skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely include a more detailed explanation of the criteria for inclusion and rankings, and if possible a breakdown of the sub-scores that went in to the final score (this can be a separate page per device, since it would clutter the main chart). It sounds like some of this (the weights, at least) is subjective, so transparency is important.

If this is really aimed at the less technical/experienced crowd that can't cope with the command line, then you need a lot more background information explained: the hardware revision bait and switch business model, what the benefits actually are of open-source router firmware, the major differences between DD-WRT and OpenWRT (and LEDE). Explain that Broadcom WiFi is about as open-source friendly as NVidia graphics, and that DD-WRT can do very little to help with WiFi issues on those hardware platforms.

It would be great if you could offer guidance for what constitutes fast enough, ie. that "tri-band" routers won't help anything, client WiFi devices don't support more than 3 streams, and an ARM processor isn't necessary if your WAN is only 100Mbps. Also add warnings for devices that only support 100Mb Ethernet on the WAN port or all ports, and make sure to cap the amount that their WiFi speeds can contribute to the performance score.

Alternatively, if your target audience is people who know generally what kind of hardware they need and just need to know which product currently delivers that at the best price and with third-party OS support, then add filters on major categories like NIC vendor (BRCM/QCA/MTK), built-in flash quantity (because 8MB isn't always enough), and radio MIMO class.

More generally, it doesn't serve the public good if your chart is just abstract bragging rights that can be gamed by things like including more RAM than necessary or a useless extra radio for a 150% price increase. The market should be discouraged from producing overpriced overpowered devices that have no real-world use, even if they are to some extent hackable.
It happened quite frequently in my hometown of Buffalo, NY – I think. I want to double check before I write up some examples, what do you envision that isn't a food truck, yet has no commercial real estate? Does opening a restaurant in a residential district count?

EDIT: I remembered one of them was featured in the NY Times this week, that makes it very to explain :) They started without a store front, selling bread to co-ops and food markets. It became a cult favorite, then it became a staple at local restaurants and coffee shops. They partnered with a excellent coffee shop, Public Espresso, to do a food truck, and launched this beautiful restaurant, in a light commercial corner in a heavily residential district. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/travel/breadhive-buffalo-r...
University copying books for teaching is not copyright violation
Note that you have to stream these, unlike purchased Audible audiobooks that can be downloaded to your device.

This makes it impractical for me, as I mostly listen to audiobooks on the go.
> Go's "problem" is that it can't efficiently give i a new address in each iteration: it'd have to put each one in a new memory location.

It's not an efficiency issue. How do you think Ruby does it?
Hang on.. so if you say something bad about a company in a forum that's enough for a judge to give that company your name and address?

So if I were to associate my various accounts on forums with a corporation I own then I should be able to get the names and address of all who ever criticized a comment of mine on reddit, yes?

Probably not but still.. wtf?
We don't know how far (or if it will ever happen) we are from level 3.
He's very entertaining, seems intelligent, and he's a pretty typically myopic ideologue with the flavor being "Libertarian". On the other hand, I look askance at the people who took the magician seriously, just because he told them to.
Depending on what you mean by too much money, consider that most of the classic analog synths exist as software nowadays. Look for software Moog and Oberheim modulars. I know there is at least one Korg synth published for the Nindendo DS. On the iOS front, you can pick up one of several analog synths for reasonable price, one of them is even free (though you will have to get some in-app purchases later: [1]).
[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/modular-synthesizer/id599439...
>They complain about the shape of someone's arms in Street Fighter? Who cares about realism, these characters can shoot fireballs from their hands.

Well, the whole point is to make them shoot fireballs out of their hands in a convincing fashion. So having the non-fantastic elements of the animation be convincing is especially important.

Hayoa Miyazaki's writings in this book https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Point-1979-1996-Hayao-Miyaza... explain the need for realism in animation far better than I can.
I think it is a good thing that the React community has come together around one flux library, and it's bad to promote an alternative unless it solves a problem that would be hard to solve with Redux. Saving a few lines of boilerplate just isn't enough of a win. Starting an open source project is a great thing to do, but why not try to solve a problem that isn't already solved?
also Thun has a history in robotics/ai/machine learning so it is in his wheelhouse. Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Space travel were well outside Paypal's expertise, but one of it's co-founders went on to revolutionize all three of those industries... and many people called him crazy for even considering to launch his own rockets into space.
Did you not read the part where she worked for Morgan Stanley? Stuff like this is passed around in Wall Street companies as a positive legend rather than life-endangering foolhardiness and poor judgement (which it is).

If you work at a company and they start hiring large numbers of ex-Wall-Street execs, run.
You're very obviously wrong on Amazon. They have at least 10 to 15 more years of significant growth before peaking. They're still growing near 20%. Their retail business is still eating the competition (total US retail sales are hardly growing). AWS is still growing rapidly and spitting off perpetually greater sums of operating income (that business is nowhere near peak and won't be for a long time). It's very likely Amazon's sales will reach several hundred billion dollars per year over time, just in retail alone. Amazon has a very decent shot of becoming at least 2/3 the size of Walmart in terms of sales.
This is false. People were thinking about and researching autonomous driving seriously since the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autonomous_cars.
Have you tried verbatim mode? (Thanks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12046056)
Which has been a boon; Emacs 24 and 25 have moved at an incredible pace.
That's pretty ridiculous. The company's leverage is not any individual's leverage for compensation purposes. We don't all expect to get paid for the net present value of our contributions to the company.
The US also has zoning laws which prevent construction of low cost housing (such as dormitories), and minimum wage laws which prevent employment of marginally employable people.
I've heard that mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others, so I've often wondered whether it would be possible to make devices that are more attractive than any human. Once you know how to attract mosquitoes, you've got them cornered.

I think it wouldn't even be all that difficult to experiment with new things that attract them. In any place where there's a substantial number of mosquitoes, you could set up a camera and some CV software and run it like a split test. (Old method of attraction v new method of attraction)
True, but last time I checked Xcode is one of the most popular apps in the Mac App Store.

That says something
Sorry Pieter, and it's right in the url too! Can't believe I made that mistake.
I was once a vim user for a year and switched to emacs to look at its advantage from vim. Keybindings gave me so much pain to adjust and took my brain for a month to completely absorb the keybindings. And even did 'alias vim=$(which emacs)' to force my self to use emacs. I did not try evil-mode thinking that won't resolve my vim addiction. Now I still happily use emacs for 2 years everyday and never get back to vim except for some circumstance that I am forced to use vim on other computers.
As much of a rational atheist skeptic you may think you are, I believe you are twisting words. They actually conclude the episode with "I don't know".

If anything he was calling out those manipulating "green" for their own agendas -- and people "connecting" to river rocks.

The bullshit is the lack of consistency. Which one is to be feared: Warming? Cooling? Change? ... Hard to argue change ... What if we can't do anything about it? Are you truly sure the cause is CO2 or is CO2 just an indicator of a warming event?

Gore is a politician and charlatan. [1] Like many attached to the movement, a hypocrite and profiting without any realistic solutions that won't detriment the ecosystem, economy or quality of life in any other manner.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore#Criticism
Let's be clear: Penn exercises his own unique brand of anti-intellectualism and anti-authoritarianism; more generally, he's just an entertaining contrarian with an empathy gap, but it just so happens that he's on the correct side of things much of the time.

I would pay some money to see him, Ben Stein, Michael Moore, and Bill Maher and Ann Coulter all in the same room together.
Hopefully people will take the age of the writing into consideration. As someone who has learned about Norway over the past several years, it was very interesting to read this account.
Then for loops would be linear in space.
That's assuming no one else could have accomplished that for 69M$ though :)
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Can you get a accepted for a MS CS without at BS CS first?
Okay, but at some point you need to turn from a startup into a profitable business. This whole problem stems from the fact that these startups are either unwilling or unable to actually become real businesses at some point.

And that should be the actual endgame that is being targeted, and that the employees should be striving for.

People seem to have lost sight of that goal.
In my assembly course we wrote intel 3/4/586 assembly. It was all about Syntax and Registers. Why pointers will be there in an Assembly course?
I totally enjoyed that article. I am a Google fan, worked there as a contractor for a while and really enjoyed the way the company was run, infrastructure, and work.

But, but, but... Google does have long term problems having a one-pony business. They really do have to win big on at least one 'Other Bets.' I am not a Finance person, but I think I understand how Facebook earns a lot of money long term, but in contrast Google's ad business does not look as good in the future of 'mostly mobile devices.'
The amazing thing I've noticed is that employees of many startups have no problem paying a "startup tax" wherein they pay n times the current going rate for x service so long as the service is provided by their company, and the cost is deducted from their pay (+ some inevitably worthless stock options).

In other words, pay some employees below market rate, add in worthless stock options, and so long as you keep the "free" soda and dry cleaning cleaning coming (at a 2-4x cost over what they'd pay for themselves) coming, they're fine. Even if the fee they're paying is far more expensive than just going out to get those services themselves.

Once that ends, growth hacking ends and everybody gets burned.
Japanese statistics are hardly reliable, many people hide their homelessness quite well. Anyways, it isn't socially unacceptable to be homeless, after encountering a few homeless encampments in Osaka parks, it doesn't feel that unusual.
The Superinvestors of Graham-And-Doddsville by Warren Buffet, 1984
http://www.tilsonfunds.com/superinvestors.html

"Before we begin this examination, I would like you to imagine a national coin-flipping contest. Let's assume we get 225 million Americans up tomorrow morning and we ask them all to wager a dollar. They go out in the morning at sunrise, and they all call the flip of a coin. If they call correctly, they win a dollar from those who called wrong. Each day the losers drop out, and on the subsequent day the stakes build as all previous winnings are put on the line. After ten flips on ten mornings, there will be approximately 220,000 people in the United States who have correctly called ten flips in a row. They each will have won a little over $1,000.

Now this group will probably start getting a little puffed up about this, human nature being what it is. They may try to be modest, but at cocktail parties they will occasionally admit to attractive members of the opposite sex what their technique is, and what marvelous insights they bring to the field of flipping.

Assuming that the winners are getting the appropriate rewards from the losers, in another ten days we will have 215 people who have successfully called their coin flips 20 times in a row and who, by this exercise, each have turned one dollar into a little over $1 million. $225 million would have been lost, $225 million would have been won.

By then, this group will really lose their heads. They will probably write books on "How I turned a Dollar into a Million in Twenty Days Working Thirty Seconds a Morning." Worse yet, they'll probably start jetting around the country attending seminars on efficient coin-flipping and tackling skeptical professors with, " If it can't be done, why are there 215 of us?"

By then some business school professor will probably be rude enough to bring up the fact that if 225 million orangutans had engaged in a similar exercise, the results would be much the same - 215 egotistical orangutans with 20 straight winning flips."
Life isn't fair.
The only difference is that in normal ads you provide ads to people who are looking for such product. While here you are trying to do the opposite. For example, I am searching for Drone because I really love them and decided that I want to buy one. What google ad will make me not want it ?
A game system (worth around $100) that was not meant to have a multimedia experience vs something that has been a multimedia experience that costs around $850 (the only one I would buy)...
Is the comparison a joke? Because they also omitted reference to more comparable products that deleted the jack.
Absolutely true in my experience. What employees want, even more than additional money, is a lower mental load dealing with the everyday necessities of life, which an employer is perfectly placed to provide, since employees spend 40+ hours a week in the office.

A more cynical benefit of sodas/snacks/exercise classes/laundry/dogwalking/social events provided by the company is that it makes leaving a lot less appealing. A competitor can easily offer a higher salary, but when departing means completely restructuring an employee's daily routine, it can be a powerful force keeping people in place.
Keybase is now writing to the Bitcoin blockchain
It should be stated that entire teams build large systems with Go on a daily basis and don't step on these.

The community of professional Go programmers has arrived at practices that avoid such issues.

However, I wonder how many new programmers fall off early because of these corner cases.
Could you show some data? For example, if you're talking about workplace happiness, Google is still ranked #1 company to work for:

http://fortune.com/best-companies/google-alphabet-1/

Disclaimer: I do not work for Google.
You really should tell us what the software is so we can know to avoid it or perhaps find your changes, fork the project and reapply them then push to have distorts switch to this new version.

Worked well for a number of projects where developers are jerks and don't allow other talented and dedicated contributors to participate.
KaOS 2016.09 (torrent)
Has anyone got any really life practices of LPWA? I'm not convinced there is a need for this kind of thing. Tiny sensors with batteries that last years. Most devices have a power source the sensor can tap into thus what are the applications for LP?
Why would you return an interface type? My advice is don't. Interfaces should be tightly scoped and defined by the consumer not provided by your package.
Makes me wonder what would happen if they play back one side of the conversation to another dolphin. If they keep doing that, and other dolphins respond, they will be able to get lots of dolphin conversations recorded.
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Another terrible idea from the SJW's at Google.
Ask HN: Getting back to work after a brain tumour
I was recently diagnosed with a high grade brain tumour, followed by a surgery and currently undergoing post operative therapy. I'm looking to get back to work & normal life. My software engineering experience includes working in a big 4 for a few years followed by a couple of years at a start-up when this happened. I'm close to 30.

Looking for positive stories from people you might know who got back to normal life after a critical illness.

Thanks!
The premise of the experiment is akin to considering whether or not people are prone to being swindled by a three card monte con-game.

The premise of the example only demonstrates a susceptibility to a situation where the individual is not expecting to be judged based on technicalities.

Technically, in a three card monte game, on the street, you have no assurance that the dealer is operating the deck with integrity. Technically, on the street, you have no assurance that other players are not collaborating with the dealer.

Does this prove that humans are often innately irrational? Maybe insofar as any other parlour trick does.

The claim that a bystander should know that their own capacity for estimation of the likelihood that Linda's occupation may be bank teller shall be poor, is masked, in terms of relevance to the rest of the context of the presented scenario. A bystander's estimation of feminist alignment is anticipated and intended.

When the bystander chooses option (B), an assertion that they have no insight into whether Linda was a banker or not, suddenly becomes the defining aspect of the test.

So now we've proven that given an unexpected context, a bystander is surprised by a sudden ambush within that context.

While such nuances may be interesting on a much grander scale, in most cases, the experiment is not framed that way, as a design to misdirect the individual, and certainly, the authors of this op-ed article make the same mistake in pointing at the idea that a bystander should be expected to know that they have no way of knowing whether or not Linda might be a bank teller.
A bunch of greedy individuals cheating the system for their personal gain and misaligned incentive structures.
Ask HN: How long did you work on a side project until it was your full time job?
I am curious to know how long were you working on your side project until it was successful enough to become your full time job.
Especially hidden down some deep directory structure, some directories even named .. and . to try to hide themselves.
How can you validate HTML when most of the HTML these days is templated and generated dynamically?
And other things. There was a subculture called the "WA" for a while that took over a handful of open FTP servers and posted nonsensical poetry during the 90s -- kind of a precursor to the FSM and a contemporary to the "Church of the Sub-genius"[1]. I've seen printouts of their "work" proudly posted on numerous college dorms during the mid to late 90s. The WA never became as big as either of the other satire religions, but I definitely remember their presence on a handful of tech-school ftp sites.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius
Well, any company can suck, but I agree -- focusing on "big 4" is probably a mistake. Find a team where you fit in.
I know. I hate it when people learn stuff writing free libraries to support new technologies and then release upgrades informed by what they've learned.

I think there is some responsibility incumbent on the person implementing the library to actually vet the library for good design and pattern implementations, to ensure they are not adopting someones learn as they go projects (if that is an issue they are trying to avoid). This seems to be endemic in the JS space, as an example, I was surprised at how many people jumped on Angular 1.0 give it's serious design flaws that where evident with just a cursory look at the overall architecture of the software.
Unfortunately try as I might I've yet to think of a problem that isn't already solved. Of the literally hundreds of ideas I've had for libraries or frameworks or toolkits, I can google it and find someone has already made a package for it.

At this point I think "build a better mouse trap" is the best avenue for me to get anything accomplished. After all, if everyone followed the motto of "don't invent something that's already solved" we wouldn't have:

>React (replaced Angular, Backbone, Ember, etc)
>Redux (replaced Flux)
>jQuery (replaced Prototype, MooTools)
>Facebook (replaced MySpace)
>Google (replaced Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Altavista, etc)

The list goes on and on. I didn't see an existing library as a reason to throw away both a learning opportunity and a fun project.
There's still a uprising number of niche ftp site around: MSX, Demoscene, etc. Mostly older scenes that pre-date the WWW and are still around. I think it might be useful to test every port on every ip to see what happens protocol-wise. Limiting to just common ports is probably missing lots of cool things.
Because only drug dealers would want to do that

You can do this with bitcoin, but only drug dealers use that

Wait...
The difference here is that the primary purpose of an iPhone is to make phone calls. And uses multimedia, like music. Leading to this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z_wImaGRkNY
If you wanted to replace the headphone jack with your "new thing" the most effective way to do that would have to involve as many audio hardware companies as possible also producing headphones that work with your "new thing". You would want to pre-announce it along with specs and make it an open standard that other companies can utilise without paying royalties.

The GBA still wouldn't have had anywhere near enough market share to pull it off. Apple definitely could've, I think. I haven't followed closely enough, but are other accessory manufacturers able to produce headphones for the new iPhone, or is it completely limited to whatever Apple release?
> if Ax series performance starts to exceed corresponding Intel mobile parts by >50% (enough to compensate for the overhead of binary translation for legacy x86 apps).

Another milestone for an Ax laptop would be a good power efficiency story. If Apple can show an Ax based laptop with exceptional battery life under real working conditions that would be quite attractive to many people, even if translated programs experience a 50% drop in performance.

In addition to the Appstore bitcode stuff other comments mention, the Universal Binaries tools that were used for the mass powerpc->intel migration will also help to diminish the need for binary translation in many cases. UBs mean that you don't solely need to rely on Bitcode translation via the iOS/Appstore, either, so these fanciful Ax laptops could run all normal non-appstore apps quite easily.
Don't Tesla's? They require a well defined road line otherwise they get confused.

My friend owns a Model S and on the way to lunch it got confused on off ramps and parts of the road that were not well defined by lines. It basically shut off autopilot and required my friend to take the wheel.
Is Emacs a monolith?. I haven't used this editor but from what I read people like it because they do everything there. Is this true?. If so, it doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Anyone has more insight of the goods and bads about Emacs.