skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I imagine there are a decent chunk of Ring customers who would have not purchased the device had it been sold by Amazon in the first place.

I have a hard time feeling too much sympathy for these people. The inevitable conclusion for most of these heavily-vc-funded home automation startups is an acquisition by one of the tech giants. If you are boycotting the tech giants for whatever reason, you should therefore be boycotting any startup that might be an acquisition target.

also, if you're putting video cameras in your home that push footage to a server you don't control (or even one that you do) i'm not sure you can call yourself privacy conscious.
I worked for a company that was in 50K/ month spend in AWS there is basically 0 service. Now I work for a company with serious monthly spend in millions we pretty much can get access to competent eng. immediately.
Link Biao Incident
How do you define effectiveness? A company using a particular approach does not automatically imply that it's an effective way to do it. You can make any approach work if you invest enough resources into it.

To determine whether a particular approach is effective, it has to be compared against the available alternatives to determine whether it's effective or not. So, I'm a bit baffled by you saying that's a totally different point.

So, perhaps you can explain the metric that you're using here to define effectiveness.
>the neighbor kid just stole your package

Facial recognition is rather trivial and common-place these days I suppose but the association of that face with your neighbor's kid seems to take it a step further into invasive territory.
This isn't accurate at all. I know judges and entrepreneurs who have been on the show. For an entertainment TV show, it's pretty darn real.
Business is hard, whether it's hardware or software. I think a lot of software-based companies wish they were "doing like crap" the way Fitbit is -- navigating through a couple years of unprofitability using a large pile of cash gained through years of profit.

Disclaimer: I work for Fitbit but speak only for myself.
Why wouldn't an acquisition from Amazon help them achieve scale and meet some of those promises?
Can confirm. Oregon is terrible, and I've heard it's entirely full now anyway.
A cursory read of the graphics indicates that people with graduate degrees and higher-paying jobs are forcing the people with less money and less education out, and they are moving to states with lower costs of living.
On a side note, I believe this year we will see them acquire either RingCentral or Dialpad.
Hmm if this is similar to the hitchhiker’s paradoxon, then one would expect to wait 5 min for the next block by intuition, which is wrong and we have to wait 10 minutes. But i do not get why the intuition should be wrong by a factor of 4x (20 mins) instead by a factor of 2x (10 mins).
Democratic states moving into California and Californians mostly leaving for conservative states. Interesting.

There are multiple ways to interpret though.
Same with a USB mouse from 2003.
Interesting data, but:

"The graph below shows data from the Internal Revenue Service on the movement of income tax filers in and out of California since 1990. (Data on tax filers does not cover the entire population because some people do not earn enough income to necessitate filing taxes.)"

It also doesn't cover populations who don't pay taxes, and who get paid under the table.
Except that's precisely 1/28 of the regulators to which you are subject if you are an American company and, therefore, most likely don't have a lead regulator.
Remove Javascript and links to Javascript files that load ads, etc.

Preserve only the desired content: text describing the boards, links to manufacturers websites, links to images.
When am I just going to have a person come to wipe my butt?
Quarantine is rare especially between western countries.
Austin is already on the path of SV.

Perhaps you can keep Austin a containment zone for SF outcasts and the rest of Texas will be left alone.

City folk usually aren't fond of sprawling rural areas, so you have that going for you.
To be honest, I can't imagine a situation in which I would need a new law in order to have follow age of consent laws. Like, you are really complaining that if a user says they're underage, you have to treat them as such? Or that if you operate in multiple countries you have to look up the relevant laws? All of this seems like a basic requirement, and I'm honestly shocked that it was never an issue before.
They have certain limited responsibilities, but are on the whole not liable. In layman's terms, they're mostly not responsible, otherwise the RIAA could have bankrupted the whole internet years ago.

http://technology.findlaw.com/modern-law-practice/understand...
Continental crust is less dense than marine crust. So just
because the Himalayas are tall, they also displace denser
mantle below, so they don’t contribute much more to
gravitational pull.

The Andes and Indonesia are strong subduction zones. Besides
the crust on the surface, there’s another layer of (dense
oceanic) crust below adding to the pull.

-- Darren #44 comment at http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/31/the-earths-lumpy-gravity/

See, also, the following paper, which catalogs how the angle of subduction effects the gravimetric profile.

Harabaglia, Paolo & Doglioni, Carlo. (1998). Topography and
gravity across subduction zones. Geophysical Research
Letters - GEOPHYS RES LETT. 25. 703-706. 10.1029/98GL00137.
Numbers are just numbers. It's superstitious to attach negative connotations to something so amoral.
The middle class can no longer afford to remain in CA. A combination of egregious housing policies and other anti-bussines/anti-people regulations stifle the economic well being of it's inhabitants. It's sad to see people having to leave behind their friends and families, for all this. Not only are people leaving, but the birth rate for millineials in CA hasn't been this low since the great depression: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-birth-rate-...
It's crazy how many businesses think they're so awesome that no market would ever think they're better off without them.
Native Texan here. I and many other Texans I know welcome newcomers with open arms.

We all just have one message though: Please do not turn Texas into the places y'all are leaving. There's a reason y'all are leaving after all.

EDIT: Newcomers: We generally don't care what anyone does or thinks, we only care when people try to force us to conform to their beliefs, including what to do with our money, eg) raising taxes.

Wow, the back-and-forth on upvotes/downvotes is crazy. Sorry, didn't mean for this to be controverisal.
this is related to an article i just submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16478780

it costs too much to live here because of zoning. zoning is largely driven by local governments, dominated by homeowners who benefit when prices rise.

but california might fix it with sb-827, which would prevent local governments from banning density near transit hubs. california builds <100k units per year. McKinsey did a deep dive that shows that sb-827 could unlock 3 million units—this would be transformational.

https://standupcalifornia.com (this is my site supporting sb-827)

please, if you care about california, learn about these issues and support sb-827!!!
I have the same reaction/aversion to having my photo taken, for the same reason, but I’ve largely thrown in the towel on this one. The sheer number of cameras out there I have no control of or even knowledge of, plus the constant struggle of having to explain to everyone with a camera phone why I don’t want them to post my picture, plus the growing number of services that upload to the cloud by default... this is an unwinnable battle.

I’ve decided I don’t care if Facebook has my picture. It’s not like they can do anything to me. I don’t use their service, and nothing that goes on on Facebook affects my life.
Contrary to urban myths game consoles also don't do OpenGL, so AAA game engines always have multiple backends anyway.

And such studios prefer APIs that fully expose the hardware, and then build their own abstractions, than something that hides that extra performance features.

All major AAA game engines already support Metal.
I think some oriental cultures associate number 4 with death.
I'm pretty happy about that, and I think most other consumers are too.
A little off topic but how is SDL nowadays? I used it for a quick and dirty game back in my college days (13-ish years ago?) and I really, really enjoyed using it. It was very approachable and I could build it on my Windows and Linux PCs.
Lol, Oregon is full?
Does this do anything that Quip doesn't?
You're gonna have to provide a citation for that.
Bummer. I use their service and would have paid but they never asked. Good alternatives paid or otherwise?
Note that the lifetime of a bulb is quadratic, if not exponential, with its wattage.

The 100W bulb always lit in the living room will last 6 months but a 30W will do a decade.
This is my fear as well. As a Californian who's looking to move to Texas at some point in the future, I really hope the people leaving aren't taking "California values" to Texas with them.
It was not simply that they "nationalized oil" in my example, as the resources we're already state owned. You seem to not be serious with your comments.
OpenGL on OSX is stuck on 4.1, which is from 2010. It's not just a little of date such that you should begin migrating to Vulkan/Metal, it's ancient. It's old enough to not even have compute shaders (that's OpenGL 4.3)
nor does it include people who come to CA from outside the country
Would you please start commenting substantively, like the guidelines ask?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How much capital went into it though?

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ring#section-locked-...

Looking at that it looks like at least $200 million in funding was raised. The kinds of exits for software companies that have raised over $200 million generally look very different.
The data's pretty mixed on that. For outflow states:

Texas (#1): Solid R

Arizona (#2): R

Nevada (#3): Lean D

Oregon, Washington (#4, #5): Solid D

Colorado (#6): D

Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma (#7, #8, #9): Solid R

Georgia (#10): R

That's 6 R, 4 D.
Your own comment history is pretty negative and not particularly warm.
It's left ambiguous, but it's likely that any aggregate computed from personal data may also be considered personal data (i.e. how many unique IPs you've seen).
I was caught up in this, but luckily my hosting provider (MediaTemple) disabled my server due to the large bandwidth overruns.

It was fun to spend Sunday night hurriedly reading up on iptables. Still getting a lot of inbound traffic (everything is getting dropped), but thankfully no outbound now.
When I moved to LA in 1990, we were in a drought and DWP did raise it's rates to both accommodate for and encourage lower usage. After the drought though, oddly enough they didn't go back down...

My local water district here in NorCal raised it's rates 2 years ago during the height of the last drought as well...
Although, you should expect this with gentrification even when population remains the same, since wealthy people moving in are more likely to use professional movers.
San Diego is bleeding people to Austin.

I wish San Diego would just make it's own state, adopt Texas' taxes and it'd be hands-down the best place to be in the US.
It's like leaving road building to companies, it should be provided by the local government.
Engineering-wise, I think that makes sense (I'm not sure, I was never involved in the engineering side of things when I worked at an RTO, I was involved in the financials software). However, legally/economically there are big differences between distribution and transmission, and if we're talking about cost, it doesn't make any sense to bunch these into one as if they have the same cost structure. If anything, transmission and generation have more similarities in the way they're priced (at least as of a decade ago when I worked in that industry).
Cost of living correlates with urban life correlates with 'liberal'
Far less than it was between 1990-2006, as the source notes; the geographic and income distribution is interesting.
I'm not convinced this is a bad thing. What's wrong with having a higher educated, higher income populace?
If you're that worried, then stop scooping up every bit of data you find. Start asking if you actually need it.
> Perhaps you can keep Austin a containment zone for SF outcasts and the rest of Texas will be left alone.

They're definitely more pronounced in Austin. But, (in my opinion: un-)fortunately, both Houston and Dallas are feeling the effects too.
It’s too bad they’re destorying themselves. I say this as a LONG time subscriber (over 15 years) who only has cable to keep my TiVo working.

The new software update they released last year that overhauled the UI completely is a total disaster. Change for the sake of change.

It takes more button presses on different/additional buttons to navigate the menus. You can’t just use the d-pad and select. The menus aren’t hierarchies anymore, they’re just a mess you have to memorize. Fitts law doesn’t work as there are things at the top of some menus you don’t want to select so you can’t wuickly get to the top without then pressing down two or three times.

Their fantastic guide has been replaced by a generic one and a new... thing... that’s confusing as hell and worse than the old and new options.

Also, the guide data has been getting noticeably worse in the last two years or so.

I can’t go back to the old interface, and even if I could I imagine I’d be shoved forward again at some point.

I’m really questioning why I’m paying so much for cable and TiVo if my TiVo keeps making me mad and they’ve shown ZERO sign they actually understand the issues.

Sunk cost fallacy. Time to give it up guys and course correct. You pissed off all the loyal fans and aren’t drawing anyone new in.
As someone with former experience at IGDA and that dwelled in a few GDCE's, I think many at HN just don't get one bit as professional game studios work and how different the game developer's culture is from FOSS.

This is the world that was born from demoscene, where exploiting cool hardware specific tricks was more valuable than writing portable code.
If it's legal to own a pet, then in my opinion, it cannot be made illegal for a pet to live anywhere. The fact that hotels, businesses, landlords, or whatever can deny entry to a pet is simply ridiculous.

The same rules for humans should apply. If the pet is a nuisance, or destructive, or loud or whatever, then that pet can be removed just like a human would be removed in the same circumstances.
Scholars should begin emphasizing the need to refactor a number of times during the lifecycle of the software project.

We're not punching decks or estimating effort in terms of KLOCs, but MIS students still learn a linear model.
If that's true, it might not be very effective. Having seen the show a fair few times, I have only the vaguest idea of what the Sharks' interests are, other than FUBU--basketball owner? something to do with QVC?
"How would you subject the world to constant monitoring at all times?" Winston asked O'Brien.

"I'll make them pay for it. Enjoy it even." replied O'Brien

That's how the book should've ended.
Now imagine if California reverses course and enacts conservative-friendly policies - and turns into a red state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia
You're going to have to please up the civilly and substantiveness in order to meet the guidelines here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I appreciate the effort that went into making this, but I get really annoyed with analyses like this that show heatmaps comparing highly heterogeneous groups (in this case, states, income groups, age groups, and education groups) that use an absolute scale. Of course absolute migration looks extreme in NY and Texas compared to, say Missouri or Iowa. This would be a much more interesting story if they used a lift metric that controlled for state/group size and/or state/group migration volume.
I'd love for to investigate caffeine. At least in American society, coffee is the most utilized in office jobs and also seen as the most accepted.

Does this lead to a lack of scientific and corporate interest on the long term affects? What are the adverse affects on various job performance factors: quality of sleep, memory and attention, actual productivity vs perceived productivity?

Personally I'm an active drinker of caffeinated tea. And I feel less productive drinking it than when purely sober after a month of fasting in Ramadan. While this is a small sample size, and maybe not even correlated, I feel like year after year after re-introducing caffeine I lose productivity and eventually sleep.
> you say int is 32-bit which fits in JavaScript number just fine.

32 bits isn't actually enough for many uses today. Lists with more than 2^32 elements are not unheard of. File offsets larger than that are certainly a thing.

Dart only has a single integer type, so restricting it to 32 bits would restrict all users of integers to that size.

> Only dart did this crazy nonsense of an int type that is 2^53 sometimes and has methods like isNaN() on it.

isNan() is a method on num, which is the supertype of int and double, where it makes sense. (I don't know why they didn't define it just on double.)
Interesting that three of the top five destination states (Texas, Nevada and Washington) have no state income tax.
> work for cats and dogs
That could still be conditioning.

> deep pressure touch improves subjective relaxation
That could still be conditioning.

I'm not saying it definitely is conditioning, but I don't see enough evidence to rule it out.

For example, these animals could associate the pressure with the warmth and comfort of being the in the womb. So in a way they've been conditioned by being in the womb. Maybe animals grown in a 'test tube' wouldn't give the same results.
That's not how this works. You're not a "native Texan" but one of millions of American citizens born in the state of Texas. Texas is no more yours than any other citizen's.

There are no second class citizens in the US. If you move to New York, you become a New Yorker. If you move to Texas, you become a Texan. Just like your parents or grandparents did. This is one reason America society is great.

You have no right to tell anyone where or how to live. If you don't like Texas because other people are moving there, you're free to leave.

Welcome to a free country!

P.S.

If you don't like California things, then leave this web site, throw away your computer, smartphone, and most of your modern possessions, also all the crap Hollywood makes.
He mentioned marijuana, though. I can easily see all 49 other states legalizing pot with Texas being the sole remaining hold out. For the next 100 years.
avoid the spread by cross-checking and issuing a limit order. no fee on those, either.
Wow you can’t resell the car for profit? Absurd.
Engineer to Engineer: How Mabl Builds Cutting Edge Machine Learning
The graph introduced with that paragraph comes from IRS data, the total population estimate (and the other material that is not that graph) is derived from the American Community Survey (which is not restricted to tax filers.)
Sure... have worked over the last 15 years in software startups and large companies as everything from an engineer to an adviser.
A new algorithm can mimic your voice with just snippets of audio
I 100% solved my canker sore problem when I stopped using toothpaste. Apparently it is the Sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) in it that causes them in some people.

Give it a try. Can't hurt.
You want 2% property taxes at San Diego property values? Without Prop 13?
Professional game developers have been choosing proprietary APIs since ever.

They were the ones telling Sony that their efforts for having OpenGL ES 1.0 on the PS3 were not worthwhile pursuing.

OpenGL ES on the PS3 was barely used beyond prototypes and simple demos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_thinking

Basic theory:

To be creative is to have a divergent thinking pattern.
If you are very logical then you have a convergent thinking pattern.

High amount of intelligence has a negative corelation with creativity. You should have average to above average intelligence in order to be creative.

Convergent thinking helps you to come to accurate conclusions if you have all the facts in hand. It will help you ask the exact right questions that you need to come to a conclusion.
If there is ambiguity, there is a natural tendency to resolve the ambiguity before proceeding further. It is pretty binary. If there are 10 possibilities and 1 possibility is the right one then you think. Either the first possibility is the right one or the remaining 9 ones. So on and so forth till you get to the correct answer.

You also tend to be confident because you are consistent and past experience has reinforced your world views. You are focussed and plow through obstacles till you reach your goal.

Divergent thinking helps you to come to a wrong conclusion very quickly using only limited facts out of all the available facts. But this is a heuristic approach. You iterate and go off on tangents till you come to a unique solution which is ultimately correct after a long while and this process cannot be replicated. You get the answer first and the rationality of it later. You backtrack from the answer and add rationality to it later so it is logical and people around you, including you yourself can be convinced by it.

Basically, you aim for a goal and then go off on a tangent in a different direction. This different direction is a waste of time but you will learn something indirectly that will help you reach your main goal.

If you are logical, you use your intelligence in a conscious manner. If you are a creative type then you will let your unconscious brain guide you into a solution.

If you are the logical type and want to be creative, then the best way is to be obsessed about finding a solution. Do your best with your intelligence and then take a break. Like, go hiking, swimming or running etc. Then your unconscious mind will have a chance to come up with the solution and will give it to you.

People who are insanely creative know they are creative. There can be absolutely no doubt about it in their minds.
People who are highly intelligent and logical don't know that they are intelligent without external feedback from their peers. They are just surprised as to why others are slow or have a difficulty in understanding something when it is so very blindingly obvious to them. They just "get it!" and have high cognitive processing speeds.
Full of hippies. And rain. Unless you are in the east. Then its super-rednecks, dust, and meth.
It's hard to say with certainty that the emigrants are poor and uneducated.

It's just as likely that people are becoming rich and then leaving for lower tax states.

There are also stronger political incentives for richer folk. "An individual’s likelihood of being a Democrat decreases with every additional dollar he or she earns."

https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/economic-demogra...
I'd be happier if they fixed the damn microphone issues with the existing Nokia 8 first, or at least acknowledged the issue for those Nokia 8 users (myself included) who can't even make a call on this device: https://community.phones.nokia.com/support/discussions/topic...
Running ReasonML on AWS Lambda, the Complete Guide
Apparently. I'm just having a conversation. Have a pleasant day.
Xkcd: Code Golf
What's wrong with diversity?
iPhone of the cars?
Does it mean you will have to deal with some stupid or inferior solutions forever because Apple thinks it’s so perfect that nothing can be fixed?