skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish they'd show someone using it.

How big is it? Seems like it's about the size of a gallon jug. Maybe bigger. The hourglass shape, unlike a traditional filter, wastes a lot of fridge space.

Do I have to remove the filter to pour? That would be a deal-breaker for me. If not, is it spout directional, or can I pour at any angle?

Pouring from of a top-heavy hourglass could be awkward. Especially if it's weighted down with a filter.
There's plenty of magic that can be done in the C preprocessor that makes it sometimes possible to #include a file twice with different effects than #include-ing it once.

#pragma once and Objective-C's #import declaration both do that, though.
Based on my own experience... yes, at least to start. Depends how easy (and fast) it is to detect that both parties exist within the network.
I don't use facebook and I feel a little affronted when people expect me to sign up for an account just to use whatever random thing it is they hope I'll try. You're not important enough.

Even when I did have a facebook account I wouldn't have been comfortable using it to log in to other services, because you never know what information Facebook is going to mine out of anything you give it access to.
Lebanese Police Requests Facebook Passwords of All Lebanese
2) for me. I haven't logged into FB in 2 years and use Ghostery and Disconnect to block tracking widgets. Sure, offer it to people who want it, but many of us would trade the convenience for the control over our login credentials.

It's not just you. I wouldn't create a Medium account yesterday because Ev Matthews wants me to sign in using Twitter. I hate Twitter, why would you want to restrict yourself that way?
I think it would be far more useful for Android Browser/Chrome and iOS Safari to support special tags for rendering apps in their native style. Ideally have it be the same set of tags and Android and iOS figure out how they want to render them.
2016! Who (other than investors/competion/etc) the fuck cares? 3+ years out? Like is netflix even going to be in bui

Stuff 3mo out isn't even on my radar, mostly.
Simply put, if you manufacture in-house as well as design, both processes innovate each other. But if you outsource manufacture, it's a black hole; very little flows the other way because of language and cultural barriers.
It does not. It does not say or imply anything of the sort. In fact the point of the paper should be "obviously true" to anyone who has even a lay understanding of GR.
What if what you're computing is the fact that it's an infinite loop, and that's why this friend finds you so valuable?

We all subsidize each other in different ways with different currencies.
I can see a reason why the potentially complex macro semantics of the C preprocessor would require this behavior, and why you would certainly need to re-evaluate certain macros you had already processed whenever it was included. Doing that without impacting any of the preprocessor's functionality? Great cleverness - for really no reason than faster compiles - which isn't that big of a deal to most people.
DC Council Clears Path for Uber's Future
Now we just need motorbike search.

Looks like it has potential. Should be able to generalise it to other products. Looks nicer than their current search.
GE has essentially been a mix of holding company and leveraged buyout firm for a long time now. I think of GE as a stock trader who takes really, really long positions in an industry as a whole by acquiring a subsidiary in the industry rather than buying the corresponding index fund.
I suppose its just blind luck or "the system" that made you a cynical asshole instead of someone busting his ass to learn all he can about the world so that he can contribute something of value?
That's not behind. Nearly all TV shows are at least a season behind on Netflix in the US too.
This and other products roughly similar to Brita filters all seem a bit ridiculous and wasteful. At least this one is glass and so free of plasticizers[1]. A simple drip-through filter isn't going to do that much to improve most U.S. water supplies.

Instead, just get a multi-stage reverse osmosis filter unit. That'll take out virtually everything potentially nasty and/or bad tasting: chlorine, flouride, metal salts used to control algae, misc. minerals and so forth. Coffee and tea brewers, you really owe this to yourselves. The maintenance amounts to replacing a few filters in an under-sink unit every one to three years depending on your local water supply. No remembering to refill a pitcher, just a little extra spigot on your sink.

[1] BPA-free isn't good enough. Replacing one plasticizer with another that also has high estrogenic activity is pointless.
And if you're looking for rocket science you clearly missed a section.
It's smaller than in the video. We had to use an early prototype there to have the video ready in time. It's designed to fit nicely even in small hands. You do not have to remove the filter to pour, there is a spout that is hidden but runs up the side. I'll make sure we get some pictures of the pitcher from angles that you can see the spout / lid.
Seems like a great product and business model. I ditched my Brita filter for bottled water a couple years ago because of the black dots. It was embarrassing to pour water for people when there were black dots floating in it. Might have to switch back to a filter now.
Well what can I say, I hadn't come across git aliases before and looks to be very handy.
Can you break it down for us? What are the key interactions that uses the JS library and what are the key CSS properties used?

Amazing UI and performs well on my mac running Chrome.
Its rarely straighforward, but definitely usable
Google invests in firm that measures mobile ads & identifies individuals
"lead, mercury and arsenic"

As the manufacturer of this product you're going to want to be very careful making claims like that in a public forum.

I see no evidence of CDPH certification, despite the product being sold from San Francisco:

When a manufacturer claims that a drinking water treatment device
will reduce contaminants [such as lead, Cryptosporidium (protozoan
cysts), pesticides, herbicides, solvents, heavy metals, bacteria
and viruses] or makes other health related performance claims,
the device must be certified by CDPH, pursuant to Health & Safety
Code Section 116830.

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/device/pages/watertreatmentde...
I disagree. From what the article sounded like, Disney is all in on this.

Disney has been providing Netflix content for their streaming service probably since day 1. I remember when it first launched, I believe Lost was available on the server. All 6 seasons are available and have been since the series finale.

The future for entertainment is not physical media that you can buy. It's much easier and quicker for me to switch my TV to my Roku box, load up Netflix and start a movie than it is to switch to Bluray, and wait for it to load and show previews. I can't remember the last time I purchased a DVD/Bluray that wasn't in the bargin bin for $2, but we watched Netflix just last night.

I don't think Disney is going to lose out on Star Wars sales if they start streaming it, there will always be people that want to buy the package so when the internet is off, and all they have is a portable DVD player, they can watch Star Wars, but by making this deal with Netflix they are only increasing their profits, there is no devaluing going on here.
I do fancy writing that actually. Sadly I'm busy for the next year or two but after that, this is one of the problems I would love to help solve.
It gives them momentum to strike deals with other studios now.
I'm running Firefox 17.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.1 and I don't seem to be able to get any of the demos working. Anyone have a fix?
Are you guys remaining at Etsy for the time being or is it moving?
Forget working 80 hours a week for the last 10 years. I've gotten as far as I have because I'm a white male American. I wish I would have known that 10 years ago. I woulda done a lot more partying. This struggling to survive and get ahead stuff is for suckers

Where do I sign up for my white male privilege handouts?
From what I've experienced (as someone who occasionally rubbed elbows with such UN technocrats when I worked in international health), it's your last path that rules their lives. They are almost without exception climbers, both social and professional, much more anxious to climb the next step on the ladder than actually to build or change something for the better. Often, they start out idealistic and slowly change into jaded climbers. It's an outlook on life that would be foreign to many people here.

Edit: grammar
Apple Launches iTunes Store in 52 Additional Countries Today
D3, Conceptually - Lesson 2
Actually it's likely that most(all) of the resistors and LEDs are SMDs soldered using reflow or wave soldering.

Your electronics from before the 80s (and often the 90s) was soldered by a human though.
> The best replacements would be local applications under one's full control that seamlessly sync all data on a peer-to-peer network encompassing all of one's devices -- desktop PC, tablet, phone, etc. Alas, AFAIK, such applications don't exist yet.

This is the kind of thing we're working on (http://perscon.net). It's a open-source effort, currently happening through academia. That gives us the luxury of solving some tricky problems without the pressure to 'lash something together' (though academia has other issues).

Privacy conscious software will eventually reach the masses but I've no idea how long it'll take. I also believe it needs to be created from the ground up if it's really meant to care about your privacy. An open question is how such software can be commercialised, since the economic incentive is currently around 'Big Data', and people don't want to manage their own infrastructure. Both of these push us towards more centralised services.

DEspite this, nearly everyone I speak to seems wary of how much companies like FB/Google "know about you" but people just accept the data-leakage almost as a cost of engaging online.
Learning to Code: Are Humans Required?
Regarding GE, you can eyeball their public financial statements for a rough idea of their manufacturing:financial ratio:

http://www.ge.com/pdf/investors/events/10192012/ge_webcast_p...

They conveniently split their balance sheet between GE Capital and GE (industrial/manufacturing). Roughly 70% revenue and profit from non-financial (mainly manufacturing - from 747 engines, to trains, to energy, to MRI machines, etc), ~30% from GE Capital.

So yeah, always have been and still very much a manufacturing company.

As a more general answer to your question, in case you missed it, there was a good article and discussion a while back on companies losing manufacturing through outsourcing, and its consequences:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amaz...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2907187

TLDR: “So the decline of manufacturing in a region sets off a chain reaction. Once manufacturing is outsourced, process-engineering expertise can’t be maintained, since it depends on daily interactions with manufacturing. Without process-engineering capabilities, companies find it increasingly difficult to conduct advanced research on next-generation process technologies. Without the ability to develop such new processes, they find they can no longer develop new products. In the long term, then, an economy that lacks an infrastructure for advanced process engineering and manufacturing will lose its ability to innovate.”

An interesting counterexample that demonstrates the point is Intel - they've maintained their manufacturing capability, and as a result lead the world in lithography and process technology, a competitive advantage that allowed them to compete with AMD in the mid-to-late 2000s even when AMD's chip designs were better, and to dominate AMD now that both Intel's process technology and chip designs are better.

Andy Grove has apparently dedicated his retirement to advocating for reshoring manufacturing for the deep competitive advantage it confers [1].

[1]: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=andy+grove+manufacturing
Want to Steal Identities?  Just Listen to a Police Scanner Feed
Ask HN: Why hasn't Google put Android in cars yet?
Just looked at the Kickstarter, looks like an interesting product. I could totally see this being pitched on Shark Tank for some reason.
It's nice to see that Netflix is getting more content. I like Netflix. But I wonder if this isn't Netflix learning to play the content producer's games. I think it would be better for everyone if content production/distribution was profitable not because of exclusivity but because of ubiquity. Disney could (should) be most profitable when they make access to their product (content) easier.

Note I am speaking prescriptively. When I say "should" I mean "the way the world ought to work according to me..." I'd love to hear what others think about this.
File a ticket. I will generally be nice when people interrupt me due to bugs or issues, but in most cases I will also be annoyed because I am busy working on something and now I am out of the flow.

File a ticket, I will get to it the next time I am in the tracker updating my task list or jotting down the time it took me to do certain things. Anything from QA coming back to me requires my immediate attention because most likely I am holding someone or something up.
I don't think they do at all. Most of Google's core services are built on top of standards like SMTP, IMAP, CalDAV, Jabber, etc, so they can be consumed by any device.

Apple is the one writing most of the extra code here because they want to make sure Google's services run smoothly on their platform.

While we joke about how crappy it is now, Apple's iTunes for Windows was a good example of playing nice on a competitors platform in an attempt to impress their customers and bring them to your side. It worked.
Exactly. It doesn't make sense unless eBay just considers all sellers to be high volume resellers who write off small item losses as part of doing business.
Ashton Kutcher for Banker of the Year
Don't hope for anything.
Is it me or "National Security" really means National Insecurity? Where's freedom in the illusion of safety?
Gotcha, it sounds like those 2 are indeed the reasons - and many people feel quite strongly about it. So twitter/other might be a so-so alternative convenience, but password is a vital alternative
Memorizing a few hundred words isn't so bad, but it doesn't get you particularly close to being able to speak English. It would be like trying to put together a Japanese conversation out of the Japanese words I already know.

(Now I find myself wondering which I've memorized more of: Japanese words or Ruby keywords and names.)
Dumb software
First of all, my point wasn't about what I feel. It was about the intent of the article (or, if you prefer, my reading of the article's intent).

That said, in my reading of the article, the point isn't that targeted ads invade privacy more than untargeted ones. Rather, it's the act of mining your personal information that is the invasion of privacy. The fact that your information is read in order to target ads is almost beside the point.

Here's a concrete example from my own life (and now I do bring in my own feelings). Shortly after my wife found out she was pregnant, we started getting flyers in the mail for baby-related products. As nearly as I could figure at the time, the information could only have come from two sources: (1) my credit card (invading my privacy by telling companies I was starting to buy baby-related products); or (2) Facebook (invading my wife's privacy by selling information she posted for her family and friends to read).

After reading this article, I see that a possible third source was Gmail (invading my privacy by scraping the content of messages I wrote to my friends and family).

Now I understand people who say "That's OK, you got a free credit card in exchange for them selling your buying habits to companies." And I understand people who say "That's OK, your wife got a free Facebook account in exchange for them selling her posts to companies." And I understand people who say "That's OK, you get a free e-mail product in exchange for them reading the content of your private messages."

What I don't understand is any notion that it's not an invasion of privacy, because I might want to learn about baby-related products.

To put it in even more concrete terms, here are three forms of advertising for baby-related products:

(1) I see a billboard advertising infant formula.

(2) I buy an issue of "New Parent" magazine and see an ad for infant formula inside.

(3) I write an e-mail to my brother saying "Guess what, we're having a baby!" and five days later a sample pack of infant formula shows up on my doorstep.

Each of these advertisements is progressively more targeted. The first and second do not invade my privacy, while the third does. And the thing that bothers me is not that the advertising is targeted. It's that the advertiser is even aware that I'm a potential target.
That's really hard to give a decent answer to. The answer really depends on the people involved in filtering the applications.

Can you mirror what the job advert lists it's looking for?

A bit more outlandishly, could you identify a person working in or near the position you're after, then google their CV to see what they listed?

For me personally (not that it should be used to base your decision at all) i've never distinguished between either.

Just for contrast someone i used to work with (an electronic and software engineering graduate) detested the idea of anyone without an engineer's charter (himself included until recently) referring to themselves or their education with the word "engineer". More than once he gave graduates a dressing down for using the E word... life's too short for that IMO.
In my experience with ATT, they only know what your phone is if you purchase it through ATT. If, for example, you buy a Nexus 4 from Google and tell ATT that it's a dumb phone, they won't know it's actually a smartphone since they don't have the IMEI on file.
I use a carbon block filter (Clear2o) for SF tap water, and appreciate the lack of chlorine taste. (Or more properly, chloramine: http://www.sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=357 )
Window-Snake: A Javascript game made with pop-ups windows
Very cool stuff. I like that he does a 10-finger demo near the end of the video. However, the harp gets very noisy at that point :-).

I wonder if you can do something simple with just the iPad camera, with the iPad laying on a table. One could imagine that this wouldn't be that hard, since your ceiling is mostly one color (white/beige). All you would need to detect is the color and shape of your hand.

Then, you could blend this "air-harp" gestural expression (dominant hand) with a more physical interaction (taps and swipes) on the iPad surface itself (w/ your non-dominant hand).
Wow, nice move on Netflix's part. Disney movies/shows will equal cartoons, Marvel, and now Star Wars.
How IFTTT is Changing the Way We Do Things on the Web
There can be a huge difference in quality between goods produced in the US and those produced abroad, something that many people don't realize anymore because they've gotten so used to buying cheap foreign imports and replacing them more often.

When I was in school, I used to buy a new bag every year because they would just tear and fall apart within 12 months. Eventually, getting tired of this, I went online looking for a good bag. I found out about Tom Bihn[0]. Both their management and their production is done in Seattle. The prices are steep, but I decided to take a chance on them, given the good reviews on various sites.

I've now had that same Tom Bihn bag for five years, and it looks exactly like it did the day I got it - not a single tear. I don't think you could say that about any bags produced at an overseas sweatshop.

0: http://www.tombihn.com/
Not sure if typo, but <ul class=".btn-group"> should be <ul class="btn-group">. The dot is for the css/less file.
I'll agree that its outside the mainstream, but certainly less so than in the past.

But I'll say that being outside the mainstream isn't necessarily a bad thing when so many gems rely on C extensions that tend to be flaky. Watching proceedings for any ruby conference a reoccurring theme is that people doing things that everyone is interested in tend to be doing it on the jruby implementation.
"In TCP connections, the large bandwidth-delay product of high latency connections, combined with relatively small TCP window sizes on many devices, effectively causes the throughput of a high latency connection to drop sharply with latency" --Wikipedia

It does equal bandwidth until everything is jumbo frames UDP
Probably not, though if the trend in fuel and energy prices continues that may come to dominate the equation even for those things. The other thing is working capital - if it takes 6 weeks to ship and clear customs you will have a lot of capital tied up and that has an additional cost as well.
If it's a group, and not just you and two buddies, people forget. They forget you aren't on Facebook, they can't find your number, they just forget to call.
File the ticket and email me and I will get to it when I read your email. Easy as that.
I thought this was an interesting article, if a little light on any hard numbers outside of one example (G.E.). Another anecdote that supports this is Apple manufacturing a limited number of their new iMacs in the U.S. http://9to5mac.com/2012/12/02/is-there-some-secret-imac-asse...

I'm a little surprised they didn't mention advances in automation / robotics that make cost of labor even less of a reason to offshore. The U.S. manufacturing sector produces more than it ever has, despite the fact that manufacturing jobs are down from 19.4 million jobs in 1979 to 11.5 million jobs in 2010. http://archive.mises.org/17964/u-s-manufacturing-output/
The Reality Of The Global Messaging Market: It’s Really Freaking Fragmented
They are negotiating the underlying treaty, but I don't think this is a treaty provision. It's a standards document, adopted by World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), not WCIT, which is renegotiating the treaty. Basically, this is not a law, it's a spec.
You could also create a unix socket and have node.js bind on it.
These factors are really where Waterloo shines. At my school I had 3 6-month internships so I got just a taste of those things I think; more chances to interview and refine would have been great.
Pics From LeWeb Paris
Are you in the U.S.? On municipal water? What's wrong with your tap water?
Looks like this has been going on for a while now. Here's a write-up: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2188016/Google-Cars-New...
Why to set a fixed end time for your zone? Your zone will end when you have finished your task and start to look for the next task.
I still haven't seen exactly how this would possibly be enforced. Just like products selectively choose features, even if the IETF or ITU says "mandatory", does not somehow create a law. The ITU can't just vote itself to tell an ISP how to handle traffic, even internationally.

They could create a standard and then let individual countries tell vendors "hey, you must comply with B.123 in order to sell in our country" -- but they can do that anyways. If a government wants snooping capabilities, you can bet every vendor will add it to get their business. It's still the government that decides if it's mandatory to turn on or not.

Again, I'd like to hear the full path from the ITU taking a vote, to my ISP suddenly snooping in on stuff. I can't figure it out.
Thanks--you inspired me to check these out. I'm pleasantly surprised to find that undersink units go for ~$200.