skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top-rated response is a pretty solid one. People find it calming to see the washing action, even if they have no real mid-process control over it. It's all about creating the reassuring perception that your clothes are getting super clean.

Incidentally, this is also the primary reason why American laundry detergents are so sudsy. There is scant evidence that the formation of foamy lather has a significant effect on the removal of soil from clothing. It's mostly for show and psychological peace of mind. In fact, in many countries outside the US, laundry detergents are formulated without the abundant sudsing agents found here. We've been conditioned, over many successive generations of CPG marketing, to believe that more suds = more cleaning action. This goes way back to the days before laundry machines, when brand marketers at soap companies used suds as product differentiators. The experience of hand-washing clothes in a foamy bucket gave the impression that the soap was more effective.
The transformation won't be complete until they make it so F5 clears your credentials and logs you out of Facebook.

That was always my favorite Lotus Notes feature. Nothing like trying to refresh your email in a hurry when someone has just sent you something and having to enter your stupid credentials again.
"I swear Facebook is slowly turning into Lotus Notes."

Ouch - that is a bit harsh.

Like SAP, Notes was created to allow Lucifer to interact with our world [1]

1 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/05/28/2143219/allegedly-rig...

Edit: In fairness to SAP - other large scale ERP systems are probably how other eldritch abominations seek to gain control of us.
I occasionally code in Javascript and I always get the feeling that I'm working with a language without a decent built-in standard library.

Want to work with dates? Use a third party library (or use built-in 1995-style library).
Want to format a string? Use a third-party library.
Want to do X? Use a third-party library.

Coding in e.g Python feels completely different: almost everything I need is in the standard library.
nagios is awful :-), active checks are ultimately a dead end.
Heartbeat style stuff is where it's at.
You should definately check out sensu and riemann, (or hevean forbid if you really like node.js everything Godot)

http://sensuapp.org/
http://riemann.io/
https://github.com/nodejitsu/godot
It's not that inconceivable. What do people want out of Facebook? To communicate with people, the way they want to communicate with them. Facebook has made several changes over the past few years (Timeline, for example) that alter how users get information from FB - and the result has been bad. So, yes, if FB continues to make changes that alter how people interact with FB, then the UI has been screwed up.

I don't hate FB at all, but I rarely use it. I never really was a heavy user but over the past year or so it's gotten to the point where I log in and it seems like I can't really find anything, so I log out. I can only imagine that the experience is the same for others.
Interesting poing - but in case of FB one could argue that staying alive depends on being cool.
Perhaps it would be best to move all non-specialized builds into Amazon or Rackspace or some automated CI service, and to move the specialized builds to a differnet, less expensive place, or keep them where they are. At the very least your electricity costs will go down.
Java may be outdated, but "Java Concurrency in Practice" is not outdated if you're one of the millions of Java programmers still working in that language.
You should look at some reasearch done ny James Mickens:
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1546...

http://www.slideserve.com/illias/atlantis-robust-extensible-...

Of course this is not something that is going to be useable anytime soon, but it hints at an interesting architecture.
Facebook is dying? Best news I've heard this year so far.

Is having your own website cool again yet? Wake me up when we're there.
Why don't you convert to Judaism and time travel back to 1930s Germany? That'll make you feel better about living in North Korea quickly.

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A lot of the discussion so far revolves around whether or not Theo can be abrasive. Who cares?

I would rather have a non compromising, highly secure operating system available, with all the source code
available for me to see (none of that binary blob business)
than a mediocre operating system that was somewhat secure
from a guy who was really chill.

Funding the OpenBSD project is not a decision about the personality of Theo, its a decision on the usefulness and
and the quality of work that the OpenBSD community creates.

When I am setting up and configuring and relying on a
server with OpenBSD, I could care less if Theo is eccentric
or not. I am in awe of the technical brilliance of OpenBSD.

And yes I have donated and do donate to the project, and
I encourage clients I have that are running on OpenBSD to
do the same.
Zuck's question is good, but I'm afraid his answer isn't.
It's surely to do with being able to see if there is water in the drum before opening the door. Top-loading washing machines don't have a window, and also don't have a chance of flooding your kitchen if you open them at the wrong time.
Flawed premise: All washing machines have windows.

Disproving premise: This washing machine has no window[0].

Conclusion: Not all washing machines have windows. Therefore the question is flawed.

Additional: There are many types of washing machines. Homogeny of design doesn't necessarily mean there's a reason for the homogeny.

[0] http://www.sears.com/kenmore-top-load-washing-machine-3.4-cu...
I think it was important initially, but I think they might have outgrown that and become a part of standard infrastructure - the social dial tone.
So with this technique, would someone be able to change the SSID of their router to match that of another nearby router where devices are likely to be attempting to connect in an effort to intercept the passwords being supplied to establish the connection to the router originally using that SSID?
The Growth of College Grads in Dead-End Jobs
Not really. The OS syscall interface, ABI and the fact everything is abstracted via your C compiler normalises the differences between the machines pretty well meaning you only end up dealing with portability issues.

Portability issues is where real hardware benefits. It's where you have battles of unusual register sizes, endianess, host/network order differences, different memory models and memory protection, different performance characteristics, different timings and different exploits.

Unless the emulation is 100% accurate, including timing, which is a really difficult thing to do (look at the effort MAME goes to), then the benefits over real hardware is moot.

Emulators are also expensive to write due to the above, have their own bugs and don't always recreate the bugs in the real hardware (which are sometimes exploitable).
As I understand it, when they first became available in the home, they were so miraculous that those whose former duty it was to wash the clothes by hand would sometimes luxuriate in their newfound free time by sitting in a nice chair and just watching the clothes wash themselves.

Also, I reckon there was a risk of people opening the doors out of incredulous curiosity. As a child, I definitely would have tried to open the thing if it didn't have a window.
> "I'd like to think that the constant drumbeat of surveillance state revelations we can thank heros and patriots Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, and Glen Greenwald for are having an effect, though I think that may be giving the general public a bit too much credit. Not totally sure of that though."

I don't think that it's that. How many people do you know who have really changed their online behaviour as a response to those revelations? How many people have started consistently using GPG for e-mail and OTR for chats, have stopped using cloud services like G-Mail, Dropbox etc.? I don't think it's that many even among the tech-savvy crowd let alone the general public.

What I do think about FB is that younger people always have a tendency of trying to distinguish themselves from their elder siblings and more importantly their parents. Both of those groups are on FB which makes it less attractive for them due to the aforementioned point and the fact that they're no longer among themselves when their parents are watching their timeline.

But I have the impression that there may be second change underway in that existing users are starting to experience sharing fatigue. Unfortunately, there are no numbers yet to back this up, it's based on anecdotal evidence and my own experience. What I mean by that is that people are getting tired of constantly putting thought into what to publicly share on their profile and try to maintain the image they're trying to project.

I personally rarely if ever share anything anymore. The two things I still do use FB for are messaging and reading about news and events from local venues like bars and clubs. The messaging component could be easily replaced by another solution like WhatsApp and I think FB knows that. This is probably why the released the standalone messenger app to be able to better compete on that front, but Snapchat is still eating FB's lunch with certain demographics. In fact, I think Zuckerberg is aware of this whole problem. He went on record yesterday saying that they plan to release more mobile standalone apps in the future thereby unbundling FB's different functionalities. In my opinion this is a move to adapt to a changing market where there is a diminished interest in having one unified platform like FB.
>Of course if I were 16 now, I would not be on Facebook, because in this age you have a lot of things that you wish to keep in secret.

Someone on here the other day made a comment about the whole teenager thing and it was a pretty good one. It was to the affect of: teenagers don't need to be on Facebook yet because they still see all their friends and social circles, that becomes more difficult to manage you as move away for college. So perhaps that's when they may turn to Facebook when they need a more centralized way to do chat, pictures, statuses, etc.
Yes, because that can be the only subtext. Because the President can only be concerned with the NSA, bitcoin, and tor. It's not like he's a person or father that could be having a conversation about social network applications like a normal person.
And there's only one narrow failure mode where a dishwasher can actually fill up with water: If the drain is blocked. Any other failure mode (broken water heating element, broken agitator, power failure) still allows the water to drain so it won't flood.
reminds me of febreze. possibly wasn't febreze, but when it was unscented and removed bad odors, people didn't like it.

But people loved it when they added a light scent to it.
Is there a "too clever" mentality in frontend web dev culture of late? An overly fragmented workflow toolset?

Not sure the cause, perhaps the influx of engineering "computer science disciplined" brains into the frontend world. Or a panicked competitive race to achieve a nirvana dev environment. Or a tendency to think that workflows for large websites with countless modules is the best workflow for a one-page web app.

Overkill for the intended task, or cluttering your project with too much technology, is the thing to watch out for in the frontend aspect.

Layers of tools and libraries and plugins can easily get out of control and beyond a joke. Don't forget you've got a web app to build while you mess around with the "right way" to build it.

You do not need a cup-holder on your scaffolding.

Just using plain JS with Jquery, and perhaps some additional smaller specific plugins/libraires, is enough to do a lot of cool stuff if we're talking "javascript" projects. Then just get a good editor and off you go.
Phonetic String Matching : Soundex
No, it requires them to pay a fine if they don't have health insurance (see https://www.healthcare.gov/what-if-someone-doesnt-have-healt...).

The amount of the fine is fairly modest compared to the cost of most health insurance plans, though, so the worry is that 18-34s will choose to just pay the fine instead of joining the insurance risk pool.
So for a secure WiFi connection that's saved in your phone: if you encounter one of these WiFi pineapples/rogue routers, what does your phone do once the router says "yes, that SSID is me, connect to me if you like!"? Does it try to authenticate to what it thinks is the secured WiFi router? Is this another vulnerability?
True, the invention of the automatic washing machine pre-dates the television by some 30 years!
> Flawed premise: All washing machines have windows.

Flawed flawed-premise-finder: "every front-loaded washing machine I've seen so far came with a window"
It's worth to note that with balanced signals, many problems (hum, some kinds of induced EMI...) that tend to be attributed by audio guys to poor shielding would not exist if there were no shielding at all.
Development: Time to leave GDP behind
Building an open source Nest
I used to find entering my password in the Notes client rather disturbing - see the bottom of this page:

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php?file=lotus.htm&mode=or...
There is "opinionated software" and then there is Theo being an intolerable, obnoxious, ego-maniac.

They're more or less the same thing, one is how you see people you like, the other is how you see people that rub you the wrong way.
Spotify is about to roll out Collections. Searching for spotify:app:collection in the desktop client enables it for some people, although it didn't for me.
You can, but it does indeed look like you still need Spotify Premium. https://www.spotify.com/us/sonos/
There are washing machines in Asia (the top loaders) where there are no windows altogether. Market bias.
Yeah, but what happens when a job interviewer asks you about his favorite pizza place at Georgia Tech and you have to admit you have never been there :-(
Recent OptmizePress Vulnerability Being Mass Infected
And we have yet to hear what you, oh great one, have to say on the subject yourself.
5 top tips for using Chromebooks
Yeah, the same principle applies there. (And to scented anything, really. Laundry detergent, shampoo, deodorant, etc.) Consumers love sensory evidence that something is "working."
I think their exposure and catalog may grow because of the deal they cut with Cumulus. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/business/media/a-digital-d...
> she doesn’t have typical living expenses, and she keeps her travel cheap by rooming with locals or friends.

So basically she lives off other people's "typical living expenses" like owning a couch for her to crash on?

Sure, that's a clever way to save money: have your friends pay rent for you!
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The orignial question is "why every front-loaded washing machine".
>The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You — Chase Jarvis

This statement, and the frequency it appears, bugs me. To some extent it's a bit of tautology (a camera you've got with you is going to get a better photo than one you don't have with you - you don't say).

But whenever it's used, it's almost always in a context that seems to suggest "there's little advantage in having a different camera with you, as you've already got one in your phone". And depending on what type of photos you're trying to take, that's simply not true. I love my iPhone camera, and I take tonnes of (in my view) perfectly adequate photos on it. But that's not really impacted on when/how I use my DSLR.

If you're after a reasonable snapshot of a famous building, or of your mates down the pub, then sure your iPhone camera is going to do the job fine. But you never needed a DSLR to take those types of photo either. Digital compacts, and before them film-based compacts, have been more than adequate for the vast majority of those kinds of photos for a very long time.

The SLR, and cameras like the OM-D, can be used for those shots obviously. But the real reason for them is to get more control - in terms of aperture/shutter speed, choice of lens etc - or to get access to things like higher quality lenses. And particularly in the control area, smartphone cameras simply can't compete. I've lost count of the amount of times I've been out somewhere and seen something that I've thought would make a fabulous photo with my SLR, but becomes utterly uninteresting as an iPhone shot. I can't frame it properly (at least without doing a quality-sapping digital zoom), or I can't control the dof, or whatever. If you're trying to do decent arty shots, it's usually pretty much down to luck as to whether your smartphone is going to help you take them.

tl;dr - the people stopping using their DSLRs because they now have an iPhone should probably have bought a cheap compact instead of their DSLR in the first place.
Being from Russia, let me heil that decision!
At least the law will have the due priority over big comp's interests.
That example is not quite equivalent, because now you are not passing `isEven` or `println` as arguments, you are passing anonymous functions that call `isEven` and `println`.
These are not unique to Asia and are prominent in the US as well.
> A weekly pill container solves this already for a few dollars and is old person friendly.

Disagree. Old people still forget such things. Or to refill them.

I think the marketing is ultra creepy, but with a tiny bit of rebranding, I think it would be perfect to help the elderly.

Maybe add a little red cross on it and rename it "Nurse", or something.
They cut a deal with Cumulus back in September to help make this possible. It's probably just coincidence, though they may have rushed it out the door after Spotify did the same. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/business/media/a-digital-d...
Let's not blow this out of proportion. They scraped private data (that required a Yale login) without permission and accidentally made it available to a wider audience than intended.

Yale has historically been very supportive of these things. A couple of years ago, they acquired another very slick course catalog website, Yale Bluebook, for a good chunk of money [1].

[1] http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2012/08/01/university-acquires...
Which is probably the greatest problem with it.
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Yes, because we can't make jokes on HN. Because HN is all business, in-depth analysis, serious adult talk. It's not like the users are people, even professionals off-the-clock, that could be enjoying (or at least successfully identifying) a joke together like normal people.
Top loader are extremely common in the United States, I don't know a single person who has a front loader, however they are still sold, just the market share is very small.

From what I understand (though it might be myth) front loaders are more efficient.
Any plans to support Outlook 2011 (on Mac)?
We actually applied to the last round of YC a few months ago with Exist but didn't make it. We've since taken a look at our approach, which was too broad, and decided to focus on health and fitness first before we gradually scale up to integrating with everything we can and tracking every aspect of your life. Gotta start small. We're also resigned to bootstrapping for the moment and will probably introduce pro accounts soon after launch too.
I agree - AOL didn't mature in tandem with the way users engaged with the internet. I think the same is happening to Facebook. People are fickle so there will come a point where the way people engage with social media changes and Facebook are powerless to stop that. They also don't really have a particularly unique offering. Ok Google doesn't either but it does have the engineering power and infrastructure to put itself so far ahead of the competition that it is able to keep its place at the top of the industry (yes it has many faults but...)...
Outside of web development any ideas what I could use it for (I am on Linux so it should run on Mono)? I've done quite a lot of web development on the JVM with Clojure, Scala and Java and would like to try to do something totally different with F#.
Thanks I've done that!
I still buy top loaders, because they cost 2/3 of what the front-loaders do. Less, if you buy a dented or scratched one. They do indeed use more water, but I make up for that by not running partial loads.
My grandmother's house has had a front loading washer with a window for my entire life. (Sure, it's been replaced several times, but always with another front loader with a window.) I learned early on that the door actually locks once the water has started. I also remember noticing that the opening was small enough to make climbing in impractical for human children.
Well, I am from the place, it may be quite corrupt, but by no means totalitarian, hehe ^)
And here's a neat trick: as soon as you detect a device from overhearing its probe request, spam it with CTS messages. As per 802.11 spec, it will have to reply with an RTS as long as its not associated.

You'll be able to track devices if you have multiple APs deployed, or just detect whether someone is within a ~100-meter radius.
Well, we are doing pretty well on the corruption front. I don't get the impression that we are as corrupt as Russia, but then again, we are not rebuilding from utter collapse.

In 2003 Operation Tiberius found that men suspected of being Britain’s most notorious criminals had compromised multiple agencies, including HM Revenue & Customs, the Crown Prosecution Service, the City of London Police and the Prison Service, as well as pillars of the criminal justice system including juries and the legal profession.

The strategic intelligence scoping exercise – “ratified by the most senior management” at the Met – uncovered jurors being bought off or threatened to return not-guilty verdicts; corrupt individuals working for HMRC, both in the UK and overseas; and “get out of jail free cards” being bought for £50,000.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-corruptio...
Since I cant edit the post, I am going to add my github link here. It's not much so far.

https://github.com/aeonaxan
"a 4 year degree is an entrance requirement at med/law schools"

Yes, I know that - but why have this requirement - as far as I know most other countries don't (certainly the UK doesn't).
If I were in your situation, at the start I probably would have looked into having the Canadian entity contract with the US entity for services, so that the US entity is the one paying you personally (but that also may involve registering the US entity in Canada).

The tax season has now started for accountants, it being January, so it is desirable to talk to and engage someone quite soon before they are too busy with their existing clients to deal with you.
Facebook's dead based on half a conversation someone might have heard. Keep the journalistic gold coming this way, The Atlantic.
> check the availability of urls and social media accounts

Are people really checking the availability on social media? I know that if I get the .com I want nothing else matters and the social media handles can be anything.

I know the feeling anyway! The initial excitement and the downfall.
I really want to love Rdio.

I switched from Spotify 8 months ago and at first it was a breathe of fresh air but I soon started noticing issues with the desktop client. It's just a UIWebView that loads the web app. Album artwork loads slowly if you've got a large collection, UI interactions are unresponsive and will often time out.

The other major issue is having albums in your collection become unplayable due to what looks like licensing issues, only to reappear months later as the same album, except not in your collection. Spotify doesn't seem to have this issue.
I can confirm this is true, as I've been escorted into SCIFs before I obtained a clearance.
Oh yeah, I've seen those blister packs! Big roll of sealed compartments, one for every day. Whoever came up with that idea is a friggin' genius.