skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pricing will limit its market to very small size

I'll give Google the benefit of doubt here. I suspect they priced it high either because their production isn't fully in place to handle a massive surge.

OR they are signalling to the market that Google is not just a bunch of free services but also a premium brand like Apple, and they are willing to sacrifice revenue today to solidify their brand.

I think it's a bit of both. Android has its market established, so Google has more to gain through positioning their brand than driving a little extra revenue.

Edit: Now that I think about it undercutting Android partners might be their primary reason–they can risk upsetting Samsung, but prefer not to piss them off too much.
Zuckerberg's Africa trip was about developers and founders
> For example, his tone is too formal and sounds bureaucratic. He refuses to state his actual request until the end of a long winded description of his clout and authority.

I see that as just being a professional adult. He states who he is, which implies why his opinion matters, then he states his opinion.

'Please don't do this kthxbye!!!1!cos(0)!!' is hardly more persuasive.
Well I'm sure glad the American public can rely on some commentator's opinion on the Internet regarding equivalency. That inspires just as much confidence in my government and likely future president as, say, a court case would have.

I'm sure poor kids get let off the hook all the time because cops consider that "there was evidence that maybe a crime occurred, not necessarily evidence of a crime!"
Too bad. After the Mandrill/MailChimp price hike, every company I've worked with is moving off of them as fast as possible, towards Mailgun/Sendgrid.
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Hold your 6S Plus up next to a Note 7 viewing the same photograph or high resolution video. If you don't see a large difference, head immediately to the optometrist.
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I have been running my own mail server for more than a decade now and haven't had that problem.
If you rent a new server check its IP against the RBLs to see if its burned. If it's bad, request a new IP from your ISP.
Other than that, adhere to industry best practices and you're good.
> The idea of trading individual control of companies for a cabal in a James Bond villain esque room sipping whisky and smoking cigars sounds idiotic.

Sorry, what do you mean by "individual control"? Most companies I know are already controlled by a cabal of James Bond villains sitting in a room sipping stuff. It's called the board of directors, although usually they're drinking something lighter than whiskey.

>I suppose todays equivalent would ditch the cabal for a computer. Would you trust a computer to map out every dependency in the economy, down to the factory floor? Would you want to live in that world?

I mean, you trust combinatorially chaotic and unpredictable things called "markets" as if they were anything other than a combinatorially large, massively distributed stochastic optimization method, so I don't see why we can't solve large stochastic optimization problems with computers.
Analyzing UK Aviation Statistics with Axibase Time Series Database
Nice work with the open pipe project. Looks perfect for DIY sensor/telemetry projects.

If you are looking to monetize connectivity services, you certainly will need a bi-directional architecture to push values back to end nodes, and compute resources available at the gateway for data filtering, preprocessing, and security.

But these are tasks that AWS IoT, Azure IoT, and GCP IoT are currently tackling with a lot of resources. So it would be hard to compete at that level.
That's pretty much the opposite of smarts. That's rote based learning, (which is very important in certain fields), but does not increase smarts (train smarts really, since it can't be increased, only fully employed).

Now if instead of teaching your toddler how to put them together you let him figure it out for himself, now you are getting somewhere.
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TFA;

Wood joinery is a dying art but the man behind these animations has hope. “3D printing and woodworking machinery has enabled us to create complicated forms fairly easily” he says, indicating that wood joinery techniques have plenty of applications for digital processing and manufacturing as well.
Not really an atrocity. More like an idiom.
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I'm not so cynical, in large part because I think you could develop an Alexa skill right now that does most of what I described.

However, that is besides the point. This was just an illustration of what is possible if your VPA is a preference-aware negotiation agent.

Of course you are free to choose a closed platform, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Which makes it all the more amazing that Sony smartphones don't take great photos. If there's one area they ought to absolutely own, it's this.
Clear and concise, and a thing of beauty!

Unless the data is user-generated, in which case you might have a security issue on your hands... :)
It is unfortunate, and it remains to be seen if they will remain profitable, or just go on an endless run of losses and increasing debt. Some say 'making it' is IPOing, even if not profitable and laden with a mountain of debt. As some would argue, why spend your own money if you can spend someone else's?

I do like the question on whether Mailchimp would be a lot more successful had it taken on more funding and debt.
I’ve spent 30 years counseling priests who fall in love. Here’s what I learned
If you spend 3x the time writing equivalent code in C as you do in C++ you're either a bad C programmer, a bad C++ programmer, or likely, both.
While many of Julia Computing's customers already use Julia in production, JuliaCon has had many talks as well. Here are a few:

A Big Data application: https://www.soasta.com/blog/soasta-brings-julia-big-data-rea...
A finance application: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CShweOpWz6w&list=PLP8iPy9hna...
An avionics application: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19zm1Fn0S9M
For me it's very simple, I don't NEED a new messenger app, whatsapp and facebook messenger cover pretty much all my needs. I could maybe even do without the latter. The only use I had for SMS in the last couple years is only spam, bank and random two factor auths. I like seeing alternatives tho but there is absolutely nothing in Allo that would attract me. I mean... it does look good but Whatsapp is already good enough. And for someone that spends a significant part of their day in front of the computer desktop integration is a must. I really do not understand why they didn't add it. To be honest, I liked Hangouts.
I'd say my example demonstrates the spec's statement:

"A pointer to an object type may be converted to a pointer to a different object type. If the resulting pointer is not correctly aligned for the referenced type, the behavior is undefined."

The resulting uint32_t pointer in my example is not correctly aligned for the reference type, so undefined behavior (e.g., a trap on RISC) occurs. What's an example of a statement in a "non-trivial" C program that is in common use but you think is undefined?
Knots are much more useful for the primary consumers of this data: mariners. Knots are a global standard for measuring speed at sea. And virtually every weather bureau reports windspeeds in knots or Beaufort scale in their maritime reports with the notable exception being the French who insist using meters/second.

inHg measures are used in aviation btw, but yeah it's less ideal for a maritime report: mariners use millibars for pressure.
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Really? That's sad to hear, back in the Android 2.4 days I used to love MIUI and would flash it on my devices intentionally as it had so many features that weren't yet in Android. Quick settings, dial by letters, just generally nicer look and feel. I guess a lot of this has been integrated now, but damn, it used to be nice.
I'm no expert but the way I understand it is you are mathematically proving certain things about the software. Basically you prove that there won't be a division by zero or buffer overflow or whatever in a certain function.

Usually there are extensions to programming languages that let you annotate these proofs and software can check it for you.

Like with unit tests you only get these assurances if you write out the proofs. Historically writing them has been really time consuming, but the paper claims it is getting much more convenient.
Super simple, really like it.

Reminded me of thatgamecompany's games (Flower, Journey) and how they make a simple experience/world you join for imaginative moments.
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MailChimp and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make It as a Startup
There are regex libraries for C. Worst argument so far.
First, the "Mother of all Demos" by Doug Engelbart: https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY
This was in 1968, at a time when most people thought about computers as being machines for solving computation problems, like processing payrolls or calculating rocket trajectories. Engelbart and his students had the radical idea that computers could be used for human "knowledge worker" productivity. In one 90 minute presentation, he introduces everything from the idea of a GUI, to the mouse, to word processing, hypertext, computer graphics, and (simulated) videoconferencing. You have to be able to put yourself in the shoes of the audience that has never seen this stuff before, and it'll blow you away.

Something more recent:
Martin Fowler's great introduction to NoSQL: https://youtu.be/qI_g07C_Q5I
Not so technical, this is a great overview of the reasons why (and when) NoSQL is valuable. He crams a lot into a short speech, so it's one of the rare videos I've required students in my database classes to watch.

Now, really getting away from the technical, I have to recommend watching the IDEO shopping cart video: https://youtu.be/taJOV-YCieI
This is the classic introduction of Design Thinking to the world, in 1999. If you're using the Lean Startup or an Agile method, but have never heard of IDEO's shopping cart, you may be able to get along fine at work, but you should be kind of embarrassed like a physicist who's never read Newton.
Yep.

Just as with many products in the recent years, it's just years to late.

What's App is the biggest one in Europe and the US, I guess.

I really don't understand how it wasn't Google, MS or FB who established the first really big messaging app. It seems like such an obvious thing. (What's App also wasn't the first by far, just the one that gained enough traction to lure so many people in).
> a short list that really pales compared to a similar list of things the iPhone OS had introduced at that time

Like what?
and promptly went out of business when the iPhone showed up
and my buying ad space on every podcast ever.
Public transportation is most workable with high population densities. Getting rid of parking lots will make it easier to service the area with non-car forms of transportation.
I'll add to this. Before you can even begin championing your language for kernel development, make sure it can compile to all of the same architectures that C can. Make sure that programs written in your language are as space and time efficient as the equivalent C programs. These are things you can do today, if you feel strongly enough about this cause.

Once your language is at that point, then start building up your arguments to convince Linus and the majority of the core kernel developers that your language is the right choice for continued development.

Until these occur, it's all just pointless speculation.
One of the things not mentioned in the article is the support from Google photos. Storage space is now unlimited, and files are uploaded full res, which they didn't do before. If you take a lot of pictures, this makes life so easy. Plus the image search- you can find that picture of a dog catching a frisbee you took 6 months ago just by asking. Everyone seems to be burnt out on novel new technology, but this is amazing to me.

The camera's performance is impressive, but to me Google Photos is the biggest differentiator.
"Capitalism: the system you're dying to try!"
Are your recent 2GB phones iDevices?
Bare Metal DevOps
I was waiting for the Pixel but after the disappointing price, I just bought a OnePlus 3 yeterday for way cheap. Was also looking at the ZTE Axon 7, but the OnePlus 3 is thinner and lighter. Both are cheap with very similar specs.
I bet it's done using something like this

https://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Cloner-need-Capture-streaming-vi...

or, in a world where such devices are outlawed, you could take the outputs of the LCD matrix controller and convert the signals meant for the physical pixels to a video stream :)
Linux is totally a top-down dictatorship. The about this sort of thing in general is that Open Source makes Exit[1] (forking) is super easy which has follow-on effects making Voice more effective. So dictatorship becomes a much more effective model of open source development than it is with political units or brick and mortar companies.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
Well see humans unlike companies have this thing called dedication, they'll work insane hours for little pay because they believe in what they are doing. Companies who are dedicated to nothing, but money will lash a rope around them and ride it to the bank.

It's called capitalism...
I think what you are trying to say is that maybe some sub-300 android can already beat iphone in picture quality.

what do you think of nexus 5x in that regard?
What do we mean by "old days" here? iTunes predates the iPod. In the old days, I had very few qualms with iTunes. Currently, it's been 6 months since I launched it (or rather intentionally launched it).
Similar Nexus-only owner here -- Nexus 4, Nexus 5, and now Nexus 6P. I skipped Nexus 6 (released between 5 and 6P) and I'm afraid I will also skip the initial Pixel line in favor of what's next.

Depending on what's next, I may have to switch to something else entirely.

Many clamored for a flagship-quality phone and we got it, but the sticker shock is real.
I'll.never claim there aren't a ton of terrible coders out there. They exist in all languages, but perhapd C gives them the tools to be really, extra awful..
According to that definition, you're wrong: Mailchimp doesn't fulfill the first condition. In my experience, Mailchimps interface puts heavy emphasis on having opt-in proof for the addresses you use, having to include unsubscribe links and sender's postal addresses etc. Yes, they don't technically enforce it, but how could they do that without also preventing legitimate use cases like importing addresses from a competitor's service?
Never said I did a study, just my 2 cents.

The whole article is one person's account. As is my comment. There might be others with counter examples, but learning from one's experiences is what humans do.
This is not true. Fuji's X-Trans sensors are just Sony sensors with a X-Trans filter instead of a Bayer filter. The latest Canon sensors (5D mkIV) lose to the Sony sensors at base ISO but pull ahead at higher ISOs.
> My understanding of that is that the term customer shouldn't apply to free tier heroku spammers.

But they fucked over more than the free tier. We (work) had 15 clients that all had accounts that we managed for them. We probably spent upwards of $1200/mo on emails through those accounts.

We only got ~50 days of notice that we had to change over to another provider before we would get cut off.
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> Socialist countries has all kinds of trajectories

All of them pointing to the ground, though.
Cathy's use of 'problematic' seems to paper over any need to actually go into an analysis of cost and benefits of using statistics and statistical learning in sentencing, personal banking etc.

In the business of making credit decisions (specifically, who to extend credit to, and at what rates), preventing banks from using better information only harms people who would have been the subjects of erroneous decisions in their favour, and the ability of the bank to consistently make better judgements means they can also offer lower rates and fees to people they choose to extend credit to.

This is in contrast to sentencing, where you prefer (in theory, at least) to bias judgements in favour of leniency (in the spirit of Blackstone's formulation), and you might even to prefer to make mistakes, if making the right decisions alienates people who interact with the justice system.
> Whenever I hear "Google" my mind goes straight to "thing that will be gone in 18 months"

Exactly. Perfectly said.
Well, given that most Android users don't do that, and that iOS users do their share of custom ROM installation, 'a lot of people' seem to be 'setting up straw men' as opposed to 'getting the hype'.

>People are always going to find computing on devices they don't normally use to be more difficult than computing on devices they normally use, yet to you this is proof Android is better?

I use an iPhone 6S daily at work, so I'm not one of those people and I don't deign to speak for them or anyone else. As far as my experience is concerned, yes, Android is better.
Try reading my comment in the most sarcastic tone you can manage.

Unit testing for security vulnerabilities has been discussed to death on HN and is generally agreed that it doesn't work. Yet, every time there is any kind of vulnerability, a comment like mine shows up, except in ernest.
Yes, but if a compiler screws my project because of a bug, and the company (maintainer) can't/won't fix it for reason x, i at least have a chance rescuing the project by switching compilers.
Governments Are the Tip of the Open Data Iceberg
I was using NewsBlur and it's damn good software. I felt like I was burning through 10s of articles a day rather than one or two good ones.
Network Effect? I have another theory.

Allo is #1 in India because a Jared paid people to download it ;)
I consider PC gaming to be mainstream. It's a huge market, as evidenced by Steam.
This reminds me of zombo.com.

It's interesting how old memes stick with us and have a nostalgic feel to them. Things like "Harambe", the "such wow" doge, YouTube shorts, etc. don't make such an indelible impression. Homestar Runner, zombo.com, and "all your base" elicit actual feelings.

Maybe it's getting older, or maybe it's the fact we're now increasingly innundated with content. Perhaps both.
Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but the singular of "Superilles" is "Superilla".
The company where I work has a satellite office in Atlanta (with software developers).

The main reason is that the time difference with Europe is small, so that developers on both sides still have some work hours overlap.
You say this as if it isn't true for NYC or SV either. I think the bubble is bigger in those places and makes it easier to plug your ears and turn the eye in NYC or SV. Ever been to Yonkers? Inside San Jose?
I love python too. It's my favourite language for getting stuff done fast.

However it doesn't give you the control or the performance of C without some serious work, some of which is usually work in C!
The essay "I, Pencil" is what you're referring to. http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html

The big surprise line is that there's no one on earth who knows how to make a pencil. (It therefore serves as testimony in favor of free enterprise and against the idea of a centrally planned economy.)
Why do men strive for status and money?
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Choreographer-js: a simple js animation library
Whenn 3D printing meets GPU programming
Anyone know how you can now submit duplicate links to HN? I thought that would redirect to the old submission? (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=laktak)
Agreed on Hangouts. When they removed SMS integration in favor of their new Messenger app, I was saddened. I cannot fathom why they would remove features and retire Hangouts.
Even if relatively small in market size compared to current Android install base I think Google would like to grab some of Apple's profit from the high end. While Apple has around 17% of unit sales in smartphones they earn something like 91% of the profit [1]. I'm sure other competitors will be aiming to get some of that profit for themselves or at least make life hard for Apple by using competition to drive down Apple's margins.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2016/02/13/apples-iph...
A million connections into the computer that you work on? Are these bot net connections, or do use your machine as your server?
Maybe I will, I'm kind of burnt out on scifi.

My point is that the very concept of an interstellar resource war, and thus the concept of interstellar control, is incoherent given our present physics. You can take over a system that isn't technologically enabled, but that's it, the resources available to a technologically enabled system are greater than the resources that can be sent into the system.
Where is the data that proves this? Leaving aside hipster trends (which I don't understand at all these days), what I see is that all the sites I visit, they have RSS/atom option; outside Bloomberg, which is a different story since they provides feeds via proprietary network.

What other tool gives me ability to follow dozens media sources, has offline capability and has dozens of implementations I can choose?

Leaving aside manager/sales talk, I believe they dumped Reader because they couldn't monetize it, just like Code Search.
The industry took a giant step backwards when C displaced Pascal. The original Macintosh apps were in Pascal and the MacOS API were all Pascal-oriented.

C has three fundamental issues:

1) How big is it?

2) Who owns it?

3) Who locks it?

C's lack of help in dealing with all three is the main cause of most memory-related program bugs. I once tried to fix #1 in a backwards compatible way. See [1]. After much discussion on some mailing lists, there was general agreement that this was technically feasible but not politically feasible.

(I once had hope that Rust would replace C, but Rust has gotten too fancy,
with too much input from the functional programming people, the template enthusiasts, and the type theorists. Rust isn't bad, but it's at least as complex as C++.)

[1] http://www.animats.com/papers/languages/safearraysforc43.pdf
"so you and your guests use the helicopter parking that was allocated for my house."

Are you calling us trespassers? I don't recall putting my property on your land.
I think it is different in the way that most big cities are when compared to other parts of their states. San Fran and East California might be one of the better examples. Marietta is very similar Merced; Athens is similar to Berkeley. I don't think Atlanta is very different in that regard. (From Athens, longtime Atlanta resident - spent a lot of time in Cali, lots of family out in Sacramento/Berkeley)
Hi! You raise some great points. A free trial is our most frequent request but it's quite a tricky one for us because there is a large time investment to find and handpick leads for each user, and if we offered a free trial, we wouldn't be able to offer the same quality across the board. Your idea to show a description without linking to the company is a great idea though, this could be a 'free' tier, where we show projects without contact information and users can pay a small fee to reveal them. Awesome!
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I don't find it unlikely that that is happening, but I find the claims here that absolutely no one in Mexico is paid the minimum wage hard to believe.