skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also at a company that's a 100% Google Apps and so have been forced to make a good go at it.

- Gmail is great for near-term communications, having chat in the same place makes it a nice communications hub for immediate and near-term communications. I like it better than Outlook and it seems much snappier in day-to-day use.

But I find it almost unusable when looking for emails from a while ago. It's so bad that I connect to my mailbox with Thunderbird and use Thunderbird's search to find anything. The problem is with the threaded conversations, I'll get search results, with the result buried somewhere in 1 of a 100 different emails in the conversation and as far as I know there's no easy way to sort through that pile.

- Calendar is actually pretty good. For my use as good as Outlook. It integrates nicely with Gmail and gets the job done. It's also pretty snappy in day-to-day.

- Document is okay for very simple things. Collaboration is a killer feature. But it's missing many of the things that makes Word superior. It's bad enough that people in my company who interact with anybody outside of the company are on the list for a personal MS-Office license...pretty much just for Word. The review functions (comments, change tracking etc.) in Word is absolutely needed if you work on any kind of contract/proposal paperwork. I find that I quickly exceed the formatting abilities of of the web app without getting into anything too fancy.

- Sheets is also okay for very simple things. However, my accounting department sends me a pretty simple traditional spreadsheet showing timetracking for my staff and it's totally unviewable in the web app. I'd rather just use the web app then firing up Excel, but I simply can't.

- I don't think I've ever bothered with the presentation app or anything else in the suite, but that's all I really need to use. TBH, it's actually a pretty nice suite that gets me about 70% where I need to be. However, all our internal tracking tools (Atlassian tools) really want documents instead of links to shared on-line docs so you end up importing/exporting everything as word docs anyways.

but I have to say I think that this (2nd, 3rd?) rewrite of sheets looks really good. I'm going to try it out the next time I need to deal with staff time.
I'm sure it's even moreso given the different form factors of the various devices. I've given it a decent run and I think it's actually a pretty good system.
Mars' atmosphere is much thinner, I don't think a 3m thick boulder would burn up (impact, though, would be, uh, energetic, however).
This is also the subject of a Kurt Vonnegut short story, "The Euphio Question", from Welcome to the Monkey House.
Those questions would be answered by a landing page that shows you what you'd be paying for. There's much better tools for data extraction and automation available today than in the recent past and this market sounds like a great category for disruption.

Startups often neglect competitor analysis because it's not available cheaply. If you could get 85% of the value automatically that's worth paying for.
Right, and since C# was brought up, a "using" statement is the equivalent way of making sure the resource is disposed of properly when it falls out of scope.
I had to boot from an .iso and mount up the filesystem to reset it. Also disabled selinux on reboot. If you find it out, please post, I'm curious myself.
Of note for non-Canadians - those big compartments at the bottom are "shared".

If you get a package that can fit in one that doesn't require a signature, the mail carrier will drop the package in there and put its key in your mail compartment. After you pick up your package, you drop the key off in the outbound mail slot at the top of the box. It's very convenient.
Hacking Social Media--Get the most from Twitter/Fb
Heroin is as close to "a perfect happiness drug" as anything human ingenuity has ever produced. My experience of its habitués tends to suggest that, while it's not impossible you'd become a better person under its effects, it is quite unlikely.
> After all, if sitting in your own filth doesn't make you unhappy, because you have a wire in your brain which ensures sublime delight no matter your circumstances, why bother to do anything about it? -- and, as we see from one of the cases described in the page I linked, indeed you will not.

Right, but... why is sitting in your own filth objectively "bad" if you're happy? There could be negative externalities (e.g. maybe your unsanitary conditions are facilitating the spread of disease to others) but I don't think it's clear what about the filth itself is objectively bad.
Exponential Growth [webgl] (give it time to load)
Sort of. CPython's main GC strategy is is refcounting, which is deterministic. It also does have a cycle-detecting GC that's not deterministic

But this is an implementation detail, so it could change in the future. And CPython isn't the only implementation, either. IronPython, pypy, and Jython all have different GC characteristics.
Google Music is pushing into more countries. The only logical consequence.

I switched from Spotify to Google, because:

1) Found a few albums, that disappeared from Spotify a few months ago.

2) 7,99 € vs. 9,99 €

3) Google Music allowed me to shuffle all of my music

4) The app is way better. I can always stop the player from the notification bar (on spotify that was a sometimes pain in the ass )

5) When listening to music on Spotify and someone calls, it wasn't possible to adjust the volume, resulting in your ears getting voice-bombed by the caller
"With the increase in scrypt coin prices, the load on the mining pools increased, and most began experiencing frequent outages."

He should have used p2pool.
Wings has a barely functional GL renderer.

However, for making static meshes quickly, and for doing UV mapping without wanting to stab yourself in the face, you can't beat it.

Blender:GIMP::Wings::Paint.NET

It doesn't do everything, but what it does do it is great at. Blender is just too baroque--much like the GIMP.
Multipeer Connectivity
In most systems of metaethics, "years of life" and "number of people alive" are coefficients or integrands. 50 years spent happy--and then dying happily--is less good than 100 years spent happy. Which is less good, in turn, than 100 years spent happy, and creating two more people who also spend 100 years happy. And so on.

However, the adaptations we execute, as biological beings, don't really care about the health and welfare of their own far-future selves; they're more concerned about the Net Present Value of different choices they can make. So, one hour spent Really Happy, outweighs a year spent Just Happy, because that Really Happy is all received by your present self.

So we can do the math as rational beings, and as much as we want to be rational (which is itself a function of our biologically-trained impulses), we can look out for our future selves and keep the world running. Or we can accept our nature as natural beings, and wirehead. It's really the explicated meaning-of-life question, going forward.
The selection is somewhat underwhelming though.
> I wonder if it's possible to design a language that would be able to prevent these problems at compile time without incurring the runtime cost of managed languages.

Rust does this. :) It is not easy to get right—the borrow checker required a lot of design work to achieve the right balance between expressiveness and practicality—but I think we've shown that it is possible.

(Disclaimer: I work on Rust.)
"I don't think it's fair to assess power in terms of something like a body count, and to ignore the power granted by organization."

I generally agree, but my larger point is that it isn't a good idea to assess power in terms of firepower.
It's nonsense that Docker containers are designed to run a single process. There's absolutely nothing that encourages having a single process.

In fact, I think you should run multiple processes because running just a single process is wrong. It will not enable many kinds of important system services, such as syslog. Take a look at https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker for a full explanation.

This is also the reason why I wrote baseimage-docker: to make it easy for other Docker users to get things right. I highly encourage people to use baseimage-docker.
There is another sense in which the idea isn't new - the notion of an image in smalltalk environments provides a similar level of encapsulation as docker containers, except perhaps that running smalltalk images don't get assigned their own ip address. A metacello script is analogous to dockerfile.
Ask HN: Kickstarter for Patent trolls
I was talking with some friends in a pub and an idea came up talking about patents.

Who would be interested in a Kikstarter-like platform for fighting specific patent trolls?
To be fair...the surface of Earth's moon has been much more extensive than just physical lunar surface exploration.

It's also a fair question, have we seen evidence from this on our moon? And if not is it really because of the limited exploration or some other factors?
Practicality aside, this would be the end of "progress". No new discovery, no new exploration, no deeper understanding of how we got here, where we are or why we are here. The problem with 'bliss on tap' is assumption that there would be no problems left to solve... the mortgaging of our future potential for our present satisfaction.
It would be ideal, but the government has no money, and cities are going bankrupt. I would think some sort of tax incentives (or other something) for on job training, make hiring cheaper/easier or moving offshore jobs to local would be the better solutions.
Properties of perfluorotributylamine:

http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.13836523.html
In case you don't get many comments, it might be because this has been submitted a few times before. I've listed some of them here -
there are more. It's clearly a popular item, and if people really do read it, then it certainly serves as a reminder to check our own priorities.

But how many people read it and try to be constructive?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570865

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643239 <- This has the most coments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603369

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2604180

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2615886

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617705

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2624341

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2743768

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3290059

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3306688

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3331535

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3398988

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3542280

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3629787

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3646379

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3816422

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3872345

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4174746
Works here, same version. Try going to this URL

chrome://gpu/
Leo - Share life with your friends.
LOL. Train lines connecting places to the capital just cause the capital to grow further[1]. New high speed lines between Manchester and Sheffield, and up from each to Glasgow and Edinburgh would help rebalance the economy as you suggest. But they're not planned for decades.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/no-stone-unturned... and/or http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20142837 - "The Heseltine Review" isn't a primary source of evidence for this assertion, but it's through this coverage that I learned of these ideas.
I can't answer without seeing what we'd be paying for. That said, in general, a quality analysis would be worth $40/month to me.

If you add your email to your public profile I'd like to reach out privately.
What non-arbitrary "small string" length would you chose?

Btw, the fact that you don't understand it doesn't make it arbitrary. Hint: it's not arbitrary at all.
I was just playing devil's advocate a bit, because many developers tend to forget that what makes C and C++ usable for systems programming are actually language extensions that are not part of the standard.

Many mainstream languages, with AOT native compilers would be as usable.
Sure @codez, feel free to use it (y)
How do you plan to make the competitors research? I think the guys in http://www.compass.co/ have a great product, but sincerely if they don't share revenue of it with startups and businesses that are the ones providing data & info, it won't work.
I think it less about who you are more afraid of, but who you can do something about.

It's not so simple to change the government that you're under.
(founder of indysci/main researcher on this project here).

That's a great question. And I don't have a good answer for you. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Whew! How can this happen - maybe we are facing a new episode of "free trade amongst allies", trust and auditing ... where are you?
Before this conversation spirals out of control, note that this is method calls to boot rails from scratch and "Display a Page". The method call count to answer the request itself would be an interesting number, but I'm not as concerned about the work involved in starting the server.
LIPSUMO: Lorem Ipsum from Project Gutenberg literature
I'm not sure why we give so much credence to legacy users complaining about new software (tech in general). Specific use cases are either adaptable or they'll work their way into the new whatever as demand grows. For example, I never dreamed of using my iPad w/ usb keyboard as a laptop replacement. It's not perfect, but it's rapidly becoming my preferable method of computing when I'm not at home.
> And you keep on not voting, and then wonder why your government doesn't represent you.

Yet everyone else does vote and then wonders why their government doesn't represent them. What exactly makes that a better choice?
Exactly, not everyone using these files are coders or computer savvy enough to tolerate SVN or GIT.
|Here's one way too big for the parking spot

Just like every delivery truck ever...
There are other welfare support programs besides unemployment insurance. They're just not all wrapped up in a neat bow by the central government. There's housing and food assistance and other programs at the federal and state levels, as well as charities, church food pantries, etc.

In reality, very few people end up on the streets to starve and freeze to death.
Of Baboons and Bosses (2009)
You can Google in a second articles like http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1719675.stm

Can't do that with MDMA...
I'd been doing my own research on viability of mining on Amazon, and I posed a question on the AWS forums asking how it's possible the spot prices could be going so high. There's instances going anywhere from 5-20 times their On-Demand prices. At this time, no one's answered it, so if anyone here knows, I'd love to hear why someone would pay $10.00 per hour for an instance they can get On-Demand for $2.40.
That's interesting. We just went the opposite direction, from Office 365 to Google Apps and we couldn't be happier. Office365 was slow, riddled with issues and a poor experience for anyone who used a Mac. Literally awful; we often couldn't talk between offices on Lync because of "reasons" according to Microsoft.

Switching to Google was like a fresh breath of air.
Let's say we want to warm Mars. Could we design a benign long-lived super-greenhouse gas, preferably from H C N and O?
Linux/x86-64 Docker images (which is all of them) aren't going to run on OS X unless inside a VM.
The annual price seems prohibitively expensive, especially compared to services like Instacart.

They don't seem to be offering a very good argument for why the service is worth the cost IMO.
This person has never been to austin.
Regarding mud daubers, that article you linked to said:

> This species also brought down another plane in Washington during 1982.

Which, in addition to the crashes of the Florida Commuter Airlines flight (1980) and Birgenair flight (1996) makes it 3 planes mud daubers have brought down.
What about ATI/AMD? they have oss docs and drivers.
This is insanely inaccurate so I downvoted you. There are many, many kinds of assistance available to people. It's not an either/or situation where you run out of unemployment and then your next option is death by exposure and starvation. Come on.
I'm on OS X.
Wrong. sizeof(char) is define to be one. The number of bits in a byte (char) is implementation defined (this is why CHAR_BIT exists). Not the same thing.
I'd be willing to sell swaths of encrypted VPN traffic and the IP address of a data center in New Jersey for $29 a month
Alternately, I could make a solid case for MDMA. A huge rush of serotonin is closer to 'happiness' in my book; tickling the mu-opoid is more of a 'bliss' kinda thing.

If there were a beverage that worked like coffee except was more MDMA like, that our physiology could sustain in daily use, I dare say a lot of us would drink it.
Right, but what is the value of "progress" beyond the satisfaction it gives us?
Docker is not a VM.
CAGE MATCH: Amazon vs Indie E-commerce for Self-Published Books
It's all about expected disk sizes in 10 years time (when RHEL 7 main support ends). Ext4 scales up to around 16 TB -- I know it theoretically can support a much larger volume size, but in practice it doesn't work so well. XFS handles tens of terabytes without a problem and Red Hat has been supporting huge XFS volumes for years with many customers (who in earlier versions of RHEL paid extra for that support).
Mozilla and Goo Promote US$45K Game Creator Challenge to HTML5 App Developers
What If Apple Cut Prices By $100?
Why does this ask for my location, and why does it display a blank, black screen?
If you're not asleep, you might be a better person. The problem would be when you ran out.
Since when is Google+ a "replacement for RSS"? Since when did even Google announce that?
Do feeds still work like they used to via the same APIs? I'm not able to get a json feed out via a link like before for some reason.
You think I haven't gone through the basic thought experiment of imagining the roles reversed? That's why I was against going to war in the first place, even though I felt like the only person in the country who felt that way.

Regardless, each and every innocent life lost is still significant.
Skate where the puck is going. Is it a comprehensive solution today? No. But I would rather see Docker double down on making the project great for those that have bought in than spend their resources building compatibility from people that have not. It's the difference between asking your customers what features they would find most useful and asking people that aren't your customers what features they think you need to build before they buy. The latter set of feedback is almost always useless.
I disagree with the assumption in the original article that a perfect happiness drug would be used by everyone. It is evident from even casual observation that many (I would say most) people would rather have a meaningful life than a happy life.

Sure, once you started the drug, you wouldn't care, you'd be hooked, but why assume everyone would take it in the first place? There's no chance I would try a drug that I had observed make someone just sit in their bed doing nothing all day, even if it was clear that they were ecstatically happy beyond anything I had ever experienced. In reality, I think very few people would take it.
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This is exactly why people like Nassim Taleb [1] (Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, Antifragile) are against things like GMO. We can't predict which tail risks will hit us and how much - the only thing we can do it to make ourselves robust against the negative ones.

This is also why, in the face of globalism, we should work to make life multi planetary [2].

And for people who think this is just silly, it might be a good idea to have a look at some recent history [3] and consider how close we were to being in a very, very different place. This is not science fiction.

Good piece.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
There is a trivial solution to this. Introduce a new HTTP response header 6 months before phasing out the Referer header. This header would be optionally delivered with content and would specify which third party domains are allowed to access the content. Perhaps Content-Security-Policy could be extended for this purpose.
What if I take the discount, then spend that money on a VPN?
Yeah, well, I lived in DFW for awhile and traveled around the state during that time. Close enough for my comfort.
Seems to be broken on FireFox. Chrome shows a Google street view image of your location in a polaroid frame with the address scribbled below.
The difference is that this models a specific impact to see whether it would work. That's a long long way from conclusive, of course, but it's a useful addition.
Even if you're in the US there's only a very very small chance you'll be able to participate in the beta.
:)

The thing is, if "being happy" is the only goal, then the rest of it is just an efficiency question.

I think people view robots as either empowering us or somehow getting into lethal combat with us as the dominant life form on the planet. I seriously doubt it will be either. They'll just give us what we want. The race will naturally die out within a few generations.
> There are many powerful, competent, and well-funded entities with a vested interest in improving the web app experience (including Google). I wouldn't claim they're doomed from the start.

I've been using gmail for almost 10 years. I liked it from the start. But it's getting worse, not better. It's extremely slow compared to what I'm used to with Exchange and Outlook, and navigating around is more of a chore. How do I, for example, see who's in on an email list? I can't just right-click on the name of the list and see the members? (And don't even get me started on the new compose experience mess.)

If Gmail was being continuously improved, I'd have a reason to be optimistic about it. I like being given free storage, but as far as usability goes, I have fonder memories of Eudora.
Within our lifetimes, this may well be a "crazy guy in a garage" project.

And the memeset I'd personally put my money on being the proximal cause is "humans are a blight upon Mother Gaia and should be removed at all costs". We don't have to imagine the existence of people who would push the Kill All Humans button if given a chance... we need merely read the right bits of the Internet. Sure, most of them would at least think twice... but there's enough that wouldn't.
A heat map of consumer sentiment for the past 13 years
Hey folks, if you want to try out Docker easily, you use https://github.com/steeve/boot2docker

It's a 23mb ISO that boots in 6s and allows you to get started right away.
Leveraging ibeacons for home automation.
Control your lights and appliances from your smartphone, and teach your home a thing or two. This takes home automation to the next level.
And they're not portable, either! What kernel is Ruby 2.0.0 build against on in his example? Maybe Docker itself may be everywhere, but you still have have to be aware of any OS dependencies that apps in your Docker container might have...

I think lxc+cgroups and Docker are a much less wasteful way to provision lots of similar systems with particular types of workloads, but this article did seem a little hyperbolic.
How is Gmail faster than Outlook? I've used both for as long as they've existed, and both for work and personal use, and don't see where or how Gmail is faster.

Not going to bother with the more powerful comment. This being HN and all I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're simply not familiar enough with Outlook, rather than trolling.