skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would actually be one of the absolutely immense capabilities Google (the advertising company) could bring.

I almost never watch cable/broadcast TV (don't have it at home, and haven't for 12+ years) so one of the things I notice when I do watch it is there are some commercials that are genuinely entertaining (well produced, funny, etc).

The issue is, after watching TV for an hour, when I see that 'entertaining' commercial for the 3rd time it is no longer entertaining.

Google can actually track what they are showing, and have an idea of who's watching. Don't show me the same commercial more than once per day (or every few hours), and definitely don't repeat the same one in a single show. Don't show me ads that are completely irrelevant. Track metrics on ads, and eliminate genuinely bad ads.

I'm not sure I'd ever come to a service where I both paid and watched ads, but this is basically the minimum necessary for me personally to watch content with ads at all.

Of the companies that would be able to pull this off, Google is definitely at the top of a very short list.
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> I don't think that's a fair comparison at all.

How much income tax do you pay in Texas vs California?

California [1]:

1% on the first $7,850 of taxable income.

2% on taxable income between $7,851 and $18,610.

4% on taxable income between $18,611 and $29,372.

6% on taxable income between $29,373 and $40,773.

8% on taxable income between $40,774 and $51,530.

9.3% on taxable income between $51,531 and $263,222.

10.3% on taxable income between $263,223 and 315,866.

11.3% on taxable income between $315,867 and $526,443.

12.3% on taxable income of $526,444 and above.

Texas [2]:
Texas residents pay no personal state income tax.

[1] http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/state-taxes-california...

[2] http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/state-taxes-texas.aspx

> There is a 3-5% property tax that is paid out annually. I currently pay $14,000/yr in property tax against a $320k mortgage.

Yes, that's high. However, consider what $320k gets you in SF vs Houston. With $320k I can get a decent sized house in Houston vs a tiny studio in SF (if that).

One state is not necessarily better than the other. They are making trade offs. These trade offs benefit you depending on your lifestyle and circumstances.
> And tennis. And golf. And baseball.

Until you realize your standing-up-arm-waving strategy is being destroyed by the person sitting on the couch making little wrist flicks, who may as well be pushing buttons for all the motion they're making. And that person isn't experiencing severe RSI, the likes of which doesn't happen playing those sports for real, 5 minutes into the match.
I can really only be cynical about this announcement, hoping to convince a few more firefox users to switch to chrome instead of supporting the open web.
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Steering wheel and pedals, sure. Gearstick, mostly, although the positioning of reverse is different in different cars, and often there's a little trick to engaging it (push the stick down, or pull up a ring just under the handle). The shifter on automatics is often weird (but at least you never have to use it while driving).

Headlights, wipers, cruise control, trip indicator, window controls, A/C, radio -- all different on different cars.

Even the turn signals can vary. If I'm signalling left and want to turn it off, I expect to be able to cancel the signal by clicking the lever upwards, but I've driven cars where that causes it to signal right instead.
Actually makes more sense with 2$, as there will be many more cumulative purchases before the price reaches its eventual peak. Bit like penny auctions.
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These Weeks in Firefox (Nightly): Issue 11
> Most of the problems described with REST in this article are examples of REST implemented improperly

If so many people get an idea wrong, then there is a problem with that idea.With SOAP or JSON/XML-RPC, there is a normative spec, and your implementation either passes the spec or it doesn't, so something is SOAP or it isn't and it is provable. There is no spec describing what exactly is REST and what isn't. You can't demonstrate something is or isn't REST in a strict fashion.

A dissertation is not a spec, it is a discussion. Roy Fielding never wrote a REST or a HATEOAS spec. which led to you complaining about how people get them wrong. They didn't get anything wrong, they took some of his ideas and rejected the REST because nobody can tell them what is REST and what isn't.
Havent heard of those here in the Nordics (edit: cortisol being destructive it is not a good long term solution, hence avoided). Naproxen worked for me, but took days.

It took me two years to realize what is the source of gout. D/RNA molecules. They are 50% purines which humans dont metabolize, just excrete (other animals can metab them). None of the "what to eat with gout guides" stated this clearly, which stymies me. Anyhow, now i know to avoid eating DNA rich stuff - go milk!
Why didn't you post the full link?
That was the first thing that caught my attention. Travis' statement reeks of narcissism and grandiosity. The understatement is "extreme." "My job as your leader," -- it's an episode of Lost? The remedy is to behave in a way ..."that makes us all proud."

Of course, we elected a narcissistic and grandiose president, so there's nothing new here.
The reason that they are paid a lot is because they can justify their pay in terms of cost-savings. If you have a large company paying tens of millions in salary and you cut out a few jobs you can save the company a million dollars. For that you can justify a 1% pay, say 150k or 250k.

Funny thing is the tools are dumb in that they can't actually predict the long-term and mid-term effects of bringing on such a change. And this is a text-book case of that because they have reverted back to independent entities. Like for instance knowledge lost. How do you account for that? Loss of morale? How do you account for that. Communication problems, etc. etc. etc. All these things can be a competitive advantages or disadvantages for a corporation. They can potentially make or break a company.

In fact someone should create an AI called MBA AI to do this sort of shit and make a killing doing it. Just replace idiot MBAs with their dumb tools with an AI. It should be simple enough to automate to generate cost saving estimates and so on. Without actually being able to predict the actual outcome in any meaningful way.

I will finally add that in the end Jurassic Park was caused by an underpaid IT contractor.
The sequel, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character [1] is also excellent, and includes his account of serving on the commission that investigated the Challenger disaster.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/03933... or part of the buy it together bundle in wimagguc's link
I meant "the best case" as the morally best possibility in which Uber is least evil: neglecting the serious behaviour problems, but at least firing someone who deserved to be fired.
They might also have fired an innocent, or a conniving expendable employee, to improve their image. Today's commotion about their CEO insulting a humble Uber driver suggests a ruthless PR campaign of distraction and damage control.
Shouldn't it be possible for me to get some IP phones in my office and tunnel through my router to a competent online voice provider? If so, can you recommend such a provider?
Well, I wasn't trying to over-sell the Wii U - but it was definitely a Prototype for the Switch - that's practically undeniable. Especially when you look at the Wii U prototype [1]

Range on the Wii U is terrible, and the Switch is an "incremental improvement" in that regard :p

Battery life between the two is about the same, with the Switch gaining range

[1]: http://nintendotoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/slide002...
Google once again has proved that 'Google fighting surveillance' sounds like 'rock musicians fighting drugs' and 'bees fighting honey'.
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The article is kinda empty, but the video showing the lady trying to fill her tank made me laugh a lot. Here's the direct link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vupgBykQnko
I'm a software dev and use a 32" 4k monitor (3840x2160) at home. This is a 16:9 monitor (from BenQ). Unless you have 20/15 vision, you'll likely need to scale it. Windows 10 has built in scaling at 25% increments, and you can also do custom scaling. I scaled it to 115% and it works pretty well.

I also have a secondary monitor hooked up, but it's a 2560x1440 monitor turned vertically. It works fine, but I forget if font scaling is applied across the board or just to each monitor.

The ideal 4k desktop monitor size is likely at least 36-38", but I'm not sure if those are economical yet or not.

At work I have a Dell 34" Ultrawide (3440x1440). Not quite 4k, but no scaling is needed, and it's a great monitor. The one downside is that it's just got the vertical height of a 2560x1440 monitor, so I kind of miss the vertical height of my home monitor at times, but I can easily have three or four files side by side in my IDE.

I also have an Ubuntu system at home hooked up to the 4k monitor at home and it works, but you'll possibly need to adjust font sizing in your apps. I haven't spent a ton of time recently with this system though.

For all of these monitors you want a video card with Displayport 1.2. You do not want to use HDMI because you will likely end up at 30hz and that is a horrid experience. HDMI 2.0 supports higher refresh rates, but having both a HDMI 2.0 port and monitor is pretty rare.

Anyways, probably too much info, but it was either do this or work on an annoying bug :)
I mean, I am not going to complain if I am sitting there taking my time diligently trying to aim my controller and then my 7 year old brother comes running around the corner with his machine gun just spamming AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and gets an ace. It's all part of the fun. If you aren't having fun playing a video game, stop playing.
Redis Pub/Sub under the hood
Hangouts is just horrible, claiming then even support chrome is a stretch
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The Tesla "Frunk".
different organisation, same business model. That's just like saying that anybody who sells ads on their website is spamming HN because others have posted products that make money with ads.
Yes, I have five browsers installed, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Tor and none is getting any more updates.
[author of Airflow here] as I wrote in another comment, I'd argue for a programmatic approach to workflows/dataflows as opposed to drag and drop. It turns out that code is a better abstraction for software:
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-rise-of-the-data-enginee...

I'd also argue for open source over proprietary, mostly to allow for a framework that is "hackable" and extensible by nature. You can also count on the community to build a lot of the operators & hooks you'll need (Airflow terms).
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Does this mean we can now build a full React Native app using only Kotlin?
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Obviously, we should put them on the B Ark and send them to another planet.
But with competitively-priced memory cards and 1st-party support
Related: https://qz.com/192874/is-the-oculus-rift-designed-to-be-sexi...
The problem is, Uber will be gone too, unless they will provide a valet service or become a brand for one of the big car companies.
All of your job postings end with (m/f), what do you mean by that?

Additionally, I've looked at positions in Germany in the past, but I have no fluency in the language. Would that prevent me from being an appropriate candidate?
It might, but I think it's equally possible he's right. For example, had Angular 2 not come out the way it did... it probably WOULD be in the mature column (I personally have found myself extremely productive in it), but adoption was hindered after people found out about the breaking changes in 2.0 (I personally hesitated for the last 2 years to start a new project in it). React is close to mature, but I kind of get the feeling it's accelerating not because of it's own merits, but rather it filled a vacuum. Adoption not earned by being "the best", but rather "the product everyone is talking about" does not bode well in the long term. Don't get me wrong, I think React has a lot of positive qualities, but I think a good framework should make a problem no more complex than the problem itself is. If you start using flux frameworks etc (as is expected with React) I really start to feel like I'm wasting time on things that are not the problem I'm trying to solve.
But most can choose to work only for those they trust.
Multiple displays is an theme throughout all at-home consumer electronics. We need a technology that can be streamed to as an external display instantly anywhere that can be any size.
Someone please explain how to do this. It's been a lifelong mystery that has always fascinated me:

>
By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior of the router, and much to our surprise and amusement, he presented his answer in the form of a set of partial differential equations. To a physicist this may seem natural, but to a computer designer, treating a set of boolean circuits as a continuous, differentiable system is a bit strange. Feynman’s router equations were in terms of variables representing continuous quantities such as “the average number of 1 bits in a message address.” I was much more accustomed to seeing analysis in terms of inductive proof and case analysis than taking the derivative of “the number of 1’s” with respect to time. Our discrete analysis said we needed seven buffers per chip; Feynman’s equations suggested that we only needed five. We decided to play it safe and ignore Feynman.

How is it possible to use PDEs to model boolean circuits?
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Eh, not really. Analog sliders were common, including Pong. The joystick itself is a clear extension of the Atari 2600 joystick. It's a small tweak to existing control methods, not a whole new paradigm like motion controls.
> Microsoft posts a low-quality video attempting to get Hackernews to boot Windows on their Macs so they can have bad implementations of modern Linux tools instead of the bad implementations of outdated Linux tools that ship with MacO's.

Satire is funnier when it's accurate. "bad implementations of modern Linux tools" is incorrect here because the tools are the same binaries that come with Ubuntu.
GC was the first with analog-plus-click triggers too, I think.
This is a great point. However, I would generalize a bit and say the problem is sometimes beyond ego; when someone's technical aptitude is greater than their ability to communicate. This is a more common problem than just the smartest guy in the room, and at some point you either trust each other, or agree to disagree.

That said there is an individual far worse than the brilliant teammate that's hard to understand. These are people whose ability to listen is worse than their technical aptitude. Just one of them in a meeting will destroy all progress, and disrupt any ideas that don't mesh with their preexisting thoughts.
People have been saying for a while that Nintendo should pull a Sega and go third-party. Just because they're saying it, that doesn't mean its the right move.
Ford is showing other car companies how to take the fight to Silicon Valley