skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We tell our customers to put their alexa devices into groups in the alexa app. It tends to help your situation quite a bit. For instance for our Lyric thermostats the default name assigned is "Lyric". So you can imagine the things that happen when telling your Alexa to "Make Lyric Warmer". Haha.

I'm not sure I understand - are you saying there's a way to put an Echo into a group so it understands where it is in some way? I don't see that option in the app anywhere, but maybe I'm just missing it!

If you mean to put the devices into groups so you can control multiple devices at once or come up with names that the speech recognition doesn't misunderstand, I do that - but at a certain point I gave up because the names would have no connection to the actual lights (my bedroom light is my name, which is a pretty common name - but the Echo mishears it pretty regularly). I can't help but think that for my case when Alexa knows I'm talking about a device & no device matches the understood text it should look at the other possible interpretations of the voice data to see if any of the likely ones.

The majority of my problems come from the lack of basic contextual understanding of where the Echo device exists in the house, which is a much more solvable problem than trying to consider multiple alternative interpretations of a device name!
This tends to realign the systems around serving the interests of that one large company, and historically has been a mixed bag. Finland's reliance on Nokia, Russia's on Gazprom and Saudi Arabia's on Aramco was good while it lasted.

For what it's worth US laready has large ownership stakes in such corporations as AIG, Amtrak, USPS, Freddie Mac, etc.
Slack is chat, its messages are sent and read by humans. Ably is a developer API, its messages are sent and read by machines.

Slack has a shiny user interface and a bunch of nice enterprise features. It's something you'd have everyone in your company sitting on their machine all day.

Ably is something nobody will ever see. It's an API that underlies other people's applications. Hell, Slack could run on top of Ably.

They're absolutely not competing. You're either misreading or deliberately misleading.
I wonder what Bezos's goal was in making the investment?

Doesn't sound like a profitable exit via acquisition, and while it may have turned out to be an income/value sort of thing... it probably didn't look like that then.

I also wonder that if he knew then what he can know now, if he would have made the same investment.
Making 100% code coverage as easy as flipping a coin
Professional sports are much more meritocratic than the tech industry.
What is Windows doing while hogging that lock?
Slack starts a V8 instance for every team you sign into. It is absurd on my W10 machine.

Running it on Edge is significantly better on battery life and it feels snappier.
Try "The Martian". Best SF book I've read in ages and very inspiring.
There are a couple of interesting alternatives available here in Germany:

1. lockboxes or cut-resistant package containers which are clamped to your apartment door and can be opened with a PIN, such as these https://www.paketbutler.com/ or these https://www.paksafe.de/

2. the DB train network is installing delivery boxes on train stations and subway stations, including refrigerated ones for food deliveries, allowing for pickup on your commute home

3. Smart cars (those tiny city hoppers most Americans seem to hate) can be outfitted with a small module that allows delivery services to access the trunk, turning them into mobile delivery boxes
People that aren't afraid of the hard stuff, and don't need software to wipe their ass?

Exactly the sort of shitty attitude that will get us nowhere.

I have seen a plethora of QT, GTK and other cross-platform applications that weren't only laggy as shit, but riddled with UI bugs.

I fucking hate that Electron is now an accepted way to build applications, believe me – but the reason we ended up in this situation is because "real programmers" failed to develop a framework that effectively dealt with developer and user needs.
Great feedback. It is proven (Adelson E. & Fraiberg, 1974) that sighted children need directed reaching (approaching, touching, feeling) to connect the visual system to movement. The same happens for echolocation, the user needs to "confirm" what he is hearing by touching it in order to establish a relationship between sound and space. Unfortunately, as you mention, many children are being limited by their parents in the process of developing this association, ultimately blocking the activation of the visual cortex and depraving the kid to develop spatial perception (which is fundamental to develop other skills).
We have tried the device with kids, although it takes a time to train them, when they understand what they are feeling they start to run everywere to explore the sensation. The band has worked so far as a catalizer of exploration, but we are also in the process of developing scientific data with our current partnerships to prove that this device can accelerate the time it takes for a blind person to develop echolocation skills as well as to remove initial barriers in the process of learning the skill (fear).
AI driven. Yeah, definitely.

Sorry folks, an interactive onboarding form is not AI.
We have digital assistants that can match photos by time+location+people and create complex results, why OSes don't have (natively) elaborated and user friendly alerts/solutions when apps do detrimental stuff like that?

We can blame Slack in this conversation but I think an equally interesting discussion resides on the OS side, who can avoid not only Slack to be so detrimental.

I think UX sometimes get too much attention on the flashy/entertainment side and performance/speed is overlooked (look the state of websites).
Sure, but that's the same with every other reseller: if you want more control over how they sell your things, you need to make a deal with them about it. Just because a seller is larger than others it's not suddenly a monopoly abuse if they legally resell your product. Saying "I don't want you to resell my stuff" is generally speaking not a right you have as a manufacturer (you might have leverage to stop misleading advertisement or misrepresentation of the product though).
- https://hckrnews.com/ (chronologic view for HN)

- https://lichess.org/ (prefer this to chess.com)

- http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first (start my morning with this news podcast)

- https://www.reddit.com/

- https://twitter.com
it is an incredibly poor use of existing resources and that it leverages tools very inappropriate for the task of creating cross-platform GUI applications

… because there aren't better tools.
http://www.oregonlive.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/radley-balko

https://www.theatlantic.com/ta-nehisi-coates/

https://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/matt-taibbi

https://hckrnews.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/americas/index.html

https://www.theskanner.com/

Also potentially interesting is the method of getting to them daily. I use favicon-only bookmarks on the same line as tabs in firefox. What do other folks do?
The original announcement from 2006: https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests...

It's interesting to see how their expectations appear to have lined up well eleven years later.
Of course, they're pushing the costs down to crappy vendors and contract people or stuffing packages for USPS to deliver using a loophole where USPS loses $2/box.

The post office is hiring people at $11/hr and working them 60 hours a week until they flame out.
Amazon would be losing a lot of money if not for AWS
> As a society, we don't know where to go.

For America, we could start by implementing well-tested and proven measures that have been effective across the western world (universal health care, quality education, etc.)
It's gentoo based. Just because its DE is basically just chrome doesn't make it any less of an OS. Hell, you can even run another OS in a chroot on it.

You'll get similar performance if you put your OS on an SSD, and select services that minimize your boot time.
> "Just open Chrome Dev Tools" or "put this in a file and run Node" are really strange computer tasks to someone who has never typed and executed code.

While not a perfect answer to the issue, I often tend to wonder whether or not we lost something in the transition from traditional microcomputers (Apple IIe, Commodore, TRS-80, etc) to the PC era...?

Actually, even in the early PC era, the PC booted to ROM BASIC; this was how personal microcomputers worked.

That said, in the very early history of personal computing, with machines like the Altair, IMSAI, and Sol - these machines "out of the box" (so to speak) didn't drop immediately into a ROM BASIC or "monitor"; they usually had to be "booted" off of some paper tape or other storage media hosting the boot process (I wasn't around during that period, but I wonder if that was only a part - if you then had to "bootstrap" your way up the stack to get to something useful? I know on the Altair, unless you had it set up in ROM to boot from, you had to hand-toggle some initial boot code in just to read the larger boot process from paper tape). All of this process was virtually identical to how commercial and larger systems were booted.

But the Apple changed this, and made the "personal microcomputer" accessible to the general public. Now, they could power it on, and get to a prompt of some sort. It still didn't do much, but it wasn't as arcane. All you had to do was type some stuff...and...you got something in return: A recipe filing system, a calendar, a poem, a maze, a game of some sort (Hunt the Wumpus!), etc.

This continued to be the case for (about) a couple of decades - the first real crack in this was the introduction of the Macintosh, but most people stuck with the other systems, with the Mac relegated to the desktop publishing realm mostly (at which it really excelled). Things started to really change in the late 1980s and early 90s - mainly because of the introduction of more usable versions of DOS and (later) Windows. Thus, the PC era was born.

People began to stop being creators (of software) and started to become consumers instead. Not that this was necessarily a bad thing - there were still creators of course, but this marked a split; there were now two distinct camps being formed.

With this, though, began the difficulty in teaching programming - if you didn't know how to get to the interpreter or compiler, you would have a difficult time learning.

So here we are today. Fortunately, the answer seems to be coming from the web: There are more than a few sites out there that let you examine, edit, and run code all from your browser, for more languages than you might have thought existed (and new ones are added constantly). It isn't the same as it was (from when I was a kid), but maybe in a way it is better: Help - whether from others or from some other resource, is just a few clicks away (no longer do you have to thumb thru magazines or books trying to formulate an answer)...
Why are some people “carboholics”?
- my personal news aggregator, fed by dozens of different sources, branching out to hundreds.

- Google

The rest varies from day to day, depending on what i'm working on. It can be anything from Github to Sci-Hub and everything in between. I'm currently restoring and expanding a 17th century farm house so add sites about swapping rotten logs in a log house to the mix ('just lift the house, remove the rotten bits and put fresh logs in'. Which works fine, task accomplished using 2 €40 20 ton capacity hydraulic bottle jacks and some logs I had lying around).
The real difference with Amazon is that they have this captivating story that allows them to not make money. The whole enterprise is very fragile.
your argument seems to be "chemicals are numerous & complicated, therefore all new complex chemicals are okay"

the compounds that've been in strawberries for thousands of years are somewhat known items and lower risk than ones invented yesterday or even 20 years ago in a Dupont/Monsanto laboratory. The issue is that we have a business and political system that is highly incentivized to start adding contrived and novel substances to the environment at a massive scale and speed never before seen in nature. In recent times it's all to easy to introduce excess carcinogens and endocrine-disruptors into most homes or kill off large number worlds of honeybees. The effects merit careful consideration and regulation.
The most enlightening comment there was the one that contained this:

"Still I ended up north of $3k for hardware, and several hundred projected work-hours. A lot of the cost comes from needing 50-100 transducers to get a useable image."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13231831

So you can make a very low cost one, but you trade off what use cases it's good for.
Want to make an app that people use in the background? Music player? Chat app? Backup? Antivirus?

Then for gods sake make it lean. Set a resource budget and stick to it. Don't assume your product is a special snowflake that your users will want to waste resources on.

The easiest way is usually to just use a native toolchain and UI. Your users don't care how easy it is to find js devs.
Iain Banks said he wrote The Culture series as a response to the authoritarian military science fiction of the 1960s. While not exactly utopian (The Culture is rather imperialistic), the books show a positive possible future. Banks's writing reminds me a bit of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide.
What's it doing in there? Refreshing the screen on every frame, like a video game?
Maybe I'm an outlier, but turned out I don't care at all for asking home assistant various questions. I have GH and my usage is mostly limited to "turn on/off lights" and "set timer". It's just that moments like "we need to ask what movie someone also starred at" are not really a part of any conversations we have at home, and if we really need to look some info up we will do it looking at screens.

Google Home being ridiculously bad at how it works doesn't help either - it feels like it's getting worse every week. I hate it how it understands me from fifth attempt now, I'm tired of hearing "I cannot help with that" 3/4 of the time for the same command or just listening for a minute and then do nothing. And it's not a matter of dusted mics. And not even starting on all that nonsense as declaring company name many times a day as a wake word, still absent reminders and frigging fiasco with shopping lists. Yet another "let's start with first iteration of product and then move to something else leaving it half-baked, because ADHD and we can"

(edited typo)
Lawsuit seeks Ajit Pai’s net neutrality talks with Internet providers
Citation needed. And besides, even if true, police officials are temporary. Putin is _permanent_.
Cool, and when will servo go mainstream ?
What about the link you posted? It's... a paper with uncomfortably wide lines that hurt readability and grey text (why is it always grey) which ditto. The only interesting thing are the animations, but that's only really useful in a small percentage of works (even here it comes off as gimmicky) and you can just link it in the paper anyway.
Show HN: JSize – Easily compare npm package size
Sure - any industry that employs only True Scotsmen.
That's as debatable as it gets. I'd say there's a strong argument that societies more aware of the truth, while perhaps being subject to more conflicts, are better off.

If more people are aware of the truth than more people are equipped to act appropriately. And if more people knowing the truth means that societal systems collapse, then maybe we need new, better systems.

By your logic people should be tricked into believing fast food is healthy in order to help prop-up the US economy.
I totally agree with above.
I find a lot of new bands and albums through Spotify and YouTube (and last.fm before that), and I listen to them repeatedly just like the old mix tapes from friends that I started out with back in the day.
I think this kind of deep inspection of an artist or album is something that certain people do regardless of the availability of music.
iamplus buttons are using 2009 bluetooth 3.0 technology in 2017 and selling them as high end earbuds for 200 dollars. in what world is that high end, will.iam? you think IoT users don't know the difference? i have every expectation that if he has any input, he will drive the price up and destroy the product.
Well, to be fair, it is much more than just a "chat application". It's now voice, screen sharing, etc.

They've built a lot of features with chat being at the core.
As others have noted, the solo founder list is filled full of people that had immense help from other people, typically from day one.

For example: Henry Ford

He had half a dozen people building his first vehicle for him, most of them contributing their time to help at no cost, while he directed the implementation/vision/ideas. This is the first version of his quadricycle vehicle [1] he built in his little shed. Ford did some early experimentation work on his own, it wasn't very long however before he invited some extremely talented specialists to join in helping him, just to basically see if they could all pull it off. Ford had a high talent for gathering skilled specialists to follow him (messianic leader, he managed to do it throughout his career), all of which were better at specific tasks than he was (whether blue print drafters, or metal workers). Solo founder? Ford Motor wouldn't exist without Ford and it wouldn't have existed without the critical day-one contributions of those particularly talented people (some of which stayed with him for many years). When Ford built the Model T, he pulled together a very small team of hyper talented people just like with the quadricycle, and they did the actual work / implementation, while he played general (to take nothing away from that role, it's at least as critical as the other roles).

Ford as a solo founder is a big stretch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Quadricycle
Amazon tries to make it hard to find this, so it's top of my bookmarks file:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions....
How would this work when a team member attempts to screen share or video/audio call?
My two forum sites, Gmail, Discord and YouTube. Though that's less 'almost daily' and more 'every twenty minutes or so'.

I would include Hacker News in there too, but hey, I visit that somewhat less than the sites listed above. Same with Medium, The Admin Zone and various subreddits.
I rented a PO Box for years. They have big parcel lockers and the the key in your box, once you open the parcel box, you cannot remove the key.
I lived briefly in Koln, my local DHL driver was a fucking asshole. Driving by my home, marking me as "not home", not leaving the notices and shit. It was always the same guy, I literally saw him pass by me waiting for him, then checking the delivery status it was marked as "undeliverable" or "recipient not home". What a fucking dickhead.

The DHL member card allowed me to send packages to the nearest post office or a Packstation. I just used the former. The cunt actually tried to tell me it was for German citizens only, I told him to give me the fucking package (containing the membership card) and get lost. Turkish piece of shit.
It's like a snapshot of 10-15 years ago haha:

- http://fark.com/
- http://geekculture.com/joyoftech/
- http://pcweenies.com/
- http://theonion.com/
- http://collegehumor.com/
- http://jnaudin.free.fr/
- http://snap.com/
I thought no the easiest way to understand is this:

You could spend 1 million dollars a day for 270 years before you ran out.
Their Head of Product couldn't come up with a more explanatory or relevant title for his introduction? Or, at least, use a more expansive title for the HN submission?
Looks like Aaron Swartz's vision for the free, collective ownership of mankind's scientific knowledge is well on its way. I wish he were still alive to see Sci-Hub in action.
Am I the only one who's like -- you've raised $80M (another $250M on the way?), this 404 page exists, and yet your app still uses over a Gig of RAM for my rather pedestrian work uses? What gives?
Yes, except only USPS can deliver to the key boxes installed on my property currently.
Finnish Posti also started installing those in 2011, now they have ~500 of them (~1 per 11000 pop).

They've also recently started installing similar machines to apartment buildings (somewhat similar to OP Amazon things I guess).
Did Peter Drucker actually say “culture eats strategy for breakfast”?
Thanks! That reminds me I should donate to Sci-Hub!
I've run into at least one annoying firmware bug on every desktop motherboard I've used in the past decade, including a flagship product from ASUS. Nobody's perfect or even close to it. The two ASRock boards I have in use at the moment don't seem to be any worse than the two ASUS boards I'm using.
nurtitionfacts.org is run by Michael Greger who is a vegan animal welfare crusader. Many of the articles have a factual basis but there is cherry picking to promote animal free diets so it is not an unbiased source.
Did you look into Akka.NET? If so why'd you pick Orleans instead? I had a similar use case and just want another opinion.
I noticed that as well. I think it may have been manual in this case, going by what I've observed in the past. YC has some idea of what it doesn't want on the front page of its forum, and has paid staff who remove it.

There are algorithms promoting and demoting content too, but afaik they don't have this effect. They either flag posts e.g. if detected as spam (which isn't the case here), or they penalize them, which might push them down to the second or third page, but not remove them from being ranked entirely. A page remaining unflagged but removed from ranking is more unusual, and I think in the past has been manual intervention.
Anything beyond few words direct answers is much better to see on screens.
I'm a little curious how it would stack up vs an index or Amazon stock.
Yes. We seek a balance in our fiction, good/boring times demand grit in our fiction and vice versa. This is why I (and many others) are more excited about The Orville than the new Star Trek series, which looks like more torture porn.
What Can Lunch Tell Us about Job Satisfaction?
I have often wondered if it is sexism or women getting used to how men treat each other.

Currently, I am a data scientist, but prior to that I was an air traffic controller (ATC). ATC training was brutal. You come in at 0530 for work/training, and you better be ready for a simulator first thing in the morning. Make a mistake get ready to be berated in front of everyone, and be scheduled to work the weekend. If you did well, you got to control real planes that day and you better perform exceptional while answering your trainers questions or forget controlling tomorrow. Questions would include, what is the separation between a heavy and small on final inside the approach gate? What is the radial and DME for xxxx point? What ABQ center's frequency?

We treated everyone the same - men and women. Women would often cry, yet they understood they weren't being treated differently from their male counterparts as every trainee was treated as s*. We had a 20% success rate with roughly 2 years of training. When you became a certified controller, it was a big deal and for males, every controller in the facility would punch the metal ATC badge into your chest the day of your final rating- it was a rite of passage.

Men treat each other differently and test each other differently, women are just learning this it seems.
Even just to go to your mailbox? I routinely walk in the door from work, change into some more comfortable clothes (which may or may not have pockets), and then grab keys to go get my mail. I'd say I don't have my phone most of the time I do that.
I don't know the reason. I just know enough to discard the "portable applications must be bad" hypothesis.

If I'd have to guess, I'd say that all of your examples sucked in different ways and it is not a general trend.