skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument is an interesting one, but advanced in a flawed way. Right off the bat he argues that the lock is "unusable", and does not do so in a very persuasive way. In the consumer smart lock space, August does not seem to be lagging compared to its competitors. (It is available at Home Depot and other hardware stores, and the note by Matt Burns is not cited.) He then argues that the acquisition was primarily for the Wal-Mart deal, which is also questionable- so is the idea that Assa Abloy will switch the contract to use Yale locks, instead? He then jumps to the easy generalized targets against the current irrational exuberance of SV, without naming any other specific cases, except for Fitbit. A more persuasive essay would have tried to quantify the phenomenon, maybe it's specific to IoT, or consumer hardware, but the author only names two companies and dismisses them both.

Overall the angle that an acquisition is the sign of failure is an interesting one during this time of great froth, but this essay doesn't do enough to express it.
For most gifs, I use licecap for the capture and save to a Dropbox folder. Works well if you're sharing with customers or users, in a one-on-one setting. Quicktime Player has a screen capture mode if you need higher quality videos.

My wife recommends https://www.useloom.com/ for you, though I myself have not used it.
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The sources are books published by Sudbury Valley Press. I don't have any source other than that one. However this fact hasn't been disputed by neither former students or outsiders, from SVS or other schools of the same model; so I'm very inclined to believe them.

Note that dyslexia seem to affect about 10% of the population independently of culture, wealth or social status, so it's more striking that there was not a single former student that said "I had/have dyslexia" or similar.
Show HN: Keylogger for MacOS to run without permissions
Personally, I still don't like these web apps. I want something that run local. I am not sure if only runs in the cloud or will there be a local version or not.
People holding a different opinion than you aren't automatically assholes. Maybe they think their show isn't weak, did you even consider that outrageous option for a moment?
If a bike needs battery replacement, you're doing it wrong.
Gowers also has an entry in the Very Short Introduction series, which you might like:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mathematics-a-very-s...
I'm not sure how that's true. Do you have a reference on why it's a rewrite of Jekyll, or is it just because Jekyll and Hugo do the same thing and Jekyll was there before Hugo?
That's a good point too and something we hadn't considered. Would it work if the package was just delivered in the mail as usual and they could open it when they got home as something to look forward to?
Uber asks drivers to pay $115 for a shot at extra Halloween earnings
They didn't have to bother during the recession.
Literally any other. I'm unaware of any alternative so unreliable.

There was a post on LinkedIn last year, "MongoDB: The Frankenstein Monster of NoSQL Databases"[0], by the CTO of SlamData, which I think produces an analytics package for MongoDB or the like.

The piece is an interesting dive into why MongoDB is what it is (at least as of March 2016) -- and given his connection to MongoDB and its employees -- being a partner of theirs -- it's quite eye-opening (and I'm surprised with almost 200 comments in this thread that no one posted it previously):

Much like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein monster, MongoDB’s data access layer is sewn together from ragged pieces that don’t fit together. Pieces that were never designed to fit together.

The result, depending on your point of view, is either an Enterprise-grade NoSQL database destined to supplant Oracle, or an unholy abomination of nature, deserving of an angry mob bearing torches and pitchforks.

Let me dissect this creature so you can decide for yourself.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-frankenstein-monster-...
Missouri's HQ2 Proposal Includes Hyperloop [pdf]
Yup. See also this recent followup from him: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2017...

Literally the papers are "I built a thing, and it gets faster when you do this thing to it." There's no condition on whether the base case is realistic.

To be clear, I don't think the authors of the papers he's taking down are bad people, or maliciously trying to get publications for uninteresting work, or too stupid to implement things efficiently on a single core, or anything. I think they're genuinely interested in the work they're doing, but responding to the pressures of the environment that allows them to keep doing that work.
Turn signals...

Could it just be a small and lightweight LED panel that flashed a bright arrow pointing in the intended turn direction?

With LED, it can be pretty efficient and still be really bright. I would think a blinking bright arrow would be fairly universally understood.
I feel like Orville goes too far in the campy/goofy direction and Discovery is too dark and serious. I wish we could just take the average of the two.
The Rearview Radar exists because of how terrible seeing behind you is on a bicycle. I ride a recumbent tricycle, and I simply have a mirror on the side which I can easily keep an eye on; due to my sitting position I conveniently behold the road before and behind me, unlike a road bike where it’s constant effort to do the same.

I really wish recumbent tricycles were more popular. The story of the exclusion of recumbents from races is rather sad.
I'm going to reach out to the OP and see if he'd like to collaborate on it, to basically just put a good front-end on the analytics he's already pulling. Fingers crossed — hope to have a Show HN for y'all sometime soon!
The furthering of a wealthy individual's agenda through philanthropy is essentially anti-democratic.
Western employees reviewed 8 big Chinese tech companies they worked for
NYT tries to frame it as if the rules of science were unfairly changed. Not so - people had just been overly lax for a while. And sorry, NYT, but scientific knowledge is not a matter of opinions and goodwill. We can not simply decide her theories are true after all, because we empathize with her so much.
Brake lights would be a great addition, however. During fast stops, especially while commuting, it's nearly impossible to signal.
I would like to see American magazines taking a more critical look at these lights. Like virtually all bike front lights sold in the USA, the Garmin UT800 has a circular beam, making it pretty much useless for anything. Proper bike lights have asymmetric projection beams that put the light on the road, not up into the sky. Unfortunately an American bicyclists who wants one of those lights is pretty much obligated to import one from Germany, where bicycle lighting is a matter of law. It seems really weird that these very bright, very expensive flashlights are the only thing available in US bike shops.
> Just look at your average bicycle light set, even after I don't know how long we still can't make a set that lasts more than a couple of years.

You're probably right about the average bike lights. But the good folks at Light and Motion make some incredible products. USB-rechargeable, bright, easily removable, and pretty durable in my experience.

http://www.lightandmotion.com/
Google Cloud Storage

I quite like that it comes with command line util so it's easy to sync up changes with one command.

It's also dirt cheap if you have modest traffic. I doubt I'll spend anything significant. Maybe a few cents?

As an aside: I am changing my opinion on static site generators.

They make things harder because you need to learn the generator syntax. The programming constructs in Hugo for example are woefully inadequate for anything serious. For example you can't parse a date as far as I can tell.

My solution for the next static project is to use the web framework I am used to (in my case ASP.NET MVC) and knock it up in that. I can use output caching and read from resource files to get the static site performance and not deal with a DB.

When I need to customize I will save a lot of time and frustration as I can just do what I need to do from experience.
I wish I didn't have to choose between Docker for Windows (which requires Hyper-V enabled) and Virtualbox (which requires Hyper-V disabled afaik) on Windows 10, both are useful.
VersionEye was a great tool that filled a need. Unfortunately newer players like Greenkeeper for JavaScript are much more advanced and have a deeper integration with GitHub.
Do you not have a modern car, with their many buttons on the steering wheel?
Do any of these static generators keep configs and themes with wherever you happen to upload your static content "example: github"?

Just curious if moving from one machine to another if it's easy to download something like Gutenberg , clone your git and start working?
no, they want to make my bike as smart as someone who bought a lot nicer car than me. it's already easier to change gears on my bike than my car.
Not sure of others, but not true with Couchbase. You have queries just as flexible as with SQL.
With current resolution, I don't think it's worth it. Probably in a generation or two.
I agree with you but Shimano has kind of built their entire business in the bicycle market on planned obsolescence, changing the number of gears to make equipment incompatible every few years and then making the highest end shifting electronic (and incompatible with prior versions) when they reached the practical limits of chain width for bicycles (they tried introducing a new standard chain size for bicycles that required replacing all the drive train components but that got rejected by the market, also they had more competitors back then). On the other hand Shimano dominates the bicycle market for bicycle components now and it's still only a tiny portion of their business - they sell a lot more fishing equipment.
If everyone is getting $500 why wouldn't the landlords raise rents by $500?
>Learning a language is simple

>Too many ifs, sorry but those sound like the same excuses people say when they explain why they can't travel (more). You have to figure out what your priorities are, and if you really want something you'll find a way

If re-arranging your life and integrating yourself with a foreign society is simple, then we must have our definitions mixed up.
You could boycott Lenovo-branded machines while not boycotting ThinkPads. As far as I know, ThinkPads have been beyond reproach. It's a valuable brand for Lenovo, and it acquired the whole IBM division, not just the name.

I managed to be a ThinkPad fanboy for decades while despising IBM ;-)
If the change resulted in you being less able to do what you did before because of a higher mental load from the environment, that would be evidence against having improved intelligence.
I too prefer my echo chambers to be free of wrong-think.

None of that controversy in my safe space either.
Has working with headphones on worked for you?
The 72 days challenge to make 2017 legendary
Electronics, if weatherproofed properly, will last a very long time. They don't have any wear and tear like mechanical parts so I'm not sure what would degrade other than the battery or misc connectors.
HN does a ton of censorship. Ex.

Communism is responsible for 100s of millions of deaths world wide, it is way more vicious and evil than say Nazism or any other ism. Yet somehow if I post a communist opinion here (on a political topic) or actively say that I am a communists while bashing capitalism, that goes under the title of free speech and moderators do nothing about that (as far as I can see). Now, imagine if I came out in that same political discussion saying that I am a Nazi. That would get flagged and removed right away even though that's a much less evil position to hold.

It is clear to me that HN moderation is biased. I am for 100% total and free speech. The worst and the best of humanity should be able to say their piece. But in my mind there is no denying the fact that HN moderators are biased. Merely mentioning the evils of communism is sufficient at times to get your comments removed and give you warnings -.-
You're right, it doesn't. I thought it did, but it doesn't. Even uninstalled F.lux on it because I thought it would. Its my partner's laptop nowadays. I reinstalled F.lux on it. Thanks for the heads up
> without the risk of being stolen

There's tech for that, too. ;-)
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I support you, what you say is true.
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Shameless self promotion but my static site tool Static-Fire is based off Git. Everything from the config to the python source to the articles you write is all in the same repo.

https://github.com/cusiman7/Static-Fire
The youtube video mentions BDNF. The hilarious 'Exercise boosts brain power' video https://player.vimeo.com/video/16335377 of http://brainrules.net/brain-rules-video says "BDNF are created when you exercise".

Highly recommended book BTW, IMHO a must for anyone who learns as it explains scientific brain research in layman's terms. It explains how we humans are ruled by our brains. When you understand your brains better, you can make better use of them. In conjunction with Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy Baumeister, a golden couple.
Yeah it's bad news bears. Save yourself. Leave as soon as possible. You won't regret it.
Agree, and also I would distinguish between Couchbase Enterprise Edition versus Community Edition.
Ligo/Virgo uses a number of extraordinary means to cancel out things like earthquakes or rumblings, local vibrations and so on. But I wonder if you had 1000's of mile of fiber in disparate parts of the world if it would be possible to cancel out the noise and see gravitational waves? Probably not, shrug. But still I find it a fascinating thought. Also, cool idea to measure earthquakes.
Part of the point is you don't need so many joins.
The structure for systemic corruption is there and the best argument you can make is for "one paper". Yes, I agree with you - but that's not what we're talking about at all.
This is an example of stupid and moronic behavior by Uber. They already get their cut.

Do not bind the mouths of the kine who tread the wheat...
Do you manage time so that there is planned downtime? Like no moderating weekends or 8/40/5? Or is it a mostly 24/7 look-at-all-new-posts thing
Here's a system that's gameable, but no more gameable than other things our society seems to be fine with: have peers evaluate you for the quality of your work as opposed to your outputs. Retain people whose peers say "They do good work," even if they don't have a flashy success or novel discovery to show.

This is roughly how private industry works. I'm of course asked in job interviews about my successes, but the primary thing that determines whether I get a job, how much I get paid, whether I get other people to work with, etc. isn't what my past successes are, it's my ability to convince my peers that I am a steady and good worker. If I maintained some tech stack for two years, my employer is happy to let me continue doing that, and other employers are happy to hire me to maintain similar tech stacks, without me having been like the one person in the world to figure something out. (On rare occasion, I am, in the sense that I'll fix something upstream that's been challenging, and employers do value that! But there's no, e.g., "fix upstream bugs or perish" culture.)

As in private industry, it's gameable because it allows people doing poor-quality work to vouch for other people doing poor-quality work. But it's hard to game this long-term, because people interested in doing good-quality work will tend to find others who do, and in aggregate -- from a large number of such people working together over a period of time, not from any one individual -- these people will produce more measurable results.
Actually, the trend with NewSQL goes towards providing CAP consistency, even with multi-master replication.

Google’s Cloud SQL is a good example of that, by using TrueTime as transaction id, and an MVCC implementation, they are able to provide consistency, while also being good enough on the other metrics.

Some NewSQL implementations copy that concept, but unless you run GPS clocks yourself, you’ll get slightly worse results.
>A single interrogator can cover some 40 kilometers of fiber, Biondi says, and monitor a virtual sensor every couple of meters.

Earthquake engineer here. This is the cool part. We've got plenty of data to detect and locate any given earthquake occurred. And we have maps that show approximately how hard the soil is under any given site. But the intensity that any building sees is still only known to +-50%, mostly due to variation in the subsurface conditions that we don't have enough resolution to model.
I learned French, (some) Arabic, and (some) Chinese with TPR and TPRS. It was a lot of fun, actually, and I had previously found language learning hard. I also took French in college, with the Rassias Method, so it was a second go round for me.

I learned from a French professor friend who trains all her second language acquisition grad students in TPR and TPRS. One of her students has had great success teaching elementary, middle, and high school students French using these methods.

I've seen a few non-teachers who have learned TPR/TPRS to teach their languages in the US; languages like Tamil.
Maybe it will encourage building new apartments?
Softbank has an office there.
Checking /active makes sense, but once the rank for a story plummets, there's essentially a cap on comment activity. New people don't get brought in, and over time the existing commenters dwindle. So I'm not sure that would quite accomplish what I'm looking for.

Regarding YC companies, I totally understand and trust that you and other moderators are not killing negative stories on YC companies. But I've noticed that sometimes these stories just disappear, and I don't know if this has anything to do with the fact that YC founders likely have high karma and are likely friends with other users with high karma. This is why I used the word "inadvertently" in my description of this — I truly think it may just be an artifact of how the algorithms interact and the fact that YC founders may end up having more clout than the average commenter. Basically, I don't know what powers are unlocked at different levels (I know new users can't downvote comments, for example), and I wonder if high-karma users have powers that I (~2700) do not have. And even if they don't have explicit powers, does their downvoting or flagging have a much bigger impact on whether comments or stories are killed?

Thanks for weighing in. You and the other folks who handle hn@ emails have always been prompt when I emailed with questions.
It's already impossible to park a non department store bike of any value anywhere in an urban area of the United States without the risk of it getting stolen. It's probably one of the factors in why some people might not commute for errands even if everything else was favorable - a bike decent enough to warrant a ride is a target for thieves. The bike thief community in San Francisco/Oakland/Santa Cruz has been thriving since all the locals I know here have been kids in the 80's (when Lemond revived the upscale bike industry in the USA.)
Huh, I think it has been common knowledge for quite a while that drunk people usually can not consent?
I agree with you to be cautious not to assume either of these with certainty, but just to play devil's advocate:

Assuming that self-driving car tech gets to the point where it's viable as a business, why _wouldn't_ you assume that it'd be huge? Trucking alone is a massive ~$700 billion/year industry in the US (https://www.selectusa.gov/logistics-and-transportation-indus...). Even if you gain only a few % points of that for autonomous vehicles you're sitting on top of billions in revenue. The auto industry adds another ~$600 billion/yr on top of that. Sounds pretty big to me, and there's lots of room to grow from there.

Now, as for monopolies in the market, I don't buy it quite as easily, but I can see it due to the usual "rich get richer" effect. Not to mention training data -- any self-driving company that starts to serve more rides will be accumulating more training data, allowing them to improve their product more and making it that much more difficult for second-in-lines. Look at Wal-Mart, where competition requires big infrastructure, they're bigger in market cap than their closest 5-10 competitors put together.
> Sexism comes out in target choice, and the strength of which ones chases their prey, and the vehemence of attacks.

Gelman regularly eviscerates the research of Brian Wansink on his blog, in the exact same way that he did to Cuddy.
I've been enjoying using ArangoDb
Even having gears at all can be a bit annoying, with the newer groupsets having a million gears in the cassette and proprietary chains. I really love my fixed gear.
Lots of negativity in here. Most bikes with DuraAce components already aren't the sort of thing you'd leave out on a city street unattended.

One cool thing that stood out to me was that these monitors will transmit data over ANT+ or Bluetooth. As someone who already tracks all my workouts w/ a Garmin watch, I welcome the ability to track more metrics like power output. Gives you a good way to objectively track your progress over time when training for events and can help you gauge the impact of sleep, alcohol, etc on your performance.
What changed are browsers. The original advantage of bootstrap et al where grids and standardisation. These initial use cases have been subsumed by browsers, and bootstrap offers little more than a useless level of redirection.

Then, bootstrap added what I want to call widgets: small functional units that can easily be reused. Here, as well, browsers have changed dramatically. At the time bootstrap came out, these widgets required browser-specific, inscrutable hacks like negative margins, spacer pixels, and other crimes against htmlanity. Relative to 10 years ago, all of today's browser engines are identical, and CSS has added all these typical use cases.

What remains is more or less a skin changing html's defaults to something that may be prettier, or just not weighed down by the stigma of being the default.
As far as I'm aware, there isn't really anyone strongly against it, there just aren't enough (wealthy) people who are strongly supporting it.

The main barrier by far is funding, which my understanding is mostly comes from large (6-7 figure) funders.

So, some "opposition":

- Apathy

- Desire to not spend money / pass on majority of wealth to future generations

- Lack of knowledge

- Belief that donating to MDMA/psilocybin research isn't an effective way to donate money

I think the biggest one is just wealthy people, understandably, are hesitant to donate their money. Logically it seems many of them understand that they won't be able to spend through it all and will still have substantial resources for future generations, but emotionally I imagine it would be hard to cut a $5 million check to a non-profit.

I don't think it's a lack of billionaires aware of MDMA - there should be more than enough billionaires from the burning man crowd alone.