skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started to lose respect for people commenting on this board...I don't see what is the big deal with this, and why would you even publish a paper on it.

Here is the thing: Temperature reading of battery may not even be the actual temperature value of the battery. Even the circuits itself that read temperature is sensitive to temperature (they have the same correlation with temp. as battery..Higher the temp. is, higher the leakage current, and hotter your device will be). So temperature reading itself will be combination of things, most of which have similar correlation against temperature of the environment. This is a well-known fact to all people working in semiconductor industry and we simulate things against temp. all the time.

And when you average out thousands of reading from different cell-phones, you will get rid of all those noise coming from phone-usage, whether person holds the phone or keep in in his pocket ..etc.

As a side node, if the batteries in each cell-phone made by different manufacturers, their temp. reading will also be different and will add a noise as well.

You built an app to read temp., OK fine. But, it just annoys me the fact that they talk about it as if this was a new discovery, and publish a scientific paper about it :)
Great you went from infantile mockery to grossly misrepresenting my argument. I suppose that's progress. I'm not sure where to begin with this.

Poor people aren't lazy. But someone who would rather contract aids than work IS a worthless lazy leech.

So am I to believe that you think all educated people working in the tech industry hold far left views? That is naive beyond description.
I think the message was meant for the Internet, actually. Something like "You think you own this country? We'll show you who owns this country".
Didn't we do all the research years ago? Didn't MS and Apple and others produce reams of really good quality information about what users like and dislike and what users can or can't use?

Why is Google doing this to me? I feel like I'm a rat in a maze, being poked with shitty UI by some out of touch experimenter.

Just because you can do stupid things with interfaces doesn't mean you should. See also Kai's graphics software, all mp3 player skins, etc etc.
Also try pithy.
The first 10 employees hired (most of whom should be engineers at a tech startup) have a huge effect on the trajectory of a startup. One bad hire there will sink the company.

If that's true, then why aren't they given more equity and more respect?

At least in New York, it's a lot more common to hire unproven 22-year-olds at ~60-70k and 0.25% for the first 10 employees. Of course, a couple of those will turn out to be really good, but that's not a hiring strategy you'd take if one bad hire could sink the firm, because you're also going to take in a couple of bozos.

A single bad executive, yes; a single bad engineer, maybe, but founders don't act as if that were the case.
First thought: HTTPS sitewide would probably solve this problem. I'm pretty sure most filtering happens on the networking level, not within the browser. And if this browser on a public computer is augmented to read your https traffic, don't use it.
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I remember the difference between class and id by thinking someone is trying to "Pound an idea into your head" or rather "# an id"
This has really helped me. Seth Godin's excellent "Ship It" Journal:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/files/theshipitjournal.pdf
Isn't that the main complaint they have now? That the FFOS UI is slow and unpolished?

As for FFOS reaping the benefits of the ARM race, isn't that the same thing comparable to OSS developing due to MS hardware vendors race to bottom price and maximum performance?
Breaking Bad is laced with way more profanity and graphic violence than you could swing for a PG-13 rating. It's not True Blood, but then, The Matrix and Blade are two R-rated movies with vastly different severity of content.
No, it's not being defined.

>Your Google Fiber account is for your use and the reasonable use of your guests. Unless you have a written agreement with Google Fiber permitting you do so, you should not

Okay, introduction.

>host any type of server using your Google Fiber connection,

Server is not defined. It says 'any type' but this is blatantly incorrect, as the FAQ says you are permitted game servers, videoconferencing serving, etc.

>use your Google Fiber account to provide a large number of people with Internet access,

Okay no subleasing, that's reasonable and clear.

> or use your Google Fiber account to provide commercial services to third parties (including, but not limited to, selling Internet access to third parties).

That all falls under commercial, fine.

Note that nowhere does it actually explain what I can and can't do non-commercially. It only says a single thing is banned, 'server', but server is somewhere between not-defined and incorrectly-defined.

The commercial restrictions are clear. The restriction against using the household internet on more than a household or so is clear. The restrictions on what you can do non-commercially are insultingly vague.
On a related note, I always wondered if CSS selectors (classes and ids) had any SEO weight, considering they are present in the HTML code. Just in case, for some time I used to carefully choose semantic names for my selectors, which in the end, is not a bad practice for code readability.

In deviantART's case, the F-word was inside a CSS comment, thus supposedly never displayed to the user. So it's weird to block a file for that case.
I found OSGi to be a promised land that we desperately needed in Java. Unfortunately I found that the journey there was painfully difficult.
How do we know you're not being paid by Google or Microsoft? I guess they might cut you off for that comment.
Yes, and criminals routinely abuse it. There is a "right" for the prosecutor to prosecute a crime, too.
iPhone has an app called Moves which is remarkably accurate (http://www.moves-app.com/). I'm getting fairly similar results from my jawbone. I believe the discrepancy is due to the fact that I don't have the phone on me when I'm at home.
A lot of short node.js code snippets you run into on the web use anonymous callbacks, and I agree, that gets ugly very quickly, but if you bind callbacks to methods on prototypes the code remains pretty readable.
I was doing the same thing with my kids. I solved it by leaving my phone in a basket in my bedroom away from where I played with my kids. Every time I got the urge to check, the distance stopped me. Every time I forget to put my phone away, I always break down and check...
Yes, best part since the node module we are currently using does not work in v0.10 and the author is very adamant about not supporting it anymore.
The people who are fine with centralized bank-issued cryptocurrencies haven't launched anything successful at the scale of Bitcoin.

There may yet be hope for one, especially if it has government backing... but right now "the Bitcoin crowd" has a good existence-based case that decentralized-issue is important for adoption.
Really? He didn't have the "right" or the "innocence".
And all those systems were never deployed. Perception (f the banks, you can print money at home, and the money will grow in value over time) trumps research apparently.
Anyone have book suggestions on how to improve technical blog writing? (Something more specific than Strunk & White.)
Woo! I have been using SDL for years to build all sorts of projects (games, touch screen interfaces, etc.).

But as others here have noted I migrated over to use SFML, mainly because of its nice object-oriented implementation as well as the additional convenience features such as rotation and better alpha support.
Another reason to use https (though I guess IT can install a cert for transparent MITM SSL proxying). Imagine a user whose TCP connection shuts down as soon as the 4 bytes 'fuck' pass it (say, only for port 80). This should happen randomly for high-entropy binary (e.g. compressed text/image) data - about 1 in 4 billion bytes. I guess it's not that likely except for extremely large files.
Urrm, you seem to be under the impression that impeachment does something more than remove someone from office (technically it doesn't even do that, if the House impeaches then the Senate holds a trial, which happened with Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's VP, and Bill Clinton).

All Ford's pardon did was to prevent vengeful Democrats, some holding grudges going as far back as 1950, from criminally prosecuting him. It allowed the nation to Move On; the alternative would have pretty quickly ended the Republic if history is any guide.
Coincidentally, we just launched an improved version of our GitHub analytics app with hourly page view charts. We also show rankings by country and language for all repos (not just the top 25 ones).

You might want to check it out if you're interested in finding out why your project is trending: https://bitdeli.com/
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When I was a kid, my parents used to have the radio on in the mornings (in the car), but most of the time it ended up seeding conversations about the things that were said. I still remember those, down to the silly conversations brought on by the traffic report.

There's something special about being able to share the content as you experience it, rather than it being personal.
What? No. This was actually studied, with data and everything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6205769

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/11363/do-promo-codes-o...
IAB urges people to stop "Mozilla from hijacking the Internet"
I agree, most of the UI/X changes make things worse by disrupting my work-flow. You can always use POP or IMAP and the client of your choice.
> by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson

Why does everyone always forget Robert Griesemer? He might not be as involved with the public as Rob Pike, but he's the guy that made gofmt and godoc (and I'm pretty sure he's also at least partially to thank for the language being specified in such a way that it is "gofmt"-able in the first place, considering he maintains the spec). That alone counts as a pretty big positive influence on the language.
Our language library can't always determine the language for the repository, but that won't keep the repository from trending.

Right, this is why you should do the obvious, common-sense, reasonable thing and let repository owners explicitly declare the language for their repo. Fiddling with byzantine mechanism to try and exclude library files, and other black magic, only to still be left merely hoping that they get it right, sucks.
>> "I think Fitbit is cool, but 1b for a product that has no demonstrable uniqueness would scare the hell out of me as a founder."

True + they're competing against Nike. In fitness. That's a tough big competitor with a lot of resources.
Your post comes off as unnecessarily passive-aggressive. If we're pointing these things out.
Lavabit Founder Says He Had ‘Obligation’ to Shut Service
I do this too. Strangely that's one of the things that actually make business cards stand out. I have a stock of regular cards, but they seem pompous by comparison.

I first got those perforated cards made for inkjet printers you'll find in stationary stores, but I can't always find them. So I got some blank card stock and used a paper cutter to get them down to size. Sadly my handwriting is rubbish, but I try to write slowly. Seems to leave a bigger impact and it feels more "personal".

...I'd still avoid shorts though ;)
Congress starts investigating Bitcoin
Oh please, tell me how criminals "abuse" their right to trial.
I can't see the most watched or forked (in the hundreds), grouped by language anymore? Just the top 25?

I'm not a fan of the change.
Question (halfway on topic) --

Who makes the best speech recognition software in the world? Regardless of whether it is available to consumers ... who is the best at it?

In particular, how do Apple (Siri) and Google (Google Now) compare to Nuance's stuff? Is Nuance so far ahead of everyone else that they're the clear leader? Or is their codebase "legacy" and vulnerable to better, more accurate software which can be built now due to better algorithms and approaches?
nope.

and if you go to the bathroom right before takeoff, you'll delay the flight.
"I’m showing her my screen deserves my attention at the moment more than she does."

i wonder if an 8 month old has a concept of self as distinct from other that would be required if they are to be shown that a screen deserves their parent's attention more than they do at the moment.

actually, i don't wonder that. they don't.
Sorry, but Saudi Arabia being the next Silicon Valley is the second most ridiculous thing I`ve heard today,
(The most ridiculous being http://rt.com/usa/nsa-review-group-clapper-445/ )

Silicon Valley is what it is, because some of the most brilliant people from all over the world migrate there in order to collaborate and built cool stuff.

I doubt that enough smart people would migrate to a region where they, their wife or their daughters could be imprisoned for being raped.
(http://www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org/2013/07/18/norwegia...)
OS X provides the POSIX_SPAWN_CLOEXEC_DEFAULT flag to posix_spawn, which results in it automatically closing all file descriptors that aren't described by the file actions passed to posix_spawn.
Amazing stuff. Will this build with standard GNU tools, or do you need XCode?
Awesome, but you should use the official jobs board (without comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
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What does this even mean, anyway? Trending by what metric? Commits? Stars? Watches? Clicks? All of the above? Something else? ???
It's 8 years since I used a desktop mail program and after a few hours with this, I'm close to pulling the trigger on switching back. It's hideous and strongly encourages top posting like some e-mail newbie :-( I could accept it on something that's trivial like Facebook or Twitter but it's too essential my e-mail experience be smooth and straightforward.
So as far as I have searched, there isn't really one that's usable and not encrypted ioncubed crap.

Looks like I'm going to code then.
Save oil by using another precious resource: helium.
A stalker can demand to face their accuser, just to harrass that person more. This is exactly the example given in the article: if you're trying to make trouble for someone, dragging them through a lawsuit is effective.
And most of those startups fail, right? And their stock options are worthless. So it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy: most companies fail, and so stock options are worthless, and so those companies attract mediocre talent, and so the company fails.

I've found that the best employees look for two major things when evaluating startups: that there's a market for what they're building, and that the founders aren't idiots. And the reason for this is that startups are full of necessary but not sufficient conditions: if any of market|team|design|engineering|investors are not present, the company doesn't take off. So a good engineer will look for companies where engineering is the missing ingredient, and he will take an equity hit if necessary to ensure that the other elements are present. That maximizes his expected payoff, because suddenly his 1% is of a potentially huge number that is under his control.
Uber wasn't YC

Edit: And thus can't use the official jobs board
There's this handy definition: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Pipes and Filters
In summary: Some unknown guy wants to be the Marco Arment of the Android world; He writes a highly polarized blog post and Marco falls for it and validates him.

Paul Stamatiou and Marco Arment are now the leading representatives in the Android vs iOS fanboi war. Congratulations to both.
It seems like Github has been removing useful features with every update. I remember when I could actually see the traffic to my project pages, for example, but they removed that when they launched the new graphs.
Frankly that would be a hell of a lot better than the result I'm expecting, yes. Maglev is real, working technology - delivery may have taken longer than you thought it should, but it's far more than "a neat idea on paper". Hyperloop is nowhere near that.
Prosecutors have power to prosecute, not the "right" to prosecute. The evolving history of individual rights is a response to the even longer history of abuses of those powers by little people that get big jobs.

Ortiz and Heymann abused their power and abused Aaron's rights. They should be in jail, not getting a paycheck from taxpayers.
Sneaker: Object-oriented, structured and testable jQuery in Coffeescript
I'm glad to read this.

Seems as a sincere and clear explanation to me. Which is a big plus.

I'll look forward to the progress of ansibleWorks and I think the free until 10 servers model, is great to let the product be tested and even used in little projects.

Succes!
i imagine the signal would have to be reflected in a highly directional manner or at very close distances. it's cool nevertheless, but i think storing some solar power in a capacitor/coil would produce more powerful rf communication bursts at least for outdoors applications.
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This is exactly how I raise my children.

Well, it's what I was going to do.

Then I had kids.

(I still demand no TV in the kids' room. Our household only recently got a second teevee, and it's in no one's bedroom.)
You pretty much wrote what I was going to say.

AMC hit it's Golden Age of TV programming with that trio, but clearly have shown that they have issues with the handling of heavy creative talent, what with the issues that Weiner and Gilligan have publicly had, and the volatility of the showrunner position on the Walking Dead. (which subsequently also resulted in one of the actors leaving the show). On top of that, they expanded the number of episodes of S4 while reducing the budget per episode. And of course, milked the coverage of these shows with vacuous Talking Bad/Talking Dead.

I wouldn't be surprised if talented writers avoided that network like the plague.
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No. That would only be true if the vehicle was buoyant.
Yeah, I've tried to err on the side of failing loudly when something is wrong instead of silently, for example: https://github.com/sjl/red-tape/blob/master/src/red_tape/cor...
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I can very much relate to Adam's observations, in two ways:

First, I constantly have to withstand the temptation to use the "occasional" moment to check my phone when I am with other people. I probably only manage to stay strong 50% of the time, and I have been (deservedly) called out on it. Yet, I so far find myself unable to abandon this unnecessary, rude and impersonal behavior.

Second, I have been in countless situations where I have become annoyed with people that constantly check their phones while they are engaged in a conversation with me. I have actively ("do you mind...") and passively (just stop talking until they look up) called people out on this behavior, and will continue to do so.

Why I, as a "victim" of constant phone-checking, continue to engage in the same rude pattern myself is somewhat a mystery to me. I believe it is partly related to the urge to "beat" your inbox by processing emails as fast as possible. Adam also mentioned that divided attention has somewhat become socially acceptable, and that might be an excuse I subconsciously use ("hey, the others are doing it as well"). People oftentimes don't even make an effort to hide what they are currently focusing on...

I think the most important part for me will be to be consistent - either (sadly) continue to engage in this behavior, and don't be offended if other people do it as well, or (much preferably) stop it altogether and behave in a way that my parents would have considered decent.
>There are lots of ways that your stock options might become “non-qualified” stock options, though. If you exercise them less than a year after receiving them, or sell them less than a year after exercising them, you could owe a ton of money to Uncle Sam. At this point, it’s best to call your accountant.

I wish they'd gone into this more ...
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This is simply not true. There are several podcast apps in the AppStore that I'm aware of (Instacast, Downcast, Aural...) and certainly several I've never heard of. I've been using Instacast since before Apple's app came out and just recently bought Aural.
A Visit to Disney’s Magic Kingdom
There are several ways the user might be exposed to the contents of the CSS file, but the most straightforward is probably the content property - http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_gen_content.asp .
On every serious project I've ever worked on, all comments get removed from all exposed front-end code (CSS, JavaScript, HTML) via LESS/minification/etc/etc.

I mean, there's no reason to expose ugly stuff like that... developers WILL swear in comments, so just make sure it doesn't get out the front door...
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Harry Chapin also wrote about not being around or available. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwjNBjqR-c

I find myself guilty of this from time to time too. In the end the answer is to model the behaviors we want them to model. If we want them to read, it's ok to read in their presence. If we want them to exercise it's ok to exercise in their presence. We don't have to be 100% on in servant mode, but it's good to be connected. I think the TV is awful as background noise. Music is not so bad.

Another poster in another thread said, you can only have one hobby as a parent. That captures the reality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6177254
Maybe you need to run jenkins under a better/faster filesystem. We use jenkins as well, and our deeply nested directories are deleted in under a tenth of a second.

I feel like your complaints are a user problem. I don't have the "too many files" issue when I use vim.