skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I’m part of the team. We started with a Mac version in 2011 and based on the requests we received from our users decided to start working on a Windows version. Even so we don’t have plans for a Linux version right now, we’ll keep tracking the feedback.
Same here except for cosmetic changes. It's the only way to be certain that people have read your corrected version, and not just the pre-corrected original.
I'm not sure what a smooth helmet surface will do the coefficient of friction between helmet and road if the road itself is still very rough. The benefits will probably hit diminishing returns long before the helmet is actually shiny.
When you can mostly charge your phone in half an hour, wireless charging becomes a little irrelevant.
>Western culture, for example, has this innate fear of death. This is not a fear that other cultures share.

go outside and try and kill an ant, you will see it fight and struggle for life. To suggest that other cultures are more different from us than ants seems . . . well it seems foolish. All people fear death.
> However, cyclists need to know they are second class citizens on the side walk.

As a cyclist I agree. However, at the same time, very few parts of the US have any safe infrastructure for bikes; it's completely understandable that your average joe cyclist wants to be in a place that's physically separated from cars, because he values his life.
A case like this, which has a wide variety of exceptions that need to be updated as timezones change (yes, they do) is a perfect case for a library. The best I've ever found was JodaTime, but I no longer work in Java and no other language has an equivalent.
I imagine it's because the video series is introducing git itself, through Tower's UI.

git is a bunch of concepts: commits, branches, tags, a staging area, rebasing, pushing, pulling, the reflog, etc. Provided a git client implements these concepts they're a fine way to learn git.

Also note many (not you, just others I've met) 'I only use the command line' git users use git's inbuilt gitk GUI a bunch of the time. Sometimes it just helps to be able to see the branching in a real tree.
No, given a system of complexity, most coders will give something good enough. But the best will simplify it.
I can't get upset about the company figuring out a viable pricing model and to me the effect of the change in terms on users is a byproduct of taking a dependency on Gitkraken versus the tradeoffs for a dependency on an alternative.

From a business standpoint, I think the pricing model should probably just be to charge everyone. It avoids the moral hazard of monetizing the free binary blob using the Oracle JVM on Windows model, eliminates non-paying users, and the distraction of pursuing the free-sample dope peddler's model as a part of the pipeline.

For a product like Gitkraken, the dope peddler model seems unlikely to generate a lot of good viable leads in the funnel. To convert a non-commercial user to a commercial user, the user has to switch to a commercial context and be in a position to strongly influence use and purchase decisions and be a bit evangelical about Gitkraken. To me, a commercial/non-commercial licensing model is a bit at odds with creating that level of good will.

In other words, dual licensing closed source code along commercial/non-commercial lines seems to work against the psychological zeitgeist in the programming world.
> Even as a driver I think any cyclist who cycles on a major road without a bike lane has some major guts.

Even many bike lanes are close to worthless. A strip of paint won't save you from an inattentive driver going 40+ mph.
Of course it provides a better value, the upshot of this review is that if you sell your smartphone for the exact same price as an iPhone, you automatically lose. I had expected the headline with the Pixel phones to be something like "near iPhone performance for half the price". I can't possibly see how these new google phones are going to be a success at this price.
The learning platform on git-tower.com/learn also contains lots of content for learning Git on the command line (without Tower). This is true for both the 150-page book and the 24-part video series.
Do you have a citation for that law? It's the first time I hear about it.
Disrupting design interns, comps, and redlines
I always think of the DB, as the last castle of a program.
When everything else fails, the DB should function.
Programs are maintained way more than they're written.

No matter how hard I try to keep my code-base clean, it gets cluttered.

That's why I strive to create a powerful base structure and make them bulletproof.

Whatever may come (depression, personal problems, fatigue, stress, deadlines, etc.)
this skeleton keeps the app alive.

In my experience code that is written now, will stay and that complete rewrite I've been dreaming about will never happen :D.

So IMHO it's better to design the core funcionality exhaustively and try to create a failproof code-base.

My intellectual capacity fluctuates and I'm never as productive as I want to be. I need a safety rope for my dumber version, who has forgotten about the code and has no idea where to start :)

Indenting, and aligning helps a lot, when I try to load the code back into my memory.
Well the final example[1] isn't usable via keyboard at all

[1]http://codepen.io/CiTA/pen/ALVWzg
> There is technically nothing stopping mobiles form working in the same way.

What about power consumption issues? If you load up Windows on a Mac laptop the battery drain rate is doubled. That's a pretty big user experience issue IMHO.
Can you charge and use the headphones at the same time?
How France's TV5 was almost destroyed by hackers
The sidewalks those Japanese cyclists are on are usually wider than American sidewalks though (because the Japanese walk a whole lot more than Americans). When sidewalks are sufficiently wide, ped/bike conflicts are less of an issue, they basically become like a multi-use path.
Is there a VPS provider that _hasn't_ had security issues? Linode has had a few pretty bad ones but they've also been around for a long time and always seem to be improving their systems and processes (lately communication with customers following an incident has improved a lot, and with the DDoS issues they had the improvements they're making to their network are pretty solid). For the price/performance ratio though there's no comparison.

If you can afford it, AWS is possibly a more secure choice with a whole ecosystem of associated products, but at face value if you just need a few VPSes you'll pay a lot more for the same performance than you do with Linode.
The "Creative Class" is sort of (urban pundit and the article's co-author) Richard Florida's thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class

It tries to make events like gentrification a little more clear by focusing on working-age adult occupations. In particular, regular income/wealth statistics tend to hide trend signals because in-place retirees end up echoing the economics of the past for a long time.
How many beta testers do I need to create the perfect app?
Cars are a very expensive luxury. Probably the first thing I cut from my life. I am genuinely struggling to think of any more expensive luxury (housing costs more but it's pretty much a necessity).
Don't comment like this on Hacker News, please.
I really don't understand the calls for higher pixel density - there are clear performance costs, and the only use case where it makes a meaningful difference is VR, where I'm more and more skeptical that mobile will be relevant for a while. I've noticed with TV's, tech reviewers have almost unanimously yawned at 4K for normal viewing, and are much more excited about HDR - this just sounds like specs for the sake of specs.
When I was taking mandatory driver's ed at 16 in the US (Boston area), the school's fleet was indeed equipped with foot brakes in the passenger seat. I'd wager a guess that all of the cars that you see with a "beginner driver" sign on the roof are like that. However, for the license test the only requirement was to have a hand brake between the front seats.

I have come to believe that we give out driver's licenses way too easily in the US. One easy, but sadly no longer practical, solution would be to require that the road test is taken on a manual. Driving stick from the beginning gave me so much more awareness and reflexes that have saved me from accidents more than once.
Bridgewater is [in]famous for making radical internal transparency their policy by recording, distributing, and referencing all internal conversations. This tech, if up to their standards, would fit right in there. And it shouldn't be surprising that it's one of the most intense, type-A-attracting environments even compared to other hedge funds.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bridgewater-records-conversat...

http://www.businessinsider.com/ray-dalios-bridgewater-manage...
> for rear-of-car blind spots

How so? The only possible issue I can see about that solution is that you can't see your own car in the side mirrors and thus judging relative position is slightly more difficult.

Of course, the best solution is aspherical mirrors, but for some reason they're not allowed in the USA.
Vertical integration is completely different from government-led centralization. Equivocation of the two is vulgar and misleading.
I used Jekyll to run my website for a few years, and recently changed to Hugo because:

1. Speed. Hugo generates my site in seconds instead of minutes.

2. Less dependency issues with Ruby.

I plan to clean up and package the code into a theme soon. In the meantime you can see it at https://github.com/hypertexthero/sgg
4G is a big missing feature.
Show HN: Get quotes from characters in a Song of Ice and Fire using Markov chain
For me, this was easily the most subtle, thoughtful, and powerful episode of the entire series. The plot device has obviously been done before, but never like this.
Hi Dhruv,

I am from India , enrolled for Nov 28 batch.if after paying this hefty amount , if the candidate's geographical location becomes a constraint ,then what's the use? No doubt , i will learn many things , but my ultimate goal is to land a job in Bay Area , Germany etc.I would like that my skills and performance be the criteria in selecting or rejecting me and not the country to which my passport belongs to. The companies should sponsor the visa for the students ideally if he/she is skilled enough and have proven his/her mettle in this NanoDegree program at the end of 9 months.
I read "Projects made with Coke".
There is also the issue of massive C-pillars mandated by rollover standards and current fashion, which mirrors can't solve by themselves.
Show HN: GitHub with a cape – Chrome Extension which adds features to GitHub
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12674572
Use or legislation of helmets while driving a car and walking would also almost certainly reduce head injuries. It's far from a sufficient argument for legislation.
I don't really care if it is Python or any other language. Hyde looked okay when I've started with it (altough the lack of documentation should've been a warning sign).
The Collatoral Damage of Monogamy
> Of course, but one should be aware of a tendency to overestimate the effort required for tweaking third party code (understanding somebody else's code is always more difficult), and underestimate the effort required for writing the thing from scratch.

It's not just the cost of tweaking, it's the cost of keeping it up-to-date, too. I agree with the general gist of what you're saying, just wanted to point out there's more to it.

> I believe you, but I find it difficult to believe these would be the same people who tend to introspect on their profession a lot, eg. by following software engineering blogs, so the author is kind of preaching to the choir in my view.

On the contrary, I think people who don't introspect about what they're doing are more likely to read tech blogs. How else would they find out what the latest fad libraries are so they can treat them as best practices? :)
The Impossibly Complex Art of Designing [Video Game] Eyes
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12674861.
Something stuck in an infinite loop involving the antenna or other power-hungry module of the phone ?

Can this happen in theory ?
No its not you can down shift with index shifters on the MTB very easily as you stop and you can always lift the back when and quickly shift that way

Agree that fixies should be banned outside of a race track.
Building Web Apps: Avoid These Pitfalls During the Design Process
Only one or two countries here even have 4G towers.
EasyLambda vs. Spark benchmarks
You can't see behind your car using your wing mirrors, you need to use the rear-view mirror. Even if you have the wing mirrors pointing behind your car, the sides of the car obscure your view.

I like to adjust the wing mirrors so that a tiny sliver of the car is visible in the mirror, that way I can be sure I'm not missing anything.
Study shows that Pokemon GO has added 144B steps to US physical activity
Uber brought in close to a billion in profit in it's developed markets (mostly USA) last year
Oh please, you just confirm what the industry already knows about HN

Such a joke.
France to call for Russia to face war crimes investigation over action in Syria
Is the price difference that significant?

To me, the difference between a $1000 phone and a $400 is less than $1 per day (I keep my phones for 24 months). A buck a day is something I can afford and am willing to pay it for even a modestly better phone. I would guess a lot of HN readers are in a similar position.

I wish Google would have come out with something much better even if it would have been more expensive than an iPhone.
It meant "bourgeois bohemian", and referred to the sort of yuppies who shop at Whole Foods and style themselves as hippies. I knew a bunch of people who thought it applied to themselves or their friends in the early 2000s. But I haven't heard it much in five or ten years now.
It is sad that Sourcetree, once the go-to git GUI for Windows and Mac is now full of bugs and performance issues, and almost always gets worse with every new version. They updated the UI every major version (e.g. 1.5 to 1.6, or 1.7/1.8/1.9), in most cases for no good reason (in fact they faced so much backlash on the change to flat grey UI that they had to backpedal and reintroduced colored icons). And yet they are still planning on a major UI change again in the next version. At the same time, basic functionalities are broken left and right.

But on the other hand it is a big opportunity for others like Tower
A little less "team Holland Bike Police" attitude please - I find those sit up and beg bikes unstable when riding at slow speed I felt much safer on a proper SWB MTB with proper rakes
If you spend 20 years setting yourself to make $10MM one year and you still can't make ends meet then you are clearly incompetent.

I don't understand what your point is with this whole argument. Yes, there are always exceptions. They aren't very interesting but the very nature of being exceptions, especially since tax laws are written for the general case.

The number of multi millionaires in your exceptional case is also much smaller than you probably think. It's vanishingly difficult to earn no money when you have millions in assets.
I completely agree w/ you re: PR - that is the one part of Mike's slide deck that I disagree with.
The Console Host has seen a bunch of interesting incremental improvements over the course of Windows 10 as well. The Anniversary Update, especially, included a bunch of ConHost updates too, in particular a number of things inspired from Bash On Ubuntu On Windows needs like deeper console emulation stuff (revenge of ANSI, *nix terminal emulation, etc).
Taxis are 2.5x to 4x (if you pool) more expensive than Uber where I live.

Uber definitely changed the economics of dropping in to visit your grandkids or using a DD vs driving drunk vs ride sharing.
Or maybe they are not testing these kind of things, because proper testing of important aspects like signal reception and voice quality would require complicated test setups and expensive equipment.
(1) is not a theoretical problem in distributed systems. I work on a system that involves malicious actors such that allowing subtle timing problems can cause very real revenue impact, and defining consistency in a way that converges quickly with only what amounts to a vector-clock definition of time is tons of fun.
can you expand, i am out of the loop
> The transition on attitude towards skiing helmets (at least in European resorts) has been really interesting to watch.

I agree.

Ten years ago, only racers wore helmets.

Five years ago, some people did.

Now, I suspect it's the majority who wear a helmet.

I bought one too, a few years ago.
Between 2009 and 2014, Steve Green, the owner of Hobby Lobby, a chain of arts and crafts stores, purchased 13 of the fragments, which he has donated, along with thousands of other artifacts, to the Museum of the Bible. Green is helping to fund construction of the museum, scheduled to open in Washington, D.C., next fall. (A fly-through of the museum can be seen on YouTube).

I'm more than slightly sure the Green family has total control over this, "museum", and this was less a donation, than a transfer of stolen artifacts from an individual, to a private company held by that individual.

Hobby Lobby, as you may recall, is the privately held company that disallowed its workers to use the Affordable Care Act to cover birth control, because of the religious beliefs of the owners.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/us/hobby-lobby-case-suprem...
Can PDB compile PDB?

It might not be as useful as the source code, but it would at least open the program up to being run by people without sun4 or rs6k machines.
Has anyone used tower and sourcetree and can compare them both? I am just about fed up with sourcetree and ready to switch to a not-terrible alternative.
That still doesn't mean that your phone will burst into flames if it doesn't have an apple drawn on it.
The essential guide to serverless technologies and architectures
Not only that: Alameda county is not a part of SF metro. Especially Fremont, which is part of Fremont-Milpitas-Union City tri-city metro.
We are super happy with Firebase. Even if you just use the static hosting you get CDN + HTTPS for free. And you can even use the free tier as long as you want which is awesome for low traffic.
http://www.driveandstayalive.com/setting-exterior-mirrors-ca...
Spoiler: Did not build from scratch, used keycaps and keyboard switches.
Sure it is, I did so before I posted.
It was on the Win-Rar site through this http://www.win-rar.com/173.html?&L=0
Show HN: 3D Globe of World Population Density
Practice Being Rejected
Snipping Tool is a built-in program in every Windows since Vista. It's a much nicer tool for taking screenshots. Supports screenshotting individual windows or rectangular clips, and will easily save directly to a file or even send to your email program. Some basic annotation support, too.
Peek into a new perspective for file organization
Your Hackable File Organizer
TagSpaces is an open source personal data manager.
It helps you organize and browse your files on every platform. https://www.tagspaces.org/
that solves my question. The exact point of view I must follow to this topic :P thank you sir. Anywone with karma 20+, please delete my post :)
The purpose of standing out is so that you don't get inadvertently ignored. The point of the post wasn't to talk about what I look for in pitches. It's to illustrate what happens when you're an entrepreneur sending a deck to an investor. This is a viewpoint that I didn't have before as an entrepreneur and thought would be useful to other entrepreneurs.

Investors see lots of decks and realistically don't have time to do a deep dive for an hour or more on each one given the volume. This could be a flaw with the industry, but these are the circumstances that entrepreneurs have to work with right now to get noticed to even get that deeper dive meeting.
This is neat, and I don't want to diminish that, but when I saw the headline "...from scratch", I wasn't expecting that the starting components would include "a full set of keys".

I'm reminded of an old Disney cartoon (maybe WWII era ?) where goofy invents artificial rubber. The catch is that it requires rubber tires as an input.
We have the same in NL. Accessibility doesn't need to suffer at the hands of bike lanes
"These days if something extraordinary happens - such as a phone blowing up in the middle of the day - it is usually filmed."

Are you sure there's no selection bias going on here? In today's media/internet climate, I think your vastly more likely to hear about extraordinary events that have been filmed than those that haven't.
Thank you for bringing this to light. It's extremely frustrating when reviewers focus 90% of their attention on the easily available specs like screen resolution or whether it has the latest wi-fi spec (my landlines at home or work can't even saturate 2.4ghz 802.11n, let alone anything higher)
I have compiled Julia from source several times thx; my point was that MATLAB is not using reference Fortran routines.
Seems like there could be a use for a distributed service that automatically checks the signature of common downloaded executables --especially for in Microsoft world. It's not enough for vendors to simply put the signature on their website.
Yeah. I was lowballing though. It's actually scarier when cars are flying by at 25-30 MPH, and you're trying to dodge potholes in the road (if there's no bike lane) or various obstacles (if there's a bike lane) like construction equipment, work vans, and police cars.

One time I went wiped out in a bike lane because some trash bag had leaked some kind of garbage sludge all over the sidewalk (garbage day in NYC means 5-foot-tall piles of stinking trash bags on the sidewalk). The street was slightly banked, so when I hit the slick stuff my wheel just slid right out from under me and I had no time to even bail off the bike. My helmet probably saved my life that day.
Handles were effectively a brilliant workaround at the time, given the constraints of having static memory allocation for apps.

(This kindles some fond memories of MacOS classic development along with the Inside Macintosh books...)
see the diagram on http://www.driveandstayalive.com/setting-exterior-mirrors-ca...

What you do is "normal". The suggestion from the comment I replied to is referring to the "new" way referenced on the linked page, where the mirrors are set wider.
> The article concludes: "According to Scotland Yard, learning and teaching mathematics is apparently terrorism."

Teachers always said math is important in life.
Still missing details on how this qualifies as an APT, this seems nothing more than a basic trojan horse unless Kaspersky is for whatever reason neglecting to talk about whatever persistence mechanisms it has in place beyond the basics (startup entry of some form).

Malware explicitly targeting crypto software is scary regardless, however.
How is this related to web devs?
For one, novel ideas are often difficult to communicate effectively, and difficult to grasp. Ideas that are notably different and blatantly obviously advantageous are typically few and far between, because such ideas would have already been implemented, being obvious, after all. Most good novel ideas have some degree of subtlety involved in them, or require a paradigm shift to truly understand well. Trying to digest such ideas without having that shifted mental model will often lead to misunderstanding. Additionally, communicating complex ideas can be very difficult.

This is an underrated set of points.
Jumping straight to the code samples, I found this confusing as well.
I'm sorry user5994461. My company has an open culture. My manager would not lie to me like that. /s
That isn't always the case (though it could be). Here's why it takes so long to pitch to investors:

http://blog.elizabethyin.com/post/139303202435/why-fundraisi...