skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it does make for a better experience on mobile they could change behaviour based on viewport size, although that might confuse someone that expected it to behave the same on mobile and desktop. And anyway, don't you have a tab key on your phone's soft keyboard?
The main benefit of Bloom filters is that they can be made small. Given that his database takes only 70MB or so and he's not trying to ship this to devices that might have much in terms of space limitations, there would appear to be little point.
Because Google actually wants iOS users to use Google Maps.
Stop. Rewind.

You are calling a 17 year old person a "child". This is wrong, and perfectly in keeping with the trend of failing to raise children into mature adults.

17 year olds will be able to vote on their next birthday. They can hold jobs, they can drive cars, they can fly planes, they can even serve in the armed forces with their parents' permission. 17 year olds fought in the battle of Iwo Jima.

Calling this person a child diminishes them, and takes away their capacity for agency and responsibility. A big part of being a healthy, functional adult in society is responsibility. You can nurture them within a loving community all you want but if you protect them entirely from the consequences of their actions they will never become anything more than children.
Simply rebranding basic hardware isn't going to compete with the likes of Apple.

Cheap and cheerful (read: shoddy) hardware would quickly damage the Ubuntu brand, and the good hardware is locked up tight by the big brands. Canonical would need to put in some serious volume or R&D of their own to get good hardware that would lead to a viable Ubuntu hardware brand.

Ubuntu users, at least at the moment, are quite picky about the specs of their PCs.
Interestingly I was expecting him to have much better presentation/communication skills though. I guess being an successful entrepreneur has nothing to do with that.
Why do you think Google even has Maps ? Advertising.

iOS users greatly outnumber Android in mobile internet use hence it would be stupid of Google to leave money on the table and not build an app.
In London there are electric car chargers all over the centre in parking bays. People have them at home too. Some people just seem to use cables out of the window.

You can drive without paying the congestion charge so they are quite popular.
"something totally unreasonable (like a patent agreement legitimizing Android)"

Doesn't strike me as that unreasonable.
While I agree that his moves (he) are brilliant, we still have to see widespread impact of his companies apart from PR waves. What I like most about his companies is they share a common vision that, at least to us outsiders, gives a notion of futurism combined with altruism and hardcore business. Rare event.
I do not, as a principle, click on Tim Ferris links, or that wine guy, or various other self-promoters. A hardline, yes, but it's a choice I have been happy with.
That depends on its size, though. You can make it larger and get fewer false positives.
Eh, true, I guess redis is sufficiently awesome.
Here is one way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism

Anarchy does not necessarily imply a society with a lack of structure or law.
Myspace.

Now does EVERYTHING.
I hope I'm wrong and that the troll isn't a sociopath.
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I find it interesting that several groups are converging on similar decisions. CouchDB, Spanner and Datomic have versioned data, with all versions immutable. All support some manner of offline operations. They do have different ways to resolve conflicts: manually, time-based and explicitly, respectively.
Did you watch the movie clip at the beginning of the article dealing with how to sell real estate?

The aggression of the character played by Baldwin towards his staff is exactly the kind of culture that seems to produce people like the agent I had to deal with.
He apprently uses a list of 1.7 million sites. But you can also blacklist sites and have any existing entries for it removed:

https://www.seenbefore.com/blacklist_items
Have Australia's outbound links improved much? Between Telstra and the latency connecting to the US, I thought that they had sub-par internet.

But I don't live there, so maybe I've been misinformed.
Ask HN: Keeping busy during a commute
I've started a new project that will have me commuting 60km a day. The distance is not too bad, but with traffic as it is I'm in the car for a solid hour.

There are a few podcasts I enjoy, but they are relatively infrequent. I'd also like something a little more engaging.

- anyone have experience with audiobooks? Do you need to speed them up?
- any other ideas would be most welcome
In the symbolic case, general functional equivalence is undecidable, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132051/is-finding-the-eq....

In the numeric case, it should be enough to rewrite the question in a different form until the symbolic checker gives up.

In the practical case, trying to game the system would be more difficult than finding the actual solution.
> iOS users greatly outnumber Android in mobile internet

Source? I hate to be the one to ask for sources, but this sounds completely wrong.
Fair enough, but in that case why comment on the articles if you haven't looked at them?
Go does incremental compilation just fine.

Nobody has bothered to add parallel compilation because building Go code is already so ridiculously fast.
As a bearded Australian, I gotta say that that's an old joke. That keeps getting used ^_^
Microsoft likely to face hefty EU fine over browser choice 'error'
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Hmm,

This seems to be a perfect use case for Israel.If you are a regular office goer, charge once and may be use it for a whole week and half.
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Veggie != veggie, starchy vegetables like peas or potatoes (hm, are potatoes veggies at all?) are high in carbohydrates. My mention of fruit was meant as moderate use. I for one don't respond so well to fructose, and generally don't eat much fruit - say, a banana after gym. But I would not leave out fruit entirely (when not on a low carb diet).
Trying to sell that ruined POS for $350 is the real punchline
Actually reading more about it: this is using Amazon's store search, not their web search as I initially thought. It's also getting money by adding referral codes, rather than Amazon paying Canonical to have their search engine listed. So there's some differences after all.
FTA: adding serifs to the tops of i, j, and l in areas that would seem like empty gaps otherwise

looking at the screenshot I can see his point. I think I would notice the gaps if they weren't there.
The A380 has been available for a while and I've flown on them with Qantas a few times.

They use a Linux based system not an Android one.
They are legal on private property and (since 2012-06) in our capital city, Canberra, but not on any other roads/pathways.

Side note: in New Zealand they're classified the same as mobility scooters and motorised wheelchairs, and as such are fine, bust stick to walkways when possible.
White iPhone 5 leaking light from glass display
That still does not fix the issue that the EU commission is a non democratic institution that rules by unopposed fiat. Being a european I rather see the whole commission gone asap.
Why startups should read Plato - philosophical pitching for faster VC cash
Lots of us here have our servers.... Personally, being able to point it at one of my own servers and/or getting an API, would be fantastic.
I'd guess embarrassing Apple counts for more than advertising revenue at the moment. Also a Google maps app with adverts is going to make the (inevitable) improved ad-free Apple maps app look better and better.
One poster says Israel is around 263 miles north to south. So you drove ~250 miles many times just to get a cheese burger? Seriously?
> Eric Schmidt a real gentleman always.

Pretty sure a real gentleman wouldn't sit on the board of a company whilst at the same time building a competitor product.
Really? I'd have thought Google wants iOS users to use Android.
Ask HN: What's the best javascript charting library? 
I know this question has been asked several times on HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847515
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=854926
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764708

But since all the posts are almost 2-3 years old, I'd like to ask it again, as there must have been major changes in the technologies and libraries since then.

Requirements:
-Support as many chart types as possible.
-Cross browser compatibility.
-Rich and interactive

Thanks.
Ask HN: When you are applying for Job: what would you choose?
Today, I've got a luxery problem I think. I've got applications at 2 totally different companies as a developer.

1) A high valued Security company, wich are doing exciting things with networks, government and financial.

2) A sports group wich build websites for sport activities. E.g. Olympics, Football/Soccer (mind the en_EN/en_US), etc.

At both applications I've got good feelings, but at the sports group its more emotional. People who are easier in communication, more social.

At the security company however, most of the time I can work from home, relative working hours. And lots of time in the news.

If I look at myself, I will choose for the sports company and building websites, because of the social part. Still don't know if it's a smart step.

What would you choose?
Just out of interest does anybody know what OS these car interfaces typically use? iDrive etc?

Is it Linux underneath or something totally bespoke?
Still don't think it has anything to do with working in tech, it's common sense.
> "... you need to be able to absorb even your lit majors"

I think this cuts both ways, and in fact "cuts more" in the opposite direction; even the non-marketable majors (in fact, especially the non-marketable majors) need a plan for how they will participate in the economy to support themselves. Expecting external entities, particularly abstract aggregates like "society", to figure that out for you is not a reasonable bet, and is certainly not compatible with being a responsible, independent adult.

On the other hand, young people are often terrible at reasoning about long-term consequences. To mitigate this, I occasionally ponder whether high schools should offer some kind of 3 month "this is what life is like outside of school" program in which people play a simulated game of seeking employment, paying bills, etc wherein their stated degree/career choices affect the various probabilities.

Unfortunately, it would be very hard to run such a game in a truly representative way (how do you reasonably estimate the chance of a lit major getting a good job straight out of college? How do you incorporate their other talents?). If done poorly, there's a chance such a game would devolve into being dominated by pre-law/pre-med/engineering/CS/business strategies, which would probably alienate more people than it educated.
What if, due to his incarceration, the terrorizing he does for the half of his life where he is not in prison, is twice that of the terrorizing he would have done over the course of his whole life, where he never imprisoned?
I remember when I was a CSR at PayPal for the French market I used to think that there should have been some huge warehouses in Nigeria full of computers and phones.

Years later it seems it's still working splendidly.
The main thing I use bookmarks for is categorisation. If you add the ability to tag and/or add notes that becomes part of the search terms, that'd be the killer feature for me - I could throw out my 3500 bookmarks and remove Xmarks (at least if we could get a way of automatically getting our existing bookmarks installed).

I'm a paying Xmarks user, but if you were to add a way of tagging sites or adding a note, I'd happily pay for this instead. Just a freeform text field that I could add some keywords into that gets treated as part of the search would actually be sufficient for me.
I did the same route--BA and then about 15 years later CS masters. I would say that the liberal arts education gave me some of the background I needed to continue my education; I didn't even at the time consider myself educated. And I should say that I spent a good deal of those 15 years fairly broke, not from loans hanging over me but from low earning power while I figured out what to do next.

Price is the killer. In the mid-1970s, a kid stocking shelves or pumping gas could make a year's tuition at a state school with a fair bit left over during the course of summer's work. For a private school it might be more like a third of tuition, leaving a couple thousand to be come by some other way.
That is a ludicrous suggestion. Even hard line soviets weren't that materialistic about education.
Definately +1 for CodeIgniter, or even a framework-free version?
Why? What's wrong with that? Do you think the stuff we ingest nowadays will completely leave our bodies? Side products from maldigestion? Traces of BPA, pesticides, antibiotics? Don't you think the body will deposit some of those toxines _somewhere_ if we don't drink enough every day, allowing for flushing them out?
They have to be submitted, I think it's possible to make a crawler to find links but the quote still has to be hand picked.
You know, I think discussions about robotics have their own version of Godwin's law; sooner or later, there's always a comparison to hitler//skynet.
try:
http://www.highcharts.com/
>Australia could chase edge by becoming a low-tax or low-red-tape capital.

Although our country was founded and grew up with a "low red-tape" mentality, the last 30 years of global-scale mining boom has forever removed that possibility from our environment. Combining socialised welfare, healthcare and (finally!) decent network infrastructure with the Western selfish love of toys, there's not a chance we are ever going to return to a low-tax, low-red-tape society.
(offtopic) What do people mean by a 'Full-stack developer', surely, they don't mean a Full-(computer)stack developer: someone that knows a hardware specification language to machine language to assembler to C to a higher-level language, then SQL and Javascript, Ethernet, IP, TCP etc but I suspect they do. I'm not against the terminology, keep using it if you think that applies to you.
A bioinformatics lab I worked at developed a novel method of cancer drug prediction based on comparative genetic network expression from microarray data of normal and cancerous cell lines. First predictions were promising and small scale trials were done with the novel compounds. Very impressive results and a good paper resulted from this which supported further grants for larger trials. Then the lead researcher died unexpectedly.

Source code for the original prediction algorithm? Nowhere to be found. Intermediary data? Nada. We spent weeks combing through desktop, personal, and distributed computers trying to find that code to no avail. No more cancer drug experiments. The worst part to me was that this method looked for pre-existing naturally occurring compounds that were merely lacking in cancerous cells - hence reintroducing them would have much lower theoretical toxicity than other anti-cancer compounds. It's still theoretical because proper source control wasn't used.
Electric cars have improved immensely.

- Better battery performance and lifespan.
- Improved charging time and technology.
- Distance cars can travel in a single charge.
- Increased torque and horsepower.
- Affordability and increases is mass production.

And most importantly, increases in the necessary infrastructure to support long-distance travel (exactly the topic at hand)

Your comment is very uninformed.
Canberra's boringness really is evident in its inability to turn into the wild wild west with all these law exceptions.
It'll be interesting to see where the opposition takes their broadband policy. With Turnbull at the helm of opposition telecommunications policy, it is certainly beginning too seem like they are less likely to completely tear down the NBN. Given that it is becoming abundantly clear that something needs to be done, I think it's probably more likely that they will simply change the scale of the project.

At any rate, they seem to have given up on the ridiculous notion that wireless is a suitable replacement in urban areas, and actually seem to be moving towards a more comprehensive plan...

I'm holding out hope that even with an opposition government that in urban areas there will be optical. The question will be how they manage the future of the infrastructure, and whether or not they adequately provide for rural areas.

P.S. If you do invite Woz out for beers, count me in :P
Any more details?
Ford (don't know about others) use this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Embedded_Automotive

Update: Fiat, Ford, Kia, Nissan all listed as references: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/evaluate/wind...
Nonsense. For one, that word "gentleman" doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. His PR people have briefed Schmidt on making Delphic pronouncements which mean all things to all people. Who knows what "keeping ours" involved, perhaps a long term contract, perhaps a vastly increased fee?
Because the headline, as phrased, makes "ABC" seem to be an statement by Ferris.

Nevertheles, I can assure you there is higher entropy in my shot in the dark response than the linked article, and I haven't clicked on the linked article :-) Call it a hunch, wisdom, or arrogance :-P
Have you seen the Renault-Nissan's QuickDrop battery swap?

Solves your problem of charging for cross-country drives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Azrt_wUkc

And we even have some running in Israel already:

http://www.just-auto.com/the-just-auto-blog/israels-quick-dr...
See comment elsewhere: With tagging or (simple plain text) notes attached, absolutely. Even moreso with a simple API and/or support to push the cached content to my own server. If it could be selectively enabled for private content too, then even better (e.g. there's several extensive private Wiki's I use regularly that are not sensitive enough that I'd worry about getting them indexed, and I'd love to be able to tell you to index them but perhaps disable the caching).
I'm hoping his next big project, HyperLoop, lives up to his ambitions for it. Being able to travel to any city in the continental U.S. in about 30 minutes will permanently change the entire economy and daily life for everyone.
Dammit. Here I was thinking I'm funny.
That fee in Germany is not a connection fee, though. It is used to finance national television and radio. I still don't like it, and it has some scammy aspects.
From what I understand 30 minute charging is amazing.

To paraphrase Richard Hammond: "Forgetting something at home when I go to work would be a 2 day round-trip because it's so far no electric car has the range. I would have to spend one night recharging the car somewhere in the middle"

His problem has just been solved. Sure, it might take him 3.5 hours (random number) instead of just 3. But that's insanely better than having to stay the night to recharge your car.
Here in Brazil, most of the forest currently disappearing is because farmers want the land to raise cattle and make money off selling meat. Not paper.

Though forests used to be cut down for paper. That's no longer the case because it's not profitable anymore. Because of lack of demand.

But while the parent poster is right that virtually all paper today comes from sustainably farmed wood. That's still an ecological problem. Because sustainably farmed wood is not native to our eco system. Brazilian flora might take centuries to grow, so farmers would chop down local trees to plant European pine trees instead. Their propaganda, which the parent poster bought into, is that if you chop a tree to plant another, then no harm is done. But that's not how eco systems work. Local fauna cannot live in foreign pine trees, just as they wouldn't live in a concrete city. So many local species are now endangered or extinct because of paper farms.

I live on an area where a lot of paper farming used to happen. I had an American friend come here once. He told me the forest around the highway we were on surprised him. Because it looked nothing like the movies he seen, instead it looked just like Europe, with regularly spaced tall pine trees. He asked "is this where the monkeys are?", looking closely to the pines hoping to see one. Unfortunately, I told him, during my whole life here I have never seen a monkey in the wild. Even though this same place used to be the home of some really interesting species, like the golden lion monkey. But we could go to the zoo to see one if he wanted to.

Source of this is my experience as a local who used to be an active Greenpeace volunteer, back in the day.
We still don't know what concessions Google was trying to force from Apple over the negotiations. He's probably right, Apple did make the call, but we still don't know whether it was a case of Apple being a child or Google trying to extort them.

It's very possible that Google went in to the negotiations hostile.
Old jokes return to circulation when told to the young :-)
Nice share, thank you.
If anyone else with more than 50 tabs open freaks out about weird bird songs and ambient noises: Disable the sound on _this_ page, which is auto-played..

Drove me crazy for 5 minutes..
I don't think it's a design bug. Personally, I would prefer if for each iteration of the for loop, the variables were fresh, so that even if they were captured by reference, they would be different references.

So, you would be able to do:

l = [];
for i = 1 .. 10 {
f = () -> { i += 1; }
g = () -> { return i; }
l.append({adder: f, getter: g});
}

This would also play nice with loop unrolling. If the programmer wants a variable that is shared between the iteration of the for loop, the declaration should be outside the loop.