skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it more was the junior devs who tried calling it with jQuery.ajax, but did stupid stuff like send the wrong content type for their data and then "Why isn't it working?! Can you send me an example?!"
The three substantive paragraphs of the above explanation occupied 488 words. If you consider 488 words massive paragraphs of text, then I don't know what to tell you.

Some things aren't consumable in seconds. You either put in the effort to learn something properly, or you don't and content yourself with not knowing.
It's pretty lame when you only have 5 pictures on FB.
The known issues have been known for a long time. I've been using Firefox on Windows since ever, and these are super rare edge cases.
And I am thankful for this! You guys do great work.
It'd take effort for a mixer to log things - it's not something that happens by itself. There's no reason to think the implementor would do that, unless the mixer is already compromised.

Other than that, there's really not that much to implement in the mixer.

Additionally, the break in security is disjunctive. It's not just the mixer that has to be compromised, its the entire chain - exchange, wallet, mixer; if any of them do not cooperate, your trail ends.
It's breast cancer.

Those who have a pregnancy before 20 years of age versus those who have a pregnancy after 35 years of age show a 50% reduction in their risk of breast cancer.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/breast/hea...
Thiels a Forbsian libertarian. Focused on the economy, focused on the short term, thinks libertarianism is the best for the long term, but doesn't want to get bogged down in ideological debates about whether or not net neutrality is a libertarian position or not while the government is spending 5% of the GDP on the military and healthcare consumers almost 20% of GDP.
He can't use his ju-jitsu while wearing socks!
"Who am I?

I am 46. I’ve been married for 22 years and we have 3 kids."

-> Who cares?
Well on the other hand, this is actually good news for mining because you will always be able to mine. It means that they don't have to worry about incentivising "mining" after all the coins are gone.
How to leverage SQL Server with Node.js using Edge.js – Tech.Pro
HipChat vs Skype: what's your go-to tool?
"Steve and Bill have taken it from an idea to one of the greatest and most universally admired companies in the world."

-> Are you on crack?
The Sacred Art of Team Building
Agree completely. I understand PG's reasoning/logic, however, the result risks a perception of the same type of response the OP got from his emails/letters to the company. If he had posted his complaint elsewhere and it ended up here would it have been deleted as well? However unlikely it may seem there is a good chance as well that the OP didn't even realize that this site is related to an investor of drchrono.
Ask HN: what are some innovative new text editors?
The two big ones are Emacs and Vim, but as with all popular projects, I'm sure there are clones and rewrites and forks that are very innovative, useful, and interesting, but that haven't gained much traction because there's just not enough incentive for most individuals to switch away from the editor we already know. What are some such editors? (Specifically, only free/gratis ones.)
Design of a Computer: CDC 6600
It's also good to have a test client application that the service provider supplied to be able to demonstrate that problems are with the service rather than with the client code.
As innocent as they seem, posts like this are dishonest and dangerous. Imagine you're speaking to someone who actively namedrops papers and impressive concepts, but when you press them further it becomes clear they only skimmed the material and are just repeating these things to seem interesting. Imagine the contempt you'd feel for that person, who willingly puts on a show of intelligence and accepts respect from people who are impressed by their vocabulary, but is actually completely ignorant.

Now imagine you're speaking to someone who read this post. That person is just as ignorant as our big-mouthed friend, but they don't even know it. They read some post, learn a new term or two, and go out into the world not knowing that what they just read contains no real knowledge whatsoever. A post like this does a huge disservice to that person, because not only does it leads them into ignorance, it actually makes them less empowered to rise above it.
pg is a butt
You are saying that the rods' spectral curve response is collinear with the cones. That would do the trick, but I'm a bit surprised as I don't see any reason for evolution to push you in that direction.

Do you have a reference for this? Quick googling seems to show that the rods' response curve is not, it seems to be a most sensitive at a wavelengths between the peak of the blue and green cones.
Thanks - I had not even considered the bit on finding a company I'd like to work for and start contributing to their open source stuff... makes perfect sense.

Also "Rule of thumb, you are never ready. Just go for it" is basically the best advice I've heard for essentially any new task; it's nice to have that reinforced.
Paper doesn't work on Android yet, right?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/03/facebook-launc...
I thought his letter was excellent. Motivating while stressing obvious that the future is cloud computing and mobile devices.

I love technology. I use OS X and Linux laptops, an android phone, and an iPad. I am thinking of adding a Surface device to this mix, but might wait for the 3rd generation.
That was the response from the support line?

Also, you can always try the community

https://www.en.adwords-community.com/
Making a statement does not necessarily means speaking the truth, more likely just to make an impression.

Impatience (unless it's only for a short moment) comes from emotional imbalance and that, in turn, will be detrimental to continuous success.
I am using FF on Android (both phone and tablet) with sync and great addons like adblock/self destructing cookies/lastpass and am mostly a happy camper. Mozilla has resolved most of the performance issues barring one - compared to Chrome or stock browser the time it takes for FF to go from link tapped to page loading started is a bit annoyingly high. Many times after tapping a link it just sits there doing nothing or showing the spinner in the URL bar for quite some time.

Not sure if it's the addons but I recall having similar issue on a fresh install. If anyone from Mozilla reading this has any pointers, please let me know.

Edit: Also the one other thing that frequently bugs me is FF not honoring the Android intent system. YouTube and Play Store links when opened in FF give me no option of opening them in their respective apps - it goes straight to the URL. I guess I'll file a bug for this issue.
[NSFW-ish] an online Clit you can 'play' with made with CSS/JS
PostgreSQL awesomeness for Rails developers
Exceptions proving the rule and all that. I'm working with a larger N (glassdoor) for now.

What does your friend do?
All of the above! Its a family of processors, all compatible running the same binaries but each with the belt sizes, vector sizes, functional units and so on that suit it.

So you'll get smaller Mills where that makes sense and absolute monsters in supercomputers, for example.

When you think about the "smaller" Mill that you might have in your phone and tablet, though, its a monster compared to today's desktops! Except in the power efficiency department, that is ;)
Just toss some "small" asteroids down then. (More an issue once we get to the point of interplanetary war, but still cheaper than manufacturing pure tungsten rods).
Not respecting copyright in 2014 is a moral issue.

It is good when authors can earn money on their work, and thus it used to be that authors had a deal with the government. Tax money is spent to enforce a limited monopoly for a few years, and afterward society could the work to the improvement of all. This deal has now been completely perverted, and all works stays perpetually under restrictions.

Worse, In Sweden, we have a special deal on top of copyright. Every time someone purchase a harddrive, they are forced (through taxes) to pay for the privilege of "private copying". This deal is then again perverted through the use of DRM. Companies that do this are effectively stealing, and here the word is used correctly: They are stealing my money. I paid for something, and the other party is now refusing to give up their side of the bargain.

When asked to respect copyright, I am asked to balance the moral issues at hand. Can I, morally, support the perversion in order to get authors some money, or should I ignore copyright in order to force a change.
I'd never thought I'd say this after the years of aggressive (and at times anti-competitive) dominance but I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again.

Although Microsoft remains very strong in the corporate world, its presence in the Internet and mobile worlds are now pretty limited and leaving the two power-houses of Google and Apple to shape the industry.

Satya has done a good job with Azure, and it will be interesting to see whether he can make Microsoft more relevant to the Internet back into someone that can influence the industry.
The Muse (YC W12) Raises Additional $1M from Alexis Ohanian, Tyra Banks and more
I'm sure Dr. Bedi got his point across though. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone at the mentioned company is dealing with this s*storm right about now.
Games and the Public Domain
You can check out http://www.mikrotik.com/

Their routers are extremely powerful, in the same ballpark as cisco's smaller routers and they also take their security very seriously.

It runs a custom linux with a web based configuration environment.

Also, for what you get - very cheap.
It's a good thing? Yeah, except that you waste half an hour EACH DAY staring at automatic software updates. At this point I simply disable automatic updates for much of the programs on my PC. This fashion of quick release cycles has gone way overboard.
Wrong question.

If the OP had written an AskHN saying how happy he was with the service, would that have made a difference.

Can't really have a yes for one and a no for the other, in that case.
Comment fail, this is just one of the screens there reflecting on his glasses.
Prefixes are mostly political in purpose and don't strictly describe the aircraft mission. The F-22 was the F/A-22 for a while, the F-117 was a bomber, the X-35 was a prototype for the F-35 and thus should have been the YF-35, and the SR-71 was designated RS-71 until a flubbed presidential announcement. Everyone knows what these aircraft really do though.
Heroku Scheduler/cron/periodic task monitoring tool releases new plans today
> My argument is that women's lack of economic success is in part due to how they are wired and not some widespread culture of male repression.

And you have completely failed to make the case for this.

> Can't argue with that.

You realize that I said that there's a pretence that they have the FREEDOM to do anything, not that they are intrinsically incapable it, don't you?
Keep in mind that traditional radio is rapidly becoming an unappealing choice for audio consumption by tech-savvy drivers. Slacker, iHeart, Pandora, Bluetooth streaming, etc. are slowly taking over the space and none of those can be interacted with via traditional physical buttons.

I, too, strongly dislike the lack of tactile feedback on touch screens, and the lack of physical buttons for simple things like opening a sunroof is really annoying. But in reality it's becoming more and more difficult to keep all the hard buttons on a dash. Drivers and passengers want more options, customization, and media in their cars, not less. If you ignore their preferences too much they're just going to pick up their phones and use them while driving instead of messing with a clunky interface and screen lock-outs.
Holofication Nation
I haven't seen free meals in airline lounges lately either.
That's a perfectly valid perspective and it's more than likely that there are indeed both differences and some amount of overlap in the obstacles.

What we observe however is that:

* in various countries the gender distribution in tech is quite close to 50/50 (-> probably little innate difference)

* in the US and Western Europe there are much fewer women in tech (-> probably some cultural difference)

* women in tech indicate encountering a lot of social obstacles (-> probably in the form of these self-reported mechanisms)

Those observations together make operating on the assumption that the social obstacles for women in tech are stronger than those for men (and working on improving it) a reasonable thing to do.

I agree that formalizing that as a 'goal of 50/50' is wrong but the underlying goal, which is the one that is actually getting support, is for the (systemic forces that give rise to) the gender gap to be reduced to an acceptable degree.

There will always be things to improve of course as Eastern European countries for example already have much more women in tech than here, but are dealing with stereotypes which steer women towards QA and men towards development.

Here we're not at the point yet though, so currently we won't do much harm by letting our main focus can still just be on increasing participation of women in tech, period.
The author said that he had reached out to the CEO to no avail. Given that, I don't think that the post was inappropriate or classless. I think that killing the post did more harm than good.
> If we were allowed to murder one another without consequences, society would be vastly different

There's an inherent belief that the difference in society would be bad. Is that true? Bad is pretty qualitative, so it comes down to a belief.

> If we were allowed to cheat on our taxes without punishment, the system itself may collapse.

There's an inherent belief that "the system" is a good thing, and that we don't want it to collapse. But again, this is a subjective belief, not universally held.

Your comment is based on implicit beliefs of what is "best" for society (or even humanity) as a whole. I'm pretty sure you can't prove that your beliefs are "correct", because I'm sure most people would argue that subjective beliefs can't be correct or incorrect, they're just beliefs.
What are the strengths of this library, relative to D3? How does Sigma work differently?
I think you'll be quite impressed with Firefox's developer tools again. I've been more and more unhappy with Chrome's tools, mostly the subtle changes of not having filters and things so readily available anymore. The Firefox tools are quite slick though. I don't even use Firebug anymore.
Next up, you'll lose your ability to post.
Rivers run dry as corruption claims surround Romania's hydropower boom
Have they indicated how they plan to get adoption?
Probably not. Similar stories have run on HN, sometimes at the top of the front page, before. It seems like direct appeals to HN about YC companies are the thing 'pg has a problem with.
Thank you.

These people are about as libertarian as my cat and we certainly didn't need this article or this court case to know that beyond a shadow of a doubt.

What the article sort of draws attention to indirectly is the fact that these CEOs are unfairly put up on a pedestal (especially Jobs) by so many people who adore them despite their less than stellar actions and criminal activity. Perhaps if they spent half their fortunes on charity, a la Gates, I'd be willing to be rethink my opinion of these scumbags.
GPS sats aren't geosynchronous. That would be an orbital period of one (sidereal) day which matches the Earth's rotation. GPS has an orbital period which is half that. So after 11 hours and 58 minutes, you'll have the same satellites over you in the same positions, but they will have gone around the planet twice in the meantime. Cool animation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Space...
A Naked Man Plays Robots and Finds Love; A Quadriplegic Finds a Voice in Music
Working on it now. Hopefully I'll be done with it soon.
Coding with my left hand only. Right hand has stitches!

I could add you on GH so that you can give me feedback on it. Let me know if you are interested.
I assume you want more than "let me google that for you"

Delayed parenthood: old eggs are around 1% more likely to result in childhood cancers (more or less, at least sometimes, per some swedes). A bit controversial although it seems fairly common sense. Obviously a 45 year old woman's eggs will have been exposed to three times the radiation as a 15 year old girl's eggs, and given that I'm surprised the net childhood cancer risk was so low. From the original paper, which I'm probably misinterpreting, if the kid lives to age 5, there's no further measurable effect, so either the cancer kills them young or it has no effect, and I have no common sense explanation for that...

Fewer children: Seems fairly well proven across many papers that time spent pregnant equals lower ovarian cancer risk. This does not appear controversial. Then again time spent pregnant does seem to increase pregnancy related mortality (duh) so not entirely sure its a net positive.

No idea at all about the last claim. Probably something lactation hormone related. I don't think mere calcium loss is a legit anti-cancer treatment.
Hello, do you happen to be one of those y'know... Terrorists?
This is one of those weird instances when I think the poster was right to post, and I think PG was right to kill it. The poster was looking to have a conversation about what he should do, but PG saw the inevitable flame war coming (and even beginning in the post itself). I don't think any of us would pretend that thread would end up as constructive, so PG gave the definitive answer: Talk to them.
Science hasn’t retracted paper that NSF investigators wanted withdrawn
New CEO Satya Nadella Needs to Make Microsoft More Like Google
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7111531

Hmm, seemed more comprehensive in my memory :)
My (active) account only showed a few recent pictures.
I've had the entirely opposite experience here. Miracast just works for me. I have the Netgear receiver and I've used it with several different phones - Samsung, HTC, and LG. In fact, I know your chart is wrong because my LG Nexus 4 works fine with it.

Meanwhile Chromecast is a joke. It doesn't work at work because our employee network requires a username and password and our guest network requires a click through agreement. It doesn't work at the hotels I stay at because again, they have a click through agreement. It works about half the time on personal WiFI APs where the person wasn't security conscience enough to turn on client isolation. The thing is nearly useless for me.

Miracast uses WiFi Direct so works trouble free and lag free. Chromecast is some bizarre crappy second computer that has to connect to the network, but has very little capability to actually connect in the real world.
The "appearance" isn't at issue. The question of capturing some phenomena conventionally characterized as normative (usually by philosophers who want to maintain a strict fact-value dichotomy) is of empirical interest. The positive content of "theft", "fraud" and "economic injustice" can be captured within game theory in repeated games, specifically in repeated asymmetric zero-sum games. The vocabulary is standard in the literature, even if game theorists tend to ignore such questions. My motive is to suggest, pace economists and philosophers who insist that such notions ought to be excluded from positive economics altogether, that they do contain significant positive economic content and I intend to say what that is.
How can a government agency allow a person to have "21 cases of sustained misconduct" and still be employed much less not in jail?
> Any combination of at least two wavelengths is a compound color, and the interpretation of each of these combinations will not be found on the visible spectrum.

Is it really impossible for the cone response to a compound color to match that of any single wavelength? There are yellow wavelengths, but we display yellow as a compound of red and green instead. That doesn't mean yellow can't be found on the visible spectrum.
This is Michael, CEO of drchrono. It's definitely a rude awakening to wake up to see a post on top of Hacker News from an angry customer.

I've reached out to Dr. Dal to have a phone call today to see how we can resolve his issues. Me and my staff have attempted to have a phone call with him for the past several weeks to address his issues.

Rather than try to dig into the issues he brought up publicly, we'll do our best to contact him directly and resolve the issues he has.
This looks nice. Anything to reduce the friction of referring to documentation whilst developing is a good thing.

Not to detract from this, but I can't not give a ringing shoutout / endorsement to Dash[1] in the context of this conversation. If you are on OSX it is just brilliant, and when combined with Alfred[2][3] is just ridiculously seamless to interact with.

[1]: http://kapeli.com/dash

[2]: http://www.alfredapp.com/

[3]: https://github.com/willfarrell/alfred-dash-workflow
Very interested to see what the new CEO will bring and hopefully a much needed injection on the innovation front. His background in R&D and running the cloud divisions at Microsoft makes him a different proposition to Ballmer. I like the idea that Bill Gates can maybe combine with him as Founder and Tech advisor and balance old and new with some vision. Microsoft has lost it's way in recent years and although not a wholesale change maybe they can give it some new direction
Orchestrate replaces multiple NoSQL databases with single API
Having seen what cancer does to a loved one before killing you, I'd rather be shot or die just about any other quick way.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of biology.

You think that you have organs, but really, you have cells. When those cells break in a particular way, cancer results. 99.999% of those cancers are terminated. The rest can kill.

Preventing cancer is a matter of adding 9s to that statistic until death is implausible. Then, we run up against other senescence factors: our cells can only divide so many times, garbage accumulates that can't be purged, etc.

It's plausible to imagine a world where we no longer die of cancer, adding 10-20 years to the average lifespan. People will start to die of obscure diseases caused by genes no longer being present in their DNA.

So we work on fixing that. It's difficult, of course.
excellent point...more developers really need to learn to take the business/owner perspective on the use of technology. The person whose money is on the line wants a working solution, not technical purity.
Did that video just reveal EM's mobile number?
sounds like a nice guy
I'm not arguing against that. I'm asking have they been able to make serious money off of it, and while I'm at it, what's the potential for the future?

I assume the first generation wasn't wildly profitable due to the costs in establishing the ecosystem.

The second generation's hardware execution was infamously botched; we know they took a $900 million write-down on that debacle, and can be sure there were massive additional costs in e.g. brand equity.

How has it done since then?
Also, because of the overlap between the response curves of the different cone cells, there are colours that cannot be produced by any combination of frequencies of visible light but that the brain can still perceive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_colors

(Another side-effect of this: any display based around additive mixing of three colours, such as the computer display you're reading this on, cannot reproduce the full spectrum of colours available in the real world. Standard computer and TV displays are particularly limited in the range of greens and blues they can reproduce.)