skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously the designer hasn't read Arthur C. Clarke's "Stroke of the Sun" short story (also known as "A Slight Case of Sunstroke"). It's well worth the five minute read:

http://www.archive.org/stream/Galaxy_Magazine_Volume_16_Numb...
>You are a sexist, misoyngistic, homophobic, transphobic, classist, racist asshole. Oh, and possibly even a hypocrite.

>Sorry bro.

>Yes, I have slut-shamed, body-policed, name-called, bad-joked, appropriated, derailed, co-opted, silenced, objectified, stereotyped, trivialized, slurred, punished, isolated, insulted, benefited, and stayed silent with the worst of them.

I'm missing the overarching sarcasm, right? Surely the author cannot be blind to her own contradictions. This must be bait.
How do you mean? I just watched Breaking Bad which is on my laptop via the AppleTV.
This Interactive Map Compares the New York City of 1836 to Today
Glad to hear that I wasn't the only one.
Imagine getting a Xeroxed copy of the illegal version of the book.
John Arundel on PaaS
WikiLeaks' Spy Files #3
Funny you should mention that.

Given that that's the defense people seem to proclaim every time someone mentions that disabling JavaScript is now buried as an arcane config flag in Firefox.

They say: "just use a plug-in", "just use an add-on"...

What they mean to say is: "just don't disable javascript at all... ever."
Where exactly does the struct pair implement the Stringer interface? Is it when the String method was added to it? What if you have interfaces with similar names?
You might willingly step on an ant, but it's good not to be in denial about it.
I like to put it as "what for" not "what."
Meh, this is just another diatribe that makes all sexism and racism as sin: a pernicious character flaw that can never be blotted out, but must be constantly atoned for. Ditch the hairshirts, they don't suit you.

This is particularly shitty, because they take systemic problems, like racism, sexism, environmentalism, and make them into personal responsibilities. See here:

http://jacobinmag.com/2013/07/revolutionizing-ethics/

No matter how much you atone, systemic sexism will prevail. If you want to change that, CHANGE THE SYSTEM. Introspection is good, but on its own, is just masterbation.
Those are the most popular phrases in 1980. The times no longer uses "was".
Qualcomm jumps into wearables with Toq smartwatch
As long as they are in the US, or a nation that bends to our will, it is not a secure provider.

It's been little over a year since the FBI seized their servers.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/may-firstriseup-server...

edit: I also believe they were complicit in ousting several of their users who allegedly used their service for illicit reasons a while back when they were competing with hushmail, safemail, and the lot. This is from memory, and I have no proof to back it up. Grain of salt and all that
>Two very different experiences.

Well its a good thing the parent is saying they're just two items in a category. Not two exact same things.
How to work with the Office Jerk
How the Authy Two-Factor backups work
>It is a testament to the new sensibility that something like this can be worn in public and be "cool."

Or, everyone's hedging their bets. Better to be on the train platform than off it if the train actually comes.
Definitely. Kills me when people say, "But they never gave me a chance to negotiate!"

Your negotiation starts as soon as you begin the first interview. Always play for position.
> prediction 1: we will soon see smartwatches incorporate biometric measurement full force. After all unlike a mobile phone, a smartwatch is (typically) always attached to your body, right up against the skin.

That's why I think Basis B1 [1] is the most interesting of all "smartwatches". It's a pity they are basically out of stock since several months.

[1] http://www.mybasis.com/
Yep, that is a big trade-off. There's room for someone to write a pure-Python implementation as well, to fill that niche. You could probably get a lot of the way using Python's `struct` module. But it would be slower.
Actually, they are doing just that.

They are one of the forces driving a project for a encrypted e-mail system: https://leap.se/en/home

They also issued a call to arms asking for volunteers on the project not so long ago.
29% failed to graduate in the major within 4 years.
... it otherwise looks very bad

Sir, you must not have been paying attention in math, I mean statistics, class. I believe that your experiment needs a control.
That sounds about right, although a 346MB picture ought to be worth more than the average picture, you'd think.
Everything is obvious once you know the answer.
Smartwatches need more sensors than advanced UIs. They can do much better in sensing world around them.
multiple-value-bind. Old as Lisp
Oh, cool, I'll tale a closer look at Clavid. Cheers.
Replying to let hnbanned (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6319611) know he's been hellbanned again for no reason. Here's his comment:

http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/why-working-more-than-40...

The studies showed that there's a short term gain followed by a fall in productivity.
We don't know that. For better or worse---and I personally would rate CMU's CS undergraute education as superior to MIT's now, but that's because EE and MIT's vision for EECS graduates does little for me---MIT can attract a significantly better pool. E.g. before applications got really crazy in the Great Recession, when 13,000 were applying, it thought 3,000 "could do the work" and chose from that subset.

And MIT doesn't do legacy admits; I get the impression CMU may.
And zooming in does not make a left-right scroll bar. That's what I had to do to read it. That font is really, really tiny on my 1900 x 1200 screen
How Tech Remakes Space, Food and Urgency
I wonder if Google has an even greater (more so than with phones and tablets) inherent disadvantage to Apple because it's going to be beholden to a more generic UI given the diversity of devices by the android OEMs.

The Google card UI is slick and very user friendly, but it can stagnate pretty quickly given the potential for a more accommodating, dynamic UI that a company like Apple can make with a limited range of devices. I think it's not just a simple visual gimmick that Apple demonstrated a parallax effect as a major visual feature of iOS 7.0. If the iWatch is some sort of wrap-around your wrist screen, then layers of visual information could be really interesting.
How is "speak up" less abstract than "just listen"? They're both good advice. But there are so many issues that you'll have to be abstract to describe them collectively. I think "just listen" is good advice because you have to know what kind of problems there are before you can even recognize someone being an asshole.
There's nothing stopping a competitive gamer from having a job or family. You also don't need to play 10 hours a day to remain competitive.

If you sleep 7 hours a day and work 40 hours a week there's still 9 hours a day to do whatever you want and free weekends assuming you work a typical 9-5 job which might be common but certainly isn't what everyone does.

How you choose to spend those remaining 9-10 hours a day is up to you. Some people would rather watch TV for 3 hours a night and sleep more so they lose almost half their free time because they enjoy sleeping in and watching some shows. Nothing wrong with that but not everyone spends their time doing that.
I very much agree with this. Succinct comments have the advantage of being easier to keep in sync with code changes.
If you go on YouTube and search for the doc (The Trap), and speed up to 36:50, they start on Laing.

Quote from the doc:
He was about to use his growing power to attack one of the most powerful professions in America: The Medical and Psychiatric establishment. The result would be dramatic, but the outcome would be very different from what Laing intended. His ideas would undermine the old controlling medical elite, but far from liberating people, what would actually emerge would be a revolutionary new system of order and control, driven by the objective power of numbers.

He doesn't portray Laing as in cahoots with some evil plutocrats, although he does talk about the Rosenheim (sp?) experiment separately.
LittleCast direct-to-fan video platform announces $2M Seed funding
People who speak English as a second language very well, in my experience, make fewer grammatical errors than native English speakers like myself. This is because they've taken the time to learn the correct grammar rules, and are also careful to apply these rules in speaking.

This was a problem for me when I took the GMAT exam, because there is a grammar section there that's based on some formal grammar rules that I wasn't aware of. For example, look at the example sentences for Rule #5 at the end of this article: both sentences sound correct to my ear: http://www.knewton.com/blog/gmat/2011/06/14/what-to-memorize...
I didn't take the opportunity to condemn because it wasn't relevant to my point which was independent of anyone's feelings on the Syrian government. But to make you happy: I condemn the atrocities committed by the Syrian government. And to make you less happy: Without making a comparison or equivalence, I condemn the atrocities committed by rebel forces and the US government.

I am not certain of anything. Allied forces have strong incentives to mislead, as does the media in those countries, and we have recent historical evidence showing that they have done so in other cases (Iraq, Libya). It is simply not a defensible position to assert that governments don't mislead, even in concert. Your argument seems to boil down to "the government wouldn't lie to me" when we have seen that they would.

And of course whether or not allied governments are lying and cooperating is falsifiable: They can present evidence to show that their claims are supported by compelling evidence.

To be clear the Syrian government may, at a later date, be proved to have used chemical weapons. But that still wouldn't make the fact that, right now, there is no compelling evidence to support such a claim. Unjustified belief is not knowledge.
"... to explain how he starting building a company when he was only 12."
In my C code I've been moving away from distinguishing primitive types by name alone, preferring to wrap them in single-element structs to get some type safety:

do_things_with_fruits(apple_count_t apples, orange_count_t oranges);

instead of

do_things_with_fruits(int apples, int oranges);

Which saves my ass when I wind up writing

do_things_with_fruit(basket.oranges, basket.apples);

Note that at that point, I would say a generic pair type (not allowed in C but borrowing C++ syntax)

pair<apple_count_t, orange_count_t>

is really no less informative than something like

fruit_basket_t

and if it's easily defined (tuples + inference?) I see no reason to avoid it.
Eeek, sorry. Fixing it at the moment. :)
>It is a testament to the new sensibility that something like this can be worn in public and be "cool."

I really think this remains to be seen. I'm a pretty geeky guy, and there's no way I'd wear any of the smart watches I've seen to date in public.

Wearing a watch just isn't a common thing among people under 40 these days in general. Those who do wear them tend to do so primarily as a fashion accessory. The simple fact is all the watches I've seen so far have been flat out ugly. They absolutely recall the old calculator watches you're referring to. But at least wearing a watch was a fairly normal thing back then.

I'm not saying it's impossible for there to be a cool smart watch, just that I haven't seen it yet. Everything out there so far is going to be serving a very niche market, IMO.
It's always important, when reading something like this, to realize how young the person who wrote it was, how emotional they were when they wrote it, and where they're coming from.

Often times people who write this kind of screed are writing more for themselves than for others, even if they don't know it.

Clearly there are other people who are curious who this woman is - her personal site appears to be completely hammered right now - but I don't think this distraction is particularly important except for the people here who are seeking distraction for distraction's sake.
Yeah, probably something to do with BT 4.0 LE - only Android 4.3 supports it - so all those other devices will have to painfully wait for their respective carriers to release the 4.3 update. As good as not gonna happen!
Very impressive! Pls post a link to your code if you don't mind.
Fighting crime with algorithms
I'm starting to really dislike the term "legacy code". It implies the code is bad because it's old. It perpetuates the misconception that code gets "stale" and problems build up. But that's not true. "Legacy code" is bad because it's BAD. All code is "legacy code" because unless the project is brand new, it has some history. We just don't call good old code "legacy code" because it hasn't caused us any problems. There is no reason to correlate bad code with age.
It looks much better then Pebble.
It's a pity though that it will work only with Samsung phones, not all Androids (not mentioning iPhones...).
It's #ff6600 so it's an orange that gets affected quite a bit depending on your device settings.

On my Mac, it's neon orange. On most PCs, it's not as neon.

If you have an NVIDIA graphics card, it's commonly referred to as "Digital Vibrance".
"Just listen" can be helpful to identify problems, but here's the issue: we all already know of 99% of the problems! We just don't act on them. Social pressure is a powerful thing, and most of the time that's all it takes to correct issues.

"Speak up" isn't abstract, it's concrete: if you hear someone say something inappropriate, tell them. That's it. Simple as that.
All startup knowledge in 13Mb
"Control +" is your friend.
Exactly. This comes down to releasing a little bit of your inner sheepdog[1].

[1] http://www.killology.com/sheep_dog.htm
There's a reason why the version you bought was Rs 400, not Rs 5000. That much of a price differential should be a red flag.
Men in suits can still come up and demand complete collaboration and silence XOR Guantanamo, so nothing specially secure here. Also not sure why they need thousands of dollars for a high-end server + "consultant", can't they start a proof of concept in a VM with limited (invite) accounts? sorry for the negativity
There was a great Dilbert that had his mum asking him the "if everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" question. His response was along the lines of "if they all came back and told me how awesome it was, yes".
Android is for startups
Maybe they're pictures of words. That sort of explains why they'd take up so much space.
5/6 comments in here clearly skimmed the article and didn't bother making a single ounce of effort to understand what the author was saying. Instead, grabbed a few vague references and dismiss the entire idea out-of-hand. Typical. Let me guess, you scream and cover your ears and go "NO NOT ME!" when the word "privilege" is uttered?

I catch myself regularly needing to go "Hey man, if that's what they want to be doing/wearing/etc and they're happy, good for fucking them; rock on." and I hate myself for being surprised yesterday when my (albeit new) female friend pulled some obscure technical knowledge out in the middle of a conversation.

The article is exactly right and these comments show the problem - you have to give a fuck and not be a selfish tool and listen and try to be a nice person.

Oh and look at the poor victims in this thread. "How dare you post an article about a sensitive and important topic?! How dare I again have to confront my privilege. Raaage."
I especially like the delicious irony of the third-last sentence:

> Don’t show up in other people’s spaces and communities without invitation demanding to receive their time and attention.
If gender is to be elevated above merit

It could be that gender (in this case, the male gender) was previously elevated about merit, and the new standards restore the use of merit as the ultimate criteria for admissions. That was rayiner's point.
Android "directly copied" the Java API, similar to a table of contents.

Was it copyright infringement?
First thing that came to my mind when I saw the title.
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431.12
A handful of anecdotes does not make your case. Polyphasic sleep with very little overall sleep (eg six short naps a day) is not sustainable. Our bodies require more sleep to function at peak performance.

I tried out polyphasic sleep in 2006. I spent a lot of time before, during, and after reading all the research I could find. I found no research on long term polyphasic sleep (short naps). There is some short term research that shows it can work as a temporary solution when regular sleep is not possible (eg solo sailing competitions). Everything I've read from sleep researchers has said that they think it's completely unsustainable because you're constantly in sleep debt and you're probably negating sleep mechanisms they're not aware of yet (such as the original article here).

My personal anecdote agrees with the researchers. I was able to do it but I always felt about 80-90% normal, like I was functioning at a lower level. I felt cold all the time, possibly due to incorrect hormone levels from lack of sleep (pure speculation).

Eventually the sleep debt caught up to me. I started sleeping through my alarm. 25 minutes of sleep would turn into 2 hours. At least once I turned off an alarm on the other side of the room and went back to bed with no memory of doing it.

I recommend trying it if you can fit it in your schedule. It was a very interesting experience and taught me a lot about sleep. You need to dedicate at least a month, a week or two isn't enough to "adjust" (which never truly happens).
Aren't Australia and Great Britain "connected" by that Commonwealth stuff? I'm not an expert in international politics, but in case that Australia is bound to that cookie law in GB, that'd explain it.
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That's what I did; but it's still a poor, customized-beyond defaults, resolution. I'm curious to load that page in high DPI mode for users with vision impairments and see if it increases in size.
English is a Dialect of Germanic (or, Cantonese is not just a Dialect)
That's a pain-in-the-butt way to find the one resistor you need in a pile of fifty. Even though you are color-blind, that's just red and green, so you too can say to yourself "blue, blue, I need two blue stripes..."
Actually almost all the Indian editions of the book are much more cheaper than its US based price in Dollars. And when you look at the paper quality, it feels like the price is justified.

Also not to look over the fact that both are published by PearsonEd. The US version by Addison-Wesley and the Indian version by Dorling-Kindersley. Both are PearsonEd subsidiaries.
I think you're misinterpreting something. When she lists all the bad things she's done, she's not saying they're good things. She's admitting she's a hypocrite.
Yeah but the person next to me has #f6f6ef which I get some other times.
Don't forget the Qualcomm Toq:

http://toq.qualcomm.com/#toq-hello

Qualcomm isn't big in the consumer space but mirasol displays seem promising.
Sure, the spoken lesson is: be careful what you share, there are risks.

But the article isn't about privacy conscientiousness, it's about brand conscientiousness.

The author isn't talking about how she might construct rules to effect a safe space for her daughter to grow and learn and internalize these values, separate from known pitfalls that might cause her harm.

The author talks only about how she constructed a safe space for her daughter's brand, separate from whatever might befall her daughter while she's maturing.

It's might seem like a minor distinction, but it doesn't feel that way to me. It makes the whole article feel essentially disingenuous.
>But, when hundreds of thousands of people become underwater, Congress started to get involved to (attempt to) provide relief.

Yeah, I was almost afraid that I had bought too small of a house, knowing that I would have to pay for my share of the mortgage bailout in extra taxes and value lost to inflation, I might as well buy the most ridiculous crib I could get financing for. Right? But then it came to pass that those bailout programs never really did much for underwater and overextended homeowners. Of course, none of that really makes me feel better, except that I can still afford my mortgage.
i saw a video earlier today that suggested perhaps some features of a phone could be more convenient in watch form just as some things are more pleasant on phones and tablets than on desktops. that it wasn't a replacement, rather a supplement

i could maybe get behind that.

but if it can't do anything on it's own, without the phone, it loses like 99.5% of it's appeal. if your phone or tablet had to be tethered to a laptop or desktop, it would be useless.

i'd think a huge part of the appeal of smart watch would be the fitness stuff. i know my wife doesn't really like using her phones because it is too big for running. she likes her garmin watch better. if you have to take a 5.7 inch phone with you, wtf good is the watch? Sure there is a slight bonus to just putting phone in pocket instead of on arm and using the watch to check stuff, but man it feels like this is missing the point.

i'm not convinced i want a smartwatch, but i'm pretty sure i want it to be able to do "something" on it's own. As it is, this is a dumbwatch second screen for phone.
Well Apple had their chance with iPod Nano Touch - it doesn't look any different than iOS. Besides the key on these tiny displays is going to be how minimalistic you can get - get the UI baggage out of the way and present as much info as possible.
I love their verdict on the casio calculator watch The original and the best! :)
way to break the back button.
Do you think you are separate from the system? Can you change the system without introspecting?
Or they will all start making more money.
There is something like twice as many people using HN who are older than 25 than there are younger than 25, if the most recent age poll is to be believed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058598

The old "you wouldn't understand if you aren't a yourself parent" line really is tiresome.
Although I used puppet in my example to run and manage docker containers, you don't have to. ;)

Here's the raw run command with the environment parameters passed in:

docker run -e SETTINGS_FLAVOR=prod -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$aws_access_key -e AWS_SECRET_KEY=$aws_secret_key -e S3_BUCKET=$s3_bucket -e WORKER_SECRET_KEY=$worker_key -p 5000:5000 -m 0 samalba/docker-registry

Just slap that badboy in your favorite supervisory process manager (or even just run it) and you're good to go.
How lucky are world chess champions?
This is great! sports networking is really a pain in the ass, I dont know how many times I embarrassed myself asking kids to play me in.Thanks playerify team!
The Disconnection Paradox of Existing Social Media Platforms
Nobody said Gadafi was a humanitarian, he was monstrous as far as I know. The point was that the attack was justified using several unsubstantiated but widely-publicized-as-fact claims.
Put the photos on your own domain and link to them from Facebook.
More info here: https://github.com/dotcloud/openstack-docker/blob/master/doc...

Also, it's available in devstack by adding "VIRT_DRIVER=docker" in your localrc.
Thank you for clearing that up. You probably won't see this after 11 days, but I have to try: is that a missed optimisation or a deliberate design decision?