skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Retrofitting existing infrastructure with LEDs makes no sense: we get wasteful, fragile and inefficient systems.

I wholeheartedly agree and would go even further and reimagine our current illumination concepts. At the moment we mostly have a few powerful point light sources. Given the longevity of LEDs we could easily design walls and furnitures with hundreds of less powerful LEDs that would produce a much more even illumination, have far less problems with head dissipation and be cheaper to produce than those high luminosity LEDs. And even more interesting, this would open the door to far more creative designs than we have now. With OLEDs you could even have glowing wallpapers: http://oled-werbedisplays.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/oled...
Not to be picky, but since the article is specifically about the subtleties of language in surveys, I have to point out that "want airlines to ban" is much different from "airlines should ban". Consider the following example: if I get caught robbing a bank, I think the police should arrest me, but I don't want them to.

The actual question from the article:

"Airlines are considering allowing passengers to make phone calls during flights. Some people think in-flight calls should not be permitted. What do you think?."

The answer:

53.9% of respondents selected "Airlines should NOT allow in-flight calls"

I think specifically, people think airlines should not allow other people to make calls. I wonder if the wording was changed to "should the airlines allow you to make in-flight calls" the results would be different.
This seems a bit odd to me. The browser is still in the AOSP source (platform/packages/apps/Browser) and has 4.4_r1.2 tags. It was also included in a self-built rom for my Nexus 4 without doing anything to explicitly include it.

Even if google doesn't ship a browser in the source they provide to OEM's, the source for the AOSP browser is still readily available and trivial to add to the build.
An Ode to Little Data
> transacting fiat currency generally costs a vendor ~3%

1. Bitcoin is no less a fiat currency than the U.S. dollar or Japanese yen.

2. For small retail transactions, yes, 3% seems right. Larger transactions, however, are generally done by wire. These transfers carry a fixed fee and are generally a very small percentage of the transaction value.
Yeah thats fine - although not going to do much for my MTV-style lifestyle - MTV will probably be gone by then :)
iTunes sucks, hard. The desktop version in unavoidable if you want an mp3 file.
Viswanathan means lord of the Universe.
I work in a sort of purgatory of the broadcast/internet TV space, and with regards to ads, completely agree.

Broadcasters have gotten accustomed to very high rates for the ads shown on television. They're trying to get these rates on the web, but advertisers don't want to pay them (which is crazy, since you can directly measure response on the web; not as much with broadcast). So they show more ads. A lot more ads, to try to get to the same revenue level as broadcast television.

During the day, I sometimes feel like I'm watching two dinosaurs fight over a carcass as the meteorite comes screaming towards the ground.
Put it in any bucket you like, but don't ignore it. Mathematica is absolutely worth studying. If you've never used a general purpose term rewriting system before, you're missing out on some mind-altering stuff.
I have heard it asserted that the reason for poor construction quality of postwar US commercial buildings in their 39-year depreciation life:
http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/irs-depreciation-schedule-...

Hence the lack of much brick or stone, built-for-the-ages construction beyond veneers.
Fiddlewax Adds Realtime Effects Pipeline
If Magnus is making strong yet unexepected moves relative to his opponents - doesn't that mean he simply has a higher degree of mastery at the game?
Tablecloth.js - Making HTML tables suck less
To what end? Should people be writing their own email clients?

I don't know many people who would modify or extend the software they use, even if it were really "easy" to do so. Also, I doubt such tasks could ever really be "easy", even if the arcane syntax of a C style language were not an obstacle.

I'm not seeing the problem. Regular people were forced to use DOS and Windows machines in the early days, and they struggled with their complexity. Now we have a class of computers that regular people and technical people alike enjoy using. That's not a win?
Google could prepend the ad in such a way that it appears to be part of the main video data stream, so that the ad is impossible to block on a URL basis.

I could write userland software to automatically skip ahead 30 seconds on any YouTube video.

Google could prevent people from skipping the first 30 seconds of any video by delaying the data stream for the remainder of the video at the server level.

At that point, I could go outside and watch the sunset.

Or, I could buy a frak-ton of EC2 instances and cobble together a crappy IsomorphTube--with discreet text-based ads, which might attract viewers simply because Google had turned YouTube into an armed camp (with forced video viewing for all).

Let's remember that even though Google has a huge scale advantage, it isn't Google that's creating the content on YouTube.
That's a huge factor. I remember watching seasons of TV shows on my local broadcaster's websites. Obviously, they were ad-supported and I was okay with this. The frustration was they'd show the same ad over and over and over again as I consumed a season-full of content.

If you gave me the kind of variety we're used to in a TV broadcast, I'd tolerate the ads. But repeated? No. That's when I start looking to hack my way around them.
A quick perusal of the comments here makes me think that the issue is more cut and dried than you'd like it to be.

What _should_ the terms mean is a very different question than what _do_ the terms mean.

As far as end users are concerned there are only two categories: native and mobile websites (though they're more likely to describe them as "apps" and "websites"). Hybrid is a term used by developers to communicate a particular technology stack, it is a subset of end-user native.
> A similar question can be asked about USD: why would you ever save it instead of spending it immediately, since it's only going to lose value over time due to inflation?

The answer to this question lies at the heart of why economists generally believe a little inflation is better than no inflation nowadays. That little bit of inflation makes it more attractive to invest money in things that increase one's ability to generate money in the future instead of just stuffing it under a mattress. That makes the economy as a whole more vigorous, which means everyone tends to get more wealthy in the long run.

As for deflation in Bitcoin: Since the total number of BTC that can ever exist is asymptotically bounded, but potential economic productivity of a population of humans isn't (as far as we know), there's really only a few scenarios where BTC deflation might level off, and arguably all of them fall under the category of "economic crisis".
I downvoted you for your terrible bigotry. It's not welcome here.
My BBO name is ckane, but I haven't found much time nowdays. Feel free to add me and maybe we'll catch each other.
They might be able to support JIT by moving webkit out of process. I believe they do this now with the Mail UI. For more info see:

http://oleb.net/blog/2012/10/remote-view-controllers-in-ios-6/
Which Companies Pay The Most In Taxes?
What do you mean? There's no actual difference in the product.
How Trello Onboards New Users
> How it can be easier, awesome and simple for serious development?

It probably can't, depending on your definition of _serious_, but for 90% of the apps being built, this is perfectly suitable.

Regarding the app store, I see now reason why this wouldn't pass Apple critique -- they've been accepting Cordova-based applications often and for some time now.

As for what it offers, cross-platform publishing is a pretty big win for a bevy of developers that don't see the point in writing separate native apps for applications where native performance isn't terribly necessary.

My experience with Appgyver Steroids has been impressive. Performance is very good. Whether or not it could have been faster written natively vs. being compiled to native code is not substantially worth considering -- it's fast enough, by a large margin.
Agreed. I'm not even a big anime fan and Hikaru no Go really kept up my motivation when I was first starting. It's hard to believe how exciting they made Go look, when it's actually just two people quietly placing stones on a board for hours. Here's a trailer if you don't believe me: http://youtu.be/XpV4ZWh4NkQ
Has anyone ever proposed to their girlfriend with a pull request?
Although the best chess players are now computers, chess doesn't seem anywhere close to being solved in the formal game theory sense (where we know how to produce perfect play that can't be beaten even in principle). There was a gap of over a decade between a machine becoming the world checkers champion (1994) and checkers becoming a formally solved game (2007). (Impressively, both of these were achieved by the same person, Johnathan Schaeffer.)

The difference, of course, is between "this machine can beat the best existing human player" and "this machine can beat any conceivable player as long as it's logically possible to do so". And right now we're at the former stage for chess (at least in some abstract sense: I'm not sure that a specific machine exists in operable condition that reflects the state of the art), but nowhere near the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solving_chess#Predictions_on_w...
Well, if you focus on building a product with retention and low operating costs baked right in, you can really grow a big business with little capital or head count required. Imagine signing up 10 people every day at $20/mo. After a year you've accumulated at most $73k per month in recurring revenue. Of course you won't retain everyone, but if you can retain a good amount of those customers, you could easily build yourself a $1M business just on your own.
How 10 people built a competitor to Amazon.com for $1 million—in 90 days
Music to my ears. It may not be as sexy to talk about bootsrapped businesses that are profitable and creating great lifestyles for the founders and employees... but that's what I'd choose for myself over the the VC route any day. It's two completely different universes - but one is falsely glorified.
Not just faster, but more secure as well. I couldn't tell you how many malware outbreaks I see at work because of a rogue advertisement on a popular site. Adblock keeps these from getting the best of your users. We did a pilot group with some folks who commonly use their work computers without the benefit of our corporate proxy or firewall (these are the users most at risk of advertising-based malware) by having them install Adblock. The results were pretty drastic, even if it wasn't a statistically significant sample size.
South African Scientists Develop A World's First Digital Laser
...and the ability to actually abort long computations? ;-)
>If you see many, many people getting obsessed with a game, and you think it's boring, it's usually a sign that you're not understanding something.

I love chess, but this type of thinking is flawed. Using this logic, the Twilight movies are misunderstood masterpieces, Justin Beiber is the millennials' Mozart, and WWE style wrestling should be in the Olympics alongside the decathlon.
Correct. Except most of us don't keep all our money in our wallet or under our mattress. We keep it in a bank. Which is insured by the federal government. Bitcoin is akin to keeping all your money in a big bag in a single location if you don't back it your digital wallet offsite.
That's only possible because they have very sensibly decided to avoid that arms race. Why? Because ultimately, the ad is playing on my monitor, linked to my computer, running my browser on my OS. All that stuff is under my control. If I really don't want to see ads, and yet want them to think I'm seeing ads, then I can.

I have seen people put stickers on their monitors over where the ads are... How are they going to detect that?

I'm sure they feel it's much better to be able to tell when people are blocking ads (and therefore not charge for impressions), than it would be to try and force me to watch ads, when I've already demonstrated that I'm willing to do what it takes to block them.
Little reminder: Don't downmod people just for asking questions. Even if they are wrong.
There's another PG essay that's relevant to this, "What Startups Are Really Like":

http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

The URL is apt, since I parse it as "No, really, this is what it's like. So, really, you should do this".

Posting public updates, and having some way to commit to continuing to do so (whether it's Beeminder or something else that works for you) is something you should really do.
Yeah, right now Satoshi is worth at least 100k btc up to 1,000k btc. Some analyses has found that perhaps 2,500k btc are controlled by the same group but that was highly speculative.

I would think Satoshi is getting close to becoming the first Bitcoin billionaire.
There was another hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee just 2 months ago because of these raids and the "recreational use" measures in Washington & Colorado. Canna-businesses' ability to get bank accounts to avoid the diversion and robbery issues around cash was discussed.

http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=094c...
[there's a video of the hearing at the "Webcast" link. It's just a title card until 30:11, but you can seek ahead]

The DOJ Cole memo from Aug 2013 is at http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/August/13-opa-974.html

Witness list:

The Honorable James Cole, Deputy Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC

The Honorable John Urquhart, Sheriff
King County Sheriff’s Office, Seattle, WA

Jack Finlaw, Chief Legal Counsel
Office of Governor John W. Hickenlooper, Denver, CO

Kevin A. Sabet, Ph.D., Co-founder and Director, Project SAM
Director, Drug Policy Institute, University of Florida, Cambridge, MA
Paint it Black, Friday
The real secret to having an intelligent (and good) conversation is being interested in the other person, and really listening to what they're saying. Everyone has something insightful to say, as long as you don't require them to have read Thucydides or the Gita.
Cool, ill be interested in seeing what you start charging after the beta :) Good luck with it, its reassuring that im not the only one to have thought this to be a good idea.
I'm not ignoring it, I used it years ago in grad school, it was fantastic. It just has no relevance (as a tool) to my current work or sideprojects. My question was strictly about calling it a lisp variant.
Stocks aren't the only investment option. Safer options exist, e.g. corporate bonds, money market funds, and certificates of deposit. All of those are a more productive use of capital than socking it away under a mattress or in a Bitcoin wallet.
As a CTO mad keen for senior Ruby types in London I'm amazed you can't make it work. I'm in a company that has been trading for 4 years, has decent revenues, is just in the middle of a pivot with a decent round of funding...

... and we're small. There are a lot of firms like us and bigger than us with seven figure investments. What the hell have you been doing?
How to update Google Nexus 4 to Official Android 4.4 Kit Kat?
Show HN: Git Hosting - unlimited private repos, unlimited users
CFC deplete a limited resource. Electricity doesn't inherently do that. If you're in charge of the laws, you can make non-polluting energy cheapest and do far more good than coming at the issue from the side by legislating light bulbs.

Or you could be really direct and make a law against powering incandescent bulbs on coal power, letting everyone choose if they want to buy some renewable/nuclear energy for their wasteful bulbs.
The latter is still fine as the Android team is apparently working on a way of updating the webview without upgrading the device OS. So even the halfbaked browsers can still benefit from speed and security improvements
> Because it loses value slowly enough

More than that it loses value predictably enough, with an active financial system around it to make and hedge out those predictions for you.
that part of the comment was nonsense. they can compile the stock browser just fine.

i bet all that means is that they removed dependency on the stock browser from the base system. which is welcome for barebones images that want only one browser that is not the stock one.
http://i.imgur.com/LwyxOvG.png

Also layout issues along with not being able to click on the examples link on this page. Wasn't able to actually use the examples. Android 4.4 (N4), aosp browser.
> 1. Bitcoin is no less a fiat currency than the U.S. dollar or Japanese yen.

Depends on what you mean by "fiat currency", which tends to get used with a few different (if related) meanings. One is "non-backed state-issued currency". Under that definition it isn't. Another is "currency with no intrinsic value". Under that definition it is.
Fed up with slow and pricey Internet, cities start demanding gigabit fiber
I think Paracelsus description of lung cancer in miners might predate that.

"Paracelsus was a pioneer in chemistry and chemotherapy. He introduced mercury, lead, sulfur, iron, zinc, copper, arsenic, iodine, and potassium as internal remedies. But he gave due warning in his writings that all chemicals are potentially poisons, and concentration and dose are what make them poisonous or nonpoisonous. His collected papers on chemotherapy of various ailments, including cancers, were published by his followers in 1567 in a book,4De Grandibus. In it, there is the first description of industrial cancer, cancer of the lung in miners of metal ores and in the workers who smelted the ore."

from here - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.25825/full
> Aren't most pre-rolls 3 seconds before you can watch the video?

5. But it's only "most", and it's more and more common to find videos where you get 30 seconds unskippable.
Chris Gethard: Not an Anomaly - Called it.
If that were the case, wouldn't they also not ship it with Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Google Calendar, etc.
Are the additional terms for licensing Chrome beyond what was already needed for OEMs to get the Play Store? Unless there are and they're onerous in particularly new way, this feels like a non-issue getting attention because the business agreements around Android are relatively public compared to other OSes.
Washington State discovers it’s not so easy to create a legal marijuana economy
Firefox for Android is slower and has more bugs than Chrome for Android, but I use it and love it solely for the add-on support. LastPass on mobile devices sucked until I found you can install the add-on in Firefox and use your normal browser. Adblock is nice for cutting down on mobile data use, too.
How does something this bad end up the top comment? Three out of four links you provided are completely irrelevant. It is not missing pipes. Pipes are a simple composition operator. Haskell already has that, no need to make a special version for this.
Pretty unrelated but you can try online strategy games, personally I've played League of Legends for about two years and I still can't reach Diamond tier.
LoL does require some mechanical skill but once you get it down, it's 90% knowledge.

Another alternative is Magic The Gathering :) or HearthStone.
And many people can be apart of one address, although that is more risky. One of the top addresses is the Just-Dice investors address, which has between 50,000 and 60,000 bitcoin.
Completely fair criticism. Obviously, I don't mean to continue writing such lengthy code on the command-line, but in order to feel out what's good enough, I need the shell. The brevity can come later. E.g. there's no reason

ls "*.*"

couldn't be defined, e.g.

ls = run . ("ls " ++)
Yes, but not the people for whom its used as a justification of law. Nobody alive today has consented to the constitution if you simply use the same standard of consent as used in common contract law.
Used it out a few weeks ago on our beta landing page, very cool. It was fast and easy to use. I will be using this on our website updates going forward!
> Seriously? How about buying a house? Buying a car? Going to college? Going on vacation? ...

In all those cases, saving USD as dollars is generally a suboptimal idea (unless its over a particularly short term, but that gets back to the short-term liquidity, not long-term investment, case.)

Using the dollars to buy investments that are expected to be worth more when converted back to cash is what you usually want to do.
Interesting as BitCoin proponents complain about Bankers greed and how 1% own a huge percentage of the wealth. It seems that a really small percentage of addresses owns most of the BitCoin wealth. And these addresses might be owned by even less people.
I really enjoyed this...the upvoted answer was really helpful. I'm going to use it tonight when I get home and can work on a personal project.
To be fair, I have accidentally clicked on the "oh yeah, confirm this email address" when I suddenly realize "no, wait, I created that account with my other email address... what the heck is this?"

More of a problem with common big-name services like Facebook and Apple ID and whatnot.
This crossed my mind as well -- you start with a specific problem to solve, you dig into building a solution... and realize that whoa, with only a few tweaks this could be useful for this whole range of related problems...

But the compromises add up one after another, and by the time the general solution is built (with an immense theoretical target market), it's lost its heart. The people with the original problem won't be interested any more (because it doesn't speak to them anymore).

It's related to the problem of implementing every feature and permutation that users request ("no problem; we'll add an option for that in the settings!"), until the elegant solution becomes an unusable monster.

It's hard to say "no" to an addition that clearly adds value, but if you're aiming for a sharply-defined target, you've got 1 degree of "yes" and 364 degrees of "no".
Could a Google+ security flaw take down your YouTube page with no warning?
This looks pretty interesting, but can someone explain google here? I assumed it would be resolved at the end of the article. Nope, just casually mentions that google considers something that is extinct endangered and banned their account. Even after appeals or whatever they are sticking to their seemingly absurd position.
Why is everyone so whiny? Should everything be free in life? In a time when PBS's budget is drastically cut I am glad free content still makes it out and I am happy to support it. No one is forced to watch ads.
I call this the "Men's Soap Principle". Men's soap is no different than regular soap, but the fact that brands call it Men's, make's it applicable - and therefore men buy it.
I would say reaching 90%+ of apps means it can be used for serious apps :)

If you have the budget to build an incredibly detailed native app on all platforms, then Ionic really isn't for you. We are okay with that, you aren't the target user.

Also, PhoneGap/Cordova is really just a thin layer between a web view and the native platform. You can really send and receive any kind of data between it, which means you can do anything native that you want. The thing people get hung up on is that Cordova ships a designed API that does not give you as much control, but it's only a plugin away (something we want to build more of).