL is probably the last place I'd choose. There's plenty of other Midwest cities that have boring but safe reputations.

Yes, $500k can buy a luxurious house in the Midwest, but the salaries there are much lower so you're not going to be able to afford that house there anyway.
Hi agree somewhat with you (read my opinion on the other comment) and the only solution so far seems to be to go "up the ladder" where it is not so easy for beginners to reach. Maybe it's Machine Learning, maybe dealing with other kind of data, maybe mobile development, maybe developing specialized algorithms, I don't know. My only problem is that currently I'm a freelancer, so probably I'll have to reinvent myself..
This is a pretty cool approach. I never understood the rationale behind CopperSpice, especially not why they felt the need to fork the entire codebase instead of trying to work within the boundaries of Qt itself. They've also done the same thing with Doxygen, I believe. [1]

But seeing that the CopperSpice version of an executable is 115mb vs 16mb with regular Qt and with Qt+Verdigris should make it clear this is "the way to go".

Personally I don't necessarily dislike moc so I won't be using it, but if you're really averse it seems nice enough.

[1] http://www.copperspice.com/documentation-doxypress.html
No EU location? Would be keen if you could support that.
What about using realm Java outside of Android? The readme says:

> This repository holds the source code for the Java version of Realm, which currently runs only on Android.

I'm interested in trying this on the desktop (windows/linux/mac), but that doesn't seem possible? Wonder what makes it android only.
Terrapattern: a visual search tool for satellite imagery
Thiel believes that out-of-control political correctness and character shaming will ultimately degrade the quality of rational discussion and debate in this country.

Seeing as Gawker represents so much of that nonsense, I'd say good on him for putting his money where his mouth is.
Even from an environmental perspective, hydrogen cars make little sense. Currently, hydrogen is a petroleum product. It's typically made from natural gas, and this process emits plenty of CO2 (plus all the pollution inherent in oil extraction). You can make hydrogen cleanly by using renewable electricity to power electrolysis, but nobody is doing that currently and the efficiency is terrible. You'd need three times as much generating capacity to power a fleet of hydrogen vehicles as you would to power an equivalent fleet of EVs.

I really can't figure out why Toyota is pushing them so hard.
That's not really their job.
I have a good response to this, but first: Are you interested in a home-cooked meal? Perhaps a Golden Corral(R) "Awesome Pot Roast" could get your stomach rumbling like no other dumpster food could! Choose from one of our great buffet options! Green beans, carrots, chicken, we've got it all!

OK, joking aside, here's my issue with intrusive advertising: sure, they justify the advertising by saying it's to pay for the service, even if you'd be willing to pay for a subscription service that would remove the ads. But instead, you get ads for Golden Corral while you're really looking for the "Oreo Madness" now at TGI Friday's! Today's special includes hot wings with a creamy Ranch dressing, an ultra hot spicy sauce, and fresh celery sticks! Choose from one of our new Bacon Burgers, like the All-American Jack Daniel's Burger. Thirsty? Try our handcrafted cocktails like fresh Peach Sangria!
I've spent a lot of time in the early days of computing typing hex code corresponding to assembly instructions to load programs. Yes, a lot of A3 F7 <enter> C0 <enter> etc

Yes, he's doing it in a harder way, by using positions and jumps, but that's also his choice as there are automated tools to do this
Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
I think that Google Maps is becoming more and more advert-based regardless of this; Once a year I run a little "banger rally" thing for friends of mine and do most of the planning of the route using G-maps. It's impossible now to search for something such as a landmark, instead you get redirected to businesses with either the word landmark in their title, or businesses that will make a landmark for you (funeral directors, etc). It wasn't like this a few years ago. I know, I know, it's business- and advertising-driven, but I can't help but feel that we're starting to get both ends of the stick here - we're the product and our whereabouts are tracked all the time, but on top of that we get advertised to constantly as well.

Problem is I've not found a solution that is as smooth or useful on Android?
I have practical market experience on building a two passenger electrical aircraft and trying to market it, what I found is that "range anxiety" is a real issue for pilots and the market today for electrical planes is really limited to trainers,
so we decided to modify our aircraft to an hybrid configuration.
> Do you fault the oncologist that doesn't cure advanced metastatic cancer?

Yeah, especially if the "oncologist" told the patient to change their t-shirt to purple to cure the cancer. Eg:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-whe...

"
For months, the team had settled on blue and gray. If users were going to read emails on their phones all day long, the thinking went, it was best to choose the most subtly contrasting hues. But now, Mayer explained, she wanted to change the colors to various shades of purple, which she believed better suited Yahoo’s brand.

ccording to one senior executive, Sharma’s body language changed the moment Mayer issued her request. He looked deflated. Altering the color of such an intricate product would require that members of his team spend all night adjusting colors in thousands of places. He slumped off and prepared to tell his staff the bad news.
"
FWIW you can use Realm Objective-C or Realm Swift on Mac OS X.

I'll let someone else clarify why Java outside Android isn't supported.
Imagine a percentage of your community dies a year. Now imagine a percentage of people die who aren't part of your community at all. Does the differing membership in your community make any difference to your sense of urgency and willingness to fight the problems causing those deaths?

I'm not saying the percentages aren't relevant to the larger discussion, but the membership in a community point is also relevant, and doesn't require the percentages to be a valid point that stands on its own.
Maybe they haven't heard of Tinfoil, a wrapper around the FB mobile site.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco...
I disagree.

I very much value being able to without having to constantly watch out for and defend myself against attacks on my person or property.

Europeans don't really care about that, neither do San Franciscans either apparently. That's why crime is absurdly high in SF and they love it. Good for them.
Ask HN: Sales/BD folks, do you use any location analysis tools?
I've been working on developing tools for location analysis for the past few months and am looking to gauge interest to see if it's useful for sales/business development.

I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Check out Hyperion Cantos. I think you might like it.
How to monitor MongoDB performance metrics
I believe it's funded by James Simons
Openstreetmap sadly has some relatively big flaws (this is coming from a regular openstreetmap contributor).

* The copyleft license ODbL probably will mean that there never will be a huge adoption. The situation simply is different with a geo database compared to software or one art piece.

* Vandalism very easily goes unnoticed, as there is no review at all for edits. If something that went wrong is found, reverting is very hard to do, often left to some expert group that only does that.

* Tags indicating when things were last checked are hardly in use. So the database contains tons of information that might not be true anymore or might never have been true.

* The data model lacks persistency, the tags of a shop might go from a node to the building area it's in or otherwise effectively loosing the history. It's very hard to find out where something really came from (editor and source).

* The data model also lacks a good way of dealing with areas (especially ones with holes in them), multipolygon relations are a hack barely supported in editors that often lead beginners to feel overwhelmed. On the other hand there are no curves, just straight lines, because bezier lines are supposed to be too confusing for beginners.

* All the data is in one huge database, not split up into layers.

* There are hardly any volunteers in America. It's an import desert.
If you don't like the series, why are you still reading it? If you don't like the first 3/4 of the series then I think you can be pretty confident that you aren't going to like the final 1/4.
Or in other words, she tried to run Yahoo like it was Google. My experience at Google led me to see it as a bunch of poorly executed clones of trendy startups that never ship.

However, their insane ad revenue keeps the boat afloat, and allows them to fund moonshots and failures. Yahoo doesn't have that insane revenue stream so that strategy didn't work out so well there. Am I missing something?
How many times is this going to be posted? Good for Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan.
I like how he uses of course
. "Of course," the title of this article is misleading. The article is about something different, but this was the most clicky baity combination of words including "git" and "zfs."
tl;dr It is probably common Wifi in a specific setting.

Cmon, HNers. You're better than this. This obsesssion with "listening" to what you say is so twentieth century. Metadata beats data anytime. with the surround of information that comes from auth, apps, and FB usage, there's no problem associating people that meet each other, then immediately check FB.
Counterfactuals matter
That's true, but a lot of people (I'd bet it's most in very poor areas) don't know that, and the IRS doesn't send you corrections if you pay tax you didn't need to pay.
How did Steve Jobs connect the dots for Google?
The core of Realm is closed-source, and Realm only provides builds for iOS, OS X, tvOS, and Android.
As the article states a few times, weight is the main issue.
Ask HN: What are you struggling with the most at your job?
For me, it's lack of data and being on the business side, there's not an easy way to manage the data.
Private Group Messaging
Quantity Always Trumps Quality
Though there is technology, data and a sharing community that makes moving easier... platforms like https://teleport.org
are just the beginning.
A long read but worth the time: http://www.wired.com/2013/11/software-is-reorganizing-the-wo...
Remember when Mayer banned remote work at Yahoo? She still defends that choice even though she has clearly failed to prove her thesis that you need to sit next to someone collaborate successfully and deliver improved business results
The awesome, is it that this demonstrates a viable way to have a simpler toolchain?
That's because OpenStreetMap is just that -- a source of data. It doesn't aim to offer the kind of utility you expect. Rather, it can serve as a data source for developers that might want to take on that task. The ODBL license they use has some unfortunate terms and the committee seem more interested in license-wanking than progress which is why I think there haven't been a lot of major players creating rich and powerful applications and services with it. For instance, mixing your own proprietary data with OpenStreetMap data isn't allowed. This hasn't been a complete show stopper as some great companies like MapBox have popped up, but I do think its had a chilling effect in general.
don't forget watchOS ;)
An important difference is that While both rely on Merkel DAGs git uses content addressing while ZFS doesn't (physical addresses impact hash too).

Relatedly, ZFS's memory management relies on the assumption that a forked filesystem and its sibling will monotonically alias less data as either is modified. This allows it to avoid tracing and ref-counting alike, but makes implementing merging or `cp --reflink` difficult.
Please keep that crap in Europe. They're currently reaping the benefits of that particular world view.
Your evidence convinces me to agree with your position.

On my mind always is the Yahoo Fantasy Football product. In the past few years, the NFL has grown and other fantasy products have grown in value. Why was Yahoo not able to do the same? Why didn't they leverage the value of their sports products?
A Response to “A Response to `The Empty Brain`–The Information Processing Brain”
#SignalConf hashtag hijacked by dating service
So the title is click-bait, then? I almost read the article, but in the 342 milliseconds between thinking that and reaching for the mouse, I came up with three reasons the topic alluded to in the title would be a dumb idea. And it turns out that's not what the article is about anyway.
Lo Que Este Niño Dijo Antes De Morir Asustó a La Iglesia – Subtitulado
What were they indeed thinking when they decided to turn Android down? I fully agree with your points about Nokia's strengths. My understanding is that they decided to go with Microsoft because going aboard Google would be entering a "race to bottom": they thought Android manufacturers can not differentiate themselves, and are essentially reduced to minions which compete to make cheap hardware to run Google's ecosystem. They thought all Android manufacturers would see diminishing profits, and only Chinese vendors would probably remain in the long term.

I think their situation is somewhat similar to Sony. Sony is also well-recognised electronics brand globally. But Sony pushes on with its 'premium' Android smartphone brand (Xperia).

Xperia is the closest you can come to a Nokia-like Android phone these days: it has a great physical build, good camera and excellent battery life. The pre-installed apps seem like they were carefully selected unlike with Samsung phones.

Sony's mobile division is not doing super-well, but it's not a disaster either. I'm myself a proud owner of a Xperia Z3 device and will likely also buy my next smartphone from Sony. I keep wondering, is the existence of a 'premium' Android manufacturer really an oxymoron, like Nokia's management in 2013 predicted?

PS. Nokia is doing pretty well nowadays, though not as a handset manufacturer.
If Venture Capital is needed to properly fill a lawsuit and increase the chances of winning, the bigger news isn't that the justice system is behaving like a market?
Sigh.

> Even if we believe the 20% figure,

Those are widely accepted.

> Considering Microsoft popularized the dark pattern of changing preferences during auto-updates...

You think Google never does anything like that?

http://hothardware.com/news/google-paid-apple-1-billion-for-...

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/eu-accuses-google-antitrust-vio...

> According to the complaint, Google requires companies that want to bundle Google’s apps with their products to make Google Search the default search engine on those devices. They’re even offered financial incentives to not even include any other search engines, European authorities allege.

When Google does it, it is all kosher I guess.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11769763

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766621

Yes, two major discussion, and dozens of submissions that have been killed.
Fluxday – OKR based productivity tracking tool for startups is now opensource
I don't blame her for making $80M+ just by being herself. I blame the people who hired her for their magical thinking approach to technology.
Not an apt analogy at all. Biological systems are fundamentally different from companies. The components of biological systems are neither engineered nor intelligent. The components of companies are either engineered (servers, business processes) or intelligent (employees). That makes it a completely different kind of problem.
100px accuracy. I thought eye tracking could do better than that in general? At 100px accuracy, WebGazer is more useful to advertisers than it is to consumers, as I can't see any consumer-friendly applications that would be useful with that precision. If that's the case, adoption won't grow. Are there other comparable eye tracking libraries out now?
> Not to mention that if this catches on, ever more parties (that you authenticate with) will be collecting these biometrics

... and then doing data science over them. It's like Phrenology all over again!
It was written by a highschooler who made a 3D video game with decent physics and you're... criticizing him? Man, I'd like to see what YOU wrote in highschool.
Fabrication-Time Processor Attack [pdf]
Mixing up authentication and identification is a mistake, I think.
As the "smart kid" I was never able to grasp why all this busy work was important. I thought the point of homework was to prepare the student to pass tests. If I could already pass, why should I be forced to perform countless hours of pointless labor?

Fortunately I still have a work ethic when it makes sense to do work, but fifteen years after high school my lack of study skills is hampering attempts to further my education.
If your fee is too low.
I'm aware of Puzzle Strike. He wouldn't be the first designer to release similar games.

Writing... I find him pretentious/self-important/self-impressed, and he doesn't seem to acknowledge the validity of other points of view.
Flag this post, it'll get dead'd off the front page soon enough.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
Boosting the economy instead of disrupting local communities
thanks for putting this together, I came here looking for exactly this.
From what I can tell they're crowdfunding [0] it (???) Why would a large company with presumably plenty of cash crowdfund something like this?

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something, or maybe it's to drum up publicity for their crowdfunding site, but it just seems very confusing to me.

[0] http://home.mi.com/shop/detail?gid=186
Aha! Yes thank you. Crikey that is not obvious...
It's probably too late for that idea to pan out. We already have that and it's a (overly expensive) mess.

Some blame the gov't and regulations but I place the blame at the market[0]. Healthcare (and the military) is the biggest racket going on today for sure. I mean racket in the traditional term, gov't and private market collusion.

Since the elderly and lower classes already have no-charge healthcare, we're already one foot in. May as well just expand Medicare for all to single-payer to those of us who work for a living.

I think we need nationalized insurance and private market medicine. Nothing will be perfect but we can definitely do better.

[0]http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/750pill-pharma-compan...
A reddit thread (link needed) claims the CEO dude said 'yes'.
because she got paid so much money she'd be an idiot not to ... ?
Speaking of which, have you tried typing "openstreetmap" into Google? None of the top links actually take you to the homepage where the maps are displayed.

I'm quite shocked. For lack of better explanation this seems like foul play.

Perhaps it comes out differently for you:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=openstreetmap
"denied that it meant long-term job losses".

Of course it will

I am astounded at the mental gymnastics that people go through to deny this obvious truth.
Seems unlikely given how rich she already was.
I'd like inheritance / polymorphism. For example, would love to subclass `AppUser` from `User`. I realize it's on your backlog, but just figure I'd give it another +1.

To answer your question, Realm blows away Core Data & straight up SQLite. The context management (or lack thereof) is wonderful. Going further, I have found the errors self-explanatory and easy to fix. Finally, nice job throwing an exception trying to start a write block in a write block -- this forces client programmer to really think about where their writes happen instead of blindly writing all the time (and inevitably running into a nested write).
Exactly, that's why people in this society should all stop having kids. Then the problem will fix itself eventually.
Even for a CEO who wasn't looking to found a company, Yahoo can't have been an attractive bet.

Jack Dorsey was (apparently) in the market for a job change around 2011, was a two-time winner already, and has since shown that he's willing to take on turnarounds. Sounds great, but I can't imagine what offer would have gotten him to take over a bloated, directionless horror like Yahoo.

The entire job offer was an ugly one only suited to people without the independence and focus needed to succeed at it. Someone market-savvy enough to claw out a profitable place for Yahoo was bound to have options that didn't require mass layoffs and managing a dozen nearly-worthless side products.
Are the comments here of less value than the ones on those submissions that already have more discussion? Maybe you think they are, maybe I think they are, but who are we to decide?
"The Golden Age of Fiction is Twelve"

Possibly Peter Graham, looks like that's to whom Hartwell attributes it too.: https://books.google.com/books?id=uYs2NbD-d4oC&pg=PA81&lpg=P...
As a user, I find this creepy as fk. I would love to know how to disable this sort of "feature" on my phone.
> You're comparing a single system developed years ago to everything ever produced with neural networks

I am comparing a single system and all its variants and followups to another family. Oh wait, there aren't any variants and followups to AM/Eurisko except Cyc. Huh. How about that.

> Sounds like extreme and unsubstantiated bias.

ImageNet? AlphaGo? SOTA on language parsing, classification, and prediction tasks? Human-level performance on scores of Atari games? High-quality image synthesis, unsupervised and from textual descriptions? Predictions of visual cortex activations? Program synthesis? If you aren't impressed, you aren't paying attention.
so...are DAO shares actually worth anything if you do not want to vote? I am confused on why people would invest
I'd also argue that it is possible for cultural bias and injected money to suppress truth over longer time scales - generations.
Why do you think Microsoft continues to develop Windows Phone?
I think this could be useful with Digital Signage. My client uses HTML to display content and is run in browser which makes it easy to design and deploy content. He says one of the challenges is getting seamless user interactivity with his browser based digital signage.

This coupled with web camera recognizing hand gestures e.g. http://hadi.io/gest.js/ could help grabbing user interaction inside his apps without too much hassle but right now its a janky solution compared to a real native kinect setup (I don't think its even possible to effectively connect to kinect in browser).
>Do you fault the oncologist that doesn't cure advanced metastatic cancer?

If said oncologist has the hubris to claim they can...while accepting $100M+ to do it then, yes...yes I do.