skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, no. For one thing, building a rail line to Tibet makes a lot of sense, both because it helps China maintain control over Tibet and for logistics in border problems with India.

The rail line in the article makes no sense. It would be incredibly expensive (particularly the tunnel), there's no strategic reason for it, people would rather fly at that distance, and freight is cheaper to ship by sea.
Essentially just a brand and distribution channels for $3.2B (if true). That's quite a hefty price tag for a company which has no unique technology or USP.

I wonder if Apple plans to slap those farcical Beats stickers onto Macbooks and screw up the audio balance in order to "improve" the listening experience (and by "improve" I mean heavily degrade, see HTC's phones).

I won a pair of Beats headphones in a competition. Worth £130 (per Amazon, £200 retail) and in a blind test I prefered my £55 Sony ones. They just sound better, simple as that...
Apple spending money because it can? I would think Apple has plenty of knowledge in the music world and could hire some talented personnel instead of buying an entire company. Beats has value, but I'm not sure if its $3.2B. Their products are okay but not anything segment-leading.

Kind of like the Oculus buy by FB, they have the money...spend it!
See previous thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718223
Jimmy Iovine likely got stellar deals with music labels for Beats' streaming service. This is more likely a play for streaming audio than it is for mediocre but well-hyped headphones, which is a lateral move for Apple anyway.
Drivers protest fare breaks, fee hikes at Uber HQ
Looks like there is no way - http://support.bitly.com/knowledgebase/articles/105373-how-d...
Fuel has been getting more expensive in real terms off and on since US peak production in 1972. It's soared since 2000. BP's annual energy outlook is one of the best sources for historical price information:

http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/energy-econom...

Otherwise, I agree with you that a factor of five is not negligible.
What does it matter? PDF.js broke quality printing to CUPs, so it's a bit of joke if you break that printing use case.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932289
Luddism is an prime example of the master-slave morality, instead of the taxi drivers revolting to abolish the regulations, they want to make the innovation as bad as themselves.
This seems like a valid argument to me. Could one of the downvoters perhaps care to point out the errors in it. Or is it just because of the word 'hogwash'?
I bought Paw after exercising the free trial and have been very happy with it. My favorite thing thus far was a feature request I sent to the developer actually got implemented in one subsequent release. I paid prior to that, and don't regret it. Saving requests is nice, but being able to generate useful ObjC based around several different networking stacks is amazing. The price is steep, but it's clear a lot of worm has gone in to the app, and the dev deserves to be compensated for it.
As mentioned by other comments, these are straight lines, which is why they take this route. What's interesting though is that it's also relatively close to the proposed train route, so the "straight line" advantage of the plane wouldn't be terribly significant.
Bookmarked it. Might not be the most complete list but appreciate the OP is taking feedback and updating it. Kudos to hsinger!
I threw this up real quick. Was inspired by a comment on reddit: "Are we really still fucking calling these "Fast lanes?" Fast lanes sound good! We should be talking about "Slow lanes" since that is what you will be on if you don't pay up."

Also inspired by Brad Feld's suggestion (I think it was) that we all just throttle our servers so we can give people a taste of what the slow lane feels like.
We are launching a business designing kits for use with a 3D printer.
Me and two of my friends want to create a business for 3D printer owners. The idea is that we will design kits which include all the components that can't be printed, like motors, screws, springs, and some custom stuff, and include the files to print the rest of the components and assemble it using the parts in the kit.
Some examples of the things we would include in the kits are simple tools like clamps and scissors, kitchen gadgets like garlic presses (with precautions to ensure they are food safe,) toys like RC cars and Rubik's cubes, maybe more complex tools like hand drills if we can make them safe, that kind of thing. We'd like some feedback and help on our idea, and if you can take [our survey](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TOlFLTOnf2rs83iteUuRaSuFZU4mZORRj2u3LTLcQ3I/viewform?usp=send_form) , that would really help us decide whether there is demand for these types of kits, and if there is, what kind of kits we want to make first. The survey will take about 5 minutes.
We are hoping that by making a ton of useful things available for people, we can unlock the true potential of 3D printers by making things that are cheaper than their mass market counterparts, and easier to customize and repair.
I'd say more than slightly. Spotify's main draw is that you can search for the song you want to listen to, and you can hear that song.

iTunes match works off your own personal collection, and Radio is just like Pandora. Neither allows you to look for things you don't own and listen to them.
The Masters of Multitasking
Why? BTW can you write the essay mentioned in the end of http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/the-right-and...
Fair enough. Most arguments to discount free will rely on determinism.

Lets go back to this moment, now. Can you find a present moment in which outcomes are determined? Or, are you left with an infinitely slippery field of experience where outcomes are never fully resolved, but rather constantly morph into a new nowness?

What if you, as the experiencer are not a thing that happened in the past or will happen in the future, but rather are exactly this nowness, this exact unfolding computation. What if you are not the data but the present processing?

So, instead of us being the coin that decides in mid-flight, what if we are the processing/unfolding that is deciding?
I have to add that RhodiumToad is a class act on IRC, and an SQL wizard. I was using the ip4r datatype for something really annoying at work, and eventually needed some hairy SQL. He steered me away from recursive queries into window functions, and wrote a correct query to solve my problem (basically normalizing overlapping IP ranges and some associated metadata with each range) in less than 30 minutes.

I really couldn't say how much time and money he saved me, but it was a lot.
Is that true? References?
Oh, I thought the regular iPhone 4 was 320x480. Thanks!
I agree with you entirely on the trickiness of business ethics, but I'd be very skeptical of anything that is more precise. If it's too long to keep in one's head, it will be easily forgotten. And if it's complex enough to cover everything in some detail, there will be a lot of opportunity for hole-finding, rules-hacking, boundary-arguing, and confusion-sowing.

Contrast that with the simplicity, say, of the Golden Rule, or Rawls' Veil of Ignorance [1], or the Eightfold Path [2]. Those are trickier to apply, because you have to do the unpacking yourself. But they're also harder to fool yourself and fool others with.

I think that's true generally, but especially so for YC. If they stick with sufficiently broad principles and heuristics, then they can finish up with, "... and if you aren't sure, ask." YC has a lot of high-touch mentorship, and mentoring is one of the best way to deal with ethical questions. They also have a strong interest in making sure YC startups behave reasonably well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path
Spotting Photo Fakery via Dino A. Brugioni, CIA, 1969
If instead of x being an integer, it were a function x(), then it makes more sense. Really, for Python, there is no difference between the two in this example. When you assign a new value to B.x, you're overriding the value that B inherited from A. When you override the value in A, any subclass that doesn't have it's own overridden value will use the new A.x, but any subclass that is overridden will be unchanged.
This is one of the reasons I am not in love with that word. For better or worse, for at least some people it is strongly associated with "naughtiness" in the sense talked about here: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

At least some growth hacking tactics are examples of taking someone else's system and convincing it to do things that its makers had not envisioned. The paradigmatic example was Airbnb building a deep Craigslist integration via a process which does not wholly fail to resemble security research. http://andrewchen.co/2012/04/27/how-to-be-a-growth-hacker-an...
That, IMO, is a very interesting question. Arguably, prices should be specified by energy input requirements, with energy's own cost being largely defined by its own EROEI. This is modulated (but not eliminated) by technological capabilities. Charles A.F. Hall has developed this idea among others.

Look up thermoeconomics / biophysical economics / ecological economics for more on this theme. Santa Fe Institute and the EconoPhysics Forum also have some interesting work: http://www3.unifr.ch/econophysics/
Is now private? I can't see it.
Within the form factor constraints of earbuds and IEMs, you're not likely to find better engineering.

http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/lauding-jobs-least-love...

http://seriousaudioblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/hall-of-fame-ap...
Last line: "The details of this project are yet to be finalized." Indeed.
> Web standards (HTML/CSS) and language (Javascript) were not designed to be used as a compilation target for complex programs. It was meant to be a document platform.

Computers were designed to do math, not word processing or gaming or mapping of massive datasets into comprehensible reports. Attitudes like this are toxic to progress, in my opinion, and far too common.
I am overjoyed. Thank you :)

I've set a reminder to switch to StumpWM 2 days from now.

Emacs is something I've never tried though Lisp is amazing and that's reason enough to use it.

So many fun toys, so little time...
Can anyone say if the difference between recursion and corecursion is the same as the difference between recursive process and iterative process as described in SICP? They seem the same to me. It also seems to be related to the bottom up solving method of dynamic programming.
Hmmm, I suppose that could have been plainer. I disagree with your assertion that - as a general rule - the existence of a lawsuit necessarily signals ethical concerns relating to the defendant.

As for "it", if "it" was not in the text of one of the comments leading up to my post, I probably did not read "it". In any event, I doubt that further knowledge of "it" would have substantially modified the nature of that assertion you made.

The actual subject matter of the lawsuit you've been referencing is only of marginal interest to me (and is irrelevant to my comment), and I didn't feel like looking through the claimed hundreds of pages of materials, or addressing the merits of a case that is already in the hands of professionals.
This Guy May Get Sued Over an Amazon Review
seems cool!

whats your email?
In the same way in which a "social media consultant" is just helping people with a new medium.

On the one hand: that's what the good ones do. But on the other, there's definitely some dubious bullshit that gets excused under the shiny new name.
If this happens my respect for apple falls
That was The People's Daily.
window maker was pretty great. I wish they kept going with it. It's still one of the best window managers I've ever used.
I've never been in a place that has something like this nor even considered it could exist. And now I know in case I do but I hope I don't.

Interesting article.
Where could Apple go with headphones? Consider the interest in watches as a more accessible control for iOS devices in pockets or purses.

• iOS control integration with buttons on the cans.

• Touch based rotary controls for volume and scrubbing.

• Integrate a short range Kinect style scanner in the front of a can. Now you can control things with hand gestures in front of your body.

Don't get your hopes up, but it's worth visioning a little. There is a demographic that wears headphones. I'm not able to come up with an information display angle for headphones, but input is good.
Jimmy Iovine is one ruthless bastard. I'm not sure how I'd feel about him joining Apple.
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Coca-Cola to Remove 'Harmful Chemicals' in Sports Drinks
Unlike most Silicon Valley acquisitions, Beats has profits. They sell high-margin headphones with 60% market share of the over-$100 headphone market. Apple is going to be getting into wearables, and this is the original wearable. They'll probably continue to run the unit separately because the brand is too valuable to just throw away. Audiophiles can pan the headphones as much as they want, it won't be any different from when PC geeks proclaimed they could build a PC with better parts for less without paying the "Apple tax". They aren't relevant. And if the margins are as high as some claim, Apple would have all the flexibility to improve the Beats line with better materials and construction.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3015051/major-beats-beats-electro...
I never knew it was Zulu
Beats is worth more than AMD? This is sad.
>Within the form factor constraints of earbuds and IEMs, you're not likely to find better engineering.

Not quite. It's easy to find better engineering in the IEM form factor. It's hard to find better engineering in the earbud form factor, because no one bothers trying to make earbuds sound good. It's very hard to make an open device that small sound good.
At least this is a proper money generating business, unlike the useful Whatsapp. I definitely use it a lot, but being acquired for 16B is stretching it...
I'm sure this is about the Beats library deals, and not the products.

I think the Beats products are a strange fit for apple, looks and brand-wise, but i guess they already sell them in their stores so not that big of a stretch.

If I had to guess what design Steve Jobs would have wanted for Apple-branded over-the-ear headphones, I think it would be something like these bowers & wilkins:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/HB920VC/A/bowers-wilkins-p...
SO EXCITED TO USE THIS SOON.

I'm working on a big new project that is all Angular based and the fact that there's an Angular based mobile app framework that is focused on speed and replicating the native feel is just fantastic. I'll probably be able to reuse 75% of my front end code immediately in my mobile app.
What about Liquified Natural Gas?

It has a energy density slightly lower than Jet Fuel[1], and increasing supply (thanks to new techniques for extraction and some huge gas field finds) and stable cost in the US[2].

Tupolev is developing a LNG power plane, and claims it will cost 40% less than a conventionally fueled aircraft to operate[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densities...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_prices

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas#Aviation
For a security project I find their lack of security shocking.
This list was more comprehensive than mine. Here's how you can do it on your own server if you're using nginx: https://gist.github.com/kyledrake/e6046644115f185f7af0
Aerial photos of Apple Campus 2 (update # 3)
This strikes me as a bit uncharitable. I can only speak to my experience, but Apple's are the _only_ earbuds I can stand using for any period of time.
It's not out of beta on Linux, so I'm not sure what you're surprised about.
My remarks were addressed to people who don't need tail recursion or the benefits & drawbacks of lazy evaluation explained to them, so I think they went a little over your head.

I presented a recursive definition, a stream based definition, and a tail-call definition of the fibonacci function. In that toy example, it's easy to get between the three different forms, but in many cases the connection is far less obvious. We need principles that unite the different forms, and allow us to move between them. Co-recursion is one of those principles.
ill defined in one language, doesn't mean ill defined in another.

I'm saying language and culture are inextricably linked. And not 100% compatible with all other languages and cultures.
This is an interesting exercise, but most of the suggestions on the page are just cosmetic, and do not address the fundamental challenge of C++ - perhaps the biggest divergence between Python and C++:

A core design principle of C++ is that you do not pay (performance-wise) for what you don't use. This leads to all sorts of nasty things like object slicing, law of big 3, template preprocessor hell just to get pseudo-generics.

A core design principle of Python is that you should pay the minimum cognitive burden for what you are not using. Don't care to customize object dispatch? Then you don't need to know about descriptors and __slots__ just to write a simple class.

No amount of syntactic cargo culting is going to bridge this gap. The whitespace and lack of semicolons is not why people embrace Python. Just as removing integer types and sensible scoping from C++ won't make it Javascript, replacing braces with tabs is not going to make it Python.
There's 'design' and there's 'graphic artist' - sorry for the semantic distinction. There's a lot of basic design you can get from BS or foundation or whatever, and themes and such that all look nice. Coming up with specific artwork to match it (logos, something beyond just typed fonts, etc) is something I classify more as 'graphic art' work vs 'design'. It maybe be a distinction without much of a difference to some, and maybe there's a better way to phrase it, but it's a moderately important distinction in my head for some reason.
This is the exact opposite of what I want in C++.

The use of characters to clearly delineate code sections and scope is a strong benefit of C++ over these other languages. They're not a "source of errors" - they allow a competent programmer the opportunity to quickly reason about the structure of the code. If vertical compression is an issue - get a bigger monitor or an IDE that allows for code hiding.

It is also far better to have a "oops, I missed a brace" error that your compiler/IDE catches, versus a "man, why does my program keep seg faulting unexpectedly" error that takes hours to track down since you missed a single tab somewhere.
Your site... in under private invite, with a CSS spam popup? TC;DR
You guys need a little love on your page :) I've not heard of it before so I google it and get to what appears to be the home page, and am presented with a login box with zero info about what it is, or why I would want to register or log in in the first place. Plus 3 of the links in the header aren't linked to anything. Not the best first impression!
This looks really error-prone to me.

Have you looked at previous attempts, such as SPECS? http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProp...
Question is if Beats have the same deal as Lala did: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/07/02/streaming-itunes/

Lala's label licenses didn't transfer if the company was bought.
Yeah, are these errors normal?

http://discuss.atom.io/t/installation-issue-on-windows/8812
Offensive Work and Addiction
It was cheap, but cheaper in real terms from the late 1920s through the end of the 1960s. And very nearly from the 1870s, with a few minor exceptions (1890s, 1910 - 1925).

NB: I'm looking at the cost of oil not necessarily of refined gasoline, using BP's reporting.

The post-2000 price is unprecedented in the prior century.

Note too that the US price was stabilized through production quotas established by the Texas Railroad Commission, in place from 1945 - 1971. They were lifted as US peak oil occurred, and extraction rates could not be increased. This set the stage for the 1973-74 oil embargo (earlier attempts at middle-east oil embargoes had been tried, but were not successful due to excess US extraction capacity).

http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/energy-econom...
If this is true, who benefits from leaking it & in what way do they benefit?
I think this is a great tactic to raise awareness, but what you're presenting right now doesn't really make the case.

You're not giving the viewer any sort of meaningful reference point. Indeed, what you're showing them shouldn't feel like a fast lane, since you're not one of the established players paying for one!

A more effective narrative should throw into relief the gradual transformation of a non-neutral net. Visualize how when the big players can pay to get to you faster, everyone else gets (relatively) slower.
Sorry, I forgot, you can also do this in Python:

def my_func():a=1;return a;

Try it, it works!
I think "Fast Lanes" is terrible, "Slow Lanes" is better, and "Toll Roads" is most accurate. The end of any pretense of net neutrality opens the doors for all manner of censorship, or more likely, extortion.

"Sure is a mighty nice website you got there, be a shame if our 50 million subscribers couldn't access it...."
As someone who worked sales at Apple's busiest retail store in college a couple years ago, I can tell you anecdotally that they were far and away the best selling third party headphone, deposited being $180-$300 in price, and employees universally pointing customers towards other brands. (They are far and away the worst in any of the price ranges they sold in, and employees don't get commission)
I meant they didn't have to use path.join, they could have changed them all to forward slashes and it would still work on both.
That's quite fascinating - reading the Pali canon as a teenager I got so used to the catuskoti.
I'm actually okay with this. I'd feel comfortable taking on new brain cells, even if it meant the destruction of existing, positive memories.

This is something that should be done slowly, gradually, and carefully, though. Like decompressing after a deep SCUBA dive, but hundreds of times slower.
What is the loading time based on? I have a hard time making anything of this without a reference.
Why are people downvoting this? Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not true. You may be able to argue that Windows is necessary (ha! for rooting Android? why is that?), but that doesn't make the most insecure and malware-ridden platform out there exempt or immune from criticism, especially since you can't see the code. Same goes for OSX.
Intro to IPC | Sockets
If this was reddit, you would get gold for that reply
In re: Municipal Trees

Make contact with your city arborist. They know/pick when the nice old trees are getting cut down and if you get lucky you might be the only one who has inquired about reclaiming the wood.

Forestry service is pushing reclaiming/recycling municipal wood as a enviromental win and a local jobs win: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/Spfo/pubs/misc/utilizingmunitrees/in... http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/tps/recycle/recycling_trees.pdf
Almighty Google: Whoever owns our data will determine our fate
For those who don't click through, can you explain the essence of the issue?

Something like, "Your cable company already charges you the world's highest price[1] to deliver data. Now they want to get paid twice for the same data, or they'll put you in the slow lane. Stop the monopoly toll collectors."

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24528383
Thanks for posting those links. I don't think many people have actually compared the Apple ear buds and canalphones to anything.

They are really good value for money, especially if you are after an inline remote. It's difficult to do better without spending more money.