skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly what I was thinking. Anytime I hit a typo domain, it's an accident that's occurred while I was in the middle of a task. Trying to get people to stop what they are trying to accomplish and change direction so drastically seems overly difficult - akin to interruptive adverts on Facebook asking me to sign up for a new bank while I'm commenting on what someone had for lunch.

Neat concept but I can't help but wonder whether selling the domain and donating the profits to an actual charity wouldn't be a better use of the "funds". Or just not renewing the domain and donating that $10 to the charity of your choice in perpetuity...
Didn't Eric Schmidt lose his discount NASA airplane fuel when Google's lawyers started fighting their gag orders in court?
I have. I identify the detector and the batteries. It's not particularly hard.
The link text says "Smoke Detector", but I only found "Smoke Alarm" on the Nest page. I used to work for a smoke detector manufacturer. It's been over 10+ years, but there was a clear delineation between home "smoke alarms" and commercial "smoke detectors". Detectors had central monitoring and usually were linked to an outside service. Alarms were standalone and sold to consumers.

One thing that's interesting is that the video shows it uses photoelectric smoke detection. Most home systems use ionic detection, which is better for large particulates. When these sound, either the house is already on fire or you burnt the steak. Photoelectric detectors are better for detecting small particulates - the smoke before the fire - and they are less prone to false alarms.
In my area building codes require they install smoke and CO detectors. One such contractor just advertised their new condos as being super intelligent.
The question I have is - what good does it do anyone to be cruel and judgmental? Sure, the mean case may be "lazy slob", but so what?

Besides letting anonymous Internet People guffaw in armchair superiority, what does this judgment accomplish?

As a former fatty myself (well, okay, I'm not exactly thin, but no longer huge), I can say without even an ounce of doubt that no amount of ridicule contributed to my turnaround. Support and the complete internalization that the ship can be turned around was what did the trick for me - no amount of haranguing (thanks, parents) nor ridicule (thanks, high school) over years did squat except drive me further away from success.

So we assume that a random fattie is the mean case, and is fat because she's a lazy slob. Then we are justified in saying cruel things behind the mask of anonymity. She feels worse about herself and wallows in another pint of ice cream, and the Internet People tip their fedoras at one another.

Is there any positive to this? Isn't this just entirely negative for all involved except for some people who got a 0.5 second endorphin injection?

I don't know about you, but "things that are damaging to some and provide no good to anyone except ego boosts" counts as a Bad Thing in my book.
Half of the decline on the orange line can be accounted in purchases from streaming/phone market. Reading the original report, I don't see them saying that "the industry" isn't getting a part of the online revenue.
It can hook into an existing Nest thermostat and turn off the HVAC, which could be a source of fire or CO. It also can serve as a low level light at night that's motion activated, so you can find your way down the hall without turning on the full set of lights.

Yeah, it's a bit pricey, but it's definitely better than the Thermostat for value and more within the price range I'd expect for a Nest device.
would be nice if it explained why texts being ephemeral matters when they're sent to people around me. Otherwise it just sounds like "Hey ephemeral messaging is popular nowadays, and so is location based services, so i will build an ephemeral location based service!"
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These articles are pointless. This guy knows nothing about being a professional musician.

The investment money is gone. Record labels functioned as venture capital firms. Their bread and butter, the physical audio disc, is no longer. No other entity has yet stepped in to provide mentorship and investment capital for young, bootstrapped musicians.

The schedules of musicians do not align with the modern working world. Employers do not look highly on people who take 8 weeks off to tour. In order to make money touring, you have to be pretty well established.

Also, unlike software development, there is no 'day job' that musicians can work while saving to bootstrap their own venture. Their only option is are low-paying temp jobs, mainly in the service industry, that they must frequently quit in order to work on their craft.

And if concerts and not recorded albums are their craft, they will need to spend lots of time on the road perfecting it. But how? Practice does not make you a good stage performer. And you can't play 10 times a month in your home city and expect fans, promoters, or clubs to think nicely af you.

Sure, there are still new music artists that emerge, but nowhere in the numbers that they have in the past. It is ultimately a dying art form and those that don't see that and in fact argue the opposite, don't have any inkling of what is actually going on.
I don't mind the chirps but I do often have huge problems finding out which fire alarm has a low battery - as some of our ceilings are (I think) 14ft going up and down a ladder multiple times isn't a lot of fun...

[A few years back our neighbouring apartment had a nasty fire - so I went out and bought a lot of fire alarms, fire blankets etc. - we weren't at much risk as our walls are about 1m thick sandstone. However, it did mean I ended up replacing all of the batteries in the "new" alarms at roughly the same time.]
are you aware of the asus-1015? i got one recently, and it runs opensuse linux fine, has a celeron chip (appears to support virtualization, though i haven't tried yet; is missing some SIMD instructions that make matrix math slower), and similar size and screen to this (but it's fatter and plastic). i installed a 60GB ssd (comes with spinning disk; disassembly is somewhat painful; seems to fix any issue with the limited 2GB memory). not sure what the battery life is, but i wouldn't be surprised if it were close to 6 hours if you're not doing much heavy computing.
This is why phone companies are allowed to be a monopoly. No mom and pop shop would allow it.
This will find its biggest market (I think) in NYC apartments - you only need 1 usually, and tiny unventilated kitchens are a near guarantee to send off an alarm.

I lived in an apartment where we essentially had a broom handle hanging next to the alarm because it was inevitable, and during Sandy blackout the thing constantly chirped because its landline was disconnected. Not a good experience.
So you have trialed, for instance, the Honeywell Tuxedo Touch system? http://homesecurity.honeywell.com/tuxedo_touch.html

Nest is doing piecemeal what others do holistically (again, though, obviously because they want to do the whole thing one module at a time). I don't want a bunch of islands of home intelligence, but would rather have one home automation system. Which is why I made the point about cost -- it's one thing if your price range is $8 smoke alarms, but if you could seriously contemplate 10 Nest devices, you're a candidate for a real system.
yes. I think the california rail system is also an overpriced underperforming system. It will never be finished (it will never make it all the way to SF), so it will never be completely useful, and the history of all large projects like this show huge cost overruns. Do you really want to allocate capital like that for something that's unlikely to be finished, nor likely to achieve its actual goal? When we could spend money to make cars more efficient (electric batteries with central generation) and reduce our total energy consumption, fairly cheaply?
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I love these new takes on old devices, however, my five $15 smoke, heat and co2 detectors from different brands have been proven and tested over time...
I wouldn't want to be the one that finds the first bugs in this new nest smoke detector.
Yeah, was thinking the same thing.

Also, I would think in-app purchase pricing would be relatively inexpensive. I guess I don't see who they're targeting... the target company would need substantially-priced in-app purchases to justify the cost of even traditional advertising.

Wish them well though!
As I said, some of them have no overly obvious battery compartment. Either it's on the backside, or internally and you have to unscrew it open. Not all have an obvious battery compartment.

And it's incredibly annoying when you have to climb onto a chair/table/whathaveyou because your ceilings are so high you can't naturally reach it.

The one in my last apartment even had a big button in the middle. I thought I might be able to press it in order to turn off the alarm temporarily. That was not a good idea.
I think CSS is A-OK and I believe I understand it fully as I've been using it for most of my career. Most of its "problems" are rooted in bad implementations in browsers or people trying to use it for things it wasn't designed for, not in the spec itself.

But maybe I think this because I don't view it as a language, to me it's more of a configuration file that holds sets of instructions. It's getting closer to a proper language though.

You can have your opinion I suppose, but nearly every web tech I've worked with over the years has had its transitions from good to bad to hated only to end up somehow good again.
I have done all of those things and I maintain the view that there is no reasonable justification for deliberate deception in commerce. A fortiori amongst startup entrepreneurs, who should be doing their best to foster collegial relationships with one another based on mutual trust and confidence - ironically, one of PublicBeta's own goals.
Good to see the update.

But why hide my folders on page load now? And also not display how many unread in them on top of the little folder icon?

And why auto-reveal the next message when deleting the previous one (from the previous design change)?

At least give me an option to enable/disable these "features" please.

Frustrating. Two steps forward, one back.
You think governments have this type of money in spades?

The US does not. We're in a major debt crises and have issues funding our fundamental operations; beyond the immediate government funding, we have severe problems with spending (IE, we can't pay the interest on our spending with our tax revenues).
They've been merged into CenturyLink, but I doubt that's because of losing some government contracts. Those would be a drop in the bucket for an ILEC. USA telco consolidation is inexorable, for anti-consumer reasons. Actually it's only a matter of time before VZN acquires CenturyLink and then spins its less profitable/deadwood pieces back out to private equity firms. Much money will be made by executives, and much wailing to PUCs will be heard when service craters.
While I appreciate your response, I would love to see some actual data to back up your conclusions.
Netflix was enabled on the Samsung Chromebook last year thanks to EME (the HTML5 DRM stuff that was on the front page a few days ago) but sites like Hulu still might not work. I suspect that this device will work just as well, since the chipset is the same.

Flash works because Google maintains a NaCl version of Flash for Linux and ARM, but it's closed source and requires staying inside Chrome OS. If you install e.g. Ubuntu you won't be able to use Flash on Chromium on the same hardware.
How the Bible and YouTube are fueling the next frontier of password cracking
Don't Ignore Social Capital
"Ephemeral Texts" = "SnapChat for Text Messages"
Ask HN: What will be the future of rainfall?
Will nations & companies end up manipulating it, instead of just predicting it?
Nice that it's compared to the other MySQL-like database engines, including MariaDB.

Are any of these performance improvements portable to the forks?
The thing I love about this device is that it charges off a micro-USB port -- buying a spare charger for my Samsung Chromebook was an expensive ordeal.
More like 6x to 7x the price. The precedent for detectors seems to be $20. Local fire departments also routinely hand them out for free.
> There are some causes that are worth being removed as CEO for.

Yeah, but not if it's an empty gesture that doesn't change anything. Any CEO of Google both wouldn't be able to shut it down rather than comply, and would be removed for trying. It would accomplish nothing.
Show HN:  &lt;blink&gt; with CSS3
500kqps
This is a CSRF attack on hackernews
It logs you out.
There are whole companies that exist entirely on their enterprise sales. So selling their own branded laptop to their clients makes sense even if it is a year behind Samsung.

Honestly, working for a business that buys enterprise devices, 1 year behind is stunningly good. Buying business Android devices with a bar code scanner there's something like a 7 year product life cycle so you get some stunningly old hardware, for example.
Exactly.

And even if it's tested well I really don't see why I would want to pay upwards of $100 for a smoke/co detector, when I can get them for about $10. It's a device you buy and don't want to use, ever. I'd rather spend the money on routine checks on possible CO sources (oven, heater, ...).
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I was going to agree with you, and then I remembered the night that the smoke detector in my rental started chirping every few minutes. It was around 3 AM. We had really high ceilings, so if I stood on a chair, I could almost reach the smoke detector to disable it. It took a solid 15 minutes of my standing on my tippy toes trying to figure out what would make the chirping stop. I don't remember exactly how I did it, but I was mere minutes away from using a baseball bat.

It turns out it was the smoke detector's "self-destruct" chirp. A new battery wouldn't even do the job. Had to buy a new smoke detector because the old one had reached its age limit.

That night if you had asked me to pay $100 so that I could go back to sleep and not have to worry about THAT CHIRP, I would have whipped out my wallet so fast.
As I understand it, the issue was that not just the generators but the switchgear connecting them to the plant's power grid was behind the seawall that was overcome by the tsunami. So bringing in other generators wouldn't have helped, because there was no way to plug them into the grid.
I was laughing at you until I realized that it was 500000 queries/sec.
I think that book ruined my life, albeit in a very enjoyable manner.
I like my Nest thermostat, but I'm more inclined to add smoke detectors from Simplisafe to my security system. They're cheaper, and offer more of an insurance discount because they report to a central monitoring station.

I would've liked to see Nest go more towards home automation, or work with window AC manufacturers to integrate Nest controls on their boxes. I'm not too keen on Nest branded smoke detectors.
YES yes and yes!
The Year of the Fox (Or Why My CS Requirements Still Aren't Fulfilled)
Except there's nothing to "fix". That's one way to do triangle in CSS, it's not better or worse than another one, and it's been known for ages. The cool thing here is the visualization, not the technique itself.
Facebook was not first to market. Deep links have been around for a while. Also, it looks like URX isn't on the supply side (they aren't providing ad inventory, instead leveraging mobile display networks - so Facebook isn't competing with them directly), instead focusing on the demand side and providing robust analytics and targeting. There is no reason why they wouldn't be able to include Facebook deep link ads to their customers. Also, there is a pretty large section of the mobile web that Facebook deep links won't cover.
LG to put flexible screen on phone launching in 1 month
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No, having to open an image editor to create a simple shape you can make in CSS is silly. So is an additional, unnecessary HTTP request.
I thought hyperlink.
Tablet + keyboard price > chromebook 11's price

This laptop could be a gateway for kids as they need a entry device that parents can afford.
If it trades on the public U.S. equity markets then there's no special information available to accredited investors.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24448063
bbc reporting on it now.
"BBC Worldwide is expected to confirm the find at a press conference in London later this week."
This whole field seems likely to be a case study supporting http://xkcd.com/882/.

But the research does have a questionable assumption. On p 5 it says, "Such a result would not likely be due to differences in the methods used to generate g in the various datasets under comparison, since g is consistently measured by a wide variety of tests."

This is true. However it is also true that, as http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.htm... points out, that all evidence we have is consistent with g being a correlation between different ways of weighting a large number of independent factors. If so, then it is easy to have two test measuring g that are fairly well correlated with each other, one of which picks up a particular factor and the other does not. If a gene affects that factor, then the test you use to measure to find these correlations will matter.
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They would never have gotten funding for it. No way in hell.

Plus, war made sure that they put getting working reactors first. Not interesting science. A critique in fusion research is that nice, flexible and very accurate/complex apparatus is given preference over quick-iteration and fast experimentation. War made sure that the researchers went straight for the goal (and there is the fact that the Germans and the Americans both knew that there was probably a way to tickle the uranium reactors to result in Hiroshima. This caused the Germans to be careful, although even their experiments would today be considered absurdly dangerous. But the early American experiments were bat-shit insane). So thought hard about every step, and constantly fucked up (someone left 2kg uranium in a bath of water + cadmium by mistake, then walked out for the night : the first meltdown. They didn't figure out what had happened until years later. Someone inserted a steel rod into a barely sub-critical reactor submerged in water. No-one left the building alive (due to the water exploding as steam violently enough to bring the roof down, not due to a nuclear explosion). None of this would not have happened in peace time.
What kinds of tests do you write for your MVC app?
I am starting to do some testing on my Rails app and hopefully switch to full TDD soon. Before I get too far in I am trying to determine what types of tests I want to write. Rails gives you lots of choices:
I recently stumbled upon a great graphic comic (mostly factual) about Betrand Russell and his life. I'd highly recommend it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix
The now famous paper Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...) singles out genetics as a field particularly prone to false positive findings.
Sorry, for any sort of discomfort caused. I am not a hater, I just don't see how this is a model for anything of sorts.

Bitcoin has very specific flaws compared to country-backed currencies. More specifically:

* Doesn't devalue - which means that it's inherently BAD for transactions.

* You can't readily cash out: How are you going to make your BTC dollars? Even MTGOX has very low hard-limits.

* What about taxes and sales? Okay in Germany BTC is somewhat regulated. But what happens to other countries?

The 3rd issue, is non-existent if your turn-over is from small to non-existent but it's a huge deal if your turn-over becomes more than 15k per year.

Not to mention that a currency that fluctuates that much is semi-suicidal for any long-term business.

Apart from all the above, I wish you all the best in the world mate. Seriously, nothing personal.
Price aside, I don't see this replacing my 11" MB Air any time soon.
I'd recommend http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/ (the easiest way to run windows app on mac)
The first time I installed it was because I couldn't find a tool like total commander (http://www.ghisler.com/) for mac, so I will add that to my list total commander :D

The rest really depends on what you will do with it.
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At their price point that is a pretty damn expensive convenience? How are they any different in requiring batter changes? At 129 I will just laugh it off as another appeals to people want others to think of them differently.

Nest is trying to market the same way as Apple does, they appeal to Vanity through different directions. Expecting people in the market segment to feed off each other.
It is sadly typical that this comment thread is full of discussions of how the protagonist should lose weight. Thanks for reminding me, HN, how fat women do not automatically deserve basic politeness [1].

I could be a skinnier person myself by counting calories and sprinting along with my Olympic lifting and kettlebell workouts. I know that my effort could be rewarded with a svelter frame. But you know what? I HAVE MORE INTERESTING THINGS TO DO! Maybe the protagonist, too, has something better or more fun to do with her life.

[1] A small sampling of evidence:
Uberphallus living up to name: "At this point I just don't understand why I should feel pity and display consideration to fat people..."

Driverdan: "I would also add that people who don't have a medical condition and who overeat cause the stigma people with medical conditions receive for being overweight." (Being fat causes stigma why?)

Marknutter: "I feel for her and the negative comments are reprehensible, but what I hear in this particular paragraph are excuses....My advice: ignore the haters and come up with a game plan with your doctor to lose the weight in a steady and health way." (re: OP's paragraph on having PCOS, being healthy.)

Alright. Time to do those more interesting things.
"Quitting the Paint Factory" is another good essay on the theme but is marred by an atopical discussion of George Bush.

http://paulbe.dreamwidth.org/961.html
Well, it's a bit similar to Google Analytics in that sense. I suppose they gain 'insight'.
Now, I’m just speculating, but I would guess that most doctors would shy away from giving random people they read about on the internet health advice. Health is personal and private, discussing it with someone in an appropriate manner requires either expertise or at least strong personal ties to that person and is usually done in private. That seems like a pretty standard societal convention to me.
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Wouldn't be that hard, come to think of it. Perhaps add a few new detectors. Could use the fire alarms as intruder alarms, and then you'd just need to connect to authorities/central service and you're golden.
I'm surprised the overall story of this implementation hasn't had more discussion on HN.
BT audio would be nice, given the location of the smoke detectors I wouldn't mind having my phone ringers relay through the speakers.

2 way phone calls by yelling at the smoke detector is probably a bit of a reach though, heh.
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Another impressive product. And a clear demonstration that they want to be something more than a thermostat manufacturer. They are indeed becoming the Apple of household devices.
Yes, that would be nice if it parsed correctly. I need ordered lists that have capital letters, capital roman numerals, lowercase letters, numbers, and lowercase roman numerals.