skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many examples. Here is an obvious one - when Amazon stopped selling Apple TVs to punish Apple. Hard to see how this is good for consumers.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/10/01/amazon_blocks...
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My beef with Material Design is that it's too clever by half. It's often pretty, the animations are pleasant, but the interaction is just not intuitive enough for primetime.

To wit, I've encountered them for years and I still have no idea what a floating circle with a plus sign in it is supposed to represent. Almost every time I've clicked one, it's begun a process of flow that was not my intention, so I've learned to avoid them.

What Material Design is trying to do is to create a universal design language, based on the assumption that different apps designed in all sorts of different ways is a bad thing. While I admit that bad design comes in many shapes and forms, I actually feel like the context of an app should dictate how it is designed, and that in many cases it will call for something other than bold colored boxy components with assorted degrees of box-shadow.
A much worse problem is the focus on inequality of incomes at a snapshot in time.

A doctor may go much of their life with low income, and make it up in their mid and late career. But a 22 year old doctor isn't what we thing of as "poor".

We need to follow people over time and use other indicators to see how poor they actually are. Consumption might be a much better measure in many ways.
That's a great documentary for data nerds and quant-types -- it's basically a bloomberg interview with the market analysts and the manufacturing plant operators talking about why the trends are exciting and how the finance markets are starting to see real return in this field. Stuff like experience curves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects) and cost parity.

My favorite was the guy who noted that in resource-based industries, things get more expensive the more you use; solar and wind are manufacturing-based industries where the more you use, the less expensive things get because you get better at making it.
I noticed you're not using SSL with the custom domain on GitLab pages. Is there some restriction or complications with doing so?
Except it's more insidious than that. In Australia, playing Apple Music doesn't count towards your data cap on Telstra Mobile. Hell, even I switched to Apple Music because my home Internet was out for a week and Spotify lost my offline cached tracks (again).
Not really US electricity demand is going down in the first place. And the major energy demand is going to come from Africa and Asia. On avg 2-3 billion people in Asia and Africa use less than 5% of electricity per person compared to the US and Europe. When you consider the fact that is almost 5 times the population of US and europe combined.

So the solar revolution is more important for the rest of the world as they will be the major users not the US.
I tried this as an English speaker and a Chinese speaker. Pretty amazing how well it did in English and how much my Chinese intonation stinks!
The https link should be working now, switched over to cloudflare. Thanks for the link though!
I have not been impressed with that person. His behavior is demonstrative of fumbling politicians who don't care how technology works, only that people bend to his will. Good riddance.
Would saying "Go to the RIGHT hospital and you're 3 Times more likely to live?" be equivalent?
Ads, they are making good money from the ads that they removed paid plans and gave all the features to everyone.
I'm an aspie/hfa and you sound like me before I started learning about how to socially interact from piles of self-help books. Learn how to software emulate the hardware so to speak.
Note how many people still happily run Win 7, and before that happily ran XP, and before that happily ran win2k — while being very reluctant to upgrade.

It's corporations that need upgrades and support. With corporations, I'm sure, MS is not lax and enforces the licensing policy.
I'll answer the implied and straight up admit that I was pissed off by the presidential election in the USA this year.

But the doom and gloom about it is almost as bad. The great thing about the USA is that in 4 years, if this guy sucks, we can change our minds again and get back to business.

This too shall pass.
I sometimes forget that the wheels of government often turn slowly, but they do turn.

It's unfortunate that so much damage was caused by the time this took (and the lack of trust from the lower ranks of the leadership), but it sounds like (at least to some degree) things are improving. I know Im often one of the harshest critics of the NSA (and related agencies), but it's important to acknowledge when things are well handled.

I just wish they would help us play a little defense. The nation needs leadership in transitioning the infrastructure of democracy -- media, information, social ties, and speech -- to resilient digital platforms. The military has long produced leaders on which the country could rely, and we're sorely in need of their service to counter the influence of those who seek to weaken democracy using technology.
"Nah sir, that's just jitter coming from the cord coming from your XFinity box into your computer. We only support Comcast Certified™ cables such as MONSTER. Our records indicate that your local Best Buy has them on sale for $69.99(1) for a three inch, but we can sell you to them now for 20% off(2) for being such a good customer."

1) Price quoted by support agent may not be the most up to date price for the requested service item. It is often times significantly cheaper than what our data reflects.

2) Discount does not include shipping, processing, transaction, or technical support fees. Our discounted price might also remain significantly more expensive than similar services offered by third parties in your area.
May be some big company has access to Google. But Microsoft has much better support for the rest of us, SME or Large Enterprise.

And Google simply dont "get" it. Not Business, Not Enterprise.

Newest Office is pretty nice, they finally refined Ribbon to a point where it is half usable. And Hosted Exchange is simply much better then Gmail. Having used IBM Notes, Gmail and Exchange, I am surprised Exchange works better with iOS out of the box.

I was actually looking for some light weight alternative to Office, Exchange Email, One Drive. But i have find none so far. There may be services that individually works better then Office counterpart, but as a package it seems M$ Ecosystem is hard to beat right now.
Overall mission statements have low correlation with behavior. Enron's motto was "Respect, Integrity, Communication and Excellence."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13184436
I tried it and didn't enjoy it. It largely comes down to tapping the screen when you want to jump... nothing else. Not having a real controller cripples this type of game.
Bummer! That'll throw a wrench in many the way many people I know use to share folders of files.

Always a letdown when a company decides it has to make money. ;)
This is between your friend and the company. It's not our business. And it no doubt had more to do with the details and the subtext of their recruitment scenario as a whole than a fixed policy about how to respond to negotiation.
Those templates [1] are super nice and minimal. I'll have to try this one soon.

[1]: https://carrd.co/build
There's
a forum post from a few years ago [0] with a few links to projects; I
don't know how active they are though. One of them [1] is an array of
treadmills running in one dimension, mounted on a track that moves them
in the perpendicular direction, and it tracks your movement to keep you
near the centre of the platform. Another [2] holds you in place while
you run with slippery shoes inside a saucer-shaped surface.

[0] https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/388/2d-treadm...

[1]
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-softwar...

[2]
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/the-virtuix-omni-vr-t...
What I tried to depict is not swimming, but rather sweeping: sweeping out everything, down to the last grain.

People actively tried to hide some of the wheat, to keep themselves from starving, so the methods of taking were rather harsh.
A Mario-themed Flappy bird clone?
> You can quiet easily differentiate between custom code written for the binary, for example in the Linux malware “Rex” everything because with that name space!

Really? It looks like only `runtime_` gets the prefix, so third-party libraries and code in go/src (e.g. `fmt`) would get mixed in here too, right?
Obama is not going to be able to fill any spot that requires Senate confirmation.
Very interesting conclusion on this post.
The video had me worried and excited it was some kind of AR based game
There's a reason it hasn't happened yet; it's not some sort of deterministic process. Many people worked hard to stop it from happening, and a new FCC chairman could change the status quo.
Everything I've read about wireless is that we're hitting a wall when it comes to wireless ranges. 5GHz for example is much faster, but also a much shorter range (and bad wall/tree penetration) vs 2.4GHz.

Maybe I'm wrong though?
You can use natural gas for backup on demand energy generation. It isn't all or nothing.
I will restate my original comment more explicitly:

"Because Politifact and Snopes are biased and opinion based, they are not credible to determine whether stories are 'fake'."

I don't think I'm adding content to my original comment here (considering the content of the parent comment), but I admit I could have been more explicit to avoid misunderstanding.

Then my reply to morgante was essentially "no! you!".

Yes, I provided no evidence. I don't care to. What minuscule effect can I hope to have on a tiny handful of strangers on the internet?

I'm happy to just invite reaction and watch my karma as a barometer of HN readers' agreement/disagreement.

Sorry I misused the word "argument". I forgot this was a formal debate.
So flappy bird?
>Hasn't happened. Won't happen.

I don't know about five years. But in 25 I don't know if you'll be able to differentiate your computer from your (old, dumb) TV, except you'll have fewer rights
As mentioned below most in demand devs end up contracting for 500-700 per day which can add up to 150-180k per year or more if you keep working like a full time job.

Permanent jobs have low salaries, there are rare exceptions or perm roles with 100-120k range but those are hard to find.

I believe there are probably several reasons for this.

1. Labour laws and regulations. Once you hire a perm employee in U.K. and they pass the probation period, it is very very difficult to fire anybody with current laws. So companies don't want to pay high salaries and then they won't be able to easily get rid of a poor employee.

2. Demand. There is probably less tech industry in U.K. compared to banking and financial services.

3. Probably also a perception problem. Software engineering is not seen as a good job comparable to lawyer, doctor or banker. So engineering profession is not respected and companies don't think engineering jobs are worth more than 30-40k.
Energy is free? I'm going to turn my (apartment)living room into a grow op for all my veggies. That should help reduce the cost of living some.
I'm not sure it requires confirmation if it's filling a spot with an incomplete term.
No worries, that's why I tried to clarify (hopefully I did). I agree with you wholeheartedly.
The $5 droplet doesn't have enough resources to install Wordpress, last time I checked. Ghost works on the $5 droplet though, that's what I'm using. I like Ghost better anyway.
If congress is in session it'd require confirmation. The exception is a recess appointment but that's not going to happen as they're already keeping congress continuously open to block Garland's recess appointment.
I was recently at a conference in DC called "Transforming Communities: Broadband Goals for 2017 and Beyond" which was largely focused on public policy related to the lack of real broadband in America. Gigi Sohn, who is the counselor to the chairman of the FCC, spoke.

She was very candid about the position of the FCC and the fact that she was finally able to speak her mind because this was going to be one of her last public appearances as a government official. One thing that stuck me was what she said about Tom[1]: "He actually believes that the consumer, the american people, are his clients. He's said that from the first day and he'll say that the day he leaves. Trust me, he doesn't like any of the companies [laughter]". The loss of the current administration of the FCC (including but not limited to Tom) will be a great loss for the American people in my opinion.

The conference was interesting and somewhat sad, because it was planned before the election and probably with the assumption that the new administration would not be totally hostile. Instead of the original direction of "here's what we've done and how we plan to carry these goals forward" it ended up being more of a retrospective on progress that had been made at the federal level that was about to be erased.

From the people I saw, there did not seem to be anyone there representing the new administration.

[1] https://youtu.be/O5drVTSpH5g?list=LLDlLvM2YAVFtSXvebIrlE0A&t...
That's a part of it, but we've seen other examples like Target, without a lot of real change.

The problem is that it's hard to evaluate security. Unless you know the area very well, it's hard to hire someone that knows the area well, which is a catch-22.

Do we know that Yahoo skimped on security, or did they just not get what they paid for because they didn't know better?
Is this any relation to Pixate (which they sadly closed)?
Canabalt.

http://www.canabalt.com
Not really. Suppose 1 / 100 people die at a good hospital and 3 / 100 die at a bad hospital.

If you go to a bad hospital, you're 3x more likely to die. But if you go to a good hospital, you're 99 / 97 or roughly 2% more likely to live.
> Overpopulation (colonize the seas, solar system, or have a war.) [...] Stop having kids

This already happens. The more affluent a country becomes, with its better healthcare, better education, and greater career opportunity, the lower its birthrate. The big crisis in 50 years will be population decline.
I never understood the point of splitting up AT&T geographically. Were they expecting turf wars to explode on the borders between them?

In some European countries, when the former telco monopolies were split, they were split vertically - so there was one "copper company", then the phone service company, etc. The copper company would generally be heavily regulation with local loop unbundling, requirements to be fair to anyone who wants to sell service over the network, etc.
I wanted to give you the opportunity to rebut, but instead you have degenerated to swearing, red herrings and an inappropriate breakdown to formal style rational logic.

This discussion clearly has too many factors to be argued by formal proof. We cannot prove our premises nor prove an argument is formally sound. Therefor we must rely heavily on induction as many trades do, both software development and teaching are trades in many regards. Each often requiring action without the time or ability to formally prove and instead relying on large scale informal experimentation. The very existence of unit tests demonstrates how clearly practical programming cannot be formally proven and the existence of the whole fields of psychology and sociology ought to serve as basis for teaching impossibility to formally prove. This seems so obvious I hadn't felt the need to state it previously.

I presumed you capable and understanding and knowing this. I inferred that someone choosing to represent the argument in such way must see the situation is too complex to break down like this and must be misrepresenting the facts or they must not be competent to discuss this topic. Because I presumed your competence I felt you must be misrepresenting the situation, I now see I was mistaken.
He's being snarky. (I don't mind the downvotes, but: he really is. Ted doesn't think Wheeler is a cable industry shill. He's trying to make fun of people who do.)
Awesome creation dude well done, i m sharing it to all my frends in karnataka, Bengaluru
Hats off to u and team.
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I'm confused. That was a sincere response.
So in a few decades there will be two camps: Pro-Death and Pro-Lifers?
think people in the industry are just desperate to try and find justification and sanity where there really is none because it makes them feel the whole system is more stable than it truly is.

The reality is there is no reason for GitHub to have this much funding and spend so frivolously. This should be a warning.
Solar and wind make up 2-3% of energy produced in the US. We can still make huge improvements just doubling a few times to bring it to 33% before talking about a 100% renewable grid.

(Though some people have said that a 100% renewable grid is still achievable within reasonable economic conditions.)
I live in Kansas City, and people here are pretty bonkers for it. Prior to Google Fiber we had AT&T and Time Warner Cable. I can't even begin to list all of the amazing features Google Fiber provides, and the service experience is far superior to the typical ISP. We recently house-hunted and Google Fiber is one of the must-have items.

I would guess that Google Fiber would give Alphabet wiggle room when it comes to net neutrality etc. They will have to buy content from Comcast and AT&T. They could end up competing on search and advertising against Verizon. I could see advantages to being able to argue legally that they also are an ISP as well as a media company and search provider. Just my opinion/hope though.
Don't worry. Programming and computer science is one of those things that anyone can learn on their own. If you don't mind some advice, though, try not to be embarrassed by things that you don't know. I can imagine that it is difficult, especially if you don't feel confident about your previous education. Even if most other people already know it, it just means that you have the pleasure of discovering it (as a certain XKCD comic pointed out).

One thing I've said to many people starting out (especially those without an academic background in the area) is that there is a lot to learn. Sometimes at the beginning, you improve so quickly that it is easy to think, "I must be getting close to knowing it all". After several decades in the industry, though, I'm still learning brand new (to me!) , important things every single day. In many ways, the best programmers are the ones who can see how much they don't know, not how much they do know.
It looks like they are positioning this as an efficient way to create ad units, not entire websites. Maybe it should be called Google Ad Designer?
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Just to put this in perspective - a gallon of gasoline holds about 33 kWh (about 10 kWh of electricity after thermodynamic losses). So lifting 10 tons a km vertically only gives you about 1-3 gallon of gas, give or take (however motor efficiency could be 95% which helps).

There is merit to lifting large loads like this, but IMHO they should be concentrating on weight instead of distance. Which basically takes us back to pumped hydro because we just don't have anything on the order of a million tons or more that can be moved cheaply and easily. I could maybe see a large carpet rolling a layer of sand or stones up into a cinnamon roll so it's self supporting. Probably not the safest place to stand under though!
It says they are going to use poltifact to find fake news.

"Barack Obama will work with military commanders on the ground in Iraq and in consultation with the Iraqi government to end the war safely and responsibly within 16 months.

Rating: compromise"[0]

"Pentagon officials say, the total U.S. troops presence in Iraq is creeping toward 5,000."[1]

Fight fake news with fake analysis?

[0]http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/pr...

[1]http://time.com/4298318/iraq-us-troops-barack-obama-mosul-is...
Still doesn't make Godb an ORM.
I thought they were going to enter recess to allow them to invoke a law that allows repealing decisions made by the executive within the last 60 days of sessions of Congress. Maybe I misunderstood an article on this?
As another example of a self-defeating prophecy, consider Y2K. There was no major disaster because thousands of people worked incredibly hard to make sure there was no disaster.

Sometimes working in technology feels like working stage crew -- the audience doesn't give a crap about your existence until you screw up.
Just curious, is a Go string a C string inside (rune array + nil) or a proper class array?

In other words, in

a:="b"+"c"

IOW, does it implement the Slemiel's painting algorithm or not?
Minecraft Demo MODE
Given FISA Courts & NSA wiretapping, I'm not sure the government would necessarily need their cooperation.
It's a little cumbersome to setup with Gitlab Pages with LetsEncrypt TLS. I was using a homegrown static site generator before switching to Hugo, so it took a few trial and errors to set it up correctly each time. The only real issue is since we can't access the Gitlab Pages server, we can't do any redirects http -> https.

My sites https://dhruvkar.com and https://automizzen.com are both hosted on Gitlab Pages and using LetsEncrypt TLS. I just didn't bother for the one mentioned above. I use a javascript http->https redirect currently, but that's not ideal.
If the first language you learned was C, and you never rethought programming from different angles, you'll miss the best parts of JavaScript, Python, and a serious part of C# at least.

OTOH if your first language was Lisp (or even Python, to a lesser extent), and it was competently taught, the syntax of Java or C# would feel alien at first, but you'd find out that many of the concepts are already known to you; chances are, you even have an idea how they work under the hood.

(Disclaimer: I majored in embedded systems, my first languages were Fortran IV and PDP-11 assembly.)
I hesitate to be contrarian because I don't want to discourage what I perceive to be an innocent enough exploratory effort by curious and creative students... but as a long time drummer and computer scientist, this document was underwhelming and surprisingly unscientific (I guess my expectations were set high once I saw the mit.edu domain).

A related idea that may be interesting to explore are approaches to identify and classify hip-hop beat cliches across different genres and time periods (and accordingly to generate new beats that approximate the respective genres or time periods' aesthetics).
I watched the intro video and still have no idea what this app is or does.
I can't blame them (being GitHub). Bandwidth and storage can be expensive.

That being said, I think it's inaccurate to characterize the people using GitHub as a CDN uniformly as "cheapskates". Many are just open source developers, often of limited means, trying to expose their work to the largest audience possible.
So what's the advantage of using Android over straight Linux?
Has Uber had any success at food delivery? Will Amazon?
The article claims that today is that day, at least for new installations:

> That’s record-cheap electricity—roughly half the price of competing coal power.
Automate Puppet with Python
> The societal upheaval of rich people getting smartphones a few years earlier is probably not something you can extrapolate to the societal upheaval from "you could live forever but you don't have enough money right now".

I'm not sure that would happen. Consider that they have an eternity to pay it back -- or really, a few hundred years given everyone will likely experience at a fatal accident on such a long timeline. What person couldn't pay back an exceedingly high price on an installment plan lasting a few hundred years?
This isn't new. Was there a significant update?