skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could swear this article was algorithmically written. Weird non-sequiturs of Bluetooth profiles, “announcing” Siri, etc.

It’s almost as if someone told an engine to generate an article with the seed terms “Android compete Apple feature comparison” (and that alone… An Android version kills a corporation?)...
We're already on the path to extremely cheap energy with solar and wind. Shouldn't we continue to drive down the cost of power by ramping up more investment in these energy source? Nuclear as well, as long as its managed properly.
That's not so great either, since this kind of page on newspaper sites and corporate sites tend to be black holes.

When visiting the mobile site, you're initially greeted explaining it's a beta, and there's a link in the greeting to offer feedback. I dismissed it and started browsing, and intended to report a bug -- but then the feedback link was nowhere obvious, so I figured someone else would eventually look deeper.

The bug in question in case it's not reported yet: the very first article has a title that overlays the date when browsing on an iPad in portrait mode. (You should be using min-height somewhere instead of height, or worry about headline lengths.)
Google employee shouts down San Francisco protester
Fair point. But computers are basically magic to a lot of people. Even having a common vocabulary would be an improvement in my opinion.
That Onswipe plugin is so annoying on iOS.
I love the service I get from my ISP (EPB) - 1 Gb/s symmetrical fiber connection for ~$70/month with customer service that's been very pleasant and helpful every time I've dealt with them. FWIW, EPB is owned by the city of Chattanooga, so they aren't your typical ISP. My only complaint is that you have to be a business customer to be assigned a static IP address (which is reasonable), but they've mentioned they'll be re-evaluating that policy once they're switched over to IPv6 (and there's the fact that my address hasn't changed since switching to them over 3 years ago).
Why oh why aren't more companies returning to the South Bay, specifically San Jose? Downtown SJ is tiny compared to San Francisco's. And there are plenty of tracts for office parks in the suburbs. Sure, all of the hip young hackers want someplace cool to go to, but it's only an hour away to the north.
Balaji Srinivasan: Watch this man.
HOWTO: Make an Internet Controlled Lamp with a Raspberry Pi and Flask
Do people really pay $250k to engineers right out of college, or is that an exaggeration?
If he really meant it, if he really cares about education of young Americans, he should try to fight with the sh*t teacher unions. Oh no, that's politics, don't go there. So just let politicians say nice things. Don't let them talk about their dirty politics! Yes, just say nice things! No politics!

Nice things like what? When so many US students cannot even do basic math, when third graders are still struggling with addition and subtraction, encourage all of them to learn code. Yes. encouraging is nice! all (meaning equality and justice) is nice! Always!

Fight teacher union is dirty politics (how about take donation from teacher union? shut up!).

Lets just talk about nice things, bro! Forget dirty politics!
This is ridiculous! Some said the price of BTC dropped to overreaction to bad news. Well, a street vendor in UK starts accepting Bitcoin for burgers and price jumps above $1,000 in excitement (I'm kidding, of course). Talking about overreaction! Let's see some real commerce numbers, not marketing tricks to get more news coverage. I got tired of seeing everywhere in the news that one Florida guy bought a Tesla in California! With such volatility, you need to put a huge buffer in your pricing and only idiots and criminals will spend their BTC instead of paying with fiat in such case. There was some new about Indian business accepting Bitcoin then some Indian guy converted the price and showed Bitcoin price was x3 higher! If BTC is a currency, it should move up and down by no more than 1-2% (like a real currencies do) otherwise it cannot be used in serious commerce, period. At this point, Bitcoin, unfortunately, is a speculators tool. And if you invest in Bitcoin, don't forget, you're in the hands of the Chinese investors (kings of the panic sells) and the governments. Also, there are many fake news and incorrect interpretations of news about Bitcoin. Like some putting the wrong wording in Al Gore's mouth about Bitcoin when he meant something totally different or Snoop Dogg making a joke and people taking it seriously.

If Bitcoin dropped 40% due to overreaction to no-so-bad news, imagine what will happen when really bad news come out!

I believe in Bitcoin, but I cannot tolerate the madness around the price. Even if you use it as a speculator, your future medical bills will not be able to cover the profit you're gonna make - with such huge swings, the stress is way too much for the profits. Just try to imagine the Winklevoss seeing BTC dropping by 40% and tens of millions of their imaginary wealth disappearing in minutes! It's better to do margin trading with Forex - you can make even more with less stress. So, speculators, please, leave the Bitcoin land and move to Litecoin or other speculator playgrounds. Don't kill Bitcoin with your greed, please!
> Every American should probably be able to change a tire. That doesn't mean every American should be a car mechanic.

I agree with that entirely, and a similar "fix a flat" knowledge of computers should also be expected. What perplexes me is that "learn computers" is a popular thing to advocate, but I have never heard of the president asking Americans to learn their way around their car.
I will look into it, thanks!
Can confirm the problem on Chrome 31 and Firefox 25 - Adblock Plus / Ghostery.

Subscriptions:
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This text is sort of out of context. Do you have a link with surrounding emails?

To provide a little more context from what I know myself, Doug Bates is a long-time R contributor and package maintainer, but started switching to Julia for the reasons he gives here, among others, in mid 2012. He's a great hacker, not to mention brilliant statistician, and we're extremely lucky to have him in the Julia community.
it's basically "electronic cash"
Perhaps he was talking about examples like YC funding "100s of companies" (500? 600?) with less than half of what Clinkle has raised.
http://blinkstick.com/ was on here a couple of days ago too, it can be wired in to a Ikea multicolour LED light strip (I forget the name) - their demo video shows it synced to display colours.

Edit: "Dioder".
Assuming none of the rest of the infrastructure'll change - I'd consider working with possibilities as future "when"s impractical enough; a user'll go download Firefox, the standard Gatekeeper denial message'll pop up:

"Firefox" can't be opened because it was not downloaded from the Mac App Store.
Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store.
Safari downloaded this file today at...

And the user'll either trip over the message and give up in frustration - there will be a class of user who'll visually pattern-match, rather than engage with a meaningful back-and-forth with their computer - or pop into the System Preferences, find Security waiting for them, and off they go.

Fairly banal, but by far and large that's because the assumption that switching the default to the MAS-only option would be a novel attempt at total exclusion shouldn't be true, give or take the major assumption outlined above: not so when the current default's in fact "Mac App Store and identified developers" - narrowing the locus of trusted sources, then, is a change that should happen independently of how easy it'll be to get an unsigned app running.
Baloney: If I buy an airline ticket with a credit card, my credit card info may get stolen- There seems to be a story about stolen credit cards in the news almost every week.

With bitcoin, I can buy an airline ticket without this being possible.
While it was more commercial in bent, I've always felt that the original iPhone introduction[1] was a spiritual successor to Englebart's demo.

[1] Jan 9, 2007 video in this podcast series: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/apple-keynotes/id2758346...
Grace Hopper on Letterman [video]
Google employee shouts down protesters as they block private Google shuttle
Payments Startup Clinkle Lays Off A Quarter Of Its Staff
While it's true that people in rural areas often don't care about the same things that people in big cities care about that doesn't mean they are oblivious or opposed to new technology.

I have a friend who is a commercial poultry farmer in rural Mississippi. He can turn on his chicken house feeders from anywhere in the world with a smart phone app. Some of the coolest technology being built is farm-related. People, no matter where they live, just want technology that makes their lives better in some way.
Well put. I agree with everything you've said.

I will say that I've noticed a distributing trend which points to a lack of integrity among some of the Indian programmers coming straight from India. Two things in particular were astonishing to me:

1) Many of the Indian programmers routinely lie on their resumes about their experience. If they took a 6 month training course on a technology, they will say they have 3 years of experience.

2) In some of the larger consultancies, a skilled developer will sit for all the phone screens. Then they will send over who ever is available on the bench for the projects that the skilled person interviewed for, whether they sat for the interview with the client or not.

If you know what to look for, these types of individuals are really easy to spot. The unfortunate problem is that many big company hiring departments don't know how to spot them and they impact the reputation of anyone of Indian origin.
The second good retention strategy is rocketship growth.

Wow, the answer was right there under our noses all along! You guys out there losing employees, it's because you're not successful! Fix that!
You're supposed to get suspicious when a politician tells you nice things! I think it's sad that viewing this as being in the interest of reducing labor costs is cynical and "negative".
I notice you use the pronoun 'Them' to refer to cyclists.

'They' make you sick with 'their' bullshit.
'They' break laws, while of course 'we' are wonderful, and our law breaking is justified.
'They' think they enjoy special privileges, while 'our' special privileges are unquestioned.
And of course anyone defending 'them' must be one of 'them'.
'They' are remorseless killers, look I have proof!

If only 'they' weren't so different and stubborn. If only 'they' behaved good like 'we' do.
We should probably put a stop to 'them'.
I think these basics are most important:

* don't constantly push to have your employees stay late

* if you need your employees to travel, while they're away don't pressure them to work more than their usual work day.

* don't disrespect and be a jerk to your employees

* provide reasonable sick and vacation benefits
I wrote some code that finds zingers on reddit, i post the best ones here
Thank you for your reply. It's very helpful. I'll have to think about it all. :)
Only when that bit of the law is up for judicial review. This case isn't about what does and doesn't constitute SSI, and while the judge may have decided what to admit or not admit as SSI, he would have done so according to the existing rules, and would be bound by those rules to protect that information under the rules that govern the presentation of SSI in court.
Fidelity offers a 2% cash back on everything card. Amazon's credit card also gives you higher than 2% on Amazon purchases. Could you elaborate more why you do a double conversion to buy something rather than a straight credit card transaction?
> Sure, except we talk all the time about how bad hiring practices are in our industry, how bad we all are at discerning talent. So I don't really see this being a positive thing for existing developers (increasing supply and pushing wages down), though who's to say we deserve the situation we're in presently?

In what way does high school kids learning to write simple Python scripts affect your career as a software developer? We're talking about giving students a baseline knowledge of programming here.
You can't reverse an ACH or a wire, yet, both are widely used. Once company duped an ACH payment for nearly $1,000 and then they went out of business (one can wonder if this was done on purpose), and I couldn't do anything to get it back working with Bank of America. So, every time you write somebody a check, think twice!
This is a very old debate:

* https://www.google.com/search?q=tabs+vs+spaces

Different languages have different conventions, but it ultimately comes down to developer preference.
The risk is turning Silicon Valley into Los Angeles.
This recent volatility is mainly due to uncertainty about government responses to bitcoin: The price when up when the Congressional hearings were positive, and went down when the Chinese government announced restrictions on bitcoin use.

Eventually, most governments will clarify their position on bitcoin and volatility will decrease.
It looks like they don't have anything particularly taxing compared to the likes of Google. There is only so much they can apply to the FB feed. Graph search while cool still isn't that advanced.
Archive.org has it in three parts:

Part 1 - https://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCn...

Part 2 - https://archive.org/details/XD300-24_68HighlightsAResearchCn...

Part 3 - https://archive.org/details/XD300-25_68HighlightsAResearchCn...

[Edit: formatting]
Firefox's are the best, and are going to get better. Google has taken a very long time to do anything about it, which is odd.
Value of Facebook consists of two things, you and your data. It is not good for long term strategy of Facebook to hurt either.

Here are some things where smart AI could help:
1. Better filtering of spam bots.
2. Better filtering of ads that would significantly improve ad quality.
3. Smart assistant that learns your habits and makes smart suggestions such as: which events to attend, your writing style, and filters immediate notifications based on personalized importance score.

Or Facebook could exploit machine learning/AI techniques to simply drive up click through ratio on their ads.
NYU startup CrashDwell helps students sublet safely in NYC w/o craigslist scams
And 9/11.
"tough love" is a very patronising concept. the poor don't need to be "pushed to be self-reliant" (which, if you read the article, is far more a part of the problem than of the solution); they need the people maintaining the current system to stop screwing them over at every turn.

a good start would be to find ways of eliminating "poor taxes" (i.e. the myriad ways in which poor people end up paying more than rich people for the same goods and services), and to replace intrusive criterion-based aid programs with simply giving the poor money (something that studies have proven to be more effective), possibly by way of a negative tax bracket.
If you look at the Wikipedia article on big-O notation, it says that f(x) = O(g(x)) if and only if there exists some M > 0 and x_0 such that |f(x)| < M|g(x)| for all x > x_0. The x_0 is what lets you ignore early irregularities; without it, you couldn't say that sin(x) + 1 is O(x) since there's obviously no M such that sin(0) + 1 < M * 0.

You're right about the theta thing, my mistake.
Show HN: 3d function plotting with mathjs and dz
It was a sarcastic joke, and I enjoyed it.
But your credit card is almost always protected from financial liability if someone steals it and you report any non-authorized charges. With bitcoin, there seems to be no recourse when the exchanges get hit. This is not to mention that you are much better protected with a credit card due to the ability to contest a merchant charge if things go sour (you didn't get the product, it was defective, etc.) not to mention other benefits of credit.
Every time Douglas Engelbart is in the news, I reread Bret Victor's reminder of his goals. http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/
Start off with this: relativity is complicated, and unintuitive from the standpoint of human experiences.

So, let's talk about gravity. Gravity is a force between objects which have a certain kind of property, let's call it property X. Gravity has a precise quantitative relationship with property X, the more property X an object has the more gravitational force it exerts.

What is "property X"? It's energy. And here is where things get a bit complex, because most people would instead have said that "mass" is property X. The problem with that is mass becomes variable depending on the reference frame, and it turns out to add a lot of excessive complexity to discussing things, especially when precision is required.

So you could imagine talking about mass as the equivalent of energy, which is typically an accurate viewpoint, and then you get to the idea of "relativistic mass". Which is the adjusted "property X" value of an object which might be traveling at relativistic speeds in a given reference frame.

Relativistic mass, or property X, can be a helpful mental model in some ways, and in normal uses of English it's often a more useful way of thinking about things. But it's also problematic because it's ambiguous.

This has led to a bit of an impedance mismatch between the way physicists talk about relativistic effects and the ways that it's more natural to talk about such things in plain English. In English "property X" is mass, but in physics it's actually energy, and it's difficult to get people to fully grok the intimate relationship between energy and mass.

Physically, mass is just a special name for invariant, or rest, energy, the energy of an object in the reference frame where the object is stationary. It's all energy, but it's important to separate out rest-energy vs. energy in a given reference frame, and so forth.
can obama code?
That's an awesome chord keyboard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY#t=2039 I've always wondered why more people don't use them. It seems significantly less prone to errors - instead of fat fingers or incorrect placement, you have to coordinate the timing between the fingers.

It's pretty amazing how much that video demonstrates. I wonder what the next version of that video will be. Hopefully it's not computer related.
You could make a list of spare rooms among your freinds, or club together with freinds to rent some space, then give that for free or at negligible rent to people who need it.

If you do this you could also work with one of the homeless charities and explain what you are doing so that they can help provide support. Helping at a soup kitchen is admirable, however that doesn't solve the problem of needing somewhere secure, safe and stable to live.
The difference between good and bad is only 40k?
I have no idea how your reply relates in any way to what you replied to, but in defense of credit cards, if my credit card is stolen I'm not liable for any charges and if the airline screws me over I can dispute the charge with my credit card company and get my money back. Paying with Bitcoins is like paying with cash - if someone steals the cash, it's gone, and the airline screws me over, I can't get my money back.
This is actually really interesting. Thank you for sharing!
Exactly. Try keeping your senior engineers when they really need another bedroom for the baby.

Many of your young, hip engineers will want more room and a family-friendly lifestyle in ten years.

And if you're going to allow extensive work-from-home, how do you keep from diluting the benefits of your Silicon Valley location?
This is difficult, because it relies on people to set a genre for their repo. The things they did to explore here, and the ability to explore by language, are based on data they have.

But there does need to be a way to view/manage all your (and others) starred repos. I have many dozens starred in many different categories, that I no longer have a use for stars because there are so many. I am residing to maintaining my own list of projects elsewhere grouped into buckets.
IMO it's clearly apples intention to move to a controlled App Store model on OS x as quickly as possible. Editing system prefs is just a stopgap to prevent complaints, and at some point they will remove the option.
The cold would shrink the motherboard to re-connect the contacts; it might have been fixed by doing the old Xbox/nvidia trick of putting it in the oven (which would soften the solder, causing it to shift and re-connect). With the Xbox, you could apparently even just wrap it in a towel and let its own heat do the trick.
Firefox 24 on W7 with adblock plus, it works for me. But I also have noscript with 14 out of 26 scripts blocked on that page. That probably helps.
Sometimes, a purchase or a sale of Bitcoins in the hundreds can take the market up and down by as much as 5-10% depending on the order book. I'm not sure if anybody has noticed, but Coinbase bases the price on quantity as they need to place a market order and then you depending on Bitstamp's order book state at the moment, the price difference can be huge! How are you gonna explain to consumers that they have to pay more, because they're placing a bigger order?
When Google announces AI research it makes sense because self driving cars and trying to understand what a user means by typing stuff in a search box.

But Facebook? They could create a million virtual DanBCs and then A/B test something against them, and then present me with the irresistible ad, perfectly pitched to draw me in?
Could you post some bullet points of what was said there? Would be really appreciated by everyone I'm sure!
This is iMessage style messaging for Android... if both users on secured network then use secure network else fallback to SMS/MMS..

Why Google hasn't be able to integrate hang outs in this fashion is still a mystery.
Companies should care about "fun level"
The author recommends having a mission so employees feel like they're working for a greater good. So is this why every job on Hacker News goes something like "Help us change the world of [industry]," where [industry] can be something as banal as t-shirt printing or pizza delivery? If you don't believe me, here are some examples from the jobs board:

Mobile Hacker? Come work with the team that's reinventing farming

SimplyInsured (YC W13) Is Hiring Hackers - Change Healthcare Forever

Homejoy is hiring hackers to change the home services industry

I guess the only way to get smart people to work 60 Hrs a week for low pay is to convince them they are changing the world somehow.
If you agree that teaching people to code will result in more professional software developers, which seems reasonable to me, we'll have more of them and the cost of any one of them will be reduced. And again, the skill thing is diminished because we all suck at figuring out who the talented developers are.

I'm not saying we should hoard the coding knowledge or whatever -- that cat is already out of the bag. But if the president is saying nice things about coders, maybe think about what reasons he could have for that besides the goodness of his heart.