skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always wanted a (relatively) simple mobile application to navigate public transportation in different cities. Basically an interactive map for public transport. They'd be easy to read, easy to understand how connections work, etc. Every city (or even every agency within a city) uses different, and often horrible, diagrams of their lines, like MUNI vs BART in San Francisco.

This is 90% designers problem. The engineering side of this is easy. Hard to say how you'd pay money for it, but if your maps are good, some cities may agree to pay to officially use them.

Google maps kind of does this for you (if you do "directions") but I just don't understand why it doesn't work... It gets me to a subway station and I start searching for the maps on walls.

But if done well, millions of people will be thanking you every day.
I used RescueTime to kick my social media habit and learn to code 5 years ago. I was working in the retail industry and found a way to spend 10 hours a week coding on my own for almost two years before I got my first full-time development job, largely due to RescueTime.

I didn't think much of it then, but in retrospect, the impact Joe's product had on my career turned out to be pretty significant. RIP Joe.
The MSDN blog post [1] says that it will download distribution updates much faster and also support side-by-side distribution installs when installed from the store (ie, you could have both Ubuntu and Fedora installed side-by-side).

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/07/10/ubun...
Depends on what you like listening. I listen to Exponents by Ben Thomson, The Tim Ferris Show, This weekend in startups, Freakonomics radio, How I built this and Planet Money
> Add to the fact that the acoustics in theaters are still never quite right (it's often LOUD but doesn't envelop you)...

It's a pet peeve of mine as well - the acoustics tend to be awful. I believe if you're at an IMAX theater they're supposed to meet some important minimum standards. No idea how true that really is, but I know none of the IMAX theaters I've been to had bad audio.
> all of which are closed down and locked experiences

That's not true. Many Android devices have an unlockable bootloader with explicit support for building the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for the device. Nexus and Pixel devices are directly supported by AOSP without modification. It's the same codebase used to build the stock OS for those device. The stock OS on those devices only adds Google Play apps to the source tree, some of which replace AOSP apps. It doesn't contain any secret sauce changes to AOSP. Android engineers use the same Nexus / Pixel devices that are shipped to consumers as their development devices. You enable OEM unlocking within the OS from the owner account and can then unlock the bootloader via physical access using fastboot over USB, allowing images to be flashed via fastboot. Serial debugging can be toggled on and done via an open source cable design through the headphone port.

Other companies like Sony have emulated this by releasing official sources for building AOSP for their unlockable devices rather than only making the bootloader unlockable and leaving it up to the community to hack together support. However, I think it's only Nexus / Pixel devices where you get support for full verified boot with a third party OS (i.e. you can lock the bootloader again, and have it verify the OS using a third party key) along with the ability to toggle on serial debugging.

It's why the Android security research community is so active. You get the same sources / build system, development devices (Nexus / Pixel), debugging tools, etc. as an Android engineer working at Google. The only major thing you don't get is access to their internal bug tracker. Hopefully they'll move towards the Chromium model where most of that is public once embargoes are over.
Still works for me. Use code: RIGHT2READ as mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
There's been a lot of visible experimentation, but I've not seen anything indicative of a definitive strategy. I would be curious to know if there were any lessons learned from replicating old world European towns.
I personally enjoy programming exercises and have no problem spending a few hours tackling these types of problems.

However I'd refuse to do it for free if it's obviously something they're going to use in their product or if it's something that takes 20 hours to complete.
A six-year old could tell the five-year old they're being naive, and that adults using buzzwords like "sharing economy" aren't worried about accuracy.
The fact that so many of the comments here are focused on running and its pros/cons and not on the actual point of the article (self control) ... its kinda strange for HN to completely miss the point by such a big margin...
I mean, what's the appeal of going to the theater at this point, unless you're a teenager going on a date? I'd rather watch a movie in the comfort of my own home.
This is literally the only cinema I like going to (in NYC) anymore. I sit in the front row, where the seats are big recliners with foot rests that go up. The food is acceptable, the popcorn huge and in a big metal bowl and the beer list extensive. Not exactly cheap but entirely worth it for those few movies I want to see a year.
Trying to scare people into behavior does not work very well.

What works is "magic science."

Are these the only two options? What about education, radical changes in awareness (and self-awareness), a move toward genuine sense of responsibility toward others as well as to the commons -- is all of that, off the table?

And what if "magic science" fails us this time? Or is that "unthinkable"?
My coworkers tease me because I don't watch trailers. I insist they spoil too many things. I watch trailers after I've seen the movie, and they almost all have terrible spoilers.

But at the same time I can see how they build hype. I think my favorite trailer is The Force Awakens, even though it spoils a ton. It's an incredibly made trailer, with the sound editing and visuals.
Point taken, but my point was more about pragmatism. We know it's possible to have a fast compiler that generates fast code (indeed every time this is discussed someone brings up TP). But it's no use talking about a 30 year old compiler or about how the first WWW browser was superbly written. What I mean is I'm not talking about possible, I'm talking about feasible now. If I want to write a performance critical project right now what tool(s) should I use? The answer is most likely C++.
I had a similar experience. My wife was hospitalized for several months when her liver failed and she got a transplant. I have no complaints about any of the care she received; everyone did their jobs very well except for the billing department. Overall the total cost was around $1.5 million, and my insurance company did a fantastic job weeding out all of the duplicate and invalid claims. Their numbers for amounts claimed, allowed, paid to the providers, owed by us (deductible, co-ins), paid to us to cover out-of-pocket expenses that exceeded our annual max, etc always added up. But when the hospital tried to bill us, the numbers didn't work. Their "itemized" bill included claims that were rejected, claims that were paid by insurance, was missing claims that went through the insurance, and had some things that didn't match up to insurance claims at all. Every month they'd resend the bill, and it'd have different items on it with a different total amount. We had money from the insurance company to use to pay for what we owed the hospital, but we refused to pay it until the hospital could produce a bill that matched what the insurance company said we owed. They never did. (I'm not sure what happened; my wife and I were separated before all of this, and the bills always went to her. I think they just stopped sending the bill.)
Stick to your little part of the app

I agree this is good advise when it's feasible, but a lot of the current management trend (collective code ownership, everyone working off a single "backlog", etc.) can make it quite hard to follow.
In the long term, it is better for your daughter if you don't bancrupt and manage the price down. Especially if she is sick.

The guilt tripping of father of sick cold is pretty disgusting tactic.
It probably makes me sound incredibly crotchety to say so but one of the things I dislike about going to the theaters is that the audio volume is often too high for my liking.
"Either me or the compiler failed to use intrinsics efficiently, the hand-coded assembly produced much better results."

Still seeing this in 2017 :)
I was denied student loans unless my parents cosigned.
I wouldn't be too worried about the software, the human brain is pretty good at adapting to things. A great demonstration of this was an experiment where congenitally blind people were able to 'see' by sitting in a chair with an array of 400 vibrating pads.[0] There has also been some success on the software side with hippocampal prostheses[1]. All in all it's pretty simple stuff, we've been able to reverse engineer the transfer function for part of the hippocampus, so if that region is damaged we can emulate it with an implant and some matlab code.

I would say that this is the end of the beginning for BCIs.

[0]https://tcnl.bme.wisc.edu/laboratory/founder
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampal_prosthesis#Recent_...
yes, but HTTPS + HSTS would not enforce a certain validation level, eg you can't enforce EV certs only in HSTS (as far as I know), so a DV cert would be sufficient
I totally agree. If you get a chance to try it out, let me know if you see anything else that gives that vibe. If anything, I've been wondering if the cute knight avatars everywhere and the bubbly GuildedBot dialogue make it a little bit too "cute" in contrast with the games' atmosphere, so I think the quoted sentences are just out-of-sync with the rest of the branding.
You generally can't really directly associate specific cases of disease with specific lifestyle choices.

EX: Some non smokers get lung cancer, so a percentage of smokers would have gotten cancer either way.
Cerners longtime CEO and founder recently passed away. It's unfortunate one of his legacies will be how NOT to communicate via email[1]. It's also unfortunate the culture he fostered never erred far from this aggressive, intimidating, almost abusive pattern. It was one of the most toxic environments I ever worked in[2].

[1] http://holtz.com/blog/business/threats-and-intimidation-wont...

[2] source: me, contractor 2015-2016.
Obviously missing podcasts:

The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe

EconTalk

The Moth

A couple others for the HN crowd:

Data Skeptic

This Week in ML&AI

Software Engineering Radio
get a real job and make something of actual value
designers only have a place in a society in times excess
you are excess.
Get a real job, you weakling
I've lived in the US for 40 years. I'd estimate that less than 5% of all the people I've ever known ever donate time. A substantially higher number donate money to the millionaire operators of charities and "ministries".

Americans aren't generous. Americans are preoccupied with moving money. The more it moves, the faster it accumulates to the top of the economic pyramid.
So this limits the number of gadget options you have for ROP, but doesn't eliminate ROP entirely, right? It maybe increases the difficulty of ROP, if you can't find enough/sufficient gadgets that happen to start after function call sites. Not a silver bullet, anyway.
I saw that movie at 48 FPS. It's the only 48 FPS movie I saw. However, it was stunning how much more - I don't know, realistic isn't quite the right word, but something - it felt to watch it. I wanted to watch all movies in (preferably non-3D) 48 FPS from then on, but it never caught on that I could tell and I haven't seen another one.
> I hate 3D movies because it causes eye strain.

The days for this crap have to be numbered, don't they? Nobody manufactures 3D TVs anymore and the latest 3DS comes without the 3D capability. The fad seems to be on its way out, finally.
Schumer calls on FDA to regulate ‘snortable chocolate’
Most modern semiconductors are fairly flat (or are "3d" but it's the 90s autocad kind of "3d" where you have some number of layers.)

Semiconductors are really fairly simple in comparison.
I realize this sounds like "in my day we had to walk five miles in the snow, uphill, both ways," but lately I've felt like I honestly don't appreciate music and video games as much as I used to, precisely because they're so available.

It used to be that I would really sink myself into media, listening to an album over and over, or learning every trick of a game, because I only had a few and I needed to get the most of them. Now, the moment something loses its brand-new sheen, I'm off to something else to try to recapture that initial excitement. On the surface it seems like I've got everything teenage-me ever wanted, but I don't really love anything like he did. I've got over a hundred unplayed games on Steam, and none of them excite me.
I don't think very many people are interested in achieving their theoretical mental limit any more than their physical limit. What would be the purpose of that? Diminishing returns applies to nearly every endeavor. Unless you are so preoccupied with a single goal that practically nothing else matters, you will always sacrifice some potential improvement on any goal to make room for the other important aspects of your life.
Is there any downside to using JS instead of Awk for one-line shell scripting? Maybe it's time to retire Awk, and use js/Perl/whatever instead for that purpose?
I think Snap's stock price will continue to fall (to under $10) and then at some point it'll be acquired, possibly by an asian company or investment group.
> You can't compete on reliability nearly as easily as on price. It takes many years and lots of reviews for customers to learn the reliability of a product. It will probably be obsolete by the time its reliability is clear to the average person, so really only huge long-lived brands can compete on reliability. Cost is easy to compare.

That depends. There’s a reason people buy Miele.

You can also make reliability and quality your business model.
Lock-up expires 29 August [1]. On the other hand, they have $3.2bn of cash and short-term investments (as of 31 March) while burning about $600MM of cash from their operations (FYE 31 December 2016) a year. That's 5 years to get it right.

EDIT: insider lock-up at T+150 comes in at the end of July.

[1] http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/company/snap-inc-899497-8...
Not sure this is really news worthy.

They've been heavily shorted for a while now and their puts are expensive. But really 1 Billion new shares could flood the market in just a few more weeks.

To put it in perspective I believe Twitter, the other poster child for giving away options, had about half that amount.

Even the IPO underwriters are starting to crack. Credit Suisse used the stock drop to keep an "outperform" rating on the stock while lowering its target from $30 to $25.

IMHO Snap will do just fine for hte next year. They are big enough that companies will carve out a piece of their marketing budgets for Snap. It won't be until a year later when they have enough data on how well their Snap advertising is working that they'll decide if its worth it or not.
Well, what an individual person can tolerate varies widely too. VR hardware and software can't fix every problem with motion sickness just as we've yet to fix every problem with motion sickness on moving vehicles (cars, planes, boats), outside of blunt drugs (and their side effects).
"Slower than that is not useful training for Olympic events."

Lydiard-ians would disagree - at least for a base phase.

But I will agree that if you are running even 7min/miles for your easy and recovery runs, many get injured at 100 miles a week. Many do. And that disrupts their development in the worst way possible!

Interesting article on that: http://www.letsrun.com/news/2006/09/wejo-speaks-why-i-sucked...

But sure, I also agree - ultras versus marathons are different types of limits. Or mountain races versus marathons versus something like an ultra like Badwater.
Pardon my language but: no fucking shit. $20bil was unbelievably overpriced.

This is the one major tech stock that I simply do not get. ~$125 a user is insane.
It's about the personal calculus. It's easy to move to the US for work, if crap really hits the fan they can move back. The actual likelihood of that happening is minor, and if your young then it's rational to live in the USA for a 10-30 years and save up the huge compensation difference. If you stay long enough to reach 65, then you'll have medicare, and you can pocket the lower cost of living difference too.

Also employers pay for your medical insurance with pretty good plans, if you have a medical issue your paying at most ~$5k and $3k/yr for family medical insurance.

So universal healthcare isn't a good enough reason to not move to the USA. Also the US might get universal healthcare in that time span.
That's how student loans work in the UK.
It represents a moral judgement that it is absolutely not okay (or perhaps: irresponsible) to screw over n+y people for the actions of n people.
I use the right click context menu on the archive file to 'Extract Here' which seems to accomplish the same thing.
Who cares, I'd rather not know this and look elsewhere than work with someone who had this sort of attitude
> Lock-up expires 29 August [1].

Its actually the end of July for the first and most important IPO lockup expiry.

> The first key lock-up date for Snap will occur roughly 150 days following the IPO. At that point, pre-IPO investors, such as company insiders, will be allowed to sell their shares. The second major lock-up date applies to 25% of the shares that were offered in the IPO itself. Of the 200 million total IPO shares, 50 million of the shares will be restricted for one year.
As skeptical as I am that Snap will ever be a moneymaker, this data point is not meaningful in any way. Facebook traded below (often _well_ below) its IPO price for the first 15 months on the market.
What does $SNAP need to do to deliver on the hype? Is there anything that can make $SNAP a good investment for anyone other than the parties involved in trading the IPO?

I tend to be bearish on $SNAP in general, but I'm interested in the discussion. How do they right the ship and boost back up to that $25-30 range? What's their play?
Financially it does not matter for the founders that much anymore. Significant wealth has already been transferred and cashed out:

http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/insiders/spiegel-evan-1016829
$17.00 was the IPO price but only for investors with access. Your average investor with an eTrade account saw a price of $24.00+ when the market opened that morning, and it hit almost $27.00 that day. So those folks have seen a 30%+ drop since IPO.

Given that Snap paid out billions in IPO bonuses to executives and other employees, it's turned out to be a pretty big wealth transfer from retail investors to Snap employees.
I am always dismayed when I get back "it depends". depends on what? I want a pure cash price. however it has been this way for decades having listened to my grandfather back in the nineties trying to by his wife a wheelchair only to be told he could not buy one and no they would not give him a price. so he did what anyone of his generation did, goodwill, salvation army, and finally found one at a garage sale. he just didn't think it right someone had to pay for what he needed for his wife but damn if the system stymies people at every turn.

the new billing fun I have is required visits for prescription refills on some medicines and that to me is just overbilling in a different form. I didn't need to visit other than to get permission to refill; no it does not necessarily need to be a controlled substance
>you still usually need to get a replacement before the warranty expires

I think you're referring to the 2015 Charge HR. Manufacturing improved with later models and there are fewer defects.
You have a valid point about # and that it works on static site. I'm aware of that and I'll add this as a feature so you'll be able to choose on init().

Please explain me the part about back button on example.
I've reached out to my contact there. If the position is still available I'll setup an intro.
Convenience is already improved thanks to the internet. It takes a couple minutes to check what's showing in every theater in town, and you can watch trailers and reserve tickets on your phone.

Cheaper admissions would definitely be a benefit. The trend in Hollywood of eliminating mid-budget cinema and only making super expensive, lavish productions works against that as well.
Yeah, I agree completely. I just think that kind of behavior deserves a certain small amount of opprobrium ;-).
I see maybe one movie in the theaters a year. High ticket, food, and drink prices, along with bad seats, people using their smartphones in full brightness, and other bad behavior, have made it not worth it.
Following snapchats fluctuations about its stock price is somewhat interesting . To be honest though I'm getting fatigued on this. I remember when Facebook IPOed and we were getting similar posts. The fact that Snap was able to IPO and get money to become more competitive will have to wait for a few quarters though.
Not on the list, but I do enjoy listening to Helen Zaltzman's "The Allusionist" - very useful for broadening one's knowledge of the spoken language...
If these are $8 to manufacture umbrellas, they're not "generic". That is a huge manufacturing cost in China.

Plus they already had some sort of locking mechanism, don't they? (See second picture in the article, which seems to show a combination padlock on the stem - part you hold - of the umbrella.)

so these are already custom umbrellas. adding electronics may not be as expensive as you think, especially in China.
> I just don't know why I would ever enjoy the theater experience again, when it's just so damn difficult to enjoy a good film.

I apparently have Misophonia[1]. Movie theaters are nearly a kind of torture chamber for me. I've had to devise an approach for avoiding the super obnoxious popcorn chompers (the kind you can hear from the other side of the theater).

After years and years of desperately trying to figure out how to control such a thing bothering me, it was a relief to discover there's not much I can do about it. It's apparently neurologically hard-wired. For me it applies to a very narrow set of noises, one of which just happens to be loud/gross eaters (gulping, slurping, noises from eating with your mouth wide open, etc).

The rapid improvement in home theater tech has been particularly welcomed. I only go to theaters now when it's a movie I really want to experience super-sized.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/health/06annoy.html
Im assuming you're asking genuinely. If not please disregard.

I like seeing movies with friends but don't want to own furniture to accommodate guests since I have a small apartment. Of course maybe the theater is overkill for this but right now there's no middle ground as far as I know.
Well, let's flip it around. Would Bridge on the River Kwai have been a better movie if it depicted gruesome carnage?
These lists are usually characterized by having RadioLab in the #1 slot. I'm not saying I disagree, RadioLab can be amazing. But the lists do little good for a veteran listener like me if they're all mostly the same.

Other podcasts that frequent such lists are 99% Invisible, Planet Money, Freakonomics, and Stuff You Should Know. Newer lists will include Revisionist History. Those are all good podcasts, deserving of praise, but anybody who's been listening for any amount of time is well aware of them.
> Dunno about the others but Qt has a threaded render loop (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-visualcanvas-scenegraph.html#t...) (and also has no problem handling 1080p/60fps animations on embedded hardware)

Largely written by Glenn Watson, the primary author of Servo's WebRender, no less. :)
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