skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're both right - MJ makes you far more cautious and analytical, but not necessarily more correct. AKA paranoid

Either way, the "impulse buy" reflex is significantly stronger with alcohol than MJ, according to myself and the anecdotes of most everyone I've talked to.
Are there a lot of people who have the time and flexibility of schedules to go chasing down 911 calls in their neighborhood?

I'm not heartless, I certainly open the front door and take a gander if I hear my dog barking or a loud noise out front, but beyond that, I'm not sure I'd just leave my family in the house with no plan other than to videotape what could be a violent criminal in the heat of the moment.

Also, what relationship does this company have with a user once that user gets shot in the chest for running around and videotaping an armed robbery with their flashlight beaconing their position and activity to the criminal?

What about when someone calls in a sexual assault - are there protections for their privacy?
You need to understand the market they're aiming for: This acts as a replacement for the somewhat common Cintiq + PC pairing (very expensive), and also happens to serve some other useful purposes, all as one unit. Plus it introduces a new interaction model and good hardware design.

Definitely very expensive, but actually price-competitive vs alternatives.
Cheat sheet for non-designers evaluating app designers or agencies
Being a master artist and being cheap aren't mutually exclusive.

It sounds like location arbitrage: China has a lower cost of living than the US. Not to mention that even a master Chinese artist would have a tough time getting a green card.

But it looks like instapainting is basically a middle-man which could easily be replaced by a Chinese website (so long as they hire a good translator).
Interestingly, from a cursory glance at those images, it looks like the biggest gap between the model and the data is in Iran and central Asia. The model predicts a low incidence of civilization there, which makes sense due to the region's low agricultural potential, but in reality large civilizations have thrived in those areas. I wonder what factor explains this divergence? Trade along the Silk Road?
Most cases are quite routine and easily predictable.
I really hate that everything must now look the same. Especially since I think it looks and feels bad.
I agree that renewables are going to be huge but I don't know what companies are going to get rich off of it. What will allow individual companies to build good profit margins? The biggest PV efficiency boost being implemented in the mainstream right now (passivated emitter cell structure) was invented in Australia in the 1980s but the patents expired before it was implemented on a large scale. Core patents for heterojunction cells (another approach to high efficiency on silicon) recently expired too so unrestricted competition can reign there also. The barriers to entry in PV manufacturing are pretty low and look likely to stay that way.

Is wealth going to be made on installing rather than manufacturing hardware? It's also hard to see how e.g. SolarCity protects its margins from competition with other installers. Customer acquisition is a big chunk of costs right now, but if SolarCity spends a bunch on ads to get Americans thinking about rooftop solar that helps competing installers too. Look at the Australian market for a glimpse at the future (much lower installation costs, much higher penetration, broad consumer awareness without further advertising).

EDIT: my own best guess is that if there's going to be a breakout company that achieves high margins on cleantech it's going to be in the area of storage. That's because a patented approach that can seriously lower storage costs or increase cycle life (which amounts to practically the same thing for stationary storage) is an advantage that can't be immediately cloned. OTOH I do not expect protected margins for companies that are lowering costs by scaling, e.g. Tesla's battery gigafactory. Historical reminder: at the beginning of the 2000s China had no solar PV industry to speak of. In less than a decade Chinese manufacturers went to dominating the market because IP barriers were minimal and they could scale larger very quickly once there was a state commitment.
The usual way package managers do this is, at packaging time, to use the native build tool to install the software rooted in a temporary directory, then fix up those files as needed (including fixing permissions and ownership) and copy them into a tarball. Does pacman not do that?
And then there is Caral, a civilization that seems to have evolved without any violence. Here is an excellent video about the discovery [1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caral
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef0jSXv9Jyk
Does anyone know any open source implementations of Material Design? I've been using https://getmdl.io/ but I'd be interested if there are any other projects of similar or better quality.
I find pure SSDs much better than hybrid drives for photo editing. I don't think I would use a hybrid drive for any purpose now.
I've got another good anecdote.

I went in for an in-person interview at a company. At the end of the interview process, the interviewer let me know I hadn't gotten the job, but told me I should connect with him on LinkedIn because he and his friend had a great business idea that needed a developer.

I guess I shouldn't have been surprised, since I've had interviewers reach out to me after I've been rejected to say the same thing. It seemed exceedingly strange that I was solicited to work on another project in person by the interviewer during the interview process.
Try presenting improvements as adding easy to understand business value. Start with something easily quantifiable that you can quickly improve on. Then you can say 'while this change that will take about X hours, it will end up saving the company Y hours per developer per month'.

This would be harder to do if your company directly passes on your hours to a customer, so they don't care about making you more efficient. In this case, find something that would increase your billable hours (eg: starting/rebooting the environment isn't billable, so shaving minutes means more billable time).

I did this to get SSDs in all the dev machines where I work, as we spent ~30 minutes a day compiling, SSDs cut that time in half or more, thus netting the company 15 minutes more productivity a day per dev. I presented this to management as an investment that would pay for itself in under a month (any reasonable business should leap at something like that).
Have you used a hybrid? They work pretty well. Unless you're just churning through file after file you'll be fine.

As for the rest of it, no designer cares about previous gen stuff - if they didn't they wouldn't have gone to macs in the first place.
Literally nobody bought the mobile side of their Windows platform. You have to kill your darlings, and Microsoft did it. They are now putting apps on other people's mobile devices, without having to compete in that space. It's a good move.
> deeper meaning eludes machines.

We don't have to have "deeper meaning". We just have to pass enough double-blind trials of whether an expert can distinguish "deep meaning" from "AI-generated meaning". I'm not a big fan of the "humans are special and machines can't capture magical human nuances" hypothesis.
Also check out Prisma app for a slick mobile-friendly UI & subset of pre-selected art styles. (layman's application of this tech)
Ahh, yes, the 1950s, when millions of veterans went to college for free and obtained low-interest mortgages under the GI Bill, when the Interstate Highway System -- perhaps the largest, most costly, and most environmentally consequential public works program ever -- was begun, when half the world fell to Communism, when schools were forciably integrated and whites began to flee cities and urban centers for the implicitly segregated suburbs, when modern medicine developed the polio vaccine and the birth control pill, when half the US workforce was unionized, when the Kinsey Report and Playboy were first published...

Wait, what were we talking about?
I don't understand how decriminalization is a long term option. We're saying, it's ok for you to do this, but anyone who provides the service for you is breaking the law (not to mention if you try to service yourself by growing, that's also illegal). It just pushes the drug war up a level to the producers. The costs of the drug war would still exist and the funds wouldn't get put towards rehab programs or schools like they do where it is legalized.
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Intelligence-Driven Computer Network Defense Informed [pdf]
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That opinion is not at all unpopular here; I read it constantly. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me though.
Laws restricting or prohibiting local governments from providing internet access to inhabitants are pretty common. I'm sure the actual underlying reason involves regulatory capture and lobbying from incumbents, but the unfair competition angle is convincing enough for the legislators in question to go ahead with it and not get ejected from office.
Could an astronaut’s corpse bring new life to another world?
I don't get how the cubesat drive is supposed to work.

You can trigger fusion with antiprotons because the antiproton is negatively charged and more massive than an electron. The antiproton takes the place of an electron but has a smaller orbit so the hydrogen nuclei get closer together and are more likely to fuse. It is just like muon catalyzed fusion.

Positrons however are positively charged and can't take the place of electron also they are the same mass as an electron so they aren't going to get any closer.
​You can run the same programs on 16 different OpenStack clouds
Google's New Material Design Resource
Microservices in Flask
While these results are certainly impressive, it's hard to say that they're aesthetically or artistically "good."

I played around with Photoshop filters a bunch when I was younger -- there are (or used to be) a good handful of "artistic" filters, imitating watercolor, pointillism , ink drawing, etc. These style transfer results are reminiscent of nothing so much as those effects: they look superficially appealing, but have the same blind, dead quality.

Maybe this is an indictment of "style" as it's typically understood? A certain brush technique does not an artwork make.
They should be building more railroads upstate. In general, trains feel severely lacking in comparison with Europe for example.
If you continue reading, he's making an argument that comes together at the end:

"After this scientific milestone is achieved, I predict that the whole discussion of commercial applications of quantum computing will shift to a new plane, much like the Manhattan Project shifted to a new plane after Fermi built his pile under the Chicago stadium in 1942. In other words: at this point, the most “applied” thing to do might be to set applications aside temporarily, and just achieve this quantum supremacy milestone—i.e., build the quantum computing Fermi pile—and thereby show the world that quantum computing speedups are a reality."

He's saying we need to do some purely scientific experiments to demonstrate the fundamentals of quantum computing before we start trying to use it for codebreaking or AI.
Actually, training is a pretty important word there too...

We can debate about the quality of current training standards for certain case types, but on balance, I think it's hard to dispute that many situations need the expertise of trained first responders (paid or unpaid). More people on scene doesn't always make things better. Without thinking about the specific problems this is meant to solve and working to enable solutions, this app can be just as dangerously bad as it tries to be good.
Not unless you can do it from anywhere AND you are not expected to be available during overnight if the situation demands :)
We're living in an era where Samsung is now grappling with widespread, catastrophic battery issues with their phones. It gets harder to design and ship computers at scale every day.
http://www.material-ui.com/
There's nothing wrong with writing a JSON parser, but you shouldn't expect to do anything else for the next time if you want to do it correctly.
That's exciting. I applaud MS for openly expanding to other platforms but the confusing profile names need to be simplified. IMHO, there should be two profiles .NET Universal and .NET Windows (a superset of .NET Universal).
> Most software engineers are bad and refuse to admit it to themselves (which would let them get better)

Well… not to be confrontational, but in the context of this post, you seem to be implying that if most software engineers (which would, statistically speaking, include me) were “better”, they could put software together faster. I have to say, the implication bothers me, as does my suspicion that it’s a sentiment shared by most non-programmers out there. The problem is, there is a lower limit on how long it can possibly take to complete a programming task - and I think even the MBAs will concede that that lower limit is higher than the time spent typing out the words that make up the program. So, if we accept the premise that “good programmer” = “fast programmer” with no reasonable, objective measure of how fast fast is, the people doing the judging will always end up using the metric “how long I wanted it to take”, which is usually about a day for any task.
We've updated the link from http://vesselnews.io/twitter-shareholder-sues-twitter-ceo-ja..., which points to this.
Whats the threshold for "complicated UX needs"? I'd think for all but the very most basic bootstrap landing page (IE, if any of the value of your business other than a sales sheet is in your webapp) you'd want to use decent tools.
Simplenote is great. Instead of Notational Velocity I use something called Just Notes, but is discontinued. I've been meaning to make my own using Electron and Draft.js with a few things that annoy me with it / would like to be improved.
Also :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_2A_carcinog...

Something may also be classified as 2A when "Exceptionally, an agent may be classified in this group solely on the basis of limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans." Which I think Glyphosate falls into.
For a few million investment in NV he could own the new market.
Which pair?
Another thread where most commenters will advocate for remote work and/or private offices. I agree.

Dan Luu recently said this about Peopleware, which advocates for offices and is highly regarded:

> This book seemed convincing when I read it in college. It even had all sorts of studies backing up what they said. No deadlines is better than having deadlines. Offices are better than cubicles. Basically all devs I talk to agree with this stuff.

> But virtually every successful company is run the opposite way. Even Microsoft is remodeling buildings from individual offices to open plan layouts. Could it be that all of this stuff just doesn’t matter that much? If it really is that important, how come companies that are true believers, like Fog Creek, aren’t running roughshod over their competitors?

> This book agrees with my biases and I’d love for this book to be right, but the meta evidence makes me want to re-read this with a critical eye and look up primary sources.

--

What's HN opinions?
You know what is more like a minefield...a minefield...

http://www.afghan-network.net/Landmines/

Not trying to be a dork, but thought this would be a good place to bring up...if anyone is interested...in the usage of landmines in current conflicts and the way that they tend to linger.

Call this a comment factoid. Off topic, but interesting.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect every edit to be polished. If someone makes a rough contribution with promise, it should stay in the article in its broken form, so other passerbyers can see it and help improve it. Something ugly but of value should stay instead of being relegated to talk pages 99% of viewers never bother to check. I lean towards inclusion because visible mistakes are more likely to be fixed by random surfers.

There is one faction of people that treat pages like a final draft, and others who prefer it as working space (with extremely high visibility.)

Github isnt a fair comparison, because it has a much better workflow for proposing changes.
Why the Secretive Startup Palantir Is 'Seriously' Considering an IPO
Watch Microsoft's Surface PC event in under 9 minutes
Oh I see, now we're moving the goalposts ;)
This is why it's critical to become starfaring as soon as possible. Every year we delay carries tremendous risk.
You're getting downvoted by zealots who are angry Apple still doesn't have (and won't anytime soon) a beautiful touch screen.

Hybrids are totally fine in a great majority of use cases. For this price I agree you might as well have thrown one in, but still, performance difference will be neglible.

As a dev I run an ssd because ides are shitty bloated awful pieces of crap (all of them tbh) they don't know how to run in memory and always spend time on file io.
The 10X0M cards are perhaps too recent, or the extra 20-30W (?) blew the envelope. I'd definitely get the least powerful graphics card for a machine like this, just to minimize the noise. I can put a real graphics card in my gaming rig, this one is for illustrator.

Re: price - I'm thinking the digitizer and screen is the whole reason for the price. It would be good if the box could be updated while keeping the screen.
I got a lot of publicity from an article about the Chinese painters that I published on Medium, so I think many people do know. Some people take issue with it, understandably, but also for the wrong reasons. The article is also linked at the bottom of the homepage, albeit it is a bit hidden.

You probably take issue with it because you think you are exploiting the workers, when in reality they want you to buy from them and witholding your purchase hurts them economically. The bulk of the money you spend goes to the artists, after all. Otherwise China wouldn't enact such protectionist trade policies that encourage mass exports.

If you take issue with it because you want to encourage domestic economy growth, then avoiding imported Chinese paintings would be proper, however not all our sellers are Chinese. We will soon be adding filters to discriminate by country of origin.
Which is like saying my blackberry had a physical keyboard why do I need an iphone 3g.
Haptic feedback. The implication in the videos is that people are often manipulating the Dials with their off-hands without needing to look to back at the Dial. It's like a well worn knob in your car you don't even have to glance at while you are driving.

Also the videos show it both on and off the screen as users have different needs to work with it.
Buried in there is a tool for a quick view of any site across laptop, tablet and smartphone form factors:

http://material.io/resizer/

I've never seen this tool before and don't know if it's new with this site, but it is amazing and I'll be using it a lot from now on!

Edit: Thanks for the references to the browser dev tools, which clearly are more appropriate for development - I intended rather more emphasis on the quick view part being the amazing thing, as in lining the three up side-by-side with a nice skeuomorphic ui, and being able to share a link that just works for demos to people not familiar with their browser's dev tools.
Google Cloud 1 - Amazon AWS 0
DC and Baltimore are typically lumped in as one metro area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%E2%80%93Washington_m...
You're going to write a blog post on your site about how to make passive income, which you are doing by hosting your site about how to make passive income! I don't think it can get more meta than that!
Or maybe being unhealthy makes you unhappy.
To me it feels like the Yahoo story is done, and people picked on the next company to hate.
I'm interested in your thoughts on how you came about the idea. I don't want to be disparaging but do you consider it "lucky" that you had a friend point you towards selling art reproductions online? Were you already thinking of similar ideas? There's that gulf between ideas and execution, and you clearly executed well. Given that you had previous ideas that you weren't able to successfully execute on (relative to Instapainting), I'm also curious of your thoughts comparing those experiences? Also, congrats on the success and thanks for sharing some of the inside details.
The problem with open office plans is that it takes just one noisy person to spoil it for everybody. If managed carefully and actively, they can work -- it just takes an manager willing to correct bad behavior or send sick people home.

Where I work, I have a budding tupperware percussionist, three imminent victims of whooping cough, some parents managing high-maintenance offspring over cell phones, and one guy who conducts teleconferences with his desk phone. So I often sneak off to empty conference rooms with a laptop if I'm trying to concentrate.
Wait, what? O'Reilly books are being crowdfunded now?
Is there a version without all the ridiculous animations?
I find it amusing how HN readers just believe anything they read about how much people are making. For all we know this might be a guy who's making very little and wanted coverage on indiehackers.com.
I think it's largely signaling that a product or site is receiving attention from its creator or owner rather than trying to make anything look nice or work well. Can't let your online storefront look like it's from 2008, even if it's more usable than newer designs and loads 10x as fast, because people will think it looks neglected and possibly abandoned and won't buy stuff from you.
Because a monopoly isn't inherently bad, if regulated properly. My monopoly water, gas, and electric providers do just fine; all highly reliably (and either a small or no profit right is granted).

Why not my internet? Why can't it be a regulated utility? Because of fear mongers and corruption.

Full steam ahead on municipal bandwidth it appears, and coming for politicians with pitchforks who oppose it.
In the context you're talking about, I agree, but non-contextual/pure consumption art is a different story. Think about how game art/textures, Instagram/imgur/reddit images that people look at for one second, like/upvote, then move on, YouTube background music, etc.

We might not get world-changing, paradigm-changing, transcendental, strong social commentary-inflected art, but we are getting some cool stuff people like looking at. Not to mention meme material ("Dog or Bagel" and friends) that uses stuff like this as part of its input (which, I would argue, is its own kind of art.)
If Apple's Macs Disappoint, Just Buy Some from Microsoft
I feel like he's one of the last people you'd suspect of being involved with drugs. Adelson is already a major player in a spectacularly lucrative industry, so it'd be pretty insane to go into hardcore felonies when his legal business might actually have better margins.

The Venetian cleared >$300 million after costs in 2014. It'd be a pretty bizarro-world decision to jeopardize that for more money.
Precision and extra inputs that you can't get with touch gestures.
Eastern Market is bigger than Lexington Market.
Strongly empathize.
I find it interesting that Msft is choosing to battle Apple head on in the consumer space, I recall Sun Tzu "attack where your enemy is weak". Yet, msft is attacking Apple at their most loyal user base—designers.

Not only that but the machines, at a glance, resemble Apple's, so there is little physical differentiation. Is aluminum gray the only color for computers these days?

This strategy strikes me as incredibly odd, I wonder if anyone here sees the angle that I'm missing.