skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly thought this was going be an article on probability: Given the frequency of Google shutting down its services, what is the likelihood of my blog service being terminated on December 6th?
I can try these steps in my social media marketing technique. Really a nice idea....
Not to mention that Africa is kind of a big place, you know? With plenty of locations inside it that aren't untracked, howling wilderness.

I understand what they're trying to get at, but it annoys me to see them say "used in Africa" as if that were functionally equivalent to "used on the Moon." And I'm American! I have to think it'd sound even more tin-eared to someone from an African country.
Same thing happened to me. It ended up being my bank denying the charge rather than Google. Check with your bank.
I don't think it's the 6th of December yet.
People "in the industry" call them UAVs so I am so used to that term that drone sounds so weird.
There are some noises about higher framerate movie production; The Hobbit was the first, and it was not well received. Motion at 30fps and higher looks very different than motion at 24fps, and part of the resistance to HFR is simply unfamiliarity; however, a lot of shots in The Hobbit were not improved by the 48fps presentation; I think that we won't get good results until film projection is dead, and directors and DPs can present at arbitrary frame rates -- there's no reason that, given a digital projection, a movie couldn't use 48 (or 60!) for certain sequences, while retaining 24 (or 30) for others. It would add another technique for directors to use, just as video has.
The post said the deadline was December 6th - so he won't know until this Friday.
I'm curious about what other people have to say. I feel very bad for ignoring recruiter emails. But I really don't have the mental energy to do the dance.
I would like it to have fewer moving parts. I'm not fond of 'unknown or expired link' - that link shouldn't 'move' :)
Sites like this need a tl;ds (too long; didn't scroll) general info right up front. Also...why no price and availability?

General Description:
The BRCK is a rugged, cloud managed, full-featured router with built in failover and programmable GPIO expansion. BRCK can connect to the internet through RJ47, GSM, Wifi Bridge, as well as Ethernet Over USB via the GPIO Breakout. It’s rugged build and cloud managed interface make it ideal for “away teams”, monitoring systems in remote locations, and businesses with challenging infrastructure. BRCK’s GPIO breakout provides 20 pins for digital and alaouge Read/Write as well as I2C, SPI and UART. This, combined with BRCK’s Arduino Profile, make it ideal for quickly connecting hardware to the Internet of Things.
And worse no call to action!

I blame Bootstrap's "scrolling story" for worsening this problem of late.

So much fun to build as a web dev, so sexy for exec's to check off.

But message gets lost and nobody wants to scroll.

An implementation of the scrolling-style that I respect is https://www.pingdom.com

Strong headline to capture attention, solid paragraph explaining the details and what problem they're solving, and BOOM a "Get Started Now" button to guide me.

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I added a note to my profile stating I wasn't interested in the area in which I get 90% of the recruitment emails (Linux kernel).

That's what happens when you get assigned to a field by your job and people assume you actually like it... sigh...
Correct. It's kind of disingenuous to call Southwest a "discount" airline. It's very rarely that I can find a Southwest flight for significantly cheaper (or more expensive) than another airline. However, the lack of additional fees above that baseline often makes them a better deal.
It's buzzword compliant for sure.
Beyond modems, there are also some obscure biological machines that transmit information by modulating sound waves in the air that have been around for some millions of years.
I don't know if you've ever read an ayn rand novel, but none of her heroes ever try to cheat people.
Looks like they planned on shipping the early bird units last month. Did they actually ship on time?
I would pay extra money to be on a flight with no overhead bins so we can get on and off faster.
> That's great and all, but in a newsroom, when the editor changes your title, they tell you why so you can do better next time.

I agree that would be nice. However, as you know from running a busy site, it's not always possible to give such feedback, or you'd drown under emails. I'm thinking of /r/redditrequest or any of the methods of reporting things like doxxing to the mods, which usually don't get any feedback for the user.

My interest is this: I think content needs to be edited for maximal reading potential. That in turn leads to the question as to whether Reddit/HN are more like links lists (MetaFilter, blogs) or more like discussion forums (phpBB, vbulletin, etc). By "more like" I mean as communities, not as software.
True, they care about local competition. But they also care about growing stockholders' equity, of which one method is improving profitability.

Since RyanAir has shown some prowess in this regard (admittedly through solicitation of subsidies, but also with an aggressive model), Southwest would certainly have some interest. We're talking almost 50% greater net profit on a third of the revenue. Sure that exact comparison is debatable, but the contrast is nonetheless interesting, even if done with a novel approach.
It's surprising how many people either forget about modems or never had internet in the days of modems. I've had numerous nerdy conversations and theory crafting scenarios where someone will bring up the crazy idea of using sound to transmit data. I'm just like "Yeah, we've done that already. Remember dialup?".
Metamorph.js -- create a string of HTML, insert it into the DOM, update it later
The lead contact point for this proposal, Chris McKay of NASA Ames, had a similar proposal around 14 years ago for growing a rose plant on a Mars lander. It'll be fun to see this idea finally (hopefully) take root.
Hubspot has a lot of small ecommerce retailers as customers who compete with Amazon.
Note: Only looking for folks that are local to the Bay Area.
Next: plants vs zombies in space. Seriously, this is super cool. This study has further implications of letting us know how plant life grows in different gravitational environment, which would give us interesting insight about life on other planets and how* Earth's gravity affected ecosystem and/or evolution on our own planet.

* Further studies will be needed before we can make any inferences on that front, but this is a good start.
tables still > css
What about it? BRCK is marketed as an extremely rugged device with a strong battery that can charge other devices and onboard storage. How does yourkarma compare other than they're both wifi hotspots?
What exactly is the call to action here? For kernel developers to change how time works, and probably break thousands of drivers and applications, based on a blog post?
I don't think he was suggesting switching hosts but domain registrars. Not only does Blogger let you bring your own domain from any registrar while hosting with them, but they stopped selling domain registration themselves at some point in the past. Transferring the domain should be completely transparent to Google; the website doesn't need to move or be changed at all.
Canonical released a phone in October? I think you're mistaken.
A perfect example of what a complete screw up the whole multiple Google Account thing is.

I can't suggest a better solution, but wow - it sucks at the moment.

Edit: Would it be possible to find out from the friend at Google if they are doing anything to report this anomaly to users? The author can't be the only person this happened to, and given that Google knows this, perhaps it would be useful if the error message reflected what was going on?

Perhaps fixing that error message would be a better use of resources than trying to improve support?
How would one go about implementing a distributed poker system where one could not cheat?
Perhaps not if you buy your tickets last minute, but if you book 2-3 weeks in advance and pay more than ~£20 you're being robbed.
Hey, I remember doing this in school! It was called show and tell.

I don't understand how someone can use pre-written code written specifically for use in this hackathon. It's one thing to write some generic libraries, but they had the product made beforehand, they even demo-ed the app on the 8th! (according to the meetup post)[1]

This doesn't even touch on the allegations that some contestants' apps weren't run and videos weren't watched.

What a sham of a contest ...

1 : http://www.meetup.com/Salesforce-com-Integration-Analytics/e...
> Baloney: multimedia classrooms - CORRECT

Khan Academy says "hi!"[1]. I'd only give half credit for this, considering the success that Khan Academy has had in schools and with individual learners.

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/coach-res/case-studies
For the same reason you'd want a SIM card slot in your tablet. But for some reason, I don't see anyone saying that iPads with LTE are a bad idea.
Not my experience. My AE and CFL team get my frequent and unfiltered views regarding issues that affect my company, even during EBC sessions. We have been very vocal about recent NA13 outages and performance. I have not been coerced to only say nice things about Salesforce.
Most 'white noise generators' aren't producing white noise. White noise has equal power in each linear band, e.g. 100Hz to 120Hz would have the same spectral power as 19,000Hz to 19,020Hz. Humans hear in a logarithmic fashion so real white noise is actually incredibly annoying to listen to. To the ear it has a lot of high frequency content in it, it sounds like a high frequency fuzz.

Most 'white noise generators' are really outputting some sort of spectrally shaped pseudo-random noise, e.g. sound masking systems in offices closely follow the response curve of the human voice and output basically nothing under 200Hz nor over 7kHz. Even if playing pure 'pink noise', which is logarithmically flat and thus much more reasonable to listen to, there would be very little power in the band the authors of the paper are using (17kHz to 20kHz). I would also doubt that many white noise generator products are capable of producing usable output at those frequencies in the first place. Most laptop speakers probably can as a result of their size and design. 'White noise generators' should be targeting low end extension over high frequency output and I doubt many have multiple drivers per channel to accomplish both goals. Given all this, I highly doubt off the shelf 'white noise generator' products would have much effect on this communication method.

There are ultrasonic 'blasters' for lack of a better term that may work. I know some convenience stores mount them outside the store in order to deter younger folks loitering outside. As you age the limits of your high frequency hearing is reduced in a fairly predictable way; e.g. at age 15 you may be able to hear up to 22kHz, at 35 you may only be able to hear up to 18kHz. If you want to drive away younger people, blast out noise in the 19kHz to 22kHz range, it's really annoying to listen to and older folks won't even notice it. A similar thing may work to deter this communication channel, as long as you don't have too many young people around, or older folks with exceptional hearing range for their age.
I don't think Southwest cares about Ryanair.

But it is interesting to note that Southwest's "low-cost" reputation is, at this point, mostly based on memory and advertising, not reality.

Southwest often isn't the lowest fare on a given itinerary anymore, for example, and airports where Southwest is the dominant carrier are also, mostly, those which have seen the largest fare increases over the past decade.

And that's without getting into the fact that Southwest is now experimenting with ancillary-revenue programs through things like buying into Group A, etc.
lol i was just thinking the same thing. as much as i know these comments do not help the OP, i cant help but think, as i sat there watching w my family, how their perception of googles help desk has been setup to be one of "OMG they're even amazing at help desk".
> "a date like this:"
> R(I, T, Z) = D
> Those four final words...

So yeah. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, or maybe the author is referring to another random set of 4 words?
I wouldn't assume anything, but it would be great if the blog post provided any kind of possible alternative. Right now it really just sounds like a misguided rant.
I once read a lovely article online (which I've never been able to find again, I think it was by a founder of tripod?), recounting the early days of search engines. He was thinking of starting one, but the market was already filled... then came another search engine, and now there really was no room for another one... this iterated over several engines til he finally got to google. And added: now it's really filled...

Of course, today google still rules, yet they act incredibly threatened by facebook; and niche engines like duckduckgo are making inroads.

Is this true for smartphones? All we can really say is that he (and I) can't think of a way to enter... but that doesn't mean there is no way.

Just as I wouldn’t suggest anyone build a new line of PCs or cars

Like electric cars...
Ryanair was heavily influenced by Southwest airlines in the past.

Of course, Michael O'Leary took Southwest's model, and took it way further than the originators did.

"To turn Ryanair into the profit-making machine it is today required strict discipline, together with inspiration from the United States.

In the early 1990s, Ryan sent O'Leary to Texas to find out how Southwest Airlines, an upstart that was taking advantage of aviation deregulation, was making profits with lower fares.

Southwest was one of a new generation of airlines undercutting their established rivals by doing away with the 'frills'. They only served snacks on board instead of full meals, for instance, hence the nickname peanut airlines.

Southwest scheduled its planes and its staff for more flights each day, and it flew to smaller airports where it could negotiate cheaper landing charges. When O'Leary saw how Southwest was making money, it was a "road to Damascus moment," he says, "it was blatantly obvious that this was the way forward.""

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22888304
It's disappointing to read all this negativity around the drone delivery story. Who knows if this will happen as soon as they claim, but it is a cool idea with a lot of genuinely interesting implications.

The fact that Amazon is trying to generate good PR is a tangental story in my opinion, and I wonder if investing in a drone delivery program just to show it off would be the most cost effective way to get good press.

I am also very unimpressed with the challenges that Mr. Ball identified. He probably had fun fashioning himself as some kind of technology muckraker, but please go after uninspired technology instead of taking easy shots at interesting and bold ideas.
It's a bag of hurt.
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per https://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

Google brought in $12.5B in advertising revenue in the third quarter of 2013, and only $1.2B in non-advertising revenue in the same period.

So, who spent 12 billion in Google ads in 3 months? divide that by 12,000 entities who spent 1 million each per quarter. Or 12,000,000 entities who spent a thousand dollars. Do you think there are enough geeks and small advertisers out there to add up to 4 billion dollars a month? Do you think there are enough small business people out there to make up that? It's the large consumer products that make up the bulk of Google's income: the Ford, GM, Toyota, Coca-Cola, Procter and Gamble, etc. These are Google's customers.

Google has locked horns with Facebook on getting these advertisers. Yahoo too gets a fair bit of that. These are the Google customers, nobody else. If these advertisers spurn Google, the company will spin out of control. That's in spite of of $56B in cash. They burn 10+ billion a quarter, so they don't have that long to live at full bore, or they would have to cut painfully. They are big enough with so much staff that there's very few sources of income that could replace $12.5 billion a quarter. So you bet they will, hum, accommodate, the Coca-Cola advertising executive's phone calls.
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> I saw "The Internship."

Me too, as such, you have my sympathies.
>You mean brain plasticity?

Kind of? I mean at the cognitive level rather than the neurological one.
Why is that a problem? Apple ships millions of 3G/LTE devices a quarter, they can certainly figure it out in the laptop form factor. Worst case and it doesn't support every network--still way better than not supporting any network.

The bigger issue is probably not having OS X architected to play nice when you're paying by the byte.
This is a really good idea for chain/ casual restaurants where people are constrained by time and value, ie Applebees. But if some of the nicer restaurants I go to start using this, it will degrade the experience as a whole because the server acts more like an MC at a show. Not having them will be a loss.
Good on em. I used to work for an E La Carte competitor that used iPads instead of Android devices, and it's a tough market right now.

There exists a lot of resistance from the waitstaff who see tabletop devices as job killers, and customers are pretty much divided down the middle (they either love em or hate em). It seems like dining was always going to trend towards something like this, it was just a matter of when. Restaurants are pretty old in their way of thinking, and it's quite the accomplishment to get 100k devices on tables.
I thought google had support ... that's what the movie "The intership" lead me to believe.
Maybe. If you are, then you're doing so at 60fps at least, when this scene seems like it'd be fine slower than that.
The article mentions the State Secrets Privilege as a reason the government can get away without judicial oversight by claiming national security interests.

It is worth noting that the case which established the judicial concept of the state secrets privilege after a ruling by the SCOTUS turned out to be 100% corrupt. When the documents were declassified 40 years later it was discovered that they did contain evidence of wrong-doing by the military but had only the most tenuous claim to national security ("an aircraft capable of dropping bombs").

So the entire doctrine in use here has been one big fraud from the very start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Reynolds#Subs...
Picasa is now overrun with Chinese spammers using the "send to a friend"-type feature. I mark every incoming Picasa share message as spam and Gmail still lets them all through...
It seems perfectly normal that an auditorium of teenaged boys would react in an noisy, approving manner to sexy Nigella Lawson or sexy Bond girls. The writer's "shocked, shocked!" manner is rather disingenuous.

I find it surprising that they would have done likewise for Madame Curie (the photo in the blog post is not the slightest bit "sexy").

Maybe they were just trolling the speaker, since he had revealed himself to be somewhat humorless and scolding in his earlier comments on their responses?
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I will switch immediately! ;-)
With the right SIMs you could have a local [2g|3g] network so people can use their own handsets.
There's some great stuff about Unix time on this page:

The Future of Leap Seconds
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html

See especially the 'Distinguishing the two different meanings for time' section. It makes a good distinction between time-of-day and time interval. Unix time measures the first.
There's no problem with scrolling. That's a usability fallacy from the 90s.

The problem is not communicating what your users care about. Thats such a big part of UX, looking at it from a new customers perspective, instead of your own.
Every time I've used Amazon chat support I've had a great experience. I'm pretty sure everyone has had one bad support experience with a company regardless of whether it was chat, phone, or in-person.
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The problem is that abstractions are leaky. E.g. when I first started learning C++ in high school, I didn't know a tree if it bit me. But, the STL has a set implementation. If you take a closer look at the docs, you will find out that it is implemented as a red-black tree. I am not sure the assertion that you will never come across a tree or a graph in your life will be true always.
I don't think that movie was intended to be factual.... or funny.
Me too. Except I'm not planning to have more. I'm having more.
The idea is, instead of making the timestamp jump around (leading to both overlap and gaps), to make it a continuous linear counter. What's misguided about it?

I realize we've been stuck with the Unix timestamp for so long it's become somewhat impossible for many to acknowledge the points where it breaks.
Give it a little time. After being an early adopter, bitcoin has pretty much bored me to death recently but this new idea of DACs, protoshares etc. has me interested again like bitcoin originally did.

DAC stands for distributed autonomous corporation. "Corporation" in this context is a little bit wonky because bitcoin is a DAC. I could see there being both general gambling DACs or specific to poker. It takes a little while to wrap your head around the concept, so I will just give you some reading:

1 - http://letstalkbitcoin.com/dacs-that-spawn-dacs/#.Up0Y9uL3P2...

2 - http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?board=9.0
When I think Nigella (or Giada) I think "sexy woman who cooks on TV". I suspect most people do too.

If he had wanted to suggest "food and SCIENCE", there would be fewer people better suited to this suggestion than Alton Brown, at least in the US. I don't know if he's popular in the UK, but his Good Eats show presented a great mashup of popular science and cooking.
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Bah, as a Lisp programmer a standalone executable for hello world weighs in at 43 MB (SBCL 1.1.8 on Mac OS 10.8.5).
>Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them—one's a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn't work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, "Too many connections, try again later."

Wow, we've come a long way. I just pressed Ctrl + T, typed in "Battle of Trafalgar", hit enter, and had the answer immediately. (21 October 1805)

Interestingly, if you type "Battle of Trafalgar date", Google gives you a different date! It says 1824, which is the date when the painting titled "Battle of Trafalgar" was completed. I suppose we may have a little ways to go.
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors
No, willful misunderstanding aside, the idea is to provide a single continuous counter to apps that want it. If you look closely at most implementations, that's how many apps actually expect it to work.
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Run snake run is very easy to use , and powerfull. In my opinion it should have been part of the standard library.
Just curious, how is Microsoft's support in this department? Has anyone dealt with customer support for hotmail/outlook, skydrive, etc ?