skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case there is just one person in this world who desperately needs any one of the said apps.. you can thank me later.

A service that sends someone to fill your car with gas.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-02/gas-delive...

A service that sends a valet on a scooter to you, wherever you are, to park your car.

http://luxe.com/

A service that will film anything you desire with a drone.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/09/03/droners-is-a-market...

A service that will pack your suitcase — virtually.

http://www.dufl.com/

A service that delivers a new toothbrush head to your mailbox every three months.

http://www.getquip.com/

A service that delivers your beer right to your door.

https://sauceyapp.com/

An app that analyzes the quality of your French kissing.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ifrenchkiss-french-kissing/i...

A “smart” button and zipper that alerts you if your fly is down.

https://www.fastcodesign.com/3060268/brilliant-this-zipper-w...

An app with speaker that plays music from within a mother’s vaginal walls to her unborn baby.

https://www.babypod.net/en/babypod/

A sensor placed in your child’s diaper that sends you an alert when the diaper needs changing.

https://www.aabacosmallbusiness.com/advisor/smart-diaper-ale...

An app that lets us brew our coffee from anywhere.

http://smarter.am/coffee/

A refrigerator advertised as “the Family Hub” that promises to act as a personal assistant, message board, stereo and photo album.

http://www.samsung.com/us/explore/family-hub-refrigerator/

An app to locate rentable driveways for parking.

https://www.justpark.com/rent-out-a-parking-space/

An app to locate rentable yachts.

https://getmyboat.com/

WTF?
An app to help you understand “cause and effect in your life.”

An app that guides mindful meditation.

An app that imparts wisdom.

And a new proposal to create an app designed to stop police killings.
Grounded: The Making of the Last of Us
Working with JSON in Swift
Most recent one is a bug in lubuntu based on 16.04 where the mouse cursor disappears after system goes to sleep (but is still functional).

Workaround is ctrl-alt-f7 to switch to console then ctrl-alt-f1 to switch back to GUI, and the mouse cursor reappears.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1573454

Another one is a sweet widget in OS X called iStatPro, which was no longer working ias of Mountain Lion. But, there is this workaround which for me still works on El Capitan: http://hints.binaryage.com/istat-pro-for-mountain-lion/
Gotcha. It's a shame it seems to overexpose the background as a result though; that's something I could quickly reproduce in the photos app. Though if it's doing it automatically for each shot based on the faces in the photo I suppose it's novel and more convenient.
Question: Can s-expression list-of-lists really be used to represent an unordered map when it comes to operations like equality? Or rather, does one simply use expectations/context to compare this object to, say

[["foo", "bar"], ["baz", ["quuz", 1, true]]]

making it a non-issue?
I haven't but I've never had vim perform anything slower than perceptively instant. Even on the lowest of specification virtual machines and servers I've installed it on.

I'm not sure how, in my use case, neovim could improve upon vim. vim's fast, available virtually everywhere, packaged with many OS's and distros, and has a rich and active community. I'm not sure why I'd want to change.

Neovim seems like a fun project ("let's reimplement vim!") but it feels a bit redundant, like a reimplementation for the sake of doing a reimplementation. There's an intangible reason why vim is so popular and has such a following. vim is well engineered, simple, and has been well cared for over the years. If I'm integrating something so deeply into my workflow, electing it the main way I interface with my code, it's going to be the 25 year old project that's beyond reliable, has evolved conservatively and is ubiquitous. Ten years ago I was writing code in the language du jour using vim, and ten years from now I'll be working with the hot new language. In vim.

vim isn't a broken relic of the 90's, it's one of the best, most valuable tools in my toolbox.
When I first saw this, I wondered if it came out of the Photosynth project.
Hot damn that was probably it. Thanks!
FWIW, based on the following sentences it doesn't look like the GP is hinting at that.
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It's going to be hard to point to examples by definition because they were wiped out and nobody ever heard from them again. An example of this you may have heard of, but did not wipe out the company, was AstraZenica's suit against Dr. Reddy's over the purple color of a heartburn pill.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-reddys-blocked-from-selling-p...
"Every day, innovative companies promise to make the world a better place. Are they succeeding?"

Companies promise to make money by offering valuable goods and services to customers. "Making the world a better place" is just Silicon Valley hype. Companies aren't non-profits.
Why not https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks?

Say what you want about previous versions of Turbolinks, but the latest version works really well and has support for native web views.
Sure, just saying that "an organic toothpaste" doesn't rule out SLS.
I've read a number of stories on this announcement now, 7 BE-4 engines[1]? If wikipedia is accurate[2] that suggests seven BE-4's produce 16,800 kN vs 7,605 kN from nine Merlin engines[3]. Twice the thrust should be interesting to watch. Also the comment about LNG not resulting in soot (carbon deposits) is interesting as it speaks to the re-usability aspects. All of the landed F9 boosters are covered in soot.

And the last interesting question will be how dynamic is the throttle capability. I am amazed at the 'net 0' games that SpaceX has to play to bring the booster to a net zero vertical velocity with an engine that can't reduce its throttle low enough to operate in a mode that produces less thrust than the mass of the booster and remaining fuel. 10% of a BE-4 is like 100% of a Merlin 1D.

All that sums up to a new entry in the field that has chosen many different options, hence it will provide a lot of new information about choices that work or don't work well. Can't wait to see it flying!

[1] https://www.blueorigin.com/be4

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BE-4

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine_family)
> Why don't we spend our energy on a significant and catastrophic problem?

It's possible to do this without ignoring other issues.
I lost 20% 10 years ago and haven't gained it back (295->225 lbs.). On the other hand I am still overweight and would like to lose more.

I did it by just exercising an insane amount every day. (Like 6 hours of cardio+strength training every day) Most people just aren't going to do that.

No diet I ever tried had any similar effect.

It did do a complete reset of my metabolism to the new weight though. I kind of think it has to be something drastic to have the effect people want.

The only problem is that it's really easy to injure yourself being drastic (that and you have have the right confluence of factors to have the free time to pull it off).
Great demo page.

I really love the "People-Centric" feature, especially how the demo shows after shot enhancements for a variety of skin tones.

Thank you Microsoft.
It is available on Amazon Prime last I checked. I've recommended it many times over to friends.
But of course, all anyone here is going to do is talk about it, before resuming work on useless "innovation" X
Just like PHP :-)
"We are still looking at the computer as if it were a means of doing what we were already doing."

-Marshall McLuhan
Tell Justin Trudeau to Fight for Web Developer Saeed Malekpour
Not exactly sure why this is a Hacker News thing but...

I wholeheartedly disagree with: "I would argue that the translator serves the author and the original text. Period." I think it should be pretty obvious that a translator servers primarily their readers, specifically non-native speakers who want to read a work without learning a new language.

Which then creates the problem of what do you leave out in a translation? Because you can go nuts trying to keep every syntactic nuance, but then you lose the forest for the trees - the text has no flow for the reader, it becomes hard work where it wasn't originally and the overall experience is flawed. Or you can be faithful to the broad strokes of the work, the essence of it, while changing many of the finer details to achieve it. I think both methods can serve a purpose, but they need to do so clearly and consistently.

It's a little like trying to draw a 3D object in 2D - you can only show a slice at a time and no matter what you do, you are forced to make serious omissions. So a translator should do this mindfully. Discounting other approaches feels a little smarmy and pointless.
She's free to get away with a smear like this because it's impossible to quantify or predict the amazing things that can arise from instant access to information or from every human saving hundreds of hours a year and getting better products and services shopping online. Even when things inarguably improve - like when society suddenly decides to embrace and defend the rights of new categories of minorities - it's impossible to establish a definitive cause.

I'm sure some variant of this story could have been written at any time during the rise of global capitalism, yet the world has, by just about any measure, become a radically better place during just about any 25 year time frime. Show me a chart on https://ourworldindata.org/ where anything has gotten worse - from America to places once considered irredeemably "third world", just about anything we can measure is improving. We don't need concern trolls on high horses to make the world a better place.
I think it's meant to highlight the absurdity of believing that police killings can be fixed by an app.
But then you would never be able to take advantage of the power/performance tradeoff that big.LITTLE gives you; of being able to migrate you to a big core when you need it, but save power by migrating you to the little core when you're not doing anything CPU intensive, and shutting off the power-hungry big core.
Technology definitely can't fix everything. However, most of the problems we had 1,000, 500, 100, and 50 years ago have been fixed or severely mitigated by technology. While collapse is a possibility, I don't think it's an eventuality.
Your numbers are good for males. Often women have issues if they drop to the 5-6% range... missed periods, decreased fertility, hormonal changes, and other such things. Weirdly, some of the same issues people have with anorexia, only to a healthier extreme. I'm pretty sure they recommend women to have at least 9-11% body fat if they are muscular.
I'd also echo the suggestion to think hard about whether you really want to be a Project Manager or are you just following what you think is a traditional 'career path'.

I became a Project Manager right out of college after completing my CS degree and did it for ~8 years. I believe I was pretty good at it, but I don't think I ever once really enjoyed it. I spent all my free time coding, and eventually realized I probably should have been doing it as a job all along. I then spent about a year self-teaching, moved half-way around the world to San Francisco, and found a job that, more often than not, I actually enjoy going to every day.

I'm sure some people really enjoy Project Management, but each of the three points in the parent comments ring extremely true for me, so for now at least I'd much rather be coding!
butwherewouldwebewithoutthespacebutton?
You are mostly right. The mostly part is this:

gram for gram Apples and coke are about the same, however an 8oz coke has over twice the sugar content of an apple.

Secondly, on the disservice, you are particularly correct. I have done myself a disservice by not correctly interpreting my own research. Two years back, when switching to become a vegetarian, I calculated macros for loads of foods. For sugar I used a calculation based on the food's glycemic index.
To add to your point, some projects are simply not going to be profitable, but will certainly have a benefit to society nonetheless. A lot of civic tech projects help increase awareness to certain issues or aim to empower disenfranchised groups, but don't have have a profitable revenue model.

I'm lucky enough to be well-off in many regards that I can freely spend 20-30 hours a week to design/code projects that will hopefully have a meaningful impact to people in my city, specifically increasing awareness of mental health and injustice towards people of color. But I'm not being paid for it, nor is anyone here capable of giving me a salary/donation that comes even close to what I'd earn at a tech startup. The government is also pretty limited to how much they'd provide as a grant.

I'm reminded of an organization here that created a platform to enable non-profits find and manage volunteers, which has clear efficiency benefits for organizations since the process can be very messy. But because organizations can't really pay them that much, they are limited as to how quickly they can expand the team and add new features. Given the limits of their market, no 'investor' is going to invest in them in the hopes of expecting a meaningful financial return.

I'm not sure where I'm going with my train of thought. Maybe something like it'd be nice if there were a non-VC model that enabled groups to work on projects that had no clear profit model? I know the U.S. has organizations that give grants to transformative projects, like the Sunlight and Knight Foundation. Sadly, not every country is lucky enough to have something like that.
I agree w/ everything you're saying, except that I read "...as long as they do not use my font data as a basis for their font..." as "don't use the machine-readable data in my font files as the basis...". Analogously, I read it as: "Go ahead and write a program that does exactly what my program does. Just use the output of mine or the original mine was meant to emulate, not the code I wrote, as your basis."
For future reference, evil-tabs is just skin over elscreen.

I created tmux-like keybindings, leveraging hydra and helm for some commands: https://gist.github.com/kozikow/58b46c45a2c24406dc7cde3f1861... .
That was a particularly nice little angle, I felt .. when I showed my kids this video, I had to explain how the chip contained multiple gates, and it was likely that one of them was borked, so you hacked over some wires to use one of the other gates - and my kids tuned into this right away .. "you mean that not all the features of these chips are used in the original?" .. typical engineering lesson, in a few seconds of video. :)
I could be totally wrong, but if I had to guess, they are using it to show off / validate their work on Microsoft Cognitive Services (Project Oxford). It has facial recognition, along with a number of other things, and so this would be an easy way of getting data on possible problems they have and how well their algorithms work. Just a guess though.
I thought it was a very good example of historical venture capital. Optics aside, if you define venture capital as very high risk, very high reward, the example fits well.
The bottom is definitely ambiguous.
If you need to maintain a certain level of performance, and the system has early indications that you won't be able to reach that by continuing with the current implementation, then that's hardly "premature" optimization.

When people use that phrase, they're usually talking about the nit-picking, obfuscation-inducing stuff that'll get you a 3% increase in speed, that you'd generally do at the end of the development cycle.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/lavender-tea-t...

“The results of our laboratory studies confirm that pure lavender and tea tree oils can mimic the actions of estrogens and inhibit the effects of androgens,” said Korach. “This combinatorial activity makes them somewhat unique as endocrine disruptors.”

The referenced study: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa064725

Abstract:

"Most cases of male prepubertal gynecomastia are classified as idiopathic. We investigated possible causes of gynecomastia in three prepubertal boys who were otherwise healthy and had normal serum concentrations of endogenous steroids. In all three boys, gynecomastia coincided with the topical application of products that contained lavender and tea tree oils. Gynecomastia resolved in each patient shortly after the use of products containing these oils was discontinued. Furthermore, studies in human cell lines indicated that the two oils had estrogenic and antiandrogenic activities. We conclude that repeated topical exposure to lavender and tea tree oils probably caused prepubertal gynecomastia in these boys."
> A typeface can not be copyrighted:

This depends on the country, though. You're right when it comes to US law, but this is in the UK, which has different laws. Though if I'm interpreting the Wikipedia article right, it appears that in the UK only original typefaces can be copyrighted, not revivals.

> As an aside I've always found it completely bizarre how of all the digital media used on a web page, for some reasons fonts have copyright restrictions built into them, but nothing else does.

This is a very old restriction, and it predates computers. It was designed to prevent a malicious individual from copyrighting the alphabet.
The calculus of the opportunity cost presented here isn't the tiny incremental improvement attached to my already amply comfortable lifestyle, but rather the aggregate full-time loss of many dozens or hundreds of engineers, data scientists, and investment $$$ diverted to trivial pursuits. Or put more simply. The lost problem-solving potential for 8-10 hours a day of a single PhD in Applied Mathematics massively dwarfs the 10 minutes that person saved having their car parked for them.
"A service that sends someone to fill your car with gas."

Yes please. So I can have more time to solve bigger, and more challenging problems...

I don't understand how we can even tackle these harder problems if we're spending so much time on mundane chores.. it all adds up.
"GPL Time Lock"
The only way I can think that this can backfire, is that this in itself is the type of conspiracy that the far-right talks about.
That study is designed to find what they wanted to find. There's a big difference between the "gun violence" you find in PG-13 movies and what you find in R movies. The A-Team is not Saving Private Ryan.
Didn't clip have trouble with Unicode? There should be Set-Clipboard now, too (unless I got that from pscx or similar).
Not OP but https://github.com/pklausler/aoeui
Have you cut back on carbohydrates too? I'm just curious, since I've eliminated sugary drinks, but I find it harder to cut back on bread, pasta and so on.
Unless you've read real scholars and experts on the history of the topic, this article probably will change your perspective.
Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research
Pretty sure my grandma would have consumed a glass of Guinness had it been presented to her ;-)
Revolution in home improvement – everything is exposed
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The first day in radar class the instructor put a piece of steel wool in front of a small dish and it instantly melted white and dropped molten metal onto the floor.

It always made me nervous when the class goofballs turned the horns on other people so you could feel the microwaves.

Goofball 1: 'accidentally' radiates goofball 2
Goofball 2: What? What are you doing? Oh, I'll show you - just watch me increase the power on this baby...

It turns out your testicles and eyes are a bad place to receive microwaves.

I submit to anyone thinking of attempting this: you are probably going to get the power calculations wrong and cooking human cells is not fun at all.
Hi

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Few bullet points on what we are doing:

1. We rank contractors based on hard official data - number of projects completed, years in business etc , all data is coming from official sources

2. Browsable project history for each contractor (including location and prices charged!)- as a home owner you know it's nearly impossible to know what a contractor charged in past

3. See how the project cost varies per location for your project, visualise the low and high end renovation costs, it helps you to not being overcharged

4. Searchable history of home renovations per address to avoid costly surprises after moving in to a new house
When we succeed the home renovation industry will be so much more transparent .

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Roman.
The thing is, there is no stipulation that the subproblems be any "smaller" than the original problem. They just need to be instances of the same problem combining together in a manner that solves the original problem.
> The law is a pragmatic tool to solve problems

But as I said elsewhere, it only functions if people believe in it ideologically. If a store relied solely on punishment for shoplifting as deterrent, they would need to hire many more security guards to watch every single customer. What they actually rely on is the average person's belief that stealing is "wrong", because said average person does not want to be stolen from themselves.

> Your driving analogy fails because almost nobody builds their own house

It's not only the initial building of a house, it's about any maintenance, repair, or upgrades. Knowing how to keep up your dwelling is a basic life skill. You may find it economically beneficial to pay someone else to do the actual work, but that doesn't alleviate your ultimate responsibility for managing it.

If you want an illustration of how many people DIY versus pay a tradesperson, take a look at the popularity and selection of consumer-facing stores like Home Depot versus professional-only "counter service". Granted, most of these people would be happier reading a distilled "code complete" book rather than the dense NEC. And many more of them will proceed to, for example, swap a lamp on their own without reading anything at all! But they should still be given that choice openly and have access to the actual law nonetheless.
It addresses the specific criticism you'd offered of eating older rather than newer cultivars: there's little evidence your specific criticism has merits.

Neither of us have addressed the underlying question of whether or not present cultivars and crops are themselves intrinsically healthier or less healthy than older ones. There are some theoretical bases for beliving either way. The arguments against many specifically processed foods are rather stronger.
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" ― Phil Karlton; not sure to what extent this quote is compatible with the second one by Rob. Or does it mean by implication that simply "Computer Science is bugs waiting to happen"?...