skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not say these very large and engrained services are "ripe for disruption" unless you totally revolutionize the feature-set of such products. I think things that are ripe for disruption are things like traditional IRL services...like how Uber is greatly disrupting taxi services, for instance. I would like to see disrupts in grocery stores, point-of-sale systems, and other tangible services that can be revolutionized with new technologies. I think disruption is more about an industry than taking on a single company.
I think webgl + web components could lead us to much richer interfaces in the future.
I have an SBUv2. I thought it was really neat, although the one time I tried riding it on a street I quickly decided that I was far too freaked out about falling over and getting hit by a car.

Unfortunately, it turns out to not be usable in San Francisco. It handles hills up to a decent grade (I forget exactly what, but probably the 30% the SBUv3 advertises). But unfortunately it doesn't handle variations very well. And as hilly as San Francisco is, you can't walk 5 steps without the slope changing. When I say it doesn't handle it very well, I mean it feels like it's speeding up or slowing down unpredictably. Even just going from the sidewalk to the street, crossing it, and back to the sidewalk is hard.

Because of that, I haven't touched the thing in several years. And the last time I looked at it (sometime last year) it turns out the battery won't even charge anymore. Apparently leaving it unused for a couple years is sufficient to render the battery unusable.

I have no idea if the SBUv3 is any better.

Of course, if you live somewhere that's reasonably flat, then I'm sure it will work great.
We need one like this but Canada; no tax breaks on mortgage interests or property taxes up here :-(
Do you know of any resources that teaches this? I'm looking for a hypothetical book like "CLRS for VMs".
Since programs are data, shouldn't it be possible to write an interpreter which executes encrypted bytecode? That is, the only thing a reverse engineer would be able to conclude is "an interpreter is executing some bytecode, but we don't know what it's executing." The bytecode (the algorithm itself) is data, and since FHE hides the data, the algorithm remains encrypted and hidden.

If it's possible to add or multiply without knowing what's being added or multiplied, then it seems like it should be possible to do computation without revealing the algorithm being used.
There's a clear difference between a technical discussion and a social one. Do you think Linus is this way to everyone in every facet of his life?

context.
Think of it this way - any (current) crypto solution is likely to be much slower and more bandwidth-intensive than simply re-uploading the file every time they change something. In theory you could also use a secure multiparty computation scheme to apply file diffs generated by the client.
Almost all of this guys problems are the result of giving the user options that simply don't exist in iOS. If you really need your OS to tell you how YOU want to do things then I guess you really should go back to the locked down iOS.

Choices are hard. Apparently even choosing what phone was too hard.
I already commented on a different thread about the Flux architecture, but I'll state it again here: Flux seems like a slightly more constrained, perhaps less effective way of doing the same kinds of things that state machines do.

Is there something about Flux for typical use cases that makes it a better solution?
Your implication here is that people who identify under your listed banners cannot be jerks. This is simply an outright falsehood. An ideology that insists it cannot have jerks among its ranks is one that probably needs to look in the mirror.
While i agree with your pointing out the difference(hometown vs england), if they are so well trained they shouldnt have a problem competing in the marketplace.

Their service and skill should be much higher than the untrained right?
At 3 cents per mile, everyone is happy but you. You can buy frequent flyer miles from your airline for ~2.5 cents a mile.
They do, and I see it pretty often - but /via attribution has died out.
I meant, "the website is not understandable."

I believe the product is, platonically, understandable without a video.

PS: I like misusing the word platonically
I think it's important to note that in the US it's up to 7.34%. Quite impressive considering the lack of urgency by ISPs.
It is very different, because there were no laws requiring weavers to meet exacting standards of manual skill before atetemtping to make a living as a weaver. Of course, a a pracical matter a weaver without those skills would get no employment, but that was the market at work.

London cab drivers, by contrast, had to make a significant economic investment (as well as meeting character requirements like having a clean criminal record) in order to get a cab license, a requirement imposed by the government body responsible for transit oversight (Transport for London). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knowledge#The_Knowledge

I find it quite reasonable that cab drivers question why standards should suddenly vary for other people such that they can offer similar service without having to meet any special requirements. This is not the same as an arbitrary monopoly grant like cab franchises in the US.
Well. If you're going to make a moral appeal to The Law, my question would be whether the laws are actually there to protect the consumer, or whether they're actually there to protect the entrenched interests under the guise of protecting the consumer.

So here's my challenge for you: If these Uber cars are, in fact, injuring the consumer, you should probably be able to find a bunch of reports of disgruntled consumers who were injured in some way (bad service, ripped off, etc).

All I've heard about is very-happy consumers, and disgruntled taxi drivers (who have a conflict of interest here). So please forgive me if I think this matter is about the cabbies who think of the passengers as some form or another of chattel. :P
House passes NSA reform bill after major concessions by privacy advocates
Bluetooth Technology is Named After a King
Because, putting it shortly, saying "I didn't see it happen" is too close to saying "I didn't see it happen, therefore it doesn't exist".
$85 per household in the US is nearly $10billion.. and $15/yr is $1.75B/yr

The article only says the utilities will save 'billions'.. so this may be fair or not.. without additional info, how can you say?
Even if it is available a lot of companies just don't have the experience with IPv6 and are hesitant to turn it on.

Which BTW sucks when you are trying to test your product on IPv6.
FWIW - on my meager Atom/ION setup I had to turn HW Decoding off in order for it to work properly.
Google open-sources JsAction, a JavaScript event delegation library
I'm extremely disappointed by the number of highly upvoted responses in this thread that seem to come from a gut-level "Ewww... gross!" response, instead of a rational examination of the science.

Recent medical and biological studies are showing that we are, in fact, evolved to live with an entire symbiotic ecosystem of fungus and bacteria. And the total war we have waged on all things microbial in the last century may have been to our detriment.

I would expect a rational discussion of exactly what the science has an has not revealed along these lines from HN.

Instead, what I'm reading is a lot of posts along the lines of "Smelly dirty hippies" or "Oh my god, dangerous microbes! Unclean people!"

Come on HN. We're better than this.
I wish we could leave codebabes.com out of the equation when it comes to women in tech. This is not an industry thing, and opinions on whether or not it's okay for these kind of things to exist are divided, and not across gender lines and including amongst feminists.

It falls in the same category as porn. It's a valid debate, but it's a separate debate.
How would they decide which sites to manually look at? Surely they can't look at all of them.
Edward Snowden giving first American TV interview on May 28th
Maybe they counted all dependencies or libraries. If you add all that to any project, size will grow ridiculously big. I suspect so because the coding part of the project too only half a year or so, so they could not possibly write that many line by hand.
If an overwhelming majority of observers report something happening frequently, and a relatively-small percentage report not seeing it, then what would you conclude?

That said, I'm not sure I can remember the last time a woman told me she doesn't see it happen.
Which some markets are doing.

In Chicago you can opt into a program where you pay real-time pricing for electricity. This price can swing from 0.0c/kWh during overnight summer hours when peaker plants need someone to burn off wattage, and I've seen it go over $1.00/kWh during heat waves or when the south is having a freezing snap and everyone is running their heat pumps down there. Standard users pay about 7.5c/kWh.

While the Nest doesn't connect to this pricing, ComEd also offers an optional breaker box (connected via cellular radio) to cycle power to your A/C compressor for short periods of time when the price exceeds a certain level (i.e peak summer demand). So this kind of automatic control exists without needing the Nest infrastructure in place.

In the meantime, I've saved about 15% off my standard bill with a little bit of diligent dumb-thermostat programming. I'm planning a more intelligent system of my own that can watch pricing, house occupancy, and weather forecasts to try and beat that statistic.
> due to providing a better service.

And let's not forget skirting around existing laws & regulations. Speaking just for myself, I'd be pissed if my neighbor, who makes the same salary as I do, just decided to stop paying taxes, and suddenly was able to bank ~30% more than I do. Is it because he works harder, provides better service, or is it just because he decided that somehow rules don't apply to him?
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I often see the same argument made in defense of desktop Linux vs. Windows and OS X. It's a little more justifiable there, I suppose, but a phone is an appliance. Its job is to do the things I need it to do, to do those things well without fail. Otherwise, it's worse than useless, because it complicates my life rather than simplifying it.

Sure, as has been pointed out elsewhere, the iOS user interface is far from perfect. Judging by OP's experience, it's still a lot better than can be expected out of the vast majority of Android phones. It'd be one thing if that platform offered the options you so laud in a fashion which doesn't get in the way of satisfying the essential requirements of a pocket phone. Apparently, though, that platform fails to do so.

You can be just as contemptuous as you like of people who find Android unworthy of their time and money as a consequence. (Certainly nothing I say will change your mind! I've had enough arguments with Linux partisans to have realized that long since.) Your contempt for such people doesn't change the fact that Android has a problem.
>Feminism is an ideology

This is where you're factually (yes, factually) wrong. Try: !w feminism
that information is usually suppressed by court order
I keep finding myself agreeing with the author whenever an encounter with the back button is mentioned.

One of my favourite things about an old HTC phone I had running a 2.x version of Android was that the back button worked very consistently everywhere. It made using the native apps feel like navigating around websites: just what you'd expect from Google.

On literally every Android device I've tried to use since then it's been a complete horror show. This should have been the best thing about the Android UI and it's ended up being the worst.

I think the thing that might be worse than back button behaviour is the horribly broken app permissions system.
That isn't actually what he said, and this is the sort of thing that hurts relations rather than helps them.

What he said is that he doesn't link to Shanley in general because all of her stuff is so vitriolic. He then went on to post links to twitter posts of her's showing where she has been extremely vitriolic.

He stated that his reasoning is that he does not want to send people to such a place.

He didn't simply refuse to link to "Shanley's piece", he refused to link to Shanley at all. But it should be noted that he did link to other authors who are feminist in nature. He has every right to have a problem with a specific person for non-gender reasons, and your portrayal of him otherwise is unfair and deserves to be moderated in order to preserve actual conversation.
It is one of the better link blogs on the web. I've been reading it since 2005? and I gave them my $5 back in 2008. Prior to the rise of the fractal advice subreddits, askmetafilter was (and probably still remains) one of the best general purpose advice forums on the web.

The point is, it has an incredibly high signal-to-noise ratio and it's a damned shame it's getting penalized for it.
Presumably by a mechanism similar to how they would decide which sites to manually look at when doing manual punishments.
Not news, really, but I didn't realize the history until I stumbled on it. Of course you could also read the more concise Wikipedia version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Name_and_logo
Videoconferência: vale ou não a pena investir em UC para o meu negócio?
it's back! new servers tomorrow.
The safest way to allow file uploads on your site.
The problem with all of your arguments, including claims to your superior appearance, is that they're all entirely subjective. When is soap use gratuitous?

When others can detect your smell that's an objective fact and if you still use enough soap so that others can't smell your armpits when they're squeezed in next to you on public transportation then I don't really have a problem with what you're doing.
I should have been more clear. "Sustaining" innovations is what I'm talking about. As long as incumbents see an innovation as valuable to their current customer base, they will adopt it. It's the innovations that appeal to outside markets that start ups thrive with.

Thank you for clarifying this.
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What I'm saying is that the link can't time out.
If you do not believe in the inherent equality and humanity of men and women (along with all other marginalized groups), then yes, it's safe to say that you are indeed a jerk.
If what you need is something minimal, then why not to use a JSON API server and have your front-end app use your API.

I compose APIs from Go and NodeJS servers and get really good productivity & performance benefits. And this is what I use; http://github.com/azer/atlas
Happy 40th Birthday TCP/IP
I have a house on a corner. Can't put up a fence because it would block drivers from seeing around the corner.

At least that's what contractor told me when I tried getting an estimate.
We provide them a home, and in return they protect and clean us. They don't want to destroy their home, they would die, too.

Sorry but that is absolute, unmitigated rubbish. I spent 2 weeks in intensive care, with a surgical scar from my sternum to my groin which de-hisced (burst open) because my own bacteria tried to kill me.

While they might be symbiotic in the right place (eg. the gut), they'll kill you pretty quickly if they get out.
the poster is misrepresenting Jeff Atwood, see my response to him.
Ask HN: Is Tor Browser unsafe?
Upon posting a Tor Browser link on Facebook (https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html), a Security Check prompted me that the link might be "unsafe" (http://i.imgur.com/QNLOCci.png).

Why would linking to the Tor Browser be considered "unsafe"?
>attractive to the webporn crowd

They already use paypal + snapchat (or skype), so it's not like it would be something new.
> It has nothing to do with porn and/or prostitution being 'awesome' and everything to do with it not being any of your damn business what consenting adults get up to, whether or not it's 'easy'.

This whole consent argument is totally flawed and is an attempt to ignore the question about whether the participants in porn and prostitution are being harmed or not. The people working in sweat shops in China are also "consenting" to do that, but we shouldn't be promoting any efforts that put more people in sweat shops.

Whether or not being in porn or prostitution are comparable to being a sweat shop worker is a different matter and a different debate, but it's a debate that should be had and not be dismissed with the consent argument.
What does GCHQ know about our devices that we don't?
This is what's so frustrating about Google. I don't want to spend time poking your black box to try to divine why my company's site has dropped in rankings. Especially when that means major architectural changes with no guarantee of any sort of payoff.

The small online retailer I work for experienced a 1/3 drop in Google traffic a year and a half ago. No discernible reason. Thin content? Maybe - we do have a lot of filters to make it easier to browse products.

Of course, these are things we built for our customers, not Google. I'm not going to spend a month or two rearchitecting them just to see if Google likes it.
If they didn't filter it then it could be even more unlikely you would see your mutual friend was getting married. (unless you are willing to read literally all of your friends updates).
The phrasing was very poor. A "Could men here share their own observations?" would have been very different, but as phrased, it's asking if male witnesses of sexist behavior even exist.

Whether intentional or not, it's a dismissal of the female point of view.
The trend is towards building fewer of each type of aircraft, too. For example, while 744 B-52s were built, only 78 remain in service. Which makes a $40 million avionics upgrade program pretty impressive. Imagine trying to get a design and production run of under 100 units of military-grade hardware done for half a million dollars apiece....

And yes, overhead and accounting can make prices interesting, especially when somebody has a political axe to grind. The trend towards smaller numbers of more sophisticated aircraft exacerbates it. For a random example, the marginal cost of building a new F-22 (if they were still being built at all) is about $150 million, but if you just take the program cost and divide it by the relatively small number (under 200) built, you get about $350 million apiece. Someone who wants to portray the F-22 as cost effective will no doubt use the $150 million number, and someone who wants to talk about how expensive and wasteful it is will use the $350 million number....
Useless article by Danny Sullivan, his columns have offered zero advice for years now. He knows nothing special these days.

So MetaFilter has been getting some "help" from Google's public relations squad, as is usually the case with sites that hit a nerve with HN. What about the thousand or million other sites that lost their traffic?
This is our problem. People just don't understand it in the operations team. Our devops guys know it inside out but they have to use the services the operations team hand out which means v4 and shitty hardware.

Yes corporate structure sucks.

The silly thing is that there are several NATs and brick walls in the company which wouldn't need to exist with v6.

I myself am v6 end to end at home. Linode at the head end and Andrews and Arnold at the bottom end.
Thanks -- here's a video demonstrating the new networked multi player version of Pantomime that we're showing at Augmented World Expo! Pantomiming with your friends in AR is a whole new ball game!

We'll appreciate your vote for "Best Augmented World Video" in the Augmented World Expo competition, please -- your vote will really help, because we're currently in second place!

http://augmentedworldexpo.com/auggie-category/auggies-best-a...

Click on the "Pantomime Corporation" entry to see our video of the new multi player version, which just won the Launch: Silicon Valley World Cup Tech Challenge in the Digital Media Mobile group.

http://www.heraldonline.com/2014/05/21/5986165/svforum-annou...
> When interest rates are low, prices are high, and when rates are high, prices are low.

The data says otherwise: "“There’s no strong correlation between interest rates and home prices,” ... The bottom line is other factors (like a stronger economy) have a bigger impact on house prices than changes in mortgage rates." [1]

[1] http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/06/house-prices-and-m...
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Not only did it make it impossible for me to figure out what those graphs were supposed to show, it made it hard for me to read the paragraphs directly before & after because the giant vine image was so distracting.
That seems more damning than if they just did not "play" at all with HBO Go.
This is the key point many people miss.

Assuming a basic level of sanitation, less faecal contamination (there is never zero) + less bacterial competition may be worse in practice than more faecal contamination + more bacterial competition.

The key advance in urban human sanitation, as I understand it, was not the use of surfectants so much as getting the open sewers off of the streets.

But I am not an expert on such things. I'd be grateful to be corrected by anyone who is.
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What is that way of ordering numbers called? If I knew the name I could google it but that's what I'm missing.
Visa recently launched a feature where debit cards can receive funds. No ACH is involved.
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Well it depends how good the rental rate is or how much good your investments are or how different is the increase in rental rate vs house value ...

That's where the calculator is useful.
If someone has done it well without compiling C library, why don't you try it (on a shared server, maybe)?
Ford has as much reason as anyone else to need a block.

Consider subcontractors needing to connect to servers in a particular department.
That's hilarious. Metafilter's content is great, especially AskMe.

The idea that pictures would improve things for metafilter is bizarre; it's a discussion site and the discussion is really deep on both MeFi proper and AskMe, which is where a lot of the search traffic went (very deep archives).

It's possible that people wouldn't "bounce" as much if there were lots of images, but it's not obvious that getting people to stay that way is a good thing. Google's algorithms shape the web, they don't just measure it, and I'd rather see more link-heavy, image-sparse pages.
So that's what freedom an liberty essentially is; expensive.
>That one is easy, its called "don't use Facebook"...

I ended up going for a hybrid approach. People kept bugging me about creating a FB profile. So I did. Its pretty much blank & linked to my gmail...so people can reach out to me if they want but I don't actively participate in a meaningful manner.
True, I haven't absolutely proven my point. What's your evidence disproving it?