skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you sold any of your businesses before? If so, how did you seek out businesses to buy yours?
It hasn't, but if you say humanism you're exposing yourself to dual charges of cultural Marxism from the right and sneers of wasting money on a 'useless' degree from people who think education should serve vocation.
I never thought of it this way, but visual mode essentially does switch vim from verb-object to object-verb.

So in this case...

vtfd

is one more keystroke, but you see what you're deleting before you delete it, so if you need to the next f, you can just smack semicolon until you get there.

vtf;;;;d

(semicolon repeats last "t" or "f" movement)
CLTV is over a year old at this point. Segwit doesn't look like it's going to reach consensus anytime soon which means lightning implementations are doa.

Compact blocks are definitely an improvement for the network though.
Hmmm. I'm more usually aware of helpful, insightful, useful articles on how to improve performance, and a constant stream of optimizations to web technology to the same end.

Not that the site in question isn't bloated brochure-ware. Just that I wouldn't characterize Google that way.
You think Apple's going to include a pair of headphones they sell for $160 in the box, when they can provide the super-cheap lightning earpods instead to incentivize you to get so frustrated that you upgrade?

Hell, I know I ended up picking up a Jabra Halo Smart because I got so annoyed having to deal with the stupid dongle to use my $10 pair of Sony AS200's and the cheap Chinese Kinivo bluetooth headphones I had had substantially worse audio quality than even these cheap wired ones.

I thought about the AirPods, but I'd lose them in a heartbeat. I'm constantly forgetting where the hell I put my headphones as is, at least my Halo Smart is big enough that I can find it easily - if I lost one of the little AirPod's I would end up tearing my house apart looking for the dumb thing.
You don't have to be a libertarian to not want to live under the rule of the Chinese government.
Improving forms with new radios and checkboxes
(I upvoted you.)

For mental disorders it's something like:

1) Anorexia Nervosa (historically had very high death rate, something like 20%)

2) Body Dysmorphic Disorder (most people don't know that this has a high suicide rate)

3) Major depression

4) Psychotic illness (people with psychosis tend to live 20 years less than the general population)

5) ADHD

(I'm not sure of the ordering of the last 3.)

As for drugs, far and away the leading cause of death and harm is going to be alcohol.
You didn't respond to the substance of his objection. The problem with the "NSA backdoor" hypothesis is that it doesn't make logistical sense: it requires the NSA to already have installed software on the victim's computer. If the NSA has installed software on your machine that it can control, you are going to, in the parlance of our times, "get Mossad'd".
Yeah, but the 1958 Act was major mission creep for NACA, I guess.
Thanks, you are correct. I did not know that.
Can't speak about 1). Can't speak about 2) either; but HNers told me Apple did extensive testing to ensure pods would not fall while being in your ears (the physics hints that earplugs fall mainly because of wires).

Still 1) is a good question. I thought they came with a tiny casket, so they wouldn't fall out of your pocket like that. Still subtle when you remove them from your skull.
A re-invention. "We removed wires". Really?

Not possible before - without W1 it wasn't possible to jump between audio coming from multiple sources transparently

Uhh, I have a desk-based headset that can switch audio streams automatically.

In any case, this: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12829190/apple-w1-chip-ipho... seems to suggest that it's a refinement on Bluetooth with the NFC pairing that, well, already exists in numerous products out there.

Nice refinements? Sure. But it also likes to compare itself against a Bluetooth world that frankly, hasn't existed in several years... "poor audio quality that skips and cuts out", and "pairing that is constantly problematic, where users don't know whether they will re-pair the next time" (https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/12/apple-w1-chip-how-it-works/ )
> Same way a (smart) human drives: it will pull over.

You mean carefully get to the nearest settlement as soon as possible? Some of these storms can last for days at a time. Stopping to wait it out in the middle of nowhere, especially if you don't have a full tank of fuel to keep the car warm for extended periods, is a pretty scary situation.
> Is it possible to get all that information in one round trip ?

If we're talking about the same thing, yes.

One pattern that I use in my APIs is as follows:

Assume a JSON object like:

{ name: "Joe", colour: [ {red: 0, green: 128, blue: 90}, {red: 35, green: 88, blue: 199} ], hair: { length: { value: 9, uom: "cm"} }

I have on occasion provided an API like:

# Assume that {id} returns an object like the above.

GET /api/{id} # Returns the full object

POST /api/{id} # Replaces the object

PUT /api/{id} # Overwrites properties in the object

GET /api/{id}/name # Returns "Joe"

POST /api/{id}/name # Overwrites the name

PUT /api/{id}/name # Overwrites the name (also)

DELETE /api/{id}/name # Removes the "name" property

GET /api/{id}/colour/0/green # Returns "green". Other methods as above.

* /api/{id}/hair/length/value

PUT /api/{id}/hair/colour # Creates a new property

GET /api/{id}/colour/0;2 # Returns the first and third items in the array

GET /api/{id}/colour/1/red;green # Returns those two properties from the object. Note that this imposes some restrictions on property naming (no semicolons)

And this I never implemented, but I would if I had a need:

GET /api/{id}/colour/(0/red;green);(1/blue) # Returns [ { red: 0, green: 128}, {blue: 199} ]
I'm very curious how this product will sell. Considering that I routinely lose or break ear phones and occasionally put them through the clothes washer, I'm very unlikely to invest $150 in a pocket sized pair (I do have some high end cans that i use now and then which are too large to be easily lost or accidentally submerged).

As the owner of an iPhone 7, I have encountered some frustration from not being able to charge and listen to headphones at the same time. I realized that if lightning cables were USB, I could just use some sort of hub.

But it seems that Apple has declined to offer a splitter, leading to many shoddy attempts for sale on Amazon, most with fewer than three star average ratings.

Viewed as an independent gizmo, these are a great idea and will appeal to some people. But viewed as an alternative to the convenience of the 1/8th inch jack on the back of the phone, a lot is left to be desired.

The picture of the futuristic woman wearing them evokes the single-ear bluetooth headset, only worn over both ears.
> "I'm looking at this report with a very skeptical eye; I moved away from Dropbox after they brought Condoleezza Rice of all people on to their board of directors to oversee privacy issues."

She's on the board, it has absolutely nothing to do with the day to day of this sort of thing. If you want to get a good idea of how any company handles your data look at it's legal team, past and present. And Dropbox's legal team has an amazing record of fighting for users privacy and constitutional rights.

(full disclosure I am an ex-employee of Dropbox)
That's the teacher's call. If consistently underperform pupil once underperformed less he/she may even get praised. On the other hand. If a top 3 pupil ranked 10 once, he/she may receive some shaming. Different teachers have different styles

And of course. Some teachers won't shame pupils at all. But the rankings are always public. No one can change that.
> I'm not a huge fan of UBI since I think that makes people slaves of their State.

When America will be able to shake off its own mythology about this notion of the "State" as an inherently bad actor - then, perhaps, America will be able to get out of the current rut it's stuck in.

Yes, the "State" can be bad (I should know, I grew up in an actual bad "State" in the Eastern Bloc before the revolutions). But at the other extreme, societies can sabotage themselves from within, trigger the social equivalent of an autoimmune disease, and collapse from endemic distrust in the system - which to me is pretty clearly the direction America is going now.

There surely is a better middle ground somewhere.
Very curious how long battery life actually is.

Since no one has production units in hand, you'll have to take Apple's word for it:
"a charging case that holds multiple additional charges for more than 24 hours of listening time.(3) Need a quick charge? Just 15 minutes in the case gives you 3 hours of listening time.(4)"

Also, will Apple include these within iPhone box to replace the clunky new lightning things?

A rhetorical question, I assume.
saw the website and got one question: who is your market target?
Literally pimping your ride
don't forget ping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping
So, specifically in the context of a distributed queue (which, if we're talking about using MS arch + queueing due to scale concerns, you really need some kind of distribution to the message queue imo), these things get a lot harder.

Just because TCP provides resilience doesn't mean that you're perfectly defended against all kinds of issues here.

I'm mostly talking about things in the category of bugs in the software layer using TCP (the drivers, the consumers/publishers, race conditions, batching messages, not receiving ACKs, etc). There are a lot of little things that can go wrong.

In terms of partitions, look up a series by a guy named Aphyr called "Jepsen". It goes over the CAP theorem as it applies to distributed datastores and queues. His examples and tests will demonstrate the concepts behind partitioning better than I can explain over a HN comment :)

And yes, these types of failures are implicit everywhere - but every additional layer you add, every hop in the chain, every interaction added to the request flow increases the surface area for problems. Especially once you push high scale with hundreds of nodes, become nic or cpu bound, etc etc.

There is a lot to unpack here, and it's not as simple as it seems on the face of it.
> Heck, why have driveways?

My point is that millions of them already exist, with a distributed network of roads leading to them, as well as storage (garages). It would be costly to suddenly rip all those up.
Yep. You can use query parameters to fix 1) and 2).

Go down the rabbit hole a little bit further, and you have GraphQL (if you're lucky....if not, you'll just have a mess).
Framework Ecosystem and current developer experience/knowledge/comfort level have a lot to do with it in addition to uncertainty.

Dogfooding is nice, but not at the expense of risking not having the site showcasing your new autonomous vehicle company ready by the time the press release hits.
Isn't the whole point of UBI to be Universal? People don't lose the benefit if they earn additional income and everyone gets it so it shouldn't have an inherent stigma to receiving it.

I'm not actually sure its a practical option, but I don't see 'enslavement' as being one of it's downsides - where's the 'lock in'?
Yes. One can draw a direct line between shame-based cultures and an unwillingness to take risks for fear of failure. The most harmful outcome of this is lack of innovation.
GOV.UK Prototype kit
For me, it wasn't the tones or sounds that made Mandarin tricky - once you get used to letting your mouth/tongue make shapes/be places you've trained it not to be the vowle/consonants aren't that bad, and fi you've ever played an instrument/sung, tones are manageable. It was the stupid pictographs. You're literally just memorizing shapes that didn't correspond to anything was the absolute worst. It got better once you learned to recognize the basic forms that were getting composed into parts of other characters, but that really discouraged me/was the hardest part. I basically gave up on written Chinese and focused on pinyin, because that made sense to my head.

Source: took two years of Mandarin and lived in Taiwan for a few months
They sold their business to Didi Chuxing, they're no longer taking that loss.
I am seriously suggesting that a Senior Commenter would produce more intelligent and more enjoyable content compared to the no-effort nonsense you managed to come up with.

Have a nice day.
I love wireless headphones. But the main downside to these for me is that it doesn't look like they will improve upon sound quality and sound isolation (or lack thereof) in the traditional wired Apple Ear Pods.
It looks great! Where do the results come from? Another search engine (a-las duckduckgo) or is it crawled internally?
They will detect it and have people in the store replacing it.
NIST Guide to Securing Apple OS X 10.10 Systems for IT Professionals [pdf]
I like wireless headphones for the simple situation that I switch from podcasts on my phone to video on a kindle fire and back during my commute, and pairing with various devices from a variety of manufacturers seems like it would be very slow compared to popping the jack. Though, to be fair, I've never used wireless headphones (other than xbox), so don't know what the pairing process looks like. I just know that in the past cheap bluetooth speakers have been slow to match and sometimes forget that they're friends with my phone.
Has anyone else noticed how pristine the audio quality of a Slack call sounds? I wonder how they optimized it. My company's voip, and Lync, and Skype all fail to deliver the same kind of call quality. I've only noticed / admired better call quality when making a call within Cisco to another employee.

I don't use video much but I hope they've done as good of a job as they did with audio.
Teen drug and alcohol use has fallen
Stock in AMD bought when it was under $3 per share.
In limited quantities...

"AirPods will be shipping in limited quantities at launch and customers are encouraged to check online for updates on availability and estimated delivery dates."

That's like "We look like fools. At least get -something- out there".
You're right. I stand corrected. Funny how 10 years seems like a long time.
So far you haven't said anything more than "NSA exists, therefore all software insecurities are reasonably attributable to them".
> But can you blame them?

Yes.
Less competition for Oracle.
Thanks for this. It's some really good insight for me. I've had a few ideas bouncing around in my head for SaaS products to serve a few different small business niches where the existing software sucks badly. I think all of those markets would have similar difficulties to the ones you found in salons. On the one hand, it's really frustrating to know that I can build a product which would make peoples' lives and businesses better, but that I'm unlikely to be able to make it financially viable. But on the other hand, I'm grateful to realize this before pouring months or years of my life into it.
If your average car occupancy count goes from one-point-something to two, it would be a huge change in number of cars required and traffic congestion.
The reviews I've heard of these and the Beats Solo3 (which use the same chip) indicate that the wireless connection on these is absolutely rock solid. This includes a very picky friend of mine who got a set of Solo3 headphones; he's blown away. I'd like to see the AirPods in the wild for a month or so before I totally believe this, but early indications are good.
With thumbs.

You could try two-fingered swyping on the 7 plus. That is a steeper learning curve but faster top speeds:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nintype/id796959534?mt=8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M6DS9Gyf2LM
Losing one in particular could be annoying. Does one work when it's pair is missing? Can you buy a single one as a replacement?
And what is Trumps so special plan for them I wonder ?
While driverless cars obviously make short-term car rental more attractive on a cost basis, I think that people here tend to overestimate the impact of this.

* A large percentage of people will want to have their own car because they don't want to put up with the occasional hassle of unavailability of rental cars during a peak time, and/or occasional long waits for the car to reach them (particularly when they are being picked up in un-dense areas). And before you hand-wave this away, note that the more of a cost advantage you give to rental cars (ie, the higher the utilization of those cars), the more of a disadvantage cost/wait time will be.

* People -- and very especially families with children -- also value cars as a mobile depot for their stuff. If you have kids of certain ages, this is practically a necessity. I definitely am not going to screw around with not just a carseat but like a dozen books and snacks and wipes and cups and so forth every time I get into/out of a rental car.

* Then cleaning and status and all the other things that people regularly bring up here.
As somebody in the field, that is a gross mischaracterization of epigenetics. There are a few examples of adaptive epigenetic modifications, but they are interestinf curiosities, not the the main results of the research. And of course epigenetics fully embraces all of genetics.
European Union Gives New Life to W3C Do Not Track
We started using screenhero (paid) before the slack takeover, but were using paid-for slack too so nothing changed for us. The integration is fairly weak, you can launch a screenhero session from within chat but tbh I tend to use screenhero's own UI instead. Still the best tool I've used for remote pairing.
If the cars no longer need a driver, then self-driving cars combined with route planning may open the door toshuttle-based door to door ride-shared commutes...

Potentially cheap enough to be a good compromise between current uncomfortable public transport, and owning your own vehicle (but unable to put the commute time to good use).

With that being said... I am also pretty doubtful. People like to own cars.
On the FAQ section,

Q: "I'd like to join the team. Where can I find a list of open roles?"
A: "You can learn more about available roles here[1]."

And interestingly, that link[1] is broken :)

Update: it's fixed NOW!

[1]: https://waymo.com/join/
> Calling this a backdoor is an extreme measure.

How else would you call the possibility to sidestep access controls by setting a specific string as identifier?

> I wasn't able to see any working example, nor any responsible disclosure which seems bad.
First, those two statements kind of contradict each other. Second, from the advisory linked from the article:

10/13/2016 - Vulnerability disclosed to vendor
10/26/2016 - Patch released by vendor
12/12/2016 - Advisory published

> Also, if somebody has the ability to run arbitrary code on your machine, I would think that it's game over at that point.

Yes, it has been game over all the time: People execute arbitrary code on their machines by installing free programs they downloaded from somewhere. But that's not the point. The point is that some application that has control over very sensitive data includes a possibility (to avoid the word "backdoor") to access that data without user-confirmation and alarms, which are otherwise built into the application on a design level.
Yes, even in a situation like that, it still comes down to, literally, a lottery (one with zero transparency). Compare with the independent skilled migration systems of Australia, Canada and NZ.
We have a C Worker API (and in fact the C++, C# and Java worker APIs are built on top of it), so you can write workers in any language that can call C functions. It is a non-trivial amount of work, though -- see https://spatialos.improbable.io/docs/reference/9.0-alpha/wor... to see what one of these APIs look like.
what? The american immigration system is pretty awful. H-1B to employer sponsored green card is a really lousy system.
UK, especially, seems to want to rebuild itself in China's image (total surveillance from multiple levels of the government, censorship, etc).
OneNote plus a surface pro 3 were game changing for me in school. All of my notes digitized and accessible for study from my phone or whatever, an infinite whiteboard, a tablet + stylus that actually let me take written notes. They have a writing-to-text feature as well that unfortunately doesn't work too well, but we can't have everything I suppose. That feature requires an Office subscription though. Meh.
Most senior people I know are under paid and over worked. The lucky ones are just under paid.
the site isn't loading so I can't say for sure, but I'd guess the intention is something like fittext.js. which makes sense in some cases for large type inside of hero units etc, but even then you'll want sensible containers, and for body text, this is a terrible idea. em/rem are fine.
I would be inclined to switch to linux Elementary OS should my program usage allow it.
I have become disenchanted with Windows as of late(past Windows 7).
Except for the fact that a program with that name existed, no, those aren't facts and, yes, it's a conspiracy theory. And it's a conspiracy theory that actually distracts from the real problems with Fast and Furious and the rest of the gunwalking scandal.
I've got ublock installed under ff, and there weren't popups in the sense of a new window, but in the sense of an in page element.
There already is a plethora of wireless earbuds/headphones on the market... and has been that way for years. No need to buy these overpriced ones to get wireless.
I'm genuinely curious to see how often Siri is used, and in what contexts.

Not to be cynical, but to re-calibrate my barometer. The only person I know who uses it is my partner's nine year old daughter, and even then not often.
For the moment we don't have the SDK supporting Go but we are definitely taking input on such topics. You should definitely post this request on the forum as there will probably be other people wanting the same thing! Will be happy to discuss it further there.

The idea of a Go SDK has already crossed some minds at Improbable for certain.
"Not being allowed" means you're fired if you don't stick to your post. How is that different to any career here where you are transferred to a different branch office? Clearly if Goldman Sachs transfers you to their Salt Lake City office and you stop showing up to work you'll be terminated.
Certainly! I was just wondering if anyone had that similarity feeling that I did. Didn't mean anything more than just an innocent curiosity.
How is this unreadable? Are you unable to read after a certain size?

I am not a fan of their design but it's not really unreadable.
I prefer Rails or Elixir, but golang is a solid choice.
I think the current best practice is 'monolith-first' - but try to use a framework that allows you to isolate domains/logic (like rails engines or django apps). Then once you grow to a suitable size where it makes sense break it up.

My experience was, with a smaller shop, it was kinda hard to automate all the stuff you do when starting a new app - it may need stuff like: github repo, permissions, airbrake api key, docker hub repo, added to the CI tool, added to the static analysis tool, alerting/monitoring config, etc.

You also need a way to enforce global org requirements like, "all apps need to log in JSON so it be easily parsed later for analysis." or "all apps should expose a health check at /health-check" or "all apps need to use version X of dependency Y because of a security issue".

Without this automation your apps begin to drift in standards and practices. They accumulate old libraries and it becomes a lot harder to, say, move from one CI tool to another.
Plus, it lets Microsoft eavesdrop on business meetings worldwide.
Generally conferences are expensive for someone paying on their own dime. Do they have prices listed anywhere? It looks interesting.
You'd think Google would have considered optimising the content on this page as per their own recommendations:

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...