skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, this doesn't seem to do much for me. I can be 20 minutes into the task and really want to stop it. I think this only applies to certain kinds of personalities.

Worse, I remember that I disliked the task through its entirety and I'm very acutely aware of that and start associating starting it with a bad experience.
I'm really sorry , I did not.I was on vacation when I created that form. Then I posted the data and returned to college . Then I got caught up with this project and submissions and completely forgot about the form. Again I admit this is not a good excuse and I am really sorry about it. Thank you for the remainder will write it this weekend.
Ask HN: How do I build upon what HN did for OldGeekJobs.com?
Here's my story:

1. Last Wednesday, I read Tim Bray's post "Old Geek" and it resonated with me because of experiences I've had.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/09/14/Old-Geek

2. I immediately created an MVP with a static site and Google Form.

http://imgur.com/a/kTJK9

3. It made HackerNews and got a tremendous response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12506232

4. Over the next 2 days, I built out a more robust version of the site with Flask and Postgres.

Quartz then picked up the story:

5. http://qz.com/784118/someone-created-a-tech-job-board-for-people-over-30/

and now Inc.

6. http://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/how-to-get-a-tech-job-when-youre-really-old-like-35.html

Now I'm iterating on PMF. I'd love to know what you think of the idea and how I can keep the momentum going.
When consultants, partners, sales people, anyone really, send me a invitation to a Skype call, or a Google Hangout thingy, I always ask that they call me on my office phone. If that's not okay, then we'll just have to make due with email.

I'm not going to look for my headset, figure out how to use the right inputs and output, or sign up for a Google account because someone wants to call me. I have function telephone with a good wireless headset that just works.
Isn't this what the whole point of the free market is?

Are there really more bad ideas for crappy products now than there were in the past? I mean, "snake oil salesman" used to be a real thing, right? It's not like it's anything new going on here.
Say you own a restaurant with 100 tables. Each night someone needs to manually go and blow the candle out or turn it off. Now you can turn them all on and off simultaneously and remotely. Additionally, if its a LED candle you might be able to monitor the battery status remotely.

Probably not cost effective in the long run, but that depends on the cost of labor.
MacMini 705 days (2 years)

Mac Pro 1009 days (almost 3 years)

Appalling!
Where does one go to learn these formal methods?
In your hypothetical, I have a hard time giving an example from current consumer products where it isn't the manufacturer's fault. Approved device, used as directed, properly maintained causes a fatality. With what consumer device today wouldn't it be the fault of the device maker/seller.

At the same time, I'm hard put to think of products/services used by consumers--outside of medicine perhaps--where it's the norm that sometimes "shit happens" because statistics and it's not considered reasonable to sue the manufacturer (though we often still do).

Interesting times. Especially given that the facts (and the degree of automation) won't typically be nearly as clear cut especially over the next few decades.
So, which phones will be good options going forward if you want to avoid crapware?
Can't you put it under "All Applications" to have it take effect in all apps?
Thank you, we have worked really hard on making it as informative as possible and not letting pure asthetic get in the way
I was hoping this was saite.
JavaScript isn't ever going away, is it?
Will JavaScript ever be removed from programming, ever? Is there any hope for this at all?
>Name one situation where you would really benefit from a remote-controlled candle.

I'm sitting down and cuddling and a candle is more than arms length away. I want to light it, but I don't want to stop cuddling or get up. Why would you want a remote for your TV? Same thing.
As long as the codes are written by people who know their architecture and architectural history 100%, I am completely comfortable with that. It's just that I've had far too many experiences with historical preservation codes written by amateurs with limited knowledge of architectural history who effectively ban any attempts at making a building more airtight and efficient while letting aesthetic travesties like asphalt shingle roofing and poorly proportioned window trim stand.
If you do an outbound call (i.e. outside Skype, to something that would actually use DTMF) Skype doesn't use SILK/Opus on the outbound connection. You can tell because the quality is way worse.

There are also issues with the echo cancellation Skype uses. If you have issues with DTMF, that's the likely cause, not the audio codec.
This is great, I work in distributed systems and am always dealing with wall clocks. Most people ignore/forget about clock sync or reject using wall clocks entirely because of it. But you can get very practically reasonable results by thinking these things through and doing sync. I'm glad to see other people doing more work on improving and validating NTP servers.
Is there some kind of strategy do get the reporters to come to us? Instead of doing biz dev on them?
Yep I remember the BeBox :) Many more will probably try and fail, as it is not an easy thing to accomplish. That's why I'm leaving it "dream" territory for now. :)
Thanks a lot! Instead of focusing on looking amazing, we first thought about making people understand us and then we added great design. It's a very legalese, complex concept to explain people, so we spent a lot of time on this!
Well, I actually like the idea. It's fun and more useful then a number of apps (Yo).

And the parent commenter's main point was that it opened doors to imaginative ideas, not that this idea itself were practical or useful.

It's also potentially dangerous so that makes it interesting.
But that bigger picture was already solved; fireplaces with remote controls have existed for years.
This article has many scientific gaffes:

because the genetic defect that causes Duchenne is on the X chromosome, it is a disease of boys.

It is because it is an X-Linked-Recessive trait that it a disease of boys. Saying "because [it] is on the X chromosome" adds no value by itself. If it were "because [it] is on the Y chromosome", then it would sufficiently follow that it was restricted to boys (with rare exceptions).

The data showed an increase of only 0.28% of normal levels, which was, on average, a tripling of dystrophin levels for these boys.

I have no idea what to make of this. "Increase of only 0.28%" == "on average, a tripling"?

Unger was worried about the unknown risks of the drug, as well as the risks to boys who might get injection ports while they were also on immune-suppressing steroids, raising the risk of injection (sic).
Eisman Assails ‘Clueless’ Silicon Valley Over Online Lending
> it's low-risk high-income work

Is that the goal of life?

> And admittedly it's probably not for everyone.

Of course, that's the point. If someone wants to quit so they can ride a bike across a country, that's as valid a choice as yours is to keep going to work. Nobody is wrong, everyone is just making their own choices.
They can easily dig under a fence. Fences can't (at reasonable expense) keep coyotes or wolves out of any large area.
If this is 'infrequently' I'm not sure what we do all day!

Moderation consistency is impossible, because we can't come close to reading everything here. We do our best.
Also, transcranial magnetic stimulation of the visual cortex of blind braille readers makes their fingers tingle.
I'm sure there are plenty of new insane defaults with obscure configurations to disable on which to test their powers.
> They should have handled this matter in private instead of blogging about it.

But they tried that first? From the first blog post:

> Hidde promised to resolve the situation. In addition we contacted you directly too. After waiting patiently we received no response. After many tries through your editorial office we got hold of an editor who promised to return our call. This never happened either. As a final measure we sent you a DMCA takedown request and waited patiently. No response.
Have you ever called Oracle support? That would only be saving you time...
I'm curious why the clients chain requests but the servers don't chain replies.

One challenge would be around server scale -- for the servers to maintain a strict chain, they would need to coordinate amongst themselves, which can be costly. The proposed approach doesn't introduce that requirement.

But they could get close by maintaining a branching history, like what you might see in a git history, or a vector clock. Neither of those approaches provides the same causality assurances as your proposal, but either would provide something close without incurring any blocking server-side state management.
Special occasions that needs dramatic effect? Such as weddings, proposing, anniversary, especially at night.

Easier to set up than actual lights and creates better ambiance.
Listen, I've read enough of these in the last couple of years. Enough! Don't fucking buy the stupid candle if you don't like it. What, blogging about things nobody needs is more valuable to the world than creating questionable products with new technology?

People can make whatever they want and if nobody buys it - they'll stop.

Sure, I wish everybody worked on finding a cure for cancer every day but that's not how stuff works. Get over it.

You know what this is? Lazy journalism. Find another topic.
The TI PRU compiler is at /usr/bin/clpru on my BeagleBone (from Adafruit, with Debian). If it's not on your BeagleBone, you can download it here: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#TI_PRU_...

I'd recommend using the CCS IDE (as I describe in the article) rather than the command line compiler, but it's up to you. You'll still probably encounter frustration - it's not an Arduino experience for sure.
Driverless highway from Vancouver to Seattle proposed
A Sample of Brilliance
"Seriously, you don't need to be internet friends with your roommate. Just talk to them face to face!" -- parents of college kids during early days of facebook.
What is mysterious is the fact that's 3 offices
> Why wouldn't one do that?

There's a litany of reasons, but they all basically boil down to it's more work than just picking one solution that you think most people will use and executing on it well.
Those users usually get a better experience and the pointy-haired boss is happy you shipped so fast.
I didn't have the luxury of doing any of this until working at my current Big Co. web job, where accessibility is non-negotiable and we actually take steps to make sure everyone can use our sites. But even then don't serve pages that work without javascript half the time.
Anybody knows if it has something in common with the Ye Olde MSN Messenger?

First time I saw it I couldn't help to notice the similarities. Even the emoticons were the same!
I fiddled with various settings, and I think managed to disable almost all the bloatware. I get a notification about every two months that Sony's updater needs an update.

I'm pleased with the phone otherwise, and would buy it again.
Europe.

Thought we might play together some time.
Not to put words in the GP's mouth but as someone involved in hiring I find that idea intriguing, although I think how effective it would be would depend a lot on the nature of how it was implemented (isn't that always the case, though...).

The biggest problem with hiring experienced people for software development positions is the broad range of what falls under "software development". It's a very big field, and I think the breadth of the field isn't well appreciated by people working outside it -- including, particularly but not exclusively at large organizations, management and HR.

A good accrediting body might do a lot as a way of ensuring a baseline level of competence for new CS grads, and in particular it might help people coming from schools that are good, but not one of the "big names", by showing that their education is up to a consistent standard. I don't know if it would do much for hiring more experienced candidates, though. Too much hinges on evaluating the experience that's being claimed since graduation.
One of the points of the E2E security model used here is so that you don't have to trust Cisco.
I could see someone using it for an art piece. Or to make it easier to place and light a candle in hard to access area. Also being able to light/put out based on timer might be a minor QoL improvement.

Personally, i'll stick with normal candles since I like the tactile and sensory experience of lighting a match and candle.
How AR will sneak up on you like a ninja, disguised as something else
I've been running the final beta for a couple of weeks, tonight I plan on downgrading to El Cap, and staying there for a few months.

I have not found a single useful feature, and many bugs, both on the OS (time machine seems more broken than usual) and in other apps (notably Emacs keeps crashing).

Maybe I'm getting old, but I would strongly recommend leaving this one until at least .1, if not .3
I look forward to having tabs for most document based apps.
The pipeline operating is super speculative. I would suggest not using it yet.
An event venue that wants a swanky "authentic" chandelier hung from a high spot? Maybe a church or other venue with dozens or hundreds of candles that need to be lit and extinguished? Restaurants that otherwise have to have a server walk around and light all the table candles at dusk... I don't know if it's enough for this company to survive on, but I can certainly think of real benefits over "traditional" candles for quite a few cases.
While a smart phone candle doesn't solve the major issues facing humanity, it does help with prevent home fires.

In the US, there are about 1.240 million house fires a year[1], of which, 2,325 are caused by candles[2].

The candle will go out if it's knocked over, or if it's smothered[3].

While this is very expensive for a candle, it has the very real potential to prevent house fires. With time, the cost will fall, and we'll see less and less candle induced home fires.

[1] https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/
[2] http://www.nfpa.org/public-education/by-topic/top-causes-of-...
[3] http://www.cnet.com/products/ludela-smart-candle/preview/
Prague is a really cool city. A lot more cheaper and has better climate than London. I suspect rent is substantially cheaper as well. And they are on their own currency, not stinking euros.
Disable your echo cancellation. It breaks DTMF.
Yeah, there are two ways to find value in your life's work. One is to continually perfect your craft (Jiro), which means dedicating yourself to primarily one skill/career/industry. The other is to continually diversify your skill set by trying new things and experiencing the breadth of activities life has to offer. I don't think you can say one is more meaningful than the other, but it does seem that they are mutually exclusive.
I too am unhappy about clean energy fratricide between renewables and nuclear power. (Though I think that most of the financial pressure on nuclear in the US is actually from shale gas; renewable generation hasn't been able to grow as quickly in absolute terms even though its relative YoY growth has been impressive.) If electricity storage gets cheaper and more abundant, that should help nuclear power too. It means that nuclear generators, like renewables, would be able to charge storage at low-price, low-demand times and discharge/sell at times of high demand. That would tend to displace relatively inefficient marginal supply sources based on fossils, like open cycle gas turbines used as peakers, instead of driving infighting between nuclear power and newer low-emissions sources.
Another, I'm about to start listening to Phantom of The Opera with friends. Opening chord sounds, pop a bunch of candles. Awesome.
Curated collection of famous quotes from author like: E. Hemingway, F. Kafka
Where do all the PRU programmers hang out? Is there a forum to ask questions? Based on this HN discussion, there seem to be lots of people using the PRUs.
Somehow I don't think remote-controlled candles are going to be a smash hit with young people.
I'm not seeing it on the "Updates" tab within the App Store. Are people usually supposed to search for it?
My money is on:

+ something like PTT (push to talk) for video. Like Google Duo but with whatever high-level OS/hardware changes were required to make it work well.

+ edge-to-edge screen (thanks benmcnelly)

Why? Look at these people in the photos... They are hip (AF) and they are on scooters. They are mobile and care about appearances...
Amazon Channels
Yes, the unfortunate reality is a lot of places have de-facto monopolies in the US, but the monopolies get to claim there is still a free market by pointing to dial up or spotty satellite connections.
Of course, the same could be said about people who post comments about articles about things nobody needs...
Completely agree. I think lawyers are one of the biggest lobbies ever. They really care about their profession and making sure that they stay relevant.
Some lawyers try hard to make simple things look extremely hard just so you have to blindlessly trust them. And you obviously pay a premium for that. Anyway there are awesome lawyers out there that actually help businesses, but they are the less
> it's almost never required

Mate you should try Diesel or Futures. ;)
Excellent, appreciate this thoughtful answer. So you mostly code games?
What kind of solar were these? I read the first couple pages and my skim didn't find them.

If they aren't perovskite (and probably can't be since those are oh-so-close but not being manufactured), that raises two exciting possiblities:

1) another jump when perovskit ~20% efficient cells are produced en masse

2) The hybrid perovskite + other types variants that give even better efficiency with mixed costs...

As I understand it, the only challenge with perovskites now is that they break down in contact with humidity IIRC. Great for deserts though?
Why does the government need to prioritize the interest of people who profit from tourism [hereafter I will call them "tourism people"]?

Why don't "tourism people" just pay people constructing buildings to use the colour "tourism people" want? That should be fair to both parties.
I wouldn't mind being slower at mathematics if it meant I could relax on a beach somewhere down south or live in a nice cabin up north.

The brain is good at what you practice it doing. I very much hope that I wouldn't need to be as mentally active as I am right now when I retire.
Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems
Are you going to tell me that every single object in your home provides real, material benefit to you?
Damn, you beat me to it. My first thought when I heard of these was "I need 30 of these for awesome D&D effects"
Show HN: Changelog Cli Tool
Iceland’s psychedelic Stonehenge
MacOS Sierra is now live Here's what's new
It doesn't? The point of the article was that people shouldn't be allowed to build things like IoT candles because they're not necessary. Not "this isn't useful to me", or even "this thing is ridiculous, they're not going to sell any of them!", but: "These are people with real skills and entrepreneurial spirit, investing a renewable resource (money) and a non-renewable one (time) into products that really aren’t going to move the needle."

The GP even says "How much positive impact could those people be having if they were just pointed in another direction?" This isn't being critical of their interests, this is saying they shouldn't be able to choose what they work on.
Has this got any practical value for everyday desktop computing or is it a retrocomputing thing?
> Dramatic effect for my DnD campaign.

Preprogrammed maybe, but pulling out your phone to alter the lights after rolling a d20 would offset any added vibe.

The analog solution of having the candles already lit and then, "Poof!", blowing them out as soon as you see that they failed the roll is far superior.
Two people in geographically different areas want synchronized candles as a memorial to remember a shared loved ones passing...
Critique of NHTSA's newly released regulations
It's stuff like this where you wonder why we don't just take a fraction of the national budget to pay these (obviously bored, obviously skilled, obviously challenge-hungry) nerds to go solve some of humanity's problems instead of making them waste their lives designing more plastic shit.

If your defense of this is "hur hur free market" then I can't level with you. The world needs less acidic oceans and a smaller Pacific garbage patch, not a remote-controlled candle.
Just ended. And here is Obama's call for safe automated vehicles: https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2016/09/19/Barack...
Speed?

http://www.nyctransitforums.com/forums/topic/17313-subway-sy...

And for some reason, NYC subways aren't a very smooth ride. Are you sure maglevs wouldn't accelerate faster?

Also, I'd think a maglev from Manhattan to JFK would be preferable to a subway.
Creativity requires constraints. The constraints that surround the challenges we face force us to come up with creative solutions.
Implementing Feature Toggles with React Redux and Launch Darkly
> PE is the default of how HTML, CSS and JS work.

PE is not what the client pays you for.

> You have to go out of your way to screw it up.

Hardly. The shortest path to the whizzbang the client wants will break PE all on its own.
And this article is part of the free marketplace of ideas.

"snake oil salesman" used to be a real thing, right? It's not like it's anything new going on here.

So we should avoid criticizing snake oil salespeople because they've been around for a while?
U.C. Berkeley faces legal action because free online courseware not accessible
Touchè. Most people size it large enough to never block on insert, so it is usually considered a non-blocking queue. Reads never block for example.
So? You know what metasploit is for, right? Who cares?
My occasional workaround has been to paste in a text editor as plain text. I agree though, that the paste and match style should be default.
Yes, this is very close to what I envision. It would be very cool to get a computer where you can instantly boot up and program on with the same ease as PET BASIC or QBASIC, yet have all the power of modern hardware at your disposal.
AirDrop doesn't require you to be on the same wifi network, or even for the devices to have internet access. I use it to toss files from my Macbook to my (completely offline) iPad regularly.
So... 0.2% of the fires? That's not a great argument.
Why Hollywood Makes Digital Magic in the U.K
These fierce Kung Fu nuns in Nepal are all about female empowerment
Node Feature Discovery and Kubernetes
That sucks. Are you sure you weren't using iCloud library and need to enable it to download the music? Or perhaps iTunes by default doesn't show music in the cloud? Would be interested in your resolution, though I've not heard of this anywhere else.
I don't really understand the negativity towards scrolytelling in other comments here.

They are providing a hosting service and product, based on Pageflow. Which is mentioned right on it's homepage!

They contacted Al Jazeera directly and were brushed off (can easily happen in a large company, doesn't imply malice).

The page would probably never have been taken down without the media coverage. And said coverage might have informed some devs about Pageflow, but it's also good publicity.

People often forget that one actually has to make money too. If you do that based on an open source product without violating any licenses, and even contribute back, why not?

They have every right to shame companies using their product without paying for it.
Never, just like the headlines about the new biggest disk drive.