skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of re-naming these as a form of mini-notes.

But now that Gmail is getting into providing context for emails (such as flight check-ins), I'd like it if the auto-generated emails could also learn based on summaries I provide. Kind of like a filter rule based on what I've done in the past to re-name the email to what I'm looking for.
Your generation, and the ones before you, destroyed and defunded parks, they built malls over open land, they made 100% safe unfun playgrounds

This comment is bad math, bad history, and bad analysis.

Please. Try. Harder.

[NB: GP was <10yrs old in 1990. He was not the parks comissioner of New York City in the 1990s. Etc.]
You have to dress "get off my lawn" up a little, or else no one will pay you any attention. The irony of "think of the children not getting enough outside time" coming from these guys, self included, who spend too much time commenting on Hacker News won't escape the astute observer either.
Seems like a pretty good hedge on Intel's part considering how Microsoft has been pursuing a device-centric future for Windows where x86 is supported but so is ARM.
It's something like being a devil's advocate, plus being a fan. Spreading mistruths actually hurts things. When people say things like "Windows 8 won't boot without secure boot enabled", it's no longer opinion(like "MS sucks and is dying") but an objective fact that can be checked.

It's not effort expended per se, since it's more like debating merits of phone OSes at the water cooler rather than work. If they're paying people to do it, then they're doing quite a shitty job. I don't feel the need to "defend" other companies, because companies like Apple and Google already have plenty of fans who point out inaccuracies in stories or comments even before I even get a chance to comment.

Imagine an article which erroneously claims Windows Phone has "25% of the phone market" and that "Android is declining". Now imagine the HN comments on it and how karma might be distributed on those comments. Do you really think the equivalent to the following comment which is currently on top would still be on top?

programminggeek> "Microsoft has really fallen these last few years."

Or would it be a comment accusing the author of being a "Microsoft shill" ?

The moderation on here is pretty brutal even when pointing out objective facts, I have seen people get hellbanned by getting downvoted for making comments that people don't want others to see, but are true.
BBM Available for Android  and iPhone
Interesting. Mixpanel reports that iOS 7 adoption was at 3% before the release. 3% of iOS users are developers? That's pretty crazy if true.
You completely (again!) ignored his question about where you get your data from. That was extremely rude of you.
It would look a lot clearer if you didn't overlay the colors over water sections, but limited them to land only.

Downtown SF just looks... weird. As do a bunch of other sections. A strange line going down the bay parting the water. It makes it a lot more confusing than necessary.
Not accountants.

Accountants and financial advisers are cheap bastards who have to deal with crap loads of regulatory compliance rules and complicated software that integrates with lots of other companies and governments, costs a fortune and never works properly.

People who package up all this shit and stick it on the web so the end user maintenance cost isn't there are winning over standalone PC software vendors these days.

And it all works via a web browser (which conveniently doesn't require windows).

Even if you bag Office 365 for comms which is typical at the moment from what I've seen, it works on anything.

I've seen IFA's and accountants wholly running off ChromeBooks and iPads in the UK. The only complaint they have is printing and even that's pretty much solved.
I don't have enough bandwidth right now.
what I just read: "just move several hundred thousand tons of concrete and make people rearrange the architecture of their houses. no biggie"
It's possible to see code for the unibus app at www.github.com/ceeK/unibus, via www.chrishowell.me, for any clients that may want to view some code.

If you mean full on open source software that I can contribute to, I haven't found a project that excites me enough yet.
> Wow, sounds like Monsanto for Nerds.

Its more like Genentech (at least in focal domain) than Monsanto, but "Genentech for Nerds" would be still just be Genentech -- who, incidentally, shares its Chairman with Calico.
I had that a few times as well... kept retrying and it worked only when I unplugged from laptop. Not sure if it's related or not.
Sorry, Intel. The year of the Linux desktop will never arrive until I can watch Youtube videos with the goddam Flash player (or anything else) in Linux.

Signed,

- No-flash Giardini who cannot watch Youtube videos on his Linux box.

Sorry, for an Internet user, life w/o Youtube is like being a blind man with a white cane.
Where's your data from?
Bit depressing that even people in the design world don't understand the basic difference between design and styling -and think it's just some aesthetic thing rather than how we make planes that don't fall out of the sky and road signs that stop people getting themselves lost. OTOH it would seem to indicate a big opportunity (I guess Steve Jobs exploited this).
Phone companies remain silent over legality of NSA data collection
Isn't that lovely? The poor can starve to death and the rich can live forever!
Thanks Rob. I understand you have costs, but with both compute and storage prices plummeting, it stands out when you have an outlier like that.
I feel for Ms. Vojtko's family, but I don't feel like complaining about adjunct professor salaries is being fair.

These positions are short term contract (6 months-1 year) and are not meant as long term employment. These positions are meant for people from industry to come in a teach a class on a specific topic they are experienced in. These positions are not research positions, or anything of the sort.

Many of the people in adjunct positions have a completely separate full-time jobs, or perhaps are retired. Offering them health-care seems silly, because a large number of them already receive health care.

So parading one lady who treated the position as some kind of career path as proof that professors at college's need to get paid more is silly. I understand that my professors are going to be higher paid than most (Software/Computer Engineering) but earning upwards of $200k with a great deal of perks is fairly common.
The true story of the Yarnell fire
I would have linking to something online would be protected under free speech, too.
LLVM isn't portable.
Even beyond using linux as a desktop OS, Intel has had an internal Linux distro for a much longer time (if I remember right, they were still stuck on Linux 2.4.x back in 2007, as re-writing a lot of their custom drivers and kernel changes would was taking them a long time to move up to 2.6.x). A lot of their new CPU testing (for development and QA) is done with Linux. It just gave them the control they needed to test new CPUs, chipsets, and other components.
awesome! def like what i see so far!
I suggest Whatsapp. Has group texts, also supports sexting via images sent over data (and video!).
Yeah but hat assumes that the vehicle population won't expand to take advantage of the new capacity. Like many people, when I lived in SF* I didn't want a car because it was more hassle than benefit, notwithstanding the invisible tax of lost time from slow/inefficient public transit. I agree that it's very very slow; getting from SF to Stanford University, for example, is a 3 hours journey each way.

* I live in North Oakland now, and I can get to downtown SF in about 30 minutes, including the walk to the BART station and having to wait a few minutes for the train. At worst (just missed a train, at the weekend, 20 minute wait for the next one) it takes 45 minutes, wheres getting downtown from 30th Avenue and Taraval in SF took a minumum of 54 minutes and typically more than an hour.
Global economic crisis 'linked to suicide rise'
Linux has certainly had a number of years over the years.

2006 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1836228,00.asp

2008 http://www.maximumpc.com/article/2008_year_of_the_linux_desk...

2009 http://www.fastcompany.com/1116502/2009-year-linux-revolutio...

2010 http://xerosphere.net/is-2010-the-year-for-linux-on-the-desk...

2012 http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/133669-could-this-be-the-y...
And that fundamental difference leads to some advantages - More devices to choose from, cheaper hardware, side loading.

And some disadvantages - most users have an outdated operating system, and developers have to deal with fragmentation of OS versions and hardware platforms.

The fact that Apple can get its latest OS onto a majority of devices ignores nothing.

Apple can do this because of a strategy decision they made. Google cannot because they chose a different strategy that has different priorities.

If you want an ecosystem where users have up-to-date system software, Apple has chosen correctly.
In my experience, teaching has a way of ballooning to fill whatever time you have. Teaching one class feels like just as much work as teaching three, partly because either way you have to be available to students outside of class - office hours, answering email, and so on. I can't imagine teaching a single university class "for fun" while holding down a full-time job. Certainly it's not something I've seen very often.
Can't agree more.

Though the design could be improved for the HN audience, it might actually work better with the target audience (but what do I know! I'm no designer).

Good for a first app. Good luck!
I feel as thought both graphs with purple and green lines are accurately explained. Were you trying to skim through the article or were you still left confused after reading it? The top one is explained in the accompanying text and the bottom one is explained with a labeled x and y axis and relies on the information provided above.
Wow! This reminds me of a comment I saw on HN, or maybe it was a blog post about either Google's Project Loon, or Google Glass. I can't seem to find a link or the actual author, but they essentially said:

"What I care about is that Google has become a machine that turns advertising dollars into fundamentally groundbreaking new projects like Google Glass, Project Loon, and self-driving cars. They’re not just trying to make money: they’re trying to use that money on far-fetched moon-shot projects with the chance to be genuinely revolutionary. I admire that."

Now they are investing in a new realm where they are "excited about tackling aging and illness." Google's ambition, and vision is inspiring! Hopefully we see some innovation in this sector from this investment.
How much code should designers know?
This is such a great idea. Like if you could somehow turn the massive emails chocked full of garbage from airlines into something that just says:

MCO > JFK 9/18 1:00 PM EFZG94
Show HN: "No Barking" Spotify App to skip all songs by Pitbull
Dear millennial, Overnighters aren't productive
When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York’s playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox. As the city’s parks commissioner in the 1990s, he issued an edict concerning the 10-foot-high jungle gym near his childhood home in northern Manhattan.

“I grew up on the monkey bars in Fort Tryon Park, and I never forgot how good it felt to get to the top of them,” Mr. Stern said. “I didn’t want to see that playground bowdlerized. I said that as long as I was parks commissioner, those monkey bars were going to stay.”

His philosophy seemed reactionary at the time, but today it’s shared by some researchers who question the value of safety-first playgrounds. Even if children do suffer fewer physical injuries — and the evidence for that is debatable — the critics say that these playgrounds may stunt emotional development, leaving children with anxieties and fears that are ultimately worse than a broken bone.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/science/19tierney.html?_r=...
Is Linus familiar with memristor-based computing architecture [1][2]? It will most definitely allow Moore's law to proceed on schedule.

1. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/hp-memristors/

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
"Right now Microsoft is the only option for affordable really high-end desktop/laptop computers."

I have a high end laptop that doesn't run Windows as the primary OS. (I occasionally run Windows in VMs to verify that cross platform OSS software runs on it and on Patch Tuesday to fix the latest exploits...) Other than that, Linux is my primary personal machine at home for development, research, office work, music and movies, etc... I'm also shopping for a new desktop and home media server that will probably not be Windows.

Windows currently has a chokehold on the desktop market with it's huge ecosystem of applications and entertainment, that's what's preventing many folks from moving. Games and accounting applications are the only reasons that my spouse still runs Windows at home.
BlackBerry To Cut Up To 40% Of Staff By Year’s End
I'd argue it's very narcissistic and very un-empathetic.
I don't think the author would have any objection to your points. But malnutrition is, to a large extent, an economic problem stemming from the fact that, in most Western countries, healthy foods are generally more expensive than unhealthy ones. The author is describing a problem that is largely cultural, and which requires an entirely different approach to solve.
It's a feature, not a bug, not having a parking spot in front of your house.
Noted - thanks for your feedback.
I'm not sure how to take this, but the book epoused the attitude that "everyone treated equally" could lead to unforeseen consequences (i.e., 214th and later amendments to the Constitution).

I don't think that LaGrange would ever want forced equality. He's just adding perspective. And I think it's fair to say that kids will just find ways to have fun, either with tablets or without.

In one of our in-groups we hang out with occasionally, I've seen kids grow through the past 10 years. About 2-3 years ago, they started showing up to parties/events with iPads. Now they don't (even their little brothers sisters). Sometimes they were crowded around the Wii. Nowadays they aren't (again also the littler ones).

Kids will find ways to have fun with each other, and make use of their spare time. I don't think technology and the proliferation of digital toys are poisoning them. I think the lack of free time in general in our modern society is more pernicious (both for kids and their parents). Free time is a resource that is precious even for kids - give them this and they'll turn out ok.
One of the major differences I noticed when I came to America for college was that, in social settings, people were utterly incapable of improvising a game from scratch. We always had to play a game that someone else had invented, such as a board game or a well-known drinking game - both of which had strict rules. And if the board game was missing a piece? It was deemed unplayable. No one tried to improvise a solution because it required outside-the-box thinking.

Playing the system. Its the new, new thing.
Protected speech is just speech that isn't not protected. That is to say, the default rule is that speech is protected, unless it falls into certain categories of exceptions.

I don't know of any credible story about people being prosecuted for Google searches. The prosecutions for Facebook comments tend to boil down to the police arguing that the comments are threats, which fall into one of the exceptions for unprotected speech.
No! On the contrary. Killing all the bacteria makes the yeasts take over as they have no more competition.
If you're running a company with 50+ employees that is having success on Google, and Google explicitly tells you what you're doing is OK, you'd probably make a similar decision.

At the time of the Matt Cutts video, EE was serving the full content to users who clicked through - the answer was just buried at the bottom of the page. Crummy, sure. Definitely not going to win them many friends. Worth getting so angry over? Not in my mind.

Clearly you disagree, and that's fine. I think your mind is made up and I don't have hopes to change it.
It appears to be related as after reading your comment I unplugged and tried again. It worked.
If programmers built houses they'd be modular and you'd be able to roll the garage from one side to the other as requirements changed, right?

Hey, it'd only quadruple the construction price, but it would be so awesome.
Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5: problems, changes and new APIs
Between 5 and 10% of all traffic is currently people looking for parking in many cities. If the driverless cars function like taxis and pick up another fare, instead of parking immediately, they stand to reduce congestion overall.
Why big IT projects crash
Just like the internet, right? A great philantropic endeavour planned for all.

You mean a government-funded research program that took place in academia and released its results under open licensing, thus allowing a hacker-ethic of free contribution and usage?

Because that's how the internet happened, actually. Do remember that the Mosaic web browser was invented by Tim Burners-Lee at CERN while on public payroll, it was released under free licensing, and the whole infrastructure spread precisely because it was decentralized and open.

The internet versus the App Store is an excellent example of why we want publicly-funded, open-access research initiatives, not private profit-mongering.

Sorry if I'm being harsh, but seriously, "make it for everyone"? Who is that even directed at, god? It's not like post-scarcity and immortality will be the work of Larry Page or anyone in isolation who could take it upon themselves to do it altruistically.

Well, if God is listening, I'd certainly like Him to consider that He should come down and issue a few ethical guidelines before we start stomping all over His Creation trying to overpower Him!
I wonder what capacity he is operating in with regards to this project. I was actually surprised that he wasn't named as the CEO of Calico.
love the idea for the book you're writing! I'm trying to solve the same problem actually, checkout www.appcubator.com
That would be worst-case - if the car went all the way back to where it came from. We could easily be more efficient - garages at a moderate distance with much high density (no need of human access) and routing could be optimized to avoid congestion both on the road and parked.

But the big win would be with car sharing.
I love this idea. I'd love it even more if they had an API and I could pull my todo list into my terminal.
I think reading between the lines a little bit should indicate that because 50%+ of professors are adjuncts means that universities are proactively attempting to keep professors with that status. It means they can pay them less both in salary and in benefits. Hence why Duequesne would want to avoid unionization of it's adjuncts.

I don't know the statistics of adjuncts who have full time jobs as well, so take that with a grain of salt.
As a designer, I totally, totally, totally agree with this statement:

> people say designers should code. Whether you agree with that or not, designers certainly need to define the problem and solution not in pixels, but in terms of describing what happens between components in a system (
http://insideintercom.io/the-dribbblisation-of-design/)

My job isn't to make things pretty. Rather, it's to make things understandable. Only when aesthetic appeal makes something easier-to-use & understand does it make sense for me to incorporate it into my design.

In other words: A good designer won't just polish a turd.
Los campos magnéticos de muy baja frecuencia 50 /60 hz. alteran
Exactly. I just feel that some people look at the adoption rates and completely ignore the decisions that were made that allows Apple to achieve those numbers. At this stage in the game, and with the guiding principles of Android, achieving those numbers are impossible for Android. I just want people to understand that the comparison is more complex, for the exact reasons you've stated.
At least the laws are mainly ready for driverless cars. Requiring a human as a failsafe is a reasonable short-term compromise - I am 100% for letting computers drive but there are bound to be a few bugs that will emerge in the first 5-10 years, just like algorithmic trading can lead to unwanted cascade effects. Enough people have a driving license that I don't think the 'human driver' requirement will be a major barrier to adoption. The main disadvantage will be on late nights, since people who are unfit to drive due to alcohol/drug consumption won't be able to use the driverless cars to get home.
Inventing effective anti-aging is much, much harder than subverting a power structure (either by pirating the drug formula or by revolution.)

Therefore, if you stipulated that such an invention could only happen if it started off in the hands of the powerful, I would still take that bargain.
This makes me worried - what I really loved more than anything else about this project was that Cyanogenmod really tried to embrace the spirit of FOSS. Now, in reality, it doesn't really work that way because of proprietary drivers or google services, but the spirit was there...

Now I have my doubts about whether they'll keep true to that philosophy and spirit. I mean, I guess Red Hat has been pretty awesome for Linux, so maybe they'll go that route and calm my nerves a bit.

I saw someone ask whether they would remain open source in the AMA, and they gave kind of a murky answer which involved saying that certain parts would become closed and proprietary - really not a good start to this whole thing in my book. The whole reason I switched to CM in the first place was to get away from crappy closed software that I had little control over.
You never laid your Android tablet on your desk? :)
> I wanted to ask you: why is it that you spend time defending a multi-billion dollar corporation, for free, when they actually pay people to do this?

This confuses me. Debates about facts should never be limited to marketing departments versus the world, with everyone who agrees with the corporation sitting by quietly.
I just went through a list of companies that I personally use or have considered using that take CC information on signup. All but one assume that you'll be continuing unless you explicitly cancel. I don't think my impression is so far off the mark, but eh, I could be wrong.
Your reasoning is correct, if and only if adjunct professor positions are filled as intended. The article mentions that adjunct professors make up over 50 percent of faculty at various colleges and universities. If it is so -- I am not qualified to evaluate -- then your argument falls at the base.

If adjunct professors are over 50 percent of faculty, then the position is being used by universities to hire cheap. This leads to obvious problems for professors but, ironically, in time kills higher education. Higher education requires individuals who are free from the worry of making ends meet, so they can pursue knowledge. They need not be rich, but they can't be counting pennies. In time, a staff made up of strapped professors hurts the teaching quality, destroys the perception of quality at universities and scares students away.
this might be good for customers but doesn't change anything for me, as a developer. we still have to support down to 2.3. it is a big PITA to develop for and you can't use the new fancy(tm) stuff most of the time. sometimes i'm a bit jealous, but only sometimes :)
And now we are starting to see Apple fall behind its competitors on central features, like e.g wi-fi calling. This feature is essential for the phones primary function, calling, in low-coverage areas. All competing mobile OSs already support wi-fi calling so this is disappointing.