skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Smartwatch as a concept is a good one, however the current offerings have one of two problems:

Pebble's problem is the lack of features, and specific to users of iOS like myself, relative instability and weirdness when it comes to important things like notifications. The monochrome screen is also less attractive though IMO bearable.

Apple Watch's problem is battery life. It's absolutely unattractive to me to have yet another thing I need to charge once a day. It wins on pretty much everything else but such a low battery life is crippling to this sort of device.

I feel like between the two you have a rough approximation of the laptop offerings of the early 80's. Yes, they did exist and some people used them, but by and large they were terrible for the functions they were built for. I have a feeling in not even that much time, we'll have proper smart watches with good integration across platforms that will have a screen like Apple's and the life of a Pebble, but for now, laying out $250 for what's basically a bleeding edge prototype is unattractive to the mainstream consumer.

Edit: Question for HN: Would you all consider a Fitbit to be a smartwatch? I mean it's a watch-esque device that does more intelligent things than just a regular watch but I feel like that's more of a wearable monitoring device.
Why the downvote? If life & intelligence could be the result as the article states of an alien advanced life-form, then to them we're like a little ant colony they have set in motion. In that context, maybe we're not even that special - maybe we're just a small experiment in someone's educational experience.
Can you elaborate on your improvement proposals?

E.g. With LogReduce you can click on group and see log lines that belongs to it. IS that something that solves your problem, or are you looking for something else.

Feel free to send me an email (it is on my profile).
Thank you both for the explanations, I saw the top comment (the Koan) and I didn't know what to make of it :)
Highly targeted ads for lawyers and healthcare after a crash.
They're a large publisher of scientific journals, who have repeatedly been caught behaving unethically.

Note that don't own the most prestigious journals, like Science, Nature, or New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
I would recommend SailsJS. It's built with Express, so you get the Express ecosystem, but it comes with a lot of things that production-apps need out of the box, like security (CORS, CSRF), REST API generation, code conventions (models, controllers, views), etc.

I believe they went through YC, actually.
Also agree.

This is a disguised theological idea. I guess some weak version, where god is not in charge of moving each atom, god only makes some initial setup and give a purpose to everything. Replacing god with aliens doesn't make it scientific or more sensible.

This is the power of the Ockham's razor. Just assume no god and no aliens and not whatever. How far can you get with this? Is there an experiment where the no god/alien/whaterver hypothesis fails?
This is usually explained by the idea that the 'Center' moves about over time. Perhaps in this instance the center was just further right than the parties expected.
I guess part of it is what to do with a religious claim.

If you say: "God created us all", that's fair, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to go from there. I can either agree with you or disagree, but I can't really discuss it.
The simple algorithm is to build a correlation matrix between of purchases between all items in the store. Then, when given an item to generate recommendations for, you provide the other items with the highest scores, with a "top sellers" correction for the items that are correlated with everything.

I used to work for a company that implemented similar recommendation services. We approached this problem by modelling whether or not a category was likely to have recurring purchases.
Right, but what gives the purpose created by the garage-kid any sway? What gives garage-kid the authority to set my purpose? Creating something doesn't automatically mean our purpose is what the creator says it is; I think most people don't subscribe to the belief that kids should always do whatever their parents think is important once they are adults.

So in the end, what does it mean if the garage-kid created us to entertain him? Am I bound by that purpose? Does it somehow give my life more meaning?
Predicting things seems to be the primary purpose of statistics in many cases.
Ask HN: Can you recommend a project to learn MS Languages?
Several months ago, I landed a junior developer position. I'll start by saying, I'm the kind of junior that you despise. Though my managers seem to have faith in me, I know that I'm way behind on what I should know. I can tell from the looks I get when the senior devs review my code. I'm attending university for a programming degree, so this is a path I eventually wanted to go down. I just didn't think it would happen this early.

One major issue I've run into is that all my development experience has basically been scripting. Even school related projects have been non-object oriented applications in open source languages. Work involves developing some larger middleware components in C#/ASP.NET. While I seem to do alright with any database interaction, I have no idea what I've doing with anything else. School offers a good set order of learning things individually, but hasn't done a lot to connect the dots. With that, it seems the best idea is to start something myself to learn system interaction.

I liked the idea of creating a personal wiki (C# powered, database stored, web hosted). However, I found that with my experience I couldn't really accoplish all this. I'm fine with working my way up to that, I'm just not sure what smaller portions I should start with. I have options for licesning, hosting, and purchasing any material I need. I just need someone to recommend some smaller projects to start with. Does HN have any good recommendations?
They're speaking of the multitudinous microorganisms which live in and on our bodies.
Either the center has shifted on the total spectrum, or
this statement isn't backed by reality. At least in the US,
both major parties are moving towards the right and moving
towards authoritarian positions.

Which seems to be a result of FPTP, which fosters the limited choice between RED/BLUE.
User auth has definitely been the hard part for me as well on projects. I'd be interested.
Elsevier was also recently awarded an "Online peer review and method" patent which earned the August, 2016 "Stupid Patent of the Month" from the EFF [0].

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/stupid-patent-month-el...
> I agree that outrage signalling and unsubstantiated imputation of value systems on specific people are generally toxic -- but how does this help?

Since you agree with this, we agree on the only thing I'm arguing for.

What helps is (a) not doing it, (b) trying not to do it, and/or (c) being conscious that one is doing it— in that order.
I don't really think that most studies indicate that.
Any proof about your claim?
As far as I remember there is possible evidence of some interbreeding, but it absolutely is not the cause of Neanderthal disappearance.

As for the anti-capitalism rant please tell me that you have visited Russia, east Europe, Venezuela and the awesome places in the world where the capitalist evil has been destroyed for some time.
And once you go there please feel free to stay if you enjoy it so much.

I have seen some of those places and, thanks a lot, but I prefer the evil capitalism by far.
I married my girlfriend in the midst of turning everything upside down in August - after five years I realised that if she had managed to stick with me through my increasing derangement, there was nothing to wait for.

It has been a fairly... tough is the wrong word... diplomatic? discoursive? few months, but despite having just started a promising career, she's game for trying something completely different - if it all goes pear shaped then she can start afresh, as she'd invested only six months and emotional energy, as can I - but while we're unburdened by sprogs and gammy hips or what have you problems of age we agreed on taking the opportunity.

So it takes compromise, but even were I alone, I'd likely be doing the same - when you travel, particularly alone, you meet kindred spirits - some of my fastest friends are fellow travellers I've met in the damndest places.
Zimmer is a bit of a hack (albeit a very talented one) but I'll take one of his scores any day over Danny Elfman, who seems to arrange everything through a permanent sugar high.
Neat idea, but I ain't exactly keen on paying $50/month for "typical Craigslist job listing as a service"
I find it interesting that you use the term "offline" to mean "in the cloud". I generally use it in the _opposite_ way.
Yet in New Zealand they can :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_(Infringing_File_Sha...
The secular opposition is significant as well (as summarized in e.g. Pinker's The Blank Slate [1]). I don't think we can say either the religious or secular one is clearly larger than the other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate
Note: I'm the author of Inferno

I commonly hear the same thing – you've benchmarked React and it performs fine. Did you benchmark this on a modern MacBook/laptop by any chance?

The realism is that the desktop market is only 15% of the entire global online market. In developing nations, Android mobile performance is essential. React, Angular, Ember and other libraries have never performed well in this space.

If you're shipping a huge bundle for your app – you're doing something wrong too. You need to take into account that mobile users are likely to have a 3G connection at best and are likely to be on a 5+ year old device. You need to endorse code-splitting, service workers and other PWA features to better accommodate those users. Inferno will deliver the best in class mobile performance when paired with those features.
Erlectricity, from what I understand, was used extensively in at least one iteration of github's architecture. It has spent a lot of time in production deployments.
CentOS is managed by Redhat, but it's still a separate project. The RHEL 7.3 release that this is based on was released over a month ago.
No one seems to have mentioned When The Wind Blows.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0090315/

It's a gentle little film I saw as a kid. It left an impression. :(
Could you elaborate on the risks you think they take?

To me taking publications that academia produces, getting them reviewed for free by academia, only to host a couple kilobyte file behind a 25$ paywall seems like a pretty risk free strategy.

The only risk they take is being so outrageously greedy that people will get fed up at some point and stop working with them anymore.
For real. The word "hacker", and the spirit it implies, is quickly losing its meaning here.

"Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for." -- The Hacker Manifesto
With risk of spoiling the Haiku, could someone explain this in more detail?

What is Sussman suggesting that Minsky do instead: wire the neural net in a fixed way instead of randomly? What does that have to do with the difference between viewing the room with your eyes open vs. closed?
They do, but there are limitations:

1. Most DOps, support staff, etc access user information of 100s of people per day.

2. Overzealous SQL queries are often written and are not questioned; such as complete driver/rider exports of a particular city.

3. Some tools, like Heaven, and many experimental tools have no access logging.

4. There is a permission that allows you to remove access logs.

5. Spot checks are unheard of.

6. Even direct queries for names like 'Barack Obama', 'Taylor Swift' can be easily justified as 'investigating fraud', which is part of a DOp's job role.
Maybe, sorry if I misread your comments!
My interpretation of the title was that it was going to discuss how the Dis VM[1] compared to popular JS VMs, but I was sorely disappointed.

(Inferno, for those not aware of it, is a rather obscure successor to the almost-as-obsure Plan 9 From Bell Labs. Plan 9, in turn, was supposed to be the replacement for UNIX. Unfortunately it failed because UNIX was "an existing codebase that is just good enough"[2]; its main lasting contribution was the invention of UTF-8[3].)

[1] http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/dis.html

[2] Plan 9: The Way the Future Was http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/plan9.html

[3] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
Eleven Years On: How ‘The Washington Post’ Helped Give Us the Iraq War
Building Machine Learning Based Products Part II: The Data Science Process
Prohibitive medical and care costs are policy issues, that can be solved by many different methods, not necessarily requiring the same approach as parental leave.
> Sticking with caffeine even though I was worried about palpitations also helped me through some form of "exposure therapy," where I eventually (re)learned that caffeine is safe to consume.

However, it is a well-known fact that caffeine and anxiety don't blend very well. Be careful.
I can imagine that fin tech will love it. Everything will go wrong one day in the future and no one will know the reason.
The snark isn't doing you any favors.
>Linux lacks a desktop ecosystem

Granted, I'm more of a terminal power user, but what's missing (honest question)?

GNOME and KDE are both very refined and mature, and there are plenty more stable, if a bit less full-featured DEs.

There's the LibreOffice suite, which is stable, well-maintained, and feature-rich.

VLC is arguably an extremely stable and full-featured media player with Linux support.

Firefox and Chromium are both widely available on Linux.

Thunderbird and Slack ship for Linux, too.

I can scarcely think of other software you might need to run on Linux.
What all does distelli do to make image builds fast? For example, where do you store cached layers so they are most rapidly pulled by the build worker?
This is where Apple really confuse me…

They obviously put lots of thought into their adapters but everyone fails where the cable enters the charger - I'm about to buy my third in just over three years and the cable on my daughter's actually melted through where it shorted inside.

Why could they never be bothered to address this well know issue give them thought they put in?
I love Discord, and love Elixir too, so this is a pretty great post.

Unfortunate that the final bottleneck was an upstream provider, though it's good that they documented rate limits. I feel like my last attempt to find documented rate limits for GCM/APNS was fruitless, perhaps Firebase messaging has improved that?
Ask HN: Is ETL (data integration in batch processing mode) really dead?
I have recently come across this presentation https://www.infoq.com/presentations/etl-streams?utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=popular_widget&utm_campaign=popular_content_list&utm_content=homepage
Should every data integration or data processing pipeline should be built based on stream processing architecture, even though there is no need for such a thing from day zero? The argument i hear for doing so is that in future we might have a need for real time processing. Would like to hear what others are thinking.
By definition, shouldn't any process have its ends present in potentia at its beginning?
Open Letter to a Pitch Deck (read Airbnb's Deck via Chatbot)
Well duh.

Yes I realize that comment seems "trite"

What is it that the genome is doing. Look around and see how it is expressing itself.

I'm not a huge fan of Dawkins recently after he went a bit nuts on the whole atheism thing. Not because of the atheism thing but because it distracted him from what he was really about.

The genome is expressing itself, and it is way more than selfish. That thing is regression analysis to a large power. Constantly calculating minimal cost to self preservation and better versions of itself. We can learn a lot.

Personally I think its whole purpose is to build its own God. And the next God and the next... and it is doing it.

(I am a "classical" atheist)

Down votes or up votes, please explain.
...and I get the feeling that they have just turned the corner and are now pickup up speed in the innovate-release-feedback loop.
Very originally Facebook used no version control, and code was managed manually via FTP.

In login.php, there was a specific magic password that authorised you into every account. No one bothered to change it even after employee departures.
6% p.a. - per annum. Before then it was more like 2-3% p.a.

It's subtle, but present - a big driving factor has been unavailability of credit, which forces smaller batches for fabrication, which drives up price. This has commensurately resulted in a whole host of businesses in turkey and china who specialise in short-order just-in-time manufacturing.

But either way, prices have increased far more than is immediately apparent, particularly food, garments and low value giftware. The pinch is a lot harder at the bottom than the top of the market, too.

I obsessed over this data for years, as it was the key to understanding where to position (I.e. Who's making margin?), which retailers would be risky clients, etc.
You may enjoy "the end of eternity" by asimov
In order for discussion to have any meaning, the things we claim have to be 'falsifiable'; there has to be SOME observable consequence of a claim being either true or false, even if we aren't able to currently observe it.

So, for religious discussions, what can we possibly discuss? Take any religious claim, and when we ask 'What observation could you make that would demonstrate to you that the claim is false?', the answer is almost always nothing. At that point, what is the use of discussion?
It's a collective action problem. Some of most prolific publishers are early career academics who need to make tenure, and tenure committees are looking for easy metrics (like "impact factor"). Choosing to publish in a less prestigious journal because it is better behaved can have real negative consequences if you are in a minority.
Stephen Hawking and Zoe Saldana: Quantum Is Calling
Lack of save in Edge seems especially bizarre in view of IE's past. There were years when I used copy URLs from another browser to IE just to save them in mhtml (before extensions provided that on other browsers).
They publish Cell, which has a high impact factor. And a lot of their other ones have high IFs:
https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-j...
Interesting. From the "About Page" on the blog...

"The author of this site has about six years of college, including an incomplete Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Resource Management...After the class was over, she continued to volunteer at the shelter for several more months. Years later, while homeless herself, she started the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide and also this site."

It's a shame the idea of helping the homeless via a night in a hotel is such a manually intensive effort. The article mentions paying in cash, I assume to avoid liability. Would be nice if there was a way to buy vouchers online that you could hand out.
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutor...

There you go. Very little Elisp required, and maybe a little bit more if you want styles. But if you don't have the constraint of being able to browse file:// style, you can link absolutely, so you just need a template, which is doable.

Or you can use the Jekyll plugin, if you want to go that way.
Well sure. That is up to the BLE device. There's nothing broken about that and WebBluetooth doesn't change anything.
"Obviously a few notifications were dropped. If a few notifications weren’t dropped, the system may never have recovered, or the Push Collector might have fallen over."

How many is a few? It looks like the buffer reaches about 50k, does a few mean literally in the single digits or 100s?
An airburst not only minimizes fallout, it also maximizes the damage done by a nuclear weapon. I would expect a nuclear exchange to be primarily airbust weapons, considering the intent is to destroy the enemy's infrastructure and fighting capability.

Mutually Assured Destruction refers to the combatant countries, after all, not to the human species.
You can use your own build servers with distelli and any images and layers pulled down during one build will be cached and available on subsequent builds. So even though distelli is a hosted service you don't have to run builds on our shared build machines. You can fire up your own build servers and connect them to our service and you'll get all the benefits of a dedicated build server including caching.

https://www.distelli.com/docs/kb/using-your-own-build-server
Not entirely sure how you'd make one of these, but I can confirm: if you can make an affordable one, there is at least some demand.
> People who choose to do $THING_I_DONT_DO should not be forced to subsidize those who do.

Yes. What part of this is unreasonable?

> Why should I subsidize roads with 16 foot lanes

16 foot lanes aren't a voluntary activity, they're infrastructure that everyone benefits from. If you don't benefit from them somehow, you would have a valid complaint against subsidizing them. For example, farmers don't have to pay the gas tax on farm-use-only gas because they don't put wear on the roads.

On the other hand, I distinctly don't benefit from random people diverting what could be my income to keep overpopulation going strong.

> simplistic

Simple arguments are better than complex ones. You're right, my argument is simple; it's morally wrong to force people to pay for things they don't want, and it's especially wrong to force people to pay for things where the benefit is obviously less than the cost.
Ask HN: What is the likelihood of the election hack?
How difficult is it to hack the electronic voting system the US uses for elections?

What hacking do you think took place during the election? Thank you.
Indeed.

A lot of it went over the head because I don't know much classical statistics, but I read some articles by stats people that basically boiled down to the distinction not being in the techniques but in common assumptions, rigor, culture, etc.
>... was the company’s willingness to keep Pebble’s developers and users in the game.

You mean like dropping warranty support and a vague statement about cloud based features degrading over an undisclosed amount of time?
This is amazing. It looks 100 times better than anything available.

It doesn't have tab reordering, nor "close other tabs"/"close tabs on the right", but I'm sure there are plugins for that.
And once you have enough citizens supporting such ideas and plans, you can force the rest.
Effectively, this is a safe move for tenured professors, but not a safe move for anyone else, which represents the vast majority of active publications these days.
I'm using Circle as well. The big problem with Circle is they don't have a ready solution for caching layers across builds.
Wealthy relative to startups, or relative to the real world?
Private-Jet Booking App Lands $105M in Funding
Prouty was certainly a very interesting fellow, but unfortunately his best-known "revelation" -- regarding the role of the so-called Secret Team cabal in the JFK assassination -- appears to have been basically a morass of unfounded speculation.†

And of course, his later dealings with the Liberty Lobby and the IHR didn't exactly help to burnish his image much, either.

† Unless one buys the Secret Team / JFK hypothesis, that is -- which I don't.
But Q3 had advanced movement, a stronger modding scene, and a grappling hook (sort of).
I thought this "cut off your internet" thing had died circa 2007 with the draconian, yet endearingly-condescending "three-strikes-you're-out" push from the record industry. In a world where internet access has long since become a basic requirement to function in civil society, how is this still a conversation?