skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, regardless of whether or not smartphones have a removable battery, there's always a small second battery connected to the baseband for emergency purposes. I've confirmed this firsthand by taking apart several models, and you make out small coin cells on most online disassembly documentation as well.

The one in my old Atrix was a good 250mAh.
How to Create and Send Email Newsletters in Gmail in Minutes #hack
My favorite quote from this article (and slightly off topic): "On July 14 a group of 140 or so tech industry figures including Slack’s Stewart Butterfield, EBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, and, for some reason, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, released an open letter decrying Trump’s candidacy."

Does anyone know why Jesse Jackson was included in that open letter?
"In February 2009, NumbersUSA was called a nativist organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center's report 'The Nativist Lobby', though the SPLC also stated that there is no evidence of racism on behalf of Roy Beck or his organization."[1]

There are plenty of people in the press who consider all discussion of immigration reduction or control racist. That doesn't make it so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumbersUSA
"It's like it's a different language!" (incredulously)

Yes, it is a different language. It is built for expressing ideas about deduction and quantity clearly, flexibly, creatively, and it works beautifully. Saying 2^3 = 8 and log_2 8 = 3 sort of get at the same fact but not really, that's misunderstanding their purpose. They express that we are evaluating functions. You can express 8 - 2 = 6 or 6 + 2 = 8 "in the same way" (Crazy! How can we have two notations +, - when they are just inverses of each other?! We shouldn't give ourselves language to express both "the difference between 8 and 2 is 6", and "2 more than 6 is 8" because they happen to be rearrangements of the same equation!) but the equations are used to convey meaning in different ways in different contexts.

The second example, the 8^(1/3) is not even equal to 2, it's equal to three values, two of them are imaginary. It's important to have notation for "the thing that when you cube it is equal to 8" distinct and understood so that when you begin understanding imaginary numbers (high school iirc) you have context. Then you can explain the definite article in that quoted sentence is actually inaccurate. What if he had selected an example with two real roots, like sqrt(4)? What should we put in the the "triangle of power"? The positive branch cut? Okay, now you have to explain that you're really doing a different operation now, that has multiple answers, but we are going to pick one of them and put it there, but we have to remember that it could be either. Which is best expressed using separate notation to explain the operation you are doing that isn't even a function.

The fact of the matter is that these ideas are distinct and relating them is a separate, worthwhile exercise that helps understand the structure of exponentiation and its inverses.

And in doing mathematics you will find that switching to equivalent but more informative or clean or applicable notation is one of the most valuable workhorses we have for solving simple problems.
Ah yes, the great circlejerk
Ahhh. Thanks! This makes more sense. I misunderstood the original phrasing.
There are different levels of culture. The "happy nice version" of multiculturalism involves surface-displays of culture - different groups of people have different kinds of food, different styles of dress, different accents/languages, different skin tones, but are otherwise nice friendly liberal people who believe in the core values of Western culture, such as the rule of law, equality before the law, relatively high trust in civic institutions, etc.

Except, there are literally billions of people who don't believe in those things. There is not "magic dirt" in the USA or "The West" that gives us those things - it's a function of the people who live there. If you were to import millions upon millions of people who don't share the values, while simultaneously teaching the youngest generation that white people are responsible for all the evils of the world, and encouraging minorities to nurse racial grievances, you're going to end up with problems. But it's impossible to talk about because you have unhinged racists on one side, and people who are prepared to see unhinged racists everywhere on the other.
>>is laughable

Touchwood. Back in early 2000s, a lot of people laughed at the idea of Mandarin being taught in schools.

>>Great things will come from bringing another 1 billion humans online and contributing to the world marketplace

They don't have to go global. Jack Ma: “eBay May Be a Shark in the Ocean, But I Am a Crocodile in the Yangtze River.”

Anyway an extra one billion internet users don't necessarily mean great things ... commercially maybe it gets a lot greyer in other areas like social.
Peter Thiel Is So Dangerous and Fascinating You Have to Watch Him Tonight
If he actually going to deliver "Internet access" with those drones, or is this another one of his shenanigans trying to force-feed people Facebook as the "Internet" in poor countries?
You can do amazing things with Forth for its footprint ( [compile-time] forms, etc.) - but it's not dynamic, it's typeless.
First Dark Matter signal may have been discovered
On Free Basics: "We’ve learned a lot about how we need to interact with governments and the political system and regulators, and build support in order to have these things work. And I think we’ll take those lessons forward on the future work we’re doing in Free Basics, which by the way is continuing to roll out around the world. One day, once we’ve shown that it’s a successful program around the world, I hope that we’ll get another chance to come back to India and offer it there, too."

Come on, Mark... your stubbornness sometimes works well in making product decisions, but isn't working well in this strategic context. Free Basics rolled out in all these other countries by interacting with 'the political system', regulators, governments (not to mention telecoms.) But it was grassroots activists who stopped you in India. And you still haven't learned that what we want is not better management of regulators, but net neutrality. It blows my mind.

It is exhausting enough to have to oppose telecom networks and other industries in their efforts to turn the Internet into Cable TV (by creating different tiers and segments of the internet), and meanwhile every few months Mark wants to lunge into the conversation with this nonsense. Facebook should be helping preserve net neutrality worldwide, not putting their energy and resources into undermining it.

India wants the same Internet that Mark used to create Facebook in his Harvard dorm room. Accept nothing less.
I have to applaud your attitude. And your strategy. It's actually pretty clever to support the host your own so people can see it's a way to avoid lock-in.
Published in PRL.
preprint: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.4119v2.pdf
> The alternate future would have seen everyone living in dense urban areas paying most of their wages as rent to the descendants of gilded age land owners.

Which is what is happening now anyway. The suburban sprawl merely delayed it by a few decades (okay, maybe half a century, to be generous), but all the underlying issues with it are still there.
Instacart Spotlight – East Coast Operations
FYI (or whoever can make the fix), the link titled "share stack frames" (to http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/thread/fn.scoped....) on that page is dead.
> Or is it just that electric cars and solar panels appeal to the same small segment of the population? That would show a strong correlation, but not scale well.

Tesla is a luxury product company. All of their products are either luxury or commercial. Their strategy scales well in that segment.
The mention and link to Elixir scares me.

Please, don't bring your ghetto over here. Keep your unwashed masses to yourself.
Thanks for explaining. I'd misunderstood the $1 fee as the per-mile fee being taken 100%.
Please don't post celebrity gossip here.

HN is for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity. That kind of curiosity is not this.
Show HN: Python and default parameters
One doesn't really need Unity, does one? Openbox is awesome. It doesn't hog system resources either.
Besides they not being the subject, Apple and Google do not reserve the right to upload anything accessible from your computer into their servers without some kind of authorization. Yes, some times it's opt-out, but it's still different.

So, why are you trying to include them?
How the Republican Convention Fends Off Hackers
Why is everyone surprised that Peter Thiel said this or said that? Is that because we expect Peter Thiel to be a genius, when he is just a person with probably a boatload of baggage, some brilliance and plenty of idiocy - similar to anybody else ?
"is actually a better impedance match to people's natural mental processes, which involve language"

This is false when applied to all people. And this is the reason you disagree with the demonstration. Not all people think in language. I would wager that only half the population thinks in language.

I think visually. It's work for me to translate my thoughts into words. I have to do a translation process to write this comment. It's easy work, but my natural thoughts are pictures of concepts.

Richard Feynmann liked to talk about this a lot, but the internal mechanisms of thought vary drastically from person to person. Ironically, it seems common for people who think in words to suppose everyone else is that way. I am not sure why.
There is tons of space to put solar panels. We don't NEED to come up with a clever solution of where to put the solar panels.

Just put them anywhere, it doesn't matter. Space is cheap. Rooftop space is even cheaper.
Great writeup from Stanford CS231 course:
http://cs231n.github.io/convolutional-networks/
It sounds more like an Israeli kibutz, not a bad model for people who voluntarily go for it.
History begs to differ. The loss of privacy and LE overreach is real, whether you care about it or not.
Mocks and Stubs
Let me rephrase that: people naturally communicate using language. In your head you may think in symbols and spatial relationships, but if you want to get a concept out of your head and into someone else's head you have to use language. There's a reason that the symbology in mathematical papers is invariably wrapped in natural language.
The contrast to Elon Musk's plan is so striking.

Musk is trying to fix global climate change, avoid the 1 million+ yearly traffic deaths and secure the future of the human race in case there is a planetary-size disaster.

Zuck just wants more more users, "engagement" and in the end - opportunities for monetization.
What is described in the article does not do traffic inspection, it only verifies that all radios are off.

I see the argument that there is a use case for the smartphone for taking pictures while operating without radios. But wouldn't a better solution then be a compact digital camera and a notebook? You can invent your own code for note taking that becomes arbitrarily hard to break. You can disguise a compact camera as a smartphone using just a case and a hot glue gun.
Great summary of GitLab CI's advantages. Nice, easy read. Thanks Pierre!

(Disclaimer: I work at GitLab)
React-Monocle - a tool to visualize your React app’s component hierarchy
Western culture isn't even close to homogeneous. Really bizarre.
Handy launches full-service storage offering in New York
Amazon has diversified income streams, they don't just resell products they purchase wholesale. They have a pretty sweet deal with 3rd party sellers, they make a big cut providing a sales channel for inventory owned by others, either seller-fulfilled or FBA.
This is not some business deal where you can change terms later on and let the courts decide. Turkey needs to know if NATO will be there for them or not. He can call for larger contributions of course and tell them upfront that NATO won't help them until conditions are met. But he can't decide at the time Russia invades. Then he may as well leave NATO.

Trump was also a "birther". That alone shows to me that he doesn't take politics seriously.
My tiny Canadian province doesn't allow billboards and yes they are very obvious to me when I travel.
I get that sense of the pastry world from articles like this one:

http://blog.forbestravelguide.com/5-tokyo-bakeries-that-take...

though I have not had a chance to visit these bakeries myself.

They're even in Paris, competing with the French, in pastry:
http://hipparis.com/2014/04/25/the-sweet-life-japanese-pastr...

I mean, who does that??
Why? If you're recycling/biodegrading 100% of the old vehicle and producing the new with solar energy, you should have zero pollution.
Which is why I said circumventing copy protection shouldn't be illegal. You should be able to make that video and use it for your own purposes. My problem is with Step 2 of the article's hypothetical: instead of feeding the video into a speech-to-text machine for your own use, you put it on Twitter where Twitter makes a bunch of money off something that was mostly CNN's work.
Nope, I read it. Maybe just didn't explain my point clearly enough.

He mentioned that he is using Google Cloud instead of storing images in MongoDB and my question was what's the big deal about it? It doesn't seem like something you'd do to make it more scalable, it's something you'd do anyway.
> You also should not hoard all of your money and live a miserable penny pinching life unless that somehow makes you happy.

It does: it means financial independence -- and the freedom to work on what I really want to do -- comes quickly as opposed to never coming at all.

> The reality is that people tend to spend most or all of what they earn.

Read Amy Chua's _World on Fire_, on the question of market-dominant minorities -- i.e., peoples who have too much sense to waste their money like this.

> quality stuff that you don't really need

The difference between old money and the rest of the US is the difference between checking the time on your cellphone (the old-money way) and buying, or wanting to buy, a $20,000 Patek Philippe mechanical watch.
Unlikely? Lol.
I have my doubts about the social structure proposed, though that is interesting too.

However, the actual physical layout is pretty neat. Though I prefer that there be some provisions for existing vehicles rather than rely on pod technology that hasn't been developed / deployed yet. But I would definitely want to have any motor vehicles relegated be considered secondary users and their use kept at least a little inconvenient. Rather than with current urban planning, where vehicles are the primary user, and pedestrians are an afterthought.

I would love to live in a walkable community.
Do a quick search for "smog in china" you'll probably want to bring a gas mask.
Has Discourse failed?
yes I agree, and also, what? why should PP's question be downvoted-to-hell?: He's entitled to defend the other side here.

Not saying you did it, but I had to comment someplace.
If you have VS installed:

Windows: "Are you sure? [Yes] [No] [Cancel] [Upgrade to Windows 10] [Debug]"
You might be able to approximate the triangle in line by using slash and backslash. 2/3\ = 8. 2/\8 = 3. /3\8 = 2. Not nearly as pretty, but if you're familiar with the triangle in a hand written context, it might get the point across.
Maybe. Don't think any of this existed when I need it...

1. The code is tiny with 90% of it dealing with RSS parsing and filtering. Using RX.NET wouldn't really simplify anything.

2. I wanted a library that I can integrate into my apps and run locally to avoid throttling, robots.txt and other BS Yahoo Pipes was suffering from.

I am also not a huge fan of RX... to put it mildly
My favorite interviewing question as an IC was "Tell me about someone on your team you admire". It let me learn about what people valued based on why people were admired, and gave some depth-of-bench sense whether there were lots of distinct names, or if everyone was in awe of the one good person on the team.

If you're looking for cross-team health, maybe you could adapt it to "Tell me about someone on the other team that you admire?"
Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart
> bumfuck SC

Please don't drop slurs into HN comments. Your comment would be fine without that bit.
I think Thiel is fine with crony capitalism under the guise of libertarianism. That's where things will probably go with Trump. There is a lot of money to be made.
There are a lot of things you can ask for that will red flag an organization as a whole.

Are you being given stock. Ask for a cap table and learn to read it.

Tell them your wiling to sign an NDA, and that you want to look at the repository. Tell them that you may need to ask follow up "who is who" questions to pin checkins. Code never lies. Embattled areas of code, and comments are great targets for your search.

Ask about recent outages and technical issues. Are they having problems keeping things up and running. Ask about how they were identified and how long to resolve.

Do they have documents for requirements? Wireframes, PRD's. Ask to see these as well.

If they raise any objection to any of this, just ask for a reason. It might set off an alarm for you. It might be reasonable.

Since you have some history with the other team leads, make a personal phone call. Start the call off that way (that its a personal call) and that you want to know the truth/history here because you have concerns. If there is something funny going on in the background one of them might just give you an honest answer.
> Not all people think in language

Yes, you're right. But everyone communicates in language. I've updated the original comment.
Unfortunately people who are born into it don't get a choice.
Because a bear would be able to see a gun if it were not concealed? (I live in Montana and have never heard anyone talk about concealed carry in the context of animals).
Troll? "Pot to kettle, pot to kettle - you are black".

So you're literally re-stating that it is in some part my fault, with different words - "You do have a responsibility, even if you really don't want it...".

Because I choose to not shunt what money I may or may not have towards Atlanta, or Gary, I'm deepening 'social and financial inequality' or whatever your babble is. So my question for you is, where does it stop? At what level of removedness can I, in your hilarious and impractical worldview, stop having to feel guilty for any success I may have gained?

If it's not the country, perhaps the continent? Do I still need to have some vestigial guilt over not sending money to the far-flung reaches of Canada? Am I supposed to lay awake nights, beating my chest over inequality in the favelas and how just maybe, if I'd sent half my paycheck to a random orphan (which orphan though?), it would've fixed all the things?
But none of the suggestions would increase the density of aircraft around major airports. They're already operating at runway capacity during peak times.
> I don't say this lightly, but how is this not a plan for building a Communist cult with an explicit plan to centralize power of the plats, presumably to Hall himself?

From the paragraph you quoted:

> But everyone is also free to leave and take their companies with them, if dissatisfied. "Competition and the freedom to walk is crucial," he says.
World’s most sensitive dark matter detector completes search
Exactly. As a counterpoint, I know many people who are against Hillary's voting records, flip-floppy history, and aggressive foreign policy doctrine, yet are going to vote for her because well... they'd rather have her than Trump.
Education startup Udacity will teach you how to build a self-driving car
For front-end _web_ development.

Unless I've missed something, Native UIs can still run circles around browser UIs.
The UI needs some big improvements indeed. I toyed around with the site and although I could find my way around when just clicking through some topics, I am still confused as to what the structure of the site is (other than a list of topics, with a list of examples, not hierarchically structured or Q&A style or anything else that would make sense). I'm not sure I could find anything on here if I didn't get there via Google already.
100 clients destroying a core or two? Please, use the right tool. See erlang, golang, java, even c#.

Years ago, you had to suffer using poll(), select(), whilst dealing with threads or forking. It's so easy these days. A raspberry pi should be able to support 1,000 clients with any of the above recommended languages.
When I place my smartphone on the desk near the computer speakers any time it is going to ring the speakers start making a funny noise a second or two before the ringing starts. So I presume it must be possible to DIY a cheap sensor for GSM signal detection based on a little speaker.
If you don't know about Mormons and collectivism, it goes way back. Start here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Order
It's several towns. What he's doing will disrupt the local economy by inflating prices on the real estate market. New people won't be able to afford to move to town because their pockets aren't billionaire deep. The people who moved out won't come back. Once the local economy is disrupted enough by the pressure on the real estate market, the residents that never planned on leaving won't be able to afford to stay. Then they'll sell their land, and that will feed back into the cycle until the town is either in depression. That will open the door for this billionaire to import enough new residents and hijack the local political processes. Monopoliznig the local real estate market is what will lower the barriers.
What's the opposition to sticking with the actual titles chosen by the authors?
could be said about literally anything
for example, if it's indeed true that Peter Thiel is skeptical of women's suffrage, then I think it is reasonable to conclude that he is probably at least to some extent an idiot and we should view his actions at least partially through that prism
A visit by the CPT – What’s it all about? (1999) [pdf]
People aren't complaining about the price, they're complaining about the fucking stupid way that price is enforced and the gouging that happens when the inadequate hardware fails.
Understood. We're always looking for better ways to visualize this data, so we'll bear these comments in mind.
While I want them to, I don't know why they should. What's in it for them?
I'll believe it when it will ship :-).

Meanwhile, most of Europe, Japan and China has a really cool high-speed working train system and suburban trains that really work.

I remember how shocked I was when I first when into the NYC subway. And don't start me on BART or MUNI in SF, those are awful.
And it's a district commission appointed by the governor that makes the decisions.
Under your rational then you should be pro building a wall as currently illegal immigration is a default "racist" policy that encourages those from central America while discriminating against Indians and Chinese.

Build the wall and regulate immigration so more Indians and Chinese come relative to their world population.
Apple created HLS, so it makes sense their implementation is solid. :)
Scientologist? Jehovah's Witness?