skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most laptops, until very recently, yes. But no one has made a cellphone big enough to hold even one 18650 in many years.
Seems more like "Pinterest for Arduino and Pi enthusiasts", to me. You say "For Programmers" and I expect something a little less hardware-y, despite the obvious overlap in interests and the programming aspect to the hardware.
Yikes. Reminds me of this https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/aug/29/london-renters...

I guess in this case "luxury" => "doesn't contain second-hand furniture".

Also http://www.independent.co.uk/property/studio-flat-with-bedro... (clearly they should of opted for a single bed too facepalm)
If you are creating a complicated communications product it can be helpful to be able to develop on a desktop machine then use basically the same source code on the embedded target.
Care to elaborate on that?
Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and Apache Mesos: Container Clustering and Management
I can attest to that, my previous ISP had explicitly stated that running web or other file server was not allowed - I'm not exactly sure if TOS was in violation of my consumer rights but the fact is that they could cut me off if I were going to set up a server... I mean even for personal use (it didn't say anything about running a server business)
I think Sanders would have probably had a higher initial success rate if he'd been pitching a business opportunity to people that make a living from investing in multiple high risk ventures, rather than pitching the opportunity of becoming a franchisee to people whose roadside cafe was doing just fine, thank you very much.
It makes perfect sense if you know anything about Portuguese.

'àquele' is the preposition 'a' + 'aquele'. Grave accents are only used to mark contractions such as this, and the circumflex and acute accents - which denote differences in vowel quality and stress - are much more common, which is why it makes perfect sense to prioritise ease of typing for those two over the grave accent.
Thanks - I didn't know Java 8 had incorporated Joda time.

Actually LocalDate is a better representation for Type 2 because it doesn't encapsulate minutes, hours or seconds. This would make it ideal to represent "John's birthday" or "date on which the customer repaid loan".

In fact, I'm disappointed that Java has incorporated Joda time - new Java programmers will now need to crawl over a huge pile of time-based classes to pick out the ones they need, when for 99% of cases only the same 3 types are necessary. How many of these novice users will incorrectly use LocalDateTime to represent Type 1?
Civil disobedience has a long history of sometimes working.

> I understand that you want to partake in a protest from really far away, but you must have better ways of doing so than hurting them.

I'm observing, not partaking. The Turkish state is doing the hurting, don't shift the blame.
How to Successfully Recruit and Manage a Remote Software Development Team
Collaboratively using tags and tag groups
Isn't the whole idea of Pinterest that you can just make this with Pinterest itself ?
Industrial robots will replace manufacturing jobs – and that’s a good thing
This should be required reading for every PM.

As an engineer the point about "doing the mental gymnastics" is the single biggest difference between a good PM and a bad PM.

Well written/thought out specs guide my development process, shape my tests, and help me focus on the critical components.

Poorly written specs are a just a PM refusing to do his job. I have campaigned to have PM's fired for this reason alone. If you can't take the time to think through the problem on paper, why should I bother trying to implement it.

Also, if you are a PM and you are trying to persuade devs without hard data, you are going to have a bad time.
I don't think they were trying to protect the brand, they were trying to protect their bank balance by avoiding recalling, replacing and ultimately scrapping the product line.
This is the same question I had [1], but just asked in "how can I outsource this cheap" instead of "how can I do this cheap". I also use docker, so I would only need to get a hosted database.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12659437
Uplink isn't really about programming at all though.

That said, if you liked Uplink you should try Hacker: Evolution and HackNet.
Interesting. I'd just mandate drivers had to spend 10,000m on a motorbike, or time on bicycle and motorbike, before being let near a car. Car driving standards would improve dramatically.
In Defense of Mobile Homes
In SQL server? In PostgreSQL you would wrap with double quotes. Which kinda sucks when your language uses double quotes for strings and you have to escape.
The article is about the Netherlands, and I was referring to Denmark, though I forgot to write that.

Most people aren't "sport" cyclists here, and therefore most don't wear helmets.

I wouldn't wear a helmet to walk up the stairs, but if I go rock climbing I do. Same difference.
The Last Tree
"The Last Tree" is 2D side scroller adventure.
The year is 2092, and the tree called Ungrodo is the last tree on earth, and everybody’s chasing him. He has very special skill - TIME SLOWS DOWN WHEN HE MOVES.
- In contrary to every 2D platformer ever, this platformer is going in the left direction ( http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aAPONeL_700b.jpg )
- Built in Unreal Engine 4
- Soundtrack is completely classical music
- Target platform Windows, Android, iOS
- Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys9zn05HYks
- Windows demo build link: http://gamejolt.com/games/the-last-tree/195114

And I think that here I also have an opportunity to raise awareness about deforestation and clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale worldwide, which happens for many reasons, but most of them are related to money.
Unless someone forgets meaningful docstrings and tests on a function. At that point it becomes "very interesting" again.
I want to understand how this story makes sense, and I can't. If you put the facts together, they don't add up. First, here's the chronology.

1. Original Note 7 phones were blowing up, Samsung issued a recall.

2. Samsung released (suspiciously quickly) a new phone that used new batteries made by Amperex, which also provides batteries for the iPhone line. [A]

3. A report comes in of a post-recall, "safe" phone blowing up while not being connected to a charger and being turned off to be put in the owner's pocket. [B]

4. Another report of a "safe" phone blowing up while in the back pocket of its owner. [C]

5. Two more reports come in, both of a Note 7 blowing up overnight while their owners were asleep. [D,E]

Second, here's what I don't understand:

* We know the batteries are likely safe since they come from a reputed manufacturer also providing iPhones their batteries. Heck, even the initial battery manufacturer was Samsung itself, and Li-Ion batteries aren't exactly a new and unstudied technology.

* Even after the new batteries were put in use, the phones are still exploding even when not connected to a charger, as explicitly stated by reports [D] and [C], and as is likely the case for [B] and [E].

How are these phones blowing up when, in all likelihood, the batteries are safe and have been replaced, and the phone isn't even under heavy use at the time of the explosion? Maybe you could blame CPU heating or a faulty charging mechanism, but the phones were not charging or under heavy load. All they were doing was discharging at an idle rate. This is literally the state least likely to cause this kind of explosion.

Can anyone explain what I'm missing?

Sources:

[A] https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-galaxy-note-7-explosion-ba...

[B] http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/5/13175000/samsung-galaxy-no...

[C] http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201610080009.aspx

[D] http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/9/13215728/samsung-galaxy-no...

[E] http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/9/13218730/samsung-galaxy-no...
They are probably going to kill the name and wrap fixed internals in new box with new name.
I'd like to see both the RBS executives responsible for this and Clifford Chance, the legal firm RBS called in to do an "independent review" sanctioned in some meaningful way.

Their independent review was clearly a sham even down to the point that RBS denied to MPs that their Global Restructuring Group was being run as a profit centre for the bank. Something we now know was the deliberate intention from the top of the bank down.

As someone running a small business the idea that a bank could deliberately try to destroy its customer's profitable businesses in order to seize their assets at a knocked down rate is terrifying and should be treated as criminal matter.
I found something really sexist:

> Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.
The strange number 0.577 keeps showing up in everything
This crops up in Rust's std::time::Duration which has no concept of negative duration
They have a private GSM network at the CCC conference in Hamburg every year. Sim cards go for 2 euros (or you bring the one from last year) and it allows you to call anyone anywhere for free (for the duration of the conference, and you need to get a signal from the conference building of course). No GPRS or anything like that though.
>According to Google, the average cycling speed is 15.5km/h

That sounds like a speed averaged over a whole trip - including the phases of deceleration and acceleration before/after traffic lights. From my experience, most people are closer to 17-20km/h when traveling, with plenty of fit people going at 24+.
Auntie Beeb's insistence on such complete drivel has killed all the joy and interest. I find it utterly unlistenable much the time.
Imho, it is most important that the standards for information interchange are open. Which is usually the case with open-source software, and is too often not the case with proprietary software.
The Good Consultant Fires Themself; Focusing on Their Goals Not Yours
Are those accidents caused by faulty batteries, or by the way the electronics make use of them?
If the horrible plastic Audrey Hepburn in the chocolate advert was anything to go by, I sincerely hope not.
Can we please put people in jail for stuff like this? Please? Just once?
Finding the perfect location for your business
You just literally said "LUL but Andrew Jackson!" and it sums up basically every Hillary Supporter's defense. It's always "Yeah but _____" and that blank ranges from anything Bush, Colin Powell, Trump, and apparently Andrew Jackson related.

If you could step back and re-read that comment from an objective stance, you can see just how ridiculous it is. How Andrew Jackson has anything to do with anything a modern president would have to face is beyond me. The president today has many more obligations, decisions, power at the push of a button, etc.

Also the irony of your comment as you try to use a president from centuries ago as a reason why Clinton "ain't so bad" -- she too has literally sold a position of power with security clerance to her foundation donor, a man that had absolutely zero business having that sort of security clearance.

I hate to break it to ya my friend, not only is she in the top 10, she's the training model of how to do it. She makes Watergate not look so bad, afterall.
Having random existing employees go through the interviewing process as a test of the process itself is an interesting idea, though you'd have to be a big enough company to choose interviewers who don't know the "candidate" and there are probably other reasons why it would be difficult to pull off.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bicycle+helmets+not+safer&l=1
Yet still manages to look like a prison cell. Grey and white everything is probably not the most inspiring colour scheme.
Interesting. Here in NL we're taught to stay to the right hand side of the lane with about .5 meters of margin to the right relative to where the road surface ends. That way cars can overtake without possibly hitting a cyclist going the other way. Also it is strongly discouraged to cycle side-by side (but kids on the way to and from school routinely ignore that as do couples of all ages).

https://fietsmaar.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/schoorlam-n504...

Is a nice example of what the map of a road with mixed cycle/car traffic would look like, absent any markings you'd still try to re-create that situation.

Same situation in a more urban setting:

http://www.fietsfilevrij.nl/wp-content/uploads/P1030380.jpg

Cars can - and do - occupy the bike lane if they're moving, will slow down behind a bicyclist if there is oncoming traffic and will move around them when the road is clear from oncoming motorized traffic.

Everybody takes the amount of space they need, but no more than they need. To occupy a whole lane and to ignore the 'honking and shouting' (mentioned upthread) would be considered extremely rude and could easily get you in trouble because you're hindering faster traffic.
I'm no electronics engineer, but I don't think "drawing too much voltage" is a thing.

As current goes up, resistance has to go down, so there will be a voltage drop across the battery terminals.

That's my understanding, someone correct me if I'm wrong, or otherwise help clear this up?
From Wikipedia (top of 2nd paragraph) "HVDC allows power transmission between unsynchronized AC transmission systems"
Angular material widget engine
Wirth's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
I don't know about Ruby, but most sufficiently advanced ecosystems have package managers to help with dependency hell.
I sometimes jump in at the place above my level and read both books simultaneously. You often need only a few things from the prerequisite class.

But yes, there is no substitute for learning all the things you need.
The Presidio is populated. I shared a house with three room mates there once - great area (morning run to the Golden Gate bridge), shitty houses. It isn't densely populated, but it does have quite a few houses.
> mini java applications

They say Java but it's basically C++. It's Java without strings and I'm not even sure it has normal 32-bit signed integers (heard somewhere that they didn't, but I can't find it right now). It's called Java Card by the way.
True. Often though these are serious road cyclicsts who do tend to wear helmets, or they're those new fast electric bikes that like to sneak up beside you going really quick.
It won't generate jobs. One 'drone driver' will be able to replace several in-car drivers.
One reason of "invented here syndrome" is proliferation of crappy developers. I've seen that many times in the companies are worked for (as senior dev / architect): the code that is required by some web framework or library is quite clean and well structured, code that is at core, business logic is a mess.

Tell some junior to mid-level developer to write any significant piece of application and the host of bugs and NullPointerExceptions will follow. Finding a library for everything and only leaving simple gluing them together as a task for developers seems like the only way of ensuring minimum required code quality.
I just want to let you know that I've been a feeder user for maybe 3 years now, and I've really enjoyed it. The new Android beta app is pretty sweet so far.

Thanks for giving me a simple place to go after Google Reader shutdown!
There was a theory that they charge the battery to a too high voltage, creating internal shorts.
The problem with software engineering is that understanding it well is as fundamental as understanding arithmetic

Asking this may be trite but: do you have evidence to back that assertion up? Why couldn't we say that about other professions?
Linode &
Docker &
bash &
(Go v R v Python) &
SQLite
I think even my phone is doing that these days..
World's biggest defence company builds plant to make energy from landfill
There is no DC generator as such, just a converter from AC to DC.
Working for. I was working for an outsourcing company that catered for companies like that. My hourly rate were ridiculously high, but still companies would be better off hiring us, than employing.
That still doesn't beat a single binary. :)
What will happen to 'Jim'll Paint It' once the new version arrives? http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/
As mentioned in the title, it's a maid's room ("Chambre de bonne"[0]).

The structure of these buildings is quite interesting. The stratification of classes through the floors they occupy (the first floor is called "piano nobile" for a reason), but you're probably French and you know all about Haussmann's renovation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambre_de_bonne
By your logic you shouldn't invest in a university education because you're not earning a profit while at University. This is what's important to understanding startup economics:

IF: CAC < NPV(LTV)

THEN: reinvest your earnings and generate zero to negative profit.

Where:

CAC: Customer Acquisition Cost

LTV: Lifetime Value of the Customer

NPV: Net Present Value
It will be interesting if any major air carriers decide to ban the brand from flight.

with regards to your comment the industry should strive to show otherwise and there should not be any reason to not be able to predict this type of failure occurring at the device level. there certainly have to be some telltale signs that are detectable
Show HN: Portable synthesizer and wireless gesture controller combo (early PT)
Summer+Cold+or+Winter+Cold+Which+is+more+dangerous?
The linux kernel's basic time unit is the jiffy, which wraps around every ~497 days and is visible to userspace using clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC). In order to make sure that bugs don't occur only after 497 days, the jiffy value doesn't start at 0. Rather, the boot-time value is such that the jiffy value will wrap around after five minutes.

One of my brothers worked for an embedded device manufacturer that got bitten. The software worked great unless it was started in the first five minutes after a reboot. But since booting and waiting five minutes is easy, the fix was, too.

The nonzero boot-time value made it simple to fix a bug that occurs every 497 days. Fantastic, say I.
> Traffic accidents are not common

Huh? Traffic accidents are very common in the developing world.

Argentina has double the reported fatality rate of the USA, Nigeria has 50× the rate.
Great idea! But how does one make a virtual implementation of time/scheduler?
Put the lock cable through one of the holes in the top of the helmet. Now you can't get it off without breaking it.
I don’t wanna grow up: When startups start selling to the enterprise
Do a substantial number of IRC users actually care that the current version of IRC lacks the features that IRCv3 proposes, or are we just modernizing because we want to make writing IRC bots more complicated?
Will Elon Musk Scuttle the Search for Life on Mars?
Yes and no. It is paranoid because we're already about 20 years into our Orwellian future; it's no longer ahead of us.
If you think of time like a mathematical vector, the length of that vector can never be negative.. it's always >= 0.. sure, though, in 1D, encoding the direction of that vector as +ve or -ve is pretty convenient.
Man invents mobile desk that changes his life
Absolutely unconscionable, literally extortion. The individuals involved need to be held to account.
> What if she has the remotest of computer literacy? That is, she could operate Facebook but no more? Then is it reasonable to expect her to learn how to administer her own server?

She wouldn't have to, it's all about the money and the wish to be dependent or independent. There are web hosting as well as consulting companies that can setup private social network for one time fee, with automated backups and all.

To me, when I hear that some "computer illiterate" person "learns to use facebok" it kinda sounds reminiscent of hearing that someone learns to make crack from cocaine. Is it useful - maybe, is it good for society - eh I don't think so. I rather see them "learn" how to use sandstorm...
I am from Arizona; you are correct.

No DST is awesome, but causes no end of coordination problems with people outside of AZ... for important meetings like job interviews basically the only option is to be prepped on both hours.

The reservation thing is fun with cell phones - in northern parts of the state, there are places where your cell phone will adjust time by an hour depending on which cell tower you manage to connect to. So one moment your screen will display 2:30, the next 3:30, and a few minutes later it's back to 2:30 again. You fall back to using relative times; "we'll meet in an hour, etc."
The idea that a large law firm could do an "independent review" is a bit bizarre - if they didn't already have some part of RBS as a client they'd be keen to get RBS as a client after they delivered a whitewash.
I don't know. I find it useful in practice. Apart from anything else it means there's (probably) no point looking for an exact polynomial-time algorithm, which can save a lot of wasted effort. But it also gives useful clues about what sort of algorithmic approaches might be useful, and allows you to relate your problem to a huge amount of existing research.

It's really basic taxonomy: what sort of problem are we dealing with? If you don't know that, how could you even begin to design a reasonable algorithm for it?
Even if we just ignore the Netherlands, bike riders aren't being doored left and right in Denmark either. Sure "The Dutch Reach" is a clever trick to get people to look out for bike traffic, but really it's just common sense.

Like in the Netherlands, bike lanes in Denmark are mostly placed between the road and the side walk, so by not looking out for trafic you risk getting your door torn of by an SUV, rather than hitting a bike.
Ask HN: Can I edit my YC application after submission?
We're just about to publish our Android application & I thought it would be great to add that to our YC application but since we hit the submit button there's no option to add/edit. Is that possible?
I beg to differ: Most VCs (those investing risk capital) don't invest in capital inefficient businesses like restaurants.
Addiction, a True Epidemic
if you read panama papers and hillary's mails, I have no word.
Statistically that is unlikely to be true. I have seen many people with injuries from falling of a bike and none of them were on anyone's head where a helmet would make a difference.

So on most accidents a helmet is not going to make a difference.
Young startups struggle as the tech industry celebrates record-breaking quarter
Every function which returns the current time, should be dependency injected with a 'currentTimeService'. This service, during tests, is injected with your mock implementation, and during production with a simple call to 'new DateTime()' or sth like that.
Basically one kid who worked for the startup I worked for right out of college started inviting me out for drinks with his friends, after I quit the company we both worked for to work for another company.

We both found out we live a few blocks from eachother downtown so we would meet up and catch up, he would update me on how the company is going, and I would update him on my new company because he originally had wanted to work there years before.

From there, he introduced me to people who were also really smart motivated people working for startups and we would all meet up once every week or so for drinks or coffee. From there I met alot of great people, some from my university, some not.

I agree it is harder to find friends once you graduate, but at the end of the day you have to be willing to put yourself out there. I am a very shy person and if I had not been invited out with that group of people by someone I had gone to class and ended up working closely with at my old company, I may not have felt comfortable just going out with people for drinks.

if you livei n a bigger city, reddit meetups are great, and going on eventbrite and going to entrepreneurial events is good. Even if you are not looking for a new job, that demographic is more likely to have self starter smart motivated ambitious people that you will run into, if thats the crowd you are looking to run with.