skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I provided many arguments in attempt to illustrate my points. They proceeded to get cherry-picked--which effectively removed their context. You deconstructed all of my posts in an attempt to redefine each term used. Maybe I mistook a straw man for you, but you haven't acknowledged any of my greater themes here so either you missed them or their outside of your worldview. I'm sorry if I wasted your time.
http://www.amazon.com/Back-Nature-Macaroni-Cheese-Cups/dp/B0...
Too little, too late. Whatsapp has taken the throne in multi-platform messaging quite some time ago. Just like Facebook and Google+, no matter how good and innovative the latter is, as long as all your friends are still on the former, the latter will not gain much traction.
Strange. When I open gmail, I have to give permission. I do that, dismiss the dialog, the page refreshes, and I get the same dialog. Over and over again, I think I've given the app my permission like 10 times. And the buttons aren't appearing in my gmail.

What am I doing wrong?
That certainly used to be the case. I believe they now actually perform proper authentication - i.e. send an SMS with unique code to the handset, which gets automatically read and then authorizes the device.

Their security did used to be horrendous though, e.g. everything sent over all networks/http in plain text.

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.
I feel like a developer could hack this pretty easily by enabling upgrade features through In-App Purchases.
"what about something like a heart attack?"

Well, with an average of 15 minutes until you arrive at the other end, where presumably EMTs are already waiting, I don' think you really need a close comparison. 15 minute response times are hardly unheard of and you can put yourself in a much more isolated situation just driving down the road in a car in some of the less dense parts of America.

I don't think this is a problem that actually needs a solution (though the public may very well demand one irrationally, much like the safety concerns the public is going to have with self-driving cars that are safer than human drivers...).
It's a good joke but HN isn't about jokes, people are trying to having a conversation on a topic and random jokes merely make that more difficult.
The author isn't conflating. That is what the words mean, and "UX" is the made up wank word. It's the "Web 2.0." of the design world.

I'm pretty sure "UX" was created as a term in response to the market getting flooded with stylists (interested amateurs) calling themselves "designers". I'm interested to see what you believe to be the distinction between "visual design" and "graphic design".
Traditionally, Graphic design is about how it works, with how it looks (what you call "eye candy") being secondary to (but still a part of) function. This is the sort of thing you can learn if you read books instead of just reading blog posts.

And clearly, the definition of "graphic design" has been watered down to the point of irrelevance, and replaced with "UX". sure, fine call yourself whatever you want. But what makes you think UX won't get similarly watered down? The problem isn't the word itself, it's that the culture as a whole doesn't value design, including "designers". (in your language, the culture doesn't value "UX")

Of course language is designed* by its users, and for the moment, it seems that we have indeed fully rotated our hierarchy words a notch down over the past 20 years. But please let us not be ignorant of history, and tradition, and what "graphic design" actually is (Or at least.. .used to be) and that the whole totem pole of design and designers is sliding on a downward trajectory. (I blame adobe for making it look easy. you could always look more convincingly like a skilled professional while operating a huge desk sized typesetting machine and laying out magazines by hand with paper, exacto blades, and photographic color separations)

But sure, maybe inventing new wank words will prop up our careers for 5 more years. It's good marketing. it's good design, to invent words, to sell ourselves. Inventing a new word for "design" is a very designery thing to do. You can make design seem interesting and exciting again by giving it a new flashy buzzword. That will only take you so far though, until the novelty wears off, and suddenly you find everyone believes "UX" means "interested amateur who can make eye candy in photoshop" again.

* see what I did there? "Design" being used to denote the decisions involved in how something works and is experienced, with no reference to how anything looks. Imagine that.
well, a lot of youtube videos do work in html5 mode. just visit http://youtube.com/html5 and join the trial.
1-3 are already figured out, they are not hard problems or very different than the existing proposed HSR line. 4 is addressed and the only part that you can't really know until you dive into actual implementation. It is estimated though.
The iPad issue is something I've been thinking about. I've seen toddlers and even babies playing with them. The first few times observing this was quite surreal, because I thought back to what I was doing at that age (certain distant memories are strong.)

I had no television growing up, for better or worse. I did have a computer. I did play a phenomenal amount of computer games. However I also messed around with those games. I edited configuration files, changed textures, and even did outright level design. And then, I became and adult and grew out of it.

I had two sets of friends, those that played a lot of computer games and those that played a lot of video games. One thing I noticed was that the kids who played a lot of computer games tended to be a bit sharper back then. You had to navigate DOS directories, spend hours troubleshooting networking, spend perhaps months trying to get damn hardware card working, and so on.

The video game players inserted a cartridge. When it didn't work they blew on it.

Computer games now are pretty much plug and play. Tablet games require about two finger touches.

Games themselves can increase cognitive functions and teach new skills. But, when the game is un-hackable it becomes a confined box. Every possibility outside that box is non existent. Inside that game's box you build a mental model and then conquer it. You may not have won the game, but you have a pretty damn good idea whats going to happen.

Major props to Notch for making Minecraft an incredibly hackable game both inside and out of that box. If we are going to live in a box, that box should be incredible deep and wide, be it Minecraft or Dwarf Fortress -- or in the original stories' case, your entire neighborhood.

It may be very interesting to see how kids who grew up with tablets think. I should be a lot better than those that grew up with 5 channels of broadcast television. Beyond that, I don't know.
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And at the same time as releasing this, they've just laid off 40% of the company. The tried and true PR tactic of trying to hide bad news: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732380820457908...

Alternative source for those who can't access WSJ: http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/18/wsj-blackberry-expected-t...
Hello derleth:

"Effect. As noun, means result; as verb, means to bring about, accomplish (not to be confused with affect, which means "to influence")."
http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk3.html

Affect vs. Effect:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sullivan/CommonWritingErrors.html#...
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I like the Pilot "Precise V5" rollerball pens, and I use them a lot, and they hardly ever leak --- except they do seem to leak with significant probability if I carry them on an airplane. Possibly that's the source of your disagreement about leaks.
I can't imagine a more skewed data set for fundraising and exits than news and PR. I'd much rather look at the raw data for a single firm in the absence of industry-wide data.
I don't know but I don't believe the data. Apparently in the last couple hours people have been downgrading to iOS 5 or lower.
Where in the world do you live that Windows Phone beats iPhone? I work for Microsoft and still know way more people with iPhones.
No one in Australia uses Whatsapp, I have no idea how everyone else in the world communicates but everyone uses Skype or Facebook Chat to talk to each other here.

Also, everyone I know wouldn't pay for a communications protocol, no matter how good it is.
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Thanks, I hadn't seen Behance before, it seems interesting - I'll take a longer look later.

On a quick glance though, it's not quite what I was imagining, it's still _mostly_ focused on the final visuals. I was imagining something which'd stop well short of that (or at least downplay the final graphic styling), and instead highlight the problem discovery and solution process, the business goal articulation, the interaction design – perhaps everything upto the brief you'd then give to a designer. That'd fascinate me (but as I said upthread, that's quite probably considered significantly more valuable business intelligence or intellectual property by the people who're good at it than even highly polished visual designs – that's the stuff that makes a Razorfish or Mule Design job worth mid six figures, and why they're not competing with $5k or $25k "web design" firms).
> No, they were developed by open source Linux guys that only care about C in what concerns compiled languages.
> C++ was always badly received by the Linux community, in contrast with commercial UNIXes.

You mean like KDE, Firefox, OpenOffice, OpenCV, VLC, bitcoin... heck even gparted is a C++ app.

The kernel developers obviously have a bias against C++ (and they'd argue that it is a justified bias). User space is a different land.

> Yes, nothing like contributing to have more insecure servers around.

? Not sure your point here...

> I surely got your point, but it is not about Darwin of languages, rather of developers.

> I surely got your point, but it is not about Darwin of languages, rather of developers.

My point was about Darwinian forces applied to language or developers.

I was responding to your point about OS vendors not being left around. It would appear that, for whatever reason, going with something other than C or C++ for your base OS doesn't seem to result in good survival odds.
> Don't get me started on "brain uploading". Unless you can guarantee me that I'll still be me (which is really a religious question) […]

Luckily, religions are false. The supernatural is unlikely, and immaterial souls even more so. But we have quantum mechanics.

Current quantum mechanics say that copy&paste transportation doesn't kill you. (Yep. The question was philosophical, and the answer came from physics.) The reason is, you're not a heap of atom, you're an arrangement of atoms. Mind uploading goes a bit further, but should work just as well. Imagine a "temporary" uploading, where your memories from the Matrix are downloaded back into your brain (by rewiring your neurons accordingly). It's still you, only older. Anyway, a deeper understanding of our brains' inner workings may resolve the question of mind uploading more definitely. We'll see then.
OP, please deliver. It is super important to me that the original emails are preserved somewhere. Is this so?
I live in Australia and use Whatsapp and so do lots of other people I know.
i completely agree. if all companies just would not comply, bow down and lick boots, they'd either all get sued or some awakening would take place. i'm pessimistic but i'd say the latter is most likely. the awakening might even happen through all those law suits which would overwhelm the courts and just be rejected.

"the problem is not disobedience. the problem is obedience."
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Hi there - if you're willing to help us debug your issue, shoot us an email at team@trysignal.com and we'll send you some instructions to get that sorted out asap.
EDIT: Title was changed since I posted that. It originally said "it will work".
This seems to quite obviously the case of someone completely uninformed and ill-qualified attempting to proffer their "wisdom" as fact. I would encourage HNers to ignore this random internet content if you ever have to make such a decision and instead consult an expert familiar with their child's problems.
Statistically speaking, the interpretation of the regression is "there is no correlation between the duration of financial runway and a startup's exit valuation."

It could be whether or not you have a runway could impact whether or not you have an exit.
What's the catch? There's always something that winds up costing end users either money or data. What will it be with these BBM ports?

If there's really no gothca lurking in the darkness then I'm all for it!
Have fun convincing designers to embrace A/B testing. They have to change their whole process, including how they deal with clients. Most will only do it once the design is finished to test minor differences.
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I have. Have you? I suspect not: http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html

Of course, the result won't actually achieve that. But it is not an unhonorable goal. Involuntary death is not a virtuous thing.
RacketCon 2013
Nice, I was kind of hoping to see php in there.
I think Tichy is right. There is no reason to harshly judge kids who regularly enjoy snowball fights, water balloon fights, water noodle fights, etc. You are making these things out to be hazing or something.
I agree, I don't see the damage.
In most real life situations anything that doesn't kill you immediately can wait 15-20 minutes, and when you get out the other end you can have great medical treatment.
Anything that requires you to be seen by some serious medical support faster than that will generally kill you regardless of the situation (ie. Left Main coronary embolism which kills 250,000 Americans a year)

Edit: complete misuse of iatrogenic. Too little sleep. Whoops
We are storing the changes you make to an email and then loading those changes back in when you view that email. The original email is never deleted, you can always click the "Restore" button get back to the original.
I'd rather learn to do it myself, which is part of what makes Stack Overflow great. I can learn and teach there. EE raised barriers to consumption and participation.
i believe wechat and line are both bigger.
Not OP, but to answer your question - yes, the original emails are preserved. More info: https://trysignal.com/using-signal/
> Adjuncts now make up well over 50 percent of the faculty at colleges and universities.

Unless you think that a fairly large percentage of colleges are religious and have a religious exemption from letting their faculty unionise, this may not be what you're looking for. ^^;
> Do you really care if you pay 5% less in taxes only to have to pay 10% of your income per year in health care?

There is one difference: you can't shop around. It's probably not a problem in Sweden, but in a lot of other "government provides everything" countries, there's a huge variation in quality of government-provided services (like schooling and doctors). You might get stuck with a crappy doctor (because of geographical assignment), while there's a great one on the next street. If I can keep my 5%, I pick my own doctor (within my budget).
Uh... they give the answers to everybody?
Okay, not sure if I missed that or if edited - either way this is a far different situation from maintaining a full vacuum.
Not sure which aspects in particular you are referring to, but here's some of what we use:

Revision Control - Github.com

Market Research - Hoovers.com, LinkedIn.com

VPS hosting - Rackspace Cloud

Short-lived hosting for experimental shit - Amazon AWS

CRM: SugarCRM (self hosted)

Competitive Intelligence: FUCIT - Fogbeam Universal Competitive Intelligence Tool (internal tool)

Wiki: Mediawiki (self hosted)

Continuous Integration: Jenkins (self hosted)

Educating ourselves: Safari, Mixergy

Code: Groovy

Web framework: Grails

IDE: Eclipse
Either these schools are about undergraduate education or they aren't.

They aren't. When has this ever been a question? That doesn't change the fact that starry-eyed undegrads want to bask in the light of famous members of their field.

Imagine Feynman was still teaching, but was terrible at it. Would that stop countless people scrambling to get into the university he teaches at, simply to get exposure to his prowess and dream of working in his lab?

Research universities are a natural place for undergraduates. It's a symbiotic relationship. The University has use for willing young minds and hands, and willing young minds flock to the places where the knowledge is.

P.S. Don't forget star professors are often stars because of how much funding they bring to the university. It's not like undergrads are bearing the brunt of funding their laboratories.
Take a week or two of vacation, think things over. Sometimes just taking a break and relaxing can give you ideas and put things in perspective. It has worked for me in the past.
Clicking "like" on something in facebook is nothing like a form of voting. It is a form of subscription. It says you want to get updates about the thing you "liked." Maybe you hate the competitor, but you want to get notified if something newsworthy happens. So you "like" him. I'm not sure it falls under free speech, because you are really saying anything other than "I'm interested in knowing more about this subject"
There is no (hard) vacuum tube in the Hyperloop design. This analysis did not simulate a (hard) vacuum tube.
Awesome, I've got a similar setup, I use BitTorrent sync though to send the files. The problem with that is I need one local computer to be on in order for it to sync, then I connect that local computer's folder with Dropbox to view screenshots remotely. I've also been looking at removing the IR filter for night time viewing, there are a few blog posts on the c270 specifically, but I haven't dived into that part of the project yet.
Sorry, but I don't understand this comment. If exit size is not one of the primary metrics VCs look at and how they define success, I'm at a loss for what would be.

More specifically, how do you think USV and Fred define success? Fred says that financial returns (hence exits) are important on his own btw [1]

[1] http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/06/how-we-measure-success.html
It's distributed on a very per-country basis. WhatsApp is used by over 90% of people in Spain, to the detriment of others. It shows how the success of this kind of thing depends more on network effects than on product quality - only one of them is exactly homogeneous across countries.
Every good teacher you had in your life knew much more than the level at which they taught you. You can't teach effectively if you don't master flawlessly the subject you teach. You achieve that level by going way beyond what students learn.

At the basic education levels, this is easy to achieve. At the University level, you can only guarantee this elastic push by heading into research.
Blackberry is still dominant in certain niches. The combination of the: low cost, physical keyboard and messaging makes it popular for youths to communicate unnoticed. It's also well suited for enterprise.
It is important to cut these evil companies to size by boycotting them.
Signal – Edit gmail emails in your inbox
Benefits vary based on income, but they're heavily weighted toward the low end. So, a poorer person will get lower benefits, but their benefits will be a greater percentage of their income.

Doing a fast calculation, someone who earned $25k (this year, not every year with prior years taking into account how earnings change) would probably get about $14k/yr in social security. So, it isn't a huge amount of money, but it would bring it up.
Shouting "fire" is actually a bad example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
It's not immediately clear to me what problem this is solving.
I may have missed this, but do you offer any sort of revision control? Don't want to accidentally delete something important.
It seems like IAP solves this problem. It might be a bit of a hack, but it would work. Not sure what the big deal is.
Thanks!

We currently get the majority of our data from publicly available online listings (predominately from https://3taps.com/ and http://www.rentjungle.com/.)

Increasingly, we are also adding actual data from integrations with our customers' property management systems. We think this data set will be more accurate and more valuable, although it obviously takes a lot more work to build.

One of our goals is to be able to understand the difference between listed and actual prices in various markets.
Here's one even more unethical: a prison gang taking these alcoholics as slaves, and milking them, so to speak, to produce alcohol for resale in the prison blackmarket.
Wonder if FSF will care about this? Or if they can help.
Mind elaborating on specific details/workflow that you find superior in Asana compared to Trello?
I like the background, though from a narrative standpoint, it is better presented piecemeal, as the hero progresses.

Just one quibble: cryonics (not "cryogenics") today is much less expensive than that. Okay, you don't live back (yet). But if we get working suspended animation, with resuscitation and all, it will probably be much cheaper, much more dependent on the survival of our current civilization, and much less protected.
A lot of crime is a public health problem. From environmental lead to undermedicated mental illness. Extending that to parasites and/or gut fauna isn't a stretch.
Adjuncts are especially cool for this reason in fields with a significant professional application.
Yeah, definitely. It's still too bad that I have to tell iOS when I want to use it — and it comes with that status bar bug. But at least it's there to use.
In your rush to point out the error he made about vacuum tubes, you missed his point, which is that the criticisms of the Musk plan don't revolve around the concept being infeasible to execute, but rather that the concept isn't cost-effective or, for that matter, nearly as customer-friendly as the proposal suggests.

Specific points that you'd want to address if you were purporting to rebut Hyperloop criticisms:

* Because Musk's plan can't leverage existing last-mile infrastructure the way HSRs do, it delivers riders from one very inconvenient location to another, adding 1-2 hours of additional transit time to SF-LA.

* Because (by Musk's own admission) destructive disruptions of his pod-in-tube runs are catastrophic in a way that they aren't with HSRs, his plan requires TSA-style airport security, adding an additional 15-30 minutes to every trip.

* The cost estimates for the Hyperloop captured only its capex costs and not its operating expenses, so that the per-ticket prices derived from its proposed cost bore no relation to its actual cost structure.

* That the tunneling and viaduct cost estimates given in the Hyperloop proposal were so low that they constituted a revolutionary breakthrough in urban planning and structural engineering in their own right; in other words, if he can dig a Hyperloop-capable tunnel for the price his plan suggests, or run an elevated tube as cheaply as he suggests, why waste time with Hyperloops? The answer would be that he can't do either of those things.

* That the routing he proposes, particularly with regards to mountain passes, are wildly optimistic, and that a realistic routing will result in a longer run and significantly increased costs.

* That the forces involved on passengers in the Hyperloop exceed the tolerances allowed for existing HSRs in ways that are likely to make motion sickness a signficant problem.

This article appears to address none of them, and your comment appears to be premised on the idea that those criticisms hadn't been made.