skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is anecdotal, but maybe it'll explain a bit more where I was coming from in regards to my reaction to the initial ipod reveal.
Back then, my music player adaption went from CD Player, CD Player with MP3 CD support, to Nomad Jukebox 3.
Size was not an issue at the time, since I was used to the CD player size and was more looking for ways to get rid of all the CDs I had to keep bringing with me. The Jukebox 3 had the largest HDD at the time, as far as I recall, and allowed me to put my full CD collection on it at that time already. It was also running on a larger battery brick and had an additional slot for another battery to extend its playtime. The batteries were charged in an external charger, so that you could simply swap out the batteries and keep on taking the player with you. It also came with a remote control, which was more of a gimmick, but came in handy every once in a while. The UI allowed browsing through a scroll wheel on its side and you could access the music through various ways (as far as I recall: genre, artist, album, song, and playlist).
Especially the scroll wheel was so easy to use compared to the click wheel on the ipod, which appeared to be more gimmicky than useful at the time.

Of course, by now things have changed and I love the fact that I can put all that music on my phone and being able to connect it to all the different devices (bluetooth & audio jack speakers/headphones), so that I wouldn't want to take a dedicated MP3 player, especially the size of the Jukebox 3, with me anymore.

However, at the time of the original ipod release the lack of HDD size in favour of hardware size didn't make any sense to me and I still catch myself thinking like that during some of the Apple release events since, where it sometimes seems like they're taking one step forward and multiple steps back - will be interesting to see what happens during the upcoming Macbook event.
New Beta Offers Keyword Search of Some Material Found in The Wayback Machine
Yeah, the completely disingenuous rhetoric around these topics on HN is extremely grating for me, personally.
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> Moreover, is anyone under the illusion that war isn't horrible? Did you think it was only strong, burly men getting killed before you saw that video of the kid in the ambulance?

Plenty of people in our cushy western societies are unaware of the realities of war. You want proof? Have a look at how much people have complained about the 5000-odd US military dead in Iraq over a period of greater than a decade. That's 10% of the dead in Vietnam in a similar, and there were single days with more dead soldiers in WWI and the US Civil War.

It's a lot easier to be hawkish when someone else has to deal with the consequences of your opinion.
Anyone who did Solaris admin in the 90s and early 00s would know the name very well.

Interesting as of 2010 he had not even used Solaris for four years.

Good reading: http://perfcap.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/open-letter-to-my-sun...
All actors. I don't think you want us on camera. :)
AI can learn from data without ever having access to it
Not sure about you, but I would have the skills to actually use a Ferrari 458 Spider as a golf cart without tearing up the fairways or using too much fuel. It would be cool.

Strange analogies aside - the point of my post is that the Apple Watch uses too much of my time and energy to 'baby' it and make sure it is operationally ready. Yes, I love unlocking my Mac with it, getting the time and reading notifications on it, so big bonus there. I did used to have Fitbit device for a long while there and enjoyed the fact that I only had to plan and think about charging it every 2 or 3 weeks, rather than every 1.3 days.

Even if it was an even 24 hours recharge cycle for the Watch, it would be a darn sight more convenient, as I could get into routine of charging it at a set time every day, but the fact that it (a) runs out of charge at different times of the day and (b) takes a long time to fully charge up means that it just takes up too much of my conscious thought to manage it, and I would far rather spend that time and energy elsewhere on things I consider more important. Heck, I have enough trouble keeping my cats fed and happy - I don't need something else constantly bullying me as well.

Similar with your Ferrari analogy above. Rules permitting, it would make an awesome golf cart and I would do so without hesitation. My main problem would be 'babying' it again and worrying about other golfers denting it with errant shots or thrown clubs (you'd have to play golf with me one day to see how prevalent that is among the guys I play with!) :)

First world problems, I know, but I think it is a big factor as to why most of the first world seems to shun the smart watches.
Haskell is very strict in what the compiler allows you to do where. It's a really great alternative to just requiring developer discipline. It means that you can do some things (like refactoring) with much greater confidence because the compiler rules out some big classes of bugs. Same with using other people's libraries. You can only use them certain ways and they are explicit.

A side effect of being so strict (in the sense of picky) about what is allowed where is that it needs some really powerful abstractions to keep that from slowing you down. Its type system shines here. Often, these abstractions have a nice syntax in haskell and it makes for some really clean code, relative to a direct translation in other languages.
You need to know it's locked when you open it. Which means you need plugins for popular software. Photoshop, Maya, Unity, 3DSMax, Blender, etc.

P4 has many of these integrations so that artist and other non-technical people will know the moment they open the file that if they want to edit it they need to check it out. Similarly they can choose to check in the changes directly from their asset editing app, not from some separate app. They also need an easy way to find out who has it checked out so they can go over to that person and ask when they'll be able to edit it or if the person forgot to check in their changes.

https://www.perforce.com/product/components/perforce-plugin-...

I've written some in the past as well (http://mayasvn.sourceforge.net/) that would not just check in a Maya file but also check in all the referenced files (otherwise an artist checks in the asset but there are lots of missing textures).

On a subnote: Asking the artist "check this in?" on each save is a bad UX. I tried that and the artists complained since they save all the time (in case their app crashes).
No, the 'biggest influence' that parents have on their kids are the values, attitudes, the disposition, the care, the temperament, the focus, the self restraint and self discipline , and all the other behaviours they instil in their children by instruction or by example.

After that I would say it's economic and social class.

Of course genes play some role, but there's a pretty low correlation for inherited IQ anyhow.
Congratulations to Garry, Alexis, Alina, and team! Such an awesome group---and an immense pleasure to work with. You won't find a more beloved group of partners in the entire Valley. So excited to be sharing in this journey together!
For the non-native English speakers, or for the native but non-US speakers, this was a very interesting misspelling. A lot of native US speakers pronounce the two words absolutelly in the same way. The British pronounciation is a bit different, as I suspect to be the case in many other English speaking countries. Even in the US not everyone pronounces the 't' in "parity" the same as the 'd' in "parody", I would estimate it's about fifty-fifdy.
Our company was part of YC S12, which was a huge batch before YC sharded itself into clusters. During that summer, Garry was one of few partners we actively sought out for advice. He was always extremely helpful, especially with product and UI suggestions.

Initialized was one of our earliest post-YC investors and we've been incredibly happy with their support for us during the many years since YC. We're happy to have them onboard and still talk with the partners quite frequently relative to many of our other investors. I'm excited to see what these guys will accomplish with their new fund!
> The comments here create an impression that many men kind of think "Eh, no big deal feeling a woman up virtually. It isn't like it's REALLY sexual assault."

I don't think anyone has at all insinuated that this would be acceptable behaviour, people are just reacting to the editorialized headline claiming this is sexual assault, which is a term generally used for more serious offenses. In the same way that people would almost certainly react the same way if you claimed that you were assaulted when someone knocked the books out of your hands. Technically true and no one is on the other guy's side, but (in that situation), you'd be being melodramatic.

I think it goes without saying that this sort of behavior is rude and annoying, but honestly it's not any different than other rude and annoying behaviour engaged in by immature people, whether they are tea bagging your avatar or calling you a faggot on the chat.
The major rebel forces in Syria are not a "popular revolt". They are professional, foreign-backed hardline Islamic extremists (which is why they could hold out for five years against Assad, Iran, and Hezbollah).

"The alliance was formed in March 2015 under the supervision and coordination of Saudi cleric Dr Abdullah al-Muhaysini. It consists of Islamist rebel factions mainly active in the Idlib Governorate, with some factions active in the Hama and Latakia Governorates. In the course of the following months, it seized most of Idlib province. It is actively supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

In an October 2015 publication, the Washington D.C.-based Institute for the Study of War considered Jaish al-Fatah as one of the "powerbrokers" in Idlib, Hama, Daraa and Quneitra provinces, though not in Damascus province, being primarily "anti-regime" and "anti-Hezbollah" but not necessarily "anti-ISIS".

At its founding, Jaish al-Fatah contained seven members, three of them—al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham, and Jund al-Aqsa—were directly connected to al-Qaeda or have a similar ideology. With Ahrar al-Sham being the largest group, al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham together were reported to represent 90 percent of the troops." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Conquest

Discussion on Al Jazeera Arabic, "Should We Kill All Alawites?". (Alawites are the largest group in Syria backing the Assad government.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULtNYSUqYHw
People buying TSLA aren't required to take an ideological purity test, either. You can bet that some of them are in it for the money, too. Your comment is kinda like "you can vote, but only if I approve of it" which isn't really voting.
As a Californian that uses indicators religiously, I'm glad I'm not part of the stereotype
Really cool video! Can anybody guess how much it may have cost them to make?
The 2013 Mac pro was a very powerful Mac Mini with lots of terrible design choices. So many pros hated it and Apple hasn't bothered to upgrade it in 3 years.

The Watch and Pencil are accessories, like the AirPods.

Apple Music isn't that big of a deal.
I presume you are a young Greek. Only that could explain your perception of events.
Thanks for pointing this out, wasn't clear to me when I skimmed over the pricing. However, that page is also inaccurate as they've changed the versioning from v$X to $YYYY.$M [0]. I can't seem to figure out how long the "Perpetual Fallback License" will last without buying it and looking at my "account".

All in all, it's really confusing :/

[0] https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2016/03/09/jetbrains-toolbox...
> PFM-1 (Russian: ПФМ-1, short for противопехотная фугасная мина - anti-infantry high-explosive mine; NATO name: Green parrot, also known as butterfly mine) is a land mine of Soviet production, very similar to the BLU-43 US Army landmine. Both devices are very similar in shape and principles, although they use different explosives.

> BLU-43/B and BLU-44/B (Bomb Live Unit) "Dragontooth" were air-dropped cluster-type land mines used by the United States during the Vietnam War.

> The use of Dragontooth mines in Vietnam went largely unnoticed, likely as a product of its essentially classified usage primarily in Laos as part of Operation Igloo White. Production of the system had ceased by 1970, and it was predicted that existing stocks would be exhausted by the end of 1971.

> In stark contrast to the lack of public commentary on the Dragontooth system, the subsequent Soviet analogue, the PFM-1, spurred a lot of controversy after being used in Afghanistan during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, being a key element leading to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

Sounds like the "killing children" line, used exclusively against the soviets, would be a bit loaded
Oh. Well then, I may as well buy the disks and edit the dosbox confs myself.
Check out Adam Curtis' newest documentary, HyperNormalization.

Among many, many, fascinating topics, Curtis details the fluctuating celebration and denouncement of Col. Qaddafi of Libya by western powers and media as a means to distract from the more complicated issues that were actually linked instead to Syria, such as the Lockerbie bombing.

Syria, for decades, has both been a distraction and a distractive force in great power politics. We're only really paying attention now because, as Thomas L. Friedman put it: "Libya implodes, Syria explodes.
I have a favorite subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport

Fun to just peruse the stories and spend an hour or two reading. Some of them leave you shaking your head, others leave you feeling warm and fuzzy. And yet others make you want to defenestrate printers... Who knew how much fun* people had in tech support and IT?

*sarcasm for effect

Also enjoy reading the Bastard Operator from Hell stories: http://bofh.bjash.com/
Totally, this is a good way to protect from that. It's just impossible to trust that is what someone is doing without going and looking at the script unfortunately.
Love how sitting in the passing lane at a speed %10 lower than target causes cascading collisions.

If driving causes cancer, at least the people who drive in the passing lane (the left one) deserve it.
The Creative Zen had support for the WMA codecs. IIRC it supported higher quality encoding than the MP3 encoders of the time.
Interesting, but you couldn't have been using a Nomad Jukebox 3 when the iPod was announced. The Jukebox 3 came out after.
tl;dr "combine code written in Go 1.0 and a proposed Go 2.0 in one program using the package level as the boundary between language versions"

Thumbs up from me.
As if one's views are enough to presuppose one's identity.
By the way, if anybody is interested in some REALLY crazy heat, check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resiniferatoxin
Nowhere in this article does the author say she was sexually assaulted, and if this was the original headline it has since been changed to the original medium post's headline: "My First Virtual Reality Groping"

This is, by the way, a repost of the medium post that was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12777340

I think this version adds nothing to the original version, which has identical text.
"America is doing quite poorly in terms of social mobility, compared to other top-tier countries."

I think this is a myth.

Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland all do pretty well on the 'gini coefficient' - but they are tiny, relatively homogeneous societies. They are ethnic groups - and they are each smaller than Los Angeles.

What would the gini coefficient look like for 'The entire EU' for example - which would be a better direct comparison to America.

It would be terrible.

Why? Because Greeks grow up mostly to live in Greece, and much poorer than Swedes, who grow up to be Swedes, generally much richer than Greeks.

Poor Greeks, Sardinians, and Bulgarians kids mostly do not grow up to reach the level of wealth of middle class Scandinavians - not even close.

From Slovenia to London ... the gap is really quite huge.
I can assure you I eat spicy food when no one is around.
I think the article was right calling it as a nice feature for Mac users. Eventually iPod became popular with the launch of iTunes on Windows: https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/10/16Apple-Launches-iT...

Windows platform not just opened ~90% consumer market (in 2003) for iPod. But also became the first Apple standalone product for pricetag ($299) approachable to wider market. Suddenly an Apple product was affordable. This combined with awesome product I believe helped iPod scale to popularity. In fact this brought many people(I believe) from Windows to Mac.
HelenOS GUI – experimental demonstration (2012)
I fell for this one :( The signs were there but the simplicity of the email I think is what lowered my guard.

http://blog.greggman.com/blog/getting-phished/
Home: http://www.helenos.org/
Thanks for the reply. Were there 250-300K people living there before the war, or was this an estimate at some earlier point in the war?
What are the consequences if this is accepted?
Blaming "culture" is often an excuse for shoddy research.

How would you measure "conscientiousness" if you were designing a study to correlate that with wealth?
They're much better for agriculture than they used to be (though still pretty poor in Siberia). The change in productivity is wholly due to climate change. Warmer weather leads to a longer growing season, rain instead of snow, etc.

A lot of this land is nutrient packed as well. Siberia could be prime growing land if it gets warm enough. Similar to Ukraine today.

Saying that, there are a number of concerns about soil resilience in Siberia. If soil resilience doesn't improve, Siberia will remain very poor for agriculture.
We probably shouldn't allow common words to be individually trademarked, let alone SI units.
Marketing a discount through Kickstarter is brilliant!
I'm not trolling, and you should know that people can make poor decisions in groups too.
A cyber attack that is reported? I have cleaned up from at least hundreds of cyber attacks targeted at small businesses. Thousands if you count compromised workstations that never to our knowledge exfiltrated data. But only two or so of those were reported. And those two were big deals.

So sure, if by cyber attacks, you mean attacks reported to law enforcement, I buy it. Small companies usually see downside and no upside in getting the cops involved in attacks that they can get technical staff to deal with.
Despite your claims about socialization of higher education - which is perfectly true - America actually graduates a lot more people out of college than European countries. A lot more.

There is a better 'safety net' in most European countries, but there is a lot more opportunity in America. It's 100% true that 'anyone can make it' - as long as 'making it' means having a job, owning a home, in a regular place like Cleveland or Pittsburg or whatever.

Europe has a much, much stronger class system than the US.

American companies have tons of workers and professionals who came from poor situations. Europe is not like that at all.
I noticed that and felt it was a bit disingenuous; it's not as though Instacart (for example) interacted with or benefited from Initialized Capital in its early stages, and the relationships between Instacart and the Init team members who once invested in them are not necessarily good proxies for the type of service Init will provide new startups.
gram - is a metric system unit of mass, can they trademark it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram
Creator of CloudApp here (no longer involved). This is really neat, thanks for sharing! You could potentially monitor ~/Desktop on OS X and identify screenshots with:

mdls 'Screen Shot 2016-10-24 at 4.14.54 PM.png' | grep IsScreenCapture

That would match the original behavior even closer.

Edited for brevity
Thanks for the response. I'm wondering how companies can still be living in the stoneage like this. I have little engineering experience at the moment and I still feel like, given a little time, I could pull something like this off.

Is salesmanship the main missing ingredient here? Should I grab a job at this company and try to sell this from the inside? (That seems like a longshot)

I feel like a lean, diligent team could be executing on this - modernizing and directly improving margins for companies - enough to pump out a very satisfying lifestyle business. (I say lifestyle biz to imply that this would be kept on a small scale. You'd be in effect killing jobs like this)

Who is doing this at the moment?
Archos Jukebox was pretty great--had SPDIF IO and an accessible 2.5" hard drive (upgradable). Wasn't pretty, but in terms of functionality, it was amazing for its time. Rockbox firmware was icing on the cake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos_Jukebox_series
Lots of cars do 15 km/h/s (that's a 0-60 mph time of ~6 seconds).

A basic Honda Civic will be around 9 or 10 seconds, which is roughly 10 km/h/s.

5 km/h/s would feel pretty sluggish.
Ah, the No True Scotsman defense.
The headline is misleading as the main body of the very interesting article is actually about how much we still don't know about how Toxoplasma gondii affects its hosts' behaviours.
Story time folks! I have known Garry and Alexis for many years now. They lead our seed round and we invited Alexis to be on our board for a brief period of time.

So, when we were raising Series A, the negotiations with some new investors were getting a little tenuous. I knew and appreciated that investors are professional negotiators and do this for a living. I on the other hand was a first time CEO. So, for some time during the process, I was feeling a tremendous amount of pressure.

So, one morning I come in to the office feeling sick and questing my ability to withstand the kind of pressure a growing company's CEO has to endure. First thing I see is this short email from Alexis "How's it going? How can we help?". I had talked to Alexis and Garry a few months before about raising a Series A but I was sure that famous people in the valley with full-time jobs had more important things to do than check in on a small, pre-series A company with 10 employees.

I welled up. It was the first time in months that I had felt like someone had my back. In the end we were able to raise a successful A followed by a successful B as well but I still go back and read that 2 sentence email from time to time.

Garry and Alexis are not only awesome investors but wonderful human beings.
Well, cystic fibrosis patients are encouraged not to have children. Is that eugenics? In the extreme, with enough time and money we could even harvest eggs and sperm from CF patients to ensure they can procreate even if they don't live long enough to do so. Is it eugenics to not spend those resources?
The concept of messenger RNA (mRNA) is the source of your confusion.

As cited by their Nobel Prize, it is DNA -> RNA -> Protein. Please do not confuse scientific facts with google searches you've done.

http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/dna/

Please review this up to date article with how DNA turns into protein, in case you are still needing more reference http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/translation-dna-to-...
Biologists reverse engineer the purpose of genes, and gene expression, by "commenting out" genes and seeing what stops working. Crick made a point about not being able to "decompile" proteins into DNA, but that doesn't mean that you can't discern what genes do by observing which proteins go missing when you knock out a gene.
Believe me, sometimes it is, I am 99% sure in this case.
Very impressed by the judge's reasoning.

Waiting for the Thiel brigade to comment on this one
I've been hearing about horrible conditions in Syria just about nonstop since the war began. I don't think I'm hearing any more about it now, but if I am, it's probably because there's a big election coming up and this is an important issue for it.