skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this could have gotten the Peachy Printer out the door sooner? If memory serves they had to spend several cycles working out noise and levels issues with the soundcard-to-microcontroller interface. Although, it isn't clear that MicIO has worked through those issues already, and Peachy is perhaps a naturally analog project.
I don't see any problem at all with pointing out a local trend. Abolition, women's suffrage, civil rights, desegregation, women's rights, gay rights - in every case, a low-status class of people promoted to more equal rights. Also, in every case, xenophobia replaced by inclusion.

Just because half the population is still dragging their heels about the latest oppressed group to get this kind of attention, like they always do, does not mean that there's anything special or more complicated about this case. It's still privileged people being asses to less privileged people for as long as they can possibly get away with. Like they always do. Imagine if people could be accepting in the general case, without being dragged to it?
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It won't. We have many decades of evidence that 'back-to-basics' will never be more than a niche movement. The world is very large, and Google, Apple and co, are much more vested in the folks coming 'up' (3rd world developing) than in the tiny minority of people who can even afford to think about back to basics.
Not yet, I'm afraid. We're working on launching it across Europe, Canada, and Australia. (You can use Connect in those countries, though.)
i like the way you think

This would be a dream - a railroad-esque type journey that is not at the wim of the location of pre-laid tracks
Does it matter? The job is a tech community job.

If he were publicly in favor of warrantless wiretapping, he'd be catching even more crap about it from the tech community, yet the tech community is even further out of step from mainstream society on that issue.
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That makes sense.

I'm curious about staging, though, as far as making this a repeatable process for others.

Do you have a particular conversion rate you've decided to shoot for? Or are you going to do this until you get the sense that you've found the best overall design and make small controlled changes from there? The latter is the impression I got from the blog post.

Of course if you end up getting a ton more uniques in the process you can run more tests at once to isolate variables; are you looking to wait till then?
Yes, I have tried automatic programming in the past, but my results were the opposite. Hill climbing universally does better. Of course you need to be reasonable and restart the search once it gets stuck in a local maximum. If you don't do that then GAs obviously do better since they start off with a whole population rather than one candidate. So the reason GAs do better has nothing whatsoever to do with its essential difference to hill climbing (the crossover). In fact if you just take an ordinary GA and disable crossover, and you let each individual in the population have exactly 1 offspring, it will usually work better! This is because crossover & the breeding rules of GA tend to remove diversity in the population.

By the way, in my automatic programming programming experiments hill climbing hardly did better than just brute force search. It fails for all but the smallest examples. So that's another one of those things that doesn't really work in practice.
My quality of life would decrease significantly without Google Maps. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. are distracting fluff, but navigation is the killer app.

I live in Chicago. Google Maps knows when the bus is coming, and which buses to take to get somewhere quickly. I don't have to plan very far ahead or keep to a strict schedule to make certain trains, since I know I can just pull out my phone and figure out a reasonable way to get home when it's time.

As a student from another city, I have only enough understanding of the geography to read Google Maps critically - for the details, it's indispensable.

Just uninstalling Facebook might be a nice middle route though.
I'm not a fan of cell phones at all, even dumb ones. I hate being interrupted, being taken out of the zone, when I'm enjoying things. So I don't take the phone I have with me. I leave it in the car. And its permanently on silent.

It might be a bit selfish but I'll return your call when I feel like it, or not at all... generally its easier just to stop in and see someone face to face to resolve things.

The only reason I currently have a smart phone is work got annoyed with me and purchased me one (and a monthly contract), as I build and maintain our company mobiles apps. Suppose I should have emotive and behavioural affiliation with I'm building :) couldn't really win that argument. I'm looking forward to the day I leave and I can hand the phone back TBH... although I'm sure my other half isn't LOL bet I loose that argument as well.

Still hasn't changed my behaviour though. The only thing that has is the camera. I used to lug around heavier larger cameras, the small form factor smart phone cameras are nice.
I have a dumbphone, too, and surprisingly (or not so surprisingly) quite a few of my programmer friends also carry a dumbphone.

Besides the advantages others listed, I simply like the smaller size of it. It fits in my pocket without being annoying.

I also wear a wristwatch. Gosh, I'm old!
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Thanks! Much better :-)
My IDE (IntelliJ or Eclipse) will remove unused variables when I save the file.

Very very handy...
Panasonic would NOT pay additional money in licensing to make less money by having their batteries last longer.

Large companies like this make sure the batteries they use aren't interchangable or standardized. They certainly don't want to make batteries that you wouldn't want to replace.

If you look at profit analysis of almost any product (like a panasonic camera), the profit margins are all in the accessories, like batteries.
If we're gunning for aesthetics, with a little dye and some extra lighting, that first one might be a decent Garrus approximation.

http://silentstephi.com/Misc/garrus14.png
True, but those are not always possible, nor can cover everything.

What struck me the most was the criminal incompetence of the developers, both of the total system as it moved to software control and especially the software itself. Not to mention the Crown Corporation's response to the problem.
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None of the PIIGS were extremely socialist. The most socialist-leaning countries in Europe (e.g. Denmark and Norway) are still going strong.
> ..the battle will end up being who can scale globally faster.

I think there's more to it than this. The cost of switching from one payments provider to another is decreasing all the time. Competition appears to have driven costs (i.e. the fee/commission per payment) down to roughly the same level for everyone. There's some room for differentiation on the product (not so much ease of set-up - which is a one-off thing - as the admin UI and featureset), quality of customer service (I know someone here in the UK who switched from Paypoint to SagePay for precisely this reason) and the accuracy of fraud detection (i.e. minimising both chargebacks due to the use of stolen cards and erroneous rejections of legit payers).

However, I think that there's a strategic competitive advantage to be gained through operational efficiency (i.e. reducing the cost per transaction to as close to zero as possible) and generating revenue from sources other than the fee/commission (for an example of this, see my blog post on how Paypal makes money on cross-currency payments: http://jackgavigan.com/2013/03/12/how-paypal-makes-money-on-... ).
The information was not passed on because it was damaging to the military industrial complex interests at the time. Americans at that time in particular really felt infallible after the Cold War and did not accept feedback very well. The skunkworks/American military machine was starting to crack apart with laziness as things descending into contracting hell.

As I mentioned in my other comment, my perspective as an Israeli witnessing all this was, "Don't bite the hand that feeds you." It is a shame that Americans and others had to pay a price for arrogance and politics. It may not be the official story, but anyone exposed to that world could tell you otherwise.
I agree that people think computers are magic and as soon as one fails they get out their pitchforks, but I disagree that automated cars will never happen. It will happen just more slowly.

The changes will be gradual and they have already happened to a degree. Automatic brakes have already been implemented, more expansive GPS is happening. Next I could see an expansion on cruise control.

Its a combo between marketing new features and iterating on current technology.

I think the invention of the automated car will be a gradient, not a sudden occurrence.
Indeed you can; but it's a generally unpleasant experience. The original poster might not have noticed this; and it was a nice help to show them that it couldn't be seen. In the future they may take that into consideration when posting information with the <pre> tag :)
Wait. Are you saying 100,000 years from now, we will not have had robotic cars?
> All in all, it sounds like you're agreeing with me: it's wrong to claim a trend.

I'm undecided, but leaning towards seeing a trend (yes, even with historical uncertainties). I'm absolutely willing, though, to attest that to the fact that I'm seeing a trend that would suit me.
They fraction of people going back might be just tiny, probably almost unnoticeable for entities like Apple or Google.
I was testing with a trivial app, so 1 doesn't apply. There were no assets, so 2 doesn't apply. Ghc is notoriously slow at compiling, and it managed to recompile/reload the equivalence haskell test app in the time it takes to alt+tab and hit refresh.
I think the 4-pole plug diagram is wrong? It seems to label the insulating rings, rather than the plug terminals.
The reason it's bad to do it at all is because you're destroying user faith.

I get that companies need insight about how users use their products. This is not an instance of that, because companies definitely don't need insight about which websites are visited.
That's pretty much the Havel-Hakimi algorithm
I believe it means that seems that you are implying mozilla donated money to anti-gay lays, as opposed to the individual.
What makes them fascist in nature? I'm fascinated by your use of the word.
Exactly this. Developers need to think holistically. Sure, maybe you can F5 your way to basic functionality, and that might make it seem like you're saving time in the short-term, but you also need to account for the hours and hours of painful bug hunting you'll occasionally (but inevitably) incur when that one sneaky null reference or fence-post error makes it into prod.
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This is really exciting, and a real problem solver, than good-for-nothing social apps popping up every other day. I wonder do they ship 'internationally'?

on a second thought, why not make the color of the box, say like mbp body color, or other light grayish colors, when it's intended for apple products. the green color does not seem a right fit for an accessory of apple products.

>and a total of 9 hours for 100% charge

yikes! But i guess it's okay since it's a 'standby' battery.
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Thanks for yours. Some more data:

McPeak's data, drawn from a variety of coalition sources, indicates that between January 18 and February 26, 1991, 40 Scuds were launched against Israel and 46 against Saudi Arabia.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/weapons/scud.ht...
Regarding polygamy, we would have to rewrite all sorts of laws (inheritance laws, laws detailing benefits to spouses, etc.) with multi-partner marriages in mind.
I'm completely willing to believe that big companies have poor intentions when lobbying the government. H1-Bs are just more market distortion. (I personally believe we should just hand software engineers green cards at the airport and remove the cheapness from foreign labor. More engineers, but without the bullshit.) I'm just saying it doesn't make the engineer shortage less real. All the ways you hold down salaries are ways that companies are dodging honestly dealing with a legit shortage.
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Those experiences are commonly attributed to the EMU not the EU.
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I use a "dumbphone", although for me it's not a political or psychological thing, I just hardly ever used the smart functionalities of my android smartphone back when I had one. The only feature I sometimes miss is GPS localisation and google maps.

On the other hand a smartphone is expensive, you always risk breaking it/getting it stolen. Nobody will bother stealing my 20euros Samsung and if I get it gets destroyed I'll just buy a couple more. Oh and as TFA mentions the battery lasts for like 10 days of normal use.

The irony is that my job involves porting Android to embedded devices.
I am actually quite surprised he took the position.

I wonder if Jay is actually leaving Mozilla since Li Gong is now the COO.

That being said, I think Brendan is now put on a major test.

If instead Brendan doesn't believe in abortion, would we still have this conversation? The split among pro-live and pro-choice is just as bad as pro-gay and non-gay. And among pro-choice there is a split on what constitutes a good reason to abort and what is not.

A good CEO should ensure the company is sustainable and well. One way is to accept and respect differences. If Mozilla employees think gay workers should receive X benefit that non-gay workers already been receiving and they petition Mozilla and Brendan to take action, Brendan and his team will have to work toward that goal. That's their job (well mostly COO I guess). Otherwise employees will lose faith in the organization and talent will be lost.

If he truly values Mozilla and his hard work at Mozilla, he will not hesitate to make Mozilla more friendly and more open and transparent. But he doesn't have to change his belief to be a CEO. He, in his personal space, at his house, he can do whatever he wants and say whatever he wants.

I don't work for Mozilla and I don't ask around to find out who is gay and who is not. I don't know whether gay workers feel welcome at Mozilla or not. Just saying.
Mercedes and others already offer this, it is called Heading Control Assist.
Oh, yes, in Java it's still one class per file
My last smartphone was an N900. If I'm going to buy a portable computer, well... I'd actually like some modicum of control over that computer out of the box.

However my primary telecommunications device is a cheap flip phone.
Perhaps, but I've already gone back to surfing the web in those 10 seconds. And scala provides pretty poor type safety compared to how bad the compile time is. I don't actually use PHP, I was just pointing out how the claim that play's workflow is just as productive is inaccurate.
You should really look into how phishing protection works in Firefox [1], it's not implemented in a naive way (i.e. does not send the url to a third party), and does not compromise your privacy.

[1]: http://blog.sidstamm.com/2012/02/malware-and-phishing-protec...
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What is the etiquette regarding down voting on Hacker News? Is there an official policy? When is it appropriate, and when is it stifling speech?
That's a good reason why it's never a good idea to pay for DDOS threats - in many other popular extortion scenarios such as kidnapping, blackmail w. secret info or mafia 'protection money' for storefronts, the deal generally doesn't allow other, new attackers to make the same demands, so you actually are getting some protection - but here it does simply mark you as vulnerable.
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Not quite. The UNIX wars were basically "Hardware" wars. Basically, you bought your workstation from Sun, or HP, or SGI, or IBM or whoever, and you got the version of UNIX that was shipped for that hardware. You could compile your own BSD (/usr/ucb) or GNU (/usr/local) utils if you didn't want to pay a king's ransom for a compiler, but basically, the idea of running any type of software on any hardware, a la Linux or OpenBSD, hadn't really caught on.

I know it's cool to be all blase about this, but this is different.
> is precisely why we need a rethink of platforms and tool chains.

My point was, people are already thinking. It's not an easy problem and there's no obvious way forward.
Mmm. I guess that's the problem we're exploring. You could save these things to Read Later (or read again, in the case of bookmarking tools), but they'll likely sit un-retrieved.

It seems that tabs as a "to read" use-case isn't one we're going to solve, as this is about self discipline. Either control your intake, or few tools such as Pocket as a StumbleUpon from your past self.

But managing tabs relating to directed search, or actionable tasks, is an interesting one to explore.

We're definitely still in the research phase of this problem, but thanks for weighing in :-).
No, they'll simply deny they ever held the view in a few years, all on their own. See: Segregation.
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He links to the guy who came up with that particular clearfix technique, and there is documentation on why and when that space is necessary.
I don't think most people stick with "dumbphones" out of ideological primitivism, but rather out of disillusionment with the current choices that are available.
I created this app to eliminate the broker for smaller companies who have no need for all the brokerage services. They'll get a substantially lower price by working directly with the truckers.

Any ideas on how to push this out to those that should be seeing it?
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I would be in the same boat, but I have found that a Moto G with a prepaid SIM is a good middle point. Just cheap enough phone I can afford to have it stolen, and still with the Smartphone features that make me want and need a smartphone. (Navigation and messaging).
Perhaps they know the PowerPC's algorithm for performing out of order execution? It might have been available for a long time, or have been shared to the public after IBM started opening up the Power architecture since 2004.
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Almost everything you listed as not in java is in java 8. Your distinction between "advanced" and "stuff I like" is a false one. Other people who aren't familiar with what you are familiar with will call those things "advanced". And when you learn those things you call "advanced", you will move them into the "stuff I like" category.
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Hey!

Really appreciate the feedback.

For me the value is in knowing everything is backed up and saved. I very rarely actually need access to my old notes and sketches from previous notebooks but there’s a lot of sentimental value there for me.

If a note I take is actually time sensitive or needs to be referenced soon, I still have the physical notebook to reference.

I have (low quality photos of) sketches of old ideas that later become companies. The notebooks themselves are long gone but I love that I still have some kind of digital backup.

I’d eventually like to get the price of mod notebooks down so they’re on par with other notebooks that don’t have the digitizing bundled in (it’s already pretty close).
If you are talking about voting on comments specifically, PG recently touched on that a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761
Inevitably it leads to someone being "helpful" who posts the text in the comments (which may or may not lead to a DMCA notice to HN). I don't get why people post them either.
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Scala has a poor type system, and poor support for concurrency. It's terrible DSL problem is not a selling point. Nothing he talked about was crazy or required writing mind-bending code, that is the point. IntelliJ's scala support is still, to this day, completely broken. Have you tried using it?
I got rid of my smartphone, that cost me $5/year to run, now I just carry a radio, mp3 player, book of maps, gps receiver, flashlight, barometer, alarm clock, diary, address book, newspaper, tv remote, and camera. Much less distracting
5 million Americans receive housing for free or substantially federally assisted right now :https://www.census.gov/hhes/povmeas/methodology/supplemental...

How can that be? What direction is this going? How soon until everybody is subsidized in some way? (There are 2000+ federal housing assistance programs right now).

Market value for construction workers is misleading when the market is skewed. Because we currently play a game where people who want houses, have to hand over green coupons to people who build houses, isn't the whole story.
Consider that all this money-trading is by the 99%, who own a small fraction of the money. What if the 1% threw their money into the game? It would skew the prices and wages until some equilibrium was reached, maybe have no real effect on housing at all.

So the real question is, how do we motivate our workforce to create wealth (housing, food etc) for everyone? We have excess capacity to do this (Iowa creates enough food alone, to feed 2 USAs). Why aren't we doing it? Automation will make it not even take people at some point to accomplish it.

The money game will run out of steam at some point. Whether the robot overlords just give us all what we need, or let us starve, is up to our choices in the next couple of decades.

This is all tounge in cheek (sort of); but because today we use money to guide resource doesn't mean it will continue to be useful to do that.
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