skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been looking at a new fridge, and I'd consider a Chinese Haier over a Sears Kenmore, ceteris paribus.

We've been buying most of our appliances from Sears.

We purchased a Kenmore refrigerator about a year ago. The thing to remember is that Sears doesn't build refrigerators, it simply puts the Kenmore name on them.

Our refrigerator had a "made in USA" sticker on it. It was built either by Whirlpool or by Amana (same thing). I like the new fridge better than the previous GE we had, but of course the book is yet to be written on its long-term dependability.

With Sears you must buy only when they are having a periodic sale. They often discount specific appliances as much as 30% or 40% during those sales. In comparison, at the time Costco was selling a down-featured version of our refrigerator for considerably more money than the Sears sale price. Also Sears will give you extras during these sales, e.g. free 1-year financing, free delivery, etc.

YMMV
For fun mostly. It's a passion project I did in my free time. I wanted to dogfood ideas, experiment, and learn.
I think you can look back and see some things that Google has done successfully. Youtube turns out to have been a good buy. Google successfully managed the transition to mobile, which many questioned whether Google would be able to do ("Mobile first"). Most recently, Google has made a huge bet that their future is intrinsically tied in with machine intelligence ("AI first"). We'll get to watch over the next 5-10 years how that plays out.

(It's probably already clear that there's a lot of power in an AI-first approach, but it's worth noting that this change didn't just happen with Sundar's blog post last month. A better way to look at it is to realize that if Google has been running their custom machine learning ASICs for over a year now, they must have started designing them well before that, which, to me, was amazingly early. Google acquired DeepMind in 2014.)

Not all those bets will, or have to, work, as long as some of them work out really well. I'm curious to see what happens with VR, for example. But I think AI is the most obvious central bet, in the same that that mobile was beforehand.
>>10 hours vs 3 hours for current browser versions, running equivalent tabs/extensions/settings? Sorry but I don't believe you.

My experience is the same. I have a 2011 MBA. With Safari, the battery lasts 4 hours. With Chrome, about 90 minutes. My browsing habits are the same between browsers.
If you think there's a better term, I'm certainly up for suggestions.

But why do you think it's uncharitable? People who say they "prefer meritocracy" are in fact taking an anti-diversity position. Maybe they don't understand it's anti-diversity, in which case pointing it out may encourage them to think more about it and understand why. Or maybe they don't care, in which case they certainly wouldn't take it as a moral judgement.
The NSA doesn't care what I'm doing, and if it does, I'm doomed anyway.

More concerning is stuff like the US Democratic National Committee emails showing up on Wikileaks. Being blackmailed, ransomed, or leaked is much more of a real threat for most people than some abstract harm that may be posed by the NSA or some ISP logging.
Depends on how serious the risk is. You run the risk of "getting jailed" for all kinds of minor crimes that people routinely commit. Are people actually going to get arrested for trying to use Tor? I don't think that's very plausible. You could pretty easily claim it was malware trying to make the connection and you don't know anything about it.
It's fixed now, but for a while it was significantly (20 to 40%) faster to install npm without the progress bar.

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/11283
I actually went from a fully-remote position to an on-site one earlier this year. When I was remote, I rented an office for a while and worked from coffee shops and the library quite a bit. It worked out fine, but I changed jobs for other reasons.
Earlier they had a blog search option which I used a lot to find pages written in a personalised style, but they shelved this. Now there is no way to find such pages under the current system other than trying yor luck with searching for site:blogspot.com and site:wordpress.com; but these two blog hosts are not even half the universe of all the blogs out there.

What I do now is to create a Google Custom Search Engine with all my RSS feed subscriptions; it resembles this earlier feature as I feed it lots of personal blogs that I read, but it is not even close to the earlier blogsearch.

Similarly there was a discussion/forum search which was also useful; that too was removed.
>If we look at data that is consistently disaggregated into the most detailed nonfarm occupations, retail salesperson is the most common job in 42 states. In four other states (Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland and Vermont), cashier is the biggest occupation. Fast-food worker is tops in two states: Kentucky and Ohio.

Wow, seems like worse news to me. The number of self-driving trucks on the road today is probably low to zero, but the number of non-grocery retail stores closing every year, largely due to competition from Amazon (but also stagnant wages keeping demand low), is clearly in the thousands. I don't think it would be crazy to predict closings and automation within the stores that remain (e.g. Amazon Go) driving a collapse in jobs over the next decade.

Some numbers on closings in 2016: http://www.clark.com/major-retailers-closing-stores
It's not really the overall power savings that is the key advantage of the system though. Rather it's being able to have a multitude of low power devices that you don't have to run wall power to. They can either run for quite a long time off of battery, or even harvest power from RF signals.
This was a great explanation. I am curious. Was that high school Cranbrook?
I do not support this happening within the current capitalist system. It will lead to even more exploitation of workers, especially in countries with labour laws that aren't as strict. It favors workaholics over people with good balance.

Some may regard this as a silly objection, but arguably worker exploitation is the largest problem, with the exception of climate change, in the world today. It is important to consider social effects.
Naga: Datalog-based rules engine in Clojure
You raise a good point, which prompts a genuine question: does having a free OS and BIOS help safeguard against "rogue" peripherals (since the system knows what they're supposed to do)?
If your idea isn't worth failing spectacularly for, then it's not worth doing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13133954
The ines that worked for decent companies had a pension.

Hell, my grandfather had a defined benefits pension plan for his bar employees.
I agree. I think it's a regulatory crutch that can be abused and therefore requires more regulation.

The patent system is a left over from monarchial rule and should be abolished.
I meant evil mode, not viper.
Good point. Those lazy bums can just sit in furnished rooms and sell apples in the street.
That's mostly country-specific, I think; many countries have strict (consumer) protection rules on mortgages, which doesn't allow such changes.
I'm a huge fan of Clerky and have been ever since one of the Founders spent an incredibly long time answering questions from aspiring founders on Reddit. I learned an immense amount just reading his responses and am a much more informed person as a result.

Consequently, I'm far too big of a fan to critically evaluate their work. Shit, I'd give their grocery list rave reviews...:)

But seriously, thanks for publishing this. I can't count how many founders struggle with the kind of information that your handbook covers. This is an absolutely wonderful gift.

Take good care of yourselves and best of luck!
Generation isn't the same as age. Being 30 means I'm part of the "millennial" generation which only takes $106,500 to be in the top 1%.
Koya Bound – Eight Days on the Kumano Kodo
I wish I had something profound, but all I have is the VHS I taped over Power Rangers to see the first senior citizen in space, along with the coverage taking about his historic orbits. I do what is amazing is with all our advances, all we seem to do is chunk metal into orbit. Still, he and his cohort have inspired many to do what I cannot, so perhaps I will someday see another space milestone.
So if I just redirect all http requests to https, what unexpected consequences might I run into?

Not-for-profit hobby site/community with a couple hundred regular users. Have been running https with Let's Encrypt certs for a year but not advertising or defaulting to it. No legacy systems or other entanglements.

There is a forum that allows users to post inline images and media from other domains.
It's not surprising because they are not basing it on any traditional widely manufactured components. It would be as if you promise to ship flat panel displays before LCD production lines have even been created and LCD only existed in the labs.

So, either it's a scam, or, they legitimately plan to create a new industry which requires multiple years capital investment to get production off the ground.
The site went live today. It takes a lot more than a month to plan something like this!

As others have commented, I do think it has more to do with legal requirements (health industry etc...).
Depends how often it's used. If you're just calling it once I wouldn't bother, but I was going off of makecheck's comment of, "if I had to write tons of those in code." I misread the style guide linked, I do find decimal.Decimal("12.34567") inconveniently long--but I generally don't mind inconveniently long names for increased intelligibility and the IDE does most of the heavy lifting. I don't often use "as" it's usually to increase the readability.

Similarly, I often see "from pprint import pprint as pp"
People want to use Hangouts and Skype in their browsers, WebTorrent (https://webtorrent.io/), and file sending services like https://dropub.com/, to name just a few
It looks like this can only transmit, not actually receive and interpret data-- and if you listen carefully, this is the kind of applications they're suggesting.

That's good for sensor nodes reporting status, but not so good for interactivity.
I don't know. It's similar. I wonder what the problems are with using it, then?

One idea that comes to mind is that a regular screen leaks light. If you adjust the brightness on your laptop as low as it will go, then display a black image, there's still a massive difference between what you see there vs when the screen is completely powered off. But if you take two sheets of polarizing filter and stick them in front of your screen, you can get almost perfect blackness. That's why I thought it was a different idea, since the difference is so dramatic. You can block almost all the light, whereas a regular screen doesn't seem to be able to get that kind of contrast.
> I suspect that the distribution of incomes in the US remains fairly similar to what it was 40 years ago. Thus, if the median has remained the same, then the average probably also has.

If the distribution of income had gone unchanged, the spread of wealth would also be unchanged. But it has changed, see http://inequality.org/wealth-inequality/ or the source of your choice.

If the distribution of income had gone unchanged, the percentage of the population receiving minimum wage would have gone unchanged. But it has changed, see http://www.weeklystandard.com/bls-percentage-of-hourly-worke... or the source of your choice.

I could go on... but I think that's probably sufficient. While I have you here, quick question: why did you let yourself get away with saying "I suspect" rather than just looking it up? It takes all of 10 seconds to do and once you get in the habit you'll be right way more often.

> I suspect that the distribution of incomes in the US remains fairly similar to what it was 40 years ago. Thus, if the median has remained the same, then the average probably also has.

The metric in question isn't the distribution's median. It's the percentage of children earning less than their parents.

median: sup k : { Count(xi >= k) / Length(xi) <= 0.5 }

earns more: Count(xi >= pi)/Length(xi)

These are very different values. So while I'll need to think more about the idea that medians say something about distribution similarities, thankfully those thoughts don't pertain here. For another example, of "earns more" not behaving the way you're expecting: if you set the earnings of everyone's parents to their wage - $0.01, we'd have a 0% "earns more" but extremely similar distributions.
>Economic growth is not 0.

The numbers are in real USD, not nominal. So in reality, it's a huge fallacy to say that we're so much worse off that in the 1970s. We're almost exactly the same as the 1970s.

The main difference to point out here is that the 1970s 30-year-olds made much more real USD than their parents' generation, while 30-year-olds today are making almost exactly the same. Just because income isn't growing as much doesn't mean the 30-year-olds today are worse off.
I live about 30-40 miles outside of D.C. The only people I know who have a house earn significantly more, or are dual income top-tier earning households.
Avoid verbose flags on tar.
Nearly all these new language features can be polyfilled, so this doesn't change anything for most developers.

On the other hand, WebRTC and Service Workers would make Safari meaningfully better, since these cannot be polyfilled.
There's also Meta which is taking preorders for its second developers kit at $949. It has significantly larger field of view (90 degrees) but must be tethered to a computer
Can we please fix this headline to "further behind than expected"?
People and Calendar have a ways to go with no Carddav or Caldav support.
> The article seems to imply that feature to feature they are matching the Hololens and that is the worst case scenario.

But the article specifically says "as it stands now, is noticeably inferior to Microsoft’s HoloLens headset"

So I don't get how matching Hololens is the "worst case scenario"
2>&1>/dev/null
If you load any external scripts that are not secure, they might no longer work. Chrome blocks such scripts by default[1].

Depending on your server setup, if you run multiple web domains from the same server then web clients that do not support SNI may fail[2].

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1342714

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/q/21956663/796554
You could approximate this using a standard display if you could dynamically track and respond to focal depth.

That might be harder than getting a functional light field display, though.
Have you ever noticed that the only people who talk about fake news all the time are the people who lost nearly all of the recent elections?

"Don't worry, the reason we lost is because everyone who's on the other side is really stupid and believes fake news"
Ehhh. The local Sears here is in a mall with two empty anchors already. I don't think anyone is clamoring for that third anchor location.
The problem with that solution is optical, I believe. It would work if you were able to put such a filter directly on your retina, but when you put it earlier in the path of the light, before images are focused, you cannot selectively block individual pixels as they appear on your retina. As a result, the dark spots will look blurry.

(Also, if the pixels are dense enough I imagine you'll get diffraction.)

Here's is Michael Abrash's better explanation:

>“But wait,” you say (as I did when I realized the problem), “you can just put an LCD screen with the same resolution on the outside of the glasses, and use it to block real-world pixels however you like.” That’s a clever idea, but it doesn’t work. You can’t focus on an LCD screen an inch away (and you wouldn’t want to, anyway, since everything interesting in the real world is more than an inch away), so a pixel at that distance would show up as a translucent blob several degrees across, just as a speck of dirt on your glasses shows up as a blurry circle, not a sharp point. It’s true that you can black out an area of the real world by occluding many pixels, but that black area will have a wide, fuzzy border trailing off around its edges. That could well be useful for improving contrast in specific regions of the screen (behind HUD elements, for example), but it’s of no use when trying to stencil a virtual object into the real world so it appears to fit seamlessly.

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...
Jeez this sucks. I was always behind Magic Leap with the logic that "big investors like a16z google alibaba wouldn't get suckered" but god, :( this is disappointing.
Montessori for adults.
Does Snapchat actually have any AR? I wasn't under the impression the goggles actually had any UI, just the "active" LED and camera input.
New iOS app to block fake news website
Good points and very interesting, thanks.

Once again, getting the state involved just makes things messy. Let people be responsible for their own well-being as they age. Without safety nets, people tend to be much more cautious and thoughtful when spending. Plus, people who are fit to raise smart and healthy children will also be more apt to do so, which is a must for any society!
Using custom TypeScript definitions with TS 2.x
Exactly. The promise of a well paid private sector sinecure after your time in public office is what creates the perverse incentive for regulators.
>>The company has raked in $1.4 billion in funding

Let that sink in. Is it a record for startup funding with no product or service released? I don't recall how far along Uber was when they passed that mark.

And what exit number do they need to be considered a success for the VCs?
Excuse me? I don't work because I think I should have to. I work despite that. I work so other people can someday benefit from, you know, FULLY AUTOMATED GAY SPACE LUXURY COMMUNISM and all that.
The pricing is hidden somewhere in their FAQ (https://theinformation.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/2188655...)

That said, $40/month is a bit much. I'm paying less for the IDE that I'm using every single day. I doubt I'd be getting the same value out of that website.
What's the advantage of using paramiko/fabric vs something like Salt, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet?
I think possibly you are not quite understanding what Kent meant. Those people you mention are not getting paid for tests, they are being paid to give confidence that some software system works, they use tests to do this, just like Kent does. His point is about delivering working code with a certain level of confidence.

Meaning if tests don't increase your confidence, but simply put in to tick a box for having a test, you aren't getting paid for that (or if you are getting paid for that, someones lost sight of what they are trying to achieve)
While this is obviously useful for anything with a login, there are many content and consumption sites that simply don't need HTTPS.
Don't you love those days when you want to cry as someone copies what you've done on a larger data set and gets it into Nature.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425715...

http://www.ga.gov.au/interactive-maps/#/theme/water/map/wofs
Usually via traditional investigative means.
Don Norman talks about that example of intentional delays in some tax software here: https://vimeo.com/96714148 (approx 52:30).

It sounds like he and his team came up with the idea in that instance.
Credit costs nothing to produce. Expansion can cover infinite productivity gains to appropriate for the usurers/rentiers.
The problem with it's lack of financial discipline is that the money isn't going to anything worthwhile. Everything they've advertised they're investing in that seems to be worth something either fails to go anywhere, or was just outright BS.

They essentially have a bunch of people doing nothing much in particular, going nowhere in particular, while acting on their whim and whatever their hand position happens to be on that day. It's even worse as they constantly try to claim they are about-- something greater.

It's hilarious. It's not that they are wasting money (ie, doing something worth something but that may not provide any returns, or something big and unconventional but that doesn't seem relevant at the time), it's that they are wasting money (ie, wasting money).

They are either doing what they're doing to make more money or to protect their revenue stream, or to be once again doing the dumbest thing.

Nothing really gets funding unless it's going to make more money, or serve as good PR to distract from how full of it they are or to try to brush aside failure.

These days, when their products fail, all I see is failure. That is, it probably took 2 years to develop whatever crap was released, rather than it being "early days" and them "trying many different things." They picked one thing, spent an eternity on it, pushed out absolute garbage, then failed.

Everything else that went somewhere or that could go somewhere gets caught in political gridlock, as the idiots descend to try to claim credit, while really trying to be the cliche they've always been: stomp out anything that's going anywhere, because... <insert whiny bitching here>.
> Wow, seems like worse news to me. The number of self-driving trucks on the road today is probably low to zero, but the number of non-grocery retail stores closing every year, largely due to competition from Amazon (but also stagnant wages keeping demand low), is clearly in the thousands

Maybe, but clearly the net effect is positive, because unemployment has fallen by half since 2010, and is in fact currently below NAIRU levels[0]. So every job that has been lost has been replaced by more than one, on average.

(Before someone says "yes, but that's because the labor force participation rate has fallen" - that's another common remark that misses the point altogether. The economy has expanded during this timeframe, and while labor participation is a secondary concern, it's not a proximate one. If people are able to afford the choice not to work during a period of time in which the economy has expanded, that's unambiguously a good thing, even if it's not always the best case. Increasing participation in the labor force is often a goal, but not in and of its own sake. Unlike controlling excess unemployment or preventing GDP contraction, which are basically always bad, a drop in labor force participation is a more ambiguous signal of economic health).

[0] In other words, one could actually make the argument that unemployment is currently too low - although this would be a bit of a moot point, as it's still within measurement error of the NAIRU and has been for the last 13 months.
It's definitely not targeted at you and I, which is a pity because it appears to be one of the sources for quite a few articles I've read.
I wonder why there isn't a WEP-like protocol using AES-CCMP. (of course, without the problems of WEP)
>Now, paper towels, coffee or sugar can communicate their status using WiFi.

Internet of edibles?

God help us all :)
Are you aware of the recent improvements in Chrome 53 energy use? Are your numbers before or after this?

What was your test methodology, or was this ad-hoc?

If there were reliable sources reporting similar numbers it would be easier to swallow, but I can't find a single source that claims it's this bad.
That's a pretty good point.... (mobile display)

That means that msft must be working on some way to address this.

Possibly, they see continuum as a way to interconnect many devices made by their vendors?
The worst thing about expect is that it doesn't have an IRC channel on which you can find knowledgeable people to help you out when you're stuck.