skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on your expected use pattern, you should consider buying one unit (comes with 2 bottles) for work and one for home. Of course, this depends on your situation at work. I understand you might not be able to use it. They don't require power, but they can get loud (and stolen, I guess). Who knows? You might make some new friends though...

The sugary flavors are garbage. The fruity "essential oil" type of stuff (probably the stuff you are drinking) are fine.

Of course, YMMV, but I've had one going on 5 years now without a problem.
One could trace it back to monastic traditions born during the early middle ages. James Burke makes that point in one of the later Connections episodes in the first series.
The Game of Drones. Winter is coming.
I actually came across this Firefox bug pretty recently:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780345

It shows how browser makers can help alleviate the problem.
I wonder how often it'd actually come up that you could get stuff through your application layer into the database and/or back out without wanting to tweak it first. Where i have Rails JSON api's, I usually do some tweaking/modification of the JSON that comes out, for instance.
Congratulations on your neat website. I think you really should consider making you're page center aligned - i hurt my head looking left in my bigass screen. I am very much a fan of wearing the same shoe every 3 days, but i admit youre article about sexism has changed my life. Unfortunately, since you don't support openID, i refuse to join your site.

To complete the picture, i would really like to respond here with a very long-form comment of at least 8 paragraphs, in which i address one by one a number of points that irritated me in a boastful way that makes my arguments sound authoritative and deep, while in reality it's just my brain-fart of the moment. I should also add a couple of references in square brackets, because that's what scientists do[1] and people seem to believe scientists (what's more, the most respected scientific journals use the vancouver reference style, which makes me look even more knowledgable). Because of the outrageousness of my long-form comment (and because it takes up a large portion of the screen real estate), people will upvote me and respond with equally half-cooked comments , some of them applying Godwin's law, and others merely acknowledging this application of the law.

Unfortunately, i barely made it to 3 paragraphs and i 've more or less run out of stupid things to say.

Looking forward to the new version of your website that will be implemented in a single var javascript statement, because that's my favorite programming paradigm this afternoon.

[1] they really do
Hi Joel, this is some excellent feedback! Thanks for checking out swrm.io. We hope to take your suggestions everyone elses into account for our future updates. Is there anything else worthwhile exploring, other than your suggestions so far?
That's an excellent description of the state of mind I was thinking of that I ambiguously called "not caring".

> at that level, the concept of "Right" and "Wrong" are immature concepts that aren't relevant

I'm assuming you are explaining the thinking of these amoral opportunists here and not stating that as true.
Sounds good. In general, it's time for more people to stop using contract plans with subsidized devices and higher monthly fee, and to start using non contract plans with full price devices and lower monthly fee. Of course if these monthly prices would really be lower.
Shameless plug: https://bitdeli.com lets you put theory into practice - you can build your own web analytics in plain and simple Python.

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That's a good attitude, and I think we should decide our public policy with that assumption, but I have a hard time believing it is actually true.

Just as an example, a lights out factory is still going to need some people for maintenance but there is hardly any sort of "law of robotics" that suggests every manufacturing job lost is a maintenance job gained. Automation does replace people, in an ideal world the economy is strengthened by that automation and those people can therefore easily find new better jobs, but is there any evidence that is actually the case? I think the Rust Belt is evidence that it is not.
You can toggle Firefox's "dom.vibrator.enabled" about:config pref.
Heritage Foundation has gotten to the point where it's about as bad as DailyKOS

It's impossible to find any news site, reporter, researcher, or article that doesn't have some angle.

If I find information on the DailyKOS that appears factual and is worth considering then I do so. The Heritage article linked to has a wealth of research pulled from easily verifiable sources, mostly the government itself.
You are right; do you think giving you a point automatically is confusing at all?
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I used to have https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#compose bookmarked to avoid needing 2 steps to write a mail, but then Gmail came out with their new compose box. But the above lets you avoid the sidebar entirely..
Really? I can't own a means of production without government backing?

That's... novel.
Explain? ~600k tps on 1gb nics is very achievable. 10-15M tps on 10gb interfaces is also reasonable. In both cases I'm think of udp packets in/out measured on the wire. With modern hardware I'd buy similar numbers for tcp.
That Quora thread you cite is just speculation and really isn't any sort of evidence. That's no basis for making a conclusion about the technical merits of Google's voice search.
Am I expected to speak German for this position? I ask as I can only find the job descriptions in German.
Google gives WWF $5 million to fund wildlife-observing drones
>>Siri is still a gimmick. That's bordering on the unacceptable now, esp when compared to Google's voice offerings & how fast they've reached par & exceeded it. Stil no APIs, no offline capability, slow response times when it's working.

I'll be frank: you do not understand what makes Siri important or useful. It's not simple voice recognition and dictation (which Google does better), but the fact that it's tightly integrated with many apps and services. Being able to look up facts on Wolfram Alpha, set reminders and alarms, find restaurants, and countless other things from any screen is invaluable. I'd even go so far as to call it revolutionary.

Google is not even close to matching this level of tight integration (party because they don't have the same level of control over their own ecosystem as Apple does over iOS).
That's what I expected. Mind if we start a discussion via email?
What's interesting is the "virus" could be combined with the second-place winner ("multidrone") to make a drone botnet instead of just having the infected drones "run amok".
I measure inflation using the price of startup-friendly ramen, which has tripled over the last decade.
Ah, this is the exact copy I ordered, this is good to know. Personally, I prefer to spend a small sum to own a physical copy of the book - I'm a bit old fashioned in that way.
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@ChuckMcM That sounds right, but to entertain another perspective for a second, maybe the point being made is that the amount of power Google has over publishers is unhealthy. The Publishers seem to think that search engines should be fighting for their business, not the other way around. Its hard to tell what such a drastic change in the system could do, but maybe it doesn't have to be bad.
I for one believe that in order to have the most accurate search results, the rankings should be based on content, not money.
Yay, "Send and Archive" is my favorite labs feature. It saves me seconds every day. Okay, that might not sound like much but it also makes responding to my email that much less of a chore, which makes me happy.
Def can figure out position in space without the aide of GPS.
Windows: 8 Users: 0
I agree with your analysis, but EventMachine does use a defer method to push long-running work off of the event loop.
Hey, do you have customer instances where the app is on non-aws bare metal ( like Softlayer) and the db is on heroku postgres? What are the pros and cons of this scenario?
Cheap, tacky. Makes me seriously concerned for Microsoft's health if they feel they need to resort to this kind of childishness.
Thanks for the info. "5 years" is a good data point. And yes, I would be making the fruity ones. Work supplies us with all the real soda we want. lol
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Real manufacturing wages in the U.S. have grown at 0.72% annually over the past 10 years through July 2002.

[1] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/COMPRMS
All the more power to more sites for bookmarking, but I cannot afford and I am not paying. Good luck.
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What Google is doing is, indeed, shady - but then again if I imagine my mom (and Google's knowledge of her) she might be browsing best offers for her (And purchase what is really best for her), despite the fact that G makes money off it.
"Romney got less votes than McCain"

Not true, the vote count just wasn't completed yet when people said that.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/12/03/romney_beats_mcc...
Write a C program that creates a a single tcp connection, and an infinite loop that just calls write(2) or send(2) and then do the same for UDP. I'd be very surprised if you can cross 60k calls / sec. Given that, how can you send 2M or receive 2M messages a sec if your bottleneck can only handle 60K.. I could be missing an important piece here, but there isn't much information provided in the link either.

Note that the experiment was done on an MBA.
It is a tangentally effective policy memo. It highlights the will of the status quo lobby to influence Steve Scalise and quash dialog on the issue.

Khanna's specific proposal says:

A. Free 12-year copyright term for all new works – subject to registration, and all existing works are renewed as of the passage of the reform legislation. If passed today this would mean that new works have a copyright until 2024.

B. Elective-12 year renewal (cost 1% of all United States revenue from first 12 years – which equals all sales).

C. Elective-6 year renewal (cost 3% of revenue from the previous 12 years).

D.Elective-6 year renewal (cost 5% of revenue in previous 6 years).

E. Elective-10 year renewal (10% of ALL overall revenue – fees paid so far)

This proposal would terminate all copyright protection after 46 years.
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The bigger trend to this story is that information changed from something that was scarce to something that is now abundant.

What the German publishers don't seem to understand is that their once so valuable and scarce goods (information and news) are becoming less and less valuable. Looks like they are trying to defend a dying business model with legislation.

Herbert Simon said in the 70s: “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” Google is a major dispenser of attention, and I think the German publishers are doing themselves a huge disservice by making it harder for Google to send attention to the publishers.

The big unresolved issue is: how can we finance good journalism in an era where the value of static information approximates zero very quickly? Maybe the answer is in moving away from static information to an information process as the product... Something that can't be copied easily.
Nice post, but how is this different from machine learning? It's not like the code is rewriting itself; it's the data in the data store which is being used to find better models for the problem.

Or am I wrong?
Desperate much?
There is a line between characterizing the facts to support your angle and misleading your reader. Heritage Foundation crosses that line.

I wrote them off for their recent trumpeting of the fact that 47% of people have no federal income tax liability to falsely imply that half the country doesn't carry any of the tax burden. This goes beyond having an angle, it's just plain intellectually dishonest. The standard of discourse for an ostensibly respectable academic organization should be higher than that of a political campaign. At one time Heritage Foundation adhered to a higher standard. It no longer does.
This comes off as disingenuous to me, but is unsurprising coming from Microsoft, which seems to have always taken a stance of condescension to its competitors that waffles between apparent apathy and mouth-foaming rage.

At no point is MS seemingly capable of perceiving their competitors as legitimate, and their successes as being due to shipping superior product.

Sounds a bit like Steve Ballmer. Maybe.

Let's try this one on for size: how's about MS start shipping products that don't suck, instead of relying on smear campaigns?
The narrative of the article is simply that Ballmer is taking a more direct role in leading the Windows Division now that the president of the Windows Division has been fired. Alarmism over harmless statements contributes to public disinterest in standing against actual instances of sexism in tech.
If you get ANY signal through, you can use a signal booster, like CelFi: http://cel-fi.com/ . All they need is electricity and a window (to allow decent GPS signal).

They're 500$ new, 200-400$ on eBay, and free with T-Mobile subscription of 18mo (and dealing with some phone bureaucracy. This may seem like a lot, but it's a lot cheaper than paying 750$/yr more for data with AT&T, plus it will benefit your whole office.
New Youtube Layout?
can't tell from this, but will existing Postgres databases at Heroku be automatically upgraded, or do you need to provision a new instance and migrate the data?
Make words with javascript brackets
How big is defaultSendBufSize?

If it's something like 1 Gig, then it's the OS that should be commended for the miracle of throughput, not Go. Even VB would be able to pull numbers like these with aggressive buffering.

A more sensible metric would be to measure the throughput and the longest time in transit. If you get Go deliver 2 mil/sec with sub-ms delivery time, then we'll have something to talk about.
Please get your HTML5 out of my native apps
Also: new video page http://i.imgur.com/y4b4x.png
OK, I give up. Where does tmobile offer a $30/month plan with unlimited data? I can't find anything close on their site.
I don't care much for the ad, but it is a shady practice. I have long since used Google (or Bing for that matter) because they have become so complicit with advertisers and content farms that their results have been marred.
Gistribute - Simple GitHub Gist based file distribution.
I disagree. It helps to illustrate the distinction between Siri (parsing intent) and Google's voice search (not dealing with intent.

The only conclusions anyone can draw about Siri/GVS are:

• GVS is noticeably faster and more accurate at detecting input
• GVS does not deal with as sophisticated a range of inputs as Siri.
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I feel like having a DejaVu. Wasn't this on HN a couple of days before?
Not actually a real bank but as a payment process, which consists of everything else except credit.
Stay home if you're sick
[Note: Paul and Tim are students at Olin, not MIT. The article doesn't make this clear until later on.]
I think this can be put as "enjoy the process".
I made this because it solved a problem that I was having, and I thought that I'd share. It is very early in development, and things planned for the future, among other things, are:

- Setting file permissions

- Requiring some files to be installed as root

- Support for binary files

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Hopefully it is of use to somebody.
Or if you're really lucky, like me, your local homebrew supply shop will fill up your CO2 tank while you wait....
John McAfee Rushed to Hospital After Apparent Heart Attacks in Prison
I've been using T-Mobile precisely in this way for over 5 years to be able to switch phones at will and keep recurring costs low and off-contract.

Their unlimited voice-text-2GB 3G/4G data plan has never cost me more than $50/month per phone including all taxes and surcharges.
Things your parents say on your Facebook wall
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Thank you for pointing out the issue to the right people. :)

It was a trivial mistake in an otherwise great article.
I haven't tried it yet, but how does Google Now compare?
Not in the first three pages for me.
Ask HN: Is a truly 100% community built site possible?
I had an idea earlier today about a community based site that was built and maintained by the community.

Ideally it would be a Github repo that anyone could use to if they wanted to add a feature, or tweak current features.

Could this actually work in theory?
How would you stop malicious intent?
How would you deal with securing data from potential changes?
Never bank on explaining math to your customers.
Why is Everyone like Their Parents?
Pandora’s Vox Redux (1994)
Browse Plans > Monthly4G > Browse Monthly4G Plans

http://i.imgur.com/gIWsM.png
Why are you using page down? No scroll wheel, old habits, on a laptop?

Its something I've never used and have never thought about while designing, seems like a lot of websites are ignoring it as well; fb, techcrunch etc.
They're not shutting down their Oracle DBs though. Or at least I hope not.
I don't know, I think the second one could be true. I imagine it's quite likely that someone involved with this is also a hobby drone builder that also contributes to open source. If they've created some new algorithms or made some existing ones more robust it would be great to get those to the community.
I loved the genuinely parodic headlines ("How I remapped my caps lock key to be both ESC and Ctrl" was my favourite), but the metaheadlines like "A long rant about a YC company falling short in some regard" are simply done to death and IMO have not been funny in years.
Wait, I thought Google was buying T-Mobile! Kidding...

I think this is great news for Google. Why? Because unlocked, unsubsidized phones with cheap data are going to be brought to the forefront of the consumer's attention. Consequently, margins are going to go down for carriers (overall -- individually, TMO might get a boost) and phone producers as people are able to quickly move to the carrier with the cheapest data, to the phone which offers the best features per dollar. Google, in turn, will benefit as more and more people move to cheap phones with data-heavy plans -- an advertisers dream.
I'm not sure if a site like that exists. If you find one like it, it us know. :)

As for colour combinations in general, I switch between https://kuler.adobe.com and http://www.colourlovers.com/. They both have some nice pre-made palettes.

These days, I've been preferring colourlovers mainly because:

1. Their site is plain-old HTML, rather than Adobe Flash / Air.

2. You can see a longer list of palettes in the search, and can sort them by "most loved." (See: http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/most-loved/all-time/met...)

And,

3. You can even search by hues and whatnot (see: http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/search).
Three amazing uses for dataURLs
Does anyone have experience with this? It would be interesting if this is finally a good solution that really works.
beautifully done :) "Ten Ways to use SDK on Windows" was pure gold.
You don't have to use the rspec controller matches if it's outside of what you're used to/how you understand it. You can use response.status.should == 200.
I'm curious to see if this is running with GOMAXPROCS above 1. I've seen the scheduler start to drag down reqs/sec with more than one thread in lightweight networking services like this.
That's totally unfair. AFAIK, T-Mobile is the only major carrier to currently offer a reduced monthly rate in exchange for not taking the subsidy. If you're paying the some rate either way, you'd be stupid not to take the subsidy.
The whole point of Bitcoin is to act as a decentralized currency free from the controls of banks, other financial institutions and government fiat.

How does Bitcoin-Central square with those aims?
I only switched from t-mobile because my unlocked phone couldn't use 3G on their network. It'll be very, very tempting to go back if they have decent coverage these days.

It doesn't seem clear that unsubsidized iPhone can work in the US, but I guess we'll see.
Wow.

What is particularly interesting is what this says about advertising versus search. I'm sure lots of people are familiar with magazines which are "published" with a bunch of articles that are really just long form advertisements for the people who paid for that month's print run. These 'manufacturer supported' publications are more common in the trades than in general circulation but still, few people reading them thinks "Wow this is a really honest evaluation of which oscilloscope is best."

I find it interesting that it accuses Google of switching to a more extractive business model. If that is true then this change would mark the nadir of Google's ability to grow that market. The tying of Google's search capability to their advertising business seems analogous to the way Microsoft Office and DOS were tied together, the 'team' being much much harder to dislodge than either element.
Unfinished books, finished books, book launches, storytelling and fiction
You've never seen an email storm then? They're most often started by a mistaken "Reply all". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm
The history of AOL as told through New York Times crossword clues
yeah would like to know this as well. If this works and is accurate, it could be huge for IE testing.
Tell your friends to Shut Up or Start Up
I do not think T-Mobile is providing them free any longer, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
FYI: This is Belize, not Afghanistan. I know to many US-ians with limited world views, they may seem like the same things, but they aren't. Comments like this reflect poorly on you.
I used it - pretty straight forward and has the IE versions.
What a terribly chosen name. I wonder what the Scroogle guy has to say about this.
You make good points. My choice not to upgrade is more pragmatic than anything else ... Work to do and so many hours to do it in. And I agree, knowing about the certification makes it more like running hackintosh - one dev does that here and he has had several issues with Xcode that I do not on my mpb.

I also learned Linux on the command line mainly interacting with the typical LAMP app running on AWS. They were mainly Red arhat or CentoS and I never had to interact with a Linux desktop until about six months ago and I guess I just assumed that it was 2012 - surely the desktop/upgrade issues of the ninety's and aughts.

I don't think it is anyone's 'fault' it is just a difficult problem to solve. Knowing that there are Ubuntu certified desktops out there is useful info I can pass along to my boss before they buy an new device box.
Minimum Viable Startup
Extremes at either end are bad. Somehow the majority of HN hasn't figured this out.
Bitcoin doesn't care about the "whole point of decentralization". It's like saying that the purpose of the personal computer and smartphone is to democratize computing.

The designer may intended that bitcoin to combat governments and banks, but anybody can use bitcoins, including the governments and banks, agorists, drug cartels, heroes and villians alike.

Frankly, if bitcoin wants to dominate the world, it must be as useful as possible and non-discriminatory in who use it.
It sounds good until the power grid goes down and the only person in the street with the lights on is with the generator in his garage.